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Ola Belle Reed
High On a Mountain
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways 2002
I've Endured
Rising Sun Melodies 2010
High On the Mountain
Undone In Sorrow
Ola Belle's Blues
Springtime of Life
Bonaparte's Retreat
My Epitaph
Foggy Mountain Top
About Ola Belle Reed
Take a stroll through the campground at just about any festival -- folk, bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, or any mixture -- and at some point it's a good bet that a haunting refrain will drift into consciousness from a nearby jam or song circle: "High on a mountain, standing all alone, Wond'ring where the years of my life have gone" To some, it's a timeless line from a song that must certainly be at least a hundred or more years old. To others, it speaks of the new age mysticism and introspection of the latter-day singer/songwriter. The truth is somewhere between. "High on a Mountain," along with many other classic folk and country songs, came from the fertile mind- and soul-searching lyricism of North Carolina native Old Belle Reed. Popular among old-time country and bluegrass audiences for decades, the '90s saw her music gaining currency in Nashville and points beyond, as well. Ola Belle Campbell was one of 13 children of Arthur Campbell, whose family had lived in the New River Valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina since colonial times. Born into a musical family in 1916, Ola Belle learned to play guitar and clawhammer banjo as a young child, coming to love not only the old traditional tunes taught to her by her parents, but also the early country music on radio and 78 rpm discs which were making their way into the mountains. In her teenage years, she first teamed with her brother Alex in an early version of the North Carolina Ridge Runners. Like many Blue Ridge residents during the Depression years, Arthur Campbell left the mountains and moved north looking for work, taking his family with him and eventually settling in the region along the Mason-Dixon Line where Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania come together. Alex Campbell saw military service in the Normandy invasion, and was later heard on Armed Forces Radio during the Occupation as part of Grandpa Jones' Munich Mountaineers. Returning home after his discharge from the service, Alex and Ola Belle teamed up for what would be a long-running radio pairing that would be heard live and in syndication over much of the country on a number of stations, including Wheeling, WV's WWVA, which for many years was a powerful rival to Nashville's WSM for the country audience. In 1949, Ola Belle married Bud Reed (himself a noted country singer), and with Alex Campbell, they formed the New River Boys and opened New River Ranch near Rising Sun, MD, one of the premier country music parks of the '50s. Around 1960, they closed New River Ranch and moved a short distance up U.S. Route 1, across the Pennsylvania border to Sunset Park near West Grove, where they performed regularly for another 26 years. As interest in old-time and early country music revived during the '70s, Ola Belle and her family (now including son David Reed) found enthusiastic audiences for their brand of music at events like the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention. Many of the songs she had written and performed on radio over the years also began to be recorded widely. Early in his career leading his own band, Del McCoury (a resident of nearby Gettysburg, and for many years a regular at Sunset Park) made "High on a Mountain," a bluegrass standard. Farther west, out in Minnesota, Stoney Lonesome (fronted by the Prairie Home Companion favorite, Kate MacKenzie) recorded Ola Belle's "I've Endured" in the late '80s, and the Ohio-based husband/wife duet singers Ann & Phil Case made her "The Springtime of Life" the title track of their widely acclaimed 1996 debut CD. In 1995, Ola Belle struck Nashville gold when Marty Stuart's rendition of "High on a Mountain" settled in for an extended stay on the country charts. In 1986, Ola Belle Reed received long overdue recognition for her contributions to American folk music and culture when she was named recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship. A year or so later, her career as a songwriter and performer was brought to an abrupt end when she suffered a severe stroke that left her an invalid. Still surrounded by loving family and friends (including brother Alex), though, she continued to live in Rising Sun, enjoying the occasions when she heard her own songs still being played on country radio. In February, 1999, she and Bud celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. ~ John Lupton
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Orange launches San Francisco-based accelerator Orange Fab | Applications open today!
French ISP and Mobile operator Orange announced today the launch of Orange Fab, a startup accelerator based in San Francisco intended to help startups with existing products grow their businesses. The accelerator is meant for US-based startups (sorry French startups), lasts for 12 weeks, and will feature a demo day in both the Silicon Valley and Paris at the end. The first program, who's applications are already open until April 7th, will being in May, and has a fairly simple application form – not your standard French "what's your blood type" interrogation.
With a mentor network that includes Justin.TV and Exec founder Justin Kan, BestofMedia founder Alfred Vericel, and major players from Iris Capital, Facebook, Orange (of course), and others, it seems that Orange has really outdone itself this time. The company is leveraging its global footprint – it operates in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the US, totaling 33 countries – to help startups grow internationally. The accelerator will accept just 4-6 startups, which will provide a very intimate experience.
"With Orange Fab, we join together with the next wave of Silicon Valley innovators to reimagine the future of communications. We are optimistic that opening up our world-class innovation center in San Francisco, and providing start-ups privileged access to decision-makers on the front lines of our business operations will be a win-win for all participants." – Georges Nahon, CEO of Orange Silicon Valley and President of Orange Institute.
While the program promises "up to $22K," I doubt that is the incentive for anyone to join. I think companies looking to leverage Orange's suppliers, partners, customers, clients, and ecosystem will be jumping for a chance to join the accelerator.
Orange has already an incubator/accelarator for French startups as well.


Test-driven development, or TDD, is the practice of writing your tests firsts, then using those tests to guide you as you write your actual production code. This may sound crazy, but it turns out that it makes writing code much easier. It provides a clear workflow and next steps while you're building and has the added benefit of producing a test suite you can have confidence in. With these courses and videos we'll teach you everything you need to know to get started with TDD.
With a solid test suite, you'll have more confidence every time you push a change up to production. You'll also be able to refactor with confidence, changing the structure of your application and remaining certain that all the important functionality still works. Even better, since TDD forces you to interact with your code as you test it, it provides great feedback as to when you might want to clean up some of the rough edges.
The aim of test driven development is to produce code that is as simple as possible in order to meet all required criteria, and many of our training graduates (and others who have learned these methods) find that it's also a great way to produce very robust code. By its very nature the finished product has been tested rigorously by the time it's ready to roll out.
We think that test driven development is a great skill for aspiring coders to have, and our tutorials are the ideal place to start. We begin by introducing the concepts and by the time you've finished the training, you should have a full toolbox ready to deploy TDD in the real world.
So you want to get started with Ruby testing. All the cool kids are doing it. Seriously though, testing is fundamental. In this course of tutorials you'll learn methods for improving code quality and minimizing time required to add new features to software by ensuring that each facet of the program works as expected.
In order to get your feet wet with testing, let's write a test for a simple Ruby class.
In this exercise, you'll write an RSpec model test to verify a simple validation.
In this example, we'll be using Capybara to write an integration test.
In this example, you'll write a unit test to make sure the create action for PeopleController works as expected based on the return value of save.
Time to put it all together! In this exercise, you'll add enhance a small Rails applications by adding the ability edit existing people. You'll implement the necessary actions and views in the Rails application, writing tests as you go.
You've heard about testing, and even better "Test-Driven Development", but you're still not sure exactly what they are. Well now you'll know! In this trail, thoughtbot developers Harry Schwartz and Ian C. Anderson cover core principles of writing code with Test-Driven Development. You'll learn about the benefits of testing, the way testing first applies positive design pressure to your code, and how to apply TDD to your own development.
In this screencast, Ben and Chris go back to basics and tackle the first exercise in the Rails Fundamentals trail, "Route, Controller, Action". They create a route, controller, and action using TDD to tell them what to write next.
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Chas Nelson Mijnals (Paramaribo, 29 juni 1947) is een Surinaams jurist en voormalig militair en diplomaat.

