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[googlead tip="patrat_mare"]Recep Cetin, the 17 year-old Turkish waiter who killed two women from Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland appears in court.
The two women were found stabbed to death by Recep Cetin in a forest, near the city of Izmir, Turkey.
Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore, both 54, were persuaded to take a taxi with the 17-year-old boy on the pretext that he wanted them to meet his father.
Recep Cetin asked the taxi driver to drive off the main road and went into a forest where he reportedly slashed their throats and stabbed them repeatedly.
Shannon and Recep Cetin, who killed the two women near Izmir.
[googlead tip="vertical_mediu" aliniat="stanga"] Marion Graham's daughter Shannon, 15, who is believed to be Recep Cetin's girlfirend raised the alarm when the women failed to return.
Initially, during police investigation, the Turkish teenager denied any involvement with their disappearance and he was claiming he had suffered a cut hand trying to fight off kidnappers who had bundled the women in a van.
However, the police investigators found bloodstained clothing dumped in a bin near his home and confronted the teenager who eventually admitted he killed the two women.
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Recep Cetin, who uses the name Alex, admitted he took the women in his father's car to the forest near Buca, on the outskirts of Izmir, and stabbed them.
He appeared in court on Friday evening in a preliminary hearing.
Shannon's father, Raymond McGuinness, was due to fly to Turkey on Saturday to bring his daughter home with the bodies of her mother and friend.
Raymond McGuinness said:
"He told Shannon that he had tried to stop the kidnappers and he had a cut on his hand and that's how he suffered it."
The two murdered women are from Newry in County Down, Northern Ireland, but were travelling on Irish passports, which is not uncommon.
Marion Graham had rented a house in the famous resort of Kusadasi, 60 miles to the south of Izmir and on the Aegean seaside, and she used to spend long time in there every summer.
Her sister, Monica Higgins, said:
"It's absolutely devastating. We've just found out. My mother's in the car crying her eyes out.
"We're trying to work with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs to find out what exactly happened to her."
Mrs. Graham's daughter, Shannon was not with the women when they were attacked being on a boat trip out of Kusadasi for the day.
Shannon has been in a relationship with the Turkish waiter, who had been staying with the group, for 3 years.
[googlead tip="lista_medie" aliniat="stanga"]According to some local sources, Recep Cetin had been embarrassed by the attitudes of the British women, who enjoyed late nights and the company of local men. The sources also claimed Marion Graham had married a Kurdish man some time ago, but only four people were living at the house. It was also suggested that Shannon had begun to mix with a bad crowd during this year's summer trip.
Kathy Dinsmore had been an employee of Newry and Mourne District Council. She also worked in a local cab firm up until last Christmas.
The two women had been regular visitors to Kusadasi for years, staying in an apartment owned by Raymond McGuinness.
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Police is investigating now claims that the Shannon's mother had refused to allow the young couple to marry, according to Turkish news agency Anatolia.
Waiter's father and the taxi driver have been also arrested.
An Irish Embassy official was dispatched to support Shannon until her father arrival. She was comforted on Friday by a Kusadasi-based Irish hotelier at the police station in Izmir.
Recep Cetin family's members have made uncorroborated claims that he has been beaten, subjected to electric shocks and had his fingernails removed by the police.
The Turkish police didn't make any comment on the incident until now.
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Equity, opportunity and innovation are the values the Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education has demonstrated our commitment to in this budget.
The ever-quotable former Vice President Joe Biden once said, "Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."
The Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education recently passed a $609 million budget for next school year, during which the district projects 35,544 students will attend one of our 63 schools. It's easy to look at a budget and just see a bunch of numbers. But the real story of the CPS budget is how we are stewarding taxpayers' dollars effectively and efficiently to ensure equitable access to a world-class education, unleashing the potential that lies inside every student.
We're providing innovative educational opportunities for our students, from preschool to high school graduation. Thanks in part to the taxpayer-supported Cincinnati Preschool Promise, over 1,500 Cincinnati 3- and 4-year-olds are getting a strong foundation at a CPS preschool.
We're enhancing parent choice at our neighborhood elementary schools by investing $3.6 million to create innovative academic programs as part of our Vision 2020 initiative. Providing high-quality, culturally relevant and responsive curricula for all students regardless of what school they attend is another crucial aspect of ensuring equity across CPS.
The school board is investing more than $11.8 million in My Tomorrow, our initiative to ensure all students graduate prepared and with a plan to pursue their chosen pathway: enrolled in higher education; enlisted in the military particularly the Service Academies; and ultimately employed in a rewarding career.
CPS is growing, and we're meeting demand by opening more schools. CPS will open the Clifton Area Neighborhood School at the site of the former Clifton School during this school year, and we recently announced the purchase of the former Mercy High School on the West Side.
All of these investments drive student achievement, investing in the academic and extra-curricular activities that will ensure that our students are prepared for life beyond CPS as dedicated citizens and part of Cincinnati's talented workforce.
There are other significant details in the CPS budget. For instance, it covers transportation and other special services for over 11,000 charter, parochial and private school students – CPS spends over $10.4 million dollars on transportation for these students alone. About $44 million of the CPS budget passes through the district to charter schools, private schools and parochial schools, including approximately $23 million of funding for EdChoice vouchers – money that appears in the CPS budget, but does not support CPS students in any manner. When you add that up, CPS loses out on over $105 million of your tax dollars meant to support academic outcomes and provide services to our nearly 36,000 students.
Nonetheless, we are meeting the challenges of growing enrollment and an ever-evolving educational environment with the creation of a new Strategic Planning and Engagement Committee. This group will look to the horizon and help CPS better plan for the opportunities ahead in the next five years, 10 years and following decades. We're also working with our legislative delegation to ensure more fairness and equity in state funding so CPS is not as heavily reliant on local taxpayers.
Equity, opportunity and innovation are the values we've demonstrated our commitment to in this budget. By investing in these priorities, Cincinnati Public Schools is ensuring our students are prepared for life.
Ryan Messer is chair of the Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education Finance Committee. He writes on behalf of the Board of Education.


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With Texans job open, Whisenhunt could be a candidate
By Lorenzo Reyes December 7, 2013 3:32 pm
When Texans owner Bob McNair spoke about the qualities he wants in his new head coach, he stressed NFL and head coaching experience.
Immediately, some names popped up; Chargers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt is one of those expected to be considered.
San Diego coach Mike McCoy knows it will happen, and he's fine with it.
"It goes to show what type of coach he is," McCoy said, according to the U-T San Diego's Michael Gehlken. "When you have good coaches on your staff and you do good things, there's going to be opportunities for people. That's something you explore, getting in the business. It's all part of it. But he's an outstanding coach. We're lucky to have him. It wouldn't surprise me at all."
Whisenhunt has been with the Chargers for only one season. He was formerly the head coach of the Cardinals, where he went 45-51 (.469) in six seasons in Arizona. In 2008, Whisenhunt led the Cardinals to Super Bowl XLIII, where they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Chargers (5-7) are in danger of missing the playoffs, which will make Whisenhunt available for a head coaching job as soon as the season concludes.
