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La Liga 16/03/2019
Luka Modric – Croatia's Shining Light
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Everton Agree Triple Deadline Day Deal
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Yerry Mina Undergoing Medical in Spain ahead of Everton Move
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Fulham have already done some impressive business in the summer transfer window signing Andre Schurrle, Jean Michael Seri, Alfie Mawson and more and look set to continue that. Sky Sports sources understand that Fulham are…


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Ernst Johannes Schmidt, Johs. Schmidt, född 2 januari 1877 i Jægerspris, död 21 februari 1933, var en dansk biolog.

Schmidt tog magisterkonferens i botanik 1898, var 1902–1909 assistent vid Köpenhamns universitets växtanatomiska laboratorium och biolog vid de internationella havsforskningarna samt blev 1910 direktör för Carlsberg Laboratoriums fysiologiska avdelning.

Han blev filosofie doktor 1903 på en avhandling om mangroveträden, men kom sedan övervägande in på fiskeri- och havsundersökningar och utgav på detta område många arbeten, bland annat de epokgörande Contributions of the Life-History of the Eel (1906), Remarks on the Metamorphosis and Distribution of the Larvæ of the Eel och Race-undersøgelser (1917). Han deltog i flera vetenskapliga expeditioner och beskrev deras resultat.

Schmidt var systerson till kemisten Johan Kjeldahl. Schmidt är begraven på Vestre Kirkegården i Köpenhamn.

Utmärkelser
Schmidt tilldelades bl.a. följande utmärkelser:

 1908: Riddare av Dannebrogorden
 1918: Medlem av Videnskabernes Selskab
 1922: Dannebrogsmand
 1923: Hedersdoktor vid University of Liverpool
 1930: Förtjänstmedaljen i silver
 1930: Darwinmedaljen
 1932: Kommandör av 2:a graden av Dannebrog

Källor

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Danska biologer
Oceanografer
Alumner från Köpenhamns universitet
Personer verksamma vid Köpenhamns universitet
Personer i Danmark under 1900-talet
Födda 1877
Avlidna 1933
Män
Ugglan
Personer från Själland

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My mom asked me, last night, what I'd recommend to older adults who are just beginning an exercise program.
She brought up the case of Suzanne Somers, who apparently had trouble losing weight until she went to the doctor and was diagnosed with a hormonal imbalance. (I haven't seen the interview to which she referred, but it was probably regarding Somers' book about Bioidentical Hormonal Therapy.) You can see a short video of Suzanne Somers talking about aging and hormone therapy here. As it happens, I recently read an article about Testosterone for Women. It's a fascinating subject.
Women, especially, seem to suffer from hormonal imbalances as we age. These imbalances can cause us to gain weight that is difficult to lose. This problem can begin as much as ten years prior to the onset of menopause, so we may not even be aware of the cause of our weight gain. We may feel confused as to why we are gaining weight, when our lifestyle hasn't changed. We are eating the same, and we are doing all the same things we've always done, but the weight continues to add up.
Testosterone is thought of as the male hormone, but the truth is that women need the right amount of testosterone to have a healthy balance. Men also need the right amounts of estrogen and progesterone!
So back to my mom's original question: What would I recommend to older adults who are beginning a fitness program? First, see your doctor. Get your heart checked out, to be sure you are cleared to begin an exercise program. Make sure you don't have any hormonal imbalances, several of which could cause fatigue and weight gain (or at least difficulty in losing weight).
Then I'd recommend, if you are out of shape, that you walk. Go back to my article on How Much Exercise? to get some ideas on where to start. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step! Take that first step, and gain all the health benefits of exercise.


