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Fort Process Festival Returns
Ben Graham , August 21st, 2018 16:00
Fort Process festival organisers Lost Property guide us through the third edition of the experimental sound and art festival
Fort Process, the one-day multidisciplinary experimental sound and art festival, returns to Newhaven Fort for its third edition next month, with the line-up of music, talks and installations taking in the likes of Rhys Chatham, Aja, UKAEA, David Thomas Broughton, Kyoka, Grischa Lichtenberger, Max Eastley and Shatner's Bassoon.
The festival, which features many specially commissioned and site-specific works responding to the unique spatial and acoustic qualities of the fort, is also the central feature of an extended programme of events taking place at multiple venues including London's Café Oto, Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion, and the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Fort Process: Dispersion continues into September with talks and performances in Newhaven, Brighton and Hastings, including a show by Phill Niblock and Tim Shaw at the Attenborough Centre on September 8.
Constructed in the 1860s and then adapted for use as a last line of defence during World War II, Newhaven Fort is built directly into the cliffs and the rolling South Downs hillside. It includes countless underground chambers, tunnels and rooms which at Fort Process will become venues for musicians and artists to work with, exploring the creative possibilities and limitations of the spaces over the 11 hours of the event. The festival also makes use of the expansive open parade ground, a large metal-walled Romney hut, and the high ramparts overlooking the sea, which this year will host an "Aeolian park" of autonomous wind-powered instruments.
With previous editions of Fort Process having taken place in 2014 and 2016, this year organisers Lost Property have aligned the event with the inaugural Newhaven Arts Festival, further fulfilling their aim of including the local community and avoiding the danger of seeming elitist, exclusive or forbidding to those outside of the experimental music scene.
Legendary punk and no wave-influenced minimalist composer Rhys Chatham is best known for his massed electric guitar orchestra pieces from the late 70s and early 80s, which inspired fellow New York artists Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth and Band Of Susans among many others. At Fort Process he will be performing his 2016 work Pythagorean Dream, a solo piece for trumpet, flute and electric guitar in which loop pedals and phasing are utilised to powerful, hypnotic effect. Visual and sound artist Max Eastley, who has previously collaborated with the likes of Brian Eno, David Toop, Steve Beresford and Peter Greenaway, will be heading up the installation programme, while musician and sound recordist Jez riley French will be collaborating with his daughter, the multi-media artist Phoebe riley Law.
tQ caught up with three members of the Lost Property team - Al Strachan, Daniel Mackenzie and Graham Newbury - to provide a guide to some of the event's other highlights.
Daniel Mackenzie: "One of the essential concepts of the festival is that you go and explore things. There are all manner of tunnels and cracks and crannies and huge spaces that suddenly open out and the nature of the work is exactly that. You arrive on site, you get a beer or something, but then you keep moving. Go and find things. You can emerge from being underground for two hours, run to the main stage and go and see some incredibly loud electronic music and then dive back in and do that for eleven hours, basically."
Al Strachan: "There are quite a few artists who are processing the fort itself. Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer have got their feedback cellos and they've got mics placed around the fort which are like networks, and they're feeding everything that you're hearing around the fort into their little area. Isn'tses submitted a proposal where they've basically created something called the Fort Processor, which is a kind of synth/circuit based on the site map of the fort. We're not quite sure how that's going to pan out, but it's looking interesting from their prototypes. And then there are people like Dan Powell who's using lots of objects from around the fort, and Littoral Transmissions who are using field recordings based on recces in the weeks preceding the event."
DM: "Looking at the line-up there are definitely more artists who have their roots in electronica, rhythmic noise and contemporary experimental rave music. The names that I'm angling towards here are Kyoka and Grischa Lichtenberger, who are both on the Raster imprint. It's changed its name and changed a bit but it originated through Carsten Nicolai, [AKA Alva Noto], the multi-media artist, so that label has such a seal of quality in terms of artists that they work with. Kyoka especially is going to be really good to see. She has this approach towards making electronic dance music. Her albums are strange, cosmic and fairy tale-like in a way, but really twisted. They're kind of dark, but without being unpleasant or anything. From what I've seen of her live she's quite wild, and I think a lot of it is going to be improvised on the spot, just allowing her machines and processes to get chaotic. I'm really hoping that festivalgoers get into that in a gung-ho sort of way.
"Obviously Aja and UKAEA will be really good in terms of breaking that barrier a bit, too. UKAEA in particular are known for having this interactive element and playing with the audience. On their recent gigs they've been blindfolding people, and a lot of people who read this will remember how at Supernormal they were actually getting people involved with rituals and wiping clay on their faces. We also have things that leap off the traditional stages as well, and use the spaces in a wider way. Pickett Improv is a good example. This is a dance group who are going to be performing around the parade ground, which is that huge space in the middle that's difficult to programme. So in terms of the programme and the line-up and the way that we're using performers, I think it's much more about seeing what else we can do and seeing how we can play with the formats a bit. In terms of more acoustic traditional instrumentation, Ore will be really good to see. They're self-styled tuba doom."
Graham Newbury: "Shatner's Bassoon. Every gig they've done has been brilliant, but the last gig I saw them do was awesome. It's brutal but really musical. It's so tight it's ridiculous but there's something really organic about it, and when they go for it it's brutal as fuck, without losing musicianship. I think they're going to be the dark horse of the festival actually."
AS: "Jobina Tinnemans comes to mind because she's going to do a very exciting piece. She does these things called panoramic scores which are wrapped around walls, and the musicians play them as they walk past them."
GN: "Voces Castrum is a polyphonic vocal troupe, and the idea is that they'll be doing stuff in the tunnels. We asked them about going into all the different parts of the eastern magazine where the installations are and singing in each room, so the audience can walk around and mix it themselves, and it'll ping around the back tunnels and everything. It'll be quite interesting to see how that goes."
AS: "Tetsuya Umeda is definitely one that's going to be a highlight, I think. The only thing he's requested so far is a gas hob. Basically he's going to do some experiments and make some noises with steam. And Julian Weaver has created this enormous ear trumpet that you can swivel around and listen to the sea or listen to the fort or whatever. It kind of references military listening posts and sound mirrors, and it's been especially fabricated for the festival so it's quite exciting to see that.
"Kathy Hinde is also worth mentioning. She's using this really narrow lighting passage. The piece is called Luminous Birds and you sort of see the nature of bird flight through these paper birds that light up in sequence with their sounds. Then Kira+ has made an interactive piece using the technology that you find in self-driving cars, shooting out beams to map out an area. So then you've got people walking through it and they're triggering sounds, and then these sounds develop as you walk through this thing. I think that'll be nice as it allows people to become sound makers themselves."
DM: "I feel that things like that allow younger audiences to get involved with the installations as well. A lot of the installations are more experiential than intellectual. You don't need to be of a particular kind of intellect; you just wander through and you're part of what the festival is putting out, as well as being on the receiving side."
Fort Process takes place from 12-11 pm on September 22. Full line-up and ticket information can be found here
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Posted in Manifesto by SM on January 19, 2010
DIY. Do it yourself.
This is a sentiment that has had a long, slow growth over the past couple of decades. While mainly a hippie thing in the sixties and early seventies, punks (and not just the mohawked, rocker types) have adopted the DIY ethic as their own. Creating their own music, style and politic.
DIY has manifested itself in nearly every industry or craft. It's spread beyond economies and has seeped into our daily lives. We build meat cart beds, sew our own clothes, build our own web presence without giving any real money to giant corporations making these products for us. Sure, the end results are often rough around the edges, but that's what gives our things, our lives character.
In no other industry or craft has DIY had a greater effect than indie rock and craft beer.
Yesterday's garage band playing the prom is today's Lollapalooza headliner. These bands have moved from cheap cassette tapes of their songs to small runs of 7″ vinyl to full albums available online and created on their MacBooks. They didn't like what the mass producers were mass producing, so they made their own. Some of it good, a lot of it unlistenable, but all of it original.
Take Pavement, for example. A couple of college kids from Stockton, CA decide they want to record some songs and put it to vinyl. A scary hippie with a makeshift recording studio and an uncanny ability to not keep a beat helps them out and you have Slay Tracks. The rest is history. Had SM and Spiral Stairs (pseudonyms) never worked up the nerve to record their own songs, Pitchfork would have nothing to pine over this year.
