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Feature Thu Jul 09 2009
A Reading List Between Sets: A Guide to the Best Books About Music to Read This Summer
By Lisa White
Summer festival season is picking up, and with Pitchfork and Lollapalooza on the horizon, thousands of fans will pour into festival gates as the sun beats down, carrying along their sealed water bottles, blankets, and sunscreen. But one key item will save you from boredom as you stand around waiting for your favorite band to hit the stage.
A good book is a wonderful friend when your packed into a sweaty concert waiting for a show to start. Make it a book about music and you've got yourself a double dose. This week Gapers Block: Transmission writers are bringing you a selection of some of their favorite books about music to read this summer. So lather up with the SPF 45, leave the counterfeit booze at home, and don't forget a good book.
Michelle Meywes's pick
Title and author: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
About the Book: Sure you can sit around and read the program a hundred times between acts at Pitchfork and Lollapalooza, but why not read some "rock n roll as literature and literature as rock n roll." That's the tagline on the cover of the book Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by legendary rock critic Lester Bangs. Bangs was a writer and editor for the now defunct Creem magazine from 1971 to 1976.
Why I like it: This was a man who was not shy about sharing his opinion on artists, music, or whatever topic might have come up. His reviews read more like strange, obscure novels that had hardly anything to do with the album, but always seemed to drive home just the point/feeling he was trying to make. His writing could be wandering, sometimes rambling with colorful visual vocabulary. Perfect for whatever state of mind you may find yourself in at Chicago's summer music festivals.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: You might find this book of particular interest at Lolla this year, since there are several pieces about Lou Reed. Bangs loved Reed, and that's putting it lightly. In fact, he says plainly in "Untitled Notes on Lou Reed, 1980" that he "would suck Lou Reed's cock." Call that what you will, but Bangs admired and idolized Reed for his ground breaking work in The Velvet Underground, his unabashed disregard for what anyone thought of him, and his constantly re-inventing himself. According to Bangs in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves," people pretty much kept expecting Reed to die, and by all accounts, maybe the guy should have died, with the way he abused his body. But remember, this was written in 1975, more than thirty years ago, and Lou Reed is still rocking--taking the stage at Lolla on Sunday. Lester Bangs, on the other hand and unfortunately, is not. He died shortly after writing "Notes" in 1982 of accidental drug overdose while treating the flu.
Brian Leli's Picks
Title and author: Do I Come Here Often? by Henry Rollins
About the Book: This book features Rollins' 1991 Lollapalooza tour journal, as well as articles on David Lee Roth and Roky Erickson; interviews with Isaac Hayes and Jerry Lee Lewis; and more.
Why I like it: I have been endlessly inspired by Rollins. He writes with a lucidity all his own. I read many of his books repeatedly; including this one. Here, Rollins' provides a direct account of his experiences on the first ever Lollapalooza tour; and digs deeply into so much more.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: Lollapalooza
Title and author: Cancer as a Social Activity: Affirmations of a World's End by Michael D. Williams
About the Book: This book features a collection of writings by Michael D. Williams, the notorious singer-lyricist-songwriter for infamous New Orleans metal/punk legends, Eyehategod.
Why I like it: Much like the music Williams has had a hand in, there is something very primitive and pure about his writings. They are are abrasive and fragmented; intoxicating and eyeopening. They are less pleasant than a car crash, but even harder to look away from. Furthermore, Williams' style has been described as "...an illegitimate coupling of the downtrodden gutter-life beauty of Charles Bukowski, crossed with William Burroughs' cutup cerebral style." This book pairs well with oppressive heat.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: Any of Chicago's small, booze-laden, poorly ventilated clubs; and also while moving about town on the CTA.
Title and author: Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed by Paul Trynka
About the Book: This book is the first complete biography of one Iggy Pop: The "Godfather of Punk."
Why I like it: Iggy is the King. He is easily one of the most intriguing and reckless performers in music; EVER. He is a captivating individual, who has lived one of the most immensely fascinating lives; EVER. If you're not a fan; that changes nothing. Trynka's writing is excellent; his insight thought-provoking. He has so clearly put in the time and miles; much like the subject at hand.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: Riot Fest — which technically takes place a couple weeks after summer officially ends, but consider this proper sendoff.
Chris Sienko's pick
Title and Author: A Power Stronger than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis
About the Book: In the 1960s, a loose conglomeration of primarily South-side jazz musicians formed a collective dedicated to pushing the genre into new and innovative realms, incorporating elements of traditional African music, European avant-garde music, Eastern philosophy and structure, and a desire to be free in all things, from composition to instrumentation. Unlike most "free jazz" of the time, AACM music created a community that thought freely in all directions - not just "all loud, all the time." Innovators such as Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and many, many more have passed through the AACM's ranks, chief among them the book's author, trombonist George Lewis.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: A perfect place to read this book would be the Velvet Lounge (67 E. Cermak, in Chicago's near south side). The Velvet Lounge is not only owned by AACM alumnus Fred Anderson, but the club also features an AACM showcase the first two Sunday nights of each month!
Lisa White's picks
Title and author: Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
About the Book: Rock On is the honest experience of Dan Kennedy while he worked for a major label in the late '90s, just as the music industry was officially and totally starting to fall apart. Kennedy literally falls into a job that many dream of, and goes along for the ride in the weird world known as the music industry. He's honest about the events he witnessed, and doesn't sugarcoat the eccentric world he was dropped in.
Why I like it: When I was little I dreamed of working at a major label, pouring over issues of SPIN and Rolling Stone, wishing to someday work with the bands that would grace those covers. After going to college and experiencing certain aspects of the music industry, I fully appreciated and related to Kennedy. If you ever want a window into the world of working in entertainment, check out Rock On.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: Read this book while waiting at any local show at one of the smaller venues in Chicago. There is a part where Kennedy speaks of the label flying out a new artist, and how the music is powerful, but no one wants to fully support or enjoy the band because no one wants to be to blame if the band and their release fails. Know that by going to local shows and supporting local bands, you are supporting their art, regardless if a label believes in their selling power or not.
Title and author: So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star by Jacob Slichter
About the Book: Jacob Slichter is Harvard graduate and an NPR contributor. But his most profiled career achievement was being the drummer for the 90s multiplatinum-selling band Semisonic. Slichter's memories of starting as a humble band to the overwhelming feeling of playing arenas after the success of their hit song "Closing Time" truly leave you feeling like you've been in a band that was catapulted into the spotlight.
Why I like it: After being in many failed bands, I've always wondered in the back of my mind what it would be like to "make it," or at least some variation of success. Slichter's "I can't believe my luck" attitude and total fascination with suddenly being a recognized musician is an interesting look into the life of being a rock musician.
Best music setting to read this book in this: At Lollapalooza right after the gates open during one of the first acts on the smaller stages, or while a band with a current huge single is playing. Chances are some of these artists are at the peak of their career, and playing a large-scale event or festival will be one of the shining moments in their musical career.
Title and author: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
About the Book: Chuck Klosterman is one of the prominent snarky writers whose social commentaries on pop culture are deadpan in delivery, and honest and witty in tone. In Killing Yourself to Live, Klosterman constructs a journey based around immortalization of dead rock stars, and how they mimic the immortalization humans have for key figures in their relationships. If you idolized Kurt Cobain when he died, you probably used Cobain as a barometer for other idols. And the first serious girlfriend or boyfriend you had is probably a benchmark for other relationships, yet just like new idols never beat the old ones, new relationships never override the memories and people of the past.
Why I like it: For many music nerds like myself, I correlate music with events and people in my life. So the idea of using the death of rock stars to better understand the deaths of relationships not only intrigued me, but also made me want to justify my past relationships along with Klosterman. Sure, it's a murky and depressing subject, yet Klosterman keeps it light and funny.
Best music setting to read this book in this summer: At the Chuck Klosterman, Nathan Rabin, and Greg Kot reading at the Barnes & Noble DePaul Center on State St. All three authors will be their July 21st, and you can bet I'll be there like a fan girl with my beaten up copy of Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs.
Andy Keil / July 27, 2009 7:47 PM
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В возрасте 23 лет Нисимура познакомился с произведениями писателя Фудзисавы Сэйдзо. Собирание произведений и памятных вещей Фудзисавы мотивировало его к написанию собственных литературных произведений. За свой дебютный роман «Анкё-но ядо» в 2007 году Нисимура получил литературную премию имени Номы для новых авторов. В 2010 он был награждён премией имени Рюноскэ Акутагавы за роман «Каторжный поезд» (苦役列車). Также он номинировался на литературную премию имени Ясунари Кавабаты. Творчество Нисимуры, взявшее за образец произведения Фудзисавы, представляет собой развитие жанра японского романа сисёсэцу (также называемого «повестями о себе», «I-Novel»).

