The Greek Australian Cultural League continually supports the Visual Arts by promoting the work of Greek-Australian artists. Since its inception in 2011, the Antipodean Palette has seen an increase in popularity resulting in this year's decision to broaden the selection process and invite submissions from all practicing Greek-Australian artists within the community. Our first time 'Call for Entries' received an overwhelming response from both local and interstate artists and we thank all the artists for their time and interest in submitting their work for selection.
We have pleasure in presenting 'Antipodean Palette 2015', an interesting and unique body of work in a variety of medium which will include paintings, illustrations, mixed media and 3D installations, collage, copper-etch and risograph printing, photography and silvercraft.
Participating artists are Angy Labiris, Agi Argyropoulos, Anne Warren, WA artist group 'Masonik', Christos Avramoudas, Con Emmanuelle, Effie Mandalos, Frixos Ioannides, James Raftopoulos, Jenny Dumont, Mary Raphael, Sofronis Michaelides, Soula Mantalvanos, Thalia Andrews and Tony Pierrakos.
We welcome you to join us at the opening celebration which will commence at 6.30pm on Thursday 13th August at Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon St. Carlton. Special guests will be The Hon. Martin Foley MP, Minister for Creative Industries and the Greek Consul General, Mrs. Christina Simantiraki. The 10 day exhibition will also include an afternoon of bi-lingual poetry readings on Sunday 16th August at 4pm.
∀2 ∀ΒΟΛΕ 20 ΒΕΓΟΜ. This is not a piece of art by traditional standards. According to C. Jung it is a ritualistic mandala, which I've been using for a long period of time as a meditation tool, as an artistic and psychological expression of myself. Although, as a device, it tries to capture the totality of the self, it is developing day by day in a non-authoritarian or totalitarian sense; it is growing by discord and consists of elements in a very disordered state. This disordered multiplicity forms a concentric arrangement through the construction of a central point where our seemingly individual consciousnesses are connected. The central point here is the 'empty' space between the top of the pyramid and the low point of the plumb line. This point, it seems to me, being nothing and consisting of nothing, has a certain magnitude incomprehensible by thought. The reason that this mandala is on display is my strong feeling and hope that with the help of the audience, and through some kind of collective conceptual current that will flow from the low point of the plumb-line to the pin point of the pen that is available next to a piece of paper, a text is created that is liberating and unifying of the whole process.
Each stroke of burnt umber flows through my veins with cobalt warm yellow Outback. Drawings and sketches of flowers and trees and birds litter my childhood texts and diaries, as I sift through old boxes containing remnants of my past; small chunks of glazed decorated clay remind me of my fascination with sculpting powdered earth. I see the same theme coming through year after year, through each stage of my life. My style expresses the essence of my outback experience….the burnt brown land, being brought to life by colour and texture that appears out of worldly and spiritual. My work expresses peace, energy and tranquillity, which flows through me when confronted by the magnificence of our landscape. When I have my brush in my hand, and my palette full of vibrant acrylic blobs of colour, I anticipate the result with so much excitement. With a variety of techniques, I add layer after layer, stroke after stroke, and relive the mystique, enormity and uniqueness of our land.
Making jewelry has been in Sofroni's family for generations. As a child he frequented his father's workshop in Lemesos – Cyprus where he watched with fascination his father and older brothers work with gold and silver to create exquisite pieces of jewelry as well as objects of religious significance such as crucifixes, incense burners, candle holders and other objects used in religious ceremonies. Justifiably Sofronis feels that gold and silver run in his blood. After migrating to Australia at the age of 22 he worked in a number of occupations but it was always his aim to take up the old family tradition of making jewelry and guide it towards a more creative direction using modern techniques and methods of casting in those precious metals. Many of his creations are influenced by archaeological findings such as the Kyrenia Ship and reflect his love of history and appreciation for his cultural inheritance.
My paintings were inspired by two Greek songs that were composed fourteen years apart. The song, ΕΝΑΣ ΜΑΓΚΑΣ ΧΑΣΙΚΛΗΣ, composed by Antonis Dalgas (Diamantidis) in1931, deals with the generic term Μαγκας (street wise) as used in the Rebetika style of music. The painting is a romanticised image of a "Χασικλη" or hashish smoker surrounded with overt and subtle symbolism. Τhe song, ΕΝΑΣ ΛΕΒΕΝΤΗΣ ΕΣΒΗΣΕ, composed in1945, (music Michalis Genitsaris, lyrics Nikos Mathesis) depicts the death of Aris Velouchiotis. This is a dark painting of the event in a hellish darkness inhabited by nocturnal birds (νεκροπούλια).
Jenny Dumont (b.1966). Studied at Melbourne University, where she completed her Bachelor of Education in Art and Design. Soon after, she became a co-founder of Steaming Ink Design Partnership. Where she was involved in Advertising, Graphics, Design Layout and Photography. From there she went on to teach all aspects of the fine arts, in various Secondary Colleges where she held the position of Arts Coordinator and mentor of VCE Arts students for almost ten years. She has travelled to many countries to paint and view the work of past and present masters. In turn, she is now driven to create a visual response to that which inspires her. Today Jenny works as a full-time artists from her home studio. She is currently working with Resin and experimenting the vast boundaries this medium has to offer. Her art works tend to be relatively large in scale and luscious in colour. Subject matter changes with her mood and environment and the style can be seen as realism/surrealism. Private collections of her work are held in Greece, Singapore, Canada and the United Kingdom.


