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Jean-Damascène Ntawukuriryayo (Runyinya, 8 d'agost de 1961) és un polític ruandès que va servir com a president del Senat de Ruanda de 2011 a 2014. També va ser Ministre de Salut i també vicepresident de la Cambra de Diputats de Ruanda. Ntawukuriryayo va participar en les eleccions presidencials ruandeses de 2010, on va fracassar (obtenint el 5% dels vots) i Paul Kagame va ser reelegit amb més del 90% dels vots.

Ntawukuriryayo va obtenir un B.A. en farmàcia de la Universitat Nacional de Ruanda i un Ph.D. en tecnologia farmacèutica de la Universitat de Gant, Flandes. De 1997 a 1999 va ser vicerector d'administració i finances de la Universitat Nacional de Ruanda. Va ser nomenat ministre d'Estat encarregat d'Educació Superior i Investigació Científica el 1999.

En novembre de 2002 Ntawukuriryayo va ser nomenat ministre d'Infraestructures. Va ser Ministre d'Estat per a l'Educació Superior. El 28 de setembre de 2004, va ser nomenat Ministre de Salut. Durant el seu mandat en aquest càrrec, va ampliar el sistema de seguretat social per cobrir més del 80% de la població. El 2008 va ser elegit vicepresident de l'Assemblea nacional ruandesa.

Com a candidat presidencial al Partit Socialdemòcrata (PSD) en 2010, Ntawukuriryayo es va comprometre a desenvolupar el turisme, afegir valor als productes exportats a la República Democràtica del Congo, lluita contra l'erosió del sòl , millorar els rendiments del plataner i construir carreteres. La seva plataforma era molt semblant a la del titular Paul Kagame, i va fer que alguns diguessin que era un estrep per al president. En les eleccions, Kagame va obtenir el 93% dels vots i Ntawukuriryayo va quedar segon amb el 4,9%.

El 10 d'octubre de 2011 fou elegit president del Senat de Ruanda. Després d'acusacions d'abús de càrrecs i al·legant motius personals, Ntawukuriryayo va dimitir com a president del Senat el 17 de setembre de 2014.

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"Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand but funding for materials shrinks.
Even as middle- and low-income countries expand their higher education systems, their governments are retreating from responsibility for funding and managing this expansion. The public provision of educational materials in these contexts is rare; instead, libraries, faculty, and students are on their own to get what they need. Shadow Libraries explores the new ecosystem of access, charting the flow of educational and research materials from authors to publishers to libraries to students, and from comparatively rich universities to poorer ones. In countries from Russia to Brazil, the weakness of formal models of access was countered by the growth of informal ones. By the early 2000s, the principal form of access to materials was informal copying and sharing. Since then, such unauthorized archives as Libgen, Gigapedia, and Sci-Hub have become global "shadow libraries," with massive aggregations of downloadable scholarly materials.
See also Media Piracy in Emerging Economies, 2011.


Kamus + Keller Ranks #5 in Best Places to Work!
In a ceremony held yesterday at JW Marriott LA Live, Kamus + Keller's official Best Places to Work ranking was announced.
Ranked #5 in the Small Business Category, Kamus + Keller was competing among the top 20 small businesses in Los Angeles. "This is a tremendous honor. I couldn't be happier for our staff," commented John Kamus, CEO of Kamus + Keller. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our Kamus + Keller staff and to all the honored companies in the Best Places to Work awards ceremony.
This eighth annual program was created by the Los Angeles Business Journal and Best Companies Group. The survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best employers in Los Angeles, benefiting the county's economy, workforce and businesses. The list is made up of 100 companies.


