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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (), was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who through his role as a politician and journalist was in part responsible for the more radical course the Revolution had taken. Marat had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. His murder was depicted in the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, which shows Marat's dead body after Corday had stabbed him in his medicinal bath. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).

Biography

Born in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, a hamlet in the commune of Écorches (Orne), in Normandy, Charlotte Corday was a member of a minor aristocratic family. She was a fifth-generation descendant of the dramatist Pierre Corneille. Her parents were cousins.

While Corday was a young girl, her older sister and their mother, Charlotte Marie Jacqueline Gaultier de Mesnival, died. Her father, Jacques François de Corday, Seigneur d'Armont (1737–1798), unable to cope with his grief over their deaths, sent Corday and her younger sister to the Abbaye aux Dames convent in Caen, where the former had access to the abbey's library and first encountered the writings of Plutarch, Rousseau and Voltaire. After 1791, she lived in Caen with her cousin, Madame Le Coustellier de Bretteville-Gouville. The two developed a close relationship, and Corday was the sole heir to her cousin's estate.

Corday's physical appearance is described on her passport as "five feet and one inch... hair and eyebrows auburn, eyes gray, forehead high, mouth medium size, chin dimpled, and an oval face".

Political influence

After the revolution radicalized further and headed towards terror, Charlotte Corday began to sympathize with the Girondins. She admired their speeches and grew fond of many of the Girondist groups whom she met while living in Caen. She respected the political principles of the Girondins and came to align herself with their thinking. She regarded them as a movement that would ultimately save France. The Girondins represented a more moderate approach to the revolution and they, like Corday, were skeptical about the direction the revolution was taking. They opposed the Montagnards, who advocated a more radical approach to the revolution, which included the extreme idea that the only way the revolution would survive invasion and civil war was through terrorizing and executing those opposed to it. The opposition to this radical thinking, coupled with the influence of the Girondins, ultimately led Corday to carry out her plan to murder one of the most outspoken and popular Montagnard radicals, Jean-Paul Marat.

Corday's action aided in restructuring the private versus public role of the woman in society at the time. The idea of women as second class or less than was challenged, and Corday was considered a hero to those who were against the teachings of Marat. There have been suggestions that her act incited the banning of women's political clubs, and the executions of female activists such as the Girondin Madame Roland.

The influence of Girondin ideas on Corday is evident in her words at her trial: "I have killed one man to save a hundred thousand." As the revolution progressed, the Girondins had become progressively more opposed to the radical, violent propositions of the Montagnards such as Marat and Robespierre. Corday's notion that she was saving a hundred thousand lives echoes this Girondin sentiment as they attempted to slow the revolution and reverse the violence that had escalated since the September Massacres of 1792.

Marat's assassination
Jean-Paul Marat was a member of the radical Jacobin faction that had a leading role during the Reign of Terror. As a journalist, he exerted power and influence through his newspaper, L'Ami du peuple ("The Friend of the People"). Corday's decision to kill Marat was stimulated not only by her revulsion at the September Massacres, for which she held Marat responsible, but by her fear of an all-out civil war. She believed that Marat was threatening the Republic, and that his death would end violence throughout the country. She also believed that King Louis XVI should not have been executed.

On 9 July 1793, Corday left her cousin, carrying a copy of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, and went to Paris, where she took a room at the Hôtel de Providence. She bought a kitchen knife with a  blade. During the next few days, she wrote her Adresse aux Français amis des lois et de la paix ("Address to the French, friends of Law and Peace") to explain her motives for assassinating Marat.

Corday initially planned to assassinate Marat in front of the entire National Convention. She intended to make an example of him, but upon arriving in Paris she discovered that Marat no longer attended meetings because his health was deteriorating due to a skin disorder (perhaps dermatitis herpetiformis). She was then forced to change her plan. She went to Marat's home before noon on 13 July, claiming to have knowledge of a planned Girondist uprising in Caen; she was turned away by Catherine Evrard, the sister of Marat's fiancée Simonne.

On her return that evening, Marat admitted her. At the time, he conducted most of his affairs from a bathtub because of his skin condition. Marat wrote down the names of the Girondins that she gave to him; she then pulled out the knife and plunged it into his chest. He called out: Aidez-moi, ma chère amie! ("Help me, my dear friend!"), and then died.

This is the moment memorialized by Jacques-Louis David's painting The Death of Marat. A different angle of the iconic pose of Marat dead in his bath is in Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry's 1860 painting Charlotte Corday.

In response to Marat's dying shout, Simonne Evrard rushed into the room. She was joined by a distributor of Marat's newspaper, who seized Corday. Two neighbours, a military surgeon and a dentist, attempted to revive Marat. Republican officials arrived to interrogate Corday, and to calm a hysterical crowd who appeared ready to lynch her.

Trial

Charlotte Corday sent the following farewell letter to her father which was intercepted and read during the trial, the letter helping to establish that Marat's murder was premeditated:

Corday underwent three separate cross-examinations by senior revolutionary judicial officials, including the President of the Revolutionary Tribunal and the chief prosecutor. She stressed that she was a republican and had been so even before the Revolution, citing the values of ancient Rome as an ideal model.

The focus of the questioning was to establish whether she had been part of a wider Girondist conspiracy. Corday remained constant in insisting that "I alone conceived the plan and executed it." She referred to Marat as a "hoarder" and a "monster" who was respected only in Paris. She credited her fatal knifing of Marat with one blow not to practicing in advance but to luck.

Charlotte Corday asked for Gustave le Doulcet, an old acquaintance, to defend her, but he did not receive the letter she wrote to him in time, so Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde was appointed instead to assist her during the trial. It is believed that Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville voluntarily delayed the letter, however, it is said that Corday thought that Le Doulcet refused to defend her and sent to him a last letter of reproach just before going to the scaffold.

Execution

Following her sentencing Corday asked the court if her portrait could be painted, purportedly to record her true self. She made her request pleading, "Since I still have a few moments to live, might I hope, citizens, that you will allow me to have myself painted." Given permission, she selected as the artist a National Guard officer, Jean-Jacques Hauer, who had already begun sketching her from the gallery of the courtroom. Hauer's likeness (see above) was completed shortly before Corday was summoned to the tumbril, after she had viewed it and suggested a few changes.

Since her execution, many authors have written describing Corday as a natural blonde, primarily due to this portrait by Hauer. Although Hauer admired her and took a keen interest in her fate  he had to depict Corday as a vain aristocrat and counterrevolutionary for his own protection. To give the idea that she had taken the time to make herself presentable and powder her hair before murdering Marat, Hauer painted Corday's hair a very light shade. Despite the fame of this one portrait, many other paintings (done both in life and posthumously) show Corday in her true brunette form, and her passport describes her hair as "chestnut" (châtains), refuting the idea that Corday had fair hair.

On 17 July 1793, four days after Marat was killed, Corday was executed by the guillotine in the Place de Grève wearing the red overblouse denoting a condemned traitor who had assassinated a representative of the people. Standing alone in the tumbril amid a large and curious crowd she remained calm, although drenched by a sudden summer rainfall. Her body was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery. Her skull was said to have been removed from her grave and passed from person to person in later years.