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Updated at 17:19,07-01-2021
Belarus: on the way to a market economy?
Eva Keller, emerging-europe.com
The most important thing, for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a clear vision of the country's future. "We should specify the tasks required to ensure our strategic development. This is why we need an extremely sincere, honest and high-toned conversation," Alexander Lukashenko said while speaking at the Fifth Belarusian People's Congress on 22 of June, 2016, an event which takes place every fives years.
The agenda of the Congress included discussions about the main provisions of the programme on Belarus' social and economic development for 2016-2020.
President Lukashenko speaking at the Fifth Belarusian People's Congress (courtesy of president.gov.by)
"We understand perfectly that problems do not get solved by themselves and that crisis phenomena will not disappear with the wave of a wand. This is why the principles of progress and openness have been laid down as the basis of the program. We stake our bets on knowledge and technology. This is the key to solving the current problems and to moving forward," said Mr Lukashenko.
The president also noted that export is a continuing priority that affects the well-being of the country, so market diversification is a must. The country needs to enter new markets, in particular Asia, Africa and America, as well as normalise its relations with the EU and the USA.
The EU is Belarus' second largest trading partner, with a 26.2 per cent share in the country's overall trade. According to the EU Commission, the country's exports amounted to €3.7 billion in 2015.
"Recent years have been marked by the warming of our relations [with the EU]. Their policy of lifting of sanctions against Belarus opens up new possibilities in the development of our cooperation", said Mr Lukashenko. "A key challenge for the future is the complete normalisation of relations and the conclusion of a basic agreement between Belarus and the EU."
Dmitry Krutoy, Deputy Minister of Economy, told Emerging Europe that the European Union will remain an important trading partner for Belarus. "We want to increase the percentage of our exports to the EU and to sell at least a third of our products there. The remaining two thirds should be divided roughly equally between the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the rest of the world," he added.
President Lukashenko pointed out, in his speech, that exports dropped heavily in traditional markets, e.g. Russia. This included tractors, agricultural machinery and buses, the head of state said. "However, we should not leave the Eurasian region for there are possibilities, to strengthen the position of Belarusian products, which we must take advantage of," he said.
Maxim Yermalovich, First Deputy Finance Minister, told Emerging Europe that Belarusian products are of high quality and are competitive for foreign consumers. "Production costs are lower in Belarus and so are labour costs. The obstacles, that we face, to exporting more products to the EU are connected with duties," adds Mr Yermalovich.
Maxim Yermalovich, First Deputy Finance Minister (courtesy of MoF)
He believes that there are two challenges that the economy is facing: access to financing and the development of small and medium firms.
"By developing small businesses, the economy will be less affected by external shocks. It doesn't mean that the development of small businesses will cross out everything we've done before. The strategic policy on developing basic enterprises, preserving them, increasing the output and quality of products and improving their management systems will be continued. To adapt to new conditions however, we are forced to develop small businesses, in order to make it possible for individuals to realise their potential," explained Mr Yermalovich.
In the draft version of the social and development programme for 2016-2020, the share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is projected to reach 40 per cent of the GDP by 2020.
Over the last few years the government has introduced a number of reforms that have resulted in a more friendly business climate. In the latest edition of the World Bank's Doing Business, Belarus ranked 44th, ahead of a few other European Union states. In the category, 'starting a business', the country improved its ranking by 27 notches, within just one year. In the Social Progress Index 2016 (SPI), which measures the extent to which countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens and which is published by the Social Progress Imperative, the country ranked 66th.
Dmitry Krutoy, Deputy Minister of Economy (courtesy of ME)
The main socio-economic developmental goals, as set out during the Congress, include investments that stimulate productivity growth, job creation and the formation of centres of advanced regional development, the growth and diversification goods and services' exports as well as development of an information society and the widespread introduction of information and communication technologies. The government is also planning to attract more foreign investors and to carry out several privatisation projects, which also include activation of privatisation for small and medium sized companies, and more projects to be done under a public-private partnership concession scheme.
"In 2016-2020 we need to implement over 80 big investment projects, to the total tune of more than $27 billion. We need to attract at least $14 billion of foreign resources, including China's credit lines and direct investment. This is our main investor," said President Lukashenko at the Congress.
"We are implementing, with the support of the World Bank, a pilot privatisation project, for which eight enterprises have been selected, and which we are going to extend in the nearest future by including more enterprises. We also recently adopted the private-public partnership (PPP) scheme and are preparing our first project, together with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)," Deputy Economy Minister Krutoy tells Emerging Europe.
In June, Belarus also announced the establishment of the Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Ministry — an indication that the government wants to develop a market economy.
Belarus' Deputy Prime Minister: Social welfare remains among priorities for 2016-2020
Lukashenko: Belarus doesn't need neither beggars on a street, nor the rich in Mercedeses
Lukashenko: I have nothing to lose
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The Ride Leader this week is Paul Antony and the route entails a 60 mile southwest loop over the Ridgeway to Lambourn. Full route details, including a gpx/tcx file to download, can be found on the following Strava link. The weather forecast is looking dry and we may even have some sunshine, so expect an average speed between 17-19mph.
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Article from Docklands News March 1996
URI GELLER has given a young cancer patient extra confidence to fight the disease and fight her way back to normal health. The spoon-bending healer had a chance meeting with waitress Lesley Adams when he and his wife visited Dockmasters House on the Isle of Dogs for a meal.
After hearing how Lesley, 23, was suffering from Hodgkin's Lymphoma and in the midst of a gruelling course of radiotherapy Uri took her aside for a private chat "He simply put his hands on my neck and talked to me," said Scots-born Lesley. "He is an extremely kind and caring man, and at the end he looked into my face and told me he had a really good feeling about my cancer. He said he was certain I would get better. I left the room glowing, and absolutely sure I would be all right."
Doctors' verdict
Shortly before Uri's visit Lesley had noticed an extra lump on her neck, and doctors had warned it might need to be syringed. Three days later doctors examined the lump again, found it had reduced by 75 per cent and decided it needed no extra treatment.
Lesley said: "It may be the lump went down because of the radiotherapy, but I can't help feeling Uri had something to do with it!"
Lesley, who lives in Limehouse, found she had Hodgkin's Lymphoma just before Christmas.
She fits in her radiotherapy appointments between working 11 am-3 pm and 5.30 pm – 11 pm shifts at Dockmasters House.
Landlady Barbara Liddell said: "Since the visit Uri has telephoned to see how Lesley is getting on, and he has given us his telephone number in case we need to contact him. He is such a kind and genuine person, he certainly gave Lesley a boost. I was really vary impressed with him."
Barbara, and a bunch of Dockmasters House regulars, were also impressed with Uri's spoon-bending abilities. He first bent a spoon in the restaurant and later agreed to do a repeat performance in the packed bar.
Barbara said: "This is one of those things where seeing is believing. You don't believe in ghosts unless you see one, at least I don't, and I wouldn't have believed this unless I'd seen it with my own eyes.
"In the restaurant he simply touched the spoon and it bent, and carried on bending. He did the same thing in the bar, but this time he passed the spoon to me and it carried on bending as I held it. It gave me a very strange feeling. A friend of his, a doctor, explained to me that we all have these powers and that they peak in the teenage years. He said Uri was exceptional, we might sing in the bath but he was a Pavorotti. I thought that was a good way of explaining it!"
The two bent spoons are on display to customers at Dockmasters House, West India Dock Gate, Hertsmere Road, Isle of Dogs.
Lesley Adams who met Uri Geller at Dockmasters House where she was working with the crystal he gave her.
Landlady Barbara Liddell with the inevitable result, by request, of Mr Geller's visit.


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Bom Parto é um bairro de Maceió, capital do estado brasileiro de Alagoas.

Seu nome advém da Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Bom Parto, localizada no bairro. A partir da lei municipal 4.952/2000, a região conhecida como bairro da Cambona passou a ser oficialmente parte do bairro de Bom Parto. É banhado pela Lagoa Mundaú.

Bom Parto conta com uma estação do Sistema de Trens Urbanos de Maceió, denominada Estação Bom Parto, cuja atual edificação foi inaugurada no dia 1º de dezembro de 2017.

História
Bom Parto é um dos mais populares bairros de Maceió. É também um dos que apresentam menor extensão, encravado entre o Farol e a Lagoa Mundaú, dividindo-se com o Mutange e Levada. Já foi um típico bairro operário, com a Fábrica de Tecidos Alexandria, onde quase toda população dependia dessa atividade econômica. É também um bairro típico que tem suas lendas, como a do "padre sem cabeça", contada pelos moradores da Gruta do Padre.

A historia do bairro está ligada ao binômio fábrica-igreja. Nas ruas estreitas com casas conjugadas, onde viviam os operários, ainda persiste o hábito de conversar na calçada, hoje não mais com o entusiasmo dos velhos tempos, onde se comentava o dia-a-dia da fábrica. Mas os aposentados sempre têm algo para contar dos bons tempos da Alexandria; das festas; do bonde que transportava os moradores para o centro da cidade, além dos bailes na sede do sindicato.

