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Hear Your Favorite Ed Sheeran Songs On Strings At This Breathtaking Candlelight Concert
Melissa Maynard - Commercial Editor • March 8, 2022
Candlelight is gifting Minneapolis with an intimate tribute to Ed Sheeran — And you can now get your tickets!
Sheerios, get ready to experience Ed's hit songs in a whole different way! The popular series, Candlelight, is featuring a talented string quartet playing your favorite anthems by the iconic pop and music singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran–and it's happening this May in Minneapolis.
Westminster Presbyterian Sanctuary | Photo by Northstar Imagery
The concert will take place at the iconic venue of The Westminster Presbyterian Sanctuary, which will look even more exquisite bathed in the flickering glow of hundreds of candles and the soothing sound of a string quartet.
Note: For the safety of our audience, all of the candlelight will be provided through flameless candles.
Following its enormous success around the world—in cities like London, Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris—Candlelight brings its unique experience to Minneapolis to pay tribute to one of the most popular musicians in the world.
And tickets for this concert have just been released to the public!
Ed Sheeran's latest album, Equals, was his fourth solo album and was released in 2021. Fever's Candlelight series will be playing homage to the most popular and loved songs from 'Equals' and other albums — like "Shivers", "Shape of You" and "Photograph".
The Candlelight series takes place for one night only on May 7, with two back to back 60-65 minute performances, so don't miss your chance.
Experience a delightful evening orchestrated by the anthems of the legendary Ed Sheeran. Get your tickets here!
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BEIJING, China, Oct. 17, 2018 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– The CCB-Xinhua Inclusive Finance-SME Index was inaugurated in Beijing on October 11, which showed improved availability and quality of financial services for China's small-and micro-sized enterprises (SME) in the second quarter of 2018.
The CCB-Xinhua Inclusive Finance-SME Index is jointly compiled by the China Construction Bank (CCB) and China Economic Information Service (CEIS) under Xinhua News Agency, and it includes four sub-indices, which are financing index, service index, development index and business index.
It reflects the capability of Chinese financial system to provide convenient service at relatively reasonable prices for SMEs and depicts the running situation and development status of inclusive finance for SMEs, creating a "barometer" and "compass" for inclusive finance of SMEs.
The index indicated that China's financing price for SMEs has been stabilizing with fluctuations in the recent years. The trend went down in 2016 from relatively high levels in 2015, and showed an upward trend with corrections after the second quarter of 2017 to reach the peak at 107.63 in the fourth quarter. Since 2018, the financing price index for SMEs fell down from the last quarter of 2017.
In the second quarter of 2018, the development index and the business index for SMEs stayed at 55.41 and 54.80, respectively, both higher than the critical threshold of 50 and indicating the booming situation in the two fields.
Liu Zhengrong, vice president and secretary general of Xinhua News Agency, said Xinhua will continue to report China's policies and measures for developing inclusive finance and local experience and achievements in practice all over the country. Xinhua will also integrate all of its media resources and specialized think-tank teams, such as the national financial information platform Xinhua Finance and national credit information platform Xinhua Credit, to provide services for financial institutions like CCB and contribute to China's inclusive finance development.
Tian Guoli, chairman of CCB said that in the area of inclusive finance, there are still many theoretical and practical problems to be solved, and the CCB-Xinhua Inclusive Finance-SME Index gives full play to the strength of all sectors of society, such as banks and professional media, to create a barometer of the inclusive financial performance of China, and provide decision-making support for the innovation of inclusive financial products, models and mechanisms.


