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Exploring Úr'Dan: The Western Uplands
On April 24, 2018 April 23, 2018 By Steven D'AdamoIn The Warden of Everfeld, Writers - Steve D'Adamo
In the hopes of reviving this series as a monthly installment, I'd like to talk about another region of northern Úr'Dan. The Western Uplands have received terribly little attention in my writings so far.
I must admit, this region of Úr'Dan is not as fleshed out as some of the others we've discussed. We're changing that today!
The Western Uplands
The Western Uplands is a region of vast rolling plains south of Everfeld and west of the Everwash. To the west is a narrow coastline beneath the hills. To the south, the gentle slopes of the Old Sentries, a well-forested and gentle mountain range. And to the southeast, of course, if the Barger's Marsh.
Running right through the middle are the two Springfield Rivers, flowing southeast to the Marsh. The strip of land between these rivers, known as the Springfield, is the most fertile and densely populated in the country, with a major trading hub, called Springfield, bringing Uplanders together.
Western Uplanders
That the Western Uplands are bordered on virtually all sides by other populated regions has by no means prevented this region from developing a distinct culture — or several.
The sheer vastness of the Western Uplands makes this country ripe for distinct and diverse societies which exist wholly separate from their neighbors to the north, east, southeast, and southwest.
In general, there are six tribal groupings, separated largely by geography:
The Springfield tribes, who live within the fertile river valleys in the central part of this region. These tribes are largely sedentary agriculturalists, and the only group to settle in larger towns.
The coastal tribes represent a fraction of the population of the Western Uplands, living in largely isolated fishing villages.
The northern tribes along the edge of Everfeld are nomadic hunters, following vast herds of boar and buffalo across the plains.
The Everwash tribes are also nomadic hunters, although this is a much smaller faction whose territory lies along the western bank of Everwash.
The Lower Valley tribes live in clustered settlements along the lower Springfield valleys as they broaden into the Marsh.
And finally, the Foothill Tribes are semi-nomadic hunters living along the northern foothills of the Old Sentries.
Each of these factions includes at least one large tribe, and they all vary in their customs. However, all of these tribes follow matrilineal descent in some form and see the Moon as their guide.
When Differences Bring Competition
Since many of the Western Tribes are nomadic or semi-nomadic, there have long been disputes over territory, whether between individual tribes or factions of tribes. Conflict is seen as a normal part of life in this region, but it is not all violence and bloodshed.
In order to stem outright war, most of the tribes participate in a seasonal competition as both a means to settle disputes between tribes, and a way for hunters and warriors to earn renown within their own tribes.
Skills like horseback riding, javelin-throwing, wrestling, and foot racing are all valued in these societies. One event, however, trumps all others in importance and reverence: the Boar Hunt.
Selected teams of hunters from each tribe are required to track down a herd of wild boar and successfully bring down the largest animals. This event often lasts days at a time, and the hunters risk their lives to find the mightiest boar. But, the winning team earns honor for their tribe, as well as an extra seat in the Rígmúd, the periodic council between the Nine Tribes, to decide matters like settling disputes or making war against outsiders.
Tribal Conflict
The Nine Tribes have never fully united against a common enemy, but many of the tribes fought together against the hostile Firelander clans who invaded the Western Uplands and claimed the vital herding grounds for themselves.
Their rich tradition of both war and sport, however, means competition is alive and well in the Western Uplands, and the play for power is not always friendly.
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Orchestral Enescu; A French Line To Boulez; Glazunov
The music of Romania's greatest musician, an intriguing (mainly) French programme from recorder player Erik Bosgraaf, and a Russian Romantic are in the listening mix this month.
Orchestral Enescu
Richard Whitehouse chooses 10 pieces from the orchestral output of the Romanian polymath George Enescu
A prodigy on the violin, George Enescu (the 60th anniversary of whose death falls this May) was hardly less precocious as a composer. It is worth recalling the words of Yehudi Menuhin (Enescu's most illustrious pupil) who considered that the Romanian's mature music would not really be understood prior to the 21st century. First heard in Bucharest, the Romanian Poem (1897) bracingly contrasts the inward and festive sides of the national character in what is a deceptively rhapsodic two-part tone-poem. Coming 75 years after Mendelssohn's work, the Octet for strings (1900) took formal ingenuity and contrapuntal dexterity to a new level, its four movements rising to a climax of dizzying complexity and emotional abandon. The worldwide success of his First Romanian Rhapsody has always overshadowed that of the Second (1902), although while this latter piece may lack its predecessor's sheer exhilaration, its melodic potency and unforced pathos are its own justification. Mahler wasn't the only conductor of renown to champion the First Orchestral Suite (1903), doubtless impressed by its 'Prélude á l'unisson'. Among the most-played orchestral works of its era, the First Symphony (1905) finds Enescu at his most engaging and communicative. His Third Symphony (1918) – which received its London premiere as recently as this February – is a vast (in scope if not in size) contemplation of the human spirit. At its centre is a scherzo whose glancing irony is blown aside by a peroration of immense import.Enescu was never to hear Vox Maris (c1929), yet its unique fusion of formal intricacy and expressive evocation takes his musical idiom to a new level of tonal subtlety and refinement equalled by few and surpassed by none. One of Enescu's greatest later successes, the Third Orchestral Suite (1938) centres on a lengthy depiction of landscape whose tangible detail is no less remarkable than the formal precision and fluidity that makes it all possible. Realised from the composer's detailed draft by Pascal Bentoiu, the Fifth Symphony (c1941) finds Enescu transcending the horrors of war in a personal requiem. Enescu was all but on his deathbed when he finished his Chamber Symphony (1954), yet this compressed focusing on formal and expressive essentials finds his powers intact.
A French line to Boulez
Recorder player Erik Bosgraaf offers a playlist that combines two complementary strands
I've followed two threads for my playlist. Firstly, I wanted to follow a completely personal and hypothetical line of French music preceding Pierre Boulez (whose music I've just recorded for Brilliant Classics), and secondly, I was keen to present a collection of music for a solo instrument. The French line starts, in chronological order, with a work by one of the greatest 18th-century composers, François Couperin; his eye for detail in fine ornamentation is never allowed to intrude on a lush sound. Boulez's Dialogue de l'ombre double was written for Berio and uses piano reverb, just like the dedicatee's Sequenza for trumpet solo (which appears later in my playlist). Then there's Debussy's Syrinx for flute solo, followed by the clarinet solo from Quatuor pour la fin du temps and a short monophonic movement from Les corps glorieux – both by Messiaen; the composer, who taught Boulez, plays organ in the latter recording. Vortex temporum is by Gérard Grisey, a composer who died far too young to continue the French tradition. Boulez as a conductor should not be omitted; he makes an appearance in the introduction to The Miraculous Mandarin. The solo thread is continued by improvising saxophonist Steve Lacy, as well as a small piece by Jacob van Eyck, who has single-handedly produced the largest collection of solo wind music in Western history.
Alexander Glazunov
Andrew Mellor on a Russian master in the 150th anniversary of his birth
If you're happy to enjoy music from times past without any thought to whether that music served an advancing or innovative purpose, the works of Alexander Glazunov are a tonic. Less concerned than his predecessors with discovering something inherently 'Russian' in his music, Glazunov wrote with what might be described as a light Russian accent, bestowed upon music that, at its best, has something of the weave of Brahms and the fluidity of Liszt. Unsurprisingly, he was considered well placed to instruct youths in the craft of composition and musicianship as Director of St Petersburg Conservatoire. What you almost always get from Glazunov is an embracing sense of warmth – from the bottom-up, fur-wrapped emergence of the opening pages of the Fourth Symphony to the lyrical thread of the Violin Concerto, which also tunnels upwards from the depths (opening on the soloist's lowest string). Rarely, if ever, do you doubt Glazunov's mastery of his craft; frequently he seems to do more with it than most of his contemporaries. John Ogdon championed the First Piano Concerto and his love shines through a performance full of fizz and bite recorded for EMI. Today's emphasis on rather cleaner recording techniques only serves to clarify Glazunov's delicate constructions, particularly in the most recent symphony (and concerto) cycle from José Serebrier.