WASHINGTON – As President Bush signed S. 3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law, the American Civil Liberties Union expressed outrage and called the new law one of the worst civil liberties measures ever enacted in American history.
To highlight concerns with the act, the ACLU took out a full page advertisement in today's Washington Post, calling itself "the most conservative organization in America." Since its founding, the ACLU has fought to conserve the system of checks and balances and defend the Bill of Rights.
"With his signature, President Bush enacts a law that is both unconstitutional and un-American. This president will be remembered as the one who undercut the hallmark of habeas in the name of the war on terror. Nothing separates America more from our enemies than our commitment to fairness and the rule of law, but the bill signed today is an historic break because it turns Guant'namo Bay and other U.S. facilities into legal no-man's-lands.


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Невья́нский городской округ — муниципальное образование в Свердловской области России. Относится к Горнозаводскому управленческому округу.

Административный центр — город Невьянск.

С точки зрения административно-территориального устройства области, Невьянский городской округ вместе с городским округом Верх-Нейвинский находится в границах Невьянского района.

География
Невьянский городской округ расположен в юго-западной части Свердловской области, в южной части Горнозаводского управленческого округа. Площадь городского округа — 1957,94 км², что составляет чуть более 1 % общей площади области. Кроме того, Невьянский городской округ по площади крупнее двух регионов страны — городов федерального значения Санкт-Петербурга и Севастополя. Площадь Невьянского городского округа составляет приблизительно 97,55 % площади Невьянского района, в границах которого образован одноимённый городской округ. Остальные 2,45 % площади района занимает соседний городской округ Верх-Нейвинский.

Городской округ вытянут с севера на юг. Через него в этом же направлении проходит Серовский тракт и два участка железнодорожной ветки Нижний Тагил — Екатеринбург. Окружной центр — город Невьянск — расположен в северной части округа. От него также ведут местные автодороги в направлении Верхней Пышмы (Старый Верхотурский тракт), Режа, Кировграда и Таволог, которые в пределах округа соединяют бо́льшую часть его населённых пунктов. Часть населённых пунктов находится на юге Невьянского городского округа, в окрестностях озера Таватуй.

Невьянский городской округ расположен к северо-востоку и востоку от Уральского хребта, в пределах Среднего Урала. Через городской округ протекает река Нейва бассейна Оби. В районе Невьянска на реке образован Невьянский пруд. В границах городского округа река имеет ряд притоков — малых рек: Горелка, Северная Шуралка, Белая, Ольховка, Ближняя Быньга, Дальняя Быньга, Таволга, Сербишная и др.

В восточной части Невьянского городского округа расположено крупное Аятское озеро площадью 28,3 км². Из озера вытекает река Аять и в пределах городского округа, соединяясь с рекой Большой Сап, образует реку Реж. В окрестностях Аятского озера расположено множество болот, особенно вблизи берегов реки Шайтан, которая протекает по преимущественно лесной части городского округа и впадает в озеро на юго-востоке.

В средней части Невьянского городского округа, которая занята лесом и в которой нет населённых пунктов, есть также несколько малых по площади озёр: Красилово, Белоусово, Пронино и др.

Озеро Таватуй площадью 21,2 км² расположено в южной части городского округа. Оно является наиболее привлекательным водоёмом в окрестностях Екатеринбурга и Среднего Урала в целом. По восточному берегу озера и далее на север тянется цепь гор, образуя останцовые скальные выходы Верх-Исетского гранитного массива: Вороний Камень, Семь Братьев и Одна Сестра,  Стожок, Три Сестры и др.

На юге Невьянского городского округа, за участком железной дороги, проходящим в этом месте с юго-востока на северо-запад, расположены горы Уральского хребта и его восточного склона: Берёзовая, Высокая, Чернижная и др. В горной местности встречаются множество скальных выходов, которые привлекают путешественников. Среди них наиболее известны Кырманские скалы и Кобылья Голова.

Все малые реки Невьянского городского округа в основном относятся к бассейну реки Оби, но в юго-западной части городского округа есть истоки малых речек бассейна Волги, что свидетельствует о прохождении здесь водораздела Уральских гор.

Невьянский городской округ граничит с другими городскими округами:

 на севере — с Горноуральским,
 на востоке — с Режевским,
 на юго-востоке — с городским округом Верхняя Пышма,
 на юге — с городским округом Первоуральск,
 на юго-западе — с Новоуральским,
 на западе — с Верх-Нейвинским и Кировградским.

История
В 1932 году образован Калатинский (после декабря 1935 года — Кировградский) район с центром в городе Невьянск. В марте 1941 года при упразднении Кировградского района образуется Невьянский район. С 1960 года Невьянск преобразован в город областного подчинения. В 1963—1965 годах Невьянский район был упразднён.

В 1996 году на территории города Невьянска и Невьянского района (за исключением посёлка Верх-Нейвинского) было создано муниципальное образование Невьянский район; рабочий посёлок Верх-Нейвинский был выделен в независимое муниципальное образование под названием посёлок Верх-Нейвинский. 16 ноября 1996 года муниципальные образования были включены в областной реестр.

