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Carl Wilhelm Constantin Stichling (* 10. April 1766 in Weimar; † 24. August 1836 ebenda) war großherzoglich-sächsischer Kammerdirektor und Präsident des Kammer-Kollegiums.

Ausbildung und beruflicher Werdegang

Constantin Stichling ist der Sohn des Kauf- und Handelsherrn Ernst Christoph Stichling. Er sollte zunächst wie sein Vater Kaufmann werden, brach dann aber die schon begonnene Kaufmannslehre ab und studierte in Jena Cameralia.

Nach Abschluss seiner Ausbildung fand er Anstellung bei der Cameral- und Steuerverwaltung in Weimar, zuerst als Sekretär, dann als Assessor, Rath und zuletzt als Direktor und Präsident des Kammer-Kollegiums.

Im Nebenamt wurde er mit der Verwaltung und Sanierung der völlig zerrütteten Finanzen der Universität Jena beauftragt. Er beseitigte die damalige zeitweilige Insolvenz des akademischen Fiskus und sammelte darüber hinaus sogar Rücklagen an, so dass er die Universitäts-Finanzen bei seinem Tode in verhältnismäßig blühendem Zustande hinterließ. Für seine Bemühungen um die Neuordnung der Finanzen der Universität Jena wurde er von den ernestinischen Herzögen mit dem Komturkreuz des gemeinsamen Ernestinischen Hausordens und durch die Universität mit dem Titel eines Ehrendoktors der Rechte geehrt.
Vom Großherzog zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach erhielt er das Ritterkreuz und später auch das Komturkreuz des Hausordens vom Weißen Falken.

Leben

Constantin Stichling war zunächst mit Julie Wieland, der Tochter Christoph Martin Wielands verheiratet. Aus dieser Ehe gingen drei Kinder hervor.

In zweiter Ehe war er mit Theodore Luise von Herder, der Tochter Johann Gottfried von Herders, verbunden. Aus dieser zweiten Ehe wurden ihm drei weitere Kinder geboren. Eines von ihnen war der spätere Staatsminister Gottfried Theodor Stichling (1814–1891).

Quellen
 Gottfried Theodor Stichling: Aus Drei und fünfzig Dienstjahren. Weimar: Hermann Böhlau, 1891.
 Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen; Vierzehnter Jahrgang, 1836; Weimar 1838.

Beamter (Deutschland)
Person (Weimar)
Träger des Herzoglich Sachsen-Ernestinischen Hausordens (Komtur II. Klasse)
Träger des Hausordens vom Weißen Falken (Kommandeur)
Ehrendoktor der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Geboren 1766
Gestorben 1836
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Seventeen was an Indonesian pop rock band, formed in 1999 in Yogyakarta.

Seventeen was performing in a tent at Tanjung Lesung resort on 22 December 2018 when the 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami struck the stage from behind. Bani, Herman, Andi, a crew member, and their on-road manager were killed. Ifan, the only surviving member, announced his solo career.

History
The band was formed by Yudhi Rus Harjanto, Herman Sikumbang, Zulianto "Zozo" Angga, and Windu Andi Darmawan who attended a private high school in Yogyakarta. With a serious desire to form a band, they asked M. Awal "Bani" Purbani, Yudhi's cousin, to join the band. Seventeen was officially formed on January 17, 1999. The band's name, "Seventeen", was chosen because all of the band members were 17 years old. One year later, Yohan "Doni" Saputro joined the band to fill the vocalist position.

Their debut album, Bintang Terpilih ("Selected Stars") was released on July 17, 2003, through Universal Music Indonesia. They asked Indonesian MTV VJ at the time, Arie Untung, to duet on their song "Jibaku". This album managed to achieve sales figures of up to 75,000 copies and some of its songs were used for soap opera soundtracks. Shortly after the album's release, their label closed its local division. For the next two years, they did not have a label contract. When the Universal Music local division was reopened, Seventeen immediately returned to signing a contract. They later released their second album, Sweet Seventeen in 2005 with the single "Jika Kau Percaya" ("If You Believe").

In 2008, vocalist Doni, drummer Andi, and guitarist Zozo left the band. The remaining band members were anxious to find a replacement of Doni for the crucial vocalist position. After going through the audition process, they got Ifan as their new vocalist. The difference in vocal characteristics between Doni and Ifan made a change in Seventeen's genre. Seventeen's third album, Lelaki Hebat ("Great Man"), was released in 2008 with a drastic change from rock to pop. For their third album, Seventeen released it in the Glodok electronic goods shopping center which has been known as a place for music pirates. After the release of their third album, Andi rejoined as a drummer after previously leaving because he focused on his work as a bank employee. In 2011, the band released their fourth album, Dunia yang Indah ("The Beautiful World"), with a hit single "Jaga Slalu Hatimu" ("Always Keep Your Heart").

In 2013, due to differences in music vision, guitarist Yudhi chose to leave the band when the fifth album Sang Juara ("The Champion") was going to be released. The album contains two singles, titled "Sang Juara" and "Sumpah Ku Mencintaimu" ("I Swear I Love You").

Three years later, on 31 March 2016, they released their sixth album Pantang Mundur ("Persistent"). In this album, they worked with music directors for the first time. The album contains 11 tracks including four singles "Cinta Jangan Sembunyi" ("Love Don't Hide"), "Bukan Main Main" ("Not Kidding"), "Aku Gila" (I'm Crazy"), "Menunggu Kamu" ("Waiting for You") and "Kemarin" ("Yesterday").

In 2018, they released a new single titled "Jangan Dulu Pergi" ("Don't Go Away"), written for the vocalist Ifan's deceased father. Its music video was released on 10 June 2018. It was the last work by the band before it disbanded.

Sunda Strait tsunami

Seventeen was performing at PLN Family Gathering in Tanjung Lesung, Pandeglang, Banten, when an eruption from Anak Krakatau caused a tsunami that abruptly struck the stage from behind. All the members were swept away by the tsunami. Bassist Bani and road manager Oki Wijaya were declared dead at the scene. The body of guitarist Herman was found several hours after being announced as missing. The body of drummer Andi was found one day after being announced as missing. Crew  member Rukmana "Ujang" Rustam and vocalist Ifan's wife, actress and TV personality Dylan Sahara, were also killed in the tsunami.

Ifan survived the tsunami as the only remaining member of Seventeen. He later announced that the band is now disbanded, and he would continue as a solo artist. Despite being disbanded, the band's name is still carried by Ivan in his solo career. On 13 November 2022, Ivan announced that although the band no longer exists, he will continue to use the band name in honor of the deceased members, naming them as eternal members retaining the posts they had while still alive. Ivan took the move to preserve the Seventeen name in the Indonesian music industry, announcing that will not form a new band or join any band, in honor of his former band members.

Documentary film
In 2019, Mahakarya Pictures announced with Mahaka Radio Integra that they were working on documentary film of Seventeen. The film was announced in October 2019 as Kemarin (Yesterday). The film was released on December 3, 2020, after facing several delays to complete the film's development and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, closing most of its theater across Indonesia.

Former members
 Windu Andi Darmawan – drums (1999–2018; his death)
 M. Awal "Bani" Purbani – bass guitar (1999–2018; his death)
 Herman Sikumbang – guitar (1999–2018; his death)
 Riefian "Ifan" Fajarsyah – vocals (2008–2018)
 Zulianto Zulkifli "Zozo" Angga – guitar (1999–2008)
 Yudhi Rus Harjanto – guitar (1999–2012)
 Yohan "Doni" Saputro – vocals, guitar (2000–2007)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums
 Bintang Terpilih (2003)
 Sweet Seventeen (2005)
 Lelaki Hebat (2008)
 Dunia Yang Indah (2011)
 Sang Juara (2013)
 Pantang Mundur (2016)

Singles
 "Jibaku" (featuring Arie Untung) (2003)
 "Jika Kau Percaya" (2005)
 "Selalu Mengalah" (2008)
 "Untuk Mencintaimu" (2008)
 "Lelaki Hebat" (2008)
 "Jalan Terbaik" (2008)
 "Jaga Slalu Hatimu" (2011)
 "Hal Terindah" (2011)
 "Sang Juara" (2013)
 "Sumpah Ku Mencintaimu" (2013)
 "Cinta Jangan Sembunyi" (2016)
 "Bukan Main Main" (2016)
 "Aku Gila" (2016)
 "Menunggu Kamu" (2016)
 "Kemarin" (2016)
 "Jangan Dulu Pergi" (2018)

References

External links
 Seventeen on GP Records (in Indonesian)

Indonesian alternative rock groups
Musical groups established in 1999
Musical groups disestablished in 2018
1999 establishments in Indonesia
2018 disestablishments in Indonesia