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2019 Car Show
IDIDIT's Annual Car Show & Open House Set for Sept. 14
Come celebrate local car culture with contests, a facility tour, food trucks and more.
TECUMSEH, MICHIGAN: An end-of-summer tradition dating back to 1991, the 2019 IDIDIT Car Show & Open House is set for Sept 14. And this year, a special guest is dropping by to present a brand-new builder award.
Open to any show-worthy vehicle regardless of year, make or model, the popular gathering celebrates car culture in all its forms, offering a family atmosphere in which to enjoy classic vehicles of yesterday and today.
Register online for the 2019 Car Show Now
For those who wish to print and mail, Download Registration Form Here.
"It's our pleasure to host some of the most beautiful cars and trucks from throughout the Great Lakes region at our annual Car Show & Open House," said Stacey Discher of IDIDIT. "This industry is something to celebrate, and we invite all of our neighbors and friends to come share in the fun."
Held on the IDIDIT campus in Tecumseh, the daylong event includes facility tours, a vendor tent, food trucks and a live DJ. Attendees are encouraged to bring canned goods for the food drive, and the Lenawee Humane Society will raffle a custom golf cart featuring an IDIDIT steering column.
The IDIDIT Car Show and Open House will feature two new categories this year. Best Garage Build is a designed to celebrate car owners who performed restoration and rebuild work on their own. TV celebrity Brother JD from Wrench Wars will be on hand to present the inaugural Best Garage Build trophy, and vehicles can be entered in the Best Restored and/or Best Garage Build categories, as well as their appropriate vehicle year category.
Additionally, Founder's Choice has been added as a category, which replaces the Best Restoration category from previous years. IDIDIT founders Ken and Jane Callison will award the winner of Founder's Choice during this year's Car Show.
Car show contestants will compete for one-of-a-kind trophies made in-house by IDIDIT craftspeople in nine total categories:
1948-Older Street Rod
1949-'64 Car
1980-Newer Car
1948-'66 Truck
1988-Newer Truck
Best Garage Build
Founder's Choice
Back for a second year is the T-shirt design contest involving students from the graphic imaging classes at LISD Tech Center in Adrian, Michigan. Last year's grand prize winner was Lexi Davis, who received a $1,500 scholarship and got to see her rearview mirror & fuzzy dice design used as the official logo of the event and printed on T-shirts.
The top vote-getter will be named the official T-shirt design for 2019. This year's voting has closed.
IDIDIT's open house tradition was started nearly three decades ago as a way for the steering column maker to thank customers and the local community for their support. More than 500 vehicles were on display at last year's show.
Winning Car Show T-Shirt Design Inspired by the 1950s
STEERING FAST CIVICS TO WEIGHT SAVINGS
A Competition Column for Mazda Miatas
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Only the Wearer of the Shoe Knows How it Pinches
Nat Williams investigates William Colenso's 'Seaweed' album and its significance for collector Rex Nan Kivell
Only the wearer of the shoe knows how it pinches – William Colenso, Hawke's Bay Herald, 1891
Here in Australia, William Colenso's name is not well known. In Aotearoa New Zealand, it is another matter. Colenso (1811–1899) is associated with New Zealand's early settlement, proselytising, printing religious tracts and politics. He is also known for his affair with a Māori servant, Ripeka Meretene, who gave birth to his son, Wiremu (William) in 1851. A shocking circumstance, this fractured his existing family unit and led to familial jealousy and his ostracism from his family, church and New Zealand society for years. He never saw his wife or daughter again.
Portrait of William Colenso, c.1880, nla.cat-vn3671663
Colenso had a passionate interest for exploring and natural history collecting and in research and communicating his findings to the world. He arrived in Paihia, New Zealand, in 1834. He was soon to meet Charles Darwin when the Beagle visited in 1835, and later became firm friends with Australian botanist Allan Cunningham. Colenso also became a lifelong friend and correspondent of John Dalton Hooker who visited on HMS Erebus, and with his eminent father. Colenso's life in New Zealand encompassed printing translations of the Bible and pamphlets advocating for Māori, roaming widely and collecting specimens, which he sometimes stuffed down the front of his shirt to protect them while on the move. Eventually Colenso's evangelism, work ethic, abrasiveness and infidelity counted against his reputation, but for his scientific contributions, he became a Fellow of both the Linnaean Society (1865), and the Royal Society (1886).
Page opening with various seaweed samples in Album of William Colenso's Personal Collection of Pressed Seaweeds … New Zealand, nla.cat-vn1173864
Colenso's interests and acquisitions intersected with those of collector Rex Nan Kivell (1898–1977). Both had roots in Cornwall and lives partially spent in New Zealand. Within the Library's expansive Nan Kivell holdings are contained delicate specimens of pressed New Zealand ferns, mosses and seaweeds, including three attractive albums of seaweeds with varied provenances. The Album of William Colenso's Personal Collection of Pressed Seaweeds, Starting in Penzance and Continuing Later in New Zealand (between 1830 and 1840), was named by Nan Kivell when he acquired it in 1943.
Colenso's printings were prized by Nan Kivell, and the lustre of 'association items' led to his acquisition of 90 items produced by, or associated with, this early, hardworking and controversial observer. The arc of Colenso's experience from printer in Penzance, Cornwall, to religious zealot in New Zealand clearly piqued Nan Kivell's interest. To an extent, it mirrored that of his 'indomitable forebears,' also early settlers to New Zealand from Cornwall. The fact that the seaweeds appeared to span both Cornish shores and the beaches of New Zealand would have appealed greatly to the collector.
Seaweed sample in Album of William Colenso's Personal Collection of Pressed Seaweeds … New Zealand, nla.cat-vn1173864
Colenso's book has what Nan Kivell would have regarded as a 'perfect provenance'. He acquired it, with other material, from the son of one of Colenso's friends, the teacher Henry Hill. The collector obsessed about his 'deep' Cornish heritage—ironic, given he was only half Cornish by descent. The Colenso seaweed album was a kind of talisman, connecting Nan Kivell's family past in Cornwall and New Zealand—all through the famous, or perhaps infamous figure of William Colenso. Further, the missionary's marital issues and the birth of his illegitimate son, Wiremu, has a strange resonance with Nan Kivell's own family history of well-disguised illegitimacy.
In his epic book Portraits of the Famous and Infamous, Nan Kivell describes Colenso as 'The Caxton of New Zealand', a typical flourish, and he noted that Colenso 'set up the first New Zealand printing press of which he was the compositor, printer, binder and distributor.' Colenso's training as a bookbinder and printer also mirrored Nan Kivell's apprenticeship in Christchurch. Nan Kivell concludes his assessment of Colenso,
In 1852 he was deprived of his Deacon's office for having a natural child – so much for the appalling 'enlightenment' of the missionary superintendents … when he, Colenso, had so much to offer
It sounds like a cry of connection from the heart.
Page opening with seaweed and reproductions of the artworks The Death of Ananias by Raphael (1483–1520) and The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) in Album of William Colenso's Personal Collection of Pressed Seaweeds … New Zealand, nla.cat-vn1173864
Colenso's seaweed book is an enigmatic object. It is clear on studying the collection that it contains more than just seaweeds: there are sphagnum mosses from Cornwall and traded plant samples too. Some of the delicately pressed seaweeds still look quite fresh. The book also features images from stories of the New Testament, such as the Death of Ananias and the Last Supper. These Christian images of vanity, lies and betrayal are laden with symbolism and potential meaning, and hint, perhaps, at a dialogue, or a fatherly monologue to a growing son from a wary father. The presence of these images and the sexist or racist cigarette cards tucked at the very back suggest perhaps two or more book assemblers were involved. Colenso did not smoke and thought others should not. It seems possible that Wiremu, in his teens when he returned to live with his father, may have been given this book partially filled with seaweed samples and set about making it his own—cutting, pasting, and hunting for seaweeds with his knowledgeable father.
Cigarette cards in Album of William Colenso's Personal Collection of Pressed Seaweeds … New Zealand, nla.cat-vn1173864
Some seaweed samples bear coded numbers and Colenso's inscriptions and some are unnumbered and more crudely mounted. Colenso was, perhaps, trying to leave behind something instructional for Wiremu to make up for his earlier absence in the boy's life. The book also may have been a plaything for Henry Hill's son Howard, who may have furtively added the cigarette cards as a youth in the early twentieth century. Ultimately, Latimer, Colenso's eldest son, received the lion's share of his father's heritage. 'Latty' wasted no time in destroying and dispersing elements of his father's precious collections by throwing some items down a well, selling others far too cheaply and burning still others. His vengeance upon his father for the sting of shame was perhaps to erase his memory through dissipating his collections. A form of damnatio memoriae visited upon a too-proud man by his slighted son or, alternatively, an impatient younger man seeking the means to escape his past.
Luckily for us, Nan Kivell's Colenso objects now rest easily here awaiting further investigation.
Nat Williams is the Library's Treasures Curator. The Treasures Curator is supported by the Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund.
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Listening to the Past
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Sonu: Songs from the Homeland
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Star Wars vs. Star Trek
Could the Empire kick the Federation's ass? And other galaxy-shaking enigmas
By Matt Forbeck
Could a Jedi knight use his light saber to deflect a beam from a phaser?
Which aliens are cooler: the Cardassians or the Chazrach?
Have any Federation ships ever made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs?
And most important, in a fight between the Empire and the Federation, who would win?
Ever since Princess Leia's starship hovered into sight on the silver screen, fans of Star Wars and Star Trek have been debating these questions. Now, side by side, they can line up aliens, technology, story points, weaponry, and heroes from the two great science fiction/fantasy stories of our age.
For fans everywhere, this volume offers detailed information about both universes, as well as trivia, quizzes, quotes, and information drawn from these two iconic settings. So phasers on stun and light sabers at the ready! It's time for the duel to begin.
Matt Forbeck
Matt Forbeck is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and game designer. He has more than thirty novels and countless games published to date. His latest work includes Dungeonlogy, the Star Wars: Rogue One junior novel, the last two editions of The Marvel Encyclopedia, his Monster Academy YA fantasy novels, and the upcoming Shotguns & Sorcery roleplaying game based on his novels. He lives in Beloit, WI, with his wife and five children, including a set of quadruplets. For more about him and his work, visit Forbeck.com.
Publisher: Adams Media (April 18, 2011)
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This past week, The Cedars Ranch hosted its second ever workshop! First our Luv Life Coaching Couples Workshop on March 16. Then from Monday 18 - Friday 22, international professional photographer Mark Hemmings led an Adobe Lightroom CC photo workshop here at The Cedars Ranch. It was so much fun!
The Cedars Ranch is a contemporary eco event space and wellness destination designed for hosting weddings, special events, and corporate and wellness retreats. Situated on twenty acres of meandering live oak and cedar trees just outside the charming Texas Hill Country town of Wimberley, and a short 45-minute drive south of Austin, The Cedars Ranch is booking now for weddings, events and retreats.
To celebrate the opening our gorgeous new venue, we are offering a significant discount for our first 10 wedding and special event bookings: $1,000 off full-day venue rental!


Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Governor of the capital city S.Amarsaikhan and Director of Representative Office of China's Sinohydro Corporation Limited Company in Mongolia Jiang Guo yesterday signed an agreement on Nalaikh road expansion and development.
With USD 1 billion soft loan to be granted by the Chinese government, 20.9 km long auto road will be built from Gachuurt crossroad to Nalaikh and Choir cross-road.
"Nalaikh road is one of the most important infrastructure that relates to development of the capital and safe travel of the citizens. The road not only connects eastern provinces and Zamyn-Uud and Choir with the capital city, also it has great significance to increase volume of trade. Moreover, 600-700 thousand foreign and domestic tourists travel on this road. Therefore, the Government and the Governor's Office have paid special attention to take urgent action on reconstructing the road," the Governor said.
Sinohydro Corporation Limited Company, a contractor of the agreement, will commence construction of the road from April 1 to complete it within 2019.
The sides noted that local people are available to participate in the construction as an assistant contractor. By doing so, the citizens will have income.
The new Nalaikh road will have world standard full lighting, sidewalk and cycle way.


This village inn, set in 15 acres, offers en suite bedrooms located in a pretty courtyard. All bedrooms have been appointed to a high standard and provide a very comfortable stay. Staff offer a warm welcome, and the inn serves good food with many daily specials. There are tennis courts and a boules court, plus a children's play area. Clay pigeon shooting can also be arranged.
Exit A350 to Motcombe, under railway bridge, 400 yards, right to Mere, inn 300 yards on left.


Introducing the new-and-barely-improved #3VOpodcast !! It's been a couple of months and we are so keen to be back! Michael especially is very, very keen. He has been described as the most popular man in Tasmania, but only the podcast download statistics can tell us that for sure… MICHAEL AND RUTH ARE GETTING MARRIED!


Why I Want You to Stop Using "The Cloud"
"'The Cloud' has been forced down our throats!" "I don't want to use 'The Cloud'!" "There's no way my company would ever use 'The Cloud'." What do you think of 'The Cloud'? If someone walks into your office or a meeting room and invokes 'The Cloud' you have a reaction. Good, bad, or blasé you have a reaction. It could be based on experience or perception. When I talk to customers I hear a variety of comments and reactions. The fact is, I don't want you to use 'The Cloud'. I don't. Not at all. I want you to use technology to solve business problems and make your life better. Virtualization, MPP, storage tiers/archival storage, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Oracle, Linux, Data Factory, and Power BI are technologies known throughout the industry. You use them in a variety of ways to meet specific needs. In this session we will discuss how and when to use the Azure Platform to solve business problems and make your life better.


California's Great America is one of four Northern California amusements parks and is located in Santa Clara. It's the only one of the four with a water park inside to add to the excitement for the entire family. The park consists of eight roller coasters and an additional six thrill rides sure to keep your adrenaline level high all day. To that, add a handful of family rides, children's rides, and shows and you've got yourself an entire day's outing in one location with a lot of variety.


Seriously, is there anything better in life than a little Top the Tater? Answer: Yes, there is – MORE Top the Tater.
If you've never tried it, you are really missing out. I'm not just saying that because I love it. I'm saying that because anyone I've ever introduced to it, loves it. And I'm using the word "love" to describe food, not because I have a problem. Well, maybe just a small addiction to this yummy chip dip.
It was actually on our Christmas card one year. That might sound like a joke. But, here is my proof!
Okay, so it might be more than a small addiction. But, once you taste it you will understand!
I used my new Ninja Blender instead of a food processor. It worked great!