Whisenhunt has gotten a lot of credit for QB Phillip Rivers' season, in which he has completed an NFL-best 70 percent of his passes, and has the league's fourth-best yardage total (3,633).
He may not turn his one-year stand in San Diego into a head coaching job, but expect Whisenhunt to at least get some interest.
"He's a very good football coach and a better person," McCoy said.
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Blackpool fans got the win they deserve says captain Jay Spearing
Jay Spearing celebrates Blackpool's second goal with scorer Armand Gnanduillet
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Published: 06:00 Tuesday 06 August 2019
Blackpool captain Jay Spearing had one simple message for the club's fans on Saturday: this win was for you.
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A bumper crowd of 11,359 crammed inside Bloomfield Road to see the Seasiders make the perfect start to the Simon Sadler era with a 2-0 win over Bristol Rovers.
The three points capped off a memorable day for the fans and Spearing says their support certainly hasn't got unnoticed.
"The fans deserve this. They've waited long enough to support their team, so this was for them," the skipper said. "The gaffer had a few words about how this club has been through a lot of hell but it's a new era.
"The fans deserve to see loyalty and hard work from the team and that win was for them as a thank you for supporting us again.
"There's been a lot going on behind the scenes that a lot of people haven't seen but we felt the excitement in the town in the lead-up to this game.
"The buzz is back and we've had a good few community events, when the fans have turned out in their numbers.
"We want to get that connection back and they deserve it. They've waited too long to come back to this football club. As you heard, they were singing from first whistle to the last."
It was a great day on a personal note for Spearing, who opened the scoring from the penalty spot and bagged an assist as Armand Gnanduillet headed home the second.
The 30-year-old added:"I thought it was a good performance all round from start to finish.
"We were solid throughout, created a lot of chances and got the ball wide. The shape we've been working on all week worked well and caused them a lot of problems.
"We knew they would come here and work hard in the first game. I wouldn't say we were nervous, but it was a big occasion with it being a new era and the lads were excited.
"We didn't want to give anything stupid away and I don't think we did.
"The referee has called the penalty and it was a penalty in my opinion. Thankfully I was able to put it in the back of the net.
"No-one was taking me off penalties as I had a good success rate last season. I wanted to keep that going. I believe in myself and I felt I had the right to get that ball and take the spot-kick.
"I took my time, made sure I concentrated and picked my spot.
"Overall the team worked hard and defended well, and the shape was outstanding."


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Transpac 2011 Is Under Way!
Start #1, the 46th running of the Los Angeles-Honolulu classic
The first wave of Transpac starters left Point Fermin today, bound for Honolulu with a seabreeze in the low teens to get them "off the beach" and many a quiet prayer for the breeze to hold through the night. There is ample wind offshore for a fast passage, "if we can just get to it," as Celerity crewman Kelson Elam put it.
Elam is one of two lake-sailing Texans aboard Harry Zanville's Santa Cruz 37, a crew of five Transpac first-timers who looked very good at the start as they ignored the jam-up at the committee boat-end of the line. Instead, they opted for elbow room and clear air near the pin.
And a nose-ahead start.
Our lead shot tells the story, but not as well as this before-and-after:
Ten racing boats in Division 6, a wide-vision grouping from 32 feet to 43 feet, were mixed at the start with the Aloha Division, eight cruising boats or cruisey-type skippers in cruiser-racers. A lone catamaran, Santiago Becerra's 47-foot Espiritu Santi, received her own starting cannon five minutes later.
Another 34 boats, including the likely first-finishers, start on Friday, July 8 at 1 p.m. off Point Fermin. In the meantime, the storyline runs along that question of maybe or maybe not holding wind through the night - Celerity's crew is imagining a 10-day passage, but only if all the ducks line up and quack smartly - and the probability that the Pacific High Pressure Zone, now nicely formed and pumping gangbuster tradewinds toward Hawaii, will keep on keeping on. Transpac meteorologist Lee Chesneau is bullish on that. But there is at least one either person in the biz who thinks otherwise; we heard the words, "some nutty #&@% that's about to happen." We'll have to have a race to see.
By and by, as the bigger raceboats moved to the front and true cruisers such as Eric Gray's Morris 46, Gracie, began to lag, we thought of the prospect of trades in the twenties and Elam's parting comments/question: "Celerity has two A2's, one A3 and an A4."
"Any idea where we could get an A5?"
How narrow? About this narrow:
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Environment Canada, Red Cross issue warnings for Hurricane Sandy
Blackouts possible as high winds down power lines
By Emily Senger October 29, 2012
A truck backs up as surf from the Atlantic Ocean breaks over the beach on Oct. 29, 2012, in Cape May, N.J., as high tide and Hurricane Sandy begin to arrive. (Mel Evans/AP)
While Americans board up windows and evacuate low-lying areas in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy's landfall, Environment Canada has also issued warnings to much of the eastern part of the country including parts of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.
In Ontario, "strong and gusty winds will be the main threat with rainfall a lesser concern as Sandy tracks a little farther to the south," said Environment Canada in a special weather statement, issued early Monday morning. The statement says Ontarians can expect wind gusts of up to 90 km/h and maybe as strong as 100 km/h in the southwestern part of the province, near Sarnia and Niagara.
Moving further east, it will be more of the same in Quebec, particularly in the southern and central part of the province, where strong winds are likely in the St. Lawrence Valley, between Montreal and Quebec City.
In Nova Scotia, Sandy could produce large waves along the Atlantic coast and another front, not associated with Sandy, is expected to bring about 50 mm of rain into the Maritimes, starting on Tuesday.
Winds are likely to cause power outages, as downed trees topple power lines, so the Red Cross issued its own statement Sunday, urging anyone in an affected area to ensure they are able to sustain themselves and their families for 72 hours.