12 октября 2004 года муниципальные образования были наделены статусом городского округа. Рабочие посёлки Аять, Калиново, Цементный, дачный посёлок Таватуй были преобразованы в сельские населённые пункты. 27 октября 2004 года город Невьянск, ранее относившийся к городам областного подчинения, был включён в состав соответствующего административного района.

В состав Верх-Нейвинского как городского округа были переданы около 40 км² земель лесного фонда Невьянского лесничества.

1 января 2006 года Невьянский район и посёлок Верх-Нейвинский были переименованы в Невьянский городской округ и городской округ Верх-Нейвинский соответственно.
В рамках административно-территориального устройства области административно-территориальная единица Невьянский район продолжает существовать.

«Невьянская находка»

Невьянский городской округ обрёл общероссийскую известность в июле 2012 года, когда неподалёку от посёлка Аник в лесном овраге были найдены бочки с большим количеством человеческих эмбрионов.

Население

Состав городского округа

С 1 октября 2017 года посёлок Таватуй (Таватуйского сельсовета) согласно областному закону № 35-ОЗ был преобразован в село.

Упразднённые населённые пункты
 В декабре 2018 года упразднён посёлок Горельский
 В декабре 2019 года упразднены посёлки Плотина и Холмистый

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт городского округа
 На сайте правительства Свердловской области
 Невьянский городской округ