And Pavement is just a small piece of the indie-DIY puzzle. They sounded like they were doing it themselves (good thing). I haven't even mentioned Sonic Youth making their own path through the major labels when so many 80's indie bands had failed. Those old codgers even rebuild their own instruments. Folks at Merge (as well as countless other indies) started a record label just to release records by themselves and their friends. Indie rock is littered with DIY success stories.
Beer had a similar rise. About the same time punk rock was blowing up – making way for the hardcore and indie movements – Jimmy Carter signed a bill into law declaring homebrewing legal. No other development has had more of an impact on the beer market than this one bill. Soon after, a dude named Maytag brewed some steam beers in San Francisco and another guy started a brewery in Chico, CA. Charlie Papazian founded the Association of Brewers. It all took off from there.
It's this DIY attitude that provides all the innovation for both of these trades to flourish. In the midst of these economically hard times, indie labels and craft brewers are a few of the folks still making money. Major labels have been losing money for almost two decades. The big mega-breweries are experiencing something they never thought breweries would feel: a pinch from a down economy. Folks are willing to pay good money for quality music on vinyl or extremely hoppy imperial IPA's or sour beers brewed in wine barrels.
Instead of waiting for someone to make something they liked, these indie rockers and craft brewers did it for themselves. And they're finding that other people wanted the same things they did. So, they're able to make a living doing what they love.
Even I've done some things for myself. I can't play an instrument and I didn't have the capital to front a label, but I've done what I can to promote and support these DIY bands. Even better, I've taken up homebrewing in the last year. Three out of four batches made it to bottles. The first was drinkable; the second was a huge success; and the third gets better every time I try it. These things and various DIY projects litter my life with meaning and accomplishment.
By trade, I'm a teacher. There is maybe no other profession that uses DIY as much as teaching in public schools. There is often nothing in the way of appropriate materials available on a daily basis. We make our own. Now with all this Web 2.0 stuff, we really make our own all over the place.
The point of celebrating the DIY ethic is to call attention to the capabilities we all hold inside. We can do and make whatever we want or need. There is no more waiting for governmental or private enterprises to make what we want. We have to do it for ourselves.
So, build your meat cart bed. Learn to knit. Take a guitar lesson. Plant a garden. Do it for yourself. Don't wait for someone else. "Yes we can" was not just a campaign slogan. Believe in it. Believe that you can do it for yourself.
This is just the first in a series on my manifesto for life. I feel most strongly about DIY. You should too. Let me know what you plan to do or are doing that fits the DIY lifestyle.
(*Note: This is not some lame-ass hipster, holier-than-thou diatribe. You should really give this a try.)
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doublewordscore said, on January 19, 2010 at 9:18 pm
My DIY resolution this year (and probably next) is making a book. If Dan Brown can do it…
partoftheprecipitate said, on January 21, 2010 at 11:57 pm
I have a lot of DI(my) goals this year as well. I took up knitting for the hell of it, I'm already a super-canner. I'd like to learn to play an instrument and I'm hoping to improve some gardening beds. It seems like it's so late in my life to get back into these very basic things that my parents knew and did. It just wasn't a priority until now.
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A fantastic 3 bedroom semi detached house, built in 2016 by Persimmon Homes with en suite bedroom, driveway, garage and private garden. The property is situated on a popular development, within walking distance of 2 railway stations, excellent schools and shops. The accommodation comprises: entrance hallway, cloakroom, sitting room and a great sized kitchen/dining room fitted with an attractive range of units with integrated appliances and double doors onto the garden. On the first floor there is access into the loft space which offers potential to convert into further accommodation, if required. There is a master bedroom with fitted wardrobes and en suite shower room, 2 further good sized bedrooms and family bathroom. Benefits include double glazed windows, gas fired central heating to radiators (combination boiler located in the kitchen/dining room) and Karndean flooring. A driveway provides parking for 1 vehicle, leading to the 20'5 x 9'9 garage with power and ample eaves storage. There is further resident parking available opposite. The 38' x 28' garden offers an excellent degree of privacy and is predominantly lawned with a raised decked seating area and further patio.
The property is situated on a popular development, within walking distance of 2 railway stations, excellent schools and shops.
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Finance ministry's negligence makes sugar expensive in festive season
Published On: September 22, 2022 02:45 PM NPT By: Dilip Poudel
KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Even though the government has set up fair price shops to give some respite to the consumers from the rising prices during the festival, consumers have to buy sugar at a high price this year during Dashain. Although the government has been selling sugar at concessional rates every year during the festival, there are signs that sugar will become more expensive this year.
Currently, sugar is being sold at Rs 110 per kilo in the domestic market. Although the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has asked for permission to buy 50,000 metric tons of sugar with tax exemption, the Ministry of Finance has not given the approval, and sugar has become expensive in the market. The supplier sought permission to import a total of 50,000 metric tons of sugar with 40,000 by the Salt Trading Corporation and 10,000 by the Food Trading Company. Urmila KC, co-spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, said that permission was sought for the import of sugar under customs exemption to increase intervention in the market, but the approval was not received. "We have sent a letter," she said, "The receipt has not yet arrived."
Failure to intervene in the market by buying enough sugar through government-owned institutions has led to price volatility. While importing sugar, 40 percent customs duty and 13 percent value added tax have to be paid. Traders are cheating consumers by selling sugar arbitrarily. It is expected to be more expensive than the current price during the festive season. The government-owned Salt Trading Corporation and the Food Management and Trading Company are unable to intervene by keeping sugar stocks, which has left the consumers in trouble.
Due to the fact that the government did not give permission to those companies to import sugar in time, the supply was not able to meet the demand. Now business companies and corporations have no sugar. Although the two companies operate fair price shops in different parts of the country, they have not been able to sell sugar. They could not give because they did not have a sugar stock. The demand for sugar increases during festivals. Based on the demand, the price automatically increases especially when the supply is low.
Brajesh Kumar Jha, Divisional Manager of Salt Trading Corporation, said that they could not supply because there was no sugar. "We have not been able to sell sugar at our outlets since the government did not allow us to buy it at a customs discount," Jha said.
Consumer rights activists say that sugar prices have increased due to weak government preparations. Although the government has tried to provide relief to the common consumers by operating fair price shops targeting Dashain, Tihar and Chhath and interfering in the market price, the price of sugar has increased. "If the stock was purchased on time, the price would have been controlled," said Prem Lal Maharjan, a consumer rights activist, "There is a possibility that the price of sugar will reach Rs 120 per kg during the festival."
He said that while the Ministry of Finance neglected to recommend import at a discounted price, now consumers are forced to buy the sweetener at Rs 110 per kg in the market. "Domestic industry has only 11,000 metric tons of sugar available," said Maharjan, "Without coordination between ministries, sugar required by consumers will not be available in the market this year."
According to the Sugar Producers Association, the price of sugar has increased due to lack of domestic production as per market demand. The Salt Trading Corporation and the Food Trading Company had asked for permission to import sugar during Dashain to control the price hike. As the consumption will increase during Dashain, they asked to bring sugar to avoid a shortage in the market. If there is not enough sugar, there is a possibility of black market.
There is an annual demand of 250,000 tons of sugar in the country. Industrialists say that only about 180 thousand metric tons of sugar is produced in Nepal annually. There are a dozen sugar factories in Nepal. Now private sector businessmen are also importing sugar. The consumption of sugar is high during festivals like Dashain, Tihar and Chhath.
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Q: Moving file E93: More than one match The following function works (it opens and moves the desired file to a new or preexisting directory). But, I receive an error message concerning line 11 of the function execute 'bwipeout '.expand(s:oldFileName). The error I receive is E93: More than one match for <the old file name>. I don't understand how this is possible because it has already successfully moved the file to the s:newFileName and the old file has been deleted. The new file's buffer doesn't have the same name as the old buffer. So, how would there be more than one match for the name of the old buffer?
command! -nargs=0 -bar MoveFile call s:functionMoveFile()
    function s:functionMoveFile() abort
        call dirvish#open("edit", 0)
        let s:oldFileName = expand("%:p")
        call inputsave()
        let s:newFileName = input("Move file here: ",expand(s:oldFileName),"file")
        call inputrestore()
        if s:newFileName != '' && s:newFileName != s:oldFileName
            execute 'sav '.fnameescape(s:newFileName)
            let s:newFileDirectory = expand("%:p:h")
            call delete(s:oldFileName)
            execute 'Dirvish '.expand(s:newFileDirectory)
            execute 'bwipeout '.expand(s:oldFileName)
        endif
    endfunction

