I was having a hard time with this title, because the person I'm speaking about is much more than a rapper! He was an innovator of styles. Glen K. Bolton aka Daddy-O started Stetsasonic back in the 80s and had a slew of hits and was instrumental in the shaping of hip hop music since then. I had the extreme pleasure of meeting him personally at Studioplex Atlanta on Auburn St and he was so down to earth and cool. Most at that level seem to be unapproachable. We had some small talk about some equipment we had in common by Open Labs and then he got back to work and I was wowed by the ingenuity of his team. Lots going on, made me step my game up, if you know what I mean. I ended up seeing him several more times since our initial meeting and the things he's into continue to amaze me. I like that he is not the normal type of guy waiting for things to happen, he goes out and makes things happen. He epitomizes the slogan "Movers and Shakers" He along with another mentor of mine Francis Palacios of East New York Entertainment of whom I'll be blogging about shortly!
Now he adds "entrepreneur" and "business consultant" to his already long list of accomplishments. This vet has a thing or two or five, to say about Business…check it out, please take note and tell 'em Daddy-O said so!
Daddy-O is a big fan of putting the creative brains of an operation in the spotlight and keeping business people in the background for support.
In the hip-hop world, the creative people are the rappers; the business people include the record labels, the managers and anyone else helping distribute and manage the rappers' music. Daddy-O explained that many successful rappers started off as independent artists—Master P, Cash Money, P. Diddy, to name a few. "The big checks come, they run to the big checks," says Daddy-O. "And then ultimately, you see some of them fall off." When business comes before art, the art suffers.
Startups and small businesses face this same problem if the business side of the operation comes before the product. Startups should focus on developing sound products, just as rappers should focusing on creating the best music that they can. Once the product, whether it be an app or a new LP, is at the top of its game, it shows—and the business will roll in from there.
Daddy-O compared business and art to a war zone: You have your foot soldiers (artists and creatives) out on the front lines, getting things done, and you have M*A*S*H (the business heads) back at the base, making sure everything runs smoothly.
Everybody's odds are different, and you may think that attaining your business goal is impossible. If you put your passion behind it, though, you'll always win. Whether you reach that final goal or just get pretty dang far along the way, you'll learn something that makes it all worthwhile.
"The golden egg isn't winning—it's usage. Usage is enough. That's all you have to do; use what you've got," says Daddy-O. "That's what Jay-Z does. He never stopped rhyming. That's what Sean P. does. He never stopped rhyming. Every engineer I know, every developer I know, every designer I know, that's all they do; they just use what they've got.
In the beginning, rap was about keeping it new. Rappers were required to have a new rhyme every time they took the stage. Making rap albums was considered "whack," explains Daddy-O, because it meant you were recording your routine, nothing was new. As a result, rappers were constantly writing new rhymes. To get better, you've got to use your mojo, says Daddy-O.
Using what you've got is just as true for equipment as it is for mojo. "You ask any guitarist, and they don't want a crappy guitar," says Daddy-O. "But I guarantee you, Flea plays just as well on a sucky bass as a good bass, because he learned to play on a sucky bass. Use what you've got, and it will get you to the next level." Don't be jealous of the shiny, new goods that other artists or entrepreneurs are working with; make the best of what you have. Whether that's talent or equipment, use it until you've exhausted it, advises Daddy-O.
When you listen to a hip-hop artist, it's inevitable that he will give a shout-out to his hood—be it Brooklyn, Atlanta or the Bay. A rapper's home turf is a part of his music.
Marketers would call this concept "knowing your market," says Daddy-O, but rappers look at it as knowing where they belong in the music world.
For businesses, it is important to understand what cluster of people your product or service is targeting and then communicate and act accordingly.
Along your journey to being a successful businessperson—or rapper—you'll get the opportunity to do a lot of the work yourself, learning about different aspects of your industry and business. The only thing you should never categorize as a DIY project, says Daddy-O, is legal work. If you're negotiating a contract, always seek legal advice. But other than that, he says, get your hands dirty.
As a young man growing up in this business it was hard to find role models to fashion myself after because I couldn't find any one that had my thoughts, for the most part a lot of them were excited only by the outward shows of wealth, such as fancy cars, jewelry and yes folks it JEWELRY not JEWLERY I don't know where that came from but ok….let me continue, I was more interested in longevity, residual income and still enjoying what you love to do. Well for me, after all that has just been said, I'm not gonna reinvent the wheel or even try to come up with some hair brained scheme to make money quick. I'm gonna hunker down and go for it!
Thanks for an inspiring lesson Daddy-O may we all take it to heart!


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 * @file /kobuki_safety_controller/src/nodelet.cpp
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 * @brief Implementation for Kobuki's safety controller nodelet
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 * @author Marcus Liebhardt, Yujin Robot
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#include <nodelet/nodelet.h>
#include <pluginlib/class_list_macros.h>
#include <ecl/threads/thread.hpp>
#include "kobuki_safety_controller/safety_controller.hpp"

namespace kobuki
{

class SafetyControllerNodelet : public nodelet::Nodelet
{
public:
  SafetyControllerNodelet() : shutdown_requested_(false) { };
  ~SafetyControllerNodelet()
  {
    NODELET_DEBUG_STREAM("Waiting for update thread to finish.");
    shutdown_requested_ = true;
    update_thread_.join();
  }
  virtual void onInit()
  {
    ros::NodeHandle nh = this->getPrivateNodeHandle();
    // resolve node(let) name
    std::string name = nh.getUnresolvedNamespace();
    int pos = name.find_last_of('/');
    name = name.substr(pos + 1);
    NODELET_INFO_STREAM("Initialising nodelet... [" << name << "]");
    controller_.reset(new SafetyController(nh, name));
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    {
      NODELET_INFO_STREAM("Kobuki initialised. Spinning up update thread ... [" << name << "]");
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  boost::shared_ptr<SafetyController> controller_;
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};