Leger
Mijnals was opgeleid in Nederland als militair en werd na zijn terugkeer in Suriname sergeant in het Surinaamse leger en lid van de Revolutionaire Volkspartij. Na de staatsgreep in 1980 maakte hij deel uit van de junta, de Nationale Militaire Raad (NMR), die het land ging besturen. In september 1980 ontstond er binnen de NMR een linkervleugel, bestaande uit Mijnals, Badrissein Sital en Stanley Joeman die onenigheid kregen met Desi Bouterse over de te volgen politieke koers. Bouterse arresteerde hierop Sital en Joeman en deze werden veroordeeld tot drie jaar gevangenisstraf. Na een aantal maanden echter besloot Bouterse zelf de koers naar links te verleggen, werden Sital en Joeman weer vrijgelaten en kreeg Mijnals een belangrijke post in het leger. Hij was als militair onder meer betrokken bij de arrestatie van Ronnie Brunswijk die zich vanuit de jungle verzette tegen Bouterse en heeft deze persoonlijk naar de marinebasis gebracht nadat twee lijfwachten van Brunswijk door het arrestatieteam waaronder Bouterse en hijzelf, waren vermoord.

Ambassadeurschap
In 1999 ontstond er opnieuw een verwijdering tussen Bouterse en Mijnals tijdens de regering van Jules Wijdenbosch. Mijnals werd nadien in 2000 benoemd tot ambassadeur van Suriname in India. Op zijn functioneren als ambassadeur kwam kritiek vanuit Suriname vanuit de Hindoestaanse bevolkingsgroep. Men had juist in India liever iemand met een Hindoestaanse achtergrond gezien.

Bij terugkeer
Bij zijn terugkeer in Suriname werd hij eerst geparkeerd in een overbodige ambtelijke baan als onderdirecteur financiën bij de SLM, aanbevolen door zijn vriend de vakbondsleider Fred Derby. Hierna werd hij actief als voorzitter van de Stichting Jongeren in Opmars die studenten beter wil voorbereiden op een bestuurlijke toekomst in Suriname. In 2006 was hij een van de oprichters van het Suriname Entrepreneurs Platform (SEP) ter ondersteuning van kleinschalig ondernemen. Mijnals stond tot 22 februari 2007 op de voorlopige lijst van verdachten voor het proces van de Decembermoorden maar werd daarvan afgehaald omdat er niet voldoende bewijzen voor zijn betrokkenheid konden worden gevonden. In juni 2008 was hij mede-oprichter van de politieke partij Permanente Voorspoed Republiek Suriname (PVRS).

Momenteel is hij advocaat bij het Hof van Justitie en deeltijds docent zakenrecht aan de Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname. Daarnaast is hij voorzitter/partijleider van de PVRS.

Mijnals, Chas
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//
// SyncChannel.java -- Java class SyncChannel
// Project OrcScala
//
// $Id: SyncChannel.java 2549 2011-03-15 02:04:37Z jthywissen $
//
// Copyright (c) 2009 The University of Texas at Austin. All rights reserved.
//
// Use and redistribution of this file is governed by the license terms in
// the LICENSE file found in the project's top-level directory and also found at
// URL: http://orc.csres.utexas.edu/license.shtml .
//

package orc.lib.state;

import java.util.LinkedList;

import orc.Handle;
import orc.error.runtime.TokenException;
import orc.lib.state.types.SyncChannelType;
import orc.types.Type;
import orc.values.sites.TypedSite;
import orc.values.sites.compatibility.Args;
import orc.values.sites.compatibility.DotSite;
import orc.values.sites.compatibility.EvalSite;
import orc.values.sites.compatibility.SiteAdaptor;

/**
 * Implements the local site SyncChannel, which creates synchronous channels.
 *
 * @author dkitchin
 */
@SuppressWarnings("hiding")
public class SyncChannel extends EvalSite implements TypedSite {

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see orc.values.sites.compatibility.SiteAdaptor#callSite(java.lang.Object[], orc.Handle, orc.runtime.values.GroupCell, orc.OrcRuntime)
	 */
	@Override
	public Object evaluate(final Args args) {
		return new SyncChannelInstance();
	}

	@Override
	public Type orcType() {
		return SyncChannelType.getBuilder();
	}

	private class SenderItem {

		Handle sender;
		Object sent;

		SenderItem(final Handle sender, final Object sent) {
			this.sender = sender;
			this.sent = sent;
		}
	}

	protected class SyncChannelInstance extends DotSite {

		// Invariant: senderQueue is empty or receiverQueue is empty
		protected final LinkedList<SenderItem> senderQueue;
		protected final LinkedList<Handle> receiverQueue;

		SyncChannelInstance() {
			senderQueue = new LinkedList<SenderItem>();
			receiverQueue = new LinkedList<Handle>();
		}

		@Override
		protected void addMembers() {
			addMember("get", new getMethod());
			addMember("put", new putMethod());
		}

		protected class getMethod extends SiteAdaptor {
			@Override
			public void callSite(final Args args, final Handle receiver) {

				// If there are no waiting senders, put this caller on the queue
				if (senderQueue.isEmpty()) {
					receiverQueue.addLast(receiver);
				}
				// If there is a waiting sender, both sender and receiver return
				else {
					final SenderItem si = senderQueue.removeFirst();
					final Handle sender = si.sender;
					final Object item = si.sent;

					receiver.publish(object2value(item));
					sender.publish(signal());
				}

			}
		}

		protected class putMethod extends SiteAdaptor {
			@Override
			public void callSite(final Args args, final Handle sender) throws TokenException {

				final Object item = args.getArg(0);

				// If there are no waiting receivers, put this sender on the queue
				if (receiverQueue.isEmpty()) {
					senderQueue.addLast(new SenderItem(sender, item));
				}

				// If there is a waiting receiver, both receiver and sender return
				else {
					final Handle receiver = receiverQueue.removeFirst();