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Classical music: The second LunART Festival will spotlight women in the performing and creative arts. Here is Part 2 of 2 with more about new music, comedy and a full schedule
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ALERT: The second Van Cliburn Junior Piano Competition resumes today — Monday, June 3 — in Dallas at 2:20 p.m. CDT. The young players range from 13 to 17 and come from around the world, and they are terrific. Plus the quality of the live streaming is outstanding, especially for the camera work of the keyboard. It's all FREE. If you want to see it, here is a link: https://www.cliburn.org. You might also be interested to know that among the jurors are Alessio Bax, who has performed in Madison at Farley's House of Pianos, and Philippe Bianconi, who has soloed several times with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. All that and you get to vote for the Audience Award too!
The Ear has received a long and detailed announcement about the upcoming second LunART Festival. Here is Part 2 of two parts with more information about new music, comedy and a schedule of events. Yesterday was Part 1 — a link is below — with background and participants.
https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2019/06/02/classical-music-starting-wednesday-the-second-lunart-festival-will-again-spotlight-women-in-the-performing-and-creative-arts-here-is-the-first-of-a-two-part-preview/
The LunART Festival, co-founded and co-directed by Iva Ugrcic and Laura Medisky, is back for its second season from this Wednesday, June 5, through Sunday, June 9, and will continue its mission of supporting, inspiring, promoting and celebrating women in the arts.
The 2019 season brings 10 events to eight venues in the Madison area, providing accessible, high-quality, engaging concerts and events with diverse programming from various arts fields.
The festival will showcase over 100 artists this season, including many familiar local artists and performers as well as guest artists hailing from Missouri to Texas, Minnesota to Florida and as far away as Peru.
LunART's 2019 call for scores was open to women composers of all ages and nationalities, and received an impressive 98 applicants from around the globe. Scores were evaluated by a committee of 17 LunART Festival musicians and directors, and three works were selected to be performed at each of the Gala concerts.
The winning composers are Eunike Tanzil (below top), Edna Alejandra Longoria (below middle) and Kirsten Volness (below bottom). All three will be in attendance at the festival. (In the YouTube video at the bottom, you can hear a piece for cello and piano, with the composer playing the piano, by Eunike Tanzil.)
The "From Page to Stage: Emerging Composers" educational program also returns, bringing six composers to Madison to work with flutist and composer-in-residence Valerie Coleman (below).
During the festival she will mentor participants in developing practical skills to express their creative ideas, cultivate relationships with performers and master the art of collaboration. The program culminates with a free public concert featuring their music on Saturday, June 8, at 2 p.m. in the Capitol Lakes Grand Hall, 333 West Main street, downtown and two blocks from the Capitol Square.
On Friday, June 7 at Overture Center in Promenade Hall, Meaghan Heinrich (below) presents her pre-concert lecture, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman," which explores what it means to be a woman artist in the 21st century, and how women's experiences shape their artistic expressions.
Following the Friday gala concert is "Holding Court," this season's Starry Night event at Robinia Courtyard. This all-women comedy show features Midwestern comics Vanessa Tortolano (below top), Chastity Washington (below bottom), Vickie Lynn, Samara Suomi and Cynthia Marie who are blazing a trail of funny that will leave you gasping in their wake.
"The Multi-faceted Artist" panel discussion is for anyone interested in the ongoing trend and need for artists to wear multiple hats to succeed and thrive.
Coleman (composer and flutist) and Dr. Linda DiRaimondo (psychiatrist and aerial dancer, below top on top) serve as panelists along with Katrin Talbot (violist, poet and photographer, below bottom in a photo by Isabel Karp), and will lead the discussion on Saturday, June 8, at the downtown Madison Public Library's Bubbler Room.
The festival wraps up on Sunday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to noon at Common Ground, 2644 Branch Street in Middleton, with "Mooning Around" poetry reading and artist mixer, featuring a performance of "One for Mileva Maric (Einstein)" by Andrea Musher, with special guests Sarah Whelan and Jackie Bradley, and poetry readings by The Line-Breakers: Andrea Potos (below), Eve Robillard, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva and Katrin Talbot.
Everyone is welcome to come enjoy their morning coffee and pastries while making creative connections with other artists.
LunART Festival is supported by Dane Arts, the Madison Arts Commission, the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Open Meadows Foundation; it also won first place at the 2018 National Flute Association C.R.E.A.T.E. Project Competition and second prize at the 2018 UW Arts Business Competition.
Schedule of 2019 Festival events:
6-8 p.m.: "Women Against Hate United by Love" exhibition opening reception @ Rotunda Stage, Overture Center for the Arts (free event)
Thursday, June 6
9 a.m.-Noon From Page to Stage composition master class with Valerie Coleman @ First United Methodist Church (free event)
7 p.m.: Opening Gala Concert @ Maiahaus (402 E. Mifflin St.) (Tickets: $20 general/$10 students)
6 p.m.: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman" pre-concert lecture by Meaghan Heinrich (free event)
7 p.m.: "Portraits of Josephine" Gala Concert @ Promenade Hall, Overture Center for the Arts (Tickets: $20 general/$10 students)
9 p.m.: Starry Night: "Holding Court" All-Women Comedy Show @ Robinia Courtyard (Tickets: $7 in advance/$10 at the door)
10 a.m.-Noon: "The Multi-faceted Artist" Panel Discussion @ Madison Public Library Bubbler Room (free event)
2 p.m.: From Page To Stage: Emerging Composers Concert @ Capitol Lakes Grand Hall (free event)
7 p.m.: "Gaia" Closing Gala Concert @ First Unitarian Society of Madison Atrium Auditorium (Tickets: $20 general/$10 students)
10 a.m.-Noon: "Mooning Around" poetry reading and artist mixer @ Common Ground, 2644 Branch St., Middleton (free event)
More information can be found at lunartfestival.org
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Classical music: What music is good to listen to every day for a year? And why? Clemency Burton-Hill discusses her book "Year of Wonder" on PBS' "Newshour"
What different pieces of classical music would be good to listen to every day of the year?
And what should you know about it?
Those are the simple but ambitious questions that the British writer Clemency Burton-Hill — who now works for the famed classical radio station WQXR in New York City — tackles in her book "Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day" (below).
You can get a sample by going to the book section of Amazon.com and looking inside the book. Just click on the Introduction for an overview and then click on some specifics dates to see how it works.
But recently Burton-Hill (below) also appeared on "The NewsHour" on PBS to talk about the book, where she explained her purpose and method, especially her intent to help expand the audience for classical music.
Her remarks impressed The Ear who has ordered a copy of her book and hopes to learn from it and maybe even pass along some lessons from it.
All the genres, all the great composers (dead and living) and most of the great works are covered, as are many other neglected composers and unknown works. So the book can be considered a terrific resource for music education for both beginners and those who are experienced.
Her commentaries are also a model of brevity and engaging interest.
All in all, "Year of Wonder" seems a supremely practical, unpretentious and informative guide to daily listening, especially given how many of these works – often they are shorter sections of larger works — can be found for free on YouTube. (In fact, a playlist of music featured in the book is available on YouTube. Go to YouTube and type in "Year of Wonder Playlist" into the search engine, then look to the upper right for a list. A sample is at the bottom. Or use this direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wNTNEZYoHg&list=PLKPwLlyrD2y-1x-uKmUBzSOiAh83GhU7A
But you don't have to take my word for it. Here is a link to the television interview:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/embracing-classical-music-and-its-potential-for-sonic-salvation
The Ear hopes you find the interview both informative and useful.
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Classical music: The FREE one-hour, monthly midday concert series "Just Bach" debuts with excellent playing and outstanding singing as well as practical problems such as downtown parking and timing
Here is a special posting, a review written by frequent guest critic and writer for this blog, John W. Barker. Barker (below) is an emeritus professor of Medieval history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also is a well-known classical music critic who writes for Isthmus and the American Record Guide, and who hosts an early music show once a month on Sunday morning on WORT FM 89.9 FM. For years, he served on the Board of Advisors for the Madison Early Music Festival and frequently gives pre-concert lectures in Madison. He also took the performance photos.
Marika Fischer Hoyt is becoming ever more ubiquitous, not only as a performing violist in orchestral, string quartet and period-instrument ensembles, but also as organizer of musical activities, especially as devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (below).
Hoyt (below) has already revived the annual "Bach around the Clock" spectacular each spring to mark Bach's birthday, but now she has established a monthly series of FREE midday concerts at Luther Memorial Church called "Just Bach."
The first of this series was held last Thursday afternoon, Sept. 27, at 1 p.m. in the church sanctuary at 1021 University Avenue. Ten musicians participated.
The singers were UW-Madison alumna Sarah Brailey, soprano (below); mezzo-soprano Cheryl Bensman Rowe; tenor Wesley Dunnagan; UW-Madison bass-baritone Paul Rowe.
The players were Kangwon Lee Kim and Leanne League, violins; Fischer Hoyt, viola; James Waldo, cello; and Luke Conklin, oboe. All played on period instruments, with Mark Brampton Smith playing the organ.
The hour-long program offered Bach's "Little" Organ Fugue in G minor, and two full cantatas: BWV 165, "O heiliges Geist- und Wasserbad" (O Bath of Holy Spirit and Water) for Trinity, and BWV 32, "Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen" (Dearest Jesus, My Desire), a dialogue cantata. (You can hear the opening aria of Cantata BWV 32 in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Both set the type of Pietistic Lutheran German texts standard for such church compositions of the day, and each built around pairs of arias and recitatives for different solo singers.
BWV 32, which adds an oboist (below, second from right) to the string players in some of the movements, is particularly interesting in representing a series of exchanges between the Soul (Seele) and Jesus Himself, culminating in direct duos between them.
Each cantata ends with a harmonization of a traditional Lutheran chorale. In the spirit of the program's venue, the audience was asked to sing them, in German, from prepared sheets. In these, and in an English hymn from this church's hymnal, the audience was prepped by Brailey, who served as general hostess.