Aftermath
After Corday's decapitation, a man named Legros lifted her head from the basket and slapped it on the cheek. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, indignantly rejected published reports that Legros was one of his assistants. Sanson stated in his diary that Legros was in fact a carpenter who had been hired to make repairs to the guillotine. Witnesses report an expression of "unequivocal indignation" on her face when her cheek was slapped. The oft-repeated anecdote has served to suggest that victims of the guillotine may in fact retain consciousness for a short while, including by Albert Camus in his Reflections on the Guillotine. ("Charlotte Corday's severed head blushed, it is said, under the executioner's slap.").

This offense against a woman executed moments before was considered unacceptable and Legros was imprisoned for three months because of his outburst.

Jacobin leaders had her body autopsied immediately after her death to see if she was a virgin. They believed there was a man sharing her bed and the assassination plans. To their dismay, she was found to be a virgin.

The direct consequences of her crime were opposite to what she expected: the assassination did not stop the Jacobins or the Terror, which intensified after the murder. Also Marat became a martyr, a bust of him replaced a religious statue on the rue aux Ours and a number of place-names were changed to honor Marat.

Corday's act transformed the idea of what a woman was capable of, and to those who did not shun her for her act, she was a heroine. André Chénier, for example, wrote a poem in honor of Corday. This highlighted the "masculinity" possessed by Corday during the revolution.

The Revolution and women

Corday's killing of Marat was considered vile, an "arch-typically masculine statement", which reaction showed that whether or not one approved of what she did, it is clear that the murder of Marat changed the political role and position of women during the French Revolution. Corday was surprised by the reaction of revolutionary women, stating, "As I was truly calm I suffered from the shouts of a few women. But to save your country means not noticing what it costs."

After Corday murdered Marat, the majority of women distanced themselves from her because they believed that what she had done would spark a reaction against the now developing feminist movement, which was already facing criticism. Also, many of these women were attached to Marat in that they were supporters of his revolutionary efforts and sympathized with him as citizens of France.

Cultural references

American dramatist Sarah Pogson Smith memorialised Corday in her 1807 verse drama The Female Enthusiast: A Tragedy in Five Acts.
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote about her in his Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (1810).
Alphonse de Lamartine devoted to her a book of his Histoire des Girondins series (1847), in which he gave her this now-famous nickname: "l'ange de l'assassinat" (the angel of assassination).
French dramatist François Ponsard wrote a play, Charlotte Corday, that was premièred at the Théâtre-Français in March 1850.
In the 1862 novel Les Misérables, Combeferre likens Enjolras's execution of Le Cabuc to Corday's assassination of Marat, calling it a "liberating murder".
Harper's Weekly mentioned Corday in their 29 April 1865 edition, in a series of articles analyzing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as the "one assassin whom history mentions with toleration and even applause", but goes on to conclude that her assassination of Marat was a mistake in that she became Marat's victim rather than saving or helping his victims.
At the end of Act III, before departing to kill the Czar, the eponymous heroine of Oscar Wilde's play Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880) exclaims "the spirit of Charlotte Corday has entered my soul now".
In 1894, Kyrle Bellew penned a play in four acts detailing the assassination entitled Charlotte Corday, taking the role of Marat, while his acting partner Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter played as Charlotte Corday.
In the 1903 novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, young Rebecca re-enacts a scene of Charlotte Corday in prison, with her friends playing the role of the mob.
The 1919 German silent film Charlotte Corday starred Lya Mara in the title role.
Drieu La Rochelle wrote a play in three acts called Charlotte Corday in 1939. It was performed in southern France during World War II. Corday is depicted as a fervent republican who hopes eliminating Marat will save the revolution and prevent it from degenerating into tyranny.
In Peter Weiss's 1963 Marat/Sade, the assassination of Marat is presented as a play, written by the Marquis de Sade, to be performed for the public by inmates of the asylum at Charenton.
Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero composed an opera in three acts, Charlotte Corday, for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution which was commemorated in 1989.
Corday is a character in Katherine Neville's 1988 novel The Eight. In the novel, Marat is killed, not by Corday, but by a former nun named Mireille. Corday accepts the blame and is executed for the crime so that Mireille may continue her quest for the mysterious and powerful Montglane Chess Service.
Actor Herbert Lom's 1993 novel Dr Guillotine features Corday as a principal protagonist in a story set around the Reign of Terror.
British singer-songwriter Al Stewart included a song co-written by Tori Amos about Corday on his album Famous Last Words (1993).
Charlotte appears briefly but significantly, in Caen, in A Far Better Rest (2010), by Susanne Alleyn, a reimagining of A Tale of Two Cities.
The graphic novel series L'Ordre Du Chaos includes a whole book dedicated to Charlotte Corday and Marat (2014).
Corday is a central character in Lauren Gunderson's 2017 play The Revolutionists, a comedic quartet about four French women during the Reign of Terror.
Corday appears in the mobile videogame Fate/Grand Order as a playable servant of the "Assassin" class to be summoned by the player.
Solving Marat's murder is a mission in the videogame Assassin's Creed Unity. Corday is one of the suspects and confesses to the murder.