					receiver.publish(object2value(item));
					sender.publish(signal());
				}

			}
		}

	}

}

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The world's most photogenic architecture
Lifestyle Mon Nov 7 2016 by Ashleigh Coldicutt
From the grandiose Taj Mahal to the sweeping curves of the Guggenheim, there's no doubting the world is brimming with some truly awe-inspiring, totally photogenic, man-made environments.
Whether you're a fan of ultra-modern, angular structures, or prefer to feast your eyes on more elaborate, palatial buildings, we've outlined the five most gram-worthy architectural structures to pop up across the globe in recent months.
Better still, discover these for yourself and give your friends some serious #travelenvy.
1. Dachang Muslim Cultural Centre in Dachang Country, China
As if pulled from an Arabian fairytale, this 35,000-square metre Muslim cultural centre lies east of Beijing in a Muslim community in the Hebei Province. The palatial building's sweeping arches and traditional Islamic architecture were the brainchild of architect He Jingtang.
2. IBS Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability in Braga, Portugal
A vision in mint green, the IBS Institute stands out from its grey surroundings set amongst the Minho University in Portugal. Reflecting the building's purpose for the study of science and technology, the exterior features a design that mimics microscopic nanotubes.
3. Taubman Complex in Southfield, Michigan
It may look like an alien spacecraft, but this elongated egg-shaped structure contains the main staircase in the newly-constructed Taubman Complex. Featuring smooth, linear curves, this elegant structure is pitched high above the central quad at Lawrence Technological University.
4. Lucky Knot Bridge in Changsa, China
For hundreds of years, intricate knots have adorned many Chinese households to bring good luck to families. Architects in the city of Changsa have immortalised the knot in their 185-metre bridge design over the Longwanggang River in the New Lake District. The pedestrian bridge comprises two intersecting steel ribbons, criss-crossed by two side ribbons that create extreme climbs and drops while crossing.
5. Museo Internacional del Barroco in Puebla, Mexico
Renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito crafted this new art museum with the 17th-Century Baroque art movement in mind. Best remembered from straying away from the rigid rules of the Renaissance period, this concrete structure reflects the fluid use of curves to evoke the shadowy characteristics of Baroque art.
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What does OC stand for?
OC stands for Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
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00 Hardcover LD4168 Oberlin College was the first American college to admit students of color.
Constructing Black education at Oberlin College; a documentary history
After nearly a decade of reviewing hundreds of sources, including slips of paper tallying Oberlin College s historic vote to admit students "irrespective of color," photographs of young Black students like Johnnetta (Betsch) Cole and luminaries like the Rev.
Oberlin's celebrated, but difficult history
Founder of the Creative Writing Program at UMass Boston and Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College until 2007, Collins is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and one of the editors of the Oberlin College Press.
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He survived a racist massacre, went to Oberlin College and married an early black socialite.
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CityWheels, a car-sharing concern headed by EcoCity Cleveland transportation manager Ryan McKenzie, recently announced it has partnered with Oberlin College and the school's Environmental Policy Implementation Group to bring the company's vehicles to the campus for student, faculty, staff and community use.
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Agelaos () ist in der griechischen Mythologie der Sohn von Althaia und Oineus, dem König von Kalydon. Sein Bruder ist Meleagros.

Als nach der Jagd auf den Kalydonischen Eber die Kureten Anspruch auf den Kopf und das Fell des Tieres erheben, kommt es zum Kampf mit den Kalydoniern, in dessen Verlauf Agelaos getötet wird.

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INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
Viking Link: Interconnector from Denmark to Great Britain
News about Viking Link
Study to look at new power interconnector between UK and Denmark
National Grid and Energinet.dk will immediately start a study to look at the possibility of a first electricity power connection.
National Grid and Denmark's Energinet.dk have today announced the start of a study to look at the possibility of a first electricity power connection between Great Britain and Denmark.
Work will start immediately with the aim to compete it by the end of 2012. This new 'pre-feasibility' study is a very early stage to examine the possibilities for a new subsea cable, which would offer an option for interconnector trading between the two countries
Terry McCormick, head of UK and European Business Development, National Grid said
"This study is an important first step in looking at developing a link between Denmark and UK. More interconnection with Europe supports the integration of renewable energy and gives us more options to balance our network in UK. It could also meet European objectives of bringing more competition to the market. We look forward to working with Energinet to examine the possibilities".
Torben Glar Nielsen, Executive Vice President, Electricity Division, Energinet.dk said
"Both Great Britain and Denmark are planning for integration of future very high amounts of wind power. Therefore, the study will also look at how the new cable would help both countries export and import renewable power, as well as connecting into a future North Sea 'super grid' to connect offshore wind power".
The study will look at different technical solutions, possible project benefits, potential routes and landing points, the capacity of the cable and potential commissioning timetable. It will also examine how the new cable would help countries export and import renewable power, as well as being part of a future North Sea 'super grid' to connect offshore wind power.
Great Britain currently has three operational cable interconnectors with Ireland, France and the Netherlands, and there are projects looking at connections with Norway and Belgium and increasing capacity with France and Ireland.
Denmark has interconnectors with Norway, Sweden and Germany, and is currently building a new interconnector to Norway and is investigating the possibility of establishing an interconnection between Denmark and the Netherlands
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Q: Get VRAM Total using OpenHardwareMonitor NuGet package I am currently trying to get the value of a GPU's total VRAM using the Nuget package OpenHardwareMonitor.
I know that it is possible to get the value through the use of the package, however, I have been trying for quite a while, and have not found the specific code for completing the task.
I am not looking for the answer of getting the total VRAM using any other means, such as WMI. I am just looking for an answer using OpenHardwareMonitor.
If you have the solution to this problem, that would be greatly appreciated!

A: The problem is that the NuGet package is built from an older version of the code. In the meantime additional sensors have been added that include details about total, free and used GPU memory (at least for NVidea GPU's). See this diff.
If that package ever gets updated, you should be able to find the memory details in the list of sensors:
var computer = new Computer();
computer.GPUEnabled = true;
computer.Open();
var gpu = computer.Hardware.First(x => x.HardwareType == HardwareType.GpuNvidia);
var totalVideoRamInMB = gpu.Sensors.First(x => x.Name.Equals("GPU Memory Total")).Value / 1024;
computer.Close();

Until then, a workaround would be to extract the memory information from the GetReport() result, where the GPU memory information looks like this:
Memory Info

 Value[0]: 2097152
 Value[1]: 2029816
 Value[2]: 0
 Value[3]: 8221004
 Value[4]: 753168

Where Value[0] is the total GPU memory and Value[4] the amount of free GPU memory in kB. So with some regex magic, we can extract that information:
var pattern = @"Memory Info.*Value\[0\]:\s*(?<total>[0-9]+).*Value\[4\]:\s*(?<free>[0-9]+)";
var computer = new Computer();
computer.GPUEnabled = true;
computer.Open();
var gpu = computer.Hardware.First(x => x.HardwareType == HardwareType.GpuNvidia);
var report = gpu.GetReport();
var match = Regex.Match(report, pattern, RegexOptions.Singleline);
var totalVideoRamInMB = float.Parse(match.Groups["total"].Value) / 1024;
var freeVideoRamInMB = float.Parse(match.Groups["free"].Value) / 1024;
computer.Close();

Note that OpenHardwareMonitor only implements GPU memory information for NVidea GPU's.

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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders still remain greatly underrepresented on television, according to a newly-published study that comes 10 years after similar research.
The study, titled "Tokens on the Small Screen" and coordinated by six California universities, looked at 242 broadcast, cable (basic and premium), and streaming shows that aired between Sept. 1, 2015 and Aug. 31, 2016 and recorded the number, screen time and roles of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) actors from a total of 2,052 characters, according to The New York Times.
The team of university researchers found that 34.5% of all Asian and Asian American characters appeared only on 11 shows. Of this fraction, 10% appeared on a single show, Netflix's "Marco Polo", which only poses a "risk of greater decimation when networks decide to cancel even one show." As fans now know, that show was cancelled in December 2016 after two seasons.
The study also found that White actors dominated TV at 69.5%, followed by African Americans at 14%, Latinos at 5.9% and Asian American and Pacific Islanders at 4.3%. Even more interesting, 155 of the shows did not include a single Asian American character, while a whopping 96% of them had at least one White actor.
The underrepresentation in cities with high AAPI population was also observed. In New York, where AAPIs make 13% of the population, 70% of shows had no actor of the ethnic group. The same can be said of Los Angeles, where 53% of shows had no AAPI actor even when the group composed 14% of its population.
In terms of script, the study showed that stereotypes prevail, Deadline noted. These include the "Uncivilized and Mysterious Stranger," the terrorist (portrayed by South Asians and Middle Easterners), emasculated men, fetishized women and the "model minority" — the weird nerd, the overachieving doctor and the child prodigy.
In summary, the study asserted that while Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been getting more opportunities on TV in recent years — think of the award-winning "Fresh Off the Boat" and "Master of None" — "their characters remain marginalized and tokenized on screen," the Associated Press quoted (via the Washington Post).
Interestingly, the findings parallel those of another study that surveyed over 1,000 highest-grossing films in the last 10 years and found an overwhelming lack of Asian directors. If anything, showmakers might consider ramping up on diversity as it supposedly brings more money — at least in the big screen.
Whitewashing, however, is an entirely different story.