I can prepend silent! to line 11 to avoid the error message. But, that isn't a proper fix. I don't know what else I should try because I am not asking vim to wipeout the new buffer and the old file's name doesn't match the new one. The command works as desired, but I would like to know what is incorrect about what I'm doing.
Thank you for your help.

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Founder and Chairman of Radiant Group of Companies, Col David Devasahayam (Retd.) had a vision to ameliorate the condition of destitutes and provide financial assistance to poor children for higher education, in villages around Chennai. With this vision to serve the socially challenged groups, the Radiant Foundation was officially formed in 2011 with the implementation of. two major projects namely 'Ashraya' and 'Shiksha'. Since then the Radiant Foundation has been actively involved in bringing a change in the society, one step at a time, through its various initiatives.
Managing TrusteeWith the sole aim of "Poverty Alleviation by Employment Generation" the Radiant Group of companies was founded by its Chairman, Col.David Devasahayam. The group today employs thousands across the country.
Col. David Devasahayam commissioned into the Infantry, Gorkha Rifles. Also a paratrooper and an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College. In a brilliant career spanning 25 years, he commanded two infantry battalions and an Army Training Centre.
On voluntary retirement, he set up the enormously successful Radiant Group of Companies. It has five verticals in the fields of Cash Management, Guarding Services, Medical Services, Business Solutions and Information Technology Solutions. The Radiant Group has regional offices across the country in all state Capitals and employs thousands of personnel. It also has offices in the USA.
He is the recipient of the National Entrepreneur of the year in the field of Security Services, the Socially Conscious Entrepreneur of the Year and the Udhyog Ratna by the Government of India.
TrusteeAn alumnus of Coimbatore Medical College, Dr Renuka David has had a long, illustrious career as a medical doctor spanning over two decades. She is a medical expert on wellness, preventive healthcare, weight and age management, and has received multiple awards for her contribution to the cause of wellness and preventive healthcare.
Dr. Renuka David is the Managing Director of Wellness and Home Healthcare vertical of the Radiant Group of companies. She was awarded "The Jaguar Woman Achiever Award" in the field of wellness. She has hosted a talk show called 'Woman talk' on Chennai live 104.8 FM. She is currently hosting episodes on Inner Wellness called "Wellness Talks" on YouTube addressing, very important and pertinent 'need of the hour' social issues relating to physical, mental and social health.
She also founded and spearheaded the first of its kind Wellness Conclave in Chennai conducted over two days in 2015. Eminent speakers including Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhthar, Milkha Singh and Nandita Das addressed the audience comprising young India and HNIs. She has been a motivational speaker at many colleges, corporates and organizations promoting the concept of wellness and preventive healthcare.
ProjectThe Ashraya Project is one of the flagship initiatives of the Radiant Foundation, focusing its work in many districts across Tamil Nadu. It strives to provide free healthy noon-meal every day to elderly destitue men and women.
ProjectShiksha Project was initiated to provide interest-free education loan to deserving students of Ashraya Project villages. This project was implemented in 2009 under the banner 'Shiksha Project'. As on date more than 350 students have been benefited. All the loan amounts given have been repaid without default.
Shiksha Project was initiated to provide interest-free education loan to deserving students of Ashraya Project villages.
Mr. S. Perumal one of our beneficiaries living in Nallathur village is almost 80yrs old and lives in a small hut abandoned by relatives. He is assured a free meal every afternoon as per the Ashraya Free Noon Meal Scheme. He is more than happy and very thankful to be served under this project.
This year's Wellness Conclave is designed to address proactive as well as preventive measures to empower the youth of India, the target audience being students and young professionals. This looming threat of serious lifestyle diseases has the potential to snowball into an epidemic of global proportions and could become major challenges impacting the entire national demography. The significance of this threat can be appreciated by considering the potentially serious outcomes like decreased self-esteem and depression, at times culminating in suicidal tendencies.
The objective of this Not for Profit Conclave was to address various lifestyle issues like physical, mental and social health in an individual's everyday life. The conclave promised to give an individual solution to various issues by bringing them face to face with people who have dealt with similar challenges and have overcome, by dealing with them with fortitude and courage and has achieved in doing so.
As a terminal objective, the Conclave intended to leave an individual, who is physically present or can connect through our digital initiatives, feeling rejuvenated, motivated, energized and positive.
The Radiant Wellness Conclave, which was the outcome of 2 years of meticulous planning by renowned Wellness Expert Dr Renuka David, was conceived keeping in mind the need for immediate corrective preventive measures.


