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In Chicago, organizers say #ByeRahm and chart a course for the future
Sarah Lustbader and Vaidya Gullapalli Sep 11, 2018
What you'll read today
Spotlight: In Chicago, organizers say #ByeRahm and chart a course for the future
Queens prosecutor: Kalief Browder's suicide wasn't about Rikers
A grand jury indicted an Alabama police officer for murder. Then a mayor came to his defense
Prisons turn to solitary confinement to punish participants in the national prison strike
Thousands of marijuana arrests later, Miami police will implement a year-old civil citation agreement
An exoneration that began with finding the family dog
Compensation for the wrongly convicted is uneven and insufficient
Last Tuesday, Rahm Emanuel announced that he will not seek a third term as mayor of Chicago. Emanuel made his announcement the day before jury selection was set to begin in the murder trial of Jason Van Dyke, the police officer who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. The police department and Emanuel's administration withheld the video from Van Dyke's dashboard camera for more than a year, until a court order forced the release. The video showed the officer shooting Laquan 16 times, including after the teen fell and lay crumpled on the ground. Laquan's killing ultimately led to a Department of Justice investigation that found widespread civil rights violations by the Chicago Police Department. [Suzannah Gonzales and Karen Pierog / Reuters]
"16 shots and a cover up" became the chant denouncing the actions of the police and City Hall. [Aaron Cynic / Third Coast Review] The city's refusal to release the tape of Laquan's killing stretched for 400 days. The outrage and organizing that resulted led to the firing of police superintendent Gary McCarthy, whom Emanuel had brought in as a reformer, and coalesced into a "meticulously-led community campaign," #ByeAnita, that saw State's Attorney Anita Alvarez voted out of office. [Benji Hart / In These Times]
Activists and organizers greeted Emanuel's announcement with jubilation. In These Times, the Chicago-based magazine, described the "instant celebration from the activists who have spent nearly eight years fighting—and trying to survive—his brutal policies." In an interview, Mariame Kaba, the veteran organizer, teacher, and writer who lived in Chicago for many years, discussed how Emanuel's decision was, in part, the product of the many social movements that have battled him for years. "These seven years have actually been a great demonstration of the amount of pushback that can happen across multiple sectors with lots and lots of different groups fighting all the time. It's a great illustration of movement work." [Sarah Lazare / In These Times] From protesting racist police practices and killings to challenging mental health policies to labor strikes that sparked nationwide teacher strikes, Emanuel's time in office was met by fierce resistance. [Micah Uetricht / Jacobin]
In the wake of Emanuel's announcement there was also a grim accounting of the damage wrought during his tenure as mayor. He shut down half of the city's mental health clinics and ordered the closure of 50 schools, 44 of which were in predominantly Black and Latinx neighborhoods. [Alex Kotlowitz / New Yorker] Chicago was documented to have the worst stop-and-frisk program in the country from 2011 to 2015. Emanuel also exploited racialized fears to push the passage of a carjacking bill to increase the incarceration of young people, and pushed passage of an expanded surveillance bill empowering police to fly drones over protest crowds. During his second term, he proposed the construction of a $95 million police training academy and has pushed the plan through the city's Board of Aldermen—all in a city that was already spending more on policing than on public health, family, transportation, and affordable housing services combined. [Kelly Hayes / The Appeal] Despite strong opposition to the plan from residents of the proposed site in West Garfield Park and the launch of a forceful #NoCopAcademy campaign, the city continued to push forward with the plan. [Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress]
Advocates, activists, and community members hope and plan that the change in leadership and the campaigns leading up to the mayoral election will be a moment to press for the urgent criminal justice and social justice policy changes they demand—in policing, social services, and mental health care. [Aaron Cynic / Third Coast Review]. Activists are under no illusion that an election itself will bring about the necessary changes, but as Kaba has said: "We have a window and we can try to get somebody in power who can be pushed to deliver our organized demands." Activists also know that focusing simply on the mayor's race is not enough and they are looking more broadly at the other elected officials who have, for too long, simply rubber stamped mayoral decisions. [Sarah Lazare / In These Times]
Stories From The Appeal
Protesters at a rally for Kalief Browder. [Flickr/Felton Davis (CC by 2.0)]
Queens Prosecutor: Kalief Browder's Suicide Wasn't About Rikers. City Council Member Rory Lancman, who was debating Assistant District Attorney James Quinn over the future of Rikers Island, blasted Quinn's comments on Browder, who spent three years incarcerated without a trial. [George Joseph]
A Grand Jury Indicted an Alabama Police Officer for Murder. Then a Mayor Came to His Defense. Jeffery Parker was shot to death by a police officer in his Huntsville home. A grand jury handed up an indictment for murder, but the mayor and City Council appear to be throwing their support behind the officer. [Lauren Gill]
Stories From Around the Country
Prisons turn to solitary confinement to punish participants in the national prison strike: Sunday marked the 47th anniversary of the Attica uprising and the last day of the national prison strike that began Aug. 21. Participants in the strike, which reached federal and state prisons, immigration detention facilities, and local jails in at least 14 states, joined at enormous personal risk and faced intense repression. Writing in Solitary Watch, Valerie Kiebala and Jean Casella observe that "prison administrators and staff have been swift to employ their primary tool of control to repress incarcerated voices, retaliate against incarcerated organizers, and preemptively quell the strike: solitary confinement." Lockdowns and retaliation against organizers were ordered even before the strike began. "Both the strikers' original demands and the harsh repression they faced serve as a grim reminder that in many ways, the U.S. criminal justice system has actually regressed in the intervening 47 years—a period in which the prison population grew by nearly 700 percent." [Valerie Kiebala and Jean Casella / Solitary Watch]
Thousands of marijuana arrests later, Miami police will implement last year's civil citation agreement: In February 2017, the city of Miami signed an agreement allowing police officers to issue civil citations in lieu of making arrests for minor offenses including low-level possession of marijuana. Seventeen months later, Miami police have made 2,800 arrests for the five offenses that were covered by the civil citation agreement. Eighty-four percent of those arrests were for small amounts of marijuana. Now the police chief, who took over from his predecessor in January, has announced that officers will begin implementing that policy change at the end of the month. A city commissioner who had pushed for the city to adopt the citations program told the Miami New-Times that he had assumed the program was being implemented and "[i]t was very surprising to hear that it had not been." [Meg O'Connor / Miami New-Times]
An exoneration that began with finding the family dog: In 2017, a nonunanimous jury (permitted under Oregon's law allowing for split verdicts) found Josh Horner guilty of child sex abuse. Horner was sentenced to 50 years in prison. The Oregon Innocence Project (OIP) worked with Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel to re-examine the conviction in an investigation that led to Horner's exoneration. OIP's investigation had unearthed discrepancies, including one related to the family dog. Horner's daughter, who had made the allegations against him, had testified that Horner had shot and killed the dog in front of her but Horner's lawyers tracked down the dog, alive and living with new owners. Hummel thanked OIP for helping him "get it right," saying, "A prosecutor's job is to seek justice, not convictions." [Elise Herron / Willamette Week]
Compensation for the wrongly convicted is uneven and insufficient: Radley Balko of the Washington Post looks at a forthcoming study of the National Registry of Exonerations database and accompanying law review article on compensation for the wrongly convicted. While compensation payments total $2.2 billion to date, more than half of the exonerees in the database have received no compensation. Payments also vary significantly between states and are far higher for those who bring successful lawsuits. Variations also hinge on race: Black people are more likely to be wrongly convicted, spend longer on average in prison before being exonerated, and receive less compensation once they are released. Moreover, because these payments come out of public treasuries or from municipal insurers, the public officials responsible are unlikely to be deterred. Balko writes, "For real deterrence, we'd need consistent accountability for police and prosecutors whose misconduct sends innocent people to prison." [Radley Balko / Washington Post]
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World Citizenship: Key to sustainable development
What makes for a good citizen? Is it one's cultural connection or maybe one's involvement in community work and empowerment? To whom do we ascribe the coveted title of "good citizen"?