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By Dave Sherry
John Maclean: enemy of empire
Dave Sherry's book John MacLean: Red Clydesider has recently been republished by Bookmarks. Here we print an abridged version of the new introduction which looks at the importance of Maclean in the context of the debate about Scottish independence.
This year sees the anniversary of the First World War, the independence referendum and the hosting of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The convergence of these three important events affords socialists an opportunity to shape the referendum campaign and challenge both British and Scottish nationalism.
Glasgow's merchants prospered from slavery and colonialism. Its street names – Jamaica, Virginia, Buchanan and Glassford – pay tribute to the plantation colonies and the Glasgow merchants who made vast fortunes trading with them. These ill-gotten gains laid the basis for Glasgow's emergence as the British Empire's second city, when it became the key munitions hub for the British state and its war profiteers; together they bear collective responsibility for the slaughter of millions on the Western Front during the First World War.
Against the attempts of the state to whitewash militarism and colonialism in 2014 stands the tradition of the Red Clyde. In John Maclean, Glasgow produced an outstanding revolutionary leader who led the opposition to the First World War because he understood it as a war to repartition the world between the Great Powers, and that it would lead to further imperialist conflict involving the new global power, the United States.
He also grasped the importance of national liberation struggles in the colonies and how they could weaken the British Empire and imperialism as a whole. This was manifested in his consistent support for the republican struggle in Ireland, Britain's oldest colony. In doing so Maclean was breaking from the dominant position of the British socialist movement.
The independence referendum will be at the centre of official politics in Scotland until the autumn, and it is vital that we connect it with the fight against austerity and the struggle for a better world. My book has been reprinted to assist in that process.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) has always supported Scotland's right to self-determination because socialists have no interest in defending the unity of the British state. But we have not previously argued that Scots must actively exercise their right to separate. Scotland is not an oppressed nation, and until recently self-determination remained an abstract argument. But ever since it became clear that there will be a referendum, members of the SWP in Scotland have been campaigning for a yes vote, essentially for the following reasons:
1 The UK is an imperialist power that pillages the world's resources. It is a state at war in the Middle East, operating in alliance with US imperialism. It supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and is still willing to intervene in Syria and Iran. Prime minister Cameron and Labour leader Miliband are both desperate to preserve the union because a yes vote in the referendum will weaken the British state and make it more difficult to play the role of America's henchman. Calling for the break-up of Britain therefore means that independence can be supported for anti-imperialist reasons, without lining up behind the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP).
2 The unionist campaign endorses a reactionary idea of Britishness based on imperialism, racism and anti-immigrant hysteria. Its backers will use the First World War centenary and Glasgow's hosting of the Commonwealth Games to spread propaganda about a glorious imperial past. The dominant tone of the "better together" campaign will not be the unity of the British working class, which should not be confused with the unity of the British state. It will not be about the Chartists, the Suffragettes or the Great Miners' Strike, and for socialists to give left wing cover to the pro-union campaign would be a grave mistake. If we fail to put forward an argument for class politics within the independence campaign, the choice will be British or Scottish nationalism. Evading the issue by abstaining is to opt for the former while pretending to oppose both.
3 With devolution has come the delegating of responsibility for cuts and austerity. If nothing else, in a separate state the Scottish government could no longer pass the buck to Westminster. In 2010, for example, the SNP cabinet "reluctantly" accepted the Tories' savage cut to its block grant funding from Westminster. Alex Salmond argued that the unprecedented 35 percent cut he made to the Scottish social housing budget was not as bad as the 65 percent cut to housing in England and Wales.
What kind of Scotland?
Socialists need to engage with all those who see the referendum as an opportunity to win something better than what's on offer from the SNP – including those who currently favour more devolved powers but can't vote for that option because it won't be on their ballot paper. The political ramifications of what a future Scotland might look like are already upon us. The SNP leadership's decision to dump its most popular policy and keep an independent Scotland in Nato was a major turning point in the debate on independence. It underlines the need for a serious socialist position that won't accommodate to the nationalist project.
Although, under Salmond's leadership, the SNP has sought to claim the mantle of social democracy and win disillusioned Labour voters, in practice the SNP remains committed to a pro-business agenda. In 2012 Salmond was damaged by revelations about his close relationship with Rupert Murdoch. The Sun newspaper had backed him and the SNP, and it later emerged that he had met with Murdoch and, like Tory cabinet member Jeremy Hunt, promised to back his bid to gain total control over BSkyB.
The SNP's commitment to a capitalist Scotland has been clear from its very first budget. Money was spent ensuring business rates went down – hitting local authority services. Last year SNP finance minister John Swinney said he was "providing all the support we can to the business community", and boasted that "Scotland has the most competitive business rates in the UK". Before the financial crash Salmond, a former economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland, cited his old bank as an example of what a great Scottish-based institution could achieve. He argued that Scotland could join "the arc of prosperity" with Iceland and Ireland, and become another "Celtic Tiger". In plain language this means a low wage economy competing with other low wage economies in a race to the bottom.
The existence of a Scottish national identity is not in question and there is no reason why Scotland could not become a capitalist nation-state like any other. It is hypocritical to oppose Scottish nationalism and claim that it is reactionary while remaining silent about British nationalism or, even worse, championing it. British nationalism is the main enemy, but we should be under no illusions about what kind of Scotland the SNP has in mind. It wants to retain the royal family, Sterling, the Bank of England and Nato. It is a single-issue party, intent on achieving independence and nothing else.
Edinburgh-born socialist James Connolly – a contemporary of John Maclean – wrote about this very problem in Ireland: "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic, your efforts would be in vain – the capitalist class would still rule you."
Maclean, one of the few on the British left to defend the Dublin Easter Rising in 1916, shared Connolly's view. The SNP's solution is simple. There will be no change in the system of government and no real change in the corrupt society of which the present system of government is an integral part. Instead, says the SNP, as soon as we have our independent parliament in Edinburgh, its doors will open to a bright new future. It's like saying Coca Cola rots your teeth when bottled in London, but site the bottling plant at the foot of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and Coca Cola will be good for you.
Maclean's legacy
Britain has always been an imperialist state, but from the founding of the Friends of the People Society in 1792 the great majority of radicals, trade unionists and socialists in Scotland – with the exception of Thomas Muir in the 1790s and Maclean in the 1920s – opposed independence and assumed that democracy, and later socialism, could only be achieved on an all-British basis. They were right to do so at the time and Maclean was tactically wrong in calling for independence, even though he approached the question as an anti-imperialist and from a revolutionary socialist standpoint.
Maclean was still highly regarded among the Scottish working class, as was shown by the thousands who lined the streets for his funeral. But sadly, his Scottish Workers' Republican Party, founded in the last year of his life, numbered its membership in the dozens and its electoral support in mere hundreds.
Today the limits of devolution, the world recession and the continued drive to war have changed the context in which we operate. The British state has already begun to fragment and to call for its break-up on an anti-war basis, in a situation where the majority opposed the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Syria, means Scottish independence can and should be supported for anti-imperialist as opposed to nationalist ends – the position Maclean advocated after 1920. In a collection of essays on the referendum Neil Davidson posed the question, what is independence for?
"What then is Scottish independence for? It opens up a space for struggle – a space that can be filled either by the continuation of neoliberalism or by the beginning of an alternative, but the only way to ensure that a Scottish successor state is not as committed to the capitalist agenda as the British one is to build self-confidence and solidarity in unions and working class communities now.
And by emphasising the possibility of change now, the socialist elements in the yes campaign can make a link with those workers who are currently opposed or unsure about independence. There are no guarantees and certainly no possibility of socialism being established within the boundaries of a Scottish state: but independence can be part of a process, which, by weakening the neoliberal, imperialist state in Britain, can potentially bring the necessarily international basis of socialism closer."
(Neil Davidson, "What is Scottish Independence For?" in Gregor Gall (ed), Scotland's Road to Socialism: Time to Choose, Scottish Left Review Press, 2013)
An independent Scotland would not be a socialist Scotland. There is nothing intrinsically beneficial about Scottish independence. To think otherwise is to encourage the myth that the Scots are more left wing than the English and that there can be a Scottish parliamentary road to socialism – a notion that John Maclean ridiculed. Workers in Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland and beyond will still need unity in struggle against those who rule us. But the break-up of the UK would be a small victory for the world working class and, as John Maclean argued 90 years ago, that is something to fight for.
See also Who was John Maclean? by Dave Sherry
John Maclean: Red Clydesider by Dave Sherry, 4.00
Available from Bookmarks bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QE, 020 7637 1848.
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Home » News » Events » Final Call for Network Rail's Advanced Engineering Apprenticeship Scheme in Wales and Borders
Final Call for Network Rail's Advanced Engineering Apprenticeship Scheme in Wales and Borders
Network Rail has issued a final reminder for its Advanced Engineering Apprenticeship Scheme in the Wales and Borders Region. The deadline for applications is Friday, 11 May. Places on the 3-year scheme are open to anyone who will turn 18 on or before 29 September 2018. There is no upper age limit.
Apprenticeship Scheme Locations
The first 21 weeks of training occur at Network Rail's training centre in the Midlands, but the remainder of the scheme is completed in a regional depot. Places for the 2018 Wales and Borders intake are available in Hereford, Llandrindod and Machynlleth.
© Network Rail
In common with other similar schemes across the industry, apprentices will 'earn while they learn'. Network Rail employs around 20,000 engineers and technicians on its lines. Since 2005 at least 2,000 apprentices have completed the scheme. Apprentices specialise in several diverse disciplines from signalling to track and telecoms.
Upon Completion
Apprentices are guaranteed a job by Network Rail upon completion of the scheme. There are also opportunities to obtain further qualifications after completion, including chartered membership of a professional engineering institute.
The Acting Route Managing Director for Wales and Borders, Bill Kelly, said
"Apprentices are the future of Network Rail, which is why we invest so much in them. And as we look ahead to our plans for 2019 and beyond, it's a really exciting time to join Network Rail in Wales and Borders."


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Q: best way to upload many bitmaps to server I have an android app which let the user to submit a form , now this form can have 9 bitmaps (MAX). now my code run well , but it takes too long to upload the images . is there a better way to upload images ??
my code :
Iterator<String> it = car_images.iterator();
                int i = 0;
                while (it.hasNext()) {
                    String imagepath = it.next();
                    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                    Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imagepath);
                    b.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bos);
                    byte[] data = bos.toByteArray();
                    entity.addPart("image_" + i, new ByteArrayBody(data,

                    "myImage.jpg"));
                    Log.d("image loaded", "image_" + i);
                    ++i;

                }
                put.setEntity(entity);
                HttpResponse repsone = client.execute(put);

A: You can run the upload tasks in parallel using Threads, which could speedup the upload. Android developer's guide has good documentation (with sample code) available on Threads and process.

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An estimate of the total sales of goods by all retail establishments in the U.S. (Sales of services are not included) for month prior to the release of the report. Data are presented in nominal, or current, dollars, meaning they are not adjusted for inflation. However, the data are adjusted for seasonal, holiday, and trading-day differences between the months of the year.
The use of the Retail Sales report in trading is clear, since the report provides extremely specific data about which industries and commodities consumers are spending most of their money on. However, one major drawback of the report is that it only reflects sale prices without taking into account inflation within the prices of certain volatile industries (gas and other energies in particular.) The report also doesn't provide any data on service industry sales, making the Personal Income and Spending report more useful in this area. Still, traders consider the Retail Sales report one of the most generally useful of the economic indicators, with a wide range of applications for various asset markets.
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) represent roughly two-thirds of GDP. By monitoring retail sales, policy makers are able to make an assessment of the likely growth of PCE for the current and future quarters.
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NAFTA talks enter a make-or-break week, as ministers seek to resolve an impasse before US and Mexico elections.


The queen's salad is from the Duca di Salaparuta's (1879-1946) cookbook, which not only honors his chosen way of eating (he was vegetarian) but also his aristocratic, Sicilian sense of style.
In large saucepan fitted with metal steamer, with 2 inches water, separately steam potatoes, carrots, artichokes and asparagus until tender. Check saucepan for water after each vegetable and add as needed.
In large bowl, combine steamed vegetables, lettuce, beans, parsley, 1/2 cup mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Gently fold with rubber spatula.
Turn salad out onto serving platter and form mound. Spread remaining 1/2 cup mayonnaise over mound of vegetables. Decorate salad by making a border around base with cornichon fans and olives. Sprinkle capers over top. Serve right away.
Note: To trim artichokes, before cooking cut stem away and remove outside leaves by bending them backward and pulling down; they'll snap at the meaty point. Pull away the leaves until you see only pale green ones. Use a very sharp knife to cut away the remaining leaf tops, about a quarter of the way down. Quarter the artchokes. Using a very sharp knife, cut away the fuzzy choke and cut each quarter into very thin slices.