I don't understand why a town like Maleny allows it's rubbish bins to be littered with outdated concert posters, or for that matter current ones together with lots of marks where they've been.
Every bin in town has flyers and posters for events that have been (never ones that are to come strangely enough) ranging from car boot sales to concerts. To be fair to this one, it was barely a month after the event when I took this photo.
See how the previous effort had thoughtfully used blue tack to avoid damaging the paint? What a pity they didn't take the rotten stuff with them as well!
Perhaps I need a rest!
These tend to litter the power poles here.


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Essays on Music
by Theodor Wiesengrund
Last Updated on May 6, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 1817
The reputation of Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow. A powerful and wide-ranging intellectual whose voluminous writings embraced such seemingly disparate fields as philosophy and political theory, Adorno was in the vanguard of those twentieth century thinkers who seriously examined the place and role of the arts against the backdrop...
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The reputation of Theodor W. Adorno continues to grow. A powerful and wide-ranging intellectual whose voluminous writings embraced such seemingly disparate fields as philosophy and political theory, Adorno was in the vanguard of those twentieth century thinkers who seriously examined the place and role of the arts against the backdrop of modern society in both its capitalistic and totalitarian manifestations. Although Adorno wrote at length across the humanities and social sciences, it was music that was his muse, his passion, and the subject to which he returned time and time again.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1903, Adorno, an only child, enjoyed the benefits of being raised by loving and prosperous parents. His rigorous intellectual training included tutoring in philosophy by Siegfried Kracauer (who later gained fame as a film theorist). There were also demanding studies of classical piano and composition that extended from his childhood to his early twenties. In 1924, at the age of twenty-one, he completed a doctorate in philosophy at Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, which encompassed studies in philosophy, sociology, psychology, and music. It was during this period that Adorno formed important and lasting friendships with Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), the founders of the influential Institute of Social Research (commonly known as the Frankfurt School) in Frankfurt in 1923. During the 1920's, Adorno also became a public intellectual, balancing scholarly work with music journalism, a regimen that continued throughout his life. Adorno's enduring intellectual legacy can be traced through an extensive bibliography which includes hundreds of journalistic commentaries as well as an array of scholarly books and papers, many of which were published by the Institute of Social Research, which he formally joined in 1938 during its American exile.
Following his death in 1969, Adorno's influence in music circles diminished. In place of his sophisticated, multilayered expositions which discussed music in its sociological, psychological, political, and technological dimensions, musicologists and music critics of the 1970's practiced a more formalistic approach devoted to internal analyses of individual compositions with little reference to the social conditions that gave rise to them. In short, Adorno was regarded by the formalists as impressionistic. Adorno's influence was further attenuated since much of his work had not been translated into English; moreover, due to often incompetent translations, those works available in English often missed the nuances of Adorno's ideas and style. In the 1980's, as music and humanities scholars increasingly grounded their work within the social and cultural milieus of their subjects, the cross-disciplinary Adorno increasingly came to be seen as an inspiration and, indeed, a model worthy of emulation. There were also fresh reappraisals of Adorno by scholars such as Martin Jay and Rose Rosengard Subotnik, who were crucial in helping position Adorno as central to the development of the discourses in the burgeoning fields of qualitative music sociology and critical theory. These discourses are now further enriched by the publication of Essays on Music, which enlarges the historical and contemporary appreciation of Adorno's scholarly and journalistic legacy.
Essays on Music, which includes twenty-seven of Adorno's key pieces (almost half of which appear in English for the first time), is more than an anthology. Indeed, thanks to the erudition and stylistic grace of editor Richard Leppert's copious and insightful annotations, the massive tome reads like a conversation across the years. While allowing a better appreciation of Adorno's often complex ideas and the specific historical moments out of which they appeared, Leppert is equally adept at underscoring the relevance of Adorno's work to the present. The inclusion of Adorno's "The Radio Symphony" (1941) and Leppert's astute commentary on it illustrate the point.
Leppert first paints the historical backdrop. Adorno, having just arrived in the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, begins work on the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Princeton Radio Research Project, an appointment arranged by his friend Max Horkheimer. After two years, funding for Adorno's radio music division is cut off, largely because of Adorno's unwillingness to adapt to the narrowly empirical social science methods of project director Paul Lazarsfeld. Leppert explains that while Lazarsfeld amassed survey data in order to forecast and control consumer behavior (often at the behest of the broadcasting industry), Adorno pressed for a decidedly qualitative—and, one might add, humanistic—approach that sought to map the larger scale social, cultural, and psychological powers of modern media. As Leppert points out, the fundamental argument between empirical and qualitative approaches to social science still rages. In similar fashion, Leppert effectively parses Adorno's argument against the presumption that radio—and, by extension, later technologies for disseminating art such as television—can democratize high culture works such as a Beethoven symphony, thus calling into question, for example, the high arts agenda of American public television.
The informed "dialogue" between Adorno and Leppert is made even more extraordinary as a result of Leppert's meticulous scholarship, clarity, and cultural breadth and, perhaps most significantly, his empathy with Adorno the intellectual as well as Adorno the man. In addition to his astute commentaries on Adorno's essays, Leppert contributes a lengthy and lucid eighty-two page introduction, a sweeping biography that backgrounds the intellectual streams within which Adorno's thought developed. Leppert's introduction also includes warmly revealing details such as Adorno's admiration for Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936), a film that, like much of Adorno's own work, challenged the supposed benefits of modernity. Equally poignant is Leppert's account of Adorno patiently tutoring novelist Thomas Mann in the intricacies of twelve-tone serialism as the great novelist was in the throes of writing Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend (1948). Leppert is a well-read and gracious scholar whose informative footnotes brim with citations to secondary sources that pay deserved credit to an impressive number of colleagues. Essays on Musicalso benefits greatly from the new and felicitous translations of Susan H. Gillespie (and others) who catch the cadence as well as the substance of Adorno's notoriously difficult prose.
Following Leppert's introduction, Essays on Music is organized into four sections: "Locating Music: Society, Modernity, and the New"; "Culture, Technology, and Listening"; "Music and Mass Culture"; and "Composition, Composers, and Works." Each section is prefaced with an in-depth commentary by Leppert. A comprehensive twenty-eight page bibliography and a useful thirty-one page index add immensely to the book's utility as a key Adorno reference. A listing of the twenty-seven pieces included in Essays on Music and their original publication dates provides a useful overview of the range of issues surveyed by Adorno over the course of his five-decade-long career as a public and scholarly commentator on music.
The first group of essays, "Locating Music: Society, Modernity, and the New," sketches Adorno's attempts to situate music in modernity, stressing music's relationship to history in general and to its culturally produced meanings in particular. Included here is the pivotal "On the Contemporary Relationship of Philosophy and Music" (1953), which outlines Adorno's claim that philosophy is basic to musical understanding. Among other evocatively titled essays in this section are "Music, Language, and Composition" (1956); "Why Is the New Art So Hard to Understand?" (1931); "On the Problem of Musical Analysis" (1969); "The Aging of the New Music" (1955); and "The Dialectical Composer" (1934).
The second grouping of essays, "Culture, Technology, and Listening," reveals Adorno's concern with the social and cultural consequences of music consumed through such technologies as the radio and phonograph and his skepticism of the supposed capacity of the media to bring the arts to the masses. Interestingly, Adorno softened this virtually lifelong critique of mediated music in "Opera and the Long Playing Record" (1969), in which he takes a more optimistic view of modern mass media. The other essays in this section are "The Radio Symphony" (1941); "The Curves of the Needle" (1927/1965); "The Form of the Phonograph Record" (1934); "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening" (1938); and "Little Heresy" (1965).
In the third set of essays, Leppert presents Adorno's most important and controversial critiques of popular music, including what Adorno, writing in the early 1930's, took to be jazz. In aggregate, these essays suggest that music in the modern age, whether highbrow or lowbrow, or whether produced under capitalism or totalitarianism, is organized through a production process increasingly driven by centralization and profit, a process that has inexorably eroded music's traditional role in the service of truth, individuality, and emancipation. Here, one finds "What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts" (1945); "On the Social Situation of Music" (1932); "On Popular Music" (1941); "On Jazz" (1936); "Farewell to Jazz" (1933); "Kitsch" (c. 1932); and "Music in the Background" (1934).
