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This Wild Life
The AP Tour 10/15/15
Tiana Timmerberg October 29, 2015
Less than 2 weeks ago, on October 15th, I attended the AP Tour featuring As It Is, This Wild Life, Real Friends and Mayday Parade. The show was at one of Philly's most popular GA venues, The Electric Factory. First of all, I'd like to say that this is one of my favorite tour line-ups ever. The bands work together very well but all have their own distinct sounds. Also, I will upload photos from this show as soon as possible! I have had some issues with my photo editing software but am working to get it fixed now.
The first band was As It Is. I also saw them on last summer's Warped Tour and this pop punk band always puts on a great show. Lead singer Patty Walters is small, super cute and super energetic. While Patty seems to be best known for his Youtube videos, his passion for music is clearly shown in his performances. Their setlist consisted of mostly (or maybe all) songs from their newest album, Never Happy, Ever After. They played songs such as Cheap Shots & Setbacks, Can't Save Myself and crowd favorite Dial Tones. Although they were the openers, they were no strangers to the crowd and were very well received. I thoroughly enjoyed their and hope they return to Philly to play a longer set soon.
As I consider the pop-punk duo This Wild Life one of my favorite bands, I was excited to see them again. Their set was very similar to the songs they played on Warped since they haven't released new music since then, but it was still a treat. They sound virtually exactly the same live as they do recorded, which is extremely rare. They have true talent and the simplicity of their songs allows them to showcase Kevin Jordan's voice and both Kevin and Anthony DelGrosso's guitar. Their set included songs such as Puppy Love, which Kevin jokingly introduces as a love song only to reveal it's really about his dog, Concrete and, my personal favorite, History. They successfully play a very energetic and entertaining set, destroying the notion that acoustic sets are boring.
A friend of mine who has been to multiple Real Friends shows informed me that the crowd may get a bit intense during their set. At first I didn't believe her as I tend to associate rowdy crowds with bands that have heavier styles than Real Friends, but she was right. Their set seemed to have the most crowd surfers and the crowd had a very high level of energy. This Chicago pop punk band has a strong connection with the audience due to both their talent and their relatable lyrics. Lead singer Dan Lambton has a wonderfully gritty voice that translates well into live performances and guitarist The band conveyed a lot of emotion in their set and came across as very genuine. They started their set with Cover You Up and finished with Summer.
Pop rock band Mayday Parade is headlining the tour. The band has been together for about a decade and recently released their fifth studio album, Black Lines. My first impression was of their beautiful stage set up with lots of intricate lights and smoke. They came out to the song One of Them Will Destroy the Other, with Dan of Real Friends joining them onstage. The two bands coming together was fantastic and I'm glad they used this tour as an opportunity to play the song live. Their set also included songs such as Jaime All Over, Keep in Mind, Transmogrification Is a New Technology, the live debut of Just Out of Reach, and the long time favorite Oh Well, Oh Well. The timing of the tour seemed a little too early for fans to know the songs as the album was just released and production issues prevented many from receiving their album before the show, but they did play a nice balance of older and new songs. The crowd was very excited to see Mayday, so excited that it almost seemed as if the entire audience was made up of dedicated fans. During older songs, it felt like every person in the crowd was singing every lyric. They finished their set (before the encore) with a piano rendition of Miserable At Best where Derek left the stage before the end of the song, allowing the beautiful collective voice of the crowd to finish the last verse.
Overall, I was very pleased with not only the tour line-up itself but also with the performance of each individual band. The night was filled with great music and lots of talent. The crowd responded very well to every band, starting the show with lots of energy and keeping that same level of excitement up throughout the night. I highly recommend attending this tour! There's still well over half of the tour left so check out the remaining cities and purchase tickets HERE (a few shows even have a few VIP packages left).
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Smooth (and expert-approved) ways to handle today's tricky situations.