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Coming Soon Aug. 22, 2014
Chefs Club by Food & Wine Opens This Fall With Talent From Le Pigeon, Frasca Food and Wine, and More
Elena, left, plates a meal in the kitchen at Chefs Club Aspen. Photo: Chef's Club by Food & Wine
After a couple of delays, Chefs Club by Food & Wine is finally set to open this fall in the Puck Building at Houston and Mulberry Streets. As the name indicates, the venue is an ongoing supper club that draws in guest chefs from across the United States and beyond to come and cook for a while. The original Chefs Club opened two years ago in Aspen, attracting the likes of Jonathon Sawyer, Matt Lightner, Missy Robbins, and George Mendes; talent often overlaps with Food & Wine's "Best New Chef" winners, and if the classes of 2013 and 2014 are any indication, this should all turn out pretty great, even more so considering the magazine's honor is now in its 26th year.
Here's how it works: Each guest chef signs on for a certain amount of time, either bringing some signature dishes from back home or creating new dishes for the à la carte menu. A couple of weeks of special dinners coincide with the launch of each new seasonal menu. In Soho, there will also be wine pairings devised by master sommelier Jonathan Pullis in collaboration with the magazine's Ray Isle. Didier Elena, whose cooking garnered Alain Ducasse at the Essex House four stars from the Times back in 2001, serves as culinary director and oversees the kitchen through each menu change.
Dana Cowin, the magazine's editor-in-chief, chose four young chefs for the New York launch: Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, of Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder, who won Best New Chef in 2005; Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon in Portland, Oregon (2007); Linton Hopkins, of Restaurant Eugene and Holeman & Finch Public House in Atlanta (2009); and Erik Anderson, formerly of the Catbird Seat in Nashville (2012).
David Rockwell designed the dining room, which has 120 seats. Expect concrete, walnut, and finishes of black steel and leather to complement the cast iron columns throughout the space. The restaurant is on the ground floor of the historic building, and is expected to announce full details for its first four visiting chefs in the next few weeks. Once it gets rolling, Chefs Club will be open seven days a week.
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Simon Fujiwara. Joanne
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I feel like I'm cheating if I say: I am a model, I am a teacher, I am a lover, I am an artist, I am a chameleon, I am a fighter... I am a person... I am a female.
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Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella, Simon Fujiwara's new film Joanne is a portrait of his former art teacher.
Joanne had a formative influence on Fujiwara, identifying and nurturing his talents at a crucial point of his development while a scholarship student at the prestigious Harrow School for boys.
The result of a re-encounter between the two fifteen years later, and product of a creative collaboration between them, the work reflects their shared interest in the power of the image and explores the complexities involved in the representation of women.
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Hi my name is Adam, I have a bachelors in music theory and composition from Elmhurst College in Illinois. For this open ended course I'll post the first three lessons for tips only and then subsequent articles will be $5 per lesson. Each lesson will contain a few days worth of material depending on how hard you study. I'll also be posting homework in every lesson that you can send to me and I'll grade your work for $1 worth of BCH.
The question of "what is art" is probably enough to get us stuck off in the philosophical weeds for multiple lessons so I'll try to keep this short. If you ask guys like John Cage he'll tell you that every day sounds and even silence all count as music. I'm sure he has a justification for thinking this way but I don't find it particularly useful to expand the meanings of words beyond something that we can't collectively understand. If the sound of a train going by is music, then what is Led Zeppelin II? And if you say they're equally valuable, well, I guess that's your perspective. For the sake of sanity though we're going to put "music" under the umbrella of "organized sound". So if we take the deliberately organized sounds we know of that we can say are probably not music, we can start to zero in on some sort of definition.
Speech is not music, but it's not merely noise either. The regions of our brains that interpret speech are actually completely different than the richer experience of listening to music. Your ears also have some direct connections to hormone releasing glands that cause reflexive emotions. The research is fairly conclusive, our emotions are more directly connected to hearing than any other sense. A scream, an animal hissing, a crying baby or the sound of rain have an effect on us that flies below the radar of our conscious mind. In that way, music is this mysterious exploration of the more primal mechanisms that control our emotions.
So anyways, some people will want to fight me on this and play semantic games, (I'd love to spar with you in the comments over this), but for now let's settle on the definition "sounds that have been deliberately organized to appeal to human emotions(or subconscious)".
Music theory is the "why" and "how" follow up to the "what is music" question. Why do certain sounds make us feel uneasy? How can we generalize all of those "uneasy sounding" sounds into some sort of a taxonomy that helps a composer choose what sounds to use to make us feel that way(or avoid making us feel that way). What are the different intensities and flavors of these sounds and can we quantify them to the point of being useful?
Probably the most important thing I learned in college was that language is the operating system of your brain. In a sense, a thing does not exist to you until you name it. Therefore, in music theory we are very very rigorous about defining terms. Some of these terms are abstract concepts. Umbrella terms under which we can put more concrete concepts. Drawing from the example above - sounds that make us feel uneasy, increase tension or desire some resolution fall under the umbrella of "dissonance".
Other terms will be so specific that they need to be thought of in a mathematical way. When I say the word "fifth" many novice musicians will automatically think of the interval from C to G as the typical fifth and not give it another though. Unfortunately this definition is not useful and as one's understanding of the western tonal system deepens you're going to encounter fifths occurring in scales that don't sound like 'C - G' and they'll have to unlearn what they thought they knew.
A fifth is any interval that is the fifth letter away from the reference note.
Three examples of fifths. You can see the letters are what matters, not the distance between the notes.
So before we move on, you'll need to commit to following the definitions I give very strictly. You're going to get confused if you don't. Fortunately, western tonal music theory is a very elegant system and is not that complicated(though terms can often be counterintuitive). If you stick to being rigorous about terminology you'll avoid a lot of confusion and will be able to progress quickly.
Why is music theory valuable?
It's safe to say that music is one of humanity's greatest obsessions. It's a drug that most people consume on a daily basis. In this day and age however, it's rare to find someone to talk to who can really tell you why they like a certain song or offer any criticism deeper than vague adjectives. This is problem. Similarly to our lazy consumption of processed foods, our listening has become dull and as a result the quality of music being produced and consumed en masse is rapidly falling. But music is extremely good for our brains and our wellbeing as individuals and as a collective. It helps us deal with stress, connect with each other emotionally, it enhances our experiences and give's our lives a deeper sense of meaning. That's why everyone who enjoy's music should at least be familiar with the basics of music theory. It will lead to a higher standard for creators and reverse the downward trend of quality in one of our greatest cultural institutions. So please join me!
Ok, for homework let's have a discussion in the comments about the question "what is music". Payed content is just a thankyou message. I hope you'll join me as we dig into all things music!
patterns, layers, a story structured with sounds (and/or words if with lyrics)?
a way to reach and connect people's hearts through a shared experience?
an auditory adventure or journey that eventually brings you home (usually)?
Will be sharing this with my kids (and that interesting but slightly depressing video behind the wall). I will try to keep exposing them to "the oldies" since I stopped buying music sometime during the peak of Radiohead. A few weeks ago the middle schooler was learning Bohemian Rhapsody for band, and I got to revisit Freddie Mercury + Queen. Brilliant!
@satoshidoodles you'll still get a ton out of this even if you just skim! I'm going to start charging a fiver for anything past lesson 3 though because it's going to get technical and it's not going to be worthwhile unless you commit to spending some time with it. Will definitely have tons of cheap/free content on music stuff as I go along though!
I really like thinking of music as a fractal of the archetypal hero's journey. A "going out and coming home, but changed". That but in fractal patterns that range from a single phrase all the way out to the entirety of music history. In that way, music is kind of the deepest art. It's really mysterious, unquantifiably human stuff. It's the description of ourselves that we can't find the words for.


