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Summary for 627 13th AVE / Parcel ID 1336300330 / Inv #
Historic Name: Ballinger, Marie, House Common Name: Japonesque bungalow
Style: Arts & Crafts Neighborhood: Capitol Hill
This house is perhaps Seattle's best example of a "Japonesque" bungalow. The architect and original owner have not been identified; the only early owner who is known was Marie Leghorn Ballinger who owned the house from 1939 until 1950. Despite the fact that it has been altered with asbestos brick cladding on the sides (from the 1960s) and newer windows, its Japanese-inlfuenced features remain intact. It is currently used as a duplex. After the opening of Japan to the outside world in 1853, Japanese design was embraced by numerous architects and decorative artists in the West. The Japanese-influenced Aesthetic movement of the late 19th century evolved into Arts & Crafts design in the eary 20th century. Japanese influence was particularly profound in the decorative arts, but is also very apparent in the architecture of Greene and Greene, which influenced the development of the bungalow. Later, Frank Lloyd Wright became the most prominent Western proponent of Japanese design. This house reflects its Japanese influence fairly directly, with layers of upward-turned roofs giving it a pagoda-like appearance. The grade-level entry porch with a Japanese-style balustrade and square columns enhances the design. This narrow street curves with the topography, giving it a distinctly different feel from the rest of this part of the neighborhood. However, it is in one of the original Capitol Hill plats of James A. Moore, who gave the area its name. In 1900 Moore, who had already developed other Seattle neighborhoods, purchased and began platting 160 acres, roughly between 11th and 20th avenues, from Roy Street north to Galer. Before selling lots for construction, he graded and paved the streets (eliminating the dust that plagued many sections), installed sidewalks, water mains and sewer lines, and planned for street lights and telephone poles. Lots went on sale in 1901, heavily promoted to attract local business leaders as residents. This was the first part of Seattle developed in this way. Moore did not build houses for sale, but sold improved lots to builders or to people who then hired a builder to construct a home to their own taste. Covenants in most of the area required that homes cost at least $3,000 to build and be at least 24 feet from the sidewalk. The 800 lots sold quickly to company owners, managers, executives, bankers, doctors, and attorneys. The lots grew in value by 300% over the next 12 years.
This bungalow has a gable-front roof with a sweeping roof covering the full-width porch, which has a series of squaare columns. Between the porch roof and the gable end is another pent roof. Both of the lower roofs have deep bracketed eaves with corners that turn up at an angle, giving the house its distinctive Japanese appearance. The roof's rear corners also turn up at an angle. The porch is at grade level, with an Asian-influenced railing. The house is on a slope, with a second level below grade. It is currently clad with asbestos siding and has newer windows.
Detail for 627 13th AVE / Parcel ID 1336300330 / Inv #
Status: Yes - Hold
Cladding(s): Shingle - Concrete/Asbestos, Wood Foundation(s): Concrete - Poured
Roof Type(s): Gable Roof Material(s): Asphalt/Composition-Shingle
Building Type: Domestic - Single Family Plan: Rectangular
Structural System: Balloon Frame/Platform Frame No. of Stories: one & ½
Unit Theme(s): Architecture/Landscape Architecture
Changes to Windows: Moderate
Changes to Original Cladding: Moderate
Williams, Jacqueline B. The Hill with a Future: Seattle's Capitol Hill 1900-1946. Seattle: CPK Ink, 2001.
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Photo taken Mar 14, 2006


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Here to discuss bees, beekeeping and efforts to protect and preserve the bee population are owner of TwoHoneys Bee Co., Liz Tilton; one of the founders of Pollen Nation, a group of beekeepers at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Melanie Evans; and Co-Founder and Beekeeper at Queen City Bee Co., Carlier Smyth.
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Professor Peter Olufemi Adeniyi is the chairman of the Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform (PTCLR) inaugurated by the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in 2009 as a forerunner to the National Land Commission.
In this interview with BERTRAM NWANNEKANMA, he spoke on the controverisal Land Use Act, the dangers in retaining the 40 -year-old legislation in the constitution, dwindling fortunes of surveying in Nigeria and the need to accord the profession its pride of place to guarantee development among other issues.
The Land Use Act has been criticized by professionals in the built environment for fuelling underdevelopment in the country. Recently, surveyors also came hard on the Act saying it is not favouring the profession in Nigeria. Do you subscribe to the notion that?
Well to some extent. When the law said you should set up Land Use Allocation Committee and specified members of that committee, one will have expected that surveyors would have been part of them but surveyors were not there. There is no way you will make such a law that requires special and locational information that you will not put a surveyor there. In any case, there is no way, you will plan a place once the demand from you is on survey plan, you need a surveyor to come and do it. So to the extent that a committee that is in charge of land use allocation omitted the land surveyor, it is not good. So to that extent, yes, of course the land use act does not really favour most people and in fact it is already outdated.
What is your committee doing about it?
We are working on it. You know when you don't have regulations anybody can continue to do whatever they like. The land use act said the council of state should make regulations that will guide the implementations of that law. That law is 40 years old and the council of state has not made any regulation and so everybody is doing whatever they want to do.
A typical example is Lagos. The land use act assigned specific jobs to local government areas that they should manage the local areas but in Lagos it is taken over by the governor by saying that the whole of Lagos is urban. Of course, we know that the whole Lagos is not urban. The fact that there is no regulation and then the implication of Section 3 of the law, that says the country is divided arbitrarily into urban and rural , and that the council of state shall specify the criteria to be used in doing so. But up till today, it has not done it. You know it is true of anything that if people who are to guide, if they are not guiding, then the people will continue to do what they think that is right in their own judgment.
Are you saying that non-implementation of land use law or the obnoxious part of that law is responsible for the hopelessness among the professionals or people?
Not that alone. It is not the land use act alone that is leading to hopelessness. There are a lot of things involved. But the land use act, the way it is couched was a reprieve for the military leaders at that time. By saying that the whole land in Nigeria particularly in any state is vested in the governor in respect of the people. What happened at that time was that the military would not want to go to any civilian to say, I want that land, they just want the authority to take it. But now that we have a civilian government, why should we keep it that way and yet you will still see posters saying, this land belongs to this family, trespassers will be prosecuted. So you can see the confusion created by that particular law. Then at the same time, not being able to give certificate to individuals who own lands is a big problem. In fact that has pauperize the people. Because, if you donít have certificates over your land, you cannot use that land as collateral. This is number one. You cannot borrow any money to expand your business; it devalues the property because you donít have it. That is what is happening now, though they are saying Lagos is the best in Nigeria but you can see a lot of buildings in the city that are yet to be titled. Government is losing revenue. In fact one of the problems that is facing the state is poor management of the land because people would have been generating a lot of revenue from using their land. If you empower somebody, that person empowered would be able to pay tax, able to do other things and at the same time, government would be able to raise sufficient money to prosecute the infrastructural needs. So it works hand in hand.