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•	Montfort, Catherine R."For the Defence: Charlotte Corday's letters from prison." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 329 (1995): 235-47
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Dubai extends Covid-19 restrictions until the beginning of Ramadan
Pubs and bars will remain closed, while restaurants and cafés are required to close by 1am
by Varun Godinho
Officials in Dubai have confirmed that the Covid-19 restrictions currently in place which were due to be lifted at the end of February, will now be extended until the start of Ramadan in mid-April.
Dubai's Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management said the decision was based on an evaluation of data showing showing the effectiveness of the intensified safety measures that were implemented at the start of February, as well as taking into account the recommendations of frontline authorities.
The precautionary measures that will now extend until the start of Ramadan include:
– Indoor venues, including cinemas and entertainment and sports venues, will continue to operate at 50 per cent of maximum capacity and under intensified precautionary measures.
– Visitors allowed in shopping malls, and guests in hotel establishments and inside swimming pools and private beaches in hotels, will be limited to 70 per cent of its total capacity.
– Restaurants and cafés are required to close by 1am.
– Pubs/bars will remain closed.
– Intensified monitoring and inspection campaigns will continue to ensure strict compliance with measures including physical distancing and wearing of facemasks.
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The committee added that observing preventive protocols and safety guidelines remained the most effective ways of combating the virus, and it urged members of the community to report violations of Covid-19 precautionary measures by individuals or establishments through Dubai Police's Call Centre 901 or its 'Police Eye' service in the Dubai Police Smart App.
Read: Dubai Police urges public to report violations of Covid-19 protocols
On Saturday, authorities in Dubai said that a a total of 167 inspections were carried out to monitor for compliance of Covid-19 restrictions which led to three establishments being closed, three of which were fined, and another seven of which received warnings.
It came the same day that the UAE reported 3,434 new Covid-19 infections taking the total number of cases up to 388,594. A total of 1,213 people have succumbed to the disease, while 379,708 have recovered from it.
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The story is that, when Cormac McCarthy was beginning his writing career, he was advised by a professor of English Literature not to use speech marks or speech attribution – ie 'Go away,' Joe said. If that professor is still alive and you come across him I'd be grateful if you'd do me a favour. Ask him to remove his glasses and give him a right good poke in the eye for me. This stylistic quirk works in this book most of the time (with good dialogue you can often tell who is speaking without attribution) but, occasionally, you get confused as to who is speaking and whether or not it is speech or the character thinking. To my mind, the use of speech marks/attribution is simply good manners on the part of the author. When it is in the form of 'Joe said' and it is broken up with the subject's thoughts and reactions you don't notice it.
Anyway, now that I've got that out of the way. I read this book after seeing the film twice – and loving it. The plot is simple. Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal in the desert that has gone horribly wrong. Bodies and bullet-riddled 4x4s everywhere. Packages of herion, a caseload of cash. This is Moss's chance. He takes the money and goes on the run, pursued by Chigurh, a mob hit-man, and a soon-to-retire sheriff. Even though I was familiar with the plot and the characters, I enjoyed the book and read it at a fair lick. McCarthy is terrific at setting scenes, defining character with a few deft brush-strokes and pacing a thriller.
There were a few things that irritated me, however, apart from the lack of speech marks/ attribution.
Overuse of the word 'and'. Too many passages went like this: 'and he sat down and tucked into his breakfast and ate a tortilla and drank some coffee and wiped his mouth…' I must say that here it works in action scenes but when overused it grates.
Chigurh is a nasty piece of work. Trouble is, he's not human. He's like a Terminator-style robot programmed to kill. Throughout the book there are italicised passages which set out the sheriff's thoughts. In the first, he thinks 'somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction'. Maybe this is what Chigurh is meant to be, but I would have liked a little background and characterisation – even if it is at the level of Alan Rickman's badass Sheriff of Nottingham who whispers in a victim's ear as the knife goes in: 'I had a terrible childhood, you know – I'll tell you about it some time'.
And, finally, the ending. I hate authors messing me around. If I'm rooting for the protagonist and he gets shot (along with his wife) well before the end, with the rest of the book given to philosophising by the about-to-retire sheriff on how everything in America is going to hell in a handbasket (to be fair, he's probably right), then I'm being messed around. I don't like it. I don't necessarily want the protagonist to win but I want a climax at the end. Got that?
The film actually improves on the book by putting the climax much closer to the end. But there is another inconsistency in the book. After the executions we have a key scene in which Chigurh is driving down the road and another vehicle crashes into him. The scene is related from the point of view of an omniscient narrator who gives details of the other vehicle and its driver that Chigurh couldn't possibly know. Who is speaking here? The author? God? He hasn't piped up before so I don't think it is a postmodernist thing. In the film the scene is a simple car crash seen from Chigurh's point of view. Much better.
So, to conclude. A really good snappy read but with some inconsistencies and irritating stylistic quirks.


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Most Recent TrueDelta Reviews | Page 1 of 8 | Why Not This Car?
Something I've noted before about Kia: they refuse to give up.
Back when I was a youngster, virtually every family owned a station wagon. But the emergence of minivans and SUVs in the 1980s, following by crossovers more recently, has driven the wagon nearly to extinction in North America. Only one affordably priced conventional wagon remains, the Volkswagen Golf SportsWagen.


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Republicans Shouldn't Tolerate Political Hostage-Taking from the Left
The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., July 2, 2020	 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
As we wait for Donald Trump to announce his pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there has been some division on the right over the most prudent course of action for the GOP to take. Some conservatives, especially on the anti-Trump right, including my good friend and former colleague David French, have suggested that Republicans ought to wait to hold a vote on a nominee until after the election.
As David puts it, if Biden wins, he and the Senate should agree on a deal in which the Republican Senate majority leaves the seat open in exchange for Biden's promise not to sign legislation expanding the number of seats on the Court. A couple of my colleagues have already offered their two cents on why they think such a deal would be impractical and unwise.
I'll add mine: Though I have great respect for David and others who favor this proposal, I think the idea fails not only because of its impracticality but also because it asks conservatives to take responsibility for stemming the tide of the Left's increasing radicalization.
There is nothing imprudent or unprincipled about filling a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year when the same party controls both the White House and the Senate. As Dan McLaughlin has pointed out, there's nothing unprecedented about it, either. In fact, the opposite is the case: It would be entirely unprecedented for Republicans to fail to fill this seat.
Not to do so out of deference to politicians and activists who are threatening to upend constitutional norms if they don't get what they want would be to capitulate to political hostage-taking.
"Forcing through a new Supreme Court nominee could produce a Democratic backlash none of us want to see," says one opinion columnist at Bloomberg.
Maybe so. But doesn't the responsibility for such a backlash — which plenty of progressives vow will take the form of marching on Washington, blocking the Capitol building, and attempting to obstruct senators as they try to vote on a nominee — rest on the shoulders of the people promising to wreak such havoc?
If Republicans were to cave to Democratic demands simply because many on the Left are threatening to break constitutional norms, they will almost certainly be disappointed by the outcome. Even if the GOP got Democrats to agree to such a deal, why should we expect the very same people making these sorts of threats to be true to their word down the road, especially the next time they hold political power in both the executive and legislative branches?
Conservatives aren't required by either prudence or principle to set aside their perfectly acceptable political priorities merely because Democrats are unwilling to abide by the normal political process. If anything, it would be imprudent to accede to these demands by cutting a deal.
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Capitol Riot Prosecutors Run a Big Risk in Pursuing a 'Sedition' Case	Capitol Riot Prosecutors Run a Big Risk in Pursuing a 'Sedition' Case
Trump's Impeachment Is Warranted — but the Senate Should Not Convict	Trump's Impeachment Is Warranted — but the Senate Should Not Convict
The 'Late Impeachment' Question	The 'Late Impeachment' Question