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My Favourite Tourist-Free Areas in London
One of the most frequent questions I get, from either friends or from strangers that reached me via some tortuous string of connections, is "where can I stay in London"?
Living here I don't have a great experience in hostels, with the exception of those I worked at, but I can surely give some suggestion on the best areas, both for a short stay or for looking for a flat.
I can't help feeling sorry for those friends that end up booking a room in the "hotel area", which runs roughly from Victoria Station to Paddington west of the city centre. There's a high concentration of hotels, from luxury five stars to the cheapest B&Bs, but for this reason this whole area doesn't have a character, a community. If an authentic experience is what you're looking for you should check these areas out.
View from Paliament Hill
Kentish Town and Tufnell Park
Ideal for: Nights out in Camden, walks in Hampstead Heath, Highgate.
Well, I'm quite fond of this area as this is where I spent my first three years in London. Quite a residential borough but also pretty lively: recently cafes and shops opened on Fortess road, bringing a new breath of life, plus there are some pubs on Kentish Town road, a good warm up before a night in Camden.
The beautiful Hampstead Heath is at walking distance, with some fine ale pubs on the way, and it's ideal for a climb up to Parliament Hill to enjoy a complete view of London from above.
Read more: why Kentish Town is my favourite
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Harringay Green Lanes and Crouch End
Ideal for: Turkish BBQ, being way out of the beaten path
A bit further away from the city centre, close to no tourists venture all the way here. So you can enjoy a full immersion in the local life. Green Lanes is like being teleported in an exotic faraway place: noisy traffic, colourful shops exposing fruit and vegetables, the smell of BBQed lamb meat tingling your nose, ladies preparing gözleme and lahmacun at the window of Turkish restaurants.
Climb up the hill, and in 10 minutes you'll find yourself in a quiet village: Crouch End, sleepy roads winding up and down between Victorian houses, and a lovely area busy with organic shops and pubs where to spend hours soaking the sun in the beer garden, or warming up at the fire place. My favourite one? The Queens, in a beautiful listed building on Broadway Parade. From there is a short way back to Finsbury Park, and to the pizzeria Pappagone.
Dalston and Hackney
Ideal for: Having new age fun with vintage feel
Few years ago these were no-go areas, with a bad reputation of street crime, now these are the two ambitious gems in the East London geography. Just outside the borders of the messy Shoreditch, here is the alternative avant-garde: independent cinemas and theatres, jazz clubs, Turkish restaurants, rooftop bars and arty cafes brought in few years Dalston under the limelight and made it one of the most exciting areas to visit in London.
What I love most of Hackney is the parks: London Fields, which on a sunny day becomes a sort of hipster carnival, and Victoria park, perfect for a bike ride along the canals, and a break at the Crate brewery.
Ideal for: A bohemien feel, fine cuisine and pubs.
The hipster madness invading the whole east of London reached Stoke Newington mitigated by its distance from the city centre. Here you'll mainly find young professionals, and an increasing number of baby buggies, mainly gravitating around the pulsating heart of the area: Stoke Newington Church Street. This street, running along one side of Clissold Park (look for the controversial and anachronistic mini-zoo), is peppered with bars and restaurants where to have a brunch or an informal dinner.
On Stoke Newington High Street, not far from Church Street, you can find two of my favourite pubs: the White Hart, where I dare you to find a spot in their garden on a sunny afternoon, and the Jolly Butcher, offering a rich selection of English and international beers.
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Booking to 20 June 2021
Jimmy Carr's up West, for one week only
British comedian Jimmy Carr brings his brand new show Terribly Funny to London's Palace Theatre for a strictly limited 1-week this June.
In times like these who doesn't need a good laugh and Jimmy's new show promises a night of laugh-out-loud "I can't believe he said that" jokes about terrible terrible things. But they're just jokes – they are not the terrible things.
One of the best selling comedy acts in the UK and presenter on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Jimmy is sure to ruffle some feathers.
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Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny is booking until 20 June 2021 at the Palace Theatre, London.
Terrible things happen. They happen to you, people you know and love, and people you've never met. It's time to laugh in the face of these terrible things. Now buy a ticket for this terribly funny show.
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The capacity of the theatre has been reduced to comply with guidelines for social distancing. There will be hand sanitation stations throughout the theatre and audience and staff members will be required to wear face coverings. Track and trace measures will be followed in addition to contactless ticketing and payment methods along with the regular deep cleaning and sanitation of the theatre.
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Famous faces in London's West End in 2020
Stars of stage and screen head to London's West End in acclaimed Broadway transfers, West End revivals and World Premiere productions in 2020. Don't miss your chance to see these famous faces up close and personal. Book your tickets today! James McAvoy (Cyrano de Bergerac). Credit Marc Brenner[/caption] James McAvoy James McAvoy and director Jamie Lloyd reunite in Cyrano de Bergerac 'the most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now' (★★★★★ Evening Standard). A Golden Globe and three-time Olivier Award nominee, McAvoy is known for his role as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film franchise, Deadpool 2, and Dark Phoenix. McAvoy got his big break in the C4 series Shameless and made the leap to Holywood film star with roles in Atonement, IT: Chapter Two, Glass, Atomic Blonde, Split, Filth, Victor Frankenstein and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. Cyrano de Bergerac will run until 29 February 2020 at the Playhouse Theatre, London. David Hasselhoff David Hasselhoff (Baywatch, Britain's Got Talent) joins the cast of Dolly Parton's musical comedy 9 to 5 at the Savoy Theatre for a strictly limited time only. The Hoff plays Franklin Hart Jnr - a self-serving egotistical boss whose unseemly behaviour towards his female work colleagues leads to his eventual downfall. 9 to 5 The Musical runs until 23 May 2020 at the Savoy Theatre, London. (David Hasselhoff final performance 8 Feb). [caption id="attachment_67595" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Sara Bareilles & Gavin Creel[/caption] Sara Bareilles Newly minted Grammy Award winner Sara Bareilles makes her West End debut in Waitress. Bareilles previously starred in the Broadway production of Waitress and will reprise the lead role of Jenna alongside Gavin Creel as Dr Pomatter from 27 January for six-weeks only. Best known as a singer and songwriter, Bareilles has been nominated for eight Grammy Award's, a Tony and an Emmy award. She also wrote the music and lyrics for the show - Waitress is a joyous romantic comedy which receives standing ovations night after night. Waitress runs until 4 July 2020 at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Jennifer Saunders National Treasure and comic icon Jennifer Saunders is throwing herself in theatre. Following her recent West End performance in Lady Windermere's Fan at the Vaudeville last year, Saunders will appear in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, a comedy about death and the afterlife with Saunders reprising her role of eccentric clairvoyant Madame Arcati from the Theatre Royal Bath production in 2019. Blithe Spirit runs from 5 March 2020 until 11 April 2020 at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. City Of Angels - all star cast The Donmar's acclaimed production of City of Angels transfers to the Garrick Theatre in the heart of London's West End. This ingenious musical love letter to the glamorous world of old Hollywood and film noir stars Hadley Fraser (The Winter's Tale, Young Frankenstein), Rosalie Craig (Company), Rebecca Trehearn (Showboat), and making their West End debuts, Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Into The Woods), Theo James (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant), and Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts. City of Angels runs from 7 March 2020 until 5 September 202 at the Garrick Theatre, London. UNCLE VANYA - all star cast Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson's stunning new adaptation of the Anton Chekhov masterpiece features Toby Jones (Detectorists, Infamous, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Oceans 8, Spooks), Rosalind Eleazar (The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Starry Messenger), Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education), Anna Calder-Marshall (LOVE, Male of the Species), Dearbhla Molloy (The Ferryman, Dancing at Lughnasa), Peter Wight (The Birthday Party, Hamlet) and Ciarán Hinds (Translations, Game of Thrones, Girl from the North Country). Now open to 5-star reviews this exquisite production is not to be missed. Uncle Vanya, until 2 May 2020 at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. Endgame - all star cast Alan Cumming (The Good Wife, Cabaret), Daniel Radcliffe (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Harry Potter film series) and Jane Horrocks (King Lear, Absolutely Fabulous) star in Samuel Beckett's macabre comedy in which hope and cruelty are the last things to die. Endgame runs from 1 February 2020 until 28 March 2020 at the Old Vic Theatre, London. [caption id="attachment_61694" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Brian Conley[/caption] Brian Conley Brian Conley will play Scrooge in a concert version of Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast), Lynn Ahrens (Anastasia, Ragtime) and Mike Ockrent's (Me and My Girl, Crazy for You) musical adaptation of Dickens classic fable A Christmas Carol. A firm fixture on UK television screens over the last 40 years, Brian's many West End credits include 9 to 5 The Musical (Savoy Theatre) Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre and UK Tour), Me And My Girl (Adelphi Theatre) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium). A Christmas Carol will run from 7 December until 2 January 2020 at the Dominion Theatre, London. [caption id="attachment_52595" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Elaine Paige[/caption] Elaine Page Britain's Grand Dame of musical theatre Elaine Page reprises her role of Queen Rat from the 2016 Dick Whittington pantomime for Pantoland at the Palladium - a collection of the best stories and characters from the London Palladium pantomimes. Pantoland at the Palladium will play to socially distanced audiences for three weeks only from 12 December 2020 until 3 January 2020. [caption id="attachment_62705" align="aligncenter" width="750"] John Owen Jones, Michael Ball & Alfie Boe[/caption] Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Matt Lucas & John Owen Jones Michael Ball, Alfie Boe and Matt Lucas will reprise their roles in a surprise re-staging of Les Miserables - The Staged Concert at the Sondheim Theatre this December. The cast also features Carrie Hope-Fletcher with John Owen Jones appearing at certain performances. Playing for a limited 8-week from 5 December 2020, tickets for this all-star production sold out within 48hrs of going on sale. Jimmy Carr Comedian and host of 8 Out of 10 Cats, Jimmy Carr brings his brand new stand-up show to the Palace Theatre this November. Playing for 1-week only Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny is an uproariously funny, quite possibly too close to the bone show that pokes fun at terrible situations. Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny is booking from 16 November 2020 until 21 November 2020 at the Palace Theatre, London.