Even at the level of obtaining documents for your land, you still find it difficult to use it as a collateral in most of our mortgage institutions in Nigeria. The mortgage system does not seem to favour anybody to take his property as collateral; because there is no mortgage institution in the country that is sub-double digit, what is the way out?
Of course, we know that government is trying to work on reducing the tax you pay when you take a mortgage but it is a multiple problem we have, if you donít have title on your land, you cannot even go for mortgage. It is a condition for you and getting that certificate is terribly expensive. It is too expensive for majority of Nigerians and that is where the government needs to be talked to but you know in Nigeria, things will be happening and we remained unconcerned. If it does not concern you immediately, you don't take a step. We need to take a step because Section 43(2) of the law says, it is the governor that should specify the rates to pay for such things, you see the governors, they look at the few people that they can get and raise the rate in order to increase their revenues where as instead of increasing the rate for only 1000 people you can bring the rate down for let say a million or two million and that would be predictable on what you can be collecting every year. But they don't see it that way and again we donít have shared value in this country. The Governor just comes in and he wants money and so it takes whatever. If we have shared value or if we love our people, we will make regulations that will make things easy for them.
In what ways can we change this scenario?
Well, attempts have ben made in the past. I wish Yaradua were alive today; he tried when he was there. He pointed about 14 sections of the law that are not working for the people but of course he died. Since that time, efforts have been made even in the National Assembly. You know when you want the change in the law; it has to go through legislation because they put the law in the constitution. We are enslaved to our own law. I have never seen a country where the citizens are slaves to their own laws. You made the law, the law is not working, you said it is in the constitution but when you take it in, the governors will work on the legislature, they almost bring all those people there and because they are enjoying it and so when it is amended you have to send the amended law to the states, once it gets to the states, they bring it down. So it becomes very difficult. Unless Nigerians come together to really fight it because the law is not working for us. It is not working for anybody. It is not working for government but stupidly; they thought it is the best thing that would happen to them.
The use of technology among professionals in the built environment seems to be low. In what ways can surveyors being at the apex in the chain change the situation?
That is one of the reasons why the Nigeria Institution of Surveyors wants to have a talk on contemporary Geospatial technology. We need a lot of works to do in terms of technology. Technology is changing so fast and we are slow in catching on. Will you believe that there is no national policy on surveying and mapping. We only have survey Coordination Act, which is outdated by now but we have been trying to do that. We want a national geospatial data infrastructure but since 2003, they have been working on it. They passed the law in 2010 but up till now nothing has happened. So this just left the society to be doing whatsoever they want to do. We are yet to get government that really understands the critical role of surveying. The structure of surveying in the country now does not allow the advancement of the field. The structure is too bulky. If you compare it with South Africa, we know what I am talking about.


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Advanced Tornado/Hurricane Shelter Panels from Recycled Materials
James Ayre
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have designed new storm shelter panels made from recycled materials that have passed the National Storm Shelter Association's tornado threat test. The new panels are a part of a new high-tech shelter they are designing.
For the live test, "15-pound two-by-fours fired from a pressure cannon were unable to penetrate the panels, made of recycled materials, in a dozen attempts." The two-by-fours struck the panels at around 100 mph — thats the speed that projectiles usually exit a tornado that is spinning with 200 mph winds. A tornado with those wind speeds would rate as an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, and could level even well-built homes.
By passing the NSSA's tornado test, the panels also surpass the NSSA hurricane threat standard, which fires 9-pound two-by-fours at speeds of 60 to 75 mph.
The completion of this test is the first step toward commercial use, which the team is hoping to achieve by the 2013 tornado season. The final test will happen this fall as the fully assembled structure undergoes testing.
"Our effort to apply modern materials science to storm shelters started in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and grew more urgent after we saw 62 Alabama tornadoes in one day this past April," says Uday Vaidya, Ph.D., a professor within the UAB Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the project leader. In 2011, tornadoes caused 551 deaths nationally — including 245 in Alabama — and property damage exceeding $28 billion.
"With an average of more than 1,370 tornadoes per year for the past three years in the United States, it's time we changed they way storm shelters are built with the goal of saving more lives," Vaidya says.
The panels are made of thermoplastic and fiberglass resins and fibers resulting in a stronger per-unit density than the steel used in current shelters, as well as weighing 80 percent less. The same materials are currently being used in the latest armored military vehicles.
The primary source material is discarded liner that was previously used to wrap offshore oil-rig pipes. "Recycled materials used in the experimental phase itself kept thousands of pounds of waste from landfills."
Source: University of Alabama Birmingham
Image Credits: UAB
In this article:Recycling, Waste Reduction
Written By James Ayre
James Ayre's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy.
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Classical music: UW-Madison cellist Parry Karp and his longtime collaborator pianist Eli Kalman perform a FREE mostly French recital this Thursday night
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The new Hamel Music Center, located at 740 University Avenue next to the newer wing of the Chazen Museum of Art, hasn't even officially opened yet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, but already it is beginning to feel like the new normal.
Adding to that feeling is a FREE chamber music recital at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday night, Oct. 24, in Collins Recital Hall.
The always-reliable performers and longtime music partners are UW-Madison cellist Parry Karp (below left), who is an artist-in-residence and the longest-serving member of the Pro Arte Quartet in its more than a century-long history; and collaborative pianist Eli Kalman (below right), who received his doctorate from the UW-Madison and now teaches at the UW-Oshkosh.
The modern program from the first half of the 20th century features mostly French music with some rarely heard works:
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937, below) – Sonata in One Movement in F-sharp Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 46 (1922)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975, below) – Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 (1934)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921, below)) – Sonata No. 2 in F Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 123 (1905). You can hear the opening movement in the YouTube video at the bottom.
For more information and extensive biographies of the performers, go to: https://www.music.wisc.edu/event/parry-karp-cello-with-eli-kalman-piano/
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Classical music: This weekend guest violinist Rachel Barton Pine solos with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in an all-Russian program
This weekend the acclaimed Chicago violinist Rachel Barton Pine (below) makes her debut with the Madison Symphony Orchestra playing Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor.
The concert by the orchestra (below, in a photo by Peter Rodgers) opens with Prokofiev's Suite from Lieutenant Kijé and concludes with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9.
Performances will be held in Overture Hall, 201 State St., on Friday night, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday night, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20, at 2:30 p.m. in Overture Hall. Tickets are $19-$95. See below for details.