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Baby Boom of Baltic Grey Seal Pups at Kolmården
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Twin Otter Pups Born at Oregon Zoo
Tilly, a North American River Otter, is raising two tiny pups, born February 26 at the Oregon Zoo. The new arrivals — one male and one female — weighed around 4 ounces each at birth and have already doubled that thanks to their mother's naturally high-fat milk.
"Young River Otters are extremely dependent on their moms, and Tilly has been very nurturing," said Julie Christie, senior keeper for the zoo's North America area. "She did a great job raising her first two pups, Mo and Ziggy, both born in 2013. And she was a terrific adoptive mom to Little Pudding, the orphan pup who was rescued from a roadside in 2015. We expect she'll do well with her new babies as well."
Photo Credit: Oregon Zoo
Tilly and her pups are currently in a private maternity den, and it will likely be another month or two before visitors can see them in their Cascade Stream and Pond habitat. Young River Otters usually open their eyes after three to six weeks, and begin walking at about five weeks. Surprisingly, swimming does not come naturally to River Otters — pups must be taught to swim by their moms.
Keepers have yet to decide on a name for the two new pups, though it is likely they will be named after Oregon rivers or waterways like their older siblings.
"This will be the first time Tilly has raised more than one pup at a time," said curator Amy Cutting, who oversees the zoo's North America and marine life areas. "It's exciting that they'll be growing up together and have the opportunity to play and wrestle with each other. Tilly's always been an extremely attentive mother, so it will be interesting to see what happens when her pups go in two different directions."
A third pup, much smaller and weaker than the other two, was also part of the February litter, but did not survive, Cutting said.
Since both Tilly and the pup's father, B.C., were born in the wild, they are considered genetically important for the breeding Otter population in North American zoos. Both parents are rescue animals who had a rough start to life.
Tilly, named after the Tillamook River, was found orphaned near Johnson Creek in 2009. She was about 4 months old, had been wounded by an animal attack and was seriously malnourished. Once her health had stabilized, Tilly came to the Oregon Zoo in a transfer facilitated by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, which oversees the species' protection.
"She was a tough little Otter," remembered curator Amy Cutting, who oversees the zoo's North America and marine life areas. "She was in really bad shape when she was found, so it's great to see her doing well now and raising pups of her own. She's been a terrific mom."
The pup's father, B.C. (short for Buttercup), was found orphaned near Star City, Ark., also in 2009. He was initially taken in by the Little Rock Zoo, but transferred here the following year as a companion for Tilly. The two Otters hit it off quickly and have been playful visitor favorites ever since.
Once threatened by fur trappers, North American River Otters are now considered rare throughout most of the U.S. due to habitat destruction and water pollution. They are relatively abundant in healthy river systems of the Pacific Northwest though, and are frequently observed in local waterways.
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China League One
Jiangxi Liansheng 1 - 3 Nantong Zhiyun
Stadium : Jinzhou Binhai Sports Center (Jinzhou)
Jiangxi Liansheng
China - China League One
Overall L W L
Home L L
Away W
Win % 33% 0% 100%
Goals 2.67 3.5 1
Conceded 1.67 2.5 0
Both Teams to Score 33% 50% 0%
Without Conceding 33% 0% 100%
1st to Score 33% 0% 100%
Nantong Zhiyun
Overall W W D
Home W W
Win % 67% 100% 0%
Without Conceding 33% 50% 0%
1st to Score 67% 100% 0%
Jiangxi Liansheng - Last Matches
05/05/2021 Jiangxi Liansheng 0 : 1 Nanjing City
30/04/2021 Beijing BG 0 : 1 Jiangxi Liansheng
26/04/2021 Jiangxi Liansheng 2 : 4 Chengdu Better City FC
Nantong Zhiyun - Last Matches
06/05/2021 Nantong Zhiyun 2 : 1 Beijing BG
01/05/2021 Nantong Zhiyun 1 : 0 Kunshan
25/04/2021 Nanjing City 1 : 1 Nantong Zhiyun
Nantong Zhiyun is +133% better in terms of Form
Both Teams are equal in terms of Goal Scored
Nanjing City (0)
Jiangxi Liansheng (0)
Chengdu Better City FC (2)
(1) Nantong Zhiyun
(1) Nanjing City
Nantong Zhiyun is +149% better in terms of Goals Conceded
Beijing BG (0)
(1) Beijing BG
(0) Kunshan
Nantong Zhiyun is +149% better in terms of Forms 1st Half
11 Corners / Match
Match Corners are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team corners of Jiangxi Liansheng and Nantong Zhiyun during the China China League One 2021 season.
Beijing BG (10)
Match Yellow Cards are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team yellow cards of Jiangxi Liansheng and Nantong Zhiyun during the China China League One 2021 season.
5 Shots On Target / Match
Match Shots on target are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team shots on target of Jiangxi Liansheng and Nantong Zhiyun during the China China League One 2021 season.
Nantong Zhiyun is 100% better in terms of Form
7 Corners / Match
Jiangxi Liansheng - Home
Nantong Zhiyun - Away
08/11/2020 Nantong Zhiyun 3 : 3 Jiangxi Liansheng
Find Out More About the Match of Jiangxi Liansheng vs Nantong Zhiyun
When and where is the Match for Jiangxi Liansheng vs Nantong Zhiyun
The Match between Jiangxi Liansheng and Nantong Zhiyun takes place at the home of Jiangxi Liansheng, in 10 May 2021, at 07:00. The match is part of the 4th round of the China - China League One. The match will will take place at the Jinzhou Binhai Sports Center (Jinzhou).
Jiangxi Liansheng Performance
Jiangxi Liansheng has played 3 matches in the China - China League One, with a total of 1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses. Jiangxi Liansheng averages 1 Points Per Match in the China - China League One with a total of 3 Goals Scored and 5 Goals Conceded.
Playing at home, Jiangxi Liansheng have played 2 matches in total with 0 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Jiangxi Liansheng averages 0 Points Per Match in China - China League One at home with 2 Goals Scored and 5 Goals Conceded.
Nantong Zhiyun Performance
Nantong Zhiyun has played 3 matches in the China - China League One, with a total of 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. Nantong Zhiyun averages 2.33 Points Per Match in the China - China League One with a total of 4 Goals Scored and 2 Goals Conceded.
Playing away, Nantong Zhiyun have played 1 match in total with 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. Nantong Zhiyun averages 1 Points Per Match in China - China League One at away with 1 Goal Scored and 1 Goal Conceded.
What is the Form of Jiangxi Liansheng?
In the past 5 matches, Jiangxi Liansheng has won 1, drawn 0 and lost 2. They averaged 1 Points Per Match in the past 5 matches compared to their 1 average in the competition.
At home, Jiangxi Liansheng has won 0, drawn 0 and lost 2 in the past 5 matches. They averaged 0 Points Per Match at home in the past 5 matches compared to their 0 average in the competition.
What is the Form of Nantong Zhiyun?
In the past 5 matches, Nantong Zhiyun has won 2, drawn 1 and lost 0. They averaged 2.33 Points Per Match in the past 5 matches compared to their 2.33 average in the competition.
Away, Nantong Zhiyun has won 0, drawn 1 and lost 0 in the past 5 matches. They averaged 1 Points Per Match at away in the past 5 matches, compared to their 1 average in the competition away.
Head 2 Head between Jiangxi Liansheng and Nantong Zhiyun
In the past five years, Jiangxi Liansheng and Nantong Zhiyun have played 1 time against each other. Jiangxi Liansheng has won 0, and Nantong Zhiyun has won 0 with 1 match ended in a draw.
When the match is played at Jinzhou Binhai Sports Center (Jinzhou), there were 0 wins for Jiangxi Liansheng, 0 wins for Nantong Zhiyun and 0 matches ended in a draw.


Peters new single, "Arguing With Ghosts," further solidifies her role as a master of sad songs. With its quiet acoustics and warm, atmospheric tone, this track deals with the frustration of growing older – at least on the surface. Truth be told, it's hard to tell what the real meaning is, as Peters touches upon so many subtle details that the song could have a multitude of meanings, despite coming to a cohesive conclusion by its end.
At first, the track explores the mind of a narrator expressing her frustrations at how her town has changed, as well as how she's changed in appearance. While it seems to foreshadow some type of memory disorder, it's worth noting that she's well aware of these changes. As she recalls past times with her friends, mother and husband, she offers her perspective on the passage of time, and how ultimately, who we are is constantly changing from who we've been. That's why there's no sense in trying to argue with these changes, because it's ultimately useless – time governs us.
On "Disappearing Act," Peters lamented how people can leave us at any point in time. Here, it's like she's remembering those very people with wistfulness, as if there's now a grayness where there once was color. Despite this, she fights, if only for herself to make those fallen loved ones proud.
Both tracks focus on that inevitable end and days gone by. It's also intriguing to hear what the title of her new album, Dancing With The Beast will ultimately mean. Will that beast be a metaphor for life itself? Peters had different characters in mind for all of her upcoming tunes, meaning there's a different dance every time, and ultimately thus far, it ends with an uneasy, but truthful ending. What makes it all the more alluring is that uneasiness, with the listener being left to wonder what dance awaits them next.