The subsequent video diversion console from Nintendo might indeed be dual consoles in one.
The latest gossip about the "Nintendo NX," the plan name for Nintendo's subsequent diversion console, is that it's not usually a diversion console, yet a diversion console plus a handheld device of some form.
"Gameplay flows between Nintendo NX console and Nintendo NX handheld device," a consult from marketplace investigate organisation GfK reads, that was sent to YouTuber Liam Robertson.
Sounds like a Wii U, right?
NintendoTwo sets of hands play "New Super Mario Bros. U" on Wii U.
Indeed it does, yet certainly Nintendo wouldn't double down on a biggest hardware wave given a Virtual Boy. Wii U console sales are in a garbage.
NintendoThe Wii U is, by far, a misfortune offering console in Nintendo history.
What's some-more expected is that Nintendo's subsequent console is both a home console and something we can take with you. The Wii U has a wireless controller that can beam gameplay directly from a console to your lap, yet it's singular by distance: it can usually go so distant from a console before it loses a signal.
But suppose if we could take that with we — anywhere! — instead.
People informed with a growth skeleton pronounced Nintendo would expected embody both a console and during slightest one mobile section that could possibly be used in and with a console or taken on a highway for apart use.
That WSJ news came alongside news of program growth kits (SDKs) being distributed to diversion developers — program that enables diversion developers to emanate games for Nintendo's puzzling subsequent console. That's an critical square of news: it means that Nintendo's gearing adult for a diversion console recover in a not-so-distant future.
NintendoThe slip from a Nintendo financier display that initial suggested a "NX" project.
Nintendo's pronounced regularly that it will offer some-more information on a Nintendo NX plan in 2016, yet it's misleading if a console will be expelled this year.
One other fact of GfK's questionnaire held a madness of some gaming fans online: a line depicting a console's graphics capability of "900p." Standard high-definition fortitude is 1080p, creation Nintendo's subsequent console potentially reduction graphically able than a Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Like all a sum offering on this consult — which diversion announcement Eurogamer reliable as a legitimate survey — sum are theme to change between what's listed here and what Nintendo's NX indeed is. We're peaceful to gamble that a 900p bit is not an accurate illustration of a console's ability.


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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
by Rich Morris Rating:7 Release Date:2010-08-16 Label: V2
An unlikely musical pairing they may appear to be, but former Belle & Sebastian chanteuse Isobel Campbell and former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan have now made three albums of dusty, folky alt-country together. Hawk is perhaps the most complete realisation of their partnership yet.
Once again, Campbell writes and arranges the songs, intuitively using Lanegan's grizzled, careworn voice as a counterpoint to her own wispy, spectral vocals. Musically, much of Hawk is as dry and arid as a desert, but it's full of bruised emotions and seductively aching passion, as on 'You Won't Let Me Down Again', the gorgeously woozy, Mazzy Star-esque 'To Hell & Back Again' and the equally magical, Nancy Sinatra influenced 'Sunrise'. Both 'To Hell & Back Again' and 'Sunrise' feature Campbell solo, and are the standout tracks on Hawk.
There's also space for some classic soul, which can be found on the imperious but swaying 'Come Undone', and a straight up country ballad on the lovely, orchestral 'Time of the Season'. Meanwhile, Willy Mason pops up to duet on 'Cool Water' and 'Eyes of Green', although these prove to be the album's most soporific moments. Hawk is a very good, accomplished record, but since its best moments are Campbell's alone, one has to wonder how much she really needs Lanegan or anyone else.

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Eric Goska: Packers' 2013 run game wasn't streaky
They never ran on more than five consecutive plays in any game
Eric Goska: Packers' 2013 run game wasn't streaky They never ran on more than five consecutive plays in any game Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/1rMzt9W
Published 9:36 a.m. CT Sept. 3, 2014 | Updated 5:33 p.m. CT Sept. 3, 2014
The Green Bay Packers ran on five consecutive plays in seven games last season, including the 26-26 tie at Minnesota. James Starks carries the ball against the Vikings in that game.(Photo: File/Press-Gazette Media)
Last season's resurgent Green Bay Packers running attack ranked among the team's best of the past 60 years.
Surprisingly, the NFL's seventh-best ground game also established a franchise low.
From 1954 through 2012, Green Bay fielded 15 teams that averaged better than 125 rushing yards per game. Many of them featured high-profile backs such as Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung (1959-64) or John Brockington (1971-73).
Of those 15 teams, only one was from the past 25 years: the Ahman Green-led outfit of 2003.
Time to add another to the list.
Last year, the Packers returned a measure of respect to the ground game. They averaged 133.5 yards per game, up from 106.4 in 2012.
Powered by rookie sensation Eddie Lacy, Green Bay gained 2,136 yards on 459 carries for a healthy 4.7-yard average. Lacy, James Starks and others uncorked 54 runs of 10 or more yards.
Nowhere was the rebound more dramatic than in the red zone. After gaining only 99 yards and nine first downs in 2012, Green Bay amassed 248 yards and 33 first downs, numbers not seen since the early 1960s.
Yet for all they accomplished, the 2013 Packers never ran on more than five straight plays in any game. That's a first in team history dating to 1921.
Running the ball is as old as football itself. Those Packers teams that did it well always unleashed a flurry of runs (10 or more in succession) at least once in a game.
When Green vaulted to a team single-season record of 1,883 yards rushing 10 years ago, the Packers ran 10 or more times in a row on four occasions. They reeled off a season-high 11 straight early in the fourth quarter of a 20-10 victory over the 49ers.
The 1971 Packers ran 24 consecutive times in forging a 14-14 tie with the Lions. Eleven years earlier, coach Vince Lombardi's team ran on 27 plays in a row to clinch a 13-0 win over the 49ers.
Even teams that didn't run particularly well could be counted on to squeeze out at least one stretch longer than five. The 2007 Packers, coach Mike McCarthy's most lacking in terms of carries, closed out the Lions and the season with eight straight runs: Brandon Jackson (two), Vernand Morency (four) and quarterback Craig Nall (two kneel-downs).
Yes, kneel-downs count.
Given that, it's even more surprising that last year's team never ran more than five straight times. It had seven streaks of that length including two in defeating the Vikings 44-31 in Minnesota.
Six of the seven streaks came in victory. One occurred in a 26-26 tie with Minnesota.
Three did not involve kneel-downs. Lacy and Starks gained 16 yards on five plays during an advance that led to a 30-yard Mason Crosby field goal and 10-7 lead in Minnesota. In the rematch, Scott Tolzien scored from 6 yards out to forge a 7-0 advantage, and Lacy followed with four runs for 28 yards on the next drive.
Then, in the third quarter of the season finale against the Bears, Lacy dashed 17 yards before Starks reeled off four carries for 51 yards. Aaron Rodgers hit Randall Cobb with the first of two touchdown passes two plays later.
In addition to not producing any streaks of length, the 2013 Packers also employed more solo shots than any of the other top 16 rushing teams of the past 60 years. The team did not follow a run with a run on 172 of 459 carries (37.5 percent).
That's a higher percentage than 10 years ago (30.2). It's a far cry from 1972 (8.5) when the Packers clinched a playoff spot under coach Dan Devine.
This can be attributed in part to the fact that McCarthy's Packers don't shy from using the pass to help run out the clock. Up 38-20 over Washington in Week 2, Rodgers mixed in five passes on a 13-play drive that chewed up the entire second half of the fourth quarter.
Circumstances also played a role. In the seven games in which the Packers led or were tied after three quarters, they often continued to throw because opponents — outscoring them 80-43 in the fourth quarter — didn't back down. And in those games in which they trailed, they were forced to pass to have any chance of mounting a rally.
Longing for more
Since 1954, those seasons in which the Packers averaged better than 125 yards rushing per game yet failed to run the ball more than a dozen times consecutively in any game (regular season only).
Key: Lg. — longest streak; No. — number of streaks of 6 or more; Avg. — average rushing yards per game.
— Before 2013, the Packers teams of 1999, 2000 and 2005 were the only to never have run more than six times in succession in any game.
— The Packers' longest streak in one game under McCarthy was 12 straight in a 26-0 win over the Lions in 2009.
— aegoska@sbcglobal.net