In purely musical terms, the performances were really excellent, with both vocalists and instrumental players of established talents. And certainly the very atmosphere of a church setting evoked the composer's original purposes. (The church's ample acoustics enriched the musical performances, though they badly undermined spoken material on the microphone.)
Previously, the Madison Bach Musicians has been a rare group giving us specimens of the generally neglected cantatas, but now this "Just Bach" series will augment the works' availability.
Subsequent concerts in this series will be switched to 1 p.m. on WEDNESDAY afternoons on Oct. 31, Nov. 28 and Dec. 12.
For more background, including the addresses of Facebook and Instagram sites of "Just Bach," go to:
https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/classical-music-just-bach-a-monthly-mid-day-free-concert-series-starts-this-thursday-at-1-p-m-in-luther-memorial-church/
But prospective attendees should be warned of practical problems. The early afternoon time is difficult for most people, there is no parking facility, and access to the venue will likely be limited to those already in the vicinity.
For all that, I reckoned some 40 or so people in the audience – with no one eating lunch, even thought that is permitted. So artistic merits might still surmount obstacles.
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Classical music: What is it like to play music with a spouse? Local wife-and-husband violinist and cellist open the winter Masterworks season of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with the Brahms Double Concerto this Friday night
This Friday night at 7:30 p.m. — NOT 7 as first stated here mistakenly — in the Capitol Theater of the Overture Center, 201 State Street, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (below top) and music director-conductor Andrew Sewell (below bottom) will open the WCO's winter Masterworks season.
The program is typical of Sewell's eclecticism. It features well-known and lesser-known works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
It includes the Sinfonia in A minor by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; the Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, by Arnold Schoenberg; and the Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102, by Johannes Brahms.
Tickets run $15-$80 with $10 student tickets available.
For more information about the concert, the performers, tickets and pre-concert dinners, call (608) 257-0638 or go to the website:
https://wisconsinchamberorchestra.org/performances/masterworks-i-3/
The highlight of the concert is sure to be the wife-and-husband team who are soloists in the Brahms concerto. They are violinist Soh-Hyun Park Altino, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Mead Witter School of Music, and cellist Leonardo, or Leo, Altino, who teaches full-time at the Wheaton College Conservatory near Chicago and occasionally privately in Madison. Together they have also recorded for the MSR Classics label the CD "En Voyage" with sonatas for violin and cello by Zoltan Kodaly, Maurice Ravel and Paul Desenne.
If a small ensemble such as a string quartet or piano trio has special personal dynamics to contend with, imagine how intense a husband-and-wife pairing can be.
What is it like for spouses to make music together?
That is what The Ear wanted to explore and the two soloists (below) graciously responded with the following Q&A:
Is playing together any different from playing separately or alone? How so?
Soh-Hyun: Playing together and separately are completely different experiences because of the types of listening that are involved. When we play together, our ears are immediately drawn to how our playing is matched or not in terms of articulation, shape, and decay of the notes and phrases.
We have different strengths and weaknesses that we're now well aware of after 16 years of playing together, and we naturally rely on each other's strengths in preparing for performances. We have played together a lot in string quartets, piano trios and also as a duo; I definitely feel at ease if Leo is part of the ensemble.
Leo: Absolutely! Allow me to explain it this way. Preparing for a concert is much like preparing a great meal. There are a lot of steps that go into it. You must have a clear idea or vision of what dishes you want to serve, how they complement each other, what ingredients to get, the quality of the ingredients, the proportions when combining, prepping the ingredients and on and on.
Playing together is like cooking with someone whom you've cooked with for decades. We anticipate each other's moves a lot better. There is little explaining needed. We have performed together during the entirety of our marriage, and it has brought us closer together musically and emotionally. We come easily to agreement on musical issues, but we also agree philosophically – why we play and how we view each performance. We also support each other a lot and have become each other's best teacher.
How do you resolve differences of interpretation and other issues in a given work or score?
Leo: We try each other's ideas wholeheartedly. We make sure to give our best effort to each other's ideas, make suggestions and try again if necessary, and often record ourselves playing so that we can be more objective. Then we make the decisions together. Sometimes, we simply go with the person with the stronger opinion about a passage.
Soh-Hyun: In the beginning of our relationship, we used to talk a lot to explain our interpretations and how to play them. Now we are convinced that the end results that we want in any passages are pretty similar; therefore, there is less talking and more trusting.
From time to time when our ideas do seem different, we go straight to recording ourselves and listen to it together. That usually stops any further arguments. On a practical level, as parents of a seven-year-old, rehearsing together is often costly; we either need a babysitter or rehearse late in the evening. This encourages us to be efficient in our discussions and listen better in order to resolve our differences.
What role has making music together played in your relationship and your marriage?
Leo: Because we've played so much together, we have learned a lot about one another – how we think, what we value, each other's pet peeves, etc. Music has helped us learn to talk – even resolve conflicts – about things that we each feel passionate about in a constructive way. (You can hear them play part of the Piano Trio No. 2 by Felix Mendelssohn in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Soh-Hyun: We are both teachers of music, and that means that we are in the business of helping others listen and play better. I think in the first several years of our relationship, I used to struggle a lot with receiving constructive criticism from Leo. I guess I felt as though I should have been able to fix the problems myself.
But now I feel lucky that I can have a free lesson whenever I want. It's common that I will pop into the kitchen and say, "Which sounds better?" and play a few different versions of a passage. Leo gives me his preference and even tries out the passage holding my violin like a cello (which, by the way, I don't always feel at ease about).
What else would you like to say about performing together, the Brahms Double Concerto, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra or any other topic?
Leo: This was the first piece we performed together after we got married. It's wonderful to go back to it after all these years. Writing a concerto for two solo instruments is a big challenge for any composer. The way Brahms (below) wrote for the violin and cello is almost like describing the relationship between two people who know each other deeply. Each has a unique personality. The two argue, but ultimately discover how to have a unified voice.
For example, the concerto begins with a dramatic cadenza in the cello, which winds down at the end to prepare for the more introspective entrance of the violin. The two instruments exchange ideas, raise their voices, and soon culminate in a unified manner at the end of their cadenza to invite the orchestra in.
It is a powerful and beautiful piece. I also think that great composers like Brahms wrote pieces like this almost like a tone poem in that every voice has a very significant role. Often during the concerto, even while the soloists are playing, other instruments may have equal or more important parts.
BOTH: It's an honor to perform the Double Concerto with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and conductor Andrew Sewell, and we're really looking forward to our working together this week.
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Classical music education: Here are 10 reasons why students should be allowed to major in music
Many, maybe most, of the college and university students are back by now.
And a week from tomorrow, classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin.
K-12 classes in public schools and private schools will also start, if they haven't already, as will another year of music lessons.
And so will the new concert season.
Coincidentally, The Ear came across a post from Forbes magazine that deals with whether students should be allowed to major in music (below, in a photo by Shutterstock).
Many parents, and many politicians too, feel that more practical, higher paying fields are better investments of energy, time and especially money.
The same logic applies these days to the arts and humanities versus the so-called STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Anyway, the advice columnist Liz Ryan answered the question with 10 reasons why it is a good idea to let a student major in music.
The Ear –- who is an avid defender of the liberal arts and of college years not as a trade school but as a chance to explore and experiment — thought that whether you are a student, parent or teacher, you might be interested in reading the reasons why a music major makes sense.
Here is a link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2017/06/04/ten-reasons-to-let-your-kid-major-in-music/
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Xavier wore local dress and arranged translations of religious texts into the local language. It's estimated that he baptized 30,000 people. His charismatic joy is an inspiration for all who want to bring people to Christ.
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Love of God and love of neighbor are intimately bound together. You cannot have one without the other. Who are my neighbors and how do I love them? It is easy to confess with our lips that we love our neighbor. But how does this get translated into action? Our neighbors are not only those who live around us or are most familiar to us. Everyone is our neighbor: those who are foreign to us, those who have come here illegally, those who have hurt us, those we envy, those we take for granted, and those who are poor. Embracing humanity in all of its forms is not always an easy task and doing so can quickly take us out of our comfort zones. Working for justice, as God desires, often means adjusting how much I can have and sacrificing our wants and desires. The very image of God is on the faces of our neighbors, and our face can be found there as well. How much do we really love them?
Give God what's right………not what's left.
My name is Trevor Tesmer. I am 16 years old and have 2 siblings, older brother Thomas, and younger sister Tatyanna. My parents are Larry T. Tesmer and LeeAnne Mattke-Tesmer. I am a junior in high school, and I compete in the Chequamegon/Phillips Trapshooting Team, and I have a passion for building things that make people's lives easier. I want to be confirmed because I feel it will bring me closer to the Lrd. My faith is the window through which I face the abyss, and I feel comfort in the warm embrace of the Lord and his Son, Jesus Christ. I see myself teaching my faith and passing it on to my children.
I thank God for protecting me from what I thought I wanted and blessing me with what I didn't know I needed.


