SHUTTER ISLAND is a profoundly odd film. Just as with THE SHINING it sees an A-list auteur apply his talent to a B-movie genre – the brooding psychological thriller. All the way through the movie, I found myself being brought out of the film by the sheer quality of Martin Scorsese's framing or Thelma Schoonmaker's editing. I was also deeply impressed by the sophistication of the intellectual material – the conflation of personal and political guilt. But somehow, the sheer quality of the thematic material and its production mitigated against the hyper-real construction of a sinister atmosphere, through Robbie Robertson's careful use of Mahler and the fictively sombre grey clouds hanging over the eponymous prison island with its gothic central house and proto-fascist civil war prison fort. It also mitigated against my emotional involvement with the film. Thus scenes that should be downright petrifying or deeply emotionally moving were neutered by their subvention to the tricky plot.
The movie is thus, at times, deliberately bad – especially in its opening sequences – with its self-consciously over-the-top weather effects and ludicrously over-bearing score. It is also at times extremely good – so good that it breaks the B-movie veneer. In particular, I would cite the flashback scenes to Dachau, especially the mass execution, which plays like a sort of demented ballet. At other times, Scorsese seems to be reaching for something darker and more twisted than I have seen him wrestle with before, but basically fail in that task. The way in which he treats the hallucinations and warped memories of his protagonist is beautiful and bizarre. But it brings to mind comparison with BUG and David Lynch's recent work – not least MULHOLLAND DRIVE. I couldn't help but wonder what a less faithful and more free-wheeling treatment of the material might have looked like in the hands of someone like Lynch.
And this brings me to my final thought on SHUTTER ISLAND: it is, after all, a beautifully made but rather conventional treatment of the subject matter. Scorsese's art is well-honed but he is somehow a prisoner of it. He hasn't allowed himself to truly break free and show us something so unhinged as to utterly disturb us. Neither has he subverted the B-movie horror film in the way that a Quentin Tarantino did with World War Two films in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (a film which, by the way, looks better with each passing day).
SHUTTER ISLAND premiered at Berlin 2010. It was released last weekend in the US, Argentina, Argentina, Denmark, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Russia, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Spain and Sweden. It is released this weekend in Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Israel, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Austria, Estonia, Iceland, Taiwan and Venezuela. It opens on March 5th in Switzerland, Hungary, Brazil and Italy. It opens on March 12th in the UK, Egypt, Mexico and Turkey. It opens on March 18th in South Korea and on March 26th in Poland. It opens in April 9th in Japan and on April 15th in Singapore.


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RFTA poll shows Roaring Fork Valley residents divided on property tax for bus system
Local | June 14, 2018
The Aspen Times
When 305 likely voters were asked in May and June if they would support a new property tax to raise roughly $14 million annually for RFTA's bus system, the results were:
20% were definite yes, 20% were probable yes and 4% were leaning yes.
28% were definite no, 9% were probable no and 6% were leaning no.
13% were undecided
RFTA has some work to do if it's going to earn voter approval in November for a property tax to operate and enhance the public bus system, according to results of its latest poll.
A survey conducted by Vitale & Associates in May and June on behalf of RFTA showed that a ballot question proposing to raise $14 million annually through a property tax was in a dead heat with likely voters. It was favored by 44 percent of the 305 respondents and opposed by 43 percent with 13 percent undecided.
Likely voters were also surveyed in January. At that time, support for a new property tax was 48 to 41 percent in favor with 11 percent unsure.
"It really didn't see major movement from the earlier poll," Todd Vitale, principal in Vitale & Associates, a polling firm, told the RFTA board of directors Thursday. "Voters are evenly divided about this."
He said it was difficult to compare the two polls because only the later one had a specific dollar amount attached to it.
Vitale said there is still plenty of time to educate voters about the issue — and that "messaging" could be the key to success. Only 47 percent of the respondents said they were very familiar or somewhat familiar with RFTA's property tax proposal.
"In that sense, we're at the beginning of the second quarter," Vitale said, drawing a parallel to a four-quarter sports contest.
When survey respondents who said they weren't familiar with the issue were provided with information and then were asked again how they would vote, support increased to 51 with 41 percent opposed and the remainder unsure, Vitale said.
Another question in the survey found that protecting the environment and outdoor recreation space was the most important issue for respondents, cited by 22 percent. Improving local schools was next at 17 percent.
In contrast, improving the local economy and providing jobs was cited by 5 percent. Improving local transportation and decreasing automobile congestion was cited as the most important issue by only 3 percent of respondents.
However, 82 percent of respondents said traffic congestion in the Roaring Fork Valley was an "extremely serious" problem (19 percent), a "very serious" problem (28 percent) or a "somewhat serious" problem (35 percent).
And 74 percent of respondents gave RFTA an "A" or "B" for the job it does running the bus system, the results showed.
Bill Ray, a campaign consultant for RFTA's "Destination 2040" initiative, said there is ample time to educate voters about the issues before the election.
"It's taken us a while to get to the plan. Now we have to talk about the plan," he said.
The RFTA board — which comprises elected officials from its member jurisdictions — decided at a retreat in May to seek approval of a property tax in November. It compromised on a mill levy of 3.65, which will raise an estimated $13 million to $14 million annually. RFTA officials say they need a new revenue source to keep up with demand for service and undertake special transit projects from Aspen to New Castle. The agency currently has a local sales tax but not a property tax.
The board has until August to confirm it will place a question on the November ballot and, if so, at what mill levy.
Board members made little comment on the latest poll results Thursday but will resume discussion at their July meeting.
While China needed to be effectively confronted over its trade policies toward the U.S., the way the Trump Administration did it was antiquated, counter-productive and overly negative.

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I'm not what you think I am
It's hard to believe there's anything new in the world when you sit through the trailers before a Marvel movie ("Hi kids! Do you like the thing you're about to see that you've basically already seen? Then you're bound to love these other not-yet-released things that you will have basically already seen once you see the thing you're seeing!"). But absent of kicking all the formula brain-junk to the curb, Captain Marvel is something to check out for the inclusion, the not-taking-itself-too-seriously aspect that its contemporaries are missing, and the moment you realize that you're seeing Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, and Jude Law in the same movie (and all sharing in the struggle to make really bad dialogue sound passable).
Aside from a nonchronological backstory about Vers's (Larson) past as an Air Force pilot on Earth (after which she lost her memory and was absorbed into the Kree special ops following an encounter with the sneering Yon-Rogg, played by Law), the plot is essentially that of She-Ra: the heroine mindlessly fights for an organization that is all but named "The Bad Guys," and after a meaningful encounter with the enemy (natives just trying to live their lives), realizes she's on the wrong side, and gets her act together. This is what Star Trek Beyond should have been, but there, Starfleet were the colonizers pushing the frontier races to the edge of the map, and we were still supposed to see them as the heroes. Vers, real name Carol Danvers (which she learns after reuniting with the Earthlings once closest to her), gets with it fairly quickly in the scheme of things, and realizes that Yon-Rogg stole her entire past and essentially turned her into a brainwashed minion just so he wouldn't have to admit to the Kree's leader, the Supreme Intelligence (Annette Bening) that he fucked up a mission.