Taxpayers should be "reassured" by a Federal Court of Appeal decision that prevented the Canada Revenue Agency from forcing insurance companies to turn over the names of customers who bought a product it wanted to crack down on, according to an Alberta tax lawyer.
A Federal Court judge initially granted the minister of national revenue authorization to get the details of people who bought controversial "10-8" plans. But the authorization was granted on an ex parte basis, and when the insurers later objected, another judge cancelled them, finding the minister failed to disclose a significant amount of information on the ex parte applications.
In a decision dated Feb. 21, Federal Court of Appeal Justice David Stratas, upheld the cancellation.
The Canadian Bar Association's British Columbia branch has hit out at the provincial government for its failure to increase financial support for the province's legal aid system in yesterday's budget.
According to budget documents, the Ministry of Justice will get a $28-million boost in spending, or a 2.5-per-cent increase in its overall budget. However, most of the new money goes towards funding policing and security programs, while court services and legal services will see a small cut.
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has declared the pay scheme for the province's justices of the peace unconstitutional.
A complicated formula links the JPs' salaries to that of provincial court judges, which are in turn set by the government based on the recommendations of an independent tribunal. But in his Feb. 1 judgment, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Gerald Moir concluded that was too much distance to guarantee judicial independence for the JPs.
A Kelowna, B.C. criminal law practice faces a tax bill of $200,00 after failing in its latest attempt to have GST on criminal defence legal services declared unconstitutional.
Stanley J. Tessmer Law Corp. argued the imposition of the GST infringes s. 10 (b) of the Charter, by impeding an arrested or detained person's right to counsel.
"The appellant maintains that, by its nature, a tax on criminal defence legal fees will, at some level, be prohibitive or at the very least act as an impediment to or will interfere with the right to counsel since the additional cost of the tax to an accused will interfere with the financial resources available to mount a defence to the charges brought against him or her," wrote Tax Court of Canada Justice Brent Paris, summing up the firm's case.
A man convicted for his involvement in a marijuana grow-op has had his sentence cut by a third on appeal after Ontario's top court found the judge made a "negative and stereotypical" comment, amongst other errors, in his decision.
Ontario Court Justice Gregory Pockele sentenced Nhu Van Nguyen to 15 months in jail, less two months credit for pre-trial custody, back in March 2011.
According to the Ontario Court of Appeal decision, Nguyen was the "gardener" in a $1.2-million grow-op scheme involving more than 1,200 marijuana plants at a large residential home in London, Ont. He had pleaded guilty to theft of hydro, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, and production of marijuana.
The Canadian Bar Association will urge the Supreme Court of Canada to water down its bright line rule on conflicts during Thursday's hearing of Canadian National Railway v. McKercher LLP.
The rule came about as a result of the top court's landmark 2002 decision in R v. Neil, when former justice Ian Binnie wrote that in general "a lawyer may not represent one client whose interests are directly adverse to the immediate interests of another current client" even if the two mandates are unrelated, unless both clients consent after receiving full disclosure.
But counsel for the the CBA, Malcolm Mercer, says the rule should only apply where there is a substantial risk of prejudice to the lawyer's former client.
The barristers' lounge at Vancouver's 222 Main St. provincial courthouse is a lonely place these days.
"It's been empty ever since it happened," says defence lawyer Chris Johnson of Johnson Doricic Doyle Sugarman.
The event he's referring to was the discovery last week of a bedbug infestation in the lawyers' lounge at one of the court's Downtown Eastside area locations.
A Law Society of Upper Canada panel has ruled that aboriginal sentencing circles can have a role to play in the society's discipline process, despite rejecting a lawyer's request for one in his case.
In a decision released last month, Bencher Carol Hartman rejected submissions from law society lawyers who argued the circles had no place outside the criminal justice sphere.
"Given that Convocation's primary objective is to protect the public and to maintain public confidence in the legal profession, the holding of a circle would engage the public in the penalty process and could play an important role in maintaining public confidence in the profession," Hartman wrote on behalf of the three-member panel.


Former Newcastle United midfielder Rob Lee believes that the club "does not feel" huge anymore and feels that players "don't want to play" for the Magpies.
Rob Lee has claimed that Newcastle United "does not feel" like a big club anymore and feels that players "don't want to play" for the Magpies.
The Tynesiders were promoted from the Championship last term but currently sit just two points above the Premier League relegation zone.
Newcastle owner Mike Ashley put the club up for sale in October, but ended talks last month over a potential £250m sale to financier Amanda Staveley.
Speaking to BBC Sport, former Magpies stalwart Lee said: "There is no point in Newcastle getting into the Premier League then keeping the same players that got them there.
"Sometimes you need better players. Bournemouth and Watford have both spent more than us. Newcastle is a huge club but it does not feel like that anymore, people don't want to play for them anymore.
"We were challenging the top teams like Manchester United and Arsenal, had trips to Europe, but it all seems so far away now. It is a shame. The club has been in decline for such a long time.
"Mike Ashley takes one step forward and then three giant steps backwards. It is time now for change, we need change, we need someone else to take the helm.
"It has become a stalemate. It is complicated with Ashley wanting a certain amount but prospective buyers are only willing to pay a certain amount because of what they value the club."
Since Ashley's takeover in 2007, the Magpies have twice been relegated from the top flight before returning at the first attempt.


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Olympia (minor planet designation: 582 Olympia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

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Omar-S is the latest man of mystery from Detroit. His records are low key minimal dirty house music, usually issued only on white label with handwritten info. His love for the music is quite evident from the deep emotional tracks he writes. His music is indebted to tracky Chicago house, dirty Detroit house, and of course Detroit techno.
Pfirter is one of the main icons of the electronic scene in South America. After more than a decade of a solid career, Juan Pablo has developed a very unique and personal style, mainly because of his very particular set, based on many subgenres of Techno. Pfirter is nowadays considered one of the argentinian djs with the biggest international projection, with releases on labels as CLR, Stockholm Ltd, Figure, Synewave and his own music plattform, MindTrip Music, among others.