For many it will be both a cultural awareness and community-based participation, as well as having specific political affiliations and ethnic identifications.
While these obvious markers do play very important roles in determining how we define our relationship to our place of residence, it may be beneficial to pause and consider citizenship within a broader perspective beyond that of nationalistic support. The citizenry of any country is the single most essential contributing unit towards its achieving sustainable development. A good citizen is more impactful than the government and it is from the activism and engagement of its citizens that a government derives its agenda and sets its priorities for policy making.
However, the mobilization of its citizenry must be predicated on a common vision or cause behind which a country stands — a vision that is nurtured throughout the educational system from grassroots level right through to tertiary institutions. For citizenship to be a true catalyst for advancement and the security of a nation it must be grounded in a foundational concept of the shared humanity of all peoples across nationality, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic strata, educational achievements and/or gender and sexual orientation.
We must see this commonality of our inherent humanness as the real magnet that has the capacity and power to bring people together, not inspite of their differences but because of them, because our diversity along the spectrum of the human race is at once our greatest strength for achieving unity of purpose while also providing the means for challenging us beyond our comfortable modes of functioning.
First understanding, then embracing, followed by promoting the scientific and spiritual reality that we are one people occupying a common homeland, Earth, with limited resources, is the most efficacious approach for urgently addressing the myriad problems facing us within our respective countries, as well as across the planet as a global community.
For small nation states such as ours in the Caribbean, moulding good citizens needs to be viewed as among the chief responsibilities and priorities of the individual, institutions —families, faith-based organizations, schools, the media, government — and communities, if we are to move beyond a state of settling for mere survival and instead thrive through the release of the latent potential within each person. Therefore, by raising our vision beyond the day-to-day experiences within the vulnerable man-made borders of our specific countries to include the image of an inter-connected whole (the world), whereby the crises and victories of the individual sub-units (each country) are organically brought to bear upon all, we can begin to gradually move from a competitive stance that pits weaker against stronger, to forging mutually collaborative relationships for the betterment of the world.
Inculcating an internal belief in world citizenship as the precursor for shaping good citizens will require moral courage, genuine hopefulness and vigorous commitment at both the micro and macro levels of society, over several generations.
This is necessary if we are to inform policies between ourselves as island nations, and across the globe, that promote respectful and just interactions, fair trade tariffs, upholding of human rights — especially for our girl children and women — and that actively harness and acknowledge the intellectual capacities of every individual, particularly our most marginalized like the disabled, senior citizens, women and persons of African descent.
As island states, we are too small and insignificant in the overall scheme of the universe to stand alone, isolated and blinded by the narrow prejudice of nationalism. If we expect to raise our voices and assume a meaningful and lasting place at the international consultative table, then, as a Caribbean people with a rich heritage of diverse intellectual talents, artistic gifts, linguistic skills, genetic beauty, emotional and mental steadfastness, as well as physical endurance and spiritual power, our future well-being and progress are dependent on just how successful we can step inside the circle of unity.
To date our connections with each other have been dominated by our nationalistic identities be they Jamaican, Barbadian, Grenadian, Dominican etcetera but, to move within the natural circle of life we must now seek to first and foremost walk together as members of one race, the human race, serving each other from a place that elevates one and all. Together we are stronger and best positioned to advance justice and equity for our regional family and, in doing so, inspire and support the same for other members of our global family who are also subject to social oppression.
World citizenship does not call for an abandoning of one's love of country and a denial of the unique contributions of its citizens, quite the opposite. The lens of a global citizen celebrates inclusivity and offers an evolved thinking in how to foster problem solving at the national, regional, continental and international levels, utilizing a range of resources, both human and material, that is fuelled by the enthusiasm of the masses because of their commitment to something bigger than the individual and country — that is, seeing themselves as citizens of one world and the builders of a just and prosperous ever-advancing world civilization.
If we are to tap into, release and effectively channel the immense resources — moral, creative, human, technical, and financial — at our disposal for the laborious and sacrificial tasks required for the sustainable development of the region, then it is being proposed that this will best be achieved when we, as Caribbean people, can cultivate a profound sense of trusteeship for the fate of the planet and the protection and welfare of the entire human family.
When we can give a regional salute to the ethic of the oneness of humanity, not to be confused with a stifling uniformity but rather an honouring of the principle of unity in diversity, then and only then can we seriously begin to address sustainable development for our people.
After millennia of pursuing an immature and selfish focus on what would benefit one group of citizens over another, in nations across the globe, what do we have to lose in reconsidering our options to give mutual reciprocity, compassion, truthfulness, the promotion of human nobility, and gender and racial equality a chance? Our historical course of actions has brought us to this juncture in time where we assign value and worth to our brothers and sisters based on their sex and the levels of melanin deposits inherited at conception, or based on the level of wealth amassed, be it by ill-gotten means or not.
These scales of artificial measurement along with religious prejudice have been the underpinning pillars for the enslavement, wars, economic disenfranchisement and dishonouring of various ethnic groups, all of which have retarded the comprehensive prosperity of all peoples. To give sustainable development a real shot at becoming a reality, not just for the Caribbean but for the entire international community, accepting world citizenship, based on our oneness as a human race, must be seen as the key to our success and the security of our peoples. DeMario Davis Womens Jersey
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I'm Allan Chapman. Thanks for being with me for Episode 16 of my Dad's book, Talking To The World From Pan Am's Clippers. Last week we learned about his fascination with Lisbon and the development of the Fish Lake Base in Liberia during World War Two. Today we'll do North Atlantic crossings with Dad. If you haven't already done so, please check out a review of my Thriller, Slaves On Horseback, at: http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/feb_12.htm#Mystery/Suspense, and then scroll down to the bottom of the Mystery/Suspense page.
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The PDF says it has a consistent morphology with a very high speed capture.
When it was a high speed capture, I can't understand the formation of his shape in the aerogel by such a high entry speed, i.e. what forces/circumstances can produce such a short cave form/track where the breadth of the entry hole is nearly as wide as the track?
Shows the entry hole the diameter of the origin particle or got it additionally widened by the process when the penetrating particle reacted with the aerogel? Was it more that the particle had a low density and got vaporized before it could generate a longer track like these from the comet particles?
Great that we possibly found at last a track that resembles the original calibration tracks!
Fig. 5: (left) Track 40 image in its picokeystone at 1000 eV. (right) STXM C map of Track 40.
The track looks more like a pop.
Thanks for that specific link greuti.
I've just apologised over on the Problems page under a different thread for not having taking track #40 seriously.
Not entirely clear to me from the paper, though, was whether the two new reported candidates, #37 (Merlin) and #40, were also 'midnight' tracks like Orion/Sirius & Hylabrook.
Whatever, I look forward to seeing some depth video-scans of #40, if at all possible both along and perpendicular to it's presumed entrance trajectory, in order to get some sort of conception of its 3D appearance.
Seems we may be back having to look for both carrots/peanuts and skid-marks (the LATs & HATs - or vice versa - in previous incarnations of the project).