By Hilary Parker
This fast-paced, technology-loving, make-then-break-the-rules society of ours offers plenty of opportunities for accidental impoliteness. Hey, most of us can't be bothered to read our cell phone manuals, let alone figure out when it's proper to take a call. And though we don't bat an eye at certain social scenarios that would've shocked Grandma in her day – texting at the table? – we're still not sure how to navigate some of them. Fortunately, even in this complex "new" world, the old basics of decorum apply. Here, mannerly advice on managing four thoroughly modern conundrums.
Tricky situation #1
As a friend is telling you a personal, sensitive story, your cell phone goes off, and the ringtone is your son's. Can you answer it?
No one can fault you for being an attentive mom – but you know that your son might just be calling to complain that his sister is poking him. Still, yes, you can answer your cell, as long as you hang up once you're sure everything's okay. Simply say, "I'm so sorry – it's my son and I just have to make sure it's not an emergency," says Jodi R. R. Smith, author of From Clueless to Class Act: Manners for the Modern Woman. Then, turn your full attention back to your friend. Paraphrase the last few lines of her story back to her, as in "So, you were saying that your husband had just said that he was feeling restless...." That way, she knows you were tuned in to the conversation, and still are.
You're a single mom, and you've noticed a single dad at your kid's school who seems nice – but his son is in your child's class. Is dating this guy off-limits?
"The number of single parents is on the rise, so it's almost impossible not to meet a potential date in the school setting," says Sue Fox, author of Etiquette for Dummies. And making school a no-dating zone could really limit your options. There's no need to hide your relationship, but be discreet. While it's fine to see the school play together and cheer on each other's kids, don't get touchy-feely in the auditorium seats.
Inevitably, other parents will pry for details – which you're not obliged to provide. You needn't reveal, for instance, whether you're planning to move in together. Just politely respond with "We've been seeing each other, and it's been really nice. Thanks for asking," says Lizzie Post, Emily Post's great-great-granddaughter and author of How Do You Work This Life Thing?
A friend is bugging you to post comments on her blog, but you don't have the time – or desire – to do it. Should you post anyway, to be polite and supportive?
If she's a good friend and you're even the tiniest bit interested in the topic, you should probably post at least once. But know that bloggers are on a mission – they want to be heard – and don't always realize that their constant requests for comments can be a little over the top. So remind your friend of your busy schedule by saying something like "Sure, I'd be happy to help when I have a moment. I can usually squeeze in some Internet time on Sunday nights, after I put the kids to bed."
But what if her blog is a play-by-play of her personal life and she expects you to air your dirty laundry in a post? Or what if you're the subject of her latest online musings? Politely but firmly put your foot down. Try telling her, "I'm so happy for you that you have your blog, but it's not my thing. You know me – I'm a private person and don't feel comfortable having either of us write about my life," says Smith. That way, you've shown your support and protected your boundaries.
Is it okay to whip out your mini bottle of hand sanitizer and slather it on at the table when you're lunching with a friend?
Everyone's germ conscious these days, but you want to be sure your pal doesn't get served up a whiff of rubbing alcohol along with her club sandwich. If slipping into the loo isn't an option, just use a few squirts under the table and keep the bottle out of sight. Your healthy habit isn't likely to bug your friend, especially if you offer her the bottle before stowing it in your purse. After all, everyone knows it's polite to share.
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My Chinese friend, Ya Xi (David), warned me that China would be hot as hell and crowded in August, but that did not deter me! It's hot in New York and Bangkok in August, so what's the difference? The opportunity to check so many places off my Bucket List was just too tempting. So you walk a little slower and drink a little more water!