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Suspect Wanted in Kidnapping of UFC Fighter's Stepdaughter Arrested in NW Florida
Ibraheem Yazeed was arrested late Thursday night in Escambia County, hours after a first-degree kidnapping warrant was issued for his arrest
Published November 8, 2019 • Updated on November 8, 2019 at 11:48 am
Ibraheem Yazeed was arrested late Thursday night, hours after a first-degree kidnapping warrant was issued for his arrest.
Yazeed was wanted in connection with the disappearance of Aniah Haley Blanchard, the stepdaughter of UFC heavyweight fighter Walt Harris.
A man wanted in the disappearance of UFC fighter Walt Harris' stepdaughter has been apprehended in Florida, but the whereabouts of the woman he's accused of abducting remained a mystery Friday.
Ibraheem Yazeed was arrested and booked into the Escambia County Jail early Friday. Jail records show he's being held as a fugitive after being charged in Alabama with first-degree kidnapping in the disappearance of 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard. She was last seen at a gas station in Auburn, Alabama, on Oct. 23.
Blanchard, a student at Southern Union State Community College, was reported missing the next day. Her car was later found abandoned in Montgomery, more than 50 miles (90 kilometers) away. Police said the car was damaged and contained evidence that Blanchard had been harmed.
"I am prayerful that the Lord touches this young man's heart so he will be honest and truthful and tell the authorities where our daughter is located," Blanchard's stepmother, Yashiba Blanchard, told Al.com . "I feel as if the Lord has heard our cries and the community's cries for help with finding our daughter."
Yazeed, 29, was already known to authorities: He was freed from an Alabama jail in February after prosecutors said he beat a man unconscious and "near death" in a vicious robbery, court records show. He faces attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree robbery in that earlier case.
Prosecutors say Yazeed was armed with a handgun in January when he pummeled William Joseph Fuller, Alabama court records state. He and two other people also stole Fuller's Rolex watch, rifle, handgun, wallet, bank card, and cash, authorities said.
Yazeed was out on bond at the time of Blanchard's disappearance.
In Florida, deputies were called by U.S. marshals to help them with the arrest at about 11 p.m. on Thursday alongside the Pine Forest exit on Interstate 10, Escambia Sheriff's Maj. Andrew Hobbs said.
"When we arrived, the suspect fled the area, but he was located by Escambia sheriff's officers and marshals in a wooded area near the exit," Hobbs said.
Yazeed left the scene in an ambulance. His jail booking photo shows him with a swollen left eye.
"The marshals were the ones who handcuffed him and took him into custody; you'd have to contact them about any injuries he received," Hobbs said.
The Associated Press' request for information left with the Pensacola office of the U.S. Marshals Service wasn't immediately returned early Friday.
Yazeed's run-ins with Alabama law enforcers date back almost a decade.
In 2012, he was accused of ramming his vehicle into a Montgomery police car at a Chevron station and charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer. He was fleeing from the two Montgomery officers at the time and plowed into the squad car "as the officers exited their vehicle in an attempt to kill the officers," a court affidavit states.
In a letter to the judge handling that case, Yazeed's mother said "he felt afraid and didn't know how to handle or control the vehicle due to so many fired gunshots towards the vehicle."
Yazeed spent months in the county jail before a grand jury determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute.
In her letter, his mother wrote that "I believe he is suffering some type of mental disorder." She said her son had suffered a very bad head injury as a child, and that he didn't always use good judgment. She also asked that his juvenile records be kept sealed.
Yazeed also wrote to court officials from the county jail, pleading for his release and saying it would alleviate jail overcrowding and "and save taxpayers a lot of money."
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LaMelo Ball Says It's a 'Straight Blessing' to Play for Michael Jordan's Hornets
Paul KasabianSenior ContributorNovember 19, 2020
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The Charlotte Hornets selected point guard LaMelo Ball with the third pick in the 2020 NBA draft Wednesday.
Later that evening, Ball sat down with Fox Sports South and talked about joining a team run by chairman and NBA legend Michael Jordan:
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"Straight blessing. For real," Ball said. "I don't even have enough words to say. I mean, I'm just blessed right now."
Ball played 12 games for the National Basketball League's Illawarra Hawks last season and averaged 17.0 points, 7.4 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 1.7 steals per game. The Hornets will look to make the playoffs for the first time since 2015-16.
Jordan bought the team in 2010 from BET co-founder Robert L. Johnson.
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If you missed our March 25 live broadcast of Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec's performance of Bach's St. John's Passion, you can now stream the concert below in its entirety. The event is part of our Carnegie Hall Live series, a partnership with WQXR and American Public Media. Follow along with the transcript of our live chat below, read the program notes, and refer to the text and translation.
Don't miss our next live broadcast event on April 27 with the Pavel Haas Quartet.


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Q: Is it possible to find .m files of Foundation framework? Would be nice to take a look on .m files of Foundation framework. Can I find them somewhere?
I found couple of similar topics here, looks like only Apple have those files, but maybe somebody know. Or maybe there is another way to understand mechanics behind.

A: Everything that Apple released as open source can be found here. Specifically what's available of Core Foundation is here.

A: Go to the opensource.apple.com,or you can directly to CoreFunction

A: No. It's closed source.
You can look at OpenStep source and it may give you an idea of how things might be implemented.
As others note you can look at a lot but not all CF source many implementation details will be similar at least conceptually but not always.
The point though is that you really shouldn't need to see the source implementation to use the libraries.

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The Worlds Most Expensive Cure Has Arrived, But Is It Ethical?
It was announced recently that drug company Novartis had created a life-saving drug for a rare genetic disorder called spinal muscular atrophy. The catch? The price tag will set you back around $4-5 million.
The drug still hasn't found FDA approval, but if passed it would be the most expensive cure in history. The previous record price for a life-saving drug was also for gene therapy, and that was for about $1 million for Glybera.
By all accounts finding any cure for a disease is remarkable, but charging upwards of $4-5 million is cause for serious concern. This is not the first time Novartis has activated high prices for their rare disease cures, we reported back in September of 2017 that they had created a drug for a unique form of blood cancer which cost upwards of $600,000. The real question here is who on earth will be able to afford this?
In a world where growing inequality has become starkly apparent, the challenge to not only find the funds for such a drug would be impossible, not to mention in countries like the United States where Universal Health Care is not available, insurance companies would be hard to find to support this price, in the US 8% of the population import drugs into the country to save money.
To be fair, Novartis has to date spent $8.7 billion on this drug, but, the fact that this process emerges from the private sector behind closed doors feels highly unethical.
For comparison, the average ransom by the mob is $2 million per person.
In recent years price collusion has left the pharma industry in a wake of negative headlines. From drug kingpin Martin Shrikeli receiving jail time for his bid to raise drug prices to most recently the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma (Oxycontin) being ousted for helping craft the opioid epidemic as we know it today.
Tell us your thoughts do you think it's ok that a drug company can charge such high prices for a life-saving drug?