Very cute little romper from Spanish designer brand Mayoral.
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Ducks are back in Borda Gardens
The weather we've been having is fit for ducks. And I'm glad to be able to tell you that the ducks are back and thriving in the rowing lake in Cuernavaca's Borda Gardens. Six years ago they were banished by the director of Morelos' Culture Institute because she said "the ducks and the fish get things dirty." The current administration has welcomed them back. Private citizens are supplying the ducks.
This is wonderful news because it just wasn't the same without the ducks. The Borda Gardens is one of Cuernavaca's hidden gems — it's right across the street from the Cathedral. I consider it a sanctuary in the center of busy downtown. No one pesters you inside the gardens. A small admission fee keeps the vendors out. You can sit on the grass, a bench, or at a garden table and read a book. You can even have a picnic on a boat in the rowing lake.
It's the ongoing legacy of an immigrant to Mexico, José de la Borda (1699-1778) and his son Manuel. José was born in France to a Spanish mother and French father and was baptized as Joseph de La Borde. When he was 16 his mother did to him what many Spanish mothers still do to their teenage boys — she sent him to America "to become a man." At that time Spanish mothers purchased passage for their sons on a ship from Cádiz to Veracruz. Today they buy their sons a one-way ticket on a flight from Madrid to Mexico City. They arrive on this side of the ocean with a little bit of money and a long list of relatives who have already made the trip. Many of them have done very well. Borda was one of them.
Upon arrival in this Spanish viceroyalty Joseph hispanicized his name and signed in at Veracruz as José de la Borda. From there he went directly to Taxco where he caught up with his brother Francisco. Both brothers had a knack for finding silver. They did so well that they married two daughters of the mayor of Taxco. The Verdugo sisters became Mrs. Borda and Mrs. Borda.
It was after Francisco's death that José discovered Taxco's richest vein of silver. He had mule trains carry the silver from Taxco to the mint in Mexico City. Cuernavaca was a good resting point. The cargo would be unloaded at Borda's Cuernavaca estate to give the overseers, guards, muleteers, and the mules themselves a couple of days rest before continuing to Mexico City.
In appreciation for the tremendous wealth the silver bestowed on him, José de la Borda built the Santa Prisca church facing Taxco's zocalo. It's the only church of its size built in the 18th century Mexico for which there was enough money to finish when construction began.
It was José's son Manuel who transformed the mule train depot in Cuernavaca into a botanical garden. He had a landscape architect lay it out with a French design of crisscrossing walkways with fountains where they intersected. He extended Cuernavaca's aqueduct to end in the rowing lake which doubled as a water tank at the highest part of the property. Water flowed by force of gravity through the planter beds. I imagine the lake was filled with ducks then too.
In the 1860s the Borda family felt it appropriate, perhaps taking into account their French ancestry, to make the property available to French-imposed Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlotta. Maximilian made plans to use the Borda home and gardens as his summer palace but his empire didn't last long enough to do that more than once.
In the 1970s, while restoration work to the Borda Gardens was underway, I read a newspaper article about an Austrian woman who traveled to Mexico on a diplomatic passport.
When she returned to Austria a short while later she was decorated by the Austrian government for returning a collection of Emperor Maximilian's jewelry and medals. If the story is true, the Austrian government had known the location of the stash for more than a hundred years but had not had access to the gardens without risk of being caught.
Last weekend as I thought of those ducks in the rowing lake as the only ones enjoying the endless rain I decided to see if I could confirm my recollection of that story. I went to see long-time Borda Garden employee Heberto González who has authored a book about the gardens. I remembered him and he remembered me as a frequent visitor with students in tow and always with food for the ducks.
You see the ducks learned to recognize me and would gather around whenever I stood on the edge of the rowing lake. He'd heard the story about the Austrian woman too but couldn't confirm its accuracy.
That's okay. The story adds to the charm of this wonderful spot in the heart of Cuernavaca. And I'm happy because the ducks are back.
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Modysta Offers Fashion Forward Exploration For All
Modysta, a new online fashion store, is now open and ready for visitors. The store is a hub where fashion styles can be explored and purchased. Visitors to the site will be offered a one-stop-shop to access the latest styles while embracing comfort and personal taste at the same time.
"We are thrilled to be offering our services to the public," stated a Modysta representative. "Fashion changes in the twinkling of an eye. It's hard to keep up. Now, all one needs to do is to visit our new online fashion store to see the latest styles. We focus not only on fashion trends and fashion styles but also on individual taste and comfort as well. We are, indeed, redefining how gorgeous people should embrace fashion."
Modysta is the brainchild of five Portuguese entrepreneurs that hail from the Alentejo region who decided to build an online platform that would showcase the latest fashion styles to their viewers. The new online fashion store displays the top fashions from leading stores and brands and keeps up with the latest fashion trends. Clothing, handbags. Shoes, jewelry, and accessories are among the items that are available on the new online fashion site.
Visitors to the site are able to keep up with the hottest styles and trends through Modysta because Modysta does the homework for them. They search out the fashions that are trending and add to the collection constantly in order to keep current. A special section can be accessed by viewers called "New Today" that displays the very latest additions of trending styles, cutting out the need for customers to search them out themselves. The feature was added in order to make the shopping process easier as the editors have already researched the most up to date fashions.
Not only are the Modysta editors skilled in scouting out the top, hottest styles and fashions to bring them to the site, the store's IT engineers are highly skilled as well. They work diligently to bring the store's vision to reality, enabling customers to access the platform in a pleasant and convenient manner.
Thousands of products and a myriad of designers and high fashion stores can be explored on the site. The company is constantly striving to improve the store and the shopping experience by adding new functionalities to the platform along with the new merchandise. The customer service on the site is helpful when a customer has a question or a need. Modysta functions with the belief that it takes both a top-notch technical team, a talented group of editors and a friendly customer service staff to provide excellence at the online shopping site.
Customers can easily find the brands they want or search by item or style. From there, they are able to find the latest styles and sort through them according to their own personal likes and dislikes or in keeping with other aspects that are important to them, individually, such as searching for specific colors or for comfort.
The Modysta website features a host of top-name brands such as Armani, Boss, Adidas, Coco de Mer, Daisy Street, Chantelle, Diesel, Else, Faith, Eytys, Gucci, Fillmore, G-Star, Ivanka Trump, Hogan, Kenzo, Levi'S, Lysse, Joanna August, Miss Behave, Ottoman Hands and Nina Ricci. Also available are Quay, Roberto Coin, Rag & Bone, Sacred Hawk, Splendid, Under Armour, Polo Ralph Lauren. Shoppers who prefer a particular brand are able to quickly and conveniently navigate directly to the merchandise of their choice.
The site is extremely user-friendly, making it easy for visitors to explore and purchase the latest styles of clothing, shoes, accessories and more, all under one roof. The items are neatly arranged and categorized as the store's editors skillfully collect and display them so that customers can browse through them with ease to find the best fashions that are suited for them, personally.
The editor's pick section of the site assists visitors in keeping up with the trending fashions in the fashion circuit as well as through catalog products and brands with their flair for fashion and their knowledge as well. Hassle-free shopping for a delightful experience is the mission of Modysta.
To keep the new online fashion store completely up to date in fashion trends, the editors are always busy curating new stores and new designers. New stores and new designers are added each and every month. Some of the stores that are currently featured include: SSENSE, STEFANIA MODE, STYLEBOP, BLOOMINGDALES, MATCHESFASHION, ASOS.
"Our mission is to search and choose the best fashion designers stores on the web, and aggregate in one special design platform," said a Modysta company spokesperson.
To find out more about the new online fashion store, Modysta, or to make a purchase, visit https://www.modysta.com/.
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Movie Review: Sweet Land
January 31, 2011 / Jody+ / 0 Comments
Anna and I recently watched the movie "Sweet Land." This is not a movie you're likely to have heard about, and as far as I know it wasn't shown in the local Regal. Nonetheless, I would say this is a movie that many people can connect with on several levels.
To begin with, it is a love story–though not a typical one. At least it's not a typical one for today and that is an important caveat, because, for the time and the place in which the film is set–a largely agrarian immigrant community in the upper mid-west (Minnesota to be exact)–this story is perhaps more typical than people today might expect.
It's not a typical love story for today because it doesn't follow the set pattern. There is no chance meeting fraught with possibility and made to bear more meaning than chance ought to. There's no dating, no drama induced by misunderstanding only to be cleared up just in time for the marriage bells to ring. Indeed, there are no bells. There is no wedding–but there is the story of a strong and loving marriage.
"Sweet Land" is based upon the short story "Gravestone Made of Wheat" by Will Weaver, and while the movie differs from the short story, it still conveys the same sense of place, time and affection. In the movie, Olaf Torvik is a Norwegian farmer whose parents have sent him a bride from the old country. For the modern viewer it is likely to be this status as a "mail order bride" that stands out, or is seen as problematic. In 1920's Minnesota, with its large immigrant community (as with other immigrant communities) this is not the issue. The community doesn't bat an eye at the expectation that Inge, the young woman, would marry Olaf nearly as soon as she's off the train. For them, the problem rests in the fact that Inge is German and it doesn't help that she doesn't have the correct immigration papers or that her political affiliation has been incorrectly identified as "socialist."
In the story of Olaf and Inge and the challenges they face, we catch a glimpse of an era in which the Lutherans in the US were especially sensitive to issues of nationality. Whether it be the admonition "only English in the church," or the concern to be seen as "American" and not by the nationality of one's parents or grandparents. It was in such a climate, during and after the first world war that the American flag made it's first appearance in church sanctuaries as immigrant communities sought to demonstrate where their allegiance lay. Also on display are economic concerns, with Olaf's recurring statement–proven correct in this instance–that "farming and banking don't mix."
In the midst of all the trials brought about by forces beyond their control, "Sweet Land" brings out the moving story of two people's commitment to one another and the love that grows in their marriage, transforming them into a patriarch and matriarch not only of their family, but also of a community that once rejected them.
I heartily recommend this film, and with a PG rating, it's a movie that the family can enjoy together, perhaps even inspiring conversations about grandparents, great grandparents and how we came to be who we are today.
Charles, King & Martyr
January 30th is the feast day of Charles, King & Martyr for many within the Church of England, as well as some around the Anglican Communion, including the members of the Society of King Charles the Martyr. This is a particularly interesting and ambivalence-inspiring observance for Americans, given our own elevation of democracy to divine status. It is for this reason, of course, despite regular attempts, that Charles Stuart has never been on the official calendar of the Episcopal Church.
The long and short of it is that Charles I was a poor politician, and an ineffective ruler who is, by today's standards, seen as despotic (though, of course, no more than many current petty dictators with whom we are happily allied!). All the same, he was a sight better than the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell (though the importance of Cromwell's readmittance of the Jews to England shouldn't be overlooked), and seems to have been a decent human being who was committed to his principles and his faith. Because of this, it did not take the people of England very long to look with fondness upon the days of Stuart rule, as opposed to the equally oppressive (and much more stodgy) rule of the puritans.
I think the best summary of this that I've read is in JRH Moorman's A History of the Church in England:
On January 30, 1649, the king was beheaded on a scaffold outside the banqueting-house in Whitehall.