Will that be phase 4?
Hopefully no reason to stay by searched/old movies again this time.
With more or less sucess individually, (we) dusters always have been searching for anything that could be a sign of something that entered the aerogel..., don't you think so meanwhile?


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My Thoughts on: Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
I came across Land of the Pharaohs in a somewhat backwards fashion: I saw the ending first. Somehow, I forget the exact circumstances, I saw a clip of how Land of the Pharaohs ends, and it intrigued me so much that I was determined, someday, to see the movie in full. At last, I tracked down a copy, and I definitely have some thoughts about it. For those who might not have seen or heard of this film, Land of the Pharaohs was directed by Howard Hawks and starred Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Mertain, and Alexis Minotis. It is set in ancient Egypt in the time of Khufu (Hawkins), a pharaoh obsessed with building a robber-proof tomb to protect his treasure for "the second life." To this end, he enlists the skills of Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), a slave who is also a brilliant architect, to design the tomb in what will become known to history as the Great Pyramid.
First, let's start with one of the big positives of Land of the Pharaohs and that's the music. Dimitri Tiomkin created a gorgeous score for this film, and for me is that one detail that makes the bulk of the film watchable. From the strange chants hinting at ancient Egyptian religion, to the joyful singing as work on the pyramid begins, Tiomkin's score flows through every scene, rich and vibrant with strings, brass, and choral chants. The music helps to move the story along, and serves as a good distraction from the, er, slower moments in the story.
Another positive in this story are the costumes. While not quite as vibrant as those of The Ten Commandments (another story largely set in ancient Egypt), the costume design in Land of the Pharaohs is quite fetching. You can tell there was great attention to detail when putting these designs together, and a decent attempt made at historical accuracy (some of the outfits resemble those seen in Egyptian tombs).
As for the rest….oh boy. I should make it clear that Land of the Pharaohs is a generally enjoyable film, but it does have its fair share of weak points that detract from the experience. One of the big sticking points for me comes with all the time spent watching the pyramid being built. The initial montage starts fine, but then it goes on…and on…and ON. And during this never-ending sequence, all of the major characters disappear, it's just a scene of nameless extras. I found myself squirming towards the end, more than eager to get back to the story of Khufu, Nellifer, and all that treasure. And speaking of…Nellifer is one of the most frustrating characters I've ever seen in an epic film of this kind.
I understand what they were going for with Nellifer, the devious princess from Cyprus, but her character has all the subtlety of a rock being thrown through a window. It's painfully obvious what she's after (gold and power), so much so that it's a wonder Khufu and Hamar (his loyal high priest) don't figure it out sooner. Not only that, but for all her scheming, Nellifer is shown to be rather stupid too. A good example comes towards the end of the film: Nellifer has decided that Khufu must die so she can rule Egypt while nominally serving as regent for his minor son. To do this, she sends her personal slave (one KNOWN to Khufu) to do the deed. Wouldn't you think the smarter thing would have been to send an unknown slave so that Khufu couldn't instantly trace the plot back to Nellifer if it went wrong? The one thing they get right about Nellifer is that she's designed to be very unlikable, so much so that by the end of the film you're secretly cheering when her comeuppance finally arrives in dramatic fashion.
That comeuppance comes from a plot detail that I find fascinating. From listening to the commentary, I learned that Howard Hawks was fascinated by the ongoing puzzle of how the Great Pyramid was built. A student of engineering himself, the director decided to puzzle out a theoretically feasible means that might explain how the pyramid was built so perfectly. The solution came in the form of a system that used sand to slide the remaining blocks into place (to both seal the tomb and give it a finished look). While there's no way to know if the ancient Egyptians actually used a system like this, I'd like to think it's plausible.
One other detailed that bothered me: the wide shots, or should I say the lack thereof. When an epic film is shot in CinemaScope, you expect scenes packed with action and pageantry (a la The Ten Commandments and especially Ben-Hur). However, many of the scenes in Land of the Pharaohs struck me as feeling…cramped. To be sure, there is a grand parade with Khufu at the start of the film, but it doesn't feel like the space is used properly with the format. Many of the shots feel much too close up, and I feel that CinemaScope wasn't used to its greatest advantage.
As I said before though, despite these issues, Land of the Pharaohs is pretty enjoyable; the plot is basic, but watchable, and great satisfaction can be derived from watching the fate of Nellifer (that I won't dare spoil because it's something you just have to see for yourself).
Let me know what you think about Land of the Pharaohs in the comments below and have a great day!
This entry was posted in Films and tagged Alexis Minotis, ben hur, Dewey Martin, film, Howard Hawks, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Land of the Pharaohs, The Ten Commandments on July 29, 2020 by Film Music Central.
Longtime readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of composer Miklos Rozsa's film scores. Rozsa (1907-1995) was a titan of film music and his epic score for Ben-Hur (1959) remains a benchmark that few have ever equalled (let alone surpassed).
I am pleased to announce that Tadlow Music is releasing a completely new recording of this 157 minute score on October 3rd, one that will feature previously unrecorded music. The music has been recorded by the City of Prague Philarmonic and is conducted by Nic Raine.
If you haven't seen the 1959 epic, it is NOTHING like the travesty that came out in 2016 (in fact, forget that movie even exists). The 1959 version of Ben-Hur is still considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, winning a record 11 Academy Awards (a feat that has only been equaled twice and NEVER surpassed) as it tells the story of a Judean prince (played brilliantly by Charlton Heston) whose life is thrown into turmoil at the same time that a strange carpenter begins preaching a new message to the people.
When you listen to this soundtrack, I highly recommend starting with the Overture. While it may seem strange now for a film to have an "overture" like an opera, back in the day it was fairly common for an epic film to start with a musical overture of some kind (there was also intermission music and exit music) that would play as the audience took their seats.
Another track that I absolutely recommend is the "Parade of the Charioteers" (this is usually preceded by a series of fanfares). This is the music that precedes the climactic chariot race (where Ben-Hur and Messala settle their differences once and for all) and is rightly considered one of the greatest sequences ever put on film. Curiously, the race itself has no music, something I've talked at length about.
Another track that I must recommend is the music that accompanies the "Lepers!" scene. As I've said previously, this scene features some amazing musical work, as Rozsa must convey with music alone that something terrible has happened to Ben-Hur's mother and sister without the audience actually seeing what it is.
Truthfully, I could recommend this entire soundtrack, as it is a beautiful masterpiece, whose importance to film music cannot be overstated. In fact, parts of the score were used as temporary music for Star Wars (1977) (and it is said you can still hear its influence in certain places). If you want to hear some fantastic music, please pick up this new recording when it comes out in October. My thanks to The Krakower Group for making this information available.
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This entry was posted in Film Composer, Films, Miklos Rozsa and tagged ben hur, Charlton Heston, film, film music, Miklos Rozsa, soundtrack on September 25, 2017 by Film Music Central.
Miklos Rozsa conducts Ben-Hur suite (1979)
I confess, I still have Ben-Hur on the brain (if you read my little tirade from yesterday then you understand why). And since I can't stop thinking about the 1959 epic, I thought I would share a concert clip I discovered several years ago. At the time I was studying the different film composers of the Golden Age of Hollywood and I was learning all I could in particular about Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), the last composer of that era to pass away.
Having lived so long, I was curious to see if there were any film clips of him giving interviews or, even better, conducting some of his work. That's when I discovered a clip from a 1979 television program that was looking at film music. In this excerpt, Rozsa himself is conducting a suite from his most famous work, Ben-Hur.