"There will be great discoveries in our all-Russian concert, starting with the MSO debut of virtuoso violinist Rachel Barton Pine playing the Khachaturian Violin Concerto, a big, bold and beautiful work in its MSO premiere," said MSO music director and conductor John DeMain (below, in a photo by Greg Anderson). Lieutenant Kijé is sure to delight you with its wonderful melodies and infectious rhythms. Shostakovich has become a favorite with our audiences, and his ninth symphony is delightfully upbeat."
Lieutenant Kijé is the fictional protagonist of an anecdote about the reign of Emperor Paul I of Russia. The story was used as the basis of a novella by Yury Tynyanov published in 1928 and filmed in 1934, with music by Sergei Prokofiev (below). The plot is a satire on bureaucracy and is often parodied in fictional works making fun of bureaucracies, most famously in the form of the M*A*S*H television episode "Tuttle," featuring a fictional captain of similar provenance. (You can hear the popular "Troika" episode in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
Many of the themes in Violin Concerto in D minor are evocative of the native Armenia of Aram Khachaturian (below). Although the folk melodies aren't played explicitly, one can hear the Armenian roots through the oriental essence of the scales and the rhythmic range of the featured dances. The piece won the Stalin Prize in 1941, becoming one of Khachaturian's favorites.
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9 is entirely unlike his other symphonies. In fact, it completely disregards the expectations for its programmatic elements. Shostakovich's prior two symphonies are thematically tied to the ongoing war, therefore the public presumed that the ninth symphony would be a grand culmination to Stalin and mark the end of World War II. Instead, the composer (below) produced a short, neo-classical work that generated an abundance of controversy.
ABOUT RACHEL BARTON PINE
In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine (below) – who has performed in Madison before with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra — has an extraordinary ability to connect with people.
Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classic and contemporary works, her performances combine her innate gift for emotional communication and her scholarly fascination with historical research. She plays with passion and conviction, thrilling audiences worldwide with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and infectious joy in music-making.
A prolific recording artist, she has also championed the works of female composers and African-American composers.
Pine was also recently named the recipient of the Cedille Records Musical Partnership Award for her Rachel Barton Pine Foundation. The Foundation was recognized as an organization that has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the classical music community in Chicago. Cedille noted the Foundation's "support of the Chicago musical community's most valuable asset — its musicians and composers."
Pine was presented with the award by U.S Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg whose son, Jim Ginsburg, founded Cedille Records. Pine began her Foundation in 2001 to provide instruments and instruction to children who might not otherwise be able to afford them.
You can read the Artist Story online about how Rachel Barton Pine overcame severe injuries and her own personal adversity to achieve her goals: https://madisonsymphony.org/19-20-artist-story-rachel-barton-pine-overcomes-adversity/
CONCERT, TICKET AND EVENT DETAILS
The lobby opens 90 minutes prior to each concert.
One hour before each performance, retired MSO trombonist and UW-Whitewater professor Michael Allsen (below, in a photo by Katrin Talbot) will lead a 30-minute Prelude Discussion in Overture Hall to enhance concertgoers' understanding and listening experience. It is free to ticket holders.
The MSO recommends that concert attendees arrive early for each performance to make sure they have time to pass through Overture Center's security stations, and so they can experience the Prelude Discussion.
Program notes for the concerts are available online: http://bit.ly/msooct19programnotes.
Single Tickets are $19-$95 each and are on sale now at: https://madisonsymphony.org/event/rachel-barton-pine-plays-khachaturian/through the Overture Center Box Office at 201 State Street, or by calling the Box Office at (608) 258-4141. Fees apply to online/phone sales.
Groups of 10 or more can save 25% by calling the MSO office at (608) 257-3734. For more information, visit, https://www.madisonsymphony.org/groups.
Student rush tickets can be purchased in person on the day of the concert at the Overture Center Box Office at 201 State Street. Students must show a valid student ID and can receive up to two $15 or $20 tickets. More information is at: https://www.madisonsymphony.org/studentrush
Seniors age 62 and up receive 20% savings on advance and day-of-concert ticket purchases in select areas of the hall.
Flex-ticket booklets of 8-10 vouchers for 19-20 symphony subscription concerts are available. Learn more at: https://madisonsymphony.org/flex
Subscriptions for the 2019–2020 season are available now. Learn more at: https://madisonsymphony.org/19-20
Discounted seats are subject to availability, and discounts may not be combined.
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Classical music: Soprano Sarah Brailey and nine UW-Madison cellists team up for the FREE concert of songs at Grace Presents this Saturday at noon
This Saturday, Sept. 21, at noon, a FREE one-hour program in the Grace Presents series will feature soprano Sarah Brailey (below) in "My Loyal Heart," a recital of songs by Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, Guillaume de Machaut, Dmitri Shostakovich and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
The concert is at Grace Episcopal Church (below), located downtown on the Capitol Square at 116 West Washington Avenue.
Brailey is an acclaimed professional singer who often tours and who is doing graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Mead Witter School of Music.
Brailey will be joined by friends and colleagues. They include UW baritone Paul Rowe and members of the UW Madison Cello Ensemble, featuring nine local Madison cellists who include Grace Presents program coordinator James Waldo. (Below is a summer cello choir at the UW-Madison from several years ago.)
The works will be sung in Russian, Portuguese, and both modern and medieval French.
Here is an introduction from Waldo:
"It is often said that the cello is the instrument most like the human voice.
"My Loyal Heart," devotes an entire program to music for soprano Sarah Brailey and cello from the 14th century to the 20th century.
"It opens with Arvo Pärt's L'abbé Agathon about the legend of Father Agathon from the 4th century book "The Desert Fathers," followed by a new arrangement by Brailey for soprano and cello trio of Guillaume de Machaut's elegant love song Se quanque amours puet donner.
"This intimately ardent piece is followed by a more tragic love story, that of Shakespeare's Ophelia, in the opening movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok.
"The program continues in Russian with Sir John Tavener's powerful and darkly spiritual Akhmatova Songs with poetry by Russian-Soviet Modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova.
"The concert concludes with the hauntingly beautiful and famous first movement and the playful concluding dance of Bachianas Brasileiras (Brazilian Bach Suites) No.5 for soprano and eight cellos by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. (You can hear the Villa-Lobos aria in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
"Text and translations will be provided.
"This program will not be performed anywhere else in Madison."
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Classical music: The acclaimed Isthmus Vocal Ensemble performs old and new music this Friday night and Sunday afternoon when its new director also makes his debut
Since it was founded in 2002, the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble (below) has been critically acclaimed for the concert it puts together each summer in just a couple of weeks or less. (You can hear a sample in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
This summer, the group will be under the baton of its new artistic director, Michael McGaghie (below), who will be making his performing debut with the group.