This is a simple crowd pleaser and is perfect to get the family consuming more legumes. Beans are a powerhouse of superior nutrition, and the most nutrient-dense carbohydrate source. They act as an anti-diabetes and weight-loss food because they are digested slowly, having a stabilising effect on blood sugar, which promotes satiety and helps to prevent food cravings. Plus they contain soluble fiber, which lowers cholesterol levels (Fuhrman, 2014-2016).
* I like to use wholemeal or spelt pasta. You can also use zucchini noodles if you would like a lighter option.


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School admissions policies
For individual school admissions policies please see the respective school websites available via:
Request for a variation to Church of England Schools and Academies admission policies for 2021/22
Due to the closure of church buildings for public worship from 17th March 2020, Church of England Schools and Academies have been asked to make a variation to their previously Determined Admission Arrangements for 2021 if they include Church Attendance as part of their Over Subscription Criteria. Advice and guidance on how to do this has come from the Church of England Education Office in consultation with the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) and the Department for Education.
A standard wording has been agreed with the OSA to clarify the application of the attendance requirement for schools and to request a variation to their admissions arrangements for this specific situation. The variation is in fact a clarification as to how church attendance is to be calculated in these unique circumstances. That agreed wording reads:
"In the event that during the period specified for attendance at worship the church [or, in relation to those of other faiths, relevant place of worship] has been closed for public worship and has not provided alternative premises for that worship, the requirements of these [admissions] arrangements in relation to attendance will only apply to the period when the church [or in relation to those of other faiths, relevant place of worship] or alternative premises have been available for public worship".
All Diocesan Schools have been asked to request a variation from the OSA which adds this clarification into their Admission Arrangements 2021. This process is being administered by the Diocesan Boards of Education. It is expected that these variations will be approved by 1st September 2020.
Primary school admissions booklet (PDF 0.67MB)
Junior school admissions booklet (PDF 0.89MB)
Secondary school admissions booklet (PDF 0.36MB)
Admissions policy booklets
Determined admissions policies 2017/18
admissions@blackburn.gov.uk


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Druid and Roman Gods Align for a Spectacular Met Gala
Bellini's Norma
The gods align for the greatest opera about female friendship
Photo credit: Ken Howard
Lei: I always arrive at the Met opening gala with a mix of trepidation and excitement, but this time even more so since Bellini's Norma is easily one of my favorite operas – I was preoccupied about being disappointed by a cast not up to snuff or a lackluster production. While I can suffer through a mediocre Wagner as season opener, a butchered Norma is definitely a bad omen for the year to come.
Lui: Thankfully, the Druid and Roman gods aligned as this turned out to be possibly the best Norma I've ever seen live. Musically spectacular and dramatically solid, this production delivered the most exciting opening night of the last eight years.
The sacred forest has dreamlike qualities
Lei: Replacing the Met's prior minimalist production of Norma, Sir David McVicar went back to the basics with a naturalistic and potentially more historically accurate interpretation. While this approach may have seemed uninventive at first blush, a closer look revealed it to be rife with interesting details and thoughtful choices, all perfectly executed. The sets designed by Robert Jones were lush without being overwrought and best of all they were dynamic, moving vertically between the forest and Norma's domestic den, making for majestically swift scene changes.
Lui: The sacred forest that provides the backdrop for most of the grand scenes seemed a generic dark woodsy place at first. But, as the action evolved it turned out that all of the trees moved, oneirically sliding in several directions, expanding and compressing different spaces. Equally magical were the twilight effects of the sunrays dancing through the somber forest, as if filtered through leaves we could not see.
A model of Norma's womb-like abode
Lei: Norma's home was encircled by womb-like walls of mud and wood that produced a rustic earth-goddess effect. As with the rest of the sets, the richness of detail was striking: a pot bubbled over a fire, a loom stood to one side alongside several orderly storage urns, as well as a small altar with candles, and a cozy bed adorned with animal furs.
But perhaps the most spectacular touch was in the finale, when the fire of the pyre on the horizon reverberated with dancing orange lights, creating an infernal background for the dark shadows of the characters on stage.
Lui: During the overture, we see Oroveso and a group of Druids carrying several dead warriors on stretchers and mourning their losses. This set the tone for the Druids being in a losing war with the Roman oppressors, creating from the get-go a highly polarized background against which the many dramatic tensions of the opera played out.
The priestess harnesses her chaste goddess
Lei: During the prayer Casta Diva, Adalgisa takes a prominent role in the ritual, right next to Norma. She takes her hand, which emphasizes the closeness of their professional relationship that, too, will explode in the love triangle to come.
Lui: In McVicar's vision, the unholy priestess and her entire coterie (except for Joyce DiDonato's embodiment of Adalgisa) are all hyper-sexed up. Her attendants are all earthy and legs and flesh and writhing around, often on the ground. Norma too in her introductory prayer presents herself on her raised altar-like stage as a Dionysian force of nature. She lays out on her back with her legs spread and chest open toward the moon in a gesture of harnessing its power. And it was a very powerful take on the character.
Adalgisa stands by Norma's side
Lei: The costumes by Moritz Junge were also aiming at some historical accuracy, with simple monochrome tunics for Norma and Adalgisa and the usual Roman armor for Pollione. What really stood out here though was the chorus, as McVicar delivered the most chthonic take on Bellini's Druids I have ever seen. Finally someone is willing to take a risk on conjuring a bit of the Dionysian in our genteel days. I get the feeling we have the influence of Game of Thrones on the current gestalt to thank. The chorus of bloodthirsty tribal warriors was HBO-worthy, torches, hog head and mud-stained exposed flesh and all.
Whenever the warrior Druids and their wild women were on stage they were a force to be reckoned with, emanating visceral energy from every pore as they constantly hoped that Norma would allow them to unleash their fury (and when she finally does, their Guerra! Guerra! really goes all out with fire, war dances of intimidation and more).
But most important of all, musically everything worked beautifully under the baton of maestro Carlo Rizzi. The entire cast was on point, with not a single weak link.
Sondra Radvanovsky comes into her own as Norma
Lui: Sondra Radvanovsky has decidedly grown into the role. Since the last time we saw her as Norma, she has matured into an even more well rounded singer and artist. Tonight she was warmer, more expressive, more powerful and even more subtle in those tenuous and tender voiced moments. She was a star.
Joyce DiDonato also exceeded all my expectations. I have long been a fan but have grown accustomed to hearing her sing either the lighter more playful bel canto repertoire or the high baroque. In this meatier more dramatic role she really showed off her bel canto chops and elevated every one of her duets with the majestic Norma. Plus she and Radvanovsky had real chemistry as friends.
A moving story of female friendship takes flight
Lei: The opera presents one of the most moving representations of female friendship in the repertory, but these two women and their obviously sensitive souls brought it to a whole other level. Musically their duets were executed with the utmost care and craft and their body language expressed just how intimately in sync these two characters are. The appeal of Norma lies also in its profound feminine core.
Lui: My only qualms were that DiDonato was the only one who didn't seem to belong. With her perfectly blown out, close-cropped modern hairstyle, she seemed like a page boy who wandered out of a different opera, rather than a member of the otherwise dramatically bedraggled Druid holy women. It's a minor detail, but her solar blonde locks shone out against the drab landscape of these moon worshippers like a sore thumb, albeit a drop-dead gorgeous one.
Lei: Matthew Rose as Oroveso was effortlessly potentissimo, earthy yet very musical. Acting-wise he exuded a refreshing warrior-like vigor that is rather uncommon in the character who is more often is played as a frail elderly man. Rose blew me away and I will definitely be looking forward to hearing him again.
Pollione owns his women
Lui: The Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja was a terrific Pollione. It apparently takes a Mediterranean tenor to get a Roman Druid-ladies' man right. Calleja's Pollione was cocky, entitled and unapologetic. Often harshly grabbing Adalgisa or Norma by their necks so as to bend them into submission, he strutted around in his Roman garb and acted like the kind of impossible jerk who in too many instances is apparently so irresistible to women. Vocally, Calleja's tenor was in great form: warm, sunny and seductive, with excellent phrasing and perfect control both in his solo arias and in the many ensemble parts.
The Druids channel the Dionysian in their war dance
Lei: No matter how many Normas I've seen, I just can never get enough of it, not least of all because every time I learn something new or I discover an angle I hadn't considered before. This time, perhaps due to the very lively chorus who eagerly awaited Norma's direction, I was particularly struck by how disgraceful of a public figure the Norma character is. She effectively betrays her people and her duties as a spiritual and political leader for the love of a man who just also happens to be one of their most charismatic enemies. Even worse, she uses her powers to either protect or punish her lover and father of her children, potentially to the detriment of her fellow Druids.
Lui: But, this is also what makes her such a complex, deeply human and even relatable character. Her internal conflicts and weaknesses but also her ultimate honesty and redemption. When in this production Norma tenderly embraces Pollione in front of her baffled countrymen, she is a bad priestess, yes, but also a woman who is ecstatic to regain her man's affection and is not afraid of loving passionately, even if that means death.
The pyre blazes with the persona non grata dons the black veil of disgrace
Lei: In the finale, Norma gets covered in a black veil before turning her back to the public and proudly walking to the stake hand in hand with her lover, not as a martyr but as an empowered bride, all while her betrayed people basically curse her:
Vanne al rogo! Ed il tuo scempio
Purghi l'ara e lavi il tempio!
Maledetta estinta ancor!
Hence to the pyre! May your last breath
Pacify our altar and our temple.
Malediction after life have power!
Lui: Whereas in other productions this moment can be played with a certain melancholic remorse that comes off as an affectionate fondness for the fallen priestess whom they are forced to reluctantly execute, here it came off scathing and hostile with an undertone of defeat rather than melancholy. These were the words of a betrayed people who still have impossible odds to face in the days ahead. Thus the tragedy was heightened.
The Druids are thirsty for Roman blood
Lei: With this Norma the Met went back to the basics, with a traditional risk-free production, which most importantly allowed the beauty of Bellini's music and emotional charge to shine in all its glory. When the basics are as divine as Norma (a perfect dramatic and musical masterpiece), the basics done right are all you need – nothing more, nothing less.
And that is a good omen for the season to come.
– Lui & Lei
Posted by Masetto at Tuesday, October 03, 2017
Labels: bel canto, Bellini, Calleja, Carlo Rizzi, David McVicar, DiDonato, gala, Matthew Rose, Met, Moritz Junge, Norma, Radvanovsky, Robert Jones
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Ludwik Masłowski herbu Samson (ur. 27 maja 1847, Horodyszcze pod Baranowiczami, zm. 11 września 1928, Bydgoszcz) – publicysta, tłumacz, jeden z pierwszych polskich socjologów, pisarz polityczny.