The suite is divided into three sections:
Overture and Main Theme(s) (for more on the overture to Ben-Hur, see "Overture" from Ben-Hur by Miklos Rozsa )
Judah and Esther (The Love Theme): One of the many subplots of the film is the love building between Judah (initially a prince of Jerusalem) and Esther (the only daughter of Judah's steward and technically a slave as a result, though she's given her freedom early in the story). The theme is first heard when Esther is about to leave for an arranged marriage (that ultimately never takes place) and returns poignantly when Esther and Judah meet again after almost five years have passed.
Parade of the Charioteers: Actually, this piece wasn't written for Ben-Hur at all. The music that became this piece was originally composed for Quo Vadis, a 1951 Biblical epic that many credit with launching the Biblical epic obsession of the 1950s. The music comes at the end of the film as Gratus, the new emperor, makes a triumphal entry into Rome. 8 years later in Ben-Hur, Rozsa turns the music into a fanfare as the charioteers ceremonially circle the track before the race begins.
I believe that if you ever have the opportunity, you should always listen to the film score as conducted by the composer, because that will give you the best idea of what the music SHOULD sound like (for example, listen to the overture in this clip and then search YouTube for more performances of the same piece, you'll hear it a slightly different way each time.)
Enjoy the music of Ben-Hur, composed and conducted by Miklos Rozsa and brought to life by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra-Bex
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Film composers have the difficult task of choosing music that correctly fits the intended mood of a particular scene or action sequence. But on a rare occasion, the composer will make the decision to give a scene no music at all, because doing so would actually detract from the moment.
Credit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
A good case in point comes in William Wyler's 1959 epic Ben-Hur. Scored by film composing legend Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), the film broke a record for winning 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards, a feat that has never been surpassed (though Titanic and Return of the King have since matched it).
Rozsa's score contains a number of musical moments: the "Overture" (covered in Soundtracks); the "Rowing of the Galley Slaves"; "Parade of the Charioteers"; and the ever beautiful "Nativity." However, what many consider the action climax of the film, the chariot race in Part II, has no music at all after the initial "Parade of the Charioteers."
Rozsa considered for a long time whether or not he should give the actual race any music, but he quickly determined that the action itself would be "music" enough.
The chariot race of Ben-Hur was an event over two years in the making. Not only did the race track have to be built from the ground up, but also the horses had to be trained to run in groups of three and four, the various stunts had to be planned out, and the chariots had to be built and tested to make sure they would hold up under stress. Once everything was ready and the cameras were rolling, the entire race was filmed in one take. The production had become so expensive that it was only possible to do the entire race once.
The entire clip runs for about ten minutes, but it is well worth it to watch all the way through. One moment in particular that always stands out to me comes at 5:35 when Ben-Hur's (Charlton Heston) horses (in white) and Messala's (Stephen Boyd) horses (the blacks) are running stride for stride down the track. And on a quick side note, the moment when Ben-Hur nearly falls out of his chariot was NOT scripted. The jump over the fallen chariot was planned, but Heston's stunt double refused to wear a harness, insisting that he could ride the jump without it (oh was he ever wrong).
Please watch the race here: Ben-Hur Chariot Race and note the complete lack of music, diegetic or otherwise until the race is over. In my opinion, the true test of a film composer's talent comes when they have to decide when NOT to use the music. Enjoy!
"Overture" from Ben-Hur by Miklos Rozsa
*Everything is copyright to MGM Studio
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"Overture" from Ben-Hur by Miklos Rozsa (1959)
One thing that must be understood about "classic" Hollywood films (usually anything made before 1960) is that in those days, the large epic films were constructed very much like an opera or a play would be. By this I mean, they would have separate screens labelled "overture" (as Ben-Hur does above), "Intermission" and also "Exit Music" (music that would play while the audience left the theatre).
This overture was composed by the Hungarian composer Miklos Rozsa for the 1959 epic Ben-Hur. He won the Academy Award for Best Score and many cite it as being one of the greatest film scores of all time. The image is an extreme close-up of the figures of Adam and God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Above is the first eight measures from the beginning of the overture (from the original score)
I love this overture because of how it begins, with this attention-grabbing fanfare from the brass and woodwinds. The call repeats three times and swells at the last moment before the brass breaks through with the immortal "Hallelujah" motif (my term for it), the timpani thundering in the background. The motif repeats again, and again, building and swelling and then…dying away into the main love theme and other side themes that recur throughout the film. That's a technique seen multiple times in film overtures: beginning with a brassy motif and transferring to strings (*cough* think of Star Wars *cough*)
The overture ends as it began, with the brass and woodwind trumpet call, more firm this time. This signals that the overture is ending and the main story is about to begin.
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INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta - The Indonesian Real Estate Companies Association (REI) welcomes the government's move to invite Japanese investors in Indonesia. The reason, the product origin of the cherry country is still known for its quality that is not indisputable.
Chairman of the Central Board of Representatives (DPP) REI Soelaeman Soemawinata said, so far Japanese investors who have directly contact REI new one company that is Sumitomo Forestry Co. Ltd. According to him, the company asked REI to coordinate for project development in Indonesia.
"Furthermore, I am currently making a list of any project that they can enter," he said on Saturday (9/9/2017).
Eman, Soelaeman Aliases, added there are three priority project concepts that will be submitted to Sumitomo REI. First, a medium-sized apartment project with a price range of Rp400 million in Jakarta.
Second, the development of resort projects in the priority tourism area. Third, industrial area outside Java Island.
According to Eman, cooperation with Japanese developers is not new for developers in Indonesia. Previously a number of developers have done B2B like Ciputra Group, Sinar Mas Land, and others.
"We will be consistent with foreign cooperation programs in which they [foreigners] should not walk alone," said Eman, adding that the composition of the two companies will depend on the ability of our developers.


Sound is important in the home. Sound creates meaning and experiences, and it can enhance life at home instantly. Now IKEA is taking on sound in the home together with Sonos. IKEA and Sonos will explore how to enable many more people to create atmosphere at home with great design, music and sound.
Sound – especially music – can enhance life at home instantly. Research has shown that people who live together and listen to music together spend more time together at home (three hours more per week than people who don't listen to music together). When listening to music together people feel more inspired (25%) and they feel more loved (14%), and in addition to this 65% of all Millennials play music to make a place feel like home, further building the importance of music in the home.
"When we asked people what sound they associate with their homes many people mentioned that it is music that makes a home." says Björn Block, Business Leader, IKEA Home smart at IKEA of Sweden.
IKEA and Sonos will together strive to make it even easier for people to play any song, anywhere in the home, without interrupting the flow of daily life. Enabling people to create the right atmosphere in their home with great design, music and sound.
"Together with Sonos we want to democratise music and sound in the home, and we want to create products designed for how people listen together at home. By teaming up with Sonos we want to combine IKEA home furnishing knowledge with Sonos' expertise within great home sound." says Björn Block, Business Leader, IKEA Home smart at IKEA of Sweden.
"At IKEA we strive to make solutions for life at home by integrating technology into our home furnishing offer that are easy to use and affordable, thereby making smart home technology accessible to the many people." says Björn Block, Business Leader, IKEA Home smart at IKEA of Sweden.
The IKEA and Sonos collaboration will be launched in store during 2019.


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Cobalt strengthens team as it moves ahead to re-engineer the FX market
March 19, 2019 /0 Comments/in Cobalt, Home /by ChatsworthCommunications
Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high performance technology, has hired five experienced professionals to lead its drive to re-engineer the FX market.