Here's what's on the Red Cross checklist to prepare for a potential emergency:
Water: Store two litres of drinking water and two litres of water for washing per person, per day, keeping a 72-hour supply on hand for your family and any pets
Food: Store at least a 72-hour supply of non-perishable food for each person. Ensure that there is enough for each member of your family
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Crank or battery-operated flashlight, with extra batteries
Crank or battery-operated radio, with extra batteries
Extra keys, for house and car
Cash in small bills
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Seafood processors respond to COVID-19 with added precautions Risk management and best practices are key to ongoing effort to protect harvested wild Alaska seafood Cordova Times by Margaret Bauman - March 21, 2020 Seafood industry processors say they are in ongoing discussions with local, state and federal partners, continuing to assess risks and implement best practices to abate the spread of the novel coronavirus behind the pandemic. https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2020/03/21/seafood-processors-respond-to-covid-19-with-added-precautions/ Alaska's 2020 commercial halibut season begins with lower catch limits Seafood Source by Ben Fisher - March 20, 2020 The 2020 Pacific halibut season in Alaska got underway on 14 March, with overall catch limits some 9 percent lower than they were last year. https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/alaska-2020-commercial-halibut-season-begins-with-lower-catch-limits Keep fishermen fishing: Food producers are essential to our health and survival National Fishermen by Mail Buoy - March 20, 2020 Food production and delivery are crucial systems for society. The covid-19 virus is causing severe economic and social disruptions worldwide. The president has made it clear to the U.S. population that grocery stores and pharmacies will remain open. However fishermen, farmers and processors need to be able to continue their work to provide consumer with food. https://www.nationalfisherman.com/viewpoints/alaska/keep-fishermen-fishing-food-producers-are-essential-to-our-health-and-survival/ East Coast Fishery Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator Announces Temporary Waivers on Observers, Monitors NOAA Fisheries is temporarily waiving the requirement for vessels with Greater Atlantic Region fishing permits to carry a fishery observer or at-sea monitor through April 4. NOAA Fisheries - March 20, 2020 As part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NOAA Fisheries is temporarily waiving the requirement for vessels with Northeast fishing permits to carry a fishery observer or at-sea monitor. The waiver will be in effect through April 4, and future extensions of this waiver will be evaluated weekly. For details, please read the letter from the Regional Administrator https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/bulletin/greater-atlantic-regional-administrator-announces-temporary-waivers-observers-monitors National Environmental groups urge Americans to eat more fish while hunkering down against virus Los Angeles Times by Rosanna Xia - March 20, 2020 Environmental groups have long fought for animal rights, rallied against pollution and pushed back on overfishing, but a new message this week urged the nation to eat more seafood as it hunkers down during the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-20/environmental-groups-support-local-fishermen-during-coronavirus-pandemic International Tariffs on Chinese goods to remain in place, Trump says Seafood Source by Cliff White - March 20, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump will not suspend hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of tariffs his administration has imposed on Chinese goods, despite calls from U.S. business associations to do so to alleviate economic hardship brought on by the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/tariffs-on-chinese-goods-to-remain-in-place-trump-says Coronavirus Outbreak Leads to Rise in Concerns Among Consumers Urner Barry by Andraia Torsiello - March 20, 2020 Datassential has released its latest wave of coronavirus research, and as the virus continues to dominate headlines, consumers' concerns have grown. Retail shelves have been wiped clean of food and supplies, gatherings have been discouraged or cancelled, and restaurants are facing mandatory closures. In just the past four days, concerns have risen significantly among consumers. With the acceleration of the coronavirus news cycle, about 71% of Americans now consider themselves "very familiar" with the situation, which is a jump of 13 points in half a week. Americans' personal concern for exposure is up by 8 points. As of this past weekend, 49% of consumers are "very concerned" about the risk and expressed huge concern for their own wellbeing. The majority of Americans now have a fear of eating in restaurants, and 27% will now definitely avoid eating out entirely, an increase of 8% in just four days. The increase in fear persists mostly among Boomers and Gen X, at 12% and 9% respectively. Also, the concern has now expanded beyond just parents, with restaurant avoidance spiking aggressively among single adults and those without children. When it comes to restaurants, consumers are most concerned about touching shared objects such as countertops, napkin dispensers, and chairs. This concern also comes from the fact that when dining out these surfaces and shared objects are unavoidable. About 38% of consumers expressed the most concern with touching items others have touched, followed by being near other people at 28%, and staff preparing or handling the food at 15%. As these concerns grow, consumers are already preparing to hunker down. In response to the spread of the virus, 47% of consumers had already stocked up on supplies for their household by March 14th. However, that means 53% of consumers have not. Among consumers that have stocked up, 68% of households have a high-income, followed by family households at 62%. Shoppers are stocking up on just about everything, with dry foods leading the pack at 63%. Paper goods is tied with canned foods at a close 62%. About 55% of shoppers stocked up on frozen foods, and 41% bought fresh meat and seafood. Consumers are also perceiving risk in all manners of acquiring food, including the methods that result in the food being brought into the home. Meal kits are generally thought to be the safest solution, but even they are deemed too risky by 19% of consumers, with about 38% believing meal kits present no risk. Regardless of how food is offered, consumers want additional reassurances to mitigate the perceived risk. Whether it is visibly cleaning or posting safety measures, businesses will have to prove to guests that they offer a safe environment to earn their trust. https://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1166857/Coronavirus-Outbreak-Leads-to-Rise-in-Concerns-Among-Consumers Labeling and Marketing Imitation seafood producers push back against labeling Bristol Bay Times by Laine Welch - March 19, 2020 Genetically tweaked salmon that grows three times faster than normal fish ... fillets grown in labs from fish cells ... now plant-based seafoods such as "vegan shrimp," or "Toona" are gaining footholds in the marketplace — and confusing customers. http://www.thebristolbaytimes.com/article/2012imitation_seafood_producers_push_back_against 3MMI - China Covid-19 Update, Tradex Business Continuity & Pricing TradexFoods - March 23, 2020 We are truly living in unique times. The coronavirus pandemic is impacting everyone from our families, to our businesses, to our first responders who are bravely on the front lines. In this week's episode we give you direct updates on processes in China and update you on current prices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qmnk0GOCA-U&feature=emb_logo


We just completed our second successful test firing of our 12" (300 mm) sugar propellant motor.
Both burns were >18 seconds in length with nearly 2,000 pounds (8,800 N) of thrust. Weather permitting, we are launching our second small scale 2-stage test January 6 using our flight proven 6" (150 mm) coupled with our also proven 3" (75 mm) rocket to continue our 2-stage launch capabilities. If the sub-orbital space shot is held at Black Rock in Nevada (USA) using the full 12" booster and the 6" as the sustainer, we will need help.
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One for all and all for one has become the mantra in the instant-messaging community.
One for all and all for one has become the mantra in the instant-messaging community. A new consortium of companies is seeking interoperability among instant-messaging clients. The consortium, calling itself IMUnified, has support from AT&T, Excite@Home, MSN, Prodigy, and Yahoo!, among others, but does not include America Online.
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is far more widely used than any similar service, but makers of other instant-messaging products have complained about AOL's policy of keeping its instant-messaging network proprietary.
The new consortium will seek to create a specification offering full interoperability between participating instant-messaging clients. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is also evaluating the issue of interoperability among instant-messaging clients, because the popularity of the service is predicted to expand beyond the desktop to other devices, such as hand-held computers and cell phones.


Along with trail development in the area, that section of Corduroy Brook underwent a massive clean up. Once the clean up was complete, some planned stream enhancement was carried out in the brook, with corresponding signage installed at points along the stream banks.
The corresponding signage was designed to explain the impact and significance of the features, thus educating trail users while they walk.
In future years, more stream enhancement was carried out in other areas of the Corduroy Brook to further enhance the habitat for fish and other aquatic creatures.
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'Jesus of Siberia' arrested on cult-related charges in Russia
WATCH: Russia's Investigative Committee says it has detained Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop, a 59-year-old cult leader who is claiming to be the reincarnation of Christ.
Russian authorities have arrested an accused cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus after a major operation to extract him from the community he runs in Siberia.
Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop, 59, was arrested Tuesday in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, according to Russia's Investigative Committee. The police officer-turned-mystic had been living in Siberia for decades as leader of the Church of the Last Testament, a pseudo-Christian commune with more than 4,000 members.
Torop's followers often called him "Jesus of Siberia" or "Vissarion Christ the Teacher" — not to be confused with Viserion the dragon from Game of Thrones.
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He was arrested on several charges, including founding an illegal religious organization, extorting money from his followers and subjecting people to emotional abuse and grievous bodily harm, officials said.
His lieutenants Vadim Redkin, who is a former Soviet-era rocker, and Vladimir Vedernikov were also arrested.
Video released by Russian authorities shows Torop, with long grey hair and a beard, being loaded into an aircraft along with his two aides after his arrest. Several masked commandoes can be seen escorting the suspects.
Sergey Torop is shown in this image from video captured on Sept. 22, 2020, in Siberia, Russia.
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"In order to extract income from religious activities, they attracted funds from citizens and also used psychological violence against them," investigators said in a Russian news release. "As a result of prolonged exposure, some of the followers of the religious organization suffered serious harm to their health."
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Witnesses say a large security team showed up to arrest Torop at one of the hamlets in his commune.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, also helped with the arrest.
Members of the Church of the Last Testament are shown at their commune in Siberia on Sept. 9, 2020.
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Torop lost his job as a traffic cop in 1989 and found Jesus in a mirror two years later, just before the fall of the Soviet Union. He started his church on the claim that Jesus was watching Earth from orbit, then eventually claimed to be Jesus himself, The Guardian reports.
"I felt something violently surging up from within me that had been held down until then," he said in 2009, when an AFP reporter asked about his come-to-be-Jesus moment.
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He and thousands of followers established a colony in a remote part of Siberia, where they lived for roughly three decades before the government operation on Tuesday.
"I am not God. And it is a mistake to see Jesus as God. But I am the living word of God the father," he told The Guardian in a 2002 interview. "Everything that God wants to say, he says through me."
Photos and videos from the commune show simple wooden homes, dirt roads and people in white clothing.
The Church of the Last Testament's website features many lectures from Torop. The most recent ones are dated "60 A.R.," which appears to refer to "After the Resurrection" of "Jesus."
The site describes Torop's writings as the "Last Testament." Redkin also appears to have penned several religious texts for the movement, which are called "Vadim's Chronicles."
The group's beliefs include a mishmash of Buddhist, Russian Orthodox, apocalyptic and environmentally conscious ideas, as they explain in a popular VICE documentary from 2012. They also believe in aliens.
Torop styled himself after popular images of Jesus, photos captured over the years show. He wore his hair long, grew a scraggly beard and often dressed in white robes.
In this file photo, 'Vissarion the Teacher,' or 'Jesus of Siberia,' Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop meets with his followers in the remote village of Petropavlovka on Aug. 18, 2009.
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The group reportedly saw a large influx of new followers this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Moscow Times.
"Requests to join us have tripled since the start of the virus," Redkin told the paper in May. "People are searching for something and have become attracted to our lifestyle. They are looking for a way out of isolation and loneliness."
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Redkin mentioned that the group was under investigation in a Facebook post on Sept. 9.
The three suspects could face up to 12 years in prison if convicted on the charges.
—With files from Reuters
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Why China should move the capital
Beijing, China's water-poor and overpopulated capital, is stretching its resources to the limit. It is time for a new strategy, writes Mei Xinyu, the country should seriously consider moving its capital.
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Mei Xinyu
If you are asking whether you read that correctly, then yes. China really should consider moving the capital away from Beijing. Any nation, particularly a major power, should choose a location for its capital that allows growth and can respond to challenges. The historical advantages that led Beijing to become China's capital no longer exist, and the location's disadvantages are becoming ever more apparent. If Beijing remains the capital it will not only be a burden on the rest of the nation, the city itself will be led down a dead end.
The Yan Kingdom may have chosen the area for its capital 2,000 years ago, but Beijing was never at the heart of Chinese civilisation. Its history as the capital of unified China stems from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Modern China, however, cannot remain wedded an old-fashioned perspective that uses a stronghold in the north for the plunder of the south.
With the rise of the Ming Dynasty in the fourteenth century, the Mongols retreated back north, but they hoped to return and were regarded as a major threat to the Ming. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was concerned about these enemies over the border and warned the military should stay ready for action. Therefore, the Ming maintained a strong army, but with the capital in the southern city of Nanjing they faced a dilemma. If their generals were given a free hand, could they be trusted to deal with threats over the border? If they kept the army on too tight a leash, would they lose the ability to act decisively and risk repeating the military disasters of the Song Dynasty? The Ming decided to move the capital north, even at the risk of putting the lives of the court on the line. In the twentieth century, choosing Beijing as the capital of the People's Republic of China may have kept the government closer to its friends at the time, a similar fighting spirit was seen when Soviet armies massed on China's northern borders.
Today, none of those reasons remain for keeping Beijing as the capital. Modern communications and transportation mean there is no need for today's "emperors" to stay within easy reach of the borders. Ever since the Opium Wars, China's military threats have come from the east, not the north. The Mongols were pacified, the Soviet Union collapsed and we are on friendly terms with Russia. Keeping the capital in Beijing does not keep us closer to our allies.
Retaining Beijing as the capital continues to present problems. A city of 20 million people located in such a water-poor area raises concerns. Should the authorities not consider the capacity of the environment? Can we really afford the cost of locating the capital in Beijing? Are we already damaging the balanced growth of the nation?
Quenching Beijing's thirst has already meant tapping the Hai River and water from neighbouring provinces. Now the Han River is to be diverted for a huge project transferring water from the south to the north. The impact of this project on the lower reaches of the Han River should not be underestimated. It will not necessarily solve water problems in the north, but it may well destroy the environment in the south. Beijing may have moved the Shougang steel plant for the sake of its air quality, but it continues to develop water-intensive industry. Why not move the industry and resources where there is more water?
As for Beijing itself, the city's excessive population growth and expanding industry degrades the quality of life. Overpopulation means too many cars; the city's congestion is the stuff of nightmares. Environmental pollution and over-priced property add to the problem. Even if the government keeps the price of water low for the sake of residents on low incomes, the cost of bringing that water to Beijing remains. The water could in fact provide greater economic and environmental benefit elsewhere.
If Beijing remains the capital, then damage to the environment and quality of life could spread irreversibly to other areas. The centre of power in any country will gather resources towards itself and that will attract people from elsewhere – at home and abroad – to come seek their fortunes. They have every right to do so, and this should not be restricted, but inevitably the pressures on the city are increased. At China's recent seventeenth Communist Party congress, president Hu Jintao discussed the promotion of coordinated regional development and optimising the development of land. Leaving Beijing as the capital may be the biggest possible mistake.