McGaghie directs choral activities at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and also conducts the Harvard Glee Club Alumni Chorus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The program this weekend ranges from the 16th century and early Baroque to the contemporary.
It will begin with works from established masters such as Thomas Tallis, Heinrich Schütz and the Soviet conductor-composer Nikolai Golovanov.
It will then explore works from contemporary composers such as Jocelyn Hagen, Morten Lauridsen and Dale Trumbore in a program called Horizons. (Sorry, The Ear has not received the titles of specific works on the program.)
Admission is $20 for adults, $10 for students. Tickets can be bought at the door or ordered at the links below.
Concert venues are:
This Friday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lutheran Church of the Living Christ, 110 North Gammon Road, on Madison's west side. For tickets, go to:
https://isthmusvocalens.yapsody.com/event/index/282736/ive-2018-friday-concert
This Sunday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m. in Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 East Gorham Street. For tickets, go to:
https://isthmusvocalens.yapsody.com/event/index/282791/ive-2018-sunday-concert
For more about the impressive background of the new director, go to: https://www.isthmusvocalensemble.org/artisticdirector/
For more about the past performances and the organization, including sound samples to listen to and how to join or support the group, go to: https://www.isthmusvocalensemble.org
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Classical music: Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky has died at 87
This past Saturday, the great Soviet and Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky (below) died at 87.
A friend of the blog said to The Ear, "He certainly deserves a mention."
The Friend is right. Indeed he does.
In fact, Rozhdestvensky he deserves more than a mention.
The Ear isn't sure why the West generally knows the names of Russian instrumentalists – pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, violinists David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan, cellist (later turned conductor) Mstislav Rostropovich – more than its knows the names of conductors.
Perhaps it has to do with infrequent touring and the priority in using non-Russian conductors by major recording labels.
But as far as Russian conductors go, Gennady Rozhdestvensky was the last of The Great Four that The Ear recalls.
The other three were: Kirill Kondrashin, who conducted Van Cliburn in his victory concerts in Moscow and New York City and died at 67 in 1986; Yevgeny Mvrinsky, who died at 84 in 1988; and Yevgeny Svetlanov, who died at 73 in 2002.
Rozhdestvensky (below, conducting in his young years) was particularly well-known for his championing the music of his compatriot Dmitri Shostakovich both in his homeland and in the West.
(You can hear some of his interpretation of music by Shostakovich, which many considered definitive and revelatory, in the YouTube video of the electrifying finale of the well-known Symphony No. 5 at the bottom.)
Here is his entry in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Rozhdestvensky
Here is the obituary by The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/obituaries/gennady-rozhdestvensky-russian-conductor-dies-at-87.html
Here is the obituary by the BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44505749
And here is an obituary by The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/17/gennady-rozhdestvensky-obituary
Do you ever hear Gennady Rozhdestvensky live?
Do you have any comment about him?
Please leave it the comment section.
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Classical music: Is Prokofiev more Romantic than modernist? Hear for yourself at the concert Friday night by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and violinist Giora Schmidt. Plus, the UW Symphony Orchestra performs a FREE concert Thursday night
ALERTS: This Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in Mills Hall, the UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra will perform a FREE concert under the baton of alumnus and guest conductor Mikko Rankin Utevsky, the founder and director of the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra (MAYCO). The program features the Symphony No. 5 by Franz Schubert; "Entr'acte" by Caroline Shaw; and the "Holberg Suite" by Edvard Grieg.
The week's FREE Friday Noon Musicale at the First Unitarian Society of Madison, 900 University Bay Drive, features guitarist Steve Waugh and flutist Sridhar Bagavathula playing music by Frederic Chopin, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzolla, Francisco Tarrega, Francois Morel and Jerome Kern. The concert runs from 12:15 to 1 p.m.
Sometimes the frame helps to define the picture, to reveal or at least reinforce the picture's meaning.
Such is the case with this Friday night's appealing and stand-out concert by the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra with conductor Andrew Sewell and Israeli violin soloist Giora Schmidt (below, in a photo by David Getzschman).
The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in The Capitol Theater of the Overture Center, 201 State Street.
Tickets are $15-$80 with student tickets available for $10. For more information about the performers and the program, as well as how to obtain tickets, go to: https://wisconsinchamberorchestra.org/performances/masterworks-ii-3/
The program features the "Petite Symphonie" (Small Symphony) for winds by the Romantic French composer Charles Gounod (below), who is much better known for and more often performed for his operas "Faust" and "Romeo and Juliet."
Then there is the melodic, popular and often performed Serenade for Strings by the Russian arch-Romantic Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (below). Like so much Tchaikovsky – both his Piano Concerto No. 1 and his Violin Concerto, now staples of the repertoire, were deemed unplayable when first composed – the Serenade can sound less challenging than it really is.
In between comes a modern masterpiece that The Ear is especially fond of: The Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor by the Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev (below).
And that is where it gets especially interesting.
Prokofiev is often lumped together with his Russian contemporary Dmitri Shostakovich (below). Both were virtuoso pianists. Both faced hardships from the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. And while it is true that some of Prokofiev's music shares a certain spikiness as well as harmonic darkness and dissonance with that of his contemporary, the pairing can be misleading.
To The Ear, much more — maybe even most — of Prokofiev's music shares a lot more with the late Russian Romantics, including Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Roughly and with some exceptions, he sees Prokofiev as modern Russia's Mozart for his melodic clarity, and Shostakovich as modern Russia's Beethoven for his harmonic thickness.
The Ear doesn't know if that same point is intended and was in mind when maestro Andrew Sewell (below) set up the concert, but he suspects it was because Sewell is a canny and intelligent programmer.
But intentional or not, no matter: the point stands.
If a single moment offers proof, The Ear would single out the opening of the slow movement of the Prokofiev concerto.
It has a beautiful melodic line, moving harmonies and a hypnotic clock-like rhythm to a theme-and-variation development that sounds unmistakably modern but accessibly modern in the same way that the never-fail Violin Concerto by the American composer Samuel Barber does.
You can hear the second movement in a YouTube video at the bottom and make up your own mind. It is performed by the way by the great David Oistrakh for whom Prokofiev composed the concerto.
Suffice it to say that The Ear has never heard that movement without the little hairs on the back of his neck standing up, much like happens with the famous 18th Variation in Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" or the opening of the first and second movements of the Barber Violin Concerto.
If you know that music by Prokofiev, you will be happy you hear it again. And if you don't already know it, you will be forever grateful to have made its acquaintance.