Post-trade FX is currently riddled with complex legacy systems and manual processes, creating unnecessary cost and risk across the market. The new hires bring a wealth of FX experience to the company and will play an important role in the rollout of Cobalt's shared infrastructure which optimises risk management and slashes cost by up to 80%.
Bob Linton, based in New York, has become head of connectivity and onboarding at Cobalt. He will be responsible for replacing old, legacy technology incumbent in many institutions' post-trade FX operations with Cobalt's low latency, high performance shared ledger technology. He joins following a 13-year stint at market infrastructure technology provider, Traiana.
Dan Evans was appointed product analytics lead and is focused on product innovation and reporting as well as highlighting the hidden opportunities for financial institutions. Dan is experienced in analysing FX trading data both as a director of FX trading at UBS, where he spent seven years, and as the director of his own consultancy.
John Fitzgerald joins as information security manager. John has over 15 years in risk and security management and prior to joining Cobalt, he was the lead for information security at Rathbone Brothers Plc.
Nitin Talway has been appointed head of support. He has over 13 years' experience in the FX industry having previously worked for institutions including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, RBS/Natwest Markets and Credit Suisse.
Kameldeep Bhachu is now a senior business analyst at Cobalt. He previously worked at Murex and in the FX and treasury divisions at Morgan Stanley, UBS and Royal Bank of Canada. He brings extensive front to back knowledge of the FX cash and derivatives business.
Darren Coote, managing director of Cobalt, commented: "We are thrilled to welcome Bob, Dan, John, Nitin and Kameldeep to the rapidly expanding Cobalt team. They bring a breadth of FX experience across the interdealer and prime broker space and have an intimate knowledge of the competitive landscape as well as financial institutions' systems. Each will play a key role in reengineering the FX market from the ground up, getting rid of legacy systems and replacing them with new technology which is more suitable for the low-latency FX market of today."
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Cobalt appoints Darren Coote as Managing Director
September 24, 2018 /0 Comments/in Cobalt, Home /by ChatsworthCommunications
Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) post-trade processing network based on shared infrastructure and high-performance technology, has appointed FX industry veteran Darren Coote as managing director.
Darren has been working with Cobalt since the end of 2017 as a strategic advisor and will now take on responsibility for the day to day management of the company. This comes at a key time for Cobalt as the company launches and looks to significantly scale its business.
Darren brings over 25 years' experience in FX to Cobalt, having held a number of high profile roles running global FX trading and e-FX businesses at UBS where he drove the business through significant industry and technology change. He has also worked for Lloyds, served on a number of FX boards and committees including the Bank of England's FX Joint Standing Committee and EBS's executive board prior to the company's sale to ICAP in 2006.
Adrian Patten, Co-Founder, and Chairman of Cobalt, commented: "We are very pleased to welcome Darren to our fast-growing team. He brings invaluable expertise and market contacts. We are confident he is the right person to lead Cobalt as we prepare to go into full production later this year."
Darren Coote said: "Having worked in FX for over 25 years, I have seen first-hand the negative impact that aging, inefficient legacy technology is having on market participants and their bottom line. As the industry gets increasingly competitive and margins shrink, it's important for institutions to save money and mitigate risk wherever possible.
"Cobalt is a unique solution which solves an urgent need for participants by creating a shared FX post-trade back office utility, significantly reducing risk and cost by 80%. I'm excited to play a key role in Cobalt's development as we prepare to go live this year and re-engineer the FX market from the ground up."
This May, Cobalt secured a strategic investment from Singapore Exchange (SGX), which operates Asia's largest, most diverse and fastest growing FX exchange.
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R3 Wins Best DLT Tech Provider at Central Banking Global Awards
September 7, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
Yesterday, the inaugural Central Banking Fintech & Regtech Awards were held at the stunning Marriot Tang Plaza Hotel. We were very proud to see R3's Anthony Lewis in attendance to pick up the award for the Best Distributed Ledger Technology Provider.
The new awards were held to recognise innovation in financial and regulatory technologies that were changing the way central banks and supervisors work.
R3 was picked from a strong contingent of blockchain/DLT based companies that are revolutionising the financial sector due to their transformative success in the past year.
The startup is currently engaged with Bank of Canada inside 'Project Jasper', an initiative which sets out to develop an interbank domestic payments settlement system, already the proof of concept touted 'significant benefits.'
In March, HQLAx and R3 completed the first live securities lending transaction on the Corda platform – between Credit Suisse and ING. The transaction showed that using blockchain could help make the securities lending process faster and more capital efficient.
Corda's success is evident not only by the number of institutions that use the ledger but also by those looking to invest in the technology. The company has raised over $122 million from more than 40 institutions, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC and CLS.
In July, Corda Enterprise was launched to meet the demands of modern day businesses, especially complex institutions. With the launch, companies can now select a version of Corda that fits their unique needs – regardless of their industry, size, and stage of development. This means a wider range of institutions can realise the full potential of blockchain – executing complex logic and exchange of assets directly, simply and in strict privacy, without the need for costly reconciliation or a trusted intermediary.
We are proud to see R3 be continually recognised at the forefront of blockchain development in the financial market as we see the world begin to open their eyes to the potential of this technology.
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Cobalt secures investment from Singapore Exchange
May 7, 2018 /0 Comments/in Cobalt /by ChatsworthCommunications
Cobalt, the FX post-trade processing network based on shared infrastructure and high performance technology, has secured a strategic investment from Singapore Exchange (SGX), which operates Asia's largest, most diverse and fastest growing FX exchange.
SGX's investment will support the continued expansion of Cobalt's footprint into the FX space, further accelerating technology development and build out of the team.
Cobalt's unique solution leverages highly optimised technology alongside an in-house immutability service based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) to deliver a shared back and middle office infrastructure that is scalable, secure and fast.
By creating a shared view of trade data, Cobalt frees up back and middle office resources from multiple layers of reconciliation; creating a 'golden' portfolio of FX transactions from which to provide multiple services.
The platform takes a fresh approach to financial infrastructure and has been developed to replace the dated middle and back office systems of today, which can be disorderly, inefficient, risk-laden and costly.
Adrian Patten, Co-Founder and Chairman of Cobalt, comments: "SGX's investment is testament to our innovative application of technology in the FX space. Our platform addresses pain points faced by almost every institution that trades FX: the unnecessary cost and risk associated with post-trade processing. Singapore is an important global hub for FX and we are delighted to welcome SGX on board as we continue to expand our footprint in the region."
Michael Syn, Head of Derivatives at SGX, comments: "We are pleased to be supporting this important FX market infrastructure, which is complementary to our growing FX futures business and a natural fit for SGX given our own commitment to product and platform innovation. We look forward to seeing Cobalt continue to gain traction in the global post-trade FX market as they pioneer FX technology development, delivering cost and risk mitigation benefits to market participants across the world."
Henry Ritchotte, Strategic Advisor to Cobalt, comments: "Exchanges around the world continue to invest in the critical infrastructure underpinning financial markets. This collaboration between a major Asian exchange and an innovative firm that has developed a unique high performance, DLT solution is a major step forward in upgrading the systems our industry relies on to operate efficiently, safely and cost-effectively."
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Foreign exchange in 2018: David Puth speaks to FX Week
January 3, 2018 /0 Comments/in CLS, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Technology and regulatory guidance and principles will shape the foreign exchange (FX) market's structure in 2018, according to David Puth, CEO of CLS, in an exclusive interview with FX Week.