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By Brent Bemiller on December 4, 2019
The complaint that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is not much more than a commuter school is as least as old as its water main problems — which is to say at least 40 years old.
"I didn't want to go to UMBC," Mehrshad Devin, a sophomore Student Government Association Senator, told The Retriever.
Yet, in spite of his initial reluctance, Devin, who studies biology and physics, has made it his senatorial initiative to make going to UMBC a fuller experience.
Devin came to UMBC as part of the First Year Ambassador program, in which students learn about student government, often sitting in on SGA public sessions. Through this, he learned that there is not much to do around campus. "Not a lot of people know about Arbutus," Devin said. "It's not more than a 20-minute walk away and UMBC transit [stops through there], so I asked myself: 'What are things that I can do to bring people to go out to Arbutus?'"
His answer? Going around town and asking businesses for discounts for UMBC students. Of the 60 businesses that Devin spoke to, 25 of them agreed to offer discounts to students. The list of these businesses can be found here, on the SGA's website. There are barbershops, pizza places, a theater, massage parlors and liquor shops — all you have to do is flash your student ID card and collect the offer.
"We're working on getting the word out," Devin explained. "Next semester we want to blow up the discount lists everywhere on campus." Devin plans to work with myUMBC's administrators to get a permanent link up, distributing pamphlets and brochures, and also printing the discount list in highly visible areas, especially on bus stops. "We're working on a huge social media push."
Devin also explained that he's been working closely with the Greater Arbutus Business Association to expand the initiative, and that he is "hoping to work more with them to take this to the next level."
As part of his commitment to advertising these new student discounts, Devin runs a weekly vlog on Youtube, where he takes a student to spotlight a business on the discount list. So far, he has showcased Pizza 786, Taste Tea, Dollar General, Universal Comics and OCA Mocha. "It's nothing official," he said. "I try to make them relatable — check the videos out and let me know if they're actually informative, any feedback would be great, positive or negative."
"The businesses are doing the best they can, now it's time to do our part."
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Kitchen W8 – A Restaurant With a Buzz
Kitchen W8 opened in October 2009. We set out for our dining visit on a rainy night in December 2011. Their home page declares "We hope that our restaurant in Kensington will prove to be a much loved local and one that is used by sundry in our neighborhood on a regular basis."
Unfortunately, we were not local having arrived from three weeks in India, tarrying for several nights in London, then heading back to the United States.
But we had heard this was a restaurant with a buzz, one that had been awarded a Michelin star in 2011, one that had all good things going for it.
Carefully protected from the rain in a commodious London taxi we headed out. The driver was kindly, courteous but confused. He could not find Kitchen W8 even though he had heard good things about the dining place. He actually drove past it twice until he found it - -just off High Street.
The place was very crowded with what looked to like very serious diners inter-generational who seemed in the main to be repeat customers. In a neighborhood known for good restaurants, that was a plus. The environment sparkled in black and white like a Hollywood set from the 1940s, not quite Film Noir, and more contemporary feel. There was a preponderance of banquettes, big mirrors, subdued lighting, and a silvery feel. There were lovely linens and dishes.
The whole look spoke well as an example of the revolution in English dining. Very sophisticated. But we knew as someone once said the proof would be in the tasting.
The home page also declares that the menu merges modern English style with a French soul. There was also a touch of the Italian there, too. Our server was a lovely young woman, very French. Possessed of a beautiful voice, she also was in the know about every facet of the menu and the place. And we definitely had our fill of fine food and drink.
We each started with a a glass of champagne, then a carafe of Rioja, ruby-red, perfect for a winter night, then a splendid and cheering cabernet sauvignon.
There were the little salt cod fish cakes, the delicious breads, especially the crusty brown Sour Dough. There was a crispy hen's egg with parmesan Polenta, wilted chanterelles.
A dish of slow poached cod with brown shrimps, another main course pot roast guinea fowl with crushed artichokes. And then for dessert – poached new season's Yorkshire rhubarb with Clementine ice cream and a portion of quince sorbet.
As someone said the proof is in the tasting. Oh, what tasting it was. Carefully planned and prepared, lingering on the palate and on the memory. It's a good thing the taxi driver found Kitchen W8 – A Restaurant With a Buzz.
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On 1 January Tomasz Darowski, who has worked with Domański Zakrzewski Palinka since 2000, was made a partner.
Tomasz specialises in mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, restructuring and infrastructure investment.
He is a graduate of the Law and Administration Faculty at Warsaw University. In 1999 he graduated from the School of English and European Law run in conjunction with Cambridge University and in 2001 he completed a postgraduate course in French and European Commercial Law run in conjunction with Poitiers University. He also completed a postgraduate course in Business Accounting and Finance at the Warsaw School of Economics in 2007.
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Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the U.S.
Less than six percent of domestic extremists have a history of gang involvement.
There is little evidence to suggest that gang policies will translate effectively to the context of terrorism as it pertains to individuals who get involved in domestic extremist groups.
Programs designed to prevent gang membership may not translate to domestic extremists.
In the study, "Cut From the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States," Gary LaFree, Scott Decker and co-authors found that contrary to popular belief, very few (less than six percent) of domestic extremists have a history of gang involvement. This research is the first to determine if gang members get involved in domestic extremism. The findings are based on a study of 1,473 political extremists and 705 gang members in the U.S. – the largest study of its kind. The authors found little evidence to suggest that gang policies will translate effectively to the context of terrorism as it pertains to individuals who get involved in domestic extremist groups. The findings suggest that programs designed to prevent gang membership may not translate to domestic extremists.