A origem do nome é a própria religiosidade dos moradores. A Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Bom Parto é o símbolo do bairro. Bom Parto, porque a mãe de Jesus (Virgem Maria) teve um bom parto. A paróquia foi criada em 1949, sendo o primeiro pároco, o padre Brandão Lima, nome do colégio, que é um dos maiores da rede da CNEC.

Os saudosistas que vivem ainda hoje no Bom Parto lembram dos tempos de apogeu da fábrica Alexandria, de Mário Lobo. Naquela época, tudo era fartura. Os operários recebiam todo tipo de ajuda, e almoçavam no refeitório da própria fábrica. Nas proximidades da Igreja existia uma feira livre, evitando que os moradores se deslocassem para o Mercado Público.

A fábrica fechou em 1966. ainda demorou muitos anos com toda a estrutura intacta para que os ex-empregados pudessem relembrar os bons tempos. Depois, foi derrubada, dando lugar a depósitos de outras empresas.

Fábrica Alexandria
Durante mais de um século o setor têxtil disputava a liderança da economia alagoana com o açucareiro. No início do atual século, existiam em pleno funcionamento cerca de 20 fábricas de tecidos, que empregavam milhares de alagoanos. A Alexandria foi uma delas. Encravada no bairro do Bom Parto, próximo ao centro de Maceió, era o sustento de centenas de famílias, que trabalhavam em seus vários setores.
Dona Maria José da Silva, hoje com 76 anos, trabalhou na fiação. Ainda guarda sua carteira de trabalho com o registro. "Empresa Cotonifício Alexandria S/A". a casa onde mora há 40 anos, foi doada pela fábrica, e conserva a mesma estrutura, numa das travessas do bairro.Os tecidos da Alexandria eram disputados pelos consumidores. Fabricavam-se fustão, morim e tecidos de xadrez, além de outros.

Os tecidos da Alexandria eram disputados pelos consumidores. Era uma produção grande, em três turnos de trabalho. Tudo no bairro girava em torno da fábrica. As casas dos operários possuíam toda a infraestrutura de conforto e segurança. Eram mais de mil casas de vários padrões. As que se localizavam na rua principal, eram mais amplas, e para funcionários com cargos mais elevados.

O Sindicato dos Trabalhadores funcionava obedecendo criteriosamente a legislação trabalhista criada por Getúlio Vargas. Nunca houve greve. Tudo era resolvido na base da negociação. A parte social era perfeita.

Nunca ocorria falta de energia elétrica, garantindo os três turnos de trabalho. A fábrica possuía gerador próprio, que também servia para a vila operária. Na época em que a energia na cidade era precária, sempre com sucessivos cortes, o Bom Parto continuava iluminado. A fábrica foi vendida pela família Lôbo ao Cotonifício Torres, do Recife. Pouco tempo depois foi fechado. Mas os operários devidamente indenizados e com garantia moradia.

Bondes
A passagem dos bondes que iam e vinham do Bebedouro sempre foi uma atração a parte para os moradores do Bom Parto, bairro tipicamente operário, próximo ao Centro de Maceió. Na rua da frente, eram os bondes, e na detrás, os trens de passageiros, que seguiam para o interior e para o Recife. Acenar para quem passava era costume da garotada, algumas até sonhando em andar de trem.
Mas os bondes serviam de lazer para quem aproveitava o final de semana para ir a praia da Avenida. Logo cedo, a família se preparava para esses momentos de prazer. À noite, também seguiam para o Centro, onde assistiam aos filmes e passeavam no comércio, vendo vitrines.
Carro de passeio era coisa rara. Vez por outra passavam aqueles automóveis luxuosos dos ricaços que moravam em suas mansões em Bebedouro, e seguiam para o Centro ou Jaraguá, onde mantinham seus escritórios. O bairro sempre foi passagem obrigatória para quem morava em Bebedouro, naquela época o bairro nobre da cidade.
Igreja sempre foi ligada às atividades da fábrica
A Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Bom Parto, uma das mais bonitas de Maceió, sempre foi ligada as atividades da fábrica. O primeiro pároco foi o padre Brandão Lima, que faleceu em 1959, num acidente de bicicleta no trajeto entre sua casa e a igreja. Depois passaram outros párocos, até que em 1964, ficou sendo administrada pelos franciscanos.
É frei Francisco Bruno, conhecido como frei Bruno, 45 anos, o atual pároco. Cuida de evangelizar os moradores. Prepara crianças para a primeira eucaristia, celebra missas, casamentos, batizados e outras cerimônias.

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Q: Where to put "On Load" code for C# Forms So i am relearning C# and the .net framework again after a couple years of using other languages and i have a "best practice" question i hope someone can answer.
Looking at the below code for a new form entitled "Choose_File", i have been putting my "on load" code right after the

InitializeComponent();

line because for some reason i thought that was the "on load" method. After creating a couple forms using this method, i accidentally double clicked the header of the form and it opened the real "_Load" method where i am assuming i should have been putting the "on load" code all along.  So my question is what is the actual real world difference between these two methods from a practical sense since both seem to work?
namespace Personal_Finance_Manager
{
    public partial class Choose_File : Form
    {
        public Choose_File()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Choose_File_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }
    }
}

A: OnLoad event is fired when the form is Shown (Form.Show() was called). The constructor is called whenever a new instance of the Form is created, even if it was not yet displayed.
Code that should be execute only when the form is shown to the user (i.e. instantiate class members) goes on the OnLoad handler, code that needs to be executed before the form is shown goes on the constructor.

A: You should initialize class elements as early as practical. For most things, that will be in the constructor. You can initialize control properties, class fields, etc. here and it will work fine.
However, there are some things you cannot do with a Control instance (including a Form subclass) until the underlying native window handle has been created. For these types of initialization, overriding OnLoad() (or handling the Load event) and performing that initialization (only) is appropriate.
As an example, when I am showing a form to display progress for a background task, I will handle the Shown or Load event (for this purpose, they are equivalent) and not start the background task until then. This ensures against the background task finishing so quickly that the form hasn't even been fully initialized by the time it's done, which would prevent the post-task code from closing the form (you can't close a form that hasn't been opened yet :) ).

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GST Implementation in Malaysia – The Argument
There were many responses when the Malaysian government first announced the Financial Budget for Malaysia, year 2010, both good and bad. But when they were undecided about GST, it sparked more conversation on whether it'll benefit the Rakyat, or further threaten poorer communities in Malaysia.
What goods GST covers
As proposed by our dear government, GST covers all types of goods & services sold to Malaysian & non-Malaysian residents (therefore consumers) except for a common commodities such as rice, flour & sugar.
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Further, Malaysia's main revenue shouldn't just live off petroleum. In other words, we shouldn't put all eggs in one basket because petroleum revenues have risks of its own, seeing that it's a natural resource.
What reason did they give? More funds for development and expenses.
How much would they probably get? RM1 billion (RM1,000,000,000) per annum in estimated rounded-up revenue.
Will it hurt the poor & middle class?
To a certain extent, it will somehow affect pockets of middle and lower income group Malaysians.
The arguments:
Recent price hike in petrol, prices of commodities have increased drastically. And now another one called GST?
Income tax brackets for high earners aren't as 'expensive' as middle-to-low income groups.
The Malaysian government has saved approximately RM2 billion (RM2,000,000,000) by lowering fuel subsidies – What's the take on GST now for lower income groups?
GST is tax on SPENDING. Basically, everything from parking fees to purchasing mattress. Even with GST-exempted items, this would still hit lower income groups in Malaysia.
Private sectors aren't paying much to Malaysians – Other more developed countries such as Singapore could take this hit because wages & salaries are much higher.
Other countries such as Britain, India, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore has GST – Doesn't mean GST has to be implemented in Malaysia. Their economic status and way of gaining revenue varies from Malaysia. (GST is also called VAT – Value Added Tax in other countries)
Inflation may happen. Prime Minister Mr. Najib has guaranteed no inflation – But with the introduction of GST, the chain of 'passing the cost' will end up usually at the hands of consumers.
Corruption isn't a rare thing in Malaysia – So businesses has already included 'corruption prices' in goods & services. How does that not reflect additional costs to consumers?
Out of inflation pressures, higher prices for goods & services are sought.
Prime Minister Mr. Najib has promised Malaysians that they will be tabling a public discussion on GST (called the GST Bill) on December. There are also several upsides that could be seen – But until Mr. Najib tables the meeting on GST Bill, we shouldn't be skeptical of anything yet.
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GST has been said to promise a few things:
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It will replace the 10+5{512b763ef340c1c7e529c41476c7e03bc66d8daea696e1162822661d30dde056} services and goods tax. This means taxes are lower now – Consumers need not pay more for one area, but it's divided into many other source of 'tax' payments.
GST rates are promised at 4{512b763ef340c1c7e529c41476c7e03bc66d8daea696e1162822661d30dde056}, out of the normal 10{512b763ef340c1c7e529c41476c7e03bc66d8daea696e1162822661d30dde056} or 5{512b763ef340c1c7e529c41476c7e03bc66d8daea696e1162822661d30dde056} charged in restaurants.
Implementation will not occur until middle to late 2011 or 2012. Planning time is essential to not put 'inflation pressure' on small businesses.
Government's coffers will increase. This will enable further development and budget control to the country, other than relying just on petroleum or income tax revenues.
Tax when consumed, not when earned is much better. It allows better control. Spending influences will be "Careful" and "More controlled" when purchasing on higher prices are made rather than "taxable incomes" generated from work.
It's a broad-based tax system. Some items may be slightly more expensive & cheaper. It's not a overall standardized taxation method.
Your opinion on GST
Of course, there are many pros and cons of the new GST system – And the implementers should look more intricately into all income groups, balance their sheets and understand what are the effects first. While we can only propose so much, there's only so much we can do.
Here are some of the 'preparation techniques' the tablers of the GST Bill can adopt:
Be intricate with details: Tax is a complicated subject, like a science of its own. If you make the subject complicated, it may lead to more misunderstandings and later, more arguments.
Introduce 'layman terms' for further understanding. Giving examples always help. Examples on implementations always help. Tell a story to the public – And make it make sense to them.
Use other form of publicity media: Tabling the GST Bill on national newspapers and mass media isn't going to cut it. Find other means such as introduction campaigns Malaysia-wide.
Engage community understanding: Allow certain private and public (individual or company) figures to table talks and debates on GST Malaysia-wide. This encourages engagement and allows more problems & solutions to be seen.
The Malaysian government or finance department has a long time more (approximately 15 – 20 months) to table talks around Malaysia with regards to GST.