Captain Marvel has to rank up there will the better movies of its genre. Brie Larson is so seasoned and versatile at this point (see Short Term 12, Rampart, and yeah, Room) that she can play Carol as an otherworldly being with incredible powers while also making her relatable. Even when she's raging through an alien aircraft and fighting for her life (barefoot, I might add) or being interrogated by cops on a foreign world, you still feel like you're just kind of hanging out with her. The entire time Carol puts on the "Vers" persona, you see her emotions beneath it, looking for the cracks.
The supporting cast, including ace pilot Maria Rambeau (fully committed Lashana Lynch), Talos (appropriately hammy Ben Mendelsohn), and Nick Fury (a Benjamin-Buttoned Samuel L. Jackson in Fury's most relevant appearance) complete the lineup of characters who all seem to have their own actual lives outside the plot, rather than just being a bunch of box-ticking dweebs waiting around to be encountered by the hero (can't say the same for any of the other outer-space characters, though).
Law plays a different kind of Marvel villain: Yon-Rogg is a skilled fighter and a ruthless bastard, but doesn't have any superpowers. His defining villainous characteristic is simply that he's a douche with bad ideas, and decides in a vital moment that he would rather save face (no matter the cost) than admit to a mistake – or worse, that his way of doing things could use some work. The revelation of Yon-Rogg (and not Talos) as Carol's real enemy shines a new light on the opening scene, in which a restless Carol wanders to his room in the middle of the night to spar (and which is shot in a way that indicates trust and intimacy more than "let's fight because we're warriors and I'm bored"). Yon-Rogg feels entitled to Carol's respect even though she outsmarted him in a moment she doesn't remember, and has convinced himself that she – the one who can shoot superpowered plasma from her fists – needs to prove her worth to him. It's really gross, fetishy stuff that doesn't receive full context until the end, and Law, even when playing a one-dimensional character without that much screen time, makes it feel like so much more is going on beneath the surface. Carol's real triumph, alongside saving the world and at least two races from genocide, is the realization that she doesn't have to prove anything to this goon.
It's also (albeit implicitly) one of the more queer-friendly Marvel movies. (Seriously: I will believe that Carol and Maria were "best friends" the day I believe Sailors Uranus and Neptune were "cousins").
Despite feeling leaner than some of its predecessors, Captain Marvel has a few shortcomings that stand out. Bening's performance is phoned-in to the point of being hard to watch at times. The filmmakers are too confident about the CG, pulling ill-advised closeups of Carol's face when she's entirely made of hastily-rendered computer blob. It's hard to buy into the universe as a whole, because context is kind of thrown out the window (for instance, why are the Kree, an "alien race," basically just humans? Why are they led by an artificial intelligence? What exactly is a Flerken, and why does it look like a cat? I'm sure this stuff is covered in the comics, but if the films are their own thing, you have to actually finish them). The final act gets a little too Guardians of the Galaxy-like with humor that doesn't land and swerves that take some of the air out of the story. The '90s music is overtly placed and distracting.
Overall, the film adds stakes to Avengers: Endgame (probably not appropriately named, given how long this franchise is destined to last) and gives the series a lead worth investing in. Try getting a better deal from those other comic book movies.
Captain Marvel (2019); written and directed by Anna Boden; starring Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, and Lashana Lynch).
Categories: Films . Tags: 2019 films, action movies, annette bening, ben mendelsohn, brie larson, captain marvel, comic book movies, jude law, lashana lynch, marvel, Samuel L. Jackson, she-ra, stan lee, superheroes . Author: Richard . Comments: Leave a comment


Website design means to plan, create, and update the website. The meaning of "design" is assumed as a visual aspect. In reality, website designing is made up of abstract elements. The usability, ergonomics, layout traditions, user habits, navigation logic are important. They simplify the usage of the website. It helps to find information with ease. All of these factors are merged with the basic principles of design. It helps to complete the requirement of the website.
So, the first and most basic element to create your online identity — your website design! The website design can either make or break the business. It can become an asset to the business. It all depends on the website that how your target audience views your business or company. A good website can turn your audience into your customers. Developing a website design that has an impressive user interface is necessary. It will result in a better conversion rate. And it will lead to a better business and a great revenue.
The first and the foremost thing one should do is to go through the portfolio and testimonials. Do a bit of research regarding the agency. Analyze their previous works. See if you like the designs of the websites in the portfolio. You may have a particular design in mind. Will they be able to do justice with that? It is important to create a website that reflects your company profile and goals. It should be attractive as well. Take some time to check their previous works. Visit the websites they've designed. See if they're reflecting your company profile and goal. You can also check the agency's credibility through the certifications, awards, and recognition on their website.
It is necessary to check the specialization of the web design agency. You must be sure that they're appropriate for your task. Make sure that they recognize what they are discussing. Put forth some specialized inquiries. Ask them what specialized arrangement they can offer for your website. This will provide you an idea of their proficiency. You can also check their proficiency in various fields like SEO, PPC, and Social Media. Choose the company that is specialized in the kind of service that you need for your business. Choose the one that offers a web design package that meets your business requirements as much as possible. Knowing exactly what your business requires a website is essential. It helps you to select the appropriate one.
The pricing range is one of the most essential factors when it comes to choose a web designing agency. The communication should be clear and transparent while discussing the payment structure. The pricing structure of web design varies among companies. We should keep a few things in mind. The price is based on experience, specialization and the scope of the project. Do a bit of research regarding the market price of web designing. The pricing should be according to the quality of the agency's work. Your website will represent the value of your brand. It will show the significance of its online presence. When you're deciding the pricing structure the most important thing is to know exactly what you're paying for. You must ask for the list of deliverables. Ask in details about the things included in the price. And ask about the things which aren't included. Be clear if the cost includes both designing and development or not. This will help you to get good quality and reasonable cost professional web design.
A good web agency not only invests in designers, but also in good copywriters. There is a great importance of a copywriter in the web design industry. A good content and pleasing appearance of the website is important. It requires to engage your visitors to stay and be your customer. If you're contacting an agency for their in-house copywriting services, you must know a few things. Get assured of original and quality contents suitable for your brand. You may have your own content in your mind. The copywriter may proofread to ensure professionalism. He/she may suggest you some taglines/headers for your banners. You can get these benefits in a good and professional web agency. An agency that hires in-house copywriters. This will provide your company better and advanced services.
The way an agency treats their clients is something of great importance. It tells about their way of running their business and developing their services. A website can't be static. After the website is launched, it needs maintenance. We need to keep it up-to-date according to the different trends in digital marketing.
Support comes in different forms. From helping in setting up an email to resetting a password. Sometimes you'll be needing software, security or content updates. You even need to merge with new features of your website on a regular basis. A good web design agency will definitely provide you with all the support. Always find a web development agency who will help you grow your business. The one who is ready to assist you in future if you need them.
The internet is a competitive market. So, you need to hire a web agency that understands your business goals. It should have the necessary resources. And it should know how to deliver it effectively. Your website will be the online face of your company. You have to be sure that visitors and potential customers get the best services. Getting a website is a kind of an investment. This opens your brand for a lot of opportunities in the online platform. You should arm your company with the best techniques and technology. It will give you the best results in a long run. Always find a web design agency which is helpful for your business growth. And go through all these factors when you're selecting a web design agency for your online business.


