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Pianist Aaron Kurz to perform with City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra
By Alex Spencer
alex.spencer@iliffemedia.co.uk
American pianist Aaron Kurz will be the soloist at the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra's second concert in West Road since the end of lockdown.
He will be playing Prokofiev's third piano concerto, the most popular of Prokofiev's concertos and a work that is notoriously difficult for the soloist.
The 26 year old was studying at the Royal College of Music in London when the first lockdown started in March 2020 and has been hoping to return to the UK ever since, but it will be his first time in Cambridge.
Aaron Kurz, pianist. (53196462)
Aaron said: "I'll be playing Prokofiev's third concerto which is a really fun piece. It was written 1921 and I personally find the early 1900s to be one of the more interesting periods of music where you have this influx of a bunch of different styles going on at the same time, all with their own little twist. This piece is still very comprehensible by an audience where I think some music of that period can be sort of questionable in that regard. But it still has a lot of that modernist flavour where Prokofiev will deliberately write in wrong notes or sort of sarcastic things. It's a very exciting piece, very virtuosic, and lots of fun stuff for the pianist. It is also has fun stuff for the audience to listen for. I have never gone to a performance where I didn't feel like the audience really enjoyed it. It's just a thoroughly enjoyable piece to listen to.
"It's definitely on the difficult side to play, not quite the most difficult but it's up there. I actually already knew the piece when I was contacted for this performance.
One of the most characteristic things I think of Prokofiev' writing is his orchestration as he creates these incredible effects with various different wind instruments and percussion that really gives the music so much depth and character to it. Something I enjoy is his really quick changes of character in the musical. You'll be in one character, and suddenly you'll go from sarcastic to angry without any transition."
He was introduced to the CCSO by Cambridge composer David Earl and invited to perform as a soloist. He will be conducted by the CCSO's Robert Hodge.
Something that Aaron enjoys alongside performing is the travel to different countries it allows. He has already performed across three continents in venues ranging from the Carnegie Hall in New York, to the Palace of Peace and Harmony in Kazakhstan. He has been the soloist with numerous orchestras and a prize-winner in many competitions. In recent years, he travelled to China to teach, lecture, and perform, and he is currently pursuing a Master of Musical Arts at the Yale School of Music, having completed an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London.
"I spent a year in London Royal College of Music and had planned to travel after school finished but of course that didn't happen because suddenly I had to go part way through my course. I thought I would only be home for a month."
His trip to Kazakhstan was "fascinating", he says.
"I was chosen to go because a clip of me playing had become very popular on Youtube and I think that's how they heard of me. I saw a bunch of fun sites while I was there and there was this incredible pageantry because I think it was government sponsored. It was very lavish. I was met at the airport with flowers and these Kazakh figurines. It was unreal to me as an impressionable 17 year old. It was definitely my first experience where I felt blown away by the possibilities of a career in music and the places I could go with it.
"I was a semi finalist, I didn't advance to the finals. But I found out I just really love travelling. I think that's one of my favourite things besides music, being able to experience different cultures and places. I'm excited to come to Cambridge to see that and I just enjoy travelling around so it's definitely a big upside that comes with the profession."
It was also some much needed encouragement as working hard on his piano practice in high school meant giving up on so many other activities.
"I started playing when I was three," says Aaron. "And I think there were some times at high school where it could be a bit much as it was a lot of pressure. There were definitely times where honestly I would have rather been a normal high schooler. There was so much work that I couldn't hang out with friends because of practice. Clearly something told me to carry on because I didn't quit. But I did wobble on it.
"I felt like there were certain things that I missed out on. I wanted to play in sports teams but the choice was always, it's sports or piano, and I chose piano for obvious reasons. But Still it was tough. I couldn't go to a birthday party today because I had to do work for a competition. And that made it harder I think for a certain period of time. I lost a little bit of motivation and inspiration as a result because it was keeping me from doing normal things. But no one made me do that. It was still something that I wanted to do and I couldn't tear myself away from it.
"It was only at some point in my undergraduate degree, where I learned more, I performed and I started enjoying it more. Everything snowballed to a certain point where I was like, okay, I can do this and I want to do this. That was at about age 20. It's a big commitment because it's a hard field to make it in. And although it's incredibly rewarding you have to really want it because you can make a lot more money doing a lot of other things."
Alongside performing, Aaron spent two years working for the Van Cliburn Foundation's "Cliburn in the Classroom," a program which teaches classical music principles to children in underprivileged school districts. The goal of the program's interactive seminars – to inspire a love of music in children and help educate the next generation of classical musicians.
"I think it's really important to pass music along to the next generation," he says. "I think music has such a power to inspire people that you sort of have an obligation to give back as an artist, because it's one of the things you can do really well. And you can really, I think affect people that way."
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With support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the African Research Universities Alliance will host a 2-day workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 26-27 February 2018 for the purpose of agreeing on and setting performance indicators for member universities. The purpose of the workshop is to (a) present a preliminary knowledge profile of each university to serve as a baseline, using bibliometric data; (b) present a generic logic model to demonstrate how indicator data can be used to evaluate and monitor research impact; (c) share the lessons learnt from the HERANA project and (d) raise awareness of capacity required (related to the systems, organisational structures, processes and procedures) to enable data gathering and sharing on a sustainable basis. This will be informed by a questionnaire or survey on such capacity currently in place at member institutions that will be circulated to each university prior to the workshop.


nieuws » political protests and migration: is there a link?
But will this happen? An interesting article from last week by Matthew Herbert and Sofian Philip Naceur claims the opposite: "While the protest movement is unlikely to drive migration, there is a deep connection between the factors driving young Algerians into the streets and onto migrant boats". Can these protests be that turning point?
What Herbert and Naceur claim is that the drivers for migration are more or less the same as the frustrations felt by the people protesting. 'La mal vie', the bad life, describes this sentiment for many Algerians. It is influenced by the high unemployment rates, and underemployment where jobs do not pay enough to earn a living. But also the "sense that the youth are a blocked generation", because important life steps of having your own house and getting married are put off. These kind of frustrations, 'la mal vie', underlie the current protests in Algeria.
Last month, I was in Tunisia to research migration motives. These sentiments of 'la mal vie', is also what I've seen and heard in Tunisia. The youth would like to leave, because they don't see their future in Tunisia. However, also regarding migration from Tunisia, the profile of 'the migrant' has changed. Like in Algeria, first (right after the revolution in 2011) it were mainly young men, with limited education. Now, migrant groups are more and more mixed, including women, families with (young) children and educated youth.
One big frustration I've heard multiple times in Tunisia is that the revolution was not a real revolution, but more like an uprising. Ben Ali is gone, but that's all, according to some. This is especially frustrating for the youth, who were at the forefront of the protests. Afterwards, they did not get included in the national political process, and still, it is very hard for them to get involved. This adds to the frustrations and feeling that for them there is no good future in the country.
This is what Herbert and Naceur also point out. "Rather than seeing protests as a risk, Europe's migration hawks should see them as working in their favour." The protests may be a first step for frustrated youth to really be part of building their country. To be a real part of the future, so that they can also have a good future. As a protest sign said: "We will not flee to Europe on death-trap boats, we will not burn our mothers' hearts with grief, we will not be eaten by fishes, we will rebuild Algeria."
The question then remains: how can real change be achieved, in Algeria and Tunisia? How do we get a situation where the youth has a chance to impact the future of their country? There need to be 'real' jobs for them, they should be represented in the media, and above all, really be part of the local and national political processes. Involve the youth and support them: take them seriously. As protests in Tunisia and Algeria show, they are interested and committed to make change in their countries happen! If people, especially the youth, have real future perspectives, they will have much less tendency to go to Europe.