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Our work on illustrations for publications including workshop manuals and owner literature, and with a range of automotive OEM clients, is a good example of support for a deliverable whether or not it is created by USE* or, before USE*, UK Service Evolution.
Previously in onset of CAD-enabled digital technology, most OEMs created illustrations for service publications by tracing outlines from photographic images, or by including digital photographic images in their publications. The resulting line-art or edited photograph composed the published illustration.
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The solution for most of our clients has been to replace the line-art format with a single shaded image that requires little or no post-processing. The method usually includes the adoption of basic colour setting or shading standards which can be configured in CAD using the CAD data. Once this has been done creating an illustration can be as simple as selecting 'File—Export'.
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It will record concentrations of nitrogen oxide and particulates - a form of air pollution in the form of dust created from predominantly road transport.
Though not visible to the naked eye, they are found at 'dangerous levels' in many urban areas and on busy roads.
The supporting statement submitted to Tameside council states: "Poor air quality has a real and significant effect on people's health and according to Public Health England is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK.
"In particular, long term exposure to high levels of air pollution is known to contribute to the development of respiratory illnesses, such as asthma or bronchitis, as well as cardiovascular problems, and reduces life expectancy."
Currently there is a network of continuous monitoring stations across Greater Manchester which provide 'essential information' on air quality.
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BOOK REVIEW: Dazzling the Gods by Tom Vowler
By storgy in book reviews on April 12, 2018 March 19, 2018
Short story collections, are, when done right, a thing of beauty. A piece of fiction to behold, where you can end one moment on the uncanny, the rich and the dark, and the next moment on heartache and acute sensitivity. Each thrusting you into the relative unknown. That is the utter joy of short story collections, and that is the utter joy of reading Dazzling the Gods too. Ambiguity and diversity. Where tone shifts from one page to the next, one story to another, and no two characters are ever the same.
It would be easy to rehash the same piece. Tell one tale, and then tell it again, in a different location. In a different mode. And there are times where writers fall into such traps, but here, they are deftly avoided.
I had no expectations reading Vowler as I (admittedly) had never read his work before. In fact, it was only thanks to my local library that I even picked a copy up. But from the first piece I read, I knew I was on to a winner. Absorbing from the get go. Yet the beginning of Dazzling the Gods, away from the page, is quite absorbing too.
The collection is the child of a crowd-funding project from Unbound, a publishing house that fosters creativity and allows writers and readers to come together to get an idea off the ground. The writer pitches the idea, and readers decide whether they support it, or not. The community style a welcome movement in an industry that can feel far removed from the everyday. A simple notion too, that feels fresh, despite being an old trick (Samuel Johnson did a similar thing with his dictionary in the mid-1700s). And just like the amalgamation of readers that pledged support to Vowler and Dazzling the Gods, and who he thanks at the back of his book, the thirteen stories we find within the pages are a fusion of a similar kind. All sorts of people in all sorts of places, but each joined by Vowler's deliciously meticulous prose.
His style is neat. Precise. As though he's fleshed out each narrative, and then taken a scalpel to the sentences, making each one count, each worth reading. I found myself, at times, re-reading certain paragraphs, just to take the prose in again. The detail and the imagery. There's a skill in being measured. In capping yourself off in your writing. Knowing when to give and when to keep it concise. Vowler mastering the art. It comes as no surprise (although only after I researched, I admit, again). A Scott Prize and Edge Hill Prize winner, Dazzling the Gods his second short story collection. And despite the brevity of each short piece, no more than twenty pages at best, there is no need to rush. His concision is not there to make light work of the collection. Rather than a quick read, over short sentences, you savour every part.
This is no truer than with Banging Che Guevara and Fireflies, two widely different tales but tales too, that are linked by the set-up. The use of language. One warm (Fireflies detailing a walk between father and son), one comedic (Banging Che Guevara dealing with infidelity in pithy hilarity). Both clearly Vowler.
He has the knack too, for placing you into a story that feels familiar, believable, but never mundane. Debt a prime example. Two brothers back together, one returning to his former life, to help his mother, who is in deep with a debt collector. Worn territory, but Vowler elevates the narrative. The 'debt' not only his mother's, a literal predicament, but the brothers too. A glimpse into the past, why they parted, and why it won't ever be the same again.
Yet where Vowler gives us heart, he also deals in the uncanny. The off-kilter. Where nothing is quite as it seems. You want a collection to showcase a spectrum of ideas, and At the Musee d'Orsay is Vowler diving straight in. Darkly humorous, with a squirm of an ending, metaphorical as it is sickly, he can deliver a 'message', work in a theme, that is always two-fold. There's the story, and then the story. Work that is more than just surface level.
In a recent interview Vowler, perhaps accidentally, sums up his own self. Responding to a question surrounding sentence style, he notes, "language must be a living, vital thing, one that comes off the page, that arrests and kicks and bites, that startles and consoles". I have no choice but to agree, and thankfully, and willingly, no choice but to say that Vowler does exactly that. A rich collection, not to be rushed, but to be savoured, that is an elegant display of short story writing.
Dazzling the Gods is published by Unbound and is available here.
Reviewed by Emily Harrison
Tom Vowler's first collection, The Method, won the inaugural Scott Prize in 2010, and the Edge Hill Readers' Prize in 2011. He followed this with two novels – What Lies Within and That Dark Remembered Day – and his work has been published in journals around the world. Tom is editor of the literary journal Short Fiction, and lectures in Creative Writing at Plymouth University, where he has just completed his PhD. Apart from being an occasional all-rounder for the Authors Cricket XI, he has no hobbies.
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Verizon Exec Urges Feds Pass Economic Legislation
By: Matt Carolan | December 03, 2001
Speaking before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Monday, Verizon co-CEO Ivan Seidenberg advocated the passage of a controversial piece of legislation touching on broadband competition and deployment, and a tax incentive package to help New Yor
Speaking before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Monday, Verizon co-CEO Ivan Seidenberg advocated the passage of a controversial piece of legislation touching on broadband competition and deployment, and a tax incentive package to help New York City recover from the economic effects of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Seidenberg expressed optimism that the House of Representatives will vote within two weeks on the hotly-debated Tauzin-Dingell broadband bill. That legislation would allow the regional Bells like Verizon to offer long-distance broadband access services without first demonstrating that their local markets are open to competition. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 mandated that before the incumbent local telephone companies could get into the long-distance market, they must first meet a list of competitive requirements established by the Federal Communications Commission.