Anyway, The Ear will assume that the programming was deliberate and establishes for the audience a context for the Prokofiev, which is the most important and substantial work on the program.
And Giora Schmidt (below),k who is making his Madison debut, certainly sounds like the kind of virtuoso who will do justice to the work. Just read the critics' raves on his website:
https://www.gioraschmidt.com
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IMF Staff Completes Virtual Mission for the 2021 Article IV Consultation and Third Review of the Extended Credit Facility for The Gambia
#National News
End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country.
The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF's Executive Board. Based on the preliminary findings of this mission, staff will prepare a report that, subject to management approval, will be presented to the IMF's Executive Board for discussion and decision.
The economy is showing some early signs of recovery, but the third wave of COVID-19 is weighing on a vigorous rebound. The government continues to take the necessary measures to fight the pandemic.
Performance under the ECF-supported program has been good. Budget management remains prudent and monetary policy is appropriately accommodative. Structural reforms are advancing, albeit with delays in some areas.
Accelerating the vaccine rollout, better targeting of social programs, improving the business environment, unlocking the potential of digitalization, and adopting gender and climateoriented policies will support an inclusive, robust, and sustainable recovery.
Washington, DC – [September 22, 2021]: A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Mr. Ivohasina Fizara Razafimahefa, Mission Chief for The Gambia, held a virtual mission with the Gambian authorities during September 9-22, 2021 to conduct the 2021 Article IV consultation and discuss the third review of The Gambia's economic program supported by the IMF's Extended Credit Facility (ECF).
1 At the conclusion of the mission, Mr. Razafimahefa issued the following statement:
"The mission team made significant progress in agreeing with the authorities on the financial and economic policies that could support the completion of the third review of the ECF program. Performance under the ECF program was good despite the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. All quantitative performance criteria at end-June 2021 were met. Structural reforms are advancing, albeit with delays in some areas. Discussions will continue in the coming days, particularly on the 2022 budget, with a view to submitting the program review to the IMF Executive Board for approval. Upon this approval, SDR 5 million (about US$7 million) will be made available to The Gambia. 1 The Extended Credit Facility (ECF) provides financial assistance to countries with protracted balance of payments problems. It supports countries' economic programs aimed at moving toward a stable and sustainable macroeconomic position consistent with strong and durable poverty reduction and growth. The ECF may also help catalyze additional foreign aid. 2
"Economic growth stood at -0.2 percent in 2020 primarily due to a sharp decline in the tourism sector, partly cushioned by good agricultural production and robust private construction financed by record-high remittances. Economic activity is showing early signs of recovery, but the third wave of the pandemic is weighing on a vigorous rebound. Inflation increased during the first half of 2021 but decelerated to 6.9 percent (year-on-year) in August 2021. Strict cash management helped contain the fiscal deficit at about 2.5 percent of GDP at end-June 2021 despite weak revenue collection and delays in budget support. The Central Bank continues to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance; credit to the private sector expanded by 5.7 percent (year-on-year) in June 2021. Foreign exchange reserves strengthened further, exceeding 5 months of prospective imports in August 2021, also reflecting the recent SDR allocation.
"The Gambian authorities are delivering on their commitments to full transparency of COVID19-related spending. They published the list of all COVID 19-related procurement contracts and their beneficiary owners up to end-June 2021 on the Gambia Public Procurement Agency's (GPPA) website. The National Audit Office (NAO) has completed the first phase of an ex-post audit of COVID-19 spending and it is now conducting the second phase of the audit. Good progress has also been made on strengthening revenue administration and public financial management, including on rationalizing tax expenditures, digitalizing tax systems and budget processes, improving debt management, and enhancing the Central Bank internal audit. The performance of some key State-Owned Enterprises is also improving.
"Going forward, economic growth is expected at around 4.9 percent in 2021 and strengthening further in the medium term to an average of 6 percent per year. These projections are conditioned by a rapid expansion of vaccination coverage, gradual recovery in tourism, and continued good performance of private construction and agriculture. The authorities are committed to using the one-off revenue from the petroleum sector and a part of the recent SDR allocation to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and support the post-pandemic recovery, including closing the infrastructure gap and supporting gender and climate-oriented policies, while reducing debt vulnerabilities.
"The mission team held discussions with Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Mambury Njie, Governor of the Central Bank of The Gambia Buah Saidy, senior staff of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs; the Central Bank of The Gambia; the Ministries of Health, Agriculture and Fishery, Transport Works and Infrastructure, Justice, Petroleum and Energy, Tourism and Culture, Environment and Climate Change, Trade Industry and Regional Integration, and Information and Communication; and some state-owned enterprises. The mission team also had a fruitful discussion with the Inter-Party Committee (IPC) as well as the two National Assembly committees in charge of Public Enterprises and Finance and Public Accounts who all showed strong support for the reforms under the ECF program. The mission team also discussed with representatives of the private sector, civil society, banking and microfinance institutions, and development partners.
The mission team would like to thank the Gambian authorities for the constructive discussions and their cooperative spirit."
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James Henry McKenna
Name James Henry McKenna
Nickname Jim
Born 1872 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States of America
Died 30 Sep 1928
Buried Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Born - 1872 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States of America
Buried - - Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Photo of the 1899 Stanley Cup Champion Shamrocks of Montreal Hockey team, including Goalie, James Henry McKenna and Captain, Henry Judah Trihey.
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James Henry 'Jim' McKenna, Goalie for the Montreal Shamrocks from 1897-1900. Two time winner of the Stanley Cup.
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Mass grave initially purchased by Thomas McKenna in 1861.
Mass grave for the McKenna family, Cote des Neiges Cemetery, Quebec, Canada.
Listed by the Cemetery as buried: Florence Clement, Clement McKenna, Leonard Francis McKenna, Charles Francis McKenna, Mary Alice McKenna, James Henry McKenna, Francis Joseph McKenna, Francis Joseph McKenna, two stillborn McKenna infants of parents Mary Stafford and William John McKenna, Lillian Gertrude McKenna, Bridget O'Neill, Edward Charles MCKenna Francis Walker (Typo for Walter) McKenna and twin brother to Clement Francis McKenna, Walter Francis McKenna who died in 1901 only a few days old.
Our research of the Drouin Records from Quebec also indicate that Margaret Moynaugh McKenna (1876), Thomas McKenna (1876), James O'Neill McKenna (1864) and Margaret Ann Josephine McKenna (1868) are buried in this plot as well.
Plot: Section H, Concession 00174.
Player in the position of Goaltender or Goalie for the Montreal Shamrocks, also known as the Fighting Irish. James Henry played from at least 1897-1900. In 1899 and 1900 they won the Stanley Cup twice, first against Queen's University and then against the Winnipeg Victorias. By 1909 the Shamrocks had joined with the Canadian Hockey Association and by 1911 the club folded due to political and financial difficulties. The reining Montreal hockey team would become the Montreal Canadiens.