The flight on Thai Airways from Bangkok was uneventful and took only 4 and a half hours. When we arrived, I saw all the Chinese running for the exit! A familiar knot formed in my stomach, and it wasn't from the dinner the night before or the dreadful meal served on the flight. Well, maybe not totally It reminded me of a flight to Kuala Lumpur several years ago. The reason then was the incredible long lines that formed at Immigration. It took well in access of an hour to get through. It took so long they had taken my bag off the baggage claim and put it in a small storage room! Welcome to Kuala Lumpur! Well, I learned fast that China is an endurance test sometimes as well. Not like India, but not UNlike India, either! When you got off the plane, you had to walk about 15 minutes to get to a long line at Immigration. But unlike Kuala Lumpur, the line here moved rather efficiently, at least given its length! Then you have to get on the shuttle train to get to baggage claim. Fortunately, my bag was there this time! I managed to exit and find Ya Xi patiently waiting my arrival. What I think I loved most was the fact that going with a Chinese national, you really get the sense of what it is like to travel in China. No tour bus or hotel van service for us! We boarded the bus that eventually found its way through heavy late afternoon traffic to a stop where we switched to a subway and made our way to the Line 4 and Gomedian station near Ya Xi's parent's condo. It's hard to tell where his family members actually live! Even though they have their own residences, many actually stay here too. They also have a place in a city called Luoyang (next entry) in central China where a lot of the family was now residing. So Ya Xi and I had the place to ourselves. Not sure whose room I was staying in. That seems to be a very fluid concept in China as well!
Before going to the condo, we decided to eat at a restaurant in the neighborhood. Well, this was the beginning of my reawakening to the fact that there is Chinese AMERICAN food and there is the real thing. What a perfect way to start this journey with a serving of Beijing Duck (the only way I ever eat duck) and Beijing Noodles, a thick noodle with oodles of vegetables and served with a delicious soy paste with marinated chips of beef in it. Addicting!
It was a mercifully short hop to the condo from there. The condo is in one of many highrises in the area. Despite that, the Zhang family has manage to put their own stamp on it. It is a three bedroom place with small livingroom, kitchen and dining areas. But that said, it was very comfortable. I took a shower and we decided to get to bed as we were both exhausted.
I was up at 6:00, the usual time. It was so nice to just have that quiet time there to read and write. About 7:00, I heard what sounded like an elderly Chinese male voice singing an old Chinese song somewhere in the courtyard below. It sounded so sad, like a lament for lost love or perhaps times gone by. It was my morning meditation to just stand there at the bathroom window in the pale morning light with my eyes closed imagining sitting on a misty mountain top as the song washed over me. Welcome to China!
Ya Xi got up at 8:00. I think with his new son, this was the first uninterrupted night's sleep he's had in a while! Not that he doesn't have a lot of help with the family hovering over every sound the baby makes! But they were all in Luoyang.
The first thing we had to do was to take care of business first. If you stay in China in a residence, you are required to check in with the local police station. Local meaning one or two subway stops away! I needed no translation for anything that happened there. Bureaucrats are the same everywhere. Ya Xi, ever the experienced one, had a flash drive loaded with everything they could possibly ask from him! And, of course, they did! It still took an hour for 5 officials to complete the paperwork, three of whom were working their cell phone games or texting friends rather than contributing anything. No wonder most visitors don't even bother. And in the future, neither will I. We recuperated at a local shop for a breakfast of steamed buns, bean soup and shumai. Need I say, delicious?
Fortified, we headed by subway to Tienamen Square and the Imperial Palace. The subway system is crowded and transfers require a lot of walking to the next connection, but it is all part of the experience! And it is worth it! We came out of the subway and you have to take a second or ten to take in the massive size of the Square itself to the south. Like most people, we opted to forgo that side with cold, utilitarian, somber buildings with titles like "Hall of the People, " "Heroes' Monument" and even Mao Tze Tung's Mausoleum. With only three days scheduled for Beijing, it's the Forbidden City, as the West knows it, we came to see. There are thousands of Chinese tourists here as well. We love anything "forbidden!" You enter the ornate gate that was once the reserve of only the emperor and walk into a huge courtyard, anyone who's watched Chinese period movies will have seen this spot! It could very well be it's own city. This is where the emperor would review his army. It is so large, I'm sure that is true. You could fit an army in that space! We started out at one end at 12:30 and did not get to the other side of the complex till 3:30. We took breaks as everything is exposed to the oppressive sun. I don't think I've ever craved water so much as I did in China. Huge courts and gardens, buildings of every administrative type, residences, throne rooms for this event or that. It's endless, but fascinating. You can imagine it bustling with activity back in the day, messages arriving from everywhere in the empire. It's own little world! Sadly, you are not allowed into many of the buildings for security reasons. The buildings are of a style and lack the variety of other places, but the sheer size of it all is awesome enough!
