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Some Interesting Links
Dear visitor, below you will find an annotated list of selected links related to the following areas. Most of the websites provide not only a wealth of interesting information but also further useful links:
Morgan Sports Cars
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks to "defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism" through "limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate." Closely associated with Neo-Conservatism, the think tank has succeeded in placing many of its members in influential government positions.
The Brookings Institution – one of Washington's oldest think tanks, is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan policy.
Cato Institute – Named after Cato's Letters, a series of pamphlets published in England in the 1720s (which helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution), Cato's mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace."
Commonwealth Fund – promoting a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including but not limited to low-income people and the uninsured.
Galen Institute
Galen Institute – a not-for-profit think tank in Washington, DC, that promotes a free health care market, believing that this will best encourage research and innovation, provide better access to new medical technologies; and will lead to lower costs, expanded choice, and increased access to better medical care.
Hastings Center
The Hastings Center – Since its inception in 1969, the Hastings Center has addressed fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, health care, and life sciences research.
Founded in 1948, the Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on major healthcare issues, predominantly from a US perspective. It has grown into one of the most respected non-partisan sources for up-to-date and accurate information on health policy. Despite an original association, the Foundation is no longer affiliated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.
RAND Organization
The RAND ( for "Research ANd Development") organization was originally founded in 1948 by the Douglas Aircraft Company and had a military focus. To date, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment [LINK => http://www.rand.org/health/projects/HIE-40.html] has been the largest prospective study conducted by health economists and marked a milestone of the discipline. Today, RAND is funded by the US government, a private endowment, universities, and major corporations (especially healthcare). RAND entertains one of the world's largest PhD-granting programs in Policy Analysis, and publishes the peer-reviewed RAND Journal of Economics.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – formerly known as "Agency for Health Care Policy and Research". The AHRQ sponsors and conducts research that provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes, quality, cost, utilization, and access. Its website provides an excellent overview on new scientific data and currently ongoing projects in the field of health services research.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – one of the major operating components of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, founded in 1946 to help control malaria. CDC applies research and scientific findings with the public health objectives of preventing and controlling infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats.
Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit organization, providing current systematic reviews of and information about the effects of health care. The Cochrane Library contains continuously updated evidence-based health care databases.
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
European Medicines Agency (EMA) – the European institution regulating market access of innovative medicines, generic and non-prescription medicines through a single European authorization process; also responsible for controlling the safety of medicines for humans and animals.
Evidence-Based Medicine Tool Kit
Evidence-Based Medicine Tool Kit – a collection of tools for identifying, assessing, and applying relevant evidence for better health care decision-making. From the University of Alberta, Canada.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – the United States regulatory authority in charge controlling market access of food, drugs, medical devices, biologics, animal feed and drugs, cosmetics, radiation-emitting products and combination products, with the mission of protecting consumers and public health.
Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG)
Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG) Website of the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, established, as a result of the "Health Insurance Modernization Act" (GMG), in 2004 under the auspices of the Federal Joint Committee of Physicians and Statutory Sick Funds ("Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss").
Medline - PubMed
Medline – link to "PubMed", a service of the National Library of Medicine, with millions of citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) – the principal United States medical research agency, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, conducting and supporting medical research in unparalleled quantity and quality.
World Health Organization (WHO) – the United Nations specialized agency for health, established in 1948.
Alliance for the Advancement of Applied Health Economics (A3HE)
Alliance for the Advancement of Applied Health Economics (A3HE ) – A3HE is an international network of experts who share an interest I n the advancement of applied health economics. It has committed itself to a truly multidisciplinary and inclusive approach, very much in the spirit of the WEA (see below).
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) – funded by the Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial governments. A leading source for unbiased, evidence-based information on drugs, devices, health care systems, and best practices.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York / England (CRD)
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York / England (CRD) – established in England in 1994, aims to provide research-based information about the effects of interventions used in health and social care.
German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information, DIMDI)
German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (Deutsches Institut für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information, DIMDI) – with the mission to provide access to information on medicine and related fields, to implement and operate database-supported information systems on drugs and medical devices, and to publish official classification. Furthermore, DIMDI operates an information system for health technology assessments (HTAs) and evidence-based medicine.
Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care (InnoValHC)
Institute for Innovation & Valuation in Health Care (InnoValHC) – an officially recognized not-for profit health economic research organization based in Wiesbaden / Germany.
International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) – the major international scientific organization of health economists.
International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA)
International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) – established in 1993, INAHTA has grown to more than 40 member agencies. A key objective is the rapid exchange and collaboration among agencies, through information sharing and comparison.
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research (ISPOR) – an organization dedicated to health care cost-effectiveness research and its application to pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and to translating pharmacoeconomics into practical health policy. ISPOR maintains close links to the pharmaceutical industry. Its website offers extensive information, including online access to "Value in Health", the scientific journal published by ISPOR.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) – charged with providing guidance to the UK National Health Service (NHS), formerly National Institute for Clinical Excellence (established 1999), subsequently "National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence" (since 2005, after its merger with the Health Development Agency). Originally tasked to contribute "to reduce variation in the availability and quality of NHS treatments and care", NICE is now producing different types of guidance to the NHS: clinical guidelines, technology appraisals resulting in mandatory "recommendations" to clinical commissioning groups, interventional procedures, medical technologies, diagnostics guidance, as well as entertaining separate programs for the evaluation of medical technologies and "highly specialised technologies" – see also Schlander et al., 2008
Office of Health Economics (OHE)
Office of Health Economics (OHE) – The London-based OHE conducts research and provides consultancy services on health economics and related policy issues, predominantly to the life sciences industries.
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) – within the Australian Department of Health, an independent expert body assessing medicines prior to listing on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). It comprises two subcommittees, the Drug Utilisation Sub Committee (DUSC) and the Economics Sub Committee (ESC). The DUSC monitors trends and patterns of drug use and publishes utilization data. THE ESC evaluates the cost effectiveness of major submissions to the PBAC. Introduced in 1990, the PBAC was the first official body using formal cost effectiveness analyses as a tool to evaluate the value for money provided by new medicines.
Tufts University in Boston, MA
Tufts University in Boston, MA – hosts two institutions of particular interest – the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) and the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR), which maintains a global registry of cost utility studies.
World Economics Association (WEA)
World Economics Association (WEA) – WEA was launched on May 16, 2011, to fill a gap in the international community of economists — the absence of a truly international, inclusive, pluralist, professional association.
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE)
EIPE - Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics – a multidisciplinary research institute and graduate school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, founded in 1997.
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
ESHET - European Society for the History of Economic Thought – a non-profit organization to promote teaching and research in the history of economic thought in Europe
Forum Philosophie & Wirtschaft e.V.
Forum Philosophie & Wirtschaft e.V. at the University of Mainz
Friedrich A. von Hayek-Institute (IIAE)
IIAE - Friedrich A. von Hayek-Institute (International Institute, Austrian School of Economics)
Hayek Center for Multidisciplinary Research
Hayek Center for Multidisciplinary Research – with many useful links
Philosophy of Science Archive
Philosophy of Science Archive – an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science, dedicated to rapid dissemination of new work in the field.
Philosophy of Science Association
The Philosophy of Science Association aims to further studies and free discussion from diverse standpoints in the field of philosophy of science.
British Car Service (BSC)
British Car Service (BSC) – hidden in the rolling hills of the Spessart, East of Frankfurt, you will find one of the most competent and reliable service points for Morgan cars.
GOMOG
GOMOG: Perhaps the best website dedicated to Morgan cars, operated by a group of enthusiasts from Canada, the U.S., Australia, England, and Belgium. Expert panels, workshop manuals, and information about parts and services complement anecdotes and pictorial records of all sorts of Morgan-related events - including the assembly of a car in the factory. Also offering many useful links.
Isis Imports Ltd.
Isis Imports Ltd., the oldest Morgan dealership in the U.S., established by Bill Fink in 1968. Located in San Francisco, California.
Melvyn Rutter
Melvyn Rutter, "the world's favourite Morgan dealer" and editor of the popular magazine "Morgan World", is said to be listed as a dependent on the income tax forms of Morgan owners.
The official website for the Morgan Motor Company in Malvern Links, England. New Morgans may be ordered online, though there is no guarantee whatsoever that mails will be answered.
In any event, however, there will be a non-refundable build reservation deposit, and the price paid will be taken from the price list current at the time of delivery. The waiting list recently has come down to the region of 12 months.
Morgan Official Dealerships in Germany
There are currently three official dealerships for Morgan cars in Germany:
Flaving in Unna (close to Dortmund), Düsseldorf, and Bielefeld;
Leberfinger in Basrbüttel (near Hamburg), and
Merz & Pabst in Nürtingen near Stuttgart.
"My Life with Morgan Cars"
"My Life with Morgan Cars" by Juergen Meyer-Brenkhof, a family man from Northern Germany, entertaining an enduring love affair with Morgan cars - he has had "the pleasure to own and drive" no less than thirteen brand new Morgans!
Cost Value Analysis
Normative Health Economics?
On a Less Serious Note
On "Maturity"
"A World under the Gun"


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The Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60, completed by Johannes Brahms in 1875, is scored for piano, violin, viola and cello. It is sometimes called the Werther Quartet after Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. The premiere took place in Vienna on November 18th 1875 to an anxious public. Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima were in attendance.