When you order music, I prefer to supply a personalised electronic copy (PDF) of the full piece, allowing you to print as many copies as you like – these start from £10. To place an order, just contact me by email – I'll send you a PDF and invoice by email, or post copies to you along with an invoice. Payment can be made by Paypal, cheque or direct bank transfer. If you prefer to order printed copies, these start from 50p per piece, plus postage – prices below.
The scores linked below are watermarked – please email me to order full copies.You are welcome to print off a single copy for perusal if you wish. All files are in PDF format – Adobe Acrobat's free PDF reader can be downloaded here.
If you would like a recording of a part for practice, I'm happy to supply these on request (email me). You can hear recordings of many pieces at my SoundCloud page.
O Clavis David – for SSAATTBB (could be done by 8 soloists, but would work much better with a larger choir). Quite challenging but rewarding. A setting of one of the O Antiphons. Commissioned by the Quodlibet Chorale and premiered in Edinburgh, November 2015 (alongside settings by Gjeilo, Esenvalds, MacMillan, Rubbra and Lukaszewski). PDF £25, single copies £2.
3 Churches Communion Setting – can be performed by unison choir and organ, the SATB parts are optional. Commissioned by 3 churches in Edinburgh. Single copies £2.50, PDF £40 – a congregation-only version (4 pages) is also available, £1 per copy or free with the PDF of the full version.
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep – SATB (no divisi), medium difficulty, 3′, ideal for a memorial event but would also make a lovely concert piece. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
Drop, drop, slow tears for SSA trio or small choir, difficult, 3′. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
Responses – for SATB choir, medium difficulty. For use in church services, especially Anglican evensong or similar. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
A Mother's Blessing – SATB choir, easy, 3′. Lyrics are an ancient Celtic prayer from "Carmina Gadelica". A beautiful piece for a baptism or christening. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
Magnificat – available for SATB, ATBarB or TTBB. Single copies £2.50, PDF £30.
Nunc Dimittis – available for SATB, ATBarB or TTBB. Single copies £1.50, PDF £20. Buy the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis together for £3/copy or £40/PDF.
For more secular choir pieces, also check out my free arrangements on this page – many of these are for three-part or two-part choir.
God To Enfold Me – for three part choir. Lyrics from "Carmina Gadelica", a translation of an ancient Gaelic song. Hear a recording on SoundCloud. SABar (baritone range is low A to upper E) or also available for ATB (would suit mens' voices with male altos). Quite easy. Premiere available. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
The Peace of God – for three-part choir. Lyrics from "Carmina Gadelica". ATB version also available. Hear a recording on SoundCloud. Medium difficulty. Premiere available. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
The Lord's Prayer – for SATB soloists and small SATB choir (could be done by two SATB solo quartets). Professional difficulty. Part of a Compline setting commissioned by St Mary's Schola, Arlington, Virginia, which will be premiered in June 2014, Washington DC.
Regis Regum Rectissimi – SSAATTBB choir, moderate difficulty, 5′. Latin. Winner of the Temple Church Composition Prize. Hear a recording. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
Missa Brevis – includes "Lord, have mercy", "Sanctus & Hosanna", "Benedictus & Hosanna" and "O Lamb Of God". For SATB choir (with divisi up to SSAATTBB) and organ. Some added second chords but not too difficult. PDF £40, single copies £3.
Thou Knowest, Lord – for SSAA choir, no further divisi (ideally this could be sung by a choir of unbroken voices, girls and/or boy trebles, but would also suit a female voice choir or four good soloists). Quite difficult unaccompanied, but could be performed with organ accompaniment. PDF £25, single copies £2.
Speravi in Te – SATB choir with divisi, challenging, 5′. Latin. Version with piano reduction also available. Commissioned by Choir and Organ Magazine for their New Music series. Winner of the New London Singers Composition Prize, June 2012 – hear a recording here. Single copies £2, PDF £25.
Balulalow – choir only version or with a piano reduction. For SATB choir with soprano and baritone soli, fairly easy, 6′. Text in Scots – a pronunciation guide is provided. Hear a recording. Single copies £2/$3, PDF £30/$45.
Good King Wenceslas, arranged for three-part choir (soprano, alto, and bass/baritone). Hear a recording (made with woodwind sounds but will give you the idea). Moderate difficulty, 2'30". Text in English. Single copies £1.50/$2.50, PDF £25/$40.
Patapan – for SA choir (occasional divisi to SSAA), moderate difficulty, 3′. Text in English. Single copies £1.50/$2.50, PDF £25/$40.
In The Bleak Midwinter (a new setting, not an arrangement) – for SATB choir, fairly easy, 4′. SAABar version (or SSAT, SAAT, SSABar etc.) also available. Hear Glasgow University Madrigirls (SSAB version) – or watch the Edinburgh Singers perform it (SATB version). Single copies £1.50/$2.50, PDF £25/$40.
We Three Kings (arrangement) – for SATB choir, medium difficulty, 2'30". Hear a recording on this page. Single copies £1/$2, PDF £20/$30.
New! Martyrs (string quartet, quite difficult). Hear a recording (MIDI realisation). Scores and parts £50, PDF or printed.
New! Ave Maria Gratia Plena (4′, soprano solo and piano, words by Oscar Wilde, professional difficulty). PDF or printed copies £20.
Wilderness (c.15′, baritone, marimba, percussion, professional difficulty). Score is handwritten at present, copies £30.
Crux Fidelis – SATB choir, mostly easy, 1′. Latin. Also available: Crux Fidelis – unison version with organ. Hear a recording at SoundCloud. Single copies 50p, PDF £10.


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Q: Не выводится значение переменной считанной с файла. Как можно исправить? Суть такова: пишу мини программу, которая должна проверять правильность введённого пароля. Сам пароль содержится в файле. Проблема в том, что когда я сравниваю значение введённого в Entry и значение переменной, которая хранит данные считанные с файла, программа как будто бы не видит значение считанного файла при сравнении. Как можно исправить?
Чуть не забыл, пароль в текстовом файле выглядит так: 22fFЖж,,
from tkinter import *
import time
import hashlib

root = Tk()
root.title('main')
root.geometry('400x400')

c = Canvas(width=400, height = 400, bg='gray')
c.place(x=0,y=0)

l1 = Label(text = '1', font = 'TimesNewRoman 24', bg = 'green')
l1.place(x=100,y=100)

l2 = Label(text = 'Введите пароль:', font = 'TimesNewRoman 24', bg = 'green')
l2.place(x=75,y=200)

e1 = Entry(width = 25)
e1.place(x=125,y=250)

btn1 = Button(text ="Проверить пароль", command = lambda:sravnenie())
btn1.place(x=140, y=280)

file1 = open("simple.txt", "r", encoding='utf-8')
global line
while True:
    # считываем строку
    line = file1.read()
    # прерываем цикл, если строка пустая
    if not line:
        break
    #print(line)

k = 0
def sravnenie():
    global k

    a = e1.get()
    print(a)
    print(line)
    if a == str(line):
        print('Пароль верный!')
        l3 = Label(text = 'Успех!',borderwidth = 5)
        l3.place(x=120, y=50)

    else:
        l4 = Label(text = 'Неверный пароль!')
        l4.place(x=120, y=50)
        k += 1
        print(k)
        if k >= 3:
            print(k,"Достигнут лимит!")

def develop():
    l1.config(text = '1')
    c.after(2000, configure1)

def configure1():
    l1.config(text = '2')
    c.after(2000, configure2)

def configure2():
    l1.config(text = '3')
    c.after(2000, develop)

develop()
root.mainloop()