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Nobody has an easy time with depression, and Emma Middleton is no exception. Between her older brother's sickness, a persistent bully, and an upcoming graduation, Emma is at her wit's end. Will she be able to graduate with the rest of her class? Will the doctors be able to find out what's wrong with James?
Luckily, Emma's not alone. She finds help in the form of an unexpected friend named Elijah, who helps her to see that life isn't so bad, after all. Through the ups and downs of teen life, they lift each other up and grow closer together than either of them thought possible.
Brave Heart: Malcolm's Quest follows 16 yr. old Malcolm Bronner, whom has had a hard life. Dealing with a broken home, hunger, and lack of sleep makes him miserable. When Danny, his sometimes friend, presents an opportunity to make quick cash he jumps at it. But when it goes bad, he finds himself in a world of trouble that only God can deliver him from.
'Growing up in a distressed family, having an unsettled schooling, Deon found himself not understood by the people around and often succumbed to his imaginary world of adventure. As a child Deon loved spending time in Nature and one day aspired to find a treasure, however he didn't know what that treasure would be.
He finds a job at a departmental store and moves out of his troubled home but nothing much changes in his life. He feels drained and lost in the daily fight for survival in the everyday life of earning and spending.
One day being in his 20s his frustration leads him to make a life changing decision; to begin a quest for a deeper meaning of his life. Deon decides to take a trip to Glastonbury and his life is never going to be the same.
In his daring quest Deon accidentally enters a magical portal where he is faced with trials and spell binding encounters that leads him to find the treasure that he was always looking for.
'In My World' is a stirring fiction book that takes the readers on a breathtaking journey of discovering a secret world of infinite possibilities and the fascinating reality of life that is available to each one of them, despite the everyday challenges.
Amika Fernandez's life is nothing out of the ordinary…until she meets Rhayne Welkins. Soon captivated by his very presence, Amika finds herself wrapped up in this mysterious intruder into her world―and the secrets he's brought with him. In a world where nothing is as it seems, and stories once believed to be mere myth are anything but, an ordinary teenage girl must decide between the life she knows, and the life she might have―if she can handle the truth about the world in which she lives.
Amika Fernandez's life is nothing out of the ordinary…until she meets Rhayne Welkins. Soon captivated by his very presence, Amika finds herself wrapped up in this mysterious intruder into her world—and the secrets he's brought with him. In a world where nothing is as it seems, and stories once believed to be mere myth are anything but, an ordinary teenage girl must decide between the life she knows, and the life she might have—if she can handle the truth about the world in which she lives.
Jane Flynn – a self-proclaimed "plain Jane" – finds her life taking a dramatic detour junior year of high school when she undergoes her first bipolar episode. This gripping novel takes us on a wild ride through Janes rise into out-of-control mania and descent into dark depression as she juggles school, first love, friendship and a dark family secret.
Morgan Merryweather,was to all intents and purposes, a normal girl who spent her days posting on her media account,creating vegan recipes and hanging out with her friends. That is, until she met a tall, dark, curly haired guy who showed her who she really was. She discovered she was a witch who was destined to fight the dark forces that threatened to destroy her world.
Her mother had given her a magical cloak which enabled her to fight dark angels and monsters. Morgan found life was not the same with mr.Rubin de Silva in it. Along with making vegan recipes she found she was catapulted into a world of angels ,demons and all things magical and did battle with dark forces. She found out she was strong and powerful and was ready to save her world.
Most life stories have people overcoming their demons. I'd just like to escape mine.
My name is Jay Richard Peters. I was born on the 24th of March 1967. In less than two weeks I'll turn seventeen, and I'll finally be moving out of my home… or maybe I should say my hell, and into a place of my own.
For as long as I can remember, a dark cloud, my father, has hung over my existence. An inescapable, unpredictable force, worse than the devil itself. He's made running away impossible. But I'm not planning to run away. I'm planning to move out. That's what you do when you grow up, you move out.
But first, I want to make a record of my life up to this point. Then, my first night in my own place, I'll hold a ceremonial burning. Burning the past to cleanse the future, as Taylora would say. Not that everything in my past was bad… to tell the story right, I guess I'll want to talk about that too.
Eli Brown lives in the Outlayer village called Smarsett Scar. He is a new breed of human and is ready leave the village and make his mark and, once he does, nothing will ever be the same….
A dystopian story set in the near future.
Emma discovers at an early age that she's been gifted with the ability to see and speak to her departed ancestors. If you've ever wished you could ask your great-grandparent to clear up an old mystery, you will love meeting someone who gets to study the old family stories and explain the way things really happened. Of course, it's never as easy as simply asking–Emma has to work on it, often while dealing with those who refuse to believe in her abilities and ridicule her for it.
Seventeen-year-old Eve's world is about to come crashing down.
When the mysterious Kateri enters her life, Eve is introduced to the hidden realm of the Shayds; an army of warriors who protect the world of light from the forces of evil.
With Kateri's help, Eve will discover how much of a difference one person can make, and that there are more things in the shadows than we know, but this knowledge will come at a terrible price.
Sometimes described as a childhood version of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' Visitors is funny, mildly shocking, immersive, and tragic. At its outset, three children on the outside end up at the hospital after various small disasters, and blend in with an established population of kids that are… well, kids. Group therapy starts slow and builds to a crescendo. Free time is noisy and rambunctious. The girls have girl-talk at the picnic table outside. One of them quietly suffers through the whole thing and, eventually, finds she can't contain it anymore.