} // namespace kobuki

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Bolton will give 20-year-old Joe Riley his second league run-out.
BOLTON will give 20-year-old Joe Riley his second league run-out. Ricardo Gardner misses out after picking up a knock, while Marcos Alonso (foot) and Dedryck Boyata (ankle) are closing in on returns but today's game comes too soon.
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Ethiopia's Recurrent State of Siege-TPLF Transitions from Silent to Open Killer – Satenaw Ethioopian News & Breaking News: Your right to know!
I have consistently argued that, more than aid and Foreign Direct Investment, Ethiopia needs freedom, justice and democracy. The rest will follow from good, inclusive and empowering governance. In a commentary entitled "TPLF Inc. as a" silent killer" posted by several websites including Ethiomedia and Zhabesha on February 26, 2012, I warned ordinary Ethiopians at home and the world community at large that the TPLF party, state and government (they are one and the same), in tandem serves as a "killing and robbery machine" that robs human dignity; and puts a premium on material and financial possessions over human worth and life. Since then, this machine is responsible for the deaths, maiming, tortures, imprisonments and other forms of dehumanization of thousands of innocent Ethiopians some as young 3 months old. Imagine a regime that doesn't have an ounce of moral compunction in murdering children; and in murdering a mother expressing grief over a murdered child. Even buried a murdered child is a crime under the current system.
machine has moved from a "Silent killer" to that of an open killer in which peaceful expression of dissent, movement from one part of the country to the other, boycotts and other forms of peaceful expressions have become a crime.
is concentrated on the Oromo population, especially youth. Tomorrow's target will no doubt be the Amhara people, especially youth. This type of selective and targeted assault on freedom and the degradation of human life is so routinized and normalized that Ethiopians have become almost immune.
It is incontestable that a state of siege allows the TPLF dominated and commanded defense, security, special command and federal and allied police to set-up command posts in any part of the country where peaceful citizens express their frustrations, hopes and aspirations through the only instrument they can exercise, namely, peaceful protests and boycotts. Given the license to go after anyone suspected of defiance of the dictatorship, no one is safe at home either. The police state hunts the person down.
Would this latest state of emergency stop the popular tide? The answer is no. Because, regardless of the sacrifice it takes, human freedom is ultimately triumphant over tyranny. A deliberate war against the current generation of Ethiopians is a war against the inevitable tide or wave of freedom. Those who stand against this tide are effectively siding against history.
The regime's defense minister, Siraj Fegessa admitted the pushback and noted that the resistance against the new SOS is a form of a "coloured revolution." The resistance took place immediately after the SOS was proclaimed. The defense minister cannot be expected to admit that this so called "coloured revolution" that in reality is some popular grassroots based and youth led revolution for freedom, justice and democracy actually begun more than two years ago and has continued unabetted. The SOS is doing exactly the opposite. It is making Ethiopian society more defiant and more resilient than ever before.
To repeat, freedom is unstoppable. The real question is at what cost?
people, Ethiopia's youth is determined to pay any price in order to achieve freedom, justice, the rule of law and genuine democracy. Regardless of the "killing machine's" inexcusable and criminal propagation of a false and damaging ideology of hate and mutual suspicion, Ethiopia's youth has shown a remarkable sophistication in separating the TPLF from the people of Tigray.
loss of Tigrean owned property and gave no acknowledgment to the loss of innocent lives by TPLF dominated and commandeered forces.
It needs repeating again and again that ordinary Tigreans have nothing to fear from their Ethiopian brothers and sisters. What they should fear is the hate-mongering ideology of the TPLF and its latest declaration of a state of siege on the Ethiopian people. Politically motivated ethnic hate has a short-life span. State and government policy of ethnic hatred and divide and rule inevitably leads to genocide and the destruction of any country.
These measures are counterproductive and will reveal the weakness and fragility of the system. Rwanda, Somalia, Syria and others are prime examples. The "illegal" latest state of emergency facilitates the license to kill; but is never a cure. The SOS tries to repair and salvage a hopelessly broken, hated, illegitimate and inhumane system. It is not a cure. The root causes of the popular revolt against TPLF dictatorship remain unaddressed. Zeroing in and trying to crush Ethiopia's youth that constitutes 70 percent of 110 million people won't work. The way out is an all-inclusive form of transition that will facilitate a fair and free election.
The TPLF dictatorship and its ardent supporters are on the losing side of history. This trend- setting and transformative history led by Ethiopia's youth demands that the current regime and future governments of Ethiopia pay singular attention to the aspirations and hopes of the country's youth. It is their world view that should guide and shape history; and not the political and economic preponderance of ethnic elites, middle men and corrupt officials at all levels.
The series of state of emergencies imposed on the Ethiopian people have demonstrated that citizens no longer fear or respect the dictatorial party, state and government. They tolerate it as an "inconvenient truth" or system that is dominated by ignorant and backward thinking officials. They do not accept it as a legitimate system of governance that will shape and determine their lives and their destiny.
oppression by force of arms. When you sink to the bottom as a regime, you resort to the only instrument over which you have control, namely, crushing your opponents through extrajudicial measures and forcing submission. Disarming the population is a form of forcing submission. Going house to house and arresting or killing opponents is a form of forcing submission to a dying regime. These measures can never be a cure to a malignant and sick system.
The TPLF has learned nothing from the Imperial and Socialist Dictatorships. It created and wants to retain a rigged system that has enslaved the vast majority of Ethiopians. The only reliable and durable determinant to this rigged system is the power of the population; and not the barrel of the gun. The military socialist dictatorship commanded one of the largest armies in Africa; but was crushed, mostly by a popular resistance.
As witnessed in Oromia and some parts of the so-called Amhara regional state, under the new state of emergency the TPLF deployed forces to punish and force surrender. Anyone and everyone who defies the dictates of the TPLF dominated regime takes enormous risks. The killing machine is merciless and simply kills without any reservation or mercy.
The latest and third state of emergency imposed on Ethiopia's 110 million people, the second largest in Africa and the 13th in the entire world escalates the wave of potential crimes against humanity to a dangerous level; and threatens the very existence of Ethiopia as a country. If and when massive and relentless assaults begin, the TPLF would have no place to hide either. Sadly, the TPLF endangers Tigreans as well. If plan B is secession, this option will be a total disaster for Tigreans and a welcome development for Ethiopia's traditional enemies. This is insanity of the worst kind.
This option aside, my commentary is to alert Ethiopians of the extraordinary danger they face; and their country faces. This time around, ordinary Ethiopians should be weary that no one will be safe in their homes whether they live in Addis Ababa, Gondar, Awassa or other.
For example, what guarantee is there that the "silent killer" that decided that the Amhara population should be reduced by an estimated 2.4 million to 5 million; that forced Amhara girls and women in their primes to take short-acting contraceptives (Depo-Provera pills) so that they do not reproduce; that encouraged ethnic elites in Gambella, Beni-Shangul Gumuz, SNNP and other locations of targeting the Amhara to move out of their premises; that trained Ogaden Somali Special forces to wage war against their Oromo brothers and sisters and caused the displacements of nearly a million people; that, much earlier, ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Wolkait-Tegede and other locations throughout the "Amhara" region etc. etc. would not deploy new and dangerous instruments to kill?
selectively by the TPLF and its agents?
What guarantee is there that the TPLF and its agents won't cut electricity to cities and towns selectively and deliberately? What guarantee is there that the TPLF and its agents have not begun training special units in selected regions to revolt and declare secession? What guarantee is there that the TPLF and others with billions of dollars in assets are not using the state of emergency to move capital out of Ethiopia thereby compounding the massive illicit outflow of billions of dollars already stolen and hidden overseas? Based on its disastrous past, there is nothing to offer us confidence that it won't resort to any means necessary to prolong its punishing governance and or to destroy and move on.
If true (this is not validated by independent third parties or by the global media), these acts of total destruction will constitute total war on the Ethiopian people and on Ethiopia. It will also be a crime against humanity that will affect generations to come. The intent should be prevention before any of these dangerous acts take place.
In my commentary more than 5 years ago, I posed the following set of questions that are as relevant today as they were at the time.
We may no longer reflect on the dominance of Sheikh Al-Amoudi "Who Stole the Nile" for the benefit of the Saudi market and Saudi investors or the role of the Indian investor Karuturi who borrowed from Ethiopian banks and went belly-up etc. but the traumas persist in different forms.
policy related questions on Ethiopia and Ethiopians suggest an enormous gap in organization and leadership that is socially relevant and purpose-driven. I would argue that the urgent gap in responsive governance is the ethnicity and language-based system that pits one group against another. This persistent state and government led division and assault on civil society is felt by all Ethiopians in some form or another. All Ethiopians have a stake; and are thus responsible in filling the vacuum with a better and empowering system.
In light of this, it is time that we expand and embrace the definition and action steps that will lead the entire society to a better and more promising alternative than the current TPLF dictatorship. We cannot do this as long as we are guided by the ethnic and divisive script imposed on us by TPLF Inc. We need to consider the higher moral ground that the same way "families and friends need leaders who model purpose-driven lives," Ethiopian society and communities anywhere and everywhere should expect to defend their human rights; improve their lot; and chart a more promising future for their children.
There are no such things as separate but equal human rights or the rule of law or democracy. Justice, equality and the rule of law have meaning to the extent that these are indivisible principles. An assault on the Oromo is an assault on each of us. Ethnic cleansing against the Amhara is a crime against all Ethiopians. The sooner we, together, echo these fundamental precepts the better for all Ethiopians.
The current oppressive system has created a pronouncedly dangerous class division building and trying to replace the ethnic and linguistic divide and rule that served it well in the first two decades of TPLF and allied dominance. It created ethnic-parties to champion its narrow interests; and most are still unable or unwilling to free themselves from its grip. They are vested in the system and have practically abandoned their responsibilities to their constituents. But we should always be careful that we do not lump together all Tigreans as direct beneficiaries of the TPLF machine.
championed by the TPLF and its agents says little about the millions of Tigreans and other Ethiopians left-out of the development process. Ethiopia is still one of the poorest, least developed and most closed economies on the planet. This phenomenon of a closed and literally ethnic elite captured economy allows a minority ethnic group from Tigray that represents less than 6 percent of Ethiopia's 110 million people to enjoy a disproportionate share of incomes and wealth. Income inequality is a threat to Ethiopia.
Sadly, this disproportionate share of wealth and riches gained from outside the Tigray region gives TPLF a legitimacy in Tigray that it actually does not deserve at all. The sooner non- beneficiary Tigreans realize that they have been duped or deceived by the TPLF the better for them and for the rest of Ethiopia. EFFORT continues to propagate the make-believe notion that it is still rehabilitating a "devastated region" while masking the reality that it serves a selected few within the TPLF and other loyalists who benefit from a closed system.
These beneficiaries are vested and invested in the system and will do all they can in their power to prolong its political and economic dominance. Because they are vested financially and politically, they see their fate as one that is intrinsically linked to the survival and dominance of the TPLF.
However, Ethiopians, especially youth are showing us the way forward by sacrificing their lives for a better tomorrow. What more compelling social force do we need in rejecting TPLF dictatorship and the state of emergency that it imposed again?
Ethiopian-American diplomatic relationships span over 115 years. Established in 1903, after nine days of meetings in Ethiopia between Emperor Menelik II and Robert P. Skinner, an emissary of President Theodore Roosevelt, this relationship has endured the test of time and will endure for decades to come as long as Ethiopia's governance changes for the better. Long before the TPLF took power in 1991, Ethiopia enjoyed the much coveted "Most Favored Nation status." The distinguished Ethiopian statesman and diplomat, Workneh Eshete is deservedly credited for welcoming the African-American community to Ethiopia during his visit in 1927.
The African-American community dedicated itself in helping modernize the Ethiopian economy before and after the Italian invasion in 1935. This relationship cannot be ignored or understated. Sadly, the military socialist dictatorship squandered the relationship by being vitriolic and antagonistic.
Against the lull in relations, the TPLF exploited diplomatic measures to forge a strategic agreement in the fight against terrorism, while terrorizing Ethiopians. For the first time over the past decades, the Government of the United States sees the enormous long-term benefits of "freedom," the rule of law and democracy in strengthening mutual national security, sustainable and equitable growth and development in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa. During an official press briefing with Ethiopian officials in Addis Ababa on March 8, 2018, Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson affirmed the American commitment that Ethiopia needs "greater freedom and not less." This is a welcome and an unprecedented position that all other countries, including the European Union ought to take.
The first priority then is for the TPLF dominated regime to rescind the state of emergency and to stop killing innocent civilians immediately and unconditionally.
The second is to allow a peaceful and all-inclusive dialogue that will frame a transition towards a government of National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace; and that will facilitate the first free and fair election in Ethiopian history.