2017 saw the publication of the FX Global Code, and a number of leading financial services and technology institutions confirmed their commitment to adopting and instilling its principles. This trend, Puth says, will continue in 2018 as the Global Foreign Exchange Committee publishes its final guidance on Principal 17 covering "last look".
2018 will also be a year in which CLS expands its role offering new solutions to improve efficiency and reduce risk in the FX market.
"We are becoming more than a settlement utility. While delivering the risk mitigation that comes with safe settlement is our primary mission, we continue to focus on delivering products that solve client problems," says Puth.
These include a same-day settlement service for five of the world's most liquid currencies, and its much-anticipated distributed ledger technology (DLT) enabled netting service, CLSNet.
These technologies will likely have a significant impact on FX market structure, helping it to become more efficient and speed up the movement of currency around the world.
For more on what 2018 holds for FX, including David's thoughts on the dollar and bitcoin, read the full interview here.
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R3 hosts CordaCon in London's Square Mile
September 12, 2017 /0 Comments/in R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
R3 CordaCon is the fintech event creating the most FOMO this week. The event in London's Square Mile is massively oversubscribed due to demand.
R3 has brought the largest single group of blockchain-inspired technologists and business leaders together in one forum.
They're coming together in discussions, panels and demonstrations exploring their work on Corda and have focused on a range of topics from technology design to commercial applications and regulatory policy issues.
R3 is also hosting a members' forum with developers and technologists from global and regional banks, insurers and other financial services institutions
With over 100 members and dozens of projects currently underway, R3 has gathered significant momentum over the past two years. Building the new infrastructure for the financial services industry is a major undertaking, but R3 is powering full steam ahead with the industry firmly behind it.
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August 3, 2017 /0 Comments/in Cobalt, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Cobalt, the FX post-trade processing network based on shared ledger technology, has closed an investment from Henry Ritchotte, the former Deutsche Bank COO who will also become a member of Cobalt's strategic advisory board.
Henry Ritchotte spent over two decades at Deutsche Bank where he was a member of the Management Board and Group Executive Committee acting as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Digital Officer. Since leaving the bank at the end of 2016 Henry established RitMir Ventures, a principal investment firm focused on investing in products and services transforming finance through disruptive regulatory and technology driven business models.
Cobalt delivers a private peer-to-peer network that significantly reduces post-trade costs and risk for institutions operating in today's FX markets. The platform is designed to create a single, shared view of a transaction on shared infrastructure and allows clients to reduce reconciliation and operational costs by up to 80%. With its production beta now live, Cobalt is ramping up to launch its live platform later this year.
Adrian Patten, Co-Founder of Cobalt, comments: "Henry's investment reflects the increased interest our platform is receiving from the wider financial industry. With our innovative technology and his experience and knowledge, we are strongly positioned to redesign post-trade."
Henry Ritchotte, Founder of RitMir Ventures, comments: "There has been comparatively little investment in post-trade over the past few decades. Cobalt's network is an elegant solution that provides significant benefits for users and will reshape the industry as we know it. I look forward to working with the leadership team on their fresh approach to the post-trade challenges shared by all FX participants."
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Chatsworth client R3 secures record-breaking USD 107 investment in distributed ledger technology
May 23, 2017 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
We are delighted to announce that Chatsworth client R3 has secured one of the largest ever Series A investments in the global fintech industry, raising USD 107 million from over 40 institutions across the globe.
R3 is leading a consortium of banks and other financial institutions working together to develop a new operating system for the financial services industry based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), which was borne out of blockchain – the infrastructure that enables the transfer of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin.
Chatsworth has handled global PR for R3 since its launch in September 2015. During the last eighteen months we have worked closely with the financial, business and technology media to raise awareness and understanding of R3's unique approach and technology as it sought to grow its network of members and investors.
Drawing on R3's team of expert spokespeople, Chatsworth positioned the company and its members as thought leaders in this revolutionary technological field, securing thousands of pieces of coverage including tier 1 outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, FT, Bloomberg, Reuters and the Economist. R3 is now widely seen as the leading voice on distributed ledger technology, with its spokespeople regularly called upon to provide expert commentary in the press.
The awareness generated by this coverage helped fuel the momentum to drive R3's growth from a fintech startup with eight finance and technology veterans and nine bank members to a global team of 110 professionals serving over 80 global financial institutions and regulators on six continents.
This massive investment marks the next stage in R3's evolution. Many of the world's largest financial firms have come together not just with capital support, but with a robust commitment to work with R3 in developing foundational industry solutions that will be the building blocks of the new financial services infrastructure.
We look forward to continuing our work with R3 as they take distributed ledger technology off the drawing board and onto the trading floor.
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David Rutter: 2017 the year of blockchain delivery
December 22, 2016 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed, says David Rutter, CEO of R3.
Darwin's point holds true. Critical mass, momentum and co-operation are absolutely essential if we are to transform financial services and the communications and transactional framework we rely on.
This was our rationale for bringing banks together to jointly develop distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry from day one.
In R3 we have created a fast moving financial technology product company with an ownership structure which provides a balanced governance, combined with the leadership and stewardship of the best technologists in their respective fields.
The spaghetti junction of shared legacy infrastructure as well as individual front, middle and back office systems is testament to the resulting mess when banks disappear into development silos.
The overall cost of maintaining this legacy infrastructure is incalculable and there is risk around every corner, embedded into the old Cobol and Fortran code under the layers of many of those systems.
That is why we came together with an initial group of nine banks in September 2015 to create R3. A highly experienced and effective technology team was assembled and ready for action two months later.
Fast forward a year and there are now over 75 members of the R3 group – with two additions in the last week alone – working together on a diverse array of projects and developing technology to address some of the most serious pain points affecting the industry.
There is no secret. We hired the best, assembled and activated a powerful and engaged membership base and connected them together to leverage the network effect distributed ledger technology delivers.
Together, we have designed, built and launched Corda, the open-source release distributed ledger platform which will set the standard for this technology in global financial markets.
This is the only platform designed by and for its users and represents the world's largest collaborative distributed ledger effort in financial services. It is unique and it is a landmark moment for the market.
Distributed ledger technology will have such phenomenally powerful network effects that it is hard to imagine serious institutions deploying base-layer ledger software that is anything other than fully and wholeheartedly open.
The response and engagement with Corda has been exceptional and only a few weeks after open sourcing the platform we have already had a vast number of contributions from the public developer community.
Amidst the excitement of the Corda roll-out, it's hard to ignore the running commentary on the progress of our fundraising programme.
The motivation and accuracy behind some of the noise has sometimes been questionable, but such is the nature of working on such high-profile projects. It's a complement to be discussed and we are very happy with constructive criticism, but better when the discussion is informed and accurate.
We have always expected the make-up of the consortium to change over time – our member base is so large and so diverse, it would be unrealistic not to expect some institutions' priorities, resources and focus to travel in different directions.
We have new members joining the project all the time and some banks may choose to change the way in which they engage with us as we move forward, but the critical mass we have built over the last year means members can be confident they are investing in developing industry standard solutions that will be the building blocks of the new financial services infrastructure.
The financial institutions that have shown the vision to join R3 are by that very action ensuring the technology we adopt is built using common code and protocols, ensuring seamless interoperability and integration.
This is a direct hedge against the risk of replicating the disjointed infrastructure financial markets are forced to operate on today.
We remain focused on perfecting Corda and looking ahead to our objectives and deliverables for 2017 working together with our members.