Three years ago at age 39, Rob* was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. Fortunately, it was detected in the early stages and was aggressively treated with chemotherapy and radiation. He continues to get good reports at his follow-up visits and has returned to his active lifestyle with his wife and four children. Rob is in sales, and enjoys biking, hiking, and just being outdoors.
I was driving in my car when a bug flew in the window and hit me on the neck. As I brushed it away, I felt a bump. Another thing was that I was always so exhausted. However, the tiredness was such a gradual thing; I didn't really associate it with something being wrong. For two years I had a rash in the middle of my chest that I thought was just dry skin. I didn't realize these were warning signs for what turned out to be Hodgkin's disease.
I went to my family doctor first about the bump on my neck. He looked at it and said it was unusual, but wanted to give it a week or two. It didn't go away, so he referred me to a general surgeon to have it biopsied. The biopsy came back indicating it was Hodgkin's. The bump was a lymph node that was very close to the surface. The cancer was classified as a 2A (1A being the best and 4D being the worst).
Initially, you think the world is coming to an end. I guess I was nervous, and there was a little bit of fear there. It was hard to believe this was really happening to me. But once we got further into it, I learned that the type of cancer I had was actually considered curable. So I realized that it wasn't so bad. Had I let it go, it could have killed me.
First I went through 4 months of chemotherapy—eight cycles going every other week. The chemo I was given was fairly strong, so I took medication to boost my immune system. I also took medication for heartburn, which was a side effect of the chemotherapy. The side effects of the chemotherapy seemed to get progressively worse. I would feel worse for a longer period of time. By the time I had my last chemo treatment, it would really take my energy away. I would be in bed for 2–3 days following the treatment.
One of the drugs I was taking affected my lungs. I would have periods of time where I couldn't catch my breath. They took me off of it for the last two treatments. Then I had six weeks of radiation after that—going five days a week. I've been doing three-month follow-up visits for the first two years, and then six-month follow-up visits this past year. They do a CAT scan and a full exam. After this year, they'll just do an annual check to be sure everything is okay. Other than that, I don't really have to do anything for treatment.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to having Hodgkin's disease?
As far as dietary changes, we are much more aware of cleaning fresh vegetables and fruits before we eat them. We soak all our vegetables in a solution to help remove the pesticides. You can see the stuff coming out of the vegetables when you do that. There's usually a film that surfaces at the top of the water. I eat more organic foods and health foods than I did before. I guess the biggest change is that I drink more water. I just try to eat a balanced diet. I don't want to be a fanatic. We have always exercised, so I can't really say that's a change.
I don't know if this is a lifestyle change, but I think I'm more aware of people who go through something like this. I feel more empathy for them than I used to before my diagnosis. It has also caused me to do a lot more evaluation of my life and my future.
My family was real supportive. They were always there for me. I've been blessed with a family that really loves me. Also, my faith in God grew leaps and bounds. It is a very humbling experience, because you aren't in control and you don't know what's going on with you. It was a great peace to know that my life was in God's hands. I can't imagine going through it without my family and my faith.
There was also a group in town called, "Ribbon of Hope." They are a support group for people diagnosed with cancer. They called me one day and wanted to know if it was okay for them to come to my house to visit. They came over and talked to me about how I was handling the diagnosis, treatment, and just dealing with having cancer. They invited me to the meetings, but I never ended up going. I guess I felt that I had the support I needed, but if I didn't, I'm sure I would have gone. It seemed like a really great organization. I've told several other people about it.
Does having Hodgkin's disease have an impact on your family?
I think my wife and kids were real fearful that they might lose me. We spend more time together than we did before. My wife said the treatments had an impact on my emotions, but I didn't really realize that. My wife has been a real trooper.
What advice would you give to anyone living with Hodgkin's disease?
I would suggest that they make God a priority in their life. Second, I would suggest that they get a support system to help them get through it. It just helps to talk to other people who understand.


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MainAll NewsInside IsraelDichter appointed Deputy Defense Minister
Dichter appointed Deputy Defense Minister
Former Shin Bet chief to serve as deputy to Netanyahu. "I thank the Prime Minister for his trust".
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday decided to appoint MK Avi Dichter as Deputy Defense Minister, in the place of former MK Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan.
Dichter served as chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee until the current Knesset was sworn in, and previously served as head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).
Responding to the appointment, MK Dichter said, "I thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for his trust. This is a challenging security period for the State of Israel and I am delighted to have the opportunity to add another brick to Israel's security wall, led by Prime Minister and Defense Minister Netanyahu."


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How do I write code so that when I push the joystick up and left at about 45 degrees, the robot turns left forward? Push the joystick up and right at about 45 degrees, the robot turns right forward. Push the joystick down and right at about 45 degrees, the robot turns right backward. Push the joystick down and left at about 45 degrees, the robot turns left backward.
Well assuming you have 2x DC motors driven through an h-bridge which allows PWM of the motor speeds.... And assuming the Esplora joystick which I've never used, works just like any other 2 axis, 2 potentiometer joystick, giving analog voltages based on position.
Read the two pots to determine the position of the stick... you might need to do some Serial.print stuff to see what voltages are produced at various positions to calibrate. Depending on the readings that will give your quadrant, which will trigger your "if"s.
My robot has an hexapod with 18 servos (right now, it has 12 servos and I'm waiting for 6 more servos and Lynxmotion Servo Erector Set brackets).
Here's the Arduino pages on if and if..else. You'll notice you don't use the word then in C compared to Basic. This page explains how to do your AND-ing in C.
I got the code working when I push the joystick in desired direction, waiting until the robot moves, and releasing the joystick. Now, if I want to hold the joystick in desired direction as long as I want, the robot has a pause in the walking cycle. I want to use do/while loop but how can I do that?