The Texas Board of Nursing (TBON) unanimously granted Texas Southmost College (TSC) initial approval to establish a new Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) education program during a public meeting of the TBON at Austin on Jan. 24, 2019. TSC's new ADN program will begin in fall 2019.
"The re-opening of TSC's ADN program was one of the priorities of the college and the board of trustees, and we're excited to have achieved it," TSC Board of Trustees Chair Adela Garza said. "TSC's nursing program has a long history and tradition at the college and within our community, and we've brought it back home."
TSC's ADN program will re-open with a maximum cohort of 24 students in August for the fall 2019 semester, and will accept another cohort of 24 students for spring 2020. The nursing program will begin to accept applications for fall 2019 in March. The application deadline for fall 2019 is May 25.
"Re-opening the nursing program is a great moment for the college," said Trey Mendez, Vice Chairman of the TSC Board of Trustees. "For years, allied health has been a rewarding career path for our students and I look forward to them having this option again."
Dr. Jesús Roberto Rodríguez, TSC President, Acting Dean of Health Professions Scott Nelson, and ADN Program Director Beth Kasprisin presented the proposal to re-open the ADN program before the TBON during the public meeting in Austin. Valley Regional Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer Frank Acevedo testified on behalf of TSC.
"We are pleased with the unanimous decision of the Texas Board of Nursing to grant TSC initial approval to re-open the college's nursing program, and we are grateful for the support of our health care partners and local school districts," Dr. Rodríguez said. "With the continued support and commitment of our Board of Trustees, the college's administration, faculty, and staff, we have been and will continue to work diligently to reestablish the ADN program at TSC to serve our students and the community."
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Georgia-Germany
Violinist/Georgia-GERMANY
Concertmaster of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra since 2013, Irakli has been calling Ingolstadt home when Audi and the City of Ingolstadt teamed up in 1990 to offer the Tbilisi musicians a new home in the heart of Bavaria. The company and orchestra have been inextricably linked ever since. Born into a musical family in Tbilisi, Georgia, Irakli's first music training started with Tamaz Batiaschvili and Konstantin Vardeli, both members of the Georgian State Quartet. Since the age of eight, he received regular lessons in Moscow and Germany with Galina Turchaninova, who also taught Maxim Vengerov. At thirteen, Irakli was accepted as a student at the Munich Conservatory, where he also attended the master classes of Alexander Brussilovsky, Boris Garlitzky, Felix Andrievsky and Victor Tretjakov. In 2002, he continued his studies with Professor Victor Tretjakov at the "Hochschule für Musik Köln". First Prize winner at the music competition "Jugend musiziert" in Germany, he received diplomas in the Louis-Spohr International Violin Competition in Weimar (1999) and at the Paganini International Competition in Moscow (2006), and won Second Prize at the International Violin Competition Valsesia Musica in Italy (2008). In 2007, he recorded a CD of Four Seasons by Astor Piazolla (released by Sony BMG), performing as a soloist with "Kölner Klassik Ensemble." Irakli is performing as a soloist and in chamber music with eminent musicians and conductors. His concert performances of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saëns, Zigeunerweisen by Sarasate and Four Seasons by Astor Piazolla were recorded for Radio and Television and broadcast on ARD, SWR, BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk), and in Tbilisi, Georgia. He was selected to join iPalpiti in 2010. In 2012, he was a selected as one of ten prize winners from 1,003 participants at the Mozarteum Summer Academy Salzburg and concluded the finale concert of the Salzburg Festspiele. Irakli plays Giovanni Paolo Maggini violin of the 17th century as a competition winner in the instrumental foundation of the "Hochschule für Musik Köln" which offers young musicians an opportunity to perform on high quality instruments.
Davide de Ascaniis
Violinist/Italy
"Exquisite control" — Baltimore Sun Winner of the AGIMUS Prize in Rome, the Szeryng International Violin Competition in Mexico, and the Grand Prix at the LISMA Foundation in New York City, among other numerous awards, Davide has been concertizing extensively. Following performances with symphonies and solo appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in New York, de Ascaniis performed in Taiwan at the Taipei Arena for an audience of 15,000 and played to great media acclaim in concert halls in Tokyo (Suntory Hall), Rome (Auditorium Parco della Musica), Venice (Teatro La Fenice), Milan (Teatro dal Verme) and across America. In the United States, de Ascaniis made his debut with the Gateway Orchestra in May, 2014, prompting a Brooklyn Eagle reviewer to write: "His dazzling finger work, musicality, pizzicato and incredible cadenzas evoked the wizardry of Paganini." He also participated and performed in international music festivals including Orford in Canada, Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Nippon Foundation festival in Japan. Davide has been an iPalpiti artist since 2012, performing at iPalpiti festivals in prestigious venues throughout Los Angeles, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Soka Performing Arts Center. Born in Italy in 1991 to a family of pianists, Davide's first professional engagement was in 2000 in France, performing Bruch's concerto with orchestra. After earning a Master's Degree cum laude from the Conservatorio in Vicenza at the age of 16, he was awarded a Diploma at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and studied in New York with Albert Markov. Last September, de Ascaniis toured Mexico playing the Paganini Concerto with Maestro Franz Krager and received press accolades such "...after this memorable performance, the conductor knelt before de Ascaniis, as never seen, and congratulated him… the audience offered him an endless standing ovation."
Emma Wernig
Germany-USA
Violist/USA-Germany
19 year-old violist Emma Wernig is from Los Angeles, California and a first generation American in her Austrian-German family. Emma is the first place winner of the 2017 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition and as a result will perform a series of high profile recitals and release a debut CD through Champs Hill. She recently won the Colburn Concerto Competition and will perform with the Colburn Orchestra in Fall 2018. She is a prizewinner of the Rising Stars Grand Prix 2016 International Music Competition Berlin and was the 2016 Leiber & Stoller Scholarship Recipient, receiving $10,000 towards her musical education. As an alumna of the Heifetz Institute, she performed with their Heifetz-On-Tour-Program in Washington, DC and Virginia. She recently participated in the 2017 Gstaad Menuhin Festival Academy, IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses in Cornwall, England, and the Taos School of Music Festival. Emma's greatest passion lies in chamber music. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Lynn Harrell, Clive Greensmith, Ettore Causa, Robert Chen, among others. As a part of the "Chimera Quartet" she won first place at the 2016 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, the WDAV's Young Chamber Musicians Competition, and the inaugural 2016 M-Prize Chamber Music Competition at the University of Michigan in the Junior Strings Category as part of the Chimera Quartet. As a member of the Incendium Quartet, she won the Gold Medal at the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, subsequently featured on NPR's From the Top. Emma plays on a Viseltear viola generously loaned to her by the Colburn Foundation. Emma Wernig is a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory where she studies with Paul Coletti. This is her first season with iPalpiti.
Egor Antonenko
Cellist/Russia
Russian-born cellist, Egor Antonenko has distinguished himself as a versatile soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. Making his solo debut at the age of eight with the Kaliningrad Chamber Orchestra, he continued to perform with many of the prestigious Eastern European orchestras including the Moscow and Ryazan chamber orchestras, and the Petrozavodsk, Yaroslavi and Volograd Symphonies. Egor has made his American orchestral solo debut at the Longy School of Music performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Bard College Symphony, and most recently, performed Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, Egor has performed under the baton of Marius Stravinsky, Leon Botstein, Miguel Etchegoncelay, Gil Rose, Benjamin Zander, Terry King amongst many others. A prize winner in numerous competitions including the International Competition of Moscow's Young Musicians "Rising Stars", the 18th "Citi di Barletta" Italian International Young Artist Competition, and "Gradus ad Parnassum" of Lithuania 2nd International competition, he has collaborated in performances with Shanghai and Hausmann String Quartets, William Preucil, the Newport and Lyrica chamber music festivals and the International Music Festival of St. Marks. Egor received diplomas from the Moscow State Conservatory and Central Music School as a student of Maria Zhuravleva, an undergraduate diploma in cello performance at Longy School of Music of Bard College as a student of Dr. Terry King and currently continues at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University as Teaching Assistant to his mentor Dr. King. In 2016, Egor toured more than 30 countries, performing over two hundred chamber music concerts through a partnership of the Lincoln Center Stage and the Holland America Line. He also participated in a live performance collaboration between BBC Earth and Holland America Line for a documentary series known as "Frozen Planet Live". Currently, Egor is a member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under maestro Benjamin Zander, as well as principal cellist of Lyrica Chamber Orchestra and has participated as acting principal cellist with Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This is his 2nd season with iPalpiti.
Sam Shuhan*
Sam Shuhan
Bassist/USA
A native of New York, Samuel Shuhan currently resides in Los Angeles where he stays active performing, teaching, recording and composing on upright and electric bass. Shuhan completed his Master's Degree at the University of Southern California, and is finishing a Graduate Certificate with professor David Allen Moore. As winner of state and national competitions, Sam performed as a soloist with orchestras. He studied classical and jazz and has been performing professionally in and round the upstate New York area, and in various music festivals, including Domaine Forget in Québec, where he also studied with master and pedagogue François Rabbath.
So-Mang Jeagal
piano/South Korea
Three-time Beverly Hills National Auditions winner, So-Mang is in demand in Southern California as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative artist. As Grand Prize winner in the 61st Washington International Competition So-Mang Jeagal was awarded $10,000, a concerto appearance at the Kennedy Center, and a solo recital on the prestigious Phillips Collection Recital Series. So-Mang also won the 2014 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, presenting a solo recital at the Liszt Museum in Budapest, Hungary. He performed in many international music festivals and concert series at major concert halls, such as Salzburger Schloss Konzerte of Austria, Konzerthaus of Germany, La Madeleine of France, Seoul Arts Center, J. F. Kennedy Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall. A winner of several national and international competitions, Mr. Jeagal is a recipient of the Grand Prize at the Korea Music Foundation Competition and the First Prize at the Dong-A Music Competition and Asia-Pacific Young Artist Competition. Born in Daegu, South Korea, he began studying the piano at the age of five and gave his debut recital at the age of eleven. He attended the prestigious performing arts high school in Korea, Seoul Arts High School, and received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with highest honors from the Seoul National University. He received Artist Diploma at the Thornton School of Music of USC as a full scholarship student under Professor Kevin Fitz-Gerald, and has participated in masterclasses with eminent concert pianists including Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, and John O'Conor.
Copyright 2014-17 iPalpiti Artists International