Critics have charged that passage of the legislation would sound the death knell for already struggling competitive local exchange carriers. The Bells have argued that lifting regulatory burdens on broadband deployment would have a salutary effect on the market for services, and the economy generally.
"Telecom spending on broadband will have huge multiplier effects on the computer industry, software, media and equipment. We need to get this capability in consumers hands. Its pretty clear how to do that -- promote new investment by taking down the do not enter signs that impede the flow of capital," said Seideberg.
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Maybe it's the excellent football story (great recommendation, Jake) or the hubbub around the big boxing match, but all I could think about during that average person bit was turning on the TV to watch how sports changed only to see that they're such outliers in physical ability that virtually nothing changes. Although I guess my lack of interest in sports would maybe kill the industry as people stopped watching and attending in droves.
Dota would get a lot bigger though.
The scenario didn't specify the distribution whereby the mean would be established, which I feel is critical.
I like to think that on the morning of Remoween, everybody in the world gets up exactly the same as they were, except for one guy, all of whose attributes have been reset to whatever bonkers proportions they would need to be such that Chris Remo is statistically perfectly average in every way.
Sooner or later I'm going to have to buy one of these Quip brushes. I've used a manual one for so long, I think it'll feel weird to not move my hand on my teeth twice a day. It's muscle memory that has been trained for literally three decades.
You're still supposed to move it. It sort of vibrates at a high frequency but you still move it back and forth across your teeth.
The main difference between brushing with a manual brush and an electric is with a manual brush you're scrubbing your teeth by hand to remove food and plaque with force whereas the electric does the "scrubbing" part for you, you just have to move it around so it hits all sides of your teeth (in 30 second intervals on each quadrant). At least that's my understanding, I have an electric toothbrush but it's not a Quip so I haven't read their trips and tricks manual.
i'm trying to figure if i'd be delighted by my relative skill improvement in areas i'm weak, or distressed at my relative loss of skill.
i can't play a saxophone, so does that mean my total inability with saxophone is now average saxophone ability? the average human is now WORSE than untrained?
My understanding was that the distribution remains the same, but the x-axis is just shifted over until you're in the middle. It breaks down if you're at 0, since everyone else must be too.
I think the question is undefined for binaries or other stats for which "average" is not meaningful.
The question is really just another way of asking "in what ways do you think you differ significantly from the average?"
The air force seat story reveals the "jaggedness principle," basically no individual is average across all dimensions. Someone might be close to average in shoulder width, but their arms will be longer or their feet smaller or whatever. So if you make a seat for the average man, that seat will fit no one well. Adjustable everything is the way to go. And in a broader sense, averages often give you a misleading picture of the underlying data, because the world is complex.
Talking of the topic that's a la mode, averages, I mean, surely all Nielsen need to do is switch to the median audience size and that'd solve the problems for networks and Nielsen alike?
also, yeah, medians are all the rage. Jake mentioned that the use of the average was really popularized by astronomers, but we often just go with median because of weird outliers.
...a set of datasets that have the same x and y averages, mean, standard deviations, and Pearson's correlations to two decimal places but are totally wacky compared to each other.
Worth pointing out that both transforming the S to an SH before a stop and dropping the stop entirely are a common linguistic feature from English-speaking communities in the Appalachians that were settled by German-speaking immigrants. My father whose father grew up in central AK has that habit with a few words, as does my friend from central PA.
Maybe when people pronounce SH instead of S, they are using all the H's that disappeared when pronouncing Herbs (probably my most fume-inducing word when spoken by Americans).
Pretty sure that got dropped in America because of some French influence. Americans pronounce "pasta" in a more Italian way and get mocked by Brits for it despite them saying it incorrectly. We're not trying to be snooty in weird isolated ways, we just had a different mix of immigrants than you in our formative years.
Actually, it's the other way around. The original Old French word, erbe, had no initial H when it was borrowed into Middle English in the twelfth century, and the H was added by analogy with the Latin root in the fifteenth century, though it remained mute until prescriptive grammarists in Britain during the nineteenth century campaigned for a voiced H to make English less French and more Latinate. Much like "ain't," dropping the G from "-ing," and virtually every other feature that American English gets "wrong," it's a lexical rule that Britain used for centuries, then changed its mind on and blasted ignorant colonials for continuing to use.
Actually, that reminds me that Catullus, a Roman poet who was contemporary with (and a vocal critic of) Julius Caesar, wrote a poem mocking an anonymous acquaintance for putting an H before every word that could take one (Latin seldom voiced an initial H, but the Greek that most educated Romans knew did, so it was a fairly common affectation among the elite). This sort of thing has been a bone of contention for millennia, I guess!
Ah that's interesting, I never really knew the specifics to that detail. So much old British pronunciation and ettiquite is such a Star-Bellied Sneecth situation.
Actually someone's going to come in here and say it if I don't: I'm pretty sure "hoist" was already the past tense and it's been corrupted over time. So, 'oist.
I'm not sure that it is, but what is interesting about "hoist" is that it and "heist" are the same word in different English dialects, given different meanings through different usages over time. "Heist" probably meant to lift someone's goods, in the same sense as "shoplift."
I guess what Jake's referring to is that in the famous phrase used by Shakespeare, it's "hoist by his own petard", not "hoisted by his own petard". As mentioned here. I don't know if a linguist would tell us that was just Shakespeare being a special snowflake and everyone else back then said "hoisted".
Fair point! I looked at the usage again ("For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petar...") and it does appear that, as a holdover from Middle English, "hoise" is the present tense with "hoist" in the past, much like feel/felt, kneel/knelt, and lose/lost.
Also, that football story is a tad too much, IMO. Jon Bois has really gone beyond profound sports-adjacent goofery, into high-concept sci-fi.
It's only too much if all you're looking for is profound sports-adjacent goofery! For people who either aren't looking for that, or who are looking for that but also high-concept sci-fi, it's perfect. I've only read like half of it so far but I love it.
Also, Chris's endorsement is right on the money in terms of making your kitchen look nicer, etc. but if you have less money I suggest containers from US Plastics which can be cheaper and more durable. They don't seem to have the ones I bought (like 5 years ago) in stock anymore but that site is worth a look if you store lots of dry bulk goods.
Boy, I loved Football 17776, thanks for pointing it out!
Also, for everyone who liked Jon Bois' 17776, beyond Breaking Madden, my favorite thing he has done is his series Pretty Good, where he also wields Google Earth to tell weird stories.
This episode where he talks about a REAL football game with a final score of 222 to 0.
This amazing story about the weird awful 1904 olympic marathon.
You don't need to give half a crap about sports to enjoy the weirdness of this. He's a good storyteller.