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Ice addiction
It's every parent's nightmare: discovering your child is addicted to a deadly drug.
But what makes this situation even worse in SA is that successfully securing support to help a young person to get clean appears to be dependent on where they live, how long they can wait or how much money their family has.
Ice is a growing problem in this State.
Its use has tripled in the past five years alone.
It's extremely addictive, it's relatively cheap and it's readily available – all of which make it more attractive to young people, with men aged 18 to 24 the most likely to take the drug.
It is an insidious drug that can make addicts extremely aggressive and violent.
Parents do feel powerless to help their ice affected children.
There are limited public treatment options, especially in regional areas, and there are usually lengthy waiting lists for rehabilitation programs, while privately-run services can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Few, if any, residential detox centres will take on children.
Having a court order a young addict into a new residential facility for minors then sounds like an attractive idea.
But it is a big step to lock someone away for compulsory treatment – especially when the effectiveness and success rate of current treatment methods is unclear.
The concept may have merit in severe cases where young addicts present a serious risk of harm to themselves and those around them, particularly other children in the family home.
Perhaps it could be just one tool in a suite of options for treatment as part of an overhauled approach to tackling the issue of drug addiction across SA.
However, in order for this proposal to be progressed, a lot more work needs to be done to determine the most effective way to get people off this drug and keep them clean for good.
Who would pay for the treatment, who would run it and where would treatment centres be developed?
Any mandatory treatment program must also be supported with long-term assistance to help the affected young person settle back into society.

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Colton Gillies
Get to know a draft pick — Zemgus Girgensons
By James O'BrienJun 21, 2012, 9:30 AM EDT
All week leading up to the 2012 NHL Entry Draft in Pittsburgh, we'll be profiling top prospects who may hear their names called Friday in the first round. Nothing too in-depth. Just enough so you know who they are and what they're about.
Zemgus Girgensons (C)
Height: 6'2 Weight: 198 Shoots: Left
Team: Dubuque Fighting Saints (USHL)
NHL Central Scouting ranking: No. 18 among North American skaters
What kind of player is he?
By many accounts, Zemgus Girgensons is a "safe" pick projected to go mid-first round. He brings little bit of everything — some snarl, some offensive skill and defensive aptitude — but questions revolve around how much. Scouts are divided on his upside with some comparing him to Ryan Kesler…and others comparing him to Colton Gillies.
Girgensons possesses the size, skill and nastiness to survive at the NHL-level. The question is if he can thrive.
Of note, he has a sweet nickname ("The Latvian Locomotive") and could be the first Latvian-born player drafted in the first round.
Quotable:
"Girgensons is the type of player you would love to have on your team, but hate to play against. His physical brand of hockey, work ethic and hunger for the puck is unrivalled by any player in the USHL and arguably his draft class.
"Girgensons plays the game the only way he knows how – in your face and full throttle – as he goes through players rather than around them… The opposition has to constantly be alert when he is on the ice, as he will hit with authority and can also burn a team on the scoresheet with his hands."
– McKeen's Hockey
More draft profiles:
Nail Yakupov
Filip Forsberg
Malcolm Subban
Ryan Murray
Pontus Aberg
Oscar Dansk
Griffin Reinhart
Alex Galchenyuk
Cristoval 'Boo' Nieves
Jacob Trouba
Olli Maatta
Derrick Pouliot
Slater Koekkoek
Tags: Colton Gillies, Columbus Blue Jackets, Ryan Kesler, Vancouver Canucks, Zemgus Girgensons
Wild prospect Granlund expected to be signed soon
By Jason BroughMay 21, 2012, 11:47 AM EDT
Minnesota Wild fans have reason to be excited about skilled forward Mikael Granlund, the club's ninth overall selection in 2010 that the StarTribune reports should be locked up shortly.
Granlund led HIFK Helsinki of the Finnish Elite League with 51 points in 45 games — a fair accomplishment for a player that just turned 20 in February.
From the StarTribune:
The Wild must sign Granlund by June 1, or it loses his rights and the 20-year-old can re-enter the draft.
But the Wild and Granlund's agent say discussions have been positive and there's no reason to sound the alarm bells. Granlund has said over and over that he is ready for a new challenge and that his intent is to sign with the Wild.
So while it might take a few days to finalize paperwork, all indications are the Wild will very soon announce the signing of Granlund to a three-year, $2.7 million contract — the maximum for a 2010 draft pick — along with potentially lucrative performance bonuses.
The list of first-round picks that haven't panned out for the Minnesota Wild is a depressingly lengthy one. In fact, the last pick that turned into an impact player in the NHL was Brent Burns, the 20th overall selection all the way back in 2004.
Since then? Well, let's see here. A.J. Thelen. Benoit Pouliot. James Sheppard. Colton Gillies. Tyler Cuma. Nick Leddy.
From the Wild's perspective, the only positive you can say is that Pouliot was flipped for Guillaume Latendresse, and the latter hasn't played more than 16 games since 2009-10 and may well be cut loose by the club.
On second thought, that's not very positive.
Tags: Benoit Pouliot, Boston Bruins, Brent Burns, Chicago Blackhawks, Colton Gillies, Columbus Blue Jackets, Guillaume Latendresse, Minnesota Wild, Nick Leddy, San Jose Sharks
Columbus columnist: Blue Jackets are "the biggest mess in the NHL"
By Mike HalfordJan 26, 2012, 10:46 AM EDT
Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch has posted a lengthy, insightful and scathing first-half review of the Blue Jackets.
Titled "It's Never Been Worse," Portzline conducts a thorough investigation of the franchise from top to bottom, trying to identify areas for improvement that would change the culture of the struggling club. That he chose now to write this piece speaks volumes — the Blue Jackets are in their 11th year of existence, but have just 13 wins in 49 games and in real danger of breaking the franchise-low for wins in a season (22, in 2001-02…the current BJs are on pace for 21.)
This despite the fact they're spending over $62 million in player salaries, 1oth-most in the NHL.
More, from the Dispatch:
What's more unappealing in sports than a club with a bloated payroll and the worst record in the league? What's more disheartening for fans than a club that opened the season with such high expectations only to fizzle quickly into the worst season in franchise history? What could be more maddening for onlookers than to see a collection of players perform so far below their abilities, their track records?
It's painfully obvious that something significant must be done to salvage what has become the biggest mess in the NHL. Minor moves won't cut it. It can't be player in, player out. Can't be just pending UFA for future draft pick. It's not about having enough speed, strength, skill or smarts … it's about culture. The numbers don't add up because the math is all wrong.
Portzline then goes on to address various areas of concern:
— The club has a lack of winning pedigree throughout, from players to the front office. Only Sammy Pahlsson and Brett Lebda have won Stanley Cups while "under [GM Scott] Howson, a significant level of expertise has been chased from the building. [Ken] Hitchcock, Don Boyd and Bob Strumm were all gone from the organization in the span of months."
— The lack of moves given this year's disastrous results. The only trades/player acquisitions were for Lebda, Nikita Nikitin, Mark Letestu and Colton Gillies. The club also took a long time before turfing head coach Scott Arniel.
— Mike Priest, the club president, has little hockey background (he was owner JP McConnell's financial guy) and a less-than-stellar reputation throughout the league.
Under Priest, the front office has lost its share of employees who were a credit to the organization, well-respected in the community. Priest dabbles in hockey decisions, too, which many find problematic. A handful of coaches who have interviewed for jobs with the Blue Jackets often refer to Priest's 'PI" test — which measures a candidates ability to fit in an office environment — with either incredulous humor (what the?) or a resentful scorn.
Coaching in the NHL is not an office job, they note.
For more, check out the full piece at Dispatch's Puck Rakers blog.
Tags: Colton Gillies, Columbus Blue Jackets, Mark Letestu, Nikita Nikitin
Blue Jackets grab Colton Gillies on waivers from Minnesota
By Joe YerdonJan 14, 2012, 1:09 PM EDT
Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson is trying to do things to change the team's fortunes. He's trying.
Howson pulled the trigger and grabbed former Wild first-round pick Colton Gillies off of waivers. Unfortunately for the Blue Jackets, Gillies was on waivers from the Wild for a reason – he hasn't been very good.
In 89 career games with the Wild, Gillies has just three goals and seven assists. He's a career fourth line grinder type of forward and going to Columbus in that sort of role is curious as the Blue Jackets have plenty of guys who fill that need as it is.
Howson must be banking on Gillies' familiarity with interim coach Todd Richards and having a change of scenery to maybe unlock his career. Gillies played in just seven games for Richards last season in Minnesota.
Tags: Colton Gillies, Minnesota Wild, Scott Howson, Todd Richards, waivers
Setoguchi out with lower-body injury, could be gone a while
By Mike HalfordDec 7, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT
According to Mike Russo of the Minnesota Star-Tribune, Wild GM Chuck Fletcher has confirmed LW Devin Setoguchi is out with a lower-body injury.
And based on Russo's observations, the injury could be serious.
"Setoguchi looks like he suffered a serious right leg injury," Russo wrote. "I think knee, but we will see. He was wearing a soft cast on his right leg under his pants after the game, limping badly and being consoled by folks."
Setoguchi left last night's 2-1 win over San Jose in the first period and didn't return to the contest.
In addition, Russo noted Setoguchi had been "limping since the Anaheim game" — the Wild played the Ducks on Sunday — and definitely won't be in the lineup when Minnesota plays in L.A. tomorrow night. Colton Gillies will draw into the lineup at his replacement.
I'd say losing Setoguchi will hurt the Wild, but I'm not sure anything actually hurts the Wild. They're tops in the NHL despite a rash of injuries and basically did the business last night with smoke and mirrors. They were without Setoguchi, Marek Zidlicky, Guillaume Latendresse, Justin Faulk and both their regular goalies, Niklas Backstrom (groin) and Josh Harding (who left the game with an injury)…yet still managed to win their fifth straight.
Tags: Carolina Hurricanes, Colton Gillies, Devin Setoguchi, Guillaume Latendresse, Josh Harding, Justin Faulk, Marek Zidlicky, Minnesota Wild, Niklas Backstrom
Get to know a draft pick — Zemgus Girgensons June 21, 2012 9:30 am EDT Wild prospect Granlund expected to be signed soon May 21, 2012 11:47 am EDT Columbus columnist: Blue Jackets are "the biggest mess in the NHL" January 26, 2012 10:46 am EDT Blue Jackets grab Colton Gillies on waivers from Minnesota January 14, 2012 1:09 pm EDT Setoguchi out with lower-body injury, could be gone a while December 7, 2011 2:48 pm EDT Coaches officially hired: Glen Gulutzan in Dallas, Mike Yeo in Minnesota June 17, 2011 1:42 pm EDT Vote for the Goal of the Week (April 4-10) April 11, 2011 10:40 pm EDT Goal of the night: Colton Gillies whirling backhander crushes Dallas April 11, 2011 9:00 am EDT Chicago sneaks in the playoffs through the back door, Dallas loses 5-3 to Minnesota April 10, 2011 8:53 pm EDT