Structure
The quartet is in four movements:

Analysis

First movement
The first movement is a sonata-form movement in C minor in triple meter. It begins with the piano playing bare octaves on C. The violin, viola, and violoncello then play the first theme, consisting of two sighing gestures of a descending minor second, followed by a descending theme. Some have speculated that the sighing motive is a musical utterance of the name "Clara", in reference to Clara Schumann, the composer, pianist, and lifelong friend and love interest of Brahms. More clear is Brahms's transposed version of Robert Schumann's "Clara theme", found in various pieces such as his Bunte Blätter, Op. 99 (1841), on which both Clara and Brahms wrote sets of piano variations. The Clara theme (C–B–A–G–A, often transposed: here E–D–C–B–C) was first detected by Eric Sams in his essays and books on Schumann and Brahms. In his 1971 essay "Brahms and his Clara Themes", Sams writes on the "Clara content" in op. 60: "The first sentence of that autobiographical work is doubly expressive of Clara. Furthermore, there is direct evidence that this melodic form actually embodied her, for Brahms as for Schumann."

After the first statement of the theme, the piano plays octaves on B. The opening motives, again played by the strings, becomes more chromatic and unsettling, until finally coming to rest on the dominant of C, G major. The viola and violin play pizzicato octaves on E before the strings cascade down the C harmonic minor scale that ushers in the first theme, stated forte. After a brief development of this theme, an ascending gesture based on sixteenth-notes alternating between the notes of a minor second serves as the transition to the second theme in the relative major of C minor, E major. This second theme is an uplifting eight-measure theme stated initially in the piano alone. Brahms then uses the technique of theme and variations to construct four variations on this theme, each eight measures long. A short idea based on the opening theme closes the exposition, which is not repeated.

The development section begins by restating the theme from measures 32–35 in E minor. This moves to B major for a new fortissimo idea (perhaps a variation) based on the same theme. The quartet's opening sighing motives become developed in an E minor passage that incorporates a triplet figure on the second beat of the measure, and eventually the previous B major idea is restated identically in G major. The second theme from the exposition is then treated in imitative (almost canonic) counterpoint in C minor. After the beginning of the third contrapuntal treatment of this theme, a dominant pedal is sustained in octaves on G. This resolves unexpectedly to an A major chord that is quickly brought down to C minor by the opening sighing motive in the piano.

The sighing motive indicates the beginning of the recapitulation. Rather than affirming the tonic of C minor, however, Brahms takes the recapitulation in a different direction: the opening section again ends on a dominant pedal on G with the violin and viola playing pizzicato octaves on E, but the E is used to turn the music to E minor. Chromatic descent is employed to bring the music to a half-cadence on D, leading to the second theme in G major. This is perhaps the only sonata form movement in the minor mode in which the recapitulation features the second subject in the key of the major dominant. The second theme is first stated by the viola, which is then followed by three new variations (the first being played by the violin, the second and third by the piano), and one of the same variations as the exposition. A fifth variation leads to a short digression in C major but becomes chromatic and ends with a development the first theme, coming to a cadence on C. This is followed by a brief coda that expands on the first motives heard in the piece. Nevertheless, the key of C minor is arguably not clearly established by the recapitulation (the key signature of C minor is present at the end of the movement for less than two complete pages). The movement ends with a clear tonic–dominant–tonic perfect cadence, stated piano. The expansive and exploratory nature of the movement, along with the quiet closing dynamic, helps make the conventional final cadential progression appear mysterious.

Second movement
The second movement is a tempestuous scherzo (ternary form) in compound duple meter in C minor, the same key as the first movement. Donald Francis Tovey argues that Brahms puts the scherzo in the same key as the first movement because the first movement does not sufficiently stabilize its own tonic and requires the second movement to "[furnish] the tonal balance unprovided for by the end of the first movement." Although it is the shortest scherzo of Brahms's piano quartets, it is formally and tonally very complex.

The movement begins with an opening motif of a descending octave on G and a rising minor second to A stated by the piano, followed by a falling diatonic line accompanied by the strings. The first theme, which clearly derives from the opening motif, is immediately by the solo piano played after this and Brahms uses the technique of developing variation to expand this theme. Most melodic ideas can be traced to the opening motif or the ascending minor second of the opening motif, which, notably, is the inversion of the descending sighs of the introduction of the first movement. This scherzo is very chromatic and unstable tonally, although it does actually move to a secondary phrase on the dominant and returns to the tonic with frequency. The scherzo ends with a pedal on the tonic C minor.

The middle section is not demarcated by the title of trio as are the middle sections of the scherzi from Brahms's previous two piano quartets. Moreover, this middle section serves more as a section of contrasting material than as a structural contrast—it maintains the same key signature, time signature, and tempo as the scherzo, is not musically marked off in any clear way, and even develops the same themes as the scherzo. One may argue whether it is in fact a trio at all, as nineteenth century composers knew it. Nonetheless, the middle section begins with a new theme, an ascending line in quarter notes in the strings, accompanied by a descending triplet figure played by the piano. This instrumentation is soon reversed and earlier themes from the scherzo become further developed. The transition back to the scherzo develops and rhythmically diminishes the opening motif of the scherzo and is the most chromatic, rhythmically complex, loud, and dramatic section of the movement. The scherzo is repeated almost entirely, however, the section immediately preceding the tonic pedal is omitted and replaced with a climactic dominant chord in a very high register in the strings, ending with a tierce de picardie on C major with three loud declamations of the tonic major chord.

Third movement
The Andante is in a modified ternary form: ABCA′ with a coda. This is the only movement of the quartet that is not in C minor, and it is in the key of E major, a remote key in the context of C minor. This can be explained by its origin as the slow movement to a piano quartet in C-sharp minor, which Brahms revised and published as Op. 60 in C minor. The key of E major is easily explained in the tonal context of C minor, but the key choice of this movement was not revised as was the first movement; it should also be noted that the slow movement to Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in C minor is also in E major.

The Andante begins with a luscious melody played by the violoncello in its upper register (Theme A) with only the piano as accompaniment, clearly inspired by Schumann's Piano Quartet, where a similarly sumptuous melody opens the slow movement. The opening thematic material of this melody is a sequence of descending thirds, a gesture frequently used by Brahms (such as in his Op. 119, No. 1, and the opening to Symphony No. 4, to name two examples). The violin eventually joins in with a new melody over the cello. The viola enters later with a tutti descending stepwise idea. The A section, which is itself in a sort of AAB form, ends in the conventional dominant key of B major.

The B section (in ABAB form) begins with a syncopated ascending stepwise melodic line in the violin to be played molto dolce (Theme B). The piano begins to gain prominence with a distorted version of the opening cello line, played symmetrically across the piano (Theme C). Another theme developed in the B section is a falling line with dotted rhythms (Theme D).

The third section begins in B major but is highly chromatic. The piano plays a version of Theme B in broken octaves under consistent eighth-notes played by the violin and viola. This figure ends with a version of Theme C in broken octaves in the piano. This alternates with the string section, which develops Theme C. The piano rejoins and develops Themes C and D with the strings in E minor, but soon the violin plays Theme D over the other strings. At this point, the strings alternate with the piano, which plays Theme D in an unstable harmonic palette in broken octaves, while the strings play a combination of Themes C and D. This passage of alternating instruments moves from E minor to C minor to G minor back to E major in the reprise of the A section.

The only significant differences between the first and second A sections are that in the second, the piano moves in triplets, there is a full string texture almost entirely throughout (often using pizzicato), and the piano begins the theme (although it is soon replaced by the cello). The coda is introduced by a new chord progression in the first tutti idea and by a solo cello line. Theme B is presented first by the viola and then by the violin, and the movement ends with the first measure of Theme A, stated first by the cello and then by the piano, concluding with a pianissimo affirmation of the tonic.