We are on the cusp of a new era in financial technology, and over the next year banks will begin to reap the benefits that have been promised to them since the financial services industry recognized this technology's potential to deliver efficiency, lower risk, security and cost reductions.
Let's be clear: the power of distributed ledger technology lies in its network effect – and that goes for the build as much as the usage. The past few years were characterized by blockchain hype. Leveraging the combined power and expertise of our diverse and growing group of members, R3 will make 2017 the year of blockchain delivery.
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R3 patent application unveils its vision for future of blockchain technology
August 26, 2016 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
R3 executives speak publically for the first time about Project Concord and their vision for the future of blockchain technology.
Distributed ledger and blockchain technology represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the economics of data management across the financial industry.
However, R3 believes the blockchain and distributed ledger platforms that led to this breakthrough moment were never designed to solve the problems of financial institutions and do not meet all their needs. These include tight linkage to the legal domain, an obligation to prevent client data being shared inappropriately and interoperability with existing financial infrastructure.
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the R3 blockchain consortium filed a patent for its Corda shared ledger platform.
Corda is the outcome of the analysis R3 undertook on how to achieve as many of the benefits of distributed ledger and blockchain technology as possible but in a way that is sympathetic to, and addresses, the needs of regulated financial institutions.
The platform enables firms to record and process financial agreements using smart contracts, as explained in depth in R3 CTO Richard Gendal Brown's latest whitepaper.
Corda is part of Project Concord, R3's overall vision and roadmap for transforming financial services infrastructure. Concord will address challenges such as governance, internal record keeping and regulatory reporting across the financial services marketplace.
With a number of successful prototypes having already been completed on the Corda platform and an alpha launch of Concord scheduled for 2017, the next year looks set to be a turning point in the history of financial technology.
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GeeqChain Chief Economist John Conley visits with Enda Xue and Zhen Liu on their YouTube Channel "Satoshi Talk".
Imagine what you could do on a secure, decentralized public blockchain infrastructure. Perhaps understand it, for one thing.
Encryption: An encrypted file might be publicly available, but without a keyof some sort, the encryption cannot be reversed and the file is unreadable. Examples of encryption algorithms include AES, DES,Blowfish, and RSA.


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-Influence of the electronic band structure and anisotropy of Fermi surfaces on: Inverse spin switch effect in F/S/F trilayers and 0-π phase transition in S/F/S Josephson junctions.
- Proximity effect in S/N/.../N structures (density of states) and S/N/.../N/S Josephson junctions (critical Josephson current).
- Strong correlations and spin-orbit coupling in F/S/N system.
- Calculation of spin and charge supercurrent in S/F/S/F/S Josephson junctions.
- Effect of disorder and magnetic impurities.
Strong Correlated system: Study of Kondo and magnetic phases competition in presence of frustration.
- Temperature-Magnetic interaction phase diagram.
- Electronic Band structure of the effective Kondo-Heisenberg model in square lattice.
- Modulated Spin liquid in URu2Si2.
- Study of the interband and intraband Raman vertex on a realistic URu2Si2 band structure.
- Study charge order stability in Eight-Hot-Spot (EHS) model.
- Effect of realistic electronic band structure on the SU(2) symmetry in spin fermion approach.
- Study of Raman collective mode of a charge order and superconducting coexisting phases.
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Here we are, we made it to the final week… week 7 of the One Room Challenge. This was a small project considering some participants did basements or kitchens but it was definitely work and I don't know when we would have completed this room if it weren't for the ORC. Thank you to Linda from Calling it Home for running this challenge twice a year… so many inspiring designs out there because of this challenge!
And now this is how it looks…..
My powder room started out as a room with no character and a lot of potential. It was our little room that needed some colour and patterns to make a lasting impression. I was always so drawn to the powder room with wallpaper and paneling on the bottom half (see here for the bathrooms that inspired me).
The whole design started off with me browsing through wallpaper online and I found the DwellStudio Winter Crane pattern on Wayfair.. it immediately caught my eye. When I married my husband, we had origami cranes as part of our wedding decor. They are a symbol of happiness and eternal youth – can't go wrong with that! I knew it was the right design for our young family.
After we installed the beadboard (see our DIY tutorial here), I knew I wanted it white but realized it wasn't going to work (see week 5 for the whole story). I decided on "Green Smoke" by Farrow & Ball and I haven't looked back….
It's not a forest green or a green that blends in with the mint from the wallpaper. It's enough colour to make a statement but is not too overbearing. My two little boys use this bathroom all the time so I had to be careful with my choices in this room!
I couldn't be happier with the sconces I chose. Again, in week 5, there was a bit of a panic but everything is good nice and they fit perfectly in this room! It adds that touch of elegance to the room, one of the many things missing from the old bathroom.
Choosing art for the walls was hard because I really didn't know what I needed to have in there. I was thinking watercolour but it just wasn't working for me in this particular room.
I was talking to one of my good friends about this and she suggested photography. I picked two prints, grabbed a few IKEA frames, got some custom mats, and that's all that was needed!
I just want to say thank you to my husband for doing so much work, thank you to everyone who followed along and left encouraging comments and a big thank you to my friends and family for the support and encouragement!
The wallpaper was c/o Wayfair. All opinions and thoughts are my own.
Be sure to check out the featured designers for their big reveals and all of the hard-working guest participants!
Its so elegant and inviting! You did a beautiful job!!
I can't help but love that combo of beadboard and wallpaper! Half way through this challenge I fell asleep wondering if I should ditch my subway tile plan and put green wood wainscoting in the bathroom- no joke! (I didn't, so I'm grateful to be living vicariously through you now!) Great job!
Aw thanks!! Haha really? Too funny! I usually feel the same way.. I usually like to stay with what I know that I like so to pick a colour for the beadboard was scary!! Heading over to your blog to see your reveal!
oh I LOVE your wallpaper! so serene and still playful … and of course I love crane, so it's a natural home run for me. Love that you have pulled the green from your wallpaper as paint for the wainscoting. The room looks so coherent, especially with that little band of green mosaic tiles on the floor!
Thank you, Tim!! I really appreciate it. So glad you love the wallpaper as your wallpaper choices are amazing. So glad you noticed the mosaic tiles, they definitely now fit in the room!
Thank you! Yes.. Green is hard to pull off, I was scared but so glad I went for it!
Great job! Love the crown moulding too!
Wow! What a difference. Your new powder room looks amazing. Great job.
Aw thank you!! Definitely quite the difference!
Your lovely paint and wallcovering choices have transformed this powder room from standard to stunning. Congrats to you and your husband on a job well done.
What a huge difference! This little room packs quite the punch! Looks beautiful.
Ooh ooh ooh! Love the cranes and the deep sage green. So fun that the crane wallpaper has a personal meaning for your family too! Great job on the ORC.
The wallpaper paired with the green bead board is so fabulous. What a difference!! Great job!
Oh my goodness, the green bead board, with that white crane paper and the delicate wall sconces is SOOOOO dreamy. Such a pretty design!
You did such a great job! Love the wallpaper and the GREEN! Congratulations.
Thank you! So glad you love it!
Love that wallpaper you chose for your Powder room and the overall design of this space! Congrats and Cheers to us for another room done!
Thank you!! Glad you liked it!
Wow! I love the wallpaper and your color choices and the sconces. Nice job!!!
This looks amazing! I'm a little late to the party but love all the choices and the beadboard colour is definitely the highlight (and the sconces)!


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First of all, I would really like to thank Igor for participating and sharing his wonderful professional experience with our readers.