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Right. When this has come up before, the idea that was suggested was that there would be a timeout on the CR licensing commitment (e.g. 2 years) that would hold automatically (i.e. if you agree to it you can't back out of it) for all features that make it to Rec but not for anything that gets dropped. And it would be automatically cancelled if the spec didn't make it to Rec in time (if it's still in development, then a renewed CR would be required I would assume).


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The app presents a dual screen interface to play two audio or video files together. It supports almost all popular audio and video file formats. All the necessary functional keys are in built in this media player and work independently for both the screens. The app also enables full screen mode to play any audio/ video file. However, you will hear sound for both the media files in the playback.
You can either browse and select audio/ video files from your system or create your own playlists in the app. You can play any two songs of your choice and mix them to give it a DJ effect also.
Dual Player is freely available in Music & Video category of Windows Store. In order to view the app directly in Windows Store, you can click on the link given below at the end.
Let's see how this funky media player works.
This free Windows 8 Media Player is very simple to operate. Since, there are independent functional keys provided for both the screens, it feels as if you are playing two different audio/ video files simultaneously in two different media players.
As you launch the app, you will see the main interface displaying two media playing screens. Browse songs/ videos independently to be played on the two screens.
You can also switch to Full screen mode to view a video on full screen.
The option to Create Playlist lets you select multiple media files and add to your playlist. This will let you play your favourite audio/video files straight from this app's playlist and you won't have to get into your system's library again and again.
Check out some other free Windows 8 media players reviewed by us: PL@Y, V2PLAY, Windows Player Pro.
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John Harbison's Opera The Great Gatsby
July 11 at Tanglewood
By: David Bonetti - May 16, 2013
Composer John Harbison.
Evoking the Roaring Twenties.
The Emmanuel version is coming to Tanglewood.
Fresh as a Daisy.
Music and libretto by John Harbison
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Opera in concert
Emmanuel Music at Jordan Hall
Orchestra and Chorus of Emmanuel Music
To be repeated July 11 in the same format at Tanglewood
Music director and conductor: Ryan Turner
Cast: Gordon Gietz (Jay Gatsby); Devon Guthrie (Daisy Buchanan); Alex Richardson (Tom Buchanan); David Kravitz (Nick Carraway); Krista River (Jordan Baker); David Cushing (George Wilson); Katherine Growdon (Myrtle Wilson); Charles Blandy (radio singer); Lynn Torgove (tango singer); James Maddelena (Meyer Wolfshiem); Donald Wilkinson (Henry Gatz); Dana Whiteside (minister)
Talk about fortuitous timing. When Emmanuel Music set the date for its concert performance of John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby," it had no idea that a movie blockbuster based on the same novel was premiering the same weekend. Infected by the enormous publicity the Baz Luhrmann movie received, it seemed that everyone in town was buzzing about Jay Gatsby and his gin-fueled parties. Jordan Hall was close to sold out. But even without the media hubbub, the single performance would probably have filled the hall to the rafters: I doubt if Leonardo DiCaprio's fan base overlaps significantly with that of late twentieth century opera.
After all, Harbison is a local boy, Boston's preeminent composer, and his local supporters, who are legion, would have turned out for the belated Boston premiere of his single grand opera (there are two others) in any case.
The opera's production, even in concert form, refutes what might be Fitzgerald's most famous quip: that there are no second acts in American lives. This was an opera that seemed to die in the years after its 1999 premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, which had commissioned it. It was picked up by the Lyric Opera of Chicago the next year, and in 2002 the Met did it again, but that seemed to be it. And, as Harbison has recounted, he was so disappointed by its lukewarm reception that he put it out of his mind, moving on to things he knew he did well, like writing symphonies. "I loved opera but opera didn't seem to love me back," he told the Boston Globe.
I attended a performance of the 2002 Met revival and remember the opera as overly long and often boring despite some wonderfully evocative music of '20s era society jazz bands and the electric performance of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Myrtle, Tom Buchanan's slutty mistress. I thought that there was a good opera buried in there somewhere, although it was perhaps too earnest for its own good. Harbison had made cuts before the Chicago performances, but it didn't seem to be enough. Fitzgerald's novel is a quick read; Harbison's opera was a long slog.
But over the years, as he extracted the songs for a work titled "Gatsby Songs" and created a "Gatsby Suite," Harbison realized that the opera might have a second act if he cut it more. There was interest in it in other quarters as well. A small opera company in San Francisco created a reduced version of the orchestration, which was written for such large forces that small companies couldn't produce it. Its reduced version was produced last year and evidently other companies are interested in doing it. Emmanuel Music presented the full orchestration with Harbison's final cuts for the first, but one hopes not the last, time. The work is now trim and moves fleetly, more in the spirit of its source.
(Harbison isn't the only composer commissioned by the Met for a contemporary grand opera who has had to confront the problem of their work's apparent death after its premiere. John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles" was better received than "Gatsby" at the time it was first performed, but few other companies were able to take it on because of the demands it made. In 2008, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Ireland's Wexford Festival commissioned a reduced version of the score. I attended the performance in St. Louis and it was an immensely enjoyable experience, a real hit. There have been no subsequent productions since then, however.)
Both Harbison's "Gatsby" and Corigliano's "Ghosts" deserve to be heard more often. It certainly makes one wonder why they languish while less substantial works like Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking" and Andre Previn's "Streetcar Named Desire" have entered the repertoire. It can hardly be the fact that they are based on obscure sources – Fitzgerald's novel is just as popular as Tennessee Williams's play. Indeed, Daisy Buchanan resonates in popular culture as much as Blanche Dubois does.
Maybe a curse accompanies a Met commission. Samuel Barber is said to have never recovered from the flop his big Met commission, "Antony and Cleopatra," made at its premiere, the company's first production in its new Lincoln Center facility.
Let's hope that the success of its revival this weekend sends Harbison back to the composing table to write another opera. Harbison, like Corigliano, turns 75 this year – WHBR has been running an "orgy" of composers celebrating their 75th birthdays (the others are William Bolcomb and Joan Tower) - and composing an opera takes a long time. The days of Mozart and Rossini, who could whip up an opera in a couple of weeks, are long gone.