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The 20/21 British Art Fair to be held at the Royal College of Art
One of the pieces that will be on display at the fair - Banksy
This year's 20/21 British Art Fair is to take place at the Royal College of Art from the 11th September until the 15th September.
It has been described by many as the ideal setting as the College can count many of the artists being shown as former students. This includes Elizabeth Frink, Barbara Epworth, David Hockney and Bridget Riley.
More contemporary works by popular artists such as Bansky, Hirst and Perry will also be displayed alongside emerging artists and recent graduates.
The high regard held for all these artists is reflected in the surrounding galleries of London. Portraits by Dame Laura Knight and sculpture by Jacob Epstein are currently at the National Portrait Gallery. Patrick Caulfield is at Tate Britain as is the first large retrospective of the work of LS Lowry. The Dulwich Picture Gallery features 'A Crisis of Brilliance 1908-22' highlighting those Slade artists caught up in the First World War. Also of special interest this year will be the work of William Scott in the centenary year of his birth and he will feature at Tate St. Ives.
This year the usual array of paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture will be joined by a new stand: photography. The eclectic selection of stands will be managed the Fair's team of 56 leading dealers. These experts will be on hand to share their fascinating understanding of the artworks.
The fair is to be opened by Hattie Moraham at 5pm on the 11th September. The prize winning actress, plays Laura Knight in the recent film 'Summer in February' about the life of Sir Alfred Munnings. Work by Dame Laura Knight is always seen at the fair and was also a graduate of the Royal College.
Since 1988 the Fair has showcased the very best of the history of the 20th and early 21st century British art with particular focus on Modern (1900-1945) and Post-War art (1945 – 1970). Hugely popular and with a loyal following, the Fair is looking forward to its 2013 appearance.
www.britishartfair.co.uk
Venue: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Dates: 11-15 September 2013
Times: Wed: 3-9pm; Thurs: 11am-1pm; Fri/Sat: 11am-7pm and Sun: 11am-6pm
Admission: £9 ( concessions £6)
Email: info@britishartfair.co.uk
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Q: Getting average difference between two dates in minutes I am trying to get avg receiving time in minutes for each outlet.
I have tow tables Orders and ReceivedOrders.
Orders
OrderID OutletID OrderDate
1       1        2017-04-10 17:04:41.000

ReceivedOrders
ReceivingID OrderID ReceivingDate
1           1       2017-04-10 17:06:31.000

i have tried the below query but its reruns zero as avg receiving time
SQL Query
SELECT        Outlets.OutletName , avg(datediff(MM, Orders.OrderDate, ReceivedOrders.ReceivingDate)) as Receive
FROM          dbo.Orders INNER JOIN
              dbo.Outlets ON dbo.Orders.OutletID = dbo.Outlets.OutletID INNER JOIN
              dbo.ReceivedOrders ON dbo.Orders.OrderID = dbo.ReceivedOrders.OrderID
group by dbo.Outlets.OutletName

Output
OutletName Receive
Outlet1    0

A: Use datediff with millisecond option:
select Outlets.OutletName,
    avg(datediff(ms, Orders.OrderDate, ReceivedOrders.ReceivingDate)) / 60000 as Receive
from dbo.Orders
inner join dbo.Outlets on dbo.Orders.OutletID = dbo.Outlets.OutletID
inner join dbo.ReceivedOrders on dbo.Orders.OrderID = dbo.ReceivedOrders.OrderID
group by dbo.Outlets.OutletName

A: Your code is doing exactly what you are specifying.  You are getting the date diff in months, not minutes.
When using date parts, just spell out the full name of the date part:
SELECT ol.OutletName,
       avg(datediff(minute, o.OrderDate, ro.ReceivingDate)) as Receive
FROM dbo.Orders o INNER JOIN
     dbo.Outlets ol
     ON o.OutletID = ol.OutletID INNER JOIN
     dbo.ReceivedOrders ro
     ONo.OrderID = ro.OrderID
GROUP BY ol.OutletName;

The above counts minute boundaries between two values.  You may want parts of minutes, in which case I would use a smaller unit.  Milliseconds are definitely an option, but they can overflow pretty easily if the dates are even a few months apart.  So, you might really want something more like this:
SELECT ol.OutletName,
       avg(datediff(second, o.OrderDate, ro.ReceivingDate)/60.0) as minutesToReceive
FROM dbo.Orders o INNER JOIN
     dbo.Outlets ol
     ON o.OutletID = ol.OutletID INNER JOIN
     dbo.ReceivedOrders ro
     ONo.OrderID = ro.OrderID
GROUP BY ol.OutletName;

Note the use of 60.0 rather than 60 to force non-integer arithmetic.