The humor wasn't lost on me -- last year's Elbe Multi-Strada Loop Ride was done on the first weekend of May, and we got rained on for almost the entire ride. So I decided to move the date out two weeks this time around, figuring it would at least increase the chances of good weather.
Two weeks ago I did a recon ride of the course, to make sure everything was okay with the route. And the day was beautiful, sunny and warm.
I kept watching the forecast as ride day approached, the day's rain chance bouncing between 80% and 20%. By Thursday, though, it was settling into the lower range, with occasional forays to 10%.
Fortunately, the day proved to be rainless, though cloudy, and with some wet and muddy roads.
The whole point of this being a "multi-strada" ride is that it's on mixed surfaces -- both paved and unpaved roads. For this ride, though the gravel sections represent less than half of the distance (18.9 of the 47 total miles), they truly BECOME the ride. Pavement is only the means to link up the sections of gravel road.
This year's edition lengthened the off-pavement by a couple miles, and extended the overall distance by some seven miles, with a nice run back into Elbe on the Mountain Highway.
The course was marked, as well as having the Garmin and RidewithGPS files available to everyone, and cue sheets were handed out to the dozen riders who braved the morning. At 9:00, a few final cautions were imparted, and we headed out.
Nine plus miles in, we turned off the highway and into Pack Forest, a large parcel owned by the University of Washington and used by the Forestry department. It's laced with trails and gravel roads, making it a great initial foray off the tarmac. One long climb, followed by another shorter ascent, and the views are astounding. Assuming you have the oxygen and mental wherewithal to enjoy them.
Russ attacking in Pack Forest.
The descent in Pack Forest is one long downhill, which this year claimed several inner tubes.The surface starts as dirt/mulch, but later becomes a nice gravel surface. But there are many exposed larger rocks, so pinch-flats are possible. And as witnessed this past Sunday, likely. There were at least five flats in the group on the way out of Pack Forest. More were to follow.
Back out onto the road we made the short hop into Eatonville and our food stop for the day at 21 miles.
The road out of Eatonville begins climbing almost immediately, and for our chosen route, doesn't stop until the 33 mile marker. The Alder Cutoff Road is a fairly high-trafficked byway linking Eatonville to the eastern route through Elbe and to Mount Rainier. Our route followed this road for a mercifully short distance before taking a shallow left onto Scott Turner Road, a quiet "dead end" road that meanders slowly up the foothills. But the dead end is in pavement only, as the road continues on, and on, and up, and up, all on a fairly nicely maintained gravel surface.
KOM winners will ever get these.
This year's ride featured a KOM (King of the Mountain) prize over an unknown segment (I had just created the segment the evening before the ride). And this included a leg-breaking half mile stretch of incline that tests one's ability to turn over even an almost 1:1 gear. My own 34/32 set-up was barely low enough, and I was fortunate to be able to keep going after (for the following mile to the summit). It took me a long time before I could shift out of that lowest gear.
The descent back to the highway was wet and a little sticky at times, but the washboard sections had mostly been smoothed (though included some fairly-freshly-laid gravel). The riders had strung out over quite a distance by then, so I made the descent mostly alone. And it behooved us to keep our speed in check. Brakes in good working order is a must. There are some nicely level-ish sections for relief, though. A final right-hander, and the pavement arrives once more, with the highway just ahead. It was so fun to just open it up on that last downhill, speeds back above 30.
Within a mile of reaching the highway and the final seven mile slightly downhill stretch back into Elbe, I came across a cadre of our group gathered around one of the riders. He was just finishing up changing a flat which had occurred some three miles before. Having run out of spare tubes, and no one else around him at the time, he decided to run, in his mountain biking shoes, pushing his bike. After changing that flat and joining the group again, he helped us along nicely for the 25+ mph paceline back to Elbe. The Hard Man award definitely goes to Chris Wood for that feat.
After some clean up and clothes changing we headed over to the Elbe Bar and Grill for some fantastic burgers, fries and brews. Just what we needed to refuel from the day's efforts.
my own flat on the next morning.
The final tally -- 12 riders, 12 flats, and 100% good times.
The day's KOM award went to Russ Clark, for a free burger and some custom frame/helmet stickers by That Sticker Store in Puyallup.
Every one agreed that it was a great ride, and they're looking forward to doing it again next year.


You know there are professionals whose entire job is to help with your career. But they all seem to have different titles and names for what they do. It's like "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," trying to figure out which lidded snake pot hides the kind of help you need. So we asked legal careers expert Karen MacKay for the inside scoop. In her first installment, she focuses on those who can help you find a direction.
To effectively navigate your search for a new job, it's good to know the difference between all of the players. Let's take a look at career professionals who might work with you to guide, focus and power your efforts.
Outplacement Providers. Many law firms recognize that every lawyer who passes through the firm has the potential to become a connected and loyal alumnus—and that happy alumni are great assets. So smart firms engage outplacement providers to support lawyers in their transition out of the firm. The providers are paid by the firm to support you. they are to be your ally as you work together to get you relocated. Their work with you is confidential. Be certain, however, that you clearly understand the relationship before you begin. Ask for definition of what is confidential and what might be shared with your firm—clarity about this from the beginning is important. If your firm offers you outplacement, take it. But make sure that the provider works extensively with lawyers.
Career Counselors are coaches who are engaged by individuals who want to explore the next steps in their career in a focused and guided way. They can help you assess your strengths, for example, and look at the career options that might be a good fit. Some work hourly, others on a flat fee. Beware of career counselors who tell you they guarantee anything! There are no guarantees in life and your career is your responsibility. Find a good coach by personal referral.
Executive Coaching is becoming mainstream and the quality of the coaches and of their training can be quite rigorous. (Make certain that any executive coach you choose falls into that category. Ask for credentials.) Coaching has attracted a number of mid-career lawyers who transitioned into this field. A good coach can help you to make sense of your goals and your career and help you to get clarity about next steps. But be clear before you start: You have to come up with the plan and do the work, the coach can't do it for you.
Whether you choose outplacement, career counselling or coaching, find someone who is a lawyer or who specializes in working with lawyers. You don't want a dabbler helping you with your career.
Next week: The career professionals who make connections for you.
Karen MacKay is Founder of Phoenix Legal Inc. and Cofounder of LawFirmKPI, Inc. She consults to law firms on a wide range of issues from strategy to planning through to the unique needs of leaders, practice groups and the challenges before them. Follow Karen on Twitter @realKarenMacKay.


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What Are Scale Degree or Technical Names?
in Chords & Progressions,Piano,Theory
Scale degree names are the technical names for the notes of the scale.
These technical names are directly related to the concept of tonality or key. Every given key – whether major or minor – has seven notes and each note is considered a degree and has its relationship and function [most importantly] in the key.
Music scholars have technical names for each degree of the scale and our goal in this lesson is to explore these technical names.
Review Of The Scale
Scale according to Jermaine Griggs, can be defined as "…a regular succession of notes, played/heard in ascending or descending order [using a fixed formula.]."