Ryan Turner, the superb Emmanuel Orchestra and Chorus and the assembled soloists made a great case for Harbison as an opera composer, although I have to admit that I still felt that he was too earnest by half. With his music for Myrtle and his infectious "jazz" songs he showed that he could loosen up. One wishes he'd been able to let his hair down even more.
Harbison is arguably the best orchestrator of his generation, and one of "Gatsby" 's great strengths is in its orchestral passages. The overture, which switches seamlessly from the late modern style Harbison practices to the popular white jazz styles of the Gatsby era, was masterful, and Turner was sensitive of every detail. In addition, there was an orchestral interlude between each of the 10 scenes. Harbison's orchestral writing is dense and finely nuanced, perhaps too dense and nuanced for opera, but one of its joys is the color he deploys throughout it; the score is rich in brass, woodwinds and percussion, evoking a passing train, the honk of an automobile, the industrial nature of the "Valley of Ashes" where Myrtle lives with her mechanic husband Tom, the nighttime stars and rain, among many other things.
The opera is full of arias that distinguish the characters. Daisy's nostalgic "Where is the old warm world" and Gatsby's arias full of longing underscore the melancholy nature of the work that often gets lost in the surface gaiety of Gatsby's fabulous North Shore Long Island parties. Tom Buchanan's angry aria about the "lowlifes" that are taking over society reveals his brutishness. The one great aria that could be pulled out of the opera as a concert piece is Myrtle's haunting "Waiting" aria, which expresses her longing as she waits for Tom to come to her, to call – to acknowledge her existence.
There are some fine ensembles as well. In the first scene, Daisy and her friend the golf pro Jordan Baker sing a languorous duet, "Soon it will be the longest day of the year," that evokes Samuel Barber's song cycle "Knoxville, Summer of 1915." The first act ends with a rapturous duet, chords shimmering in the manner of Olivier Messiaen, for Gatsby and Daisy as they remember their first meeting five years earlier in Louisville.
And then there are the dance, society-band jazz, tango and pop songs that serve as audio background for the endless parties. They sound as if they were appropriated from the popular charts of the time, but Harbison wrote them himself, demonstrating his versatility. (Let's hope he doesn't venture into hip-hop, however. His California peer John Adams wrote a hip-hop opera, "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky," that was a first-class embarrassment.)
The cast assembled was superb, if not perfect. As Daisy, Devon Guthrie didn't sound like money, but she had a star-quality soprano voice that was capable of evoking every emotion from longing, to regret, to nostalgia that her character expresses. As Gatsby, Gordon Gietz's tenor was appropriately dramatic but with sweet tones at the top. As Tom Buchanan, tenor Alex Richardson sang with menace and a sense of incipient violence. As Jordan Baker, Krista River sang with a no-nonsense mezzo that paralleled her cool approach to golf. In the crucial role of the narrator Nick Carraway, David Kravitz's powerful baritone placed him authoritatively at the center of the action. His "Gatsby, they're a rotten crowd" utterance, more spoken than sung, neatly erased any sense of jazz-age mirth that might have lingered, and when he notes that it will soon be his thirtieth birthday, marking "a decade of loneliness," he brings attention to the emptiness of his life and that of the other principal characters.
As the mechanic George Wilson, David Cushing sang with a gravelly bass that made his working class status evident. Charles Blandy's light tenor was perfect as the radio performer, singing the pop songs through a megaphone. And veteran baritone James Maddalena was appropriately vulgarity in the role of bootlegger Meyer Wolfshiem. The only singer I was less than thrilled by was Katherine Growdon, who lacked the slatternly quality the role of Myrtle calls for. Of course, with Lorraine Hunt's Myrtle so strong in memory, no one would have satisfied in that role.
The production was a concert opera, but Turner made the right decision to have the cast wear costumes appropriate to the times, the men in white-jacket formal wear, Gatsby with a red vest that bore a heavier significance as the opera progressed, the women in gowns that underscored their character, Daisy in a shimmery white gown, Jordan in a no-nonsense dress and Myrtle as a flapper. The Radio Singer wore a straw hat. This showed much progress from the concert version of "La Clemenza di Tito" Turner led last year, in which everyone wore whatever he or she wanted – black tie and a brown business suit, a pair of glamorous gowns and a dress that looked like something you'd wear to a Saturday evening dance at a Dallas country club. It made a hideous stage picture. Even concert versions of opera have a visual element, which should never be forgotten.
For readers in the Berkshires, note that the production will be reprised July 11 at Tanglewood.
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ARPALER President Joe Cimino served 26 years with the Rochester Police Department. Among his various assignments, he worked in Area B Section, K-9 Squad, Tactical Unit, Special Criminal Investigation Unit, Administration, and Genesee Section. After his retirement from the RPD in 1985, he was the Director of Security for The Genesee Hospital until his retirement in 1998. In addition to his four years as President of the ARPALER, he is a security consultant, and is the President of the Kiwanis Club of Greece, NY and a Past Lieutenant Governor of Kiwanis International, He is also a member of the Free & Accepted Masons, Damascus Shriners, Executive Board Member of the Rochester Police Locust Club, and Past President of the Police Rosewood Club, PBA, and also serves on the Ontario Park Beach Program Committee. Click to e-mail Joseph Cimino
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Sergeant Louis D'Angelo retired from the Rochester Police Department after 34 years of service. After his patrol assignments in Area C, Maple Section and the Tactical Unit, he was promoted to Sergeant and assigned to the Downtown Section. He was then assigned as Commanding officer of the Licensing Section of the Central Investigation Division until his retirement in 2008. Lou has been a member of the ARPALER since 1995 and is presently the Executive Vice President. He is also a member of the Rochester Police Locust Club and the Rochester Police Commanding Officers Rosewood Club. Lou serves on the ARPALER Major Events Committee, Visitations and Memorial Services for Departed Officers.
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Richard "Dick" Fantanza retired after 33 years with the Rochester Police Department. He has been a member of the ARPALER since 1994. During his tenure with the RPD, he served as a Police Locust Club Board Member for 30 years, and as a Finance Committee member of the Locust Club for 25 years. He enjoys most sports as a spectator, and in addition to playing cards, he collects autographed baseball memorabilia, Coca-Cola memorabilia, and old coins. Click to e-mail Richard Fantanza
Charles Zona retired in 1999 from the Greece Police Department as a Sergeant after 25 years of Service. He served as Road Patrol Supervisor for the First and Third Platoons. The last 5 years of his career, he was the Commanding Officer of the Professional Development Section. Presently Mr. Zona is the Sergeant at Arms for the ARPALER, the Treasurer for ITALEO, the Secretary for the Greece Police Retirees Group and a member of S.O.A.R. Click to e-mail Charles Zona
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Arve Lossmann (* um 1925) ist ein dänischer Badmintonspieler.