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Leading airline, British Midland International (bmi) has unveiled a new Business Class and Economy cabin for its mid-haul routes.
The major refurbishment of the A321 and A320 aircraft includes new leather interiors, new comfortable cushions, as well as a dynamic new lighting system.
Customers travelling to mid-haul destinations such as Addis Ababa, Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Freetown, Khartoum, Moscow, Tbilisi, Tehran and Yerevan from Monday 22 November will see the start of an ongoing refurbishment programme for the British airline set to be completed by May 2011.
Brown leather covers with black stitching have been fitted to all seats complementing the recently introduced new carpet and headrest covers. In addition, new multi density foam cushions will be onboard all of these aircraft providing increased customer comfort in both cabins. New lighting, bulk heads and curtains add to the spacious new look and feel to the cabin.
Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, chief executive officer, bmi, commented:
"We are delighted to upgrade our mid-haul aircraft in order to offer a truly competitive product. The interior changes are the final touches to a full overhaul of our mid-haul fleet that has included repainting the aircraft to the full bmi colour scheme from their temporary livery.
"We are committed to offering the best service at the best price for our customers and look forward to welcoming them on board our newly refurbished aircraft. By improving the customer experience and updating our product and services regularly we aim to bring maximum benefit to our valued customers and make travelling with bmi even better."
bmi has recently announced a new daily route from London Heathrow to Tripoli, starting 21 February 2011 and a second daily direct service from London to Beirut, commencing on 31 March 2011.


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Q: Beam java SDK,a java grammar confusion In the Apache Beam Programming Guide https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#transforms-flatten-partition , I saw a code like this, I'm so confused with the Java grammar about the below, Please explain,Thanks.
PCollection<String> merged = collections.apply(Flatten.<String>pCollections());

Why there is a dot. and a generic parameter<String> followed with a classFlatten? Who can tell me the java grammar of this?

A: PCollection<String> merged

A declaration of an object named merged of generic class PCollection<T> with String type parameter.
collections.apply(...);

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"Love God with all your heart, mind and soul. Love your neighbor as yourself."
[April 12, 2019] When my grandson was about seven years old, his paternal great-grandma passed away. I am my grandson's maternal grandmother.
I was talking to him about going to the visitation and the funeral since he was worried about what might happen. I told him that I would be there at the visitation, hoping to reassure him that he would see familiar faces.
Although he was only seven years old, he is echoing a concern I've heard by adults, telling me that they should only go to a visitation if they know the person who died. I agree if that person was close to you that you need to visit that person's family and visitations are a good way to express our sympathies and care to the grieving family. But it astounds me that people think they should not go to a visitation if they didn't know the deceased, but they do know the family. When my father-in-law died, many people who know me expressed that they were not coming, since they did not know him.
For those of us who are Christian, we need to remember that when we die, our body returns to the earth and our soul returns to God. When we attend a visitation. . .the deceased person is no longer there. We don't attend to visit with that person, but their family.
We, as Christians, know that the person we knew is now with God. That is what Easter is all about. We no longer fear evil. We no longer fear chaos. And most of all, we no longer fear death, since our souls live eternally with God in heaven.
Jesus tells us that heaven is a place of compassion, love and grace, so we are not devastated for our loved ones, but celebrate that they are made whole and restored to new life.
Of course, Jesus taught us all these wonderful wisdoms while he was alive. He lived his life to the fullest and wants us to live ours the same.
Whether we are celebrating Easter, the Risen Christ, in worship or whether it is six months after Easter and we find ourselves in a funeral visitation, it's so very important to remember to be fully alive, to celebrate life, whether it is on earth or in heaven.
Christ has risen! Let us celebrate that we can rise also, both now and in eternity. Blessings to all this Easter season!


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Innovation, Podcasts
Inside First National Bank of Omaha's launch of a digital consumer loan
The largest privately-held U.S. bank recently launched a digital loan product.
To do so, it partnered with digital lending specialist, Upstart.
Marc Butterfield is senior vice president of innovation and disruption at First National Bank of Omaha. I also think Marc's the first person we've had on the podcast with 'disruption' formally in his job title, but it does speak to his role at the $23 billion bank.
FNBO recently launched a digital loan powered by Upstart and Marc and I discuss the process through which his firm launched that product. We talk about early metrics behind the launch and what the bank plans to do with Upstart in the future. More broadly, Marc describes his role and the challenges and opportunities in traditional FIs to make positive change.
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The following excerpts were edited for clarity.
Helping lead innovation in a traditional FI
My role is to help the 165 year old organization enable innovation within its groups and to transform the culture to one of innovation. It's also to identify disruptive threats to the business models for the largest, privately held bank in the U.S.
I've been at the bank for 18 years. I don't feel like I've been here that long because I've held four very different roles. We also have a card issuing business. I started there, managing product strategy. Then I moved into marketing and new customer acquisition. Then, I did something totally different and moved over to manage our credit risk organization for consumer credit. Then I moved back into product and helped create a consumer lending business. The last two years, I've been in this role.
The advantage I have of being here so long is that I've developed a lot of networks. That trust factor opens — and keeps open — doors within the organization. That said, having 'disruption' in my job title keeps a tension with people who may question what I'm trying to do and how I'm trying to change the status quo. I do create anxiety when I go to meetings and talk about doing things differently. At the same time, they know me and trust me.
Launching a digital personal loan
We wanted to expose our senior and executive management to what's possible and real out there. We do have a consumer lending business today but it's based on how a bank would launch such a business. It isn't digital. It's very belt and suspenders from a risk approach. It's a very good business for us.
Once or twice a year we take a few executives on a fintech excursion that looks at how a firm could help the bank in a very meat and potatoes way. In 2018, we met with Upstart. Our team resonated with the fintech lender. It created a positive catalyst for change internally as we question how to best work with a firm like this.
Comparing a digital lending business to a traditional one
We officially launched a digital consumer loan in July 2019 and finished a test in November. We wanted to get enough loans on the books so we could compare our digital loans powered by Upstart to our traditional lending business.
Upstart does all the marketing. They solicit the customers and based on our basic risk criteria, they get displayed a FNBO offer. If the customer accepts the offer, they go through Upstart's workflow and approved and adjudicated by Upstart. We only have basic credit criteria in there — it's their underwriting, alternative data, and machine learning. If the applicant is approved and accepts the loan terms, she becomes a First National Bank customer.
Benchmarking a digital lending business
For our current business, a full automation rate is essentially zero because customers call in and talk to a loan specialist. It's a really good process but it's all manual. Upstart wants to get to full automation. With this new digital process, we were just under 80 percent.
Our Net Promoter Score is in the low eighties, 10 to 15 points higher than Upstart's traditional NPS. There's a bank making this offer and that speaks to the power of this partnership.
Internally, we are more interested in what's to come — the power of Upstart's machine learning model. Can it more accurately price to risk? Can it include more borrowers given our risk appetite? Can it provide a better experience for borrowers overall? You need at least 6 to 12 months of loans on books to really track this.
The components of an innovation program
It's a newly created role and team — we formed in August two years ago. We had to train the team on agile/lean design concepts: focus on the customers, the problems they encounter, and how to solve them for them. At the same time, the team needed to research technology trends and identify how to link them up with doing customer research.
There are six of us now. We started with a small group focused on the commercial side and one or two people on consumer. Another person is focused on fintech engagement. So, we have a head of fintech to do things like our yearly excursions and also to categorize all the fintechs that we were meeting. We created a library.
Now, we're more focused on macro themes, like improving automation and efficiency in the bank. Then we have an item around leveraging blockchain technology. We have another person focused on improving our advice and guidance — customers want their bank to be more helpful and engaged. It all revolves around thinking about the customer.
Build, partner or buy
If you draw a Venn diagram, we think about investing, partnering, and building. We have examples internally of all three of those. I can say that we've invested a significant amount of money in the investment part of that. Upstart is one of those fintech investments we've made. We didn't build a separate VC arm but we do invest in strategic partners.
For building, we're working on a couple projects we're co-developing with startups on the commercial banking side of the business around bockchain and cashflow optimization.
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'It's a lot more fun battling over 150 basis points than 10 basis points': Tern's Brion Bonkowski
Tern is an embedded finance platform run by Brion Bonkowski.
He joins us on the podcast to discuss the platform's roots in cross border debit payments and where the platform is headed in the future.
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Behind Green Dot's embedded finance business with Amit Parikh
Green Dot has its hands in a few different businesses, including an embedded finance platform.
The firm's Amit Parikh, who heads up the banking as a service group, joins us to talk shop.
'We are going to take everything that Gusto built and make it available as a platform': Gusto's Tomer London
Beginning with payroll, Gusto has moved deeper into fintech for the 200,000 businesses it serves.
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tomer London joins us on the podcast to discuss Gusto Wallet and the company's launch of Gusto Embedded Payroll.
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'As income data becomes more important, you can start to creatively rethink the paradigm of credit': Pinwheel's Kurt Lin
Income data is becoming an increasingly important piece of the financial ecosystem.
Kurt Lin, co-founder and CEO of Pinwheel, joins us on the podcast to discuss building product and a company in the space.
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Intuit's small business ecosystem is increasingly embedding financial solutions for customers.
Rania Succar, who leads the money offerings for the software firm, discusses the connection between customer benefits and embedded finance.