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After more deaths, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston suspends heart transplants
Mike Hixenbaugh June 1, 2018 Updated: June 1, 2018 6:31 p.m.
After more deaths, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in...
1of26Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center has suspended it's heart transplant program for 14 days. Photographed Friday, June 1, 2018.Photo: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle
2of26Judy Kveton holds a photo of her husband, David. He died of complications from a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley
3of26A photo of David Kveton sits on the nightstand next to his widow's bed at their home in Fort Bend County, Texas.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
4of26About two months after David Kveton's death, his wife, Judy Kveton, received an anonymous letter stating that there were problems with David's heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
5of26About two months after David Kveton's death, his wife, Judy Kveton, received an anonymous letter stating there were problems with his heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley
7of26Brad Kveton pauses as he talks about his dad, David, who died of complications after a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
8of26Judy Kveton talks about her husband, David, who died of complications from a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
9of26Judy Kveton looks over bills from her husband's time in the hospital in their home in Fort Bend County, Texas.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
10of26Lazerick Eskridge suffered severe complications after his heart transplant last year at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley
11of26Roseanna McLaren's mother, Muta Melton, died in 2015 following a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
12of26Roseanna McLaren looks through photo albums in her home, in Alvin. Roseanna McLaren's mother, Muta Melton, died in 2015 following a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley
13of26Muta Melton died in 2015 after receiving a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley
14of26Dr. Jeffrey Morgan took over as director of the heart transplant program at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in 2016.Photo: Elizabeth Conley
15of26Dr. Todd Rosengart is the chair of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. He played a leading role in hiring Dr. Jeffery Morgan.Photo: St. Luke s Episcopal Hospital
16of26Dr. Hari Mallidi is the former director of the heart and lung transplant programs at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. He left the program in 2015.Photo: Courtesy of Texas Heart Institute
17of26Dr. Roberta Bogaev
18of26A 1972 photograph of Texas Heart Institute and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.Photo: File
19of26Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is pictured.Photo: Katie Campbell, ProPublica
20of26Regina Tran takes a moment while reflecting on the memory of her brother, Travis Hogan, who died in 2016 after being removed from the heart transplant waiting list at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
21of26Regina Tran holds a photo of her brother, Travis Hogan, who died in 2016 after being removed from the heart transplant waiting list at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
23of26Regina now collects random feathers that fall into her life in memory of her brother, Travis Hogan, who died in 2016 after being removed from the heart transplant waiting list at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
24of26Travis Hogan died in 2016 after being removed from the heart transplant waiting list at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
25of26A photo of Travis Hogan with his sisters on a shelf in their parents' Pasadena, Texas, home. Hogan was removed from the heart transplant list from Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in 2016 and died a few months later.Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston temporarily suspended its renowned heart transplant program on Friday following two deaths in recent weeks, saying it needs to reassess what went wrong and determine the path forward.
The decision to put the program on a 14-day inactive status — meaning it will turn away all donor hearts during that time — came about two weeks after the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica reported that in recent years the program has performed an outsized number of transplants resulting in deaths and lost several top physicians.
Colleagues had raised concerns to hospital leaders about the program's direction under Dr. Jeffrey Morgan, its surgical director since 2016. A second surgeon, Dr. Masahiro Ono, left for another job this week. Neither Morgan nor Ono responded to requests for comment.
David Kveton died after a failed heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. At first, his wife thought he had just been unlucky. Then she received an anonymous letter from someone at the hospital.
Video: Katie Campbell & Jon Shapley
"We greatly respect and value the trust patients and their families have placed in us over the years, and believe this temporary pause will serve their best interests," Doug Lawson, CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives Texas Division, which owns St. Luke's, said in a written statement Friday afternoon. "Although extensive reviews are conducted on each unsuccessful transplant, the recent patient outcomes deserve an in-depth review before we move forward with the program. Our prayers are with the families, as well as all those on the waiting list."
HEART FAILURE: At St. Luke's in Houston, patients suffer as a renowned heart transplant program loses its luster
For weeks, officials at St. Luke's and its affiliated Baylor College of Medicine have defended the program, saying they had made improvements after a string of patient deaths in 2015. Officials said the program's one-year survival rate after heart transplants had reached 94 percent in 2016 and 2017 under Morgan's leadership.
But of nine patients who received heart transplants at St. Luke's since the start of 2018, at least three have died, according to interviews with patients' family members, information provided by the hospital and data from the the United Network for Organ Sharing.
James "Lee" Lewis, a 52-year-old pipefitter from Bay City, Texas, received a transplant on Jan. 2, and he never recovered. Operating room equipment malfunctioned during a key stage of the surgery, and the donor heart failed.
WORST NIGHTMARE: A heart transplant, a medical mishap and a drawn-out death
Lewis died nearly three months later, on March 23, after undergoing more than a dozen operations and suffering numerous complications, including strokes, serious infections and organ failure. His wife, Jennifer, chronicled her husband's transplant and drawn-out death on Facebook and shared it with reporters for a story published last week.
"I'm glad they are doing something," Jennifer Lewis said upon learning of the program's suspension Friday. "That was my hope in speaking out and telling Lee's story."
Jennifer Lewis holds her husband, Lee's, urn in their home on Saturday, April 28, 2018, in Bay City.
Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle
Another patient, a 67-year-old bankruptcy lawyer named Robert Barron, received a heart transplant on February 27, his son, Craig Barron, told a reporter this week. The transplant seemed to go well, Craig Barron said, but a couple of days later, the donor heart stopped twice, requiring emergency follow-up surgeries and leaving Robert Barron in critical condition.
Barron spent weeks connected to life-support machines and seemed to be recovering gradually, his son said. But then in April, Barron began to suffer from serious infections and other complications. A lack of blood flow to his father's intestines had left them "dead," Craig Barron recalled doctors saying. Later, physicians informed the family they would need to amputate his father's leg at the hip to try to prevent infection from spreading.
With no hope of recovery, the family made the decision to withdraw care on May 5, more than two months after the transplant. Four days after his father's funeral, Craig Barron was stunned to read the Chronicle and ProPublica story about problems in the program.
"It seemed like nobody could tell us what went wrong," Craig Barron said.
At least one other patient has died in recent weeks, hospital officials confirmed, though the person's identity was not released.
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Prior to Friday, St. Luke's gave no indication of continued problems with the program. The day the Chronicle and ProPublica published their investigation, hospital CEO Gay Nord sent a message to employees: "We continue to express strong confidence in our internationally recognized heart-transplant program, despite this morning's media criticism that we believe ... in some cases is inaccurate, incomplete and does not represent our quality of care or our expertise in this specialized field of heart transplant," Nord wrote in the email, obtained by reporters. Neither Nord nor the hospital have contacted the news organizations seeking a correction.
St. Luke's also launched a website, HeartTransplantFacts.org, to counter the story's findings. On Friday, the site was replaced with a notice about the program's inactive status.
The decision punctuates a dramatic fall for one of the nation's most respected heart transplant programs. It was at St. Luke's that famed surgeon Denton Cooley performed some of the world's first heart transplants back in the 1960s, and where his protégé, Dr. O.H. "Bud" Frazier, has pursued a lifelong quest to develop a complete mechanical replacement for the human heart.
The hospital says it made changes when outcomes began to decline three years ago. After a string of transplant patient deaths in 2015, the program hired Morgan as its surgical director and became more conservative, removing some higher-risk patients from its waiting list. It is also more selective than its peers in its acceptance of donor hearts. Since then, program leaders said, the survival rate had improved.
But by at least some measures, the program continued to struggle.
In one of Morgan's first transplant surgeries at St. Luke's, in early 2016, he sewed shut one of two major veins that carry blood back to the heart, and the patient died a few weeks later, according to six medical professionals familiar with the case. Morgan declined to comment on the case, citing patient privacy.
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In another patient's transplant a year later, Morgan stitched through the other major vein, according to the patient's cardiologist, though Morgan said the man's previous cancer treatments complicated the case. After the initial surgery, the blocked vein caused blood to pool in the patient's head, leading to an emergency repair, weeks of follow-up operations, a three-month hospital stay and ongoing health struggles, including kidney failure.
All the while, the hospital continued to market itself as a standout, boasting above-average survival rates and high transplant volume.
Some St. Luke's cardiologists grew so troubled by the program's direction in 2016 that they began referring some of their patients to other hospitals for transplants. One of those was Dr. Deborah Meyers, the medical director of the heart failure program at St. Luke's until early 2017, who said she raised concerns both before and after Morgan arrived, but believed she was ignored.
Last month, Meyers wrote a letter to Nord, the CEO, defending Frazier, who created the transplant program in 1982 and was the subject of another story by ProPublica and the Chronicle last week. In her letter, she was harshly critical of what the transplant program had become since CHI purchased the hospital in 2013.
"In my opinion, the shocking story of the Baylor St Luke's CHI transplant program is one of greed, careerism, corporate takeovers, appalling administrative oversight, failure of leadership, poor hiring practices, completely avoidable lawsuits, and the inevitable public distortions of their underlying mission, all of which have occurred as medicine has become perverted into 'big business,'" she wrote to Nord, indicating that she intended to share the letter with a ProPublica reporter.
Nord, in her reply, implored Meyers not to send the letter to the reporter.
Told Friday that the transplant program had been suspended, Meyers replied, "Finally, finally."
"The only ethical thing to do is stop the program right now," she said.
Across the country, other hospitals have suspended their heart transplant programs in order to make changes and then reopened them.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital suspended its heart transplant program for several months in 2016 while it recruited new surgeons and cardiologists. The Medical University of South Carolina suspended its program in 2014 after a patient died and other transplant recipients had weak hearts; it resumed the following year. St. Thomas Health in Nashville suspended its heart transplant program in 2011 when key staff left. It took five years to restart it.
BROKEN HEART: As wait for new heart got longer, patient grew sicker
During the suspension at St. Luke's, officials said they will continue recruiting surgeons "to strengthen the program." A newly created special committee of the hospital's board of directors will also conduct a comprehensive review. The move will not affect other heart-failure procedures, such as heart-pump implants, or any other transplant programs across the hospital.
Judy Kveton said she was happy to learn St. Luke's was pausing to make changes. Her husband, David Kveton, died in February 2017 a week after receiving a heart transplant at St. Luke's. Two months later, she received an anonymous letter outlining problems at St. Luke's and indicating her husband didn't receive the care he deserved.
"I hope that they can clean up those problems within 14 days," Judy Kveton said of the program suspension. "However, I think they are so massive, it probably will take longer. It should take longer."
This story is the result of a collaboration between the Chronicle and ProPublica, an independent nonprofit newsroom based in New York. Mike Hixenbaugh is an investigative reporter at the Houston Chronicle. Charles Ornstein is a senior editor at ProPublica.
HEART FAILURE: St. Luke's, the Houston transplant center made famous by Denton Cooley, has fallen far and fast, dropping to levels far short of its reputation. In recent years, the famed program has performed an outsized number of transplants resulting in deaths or unusual complications. Read our full investigation on our subscriber website, HoustonChronicle.com.
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Gilgit (PR): Gender discrimination is rampant in all spheres of life in Pakistan. This disparity can also be observed in police departments of all the provinces and the federal capital, where women have less than one (01) percent representation. This fact, if compared with the representation of women in the total population of the country, provides ample evidence that women in a conservative society like Pakistan don't have access to justice and security. This also stands true for the women in the police departments, who are discriminated against at all levels. Therefore, gender based police reforms remain the need of the hour.
Individualland Pakistan, a research based consulting and advocacy firm, under the initiative 'civil society and police reforms in South Asia' conducted talk shows, inviting the most relevant personalities to talk about the much needed gender based police reforms.
In order to increase the outreach of these talk shows, IL Pakistan is presently holding student screening sessions in the various cities of the country. These screening sessions aim at creating awareness among students about the hardships faced by women in the police department.
IL recently conducted a student screening session in Gilgit, inviting students of different age groups from the various educational institutes in the city. These sessions have already been conducted in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi and Quetta. Students, while lauding the efforts of IL-Pakistan, were of the view that such activities must continue to push the authorities for the much needed gender based police reforms.