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The Best Tech Quotes of the Year
Most years, I round up the news of the year in technology through a collection of quotes, arranged roughly by some combination I make up of their importance and how much I like them. Here they are for 2018.
14. "He was that kind of guy. You know, an asshole. But a really gifted one. Our asshole, I guess."
—A coworker at Google about Anthony Levandowski, the controversial self-driving car engineer. Published October 22
13. "How long is the wait usually to, um, be seated?"
—Google's AI-powered Duplex, in a jaw-dropping demonstration of just how far voice-recognition has come. May 8
12. "A sense of open-ended mystery in reality and in life is absolutely core to being a good scientist or a good technologist or, for that matter, a good writer, a good artist, or just a good human being."
—Jaron Lanier, the creator of VR, and now one of the philosophers of the industry. October 14
11. "I sold my users' privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day."
—Brian Acton, founder of WhatsApp, on his regrets. September 26
10. "We are now facing not just a technological crisis but a philosophical crisis."
—Yuval Noah Harari, surely the most-read author in Silicon Valley, in conversation with Tristan Harris, surely one of the most influential voices of the past year. October 4
9. "While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication."
—Sanofi, the maker of Ambien, responding to claims by Roseanne Barr that the drug may have inspired a Twitter rant. May 30
7. (tie) "Senator, we run ads."
—Mark Zuckerberg, in congressional testimony, explaining what the company actually does. The phrase quickly became a punchline at Facebook. April 10
"Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company."
—Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, explaining why he can't explain notifications on a device made by Apple. December 11
6. "Nothing is ever real until he sends the tweet."
—A member of the Trump administration, natch. November 13
5. "I would rather spend time with the people that are 100 percent aligned with what I want to do and the person that's most aligned with what I want to do is me."
—Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital, explaining the turmoil at his firm. September 20
4. "I live with a beginner's mind. I didn't realize two weeks ago I was going to buy Time."
—Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce and now the owner of Time. September 17
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash. on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The annual meeting was Nadella's first as head of Microsoft.
Microsoft basically just admitted that its deal to buy Nokia was a failure.
The technology giant confirmed Wednesday that it will be laying off "up to" 7,800 employees worldwide over the next several months, the majority of which are based in its phone division. That is in addition to the 18,000 employees that Microsoft announced it wouldlay off last year.
Microsoft will also write off losses of roughly $7.6 billion for its acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business, effectively admitting that the deal to buy Nokia was a failure. Microsoft ultimately spent $9.5 billion to buy Nokia's smartphone business, the most successful vendor of Windows phones, in a deal that some observers considered baffling.
The layoffs and writedown come just more than a year after Microsoft closed the costly acquisition of Nokia. The driving force behind the deal was previous Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a strategy widely viewed as a last-ditch effort to help the company find footing for Windows phones in a highly competitive smartphone market dominated by the likes of Apple, Google and Samsung.
"I am committed to our first-party devices including phones," Satya Nadella, Microsoft's current CEO, wrote in an email to employees about the moves. "However, we need to focus our phone efforts in the near term while driving reinvention. We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem that includes our first-party device family."
Translation: Microsoft expects to continue delivering its flagship phones and devices to "Windows fans" — however many of those there may be. But it is a tacit acknowledgement that the company can no longer justify the cost of investing in thousands of employees to build hardware when it seems no closer to pushing beyond a distant third in the market.
"They were hoping to quickly be able to hit the jets and double or triple market share over what they had," Frank Gillett, an analyst with Forrester Research, says of Microsoft's decision to buy Nokia's device business. "And it didn't happen."
"It's the last disappointment of the previous generation of Microsoft's leadership," he says.
Microsoft will continue to invest in a broader ecosystem of apps, which it is slowly acquiring by buying small tech companies. In recent months, Microsoft has acquired several popular applications including Sunrise and Acompli to reach users on other companies' smartphones rather than solely pushing its own Windows-branded devices.
Nadella's tenure as CEO has largely been devoted to trimming the fat at Microsoft in an effort to better position the company to compete in the smartphone market — and whatever comes next. Besides announcing the layoffs of those 18,000 employees last year, it has also shed mapping assets to Uber and sent off its display advertising business.
"I don't take changes in plans like these lightly, given that they affect the lives of people who have made an impact at Microsoft," Nadella said in the email. "We are deeply committed to helping our team members through these transitions."
While the announcement may come as an unwelcome surprise to the affected employees, Wall Street appeared to be well prepared for the news. Microsoft stock was up by a slight 0.5% in early trading Wednesday following the news.


Design teams find themselves facing decreasing power budgets while simultaneously the products that they design continue to require the integration of increasingly complex levels of functionality. The market place (driven by consumer preferences) and new regulations and guidelines on energy efficiency and environ- mental impact are the key drivers. This in turn has generated new approaches in all IC and electronic system design domains from the architecture to the physical layout of ICs, to design-for-test, as well as for design verification to insure that the design implementation actually meets the intended requirements and specifications.
This chapter covers key aspects of these forces from a technological and market perspective that are driving designers to produce more energy-efficient products. Observations by significant industry leaders from AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, nVidia and TSMC are cited, and the emerging techniques and technologies used to address these issues now and into the future are explored.
– System level: Architectural analysis and transaction-level modeling. How architectural decisions can dramatically reduce the design power and the importance of modeling hardware and software together.
turning power off and/or multi-voltage operation on: (1) chip verification, (2) multi-corner multi-mode analysis during placement and routing of logic cells and (3) changes to design-for-test, all in order to accommodate for power-gating and multi-voltage control logic, retention registers, isolation cells and level shifters needed to implement these power saving techniques.
– Process level: The disappearing impact of body-bias techniques on leakage control and why new approaches like High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) technology help but don't eliminate power issues.
Power-efficient design is impacting the way chip designers work today, and this chapter focuses on where the most significant gains can be realized and why power- efficiency requirements will continue to challenge designers into the future. Despite new process technologies, the future will continue to rely on innovative design approaches.


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India and Netherlands launched the second phase of the LOTUS-HR
The King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of Netherlands and the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan jointly launch the second phase of the LOTUS-HR (Local Treatment of Urban Sewage streams for Healthy Reuseplant) as a part of joint collaboration, at the Barapullah drain, in New Delhi on Oct 14, 2019.
The launch programme was held during the visit of Netherlands King & the Queen to the India Netherlands water laboratory at the Barapullah drain Delhi.
The project was initiated in July 2017 and aims to demonstrate a novel holistic (waste) water management approach that will produce clean water which can be reused for various purposes. The innovative pilot scale modular plant upon commissioning will treat 10,000 L sewage water per day and will showcase a self-sustaining model for the end user.
Also Read: First ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair begins underway in New Delhi
The LOTUS-HR project is jointly supported by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research /STW, Government of Netherlands.
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Air classifier is an important part of ultrafine grinding mill, when air classifier works; through the driving of speed motor moves the blade rotation on turntable, to form a classification of iron ore powders. The speed of the blade rotating is to be adjusted according to the particle size of finished iron ore powder products. When need to obtain smaller fineness iron ore powder, it must increase the blade rotating speed, increase the touch numbers between blades and iron ore powder. So undesirable iron ore powder is thrown to the outer wall from airflow by blades rotating, and then falls into the iron ore grinding mill cavity for re-pulverizing. The qualified finished iron ore powder is through the blades drawn into large airflow cyclone collector and the iron ore powder will be collected.


consented, and gave him the child.
I have freed my daughter from her undesired suitor.
great care of the foundling, and he grew up in all goodness.
my good people, could not the youth take a letter to the queen.
killed and buried, and all must be done before I come home.
lost my way in the forest I should like to stay here over night.
they gave him the letter, and showed him the right way.
with him in joy and contentment.
the prophecy was fulfilled, and the child married to his daughter.
my daughter. In this way the king hoped to be rid of him for ever.
them and began his journey.
wait until I come back.
gatekeeper asked him what was his trade, and what he knew.
only wait until I come back.
Then he went on and came to a wide river over which he must cross.
answered he, only wait until I come back.
going backwards and forwards, and is never set free.
his grandmother's lap, and told her she should louse him a little.
would not even bear leaves. What, think you, was the reason.
me in my sleep again you will get a box on the ear.
everything had turned out so fortunately.
when he reached the opposite shore he gave him the devil's advice.
two asses laden with gold, which followed him.
gave him two asses laden with gold.
all the conditions are fulfilled, and you can keep my daughter.