Ludwik Masłowski był synem Onufrego Masłowskiego, sekretarza gubernialnego szlachty i Eufemii z Iwickich h. Paprzyca, siostry Ignacego Iwickiego i Tekli Iwickiej. Przed powstaniem styczniowym, w którym brał udział, studiował medycynę i nauki przyrodnicze w Paryżu. Zbliżony do Ludwika Mierosławskiego zabiegał o pozyskanie polskiej młodzieży studiującej w Europie zachodniej dla sprawy polskiej. Masłowski wszedł do władz Stowarzyszenia Uczniów (w Paryżu) i kolegium redakcyjnego pisma Przyszłość (1866), organu tego związku. Z Paryża wrócił do Polski, podejmując działalność we Lwowie. Był pierwszym redaktorem Kuriera Lwowskiego. W 1921 r. przeniósł się do Bydgoszczy, gdzie podjął pracę w Dzienniku Bydgoskim. Senior Syndykatu Dziennikarzy Pomorskich.

Masłowski był początkowo wielkim zwolennikiem darwinizmu – za zgodą Karola Darwina przetłumaczył po raz pierwszy na język polski O pochodzeniu człowieka (1874, Kraków) oraz Dobór płciowy, (Lwów, 1876). Później został krytykiem teorii Darwina. Przełożył również Ciepło jako rodzaj ruchu Johna Tyndalla (Kraków 1873) oraz Dzieje utworzenia przyrody Ernsta Haeckla (wspólnie z Janem Czarneckim, 2 tomy, Lwów 1871). Był m.in. autorem Listów do przyjaciela.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Włodzimierz Wincławski, Słownik biograficzny socjologii polskiej, PWN 2001
 Maciej Janowski, Polska myśl liberalna do 1918 roku, Kraków 1998
 Jerzy Mazurek, Wspomnienia z lat 1914-1915, 2006

Linki zewnętrzne
 Publikacje Ludwika Masłowskiego w bibliotece Polona
 Drzewo genealogiczne: http://maciejmazur.cba.pl/m/5.jpg (dostęp: 13 października 2021) - Uwaga: udostępniono dzięki uprzejmości p. dr med. Andrzeja Masłowskiego (Września k. Poznania) i p. Macieja Mazura (Sobótka k. Wrocławia) - twórców witryny dotyczącej rodziny Masłowskich h. Samson
 Kształtowanie się herbu Samson i jego ekspansja w Europie Wschodniej: http://maciejmazur.cba.pl/goreccy/pradzieje.html (dostęp: 14. 10. 2021).
 Ród Samson: http://maciejmazur.cba.pl/mazurowie/-_rod_samsonow.html (dostęp: piątek, 1 lutego 2013, 19:27:34)

Ludwik
Powstańcy styczniowi
Ludzie związani z Krakowem
Ludzie związani ze Lwowem
Ludzie związani z Bydgoszczą
Polscy publicyści
Polscy tłumacze literatury angielskojęzycznej
Polscy socjolodzy
Urodzeni w 1847
Zmarli w 1928


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Sydney, Australia, 23 May 2018: FreeWheel, a Comcast Advanced Advertising company, today announced the opening of a new office in Sydney to support its investment and expansion in the Australian and New Zealand markets. The latest launch follows a succession of other international openings – including in SEA and MENA – as FreeWheel continues to cement its position as the industry's most complete advertising management solution.
Building on its strong, existing US and European footprints, FreeWheel aims to provide much-needed support to broadcasters and premium video publishers in ANZ by offering technology that serves higher levels of both control and transparency.
Video monetisation and programmatic advertising are areas experiencing significantly increased demand in Australia and New Zealand, with Nielsen statistics revealing that over two-thirds of digital adverts in this region are now bought programmatically. With a local presence, FreeWheel will be well positioned to provide the technology required to serve this growing market.


IBM's acquisition of Rational got a lot of press over the weekend and Steve Lohr's article in the New York times this morning has a few pithy one liners from Bill Gates and Ambuj Goyal, Chief of Strategy for IBM's software group.
"Even with its networked .Net technology, the Microsoft lock-in mentality, honed with Windows, remains intact, I.B.M. executives contend. "Once an application is written to the Microsoft platform, it can never come out," said Ambuj Goyal, chief of strategy for I.B.M.'s software group. "It's like a lobster trap."
"... Mr. Gates laughed when asked about Microsoft's sometimes friendly, often antagonistic relationship with I.B.M. — a corporate relationship that has run more than 20 years. "When I was born, there was I.B.M.," he said. "And when I die, there'll be I.B.M."


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This is a nonfiction account of Washington forcing the British out of Boston but written in verse. It is done quite well; the poetry adds to the level of interest around the events described and the book includes detailed references to the sources used.
A gateway book to the American Revolution for reluctant readers and fans of Hamilton.


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Q: When is $c^4-72b^2c^2+320b^3c-432b^4$ a positive square? In trying to solve a certain [third-degree] Diophantine equation, I have used the quadratic equation to determine that
$$c^4-72b^2c^2+320b^3c-432b^4$$
must be a positive integer square, where $c$ and $b$ are positive integers.
From [admittedly limited] maxima calculations, it appears that the complete solution set is $(c,b) = (27k,5k)$ for $k = 1,2,3,\dots$.
I've tried to prove this, but have had no luck so far. Any hints or links/references to useful papers and techniques would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: The original equation I was trying to solve is
$$y^2 = x^3 - 2. \tag{$\star$}$$
I am aware of the solution to this equation (see, for example, Conrad's paper, and about a dozen questions on this site), and so am not looking for a direct solution to ($\star$). Rather, I am interested in discovering techniques — especially elementary ones — by which one may attack the [type of] equation in the question.