Fourth movement
The finale is a sonata-allegro in C minor in cut time with a secondary subject in E major. The tempo is Allegro comodo and the exposition is repeated. The piano accompaniment for the first theme, stated immediately in measure 1, is derived from the opening piano line of Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66, movement 1. Mendelssohn's Piano Trio also features a quotation of a chorale melody taken from the sixteenth-century Genevan psalter 'Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit' ("Before Your Throne I Now Appear"). Vincent C. K. Cheung has also observed that the opening G–E motion in the violin, coupled with the G–G–G–C in the piano greatly points toward the "Fate theme" in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Brahms's piece thus operates on multiple levels of reference (both literary and musical) and quotation.

The movement begins with the violin playing a theme above piano accompaniment. Both lines are separate themes that are developed individually throughout the movement, but they are similar in one major respect: both are constructed of three ascending notes preceded by a pickup, which go to a neighbor tone of the highest note and move back to that note. The essential notes of the violin theme are B–C–D–E–F–E, and the essential notes of the piano theme are: G–C–E–G–F–G (the rest of the piano theme is a descending sequence of ascending seconds: G–A–F–G–E–F–D–E). Therefore, the violin line uses an upper neighbor tone while the piano line uses a lower neighbor tone. This is crucial for understanding Brahms's development of the thematic ideas of this movement.

The violin melody is halting and primarily diatonic, played over an energetic piano accompaniment. It moves from C minor to G minor, although it ends with a change of mode to G major. After this, the violin plays a descending stepwise melody, which under close inspection is revealed to be an inversion of its own original theme (from B–C–D–E–F–E to G–F–E–D–C–B) in successive quarter notes. The viola and cello soon accompany this figure. This builds up until measure 39, where a thunderous theme erupts in all instruments. This moves quickly to an idea constructed in triplets. Tonally, this passage is in C minor, and the final progression ends with an alternation between B-diminished and A major. The piano plays a broken A major chord, followed by a broken A minor chord that is used to make a transition to E major.

The section in the relative major begins with a theme clearly composed from the theme of the piano's accompaniment, in this case stated by the violin and viola moving in unison over a piano accompaniment based on the previous broken chordal figure. This briefly exchanges with a cello countermelody. When the violin and viola soar to an unexpectedly high register, the piano interrupts by playing an explosive broken dominant seventh chord. The strings respond by a piano, homophonic, homorythmic theme to be played mezza voce (medium voice). This idea is taken directly from the opening string theme of the first movement. Rather than accompanying this theme, the piano plays a descending broken chord after each utterance. The exposition ends in E-flat major, and Brahms indicates that it should be repeated.

The development begins with an exploration of the descending third that begins the violin's opening theme; when sequenced, this produces a series of descending thirds that recalls the opening theme of the third movement (G–E–C–A). The piano accompanies this with its initial theme. Brahms quickly eliminates accidentals from the key signature as the piece progresses to D major and A minor. Interspersed are descending chromatic phrases played by the piano. In measures 117–118, the cello introduces a new four-note idea (E–F–D–E) played pizzicato underneath the piano. This idea is taken from the second half of the first piano theme (G–A–F–G). The viola plays the opening of the piano's first theme, which resembles an inversion of the sequenced thirds developed moments earlier. Brahms repeats this pattern almost exactly, moving from A minor to E minor to B minor. In B minor, the piano develops its initial theme to a greater extent. This part of the development section is concluded by syncopated phrases by the viola and piano, which echo the second half of the piano's first theme in B minor.

Austrian musicologist and educator Karl Geiringer has shown that the next section (measures 155–188) is an insertion "in order to mitigate the excessive conciseness of this movement." Later insertions were atypical of Brahms because of his "striving after compression," and it seems that he "for once overshot the mark." The later addition explains the motion away from B minor, only to return to the key some thirty measures later. This section continues with the homorhythmic theme in G major, then in E major. What follows is a quick (Tempo I) development of the initial piano theme in C minor, with all strings playing the opening four notes (moving in the often used progression i – I – iv). This exact sequence is used again in the coda to turn the movement from the minor mode to major. A dominant seventh chord in C minor is used as a pivot chord to return to B minor (a similar progression is used in Brahms's Ballade, Op. 118, No. 3, in which a dominant seventh chord built on G moves abruptly to B major). The violin develops its initial theme in B minor and then D minor with all three string instruments. The final notes of the theme (F–E) are sequenced and inverted repeatedly, recalling the significance of descending seconds in the first movement of this quartet. This moves from D minor to G minor to C minor. The end of the development section sees a very high and prolonged A, which parallels the end of the development section of the first movement.

The recapitulation, which reinstates the key signature of C minor, begins with the initial violin theme stated forte by all strings, accompanied by the piano playing broken octaves in triplets, outlining the main notes of its theme. After the first statement, the piano resumes its original accompaniment and the strings are reduced to a piano dynamic. This proceeds similarly to the exposition, albeit with the themes developed more extensively. Notably, the music turns toward G minor more strongly and the key signature changes to C major, as the relative major section from the exposition is in the tonic major in the recapitulation. The rest of the recapitulation is nearly identical to the exposition, ending in C major.

The coda begins at measure 311, with the piano loudly declaring the homorhythmic theme, alternating with the strings. The violin theme is then played by the strings in C major, but it soon shifts back to C minor (the key signature too returns). The four-note idea from the development section comes back, this time with its first note removed. The chromatic descending scale in the piano, an abbreviation of the violin theme in the viola, the four-note theme, and the chord progression (i – I – iv) indicate that the coda draws more from the development section than from the exposition or recapitulation. The music quietly subsides into a tranquillo section in which the inversion of the violin theme (first stated in measures 21–22 from the exposition) is sequenced across the strings while the piano continues to develop its initial theme. The violin and cello eventually sustain the tonic C for a great amount of time while the piano and viola begin to lean toward the tonic major in a continuing I – iv progression. All instruments continue to die down as the piano plays one last descending chromatic scale, the violin and viola combine the piano's initial theme with the quarter note rhythm of the violin theme, and the cello sustains a low C. As the piano and strings reach their final notes, a C major chord stated pianissimo is held briefly, shining out of the mist. Two sudden forte C major chords complete this quartet.

References

Smith, Peter H. Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

External links

 Performance of Piano Quartet No. 3 by the Musicians from Marlboro from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

Chamber music by Johannes Brahms
Brahms 3
1875 compositions
Compositions in C minor

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'Let's entertain the fans': Lions coach backs rule changes
Mitch Robinson, Jarrod Berry, Chris Fagan and Rhys Mathieson. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
by Anna Harrington
BRISBANE coach Chris Fagan says the Lions will have an "open mind" in regards to any potential rule changes.
Rumblings continue to grow louder in regards to the potential introduction of starting positions at centre bounces and stoppages next year.
But Fagan said the Lions would embrace any changes made to the game, and focus on adapting their game plan to suit them.
"I think we've got to keep an open mind about any changes that are made," Fagan said on Fox Footy's AFL 360.
"Ultimately if the AFL decides to do anything, there will be elements of it that we'll like and there'll be elements of it that we don't like and it'll be different for different for different clubs depending on their weaknesses.
"The controlling body has got the best interests in the game at heart.
"From the perspective of the Brisbane Lions Footy Club, we're open to any changes that they might bring along and that'll add to the excitement of next season and we'll spend a lot of time over summer working out the best way to play."
The potential rule changes relate to frustration over congestion in the modern game.
Fagan said the changes would encourage more freedom of ball movement, and open up the game for key forwards.
"I think things that might open up the game a little bit and help forwards score more and take more marks and the ball to move more freely … that's what the fans want to see," he said.
"We're in the entertainment business and let's entertain the fans."
The Lions conducted a trial of starting positions four weeks ago.
When asked whether the rule change had the potential to achieve the adjustments the AFL wanted to see in the game, Fagan was noncommittal, but said his players had enjoyed the trial.
Chris Fagan. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
"Possibly," he said.
"It's a small amount of evidence, but the players really enjoyed the game - that was the feedback from them. They were surprised by how much space they had."
Fagan is a member of the AFL Competition Committee.
His comments follow those of fellow committee member Brad Scott, who said reducing congestion could lead to an increase in blowouts.
"I think one of the biggest risks to opening up congestion and reducing coaches' ability to congest the game is it makes the bottom teams' jobs a fair bit harder," Scott said.
"When you even things up and open up the game the top teams can really dominate the bottom teams.
"That's something that has certainly been raised - that if you reduce congestion, you potentially increase blowouts and that could then lead to another so-called blight on the game."
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Q: automatically quit less after a short time I use less to view the text output of a command that has sensitive information.  Less is good for this as it uses an alternate screen and wipes it after use.  I'd like the less session to quit after a short time, like say 5 minutes.
Is there any simple command line way to invoke less with piped text and have it quit automatically after say 5 minutes?