History: http://snowstones.com/snowstones-wp/history/the-montreal-shamrocks/


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Have you ever had an evil thought?
Have you ever had an anxious thought?
How about a depressed thought?
Or how about a crazy imaginative thought?
If you have mastered the art of pure thinking I want to congratulate you on being a robot. For the rest of us human beings who think, a lot, welcome to the disturbing thought club….
I never paid much attention to my thought life, until my thoughts began taking control of my peace and sanity. The same bizarre thoughts I had had before, like imagining driving into oncoming traffic, or a 'what if' thought like, "what if I have cancer?", were not so easily dismissed anymore. When I was battling anxiety, almost all of my thoughts were presented to me as truth. That was an exhausting way to live when the average person, except you pure thinking robots, have 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day!
However, having raging thought assaults everyday for months on end gave me a beautiful gift. It led me to the discovery that my thoughts are not my truth. This revelation set me free from allowing unwanted thoughts to control my emotions, my reactions and even my view of God. I used this revelation to heal and guard my mind from crippling anxiety and despair and do my best to remember this truth when I am hit with everyday emotions and thoughts.
We often just assume because a thought is there that it belongs to us, this is absolutely not true. We have more control over our thoughts than we think we do. We are the judge, the gatekeeper of what gets to stay and what doesn't.
When your kid comes home from the park with a brand new iPhone singing "finders keepers losers weepers", you send him back to the park to find the real owner, or leave it where he found it. When you have a thought that causes a negative emotion or goes against your moral compass then sometimes you either need to find the source or leave it where you found it and move on.
You don't have to invite every thought to your soul party!
Okay that was a super lame subtitle but so much fun to write!!!
You get to decide who and what is invited into your soul party!
Dude with the printed shirt "Dude, you're joking right? I've been a D.J in this joint for a decade, playing all the top fear of failure songs from the 90's. remember "Don't even try or you'll just get hurt again " remember that mix? That was me dude!
Pointing Guy "If you don't let me into this party you're going to lose any control you have over this party, I used to be a bouncer here you know! Look for me under W's! Worst Case Scenario.
When you accept every thought as truth, you not only invite those lies into your soul, but they always bring their friends and some of them come with suitcases! This is how a stronghold is formed.
God does not hold us accountable to the thoughts that go through our heads, it's only when we take that thought as truth and move it to our hearts that it gains any power or gives us any cause to stumble. When you look in the mirror in the morning and think "Ugh, I'm fat, I don't want to go to the gym and risk being the 'fat girl' in spandex" that thought can be taken in two directions…. Ignored as a self -deprecating thought and told to take a hike! Or received and entered into our heart as worthiness, low-self esteem and jealousy.
The best defence you have against depression, anxiety, low self esteem, temptation is to take control over what thoughts are welcome and which are not, and finding the courage to leave it where you found it.
I believe this topic is huge…. and I want to tackle this a bit more over the next few months, but for now, let me leave you with 5 quick tips on guarding your thoughts….
Write down areas in your life where you struggle emotionally.
Try to pay attention over the next few days and really listen to the thought that comes in, the thought that triggers that emotion.
If it would break the spirit of a child, or lead them on a destructive path, ignore the thought, tell the thought No!, pray and expose the thought, but most of all speak truth speak the opposite to the thought (I am loved, worthy and beautiful or God has a purpose for my life and He will make all my ways succeed according to His will.) Now go say those things to a child and watch them glow!!
Now this is such a brief outline, but let's keep this conversation going, okay?
Love this. For me, I think some thought: I know I need to leave it, but I accept it in, analyse it, take ownership of it, and then when I realise the consequences, then and only then do I try leave it. By then the damage is done. Just last night I had a thought (a horrible thought with huge repercussions) and I realised afterwards what a lie it was, and that I could either embrace it or just kick it out. After initially wanted to embrace this thought, I realised that this is just simply not where I want my thought life to go, so I kicked it out. And I truly believe that my battle with anxiety is solely (for me) down to my thought life. My mind was a jumble of negative thoughts, a conglomerate of anxiety laden emotions, and a darkness that I didn't even know I was living in. Not until I fell down that pit. The pit, as difficult and as painful as it was, was exactly what I needed to realise just how stinking my thinking was. Not even my thinking – thoughts are fluid and flow in and out of my minds. It was more the decision to believe every single thought that came into my mind and then sit and wonder why I feel so down, so negative and so anxious.
Isn't it amazing how our thoughts can be so extreme yet so convincing! It truly is a battle and one you are winning!Thanks for always taking the time to leave a comment.
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Banks could get £billions more tax payer money
05 January 2009 / by Rachel Mason
The UK's flailing banks could see another massive injection of tax payer cash, despite the fact they have already received a bailout of £37billion.
The Prime Minister and the Chancellor have both said that the banks may need more money to help them through the financial crisis after the Government's first bail-out failed to kick-start the economy.
However, although both Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling said that another direct cash injection could not be ruled out, they said it was not their first option; instead they are thought to be figuring out a multi-billion insurance scheme in which the Treasury would take on some of the risk of debts.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show yesterday, Mr Brown said: "Look, we've had the first financial crisis of the global era. The global banking system virtually collapsed and we had to try to rebuild it."
He said that solving the problem has involved a number of stages, the first being the £37billion cash injection.
"One, we had to give the banks liquidity to keep going," he said, "then we had to give them the capital that was necessary for them to sustain themselves. Now we've got to get them back to doing what banks should do, which they're not yet properly doing, and that is lending."
The Prime Minister continued, "We've got our mortgage protection scheme, which is to help people stay in their homes and we're not going to do what happened in previous recessions and allow people to go under.
"And then the small business issue and the jobs in small businesses and even larger businesses. That is a bank funding problem and we've got to solve that problem over the next few weeks. Now that is what we are urgently talking about with the banks at the moment."
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said that if the Government does have to revisit recapitalization of UK financial intuitions, then it will be "a stunning admission that their whole approach to the recession isn't working," saying that the Prime Minister's recession policies "are becoming an expensive failure."
Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said that the Lib Dems would oppose any further bank bail-out, saying that there cannot be a situation where the taxpayer is forced to make "open ended financial commitments to the banking system" while the banks continue to put their own interests ahead of the national economy.


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A meeting held on 16.08.2013 in the SP Office at Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, regarding review of Security of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in which it is decided that personal FM Radio and other electronic gadgets will not allowed during the teaching session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama . Only those FM provided by the Tibetan Security will be used during prayer or teaching session.