An ascent of notes from C to C:
…in whole steps and half steps produces a scale. Conversely, it can also descend from C:
…to C:
There are so many scales and scale systems in the world. However, our focus in today's lesson is on traditional scales generally and specifically on the natural major and minor scales.
The Natural Major Scale
The natural major scale can be formed by playing all the white notes on the keyboard:
…from C to C:
This scale can be transposed to other keys too. Consequently, there are twelve natural major scales on the keyboard [if we ignore enharmonically related scales.] Check out a few of them…
The Eb major scale:
The G major scale:
The Bb major scale:
…and the rest of them.
The natural minor scale can be formed by playing all the white notes on the keyboard:
…from A to A:
It can also be transposed to other keys on the piano. Consequently, there are twelve natural minor scales on the piano [if we ignore enharmonically related scales.] Here are some of them…
The D minor scale:
The F minor scale:
The G# minor scale:
Scale Degrees And Their Technical Names
The natural major and minor scales (aka – "traditional scales") we covered in the last segment have seven notes each.
In accordance with traditional principles, the first note of a scale is usually duplicated, and this puts the scale in octave position. Traditional scales are said to be heptatonic (i.e having seven tones.) However, owing to the duplication of the first note, they are considered to have eight degrees.
The C major scale:
…can be broke down into eight degrees thus:
C is the first degree
D is the second degree
E is the third degree
F is the fourth degree
G is the fifth degree
A is the sixth degree
B is the seventh degree
C is the eighth degree
There are scholarly terms that every degree of the scale is associated with. Check them out below…
The Tonic: The First Degree of the Scale
The tonic is the first degree of the scale. It is the most important note in the key because the tonic itself is the key center. Every other degree of the scale has a level of relationship with the tonic.
The letter name of the key or tonality is derived from the letter name of the tonic.
The notable difference between the keys of B:
…and Cb major:
…is their tonic. Even though the major scale of both keys are played with the same finger keys on the piano, however, the difference in letter name between B and Cb accounts for the difference in tonality.
That's how important the tonic is – take it seriously!
The Dominant: The Fifth Degree of the Scale
One of the most important numbers in tonal music (that has to do with the use of major and minor keys) is five. The fifth degree of the scale is the next in importance after the tonic.
The dominant forms an interval of a perfect fifth from the tonic, which is considered not only to be acoustically stable, but musically consonant.
Harmonically, the dominant has a strong attraction towards the tonic and this explains why the dominant chord resolves to the tonic chord [most of the time.]
In the key of C major:
…the G dominant seventh chord:
…which is the dominant chord, resolves to the C major triad:
…the tonic triad.
The Mediant: The Third Degree of the Scale
This is the degree of the scale that lies in between the tonic and the dominant, hence the term mediant which literally means dividing in the middle. The mediant is midway between the tonic and dominant.
In-between the tonic and dominant:
…of the C major scale, lies the mediant:
The technical name of the third degree is derived from its position between the tonic and the dominant.
The Subdominant: The Fourth Degree of the Scale
The prefix 'sub' means under, beneath, below, etc., while the term dominant refers to the fifth degree of the scale. If you put both terms together, you'll have a new term subdominant which describes the scale degree that lies a fifth below the tonic.
Let's count five degrees below the tonic of the C major scale.
…is the first.
…is the second.
…is the third.
…is the fourth.
…is the fifth.
So, a fifth degree below the tonic (aka – "subdominant") of the C major scale is F:
…which is the fourth degree of the major scale.
The fourth degree of the major scale derives its technical name from its position from the tonic, and just like the dominant-tonic attraction, there is also a strong attraction between the tonic and the subdominant.
The Submediant: The Sixth Degree of the Scale
When we came across the term mediant earlier, it was used to describe the scale degree that lies midway between the tonic and the dominant.
The term submediant is the scale degree that lies midway between the tonic and the subdominant.
In the key of C, here's the tonic:
…and the subdominant:
…a fifth below the tonic. The submediant:
…is the scale degree (A) that lies in-between the tonic and the subdominant. The submediant is the sixth degree of the scale.
The Supertonic: The Second Degree of the Scale
The second degree of the major scale is known as the supertonic. The use of the term super here implies that it lies a degree above the tonic versus the subtonic that lies a degree below the tonic.
Harmonically, the supertonic has a relationship with the dominant. The supertonic [chord] usually lies a fifth above the dominant chord, and functions as a pre-dominant because most times in chord progressions, the supertonic chord is played before the dominant chord.
The technical name of the second degree is derived from its position, which lies a degree above the tonic.
Attention: The supertonic is always a whole step above the tonic, whether in the major or minor key. However, you must endeavor to stick to the proper spelling. The supertonic in the key Db is Eb and not D#.
The Subtonic: The Seventh Degree of the Scale
The seventh degree of the scale lies a degree below the tonic. The suffix 'sub' means underneath or below, and the term subtonic literally means below the tonic.
When the subtonic of a key is a half step below the tonic, music scholars refer to it as the leading note.
The subtonic of the major key is a half step below the tonic, while the subtonic in the minor key is a whole step below the tonic. Therefore, the subtonic of the major key is usually referred to as the leading note.
Kindly check out the Implications of The Leading Note in Modality.
The Octave: The Eight Degree of the Scale
The eighth degree of the scale is the duplicate of the first degree of the scale (aka – "tonic") and music scholars call this eighth degree the octave.
Traditionally, scales are played from the first to the eighth tone. With that, a scale can start and end on the same pitch class.
Suggested Reading: One Octave.
If you think these names are sounding very scholarly, you are not alone. I once found the memorization of these names challenging, but today, I consider it a privilege sharing the much I can on this.
So, I believe that because of the scholarly benefits of being acquainted with these terms, that I have personally enjoyed, you'll learn them.
Chuku Onyemachi
Head of Education at HearandPlay Music Group
Hello, I'm Chuku Onyemachi (aka - "Dr. Pokey") - a musicologist, pianist, author, clinician and Nigerian. Inspired by my role model Jermaine Griggs, I started teaching musicians in my neighborhood in April 2005. Today, I'm privileged to work as the head of education, music consultant, and chief content creator with HearandPlay Music Group sharing my wealth of knowledge with hundreds of thousands of musicians across the world.
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In this exclusive History Scotland extract, Duncan Simpson considers the record of land owner and notorious Clearances agent Patrick Sellar.
Even those historians who have 'repeatedly put Patrick Sellar on trial' to borrow a phrase from Ian Grimble, have conceded one aspect of his legacy, that he was 'a great farmer.'
An important element of this reputation was his improvement of the extensive farm at Culmaily which was his first venture into farming, initially in partnership with Estate Commissioner William Young.
Leading historian of the clearances Eric Richards described 'the stagnant lochs, the birch woods, the black peats which used to cover the land… transformed into the fine fields of Culmaily' James Hunter described Sellar as a 'consummate agriculturalist' in his latest book on Sutherland, and Culmaily as 'emblematic of what improvement could accomplish.'
An act of alchemy has been accepted by historians, even those who have characterised the wider transformation of the Sutherland estate as a failure.