A: Assuming you have GNU coreutils, a somewhat simple approach is to replace less with timeout --foreground 600 less; printf '\033[?47h'; clear; printf '\033[?1049l'; stty cooked echo in such sensitive commands. The timeout command kills a process after a given duration, the --foreground switch allows less to use the TTY, and stty cooked echo fixes the terminal after killing less.  In case killing less prevented the clear and exit of the alternate screen, the intervening commands do that.
The escape sequences used in the printf commands are appropriate for a DEC-compatible terminal (emulator) such as Xterm. Your specific terminal may use different sequences to accomplish this task.
A simple function:
tless () {
  timeout --foreground 600 less "$@"
  printf '\033[?47h' # Enter alternate screen
  clear
  printf '\033[?1049l' # Exit alternate screen and restore cursor
  </dev/tty stty cooked echo # Use in a pipe requires specifying the TTY
}

can make for substantially less typing.

Thanks @meuh for pointing out that the original version might not clear or exit the alternate screen.
Edited to allow tless some-file.  Further, this version has been tested on Linux and Solaris 11.

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International institutions troubled about health of Leyla Yunus
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests urgent intervention in the following situation in Azerbaijan.
The statement says that the Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the ongoing arbitrary detention and deterioration of the health condition of Ms. Leyla Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) and a member of OMCT General Assembly.
According to the information received, although the health of Ms. Leyla Yunus has deteriorated while in detention, the prison authorities in Kurdakhany detention facility have not allowed her to receive the parcels with medication she needs as she suffers from diabetes and kidneys problems. However, following the visit from delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on August 12, 2014, she finally got her painkiller-injections. Yet she is still not allowed to be hospitalised.
The Observatory recalls that Ms. Leyla Yunus has been detained since July 30, 2014, when she was sentenced to three months pre-trial detention. Her husband, Mr. Arif Yunusov, Head of the Conflictology Department of IPD, was also arrested on August 5, 2014 and placed in pre-trial detention for three months. Both of them are charged with espionage in favor of Armenia. Mr. Yunusov is also in great need for medical treatment as he would be in a pre-stroke condition. In April and May 2014, he got two heart attacks and consequently spent several weeks in hospital.
The Observatory also recalls that Messrs. Rasul Jafarov, prominent human rights defender engaged in the defence of the rights of political prisoners and leader of "Sing for Democracy" and "Art for Democracy", and Intigam Aliyev, Head of the Legal Enlightenment Society, were arrested respectively on August 2 and August 8, 2014 on the basis of spurious accusations, and are also allegedly in need of medical support. Mr. Aliyev was initially detained in a cell with smokers, yet following the ICRC visit on August 12 he was transferred to a more spacious cell.
The Observatory is also concerned about the adequate healthcare and prison conditions of other human rights defenders who remain detained in relation to their human rights activities, including Mr. Anar Mammadli, Chairperson of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDSC), and Mr. Bashir Suleymanli, Executive Director of EMDSC, who were arrested on December 16, 2013 and May 26, 2014 respectively. Moreover, Mr. Hilal Mammadov, a defender of the rights of the Talysh ethnic minority, who suffers asthma, is currently detained in one cell with former tubercular patients and prisoners suffering hepatitis and other diseases.
The Observatory also remains concerned about the circumstances and reasons as to why detained human rights defenders Mr. Hasan Huseynli, Head of the NGO "Educative Centre 'Intellectual Citizen'", and Mr. Emil Mammadov, Head of the NGO "Promoting Democracy", sent letters on August 6 to President Ilham Aliyev, in which they express support for President Aliyev and the army of Azerbaijan. The Observatory strongly fears that they could have been subject to pressure in detention.
The Observatory expresses its deep concern about the ongoing detention and denial of effective medical care to Ms. Leyla Yunus and Mr. Arif Yunusov, which put their health at serious risk, as well as about the condition of the other above-mentioned human rights defenders. Accordingly, the Observatory calls upon the authorities in Azerbaijan to provide adequate medical care to them as well as to release them immediately and unconditionally, as their detention seems to only aim at sanctioning their activities amidst a wave of increasing repression against civil society organisations and representatives in Azerbaijan.
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FIDH and World Organization against Torture call on Azerbaijani authorities to release editor of Talysh newspaper