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Andrew Bird Performs at The Palace Theatre
Everything 09/30/2019 by Casey Carlson
Andrew Bird entered through a crooked door to the right of the stage at The Palace Theatre Friday night, and onto a stage that resembled a sort of worn, antiquated living room. To the applause of his audience, he picked up his violin from the case on a stand next to him, mounted it against his collar bone, and – perhaps for a brief moment – smiled before beginning to play. To me, there has always been something regal in the sound of a single violin being played. It can resonate a level of emotion that cannot be replicated in a guitar or a piano. Notes can bend and sound different depending on the angle and attack of a bow. And as Andrew Bird began to move his fingers up and down the fingerboard, shredding notes like a guitarist, I was reminded of how majestic a violin is. It's not often it's the front-and-center sound or instrument of a Indie Rock singer. But it was at this moment, as I remembered that Andrew Bird was an Indie Rock singer, that he put down his bow, and began to pluck the violin like a mandolin.
The rest of his band took the stage as he continued to play, each joining in at their own time, and beginning "Sisyphus" off of Bird's newest record My Finest Work Yet. Behind him on the stage, visuals entered and exited the windows hanging above the band. At times, a lone man with a violin stood in the window. Shadow puppets of birds, Tv static, and spooky halloween puppets of ghosts and ghouls danced in and out of the window panes during his songs. In between songs, he was quick to mention The Current, who was also livestreaming the event. "One of the greatest radio stations on the Country" He said, MPR Members cheering, "Along with Terrestrial Radio."
Fans at the Palace were treated to many of Bird's songs spanning from most of his catalog. After performing "Don The Struggle" and "Bellevue Bridge Club", Both in sequential order on My Finest Work Yet. He said into the microphone, "That's the end of Side A" As if we were flipping a record over to the other side. In a way, we were. The band stood up from their assigned spots on the stage, and walked close to the door they had entered from, all performing "Give It Away" off of 2012's Break it Yourself in a bluegrass style arrangement around one Microphone. Bird duetted with Madison Cunningham (Who opened for Andrew Bird and, by the way, has a fantastic new record out last month) The "Old Timey" Set included a reach back to 2006's Fingerlings 3 with a performance of "Tin Foil". Bird "Enjoyed doing a duet with Madison, so we'll do another one" He said before singing with Madison on "Lusitania" again off of 2012's Break it Yourself, originally written and sung on the album with Annie Clark (of St. Vincent fame)
It was this cozy, family-gathering type feel that the crowd really seemed to enjoy as the band dug back into the roots of all kinds of music. The encore set included a few covers, like Duke Ellingtons "Desert Caravan". In between songs, Bird had announced that this show was the last stop on his tour. As the crowd cheered and died down, Bird again stepped up to the microphone. "I just want to shred. I just want to party!" He said. Fans were then treated to a knee-slapping, boot stomping rendition of "Railroad Bill" Again duetting with Madison Cunningham, and with Ted Poor chugging along on Drums, and Alan Hampton behind the group on the Upright base. Ending the night, The band treated us to "Pulaski At Night" off of Bird's 2013 EP of the same name.
Throughout the course of the night, A large Graphophone sat behind the band, at times spinning, and other times holding still. It was the Graphophone that really added to the crooked, antiquated living room feel of the show. As if you were watching a few of your musically inclined family members sit down and perform a few songs that you've heard before, but could only whistle along to. Luckily, you could do that many of Andrew Birds songs. He certainly does too.
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package org.dstadler.commons.exec;

import org.apache.commons.exec.LogOutputStream;
import org.dstadler.commons.logging.jdk.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Implementation of the LogOutputStream from commons-exec which buffers
 * the log somewhat to not flood the output if there are many lines of text printed.
 *
 * It will print out all remaining data upon "close()".
 *
 * This class can be subclassed, e.g. to filter some lines from
 * processing.
 */
public class BufferingLogOutputStream extends LogOutputStream {
    private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.make();

    /**
     * The max number of characters of output that are collected from the external application before reporting them to our log-system.
     *
     * A final flush is done at the end to capture all output.
     */
    private static final int LOG_FLUSH_LIMIT = 5000;

    private static final int LOG_FLUSH_TIME_LIMIT_SEC = 5;

    /**
     * Buffer for output from the external application. Constrained by {@link #LOG_FLUSH_LIMIT}
     */
    private final StringBuilder logBuffer = new StringBuilder();

    private long lastFlush = System.currentTimeMillis();

    @Override
    protected void processLine(String line, int level) {
        synchronized (logBuffer) {
            if(line != null && line.length() > 0) {
                logBuffer.append(line).append("\n");

                if(logBuffer.length() > LOG_FLUSH_LIMIT ||
                        lastFlush < (System.currentTimeMillis() - 1000*LOG_FLUSH_TIME_LIMIT_SEC)) {
                    log.info(logBuffer.toString());
                    logBuffer.setLength(0);
                    lastFlush = System.currentTimeMillis();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Flush any pending data in the {@link #logBuffer}
     *
     * @throws IOException If closing the stream fails.
     */
    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        // first close the parent so we get all remaining data
        super.close();

        // then ensure that any remaining buffer is logged
        synchronized (logBuffer) {
            if(logBuffer.length() > 0) {
                log.info(logBuffer.toString());
                logBuffer.setLength(0);
                lastFlush = System.currentTimeMillis();
            }
        }
    }
}


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Gary Scruggs, Son of Earl Scruggs, is Dead at 72
MusicMan December 5, 2021 2 min read
Grammy-winning performer Gary Scruggs, who was the oldest son of Earl Scruggs and played alongside his legendary bluegrass father as well as in a duo with his brother Randy, has died, the Tennessean reports. He was 72 years old.
Born in 1949 and immersed in the music world from a young age, Scruggs picked up guitar and bass early on, and contributed to Flatt and Scruggs' albums while still a teenager. He and his younger brother Randy formed The Scruggs Brothers, releasing two projects together:1970's All the Way Home and 1972's The Scruggs Brothers. Together with their famous father, the two brothers then formed The Scruggs Revue, touring extensively under that billing and forming connections with other country and rock acts of the day, including the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
That friendship eventually gave way to the creation of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-led Will the Circle Be Unbroken album, a 1972 collaborations project that featured contributions from titans of the bluegrass and country genres such as Roy Acuff, "Mother" Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Merle Travis and many others. Scruggs played on several of the tracks on that project; the album has since been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Library of Congress.
Over the course of his career, Scruggs would go on to serve as a backing musician and producer for Waylon Jennings, and also earned a Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammy award for his performance as part of the Earl Scruggs and Friends' rendition of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" in 2001. He retired from touring in the mid-'80s, but continued his work as a songwriter, and wrote or co-wrote hundreds of songs over the course of his career.
Scruggs is survived by his sons Jesse and Jaime, as well as a niece and several grandchildren. He is preceded in death by both his father and brother: Earl Scruggs died in 2012, while Randy died in 2018. Scruggs' mother, Louise Scruggs, became the first-ever female manager in the music industry in 1955 when she began managing Flatt & Scruggs. She died in 2006.
Scruggs' cause of death was not immediately available. A celebration of life has been planned for Dec. 8 at 2 PM at Nashville's Spring Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery.
Remembering the Country Stars Who've Died in 2021:
May they rest in peace …
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The town is investigating whether it makes better financial sense to spend $500,000 drilling its own well at Apple Valley Country Club or to accept an offer from a private company to purchase irrigation water at two-thirds off the market rate.
The well at the country club on Rancherias Road failed shortly after Apple Valley agreed to purchase the struggling property in November 2008. Since then, taxpayers have been handing Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company an average of more than $20,000 a month to keep the fairways green.
After nearly a year of negotiations, Ranchos agreed last week to let the town buy water at 71 cents per 100 cubic feet of water, rather than the $2.18 it's been paying for the last two years.
The discounted rate was intended to sway the town against drilling its own well, which would halt a hefty revenue stream to Ranchos. In exchange, the town would grant the private company free temporary use of water rights equal to what's used at the course.
The Town Council agreed March 8 to pursue approval of that special rate from the California Public Utilities Commission [sic]. However, since either party can get out of the agreement with 30 days' notice, Apple Valley staff was also given marching orders to prepare a long-term cost comparison for drilling the well versus buying water indefinitely.
A report on those options should be presented at the next Town Council meeting, scheduled for March 22.
Some residents expressed concern during the Council meeting that they'd be absorbing the discount offered to the town. However, officials from Ranchos issued a statement Thursday that said the agreement will result in lower rates for customers than if the golf course were lost as a customer all together.
The CPUC rules do not allow our company to charge for service at something other than normal scheduled rates unless it is in the best interest of our ratepayers, General Manager Scott Weldy said. But we were able to develop a rate which we believe accomplishes that and I think this is a good deal for ratepayers and good for the taxpayers of Apple Valley.