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\section{Introduction}
Certain materials can conduct electric current without any loss, which are called superconductors. It means that, If we consider a superconducting loop with initial current $I_{0\ }$at time $t_0$, and the magnetic field surrounding the loop is measured to be same after a time$\ t_1$, say one year later, it appears to mean that the $I\left(t_1\right)=I\left(t_0\right)=I_0$ \cite{R1}.By decreasing the temperature of the superconductive materials below a critical temperature, $T_c$, the current carriers are paired. The paired carriers, called Cooper pairs, move inside the superconductors with no resistance, and in consequence, the superconductivity phenomenon is seen in these materials \cite{R1}. In a spinless p-wave superconductor and in strong pairing regime, a molecule-like Cooper pairs form from two fermions bound in the real space, whereas in the weak paring regime the Cooper pair size is infinite \cite{R2}. The probable phase transition between strong and weak regimes is the main subject of the topological superconductivity (TSC) field \cite{R2,R3}. The topological materials are classified into ten symmetry classes called Altland-Zirnbauer (AZ) symmetry classes \cite{R3,R4}. Of course, the ten symmetry classes can be simplified as an eightfold periodic classification \cite{R3}. It should be noted that the weak and strong regimes are always separated by a quantum phase transition if the symmetry conditions are strictly enforced \cite{R3}.This implies that if these two regimes are in spatial proximity, there should be a gapless state (called Majorana bound state (MBS)) localized at the boundary between the two phases. The presence of such gapless boundary states is the main feature of TSC and can be considered as a definition for these kind of materials \cite{R3}.

\noindent        The requirements for making the Majorana fermions are so generic: Take a superconductor, remove degeneracy by breaking spin-rotation and time-reversal symmetries, then close and reopen the excitation gap \cite{R5}. The main pathways for creating the MBS are \cite{R5}: Shockley mechanism \cite{R6}, Topological insulators \cite{R7}, Semiconductor heterostructures \cite{R8}, and chiral p-wave superconductors \cite{R6, R9, Rten, R11}. Many theoretical and experimental works have been done for studying the Majorana creation and detection, before in Refs. \cite{R12, R13,R14,R15,R16,R17,R18,R19,R20,R21,R22,R23,R24}.

\noindent         It is shown that the Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) could be an insulator in room temperature, a semiconductor with a wide band gap in all temperatures, a resistance in room temperature, a metal in low temperature and a superconductor at $T<1K$ \cite{R25}. For studying the proximity-induced superconductivity in DNA, a rhenium carbon (Re/C) electrode was deposited on a mica substrate by sputtering method. Then, the $\lambda$DNA molecule was deposited on the Re/C electrode and the temperature was set to $<1K$ in Ref. \cite{R26}. For explaining the observed superconductivity effect in DNA, Ren et al. showed that the hopping integral between bases changes due to the temperature fluctuation of twist angle between them and consequently, the electric conductivity increases \cite{R27}. We have used the Bogoliubov-de-Gennes (BdG) equation and shown that the pairing potential is equal to 0.76$\mu$eV \cite{R28}, and the perfect spin-polarization can happen in dsDNA \cite{R29}.

\noindent         In this letter, a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) is modeled by two coupled one-dimensional Kitaev's chain\cite{R30}, and the topological superconductivity is studied. The eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are calculated, and it is shown that the zero energy mode exists under some specific conditions. The wave function of zero mode is calculated in coordinate-space, and it is shown that the MBS exist on the ends of each strand. We will show that the topological phase transition can happen if the hopping integral between two strands is very smaller than the pairing potential between the Cooper pairs in dsDNA. It means that the dsDNA behaves as a trivial superconductor, commonly (as it has been seen, before in Ref. \cite{R26}). However, single-stranded DNA (or two coupled ssDNA without hopping between them) may behave as a non-trivial superconductor. Finally, we suggest an experimental set up for probable detection of Majorana in DNA.

The ladder model was introduced for studying the charge transport in DNA in Ref. \cite{R31}. In this model, the electrons hope between Adenine and Thymine, with hopping integral $t_1$, on the first strand, and they also hope between Guanine and Cytosine, with hopping integral $t_2$, on the second strand. The hopping between two strands is possible, too \cite{R29,R31, R32, R33}. Also, it was shown that for a specific range of electron energies and for $t_1=t_2=t$ the perfect spin-polarization could be seen due to the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect in dsDNA in Ref. \cite{R29}. Therefore, by mixing the ladder model and Kitaev's model, we can write the Hamiltonian of the dsDNA in momentum-space as:
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__1_}
H=\left({\epsilon }_k{\sigma }_z+\widetilde{\Delta }{\sigma }_y\right)I_{\tau }+\lambda I_{\sigma }{\tau }_x  ,
\end{equation}
where ${\epsilon }_k=-tcosk-\mu $ and $\widetilde{\Delta }=-\Delta sink$ \cite{R2,R30}. In fact, Eq. (1) is Fourier transform of a ladder model (on each strand) which is mixed with Cooper pairing mechanism. Here, we assume that the lattice constant is equal to one for simplicity. $t$ is hopping integral between two neighborhood sites on each strand, $\lambda $ is hopping integral between two strands and $\mu $ is the chemical potential. ${\sigma }_i,\ i=x,y,z$ is general Pauli matrix and ${\tau }_i,\ i=x,y,z$ is Pauli matrix in strand space. $I_{\tau }$ ($I_{\sigma }$) is unit matrix in strand (general) space. By simple calculations, it can be shown that the eigenvalues are:
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__2_}
E_i={\left(-1\right)}^n\lambda +{\left(-1\right)}^m\sqrt{{{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\Delta }}^2}    , i=1,2,3,4 ,
\end{equation}
where $n=2\eqref{GrindEQ__1_}$ for $i=1,2\ (3,4)$ and $m=2\eqref{GrindEQ__1_}$ for $i=1,4\ (2,3)$ .