A: In general, an equation,
$$F(x) = y^2$$
with an initial rational point $x$ and where $F(x)$ is a quartic polynomial can be transformed into an elliptic curve, hence there should be an infinite number of rational points $x$. It is the case for your particular curve,
$$x^4 - 72 x^2 + 320x - 432 = y^2$$
with,
$$x_1 = c/b = 27/5$$
$$x_2 = c/b = 649193045949/48488608130$$
where $x_2$ is not reducible to $x_1$ and so on, ad infinitum.
(P.S. I've probably missed a smaller solution.)

$\color{blue}{Edit:}$ Here's an elementary method how to find more solutions $x_i$.

(I believe it is called the tangent method and goes back to Fermat.) Simply equate,
$$x^4 - 72 x^2 + 320x - 432  =(a_2x^2+a_1x+a_0)^2$$
collect powers of $x$ to get,
$$p_4x^4+p_3x^3+p_2x^2+p_1x+p_0 = 0\tag1$$
and for this particular quartic, your three unknowns $a_0,a_1,a_2$ are enough to set $p_4 = p_3 = p_2 = 0$ and making the $x^4, x^3, x^2$ vanish, leaving you with,
$$x = -p_0/p_1 = 27/5$$
To get more solutions, do the substitution $x = v+27/5$, to get,
$$v^4+108/5v^3+2574v^2/25+21532/125v+(171/25)^2 = (b_2v^2+b_1v+b_0)^2$$
which you assume to be a square in the RHS. Collect powers of $v$,
$$q_4v^4+q_3v^3+q_2v^2+q_1v+q_0 = 0\tag2$$
Your three unknowns $b_0,b_1,b_2$ are also enough to set the other end $q_0 = q_1 = q_2 = 0$ and making the $v^0, v^1, v^2$ vanish, leaving you with,
$$q_4v^4+q_3v^3 = (q_4v+q_3)v^3  = 0$$
Hence,
$$x_2 = v+x_1 = -q_3/q_4+27/5 = 649193045949/48488608130$$
I'm sure with this easy method, you now have a technique to generate new solutions from old ones.


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Q: SAC Application Input "Textbox" filter I am currently getting introduced to SAC and i am looking to filter a table and its columns via a "input field".
I have seen guides on drop down boxes and sliders but not text input by the user.
I imagine the code is very similar?
thank you in advance for your time.

A: Solved. The following code will also include vague strings like "Smi" for Smith, Smithy or Smithers in example.
Make sure you paste this into your InputField on your analytic application.
var Input= this.getValue();

var i=0;

var res=Table_1.getDataSource().getMembers("Dimension_Name_");

var filter_data = [""];
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{
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Sam joined the administrative team in August 2018. This was the result after coming to the clinic everyday throughout her second semester as the Co-op student. She graduated with high honours from Harrison Trimble high school and in her grade twelve year she was tested and ranked as an Advanced French speaker by the Province of New Brunswick. Throughout her high school career she also achieved a FIT certificate. This is a recognition for managing business and technology focused courses. This allows her to contribute to the administrative team with her newly acquired knowledge and skills. Sam has also been in the sales and retail workforce for the past year so is well equipped to deal with people and contribute to the clinic with her experience.
In her free time Sam loves doing volunteer work. She wants to focus on that with her new found time. She loves spending time with her family and one of her passions is music. She loves to sing and play the guitar whenever she can. Camping and enjoying the outdoors by hiking, paddle boarding, and playing sports like volleyball and badminton have always been some of her favourite things to do. When Sam unwinds she finds relaxation in good music and old TV sitcoms.


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On behalf of Brandon Family Law Center, LLC posted in Family Law on Wednesday, November 8, 2017.
The decision to get a divorce may be a difficult one for some people in Florida. While it may appear to outsiders that a line has been crossed in a marriage, it may be more difficult for a person in that marriage to make the determination to end it. However, there are circumstances in which a person might decide divorce is necessary, and in fact, their only option.
A person may decide it is no longer possible to stay married to a partner who has a serious problem with addiction. For example, if the spouse is an alcoholic, this may become impossible to live with after he or she is arrested several times for driving under the influence, or when their use of alcohol makes them abusive. Each time, the spouse might promise to go to treatment and may do so several times. However, the change in behavior might only last a few months each time.
A person might also realize that a spouse's verbal and emotional abuse has reached a point that can no longer be endured. In some cases, this may only happen if the spouse turns the emotional abuse toward the couple's child. A child might also be the catalyst for divorcing if a parent realizes the conflict in the marriage is setting a bad example for the child. Parents may want to spare their children the disruption of a divorce, but the atmosphere of constant conflict can in fact be more damaging to the child.
Once a person has made the decision to divorce, there may be a number of issues to work out including division of assets and child custody. While this can be a difficult time emotionally, people should take steps to safeguard themselves financially since divorce often results in a lower standard of living for some people. It might be possible to negotiate property division and custody, perhaps through a collaborative process, although if a spouse is abusive or an addict, litigation might be necessary.


Calgary, Alberta, Canada – February 4, 2013: 3D-P announces and welcomes Bill Wright as the company's newest addition to their global sales management team. Wright will be responsible for managing all existing US customers as well as securing new customers in the region.
Bill Wright brings over 20 years experience in the Information Technology industry with positions in sales, marketing and management. Previously, Mr. Wright was with Bentley Systems (formerly IVARA) where he served as Strategic Account Manager over mining software solutions. Prior mining sales experience includes positions at Mincom and NRX.
Wright will be headquartered in Denver, Colorado and will work with the Calgary customer support staff as well as support staff in the US.


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Sushant Singh Rajput death: Procedure to arrest Rhea Chakraborty underway, says NCB
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday said that process to arrest Rhea Chakraborty, the prime accused in the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, is currently underway.
"The procedure to arrest Rhea Chakraborty is underway," said deputy director of NCB, KPS Malhotra. The agency said she is being arrested after three days of questioning.
Rhea Chakraborty was being questioned over drug abuse case in connection with the death of Rajput on June 14. The NCB had questioned Chakraborty for about eight hours on Monday and six hours on Sunday.
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The NCB arrested the three men in this case last week. Chakraborty's family and lawyer had said that they anticipate her arrest after Showik was taken into custody.
The agency had earlier said that it had obtained mobile phone chat records and other electronic data that suggested some banned drugs were allegedly procured by these people.
Chakraborty's father Indrajit had issued an emotional statement after his son's arrest. "Congratulations India, you have arrested my son, I'm sure next on the line is my daughter and I don't know who is next thereafter," Lt Col Indrajit Chakraborty (retd) had said in the statement.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR against Chakraborty and others in connection with the actor's death.
Also read | Abetment to suicide, cheating: Rhea Chakraborty's charges against Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters, doctor
Chakraborty was earlier questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the CBI that are probing different angles surrounding Rajput's death.
Sushant Singh Rajput's autopsy had indicated that he died by suicide. His father, however, filed an FIR against Rhea Chakraborty in Patna, accusing her of driving his son to suicide and misappropriating his money. Chakraborty has denied the allegations on several occasions.
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Export of iron ore tops $5bn in five years
TEHRAN, Jul. 24 (MNA) – Iran's export value of iron ore in five years, from 2013 to 2017, exceeded $5,073,000,000.
Statistics show that over $1.1 billion worth of iron ore has been exported from the country annually on average.
According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA), it shows that $1,072,000,000 worth of iron ore was exported in the country in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2018), showing more than 31.1 percent growth as compared to a year earlier.
Another statistic shows that $1.115 billion and $522 million worth of iron ore were exported from the country in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
IRICA put the export value of iron ore in 2013 at more than $1.547 billion, showing a significant 69 percent growth as compared to a year earlier.
Statistics show that Australia accounted for 52 percent share in the world in terms of iron ore export in 2017, standing in the first place in the worldwide.
Brazil and South Africa stood at the 2nd and 3rd ranks respectively in this field.
About $1.4 billion worth of iron ore was exported from the country in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2018), accounting for 1.5 percent share of total iron ore export.
People's Republic of China is world's leading buyer of iron ore that imported more than $1,043,000,000 worth of iron ore from the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past year (ended March 20, 2018).
Statistics of the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) shows that totally 34,476,146 tons of iron ore was produced by country's eight major iron ore production units in the past year (ended March 20, 2018).
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IMIDRO
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Iran's crude steel output up by 17% in Q1
Iran's export of minerals tops $2.8bn in Q1
China, Iran's choice for export of minerals
Iran's cement export hits over $159.3mn in Q1
Iran's iron ore concentrate output up by 30%
Iran among top 10 countries with most mineral deposits
Iran to open $5.5-bn projects in mining by March 2019
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Alison was not brought up a Christian and held a constant sense of anxiety from a very young age. She went into paediatrics to pursue her heart for children but when her first patient passed away in front of her, she was shaken to the core. She couldn't shake her feelings of sadness and turmoil until friends started praying for her and an inexplicable peace came over her. She began to pursue God and begin to see Him throughout her story. She shares her story here as an invitation for others to know of the great God she serves.