The fourth and concluding section, "Composition, Composers, and Works," brings together essays on the six classical composers—Ludwig von Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Igor Stravinsky—about whom Adorno wrote most extensively. As Leppert points out, Adorno's musical interests were mostly limited to the study of Western modernity, beginning with the rise of the post-French Revolution bourgeoisie and ending with the music of his own time. An articulate and faithful advocate of the classical avant-garde, Adorno, in his early years, wrote passionately on the serial works of Schoenberg and Berg; after World War II, that passion reappeared in his writings on such postwar composers as John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen. In this section, the accomplishments of Adorno's heroes (Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg, and Berg) are measured dialectally against the shortcomings of Adorno's flawed antiheroes (Wagner and Stravinsky). The essays constituting this section include "Late Style in Beethoven" (1937); "Alienated Masterpiece: TheMissa Solemnis" (1959); "Wagner's Relevance for Today" (1963); "Mahler Today" (1930); "Marginalia on Mahler" (1936); "The OperaWozzeck" (1929); "Towards an Understanding of Schoenberg" (1955/1967); and "Difficulties" (1964, 1966).
Essays on Music, again in large part due to Leppert's illuminating commentaries and Gillespie's new and nuanced and readable translations, is at once a landmark contribution to Adorno scholarship and a multifaceted prod to serious thinking on music. While Essays on Music is essential for scholars working in the areas of qualitative music sociology and critical studies and the general critique of modernity, it is also of substantive use to serious nonspecialist readers seeking insights into such provocative issues as why so little contemporary classical music is performed or loved, and why the art-music tradition seems increasingly less central to contemporary culture. Finally, and in contrast to musicology's formalists, Adorno provides a reminder that music does not exist as sets of hermetically sealed relationships among specified sequences of musical events. Instead, Adorno insists on a fully interactive and interdisciplinary approach. If the creation, dissemination, and reception of music is to be fully understood and appreciated, it must be examined within and against the larger contexts of culture, sociology, psychology, philosophy, politics and, especially in terms of modernity, technology.
Sources for Further Study
Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 25, 2002, p. 5.
The New York Times, September 14, 2002, p. B9.
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Last week we had a great Twitter chat on the Evolution of Social Media Analytics where many asked our panelist, Mr. Shameer Thaha, questions using the hashtag # SamosaChats, about Social Media Analytics and how they can best use it.
To those who missed the chat, following are the questions that were asked during the chat and Mr. Shameer's detailed answers.
What are the multiple uses for social media analytics besides reputation management?
Social Media Analytics today has evolved from traditional listening to be used for online reputation management to more sophisticated influencer mapping, crisis management, lead generation, campaign measurement, competitive mapping and brand health checks.
Clients measure Social Media only in terms of number of fans & followers. How to tell them that SM is a lot more than that?
The fans and followers are only numbers that don't translate to business objectives. The rules of sales apply here as well, qualify your leads ! Social Media is a unique environment where its about a conversation and not broadcast. This element is usually forgotten. If a sustainable engagement with a 1,000 fans are achieved, its better than having adhoc chatter among 10,000.
How do you showcase true potential of social media through analytics to a number-hungry client?
Most of our intelligence reports to clients easily exemplify this point because only a quality mentions are considered to derive insights. It's important to mine this information to derive value and revise the strategy. A simple way to showcase the true potential of social media analytics to a number hungry client is to highlight the insightful conversations and brand related conversations from the overall buzz and the overall community size.
How can start-ups use social media analytics within their restrictive marketing budgets?
Start-ups can achieve high value from social media analytics and could be crucial to having a great launch and customer development growth. Budgets are crucial especially during the initial phases of a business and it makes it even more important to have social media anlaytics. Identifying communities, influencers, distribution channels based on competitor activity and social conversations can help allocate marketing budgets where it is most effective.
Do smaller clients even need SoMe analytics during initial stages or should they be introduced gradually?
I've personally seen companies of all types using SoMe analytics and benefiting from them, even small clients. Where SoMe analytics doesn't help is when there is no clear objective and goal of monitoring. As with any business, knowing where and who your customers are can help you plan effectively and that is exactly what SoMe analytics can offer.
Is there any tool to measure the monetisation from mobile apps with integrated social mentions?
Various tools exist which allow one to measure mobile monetization from ads, subscriptions, in apps, referrals etc. With proper tracking setup, existing tools can also be used to measure.
How important is it to track analytics of a competitor brand using analytic tools?
Tracking analytics of competitors is a great way to devise a more robust social media strategy for your brand. It helps in identifying aspects such as community presence, influencers, detractors, communication themes and interests etc. Brands we've worked with have had immense value add from competitive mapping techniques.
Please share something on Predictive Analytics. We are interested in knowing about it & what tools should one use?
Predictive Analytics is a very interesting field of research and is poised to be the a game changer especially for the consumer targeted businesses. At our work, we have done some interesting predictive analysis by focusing on daily volume, share of voice, demographic analysis, sentiment etc. The custom intelligence report then looks at trends in online conversation, brand awareness, impact prior to and post campaigns etc. to perform a forecast.
One of the requirements enabling predictive analysis is the cluster of historic data. It's exciting to see how predictive analysis can help identify demand and most selling products in a season. Companies will be able to look at the total number of tweets, as well as positive and negative comments to predict whether a stock price will go up or down. These types of companies will become a hot commodity as investors begin to rely on the wisdom of crowds.
A question from research point of view: What would ideally take precedence, Analytics or Metrics?
Analytics and Metrics aren't synonymous. Metrics are numbers which correlate to business KPIs based on the goals. Analytics are trends and patterns of these metrics and other standard parameters which help researchers arrive at inferences to further develop strategies and recommendations. So to answer the question in short, metrics take precedence.
What's your take on the 'dream metric' that @ev & team plan to build. How will that affect the social dynamics?
It will be interesting to see beyond follower counts that the 'dream metric' aims to achieve. The metric is focused on twitter and how many people saw your tweet. Current metrics for amplification is crude as it relies on no. of followers and retweets. Only time will tell how the 'dream metric' is more accurate.
From a marketing perspective are SMM brands in India realizing Big Data's importance in Social Media Analytics?
Yes, we are witnessing more brands now realizing that social media analytics isn't a short sighted approach and requires long term monitoring to accurately determine trends and forecast. The only challenge again remains the number focused approach which brands needs to break away from. One needs to look at quality rather than quantity of conversations.
Is Facebook Insights enough for one to analyze his page performance?
For a basic understanding of the page performance, the Facebook Insights is sufficient. As I usually tell my clients, the page subscribers, fans or People Talking About This (PTAT) aren't the only metrics that can help your business. How do you define engagement and what constitutes sustainable engagement ? One needs to look at parameters such as volume, velocity and amplification of conversations and the influence level as well to truly assess the performance of a page and whether the efforts have given your brand the best ROI.
With Facebook trying to weed out fakes, how perfect will the research reports be?
Research reports focusing purely on numbers and web analytics alone will benefit from this exercise as it will now show more realistic figures. Intelligence reports which however focus on conversations and engagement will not be impacted as they have always been focused on quality of conversations that go beyond web analytic metrics.
How reliable do you think The Measurement of "Reach" on Facebook and Twitter currently is?
Facebook and Twitter's "Reach" is calculated based on parameters such as retweets, shares, no. of followers/ friends etc. This is good, but not accurate enough because these are limited to their internal networks. Social media has built itself an intricate network that gets mashed up on various platforms. Today tweets are shared on Facebook, Linkedin, other web pages etc. The "Reach" metric doesn't factor them in.
Does 'one size fits all' work w.r.t Social media tools or do we have to use many tools to monitor conversations?
Every tool has its strengths and weaknesses because tools are designed for a specific purpose. If the purpose is defined, its easy to identify the right tool. While designing our platform, we've considered elements that one cannot compromise on – quality of conversations and the comprehensiveness.
Using one tool for all purposes seems easier to manage but may not give the right results every time. A big disclaimer here – it depends on what your exact needs are.
What is the future of smaller companies if larger giants like Salesforce move into the area of SoMe Analytics?
Salesforce is already in the SoMe Analytics space with its recent acquisitions. The future of smaller companies are unbounded and remain open to innovation. Smaller companies need to focus on real value addition and ROI by utilizing efficient, cost effective and user friendly platforms.
What tools/methods would you recommend for identifying top Facebook fans/influencers on pages?
Top influencers can be determined by identifying the reach of the user, activity level, network score, loyalty, velocity and volume. These vary both for Facebook and Twitter by their inherent social parameters such as tweets and posts.
Do you think SoMe Analytics and insights could be derived accurately without any manual intervention?
Basic social media analytics such as buzz trends, source analysis, topic classification etc can be derived accurately without manual intervention. But conversations are by humans and requires a human understanding of behaviour and themes to get a more deeper understanding. Thus sentiment, influence, sarcasms, intention, lead generation, brand associations etc require manual intervention as these verified analytics coupled with human intelligence can pave way for great recommendations and actionable insights.
How many RTs to stop asking for RTs?