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North Korea 2006
North Korea. According to CountryAAH, major public holidays in North Korea include Independence Day (August 15) and New Year (January 1). Kim Jong II visited China in January, where he inspected a number of economic development projects and met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. As usual when the North Korean leader does something, the visit was overshadowed by a plethora of speculation, this time about what he was really doing in China. One theory was that the visit marked that North Korea was now entering a period of economic reform, another theory was that Kim Jong II wanted to assure China's support if the so-called six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear program were to resume. The talks between North Korea, South Korea, Russia, USA, Japan and China failed in November 2005.
At the beginning of the year, South Korea presented statistics on the flow of North Korean refugees: In 2005, nearly 1,400 North Koreans had moved to neighboring countries in the South, a decline from nearly 1,900 refugees in 2004. Since the Korean War of 1950-53, about 8,000 North Koreans were estimated to have moved to South Korea, while another 300,000 were believed to be living secretly in the border areas of northern China.
Confusion arose in March when North Korea fired two short-range robots. It was unclear if it happened by mistake during an exercise or if the robots were deliberately pushed away. In addition, different sources indicated different points of impact, east of the Japanese lake was a task, north to China another. However, the South Korean military described the firing as routine.
In April, South Korean media reported severe food shortages in North Korea. In May, food would not even be distributed in the capital Pyongyang, which would otherwise be more well-stocked than the countryside. The regime stopped UN food supplies in September 2005 because it felt that they were no longer needed. However, food aid continued from China and South Korea, which did not place the same demands on control over distribution as the UN did. However, following negotiations with the regime, the UN food program WFP announced in May that food distribution would resume, albeit on a smaller scale. Under the agreement, WFP would deliver 150 tonnes of food over a two-year period to almost two million of North Korea's most vulnerable residents.
The consortium that worked on developing two light water reactors for North Korea in exchange for the country scraping its nuclear weapons program was shut down in June. The project was discontinued as early as 2003 since North Korea acknowledged that the attempts to manufacture nuclear bombs continued in secret. At the closure, the project with the light water reactors had cost a total of $ 1.5 billion. That money had mainly come from South Korea and Japan.
On July 5, North Korea fired seven missiles. The trial shootings were condemned by the outside world, and the US with several countries gave the Pyongyang regime clear warnings not to make any more blasts. The UN Security Council condemned North Korea in a resolution and urged the country to respect the 1999 crackdown. North Korea, however, declared the tests successful and warned other countries to exert pressure on the regime. Several countries imposed financial sanctions on Pyongyang, including Australia and Japan. China and South Korea withdrew parts of their assistance. Several assessors warned that the economic sanctions and repeated demands on North Korea to resume the six-party talks could provoke the regime to carry out a nuclear test.
In July, South Korean media reported that Kim Jong II, 64, married his private secretary since the 1980s, Kim Ok, 42. Kim Jong II is believed to have been married twice before. The first wife died in 2004 and the second is also probably dead. With the first two wives, Kim Jong II has three sons. It is unclear which of them will be the leader's successor.
During the fall, several reports came out that Kim Jong II's health would have deteriorated, among other things, the leader would suffer from severe diabetes.
On October 9, the regime in Pyongyang announced that for the first time the country has succeeded in conducting an underground nuclear weapons test. The blast, which was carried out in the northeastern North Korea, was probably quite small but was recorded in several places abroad. There was also information that the announcement of the nuclear test would be false. North Korea is believed to have a handful of nuclear weapons, but probably not technology to place them on a missile. The news of the nuclear test spread a shock wave through the Asian neighbors, and the entire international community condemned North Korea. Particular attention was drawn to the fact that China, which often expressed caution in its criticism of Pyongyang, clearly condemned the trial. Later that month, the UN imposed sanctions on North Korea. These included, among other things, shiploads to or from North Korea may be inspected and confiscated if they contain materials for weapons of mass destruction, that the country may not import heavy conventional weapons and that all countries are encouraged to freeze bank accounts linked to the North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program. Pressure from the outside world prompted Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks at the end of the year and refrain from nuclear weapons if the United States pledged not to attack the country.
In November, reports of financial sanctions exacerbated food shortages in North Korea.
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A: Finally I've solve it!.
My Test Product Name was not the same to my Project Product Name.


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When I look back at my mixed up teens, drunk and confused twenties and thirties, seeking forties, and now my fifites I am humbled and joyed by the unconditional love the God has given me through His son Jesus Christ.
Kathleen Finnigan and I walking out halfway through Ms. Edsons alg class and forgetting that that night was parent teacher night.When I think back to all the things I did in high school it really brings home... "But for the grace of God go I."
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The Home Front refers to British civilians' contributions to the war effort. The Second World War began in September 1939. But the Government had been making plans for the Home Front for a year prior to the outbreak of war. Neville Chamberlain stated in October 1938 that 'when war starts... in the very first hour ... it will strike the man in the street, or in the bus, his wife and children in their homes'. The people had to be watchful and prepared.
The Home Front was necessary to protect the British public, to motivate them, to encourage them, to raise morale and it was vitally important in the struggle to win the war. Government intervention in civilian life was unprecedented it was involved in every aspect of daily life on the Home Front.
'For this is total war, and total war is war right inside the home itself.
These pages are based on a booklet which brings together the memories of people who were in Marsden during the Second World War. Some are born and bred Marsdeners and some were brought here by the War itself; some were just children and some were at work. It is designed to give a picture of what life was like at that time in the Pennine village of Marsden.
We are grateful for the help of Kate Button, Isobel Holland, Dave Pannell and Shirley Simmons and to Jenny and Doris at Friend to Friend.
Thanks also to people who have entrusted photographs to us: Renée Brice, Alan Matthews, Geoffrey Pinder, Derek Pinder and Pat Pye.