If China faced a military threat from the north, or Beijing only had 3 or 4 million people, there would be no need to move the capital. However, in the current circumstances, we should give it serious consideration. In the long-term it will solve the wider problems I have mentioned, but in the short- and medium-term it will also provide a new focus for economic growth after the Olympic Games.
If China were to select a new capital, the ideal location would be a small- or medium-sized city, with undeveloped land for construction, around the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Such a geographic location would have high environmental capacity and land for government buildings – unlike an already developed city. Finally, a smaller population would mean local interests could not hold central government to ransom – and it would also be easier to spread Mandarin as the official language.
This article first appeared on FTChinese.com


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New Advances in US-Cuba Relations Applauded by Left Groups
July 4, 2015 July 7, 2015 Circles Robinson	2 Comments
HAVANA TIMES — Several political groups on the Left, which are not recognized by the Cuban government, expressed their approval of the recent accord between Cuba and the USA to reopen embassies after a 54 year absence. The following is their statement.
We Welcome the Re-Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between Cuba and the United States
Declaration on the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States and the re-opening of embassies, scheduled for July 20, by Cuba's democratic left-wing organizations.
Having convened in Havana, we, the representatives of Socialismo Participativo y Democratico ("Participative and Democratic Socialism"), Izquierda Democratica Socialista ("Democratic Socialist Left") and Nuevo Proyecto Socialista ("New Socialist Project"), organizations that call for the strengthening of Cuba's democratic Left, welcome the declarations made by the presidents of the United States and Cuba, Barack Obama and Raul Castro, regarding the imminent reopening of the embassies of the two countries and the re-establishment of diplomatic relations.
We believe this is an important step on the road towards normalization, a process which, as the two leaders point out, will mean addressing and overcoming the range of problems arising from the conflict between the two countries.
We agree that we cannot continue to move forward while looking backwards. The acknowledgement on behalf of the US Executive that the country's previous policy of pressure and blockade were a failure and its willingness to work with Congress to bring about the lifting of the embargo-blockade and cooperate with Cuba in different areas of bilateral interest has opened up broad spaces for fruitful exchange between the two nations.
The differences between the two government on issues of democracy and human rights should not represent obstacles to the development of exchanges between the two peoples and governments or stand in the way of overcoming migratory problems, facilitating travel, correspondence and the sending of remittances, expanding tourism and trade and securing peace between the two nations, without threats of any sort.
It is hard for enemies to become friends. The two nations understand this well. We understand this is particularly true of governments. But the people of Cuba and the United States have never been enemies and have no reason to be. Both are peaceful, peace-loving people who support democracy and creative work. The interests of the two peoples are what ought to come first.
We congratulate the two governments for this step and we wish to see the hope awakened on December 17 renewed among the Cuban people, desirous that the re-establishment of diplomatic relations will pave the road towards the full normalization of relations between the two countries.
Havana, July 1, 2015
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Gillian has a first degree in Psychology and a PhD in Social Policy. She has been a researcher since she graduated, working in the third sector and at the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, York, Leicester and Nottingham. She was appointed to a Chair at Leicester in 1993 and established a new research unit there. From 2001-2005, Gillian was Programme Director of the NIHR R&D Programme on Service Delivery and Organisation and from 2002-2004, Head of the Policy Research Programme, Department of Health. She returned to York in 2005 and was director of SPRU until 2014.
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Every other room in the Contemporary removed to aid social distancing
Finally, a use for the modular room design!
WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — For the first time in it's 200-year history [Note: check that number before publication], Disney's Giant Toaster Contemporary Resort and Spa has used its modular room design. But instead of removing the rooms for remodeling, every other room is being removed to aid social distancing.
Disney (the company) spokesperson Jun Disney (no relation) tells Uncle Walt's Insider, "It's the perfect way to keep our guests apart."
We thought there were issues with removing the rooms
We recall that the Contemporary was built in 1692 [Note: also check], it was indeed designed with removable room units. But we thought that the building settled, locking the rooms into place? We asked Disney (no relation):
"Oh, yeah, that's true," she answered. "We totally wrecked the rooms pulling them out of there. Probably also messed up the structural integrity of the remaining tower. But we have to keep our guests safe!"
Couldn't you have just only booked guests into every other room without removing them, we asked?
"Huh," Disney (no relation) replied. "Excuse me, I have to go make a phone call before we start on the Grand Floridian."
We would totally stay in one of the open spaces. Would you? Let us know in the comments below!
Cover photo: Disney's Contemporary Resort, minus half of its rooms. Photo by Jared [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr.
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Puccini – LA BOHÈME: October 2, 4, 7, 9, 11 – 2015pagliacci2018-11-26T10:23:16-03:30
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Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung in Italian with projected English translation.
Puccini's poetic masterpiece La Bohème, is reimagined against the electrifying backdrop of the 1968 Paris student revolution. Inspired by the films of the French New Wave, this theatrically and musically vivid new production transports one of the world's greatest love stories to a mythological Paris, fueled by sexual liberation, intense passion, and burning idealism.
FRI Oct 2, 2015 8:00 pm
SUN Oct 4, 2015 3:00 pm
WED Oct 7, 2015 7:30 pm
Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre
Performed in four acts with one intermission after Act II. Performance running time approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Stage Director Rosetta Cucchi*
Set Designer John Conklin
Costume Designer Nancy Leary
Lighting Designer D.M. Wood*
Projection And Sound Designer Seághan Mckay
Supertitle Adaptation John Conklin & Allison Voth
Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Cast, in order of vocal appearance
Jonathan Beyer as Marcello
Jesus Garcia* as Rodolfo
Brandon Cedel* as Colline
Andrew Garland as Schaunard
James Maddalena as Benoit
Kelly Kaduce as Mimì
Omar Najmi† as the vendor
Brad Raymond† as Parpignol
Mira Donahue as the child
James Maddalena as Alcindoro
Emily Birsan* as Musetta
Ron Williams and Vincent Turregano*† as the two students
† Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artist
More About Cast and Crew
"Bohemia, bounded on the North by need, on the South by poverty, on the East by illusion and on the West by the hospital."
Henri Murger (1849)
Paris 1968—a city torn by violent student uprisings; a ruthless and brutal police reaction; demonstrations, strikes, riots, barricades in the street; tear gas and Molotov cocktails. Idealism…rebellion…repression…violence…civil chaos.
Four young men share a garret room—Rodolfo (a poet and filmmaker); Marcello (a painter); Colline (a philosopher); and Schaunard (a musician). Into their somewhat untidy lives comes Mimì. She and Rodolfo meet almost accidentally and fall quickly in love. As they gather at the Momus—a student hangout and revolutionary club—Musetta, Marcello's old girlfriend, turns up and succeeds to get the ostensibly unwilling (but totally enthralled) Marcello back.
The two love affairs go on. Musetta and Marcello exist in a seemingly unending state of volatile, emotional chaos. Mimì decides she must leave Rodolfo because of his jealousy. Rodolfo tells Marcello that Mimì is a flirt, but confesses that the real reason he must break off the affair is that she is dying. He has no money to care for her and, as he says, "Love is not enough." She overhears and bids him a tearful farewell, but the two lovers are drawn back together and agree they cannot part at least until the spring.