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Rosina M. Becerra to Step Down as Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development
Administrative Officers, Deans, Department Chairs, Directors, Faculty and Vice Chancellors
Rosina M. Becerra, vice provost for faculty diversity and development, has informed me that she wishes to step down as vice provost and return to the faculty at the end of this academic year. At my request, she has graciously agreed to continue serving through the conclusion of the search for her successor.
Appointed in July 2002 as associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and promoted to vice provost in 2007, Dr. Becerra has worked closely with the chancellor, executive vice chancellor/provost and campus leadership to assign more visibility and centrality to faculty diversity issues. Under Rosina's leadership, the Office for Faculty Diversity has expanded to become the Office for Faculty Diversity & Development. It is responsible for the campus Academic Affirmative Action Plan and compliance with federal regulations for affirmative action and equal opportunity, as well as building and supporting a culture of equity and inclusion through programs for faculty members and department chairs. The office focuses on programs to enhance diversity in the recruitment and retention of faculty; oversees several campuswide programs to provide awards and funding to support individual faculty development; publishes monographs and handbooks and manages two websites to support diversity and development efforts; and hosts more than a dozen events each year, including faculty search committee briefings, department chair forums, academic personnel workshops for assistant professors, and developmental events for assistant professors and new faculty members.
In addition, Vice Provost Becerra has served in many diversity leadership positions on a UC or statewide level, including chairing the UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity (2005-06); serving as co-PI for the multi-campus NSF PAID partnership for faculty equity and diversity (2006 – 09); and co-founding the California Universities Consortium in 2005 to address diversity in universities statewide. Most recently, Vice Provost Becerra has received a New Scholars Award from the Elsevier Foundation (co-PI, Associate Dean M. Belinda Tucker), which will help fund two family-friendly programs for women academics in science, health and technology.
In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Rosina is a professor of social welfare and Chicana/o studies at the School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on policy issues related to children and families. Since coming to UCLA in 1975, Becerra has also served as dean of the former School of Social Welfare, chair of the Department of Social Welfare, director of the CII in Chicana/o Studies, director of the Center for Child and Family Policy Research and acting director of the Institute for Industrial Relations. She has also served as a member of many Academic Senate committees, including the Council on Research, Committee on Educational Policy and the Council of Academic Personnel. In her current role, she co-chairs the Chancellor's Advisory Group on Diversity and serves as a member of the Chancellor's Executive Committee, the Council of Deans and the Advisory Board of UCLA Early Care & Education.
When she steps down as vice provost, Rosina will have served as UCLA's first faculty diversity officer for eight years. In this role, she has provided advice and counsel to many new chairs, deans, executive vice chancellors/provosts and three chancellors. We are deeply grateful for her many years of dedicated service in this role, and we look forward to her continued contributions to UCLA as she returns to the faculty and continues her scholarly work in the years ahead.
In the coming weeks, I will form a search committee to identify candidates for vice provost and will keep you informed as we initiate the search.