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Japan Coast Guard Unmanned aerial vehicle to start operation this year 3 or more new deployments
[NHK] The Japan Coast Guard is making adjustments to deploy more than three new aircraft from next year on the unmanned aerial vehicle "Sea Guardian", which began operation this year...
The Japan Coast Guard has learned from interviews with officials that it is making adjustments to deploy three or more new unmanned aerial vehicles "Sea Guardian", which began operation this year, from next year.
It is also considering sharing information acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles with the Maritime Self-Defense Force in real time.
In order to strengthen the surveillance system in the waters surrounding Japan, the Japan Coast Guard began operating one unmanned aerial vehicle "Sea Guardian" that operates from the ground in October.
According to the Japan Coast Guard, the high-performance camera installed can shoot ships from an altitude of 3000 meters or more, and it can also detect infrared rays at night.
In addition, since it can fly continuously for more than 24 hours and can check real-time images on the ground, it is expected to be used for territorial waters security and salvage.
According to officials, the Japan Coast Guard is making adjustments to deploy three aircraft as early as April next year, and then deploying one or more.
It is estimated that the time and area in which a single Sea Guardian can perform surveillance is two to three times more than that of a single manned aircraft. I want to build a system that I can understand.
Many manned aircraft are deployed in Okinawa Prefecture, where the Senkaku Islands are located, but in recent years illegal fishing by North Korean and Chinese fishing boats has become a problem in the waters around the Yamato Bank off the Noto Peninsula. It is expected that surveillance work will be mainly carried out using unmanned aerial vehicles.
Regarding the Sea Guardian, the Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to start trial operation from next fiscal year, and the Japan Coast Guard is considering acquiring information within the scope of the police's authority and sharing it in real time. The challenge is how to proceed with information sharing.
What is the unmanned aerial vehicle "Sea Guardian"?
"Sea Guardian" is a large unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the American defense company "General Atomics" based on military aircraft and modified to specialize in maritime surveillance.
The introduction cost is about 4 billion yen, the Japan Coast Guard leases the aircraft to respond to the latest technology, and the pilot is outsourced.
The base is the Maritime Self-Defense Force's air base in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, and an operation center with a cockpit was set up.
Four coast guard officers take turns as "operation officers", instructing the pilots on the areas to fly and the objects to be photographed, and confirming the images and radar information on the monitor.
In the background of the introduction, there is an increase in the work burden of coast guard officers, and they want to improve operational efficiency and improve the quality of maritime surveillance by taking advantage of the reduced number of personnel compared to manned aircraft.
In addition, since it is possible to check the situation at the site for a long time even when a disaster or marine accident occurs, it is assumed that images of the damage situation on remote islands, for example, will be shared with related organizations such as local governments.
Enhancing "Understanding of Normal Conditions" in Sea Areas with High-Performance Equipment
What the Japan Coast Guard wants to strengthen by introducing unmanned aerial vehicles is the "understanding of the normal situation" of the sea area.
"Normal state monitoring" is the idea that abnormal movements can be detected by accumulating normal marine information such as ship distribution and weather, in addition to monitoring suspicious ships.
In response to this interview, the Japan Coast Guard released for the first time a part of the video taken from the Sea Guardian after the start of operation.
The image of the high-performance camera clearly shows the state of the ship taken from an altitude of 3000 meters or more, where the appearance and sound of the aircraft cannot be confirmed in infrared mode.
It is possible to detect heat sources and traces of light, so the cigarette fire is reflected in white and you can see how the sailors are smoking.
According to the Japan Coast Guard officer who operates it, it is possible to check the name of the ship and the state of the ship from a high altitude even at night.
In addition, it has a function that can identify suspicious ships that do not operate the "AIS (Automatic Identification System)" that transmits the ship's position information with a radar with high detection ability.
There is also a function to identify the ship by ship shape using AI = artificial intelligence, and it means that data will be accumulated in the future.
Yasunori Watanabe, Director of the Security and Rescue Department of the Japan Coast Guard, said, "Unmanned aircraft have better surveillance capabilities than manned aircraft, so the level of information will be much higher in terms of quantity and quality. We need to improve our analytical capabilities so that they can be used in aircraft operations."
On top of that, regarding the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for ``understanding the normal situation,'' he said, ``For example, if you continue to accumulate information on the distribution of fishing boats for several years, a certain tendency will emerge. If there is a situation, we can make predictions that something might happen, and we can deploy patrol vessels and aircraft more thickly." He expressed his desire to strengthen the system.
There is also a case of grasping a Chinese oceanographic research vessel
There are also cases where abnormal situations were detected by "understanding the normal situation".
Three years ago, a Chinese marine research vessel commissioned by a private company attempted to conduct a marine survey for the construction of a planned offshore wind farm off the coast of the Sea of Japan.
According to people involved, the Japan Coast Guard grasped the trends of the Chinese research vessel, which was navigating waters that were not supposed to normally navigate, using satellite information, etc., and as a result of sharing information among related ministries and agencies, the vessel returned to Niigata Port. Although it entered port, it returned to China without conducting an investigation.
Japan Coast Guard and Self-Defense Forces also considering strengthening cooperation
The Maritime Self-Defense Force will start trial operation of Sea Guardian at Hachinohe Air Base from next fiscal year. We will improve the efficiency of operations through
The Japan Coast Guard is considering using unmanned aerial vehicles to acquire information within the scope of police authority and sharing it with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in real time. I think the Maritime Self-Defense Force has analytical capabilities that I don't have. I don't know if they will provide all the information, but I hope they will share the situation in the surrounding waters."
Under these circumstances, the government is considering strengthening cooperation between the Japan Coast Guard and the Self-Defense Forces regarding the "National Security Strategy", which is the basic policy of diplomacy and defense to be revised by the end of the year.
Expert "Need to create a framework for information sharing"
Bonji Obara, a senior researcher at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation who is a former Maritime Self-Defense Force officer and is familiar with maritime surveillance, said that the Japan Coast Guard's unmanned aerial vehicle can actually fly for more than 30 hours, and if you change pilots on the ground, it will take about that time. It's not very fast, so it can stay in a certain airspace all the time and capture a target at a fixed point.It can be used both as a complement to manned aircraft and as a way to stay above the target for a long time." said.
On top of that, he said, ``Marine surveys and illegal fishing operations without permission from the Japanese government are already being carried out in the exclusive economic zone. It is expected that the ability to obtain detailed information on the surrounding waters will be extremely effective in protecting Japan's security and economic interests. I am doing," he said.
On the other hand, as a current issue, "It is difficult to keep track of all wide-area targets at all times, and there is still a lack of systems and facilities to integrate the vast amount of information. There is a need to create a framework for information sharing. However, the issue is how the data will be passed and how it will be merged.In the future, the two organizations will have to consider what kind of system and how it will be merged. ' said.
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Herbert signs bill to beef up adoption rules
By Annie Knox, Associated Press | Posted - April 2, 2014 at 6:51 p.m.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Single mothers will no longer be able to travel to Utah to put kids up for adoption without first notifying their children's fathers now that state legislators have changed a law that critics said cleared a path for kidnapping and fraud.
The measure's sponsor says the revision will allow responsible fathers to challenge adoptions, giving them a chance to remain in their children's lives.
"We're trying to throw a speed bump into that process," Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler, who sponsored the proposal, said Wednesday.
"This will allow judges to know if a father has reached out and grabbed his rights," he said.
The law aims to cut down on cases such as last year's battle involving a drill sergeant from North Carolina who gained custody of his infant daughter after he said his ex-wife traveled to Utah, gave birth and placed the newborn up for adoption without his knowledge.
"It's kind of a reaction to this perception that we've become a magnet state for fraudulent adoptions," Weiler said.
Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, signed the measure Tuesday, weeks after a Utah Supreme Court ruling sided with a Pennsylvania father challenging the Utah Adoption Act as unconstitutional after saying his ex-girlfriend turned their baby over to an adoption agency without telling him.
As that case heads back to a lower court, a separate lawsuit involving that man and 11 other fathers fighting previous law is pending in federal court.
The new legislation takes effect next month and would render moot portions of the lawsuits that seek to overturn the state's adoption regulations. The courts could still, however, award financial damages to the affected fathers, who aren't seeking custody in that case.
Wes Hutchins, the attorney representing the dozen fathers, has been a vocal critic of Utah's adoption laws. He calls the measure "a step in the right direction," but says it would be difficult to enforce.
The new law only applies to unwed mothers, because married women must already tell the fathers if they plan to place up a child for adoption. It would also require the mothers to live in Utah for at least 90 days or file in court information about the birth father in cases involving babies younger than 6 months old.
The bill doesn't impose any penalties on women who don't volunteer the information. Rather, it requires a judge to ask the pertinent questions.
"Treating the men responsibly and including them in the process is simply an ethical practice," said Adam Pertman, president of the Donaldson Adoption Institute. "What if he's 28-years-old, has a good job and wants to be a dad?"
The bill would not allow a non-custodial father to unilaterally stop an adoption, but it would allow him to challenge it in court for a judge to decide. It also could allow a father to strike a deal with an adoptive family to remain in a child's life in some capacity.
In deciding whether a father would have notification rights, however, courts must take into consideration any history of domestic violence between the parents.
This marks the second year lawmakers have moved to walk back the adoption act. A 2013 law requires adoption agencies to prohibit employees from misinforming adoptive parents about children.
The law takes effect May 13.
Associated Press writer Michelle L. Price contributed to this report.
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Masayoshi Fujita returns to Erased Tapes for new album, 'Bird Ambience'
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Japanese vibraphonist, multi-percussionist and composer Masayoshi Fujita is set to release a new album 'Bird Ambience' on Erased Tapes.
The LP marks a new sonic direction for Fujita in several ways. Previously separating his acoustic solo recordings, his electronic dub recordings as El Fog, and his experimental improvisations alongside Jan Jelinek, the album sees him fuse all these different elements for the first time into one singular sound.
He also makes a lateral leap from his signature instrument the vibraphone to the marimba, which takes centre stage on his new album alongside drums, percussion, synths, effects and tape recorder.
"The way of playing the marimba is similar to the vibraphone, so it was kind of a natural development for me and easier to start with, yet it sounds very different", explains Masayoshi. "The marimba bars are made with wood and it has a wider range than the vibraphone, which gives me a bigger sound palette with more possibilities. I play the instrument with bows and mallets, and sometimes manipulate it with effects."
After 13 years in Berlin, Masayoshi recently relocated to a new home and studio in the rural Japanese mountain village of Kami-cho, Hyogo, following his life-long dream of creating music in nature. Masayoshi's previous releases have come via Faitiche, Home Normal, flau and Erased Tapes.
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Through my social networking on the internet I found out that the circus wagons that were used in the movie Water For Elephants are owned by the Circus World Museum in Baraboo Wisconsin. There were 15 antique circus wagon's from the Circus World Museum used in the movie. When I found out about this I needed to go. So my husband, children and I decided to go and see them. I live approximately an 1 hour away from Baraboo, so I thought this was too good to be true.
These are some of the photo's that were taken on the day trip. The photo of me standing in front of the orange and silver decorated cage with black bars was used in the part of the movie where Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson) sticks his arm between the bars and almost gets it bitten off by the lion. I just wanted to add I loved the book and I am very excited to see the movie.
Here's lies, Robowski's arm...well not really...but it could have been very tragic if Rex had teeth.
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I too live near Baraboo and I did go to the Circus Museum this summer once I found out they had a few wagons from the movie there!
They really were pretty cool to see. Such intricate details on all the wagons. Can't wait to see them on the big screen.