Three months later, both couples have separated, and the four bohemians have returned to their bachelor digs. Musetta arrives with Mimì, whom she has found desperately ill, wandering in the street, and who begged to be taken to Rodolfo.
JESUS GARCIA Tenor
An internationally acclaimed tenor, Jesus Garcia specializes in the romantic roles of the Italian and French repertoire. His performance in La Bohème marks his debut with BLO. This past season marked his return to opera after a three-year hiatus, taken to write and record his first song-cycle "Manifest Destiny." His previous performances include Fenton in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera and Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte at the Berlin Staatsoper. His future engagements include Alfredo at the Savonlinna Festival and the Badisches Staatstheatre, and Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de perles at NRO Netherlands. Mr. Garcia is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2003 Tony Award Honor for his work as Rodolfo in Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's La Bohème on Broadway.
KELLY KADUCE Soprano
Kelly Kaduce returns to Boston Lyric Opera, after appearing this summer as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly at the Minnesota Orchestra. Ms. Kaduce's warm voice, stunning beauty, and superb acting skills have garnered national acclaim throughout the years, including the top prize in the 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Her past season's engagements also included debuts with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Katya in The Passenger and with Canadian Opera Company as Cio-Cio San. She made her BLO debut in 2006 as the title role in Thais, and appeared as Cio-Cio San in BLO's 2006 production of Madama Butterfly. This season, she will appear as the title role of Tosca at Houston Grand Opera, and create the role of Wendy in Moravec's The Shining with Minnesota Opera.
JONATHAN BEYER Baritone
Jonathan Beyer has performed a wide variety of roles with opera houses around the world. His recent credits include Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at both Opera Philadelphia and Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Marcello in La Bohème at Dallas Opera House and Ping in Turandot at Cincinnati Opera. This season, he will appear in Rossini's Figaro in a return to the Pittsburgh Opera, The Merry Widow at Chicago Lyric Opera, Don Pasquale at Naples Opera, and Die Fledermaus with Florentine Opera. He also appeared in Rossini's The Barber of Seville with BLO in 2012. Throughout his career, Mr. Beyer has received numerous awards for his performances, including National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition, and he was the Grand Prize winner at the 2011 George London Foundation.
BRANDON CEDEL Bass-baritone
Brandon Cedel, currently in his third year of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, makes his BLO company debut as Colline. His recent credits include performing both Masetto and Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Glyndebourne Festival, as well as Isacio in Riccardo Primo with Opera Theater of St. Louis. Upcoming this season, Mr. Cedel will perform as Theseus in a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Grand Théatre de Genève, as Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Pittsburg Opera, and as the Sergeant in Manon Lescaut at the Metropolitan Opera. He concludes his season in Germany as Masetto in Don Giovanni with Bayerische Staatsoper.
SCHAUNARD
Andrew Garland returns to BLO to reprise Schaunard, which he appeared as at Seattle Opera and Atlanta Opera, as well as with BLO in 2007. Additional BLO appearances include Rusalka and Les contes d'Hoff mann (2008), Carmen (2009), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2011), and The Magic Flute (2013). His recent credits also include Dandini in La Cenerentola at Opera Philadelphia and Fort Worth Opera, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos at Seattle Opera, and the title role in Philip Glass's Galileo Galilei at Cincinnati Opera. Mr. Garland is widely recognized as a leader in recital work, with dozens of performances around the country including Carnegie Hall with Warren Jones. Following La Bohème, he will perform Fauré 's Requiem at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, Carmina Burana with the National Chorale in New York City at Lincoln Center, and Shubert and The Beatles with the New York Festival of Song.
EMILY BIRSAN Soprano
Making her Boston Lyric Opera debut, Emily Birsan was most recently heard on the main stage of the Lyric Opera of Chicago as the Italian Singer in Capriccio, Servilia in the critically acclaimed Sir David McVicar production La Clemenza di Tito, and the 1st Flower Maiden in a new production of Wagner's Parsifal. In August 2015, Ms. Birsan sang Ann Trulove in The Rake's Progress with Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival. Additional recent credits include Leïla in The Pearl Fishers with Florida Grand Opera. Ms. Birsan can be heard on the Chandos recording of The Saga of St. Olaf with Sir Andrew Davis and the Bergen Philharmonic in Bergen, Norway.
JAMES MADDALENA Bass
BENOIT/ALCINDORO
Renowned baritone James Maddalena commands a large and varied repertoire, ranging from Monteverdi to contemporary opera. He first gained international recognition for his notable portrayal of the title role in the world premier of John Adams' Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars with Houston Grand Opera. Mr. Maddalena has appeared with many leading opera companies, including New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Frankfurt Opera, and the Glyndebourne Festival. He made his BLO debut in 2000 with Madama Butterfly and has since appeared in numerous productions with the Company, including La Rondine, Cosi fan Tutte and La Traviata. He is a frequent collaborator with director Peter Sellars as well as many contemporary composers, including John Harbison, Gunther Schuller, and Elliot Goldenthal. Mr. Maddalena has recorded for Decca/London, BMG, Classical Catalyst, Nonesuch, Teldec, Sony Classical, Harmonia Mudi, and EMI. He can be heard on the Grammy Award winning recording of Nixon in China (Nonesuch) and the Emmy Award-winning PBS telecast.
David Angus has just extended his contract for a third time as the Music Director of Boston Lyric Opera, where he conducts the majority of the productions each year and oversees all musical matters. He is also the Honorary Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders, following several years as its Principal Conductor, when he played a major part in establishing it as Belgium's most exciting and successful new orchestra. Previously he was the Music Director of Glimmerglass Opera in New York state. David Angus conducts concerts and opera throughout Europe, and broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 3 and abroad in Austria, Ireland, Holland, Denmark, Italy, and Belgium. Plans for this season, apart from his work at BLO, include choral music by Elgar and Macmillan with the Huddersfield Choral Society and the BBC Philharmonic, two CD recordings (with the London Philharmonic and with the orchestra of Opera North ) and concerts in the USA, the UK, Sweden and Italy.
ROSETTA CUCCHI Director
Making her US directorial debut, Rosetta Cucchi has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative Italian opera directors of her generation. Recent productions include La Traviata at Teatro Comunale di Modena and Opera di Tenerife, L'Arlesiana at Wexford Opera Festival, and L'elisir d'amore at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino . In 2009, she directed the Italian premiere of Sweeney Todd at Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Future directorial engagements include Salome at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, La Favorite at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, and Werther at Teatro Comunale Bolongna with Juan Diego Florez in the title role. Ms. Cucchi began her career as a pianist, performing as an accompanist for internationallyknown singers and in major theatres, including La Scala in Milan, Italy, and winning numerous competitions in Italy and abroad. Since 2006, she has been the Artistic Director of the symphonic orchestra Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma, Italy.