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In AD 378, the Goths slaughtered the Romans at the battle of Adrianople, not far from Bulgaria but in modern-day Turkey. This combat represents one of the great disasters in the decline of the Roman Empire. What were the Romans to do? After 20 years of mulling, they decided that the only way to deal with upstarts was to try to win them over. Over the past 25 years, Professor Andrew Poulter has been working out the complex story of the transition from the Roman period into Late Antiquity in what is now Bulgaria. And as part of his massive field-work project, he came across Dichin, a site with some surprising evidence: it appears to have been a Roman fort established to contain a band of Gothic Foederati - confederate troupes - with whom the Romans aimed to forge a collaboration. Here we get the full fire and brimstone story of Bulgaria's Gothic rise - and subsequent fall.
Despite spring's dappling sun, blossoming trees, and burgeoning life, this issue offers a raft of features on forts, fighting, and destruction: the very stuff of good archaeology. Thus, we follow the epic destruction of the newly excavated crusaders' fort, Jacob's Ford in Jordan.
We also report on Rohtas Fort in North Pakistan, visited as part of CWA's recent Herculean tour. Rohtas is one of the largest, most magnificent, and yet least well known, forts in the Indian sub-continent. Perplexingly, the mid-16th century fort was built in just 20 years only to be promptly abandoned. After a swift look at Moghal India to shed light on Rohtas' peculiar history, we join the current archaeological excavations at Rohtas to investigate how it might have worked. After all, if this was a fort, then where is its accommodation?
The ambitious Alexander the Great conquered territories as far east as Pakistan back in the 4th century BC. In our Cover Story, archaeologist and documentary-maker Peter Sommer follows 2000 miles of Alexander's journey starting at Troy. Peter travels by foot, just like the great man; although without his penchant for war.
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Issue 17/Denmark/Features
Denmark Underwater, Sunken Stone Age
Ole Grøn and Jørgen Skaarup report on their excavations at a 5000 BC underwater site, Denmark…
Issue 17/Features/Pakistan
Pakistan: Rohtas Fort
CWA reports on the mid 16th century, labyrinthine fort at Rohtas in Pakistan…
Issue 17/Bulgaria/Features
Dichin, Bulgaria: Roman Fort Excavated
A report on a Roman fort, probably built to contain a band of federate troops, excavated at Dichin in Bulgaria…
Issue 17/Features/Turkey
Turkey: in the Footsteps of Alexander
Peter Sommer tells us of his 2000 mile trek following the route of Alexander the Great and his army…
Issue 17/Features/Jordan
Jordan: Death and Destruction at Jacob's Ford
Evidence of death and destruction at the uncompleted Crusaders' fort in Jordan, Jacob's Ford…
Issue 17/Afghanistan
Bamiyan: Destruction of Giant Buddhas
Looting continues in Afghanistan following the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in 2001…
Issue 17/Italy
Herculean Work at Herculaneum
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Eurasa, Colonization by the Slavs
Research in to the colonisation of Eurasia by Slavs…
Issue 17/Turkey
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Richard Hodges looks at the later Roman influence on this, the most famous of the classical Greek cities…
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Unfolding History
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Line baking sheet with parchment paper. In bowl, toss together coconut, coconut oil and maple syrup. Scoop level tablespoons onto prepared sheet. Chill 1 to 2 hr. until set. Store in airtight container in cool, dry place.
•	For festive macaroons, stir 1/4 cup (60 mL) finely crushed candy canes into coconut mixture before scooping.
•	Substitute maple syrup with honey.
•	Sprinkle with sea salt, candy sprinkles, chocolate shavings, chopped nuts or dried cranberries if desired.


Fire District 3 swore in our newest career Firefighter Tony Mitchum at our Board of Commissioners Meeting Monday night. Tony has been a volunteer with Fire District 3 for over 10 years. His family joined us in celebrating his accomplishment. Thank you for your dedication, Tony. Congratulations!


SAVING LIVES AT BIRTH .
The Early Infant Diagnosis Treatment and Care (EIDTC) programme supports programming in maternal, new-born and child health, immunization, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems strengthening, water/sanitation/hygiene, prevention of mother-to-child transmission(PMTCT) of HIV, and pediatric HIV care and treatment. Access of mothers and children to medical services and health care during the first 1000 days of life became an important area for SPF to focus on to develop a systematic care and support strategy that responds to the needs of children under 3 years to ensure their survival and development. The project will create systems that will address and prevent child mortality. The project name is Saving Lives at Birth Programme.
· Improving community responsiveness to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and PMTCT through Community Score Cards (CSC) workshops in all three clinic catchment areas.
· Improving clinic responsiveness to MCH and PMTCT through developing Balanced Score Cards (BSC) which identify and address service quality improvements in paediatric and maternal care.
· Training of Clinic Committees on their roles and responsibilities and induction to Clinic Committee Policy, to strengthen clinic committee accountability to communities.
· Involving of men and male partners in the PMTCT process to support their partners and children and offer HIV counselling and testing (HCT).
· Continuation of defaulter tracing (SMS Life-line) communication between Community Health Workers (CHWs), clinics and PMTCT/ART clients to support defaulter tracing, improve EIDTC and ensure adherence to PMTCT and ART regimes.
· Support of mobile outreach teams (Department of Health Ward based outreach programme).
· Capacity building of 30 Community Health Workers through the Skills to Care (Perinatal Education Trust) Modules as a training method.
· Systematic replication of the programme model into the DOH beyond the 3 clinics.
· Focussed home visits by CHW's on a daily basis to assigned pregnant women and mothers and babies.
o Training of Mentor Mothers.
o CBOs per village identified for collaboration.
o PLA workshops and community score cards agreed upon; and have taken place.
o Database of clinic committee members per clinic collated.
o New Clinic Committees nomination for 2017/18.
o Clinic Committees will be training. (Database of CHWs and their skills levels per clinic obtained.
o Schedule of clinic score card intervention confirmed and actioned upon.
o Training of 30 CHWs, WBOTs Team Members.
o Patient file management system fully functional.
o Provision of weekly defaulter list in place.
o Identified defaulters followed up and returned to care.
o Comprehensive education sessions held per clinic.
o All assigned defaulters traced.
Men spousal support and testing o Encouraging more men to test for HIV /AIDS and to support their spouses to ANC and PNC. o HCT campaigns continues to attract male testing in the villages, but fewer men still visits clinic to support their women and for HIV testing.
Since October 2017 the mentor mom programme has gained momentum, in grouping new moms and pregnant women to attend antenatal and post-natal education sessions conducted by Community Health Workers at village level. Small Projects Foundation champions mentor mother programme to increase the number of pregnant women and new moms to attend antenatal and postnatal sessions that are provided by Community Health Workers at a village level. A number of sessions are covered from this programme, and expert moms are then identified during these sessions to become expert mentor moms, and to run wellness clubs with fellow villagers for the continuation of the programme forward.
These sessions has been very motivational and interesting for new moms and pregnant women as they provide an incentive for those that attend these session in a form of a tray of eggs, to boost their nutrition and improve health and prevent and address nutritional stunting among infants and young children. This programme empowering pregnant women early in gestation through antenatal classes (ANC) and post-natal clases (PNC) and continued support up to 24 months after delivery.
Small Projects Foundation has extended its MOU with the Department of Health, to provide multi-vitamin to pregnant women and new moms, through the partnership with Vitamin Angels. Pregnant women have an increased need for vitamins and minerals throughout pregnancy. Providing supplemental nutrition in the form of a daily multi-vitamin is an excellent way to meet this increased need by ensuring adequate nutrition and improve the pregnancy outcome. The dispensary platform of the multivitamin supplements will be through the mentor mom village based classes that are held every month in the village where this programme takes place.
Small Projects Foundation has in a month of February made fresh contact with the Dimagi team in Cape Town, where Dr Paul Cromhout and Khuzwayo August met with Carlos Yerena and his team. The meeting was about the resuscitation of the Dimagi mobile defaulter tracing in all three clinics funded by One to One. This is a new deliberation from the first attempt that did not work according to the expectation. This time SPF is looking for a working system as a response to defaulter tracking and tracing, to bring patients back to care.
v Create and store information on new registered patients on a weekly basis that are part of the EIDTC and PMTCT project listed in the paper-based form.
The recommendations were that , there has to a person employed to steer this programme in the form of a regional mHealth Coordinator, SPF needs a champion solely dedicated to this project, to guarantee rapid responses and reliability on SPF's side. It is crucial to have this resource within SPF.
The Organisation has since employed Miss Nomfundiso Joseph as a regional Coordinator who is based in Ngqeleni. She has started to engage Clinic Operation Managers and Data Capturers. We have received and approve the proposal. The capacity building on the new app development and the training for Nomfundiso and Community Health Care workers, will commence shortly. Currently Small Projects Foundation has introduced Miss Joseph to SPF Nursing Coordinators Miss Makhalima and Mrs. Mapeyi and she has spent some time with the Community Health Workers. We have introduced her to the Nyandeni IT Manager Miss Nangamso Simouse, and to Miss Ndwandwa, who is currently a sub District Manage. We are due to send her to Cape Town for training on the app with Dimagi.
A challenges facing the project is still the need to increase the number of males coming forward to test for HIV/AIDS, and spousal support to partners. A second one is the delay in resuscitating the Dimagi app. Carlos Yerena of Dimagi has responded back to us on the training and the app development and we are now making progress.
Small Projects Foundation presented the results on the Skills to Care and Mentor Mom Support Group Programme at the South African National Best Practices workshop in Pretoria, on the 16th May 2018. This was well received with much interest shown by the National Department of Health and international Non –Governmental Organisations. The selection of SPF to present this model as best practice is a great honour for the organisation and the project.
Small Projects Foundation, welcomes the continued support and funding of this wonderful programme by One to One Children's Fund and Positive Action for Children's Fund (PACF) in the Ngqeleni cluster clinics under the Nyandeni Sub-District and the OR Tambo District. Our grateful thanks for wonderful support, funding and encouragement. Without your funding and support this programme would not have been possible.
We acknowledge the Eastern Cape Department of Health, Nyandeni Sub-district, Health Staff, clinic staff, community health workers, and other partners for their hard work, support, inspiration and commitment.