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1. Regulatory framework
2. Procedure for Initial Public Offering (IPO) and Secondary Public Offering (SPO) Conducted by Uzbek Joint-Stock Companies (JSCs) or (Issuer) on the Territory of Uzbekistan
2.1. Stage 1
Adoption and Approval of a Decision on the Issue of Shares
Conclusion of IPO/SPO Agreement with Organizer
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Preparation of Prospectus
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3. The Order of Offering and Circulation of Securities on the Territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan by Non-Residents
3.1. Procedure for emission of Uzbek Depository Receipts
4. Purchasing of Resident's Securities by Non-resident
5. The Order of Offering and Circulation of Securities outside the Territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan by Residents
1. Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of 22.07.2008 No. ZRU-163 "On the Securities Market";
2. Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 17.01.2019 No. PP-4124 "On Measures to Further Improve the Activities of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises";
3. Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 06.03.2020 No. PP-4629 "On Measures to Reform the State Enterprise 'Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat'";
4. Resolution of the Cabinet of ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 08.06.1994 No. 285 "On Measures for Ensuring Effective Activity of the Republican Stock Exchange "Toshkent" and Development of Infrastructure of the Securities Market";
5. Resolution of the Cabinet of ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 26.04.2019 No. 358 "On the Organization of Primary and Secondary Public Offers of Shares on the Stock Exchange";
6. Resolution of the Cabinet of ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 10.05.2017 No. 268 "On the Organization of a Public Offer of Shares on the Stock Exchange";
7. Resolution of the Center for Coordination and Control over Functioning of Securities Market under the State Property Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan of the Board of the Central bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan, registered by the Ministry of justice on 22.06.2007 No. 1692 "On Approval of the Regulations on the Procedure for Circulation on the Territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan of Securities in Foreign Currency, Acquisition by Residents of Securities in Foreign Currency, as well as the Acquisition by Non-residents Securities Issued by Residents.";
8. Annex to the Order of General Director of the Center for coordination and control over functioning of securities market, r4egistered by the Ministry of justice on 30.08.2009 No. 2000 "Rules on Emission and State Registration of Securities";
9. Annex to the Resolution of the Cabinet of ministers dated 20.08.2014 No. 239 "Regulation on Quotas and the Procedure for Admission to Offering and Circulation of Securities".
2. Procedure for Initial Public Offering (IPO) and Secondary Public Offering (SPO) Conducted by Uzbek Joint-Stock Companies (JSCs) or (Issuer) on the Territory of Uzbekistan.
The procedure for IPO and SPO is established by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated 10/05/17 No. 268. This procedure is mandatory for IPO and SPO conducted by JSCs with a public participant interest, however it may be utilized by JSC without public share and by shareholders (except government) in the course of public offering of shares through IPO and SPO. Moreover, the overall procedure for emission of shares is represented in the Annex, registered by the Ministry of Justice on 30.08.09 No. 2000.
Under Uzbek legislation IPO purports the process of offering and alienation of additional shares to unlimited number of investors on Stock Exchange by JSCs.
Under Uzbek legislation SPO purports the process of offering and sale of shares possessed by an investor to unlimited number of investors on Stock Exchange.
To conduct IPO the authorized management authority of JSC shall make a decision to issue additional shares. The decision to issue securities should not provide for both private and public offering of securities of the same issue (except for cases arising from decisions of the President or the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan).
The decision on the issue of securities must provide for the procedure for returning funds to the investor received by the Issuer as payment for securities in the event of recognition of the issue of securities as invalid or frustrated.
To conduct IPO the authorized management authority of JSC shall conclude an IPO agreement with the organizer. The organizer is usually an investment intermediary or commercial Bank or insurer that performs underwriting activities and provides services for organizing and conducting IPO.
To conduct SPO organizer shall conclude SPO agreement with shareholder (initiator of SPO).
The organizer of an IPO or SPO conducts a preliminary study of the JSC, in the process of which audit, evaluation, consulting and insurance organizations, banks and other experts may be involved. JSC shall provide the organizer with all required documentation.
The price range of shares which are to be offered is determined by the organizer upon the results of preliminary study of JSC. Usually the price is determined in the range from the nominal to the estimated value of shares, unless a different range is determined by the organizer in agreement with the initiator of the IPO or SPO.
The prospectus is approved by the management authority of the JSC and must contain all information in accordance with the Rules on emission of securities (registered by the Ministry of Justice on 30.08.09 No. 2000). Notably, until the end of the auditor's review of the Issuer's financial statements for the last year, the Issuer may submit a prospectus without attaching a copy of the auditor's report for the last completed year.
State Registration of Issue of Shares and its Registration in the Central Securities Depository of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The Issuer must submit documents for state registration of the issue of securities to the Agency for development of the capital market of the Republic of Uzbekistan within three months from the date of making the decision to issue securities, but not later than one month from the date of making the decision to approve the decision to issue securities. Moreover, the issue of shares shall be registered in the Central securities Depository of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
In case of IPO and SPO, the Issuer is obliged to disclose information about the state registration of the issue of securities and the procedure for access of any interested parties to the information contained in the prospectus (hereinafter – the "Information"). The Issuer discloses the Information:
in the securities issue prospectus;
in the Issuer's quarterly and annual report;
in reports on material facts in the Issuer's activities (Rules, registered by the Ministry of Justice on 31.07.12 No. 2383).
The Issuer discloses the Information through its publication on the official website of the Agency for development of the capital market of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Moreover, the issuer shall disclose the Information on its corporate website (Regulation to the RCM RUz dated 02.07.14 No. 176).
It should be noted that conducting IPO earlier than two weeks after disclosure of information on the state registration of the issue of shares is prohibited (paragraph 72 of the Rules, registered under Ministry of justice 30.08.09 No. 2000).
Subscription campaign — a set of arrangements aimed at collecting applications for the purchase of shares by organizing meetings with investors, upon which the disclosure of information about the joint-stock company is exercised, its main performance indicators and conditions for the public offer of shares are presented, and investor's application are collected.
The subscription campaign is conducted by the organizer in each region of the Republic, the duration of which is usually at least 180 days from the date of:
state registration of the issue of shares for IPO;
conclusion of an agreement between the shareholder (initiator) and the organizer for conducting SPO.
The organizer shall create conditions for submission of applications for purchase of shares by investors in accordance with the rules of Stock Exchange. In particular, the organizer shall engage investment intermediary for keeping records of pre-deposited funds of investors. At the same time investor pays for purchased shares in the course of submission of applications for purchase of shares.
In case of IPO and SPO, it is prohibited to establish the advantage of one investor (s) over another (s), except for the following cases:
provide in the prescribed manner to the shareholders of joint stock companies pre-emptive right to purchase securities in a quantity proportional to the number of shares owned by them; (Subparagraph as amended by Order of the General Director CCRCB, was MJ 06.11.2015 No. 2000-4) (Cm. Previous edition)
there are restrictions in the legislation and (or) the Charter of the Issuer on the purchase of securities by non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The investor has the right to change the previously submitted application in terms of increasing or decreasing the number of shares and the share price, or cancel the previously submitted application with a refund of the deposited funds no later than one day before the date of sale of shares on Stock Exchange.
In case of unsatisfactory requests, investors ' funds must be returned to them within 15 days from the date of registration of transactions. The unallocated portion of shares sold through IPO and SPO is purchased by the organizer, usually at the quoted price determined by the Stock Exchange, unless otherwise provided in the agreement between the organizer and the initiator of the IPO or SPO.
It should be noted that in regard to IPO and SPO conducted by JSCs with public share, one investor is entitled to purchase no more than 0,05% of the total amount of shares on sale.
Accomplished IPO and SPO on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan
№ The name of JSC Initiator of IPO/SPO Organizer of IPO/SPO Form of sale
1. "Qvartz" JSC "Qvartz" JSC National Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Cabinet of ministers of the RUz dated 10.05.17 No. 268
2. JSC "Kokand Mechanical Plant" "Uzneftegasmash" JSC National Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
IPO and SPO on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan which are in the process
№ The name of JSC Initiator of IPO/SPO Form of sale
4. JSC "Jizzax Plastmassa"** JSC "Jizzax Plastmassa"
Sale of share in the amount of 25% of charter capital
5. JSC "Uzbek Comodity Exchange"*** JSC "Uzmetkombinat" and JSC "Almalyk MMC"
Non-residents are allowed to offer and circulate securities on the territory of Uzbekistan if the following conditions are complied with:
non-resident securities comply with the definitions of types of securities provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
non-resident securities have an international securities identification code (ISIN) and an international financial instrument qualification code (CFI);
non-resident securities have been listed on a foreign exchange in the country of origin of their Issuer and are included in the exchange quotation list of the specified exchange;
the Issuer is an organization with its place of establishment in a state that is a full member of the International organization of securities commissions and the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering (FATF), and is also a resident of the country where there are diplomatic missions of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
the Issuer is not an organization with a place of establishment in a state and/or territory that provides preferential treatment and/or does not provide for disclosure and provision of information during financial transactions (offshore zones);
the Issuer is not a financial organization in accordance with the legislation of the country of origin of this Issuer or the Issuer is not considered as a financial organization in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
the term of the Issuer's activity is not less than ten years from the date of its establishment;
the Issuer must have positive indicators of profitability, solvency, financial stability and liquidity over the past three years, confirmed by an audit report, as well as have an independent rating from international rating agencies;
existence of an agreement on the organization of the issue of Uzbek Depositary Receipt[1] between the Central securities Depository, the Issuer and a foreign Depository that records the rights to the securities of a non-resident.
Only 25% of non-resident securities from the total amount issued securities of a precise category, through issue of Uzbek Depositary receipts are allowed for offering and circulation on the territory of Uzbekistan. Moreover. Uzbek Depositary Receipts shall be registered by Center for coordination and development of the securities market under the state competition Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
adoption and approval of decision on the issue of Uzbek Depositary Receipts;
state registration of the issue with attribution of identification number;
For consideration of documents submitted for state registration, a fee is charged in the amount of 5 basic calculation amount[2] established by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the date of filing the application. The amount of the collected fee is credited to the account of the authorized state body. The documents shall be considered in the period of 30 days from the moment of their submission.
offering and alienation of securities.
The organization of offering and alienation of Uzbek Depositary Receipts on the Stock Exchange is carried out by an underwriter on the basis of an agreement on the provision of underwriting services. Offering and alienation of Uzbek Depositary Receipts is subject to registration in the Central securities Depositary. It should be noted that additional issue of Uzbek Depositary Receipts is not subject to state registration, and is implemented by amending the decision on issue of Uzbek Depositary Receipts ( Annex to the RCM dated 20.08.14 No. 239).
Non-residents are entitled to purchase any securities, offered by residents and the conditions of issuance of which does not prohibit purchasing the securities by non-residents. Non-residents may purchase the securities by foreign currency; however their further trading by non-resident shall be implemented in national currency of Uzbekistan. When a non-resident purchases or sells securities issued by residents on an organized exchange market, a professional securities market participant authorized by the non-resident under an contract of commission (contract of commission agency) purchases or sells securities at auction and submits a report on the transaction to the non-resident in accordance with the legislation. When purchasing or selling securities issued by residents on an organized market, a non-resident can make a transaction in the same manner or independently (Resolution, registered by Ministry of justice on 22.06.07 No. 1692).
Resident securities may be offered and traded outside the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the amount not exceeding 25 % of the total number of issued securities of this type (category, type), unless otherwise established by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The offering and sale of securities is implemented in accordance with legislation of State where it is implemented and in accordance with rules established by relevant stock exchange.
Securities of residents are offered and traded outside of the territory of Uzbekistan in the form of depository receipts, issued by foreign Depositary. The right of ownership on securities, offered outside the territory of Uzbekistan shall be approved by the Central securities Depositary.
It should be noted that offering and trading of securities outside of the territory of Uzbekistan by resident, which is a business entity with state participant interest and which has strategic importance for the Republic, is subject to preliminary examination by the Commission for monitoring the effective use of the state participant interest of shares in joint-stock associations and companies.
Securities of residents offered outside the Republic are registered and kept in the Central securities Depositary. When offering the securities, the rights on them are transferred to owners of depositary receipts only after issuer's approval of receiving the payment for them through sent notification to the Central securities Depositary. The foreign depositary is regarded as nominal holder of the securities (Annex to the RCM dated 20.08.14 No. 239).
If it is IPO conducted by resident outside the territory of Uzbekistan the following work shall be done on the territory of Uzbekistan:
Preliminary study of JSC (resident);
Preparation of prospectus;
Registration of securities in the Central securities Depositary of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
Other steps if required
Planned IPOs by residents outside the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan
ISSUER THE DATE OF PLANNED IPO
CURRENT STAGE
1 JSC "Uzmetkombinat"
Resolution of the President of the RUz dated 17.01.19 No. PP-4124
2 JSC "Almalyk MMC"
3 SE "Navoi Mining and Metallugical Combinat"
Work has begun on:
· the implementation of corporate disclosures in accordance with the principles and requirements of International standards of accounting and reporting (ISAR);
· reporting, including on economic, social and environmental issues, in accordance with the Global reporting initiative (GRI);
· revaluation reserves in accordance with the standards of the Australian code of reporting of exploration results, mineral resources and ore reserves (JORC Code);
Inventory of the property of the SE "Navoi MMC" has been completed with the approval of the list of property and property rights. On the basis of the property of the SE "Navoi MMC" it is planned to set up JSC "Navoi MMC".
Resolution of the President of the RUz dated 17.01.19 No. PP-4124;
Resolution of the President of the RUz dated 06/03/2020 No. PP-4629.
[1] derivative securities not having a nominal value certifying the ownership of a certain number of represented securities of the non-resident and attest the right of its owner to demand from its Issuer receiving corresponding amount of securities instead of this receipt.
[2] Now it is equal to 223 000 Soums, what is approximately $21 on the date of publication of the Article.
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Hello,