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Q: How do I create an array of strings from an object where the values of individual keys are separate arrays of strings? I'm trying to gather all errors in an err object and populate them into this.errors in order to display them.
err object:
err = {
  "name": [
    "Item name is required.",
    "Item name must be at least 4 chars"
  ],
  "rate": [
    "Item Rate is should be a number.",
    "Item rate should be between 10 and 1000"
  ],
  "category": ["Item Category is required"]
}

As you can see, err is an object where the values of individual keys are arrays of strings. To gather the error strings into a separate this.errors array, I could simply perform:
 if (err && err.number)  {
   err.number.forEach(e => {
     this.errors.push(e);
   });
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if (err && err.number)  {
   err.rate.forEach(e => {
     this.errors.push(e);
   });
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 if (err && err.number)  {
   err.category.forEach(e => {
     this.errors.push(e);
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But I will need to repeat these lines of code in many places of my app.
I want to place these code in a functionl as:
populateErrors(err) {
    err.forEach(error => {
          this.errors.push(error);
    });
}

// and call it
this.populateErrors(err);

OR
populateErrors(err, keys[]) {
    err.forEach(error => {
          this.errors.push(err.keys[1]);
    });
    //...
}

// and call it
populateErrors(err, ['name', 'rate', 'category'])

and display them in my template:

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What might the function look like?

A: You can use a map reduce.

const err = {
  "name": [
    "Item name is required.",
    "Item name must be at least 4 chars"
  ],
  "rate": [
    "Item Rate is should be a number.",
    "Item rate should be between 10 and 1000"
  ],
  "category": ["Item Category is required"]
}

const arr = Object.keys(err)
  .map(k => err[k])
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console.log(arr)

We're combining Object.keys a native function that allow you to obtain the keys of an object with map and reduce.
["name", "rate", "category"].map(...
The map method creates a new array with the results of calling a function for every array element. So, I am returning the value of the property itself.
[[ "Item name...", "Item name..." ], ["Item Rate...", "Item rate"], ["Item Category..."]].reduce(...
The reduce method reduces the array to a single value. So I am concatenating all the values in a single array.

A: You can use the map function coupled with a loop over the properties :
for (let prop in this.err) {
    this.errors = this.errors.join(
        this.err[prop].map(el => ({el}));
    );
}


2005. 2.5" x 4.25" letterpress mini chapbook; paper wrappers with printed covers and hand sewn binding. Written in Oregon in the mid 1950s. This previously unpublished manuscript is a rare glimpse into the mind of Brautigan as a young man hopelessly in love with a girl named Linda. Contains fourteen poems. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies and 26 lettered hardbound copies.
Kind permission to publish from copyright owners James Musser & Burton Weiss.