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MEBAA Negotiating Umbrella Insurance
Middle East Business Aviation Authority (MEBAA) is negotiating an insurance plan for its members that may reduce costs up to 20%. Dubai based MEBAA is also considering pooling fuel purchases. President and Chief Executive of MEBAA explained one of their objectives is to reduce costs for members.
Abu Dhabi companies are also working together to share costs. Royal Jet, the charter jet operator in Abu Dhabi is discussing possibilities with Presidential Flight Authority previously known as Amiri flight, and Air Cargo.
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Johannesburg is a great place for kids! The Joburg Zoo is sure to make them gape in wonder at the hordes of animals there, or perhaps the Zoo Lake would be more to their liking. The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens are a great place to have fun while learning about the various forms of plant life found there. The Montecasino Bird Gardens are also great to tell kids about the hundreds of sp...
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Officially known as the Amiri Diwan or "Al-Diwan Al-Amiri", Seif Palace is recognized as an emblem of Kuwait's sovereignty. Al Seif Palace showcases a lot of the Islamic architectural culture and heritage, with the use of elaborate arches and traditional arabesque. The whole structure was constructed with locally available material and still stands strong today, despite the war and exten...
Victoria College of Arts
Strategically situated in the nucleus of Melbourne's precinct the place is regarded as one of the leading institutes of visual arts in the country. The VCA provides innumerable opportunities to its students which allow them to excel their skills of creativity in the field of theater, drama, dance and puppetry. Address: 234 St.Kilda Road Southbank 3006 Telephone: +613 9685 9300 Email: v...
The Red sea Corniche offers a spectacular view of the sea, lined with the shopping street you can get good bargain of gold at the Gold souk, in the Tahliya. You can also witness the breathtaking King Fahd Fountain which throws colored water up in the air. It is recommended to see this at night as the view is spectacular at that time. ...


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Is The President Obama/Charlie Crist Bromance Fading?
July 6, 2014 by Leslie Wimes 2 Comments
We all remember the hug seen around the world. Republicans talked about it incessantly. Now Charlie Crist can't stop talking about it, especially wherever there are African-American voters. President Barack Obama has become Charlie's "go-to" topic when he can't answer a question of any substance. Once a critic of the Affordable Care Act and President Obama, Charlie Crist has become his biggest cheerleader when trying to get Democratic votes. The man who went on record saying Sarah Palin was a more effective leader than President Obama is now singing the President's praises for votes, but is that Obama connection fading?
A source very close to the Crist campaign told me that Charlie Crist went to Washington D.C. a few weeks ago to meet with Democrats and people from the President's team, only the meetings didn't go so well. According to my source, Team Obama thinks Charlie Crist's campaign is a train wreck. The exact quote went like this:
Obama folks are very upset that the "campaign is a train wreck. Charlie won't listen, he is lazy and won't work. He only wants to show up for fundraisers and events with media. His father and wife are running the campaign and he refuses to listen to a team with a proven track record (Obama's team).
At the National Action Network Forum, Crist DID say his wife told him what to get up there and say. I think his exact words were that she told him to "call a thing a thing". Yeah, I could see how that would concern the Obama folks.
Crist, once ahead of Rick Scott by double digits in the polls, is now behind Scott. The millions of dollars spent by Scott's campaign has something to do with it, but could it be that Crist has come to a nuclear fight equipped with only bayonets?
Crist recently went on The Ed Schultz show and referenced "right to choose" about his wife's tax returns. Given the Hobby Lobby ruling that was just handed down from The Supreme Court, likening a woman's body, and the fight we still have to wage after all this time, to his wife's tax returns is just plain old stupid.
I know, I know, a lot of Democrats want to give Crist a pass on just about anything he has done, is doing, and will do, simply to get rid of Rick Scott, but this war on women is not something to be taken so lightly. I hope that was just another Crist faux pas, and he really doesn't think our bodies are equal to his wife's tax returns.
But who knows what Crist really thinks.
He won't get on a stage and debate Nan Rich.
Joe Kreps says
Smoke and mirrors only work on the uneducated. An educated voter is Nan's best chance.
Women are wise. Wise women vote. Lots of wise women in Florida. Wise women exercise this privilege. Wise . women mail in their absentee ballots. Wise women also pick up elderly wise women on voting day. Heard they want a wise woman as Governor. Nan is quite wise.This primary can be one of those very wise Tuesdays.


With Valentine's Day coming this weekend, sweet treats, flowers, and romantic dates are all the rage. Whether you celebrate Valentine's or Single's Awareness Day, a romantic holiday is a wonderful excuse to show your curls a little extra lovin'. Check out these 14 sweet treats that will have your tresses swooning.
Loaded with honey, olive oil, jojoba, and aloe, the TGIN Honey Miracle Hair Mask envelops dehydrated curls with nourishing moisture, and brings them back to life. And come March, you'll be able to pick TGIN products up in select Target stores nationwide and here on Amazon. How sweet is that? Read my TGIN review here.
Your curls will swoon over this warm vanilla caramel scented hair cream, as coconut oil, avocado butter, and hazelnut oil smooth and moisturize dry, frizzy hair. The amazing slip on wet or dry hair just sweetens the pot.
With a chocolatey fragrance reminiscent of Tootsie Roll candies, this deep conditioner shows dry tresses extra love with cupuacu butter, rhassoul clay, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and irish moss. To sweeten the pot, use a little as a leave-in or base for styling your hair.
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Aliveness or "liveness" detection is a novel but crucial topic in biometrics. In this study we will investigate it for face biometrics. The problem is given by the real-time requirements of such a system to be able to avert advanced spoofing attempts, e.g. by photographs or replayed videos via a mobile device presented to the face authentication automat by the spoofer. We have been developing efficient methods for object detection and motion analysis/tracking, which we have integrated into effective anti-spoofing measures, focusing on I: Mouth movements, II: Eye-blinking and, III: 3D properties of a real face (head). A multiexpert approach - being designed to avert known and novel attacks - that accumulates evidence for "liveness" during a short time is suggested. This thesis is grouped into three main parts (besides the introduction), which also represent its main contributions: Part one revisits a landmark-based object detection method, after which it introduces a holistic object detection method that employs illumination invariant features, termed "quangles" (quantized angle features). By using the latter a histogram-related image preprocessing becomes obsolete, and also the training of the according classifier excels in rapidness. These detectors are employed for the (scale invariant) detection of faces and localization of interesting regions within them. In part two we introduce the OFL - Optical Flow of Lines - which, by evaluating only "motion of lines" represents an efficient algorithm for motion estimation being particularly appropriate here. It is employed to retrieve local measurements, on the one hand for steering the tracking, and on the other hand for "liveness" detection purposes, e.g. for detecting eye-blinking. This and other anti-spoofing measures are detailed in the third part of this thesis that is devoted to "liveness" detection in face biometrics. We have been using both several public databases (e.g. CMU-MIT frontal face test set, XM2VTS database, SOFA test sequences) and laboratory data (spoofing equipment) for the experiments.