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package es.moki.aerospike.extensions;

import com.aerospike.client.AerospikeClient;
import com.aerospike.client.Host;
import com.aerospike.client.policy.ClientPolicy;
import com.aerospike.client.policy.CommitLevel;
import com.aerospike.client.policy.Policy;
import com.aerospike.client.policy.ReadModeAP;
import com.aerospike.client.policy.Replica;
import com.aerospike.client.policy.WritePolicy;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

public class AerospikeClientFactory {

  public static AerospikeClient getAerospikeClient() {

    Policy readPolicy = new Policy();
    readPolicy.maxRetries = 1;
    readPolicy.readModeAP = ReadModeAP.ONE;
    readPolicy.replica = Replica.MASTER_PROLES;
    readPolicy.sleepBetweenRetries = 5;
    readPolicy.totalTimeout = 1000;
    readPolicy.sendKey = true;

    WritePolicy writePolicy = new WritePolicy();
    writePolicy.maxRetries = 2;
    writePolicy.readModeAP = ReadModeAP.ALL;
    writePolicy.replica = Replica.MASTER_PROLES;
    writePolicy.sleepBetweenRetries = 5;
    writePolicy.commitLevel = CommitLevel.COMMIT_ALL;
    writePolicy.totalTimeout = 10000;
    writePolicy.sendKey = true;

    ClientPolicy clientPolicy = new ClientPolicy();
    clientPolicy.maxConnsPerNode = 1;
    clientPolicy.readPolicyDefault = readPolicy;
    clientPolicy.writePolicyDefault = writePolicy;
    clientPolicy.failIfNotConnected = true;
    clientPolicy.timeout = 30000;
    clientPolicy.threadPool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1);

    AerospikeClient aerospikeClient = new AerospikeClient(clientPolicy,
        new Host("127.0.0.1", 3000));
    return aerospikeClient;
  }
}

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Evenings of festive musical merriment return this month as London's leading River Bus service MBNA Thames Clippers brings back its series of live acoustic performances from the capital's top buskers.
Last year's sessions received rave reviews, so the 2017 MBNA Thames Clippers' 'River Lates' sets on 19 and 20 December 2017 are sure to be popular. The hour long floating Christmas festival sets from Transport for London accredited buskers will take place on selected MBNA Thames Clippers services to Woolwich.
Passengers can enjoy well known carols and popular festive hits while gliding through the heart of the capital and marvelling at the sparkling lights of London's legendary nightscape, included in the cost of your season ticket or for as little as £5.40 (Single Central Zone fare for Adult TfL Travelcard holders). All attendees will be treated to a complimentary mince pie to tuck into onboard. Joining the existing timetabled services, the musicians will join the RB1 sailing departing Embankment pier at 21:30 on 19 and 20 December and perform a one-hour set.
Whether enjoying the on-board entertainment with a mulled wine from the bar or getting into the festive party spirit, passengers can cruise for the whole set or enjoy a few tunes as they travel between piers.


The Música Latina para Dos series by Wynn-Anne Rossi introduces students to the rhythms, styles, and musical characteristics of Latin American music. Each duet includes a short rhythm exercise to prepare students for the rhythm patterns featured in the piece, as well as a brief description to spark the performers' imaginations. The captivating rhythms and musical variety found in these duets will provide students with the opportunity to discover and celebrate Latin music---Música Latina. Book 3 contains duets written for students at the intermediate level. Titles: Viaje al Salto Ángel * Nova bossa nova * Volcán Santa María * Una rumba en mi corazon * Celebracion mambo.


Not everyone wants to live their life in the spotlight. Some celebrities decided to give up fame to live regular lives with ordinary jobs.
Bright Side shares with you 10 celebs who tried to live normal lives after becoming famous.
Geena decided to let acting take a back seat to increasing the presence of female characters in the media. The actress founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Although Davis's main focus is her activism, the actress made a return to acting in 2014, when she appeared on Grey's Anatomy, and in 2016, in The Exorcist.
A year after the band The Jonas Brothers broke up, Kevin decided to try his hand at contracting. At the same time, he became co-CEO of a marketing company and had a partnership with a popular website in the form of a video-sharing app. So basically, Kevin's in the start-up world now.


Can others of you who have the Ventriloquist VT-12 give your review compared to other speaker systems you've heard?
I'll try as soon as mine arrives!
You will simply be amazed how this system sounds. It really is unreal!!! My other speakers are NHT SuperZeros.
Just call the toll free number and order yours today. I think you will agree with me - at this price or anywhere around it - there is no competition. Hey, after all it has Dr. Hsu's name on it.
tdekany...how about a little comparison between Ventriloquist and the NHT speakers?
Wouldn't be fare to the VT12s since they are in a different house that has wooden floors vs my apartment with wall to wall carpet and the NHTs are set up better then the VT12s.
The VT12s have a different sound to them, but they sound much closer to the NHTs then I would have ever guessed.
Also, I simply don't get a chance to sit down and "listen" to music through the VT12s. It is not an option right now, but what is very important with any speaker at any price is what we experience when we watch a movie or play music with the VT12s.
We love the sound that comes out of these tiny speakers! It actually makes me laugh, they sound so amazing!
How awesome is that? For $249.00?????
BTW, the first movie I put in once I switched the two subs was X Men (1). The THX intro? Wholy S.H.I.T.!!! Unbelievable! My girlfriend actually got scared. Then she screemed: This sounds better then any movie theater I have ever heard! It IS like being in a movie theater!
PS: Tomorrow I'll have a chance I think to sit down with her and demo some music.
PPS: If I had the money I'd buy another set to replace the NHTs right now.
In any case, we will move in together at some point, soon I hope, so then I'll enjoy the VT12s more often.
Last edited by tdekany : February 9th, 2004 at 5:36 PM.
For musical sound quality, they are comparable to many top of the line 5 1/2 inch woofer bookshelf speakers.
Last edited by tdekany : February 16th, 2004 at 11:09 AM.
This is all pretty impressive. I've heard them (and liked what I heard), but I haven't had an opportunity to compare. I specifically asked about the Super-Zero speakers, since I have some Super-One speakers, although I don't have them used in the same system at this time.
I vote for the VT-12's! I replaced my ProMonitor 100s (Definitive) with the VT-12s - it sounds much better. And to be fair, I used the STF-1 sub with both sets of speakers (the STF is also a good buy for HT). I am now moving the ProMonitor speakers upstairs to be used with an older TV.
If you are on the fence about buying a set of VT-12, I wouldn't wait too long.
Here is a picture of the new setup!
Can you expand on your impressions of the STF-1? I'm thinking of using it for a bedroom system I'm assembing.
David - if you are looking for a good quality sub the STF-1 would be right for a bedroom.
It is not as loud as my VTF-2 (currently in the finished basement - my youngest son complains about the floors moving in the kitchen!).
But I like the STF-1 with the family room HT, it is not overpowering but performs very nicely. It is also has more spouse approval because it is not as loud. Also, being 10" wide - it can be out of sight behind some furniture.
Picture of VTF-2 in the basement!
If you can drive to Hsu Research, you should.
I was there and heard the STF-1...it is impressive. All of the subs share the same tonal qualities that you have to check to see which one is on in the demo room.
The little STF-1, placed next to the sofa and well hidden, actually shook the sofa and sounded good.
I'm sure I will go over and listen, but I'm trying to gather information without bothering the Hsu folks until I'm ready to do serious purchase-related listening.
Actually, I have heard the sub before. If you're referring to the open-house, I was there too. However, as I remember it, we switched to the VTF-3 after a short time. I really need to hear it again.
Right now, I'm undecided between the STF-1 and STF-2 for the bedroom. The STF-1 would probably be plenty. For the main system, I want to get either the VTF-3 or TN1220. (If the max-extension STF-3 was still available, that would be good too. However, I'm more than a few weeks away from that purchase).
You were there for the open house?
Which one of the 10 people were you?
I was the one with my mouth full of pizza.
Hey Camelot, Nice Setups! What kind of speaker stands are you using and where did you purchase them? Thanks.
They were about $60 a pair with free shipping (small handling charge). They are adjustable and the VT12 speakers sit on top of the stands - small velcro pads hold the speakers on top.
The tubes are small and will just fit two-wire cable (like monster cable). They are not big enough to accept four wire cable.
Everybody seems to be out of the nice Dual Banana clips with Gold plating, if those are necessary? A Sub-Woofer cable. I am not sure what else I will need? I am ANXIOUS to get this system going.
Last edited by pingpongdave : February 11th, 2004 at 6:40 PM.
PS. if you get a chance , try Frank Sinatra's Live at the Sands, with the Count Bassie Orchestra. (DVDEMPIRE.COM) kinda neat when you can hear the people in the background with there glasses chinging!