Let me be among the first to say it: This country can no longer afford to allow utility services to be profit-making businesses. In this, the richest country on earth, 24 people have died, and thousands more suffer with no electrical power in 100+ degree heat, while instead of hurriedly fixing downed power lines, utility companies primarily worry about profit margins on financial bottom lines!
In addition to those killed during this outage, there are sick and elderly needing relief? And how long are nursing homes, hospitals and cooling centers suppose to survive on temporary generators? Enough already!
While they have laid off workers, avoided updating equipment, and used under-experienced and under-manned teams to repair power outages, America's utility companies have had plenty of money to lobby federal and state governments to lift regulations––allowing them to make all the more money.
According to OpenSecrets.org, in the last decade, power companies have made at least $ 127 million 'known' political contributions at the federal level, and another $ 222 million to politicians at the state level. And paying $ 191 million to hire 900 different lobbyists in 2010 alone, they spend vastly more on lobbying.
In "Power Outages Around Washington Preceded By Power Plays," Dan Froomkin writes: "Major electric utilities have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last two decades on campaign contributions and lobbying as part of a hugely successful push to free their industry from federal and state regulations and ostensibly embrace competition.
But what happens when Global Warming brings power outages to Quebec, Oklahoma and everywhere else at the same time? How long will power in the essential heart of our country be out then? This system must be federalized!
Such neglect is usually deemed criminal negligence. But among utility companies, their lobbyists and political payees, it is just business as usual. As wholesale Christian Bibles state: "Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment (1 Timothy 5: 24)." Let us pray that in the case of power company executives, their sins are exposed sooner, rather than later!
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Abstract Using MgSO4 and NaOH solutions as starting materials, the whisker of 5Mg(OH) (2) . MgSO4 - 2H(2)O has been prepared by hydrothermal method at 160degreesC for different time. The whisker was separated, washed by water, ethanol and ether, and characterized by chemical analysis, XRD, IR and microphotography. The growth time of whisker would affect its morphology.
GB/T 7714 Yue, T,Gao, SY,Zhu, LX,et al. Study on the morphology of 5Mg(OH)(2) center dot MgSO4 center dot 2H(2)O in whisker growth process[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY,2002,18(3):313-316.
APA Yue, T,Gao, SY,Zhu, LX,Wang, B,Ξa, SP.(2002).Study on the morphology of 5Mg(OH)(2) center dot MgSO4 center dot 2H(2)O in whisker growth process.CHINESE JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY,18(3),313-316.
MLA Yue, T,et al."Study on the morphology of 5Mg(OH)(2) center dot MgSO4 center dot 2H(2)O in whisker growth process".CHINESE JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 18.3(2002):313-316.


Beef and Guinness Stew with Guinness Beer Bread. What else would you want to eat on a cold winter night?
The smell of the beef braising in the Guinness with garlic, onions, mushrooms, and carrots until its so fork tender you only need a spoon to eat it will make your mouth water. Maybe I should call it spoon tender?
The deep, malty flavor of the Guinness makes such a great canvas for the tender beef, vegetables, and rich brown gravy. Served over a bed of seasoned, mashed rustic red potatoes with a warm slice of Guinness Beer Bread and a pat of melting butter, my mouth is watering again! This hearty, flavor packed Beef and Guinness Stew will warm your heart and make your home smell like heaven.
For a stew to be truly epic, it must have certain elements in my opinion. I like large chunks of beef, and by that I mean I cut my chuck roast into 2-3″ cubes. The beef and the Guinness are the stars here. Browning the meat first is also a must as it really deepens the flavor. I also prefer an almost gravy-like consistency for my sauce. At the end of the cooking time if my stew isn't as thick as I would like, I add an additional amount of flour to give my stew a thicker consistency to really cover the mashed potatoes just like a thick gravy should. Letting the stew simmer for the proper amount of time is also very important for all of the flavors to develop and for the beef to be spoon-tender.
Last weekend when I made this, my hubby was scheduled to work, so the kids and I decided to head up to the lake where we keep a camper in the woods. Despite the freezing temps, being all cozy in our camper with movies and board games is just so nice. You are away from the everyday chores of laundry and house cleaning and its like a weekend vacation. Its one of our favorite places actually. Throw in a big pot of this slow cooking, fragrant stew, a loaf of beer bread, and Cranberry Orange Scones for dessert, and you have yourself a little, cozy piece of heaven.
Part of my point here is that even though you could serve this to company to rave reviews, this is a fairly simple dish to prepare. If it can be done in a tiny camper kitchen, it can be done anywhere.
Start by browning 3 pounds of chuck that has been cut into 2-3″ cubes and dusted with flour, salt, and pepper over a high heat in a little olive oil. Brown the meat in 2 batches to avoid crowding the meat. Place in a large bowl when done.
Next, brown 8 ounces of baby portabella or button mushrooms in a little butter and then place in the bowl with the beef.
Saute carrots, celery, and onion until lightly browned. Add tomato paste, garlic, Italian parsley, and thyme and cook an additional 1-2 minutes.
Add 1 can or bottle of Guinness Stout and bring to a simmer. Cook and reduce for 1 minute.
Add beef stock and bring to a gentle boil. Cover and cook 2 1/2 hours until beef is fork (or spoon tender!).
If your gravy isn't as thick as desired, make a slurry by mixing 2 tablespoons flour with 1/2 cup beef stock. Straining for lumps, pour flour slurry into stew and boil 5-10 minutes until stew thickens.
Serve over mashed red potatoes whipped with butter, half and half, salt, pepper and Italian parsley. Garnish Beef and Guinness Stew with additional chopped Italian Parsley. Warm slices of Guinness Beer Bread and butter, and of course, a pint of Guinness are the perfect accompaniments.
I hope you love my Beef and Guinness Stew with Guinness Beer Bread as much as my family does. Enjoy!
In the mood for soups and stews? Make sure you check out Pressure Cooker Pork Chili, Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings, and Red Wine Beef Stew.
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The smell of the beef braising in the Guinness with garlic, onions, mushrooms, and carrots until its so tender you only need a spoon to eat it will make your mouth water.
Heat olive oil in large dutch oven on high heat.
Dust cubed chuck roast with flour, and generous amounts of salt and pepper.
Brown beef cubes on all sides in batches being careful to not overcrowd for about 5 minutes per batch.
Remove beef to a large bowl after browning.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter on medium high heat.
Add mushrooms and a dash of salt.
Lightly brown mushrooms and remove to beef bowl.
Add additional tablespoon of butter if needed and saute carrots, celery, and onion until slightly browned about 3-5 minutes.
Incorporate tomato paste, thyme, parlsey, and garlic and cook and additional 1-2 minutes.
Add Guinness and bring to a boil scrapping any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
Allow Guinness to reduce for 1-2 minutes.
Pour in beef stock and return to a gentle simmer.
Cover and simmer for 2.5 hours or until beef has reached desired tenderness.
Remove lid and bring stew to a rolling boil.
Taste check to see if additional salt and pepper is needed.
If stew consistency is not as thick as desired, add a strained slurry of 2 tablespoons flour mixed with 1/2 cup stock.
Continue to vigorously simmer for an additional 5-10 minutes allowing stew to thicken.
Serve over mashed red potatoes made with half and half, salt, pepper, and parsley.
Garnish with additional parsley if desired.


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The first deployments commenced in mid-April with both cameras deployed in New Copse Inclosure, following a report of a possible Pine Marten seen nearby. The cameras stayed out for almost a month but sadly no Pine Martens were recorded, although it proved to be an important area for Sika Deer with herds of up to 14 animals regularly seen. There were also regular sightings of Fallow Deer and three sightings of Muntjac Deer, but no Roe Deer were observed in this area.
The two camera traps were redeployed on 01 July 2017 in the central NF close to where Pine Marten images and road kills had been obtained in 2015-16. One of the cameras was located in a relatively inaccessible location adjacent to an inclosure fence that was clearly a pathway for deer and other animals. This camera stayed out until the batteries eventually died on 03 Dec 2017, providing an opportunity to look at seasonal trends in sightings over a five-month period between July and November.
This analysis revealed that Roe and Muntjac Deer, which were mostly seen as singles or pairs, showed no obvious seasonal pattern, with a mix of bucks and does throughout. In contrast, Fallow Deer numbers peaked sharply in October during the rutting season, with the first mature stags arriving on 01 Oct 2017 and seen regularly thereafter, often chasing does; this seems to indicate that the camera location is in an important rutting area. The largest herd of Fallow Deer contained 27 animals. Of interest, a distinctive buck Fallow Deer with deformed antlers that was recorded on 17 Oct was reported five times on the WNF Facebook page in the Aug-Oct period, all within five kilometres of the camera trap site.
Perhaps the most interesting result concerned the ten sightings of Red Deer between 06 July and 05 Oct 2017, all but one of which were mature stags seen on one date only. The largest of these was a stunning 14-point stag (known as an Imperial Stag), although multiple 12-point stags were also seen (known as Royal Stags). The behaviour of these stags suggested they were on transit to a known rutting area east of the camera location, and that they originated from the west (possibly the Avon Valley). Also, of interest, a young Sika Deer stag was noted on 02 Oct 2017, coinciding with the first arrival of mature Fallow Deer bucks at the site.
The other camera was deployed just 1500 m away in open woodland close to a road and car park for 3.5 months up to mid-October, but didn't record any Red Deer. In addition, there were only three Muntjac Deer (compared to ~40 sightings in the same period at the other site), and lower numbers of Fallow Deer (with very few mature bucks), although Roe Deer numbers were similar. And only one Grey Squirrel was recorded here in 3.5 months, compared to ~50 sightings at the other site! This potentially highlights the importance of habitat and recreational disturbance in controlling mammal distribution and abundance in this area.
During November and December this camera was deployed at a couple of locations within an inclosure close to the long-term deployment site. Other than regular Muntjac Deer within the inclosure, the only other notable sightings were of regular foxes that were evidently feeding on a Red Deer carcass (probably a road kill) that had been dumped nearby!
Finally, of interest, only one Badger was recorded, and Muntjac Deer were recorded at all six sites where camera traps were deployed – a sign of the times perhaps?
For 2018, one of the camera traps is likely to remain at the long-term deployment site described above, to further study the seasonal flux of deer at this location. The other camera trap will be moved around regularly, and will be moved in response to any reports of target species such as Pine Marten.
Many thanks to Jayne Albery and Andy Page of the Forestry Commission for their ongoing support with licences, to Andrew Colenutt for assisting with camera deployment and recovery, and to Martin Noble of Hampshire Mammal Group for providing advice on potential sites for selected species.