I first tried this recipe at cooking club with just shrimp (no scallops or potatoes) and it was amazing! (original recipe at the bottom of the page.) However, I made this recipe for an Oscars Party, to mimic the movie: Manchester by the Sea. So I changed it up slightly, which you can too. Change up the seafood, change out the potatoes for orzo or nothing, and so many other creative ideas!
Add the seasoned scallops to the pan. Allow to sear for about 2 minutes. Flip. Repeat. Set aside.
Add more oil and the shrimp and sauté them for a minute on each side and set aside.
Add the potatoes, tomatoes and green onions.
Sauté until the tomato starts to break down, about 3-5 minutes. Add 1 cup chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce and simmer until just cooked through, 15 min.
Add the scallops, shrimp, wine, herbs and season with salt and pepper and simmer for 2 minutes.
Remove from heat and gently mix in the feta.
Cover and allow to rest for 3 minutes.


A recent phenomenon has emerged in the world of recruitment and it relates to candidates looking for work. In the last four weeks we have had a number of vacancies in and a number of interviews set up, but we have also had a number of candidates not attend interviews or decide that they do not wish to proceed. The percentage of these is extremely high at present, and very unusual compared with our normal ratio of failure in this area.
The first one of these candidates was a specialist solicitor who had expressed a keen interests in a role, sent us a detailed explanation as to why she fitted the bill and when we finally managed to arrange an interview for her decided that it was going to be too difficult to take time off in the short term, and she would only be able to attend an interview in the medium term. Unsurprisingly the firm had a number of applicants and did not bother interviewing her.
The second candidate was an experienced commercial solicitor who expressed an interest in a job in the Northeast and when the firm shortlisted her and requested an interview, she emailed us back to say she had no plans to relocate and did not want to attend an interview. She lived in the Southeast of England.
The third candidate went along to an interview in Yorkshire and informed the firm that he was not looking for work and was only attending the interview because we had approached him and asked him to. The firm decided he was unsuitable for their position.
The final candidate went for an interview with a firm in Yorkshire and his feedback was as they had targets and wanted him to meet these this was not a suitable job for him, as he did not think targets were the right way of doing business and he had never heard of them before in his line of work.
As recruiters we can almost tear our hair out at each of these because waiting behind these candidates are other candidates who are extremely keen to get interviews and jobs, and would attend an interview at a moment's notice, relocate as required and certainly not have delusions of grandeur or be under any false illusions as to the current state of the market and the need for billable hours.
We go to extraordinary lengths to get these vacancies in and persuade the firms to interview, and then to have candidates doing this can quite frankly make us want to cry at times. Why these people even bother applying for the posts when it is clear from their emails that they have absolutely no interest in moving is beyond me and especially in the current climate when there are so many solicitors out of work and desperate to get back in. You can almost guarantee if as a recruiter you send through five CVs, of which four will be nice, fairly desperate candidates in dire need of work, the firm will always opt to interview the one candidate you think is going to be the one who either fails to attend the interview or simply isn't that bothered.
Perhaps this will end with the end of the recession, as it is not a phenomenon I have come across before very often, and most of the time candidates attend interviews, firms interview and if firms are interested they make offers which the candidates consider, and we do not have these ridiculous actions going on that affect both our reputation as an agency but also wastes everybody's time.
These are no isolated incidents and it has been the same pattern over the last six to nine months. I have started to identify some of these candidates and now do not bother to spend any time on them, if I get the slightest inkling that it may be that they are not going to attend an interview or they are going to mess us or the firm about.
I hope anyone reading this does not think that we have turned into a bunch of crazy, desperate recruitment consultants as I suspect that this could be seen as somewhat bitter, and there may be very good reasons for each of these people to fail to attend their interviews or to not bother proceeding as indicated. Feel free to comment on this blog entry and I will be interested to hear your thoughts.