Salt is famed in Jordan for its fertile soil and the quality of its fruit and vegetable harvests, particularly olives, tomatoes, grapes & peaches. Indeed, it is speculated that the town's name provided the root for sultana, a certain type of raisin . It is thought that the name Salt was derived from the city Saltos of the Roman Emprire. Qadi Shu'aib (Valley of Jethro) is one of the largest agricultural sites in Salt city, a valley with large agricultural areas. It is named after one of the prophets in Islam (as well as Christianity and Judaism, Shoaib (jethro), who was the father-in-law of Moses and one of the descendants of Ibrahim (Abraham).Most privately owned farms are located in this valley; the primary crops are grapes, olives and fruit-bearing trees.


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The airline industry may be one of the final frontiers of gender equality — but that could change with training academies hoping to attract more women to fill the global shortage of commercial pilots.
Pathways towards an airline pilot career are opening up, despite some attitudes towards women behind the controls remaining firmly entrenched in the past.
In June, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker, who sits at the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), was embroiled in a sexism row after claiming a woman would be incapable of doing his 'very challenging' job.
Mr Al Baker later backtracked on his sexist comments to claim almost half of the airline's workforce were women, a similar figure to Emirates Airline.
At Alpha Aviation Academy in Sharjah International Airport, every class of students has at least one female trainee pilot, with the academy aiming to ramp up numbers.
"The numbers are still very small, maybe less than five per cent per cent of trainees are women," said John Coubrough, acting general manager at the academy.
"There are many reasons why we have so few female pilots. Historically the job is traditionally seen as male dominated and it's taking time for that to change.
Out of 130,000 pilots employed globally, just 4,000 women are employed as aviators — or 3 per cent of the workforce.
There is also a huge industry wage discrepancy.
According to a report by Irish airline Ryanair, a 67 per cent pay gap exists between male and female employees, mainly as a result of most of the airline's pilots being men.
At AAA, an integrated training course will see students go from the classroom to the right hand seat of an A320 jet as an airline first officer/co-pilot in less than two years.
The academy has a partnership with Air Arabia offering graduates a direct route into a career in commercial aviation.
There are currently 22 women from 14 different nationalities out of 190 students training in Sharjah, the 11 per cent figure is more than double the industry representation average.
First officers require 4,500 flying hours to complete their training, but as study programmes at AAA begin at just 17 pilots can progress to become captains at a younger age.
They can earn more than Dh50,000 a month, although salaries are much less during training and in the early career stages. Courses cost Dh590,000 plus VAT.
"What we are doing with Air Arabia is providing a seamless process to get cadets trained and into careers with the airline where they can get their 1500 hours flying time," said Mr Coubrough, who worked for six years training pilots at Qatar Airways before taking on a similar role in the UAE in 2009.
At AAA's Sharjah training facility, women from 11 countries, including India, Korea, Germany, Canada and Egypt, are training as the next generation of commercial pilots.
Their enrolment is part of Alpha's push to not only increase diversity in the skies, but also tackle the impending pilot shortage crisis — with 637,000 more commercial pilots needed by 2036.
These international women are determined to overcome gender stereotypes, fulfil their dreams and address industry demand.
The need for more pilots is growing by the day.
The academy runs the 2nd largest Multi-Crew Pilot Licence Programme in the world and the largest in the Middle East with more than 315 graduates and 190 students currently in training.
The MPL is a modern form of pilot training focused on simulator training rather than more traditional methods, and can allow training to be completed in as little as 18 months in some cases.
"For far too long, major airlines have not invested in training officers," said Mr Coubrough.
"Pilot availability tends to go in peaks and troughs and is often driven by the economy, and fuel prices.