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Marrabenta, the pulse of Moz
Struan Douglas
Compass: The Marrabenta Festival takes place at venues in various parts of Mozambique. Pictured above is an ensemble led by Dilon Djindji, often referred to as the king of marrabenta. Photo: Ouri Pota
Before the first note of the 2019 Marrabenta Festival finale in Matola was played a late-summer cyclone hit, sending the tents flying and causing the two huge LED video screens to sway on their winches and the 9m-high stage to stand precariously tall in the gale. Festival director Paulo David "Litho" Sithoe had to deal with the fallout.
Marrabenta is the national musical style born in the south of Mozambique after World War II. But with the civil war of the 1970s and other more recent problems, marrabenta almost disappeared.
In 2008, the revival of this infectious musical style began with the founding of the Marrabenta Festival in Sithoe's hometown of Matalana.
He describes marrabenta as a "renewable energy" and positions it between traditional and classical music. "Whereas the other two levels need support to flourish, marrabenta is sustainable, like cultural tourism itself. Marrabenta is like a compass. We can use it when the direction is not clear."
He has marketed marrabenta as a living, malleable and all-inclusive style central to Mozambican identity, and calls it "marrabenta+".
Sithoe was mentored in the marrabenta style by world-renowned African contemporary artist Malangatana Ngwenya, whom he met during his first year of study at the Institute of Arts and Culture in Mozambique.
Malangatana believed marrabenta could unite people, develop cultural life in Mozambique and promote the country to the rest of the world.
"Malangatana said marrabenta was more than music, but a concentration of music, dance, art and public life," recalls Sithoe.
"Malangatana used his international reputation to build infrastructure and inspire people to use the power of culture for human development and global impact."
In 2000, after completing his art degree, Sithoe began working as a sound engineer in Mozambique's vibrant music scene, where he met Rob Allan, aka DJ Bob, at a live performance of 340ml in the coastal town of Tofo. DJ Bob, the founder of the legendary 206 live-music venue in Orange Grove, Jo'burg, invited Sithoe to work with him on OppiKoppi and other South African events and festivals.
"This really gave Lithoe the chance to see what is possible. He met many people, built up reliable contacts in South Africa and started buying gear. Everything from speakers, turntables and tents were moved across the border, by any means possible, often with hilarious results. We were just 'winging it' in the early days," says Allan.
Litho Sithoe, Ivan Iaranjeira, Simba Sitoi and Ermelinda Simela take a selfie at the festival. Photo: Ouri Pota
Sithoe established the festival company Labóratorio de Ideias (Ideas Laboratory), built up a warehouse of lighting, staging and event production gear, and a permanent recording studio in Maputo.
In 2008 he decided to revive interest in marrabenta by launching the Marrabenta Festival in Matalana's 2 000-seater amphitheatre.
From the outset, it was different from every other festival in the country. It brought the Mozambican family and the people of the world together by adding free concerts to the ticketed events. From rural areas, where musicians played to a few hundred people, all the way to a 35 000-strong festival on Costa do Sol beach in Maputo — broadcast live on local TV — the festival has always sought to reach as many people as possible.
It has been staged in Chibuto and Chokwe in Gaza province, in Inhambane province, in Beira, Mozambique's fourth-biggest city, and in Boane, Xinavane (where the sugar cane comes from) and many other towns in Maputo province.
The festival includes three events at different locations. The central event is the annual Heroes' Day celebrations in Marracuene, on the Inkomati River, 30km from Maputo. Heroes' Day remembers February 2 1895, the date of Gwaza Muthini (Battle of Marracuene) during the Portuguese conquest of the Gaza Empire. The remains of the Mozambican heroes who fell are buried under the dusty grounds of the festival's centre. Two lines of trees were planted in remembrance of the chiefs who died in that war.
During the day, Gwaza Muthini is commemorated with the ngoma and isicathamiya performers of the Shangaan people, as well as the dance of the male elders from Swaziland whose ancestors fought in Gwaza Muthini.
Marracuene takes its name from "the buttocks of a woman", which the nearby hills resemble. The town is a historic centre for marrabenta, which comes from the Portuguese word "rebentar", meaning "to break". The music was said to break the emotional barriers of the audience. This 1950s music genre has been adapted to the pop genre of the younger generation in a style they call pandza, taken from the Shangaan word meaning "break".
A free train ride brings festinos from Maputo to Marracuene and offers them an experience "deep in the soul of Mozambique", as Sithoe describes it. He adds: "Everyone in Mozambique has a family member who went to the mines."
Tananas bass player Gito Baloi, who died in 2004, said it was the Mozambicans working in South Africa's mines who introduced marrabenta, which led to the creation of marabi in Johannesburg.
Guitarist Fany Mpfumo arrived in Johannesburg in 1946 and recorded with Spokes Mashiyane and Miriam Makeba, and founded the Dark City Sisters.
Dilon Djindji the "King of Marrabenta", now 91, travelled to the mines in 1954. He has since been recognised with a biography, a role in the film Marabentando (2006), a 2018 lifetime achievement award and a 90-years tribute album. Djindji began playing guitar at the age of 12, transposing traditional songs on to the instrument and performing in the clubs and associations in Mofololo and Marracuene in 1938 at the age of 17.
The 2019 lifetime achievement award went to 90-year-old journalist António Fonseca. He came to Maputo from Portugal in the 1960s and went against the colonial current of the urban elite by offering Mozambican musicians the opportunity to record their songs and playlist them on Radio Mozambique. He recorded marrabenta groups ranging from Orquestra Djambu's early works to Djindji compositions, as well as recordings by Alberto Mula, who influenced the course of marrabenta by combining it with sangoma drums.
Orquestra Djambu is sometimes credited with originating the marrabenta sound. Their founding member, 99-year-old Moisés Ribeiro da Conceição, presented the award to Fonseca. He was accompanied by his grandson Simba Sitoi, who collaborated with DJ Kenzhero on a project titled Jozambique.
Of late, the Marrabenta Festival has become a platform for positive social messaging, new references and reinvention. Inventive musical collaborations across multiple styles honour the senior professionals such as Xidiminguana, Mario Ntimane and Pedro Chiao (bandleader of Os Galtones).
It has also built up a strong archive of videos, interviews and live and studio recordings. Its team is working towards a re-release of the Fonseca archive and, together with sponsor 2M, is promoting the music in eight cities around the country throughout 2019, in a project called Cidade a Maniera (The city in my style).
Struan Douglas's accommodation in Mozambique was sponsored by Fatima's Backpackers
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…..For two years Cecil Sharp, Herbert MacIlwain and I worked in perfect harmony, my part being organising, arranging and all the details of what was becoming a very growing movement.
to me quite understandable. It is only by the slow unfolding of its meaning through the long years that I have been brought to understand and to want others to understand this insignificance that was so deeply significant, this tiny drama which yet went to the very foundation of life, this re-creation which was in truth a re-creation and are-birth of a truth old as the earth itself - - - perhaps older, who can tell?
I want to tell the story as it has not yet been told and as it never will be told unless I tell it.
The story began in November, 1907, when Punch published a full-page cartoon by Bernard Partridge representing Mr. Punch leading a band of Morris dancers under the title: "Merrie England Once More." I knew nothing whatever about it until I got a telegram from a friend saying: "Congratulate you on Punch." I went out and bought a copy of Punch and was much thrilled to find the cartoon.
was his Conference as much as mine, that it really centred round him and that it put me in a very difficult position if he did not attend. He persisted that he would have nothing to do with it and Herbert MacIlwaine and I left him bewildered and worried. But, of course, the conference had to be held. It was very well attended, Mr. Sharp came after all and was very obstructive. But eventually we decided to form an association for furthering the collecting and practising of folk dances, a Committee was elected and a Chairman appointed. The Committee met in due time, Mr. Sharp arrived with a pile of books half a yard high and proceeded to advocate the forming of a Constitution very cut and dried and it seemed to some of us quite unsuited for its purpose.
At this time Mr. Sharp was having a serious dispute with the Folk Song Society of which Miss Lucy Broadwood was Honorary Secretary. He said he wanted our new Society to have such a strict constitution that it would be possible to control it in a way impossible with the simple constitution of the Folk Song Society.
bitter attack by Mr. Sharp on the work we were trying to do.
It is almost impossible to state what the exact quarrel was about. Perhaps, just briefly, it was that Mr. Sharp wanted to make an exact canon for dancing and I wanted it to follow the traditional freedom of the old dancers. However we carried on for six years giving concerts, outdoor shows and teaching all over the country until 1911 when the Folk Dance Society was formed and a definitely rival set of teachers sent out to teach and rival demonstrations organised.
Until then there had been no criticism of the dancing of the girls, no suggestion of their not being in the tradition and faithfully carrying on that tradition. From the hour when the Committee decided to break up as we could come to no decision, the whole atmosphere changed. Mr. Sharp openly opposed everything we did and did not cease from that till the war brought an end to my Club.
I maintained and do so still that the original folk dancers were amateur in the real sense of the word. The words "expert" and "professional" and the establishment of an exact canon seemed to me absurd. But Mr. Sharp was a professional music teacher and could never shake off the atmosphere of the class room, and gradually repudiated all his original acceptance of our girls' dancing and teaching.