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Chaudhuri leads after first round of Motocaddy Masters
Neil Chaudhuri leads the Motocaddy Masters at The Carrick on Loch Lomond after shooting a first-round 68 for three under par in the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour event.
James Frazer and Sebastian Garcia Grout share second on two under, just one off the lead, with three players tied for third on one under.
The course provided a stern test on the opening day but leader Chaudhuri (www.specialisteyes.co.uk) responded instantly to a bogey at the first by birdieing the second. He went out in 33 after breaking par again at five, six and nine but dropped down the leaderboard when he double-bogeyed the par-four tenth.
The Leicester golfer, who represented England as an amateur, responded well again with a birdie at 11 and he returned to the lead with a birdie at 16 before closing out his round with two pars to sign for a 68.
Spaniard Garcia Grout (Golf de Poniente Mallorca) double bogeyed the third but birdies at five and seven saw him return to level par. A bogey at the ninth took his card back over par but he was one under after an eagle three at the 11th. Seven pars and a birdie at 15 saw him complete his opening round in 69 for a share of second on two under.
Welshman Frazer (Pennard Golf Club) is also just one behind leader Chaudhuri. He began his round at the tenth and made ten consecutive pars before a run of three birdies from the second took him to three under. A bogey at five followed but he was soon back to three under when he took two on the par-three sixth. However, a bogey on the eighth prevented him from sharing the lead after the first 18.
Greg McBain (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) is the leading Scot after the first round. The Aberdeen man shares fourth with Ireland's Mark Murphy and Andrew Cheese (Sutton Coldfield Golf Club), who all carded 70 for one under on the opening day.
The Motocaddy Masters is a 54-hole strokeplay event, with a cut to the leading 50 players plus ties to be made after Thursday's second round. The final round will be filmed for a two-hour highlights show to be aired on Sky Sports on Tuesday, July 22 and spectator entry is free throughout.
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Yom HaShoah, British Royalty and Brave New World
Apr8 by howardadelman
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, began at sundown last evening. It is the holiday, the holy day, in the annual calendar when Jews all over the world remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. Not that we can ever forget during the rest of the year. But those martyrs and heroes have our singular focus and attention on this day.
And what do we remember? We recall that they were all murdered, and they were murdered simply for being Jews. While there is still time, and there remain a few survivors among us, we honour them. Commemoration and remembrance are the central motifs. And we remember them not simply as an instrument of commemoration as we do when we honour the war dead in Israel (11 November, Remembrance Day in Canada.) We remember those lost in war as a lesson and a promise. Never Again! For Holocaust remembrance, the phrase is repeated over and over, even though we are well aware that the killing of others because of their identity has been repeated many times since – the Tutsi in Rwanda and the ethnic cleansing and murder of the Rohingya from Myanmar. In Rwanda, the victims were called inyenzi or cockroaches.
We remember to pay tribute to diversity even as Israel, the country created by the Jews and for the Jews – but not exclusively – the country that, in the last election in March, voted in its first unequivocally racist party to the Knesset.- Jewish Power led by Itamar Ben-Gvir – a party that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) labeled "racist and reprehensible." Jewish Power is the heir of the ideology of Meir Kahane, an American-born racist rabbi who promoted a Jewish theocracy, the banning of intermarriage between Jews and Palestinians and the expulsion of those Palestinians.
Jewish Power is one of the three parties that forged the Religious Zionist Party under the leadership of Bezalel Smotrich; it won 7 seats. Party members advocate driving the Arabs out of Israel. They advocated instituting apartheid in the Israeli health system so that Jewish women would not have to give birth to Jewish children beside Arabs. And they espouse such ideas even though 20% the workforce in the health field – researchers, specialists, general practitioners, nurses, health technicians and aides – are Arabs. Instead of a health sector consisting of Arabs who work side-by-side Jewish Israelis at every level, they would exorcise the Palestinian Israelis.
Yet Yom HaShoah is a testament to diversity. Further, every religious and ethnic group struggles with the tension between that diversity and the celebration and continuation of unity. Yesterday, at the invitation of Dr. Payam Mohseni, I attended a symposium (a virtual one) on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi'ism. Every people, every religion, has the same problem. Yet Jews do not honour the minorities slaughtered everywhere, but only the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah and the extraordinary survivors. We honour particularism, not universalism.
How then by remembering such a past can we educate our children? How can we say, "Never forget!" and "Never again"? How can we use remembrance to educate and inspire all Jews to respect the dignity of others? It is a day which is solemn. It is a day which is poignant. It is a day of readings, of poetry and memoirs, of testimonials and of music – and it is mostly the music that I remember and that stirs up memories in me. And I remember not only what was lost and who was lost but also what endures and who endures. It is a day to recall a period in which a mighty chasm opened up in the history of the Jewish people and swallowed up one-third of us. But it is also a commemoration of continuity.
There are many occasions to celebrate survival and continuity. But there are also occasions that threaten that same survival. The election of the Kahanists is one of those threats. On a much lesser and lower note, the Oprah Winfrey interview with the duke and duchess of Kent, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, took place. Peggy Noonan, the Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist of the Wall Street Journal, insisted that this was not just "a highly charged celebrity interview," but an occasion which threatened the continuity of a millennium-old institution, the British monarchy. "It was history, a full-bore assault on an institution, the British monarchy, that has endured for more than a thousand years." Not quite in the same league as the Nazi assault on the Jews who have endured for over three millenia, but nonetheless. a verbal and performative assault.
What does this event, the Oprah Winfrey interview that I already wrote about, that event that occurred in a very minor note, have to do with the resounding and stirring music of the Holocaust? Racism, for one. That was a common theme. But there was another. As Peggy Noonan pointed out, Harry claimed his brother and his father were bugs, bugs trapped by the tabloids that control whether the throne will be sustained. Populist people power using the press has entrapped the institution of the monarch that, at one and the same time, is held in awe because of that press, at the same time as it is periodically denigrated by that press to such an extent that the continuity of the institution is threatened.
The monarchy was revealed as not only fallible given contemporary dominant values – racism runs rife through the institution – but the members of the royal family are weak and vulnerable. The Jews, though they have lasted over three millenia, were also shown by the Shoah to be weak and vulnerable. Thus, one of the purposes of Yom HaShoah is to show that the Jews have survived, that they have come through the fire of Nazi persecution and ovens to re-emerge as stronger and more creative than ever.
But the pain and suffering caused along the way are central. There was an enormous cost. Sometimes the Jews are accused of wielding that pain like a weapon to advance the Zionist cause and to play on the guilt of the others. But, contrary to myth, Israel was not created to salve guilt, but to get rid of a problem – the Jewish refugees languishing in the camps three years after the end of WWII. The Jews are and have always been a nation, a long persisting one, and the holidays Jews celebrate and the memories they honour are part of the mystique that ensures stability and continuity to its members. Indeed, memory is weaponized.
Why? Because, to quote the great philosopher Meghan Markle, "Life is about storytelling. About the stories we tell ourselves, what we're told, and what we buy into." It is "storytelling through a truthful lens" that, however horrific, offers hope and is uplifting. Peggy Noonan complained that "public life has gotten extremely, unrelentingly performative…everyone is always performing—the politician, the news anchor, the angry activist." In such a world, the actor has a distinct advantage.
Which brings us to Brave New World., Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel published in 1932 that is lauded as predicting with greater clarity and insight the perilous state of the present world in which reproductive and media technology and drugs seduce us into a somatic world of sleep learning and pleasure-seeking to create a society of classes and castes each living in its own characteristic silo.