Himachal Pradesh Police reviewed the security of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and his official palace, besides establishments of the Tibetan government-in-exile, headquartered here several times in past few months.Beside this a high-level meeting of officials of the state police and Tibetan government was also held here last month following advisory of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) about possible terrorist strikes in Tibetan-dominated areas and monasteries in the state, after Bodh Gaya blasts.
Earlier Superintendent of Police Balbir Thakur said that some loopholes were found in the security of spiritual leaders, the Dalai Lama and the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who are residing here, and process is on to plug them .
The police has already strengthened security pickets around the Dalai Lama's palace and the Gyuto Tantric Monastic University, where the Karmapa resides."Since the government of India has extended Z-plus category security to the Dalai Lama, we have requested it to look into the feasibility to add chemical detectors to his security too," said Ngodup Dorjee, secretary of Central Tibetan Administration's (CTA) security wing .
According to the Dalai Lama's office the next Teaching in Dharamsala, HP, India is from August 25 to 27 . In this meeting His Holiness will give a two and a half-day teaching on Tsongkhapa's Concise Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment & An Overview of Tantra from Tsongkhapa's Stages of the Path of Mantrayana at the request of a group of Koreans at the Main Tibetan Temple at Mecleodganj. And yet another Teaching in Dharamsalashall be from September 3 to 5. In this His Holiness will give a two and a half-day teaching and continue from Chapter 8 from Shantideva's A Guide to the Boddhisattva's Way of Life (chodjug) at the request of a group of Southeast Asians at the Main Tibetan Temple.


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Married man 'dies from his own ERECTION after overdosing on sex drugs in romp with mistress'
The dad-of-three, said to be in his late 30s and named only as Samson, was reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Nigeria
A man was killed by his erection after taking too many enhancement drugs (
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A man was reportedly found dead with his penis still erect after taking an overdose of sexual enhancement drugs before romping with his mistress.
The married dad-of-three, said to be in his late 30s and named only as Samson, was discovered in a hotel room having earlier boasted in a bar of his plans to impress his new lover.
A friend had recommended the man buy an over-the-counter "manpower" drug, Nigerian media reported.
But the victim was "overpowered" by the drug after taking too much and being unable to get rid of his erection, a source told newspaper The Punch .
The man is thought to have taken a number of sex drugs (
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He was reportedly found at a hotel in Ugboroke in the Uvwie region of Delta state.
A friend of Samson was quoted as saying: "After having intercourse for a long time, he could not climax and must have died from the stress of the consistent hardness.
"He was overpowered by the drug and it was the first time he took such a drug."
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The man's lover reportedly fled upon realising he was dead and his corpse was later taken to Warri Central Hospital.
A senior police officer, who did not want to be named or quoted, confirmed the events to The Punch but said no investigation had been carried out as the man's family had not filed a formal report.
A police press officer said they were unaware of the man's death and said no such incident had been reported.
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The Ford Motor Company was officially incorporated in 1903, when founder Henry Ford launched his venture in a converted factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. It was his third attempt at establishing an automotive business. At the time, the company could only produce a few cars a day.
Ford had its breakthrough in 1908 with the introduction of the Model T. It embodied what Henry Ford wanted out of a car: efficiency, reliability, and a reasonable price. Due to high demand for the vehicle, Ford Motor Company commissioned a new factory in Highland Park, Michigan, designed by Albert Kahn. It is here that Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by introducing his first assembly line mass-production model. Individual workers stayed in one place and performed the same task on vehicles that passed in front of them. This implementation gave Ford an edge over its competitors.
In 1914, Ford began offering a $5 a day wage to its factory employees. This vaulted many low-skilled workers into the middle class, allowing them to afford the products that they made, and employee turnover dropped dramatically. During the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company purchased the Lincoln Motor Company and moved much of its production operations to the Ford Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. By the end of the decade, two out of three cars on the road were a Model T. The Ford Motor Company played a pivotal role in the Allied campaign during World War II. Using the same mass production techniques it introduced to the auto industry, Ford began churning out B-24 Liberator aircraft at the rate of one per hour or approximately 600 every month at Willow Run, helping to spawn Detroit's nickname, the Arsenal of Democracy.
The 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of some of Ford's most iconic vehicles, including the Thunderbird in 1955 and the Mustang in 1964. This period also saw the introduction and unfortunate demise of the Edsel, a luxury car that never caught on with the public. Throughout the next several decades, Ford Motor Company continued to expand, opening operations in Asia, founding the Ford Motor Credit Company and acquiring other brands, including Mazda and Land Rover. In 2008 Ford alone, of the big three American automakers, avoided bankruptcy and a government bailout. Ford remains one of the largest car producers in the world.
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Do you need an Apple device to use Apple Arcade?
By Christine Chan
Apple Arcade in the App Store running on multiple devices (Image credit: Apple)
Best Answer: Yes, Apple Arcade is only going to be available on Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Apple Arcade is the newly announced gaming subscription service from Apple that focuses primarily on premium gaming experiences, so no freemium games with ads and in-app purchases will be found here.Get your game on: Apple Arcade (opens in new tab) (Price TBA)
So what is Apple Arcade?
Apple Arcade is Apple's very own gaming subscription service. With this subscription, you're paying a fixed rate every month for access to over 100 brand new and exclusive premium games from developers, which won't be available on any other platform.
All of the games that are included in Apple Arcade are premium experiences, basically titles that have an upfront cost and won't have any ads, in-app purchases, ad tracking, and will respect user privacy.
An active subscription to Apple Arcade allows you to try out all of these games without risk, so you don't even need to pay up front for each game either. You'll get the full experience, including all game features, content, and future updates, and there is no time limit on how long you can play these games for. Just as long as you're an active subscriber to Apple Arcade, you can play these games as long and as much as you want.
What devices do I need to be able to play these games?
You will at least one of the following: iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV. The Apple Arcade subscription grants you full access to all games on all of these platforms, and you can easily pick up where you last left off with iCloud game data syncing. There is also offline support, so you won't need a data connection to play these games.
Exclusivity is key with the games that are included in the Apple Arcade service. So any title that is a part of Apple Arcade will not be available on any other mobile platform, and you will need an Apple device in order to play it.
When will Apple Arcade launch?
Apple is launching Apple Arcade in Fall 2019, and it will be available in more than 150 countries. To access Apple Arcade, you'll just need to select a new tab in the App Store across iOS, macOS, and tvOS.
How much will Apple Arcade cost?
Oddly enough, Apple did not give out any pricing information on Apple Arcade during the event. If we had to guess though, it may be at least $10 a month or more, but it will also include Family Sharing for no additional cost, which is a bonus.