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The lower level of the addition contains a number of support functions including the Clinical Lab, Materials Management Department and Central Sterile Supply. The new Clinical Lab was designed for flexibility and the future utilization of robotic dispensing units. The first floor includes fast track, emergent and clinical decision pods. Other spaces within the ED include a large pediatric ED with inpatient rooms, specialty rooms for trauma, OB/GYN, psychiatric services and decontamination. The entire unit is immediately adjacent to radiographic, CT and MRI rooms to allow for quick turnaround of required imaging services. The second floor groups the Surgical and Interventional Procedures Suites around a common PACU/Prep-Recovery Unit for staffing efficiency and patient comfort. The Critical Care Unit is located on the third floor with the Respiratory Therapy Department and the Clinical Pharmacy immediately adjacent, facilitating the important interaction of these three departments. The fourth, fifth and sixth floors contain Med/Surg Units. On each floor, private patient rooms are located on the building perimeter and a large core area contains patient support services. For instance, the Physical Therapy Department is located within the core area immediately adjacent to the Orthopedic Unit. The project includes a "state of the art" information systems backbone. Much of the medical equipment utilized throughout the facility is also on the leading edge of technology. All radiographic equipment is integrated into a PACS system.
Our design focused on the need to create a very caring environment for patients, families and staff. Patient privacy throughout all units and departments was a major design consideration. Equally important was the desire to incorporate the needs of family members and provide amenities supporting these individuals throughout the stay of their loved one. A Restorative Garden, immediately adjacent to the Acute Care Pavilion, provides a peaceful, meditative space for patients, families and staff. Anne Arundel Medical Center's South Tower project included two green roofs, rain gardens, step ponds and retaining walls to protect the Chesapeake Bay, windows that are coated with a high gloss glaze on the exterior, paint and adhesives with little or no VOCs, recycled materials throughout and recycled construction waste, low flow water fixtures, high efficiency chillers, chemical free cooling towers, LEED certified chemicals and microfiber mops for cleaning, reusable pillows and containers, mercury free instruments, organic food and a farmers market on campus and energy star computers. CRGA was the BIM manager for the project team. Energy modeling was provided by the MEP engineer. The facility received the Maryland Trailblazer Award for its commitment to pollution prevention and demonstration of environmental leadership, and was recognized by US Green Building Council for "LEEDing the Way for Healthcare." Most notably, this project was awarded LEED GOLD certification by the USGBC, becoming the first LEED Gold hospital in the state of Maryland.


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by Kofi Dadzie, August 1, 2017
Kofi Dadzie (Co-founder) Ernest Osei-Wusu (GM RSL, VP, F&A)
Kwaku Ofori (VP, Business Operations) Naa Croffie (VP, Corporate Services) Kingston Tagoe (VP, Products)
Folabi Esan (Chair) Robert Mayberry
Ehizogie Binitie Kofi Dadzie
Peninsula Capital
Folabi Esan (Chair)
(Managing Partner, Adlevo Capital)
Folabi has been a Partner at Adlevo Capital, the African technology private equity fund, since its inception in 2008. Prior to Adlevo, he had over 20 years of diversified business experience holding positions at SAP, Bain & Company and Andersen Consulting in Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom. He currently serves as President of the Nigerian-German Business Association and the Stanford Alumni Club of Nigeria.
Kofi Dadzie
(Co-founder & Exec. Vice-Chair)
Kofi has led the company in its evolution to conversational discovery with AI & social recommendations, following success in mobile content distribution technology with developers and brands including Google, BBC, VOA, MTV, ESPN and global carriers in more than 25 countries and 3 continents. Prior to co-founding Rancard, Kofi was a senior analyst in the BIOS technology team at Dell in the US, where he filed a patent. A fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network/African Leadership Initiative, he has also served on Ashesi University's Corporate Advisory Council, and currently serves on the board of Genius Hive, a music school and conservatory. He has a computer engineering degree from Vanderbilt University, TN, USA.
Ehizogie Binitie
(Co-founder)
A passionate problem solver and entrepreneur, Ehi led Rancard's original efforts in defining discovery with social recommendations for enabling brands engage with relevant audiences.
In his previous role as CTO, he provided vision and leadership in product research, innovation and development based on sound market insights. Ehi's past work experience includes network software systems and applications engineering with Intercom Data Networks (IDN), and consulting with AQ Solutions for General Electric Corporation (Danbury, US) and Lincoln Financials (Bloomfield, NJ, US). Ehi has a B.Sc., Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in Ghana and is on extended leave from a research masters at Oxford University.
Robert Mayberry
(Representative, Peninsula Capital)
Robert Mayberry is a Managing Director with Cybertize Business Systems, since 2010 – a high technology consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay area. He has over 35 years of experience in general management and has been a managing director with P&L responsibilities at multinational high technology companies offering computer software, hardware and professional services. He has developed and led high performance globally distributed teams. Robert is a retired IBM Senior Executive with 22 years experience. Robert led IBM's multi-million dollar technology innovation initiative for sub-Saharan Africa – 2007 to 2009. Robert holds ME in Mathematics/Computer Science from Stanford University and BS in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Pomona Polytechnic University.
About Adlevo Capital
Adlevo Capital, the technology-focused African private equity firm, is the first firm formed to make investments into technology-enabled companies across multiple African countries. The firm was founded by seasoned professionals to capitalize on growing investment opportunities in the technology-enabled service segments of multiple industry sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. The Adlevo Capital team's operating experience, technology expertise and extensive network of relationships enable it to add significant value to portfolio companies. Its portfolio includes InterSwitch Limited, the largest provider of electronic payment processing services in West Africa, Paga, Nigeria's most-used money transfer service, and Rancard Solutions, the leading provider of mobile content discovery solutions across Africa. For more information, visit www.adlevocapital.com
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Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, mobility, consumer Internet, digital media and semiconductor manufacturing. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$11 billion in over 1,322 companies in 54 countries. In that timeframe, 204 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 336 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2012, Intel Capital invested US$352 million in 150 investments with approximately 57 percent of funds invested outside North America. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com or follow @Intelcapital.
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Peninsula Capital was founded by Robert King, a business and philanthropic entrepreneur, also founder of R. Eliot King & Associates, Inc., an investment management company. Bob through his firm Peninsula Capital is an active venture investor in U.S. and international companies. Together with his wife Dottie, he helped launch the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (also known as SEED) with an aim to stimulate research and innovations to alleviate poverty in developing economies and is focused on helping promising businesses scale.
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