When the bleeding head was held up, the cry of horror from the crowd drowned the derisive shouts of the soldiers. During the trial and at the hour of death Charles had behaved with a quiet courage and dignity which had won many to his side, even among those who had been ready to take up arms against him seven years before. Royal despotism was a bad thing, but military despotism was worse. English people dislike the sight of blood; and the execution of a king sent a thrill of horror and detestation through the country which has never been forgotten. It has been described as 'a crime against England even more than against Charles'. But not only did it outrage the deepest feelings of the country, it also alienated many who might have been Cromwell's supporters, and thus made a restoration of monarchy and Church inevitable in due course. The regicides little realized that in cutting off Charles's head they were cutting their own throats.
From 1662 to 1859 the execution of King Charles was commemorated in the calendar of the Prayer Book and special services were held each year on January 30. Charles thus came as near to canonization as it is possible to be in the Church of England. he stood as a symbol of the patient sufferer who lays down his life for his creed and for his Church. He was certainly a good man and devout. He had great courage and firm convictions. In his own way he was convinced that he was doing what was right. His father had taught him that the Divine Right of Kings was part of the will of God, and he had upheld this doctrine even unto death. Such devotion to duty, such readiness to die rather than surrender his belief, is worthy of honour. But his faith in Divine Right made him exasperating to others, especially his enemies. His duplicity and irresponsibility, to which, in his own mind, he was perfectly entitled, to others appeared as sheer dishonesty. To Cromwell there could be no peace for England so long as Charles Stuart was there to disturb it; hence the desperate remedy of a royal execution. So Charles died; but with his death the fate of Puritanism was sealed and the Church's future ensured. (Moorman, p. 240-241)
More on the history of World Christian Missionary efforts
One of my pet peeves is the ignorance and parochialism that characterizes Western Christian–particularly American Protestant–understandings of church history and mission. Recently this came up in the oft-repeated refrain that the Eastern Orthodox Churches have somehow failed at missionary work. While it's true that the Orthodox churches have been hamstrung in regards to missionary efforts because of political situations in their homelands, and that some minority communities of Orthodox have become (with reason) more focused on simple survival than evangelism, it is an unfair criticism to say that they are somehow innately bad at missionary efforts, or that there is something in Eastern Orthodox theology that works against such efforts.
There are several books that would be helpful to the Western Christian attempting to gain a bit more insight into the history of our Eastern Orthodox brothers and sisters. One is Scott Sunquist's History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 and Samuel Moffat's two volume set (A History of Christianity in Asia: Beginnings to 1500 and A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II: 1500-1900).
But, without picking these up, you can get some information about Orthodox missions and the challenges they faced in the following text available on Google Books:
The Rugby Scrum at Jason Ingalls' ordination to the Priesthood on January 8, 2011
The Anglican Rugby Scrum
January 9, 2011 / Jody+ / 2 Comments
This photo is from the ordination of my friend Jason this past Saturday. I'm told that in the Roman Catholic Church, when a priest is ordained only the Bishop lays hands on them. I'm thankful for the way we do it in the Episcopal/Anglican Church. An older priest friend of mine calls this the "Anglican Rugby Scrum." I like it:
P.S. my talented photographer wife took this picture. Check out her work on her photography site.
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Accidents of History
January 8, 2011 / Jody+ / 11 Comments
Why is the dominant language in the United States English rather than French or Spanish? Why is the dominant faith (at least historically) Protestantism of various stripes rather than Catholicism? All of these things can be interpreted as the evidence of God's favor, as a "manifest destiny" or they can be viewed as accidents of history. I tend toward the latter in the sense that I don't think the ultimate fate of the world and everyone in it would've been in the balance if the French had kept Louisiana, the Russians Alaska etc…
But what about the various traditions of Christianity. Surely dominance in number of adherents says something positive about the missionary enterprise of the various bodies? Is it true, because they are not well represented outside of their traditional homelands, that the Orthodox "suck at mission?" as one recent commenter put it? I would say no. It may be that the Orthodox (i.e. the Churches of descending from the Greek East and geographically located in Eastern Europe and Russia etc…) and the Oriental Orthodox (those Christian traditions centered in Egypt, Ethiopia, Armenia, Iraq etc…) have been less involved in world missions than other Christians, but this is not, at its heart, an issue of an innate inability to evangelize, nor is it evidence that Protestants and Catholics have been particularly better suited to the endeavor. Instead, it has been a matter of opportunity, and sometimes driven as much by feelings of competition or hatred of other Christian bodies as by sincere devotion to Christ.
Consider the fact that, during the medieval period, Christianity across the board, east and west, largely saw missions as the work of the Christian prince, and not as the work of the Church. Protestants up through the 18th and early 19th century were largely dubious about missionary activities. Evangelism for early Protestants largely consisted of convincing Catholics to jump ship. Indeed, there was significant growth in Christianity over all in the 16th century, but Protestantism was largely unaffected by it. As Alister McGrath says this in regards to Protestant interest in mission:
This early Protestant disinterest in mission was first noted by Gustav Warneck in the 1880's. His historical research convinced him that there was a simple explanation. Although his observations have been qualified by subsequent scholarship, they have yet to be convincingly rebutted. Basing his conclusions on a careful analysis of the sources, Warneck identified three reasons for Protestantism's lack of interest in missions during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
These early Protestants interpreted the "Great Commission"–the command to 'go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19)–as a task given to the apostles of the first century, not to their successors in the post-apostolic church.
They believed that the end of all things was close at hand, so that there was little point in embarking on such an ambitious undertaking.
It was their theological conviction that God could be relied upon to convert peoples in his own good time.
Warneck's third point is well illustrated by a famous incident involving William Carey (1761-1834), later to be one of the most important British missionaries to India. He began to frame the idea of a missionary calling after reading Captain Cook's account of his voyages in the South Seas. Yet few shared his enthusiasm. In 1792 Carey proposed–to general astonichment, it seems–that a group of Baptist ministers in Northamptonshire discuss "the duty of Christians to attempt the spread of the Gospel among heathen nations." An older minister rose and rebuked him: "Young man, sit down. When God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine." (P. 175-176)
The great explosion of missionary endeavors in the late 18th, 19th and 20th centuries can largely be attributed to a rediscovery of the importance of the Great Commission for individual Christians, who then set about forming missionary societies. At the same time, I don't know that Protestant missionaries would've had the support from the general public and yes, from their governments, if national interests hadn't come into play. Like it or not, Western Christians, even when they decided that individual Christians might have the responsibility to evangelize, still depended upon colonial expansion, and the military that went with it, to support and defend their missionary endeavors. This, of course, is not far away from the way in which the Russians evangelized the Georgians by building the Caucasus Line, a series of Monastery-Forts along the Caucasus mountains, housing monks and the military.
Why then might someone say that the Orthodox Churches performed poorly at mission work? I think the statement is fairly euro-centric… perhaps even Amero-centric (is that a word? I suppose it is now). The Orthodox actually did expand their missionary efforts around the same time that Protestants were coming out of their shell–indeed, as with competition with the Catholics spurring Protestant mission, competition with and emulation of Protestants and Catholics by the Russians in particular, spurred Orthodox missionary efforts. But, Russia never had the same level of sea-power as some of her western European counterparts, and so, they went across Asia and Siberia into Alaska.
The persecution of the Orthodox Churches was mentioned by a commenter on the original thread, to which one should add to that the persecution of the Oriental Orthodox. I believe that saying that the Orthodox "suck at mission" is to embrace historical accident as indicating something positive or negative about a particular tradition of Christianity. The Orthodox did evangelize, they simply did it differently. The history of this region of the world is one dominated by tyrannies that have made it surprising that the Christian faith actually survived at all, whether enduring suppression by the Mongols, by the Ottomans or by the Soviets. Also, to criticize the entire Orthodox Church for the plight of the serfs in Russia is a little anachronistic and overlooks the issues of history that are still plaguing democracy in Russia. (A great book to look at in terms of the effects of living under totalitarian regimes on civic responsibility is the book "Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy". Basic argument: societies without trade and civic involvement, such as that inspired by the Italian city-states, the Hanseatic league etc… have a very difficult time transitioning to democracy).
But, more than anything else, a look at some statistics might help us consider the relative success of missionary efforts, as well as the historical situation that made such success possible. The following chart from Wolfram Alpha shows a rough estimate of the number of Christians of various stripes around the world. the numbers may vary from some that you've seen, but they are close (the number of Catholics in particular is somewhat smaller than the 1.3 billion I've seen elsewhere):
estimated adherents
Looking at the numbers above, would anyone say that Baptists, for instance, sitting at almost 40 million (some estimates go as high as 70) "suck at mission?" What about Methodists at around 30 mil? Anglicans at 70-something? Then why would someone say it about the Orthodox, with around 90 million Russian Orthodox (and anywhere from 160-300 million Orthodox all around?). I know some folks will read this and say "but they aren't all *real* Christians." Aside from the arrogance of such a remark, one could simply say that the ratio of commitment to self-identified membership is likely to be similar, and that cultural Christians are all over the place.
The fact that there are as many Orthodox as there are, especially given the political situation in those areas during the most rapid expansion of Christianity in world history (in the 19th and 20th centuries) is pretty amazing if you ask me.
Just something to think about… with slightly different turns in history, the chart above could look completely different.
Note: I couldn't include this map in my comment below, so I'm adding it here. Refer to my response to Carson for context:
Number of Baptist Adherents globally:
A Form of Godliness…
When I was in college I attended an interesting lecture by Professor Michael Budde, who teaches political science at DePaul University. The lecture was entitled "Jesus on the Job: The Corporate Exploitation of Religion," and drew, I'm sure, on much of the research that went into his book (with Robert Brimlow) Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business Is Buying the Church. During that lecture, I remember Budde talking about a phenomenon that I considered–and still consider–very interesting. Not only that, but something that is in evidence all around us if we choose to look. Basically Budde argued that advertisers love the fact that America is such a strongly semi-churched society. In other words, advertisers appreciate, and bank on the fact, that Americans are generally familiar enough with religion–specifically Christianity–to be attracted by religious language, imagery or echoes of either–but are not faithful enough to recognize blasphemy. As I said, you don't have to look hard in our society to find evidence of this. Donald Miller has spoken about similar things in the past when he's compared the different perspectives of Canadians and Americans regarding something as simple as dish soap. In Canada, for the most part, dish soap is labeled as such–dish soap. In the US dish soap–nor anything else–can simply be what it is. Instead, via advertising, dish soap becomes something more, something almost transcendent, an item that will make your life better, restore your thinning hair and make you attractive to the opposite sex. It's not just dish soap… it's never just dish soap. It's something more.
Well, I think I've just seen an ad that is, as with so much else in our society, utterly blatant about this sort of thing–let me know what you think:


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Arguably the most recognisable structure in Singapore, the SkyPark roof is shaped like a surfboard. Many celebrities have stayed here, including Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Tiger Woods, Hugh Jackman, Taylor Swift, Kobe Bryant, Gong Li, Jason Mraz, F1 drivers, etc., too many to name!
Bigger than the London Eye, the Singapore Flyer is the world's largest observation wheel outside the US. It offers unparalleled views of the island 165m above ground.
Right next to the Flyer is the Formula One Pit Building! F1 aficionados will go crazy as few tracks in the world allow you to walk right up to the garages and Start/Finish Line!
Completed in 2011, the Marina Barrage works to alleviate flooding in low-lying areas of the city. It also dams the mouth of the Marina Channel to create Singapore's first reservoir in the city area. On weekends, it is a popular getaway for families to picnic or fly kites.
Spanning 250 acres on reclaimed land, the Gardens is Singapore's strategy to create a 'City in a Garden' by enhancing the greenery and flora in the area. We will ride the perimeter on our tour so you can take in the magnificence and size of the Gardens.
Formerly warehouses for goods trading along the Singapore River, the only businesses you'll find here are restaurants, clubs and bars. This is where the tourists and locals come to party!
The Esplanade is Singapore's world-class performing arts theatre and concert hall. Or affectionately known as 'durian' to locals! The Merlion is a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, used as a tourism mascot and national personification of Singapore.
Originally a fort built in 1829 against sea attacks, the main building was built in 1928 and used as the Post Office until 1970s. The Tax Dept took over until 1995. Fullerton Hotel opened in 2001.
This is the business heartbeat of Singapore. Surrounded by modem glass skyscrapers, offices of the world's major companies, financial institutions can be found here.
A modern architecture marvel completed in 2014, the Singapore National Stadium seats 55,000 and features a retractable roof. Get up close and personal on our night tour and see it in all its splendour!
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We'll find peace and tranquillity at the Gardens by the Bay. Let the SuperTrees tower over you and learn how the Marina Barrage keeps floods at bay. Feel a high tide coming on? Your caring guide will stop for a toilet dash here!
For an adrenalin rush, we cycle towards the Singapore Flyer and the Formula One Pit Building. If we're lucky, we'll catch a live music performance just outside the Esplanade. Don't forget to ask your guide about the floating football pitch too!
We'll ride to a part of the business district where trade first started in Singapore over 200 years ago. Marvel at the lovingly-conserved shop houses, hotels and pier; and maybe join in the revelry taking place after your tour!
As we head back to the Let's Go shop, feel the cool breeze along the Kallang River towards the iconic National Stadium. Along the way, you will see tranquil scenery and some of the costliest waterfront homes in Singapore.
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2019 Singapore Neo Garden National Championships: Lionel Khoo Shatters Meet Record For Second Time Today
Photo Courtesy: Instagram, @lionel_khoo
by Taylor Covington
The 2019 Singapore National Championships entered its second night of competition, as the country's best swimmers convened for another intranational showdown. Last night's climactic opener proved to be a mere warm-up, as the athletes wasted no time in resetting national championship records while turning heads on the world stage.
Lionel Khoo was one of the more notable, as the USC Gamecock returned home to showcase his skills in the men's 100 breaststroke. Breaking his own meet record from prelims, Khoo left with a gold medal in hand and a national championship title, proceeded by a slew of equally impressive swims.
Night Two Results
Men's 100 Breast
Lionel Khoo's national championship meet record stood for a few short hours before he shattered it in prelims, turning in a 1:02.26 to seize the gold. Maximillian Wei Ang pushed him to the finish, surging to a 1:02.71 finish of his own to take down Gagarin Nathaniel Yus (1:02.87).
Jing Fu Ng's time of 1:03.18 was good enough for fourth, as he maintained a healthy distance between himself and Job Tan Xi Jay (1:05.16). Nicholas Cheong and Malcolm Oh battle for sixth, turning in times of 1:06.59 and 1:07.30, respectively. Perry Chua (1:07.70) barley conceded the seventh spot, while Yi Hao Terence Ong (1:09.21) and Azri Azman (1:09.72) rounded out the top ten.
Women's 100 Breast
Christie May Chue Mun Ee monopolized the women's side of competition, dropping over three seconds from prelims to nab the meet record with a time of 1:10.12. Eing Pawapotako went stroke for stroke with Gabrielle Jia Yun Wei (1:13.10), with Pawapotako coming out on top with a time of 1:13.36. Alicia Li Ann Soosai crashed the pads with a 1:13.68 to make for a tightly packed top four, as Nurita Monica Sari stroked in for fifth with a 1:15.31.
Lauren Chew (1:15.36) took seventh by a narrow margin over Tian-Yi Charity Lien (1:15.41); while Julia Lium (1:15.91) and Jing Xuan Claresa Liau (1:16.00) took ninth and tenth, respectively.
Men's 50 Back
Jian Han Tern took his victory lap in the men's 50 back after an impressive showing this morning, turning in a time of 26.30 for the win. H Dimuth Akalanka Peiris earned the silver with a 26.68 over Jun Jie Mikkel Lee (26.71). Ernest Ching and Tar Thongchumsin claimed fourth and fifth with times of 27.08 and 27.24, respectively; while Chai Jin Soh's time of 27.40 was good enough for top six. Owen Allwood (27.46) furthered his already impressive individual schedule with a seventh place performance; while Gabriel Yingxuan Koo (27.76), Narang Pornsiriporn (27.84), and Jeremy Kemp (28.19) topped off the heat.
Women's 50 Back
Jamie Yazhen Koo (29.24) ran away with the women's 50 back, as Elena Lee Lee Na Pederson (29.72) and Carmen Weller Sastre (29.77) went stroke for stroke for the silver. Maana Patel just eclipsed the sub-30.00 mark with a 30.04, with Katie Henderson (30.33) and Nurul Fajar Fitriati (30.48) at her hip. Faith Elizabeth Khoo put forth an impressive performance of her own, slashing her time from prelims with a 30.70. Suvana Baskar claimed her spot in the top ten with a 30.82, followed by Jamielyn Low (31.30) and Scarlett Nichol (31.53) to make for a tightly packed field.
Men's 200 Free
Wee Cheng Welson Sim (1:48.86) manhandled the competition in the men's 200 free, bettering Jonathan Tan's (1:49.93) mark by over a second. Darren Chua seized the bronze with a 1:50.73, edging out Glen Lim (1:50.80) for a spot on the podium. Neel Roy was not to be ignored, as he surged to a 1:51.32 finish ahead of Omar Abass (1:52.58).
Joseph Isaac Schooling proved his impeccable versatility with another stellar performance, clocking in at 1:53.16 to put distance between himself and Wee Chee Joshua Yeo (1:54.55). It was a loaded field, as Zhong Qing Erasmus Ang (1:54.61) and Luke Tan (1:54.80) sent the meet into its next event.
Women's 200 Free
Natthana Junkrajang proved she cannot be stopped, as she took the women's 200 with ease. Crashing the pads with a 2:01.56, Junkrajang made the race her own, as she held off Cherlyn Yeoh (2:03.23) to the end. Jasmine Alkhaldi endured a heartbreaker, as a hundredth of a second separated herself and Yeoh.
Kornkarnjana Sapianchai destroyed her time from prelims, going 2:04.94 to nab a spot in the top four, as Hui Ting Natalie Ho (2:06.62) fell short of the upset. Zi Yi Chan forced her name on the scene with a 2:06.67, as Nicholle Toh Fann Rui came from behind to post a 2:07.31 of her own.
Li-Shan Chantal Liew (2:07.91), Faith Elizabeth Khoo (2:09.28), and Paloma Canos Cervera (2:09.97).
Men's 400 IM
Sheng Jun Pang (4:26.69) and Advait Page (4:27.94) traded leads throughout the men's 400 IM, with Pang emerging as the victor. Sebastian Soon remained an outside threat, clocking in at 4:28.36 for third, while Ayman Klzie (4:30.43) stayed within striking distance, falling just outside the top three.
Zhong Qing Erasmus Ang broke into the top five with a time of 4:35.87, bumping Ephraim Tan (4:37.46) to sixth. Owen Ngan made yet another top ten appearance with his 4:38.95, good enough for seventh over WeiYang Malcolm Low (4:41.31). Rui Zhi Ritchie (4:44.51) and Tze Hang Christian Low (4:48.61) completed the nation's top ten.
Women's 400 IM
Yi-Xuan Ashley Lim established her dominance on the women's side, dropping a 4:55.41 for the win and the meet record. The fourteen-year-old left the rest of the field, downing Ressa Kania Dewi (5:06.78) and Sydney Chun (5:06.78), two seasoned veterans. Gabrielle Jia Yun Wei and Xin Ru Charmaine Lee turned heads with times of 5:10.37 and 5:15.10, respectively; while Inka Nur Fadilah Sari (5:19.94) and Wei Hui Rachael Tay (5:22.99) sought to climb in the rankings.
Sydney Londergan (5:25.00) held off Carol Rachmadi (5:30.34) for a spot in the top eight, as Xuan Hui Lynette Some surged home to a 5:32.67 to round out the championship final.
Men's 400 Free Relay
Aquatech Swimming holds the first national championship relay title of the meet, charging home with a 3:27.38 to steal the win. Swimfast Aquatic Club lived up to its name, clinching second by a wide margin over Kuala Lumpur (3:37.94).
Women's 400 Free Relay
Stingha Swimming Club stole the show on the women's side, going sub 4:00 to seize the victory with a time of 3:57.16. Hong Kong Island Stingrays (4:03.32) and Aquatic Performance Swim Club (4:04.71) battled for the silver, with the Stingrays proving victorious this time around.
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Classical music: Tonight's Concert on the Square features an 11-year-old cello prodigy and the Middleton High School Choir in an all-Russian program. It will be repeated on Wisconsin Public Television this Saturday night at 6 p.m.
Tonight's Concert on the Square promises to be a special event on several scores.
The "Slavic Dances" concert starts at 7 p.m. on the King Street corner of the Capitol Square.
The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of music director Andrew Sewell, will perform an appealing all-Russian program.