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otherwise meets the server's local security policy.
[RFC2535] is helpful but not necessary.
reply with data that failed its security policy.
whether the data is secure.
and the local resolver can pass this information to the application.
tool or a software application.
SHOULD be ignored when the recursive name server is not trusted.
every application, but this has several disadvantages.
configuration points should be minimized.
The definition of the AD bit in RFC 2535, Section 6.1, is changed.
the answer and authority sections of the response are Authenticated."
configured to do so.  The default for this behavior SHOULD be off.
after the server reloads zones.
by DHCP when looking up information where security status matters.
must be employed to protect the traffic.
used to allow applications to use stub resolvers.
supporting the DO bit [RFC3225].
not be considered security aware.
explicitly configured to trust this recursive name server.
Edward Lewis, Jakob Schlyter, Roy Arends, Ted Lindgreen.
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During September and October, celebrate the fourth annual Fall Festival of the Arts.
• Zumba Gold is a perfect program for the active older adult.
Easy-to-follow choreography focuses on balance, range of motion and co-ordination.
Try a free class of Zumba Gold at the White Rock Community Centre, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1-1:45 p.m.
Space is limited and advance registration is required by calling 604-541-2199.
Join this fun group for a social afternoon every Tuesday from 1-3 p.m.
Come early to pick your lucky cards for small cash prizes and jackpot games.
Be sure to have your 2016 recreation and culture membership, or purchase one for only $18.50 for the remainder of the year.
• Discover the joy of yoga in a safe and gentle way.
Chair Yoga is designed for older adults who have mobility or other physical challenges.
This 10-week program begins Thursday, Sept. 15, 9:15-10:15 a.m. at the Kent Street Activity Centre.
• Are you a user of Centennial Park? If so you are invited to attend a meeting to learn more about an all-abilities/all ages playground that the Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation are proposing to build north of Centennial Arena.
Drop in to the meeting Thursday, Sept. 1, 6-7 p.m. at the Centre for Active Living.
For more information please contact the director of recreation and culture at 604-542-7589.
• The Kent Street Coffee Shop will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 9:30 a.m.
Enjoy delicious homemade cuisine, including sandwiches, fresh baked goodies and hot-meal specials every Wednesday.
If you have some time to spare and are looking for a way to connect with your community and make new friends, consider volunteering in the coffee shop.
Help is needed for a variety of shifts throughout the week.
Call 604-541-2231 for more information or drop into the Kent Street Activity Centre and fill out an volunteer application form.
• Now is a great time to register for a White Rock recreation and culture program.
Register now online, by phone at 604-541-2199 or drop into any White Rock recreation centre.