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Colonel airlifted to Chandigarh after he shoots himself in chest near Lehhttps://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/colonel-airlifted-after-he-shoots-himself-in-chest-near-leh-5759811/
Colonel airlifted to Chandigarh after he shoots himself in chest near Leh
Initial reports suggested that the Colonel was to be given medical help for being dependent upon alcohol and that he shot himself before he could be shifted to the nearest military hospital.
Written by Man Aman Singh Chhina | Chandigarh | Published: June 1, 2019 12:16:51 pm
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The injured officer was first airlifted to 403 Field Ambulance at Karu near Leh. After his condition stabilised, he was airlifted to Chandigarh for treatment in Command Hospital Chandimandir. (PTI Photo) Representational
A colonel shot himself in the chest at Partapur Transit Camp of the Siachen Brigade near Leh. He was airlifted to Chandigarh in a serious condition.
Colonel Rohit Solanki, Commanding Officer of 6 Mahar, is learnt to have shot himself with the rifle of a jawan at the transit camp. The injured officer was first airlifted to 403 Field Ambulance at Karu near Leh. After his condition stabilised, he was airlifted to Chandigarh for treatment in Command Hospital Chandimandir.
A senior officer in Army Headquarters confirmed the incident and said that it took place between 10 am and 11 am. "As of now the officer is said to be in a stable condition," he said. Further details of the incident are being ascertained and a Court of Inquiry has been ordered. The battalion of the officer is deployed on the Siachen Glacier.
Initial reports suggested that the Colonel was to be given medical help for being dependent upon alcohol and that he shot himself before he could be shifted to the nearest military hospital. However, this could not be confirmed by the Army authorities as the investigation into the incident was in preliminary stages.
The 6 Mahar was earlier stationed in Jammu where it came under attack by terrorists at Sunjwan Army camp in February 2018. Colonel Solanki was at the time the officiating CO of the unit
1 Chandigarh Police consumed unrecorded items worth Rs 1.89 crore in one year: RTI reply
2 BJP plans month-long publicity blitz in Haryana, ropes in official machinery
3 'Don't mess with mountains'


Chinese fiscal assistance is allowing Pakistan to begin rebuilding its energy infrastructure in its portion of the contested Himalayan state, which it labels "Azad Kashmir," heavily damaged during last year's flooding.
A senior official at the Planning Commission told journalists, "The main objective of the project is the restoration of the power supply to the flood affected areas in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) which were fully or partially damaged due to floods in July-August 2010.
The reconstruction of the distribution infrastructure in AJK will reverse the devastating impact of the flood, reviving the areas' economic activity and enabling the people to return to normal life and to provide electricity to the areas which were turned into dark due to damage of electrical works. This project will support the AJK government to achieve targets for revenue collection from the industrial, agriculture and social sectors."
The 2010 floods, heavy rains and landslides damaged 11 0.4 kilowatt lines, distribution transformers and other equipment throughout Azad Kashmir and the recent government initiatives are intended to restore and rehabilitate the province's power infrastructure to pre-flood levels, the Pakistan Observer reported.
Planning Commission analysts speaking on condition of anonymity noted, "The project is the rehabilitation and not a new project. The sponsors may justify annual operating and maintenance costs as the project is not a new project and is part of the original projects."


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Pneumonia (pronounced: noo-MOW-nyuh) is an infection of the lungs. When someone has pneumonia, lung tissue can fill with pus and other fluid, which makes it difficult for oxygen in the lung's air sacs (alveoli) to reach the bloodstream. With pneumonia, a person may have difficulty breathing and have a cough and fever; occasionally, chest or abdominal pain and vomiting are symptoms, too.
You might have heard the terms "double pneumonia" or "walking pneumonia." Double pneumonia simply means that the infection is in both lungs. It's common for pneumonia to affect both lungs, so don't worry if your doctor says this is what you have — it doesn't mean you're twice as sick.
Walking pneumonia refers to pneumonia that is mild enough that you may not even know you have it. Walking pneumonia (also called atypical pneumonia because it's different from the typical bacterial pneumonia) is common in teens and is often caused by a tiny microorganism, Mycoplasma pneumoniae (pronounced: my-co-PLAZ-ma noo-MO-nee-ay). Like the typical bacterial pneumonia, walking pneumonia also can be treated with antibiotics.
It's common for a person with pneumonia to start out with something milder like a cough or sore throat — which also can happen in other infections. But pneumonia is a bit worse because the infection goes down into the lungs.
When pneumonia is caused by bacteria, a person tends to become sick quickly, develop a high fever, and have difficulty breathing. When it's caused by a virus, the illness comes on more gradually and might be less severe.
Someone's symptoms can help the doctor identify the type of pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumoniae, for example, often causes headaches, sore throats, and rash in addition to the symptoms listed above.
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has skin that's blue or pale, which is a sign that the lungs are not getting enough oxygen.
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And finally, be sure to rest. This is a good time to sleep, watch TV, read, and lay low. If you treat your body right, it will repair itself and you'll be back to normal in no time.