Today we received our Microbits and discussed people's activity on the internet. We discussed what was illegal and what we were afraid of. Here are some examples of illegal activity.

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36054273](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36054273)

[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/10/sexting-becoming-the-norm-for-teens-warn-child-protection-experts](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/10/sexting-becoming-the-norm-for-teens-warn-child-protection-experts)

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Apple and record labels to release competing enhanced album formats
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Remember when we said the four largest record companies were working together with Apple to add enhanced liner notes and extra media to full album purchases through the iTunes Store? Well, apparently Apple wasn't in on that cooperation. The Guardian is reporting that the four companies' plans for enhanced full albums were rebuffed by Apple, and they are planning to release their own format in competition with the one to be released in the iTunes Store.
The new file format, called CMX, was created by EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner. It will function quite a bit like a DVD, with a launch page allowing for navigation to the related artwork and video portions of the album. An unnamed label representative is quoted saying that the format was initially presented to an uninterested Apple; now, Apple is releasing a competing format under the code name Cocktail.
The format's tentative launch date is set for November, will be for a small number of titles, and only available in smaller music stores and non-Apple players. It is unclear how Cocktail and CMX will be different, if at all, save for the exclusivity of platforms. Apple is largely said to be following up on the format as a precautionary measure, in case it proves to be immensely popular; as they've said repeatedly, their interest still lies with supporting the more lucrative hardware, rather than trying to profit from full album sales. Still, Apple is stepping up to the format battle, and while not on the scale of Betamax vs. VHS or HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray, this promises to be a pretty decent fight.
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Its seems to be an imaginary story of a young heroic character who accomplishes whatever he desires with his extraordinary talents and passion for excellence. A little boy Xavier Gordon-Brown, who turned 12 last month, has proved that you can't be too young to be a genius.
The twelve-year-old math prodigy is the youngest University student in Britain. From the early childhood, Gordon-Brown has been passionate about mathematics and at the tender age of eight he received A* in his maths GCSE in 2009. Moreover, he has an amazing skill of reciting 2,000 digits of Pi. He loves devoting his spare time to studying abstract structures, vector calculus and Newtonian mechanics.
Apart from studying mathematics and science subjects, he spends time on learning different languages including Spanish, French as well as Latin, playing piano and violin, and enjoying football along with his friends on Sundays. According to his mother Erica, her son might have been blessed with an exceptionally high IQ and intelligence but from deep inside he is just a child of his age who loves playing and making fun with friends.
Gordon-Brown is still a full time school student. He attends Open University lectures on weekends and is accompanied by his mother in the class room.
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Canada Post union negotiations continue
Published Friday, September 28, 2018 12:43PM EDT
Last Updated Friday, September 28, 2018 1:34PM EDT
An important round of talks will begin this weekend.
Staring at a potential strike or lockout as early as next week, top Canada Post officials will be sitting down with the union, Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
CUPW says its National President and Canada Post's Interim President are hoping to unblock stalled negotiations.
The two sides have been bargaining separate contracts for the carrier's urban and rural employees for nine months with no success.
And postal workers in North Bay are keeping a close eye on the latest negotiations.
A solidarity protest took place this morning.
There are between 80 to 100 employees in North Bay who could be affected by a potential strike and an additional 40 workers from Sturgeon Falls to Mattawa also face job uncertainty.
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Since I wrote the post about 88mph, there has been a lively debate with some people criticizing my article and others agreeing with it . Some termed the article poorly researched and the reason given for that was mainly because I did not speak to 88mph managers before publishing the article. The 88mph MD Mr. Kresten Buch was quick to call it falsehood (Check the comments section) but in the spirit of building the tech space in Kenya I promised him that I would pass by their offices and get the side of their story.
Nikolai Agreed that Hivisasa was shut down temporarily but at the time of our talks, they were back to work. What happened is that Hivisasa got investment from 88mph which was meant to last them up to a certain period but due to their expansive operations they ran out of the money earlier than expected. 88mph dug deep in their pockets, got them some more money to enable them to operate for a few more months after which they should either get another round of investment from somewhere else or make money to sustain themselves. The problem with Hivisasa is that they have many people on the payroll. They have like 250 regular writers who are paid per article and a total of 700 contributors.
Out of 15 start-ups 88mph are working with, they have invested in 10 while started 5. 88mph own majority shares of the 5 start-ups they founded but they have given equity of up to 20% to a number of key employees. Pesatalk, Hivisasa and Mdundo are among the five started by 88mph. As for the remaining 10 start-ups, 88mph own between 15 to 20 percent shares in them. That include Ghafla, Tusqee Systems, Futaa and the rest.
Tusqee Systems moved out of the co-working space as I had indicated on that article but Nikolai believed that they needed a bigger Office space.
Nikolai agreed that there is one start-up their have increased they shareholding on by 5% after getting them another co-founder but that was within the original deal agreement. On top of that they further invested $.10,000 on the start-up. The other employments they have done is within the 5 start-ups 88mph founded. Their main point is to get the best human talents but that put them in direct competition with the industry heavy weights like Safaricom. The option they have is to advice the start-ups to pay the key employees within their means and give an equity option to top it up.
As for the Entrepreneur in Residence Steve Gitau, Nikolai said things did not work out and they had to part ways.
There was an intention of a court case by Mr. Joel Macharia, who used to run Pesatalk (still own some shares on the start-up) but that has not happened so far and I am told they are in the process of sorting out their differences.
On my further investigation, I found out that people might be confusing the functions of Social Incubation Space like iHub and Nailab with private Equity Fund like 88mph. 88mph is not an incubation center like Nailab but a venture capital which once invested in a company demand that the company make money for them. Venture capital according to Wikipedia is a broad subcategory of private equity that refers to equity investments made, typically in less mature companies, for the launch, early development, or expansion of a business. Venture investment is most often found in the application of new technology, new marketing concepts and new products that have yet to be proven. In all, that is what 88mph is trying to do.
Everyone I have spoken to agreed with the point I made about the local capital, supporting the tech ecosystem. It interesting that around 70 percent of the 88mph fund now come from local investors according to Nikolai. I think that is awesome and will go a long way to making the industry sustainable. And for that sustainability to be complete we need more local people with money to start investing on the tech space. Actually we need the business men and women to take the challenge and stop looking at the tech space like a place meant only for techies. A good example of non techie who made it big in the tech world is Ory Okolloh (@Kenyanpundit on Twitter). Of course, she is now one of the biggest tech voices in Africa but when she started, she was a lawyer blogging on the sideline. In other words all you good business people out there, you are all good for this and should come in running. Thank me later.
So, is it a burning house at 88mph? Yes but in a good way according to Nikolai, they demand success that some people might find hard to cope up with.