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Arve Lossmann gewann 1949 und 1950 die Denmark Open. In der Saison 1950/1951 gewann er den nationalen dänischen Titel im Mixed mit Kirsten Thorndahl. Mit ihr belegte er in der gleichen Saison auch Rang zwei beim damals bedeutendsten Badmintonturnier der Welt, den All England.

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Preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV is critical in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 1,000 children are infected each day, primarily through mothers passing on the virus during pregnancy, childbirth or breast-feeding. Though effective preventive treatments - such as AZT, single-dose nevirapine and combinations of antiretroviral drugs - have lowered transmission rates in the U.S. to less than 1 percent, these same interventions have been less successful in many low- and middle-income countries.
In partnership with the U.S. Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at NIH, Fogarty's Center for Global Health Studies recently hosted a meeting to launch a new network focused on strengthening PMTCT by promoting locally relevant, evidence-based treatment regimens and improving collaboration between HIV/AIDS researchers and program implementers. The Center will use as a platform 11 projects funded by an existing collaboration between NIH and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and, more recently, its related program dedicated an ongoing forum for grantees, policymakers and implementers on the ground.
The initiative - whose ultimate aim is to inform NIH and other key stakeholders on how best to design PMTCT programs to improve health outcomes - will also address obstacles and challenges identified by the implementer community. Three more network meetings are planned, with the next session to be held in sub-Saharan Africa.
"We've made tremendous progress on this topic in the U.S., but in the developing world we haven't done nearly as well," said Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass. "We now have some of the most effective interventions, and they're not being used. This is where implementation science can make a difference."
View a full list of NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) grant awards.
Learn more about the NIH-PEPFAR PMTCT Implementation Science Alliance.
Access the related article, A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Implementation Science: The NIH-PEPFAR PMTCT Implementation Science Alliance, in the November 1, 2014 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS).


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