\noindent    By using the equation $\psi =E\psi $, we can find the eigenfunctions which are
\begin{widetext}
\begin{equation}  \label{GrindEQ__3_}
{\psi }_i={\left(\frac{{\epsilon }_k+{\left(-1\right)}^{i+1}\sqrt{{{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\Delta }}^2}}{-i\widetilde{\Delta }},\ 1,\frac{{\epsilon }_k+{\left(-1\right)}^{i+1}\sqrt{{{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\Delta }}^2}}{-i\widetilde{\Delta }},1\right)}^T,
\end{equation}
\end{widetext}
for $i=1,2$  and ${E=E}_i$ and
\begin{widetext}
\begin{equation}  \label{GrindEQ__4_}
{\psi }_i={\left(\frac{{-\epsilon }_k+{\left(-1\right)}^i\sqrt{{{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\Delta }}^2}}{-i\widetilde{\Delta }},\ -1,\frac{{\epsilon }_k+{\left(-1\right)}^{i+1}\sqrt{{{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\Delta }}^2}}{-i\widetilde{\Delta }},1\right)}^T,
\end{equation}
\end{widetext}
for $i=3,$4 and ${E=E}_i$ .
\noindent However for small $\widetilde{\Delta }$ (means large $\mu $) the energy eigenvalues are equal to
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__5_}
E_i={\left(-1\right)}^n\lambda +{\left(-1\right)}^m{\epsilon }_k    , i=1,2,3,4 .
\end{equation}
Now, the Fermi level is set by ${\epsilon }_k=\mu =0$ ($\mu =0$ means half filling) \cite{R34}. This gives the two Fermi points $k_F=\pm \pi /2$ . If $k=k_F$ then $E_i={\left(-1\right)}^n\lambda +{\left(-1\right)}^{m+1}\mu $ and the energy gap,  $\Delta E\neq 0$. By increasing $\widetilde{\Delta }$ (means decreasing $\mu $), if $k=k_F$, then $E_i={\left(-1\right)}^n\lambda +{\left(-1\right)}^m\sqrt{{\mu }^2+{\Delta }^2}$. Now for $\lambda =\pm \sqrt{{\mu }^2+{\Delta }^2}$ the gap is closed ($\Delta E=0$). Now, if $\widetilde{\Delta }$ increases more (means $\mu $ decrease more) the gap $\Delta E\neq 0$ and increases (see Fig. 1). Therefore, if we want to have a phase transition from low pairing situation (i.e., small $\widetilde{\Delta }$) to high pairing situation (i.e., large $\widetilde{\Delta }$) the gap closure should happen. It means that we encounter a topological phase transition which can be tuned by adjusting the chemical potential $\mu $ through a gate voltage (as an example). A question can be asked: what about the behavior of wavefunction when the energy gap is closed?

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{Fig1
\caption{\label{fig:epsart} (Color online) General Schematic of energy gap variations via pairing potential.}
\end{figure}

\noindent         We can expand $cosk$ and $sink$ around Fermi points and write the Eq. \eqref{GrindEQ__1_} as below
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__6_}
H=\left(-it{\partial }_x{\sigma }_z+\Delta (x){\sigma }_y\right)I_{\tau }+\lambda I_{\sigma }{\tau }_x  ,
\end{equation}
where $k=-i{\partial }_x$. The wave function can be written as $\psi ={\left({\phi }_1\left(x\right),{\phi }_2\left(x\right),{\phi }_3\left(x\right),{\phi }_4\left(x\right)\right)}^T$. If  ${\phi }_1={\phi }_2={\varphi }_1$ and ${\phi }_3={\phi }_4={\varphi }_2$ (see Eqs. (3) and (4)) and we define $F={\varphi }_1{\varphi }_2$, it can be easily shown that for zero energy case $E=0$:
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__7_}
{\partial }_xF+\left(\frac{\Delta (x)}{t}\right)F=0  .
\end{equation}
Therefore,
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__8_}
F\left(x\right)={F\left(0\right)\ e}^{-\int{\frac{\Delta \left(x\right)}{t}}\ dx}  .
\end{equation}
Now if $\Delta (x)$ varies slowly in space as: $\Delta \left(x\right)={\Delta }_0tanh\left(x/\xi \right)$, where $\xi $ is a large length scale characterizing the slowly varying gap function ($\xi \gg $ lattice constant) \cite{R34} then
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__9_}
F={\varphi }_1{\varphi }_2=F(0){\left(\mathrm{cosh}\mathrm{}(\frac{x}{\xi })\right)}^{-{\mathrm{\Delta }}_0\xi /t} .
\end{equation}
Now since ${\varphi }_2=F/{\varphi }_1$, it can be shown that
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__10_}
t{\partial }_x\left({{\varphi }_1}^2\right)+i\lambda {{\varphi }_1}^2=\mathrm{\Delta }F .
\end{equation}
Therefore,
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__11_}
{{\varphi }_1}^2=e^{-i\lambda x/t}\int{\frac{-\mathrm{\Delta }F(x)}{t}}e^{i\lambda x/t}\ dx ,
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__12_}
{{\varphi }_2}^2=e^{i\lambda x/t}\int{\frac{-\mathrm{\Delta }F(x)}{t}}e^{-i\lambda x/t}\ dx .
\end{equation}
Thus, there are the zero energy Fermion states.  For $x\to \pm \infty $ and $\lambda \to 0$ (although ${-1\le e}^{\pm i\lambda x/t}\le +1$) then $\int{\frac{-\mathrm{\Delta }F(x)}{t}}e^{\pm i\lambda x/t}\ dx\to \int{\frac{-\mathrm{\Delta }F(x)}{t}}\ dx$ . Now, by using Eq. \eqref{GrindEQ__9_} we find
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__13_}
\int{\frac{-\mathrm{\Delta }F(x)}{t}}\ dx=-{\left(cosh\left(x/\xi \right)\right)}^{\frac{-{\Delta }_0\xi }{t}}\to e^{-\left|x\right|/\alpha } ,
\end{equation}
where, $\alpha =t/{\Delta }_0$. Therefore, the zero energy Fermion states are localized at the ends of each strand. However, the condition $\lambda \to 0$ means that we have two parallel ssDNA. As a consequence, the ssDNA (or two coupled ssDNA with very small hopping between them) may behave as a topological superconductor and the zero energy Fermion states are localized at its ends. In next, we will also see that the condition $\lambda \to 0$ causes the non-vanishing winding number.

\noindent             Of course, for $\widetilde{\Delta }={\Delta }_0=$cte, it can be shown that ${\varphi }_1=\sqrt{\frac{-{\Delta }_0}{i\lambda -2{\mathrm{\Delta }}_0}}e^{\frac{-{\mathrm{\Delta }}_0\left|x\right|}{2t}}$  and  ${\varphi }_2=\sqrt{\frac{{\Delta }_0}{i\lambda +2{\mathrm{\Delta }}_0}}e^{\frac{-{\mathrm{\Delta }}_0\left|x\right|}{2t}}$. Since they decay exponentially as $x\to \pm \infty $ the zero energy Fermion states are localized at the end of each strand of dsDNA, again.

\noindent         For calculating the winding number, we can use the below formula \cite{R21}
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__14_}
v=\frac{1}{4\pi }\int^{k_2}_{k_1}{dk\ Tr\left(CH^{-1}\partial_{k}H\right)} ,
\end{equation}
where $C$ is particle-hole symmetry operator. By using Eq. \eqref{GrindEQ__1_}, it can be shown that
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__15_}
H^{-1}=\left(a{\sigma }_z+b{\sigma }_y\right)I_{\tau }+cI_{\sigma }{\tau }_x ,
\end{equation}
where $a={\epsilon }_k/\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2-{\lambda }^2\right)$,
$b=\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}/\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2-{\lambda }^2\right)$, and
$c=-\lambda /\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2-{\lambda }^2\right)$.

\noindent Since $C={\sigma }_xI_{\tau }$ then
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__16_}
Tr\left(CH^{-1}\partial_{k}H\right)=4\left(b{\partial }_k{\epsilon }_k-a{\partial }_k\widetilde{\Delta }\right) ,
\end{equation}
or
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__16_}
Tr\left(CH^{-1}H\right)=\frac{4}{\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2-{\lambda }^2\right)}\left(\widetilde{\Delta }{\partial }_k{\epsilon }_k-{\epsilon }_k{\partial }_k\widetilde{\Delta }\right) .
\end{equation}
If we use polar coordinates and define $cos\theta =\frac{{\epsilon }_k}{\sqrt{\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2\right)}}$  and  $sin\theta =\frac{\widetilde{\Delta }}{\sqrt{\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2\right)}}$ then
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__17_}
d\theta =\frac{1}{\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2\right)}\left({\epsilon }_k{\partial }_k\widetilde{\Delta }-\widetilde{\Delta }{\partial }_k{\epsilon }_k\right)\ dk .
\end{equation}
Therefore
\begin{equation} \label{GrindEQ__18_}
v=\frac{1}{4\pi }\int^{k_2}_{k_1}{dk}Tr\left(CH^{-1}H\right)=\frac{1}{\pi }\int^{{\theta }_2}_{{\theta }_1}{\{d\theta }\frac{\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2\right)}{\left({{\epsilon }_k}^2+{\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2-{\lambda }^2\right)}\}
\end{equation}
Now if ${\widetilde{\mathrm{\Delta }}}^2\gg {\lambda }^2$ (or$\ \lambda \to 0$), then  $v=2\int^{{\theta }_2}_{{\theta }_1}{\frac{d\theta }{2\pi }}$  where $\int^{{\theta }_2}_{{\theta }_1}{\frac{d\theta }{2\pi }}$  is winding number of a single strand (i.e., a Kitaev's chain).  It means when pairing potential is very greater than the hopping integral between two strands, each ssDNA behaves as a non-trivial superconductor.
It should be noted that for $\widetilde{\Delta }=\lambda$, it can be shown that $v=(tan\theta)^{\theta_{2}}_{\theta_{1}}$. Thus, as one sweep $k$ from zero to $\pi$, $\theta_{1}$ is equal to zero and $\theta_{2}=0$ or $\pi$. However, for $\theta_{1}$ both values of $\theta_{2}$, the winding number will be equal to zero, and as a consequence, dsDNA is a trivial superconductor.