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Finch, Smith post centuries; Australia sets India 375 to win
SYDNEY (AP) — Aaron Finch and his band of Aussie batters were playing for the crowd.
The Australian captain scored 114 and shared partnerships of 156 with opener David Warner and 108 with Steve Smith to help lift the home team to 374-6 against India in the series-opening one-day international.
Smith raced to 100 from 62 balls, the third-fastest ODI century by an Australian batsman, after overcoming early reprieves when he successfully reviewed an LBW decision against him and was also dropped in the outfield. After belting 11 boundaries and four sixes, he was bowled by Mohammed Shami for 105 in the last over of the innings.
It's the first international cricket in Australia since March, and comes a day after a dozen Australian players and the entire India squad finished a 14-day period of quarantine that has become mandatory for arrivals Down Under during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state government lifted restrictions and allowed a crowd of up to 50% of capacity at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and about 24,000 tickets sold out quickly. The Australian batters treated them to a blizzard of boundaries — 33 fours and nine sixes in the innings.
Maxwell's innovative bag of trick shots contributed to boundaries from reserve sweeps and wristy flicks before he was out for 45 from 19 balls, caught in the deep off Shami after hitting five boundaries and three sixes. Shami returned the best figures for India with 3-59.
The Australian and Indian players joined to form a bare foot circle on the field before the match, in a modified tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement with particular emphasis on recognizing Australia's Indigenous people.
There were also tributes to former test batsmen Dean Jones, who died of heart failure in India in September while working as a TV cricket commentator, and Phillip Hughes, who was 25 when he died in 2014 after being struck on the back of the head by ball at the SCG in a first-class game preceding a test series between Australia and India.
It was a return to form for Finch after a slow run in the Indian Premier League, stroking nine boundaries and two sixes as he raised his 17th ODI century and fourth against India.
His century opening stand was his 11th with Warner, who contributed 69 from 76 balls before he edged Shami to wicketkeeper KL Rahul in the 28th over.
The return of Smith for injured allrounder Mitchell Marsh was the only change to the Australia lineup that clinched an ODI series win over World Cup winner England in September — the national team's only tour since global sports was shuttered in March.
Virat Kohli's India lineup hasn't played international cricket since losing the tests and ODI series in New Zealand in March, although most players in the limited-overs squads are coming off games in the IPL.
Australia and India will meet in three ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals before the four-match test series starts Dec. 17 in Adelaide.
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Sunshine can't grow Christmas trees alone; They need raindrops.
In the winter rain will freeze and the trees will die.
And most of all, they need love.
Do you know how Santa gets around? He needs snowflakes.
Snowflakes cannot do it all I've found; He needs reindeer.
Once a year they have to fly and they don't have wings.
Do you know how Santa gets around?
Friendship and kindness, And most of all, he needs love.
Do you know how Christmas cards are made? They need pictures.
Pictures can't complete them I'm afraid; They need greetings.
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Embattled NHIF chief executive Geoffrey Mwangi and the acting finance director Wilbert Kurgat have been sent on compulsory leave pending the court's decision on their case.
In a statement, NHIF board chairperson Hannah Muriithi said the two have been replaced in the interim by Nicodemus Odongo and Bernard Njenga respectively.
Muriithi said the decision was unanimously arrived at by the NHIF board of management.
"We assure all our stakeholders, our members and partners that NHIF will continue to discharge its mandate and responsibilities without disruption," she said in the statement dated November 27.
Odongo currently holds the director of strategy position, while Njenga is in charge of management accounting.
Mwangi and Kurgat have been charged with conspiracy to defeat justice and disobedience of a lawful order in relation to investigations into the loss of Sh2 billion at the insurer. The two have denied the charges.
The court on Tuesday rejected their application to block their prosecution over alleged misappropriation of the funds.
Nairobi chief magistrate Francis Andayi was on Wednesday set to deliver his ruling on their bail application.


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Believing that anabolic steroids can improve competitiveness and efficiency, uninformed or misguided athletes, sometimes inspired by coaches or dad and mom, abuse these medication to build lean muscle mass, promote aggressiveness, and increase body weight.
What they do not know, or select to ignore, is the injury to the physique that abuse of those medication may cause.
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In response, over-the-counter designer anabolic steroids have been created by modifying the chemical construction of AAS and including them to dietary dietary supplements. They are frequently marketed as a way to achieve classic anabolic steroid–like results from merchandise offered legally. Severe unwanted side effects, including hepatotoxicity, cholestasis, renal failure, hypogonadism, gynecomastia, and infertility, have been attributed to using these OTC products. While a few of these side effects may be reversible, extra aggressive use might result in the identical kind of everlasting end-organ injury seen in circumstances of long-time period AAS abuse. Dr. Pope is arguably the leading researcher on the earth on the misuse of anabolic steroids. He discusses a number of the reasons males use steroids, the dangers of using these medicine, and the relationship to men's body image.
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Especially liquor drink, because it adopts low-temperature (2ºC-5ºC) filling, but ambient temperature of workshop is much higher, so it is very easy to condensed dew on bottle surface which will bring trouble to the downstream as labeling. Especially, if using packing, the dew will make carton wet to cause serious damage. Therefore, after the filling machine, It is necessary to use a bottle warmer to heat the bottle to the ambient temperature. The warmer is tunnel type showering equipment which heats the bottle through spraying hot water for heat exchange. It usually has 3 temperature zones( more zones are possible). After heated by section, the bottle's temperature could achieve ambient temperature, usually design for 30-35 ºC. Bottle warmer is mainly composed of machine base, conveying chain, transmission system, water storage flume, recycle pump, showering device, heating device and pipes. Exchanger could adopt steam plate type exchanger and electrical type exchanger.
...Top grade of conveying chain is used on the machine, more stable and reliable when it is working, don't break bottles.
...Speed of conveying system is infinitely variable.
...New type advanced technology from Germany, Italy, and Taiwan.
...Three parts of working process: circulating hot-water spray-cooling, warm-water pre-cooling and cold-water cooling.
...High temperature-resistant polypropylene (CPP) chain.
...All SUS304 stainless steel and it is reliable in running and has beautiful appearance.