Tonight we had "Meet the Mustangs" at our school. It is a night where the entire community comes out, has dinner together, and we introduce all the coaches and players of every high school sport.
Jeff always like to hold him and walk him around as well.
He loved meeting the mustang too!
Aunt Stacy loved playing with him also. She always gets him to laugh! I didn't get a picture of her holding him tonight. Mainly because she was holding him, or feeding him, while I ate, or while I was up introducing our athletes. Thanks Aunt Stacy! Nathan LOVES you!!!
I can't wait to move into our new house and watch my two favorite boys play together. They just love being together! And I love watching them!
I am so blessed to have these two in my life!!
Autn Stacy LOVES Nathan very much (Uncle Chris does too, he got a few kisses and laughs in last night)! She can hold him, feed him, play with him all night. You are very blessed to have those two guys in your life - they are keepers for sure. I am blessed to have them in my life as well. We have a great family who takes care of eachother.
Gammy & Pawpaw are pretty crazy about him too. We love all our kids & grandkids!


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MCP: Indie Round-Up for the week of April 15th!
Robert Ottone
"Better late than never".
Apologies for the lateness on this one, folks! When I first started at CHUD, one of my goals was to bring you guys a weekly roundup of some of the better and larger-released indie titles available on the market today. These will typically range from PC to console titles, but from time to time, the focus may only be on consoles or PC, depending. What I'd like to do is declare one game an Indie Darling, with that title being my personal favorite of the week, with another title being the Indie Flop, being my least favorite release of the week.
This week, we saw the long-awaited release of Phil Fish's Fez, as well as classic Capcom-inspired fighter Skullgirls. How did they fare? To quote my hero, Bret Easton Ellis, let's slide down the surface of things …
1) Without Escape is a point and click horror title from developer PacoChan. The game immediately caught my eye, as I worked on Decay, which is another point and click horror adventure title on the indie game platform, so I was anxious to see what someone did with the genre. I'm always partial to downloading horror titles, and Without Escape showed promise, but the over the top music and sound design left me a tad cold. There also didn't seem to be much in the way of proper editing done to the text, with "noone" being used in place of "no one" in a few spots. The game is only 80 Microsoft points, which translates to around a dollar, so if you're looking for some lightly interesting narrative, powered by some neat visuals, give Without Escape a try.
2) Fez is creator Phil Fish's charming and lush platformer/puzzle hybrid. Though Fish has generated plenty of controversy for statements made regarding Japanese game development, as well as the current state of gaming in general, Fez is not a game that should be judged on its creator's merits. That established, I was bored with the game minutes in. The whole pseudo-8 bit aesthetic is not something I've ever appreciated, so for me to fall head over heels for Fez, I would need a strong narrative.
Unfortunately, Fez is lacking in that department, as well. The so-called chiptunes Vangelis-inspired soundtrack is absolutely brilliant, though, and the game's learning curve is incredibly quick. A disappointment five years in the making. Available now on XBOX Live for 800 Microsoft Points, which is around ten bucks, I would perhaps wait until it's around 400 MSP to nab it.
Indie Flop:
Skullgirls, a 2D fighting game developed by Reverge Labs and published by Konami/Autumn Games, is easily one of the slowest and least impressive titles I've played in recent months. As someone who played various Capcom titles semi-professionally up until his first few years of college, I was chomping at the bit to get my hands on Skullgirls, but when that time finally came, I couldn't have been more disappointed.
Skullgirls seems influenced by a lot of sources, including Zach Snyder's Sucker Punch (I'm not ashamed to say I think I'm the only CHUD writer who loved that movie, by the way), Tex Avery, early Disney and German expressionist filmmaking. These concepts meld surprisingly well together, and add to the universe that Skullgirls is trying to create, but overall, the gameplay itself is what suffers.
The most frustrating thing about Skullgirls is that it's so incredibly beautiful, visually, has an interesting story, and great characters catering to any level of player and/or fighting style, but the game itself is just too slow for my tastes. Mind you, I grew up with Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition on the Genesis, then progressed through every iteration of Street Fighter from that point forward, until eventually earning a few bucks on the tournament circuit in the early 2000's, so I'm accustomed to fighting games of multiple speeds. That established, Skullgirls feels "floaty" to use a nebulous term that only fighting game fans may understand (not to sound elitist, of course) and heavy, while a brilliant indie title like Battle High: San Bruno balances power, speed and floaty characters to near-perfection and only costs 80 Microsoft Points as opposed to Skullgirls' hefty cost of 1,200 Microsoft Points (around $15 on PSN).
Indie Darling:
Teddy Defender is a game that was gunning for my wallet the second it released. A simple concept: The player assumes the role of a little boy's teddy bear who must set up defenses using plastic Army men, toy planes, jacks in the box and toy blocks to slow down approaching nightmares that take the form of ants, wasps and evil teddy bears and more. At first, the tank-like controls of the game were a little difficult, but after a few minutes and waves, I was right at home with establishing a solid defense.
I'm always a fan of simplistic, engaging concepts, and Teddy Defender hits a grand slam for me. I know, when compared to higher polished fluff like Skullgirls and Fez, Teddy Defender may not seem like all that much, but it's the relatively deep gameplay, charming visuals, soundtrack and sense of humor that kept me playing and got me to fork over my 80 Microsoft Points. I'm typically very harsh on my fellow indie game developers, as I feel there's entirely too much garbage out there, but when I find a gem like Teddy Defender, I hold onto it and play it into the ground. It's providing a nice break from my rounds of Shadows of the Damned and Modern Warfare 3.
So there you have it! The first indie roundup! Hope you guys enjoyed it, and you'll check back next week, where I take a look at Kerbal Space Program (PC) and give a few more indies a test drive!
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I often get calls for updating a head shot / portrait and it's needed in a hurry… there is not time or interest in bringing a make-up artist for the shoot much less the added expense. Portrait Professional Studio to the rescue – a very inexpensive plugin for Lightroom that makes retouching facial features fast and easy. Default settings can produce some bizarre results due to the morphing algorithms but a judicious hand on the the slider controls can bring it all back into line. I usually turn off the morphing altogether unless there are some facial features that give cause to use it. I use it most often when one eye is slightly closed compared to the other. I'll also dial back the teeth whitening and sharpening if haloing is apparent.
I neglected to pack my Elinchrom heads so I opted to use a Canon 600EX-RT reverse mounted inside as the light source. The images was captured using a Canon 1Dx with a Canon 600EX-RT on camera with Canon WFT-E6a wireless tether to an Ipad 3 using Shuttersnitch, a Canon 600EX-RT mounted in a SMDV Speedbox Diffuser-60 softbox camera left, a 23″ SMDV Speedbox Diffuser-60 softbox camera right, and a Westcott Rapid Box 26″ Octa Softbox for a hair light and a Canon 600EX-RT mounted in it. Post processed in LIghtroom 5 and B/W "Orange" preset for conversion and enhanced using the Portrait Professional Studio plugin.


Environmental Safety & Health Consulting Services Inc. (ES&H) is a 25-year-old company that focuses on emergency response and environmental remediation services; transportation and disposal services; staffing, engineering and sales consultation; and compliance and health and safety consultation.
The company has a nationwide reach, with offices throughout South Louisiana and into Texas.
One of the company's longtime products is its petroleum hydrocarbon spill kit, a self-contained drum capable of cleaning up small spills both shoreside and on vessels.
Spill kits typically come with everything needed to respond to a small spill packed into a drum. For instance, the 55-gallon spill kit is rated for recovering up to 45 gallons of liquid. That particular kit includes 40 feet of absorbent boom, 100 absorbent pads, two 38-inch by 63-inch clear pollution bags, two Tyvek coveralls, two pairs of rubber gloves, two pairs of rubber shoe covers, one tube of epoxy repair putty and one drum label.
Once cleanup is complete, the drum becomes the disposal point for cleanup materials.
Tung said company representatives can then call ES&H 24 hours a day to schedule a pickup and disposal of the used drum and replacement of the spill kit.


bump (: thanks alot man!
yeeeeeeeeeee, i bought it for my brother in-law, haven't played it yet but it looks super dope from the looks !! San Andreas days are BACK !!
Try it now I had to add you to uploader group.
is uploadhunt down right now?
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Hey man whats up with the 1tb?
i was trying to get all my connections back since i been gone for awhile, you the man !!