'Objects of Wonder and Delight'
Shortly before Sellar's death in 1851, estate commissioner James Loch wrote these lines to him:
Although these matters are objects of wonder and delight to us who saw it all otherwise, it is impossible to convey to strangers those feelings even if able to tell what was the condition of things before 1812. Who is the oldest man about the place who could tell me about Culmaily?
The oldest man about the place who remembered the preceding state of affairs might well have had different feelings about the changes. Loch's question is provoking. While he included himself amongst those 'who saw it all otherwise', his knowledge of the workings of the Estate could only have been that of a superficial observer prior to his active management role in the north commencing in 1816. His question implies a lack of knowledge, a need to find witnesses.
Furthermore, it implies that the estate's record of the whereabouts and fortunes of the 352 people removed from Culmaily in 1812 was inadequate, or non-existent. That makes hollow Loch's later claim that the 'utmost caution and deliberation' had been employed in order to 'raise the importance and increase the happiness' of those very people.
'Zeal for the Improvement of the Country'
Early exchanges between then estate commissioner Young and the Staffords conjured a lofty 'grand design' of coastal development of industry in parallel with the development of sheep-walks in the interior. Culmaily was intended to be an industrial hub which demonstrated the possibilities for re-employing the people displaced from the interior. The land there was identified as having the richest potential on the estate.
What farming operations were planned were of the nature of a 'show farm', flax milling being the intended centrepiece. Young was to oversee these operations, with Sellar (pictured) his assistant.
The two men were plainly at odds from quite an early stage in operations, though they still managed to combine to ruthless effect initially, swiftly disposing of the previous factor Cosmo Falconer. Ironically, given subsequent events it was the haste and lack of planning associated with the first clearances which gave them their opportunity.
The initial clearance of 300 people from Lairg in order to make way for Atkinson and Marshall's sheep run saw them resettled hastily in 'restricted situations' in Upper Strathnaver, an area Sellar would later clear for the same purpose. Sellar lamented the misery he had witnessed in Upper Strathnaver to the Marchioness:
The inhabitants who formerly occupied the Extensive Sheep walks in the interior are Crammed, we understand, into hamlets there, without any new track being pointed out for their industry and wanting, we fear, the full Supply they formerly Enjoyed on their boundless pastures. Depression, debility, sloth, filth etc. are the consequence.
Crocodile tears those, shed with the downfall of Cosmo Falconer in mind, and perhaps the dawning of an awareness of the value of those 'boundless pastures.' Falconer issued a stark warning about the self-serving nature of Patrick Sellar in the letter acknowledging his dismissal, contrasting his naked greed with Young's 'disinterested zeal for the Improvement of the Country.'
That zeal would result in Young's dismissal in turn as the costs of those improvements spiralled out of control. Some of the poorly accounted extravagances which saw Young lose his position improved Sellar's lot at Culmaily immensely. Substantial engineering accompanied the road-building project supervised by Thomas Telford in the district.
The key factor in the success of the drainage schemes Sellar implemented were the construction of an embankment at Loch Lundy, and the massive works establishing 'The Mound', which greatly improved Morvich (pictured here).
The provisions of the government scheme which built the new road from the Mound covered the cost of enclosure and drainage along its length. This gifted Sellar's later drainage schemes a uniquely strong underpinning.
The fine house at Morvich which became Sellar's family home was built for the marquis of Stafford as an alternative to Dunrobin. Groundworks also accompanied that construction, and unspecified improvements were made to the fields surrounding Morvich. The estate funded the new farmhouse at Culmaily, and offices on both farms.
Despite the rapid progress of those buildings, the proposed cottages for the remnant of the population who were to be retained were not immediately constructed, due to 'a lack of skilled labour in the county'. As the farm was on the approach to Dunrobin, the cottages had to be built to a high standard of facade. This focus on appearances was a prime motivation for the re-organisation of Culmaily, revealed in letters from the marchioness which tell of her satisfaction at seeing the black houses ploughed under. It seems likely that the cottages were not completed until 1815, when Loch referred to them as though they were a recent addition.
That suggests that the 30 people eventually settled at Culmaily were not selected from the original population who had resided there. Indeed, Sellar stated that his own preference was to have workers brought from outside, and his own 1820 account referred to the eighteen families he employed as 'south coasters' presumably from Moray. His son's defence of Sellar to the Napier commission maintained that his father took some highland workers on, but only as the 'second generation' of his workforce, in comparatively junior positions. This again calls into question the stated principle aim of improving the lot of the people.
'The condition of things before 1812'
There are two estate maps which portray the state of the land at Culmaily prior to Sellar and Young's occupation. The first, made by John Kirk for the tutors to the young countess in 1771, served primarily as a sketch of the land which the new road replacing the existing high road above the farm traversed. While it depicts 'wet marsh land' north of the road, the majority of the farm was depicted as ploughed and enclosed arable.
The second was made by John Home, prior to his survey of Assynt in 1774. On it, the core 40 acres of Culmaily were all indicated as arable, with around twenty per cent of Sallachy to the south assessed to be 'wet meadow grass' or 'natural woodland.' The remaining eighty per cent of Sallachy's lands are indicated as arable. The moor making up the bulk of what would become Sellar's 'fine fields' south of the road is marked 'may easily be improved into Corn Land'. John Henderson's survey of 1807 also observed that 'by draining the low ground between Culmailie and Drumay, a considerable tract might be made arable.'
The previous tenant of Culmaily was Colonel Alexander Sutherland, an elderly veteran who Francis Suther later described as 'feebleminded', mocking 'the childish grief' he displayed when meeting with people about to be evicted in Strath Brora. The colonel expressed the vain hope that he would be left alone amidst the 'storm of improvements', but when his sub-tenants were gone, he became the focus of attention. Sellar thwarted attempts by others within the estate structure to leave him in place, insisting that his forty acres was the key to the surrounding 260. The colonel was also tenant of Strathlundie, which does not appear to have interested Sellar initially.
He identified the neighbouring farmland of Morvich as the estates next target; 'for the Ground is rich and fertile beyond expression, and it has carried oats and bere in succession beyond memory of man.' During later negotiations when tenant of that same land, he insisted that a large part of that acreage was 'unimproveable rocky pasture'.
Read the article in full in the March/April 2020 issue of History Scotland, available in print and digital versions here.
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Viene scoperto come cantante da Vincenzo Micocci, ottenendo nel 1969 un contratto discografico con la IT.

Sotto quest'etichetta pubblica l'anno successivo il suo primo 45 giri, contenente Il colore dell'amore, brano con cui partecipa al Cantagiro 1970.

Jordan passa poi alla Seven Records, l'etichetta del maestro Giuliano Facioni distribuita dalla RCA Italiana.

L'anno successivo è in gara al Festival di Sanremo 1971 con Lo schiaffo (cantata in abbinamento con i Gens), esibendosi accompagnato dai Middle of the Road, non riuscendo ad andare in finale.

Sempre nel 1971 ritorna al Cantagiro con La farfalla.