There is a misfit in this world, Bernard Marx, though an Alpha Plus and member of the elite in terms of his mental attributes, is a resentful depressive, cowardly, jealous, unmistakably Jewish and an outlier – then shorter in stature and lacking the civil graces of the British as his abrasive personality challenges not only the methods of keeping people peaceful, but the whole enterprise.
Marx and his partner Lenina travel to New Mexico and a "Savage Reservation" where they see people who grow old, suffer from diseases and speak other languages. And practice exotic religions. What motivates Marx is revenge, revenge against his boss who wants to "ethnically cleanse" the Brave New World and exile him to Iceland. Marx returns from New Mexico with John who turns out to be the illegitimate son of his boss. Marx exposes his boss to public humiliation and shame, thereby averting his own punishment. At the same time, the one skill John, the illegitimate son of his former boss, possesses is as a performer since one of the two books he had when he grew up was the Complete Works of Shakespeare. In effect, a professional and thoroughly trained and cultivated performer is used as a foil to reveal the emptiness of the performances of everyone living in the Brave New World.
It is a world of hypnopedic conditioning for most and, for the odd exception, like Marx and John, a differential conditioning that makes them both misfits in the programmed life of Brave New World. Aldous Huxley in an interview in 1958 with Mike Wallace of NBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40), described that dystopia as a product of overpopulation – Huxley, thereby, seemed to endorse physical, pharmaceutical and technological birth control methods in his novel, even as he satirized them. However, ultimately the society was more a product of social conditioning than of genetic engineering. The enemy of freedom, the enemy of rational thought, was brainwashing and thought control, but not through terror and threatening violence as in George Orwell's 1984, but through advertising.
Drugs were used to alter our minds without any physical side effects. Drugs and propaganda. Propaganda and drugs. Not terror. Aldous Huxley preached how to save democracy. It was necessary to free the rational side from unconscious forces that condition us and exert thought control through influencing our appetites and desires. Thus, advertising was the tool for imposing a social order of compliance. In Orwell, the objective in itself was power. It was not just an instrument. In Huxley, formal authority was an instrument to exert control without coercion. Instead of society kept in check by fear, the management of our frustrations was used to accomplish the same ends. Soma rather than LSD was the drug of choice.
Supplemented, of course, by the control and manipulation of what you could know. This psychological and chemical condition was complemented by small doses of oppression, but otherwise the oppression was unseen and unrecognized. As Will Self put it in his debate with Adam Gopnik over whether Brave New World or 1984 was the most prescient novel, the Alphas in Brave New World simply suffered a life of constant deprivation by being kept soaked in the equivalent of bathtub gin.
The solution was not a command economy and coerced production, but the consumer ideal of satisfaction through the ingestion of one chemical product or another. Natural reflexes had to be deconditioned. The love of nature had to be abolished for natural feelings were the enemy. Instead, manufactured nature was nurtured as the object of desire. The satisfaction of needs and wants were directed by advertising to such an extent that one did not feel one was being conditioned as that very process took place. Instead, what was prevalent was mandatory promiscuity and internet pornography that was as chemically satisfying as the real thing without the emotional side effects.
Instead of terror, hardwire the mind and expose it to sensuous satisfaction through its lifetime. Distribute morality in a bottle of pills. Oxy-Contin and prozac are but different versions of soma – and less effective. In a world of consumption and conditioning, advertising, war and strife had become superfluous.
The problem is that Yom HaShoah reminds us that, while such an exaggeration of our current condition in the developed world is full of insights, George Orwell is equally if not more important because, as the 6 January attack on The Capitol made clear, filling our minds with lies and operating only to satisfy self-interests was not sufficient. In the end, you had to gain control of the command centre. Then, violence was needed. Fortunately, the amateurs and misfits behind the uprising and the effort to hijack an election were not only rank amateurs. They were incompetents. The centre of power was effectively unguarded. But they failed to take control though they also recognized that violence was needed to achieve their goals. The estimates of what was really required were grossly insufficient. .
More importantly, YomHashoa not only reminds us of the importance of terror and torture in exercising control, but the importance of defining and oppressing the other – whether that other be Black or Asian, Jew or Muslim. We require not only the dystopia of Brave New World, but of 1984, now rampant in the Third World where that is a primary method of social control. Aldous Huxley is insufficient. We also need George Orwell's prescience.
However, even taken together, they may provide a negative alter-world, but they do not provide a solution. For both books and authors are products of their time, seeing as the ideal rationality freed up from the passions or imprisoned by them. They eulogized independence of choice when, individuality was put on a pedestal, when, in reality, we must learn that we are not primarily our own decision-makers but tellers of collective tales. Narratives more than individual reason provide our benchmarks. And it is emotional not rational intelligence that needs emphasis. Both Huxley and Orwell were fundamentally wrong in their conception of the individualistic rational ideal underpinning their stories which were narratives of a possible, and horrendous, world, rather than narratives of our actual existence.
Celebrating and honouring the dead and survivors of the Holocaust offers a concrete antidote to the warnings of both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. For the implication of the distilled remnant of what is left when the dystopic elements are evaporated is a portrait so unappealing and so contrary to life and experience that it becomes at least understandable why the dystopias they describe might be allowed to be developed. YomHashoa is a reminder.
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Tata Motors Q1FY22 Consolidated Highlights - Tata Motors Company Fundamentals | Invest Yadnya
Tata Motors Q1FY22 Consolidated Highlights
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The volumes of Tata Motors company fundamentals in Q1FY22 stood at 213.6k units, a growth of 132.6% from Q1FY21 units of 91.8k. The units in this quarter declined by 36% when compared to Q4FY21 units of 334.2k.
The revenue of Tata Motors stock analysis in this quarter stood at Rs. 66,406 crores, a YoY growth of 107.6% but a QoQ decline of 25% of the Tata Motors Ltd. stock.
Operating profit decreased by 351.8% YoY at Rs. 5,824 crores in Q1FY22, but declined by (58.6%) on QoQ basis.
EBITDA margin stood at 8.8% in Q1FY22, a growth of 480bps YoY and decline of (-710bps) QoQ.
The company posted a loss of Rs. 4,451 crores in Q1FY22 according to Tata Motors business analyst.
FCF of Tata Motors company analysis was -18.2k crore. The cash in Tata Motors company Profile outflow was mostly due to working capital unwinding.
YoY numbers of Tata Motors share analysis look good due to lower base in Q1FY21.
Operating leverage of Tata Motors stock price history decreased as volumes came down in this quarter
EBIT margin according to the Tata Motors ltd chart improved in JLR, TML and Tata Motors Finance when compared to Q1FY21.
Wholesale volumes of Tata Motors ltd share price were most impacted in this quarter as compared to the Tata Motors ltd share price history and there is currently a thin pipeline in wholesale and retail.
Tata Motors Standalone Q1FY22 results
Revenue of Tata Motors company share price from operations stood at Rs. 11,904 crores. A growth of 343% YoY and a decline of (40.6%) QoQ.
Operating profit turned positive in Q1FY22 and stood at Rs. 291 crores when compared to Q1FY21. Operating profit declined by (28.1%) QoQ.
Operating profit margin stood at 2.4% in Q1FY21, a decline of (570 bps) when compared to operating profit margin of 8.1% in Q4FY21.
The company recorded a standalone loss of Rs. (1,321) crores in Q1FY22 as compared to Profit after tax of Rs. 1,646 crores in Q4FY21.
JLR Highlights
Units sold in retail stood at 124.5k units. Retail units sold increased by 68% YoY in Q1FY22. The retail units also saw a small increase as compared to Q4FY21.
Wholesale units were constrained by 30k units due to semi-conductor shortages, yet they are up by 73% YoY.
The company had a record order bank of 110k units on 30th June 2021. This order book comprises 29k orders for Defender.