Under "Natural wonders: …soldier ants.."
QUOTE: The researchers also discovered that the colony as a whole maintains the balance between soldiers and minor workers by regulating the growth of the rudimentary wing discs in larvae.
DAVID:: This shows an automatic control over soldier numbers by a pheramone release. I can predict the next finding: the ant colony estimates the ratio of soldiers by analyzing the concentration of a pheramone the soldiers release within the colony and adjust fetal ratios appropriately. A great example of design.
Thank you once more for a fascinating article about these wonderful creatures. We need to delve deeper, though. You and the authors talk of the colony maintaining the balance and estimating the ratio, but what is the colony? It's a collection of individual ants. And the ants cooperate to produce every action they perform. Of course you can argue that 3.8 billion years ago your God programmed every aspect of ant society, or that he stepped in to adjust the programme whenever there was a problem. But another possibility is that individual ants pooled their (perhaps God-given) intelligence to invent all the techniques which they now use to enable their society to run as smoothly and efficiently as it does now. In other words, another great example of ant design.
QUOTES: "microglia, immune cells that live in the brain, prune back unwanted synapses by engulfing or "eating" them.
"In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts," meaning the whole has properties its parts do not have. These properties come about because of interactions among the parts."
This fits in neatly with the "Theory of Intelligence" I tried to develop elsewhere, and also with Sheldrake's morphic fields. It may be possible (emphasis on "may") that interactions among the parts of the brain can produce the immaterial intelligent self which dualists call the "soul".
"You could spend a lifetime studying an individual water molecule and never deduce the precise hardness or slipperiness of ice. Watch a lone ant under a microscope for as long as you like, and you still couldn't predict that thousands of them might collaboratively build bridges with their bodies to span gaps. Scrutinize the birds in a flock or the fish in a school and you wouldn't find one that's orchestrating the movements of all the others.
"Nature is filled with such examples of complex behaviors that arise spontaneously from relatively simple elements. Researchers have even coined the term "emergence" to describe these puzzling manifestations of self-organization, which can seem, at first blush, inexplicable. Where does the extra injection of complex order suddenly come from?
"Answers are starting to come into view. One is that these emergent phenomena can be understood only as collective behaviors — there is no way to make sense of them without looking at dozens, hundreds, thousands or more of the contributing elements en masse. These wholes are indeed greater than the sums of their parts.
"Another is that even when the elements continue to follow the same rules of individual behavior, external considerations can change the collective outcome of their actions. For instance, ice doesn't form at zero degrees Celsius because the water molecules suddenly become stickier to one another. Rather, the average kinetic energy of the molecules drops low enough for the repulsive and attractive forces among them to fall into a new, more springy balance. That liquid-to-solid transition is such a useful comparison for scientists studying emergence that they often characterize emergent phenomena as phase changes.
"Spooky as emergence can seem, a formal understanding of it might be within reach. Some researchers are looking for universal rules that would describe emergent phenomena in any system. Statistical procedures like renormalization can identify precisely when and how collective phenomena start to become more significant.
"As a scientific concept, emergence has its critics, who find it too slippery and too uninformative to be useful. But if nothing else, emergence helps to illustrate why scientists find hierarchies of physical laws and processes operating at different scales throughout nature."
Comment: It is not 'spooky'. We know how ice works. We enjoy a symphony from 50+ coordinating members of an orchestra. What emerges is what we hear. Of course it emerges. Life emerges from all of the coordinated activity by all its cells, but we still don't understand its 'conductor'.
This is not an answer, it is a definition of emergence!
Precisely. Nobody knows how 'emergence' works. These extracts (thank you editing the article) give us no answers at all, but I do think emergence is 'spooky', because we can't see a conductor that coordinates the actions of all the intelligent players, and we don't know who composed the symphony in the first place.
Ugh, this image is becoming too laboured! I'll stick to the fact that nobody knows how emergence works!
DAVID:: It [emergence]is not 'spooky'. We know how ice works. We enjoy a symphony from 50+ coordinating members of an orchestra. What emerges is what we hear. Of course it emerges. Life emerges from all of the coordinated activity by all its cells, but we still don't understand its 'conductor'.
DAVID: Ah! I bring up God and you run. All of the biological simultaneous reactions in coordination create life. We can stop with that.
No, it is the orchestral image I run from. We have intelligent players (but you don't believe in intelligent cells), we have a known and visible conductor (not visible or known in cell coordination), and we have an unseen composer who created all the instructions (a nice image for your God, but you think God is the conductor). Too messy.
dhw: No, it is the orchestral image I run from. We have intelligent players (but you don't believe in intelligent cells), we have a known and visible conductor (not visible or known in cell coordination), and we have an unseen composer who created all the instructions (a nice image for your God, but you think God is the conductor). Too messy.
Messy is your vision of God enjoying the spectacle of the bush of life and inventing that bush just so He could watch the spectacle of everyone eating each other.
DAVID: Messy is your vision of God enjoying the spectacle of the bush of life and inventing that bush just so He could watch the spectacle of everyone eating each other.
It is you who insist that the purpose of the spectacle is simply to create organisms to eat one another until 3.5+ billion years have passed. Personally, I see a great deal more in the spectacle: I see sheer beauty as well as sheer horror; I see love as well as suffering (and I'm not just talking about the human world); I see astonishing feats of ingenuity. And you yourself have expressed the view that your hidden God watches it all with interest. Why do you find this messy?
dhw: It is you who insist that the purpose of the spectacle is simply to create organisms to eat one another until 3.5+ billion years have passed. Personally, I see a great deal more in the spectacle: I see sheer beauty as well as sheer horror; I see love as well as suffering (and I'm not just talking about the human world); I see astonishing feats of ingenuity. And you yourself have expressed the view that your hidden God watches it all with interest. Why do you find this messy?
What is messy is your constant humanizing God's thinking in your interpretation. As I've noted all along is, if evolution has to last 3.5-8 billion years, as God's choice of method of creation of organisms, then everyone has to be present and in balance to supply the food. I have agreed that God watches with interest as He evolves everyone, but with involved interest as a creator, not a spectator.
DAVID: What is messy is your constant humanizing God's thinking in your interpretation. As I've noted all along is, if evolution has to last 3.5-8 billion years, as God's choice of method of creation of organisms, then everyone has to be present and in balance to supply the food. I have agreed that God watches with interest as He evolves everyone, but with involved interest as a creator, not a spectator.
As regards "humanizing", see my post under "Big brain evolution". You keep talking as if evolution has finished, which is your assumption, and it is not your God's choice of method of creating organisms that is the problem: you keep telling us that it was God's choice to take 3.5+ billion years to create us, and so he created millions of other life forms so that they could eat one another before he created us. If God exists, then of course he is the creator, but what makes you think a creator cannot also be a spectator watching the spectacle he creates?
dhw: As regards "humanizing", see my post under "Big brain evolution". You keep talking as if evolution has finished, which is your assumption, and it is not your God's choice of method of creating organisms that is the problem: you keep telling us that it was God's choice to take 3.5+ billion years to create us, and so he created millions of other life forms so that they could eat one another before he created us. If God exists, then of course he is the creator, but what makes you think a creator cannot also be a spectator watching the spectacle he creates?
Of course He is a spectator to His creation, but there is no evidence He desired a spectacle for His 'enjoyment', one of your favorite humanizing suppositions about God. I'm simply in interpreting what history shows us.