As a beginner in the coding world, you can learn from his journey and get some hot tips to improve your learning and coding skills.
1. What is coding to you?
2. When did you begin coding and what inspired you?
Android app to execute code in 23+ programming languages.
3. What were some initial challenges you faced while learning coding?
"It was the summer of 2008 and I remember spending countless hours staring at my Sony Ericsson J300i, which has a screen size of 1.5 inches, just imagine that, haha. I would start reading about HTML each night, pretty late, when everyone in my house was asleep and I would read until the morning, like 6-7 AM. After a few days, I launched my first site, using a website builder, where you rarely need to add HTML code manually, and that was cool, but… I don't like doing things the easy way.
So I ditched that and I created yet another site, but this time from scratch. There were a lot of things that were unclear at the beginning, but somehow I managed to get my site up and running, with 0 lines copied from any resource. I was so proud of myself at the time, so much that even now I like making all things (in coding) vanilla. And vanilla is my favorite ice-cream flavor.
4. Share some valuable resources that helped you in your coding journey?
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8. Entrepreneurship VS 9-6 (job). What would you advice to our readers?
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As I am also trying to learn programming, I also learned quite a few things from this interview. I also hope you will also get some value from this interview and get over your fear of coding as practice makes a man perfect.
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Srabanti Chatterjee in relationship with Vikram Sharma - may end in marriage
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It seems Bengali actress Srabanti Chatterjee has ultimately left behind the depression, bad phase of her life which occurred due to separation with Rajiv Biswas. After a married life of 10 years, they are now separated and the divorce of Srabanti and her husband Rajiv will be effective from May 2016.
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Bad Phase in the life of Srabanti Chatterjee is over
Srabanti Chatterjee is known as a cheerful actress in Bengali film industry. Since last two - three years, film industry found a different Srabanti Chatterjee who was keeping herself separated from every thing. Most of the time Srabanti was not available. Earlier Srabanti Chatterjee was found busy in joking with others in the filmy sets. During those days Srabanti kept her self busy in doing mimicry, puling legs of her co stars during photo shoot but suddenly the actress lost all colours of her life.
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Rumour is that Srabanti is now controlled by her 'special friend' Rajiv Sharma. Srabanti denies it saying that she was never fond of filmy parties. Srabanti agrees that Vikram is 'more than a friend' to her and she is yet to decide the future of their relationship. Srabanti and Vikram developed their relationship after the separation of Srabanti and Rajib. Vikram Sharma is Marwari and he resides at Howrah. Vikram Sharma is from a business family and they have business on mines in Bhubaneswar.
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Ruzici remained in the world's top twenty from 1977 to 1983. She regularly featured in the Romania Fed Cup team throughout her career, and began playing for them in 1973, two years before turning professional.
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5 Apr 2018|Christopher Dixon, Jessica Clarence, Amelia Meurant-Tompkinson and Melissa Liberatore
Police officers gone rogue
This BBC exposé offers a fascinating insight into a phenomenon extensively explored by Hollywood but rarely witnessed in real life: the inner workings of a police unit gone rogue, and the human destruction left behind. Tracing the operations of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force, the piece examines how members of this once highly-respected department—working on the streets of a city reeling from civil unrest and an opioid crisis—abused their power and eventually were arrested for racketeering, extortion and fraud.
While this time it's Baltimore under the microscope, questions concerning police jurisdiction and use of force has been a hot topic in the US recently, where the Supreme Court ruled in favour of an Arizona police officer who shot a woman outside her home in Tucson in May 2010. But it's also a hot topic in Australia.
Jaw-dropping operation
Also in Australia, a 4.5-metre great white shark—nicknamed 'Noah'—interrupted a police operation in South Australia. Because great whites are listed as vulnerable under Australian law, officers had no choice but to abandon a random breath test operation when Noah swam between their police boat and the selected fishing boat.
Beginning of Rohingya boat surge?
Meanwhile, 6,000 kilometres northwest of South Australia, Malaysian authorities intercepted a boat off its northern island of Langkawi. The boat was carrying 56 Rohingya refugees. Following renewed violence in Myanmar, with estimates of 600,000 Rohingya fleeing the country, rights groups fear there could be another surge in boats trying to reach Southeast Asia.
Needed: a plan of action
Somalia's Office of Prime Minister is developing a new national action plan (NAP) to prevent and counter violent extremism. The NAP will prioritise de-radicalisation and dialogue, and emphasise the role of religious leaders and women in preventing extremism. Both al-Qaeda–affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab and its rival, Islamic State, are active in Somalia.
'A day in the life' of a Beatle
The Associated Press interviewed two British members of IS at a Kurdish security centre. Both men are said to be part of the infamous IS cell dubbed 'The Beatles', which notoriously tortured and executed mainly Western captives. Their citizenship has been revoked reportedly, but Kurdish officials are urging Western states to take them back. Meanwhile, nine of 21 Iraqi nationals with alleged links to IS who had been arrested have been deported from Turkey. Baghdad itself sentenced seven Turkish women for IS membership; six received the death penalty.
Heightened tensions on the Crimean peninsula
The Ukrainian Border Patrol announced that it would prevent all maritime traffic from entering or leaving the Crimean peninsula's waters. The territory was annexed by Russia in 2014. The announcement comes two weeks after a Russian-flagged, Crimean-registered fishing vessel was detained in the Sea of Azov. The crew was charged with illegally crossing Ukrainian maritime borders.
March of return met with bloodshed
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed along the Israel–Gaza border by Israeli security forces. Palestinians were observing 'Land Day', an annual commemoration of the deaths of six Arab-Israelis killed during Israeli-sanctioned land confiscations in 1976. This year the protests were dubbed 'the march of return'. Violence is expected to escalate as the anniversary of the inauguration of the Israeli state on 15 May 1948—which the Palestinians call Nakba ('the catastrophe')—approaches.
Casus belli on Western Sahara's disputed border
Morocco has threatened to take control of UN-mandated buffer zones in Western Sahara. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita claimed that the separatist Polisario Front had moved members to the al Mahbes area, constituting a casus belli. The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara disputes the claim. The 27-year-old UN peacekeeping mission, which expires on 30 April, is expected to be extended by the UN Security Council this week.
Fiji responding to Cyclone Josie
Fiji is responding well to Tropical Cyclone Josie. Evacuation centres host more than 1,000 people and teams are cleaning up schools that have been closed since the disaster. The cyclone affected roads, water and electricity infrastructure, and some regions are still without power. High levels of flooding are making it difficult to assess the damage to electricity substations.
Gender perspective in natural disaster preparedness
A report by Melbourne University reveals that female small business owners plan less for natural disasters than do male owners. As a result, females rely more on information during a crisis, which leaves their dependents at a potential disadvantage. The report makes several recommendations to encourage women to take appropriate action and to use their networking capabilities to benefit the broader community.
Climate change in the Sahara
The Sahara desert has expanded by 10% in the last century due to climate change, according to a report by the University of Maryland. Changes in the desert's boundaries can affect the amount of rain that falls in neighbouring countries such as Sudan, Libya, Chad and Mauritania. Professor Sumant Nigam says the desert expansion is a slowly unfolding natural disaster that doesn't attract the same attention as other natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes. Drought already disproportionally affects girls in Mali because erratic weather patterns force them to accept riskier work conditions.
Christopher Dixon, Jessica Clarence, Amelia Meurant-Tompkinson and Melissa Liberatore are research interns at ASPI. Image courtesy of Îll55shadows via Wikimedia Commons.
Yet another threat to the EU
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