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@synthesize version;
@synthesize typeName;
@synthesize packageName;
@synthesize enclosingName;
@synthesize fieldCount;
@synthesize methodCount;
@synthesize modifiers;

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- (IOSObjectArray *)getSuperclassTypeArguments {
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    IOSObjectArray_Set(result, i, JreTypeForString(data_->superclassTypeArgs[i]));
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    [result replaceObjectAtIndex:i
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@implementation JavaFieldMetadata

- (instancetype)initWithMetadata:(const J2ObjcFieldInfo *)metadata {
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@implementation JavaMethodMetadata

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- (int)modifiers {
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}

- (id<JavaLangReflectType>)returnType {
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}

- (IOSObjectArray *)exceptionTypes {
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- (BOOL)isConstructor {
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Assheton Arms, Downham, Clitheroe.	Gary	2018-02-16T14:38:10+00:00
ASSHETON ARMS
Winner of a number of awards, including Lancashire Life Dining Pub of the Year, Lancashire Tourism Awards Pub of the Year and Ribble Valley Tourism Team of the Year, this historic Grade II listed village pub is in the untouched conservation village of Downham. Boasting stunning views of Pendle Hill, 12 bedrooms are available for bookings. This traditional country inn, perfect for a drink with friends or a meal out, has a great atmosphere created by our drinkers and diners. We source the best of British produce to ensure high levels of quality and consistency and also have daily changing specials. Want something off-menu? If you'd like a specific type of seafood, or cut of meat just give us 48hours notice and if it's in season we'll sort it.
~ Contact: Assheton Arms, Downham, Clitheroe, BB7 4BJ. Tel: 01200 441 227 ~
Assheton Arms' accommodation in Downham opened in March 2015. Located in two cottages and the former post office in the Ribble Valley conservation village, 12 en-suite bedrooms with stunning views of Pendle Hill are available to book now. The launch of accommodation at the award winning Assheton Arms follows its interior refurbishment earlier this year. Double rooms from £80.00. So if you're looking for places to stay in Downham, look no further than the Assheton Arms.
Monday to Friday: 7.30am ~ 11pm.
Saturday: 8am ~ Midnight.
Sunday: 12pm ~ 8.30pm.
Monday to Friday: 7.30am-9.30am.
Saturday & Sunday: 8am-10am.
Assheton Arms Valentines Menus	Gary	2018-02-16T09:51:26+00:00
Assheton Arms Valentines Menus
Family Sundays	Gary	2018-02-22T12:47:00+00:00
Family Sundays
Free glass of prosecco when downloading the app	Gary	2018-02-19T15:09:34+00:00
Free glass of prosecco when downloading the app


So what is the solution to the forgetting curve (hint: use the spacing effect and the testing effect…)? You got it… Spaced Repetition with Active Recall. Now we first came across Spaced Repetition in Buzan (1988: 4-43). Buzan recommended reviews at 1 day, 1 week, 1 month and 4 months. but Evernote had not been invented back then (we barely had the PC and Bill Gates only had $1bn) so it was not easy to do. These days educators recommend the practice (the illustration below is from the E-Learning Council). Unfortunately, the scientific research grounding these recommendations is not easy to track down because most of the studies employ only two 'study events'. One possible explanation is that they are too lazy to do any more. Fortunately, you can try it out for yourself and see how effective it is.
The cramming strategy spends 60m learning the material, then completely forgets it and spends 50m re-learning it again. In other words, the cramming strategy takes more time overall … and, of course, with the cramming strategy, there is not much to show for it 30 days later. If you are serious about developing your expertise in an area, then it is not the way to go.
It drives the review cycle for you (Spaced Repetition).
It's design encourages you to recall the information before you check with Evernote (Active Review).


Liberty is an essential component of the Parelli Program, particularly due to its emphasis on horse/human connection. When we encounter slip-ups in that connection, of course, we need to go into problem-solving mode. That's what this DVD is all about. Here, Linda Parelli works with eight students and horses, each with a specific but common partnership issue. As you watch these students and horses, you'll learn invaluable lessons on reading horses, incorporating Horsenality, moderating your energy, improving your position, developing effective communication, and more!


Located in the world showcase between Mexico and China, Norway will transport visitors to Scandinavia old and new. The large pavilion holds a boatride, museum, restaurants and large giftshop. Enjoy the delights and drop in for a visit.