Scuttle: A Little Bit of Fashion & Alot of Sparkle: A Walk In The Woods + Giveaway!
Journeyed into the wilderness for today's photos! Today I put together a "look for less", with some of my recent steals & closet favorites!
What, $71.50! That is so cheap considering that this outfit includes a pair of 7 jeans! They were originally $180 and I scored them for $30, can you say steal!?!?
Deals put me in a super good mood, so I think it is time for a GIVEAWAY!
Happy Fall & good luck!
the main thing on my wish list for fall is a pair of good quality oxford shoes!
Pumkin goodies with the family is on my fall list!
My must haves for fall. Scarves, slouchy hats, big sweaters, and comfy boots.
My fall wish list is the perfect jacket!
There are so many things on my fall wish list, but specifically, a pair of brown oxfords or ankle boots, a chunky beige cardigan, and some warm sweater tights!
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McCloud Season 1 (1970)
TV Movie: Portrait of a Dead Girl
A marshal from New Mexico travels to New York City to deliver a witness who is supposed to testify in a murder trial. However, the witness is soon kidnapped from his custody, and ... Feb. 17, 1970
1x01 Who Says You Can't Make Friends in New York City?
McCloud goes to help a lady in distress, but gets caught in a shootout that sends him back to Taos on Chief Clifford's orders. At the last minute, the Chief is kidnapped to force ... Sep. 16, 1970
1x02 Manhattan Manhunt
McCloud is becoming famous thanks to press coverage. It doesn't endear him to the boys in blue, who have to deal with a string of drugstore holdups. Sep. 23, 1970
1x03 Murder Arena
McCloud is assigned to shepherd the cowboys at a visiting rodeo. They're old friends, and one of them is killed by a jealous rival over a woman, it appears. Sep. 30, 1970
1x04 The Stage Is All The World
An extremely arrogant Broadway producer is receiving death threats for the content of his new play, and McCloud must find out if the threats are real or made up by the producer h ... Oct. 07, 1970
1x05 Walk in The Dark
A strangler of women - including an undercover cop - moves through Central Park with the greatest of ease, and McCloud, a sergeant and two policewomen must track him down before he ... Oct. 14, 1970
1x06 Our Man in Paris
In Paris, McCloud and a stewardess try to locate a mysterious arms smuggler with ties to an American mogul and a New York gubernatorial candidate. Oct. 21, 1970