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Q: Using Cookies to save the values in Spring MVC form fields Lets say I have a Spring MVC form like this:
<form:form action="${pageContext.servletContext.contextPath}/secure/main.htm" commandName="secure/main">

    <form:input path="operatorId" cssClass="textField"/>

    <form:input path="clientId" cssClass="textField"/>

</form:form>

What I am trying to do is to store those fields values in the cookies that they will be saved other time user logins into the system. It is similar to Remember Me checkbox, but just without the checkbox. My controller looks like this:
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String processAuthenticate(@Valid AuthenticationForm authenticationForm,
                                  Map<String, Object> model,
                                  HttpServletRequest request,
                                  HttpServletResponse response) {

    authenticationForm = (AuthenticationForm) model.get("authenticationForm");

    Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
    for (Cookie cookie : cookies) {
        System.out.println(cookie.getValue());
        if (cookie.getName().equals("clientId")) {
            authenticationForm.setClientId(cookie.getValue());
        } else if (cookie.getName().equals("operatorId")) {
            authenticationForm.setOperatorId(cookie.getValue());
        }
    }

    String clientId = authenticationForm.getClientId();
    String operatorId = authenticationForm.getOperatorId();

    Cookie cookieClientId= new Cookie("clientId", clientId);
    cookieClientId.setMaxAge(COOKIE_EXPIRY);
    response.addCookie(cookieClientId);

    Cookie cookieOperatorId = new Cookie("operatorId", operatorId);
    cookieOperatorId.setMaxAge(COOKIE_EXPIRY);
    response.addCookie(cookieOperatorId);

    return MAIN_FORM_MAPPING;
}

But when I click the button and this method is invoked, my values are not saved. It is the first time I am trying to use Cookies so maybe I am missing something? I was following this SO question. But in my case this does not work. Anybody could advice me with the solution to this problem?

A: Sorry for the false alarm. I was doing everything right, but I had a method which within each request returned new AuthenticationForm object as a model attribute, like this:
@ModelAttribute("secure/" + MAIN_FORM_MAPPING)
public AuthenticationForm getAuthenticationForm() {
    return new AuthenticationForm();
}

And I had a method which is used to show the form in the view:
@RequestMapping(method = {RequestMethod.GET})
public String showForm(Map<String, Object> model, HttpServletRequest request) {
    AuthenticationForm authenticationForm = (AuthenticationForm) model.get("secure/main");
    Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
    for (Cookie cookie : cookies) {
        System.out.println(cookie.getValue());
        if (cookie.getName().equals("clientId")) {
           authenticationForm.setClientId(cookie.getValue());   //Just added this code to this method
        } else if (cookie.getName().equals("operatorId")) {
           authenticationForm.setOperatorId(cookie.getValue());
        }
    }
    return MAIN_FORM_MAPPING;
}

Then I realized that this form object is always new, so the values I am setting from cookies always on a new form. I had to set the values from cookies in the showForm method and everything is working.

A: Please check whether this is useful.
In spring mvc 3, how to write a cookie while returning a ModelAndView?
@RequestMapping("/example")
private ModelAndView exampleHandler(HttpServletResponse response) {

        response.addCookie(new Cookie("COOKIENAME", "The cookie's value"));

        return new ModelAndView("viewname");
}


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Business bets big on Fiorina
CNN Money Staff Reporter Charles Riley
New York (CNNMoney.com) - If former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's bid to become the next senator from California succeeds, she will owe a giant "thank you" to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber has pumped $4.9 million into the California Senate race to help Fiorina, a Republican, defeat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for transparency in government.
Filed under: 2010 • Carly Fiorina • CNNMoney.com
" If former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's bid to become the next senator from California succeeds, she will owe a giant "thank you" to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."
You mean that organization receiving foreign money and funneling it into republican campaign coffers in hopes to buy a politician. So that they will be held accountable, NOT TO THE VOTER, but to the foreign entity that bought and paid for their seat in congress?!?!
Is that the Chamber Of Commerce that you are talking about?!?
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October 29, 2010 01:47 pm at 1:47 pm |
Concerned Voter
All that money will be wasted. Boxer will win in CA.
John in Sacramento
"The Chamber has pumped $4.9 million into the California Senate race to help Fiorina, a Republican, defeat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for transparency in government."
Is it just me, or is this sentence one big oxymoron? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the antithesis of transparency. Regardless, whichever offshore bank donated the big bucks to Fiornia is not the sharpest knife in the drawer in relation to wise business decisions. Fiorina is polling so badly now, that it would take a miracle (knocking on wood) for her to beat Boxer at this point. It just goes to show that those who wish to buy influence in America, will throw money at anyone with an (R) next to their name that will put corporate interests above all else.
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In democracy money don't talk all the time
The great part is you can call her ma'am. She doesn't have the arrogance Boxer has.
The chamber of commerce should be a neutral body because business crosses over party lines! there is as many businesses owned by democrats and so do the republicans. "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. More than 96% of U.S. Chamber members are small businesses with 100 employees or fewer". DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME ONLY REPUBLICANS OWNS SMALL BUSINESSES? oops chamber of commerce is a lobbyist club!!


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Opel will continue to look for new markets despite pulling out of Australia
Article by Anita Panait, on August 14, 2013
General Motor's Opel unit is withdrawing from Australia just a year after launching sales in the country, but assured that it will continue to look for new markets outside Europe. According to Opel, it will wind down its sales network in Australia "immediately." Opel commenced sales of its Corsa subcompact, Astra compact and Insignia mid-sized cars in Australia in August 2012.
The carmaker cited tough competition and high cost of building brand awareness as reasons for pulling out of the Australian car market. According to a spokesman for Opel, the brand couldn't keep up with discounts offered by competition.
The spokesman told Automotive News Europe that Opel Australia would "need to follow recent competitor price reductions, and significantly reposition the price of its core volume models." He remarked that coupled with the marketing investment, trimming car prices further was "not financially viable for any of the parties involved."
He, however, remarked that GM's Holden brand could sell rebranded Opels in the future. He added that Opel will still proceed with its export strategy, and is looking into new markets "wherever it makes business sense" for the GM brand.
He said that Opel's 2011 launch in Israel was a success, with expectations to 5,000 cars in the country this year. Opel is aiming to hike its vehicle sales outside Europe as part of its efforts to trim its excess site capacity as well as reduce losses caused by slumping sales in Europe. GM's European operations – made up of Opel and UK sister brand Vauxhall – have incurred $18 billion (EUR13.6 billion) in losses since 1999, including $1.8 billion in 2012.
Opel created the post of executive director of international operations in 2010 in a bid to grow new business outside Europe. The brand targets countries China, South America, Australia and South Africa. Opel launched sales in in Chile, Singapore and Australia in 2012; and in the United Arab Emirates this year.
In July, it was announced by GM that it is shifting a large part of the production of the new Mokka subcompact SUV from South Korea to Spain. The Zaragoza plant currently produces the opel Corsa compact and Meriva compact van, which are suffering from dropping demand.
Opel unit has already received around 110,000 orders from Europe for the Mokka since its launch in June 2012. Opel will start output of the Mokka at its Zaragoza site in Spain in the second half of 2014. The shift is expected to help the Zaragoza site achieve full production capacity as well as protect its 5,800-strong workforce. [source: automotive news - sub. required]
Topics: opel, australia


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Q: How to distinguish Windows driver from dll I need to differ two binary files - a driver and a common dll. As far as I understand I need to view sections of this files (e.g. via DumpBin) and see if there is an INIT section. Is this criteria complete?