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What I Heard at the Debate
As civil as the debate may have seemed, it was a brawl. Central to it were all the lies President Obama continues to tell about his record in office and about his challenger, Mitt Romney. And Romney would not let him get away with it. Time and again he rose to his feet to rebut and debunk those lies and I suspect a lot of people who saw him in the first debate were in agreement with him in this second debate.
In a column on Tuesday, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens perfectly anticipated Obama's lies. Under the headline, "To the Wavering Voter" it repudiated the Obama campaigns assertions about a totally bogus "war on women" saying, "No, abortion rights and access to contraception will not be jeopardized if Mitt Romney becomes president. Not remotely, not vaguely, not even close."
He went through the claims that Romney would engage in another Middle East War or that the nation would become a global pariah with Romney as president. Moving on, Stephens said, "No, your taxes will not go up by a couple of grand" noting that "As for the $5 trillion tax cut the Obama campaign insists Mr. Romney is offering, Obama campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter admitted on CNN that 'It won't be near $5 trillion,' once deductions and loopholes are closed."
I cite Stephen's prescient column because, if he could anticipate Obama's lies, than you can be sure Mitt Romney did and that was demonstrated throughout the debate. At the very end, Obama could not resist misrepresenting Romney's earlier "47%" comment during a closed fundraising event. Romney described that as an "inelegant statement" and then repudiated it, but Obama repeated it in his closing statement.
Throughout the debate Romney called Obama a liar in the most gentlemanly way possible, but a liar he was and is.
One lie that jumped out at the very beginning of the debate was Obama responding to a college student's question saying "Your future is bright", adding "I want to build on the five million jobs we've created." What jobs? Half of today's college graduates cannot even find a job comparable to their educational level, if at all. And the future is most demonstrably not bright.
Romney responded with the fact that there are 23 million Americans out of work. The truth! He cited the phony official unemployment rate and said it was a lot closer to 10.7%. Obama said, "What Gov. Romney said just isn't true." Obama lied. Romney cited figures that appear daily in newspapers.
Throughout the debate Obama demonstrated how obsessed he is with class warfare, returning time and again to observations about the nation's wealthiest class.
He lied about his energy policies and claimed that Romney's plan was "to let oil companies write energy policy." The absurdity of this was seen as Romney cited the cost of gas at the pump, Obama's veto of the Canadian pipeline, and the refusal of his administration to allow drilling for oil and natural gas on federal lands. He cited the fact that the coal industry was targeted and the loss of coal-fired plants to generate electricity.
And Obama's response was to lie again! "Very little of what Governor Romney said isn't true." But it was and it is. It's not even a secret.
Romney scored some good points promising that he would fix the tax code, promising "No tax on your savings, interest, dividends and capital gains." This is the money that investments generate and the nation is experiencing slow growth because such investments have been discouraged or rendered meaningless with the Federal Reserve's low-to-no interest rates. And Obama's only response was that "We have to make the wealthy do more."
This is how a man worth ten million dollars responded, but surely Obama knows that the wealthy in this nation, through their taxes, represent 60% of the revenue collected annually.
Romney showed himself in control throughout the debate and showed something that has been sorely missing for nearly four years; leadership!
And all Romney had to do is cite facts that most voters already know; that Obama "doubled" the deficits, that 23 million are out of work, that millions more are on food stamps, that millions have slipped into poverty while Obama and Michelle lived and vacationed like royalty on the taxpayer's dime.
On the issue of inequality in the workplace for women, Romney masterfully told how as Governor of Massachusetts he sought out women for his cabinet, then pointed out that "in the last four years 558,000 women lost jobs and many moved into poverty."
"It's not a strong economy," Romney said and anyone listening knew he was telling the truth.
And yet Obama actually claimed there had been "31 months of job growth." Then he criticized Romney for investing in companies in China. The fact is that Obama's chairman of his jobs council, GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt closed GE divisions here in the U.S. and moved them to China!
In an understated, but quite symbolic moment, an African-American, Michael Jones, stood up and told Obama "I'm not optimistic about the future."
Obama's response was "Osama bin Laden is dead." "We saved the auto industry." And then he rattled on about "millionaires and billionaires."
Romney's response was "I think you know better", adding "The President has tried, but his policies haven't worked.
There were many other issues, but on the issue of the assassination of a U.S. ambassador in Libya, Obama first dodged the question and then claimed he had instructed that all embassies "beef up" their security when that was a lie. Then he had the audacity to claim Romney was trying to make "political points" from the attack, but Romney referenced the weeks that went by as the White House lied about a "spontaneous" attack. All Obama could cite was a speech in the White House Rose Garden that day after the killings.
Obama does not seem to understand that Americans do not want or need another speech.
In the end, Romney said "We don't have to settle for what we're going through."
One can only hope that a lot of Americans, particularly those yet undecided, agree with him.
If you listened and believed what Obama said throughout the debate, then you'd be doing your head in trying to understand why the America Obama describes looks so different to the reality. Listening to him you could swear you had the best economy, no debt, jobs, jobs, jobs, and the fairies sprinkling gold dust everywhere. Instead, the country lies almost in ruins, indebted up to her neck and he thinks he's done just great? Throughout the debate he kept referring to Romney's policies. Why not talk about his own? Why didn't he defend what he's done the last 4 years if it was so great? He steered all answers away from the monstrous train-wreck standing right behind him. He's an untrustworthy shifty man with no morals, substance or ideas. America truly can't afford another term. KICK HIM OUT - PLEASE!
Harry Dale Huffman said...
As one who knew what to expect from Obama in the debate (one only had to ask oneself, what would a man of no character do, and say), and chose not to give him my attention while he did it -- thank you, Alan, this should be a front-page news article across the whole United States this morning (along with the headline, "Obama Offers Only Lies to the Nation!")
The biggest loser in the debate was the lying Democommie Media that got outed in prime time.
zossen said...
How can anyone still be undecided? There are no similarities between these two men. Their ideologies are completely divergent. Show me an undecided voter and you really just have a person too daft to be voting in this election. We desperately need more voter restrictions.
Let's just hope enough American voters see the real Obama and vote him out. I fear he will try to do something dirty to steal the election if it is really close.
Ajdshootist said...
My view from the UK is that it has got so bad that BHO belives his own lies.
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Kaduna (Nigeria) — Teachers Service Commission (TSC) of Kenya is to be overhauled in a major restructuring planned by the country's Ministry of Education. The proposed changes will see the collapse of many agencies.
Proposed Miscellaneous Amendments Bill 2016 on Education recommends that the current provision of seven Commissioners at the TSC be reduced to three.
"The Commission shall consist of a chairperson and two other members appointed in accordance with the Constitution.
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With all of that logged, please enjoy the initial boomings of dungeon synth in the year of our Lord, two thousand and seventeen.
I almost fainted when I saw this released on New Year's Day. One of the reasons being I was trying to keep track of all dungeon synth material through the year and this one came really late. The second reason was it was a collaboration between to great Russian artists who both had stellar years in 2016. Winternight Fairytales is a dedication to the Christmas but not in any religious or holiday sense rather this split is dedicated to the wonder and amazement of old with some fantastic and regal sounding music.
Erang has gone many places and done many things since I first encountered the artist a only a few years ago. King of Nothing, Slave to No One splits the difference between the regal and ambient works of the more recent albums with the haze of early records. While far from the dungeon mist of the Tome records, King of Nothing retains a melancholy which is cast over the sky much like the somber landscape which graces the cover.
Foglord was one of my first dungeon synth artists and the more time passes the more I am aware of this artist's distance, aesthetically, with the whole of the style. This isn't to say that Foglord does not fit in rather, the artist's journey seems to be more spiritual in nature rather than fantastic. The Healing Gardens is dedicated to the space created by the artist in medication and servers as a dedication for rejuvenation in times of distress. To be fair, Foglord's created space mimics the fantastic worlds created by other dungeon synth artists but The Healing Gardens is much more abstract and ethereal and perhaps does not come with a map.
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Parsifal, in italiano anche Percivalle, è un popolare personaggio del ciclo arturiano, appartenente ai Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda, e, in particolare, colui che riesce a recuperare il Graal.

Le versioni medievali di questa leggenda variano l'una dall'altra, ma pressoché tutte raccontano di un ragazzo nato e cresciuto nella foresta. Si reca alla corte di Re Artù e diventa uno dei Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda. È ammesso alla vista del Santo Graal perché il suo cuore è puro.