Out at the 2018 Moab Easter Jeep Safari, Cindy and I got a chance to see some of the cool new products that EVO Manufacturing had installed on their Jeep JL Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited. These parts include their all new JL Wrangler bolt on coil over kit that offers a whopping 15.5″ of vertical travel, super clean long arm kit complete with high clearance brackets, redesigned rocker guards and front bumper that allows for the installation of a WARN Zeon 10 installed down between the frame rails. In this episode of the JL JOURNAL, you get to see these new products up close and learn more about them from Mel Wade himself. We hope you enjoy.
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Say Good-By to Arctic Foxes?
Julia Whitty
Arctic foxes failed to retreat to cooler climes when global temperatures rose in the past. A new study dampens hope that species will be able to adapt to climate change by moving towards the poles this time around, reports Nature. Comparing DNA from living arctic foxes with DNA extracted from fossils indicates that, at the end of the last ice age, foxes that lived in mid-latitude Europe simply died out rather than move north. The same could be happening now. Today, Alopex lagopus, is restricted to northern tundra in Scandinavia and Siberia, while 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, it lived in what's now Belgium, Germany and southwestern Russia. So will Arctic foxes join polar bears and half of all Earth's species threatened by the mass global extinction already underway, and hugely amplified by global warming? Maybe, says the latest installment of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. Will our species ever do one righteous thing about it? —Julia Whitty


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Shoppingmall The Heuvel, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Project Heuvel, Eindhoven
Client CBRE Global Investors
Location Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Architect Dunnett Craven Architects & van Aken Architecten
Contractor Strukton Van Straten BV
Entrance Royal Prestige 4200 AYN MCW FP30 revolving Door
Dimensions Ø 4200 mm, height 3550 mm
World first fire proof revolving door
Dunnett Craven Architects & van Aken Architecten
Located in the Centre of Eindhoven, a city in the south of The Netherlands, an existing mall, including shops, restaurants, a casino and music hall, takes on an entirely new expression – one which aims to push a complete shopping experience to its visitors: "We think that shopping in the future is going to be much more about the experience rather than just the product you buy and this is what we're trying to create – starting from the moment you enter the Heuvel from the iconic Bauporte revolving door – it's the first door in the world to be built in this way," explains project manager David Visser from client CBRE Global Investors.
The redesign by UK-based architects Dunnett Craven and Dutch practice van Aken Architecten included a new floor and ceiling, new escalators, LED lighting and refitting the entrances (click here to see total project results). It was required to fit new fire and safety regulations, which had dramatically changed since the building's construction in 1992. One of the main challenges was how to create the entrance from the car park, the largest in the centre housing around 1200 parking spaces, to the shopping mall. "The current entrance's revolving door was mechanical, too small and awkwardly positioned, and a simple replacement would not suffice due to current fire regulations. "We needed to meet a 30-minute fireproof door regulation and we didn't want any exhaust air from the car park to enter the retail areas so we needed an extremely functional solution". At the same time, the entrance was an opportunity to make an impression on our visitors – so we needed a highly aesthetic solution," explains James Craven from Dunnett Craven Architects.
Redefining the entrance
Due to fire regulations the clients and architects needed a revolving glass fire resistant door, requiring a special solution owing to the 3.6m height of the door. Bauporte worked with two glass companies to produce a 30-minute fireproof glass solution. "I was searching for a company that could make this one-of-a-kind door and that's where Bauporte came in.
They had a smart idea that would achieve fire standards but they went two steps further than we anticipated. They designed a bespoke fire-resistant glass door with collapsible wings and ambient LED lighting in the ceiling," explains Visser.
"The local fire department said that our solution was far better than any possibilities they had imagined." Craven adds: "The environmental control was important and the Bauporte team produced thermal studies to prove that the correct temperatures could be controlled directly behind the doors on a winter's day."
As well as this unique Bauporte door, the architects are making plans to use these fireproof revolving doors in other parts of the project – reinforcing how continuity in extraordinary quality can add to a unique shopping experience.
The automatic 30 minutes Fire Proof Royal Prestige Revolving Door (RP 4200 AYN MCW FP30) is made with a stainless steel base construction with stainless steel mirror finish cladding.
It has collapsible wings, acting as an emergency exit if calamities occur or in case of fire. At night, the door is able to automatically close against fire and together with a curved drum wall creates a 30-minute fireproof separation.
Additionally, Bauporte developed an overpressure system, in the form of a special air curtain at the base of the door, to prevent exhaust air from the car park entering the mall.
"Heuvel will show what a visual and technological upgrade can do in terms of user comfort and functionality, making it a top example for other retail destinations," says Visser.
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Taylor Swift's Songwriter of the Year award is extra special in 2020
Taylor Swift's Apple Music Awards Songwriter of the Year honor is really special for the Cardigan star because her talents for tunes have helped keep her in touch with fans during an awful 2020.
The star filmed an acceptance speech for her latest gong win on Thursday (November 19, 2020) and confessed it's an award that means an awful lot to her.
"Winning Songwriter of the Year in any capacity in any year would be so exciting, but I think it's really special because this particular year was a year where I really feel like songwriting was the one thing that was able to keep me connected to fans that I wasn't able to see in concert," the Love Story hitmaker said in her speech.
Apple announces the 2nd annual Apple Music Awards
"I wasn't able to reach out my hand and touch somebody's hand in the front row, I wasn't able to take pictures with fans, so this, it means a lot to me. My songwriting, and the way that fans respond to the songs I write, and the kinda dialogue back and forth, and that kind of emotional exchange, is what I feel like has really kept me going this year (sic). And I really want to say thank you to the fans for that."
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A Ilha das Laranjeiras localiza-se entre o sul da ilha de Santa Catarina e o continente, no litoral do estado de Santa Catarina, no Brasil. Integra o território do município de Florianópolis.

Dista pouco mais de 400 metros de uma pequena praia na localidade de Tapera, próxima à Base Aérea de Florianópolis.

Ver também
 Hidrografia
 Lista de ilhas de Santa Catarina

Laranjeiras
Geografia de Florianópolis