A: You need to parse the binary and look into Subsystem filed of IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER, if it's NATIVE, then it's a driver. Look into the following link for details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809762.aspx

A: You would have to use heuristics to establish this fact and be certain to the extent possible. The problem is that there literally exist native user-mode programs (e.g. autochk.exe) and DLLs (frankly nothing comes to mind off hand, but I've seen them as part of native programs that do stuff before winlogon.exe gets to run) as well as kernel-mode counterparts (bootvid.dll, hal.dll and the kernel in one of its various forms ntoskrnl.exe).
So to establish it is a driver you could try the following:

*

*IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER::SubSystem, as pointed out, should signify that it's "native" (i.e. has no subsystem: IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_NATIVE)

*Verify that the IMAGE_FILE_HEADER::Characteristics is not DLL (which would mean it's a kernel or user mode DLL, check against IMAGE_FILE_DLL)

*Make sure it does or does not import ntdll.dll or another user mode DLL or to the contrary that it imports one of the kernel mode modules (ntoskrnl.exe, hal.dll, bootvid.dll) to establish whether it would run in kernel or user mode.

The structs and defines are all included in winnt.h.
The gist:

*

*establish the subsystem (only IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_NATIVE is interesting for your case)

*establish it is a DLL or not

*establish whether it links against user or kernel mode components


Since 2012, much attention has been devoted to the perception of France as being "anti-business" and "anti-wealth". Tax hikes and support for protectionism by former economy minister Arnaud Montebourg were of no help to the French economy. It had negative economic impact and certainly contributed to the decrease of direct foreign investments in 2012 and in 2013.
A decade ago, France was at the forefront of European economies. France's GDP per capita was the same as Germany's. Now, it is 8% lower. While Germany implemented a very pragmatic reform program, the so-called Agenda 2010, France was sleeping on its laurels. France has always been in the cradle of some very innovative companies which quickly become leaders in their businesses in Europe or even in the world. Its desire to innovate has driven France to build incredible things such as electric cars and high-speed rail. The country ranks well among the world's best education systems and is well-known for its start-up culture.
Despite its strengths, France seems unable to recover from the crisis. It has not been accustomed during the past 100 years to an economy growing at close to zero. The situation did occur much more often in the 19th century. However, all the economic figures indicate that France is stuck in stagnation. In the best-case scenario, France's economic growth may jump slightly above the key level of 1.5% in 2016. This level of growth is barely enough to reduce unemployment. In any case, the French may need to get used to high unemployment considering the natural rate of unemployment has increased from 7% to around 9% over the past several years.
Contrary to its neighbours, France seems least likely to benefit from the exceptional economic conditions (historically low interest rates, weak euro and a decrease by 50% of oil prices). The two recent periods of strong economic growth (1986–1990 and 1997–2001) were characterised by an oil shock and accommodative monetary policy but a third element is essential for economic growth: technological revolution and/or financial innovations. Financial liberalisation was a key driver for the period 1986–1990, which experienced an annual average GDP growth at 3.4%, while the development of the internet ecosystem pushed up the economy at the end of the 1990s.
Innovations are still numerous in the fields of fintech, dronautic or renewable energies but it hasn't yet fostered the development of large new industrial sectors. The current technological cycle is still in its infancy and cannot therefore have a significant positive impact on the economy.
The low level of private investment is probably the biggest challenge of France's economy. Despite the so-called "responsibility pact" with business, private investment will remain at least for the next two or three years under its pre-crisis level. The road for innovation implies higher private investment. But companies cannot maintain a decent level of OPEX and investment if their expected profitability does not recover at some point.
Since the 1980s, French companies' profitability has decreased considerably because of the gargantuan and complex French tax system. In France, companies need to pay more than 153 direct and indirect taxes compared with 55 taxes in Germany. This has clearly created disincentive to invest. Only further tax cuts for small and medium-sized companies could reverse this negative trend and impact positively business confidence. For instance, it would make sense to give them a competitive advantage compared with bigger companies by reducing the corporate income tax under the reference rate at 33.3%. It would be just and fair considering that big corporations have more money and knowledge to exploit loopholes in the law to pay less tax than smaller corporations.
But France lacks political will to reform. François Hollande was not elected by his base to pursue austerity but rather to boost growth and keep a high level of public sector jobs. Under the pressure of the EU, he pushed for a very moderate reform agenda but the opposition was so strong inside the Socialist Party that the government had to resort to rarely used constitutional measures to force the bill through by decree. It does not look very good for further reforms in the short term. Two years before the presidential election, it is very likely that François Hollande will adopt a wait-and-see position.
The problem is that the economic situation is not bad enough to push for ambitious reforms. Despite an economic growth rate at 1%, France remains one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It does not encourage policy makers to take courageous measures. Facing electoral wipeout in 2017 against the Front National, Socialist MPs may even feel the need to distance themselves from the government and its moderate reform agenda in order to save their seats. There is not much to expect in terms of reforms over the next two years. France's economy will certainly grow slightly but it will be lagging behind Europe's economic recovery.
However, France is not a lost cause. There are many reasons to be optimistic in the long term. France is opening the door to new cultures, experiences and models. Hiring foreign business leaders to manage French company used to be a heresy ten years ago. It is not unusual anymore. Right now, France focuses a lot on the German model but there are also many things to learn from Eastern Europe, North America or even Asia and that can inspire policymaking in France. The French are traditionally risk averse, which is a cultural trait, but things are slowly changing. They have realised that the welfare state is not sustainable any more because of the impact of the demographic pressure on the labouir market and the pension system and the high level of public debt. The discourse has changed; the state encourages risk-taking and creates better incentives for entrepreneurs and foreign investors. "The more risks you take, the more risks we will take" says economic minister Emmanuel Macron. It will take time but things will get better. I have no doubt France's golden age is before us, not behind us.
Following his graduation from Sciences Po Paris and the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Christopher worked as Analyst in the sector of new technologies at the Economic Mission of the Embassy of France in Israel. In 2008, he became head of Forex.fr, a French portal specialized in Forex and macroeconomics analysis. It has since grown to become a leading player in the Forex Exchange industry in France. Christopher joined Saxo Banque (France) in 2014 and is a regular commentator on economic and financial news in the national and foreign press. He is member of the economic think tank, Foundation Concorde.


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Math: We are starting our new chapter on multiplying and dividing integers.
Science: Phase one of your cell city should now be completed. You should be working on the brochure, smartboard presentation, and a 3D model of your city.
Math: We are starting our new chapter on multiplying and dividing integers. Work on questions 3-5 in lesson 2.2 in the practice book. We will go over them on Monday.
Science: Finish phase 1 of the cell city project and complete the anomalies. On Monday, you should be moving to phase 2 and working on a brochure, a smartboard presentation, and the 3D model. Be sure to bring in your materials so you can work on it during class.
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