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Q: Handling Mouse events in Viewmodel in WPF MVVM project I am using System.Windows.Interactivity.dll and Microsoft.Expression.Interaction.dll to do event handling in Viewmodel in my MVVM WPF project.
below is the code inside my Xaml:
 <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Path= HeaderList}" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" >
        <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                  <TextBlock   Text="{Binding Text}" Width="100" HorizontalAlignment="Left" >
                      <i:Interaction.Triggers>
                          <i:EventTrigger EventName="PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown">
                             <ie:CallMethodAction MethodName="PrevMouseDownEventHandler" TargetObject="{Binding}" />
                          </i:EventTrigger>
                       </i:Interaction.Triggers>
                </TextBlock>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
    </ItemsControl>

for this I added namespaces in the same Xaml.
 xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity"
 xmlns:ie="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactions"

and in my viewmodel I have created a method having PrevMouseDownEventHandler name which is same as that of I mentioned as CallMethod inside EventTigger in the Xaml.
On running my application when I presses mouse button on TextBlock event is generated and look for  PrevMouseDownEventHandler method and leave me into following exception:
Could not find method named 'PrevMouseDownEventHandler' on object of type 'string' that matches the expected signature.
this method is as below in my ViewModel.
public void PrevMouseMoveEventHandler(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
    {
        // Some implementation here;
    }

I don't have any idea where I am going wrong.
Except this all the functionalities inside Viewmodel is working fine for me.
what would be possible solution for this?

A: CallMethodAction is a delegate with no parameters and no return value.  So the "handler" (really an action trigger) would have to look like this:
public void PrevMouseMoveEventHandler()
{
    // Some implementation here;
}

Also, you'll need to bind to the View Model (your current binding points to the current item in the ItemsControl).  You could do this using RelativeSource binding:
<ie:CallMethodAction MethodName="PrevMouseDownEventHandler"
    TargetObject="{Binding Path=DataContext,RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=ItemsControl}" />

A: It is looking for the method on the String object you have bound your Text property to.
Basically your data context has changed from the view model to a property of the View Model.

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Biden, South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet on North Korean diplomacy
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Medal of Honor Ceremony: Army Ranger veteran receives Medal of Honor for Korean War heroism
President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to Colonel Ralph Puckett, Jr., United States Army, Retired, for conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War. President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea also joined the ceremony.
WASHINGTON (AP) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in welcomed "America's return" to the world stage after his meeting with President Joe Biden on Friday and said both leaders pledged to work closely toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Moon came to Washington seeking renewed diplomatic urgency by the U.S. on curbing North Korea's nuclear program, even as the White House signaled that it is taking a longer view on the issue. High on Biden's list for the meeting as well: coordination in vaccine distribution, climate change and regional security concerns spurred by China.
Their meeting was only Biden's second in-person session with a foreign leader because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their formal talks in the afternoon ran long, Biden said, noting his staff interrupted repeatedly to warn they were over time. "But I enjoyed the meeting so much that it caused us to move everything back," Biden said, as he highlighted the two countries' "long history of shared sacrifice."
Moon said "The world is welcoming America's return," an oblique reference to former President Donald Trump's attempts to disengage on some aspects of American diplomacy.
The White House announced last month that it had completed a review of North Korea policy and Biden would veer from the strategies of his two most recent predecessors, rejecting both Trump's deeply personal effort to win over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Barack Obama's more hands-off approach.
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But the administration has yet to detail what its third-way effort to try to prod the North to abandon its nuclear program will look like.
Moon started his day at the White House complex by meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris and top Biden advisers. Moon also participated in a Medal of Honor ceremony for Ralph Puckett, a 94-year-old Army veteran who was celebrated for his gallantry during the Korean War more than 60 years ago.
"Without the sacrifice of veterans including Colonel Puckett ... freedom and democracy we enjoy today couldn't have blossomed in Korea," said Moon, who hailed Puckett as "true hero."
Moon, who will leave office next May, is eager to resume stalled talks between Washington and Pyongyang and between Seoul and Pyongyang. But the Biden administration, which confirmed in March that it had made outreach efforts to the North without success, has been less enthusiastic about the idea of direct negotiations in the near term.
Asked Thursday whether Biden was open to holding direct talks with Kim, as Trump did twice, press secretary Jen Psaki demurred.
"I don't expect that to be top on his agenda," she said of Biden.
Col. Ralph Puckett awarded Medal of Honor for his valor
President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to Col. Ralph Puckett for his valiant efforts and bravery during the Korean War.
Still, Moon made clear before the meeting that he would nudge Biden to renew diplomatic efforts with the North.
"I will not be pressed by time or become impatient during the remainder of my term," Moon told reporters this month. "However, if there is an opportunity to restart the clock of peace and advance the peace process on the Korean Peninsula, I will do everything I can."
A senior administration official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and briefed reporters on Moon's visit on the condition of anonymity, sidestepped questions about whether the administration was willing to offer North Korea sanctions relief to begin dismantling its nuclear and ballistic weapons programs.
The official said the U.S. was hoping to chart a "flexible" way forward, well aware of where past efforts went awry.
Biden was also expected to use the meeting to press South Korea to adopt a more ambitious 2030 target for curbing carbon emissions and to urge Seoul to do more to counter China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Moon was expected to seek Biden's assistance with helping South Korea boost its coronavirus vaccine supply. South Korea has vaccinated only about 5% of its population.
Biden also wanted Moon to take a strong stance on China's activity toward Taiwan and other provocative moves Beijing has made in the region. Biden has sought to rally Pacific allies to coordinate on China, which Biden sees as the United States' fiercest economic competitor.
Biden, in the early going of his presidency, has spoken out about concerns with Beijing's trade policies and human rights record and has also highlighted regional allies' concerns about an increasingly assertive Chinese military.
Biden has taken note of Japan's concerns that China's growing military activity and broad territorial claims present a security threat. Japan is locked in a dispute with China over Beijing's claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. He's also looked to strengthen relations with India, which has been tested by a military standoff with China along their disputed border in eastern Ladakh.
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But South Korea could be more reluctant to speak out about China, an important trading partner that it also sees as key in dealing with the Kim regime.
Michael Green, who served as senior director for Asia on the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration, said South Korea's situation is difficult.
"This South Korean policy of strategic ambiguity is proving increasingly awkward and almost untenable for Seoul because other middle powers that are not the U.S. or Japan ... are adjusting their China policies," said Green, who is senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Moon on Thursday visited Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington and laid a wreath at a memorial to Americans killed during the Korean War. He also visited the U.S. Capitol to meet with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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