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The politician pushing to outlaw Korean dog meat farms
In South Korea, two million dogs are consumed by humans each year. One politician is looking to unite both sides of politics to take on an eating practice that divides the country.
By SBS Dateline
Watch Dateline's 'Korea's Dog Fight' in the player above.
Farming dogs for meat could become illegal in South Korea if a push to ban the practice by politician Dr Lee Sang-don comes to fruition.
Approximately two million dogs per year are eaten in South Korea, with the country classifying the animal as livestock when they are raised on dog meat farms that follow government regulations.
Lee Sang-don, a politician with Korea's opposition People's Party, is moving to amend South Korea's Livestock Product Act with plans to remove dogs from the list of animals covered by the bill.
The places around the world you can still eat dog meat
However, while the Livestock Product Act classifies dogs the same way as other animals such as cows, pigs and chickens, they are not included in the Livestock Product Sanitation Management Act – causing a legal grey area when it comes to farming the animals for food.
In modern South Korea, a country renowned for its high tech culture, consuming dog meat has grown into a divisive subject. Its origins are a product of previous agricultural times and continue in rural areas – particularly during the height of summer.
While the bill is unlikely to pass this calendar year, Dr Lee Sang-don has already found support from sections of the ruling opposition party including current president, Moon Jae-in. The leader recently adopted a rescue dog, Tori, as attitudes towards the animals shift in Korea.
"Ten million people live with dog or cat, so the attitudes changed drastically," Lee Sang-don tells Dateline.
"People now understand dogs as a friend, not as a food. And that's the change of attitude of people.
"The number of people who still eat dog meat is still decreasing. Now it's mainly older people, especially males, who eat dog meat. The young generation and the women generally do not eat dog meat."
6 things you should know about Korea's dog meat farms
Dr Lee Sang-Don was also critical of the farming practices around the country. The Humane Society International estimates there are 17,000 dog meat farms in South Korea, with the organization working to close the farms and re-house the dogs.
"Another issue is that we have noticed unprecedented phenomenon of dog farming, it's actually not a farm, it's dog hell, or some kind of dog slaughterhouse.
While there are political moves to halt the industry, there is pushback from the industry.
"There are about a million people, a million people who are working in this industry," the President of the Meat Dog Association, Kim Jong Suk tells Dateline.
"In order to produce 2 million dogs, we need to raise 3 million dogs. That was we can slaughter 2 million dogs. That's how it works."
At Moran Market, the one-time hub of the dog meat trade, Shin bong cho is the last remaining dog butcher in the precinct.
"Dog farmers are all good people, they would rather die if they are not able to raise dogs," he says.
"Literally, it would mean that workers in this industry will all lose their jobs.
"However, they all have their own families to support. So they won't easily give up."
Watch Dateline's 'Korea's Dog Fight' in the player at the top of the page.
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The bizarre walk of the Western Grebe caught on camera
At one point, biologists didn't even think this was possible.
by Mihai Andrei
in Animals, Offbeat
Western Grebes famously walk on water to impress mates, but few people have ever seen them walk on land. At one point, it was even thought that they can't walk on land properly — but this video proves otherwise.
Western Grebe. Video: Mick Thompson/Eastside Audubon.
Western Grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis) have a long, slender, swan-like neck and red eyes. They nest in colonies on lakes that are mixed with marsh vegetation and open water and are much less nimble on the ground. Even renowned ornithologist David Sibley wrote about this in his Sibley Guide to Birds, noting that they are "incapable of walking."
But in 2012, photographer Larry Engles managed to photograph a Western Grebe walking upright, prompting a response from Sibley:
"In the Sibley Guide to Birds I wrote that Western and Clark's Grebes are "incapable of walking". I thought they could only push themselves along on their bellies, but I should have known that I was flirting with danger by writing such an absolute statement. Soon after the book was published I heard that they are capable of walking, although they do it rarely and it's not very easy for them."
Well as it turns out, Western Grebes can indeed walk, not only on water but also on land — and there's more than photographic evidence of it. Oh yes, there's also video evidence.
Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) clumsily trying to make it back into the surf on Morro Strand State Beach in Morro Bay. Image credits: Kevin Cole / Wikipedia.
Engles' friend Mick Thompson, a photographer and board member of the Eastside Audubon Society, managed to catch the footage above on the beach in Ocean Shores, Washington. "He just jumped up and started running up the beach," Thompson says.
This extremely rare behavior was likely caused by the fact that the bird was bolting towards the sea, but unlike other birds (like ducks, for instance), Western Grebes can't take off from the ground, they need a water runway, so it was forced to head to the water as fast as it could — and that particular specimen proved to be capable to make a bipedal escape.
Deep red: year-round range. Light red: breeding range. Light blue: winter range.
Western Grebes have two subspecies — A. o. occidentalis, which can be found in western Canada & United States (California, Utah), and A. o. ephemeralis, western Mexico (Mexico Plateau). They're not particularly difficult to see in their natural habitat, so if you're into birding, there's a good chance to catch them on camera.
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Molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosomes 1 and 19 in glioma cell lines
Mark E. Law, Kristen L. Templeton, Gaspar Kitange, Justin Smith, Anjan Misra, Burt G.F. Feuerstein, Robert B. Jenkins
Deletions of chromosome 1p and 19q arms are frequent genetic abnormalities in primary human gliomas and are especially common in oligodendrogliomas. However, the chromosome 1p and 19q status of many glioma cell lines has not been established. Using homozygosity mapping, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and comparative genomic hybridization to arrayed BAC (CGHa), we screened 17 glioma cell lines for chromosome 1 and 19 deletions. Sequence tagged site polymorphisms were used to evaluate the cell lines for regions of chromosome 1p and 19q homozygosity. Cell lines A172, U251, TP265, U118, SW1088, U87, SW1783, and D32 contained significant regions of 19q homozygosity. In addition, A172, U87, TP483, D37, U118, MO67, and TP265 contained significant regions of 1p homozygosity. FISH probes localized to 1p36.32 and 19q13.33 as well as CGHa were used to determine which cell lines had deletions of 1p and/or 19q. Cell lines A172, U87, TP483, TP265, H4, U251, and D37 were deleted for portions of 1p. CGHa and homozygosity mapping of these cell lines define a 700-kilobase (Kb) common deletion region that is encompassed by a larger deletion region previously mapped in sporadic gliomas. This common deletion region is localized at 1p36.31 and includes CHD5, a putative tumor suppressor gene. Cell line A172 was observed to have a deletion between 19q13.33 and 19q13.41, while U87 was observed to have a smaller deletion of 19q13.33. Cell lines A172 and U87 contain 1p and 19q deletions similar to those found in sporadic gliomas and will be useful cellular reagents for evaluating the function of putative 1p and 19q glioma tumor suppressor genes.
Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2004.11.012
Comparative Genomic Hybridization
Tumor Suppressor Genes
Sequence Tagged Sites
Law, M. E., Templeton, K. L., Kitange, G., Smith, J., Misra, A., Feuerstein, B. G. F., & Jenkins, R. B. (2005). Molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosomes 1 and 19 in glioma cell lines. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 160(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2004.11.012
Molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosomes 1 and 19 in glioma cell lines. / Law, Mark E.; Templeton, Kristen L.; Kitange, Gaspar; Smith, Justin; Misra, Anjan; Feuerstein, Burt G.F.; Jenkins, Robert B.
In: Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, Vol. 160, No. 1, 01.07.2005, p. 1-14.
Law, ME, Templeton, KL, Kitange, G, Smith, J, Misra, A, Feuerstein, BGF & Jenkins, RB 2005, 'Molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosomes 1 and 19 in glioma cell lines', Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2004.11.012
Law ME, Templeton KL, Kitange G, Smith J, Misra A, Feuerstein BGF et al. Molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosomes 1 and 19 in glioma cell lines. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 2005 Jul 1;160(1):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2004.11.012
Law, Mark E. ; Templeton, Kristen L. ; Kitange, Gaspar ; Smith, Justin ; Misra, Anjan ; Feuerstein, Burt G.F. ; Jenkins, Robert B. / Molecular cytogenetic analysis of chromosomes 1 and 19 in glioma cell lines. In: Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 2005 ; Vol. 160, No. 1. pp. 1-14.
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Q: WebView callback from Javascript I tried to create a simple example of callback from Javascript to Java, based on the last example in WebEngine's javadoc (Calling back to Java from JavaScript). But when I click the link in the WebView, the Java method is not called and the page disappears.
public class TestOnClick extends Application {