La notorietà di Parsifal è dovuta ad una versione secondo cui egli sarebbe il cavaliere alla ricerca del Graal che più è arrivato prossimo alla conquista. Egli avrebbe infatti trovato il Re Pescatore, discendente di Giuseppe di Arimatea, e, banchettando alla sua mensa, avrebbe visto il Sacro Graal e la Lancia di Longino, da questi custodite. Tuttavia, non avrebbe bevuto alla sacra coppa per non aver chiesto di più sul loro conto o sulla natura del male che affligge il Re Pescatore, contravvenendo al precetto evangelico: "chiedete e vi sarà dato".Nel romanzo medievale tedesco Parzival di Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parsifal è il padre di Lohengrin che è uno dei custodi del Santo Graal, il cavaliere del cigno caro alle leggende medievali dei Paesi Bassi (il Brabante) che scende sulla terra per difendere i deboli e per cercare una donna – Elsa – che sappia apprezzarlo semplicemente per la sua umanità. Parsifal compare inoltre in numerose opere sia in versi sia in prosa, databili tra il XII e il XIII secolo, tra cui il perduto Perceval di Robert de Boron, le continuazioni dell'incompiuto Racconto del Graal di Chrétien ad opera di Waucher de Denain (attribuzione dubbia), Gerbert de Montreuil e Manessier, e il Perlesvaus. Tra le opere successive si ricorda soprattutto La morte di Artù di Malory, pubblicata nel 1485, in cui, nel libro VI, il cavaliere parte alla ricerca del Graal assieme a Lancillotto, Bors e Galahad.

Origini del personaggio

Nell'opera di Chrétien de Troyes

La prima attestazione del personaggio di Parsifal, col nome di Percevaus o Perceval, è nei romanzi in versi in antico francese di Chrétien de Troyes, autore del XII secolo al quale si deve la trasposizione in genere letterario (il romanzo, per l'appunto) del cosiddetto "ciclo arturiano". Si ritiene pertanto che Perceval, inteso anche come eroe popolare, sia un'invenzione di Chrétien. Dopo una breve apparizione in Erec e Enide e Cligès, diviene il protagonista del Racconto del Graal, composto probabilmente negli anni '80 del XII secolo. Nell'opera, Perceval presenta un carattere e tratti biografici che verranno poi ripresi dalla quasi totalità degli autori successivi. Di nobile lignaggio, discende da Giuseppe di Arimatea (Joseph d'Abarimacie, membro del Sinedrio che, a differenza degli altri, era dalla parte di Gesù, e chiese e ottenne da Pilato la consegna del corpo del Cristo per collocarlo in un sepolcro di sua proprietà). Giovane fisicamente dotato, è del tutto ignaro di ciò che si estende al di là della foresta in cui vive, isolato, assieme alla madre. Ciò è dovuto ai timori di quest'ultima che, a causa della guerra, ha perduto due figli (fratelli cavalieri di Perceval) e quasi il marito, anch'egli cavaliere, rimasto gravemente ferito. Perciò lei tenta in ogni modo di tenere il figlio superstite lontano dal mondo e dalla cavalleria, ovvero dal suo destino.

Nell'opera di Wolfram von Eschenbach

Una testimonianza della fortuna di cui godette la figura di Parzival in area tedescofona già nel XIII secolo è data da un passo del poema didascalico Der wänsche Gast (Il visitatore italiano) di Thomasîn von Zaerclaere, ai versi 1066-1075:

Tale fortuna fu dovuta probabilmente al Parzival di Wolfram von Eschenbach, nonostante il riferimento alla costola rotta rimandi più propriamente al Perceval di Chrétien de Troyes, vale a dire la fonte diretta di Eschenbach.

Nel Perlesvaus

Nell'opera di Thomas Malory

Interpretazioni moderne
Parsifal compare in numerose opere moderne.

Musica
 L'opera Parsifal (1882), ultimo dramma musicale di Richard Wagner.
 Il brano Parsifal, di Claudio Chieffo.
 Il brano Percival, dei New Trolls.
 L'album Parsifal, dei Pooh.

Cinema
 Kind Hearted Percival del 1911, di Frank Wilson.
 Parsifal del 1912, di Mario Caserini
 Il fuorilegge, di Éric Rohmer.
 Excalibur di John Boorman.
 Parsifal del 1982, di Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.

 Altri media

 Percival Silente è un membro della famiglia Silente della serie di Harry Potter.
 Il videogioco Sonic e il Cavaliere Nero di SEGA (2009), dove viene interpretato da Blaze the Cat anche se la stessa Blaze è una femmina, non un maschio rispetto al personaggio d'ispirazione.
 Darkus Percival è il nome del Bakugan partner di Ace Grit dell'anime Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestronia.
 Percival McLeach è un personaggio del film d'animazione Bianca e Bernie nella terra dei canguri.
 Percival Ulysses Cox è un personaggio della serie televisiva Scrubs - Medici ai primi ferri.
 Sir Percival è uno dei personaggi presenti nel videogioco The Order: 1886 Parsifal è presente nella prima stagione della serie Netflix Knightfall del 2017 come adepto dell'ordine dei templari
 Nel film Ready Player One del 2018, di Steven Spielberg, il protagonista sceglie il nome Parzival come nickname del proprio avatar
 Duncan Paercival è un membro della famiglia Paercival dell'isola di Naermir del romanzo L'alba della luce oscura di Gabriele Domenici
 La serie televisiva Cursed del 2020 narra eventi antecedenti al ciclo arturiano, In questa versione il personaggio di Parsifal appare da bambino.

 Note
 Annotazioni

 Fonti

 Bibliografia
 Le Roman de Perceval ou le conte du Graal, poema incompiuto di Chrétien de Troyes.
 Parzival, poema di Wolfram von Eschenbach.
 Perlesvaus'', romanzo in prosa di autore incerto.

Voci correlate
 Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda
 Parsifal (opera)
 Parzival