It features a Concert Waltz by Alexander Glazunov; the beautifully melodic and very accessible "Variations on a Rococo Theme" for cello and orchestra by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (heard with Yo-Yo Ma in the YouTube video at the bottom); and the Intermezzo and Women's Dance by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Adding to the appeal is the appearance of Miriam K. Smith (below) in the Tchaikovsky. Smith, who played and was interviewed on Tuesday's edition of "The Midday" on Wisconsin Public Radio, is an 11-year-old prodigy on the cello who already has an impressive history of concert appearances.
As a kind of preface or program note to read if you are at the concert, here is a link to Smith's interview and appearance on "The Midday": https://www.wpr.org/programs/midday
For more biographical information about Smith and about the concert, in general including rules (blankets can go down starting at 3 p.m.), etiquette and food vendors, go to: https://wisconsinchamberorchestra.org/performances/concerts-on-the-square-3-3/
Also joining the WCO is the Middleton High School Choir (below).
NOTE: If you can't make the concert tonight in person, you can take consolation in the fact that the concert will be videotaped and then broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television on this coming Saturday night at from 6 to 7 p.m. on Channel 21 (Cable Channel 600).
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Classical music: Today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day is the right time to celebrate American classical composers and patriotic concert music. Here are three ways to do that
Today is the Fourth of July – Independence Day.
That makes it exactly the right time to think about American composers and American patriotic music – both of which have been receiving well-deserved airplay all week on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Here are three items that seem appropriate because they pertain to American composers and American classical music.
Tonight at 7 p.m. on the King Street corner of the Capital Square in downtown Madison, guest conductor Huw Edwards (below) will lead the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in its Concert on the Square for the Fourth of July.
The "American Salute" program includes: "American Salute" by Morton Gould; the Overture to "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein; "Wisconsin Forward Forever" by march king John Philip Sousa; and, of course, "The 1812 Overture" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Blankets can go down on the ground starting at 3 p.m. For more general information about attending the concert including weather updates, rules and etiquette, and food caterers and vendors, go to:
https://wisconsinchamberorchestra.org/performances/concerts-on-the-square-2-2/
Can you name 30 American classical composers? The Ear tried and it's not easy.
But thanks to Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, California – which will also play and stream (click on the Listen tab) such music today — it isn't hard.
Here is a link:
http://www.capradio.org/music/classical/2018/07/02/the-30-american-composers-were-featuring-on-the-fourth-of-july/
You can click on the link "Playlist for Independence Day" and see the photo of the composers and the titles of compositions that will be played.
You can also click on the composer's name in the alphabetized list and see a biography in Wikipedia.
Can you think of American composers who didn't make the list? Leave the name or names – Henry Cowell and Virgil Thomson (below) come to mind — in the COMMENT section.
The Ear wants to hear.
Finally, given the controversial political issues of the day surrounding immigration, The Ear offers this take on perhaps the most virtuosic piano transcription of patriotic music ever played.
It was done by someone who immigrated permanently to the U.S. in 1939 and then became a naturalized citizen in 1944. He also raised millions through war bonds during World War II.
He was the Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz, here playing his own celebrated virtuoso arrangement – done in 1945 for a patriotic rally and war bonds concert in Central Park — of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.
Here is a link to his biography in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz
And here is the YouTube audio of his own performance of the Sousa piece, with the score, including all the special technical demands, especially lots of Horowitz's famous octaves, to follow along with. It's a performance that has become justifiably legendary:
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Classical music: The 35th annual summer Concerts on the Square start this Wednesday night and will feature a lot of classical music
Maestro Andrew Sewell usually makes sure the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra programs a fair amount of classical music for its annual summer Concerts on the Square (below).
The FREE popular outdoor concerts — billed as "The Biggest Picnic of Summer" — usually draw up to at least 20,000 people for each performance on the King Street corner of the State Capitol.
They start this Wednesday night at 7 p.m. – blankets can go down at 3 p.m. — and run for six consecutive Wednesday nights through Aug. 1.
But this year Sewell (below) seems especially generous with the classical fare he is serving up. In fact, four of the six concerts are all classical – a much higher percentage than in most past years, if The Ear recalls correctly.
For the complete lineup of the concerts – and to compare this year's offerings with those of past years — go to the website: https://wisconsinchamberorchestra.org/performance-listing/category/concerts-on-the-square
Then you can click on "More Info" for each individual concert date to get the full program and information about the performers.You can also find what you need to know about following rules, parking, reserving tables, listening etiquette, volunteering, donating and support, and finding menus for food providers.
For this opening concert "Carnival" on Wednesday, the WCO will showcase 18-year-old Kenosha high school senior Matthew Udry (below), a cellist who won this year's Young Artist Concerto Competition. Udry will perform the Cello Concerto No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Also on the all-Slavic program are two Czech compositions: the "Carnival" Overture by Antonin Dvorak (heard in the YouTube video at the bottom); and "Three Dances" from the opera "The Bartered Bride" by Bedrich Smetana.
An all-Russian concert is slated for July 11 with another student cellist, Miriam K. Smith (below top), and the Middleton High School Choir (below bottom). The program includes the Concert Waltz No. 2 by Alexander Glazunov, the "Rococo" Variations by Peter Tchaikovsky and the Intermezzo and Women's Dance by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The July 25 concert features the up-and-coming guitarist Colin Davin (below) in a programs of Spanish and Hispanic music including Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez," Alberto Ginastera's "Estancia: Four Dances," and Roberto Sierra's "Fandango."
Finally, on Aug. 1, baritone Jubilant Sykes (below) is featured in a program that includes: the "Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1" by Johan Halvorsen; Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs," including "Simple Gifts" and "I Bought Me a Cat" as well as two spirituals, "Were You There?" and "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"; the Interlude from the symphonic ode, "La Nuit et l'Amour" (Night and Love), from the cantata "Ludus pro Patria," by the French composer Augusta Holmes; and the Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" by Antonin Dvorak.
Of course other programs include pops and rock music, plus patriotic music for the Fourth of July concert — only fitting for the occasion.
But The Ear still thinks the classical fare is generous and noteworthy.
Of course, loud chitchat, eating and other neighborly noise could interfere with your ability to listen closely to the music.
But Andrew Sewell and the WCO still deserve a big shout out!
Bravo, all!
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Formula DRIFT Announces Ryan Lanteigne as a New Judge for the 2011 Season
Posted on April 6, 2011 by FormulaD
Formula DRIFT Announces Ryan Lanteigne as a New Judge for the 2011 Season;
Lanteigne to Replace Ernie Fixmer on the Judging Panel
Long Beach, Calif. – April 6, 2011 – Formula DRIFT has announced the addition of Ryan Lanteigne to the Formula DRIFT judging panel for the 2011 Pro Championship season. Lanteigne will take Ernie Fixmer's position as the third Formula DRIFT judge.
Fixmer has recently taken a position in the aerospace field and will be unavailable to judge the Formula DRIFT domestic events due to time commitments. He is still very dedicated to the sport of drifting and will continue to be part of the community, but looks forward to the new career opportunity. His departure creates an opening in the 3-judge panel where Lanteigne will take over the role of third judge.
"We are happy to see Ernie taking a position in the field he loves and though we are saddened by his departure, Ryan will be a great addition to the Formula DRIFT family," said Ryan Sage, vice-president and co-founder of Formula DRIFT. "Not only is Ryan a seasoned driver, he has judging experience and has worked with both Tony (Angelo) and Andy (Yen) which is a great way to start the new relationship."
Lanteigne brings both the experience as a professional driver and judge for the Drift Mania Canadian Championship (DMCC). Lanteigne has a working experience with both current Formula DRIFT judges Andy Yen and Tony Angelo and they have expressed their approval for Lanteigne to join them on the judging panel for the 2011 Pro Championship season.
"I am truly very excited and honored to be a part of the Formula DRIFT family. We were fortunate to have Formula DRIFT judges in the Canadian series when I was competing, which introduced us to the rules, scoring and demands of the big leagues early on," said Ryan Lanteigne, new Formula DRIFT judge. "After my early retirement, working as a judge with Tony and Andy really opened my eyes to the intricacies of the sport while reinforcing just how important it is to be impartial and objective while in the judging tower. I look forward to meeting all of the drivers at Round 1: Streets of Long Beach and to the entire season ahead."
Lanteigne will make his debut as Formula DRIFT judge on April 8-9, 2011 at Round 1: Streets of Long Beach.
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Q: How do I display a timechart with more than one custom metric in Azure Logs with Kusto Query Language I have the following Logs in Azure Logs:

The query for the above is as follows:

The output is shown below appearing like a 'scatter diagram' but I am looking for a timechart - like connecting the dots but failed to do so:

How do I join the dots or is there a limitation or the way the KQL above (Kusto Query Language) is written?

A: It is your KQL query that has to be modified. The key to getting your time-series charts right is to fetch all the time and metric information in the result set from your query.
Remember that when constructing a timechart, the first column is the x-axis, and should be datetime. Other (numeric) columns are y-axes. There is one string column whose values are used to "group" the numeric columns and create different lines in the chart (further string columns are ignored).
Considering the requests table as an example (you can apply it to your customEvents data as appropriate), multiple metrics can be plotted as:
# Time-series chart with multiple metrics
requests
| summarize Requests = count(), Users = dcount(user_Id) by bin(timestamp, 1h)
| render timechart

Output:

The query control uses timestamp for the X-axis and Requests & Users as separate series on the Y-axis here.

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There is a clear and well-established hierarchy of metals.
We give bronze medals for third place, silver for second, and gold for first.
Well, in short, it's an expression of real and perceived values inherent to each of the metals, including their chemical properties, rarity, and beauty.
Silver is considered more precious than bronze, and gold is considered more precious than both silver and bronze, for all the reasons listed above.
But of all the metals, there's one that's generally considered the most precious: platinum.
A traditional wedding gift for a 50th anniversary is gold. But for a 70th anniversary, the gift is platinum.
Similarly, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her golden jubilee in 2002, having ascended the throne 50 years earlier. In 2022, the Queen will celebrate her platinum jubilee.
Sponsored events and programs will often recognize sponsorship levels in terms of precious metals. And you'll frequently see "platinum sponsors" as the largest contributors.
Likewise, many credit card companies and club memberships have a "gold card" and a "platinum card," with the latter typically having greater benefits.
Platinum is regarded as the most precious metal due to its chemical properties and rarity relative to gold and other metals.
Like gold, platinum is very resistant to many different types of corrosion. That makes the metal a great option for wealth storage and therefore partially a monetary asset.
But adding a bit more to the metal's appeal: Platinum is much rarer than gold.
According to most sources, the abundance of platinum in the Earth's crust is slightly higher than gold.
But what's truly rare is really what matters. And that's platinum mines.
See, the overall abundance of an element doesn't matter unless we can economically mine it.
According to the National Ocean Service, the world's oceans contain 20 million pounds of gold suspended in normal seawater. At $1,300 an ounce, that's worth almost $380 billion.
The problem is all that gold is distributed all over the global. It's not concentrated in one place, making mining gold from seawater completely uneconomical, at least at $1,300 an ounce and with current technologies.
The same thing applies to platinum.
There are very few places in the world where platinum is concentrated enough that it's economically feasible to mine.
There are so few that almost 70% of all the world's economically feasible platinum locations exist in one single county: South Africa.
Another 15% comes from Russia. And the rest, only another 15%, is sourced from elsewhere around the world.
That results in much lower overall production than gold, silver, or most other metals by a wide margin.
A little under 3,300 metric tons of gold is produced globally each year. Compare that to the 250 metric tons of platinum mined annually.
So at the end of the day, platinum really is much rarer in our lives than gold.
And platinum has one trick up its sleeve that gold doesn't... one that puts the metal into focus for energy investors.
You see, platinum has some very special catalytic properties. Platinum can absorb large quantities of hydrogen gas. In a way, platinum soaks up hydrogen the way a sponge soaks up water.
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And that makes it a vital material for treating exhaust from fossil fuel-burning engines.
It's such an important metal for treating exhaust that most of the world's production of platinum ends up in catalytic converters, which convert toxic gas (carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons) into less harmful byproducts (carbon dioxide and water).
What that means is the catalytic converter market is no doubt the main driver of the platinum market.
But here's the thing: To build catalytic converters, automakers can use platinum or its chemically similar cousin palladium as the main catalyst material.
In other words, platinum and palladium can be substituted for each other.
And that means automakers naturally opt to use the less expensive of the two.
If platinum is cheaper than palladium, manufacturers buy up platinum for their catalytic converters. And if palladium is cheaper, they buy that.
Of course, if the demand for the cheaper metal outpaces supply, which happens frequently due to low global production, it increases in price. Too much, and the cheaper metal becomes the more expensive metal.
And that's exactly what tends to happen.
Ultimately, the demand for the cheaper metal becomes so high that the cheaper metal is no longer cheaper.
And, of course, once that happens, catalytic converter manufacturers just substitute one for the other again.
We can see this happening through the years reflected in the platinum/palladium price ratio.
Platinum and palladium have traded places as world's most expensive precious metal over the past several years. Right now, palladium sits on that throne. And that makes it an attractive target for value investors... particularly energy investors.
That's because we know the demand for transportation is still on an upward trend. And despite the rise (and ultimate conquest) of battery-electric vehicles and other technologies like hydrogen fuel cells, transportation will remain mostly a fossil fuel-burning industry for the next few decades.
Meanwhile, government regulations on emissions are become stricter around the world, meaning during the shift to cleaner technologies for transportation, the demand for solutions to make current technologies cleaner will be higher than ever.
As I mentioned to you last week, investing in platinum has the same problems as investing in palladium: It's expensive, investment options are limited, and liquidity can be a problem.
Investing in platinum is a little easier, cheaper, and just overall better than palladium. But it's not better by much.
If you want to read more on my opinion on platinum investing, check out last Monday's issue of Energy and Capital. There, I'll tell you what I think is the best option for investing in platinum.
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These load cells decrease weighing time and improve weighing accuracy in high-speed weighing applications. Since damping also protects the cells from shock and vibration, the load cell can endure harsh conditions, such as those encountered in repeated shock-loading applications. This also enables damped load cells to last longer than undamped load cells in any application. The cells are sealed, protecting them in washdown situations. Capacities from 2 to 50 kg (4.4 to 110.2 lb).