The Kitaev's model is spinless \cite{R30}. Therefore, one question can be asked: how is the assumed dsDNA model spinless?  It was shown that the spin splitting happens in dsDNA when the SOC term is added to the Hamiltonian in Refs. \cite{R32,R33}. We have shown that the perfect spin polarization can be seen in dsDNA for a range of hopping integral on each strand and electron energy (using BdG equation) \cite{R29}. In addition, it has been shown that the spin-singlet Cooper pairing cannot induce proximity superconductivity in a perfect spin-polarized system, but the p-wave pairing is nonzero only due to the SOC and weakness as the Zeeman field increases and the spins become increasingly polarized \cite{R35}. This implies that the SOC quantum wire realizes a topological superconductivity phase in the limit of strong Zeeman field \cite{R35}. By using first-order perturbation theory, it has been shown that the SOC term only modifies pairing potential as $\Delta \to \frac{{\lambda }_{so}\mathrm{\Delta }}{B}$ in BdG equation where ${\lambda }_{so}$ and $B$ are SOC and magnetic field strength, respectively \cite{R35}. Therefore, we should add SOC and magnetic field to Eq. (1) for finding the perfect spin polarization in dsDNA \cite{R29,R32,R33}. However, instead of doing that, we can only change the pairing potential in the above calculations \cite{R35} and choose a suitable set of parameters in Eq. (1) by using the results of Ref. 29.

\noindent      Finally, we try to introduce an experimental setup for detecting the zero energy modes (i.e., MBS) as follows. Gohler et al., have measured the spin polarization in a self-assembled monolayer of dsDNA \cite{R36}. They have deposited four different lengths of dsDNA on a clean gold substrate. The photoelectrons were ejected by an ultraviolet laser pulse, and the kinetic energy distribution of electrons and spin analysis were found by using an electron time-of-flight instrument and a Mott-type electron polarimeter, respectively \cite{R36}. Devillard et al., have used a superconductivity tunnel microscope for finding the fingerprints of Majorana fermions in topological nanowires (TN) \cite{R23}. The superconductor tip (SCT) is connected to a spin filter (T-junction connected to two polarized quantum dots) for studying the spin current correlations between SCT and the TN. Using a properly oriented spin filter, the spin current correlations are always negative for an MBS \cite{R23}. Kasumov et al. have deposited DNA on Re/C substrate and observed the proximity-induced superconductivity effect in DNA \cite{R26}. Based on these done experimental works, we can imagine a setup including a suitable substrate such that some type I superconductors (TISC) (e.g Re/C) are deposited on its surface by the sputtering method (see Fig. 2).  Then, we should deposit a monolayer of dsDNA on the Re/C electrodes and find the suitable conditions for finding perfect spin polarization i.e., we should find a suitable TISC and a suitable set of experimental parameters. Now we can decrease the temperature below the critical temperature of the TISC and adjust the normal metal tip of a tunneling microscope at the ends of the strands of DNA. By measuring the zero bias conductance we may find the MBS. We hope our suggested setup and obtained results can motivate experimentalists for searching Majorana fermions in DNA.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{Fig2
\caption{\label{fig:epsart} (Color online) General schematic of an experimental setup for detecting Majorana quasi-particle in DNA.}
\end{figure}

 In parallel with other attempts for finding Majorana fermions using parallel nanowires \cite{R37}, based on the published experimental results about proximity-induced superconductivity \cite{R26} and spin-polarization in DNA \cite{R36}, and existing measuring methods for finding the effect of Majorana bound states on zero bias conductance \cite{R23}, we have mixed the ladder and Kitaev's model and shown that the dsDNA is commonly a trivial superconductor but two attached ssDNA (i.e., dsDNA with very small hopping between two strands) or a ssDNA can be a non-trivial superconductor. Moreover, we have proposed an experimental setup generally for checking the explained theory in the letter. We hope that the results can motivate experimentalists for testing the probable topological superconductivity in DNA.

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Mr. Jonathan, No, You can't suspend Nigerian Football!
June 30, 2010 July 1, 2010 / Adeola
Adeola Aderounmu
Is Goodluck Jonathan A Dictator in the Making?
There are reports that Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the Nigerian Football Team from participating in future competitions for the next 2 years. According to him this will allow Nigeria to reorganise her football.
Sometimes I wonder if Nigerian politicians are from planet earth. Does Mr. Jonathan know FIFA rules concerning football? Do we have advisers in Abuja? Does Nigeria have a Ministry of Sports that Jonathan can consult for information and knowledge about football?
You cannot suspend your team from International competition. If you do, FIFA will help you by extending the suspension for another 2 or 4 years.
Nigeria does not need to suspend her national team from International competition to be able to do things the right way. Common sense shows that that is a negative approach.
There are ignorant people running football in Nigeria and we have said it many times without number: let those who know about football run our football. Let seasoned administrators and tested hands handle our sports. There are trained sports administrators in Nigeria. Look for them.
And when it concerned football look for our ex-internationals at home and abroad. They can do things right. Bring back Stephen Keshi, call on Oliseh among many others. The list is endless!
Segun Odegbami has been in this field for decades. Look for him and people like him scattered across Nigeria. Let those who know football run our football.
Mr Jonathan does not need to suspend the National Team. That is bad judgement and an indication of dictatorial tendencies. We are supposed to be under civilian rule, not tyranny or military rule. You can't wake up from a bad dream and say the National team is dissolved.
Please get this right. There are thousands of football talents in Nigeria who can take our country to greater heights. Catch them young and play them with their real ages!
I think the most important thing is to eliminate politics from our sports. Until then, we are only chasing shadows like Mr Jonathan is doing now.
On the other hand, rather than using such a strong hand on our football, Mr. Jonathan should use his strong hand and will to bring prosperity to Nigeria. I don't think football is our problem.
Corruption is eating Nigerian deep, ever since 1960 anyway. If you are such a principled man, please leave the footballers alone and go after your likes-politicians who are looting and carrying away our national wealth.
Over 70% of Nigerians are living below the poverty level, please divert your energy away from the footballers and think of how you can reduce the percentage of Nigerians living under acceptable conditions of human existence.
There are loads of problems facing us in Nigeria. Football is the least of them. Go to Jos and live among the people for 1 weeks, try to understand their rotten mentalities and why they continue to kill one another.
Go to Borno and see the basis for the emergence of Boko Haram.
From East to West, from North to South, please go around and see what you can do to bring better the good life of the 50s and 60s. This country is dying, leave the footballers alone and focus on how to create employment opportunities, how to build good roads, how to make water flow into our homes and our to ensure that my children get quality education.
Above all, suspend that 10 billion naira that you are about to waste on a common party! Divert the fund into procurement of cancer testing machines for Nigerian decaying hospitals. Save a life today Mr Jonathan. The children are crying!
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Joseph E
When I first learned about the Nigeria's decision, I thought it was rushed and stupid. But after thinking about it, I came to the realization that Nigerian soccer is on a downward spiral and needs drastic changes to reverse the current trend. While government spends money hosting and preparing for tournaments, there is no accountability for failures. Soccer administrators are protected by FIFA statue so even though government spends money, they cannot hold them accountable. In Nigeria, the soccer body does not generate enough money to even pay the coaches salaries, they depend on public funds. The same people have been running Nigeria soccer administration for years now without good results. They rigged elections to stay in office.
While we can disagree on whether Nigerian administrators should be held accountable for their results in South Africa, everyone agrees that preparations for it were lackluster and hampered by inadequate planning.
Nigeria hired a new coach in March and immediately announced a camp in London with friendly matches. But the world cup camp in London was later cancelled and only one friendly match went hitched-free. The North Korea match had poor organization, fights broke out because of tickets and people got injured. The Paraguay and Ukraine matches were cancelled. The Colombia match was played in an empty stadium after two venue cancellations. A meaningless match was played in Nigeria against a weak African country (DR Congo). Only the match with Saudi Arabia went okay even though a lot of their star players did not participate. They also had issues with hotel accommodation and experienced problems with the chartered flight taking them from European base to South Africa for the tournament. They have been several unverified allegations of players paying to play and coaches paying to coach. The funny thing is that these same issues happened during preparations for South Korea in 2002.
The question is how do you address these issues when the sport administrator points fingers at the players and coaches when they failed to deliver? The simple solution would be to conduct a free and fair election and vote the right people in, but that would NEVER happen in Nigeria. Please don't ask me about fixing election issues in Nigeria. The second solution would be for the Nigerian soccer federation head to resign (the French administrator resigned in South Africa after their debacle) but that would not happen either. That's probably why the president did what he did. I don't like the decision to ban Nigeria from competitions, but I do understand the president's dilemma. I hope they can fix their local football league while they are at it so that they can stop relying on foreign players in European leagues for success. I also hope FIFA doesn't band them indefinitely but I do see a need for them to fix their house.
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MR PRESIDENT PLEASE LET US REMOVE THE LOG IN OUR EYES BEFORE WE WILL BEABLE TO REMOVE THE BEAM IN OUR SUPER EAGLES EYES, YOUR ACT IS WRONG IT IS PURELY AN ACT MILITANCY. MEET WITH THE STAKE HOLDERS IN SPORTS ADMINISTRATION FIRST THINGS CAN BE PUT RIGTH RATHER THAN BAN FOR 2 YEARS
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I have to agree with Joseph E. There is an obvious problem with soccer in Nigeria. The NFF as they currently stand are unwilling and incapable of self-reform, because it is against their own narrow and selfish interests. Since we don't want the eagles to perform as poorly as they did in South Africa in 2010, a change has to be made. How can this be brought about?
Even though I am very much against government interference, there is no other solution. Mr Lulu and his associates in the NFF have no integrity or honour, they will stay and run football in Nigeria into the ditch, if allowed. They can't even use the excuse that Nigeria was in a tougher group this time when compared to previous outings. This time the eagles played the same teams and obtained worse results. It shows that other nations have improved and/ or we have fallen behind.
You saw the head (Jean-Pierre Escalettes) of the French football federation (FFF) quit. Joseph E, said that the NFF are not capable of holding fair elections to appoint new members (in keeping with the rest of Nigeria). So given these basic facts
* Lulu and co refusing to quit
* No fair election will be held
The president stepping in to break the impasse, seems logical. This should not set a precedent. Once this action has been taken, this should be fully exploited, to lay the foundation for an independent body, that is capable of meaningful, transparent self-regulation, that is run by competent and capable administrators.
This does beg the question why is it Nigerians more often than not mismanage assets? Ghana's football team has improved in leaps and bounds since their last world cup outing back in 2006. For Nigeria the reverse is the case, we are now hearing stories of family members bribing the coach so that one of their number can be in the team. This idea of bribery and underhand dealings as opposed to rewarding genuine talent and hard work, that has taken root in Nigeria is a recipe for self destruction and destruction.
You only have to look at Germany, how they are excelling, they didn't do this through bribes, political correctness and appointing unsatisfactory administrators. They were pro-active, far sighted, meticulous, rigorous, organised and professional, that is how they have emerged with a football team they can be proud of. Some may say Germany is a developed country and is many centuries ahead of Nigeria in all positive aspects of human development. For argument's sake, Ghana is a country that is very similar to Nigeria, but you have seen that Ghanaians have now learned to unite, and harness their collective energies to strive towards greatness and are leaving us (their brothers), behind in the dust, squabbling amongst ourselves about trivial and irrelevant issues like should the president be from the north or south, and whether Nigeria is a secular state or not.
We should not be envious of Ghana, their success on the football field and elsewhere, is well deserved (I congratulate them on their achievements). Instead, we should draw useful lessons, be humble and learn from the positive example they are setting and strive to get our house in order as soon as possible. On the football field and elsewhere.