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda
Graal

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Maple Mania – When we think of maples, most often we think of the iconic Sugar Maple and its beautiful fall foliage. But there are lots of other great maples, and many cool features besides the beautiful maple leaf that is so very Canadian.
The bark of various types of maple in the Historic Gardens add interest all year long. You have to get up close – the beauty is in the details. Here we have the rough bark of the Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), and the pretty designs of two of the striped (or snakebark) maples you will find here – the native Acer pensylvanicum and the Asian Acer rufinerve.
Fun fact – our native striped maple is also referred to as "Goosefoot Maple" for its broad, three-pronged leaves. Check one out next summer!
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Symptoms of neck pain vary from patient to patient. As a San Diego Chiropractor I have seen neck pain symptoms that range from limited range of motion and slight pain at the end range all the way to severe pain that prevents any movement at all. In addition to the intensity of the neck pain, the severity of the pain varies as well. For some patients the pain that they experience is dull and achy while for others it can be sharp and stabbing. Consideration of both the intensity and severity of the neck pain is important for diagnosing the cause of the pain.
Depending on the severity of your specific neck injury, your ability to work, play sports and/or do household chores may be affected. More serious neck injuries can include pinched nerves which can cause radiating pain that travels down the arms. Radiating pain from the neck can cause shoulder pain, elbow pain (tennis elbow), wrist pain and numbness / weakness in the hands. Pinched nerves in the neck can be caused by spasmed muscles, inflammation, joint misalignment or herniated discs. Neck injuries can be either temporarily or, in some cases, permanently disabling – which is why examination and treatment is so important.
As with many other types of spinal injuries, when you have an injured neck, the earlier your treatment begins the faster you typically recover. Neck injury treatments with a chiropractor usually consist of chiropractic adjustments, electric muscle stimulation, ultrasound therapy and cold packs.
Neck pain treatment can require as few as one or two sessions with a chiropractor to as long as weeks or months of treatments. The frequency and consistency of your treatment is guided by the severity of your pain and your examination findings.
Neck pain treatments are normally pain free and in fact very comfortable often producing some level of immediate pain relief. In my experience as a chiropractor in San Diego I have seen patients with severe neck pain experience significant reductions in their pain levels after just the first treatment.
Patients can have difficulty distinguishing between symptoms of neck pain from neck stiffness symptoms. They can be from very different causes like different kinds of Neck Injuries.
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Space Out Domestic Leagues & Scrap CLT20!
The Champions League is around and like a routine there is debate and discussion around the tournament's relevance and/or its structure and/or its format. The league in principle is rosy - providing a stage for lesser known club players and sides, but in the context of taking it to the level of say, a T20 World Cup, it appears woefully below that; both in terms of following/interest and level of competition. While there is a barrage of question marks on the existence of the tournament, here is an account to suggest a way to optimize the output from T20 cricket in general.
T20 cricket (in most countries) has four distinct ways of presentation - a domestic league (aka IPL), Champions League T20 (CLT20), international matches (during tours) & the World Championship. The way T20 cricket has emerged, each of the above entity is promoted like a gala event. But do we seriously need so much of T20 cricket? Picture this for an average Indian fan in 2012 - 6-7 weeks of the IPL, 2 T20Is versus New Zealand, 2 weeks of T20 WC and two weeks of CLT20; the consequence - very few aware that CLT20 2012 has actually begun! They said that T20 is a lucrative product and could face the issue of killing the goose; 6-7 years since it was introduced the fear is realizing.
Is there a way to keep the investors, stakeholders, spectators, players and the boards all happy simultaneously? - A clear no; but there could always be the mean path. The IPL & CLT20 were designed on their football counterparts in terms of structure but not in terms of tournament formatting. A huge reason why the EPL is so popular is because it provides an 'exciting' contest almost every week, keeping the anticipation factor intact and ensuring that the hype remains aloof over a period of time. T20 tournaments run over a few weeks and have the conventional structure of group stages and then the knock-outs.
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This way the fans are kept engaged over a period of time, the tournament remains popular and things like too much cricket during the off-season (April-May) can be avoided. This could be the league point of view, but does that complement what international cricket would think? The issues with this thought are - we can't have international players travelling for one week for a game or so, international players can't be asked to switch on & off between important test matches. Security and ground maintenance could some secondary issues. But if there is some will, these issues have answers - typically IPL squads are 30-membered units and test matches could be spaced out more than merely 3 days. This structure could be emulated for other boards/countries as well, which allows club sides get to play on the backdrop of decent on-field/off-field buzz.
How does this help the entire scenario of T20 cricket? This could test the viability of IPL-like tournaments and reduce the stress on the club vs country debate. Domestic players are tested over a period of time, chances of boredom due to too many T20s at a time is reduced which could mean lesser low-attended games and decent TRPs. T20Is & World T20 stay where they are but that leaves no room for Champions League T20. Fair enough! Reasons follow. CLT20 struggles with context and neutral match scenario. Club sides deserve the stage, but it would only be worth if they have decent following. We can't blame the spectators either, why would locals in South Africa/India overwhelmingly throng to watch say Sialkot Stallions versus Auckland Aces? The context issue has a huge relevance to CLT20 following. DD without Sehwag would still draw decent crowds at Ferozshah Kotla but would be tough to expect a similar response at say Durban or Jo'burg; which incidentally a Sehwag-less Indian side would still generate. It is not the most ideal moment (at the beginning of CLT20 2012) to present this perspective, but in the larger interest deeper thoughts need to go into this subject.
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Four-spined stickleback Apeltes quadracus (Mitchill) 1815
BLOODY STICKLEBACK
[Jordan and Evermann, 1896-1900, p. 752.]
Figure 171.—Four-spined stickleback (Apeltes quadracus), Woods Hole. From Jordan and Evermann. Drawing by A. H. Baldwin.
The four-spined stickleback has no bony plates in its scaleless skin, but it does have a bony ridge on each side of the abdomen, making it triangular in cross section, with flat belly and sharp back; this gives it an aspect very different from the other sticklebacks. It is fusiform in side view, tapering to the rather pointed nose and to the slim caudal peduncle. There are two to four free dorsal spines standing close one behind the other, inclining alternately to one side or the other, and another spine is attached to the dorsal fin by the fin membrane. The anal fin is similarly preceded by an attached spine, and each ventral fin is represented by a stouter curved spine, strongly saw-edged, followed by about two slender rays. The dorsal fin stands over the anal as in the nine-spined species, but both these fins are more rounded in outline, while the caudal fin is relatively longer and narrower than in any of our other sticklebacks.
Brownish olive or greenish brown above, with dark mottlings that alternate below the lateral line with the silvery white of the belly. The fin membrane of the ventrals is red. Males are much darker than females.
One and one-half to two and one-half inches long.
This is a common little fish in the salt marshes, where it consorts with other sticklebacks and with mummichogs. Like the three-spined [page 312] stickleback it often runs up into freshwater, though it is primarily a salt and brackish water fish. And it is never found far in from the coast or out at sea.
In the Woods Hole region this stickleback spawns as early as May and as late as the last week of July, after which spent females are found; but the onset of spawning may be somewhat later in the cooler waters Of the Gulf. The male builds a nest of plant fragments which it brings in its mouth, cemented with mucous threads that he spins out of a pore near his vent; a small rudimentary affair, however, compared with that of the three-spined stickleback, described by Ryder[72] as less than 1 inch in diameter, conical, with an opening at the top. Finally, the male stickleback picks up the eggs that have been laid by the female and deposits them in the hollow at the top of the nest, guarding them, presumably, during incubation. The eggs are yellow, approximately 1.66 mm. in diameter; they sink like those of the other sticklebacks and stick together in clumps. Incubation occupies six days or thereabouts at laboratory temperature (about 70°). Newly hatched larvae are about 4.5 mm. long and similar in appearance to those of the three-spined species but more densely pigmented.[73]
This is an American fish, known along the coast from the southern side of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Nova Scotia to Virginia; at home both in salt water and in brackish, and running up into fresh water.
Occurrence in the Gulf of Maine—
This stickleback is common all around the shores of the Gulf on the Nova Scotian side as well as the New England side. We have taken it at Yarmouth; Huntsman[74] records it from St. Mary Bay and along the New Brunswick shore well within the Bay of Fundy (Maine has usually been given as its northern limit), and there are many locality records for the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts. But it is so much more closely restricted to estuarine situations than is its three-spined relative (p. 310) that we have never taken it in our tow nets nor do we find a single record of it in the open sea. On the south shore of New England it is a year-round resident. Probably this is equally true in the Gulf, where it may be expected to gather in the bottoms of the deeper creeks in winter, as it is known to do in Chesapeake Bay. It resembles the three-spined stickleback in its feeding habits so far as known (copepods and other small crustaceans being its chief diet) and in its general mode of life.
[72] Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. I, 1882, p. 24.
[73] The early development is described by Ryder (Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. I, 1882, p. 24) and by Kuntz and Radcliffe (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 35, 1918, p. 132).
[74] Contrib. Canadian Biol. (1921) 1922, p. 61.
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Can you please explain the various electronics options?
Please also see this article for more information about pickup choices.
The bass and melody string sets each have their own tone and volume controls. The volume knobs are 'nested' one inside the other so that not only can one adjust the volumes separately, but it can also be used like one knob so that both signals can be turned down or up together.
Adds 2 subtle sound/response variations to the pickups output.
Allows for easy mono-amping, but with the option to split out the signals as needed.
Works well for switching preamps at the jack. Requires 2 separate guitar cables. Classic Megatars with preamps were built this way.
Emergency backup for professionals that want to be able to bypass the active circuits in case of unexpected technical issues.
Have some specific pickups, switching options or other electronic fantasies that you would like to share? Let me know what you have in mind.