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Kirbir's Pictures of the Week
By kirbir Aug 2, 2009, 9:00am CDT
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Our Brewers just can't seem to catch a break. Unfortunately for them, that usually means that the camera shutters click more rapidly than normal, eager to catch the angry strike outs and frustrations that come along with losing games. I don't really want to focus on that negative publicity too much though.
Follow the jump for more nonsense and perhaps pictures too.
Craig Counsell (!) homered for the fourth time this season Thursday afternoon against the Washington Nationals.
Unfortunately, Counsell ends up being the victim of the sad picture trend when he strikes out against the Padres.
Ryan Braun is congratulated by teammate and child-attractant Prince Fielder after hitting a 2-run homer against the Nationals.
And later, Braun shows off his amazing swagga with a slide.
Awesome dad and pretty darn good ballplayer Casey McGehee tags out Nyjer Morgan of the Nationals while making a fancy looking play.
McGehee hits a home run in last night's loss to the San Diego Padres.
McGehee wasn't the only one to hit a solo HR last night. Here, Prince returns to the dugout after his jog around the bases.
It's not really surprising that the first baseman has the power to hit a home run. He can watch himself get on base with ease.
Probably the coolest part of the west coast trip so far was to see the fans in Petco Park give former Padres closer Trevor Hoffman a standing ovation and tons of love.
Did you know that the Brewers are 4-12 on Sundays? While losing seventy-five percent of the time sounds like the Brewers of late, I'm thinking we need to find a way to win. Otherwise, expect a change in picture post day if it helps the team win. With that said, go crew go!


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RB Leipzig (@1.62) vs Zenit St Petersburg (@4.75)
RB Leipzig will win
RB Leipzig vs Zenit St Petersburg
RB Leipzig – Zenit St Petersburg Match Prediction | 23-10-2019 12:55
That away goal took a comfortable 2-0 win for the home side and turned it into the narrowest of margins with a crucial away goal scored into the bargain. The fly in the ointment for the German side came with five minutes to go, Criscito stepping up to float a free-kick past Leipzig keeper Peter Gulacsi. Given how Zenit turned things around in St Petersburg after a narrow defeat at Celtic, theres reason for Leipzig to be concerned.
Leipzig, on the other hand, eliminated Napoli in the double-header, meaning that they are definitely capable of beating the Russian outfit in front of home fans. Zenit suffered a 1-0 loss to Celtic in Glasgow in their last away game in the Europa League and that is yet another reason why home win should be considered. The Russian side do not want to stop now and they are likely to go all guns blazing at the Red Bulls when the two teams face each other at Red Bull Arena in the first leg of the Europa League last 16. The Zenitchiki are a real force to be reckoned with at home, but their performances on the road leave a lot to be desire, meaning that they should be happy with share of spoils against the Bundesliga side. Zenit did well to overtake a one-goal deficit in the tie against Celtic, with the team rolling over the Scottish Champions 3-0 in front of home fans.
They certainly looked ring-rusty at Celtic Park in their first game back, and were fortunate to come away from Glasgow with just a one-goal deficit in the Round of 32. This will be just Zenits fourth competitive game since the 11th of December, when the Russian league went on a three-month winter hiatus. They then easily beat Celtic in the second leg a 3-0 win in which Celtic could count themselves fortunate the margin was so narrow.
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With neither side in great form, that sounds like a real possibility. Having home advantage puts Leipzig in the box seat for this one, and backing them to win at 4/6 with Genting looks like a decent option. Perhaps the RB Leipzig vs Zenit St Petersburg best odds on the night, though, are the 31/4 offered by ComeOn that the home side will win a tight contest 2-1. Their French striker Kevin-Jean Augustin has scored in their last three league matches, and his odds of 4-1 to be the first scorer here, from 888Sport, are well worth looking into.
Leipzig could well get what they need if you can go to Napoli and win 3-1 youre at least a decent team but our betting.org Zenit St Petersburg vs RB Leipzig prediction is for the Russian side to win and go through to the quarter-finals. That mix of home advantage, away goal and European experience just edges them over the line, in our estimation.
RB Leipzig vs Zenit St Petersburg match previews will pay close attention to Zenits slowness in getting back to match fitness and form. In a game most notable for featuring three red cards two for Zenit the sides played out a 0-0 draw. A bunch of warm-weather friendlies in Dubai and Turkey aside, Zenits only other game in 2018 was last weekends return to league action against relegation strugglers Amkar Perm. Not the best way to prepare for a visit to a Bundesliga-level opponent, for sure.
In the last round, they knocked out Napoli thanks to a hugely impressive 3-1 win in the away leg though alarm bells will have rung at the fact that the home leg was then lost 2-0, meaning RB only progressed on the away goals rule. Their showing here has been better than their recent domestic form. Zenit St Petersburg vs RB Leipzig match previews will note that neither side is in excellent form right now.
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Domenico Criscito might have been the man that grabbed the late goal for Zenit last week to give them a much better chance of progressing from the tie, but it's another full back that should be watched closely. In addition to that, he's a great defender and a player you can count on to perform. That man is Branislav Ivanovic. He scored a massive goal for them against Celtic in the last round at home, and he has been known to score crucial goals in Europe down the years.
Over the years Branislav Ivanovic has established himself as one of the best defenders in the world football. Bane plays as a centre back, but he is capable of playing as a full back as well. The Serbian defender has been playing for Chelsea since 2008 and he used to play for the likes of Srem, OFK Beograd and Lokomotiv Moscow in the past as well.
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Rightly do these words apply to the angel Gabriel, who brings to us from God the gladdest tidings of all.
Consider the moment of the Annunciation from Mary's point of view. The words of the angel echo the promise made by the Lord to King David centuries before, recorded in this week's first reading. "The Lord also reveals to you that he will establish a house for you. And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up an heir for you, sprung from your loins, and I will make his kingdom firm. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever."
Mary's heart must have raced to hear the angel's news. Her son would be the royal offspring of David and he would establish a lasting kingdom. Her son would be the long-awaited Messiah. The angel's tidings meant that God had not forsaken His people. Rather, God was going to visit them anew. This was the fulfillment of the deepest longings of Mary's people.
Consider the moment of the annunciation from our contemporary point of view. We know that when the angel calls Mary's child the "Son of the Most High," it goes beyond what even the Jewish people might have expected of the Messiah.
He would not simply be God's son in a moral sense or by adoption. Rather, we know that Jesus is "light from light, true God from true God, one in being with the Father." The divine Son, born of the Virgin Mary, would receive what He did not possess on His own: a human nature, flesh and blood, a body and soul. This is the flesh and blood He would offer in sacrifice on the cross to save His fellow men from sin, taking His place as the new Adam who renews and restores creation. From our point of view, the angel's tidings mean that the moment of redemption is at hand.
There is yet a deeper lesson we can draw from contemplating this momentous in salvation history. It is not enough that Mary should conceive the child in her womb. She has to welcome the child in her life. We might ask ourselves, what's the difference! The answer is simple: plenty.
Mary could conceive the child in her womb, but she had to welcome her son as her savior. She would walk the road to Calvary with her son and would play an intimate part in the work of our redemption. In other words, her life and vocation would be intimately and inextricably linked with that of her son's. Everything would have to be given over to her relationship with Jesus, her savior and her child.
In a culture of death that enshrines a right to abortion, it is now possible to conceive a child, but not welcome it. In fact, abortion is about rejection of a child that has been conceived. It is possible for a child to be conceived and brought to term, but never be nurtured and loved by parents. Perhaps we have heard stories about parents who make little time for relationships with their children, buying love and affection with material goods instead.
Our Lord once said that the one who does the will of His Father in heaven is His brother. His sister and His mother. It is probably easy for us to grasp that, by virtue of the grace of baptism, we are sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters of Christ. It is certainly more daring to imagine ourselves to be like the mother of Christ.
To be like Mary, to imagine her motherhood in our lives as Christians, it is necessary for us to do more than just say, "I accept Jesus." Our faith must be expressed in action and in virtue. Imagine a husband and wife. If one is constantly critical of the other and say no appreciative words to the other, yet claims deep down to really love their spouse, where is the visible proof? It may be that one spouse makes sacrifices for the other and shows love in action, but it is still nice when love is expressed in word and action.
If we say we love Jesus, yet we make no effort to imitate Him in our lives, to practice the virtues that would truly make us living images of Christ, then where is the proof of that love? That the spirit of God truly dwells in a soul is something that can only be known when Christ's love is manifested in a person's word and actions.
As we come to the end of Advent and prepare for the celebration of Christmas, we would do well to ask our Blessed Mother to pray for us. Our prayer should be quite simple: to receive the grace we need to love her son just as she did.


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