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Powerful Prints by Munch, Hockney, Warhol and More
The Prints & Multiples auction on 27 March comprises some of the most significant and desirable works produced by Old Master, Modern and Contemporary artists over the past 500 years. Highlights include a fine impression of Dürer's momentous Melencolia I, as well as Rembrandt's atmospheric Self-Portrait with Saskia. Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall are represented by emblematic prints, while other highlights include Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup I, alongside Keith Haring's Andy Mouse and David Hockney's An Image of Celia, both tributes to their friends and muses. Click ahead to view the slideshow.
27 March 2018 | London
Edvard Munch, 1863–1944. The Two Human Beings. The Lonely Ones (W. 157; Sch. 133).
Estimate: £500,000–800,000.
Esteemed physician and anatomist Dr. Kristian Emil Schreiner remembered how an ordinary house-call resulted in his friendship with Edvard Munch: 'It was a Sunday morning…Munch himself came to open the door, impeded by a couple of out-of-control setters jumping up and down about his knees.'
Munch honoured their relationship by insisting that Dr. Schreiner handle his personal papers upon his death in 1944. Of the 15,391 impressions of 714 different subjects listed in the printmaker's will, 15,287 items went to the care of the foundation that would later become the Munch Museum, to whom Dr. Schreiner's family also donated a painting. In return, the grateful foundation gifted the family this fine impression of The Lonely Ones—a lasting memento of Munch's and Schreiner's friendship.
Andy Warhol, 1928–1987. Campbell's Soup I (F. & S. II.44-53).
Campbell's Soup I, is a series of 10 screenprints based on the original painted works first exhibited in 1962. Warhol linked Campbell's soup explicitly to his, and by extension to every American's, life and childhood: "I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day for twenty years. I guess, the same thing over and over again. Someone said my life has dominated me; I like that idea."
Keith Haring, 1958–1990. Andy Mouse (L. pp. 64-65).
Of his Andy Mouse, Keith Haring suggested: "It's treating him [Warhol] like he was part of American culture, like Mickey Mouse was. That he himself had become a symbol…" By the time Haring met Warhol in 1984, the 'founder' of Pop Art was a venerable household name, as familiar to the American public as Cambell's Soup cans or Brillo Pads.
Marc Chagall, 1887–1985, Cirque (M. 490-527; C. Bks. 68).
Marc Chagall's fascination with the circus began at a young age, when travelling acrobats, dancers and musicians visited his hometown of Vitebsk in pre-revolutionary Russia. In his later years in Paris, the artist regularly attended the Cirque d'Hiver with the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard. Vollard encouraged the pastime in the hope that Chagall would be inspired to create an illustrated book on the subject.
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Pablo Picasso, 1881–1973. Le Repas Frugal (Bloch 1; Baer 2).
Le Repas Frugal represents one of Picasso's earliest forays into printmaking. The impoverished couple are a reference to Picassso's own condition, and that of many of his fellow artists, living in Monmartre around the turn of the 20th century. His poverty was such that the work was etched on a piece of zinc that had previously been used by another artist.
Roy Lichtenstein, 1923–1997. Reverie (C. 38).
Estimate: £60,000–80,000.
Created in 1965, Reverie references the lyrics from 'Stardust', a 1927 song by jazz musician Hoagy Carmichael. In this vibrant screenprint, Lichtenstein uses his characteristic comic book imagery and iconic benday dots to immortalise the young woman.
David Hockney, b.1937. An Image Of Celia(MCA Tokyo 277).
One of Hockney's many portraits of designer and close friend Celia Birtwell, An Image of Celia was made at a time when Hockney was exploring the use of composite photographs. Its strong use of primary colours is typical of the artist's work during this period.
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Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528. Melencolia I (B. 74; M., Holl. 75).
Dürer's Melencolia I was one of his three Meisterstiche, or master-engravings. Along with Knight, Death and the Devil, and Saint Jerome in His Study, they correspond to the three forms of virtue in medieval society: moral, theological and intellectual. Melencolia I, as a depiction of the artist's intellectual situation, is a kind of spiritual self-portrait.
Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, 1606–1669. Self-Portrait With Saskia (B., Holl. 19; New Holl. 158; H. 144).
This etching depicts Rembrandt and his wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh — whom he frequently called upon to model in his works. Produced just two years after their marriage, it is the only work in which Rembrandt and his wife appear together, and represents a celebration of his new bride.
Portfolio, Die Schaffenden.
Estimate: £30,000 –50,000.
This ground-breaking portfolio was commissioned by Paul Westheim, an important and powerful art critic and publisher in Weimar Germany, and a significant supporter of Modern German artists. Westheim hoped that the portfolio would develop, tailor and broaden collector's tastes as it combined the works of established figures, such as Erich Heckel, with prints by more obscure, emerging artists, such as Otto Lange.
27 March 2018 | 10:30 AM BST | London
Sale Total 5,801,751 GBP
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To See the Light, You must Be the Light. It is within you to be the light because the light (universal light…holy light…loving light…spiritual light…living light) has existed in you since the beginning of time. Some of us have been made to believe that "the light" exists in some distant land and far beyond our reach.
We have been taught that the power is not within us, but I am here to say that it is. Because the power and the light is within you, you are responsible for it. You are responsible to make it shine. You are responsible to be the brightest light possible.
No matter the obstacles you carry, there is always light. Shining through the darkened path (fear, regret, disappointment, despair, anger) is the opportunity to become the light. The light, I believe, is in our cellular and soul memory. By raising our awareness and consciousness to that understanding we become a living example of what that light represents.
We change. We shift. We become the light when our soul's energy merges with our purpose. We shift when our thinking is no longer infiltrated with illusion or the obstacle of fear. The late Tullia Forlani Kidde said "It is time to shift from our thinking to our hearts, from our intelligence to our intuition." For us to achieve "humanity" we have to become "heart-centered" and "heart-operational." The part of us that makes us amazing is our ability to stretch beyond the darkness into the rays of light.
Humanity is desperately in need of you to be present for support and love. It is time that we work together on raising the consciousness of humanity, but before we can achieve that we must raise our own awareness. To access this light you must acknowledge that you are part of the light, not separate from it. You must address your fears and put to rest anything that does not support loving kindness. Look at what causes you tension and find the answers to move through it. The time for individuality and unity to merge together is today. We must stand strongly united for the betterment of mankind. We must hold energy for those in need across the globe and across the street. We must be a force of energy that favors compassion and in doing so, the world within and beyond becomes a better place.


Green-Touched Spriggan is an epic Agility creature card. It is part of the Core Set.
In addition to the card's availability in the Core Set, one copy is obtainable in the Black Marsh Smugglers deck as a potential reward from Unwelcome Intrusion. One copy is also obtainable in the Dunmer Avengers deck as a potential Reward from Unwelcome Intrusion.
This card's ability applies the Nature's Wrath card effect.
Spriggans first appeared in Daggerfall, and have since appeared in every mainline game in the series.
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