Vince il girone B della stessa manifestazione l'anno successivo, in cui si presenta con il gruppo musicale FM2, formato da elementi di diversa nazionalità (Dave Sumner, chitarrista inglese dei Primitives; Douglas Meakin dei Motowns; Nicola Distaso, chitarrista dell'edizione italiana del Musical Hair, dei Libra e della Reale Accademia di Musica; Jean Claude Dubois, bassista francese del gruppo Les Lionceaux; David Walter, batterista dei Libra; Uccio Sanacore, tastierista), proponendo la canzone Chérie chérie, scritta da Paolo Dossena e Lilli Greco. Il brano sul retro del 45 giri (uscito a giugno), It's Over, è scritto da Dossena con Paolo Amerigo Cassella e da Loic Marie Cocciante.

Dopodiché abbandonò le scene.

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SCIRPUS. Club-rushes. [Cyperaceae]
Three species of Scirpus are recorded in Britain. These include the native Wood Club-rush (S. sylvaticus) and the introduced Swamp Club-rush (S. inundatus) and Knotted Club-rush (S. nodosus).
Nine British miners are are recorded on Scirpus.
A key to the European miners recorded on Scirpus is provided in Bladmineerders van Europa.
Diptera recorded on Scirpus
1a > Leaf-miner: A long yellowish green leaf-mine. Pupation external, puparium frequently adhering to leaf (Spencer, 1972b: 100; Spencer, 1976: 205).
Long, rather broad corridor, about halfway along the leaf blade. Frass in a few large, black lumps. Puparium formed now in, then outside the mine.
Mine of Cerodontha angulata on Carex pendula
Cerodontha angulata puparium
On Carex and Scirpus in Britain and continental Europe. Widespread in the southern Britain. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in continental Europe. Also recorded in Canada and the U.S.A.
Cerodontha angulata (Loew, 1869) [Diptera: Agromyzidae].
1b > Leaf-miner: A very long mine. Pupation at base of leaf (Spencer, 1972b: 100). Puparium brown
Very long upper-surface corridor, at the end about 1/3 of the width of the leaf. The mine usually begins about halfway along the blade and descends within the leaf sheath. Just before pupation all frass is deposited in one big mass. Puparium within the mine, where it also passes the winter.
On Carex and Scirpus in Britain and Scirpus and Scheonoplectus in continental Europe. Probably widespread in Britain. Widespread in continental Europe. Also recorded in Canada.
Cerodontha scirpi (Karl, 1926) [Diptera: Agromyzidae].
1c > Leaf-miner: Mines and larvae indistinguishable from C. morosa. Mine relatively short and broad, not extending into leaf base. Pupation in the mine (Spencer, 1976: 219).
Upper-surface, interparenchymatous (therefore yellowish) corridor in the middle part of the leaf. The mine starts not far from the leaf tip, descends, and changes direction at least twice. Often in the end the corridor occupies the entire width of the leaf. Larva solitary. Frass in one big lump. Pupation inside the mine. The puparium is glued with frass to both the ceiling and the floor of the mine, parallel to the leaf vein.
On Carex and Scirpus in Britain and elsewhere. Only recorded from Cambridge, Suffolk and Warwick in Britain. Widespread in continental Europe.
Cerodontha suturalis (Hendel, 1931) [Diptera: Agromyzidae].
1d > Leaf-miner: Irregular mine, locally shallow, elsewhere much deeper, giving it a mottled appearance. In broadleaved plants the mine often begins as a blotch with stellate extensions, but sometimes as a very fine, shallow corridor. In grasses the mine often begins in the leaf sheath. The frass is very fine-grained, initially scattered, later in aggregates. The egg is deposited on the plant surface, and the empty egg shell remains visible. But the larvae are able to leave their mine and restart elsewhere, thus mines without an egg shell can be found as well. The larva also leaves the mine before pupation. Pupation takes place in a newly made, small, blotch mine without frass; this mine may be made in another plant (species).
Mine of Hydrellia griseola on Glyceria fluitans
Polyphagpus. On ? Alisma, ? Damasonium, ? Sagittaria, ? Bellis, ? Rorippa, Tropaeolum, ? Lychnis, ? Stellaria, ? Carex, ? Cyperus, ? Scirpus, ? Hydrocharis, ? Stratiotes, ? Lamium, ? Lemna, ? Allium, Arrhenatherum, ? Polygonum, ? Potamogeton, ? Veronica, ? Typha in Britain.
On ? Alisma, ? Damasonium, ? Sagittaria, ? Bellis, ? Rorippa, Tropaeolum, Lychnis, ? Stellaria, Carex, ? Scirpus, Trifolium, ? Hydrocharis, Lamium, ? Lemna, Allium, Papaver, Agrostis, Alopecurus, Apera, Arrhenatherum, Avena, Avenula, Brachypodium, Briza, Bromus, Calamagrostis, Dactylis, Desmazeria, Digitaria, Echinochloa, Eleusine, Elymus, Festuca, Gaudinia, Glyceria, Holcus, Hordeum, Lagurus, Lolium, Panicum, Phalaris, Phleum, Phragmites, Poa, Secale, Setaria, Triticum, ? Polygonum, ? Potamogeton, Veronica, ? Typha and Verbena elsewhere. Widespread in England. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in the Palaearctic region. Also recorded from Nearctic and Australasian Regions.
Hydrellia griseola (Fallén, 1813) [Diptera: Ephydridae].
non-Diptera recorded on Scirpus
1a > Leaf-miner: Corridor, 15 cm in the end, descending from the leaf tip. The mine is whtish and shallow at first, then becomes deeper, yellowish white, and more transparant. Pupation external; pupa, not in a cocoon, attached to the leaf.
On Carex, Eleocharis and Eriophorum, but not yet on Scirpus, in Britain and Carex, Eleocharis, Eriophorum, Scirpus, Calamagrostis, Deschampsia, Melica and Poa elsewhere. Northern Britain & Ireland. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in continental Europe.
Elachista albidella Nylander, 1848 [Lepidoptera: Elachistidae].
1b > Leaf-miner: The mine begins as a narrow corridor, somewhere halfway along the leaf; it ascends towards the tip, doubles, and descends to about the starting point. Meanwhile the corridor has widened to about half the width of the leaf. Most frass is accumulated as an elongate dark mass in the oldest part of the mine. According to Traugott-Olsen and Nielsen part of the frass can be ejected through an opening in the lowest part of the mine. The mine is greenish white and quite conspicuous. Pupation external; pupa in a loose spinning (Bland, 1996a; Traugott-Olsen and Nielsen, 1977a).
On Juncus, but not yet on Scirpus, in Britain and Juncus and Scirpus elsewhere. Britain including South Hants (and the Channel Is. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in continental Europe.
Elachista scirpi Stainton, 1887 [Lepidoptera: Elachistidae].
1c > Leaf-miner: In autumn the larva makes a long, brown corridor, and hibernates therein. In spring a new mine is made in another leaf. This one starts near the base of the blade, widens upwards, and finally forms an elongate yellowish irregular blotch of 3-5 cm in length. According to Martini (1912a) a characteristic of this species is the extreme precision with which the mine joins up with the length venation of the leaf. Pupation external; the pupa is attached to the mine without a cocoon.
On Carex, but not yet on Scirpus, in Britain and Carex, Eriophorum and Scirpus elsewhere. Britain including Banff, Chester, Easterness, Elgin, Mid Perth, North Essex and Stafford. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in continental Europe.