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Q: How to understand the concept of recursion in java? I'm new to java programming, and our teacher taught us the concept of recursion and I found it to be a bit complicated. All I understood that it works like a loop(like the factorial of 4) but I still don't quite get it why it works like that. Can I get a detailed explanation on this topic? Here is the piece of code and a picture my teacher used to explain.
package javaapplication1;

public class JavaApplication1 {

static int factorial(int n){
    int t;
    if(n == 0){
        return 1;
    } else {
        t = factorial(n - 1);
        return n * t;
    }
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(factorial(5));
    }
}

In the following image, the blue color represents stack winding, and the green is stack unwinding, and again I don't know what stack winding and unwinding is.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/pjqJy.png

A: When a call is made to another method, a stack frame is created to hold the state of the current method and it is pushed onto the stack. This is regardless of a method calling itself or another method.
When the call returns, the stack frame is popped of the stack, the state of the method is restored and execution continues in the calling method.
Recursion is when a method (directly or indirectly) calls itself. The general form of a recursive method is:

*

*If a parameter meets a terminating condition, return (usually a result)

*Else adjust parameters for the next iteration and call self

The code your teacher wrote has some style issues. It would be clearer if written like this:
static int factorial(int n) {
    if (n == 0) {
        return 1;
    }
    return n * factorial(n - 1);
}

Eradicating the unnecessary variable t and redundant else (there is no "else" when the "if" returns - there is merely continuation of execution)
I would write it like this, eliminating the if altogether:
static int factorial(int n) {
    return n == 0 ? 1 : n * factorial(n - 1);
}

A: A recursive function is a function that calls itself until it reaches a return statement, that stops it from recalling itself. Take your example, the Factorial function.
Factorial is a mathematical function that returns the number multiplied by itself - 1 multiplied by itself - 2, ... multiplied by 1, example: factorial of 5 =  5! = 5x4x3x2x1 = 120.
it is also equal to itself multiplied by the factorial of itself -1, which is: 5! = 5x4!
Take into consideration that 0! = 1.
to represent this in a Java code, you need a loop that multiplies the numbers starting from 1, and going till the number you are calculating its factorial.
Further more, explaining your code, let us calculate Factorial(5):
Factorial() returns an integer.

Initial Call from main(): 5 != 0, then skip the condition (n == 0); t
  = Factorial(5-1) = Factorial(4);
Second call from Factorial(4): 4 != 0, then skip the condition (n ==
  0); t = Factorial(4-1) = Factorial(3);
Third call from Factorial(3): 3 != 0, then skip the condition (n ==
  0); t = Factorial(3-1) = Factorial(2);
Fourth call from Factorial(2): 2 != 0, then skip the condition (n ==
  0); t = Factorial(2-1) = Factorial(1);
Fifth call from Factorial(1): 1 != 0, then skip the condition (n ==
  0); t = Factorial(1-1) = Factorial(0);
Sixth call from Factorial(0): 0 == 0, then return value 1;
First return, 1, to Fifth call (Factorial(1)): return n*t = return 1*1
  = return value 1;
Second return, 1, to Fourth call (Factorial(2)): return n*t = return
  2*1 = return value 2;
Third return, 2, to third call (Factorial(3)): return n*t = return 3*2
  = return value 6;
Second return, 6, to second call (Factorial(4)): return n*t = return
  4*6 = return value 24;
Second return, 24, to First call (Factorial(5)): return n*t = return
  5*24 = return value 120;
Second return, 120, to Initial call (from main()): print(120);

Hope this helps you understand recursion.

A: When one knows that a task can be broken into similar smaller tasks ,then we use recursion or calling the same method(until we met a certain condition).Recursion not only helps in execution of a problem without having to define or invoke another method,it also helps in visualizing a pattern by which the task is getting executed

A: Personally, I do not like the factorial problem.  I find it hard to understand and I do not think it explains recursion in a clear way.  So lets look at a different example.  Lets say that we want to print numbers from 1-100.  This is a very simple task with a for loop and a counter, but it can also be done with recursion.  For example:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    numbersAscending(1);
    numbersDescending(1);
}
//Prints 1 2 3 ... 100
public void numbersAscending(int x){
    System.out.println(x);
    if(x < 100){
        numbersAscending(x+1);
    }
}
//Prints 100 99 98 ... 1
public void numbersDescending(int x){
    if(x < 100){
        numbersDescending(x+1);
    }
    System.out.println(x);
}

When a function is called, that call goes on top of the stack.  Think of this like a stack of cards.  Each one has a number on it (1-100).  When a function calls itself, a new card gets added to the stack.  When the function finishes, it is taken off of the stack.
So for the example above, every time numbersAscending is called, it prints out the current value for x before calling that function again.  This results in the numbers being printed in order from 1-100.  As soon as 100 is reached, it stops calling itself and pops each function off of the stack.
On the other hand, every time numbersDescending is called, it calls itself again before printing out the number.  In this way, x doesn't start printing until it reaches 100.  It then moves back down the stack, printing each number as it goes back to the main method.