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This episode, Denny and James review an old favorite, Oriental Beauty. Oriental Beauty is a summer-harvested, bug-bitten tea that is harvested in Taiwan. Thank you to Roy (My Tea Guy) for supplying the tea for this episode.
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The Honourable Judge Smith Orr - Orrville, Wayne Co., Ohio
Many emigrants and adventurers were not only fleeing poverty, or religious and social persecution, but they were enticed by the thought of a better life and free or exceedingly cheap land. To many anything was better than the environment from which they came; they were incredibly resolute and also remarkably mobile for their time. They went to Canada and the wilds of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia; to the humidity of Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia; to New York, Pennsylvania; and the Ohio valley. Some were in the Mormon trek to Utah. In all these places they made their mark by fighting off the native Indians, clearing land and establishing townships some bearing the Orr name - Orrville, Wayne Co. Ohio is such a place named after an early pioneer Judge Smith Orr, son of Samuel Orr who went to America in 1801. Living a hard frugal, life the family managed to buy small plots of land and gradually accumulated some 300 acres. Some of this land was used to found the township that bears the family name
The family originated from Talliard, Parish of Donoghkiddy, barony of Strabane, Co. Tyrone. The townland is associated. with Lisconbuy, Cloghogie and Benelealy in the Civil Survey of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone ( Simmington, Irish Manuscripts Commission). Smith Orr was the youngest child of 8 born in 1797 but at the cost of a mother, Sarah, who died in childbirth. Following the 1798 Rebellion and its aftermath the family sailed for a new life in America in 1801. They settled first in New Castle, Delaware and it was not until 1812 that Samuel decided to take his family West. They took a stage coach to Cumberland, Maryland, which was the end of the line, and then joined a wagon train along the Old National Pike. They left the wagon train at Wheeling on the Ohio River and went forward pushing hand carts to arrive in the late Spring of 1812 in East Union Township, Wayne Co. and settled on a farm at Apple Creek. Samuel died in 1818 and is buried in the old cemetery there.
Smith Orr was reared in the wilderness that was all about them and learnt to read and write at home; importantly he also learnt mathematics and was subsequently a surveyor in the community and the state for 40 years. He married Maria Foreman in 1818 and began married life in a log cabin on Apple Creek. They bought a small farm in Baughman Township in 1821 and in 1825 they bought the 160 acre `home farm` one mile south of where Orrville now stands. They lived here until 1854 and their only child, William, was born there in 1826.
Over the years Smith Orr saw opportunities with the coming of the railroad and set up a saw mill for supplying railway ties and fuel logs as well as buying several small plots of land that were subsequently set out as plots for the new town that would become Orrville. He was elected a justice of the peace at a young age and re elected for over 25 years; and was selected to be a judge of the Common Pleas Court which he held until abolished by the Constitution of Ohio in 1853. Smith took an active part in politics and was a member of the Union Convention which met in Baltimore in 1864 and re nominated President Abraham Lincoln. He died in 1865 and is buried in the old cemetery in Orrville .
Orrville is a hub for the family in Ohio and some excellent work was done by a local inhabitant, L G Weiss, who constructed a substantial family tree in 1968 and amended it in 1972. This tree, in the form of a Register Report, has been updated from my own research and contacts with descendants - special thanks to Deb Spano in NY and Vinson Tate in OH.
If you see any amendments or have further information I would be very pleased to hear from you.
Link to the Orrs of Mercer Co., PA.
I have been asked many times about possible links and have finally come across a connection between Ohio and Pennsylvania Orrs. It comes about through the marriages by male Orrs to Hofacre cousins.
Ross J Orr of Apple Creek, OH, married Ethel May Hofacre 18 Jan 1919.
William Warren Orr, Mercer Co., PA married Martha Alice Hofacre in Perry Towenship, Mercer Co. PA.
The Misses Hofacre are cousins:
Ethel May`s ancestors are : Alonzo Lawrence (1869); John (1841); George (1794) and Michael (1767).
Martha Alice`s ancestors are: George Werner; George( 1794); Johannes Michael (1769)
Michael and Johannes Michael Hofacre were brothers.
It may be a circuitous route to the connection, but remember that they were all immigrants and had a common interest, especially in a community of farmers, to migrate to places where the land was available and, hopefully, cheap. They grasped opportunities when and wherever they could and would have been on at least nodding acquaintance, and probably members of the same church. There is some truth in the saying " the family that prays together, stays together".


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Previewing the Best NFT Games of 2023: What to Look Forward To
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Last week, something happened that changed the event world for ever. 200 events successfully used InGo's attendee intelligence feature, called Network Notifications, to notify their attendees and exhibitors which of their friends and customers were coming to the event. This technology will change every aspect of event economics from why events sell-out, to whether exhibitors decide to exhibit at an event. For the first time in event history, attendees and exhibitors will be notified (90 days before event, then fortnightly afterwards) who they know at an event. If you understand human nature and the business of events, you understand the seismic ramifications of this.


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Dr MacKenzie's research interests are in Early Modern British and Irish History from c.1603-1707. In particular she is focused on the following areas:
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
Most recently Dr MacKenzie's research and publications have focused of the 'covenanted interest' of the Three Kingdoms from 1638-1660 and has a forthcoming monograph on the subject due to be published by Routledge in September 2017.
Dr MacKenzie has had a longstanding interest in this period of history and has published on many of the political, religious and diplomatic aspects of the conflict.
Print Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Dr MacKenzie has had a longstanding interest in this feild since her undergraduate days and has followed the historiography closely. Dr MacKenzie has been approached by Routledge to produce a cutting edge volume on print culture. Her own focus lies on print culture during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
The Jacobites 1688-1788
One of Dr MacKenzie's emerging interests is on the Jacobites and the Jacobite conflicts between 1688-1746. In particular she is interested in the impact of the conflict on the lives of ordinary people particularly those living in Britain and Ireland.
Dr MacKenzie is currently transcribing a diary which gives a valuable insight into the Jacobite wars from the perspective of an ordinary working man.
Relations between France and Britain: Anglo-French and Franco-Scottish Diplomacy
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Four-year-old Bella Cruz is recovering from a kidney transplant, thanks to the bravery of her own mom. As she does, Indianapolis is hosting two national conferences aimed at getting more people to sign up as potential organ donors.
Bella's path to normalcy started last week, as Fox59 met the Cruz family just before surgery. Bella has chronic kidney disease and her mom, Gia, gave up one of her own kidneys for her daughter.
Both surgeries went well and Gia is now recovering at home. Doctors are keeping an eye on Bella at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, but expect her to be ready to go home soon.
"What I would expect for her in the next three to six months is she will catch up to kids her own age, in development and in growth," said Dr. William Goggins, who performed Bella's surgery.
As Bella's dad Fred stays by her side, their story comes at an important time. This week, Indianapolis is hosting two national conferences focused on organ donation. Leaders from across the country have come together to talk about how to get more people to become donors.
"Hopefully, it makes people think, we need more organ donors, period," said Sam Davis with the Indiana Organ Procurement Organization.
More than 60 percent of Hoosiers are registered donors, but the registry does not cover living donors, like in Bella's case. That requires people to step forward, often family or friends.
"You're seeing it happen on Facebook. You're seeing it happen through websites like MatchingDonors.com or through the national kidney registry. It's kind of a new frontier right now," said Bryan Stewart with One Legacy.
A new frontier that, in Bella's case, is necessary. She'll need at least two more kidneys in her lifetime. The next will be when she's around 20 years old.
For now, though, it's all about getting better. Bella's dad called her recovery and successful surgery the ultimate Father's Day gift.
"I couldn't have expected a better gift than to have life given to my daughter for a second time," Cruz said.
If you'd like to learn more about registering as a potential donor, go to Donate Life Indiana.