Q1 retail volumes higher than Q4. This reinforces the retail presence level of JLR in the marketplace.
As the revenue for the JLR is from wholesale and not retail the low volumes in wholesale had an impact on revenue in Q1FY22. This impact will also continue in Q2FY22.
EBITDA margin stood at 9% in Q1FY22. A reduction of (630bps) QoQ and increase of 540bps YoY.
FCF in Q1FY22 was (-996) million pounds. Investments of 571 million pounds were made during the year.
Cash outflow majorly during this quarter was in working capital as the company currently is building less cars and hence their payables for this quarter were lower. As soon as the company builds more cars, the working capital number will reverse which also happened in the previous year.
Q1FY22 investments of 571 million pounds majorly consisted of R&D and capital investments.
Total cash stands at 3.7 billion pounds and liquidity of 5.7 billion pounds on 30th June 2021
As JLR and retail inventories are falling, we will see a fall in sales in Q2FY22.
Peak selling period in China is from early part of Nov to early part of Feb. After Chinese new year, Feb and Mar are always lower sales than Dec and Jan. China volumes will reduce in Q2 because of the supply challenges of the semiconductor issues.
PBT before exceptional items was (-110) million pounds which happened due to reduced wholesales volumes and supply constraint
Richer mix in this quarter as compared to the previous one.
The portfolio in Q1FY22 was less compliant to the emissions due to the shortage of semiconductor chips which led to manufacturing of the same. The Q2FY22 is expected to be more compliant to the emissions due to a bank book of 1,10,000 units.
7000 units WIP of inventory at the end of June. Normally it is 3000 units.
The Refocus programme introduced by the company will improve the business performance of 7 pillars: Quality, Programme Delivery & Performance, Delivered cost per car, End-to-End supply chain, Customer & Market Performance, China, Agile Organisation & Culture, Responsible Spend and Using Data & Technology.
Regional performance of JLR
The retail units sold in UK stood at 23.7k in Q1FY22, a growth of 187% YoY
North America contributed 31.4k units in Q1FY22, a growth of 51%.
25.8k units were sold in Europe in Q1FY22, a growth of 174% YoY.
Volumes in China increased by 14% YoY in Q1FY22 and stood at 27k units despite the supply chain constraint.
Overseas volumes stood at 16.6k units, a growth of 71%.
Overall the total growth in volumes was 68% YoY in Q1FY22 and volumes stood at 124.5k units.
JLR Retail performance by Model performances
The Range Rover units stood at 59.1k in Q1FY22, a growth of 56% YoY as compared to Q1FY21 volumes of 38k units
Defender saw huge spike in volumes as it stood at 17.2k units in Q1FY22, posting a high growth of 688%.
As compared to other models, Discovery posted a volume growth of 26% in Q1FY22 YoY with retail units at 19.1k.
Jaguar increased by 55% YoY while retail units sold stood at 29.2k.
EVs contributed 66% to the vehicle mix of Q1FY22.
Semiconductor issues
Production was impacted by the shortage of semiconductors. This resulted in supply constraints and tier 2 suppliers getting affected.
Q1 wholesale units were up 73%. This is 23% lower than what company expected and were impacted due to supply constraints.
Company expects that semiconductor supply will decline further in Q2FY22 which will lead to wholesale units reducing by 50% from planned levels to 65k units.
Company is following up with suppliers and manufacturers of semiconductors to maximise suppliers.
The company is also prioritising higher margin models.
The company is optimising product specifications due to which they will have reduced dependency on semiconductors.
JLR Outlook
The company aims to reach a revenue of more than 30 billion pounds in FY26, EBIT margin of more than or equal to 10% while also keeping free cash flow positive.
These targets were supported by a good performance of the company in H2FY21, where it reached revenue of 12.5 billion pounds, 6% EBIT margin and 1.3 billion pounds of free cash flow.
Tata Motors Standalone Performance Highlights
Market share in commercial vehicles has been in a decreasing trend. The market share for Q1FY22 stood at 40.5%. In FY21 the same was 42.4%. FY19 and FY20 had 45.1% and 43% market share respectively.
SCV and Buses are clearly in a declining trend in market share.
ILCV has increased its market share to 52% in Q1FY21
MHCV market share is on a rise continuously from the previous 2 years as it is currently at a high of 63%.
Month of April started with the second wave of COVID. Volumes dropped by 50% in the month of April. In May, there was another drop of 50%. Mar to May overall volumes almost dropped by 75%. In June, volumes grew 94% over May. Volumes in June changed back to April level.
Overall, wholesale Q1FY22 volumes were 56% lower than Q4FY21. Volumes were 4.5x when compared to previous Q1. Localised lockdowns enabled the economy to continue to grow in different regions.
The wholesale volume for Q1FY22 stood at 49.5k units among which exports were 6.7%. Although volume show a growth of 362.5% YoY, they actually have declined by (55.6%) QoQ.
The inflationary pressures of steel and precious price rise continues.
The company took a price increase on 1st April which was about 2.5% across the range and another price increase of around 1%-2.5% starting 1st July was announced.
Rise in steel prices led to the two price increases taken by the company.
The company said that it is not easy to pass on the cost increase. Hence, focus has been to look at cost reduction first and then look at the price increase in the market.
Due to increase in prices of diesel and gasoline, CNG penetration has increased. CNG infrastructure is also improving in many areas.
The index of transporter's sentiment dropped in Q1. The outlook though, is positive as the restriction of lockdowns ease,
Transporter profitability is below Q4FY21 levels. Although freight rates are rising now, they are still below their Mar-21 levels.
Semiconductor availability is a concern for commercial vehicles too.
CV passenger demand was muted during this quarter.
Aligning production to retail hence vehicle level inventory is not required.
Commercial Vehicle Financials
The revenue for the commercial vehicle segment stood at Rs. 6.5k crores, a growth of 355% YoY but a decline of (-51.1%) QoQ.
EBITDA margin stood at a meagre 0.1%, though it was 9.1% in Q4FY21. EBITDA margin was negative in Q1FY21.
The margins are low due to lower operating leverage.
Wholesale volumes stood at 64.6k units, a growth of 343.2% YoY but a decline of (23.3%). Close to 200 units were exports during this quarter
Passenger vehicle market share increased to 10% in Q1FY22. These levels were seen for the first time in 10 years. In FY21 it was 8.2% and FY20 it was 4.8%.
The industry grew by 320% YoY in Q1FY22 where Tata motors passenger vehicles grew 343% and electric vehicles grew 423% during the same period.
The EV mix has improved to 3% of the total passenger volume in Q1FY22. In FY20 it was only 0.2%. The company posted the highest ever quarterly sale of EVs at 1,715 units. The market share of EV has increased to 77% in Q1FY22 as compared to 61.7% in Q1FY21.
The company is working closely with Tata Power to develop the charging infrastructure. Current EV order book in India: between 14-16 weeks. This will reduce as supply increases.
The company plans to launch 10 new EVs by 2025 which will be spread across models. It has also integrated back end to ensure security of supply.
Power train mix for Q1FY22 was as follows, EV:3%. Diesel:23% and Petrol:75%.
The strong response for Nexon, Harrier and Safari led to market share gain of 800bps in mid-size SUVs.
Nexon, Tiago and Altroz hold 2nd rank in their respective segments.
The company is taking actions as it has identified micro-markets for demand recovery.
The company also has launched dark edition models.
The company is mitigating semiconductor supply challenges by creating alternatives.
Inventory is consciously built up to ensure the upcoming demand is not disrupted due to shortage of semiconductors.
The company took a price increase in May of about 1.8%. Yet to take price increase in Q2.
Pune & Sanand plants operating at 65%-70% capacity. Ranjangaon capacity utilisation would be close to 90%. Engine & Transmission which is powertrain capacity utilization would be upwards of 90%.
Passenger Vehicle Financials
Revenue in Q1FY22 stood at 5.3k crores, a growth of 335.7% YoY, but a decline of 24.5% QoQ.
The EBITDA margin improved to 4.1% in Q1FY22 as compared to (-16%) in Q1FY21. The margin shrunk by 80bps as it was 4.9% in Q4FY21.
Tata Motors Finance
The PBT stood at Rs. (-471) crores in Q1FY22 as compared to Rs. 122 crores in Q1FY21.
The AUM has increased to Rs. 41,431 crores in Q1FY22 as compared to Rs. 37,274 crores in Q1FY21
Disbursals have increased by 216% YoY due to low base. It has dropped by 69% QoQ due to lockdowns in multiple states.
Collections have been impacted due to second wave of covid which ultimately resulted in higher NPAs
The GNPA stood at 12.3% as compared to 5.3% YoY. NNPA stood at 9.6% as compared to 4.3% YoY.
More than 95% of people are vaccinated. This should improve collection efficiency and the company sees it coming back in July.
Cost to income ratio has improved to 39% which was 49% in previous year.
The company has good liquidity with cash and cash equivalents amounting upto Rs. 7.4k crore.
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