A: /*This program in java will help you to understand all the basics of
  recursion:
  ->how control flows in recursion
  ->how return is executed in the recursive functions
  ->how and when the statements after recursive function area executed.*/

public class Understanding_Rec{

public static int rec(int x)
{
    if(x<5)
    {
        System.out.println("-->Smaller than 5");
        rec(x+1);
        System.out.println("<--After recursion inside x<5");
        return x;
    }
    else if(x<7)
    {
        System.out.println("-->Smaller than 7");
        rec(x+1);
        System.out.println("<--After recursion inside x<7");
    }
    System.out.println("<--No Condition Statement");
    return x;
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    int x=1;
    rec(x);
    System.out.print(x+"Inside main");
}
}

A: I am not sure if it explains, but if you had a precalculus class then you should know that factorial can be defined in two waqys.
n!=1*2*...*n
of  we define
1!=1
and
n!=n*(n-1)!
Try to see yourself that those definitions are equivalent. Pick let us say, 5!
according to second definition
5!=5*4!
but 4!=4*3! so 5!=5*4*3!
but 3!=3*2! so 5!=5*4*3*2!
and so on. Keep doing it until you hit 1!. But 1!=1 so you stop.
Recursion in programming is the same thing.
TomW


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IMF Completes First and Second Reviews of Nicaragua's PRGF-Supported Program, Approves US$19.8 Million Disbursement »
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The draft 2004 budget passed by the assembly is consistent with the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). Achieving the programmed strengthening of the tax effort remains a challenge. On the expenditure side,...
IMF Concludes 2001 Article IV Consultation with Nicaragua »
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Nicaragua showed weak economic performance owing to trade shocks, a decline in investment, and slippages in the fiscal and monetary areas, under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement. Executive Dire...
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This paper discusses Nicaragua's 2005 Article IV Consultation and Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Reviews Under the Three Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). The economy continued to...
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The Nicaraguan economy continued to post robust growth in the first half of 2011. The Seventh Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and Financing Assurances Review highlights that all quantitative perform...
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Nicaragua's economic performance in 2010 was satisfactory. Real GDP grew, supported by strong consumption and investment. Bank credit started recovering while the financial system remained liquid and profitable. E...
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import java.util.Objects;

public final class ObjectUtils {

	public static boolean equalsAndNotNull(Object a, Object b) {
		return Objects.equals(a, b) && Objects.nonNull(a);
	}

	private ObjectUtils() {
	}
}

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Cristina Grajales in New York: a gallery between art and design
Fabrics by the atelier Hechizoo, during the exhibition «Voyages and Explorations». The founding partner, the architect Jorge Lizarazo, worked for Calatrava and Fuksas before starting his own atelier in Bogotà.
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Since it first opened in 2001, Cristina Grajales Gallery, a space for contemporary design and twentieth century icons, has taken New York by storm. Cristina Grajales is the brains behind this project; one of the most respected people in the business. With an enthusiasm which has no equals, Cristina researches, explores, experiments and displays both design icons and fresh new ideas by emerging talents, who she nurtures with great passion.
Cristina Grajales has more than 25 years' experience in the field. Between 1990 and 2000, she directed the 1950 Gallery. And by being the first gallery in the USA to stock pieces by Jean Prouvé and Serge Mouille, Cristina turned this iconic New York space into the main American dealer of European furniture, interior design and lighting design. What's more, working as a consultant for contemporary design collectors pushed her, in a desire to satisfy clients' requests, to start her own gallery. And this success was almost predictable.
The Paraguayan Pedro Barrail studied art and architecture at the University of Miami. Latin tradition and modern design concepts come together in the exhibition «Welcome to the Jungle».
Furniture, lighting design, pottery, metals, fabrics and works of art: this is the wide range available at Cristina Grajales Gallery. All the pieces on show have one main prerogative in common; they all have to be "authentic, honest and original". Cristina is coherent in all of her choices, but also apt to take risks and to experiment with brand new ideas. She brings together and pulls apart objects in a variety of different materials, styles and historical periods, in a way which is extremely unique to her.
The furniture and sculptural lamps by French sculptor Christophe Come. These pieces were built for the exhibition «Material Transformation», using industrial materials.
A group exhibiton with pieces by Tabor & Villalobos and other twelve artists.
A group exhibition, where artists were inspired by the city of New York.
This gallery is a sort of platform for exploring new ideas. In an agenda rich in exhibitions, be it individual artists or collectives, design and art go side by side, often blending seamlessly together. Each year, Cristina enters her installations in the most important international fairs like Art Basel/Miami, Art + Design or The Salon in New York. Everything she does revolves around her clients, the dealers she works with and above all collectors, interior designers and architects, which can avail themselves of an in-house consulting service. There is even a special section of books to broaden the public's knowledge on the artists on show.
In occasion of Design Miami, a group exhibition with pieces by John-Paul Philippe and Suzanne Tick.
Passion, enthusiasm, curiosity, expertise and hard work: these are the ingredients of Cristina Grajales' success. She began her career as an interior design consultant and today, she is a real trendsetter. From July this year, Cristina Grajales Gallery will move to a new loaction in the Fashion District in Chelsea, not far from the Empire State Building. This space will be a few kilometres north of the famous Greene Street, which was her home during the first fourteen years of her career. And we can't wait to check it out!
Image below: Sebastian Errazuriz, Beautiful Premonitions
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Variable Schubert and Brahms from the LSO – and a Totally Forgettable Première
United Kingdom Eloise Nancy Gynn, Schubert, and Brahms: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, Manfred Honeck (conductors). Barbican Hall, London, 24.4.2013 (MB)
Eloise Nancie Gynn: Anahata (world première)
Schubert: Symphony no.8 in B minor, D 759
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, op.77
Eloise Nancie Gynn's Anahata was the latest work to receive its first performance in the LSO Panufnik Young Composers Scheme. The best, alas, that could be said about it was that it was competently enough orchestrated, if relying far too heavily upon 'eastern' colour: bowed vibraphone, Tibetan singing bowl, and so forth. (Edward Said might never have existed.) Otherwise, the piece sounded akin to the sort of soundtrack one might hear on an average television programme: a few 'effects', which might have gravitated some meaning in conjunction with an external narrative, but with apparently zero musical justification. Tonal harmonies sounded rather more than shop-soiled. The work, one read, was 'inspired by my [Gynn's] exploration of spirituality through meditation. Finding a way through life and its obstacles and emotions; a journey inside, from the head and all its mental chaos, thoughts and "stuff" … into the stillness of the heart space, connecting to the peace within.' I could go on quoting; on second thoughts, I am not sure that my stomach could withstand the effort. Nicholas Collon and the LSO seemed to give the piece a far more authoritative performance than it deserved. No matter; I doubt we shall hear it again.
I certainly cannot imagine that we shall hear it again in the company of the otherwise well-suited pair of Schubert and Brahms. Manfred Honeck, deputising for Sir Colin Davis, led a performance of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony that for the most part convinced, though it sometimes went a little overboard in its pursuit of extremities, whether of tempo or of dynamic contrast. The opening cellos sounded dark, mysterious, yet controlled: just right. Perhaps the basic tempo adopted was on the fast side, but it soon yielded – arguably too much. Still, better to enjoy flexibility than have the music in a Kapellmeister-ish straitjacket. Cultivated playing from the LSO alternated with furious eruption. It was the beauty of the softest playing, however, which ultimately lingered longest in the memory. Moreover, one certainly heard a good few of the harmonic seeds for Brahms, preparing the way for the second half. This was a musical landscape whose breadth tempted one to think of Bruckner, albeit with greater incident. Unwanted applause ensued. For the most part, the second movement flowed beautifully. 'Beauty', however, proved to be a slight problem, for however exquisite the opening of the second group sounded – and it certainly did – it seemed a little too much like an object of appreciation rather than a participant in a musical, indeed above all a harmonic, drama. It undoubtedly offered contrast with the outburst that followed, but the contrast seemed too much: an easy way out, however impressively controlled. That said, it was impossible not to warm to the echt-Viennese quality of Schubert's Harmoniemusik: not just its exquisite tonal quality, for which the LSO players stood beyond praise, not only on account of its timbral differentiation, but also for its communication of the menace within the 'heavenly' material. With a stronger sense of continuity, this might have been a great performance. It is probably a good thing that I do not possess the vocabulary to describe those who applauded before the final chord had ceased to resound.
Nikolaj Znaider joined the orchestra for Brahms's Violin Concerto. The orchestra showed typically impressive symphonic heft in the opening, Znaider offering in response winningly old-fashioned silken sweetness, not that he lacked cleanness and precision. (Let us pass over the problematic cadenza.) Honeck proved an attentive 'accompanist', perhaps a little too much so, clearly following Znaider's tempo fluctuations rather than emerging as an equal partner. As a whole, there was much to enjoy, but there is something a little amiss when Brahms sounds more 'enjoyable' than profound; I could not help but long for Menuhin and Furtwängler, or perhaps even Znaider and Sir Colin. The slow movement offered ravishingly beautiful woodwind playing, and not only from Fabien Thouand's exquisitely turned oboe solo; once again, Vienna and even Mozart came to mind. When Znaider entered, he creditably sounded as first among equals rather than dominating soloist. With a flowing, uncontroversial tempo, this sounded as Brahms closer to Mendelssohn than to Schoenberg, but there is nothing wrong with that once in a while. The finale, however, proved somewhat awkward, a state of affairs that seemed more Honeck's doing than Znaider's. The 'Hungarian' rhythm of the principal theme was shaped with fine understanding, its rhythmic accent spot on. Alas, the music soon began to meander, for which Honeck appeared to over-compensate by bringing out an excessive, almost Tchaikovsky-like, array of primary colours as 'interest'. Such vulgarity has no place in Brahms.
Mark Berry
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