JOHN CONKLIN Set Designer
John Conklin has designed sets on and off -Broadway, at the Kennedy Center, and for opera companies around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Bastille Opera in Paris, the Royal Opera and the opera houses of Munich, Amsterdam, and Bologna, among others. Locally, his work has been seen in Boston Lyric Opera's I Puritani (2014), The Magic Flute (2013), Madama Butterfly (2012), and Macbeth (2011), as well as at the American Repertory Theatre and Boston Ballet. Additionally, Mr. Conklin works to develop lecture series and community events for BLO that enrich the audience experience and strengthen the presence of opera in Boston's arts community. He is on the faculty at New York University's Tisch School and was a recipient of the 2011 NEA Opera Honors.
NANCY LEARY Costume Designer
Nancy Leary has had an award winning theatrical career that spans several decades. She has designed costumes for Opera Saratoga, Virginia Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Chautauqua Opera, Mobile Opera, Juilliard Opera, Boston Musica Viva, Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory. Other design credits include Shakespeare Theatre New Jersey, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Weston Playhouse, Actor's Shakespeare Project, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, ART Institute, Chamber Repertory Theatre, Boston Theatre Works and Knife Edge Productions in New York City. She is currently working on an exciting new opera, The Long Walk, for Utah Opera. She also teaches Design and Production at Boston University School of Theatre.
D.M. WOOD Lighting Designer
D.M. Wood is a freelance lighting designer for opera and theatre, whose work has appeared in productions worldwide. Her recent credits include Don Giovanni at the Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Norma at Gran Teatre Del Liceu in Barcelona, and Kansas City Choir Boy at Prototype Festival in New York City. Her upcoming designs can be seen in Mary Stuart at Seattle Opera. She also received the UK's 2012 Knight of Illumination Opera Award for her design of Suor Angelica at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
SEÁGHAN MCKAY Projection and Sound Designer
Seághan McKay returns to BLO having previously designed projections for The Flying Dutchman. Recent highlights include Boston Ballet's Swan Lake; The Boston Pops' Gershwin Spectacular: Promenade; Educating Rita at Huntington Theatre Company; On The Town at Lyric Stage Company; A Disappearing Number at Underground Railway Theater; Big Fish, Carrie: the Musical, Next To Normal, Nine, Striking 12, and Jerry Springer: The Opera at SpeakEasy Stage Company; Memory House at Merrimack Repertory Theater; Sleeping Weazel's 27 Tips for Banishing The Blues; Merrily We Roll Along and Rent at The Boston Conservatory; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 and Light Up The Sky at Emerson Stage; and Two Dance Stories: Stop All The Clocks and Beyond The Boundaries at Brandeis Theater Company.
JASON ALLEN Wigs and Makeup
Designer Jason Allen has been BLO's Resident Wig and Makeup Designer since 2003. A fixture of the Boston performing arts community, he also works with Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Ballet and many other organizations in Boston and throughout the country. La Bohème marks his 50th production with Boston Lyric Opera.
Sandra Kott, Concertmaster
Natalie Favaloro
Annie Rabbat, Principal
Melanie Fortier
Annegret Klaua
Kenneth Stalberg, Principal
Abigail Cross
Jean Haig
Loewi Lin, Principal
Jolene Kessler
Robert Lynam, Principal
Joseph Holt
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Linda Toote, Principal
Lisa Hennessy
Nancy Dimock, Principal
Mary Cicconetti
Jan Halloran, Principal
Karen Heninger
Donald Bravo, Principal
Kevin Owen, Principal
Jesse Levine, Acting Principal
Greg Whitakre
Robert Couture, Principal
Hans Bohn
David Hagee
CIMBASSO
Donald Rankin, Principal
Ina Zdorovetchi, Principal
Jeffrey Fischer, Principal
Richard Flanagan, Principal
John Tanzer
Michelle Alexander, Chorusmaster
Samina Aslam
Abigail Krawson
Dana Varga
Heather Gallagher
Emily Harmon
Bethany Hickman
Emma Sorensen
Stephanie Zuluaga
Stefan Barner
Omar Najmi
Elijah Blaisdell
Ryne Cherry
Carlton Doctor
Vincent Turregano
Kirsten Shetler, Director
Dessie Bell-Kamen
Maiya Cicmil
Sarah Gleba
Ben Kiel
Druva Schlondorff
SUPERNUMARIES
Zachary Calhoun
Charlie Edwards
Karen Frost
Kurt Hakansson
Jesse Martin
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Keep checking back for updated articles, in-depth content, and more!
Looking Back on La Bohème: Feedback and Reviews
La Bohème has left the stage, but the music lives on! Enjoy this sampling of reactions from students, audience members, and critics.…more »
Kelly and Jesus in a New Bohème: An Interview by Richard Dyer
In Puccini's La Bohème, the poet Rodolfo meets the delightful seamstress Mimì on a freezing Christmas Eve in 1830, and it is love at first sight. In 2003, a young tenor, Jesus Garcia, met with a young soprano, Kelly Kaduce, to rehearse La Bohème. Paradoxically they haven't ever sung the opera together until now, a dozen years later. Boston Lyric Opera has engaged the charismatic pair to appear in a new production, now playing at the Shubert Theatre through October 11.…more »
The Puccini Puzzle
By Harlow Robinson
Today, an operatic world without Puccini's La Bohème seems as unthinkable as a Christmas without The Nutcracker. The most often performed of the composer's operas, and among the most popular works in the repertoire, it has attracted some of the greatest singers of all time (Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, to name only two) to the juicy leading role of the impoverished, tubercular seamstress Mimì. La Bohème was one of the first operas to be recorded and has been staged in every way imaginable in all the world's major houses.…more »
Words, Words, Words: Paris 1968
By John Conklin
In the two blazing months of the "Paris Spring of '68," the City of Lights became the City of Slogans. A universe of graffiti (sprayed, scrawled, and painted) of posters, placards, and manifestos, of pamphlets and radical newspapers…texts everywhere amidst the strikes, the demonstrations, the idealism, the passion, and the violence. Words appeared on crumbling medieval walls, on grandiosely pompous government buildings, on trees, on automobiles, on the pavement.…more »
La Bohème Fun Facts
Giacomo Puccini was the descendent of a long line of musicians and composers who served his native Lucca, a small city in Tuscany. His great-great grandfather, also named Giacomo, became the organist of the city cathedral in 1793, composing liturgical music as well as dramatic music for public celebrations. Giacomo passed his position down to his son …more »
La Bohème: BLO's Version
By Magda Romanska
Boston Lyric Opera's version of La Bohème relocates the famous opera from mid-19th-century Paris to the Paris of May 1968. The geographical location remains the same: the Latin Quarter neighborhood, which preserves much of the original bohemian.…more »
David Angus on the Music of La Bohème
Ever wondered what makes Bohème so special? Here's David Angus, BLO Music Director and Conductor of La Bohème, on its music .…more »
Get to Know La Bohème
Background information by John Conklin, Artistic Advisor
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN .…more »
La Bohème Production Timeline
As we gear up for our Season-opening new production of La Bohème, which will be set during the student revolution in Paris 1968, BLO's dramaturg Magda Romanska put together this fascinating list of influential Bohème productions since its premiere. The opera has been reimagined countless times over the past 119 years—and BLO's innovative staging by Rosetta Cucchi opens October 2.…more »
Listening recommendations by David Angus, BLO Music Director and Conductor, La Bohème
For a musically exciting performance, you can watch a full video of a performance from La Scala in 1979, directed by Zeffirelli, conducted by the thrilling Carlos Kleiber. It has the classic pairing of Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni, and Lucia Popp makes a lovely Musetta, but the production is very old-fashioned, realistic in the wrong way (i.e. very detailed and naturalistic, but without any real acting, just exaggerated gestures). It is live and rough at the edges, but gives a good idea of how the piece sounds in the theatre. You can also watch it free!