Elachista serricornis (Stainton, 1854) [Lepidoptera: Elachistidae].
1d > Leaf-miner: The mine begins somewhere halfway the blade as an upwards running corridor. After a while the direction reverses, and an elongate blotch develops occupying half the width of the leaf. Frass, light green at first, grey later, concentrated in the lowest part of the mine. Pupation external.
On Carex, but not yet on Scirpus, in Britain and Carex, Festuca and Scirpus elsewhere. Britain including East Kent, North Hants and South Devon. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in continental Europe.
Elachista utonella Frey, 1856 [Lepidoptera: Elachistidae].
1e > Leaf miner / Stem-borer: Narrow gallery in a young leaf. After having mined for some time the larva becomes a borer in the stem or rhizome. The larvae feed inside the stems.
On Scirpus, Glyceria, Iris, Sparganium and Typha in Britain and Schoenoplectus, Glyceria, Iris and Sparganium elsewhere. Locally distributed from southern England northwards to southern Scotland. Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland. Widespread in continental Europe.
Orthotelia sparganella (Thunberg, 1788) [Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae].


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Project Acceptance Meeting of 973 Program on the Key Technologies for 110-m Aperture Fully Steerable Radio Telescope was Successfully Held
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On 27 September 2019, Wuhan witnessed the successful of Project Acceptance Meeting of National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) for the Key Technologies for 110-m Aperture Fully Steerable Radio Telescope. More than 30 participants were present at the meeting including the project principal, program members and postgraduate students.
The project acceptance team was composed of 13 experts, including the project Chief Scientist of the project, Dr. Wang Na, expert in charge of the 973 program, Dr. Huang Cheng, and other experts related to the project. They carried out acceptance checks were carried out on four projects, namely "A large sample of radio astronomical observations and research on the frontier technologies", "Antenna structure in a complex environment conservation and high precision pointing control", " Ultra- wideband receiver and high speed digital backend" and "Reflector with high precision measurement and real - time closed - loop correction of the active surface".
The project acceptance team provided constructive advices on achievements of the project, innovation ability of the research team, talent cultivation, data sharing, fund management and other related issues. They agreed that the research works over the past four years have been carried out with friutfull results , the research works have been carried out with fruitful results under the leadership of the chief scientist. In addition, some the projects even outperformed their criteria with publications in scientific journals such as Science and ApJ with high citation rates. Dr. Huang Cheng said that the achievements of the project focused on the key technologies for 110-m aperture fully steerable radio telescope, and which provided technical support and skill reserve for the system upgrades and operation. Furthermore, the accumulated experience and human resources are useful for preparation of the scientific research for the QTT project.
The project began in 2015, and since then it has gathered the efforts of XAO, NAOC, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, XiDian University and the 39th research institute of China electronics technology group cooperation. All the researchers from these institutes participate with strong sense of responsibility and mission, adhering to the national significant requirements, and targeting at the cutting-edge science and technology. In addition, thier contributions have raised the ranking of the radio astronomical equipment in China to among the top list of the world, promoted the developments of the related technologies and supported in making breakthroughs on the frontier techniques in radio astronomy.
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Economic Terrorism in Syria
By: Syrian Democratic Times
The intended message of economic terrorism may be ideological in nature, targeting the leadership and cause, but the victims are everyday people. The loss of land, home, property, and environment raises the costs of security and prosperity, stifling the ability of our society to recover and thrive.
Recent fires in Syria — especially in northeast Syria where vast amounts of agricultural land have been destroyed — are just one example of the economic terrorism in the country. Syrians have also seen destroyed railroads, factories, roads, and more. Businesses and health clinics have been targeted. Shops and markets have been targeted. The economic lives of Syrians will take years to recover. In the meantime, the suffering continues.
The goal of economic terrorism is to prevent the expansion of social projects and movements by forcing people to spin their wheels on societal progress, never moving forward. However, those who commit economic terrorism admit their own weakness, showing that they lack the strength and vision to do anything but obstruct the works of those who seek a better tomorrow.
Economic terrorism targets the infrastructure on which all of society relies on. It comes in many forms and evolves to fit the situation as needed. It tears apart people, families, and societies. Basic supplies and necessities such as food and water become targets for cowardly and clandestine attacks by those who lack the strength to confront their enemies face to face.
The effects of economic terrorism are twofold. It not only causes economic pain, but also psychological devastation. The fear and anxiety of losing home, dignity, and livelihood is a powerful force on individuals. Those who have lost everything and struggle to access food, water, and other basic needs have a much more difficult time imagining a better world. It is precisely this destitution and paralysis which economic terrorists seek to cause. Communities who lack the means to support themselves also lack the means to fight terrorism and its proponents.
Economic destruction comes at a high cost, a bill footed by the people and the nation at the expense of all other productive endeavors. The cost of fighting terrorism includes rebuilding the industries and resources which were left destroyed. The precious resources which are siphoned to the projects of rebuilding devastated farmland and ruined communities are resources taken from education, healthcare, infrastructure, and industry. All suffer in the long run, but the most vulnerable receive the worst deal, as they are the most dependent on social services.
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Founded in January 2008, IndieGoGo has continuously fulfilled its vision by helping multitudes fulfill theirs. "We're really aiming to empower the dreams of many, whether it be through getting money for a liver transplant, or a new album, or a restaurant," says CEO Slava Rubin.
IndieGoGo campaigns receive all the money they have been pledged, whether the initial funding goal was reached or not. Kickstarter campaigns only receive their money if they reach their initial funding goal by its designated date.
IndieGoGo is available internationally, while Kickstarter requires a U.S. bank account.
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The design for the indoor football training hall at next to the Memorial to the Victims of Communism at Tallinn's Maarjamäe. Source: jvr.ee
Opposition Isamaa Party's member Raivo Tamm submitted an inquiry to Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) regarding a football hall planned to be built next to the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in the Maarjamae subdistrict of Tallinn.
In the inquiry, Tamm asks why the government and the Tallinn city government have withdrawn from the agreement reached in October last year, according to which a football hall will not be built next to the Memorial to the Victims of Communism, spokespeople for Isamaa said.
"In October 2020, under the leadership of justice minister Raivo Aeg, a meeting was held with interest groups, where it was agreed that the administrative building of FC Levadia would be built next to the memorial instead of the football hall and a new location would be sought for the hall," Tamm said.
Tamm added that there are several interest groups against the construction of the football hall. "The organizations representing the repressed, the architects of the memorial, as well as the people living in the area, are opposed to a football hall towering over the memorial site and unsuitable for that place being built next to the Memorial to the Victims of Communism," he said.
Tamm also asked whether the government and government representatives plan to meet with representatives of the City of Tallinn, FC Levadia and representative organizations of the repressed, as well as with the architects of the memorial to find a solution to the situation
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Hirokazu Koreeda is exceptionally worthy of the designation of playing in the Masters program at TIFF. Almost every aspect about Our Little Sister sonically, professionally, aurally, is incredible. All the little things are done extremely well, from casting to scenery. It is inherently the work of a master.