    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
        try {
            final WebView webView = new WebView();
            final WebEngine webEngine = webView.getEngine();

            Scene scene = new Scene(webView);

            stage.setScene(scene);
            stage.setWidth(1200);
            stage.setHeight(600);
            stage.show();

            String webPage = "\n"
                    + "    \n"
                    + "        Click here\n"
                    + "    \n"
                    + "";

            System.out.println(webPage);

            webView.getEngine().loadContent(webPage);

            JSObject window = (JSObject) webEngine.executeScript("window");
            window.setMember("app", new JavaApp());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    public static class JavaApp {

        public void onClick() {
            System.out.println("Clicked");
        }
    }
}

Note: I don't see any exceptions being thrown in the WebView when monitoring the load worker with  webView.getEngine().getLoadWorker().exceptionProperty().addListener(...).

A: You are trying to access webview DOM model before it was created.
Wrap your JavaApp related code to the page load listener to achieve your goal:
webEngine.getLoadWorker().stateProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Worker.State>() {
    @Override
    public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends State> ov, State t, State t1) {
        if (t1 == Worker.State.SUCCEEDED) {
            JSObject window = (JSObject) webEngine.executeScript("window");
            window.setMember("app", new JavaApp());
        }
    }
});

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Feedback on trade deals sought from industry
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) recently issued an official request for input on proposed trade deals with Japan, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. The National Marine Manufacturers Association has asked its members and any other interested parties to provide feedback to the deals.
The NMMA said in today's Currents newsletter that industry responses should address these points: General and product-specific negotiating objectives for the proposed agreement; Relevant barriers to trade in goods and services between the U.S. and Japan, the EU, and the UK that should be addressed in the negotiations; Economic costs and benefits to U.S. producers and consumers of removal or reduction of tariffs and removal or reduction of non-tariff barriers on articles traded with Japan, the EU, and the UK.
The association said that "Treatment of specific goods" under the proposed agreements should also include comments on: Product-specific import or export interests or barriers; Experience with particular measures that should be addressed in the negotiations; Ways to address export priorities and import sensitivities in the context of the proposed agreement; Customs and trade facilitation issues that should be addressed in the negotiations; Sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade that should be addressed in the negotiations.
Comments should also highlight other measures or practices that undermine fair market opportunities for U.S. businesses and workers that should be addressed in the negotiations.
NMMA plans to submit a request to testify before the USTR after filing comments. All industry feedback must be submitted to Nicole Vasilaros, NMMA senior vice president of government relations and legal affairs, at nvasilaros@nmma.org by December 5, 2018.


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Home Finance Devon Energy Corporation (DVN): Has The Stock Silenced The Bears?
Devon Energy Corporation (DVN): Has The Stock Silenced The Bears?
The stock of Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN) is now priced at $10.98 and the shares are 0.2 points up or 1.86% higher compared to its previous closing price of $10.78. The stock had 5.754 million contracts set over the past session. DVN shares' daily volume is compared to its average trading volume at 9.357 million shares. However, it has a float of 371 million and although its performance was -3.17% over the week, it's one to watch. Analysts have given the DVN stock a yearly average price target of $16.32 per share. It means the stock's upside potential is 48.63% with the DVN share price recently placing at $10.71 to $11.065. However, some brokerage firms have priced the stock below the average, including one that has called $11.
The shorts are running away from the Devon Energy Corporation stock, with the latest data on short interest released on July 31, 2020, showing that short interest numbers in the DVN shares have declined. Short interest in the stock represents just 2.88% of its float, but the volume has dropped by 0.
In the last trading session, Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN) dropped by -$0.36 over the week and gained $0.64 on its 20-day. The stock's high in the recent session is lower when compared to its 52-week high of $28.42. The stock recorded its established 52-week high on 09/16/19.
Since 03/18/20, the stock has traded to a low of $4.7 at 138.58%, an encouraging piece of data likely to interest most investors out to exploit the stock's recent surge. The stock has a beta allocation of 3.33. Being above 1 means that the stock's volatility is higher than the market and traders are keenly watching it.
Looking at current readings, Devon Energy Corporation's two-week RSI is 48.5. This suggests that the stock is neutral at the moment and that DVN shares' price movement remains stable. The stochastic readings are equally revealing at 12.31% meaning the DVN share price is currently in overbought territory.
The technical chart shows that the DVN stock will likely settle at between $11.13 and $11.27 per share. However, if the stock dips below $10.77, then its market would become much weaker. Any downside could see the stock price sliding to levels as low as $10.56.
Analysts at Maxim Group assigned DVN a rating of Outperform in their resuming review released on August 05. JP Morgan analysts downgraded their recommendation of the stock from Overweight to Neutral in a flash note released to investors on July 23. Piper Sandler seeing the improvements upgraded the stock from Neutral to Overweight on July 21, placing it at $10 to $15.
The average rating for the DVN equity is 2.07 and is currently gathering a bullish momentum. Of 30 analysts tracking Devon Energy Corporation polled by Reuters, 10 rated DVN as a hold. The remaining 20 analysts were split evenly. However, the split wasn't equal as a majority (20) rated it as a buy or strong buy. 0 analyst advised investors against buying the stock or to sell if they own any of the stock.
Elsewhere, the DVN stock price is 35.19X ahead of its 12-month Consensus earnings per share estimates.
Zacks Consensus Estimate forecasts that the current-quarter revenues for Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN) will increase by about 523.46%, which will see them reach $1010 million. The company's full-year revenues are, however, expected to diminish by about -30.39%, down from $6220 million to $4330 million. DVN's expected adjusted earnings should drop almost -141.38% to end up at -$0.12 per share, while for the fiscal year, analysts project the company's earnings to drop by about -121.3% to record -$0.23/share.
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Government stance on energy is 'stuck in time warp'- CBI
18 October 2012, source edie newsroom
The CBI has called for the Government to provide certainty in the UK energy market to help investors boost growth and provide secure, low-carbon power.
In a speech today to business leaders in central London, CBI deputy director-general Dr Neil Bentley, implored the government to take swift action to promote investor confidence.
Speaking alongside the Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey, Bentley said: "Giving energy policy speeches can sometimes feel like being stuck in a time warp. While we support the Government's direction of travel, the speed of progress is pretty frustrating.
"The Energy Bill is a once-in-a-generation opportunity, to boost our economy as well as head off our energy challenges. To grab that opportunity before it is too late, we need less politics, more policy."
Ed Davey promised that the Coalition would provide certainty for investors in its forthcoming Energy Bill. He also revealed plans to introduce additional powers to the Energy Bill to help promote competition and liquidity.
He said: "The coalition is absolutely committed to getting these reforms right, through legislation and through the signals we send. We have listened to investors and today have set out further measures to provide the certainty they need to make decisions that will benefit us all."
Davey also claimed energy projects would benefit from reforms contained within the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, introduced today, which will amend the Electricity and Gas Act of 1986.
Despite this, Bentley urged the Government to pick up the pace in finalising policy.
"We appreciate the Government's efforts to consult thoroughly and get those changes right. But we mustn't fall victim to paralysis by analysis - the longer we go on without finalised policy, the longer investment stalls or goes abroad," he said.
Politics was standing in the way of investment he said:
"We are seeing UK energy policy get increasingly political. Are you for green or for growth? Are you for renewables or for gas? Fruitless debates over these false choices can seem like they're just noises off, but they really matter.
"With every new story that adds to the sense of uncertainty, I hear of more phone calls from overseas head offices to UK executives asking whether it is worth putting further work into scoping out possible investments in the UK," he added.
Bentley also claimed there was a place for UK shale gas in the future but that a balanced and diverse energy mix was the most cost effective pathway to decarbonisation.
"The Government is right to encourage safe shale gas extraction as it makes sense to maximise the amount of energy we can produce at home at a reasonable cost. But gas alone isn't the answer.
Conor McGlone
| Green Government | carbon reduction