https://youtu.be/76o5q4zhjRkKleiber, Pavarotti, Freni, Popp (La Scala, Zeffirelli, 1979)
My own favorite CD recording, by quite a long way, is on EMI Classics (ASIN: B002N4DZ1M). Conducted by the wonderful American Thomas Schippers, it features a very young Freni and an amazingly musical and tasteful Nicolai Gedda, with the forces of the Rome Opera in 1964. There are several recordings by Schippers, so make sure you get the right one. This is a studio recording, so it is clean and clear, but is obviously based on live performances at the time, and so the pacing is exciting and theatrical, and the singing superlative.
For a wonderful, luxurious orchestral sound, there is the classic Karajan recording with Pavarotti and Freni (ASIN: B0000041TD), but a lot of it is half speed, and it has no relationship to the drama or the sound in a live theatre performance: the singers would die at these speeds! Sounds great, but it is a completely different piece—more like Wagner than anything else. To be avoided, if you want to know what La Bohème should sound like on stage.
As perhaps the most beloved of all operas, La Bohème, with its irresistible music (to almost everyone except the stoniest-hearted) and its immensely popular composer, has inevitably generated a great number of books. One of the best is:
Puccini: His Life and Works
By Julian Budden
Master Musicians Series
As a leading opera scholar and writer of the definitive study of Verdi's operas (in three exhaustive and eminently readable volumes), Budden has produced, in just one rich and enjoyable volume, a book combining an astute and enlightening musical analysis intertwined with a colorful account of Puccini's often eccentric, somewhat contentious, and at times rather erratic life.
BLO is setting its production of La Bohème against the vivid background of the student uprisings in Paris in 1968, an event which has generated its own flood of books…sociological interpretations, personal accounts, historical and cultural contexts, collections of the striking, and now famous, photographic images of the event. Among them is:
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
By Mark Kurlansky
Random House, 2005
In an broad study of that convulsive year, with its horrifying assassinations, the shocking chaos of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, the quagmire of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive, the brutal put-down by the Russians in Prague, Kurlansky devotes a compelling chapter to those events in Paris that were part of the still-startling mosaic of that year of, as he phrases it,
"quaint innocence and shocking modernism."
The culture of film was a crucial part of the events in Paris in 1968, and has also influenced the BLO production of Bohème. The production uses a famous quotation from Masculin Féminin (the Godard film from 1965), "The children of Marx and Coca-Cola," as a defining presence. The movie (whose very name could almost be an eloquent alternate title for Bohème) is a typically Godardian mixture of satire and tragedy (also like Bohème). A restless, idealistic, would-be intellectual youth (played by the New Wave iconic actor Jean-Pierre Léaud—he of The 400 Blows) pursues an impossible love affair and struggles to find his place in a world teeming with revolutionary thought and action.
Masculin Féminin
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Released by the Criterion Collection, 2005
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Reviews/Photos
"One has to applaud Boston Lyric Opera for the boldness
of its new production" –The Boston Globe
"A Risky and rewarding update…
[with] intellectual punch and polish.
This 'Bohème' finds itself in a new era,
looking sharp and sounding terrific." –WBUR
"Easily one of BLO's most memorably sung offerings.
A joy to hear." –South Shore Critic
"Innovative…thought-provoking…truly heart-rending…"
La Bohéme Reviews are In!
"One has to applaud Boston Lyric Opera for the boldness
of its new production" -The Boston Globe
"A Risky and rewarding update...[with] intellectual punch and polish.
This 'Bohème' finds itself in a new era,
looking sharp and sounding terrific." -WBUR
"Easily one of BLO's most memorably sung offerings.
A joy to hear." -South Shore Critic
"Innovative...thought-provoking...truly heart-rending..."
-Harvard Crimson


Characters interact with the setting as much as they do with the plot and other characters. In fact, setting can be used as another character, one that is implacable and without reason. Like a character, the setting can have scars, weaknesses, moods, even a personality.
The setting should be integral to the story. It needs to be more than a backdrop for or an introduction to the events. A static description adds nothing to the story's purpose. The setting should not be any old place, but a unique place that has meaning for the character. Setting can work for or against the character, but either way, it must be dynamic, otherwise it's just filling space.
Setting can create a mood. It can suggest the character's motives. It can predestine character in the same way we are all creatures of our environment. A person who grew up in the shadow of mountains is different from someone born by the sea. A child living in a mansion is different from a child of the streets.
Setting can help move plot along. Whenever things slow down, the introduction of a real or perceived change in the setting can deepen the character's conflicts. Maybe the character sees things he never noticed before; maybe those familiar things now seem menacing. Or perhaps the weather can take a disastrous turn.
In fact, if it is possible, setting can be introduced several different times to produce difference results. A building where a character was badly embarrassed (even if it wasn't ultimately important to the plot) has connotations for the audience afterward. Putting something of importance in the same place greatly alters the mood of the encounter. The decor of a safe place can make the dominant color comforting, and off-set an otherwise sinister area. Setting can be a fantastic way to set up your own connotations.
Elizaw: I like your ideas. Those are good ways of making the setting important and integral to the plot.
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Royaume-Uni (3,006) > Politique et promotion de l'emploi, services de l'emploi (111)
Nom: Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (2016 c. 7).
Pays: Royaume-Uni
Sujet(s): Politique et promotion de l'emploi, services de l'emploi
ISN: GBR-2016-L-101869
Lien: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.detail?p_isn=101869&p_lang=fr
Bibliographie: Legislation on-line The National Archives, United Kingdom PDF (consulté le 2016-05-11)
Résumé/Citation: An Act to make provision about reports on progress towards full employment and the apprenticeships target; to make provision about reports on the effect of certain support for troubled families; to make provision about life chances; to make provision about the benefit cap; to make provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision for loans for mortgage interest and other liabilities; and to make provision about social housing rents.
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2012-03-08 (GBR-2012-L-92507)Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5).
2010-03-25 (GBR-2010-L-88239)Child Poverty Act 2010 (c. 9).
2009-11-12 (GBR-2009-L-83075)Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22).
1992-02-13 (GBR-1992-L-27937)Social Security Administration Act 1992 (Chapter 5)


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