Why then, does it not succeed to capture the spirit, the esprit de corps of the spirit of the four central females of the film?
A trio of reasons, really. The first is a comparison to Koreeda's previous work, the challenging and rewarding Like Father, Like Son, which explored issues of parenthood in more depth, and rightly won the Jury Prize at Cannes. Spielberg was rumoured to tackle an English language version and the actor Rirî Furankî appears in both films, but as a lead there and in a more reassuring role here, emphasizing the dichotomy. This film is not that film.
Secondly, the adaptation of a manga into a film makes for some tricky maneuvering into the style of Koreeda. The sisters each have a distinct voice, (especially the half-sister the elders are surprised to find), but the imagined cartoonishness of adapting a Manga into a fully realized and realistic world.
Lastly, and this is just unfortunate, there is something inherently Japanese about the film that a non-native speaker and resident of the country just loses in the translation. It is not so much the words, but the gestures, the significance, the semiotics of the film that just cannot be translated.
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Monthly Spiritual Message, March 2013
Fr Carl Schafer OFM
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." Dickens may well have described the present situation of our Church and society.
Likewise, Genesis 18:21 lends itself to an update: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah (read: the Catholic Church) is so great and their sin (read: pedophilia) is so grave, that I shall go down and see whether or not their actions are at all as the outcry reaching me would suggest."
The public outcry is focussed on the Catholic Church and has called for the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in the Church's organization and institutions. Although the scope of the Commission has been widened to include all public institutions, the media continue to focus on the Catholic Church. Like the sin of the sodomites, pedophilia is a sin that cries to heaven for redress. Most important, its disastrous effects on the victims clamour for recognition and healing.
After three years of a Royal Commission, our Catholic Church shall certainly know itself a lot better and more humbly. At centre stage are the perpetrators of pedophilia in our institutions, not family members but specifically Catholic priests and religious, and their victims. Bishops and religious Superiors will be called to account as well.
Sexual abuse of children is detestable. All Church members – bishops, priests, religious and laity – must give it more attention than we have previously given to it. We must redress the damage that pedophile members of our Church have wreaked upon their victims.
Church society and civil society have failed to redress the damage caused to victims. But it is the Catholic Church that has drawn most attention to the abhorrent practice of pedophilia among some of its priests and religious and to the Church's inability to stop the perpetrators and to redress the damage to their victims.
But what concerns me in this Message is how are we Catholics going to face the grilling of our Church during the coming three years of the Royal Commission? I am confident that, if we understand the Church to be a communion of sinners as well as a communion of saints, we shall come through a very humbling ordeal with much stronger faith in God, in Jesus Christ and in the Catholic Church.
Our Church is a communion of sinners. That fact should not shock anyone. "If we say, 'We have no sin', we are deceiving ourselves and truth has no place in us: if we acknowledge our sins, he is trustworthy and upright so that he will forgive our sins and will cleanse us from evil" (1 Jn 1:8-9).
In a Sydney newspaper recently, Archbishop Pell was lambasted for recalling that our pedophiles are, after all, Christians. The letter writers showed no such mercy to them. But Jesus Christ revealed God's mercy to sinners. In Luke 15, we read the three parables of God's mercy: the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. The dutiful son who, like the letter writers, disowns his brother cannot accept his father's love for the sinner. Those letter writers are behaving like the righteous son. If they are Christians, they are refusing to accept their brother in Christ.
Every sin harms the communion of saints. "If one member suffers, all suffer together … Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it." (1 Cor 12:26-27).
The Church is holy because her life is the life of the risen Lord Jesus, but she has sinners in her midst. We can fall into sins and suffer disorders even while we belong to her. Then we fail to witness to her sanctity. The sufferings that Jesus passed through while being put to the test enable him to help us while we, his body, are being put to the test. (Heb 2:17). This is why we Church members suffer and do penance for the members' offenses.
We have relied on the Church's power to free her members from sin through the blood of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit. This is well for those who undergo a genuine conversion of heart and resolve not to repeat their sin. But a perverse inclination such as pedophilia clouds the conscience and corrupts the concrete judgment of good and evil. More than going to Confession may be required to heal a pedophile.
Jesus came to expiate the sins of the people. Our Saviour was sent by the Father to seek out and save what was lost (Lk 19:10). Similarly, the Church encompasses with love all those who are afflicted with human weakness. The Church does not abandon her sinful members but she always needs purification because of them. The Church always needs to be reformed. We must always follow the path of penance and renewal.
By the power of the risen Lord, the Church is given strength to overcome patiently and lovingly the afflictions and hardships which assail us from without as well as from within. The affliction of pedophilia from within, as evidenced in some of our priests and religious and laity, is our great concern at present, along with redress for the atrocious damage caused to the victims. Both the perpetrators and their victims are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Let us gird ourselves for serious prayer and penance, with great humility.
National Spiritual Assistant, OFS – Oceania
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's eschatological talk of nuclear Armageddon at this year's Valdai forum has stirred up heated debates on how well his description of Russia's potential use of nuclear weapons matches the country's official military doctrine. However, a close look at Putin's Oct. 18 remarks and Russia's 2014 military doctrine reveals that, while Putin deviated from the language in the doctrine, he did not lie on the first use issue. Nor did he seem to be hinting at a shift in Russia's nuclear posture. More likely, he was signaling to Washington that the existing nuclear arms control treaties need to remain in place for the sake of ensuring strategic stability in the U.S.-Russian nuclear dyad and avoiding an accidental war between the two countries.
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Throughout the United States and within its jails, pretrial detainees make up a significant part of the jailed population. According to news reports, seventy-five percent of detainees who are being held in jail are there because they cannot afford to post bail. Currently, Nevada legislators are at work studying and reviewing the rules for pretrial release in the state. A meeting of an interim legislative committee responsible for developing future recommendations and/or reforms for individuals detained on criminal charges was held late last month, as reported in Nevada Appeal and the Las Vegas Sun.
Pretrial Release – News and Recent Developments in Nevada
In Nevada, most (approximately 90 percent) of people detained in jail are held in either the Clark County Detention Center or the Washoe County jails. The Clark County Detention Center holds more than 3000 detainees. The Washoe County jail averaged over 1000 daily inmates in 2017.
Nevada state law (NRS 178.4851) provides that if a person is charged with a bailable offense, he or she can be released without bail if the court decides that:
it can condition the release so that the community's health, safety and welfare are protected, and
the person released without bail will return to court and appear when ordered to do so
The law (NRS 178.4853) also lists various factors for the court to consider in deciding whether to release a person without bail. These factors include:
how long the person has been living in the community
the person's employment status and history
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Nevada's Pre-Risk Assessment Tool
Last Spring, the Nevada Appeal reported on the Nevada Supreme Court's order that requires state courts to use a "pre-trial risk assessment tool" to determine whether an individual who is arrested can be released. This tool is expected to successfully predict whether an individual will return to court as required after an arrest, or whether there is a high risk of the individual not showing up in court and/or posing a danger to the public if released. By September 2020, Nevada courts will have fully integrated their use of this tool.
Essentially, the pre-trial risk assessment tool evaluates a number of factors to help determine whether someone should be released after arrest. These factors include:
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