When we finally made it to the end and exited the gate, before us was the hill of Jingshan Park with its impressive view of the area. I was exhausted, but like I would be constantly saying over the next two weeks, "You're here! Do it!" As we climbed the steep stairs, I kept having the feeling that there must be an easier climb somewhere here. I discovered that the hard way at the Acropolis in Athens! Sure enough near the top we saw the gentle sloped walkway that ribbons the hillside! Why don't I read my guidebooks more carefully! It's all worth it though. Beautiful view of the entire Palace grounds and a refreshing cool breeze.
We descended the hill and finally started by bus on the way back. It was that misnamed time of the day, "rush hour." Nothing was rushing. We were on an overcrowded, hot bus when I had another needs-no-translation moment. We were stopped dead in traffic and a gruff older guy starts yelling to the driver to open the doors to let him out. "It would be faster to walk!" I imagined him saying. The driver accommodated him, and about 15 others, including the two of us, joined him!By the look on the driver's face, he would have been with us too if he could have! This ended up being an interesting turn of events as right up the road was a walking street that wound its way through some remnants of the old city. Well, not quite the charm of the actual old city as the structures now house overpriced shops. There is just so much yogurt and coffee one can consume! We ended up at a lake that is as kitchy as it is touristy. Ya Xi was determined to have hot pot, but every place here was totally booked for at least an hour's wait time. As the hour drew late, we decided to go back to Ya Xi's neighborhood. No hot pot, but we found the coolest make-your-own-soup place! Loved it! Lots of veggies to choose from! Like a salad bar for soup lovers! Kind of a hot pot, come to think of it!
The next day we were up early to take the subway clear across town to catch the bus to a section of the Great Wall known as Badaling. There are many different parts to the wall, and they are different in terrain, too. When we arrived at the old north wall of the city at the bus terminal, there was a line a kilometer long (no kidding) of people waiting to get on the buses. Next to it was a much shorter line for people willing to stand in the aisle during the trip. We were told the trip would be a little more than an hour. The Chinese evidently have as much sense of time-distance as the Cambodians! It took 2 1/2 hours. It was crowded and torturous, but I kept to my mantra, "It's an experience and these are the situations you remember best and most fondly!" By the time we got there, about 2:30, we looked at the steepness of the climb up to the wall and the number of people on line again and decided to find a cheap hotel room and stay the night. We ate some noodles and Ya Xi was sacked out at 6:30! I lasted till 9:30 and woke up at 3:00. Spent the next 3 hours dozing, too excited to really sleep at all.
We were up and ready to go at 7:00. We checked out and saw that at that early hour there were a lot of people arriving, so we had a quick breakfast of wanton soup and Chinese donuts and opted for the cable car that took us to near the highest part of the wall. I was a little leery of this, but it's only a 5 minute ride, so on we went. When the car reached each post that supported the cable, it would lurch and swing the car. Not what I wanted to experience! I just concentrated on the amazing view and focused on my breathing! When we got out, it ended up that we were only a short walk to the high point. We took a lot of photos and decided to walk back down to the town on the wall. Now, walking "down" is a relative term here. Walking down also means steep walkways and steeper climbs up on the many flights of stairs! It didn't take long for me to look like something far removed from the happy, carefree Westerners I saw on line as they walked the Wall! I don't know what section they were at, not here I'll bet! You can get about 4-5 people abreast on the wall. As we walked down (or up and down) I tried to imagine the imperial soldiers running from section to section in their armor, even in ice and snow! The shape they must have been in! The floor of the walkway was at times smooth and a little treacherous as we started out in a fine misty rain which made it quite slippery. Other areas are rough stone, so you get more traction.
About half way down, the sun came out and it was suddenly a warm, sunny, humid day. After about two hours, we reached the last steep stairway. Ya Xi made it to the top, but I "really needed a few minutes." As I sat there contemplating my untimely death, sitting in a cool restaurant enjoying a cold drink, or even calling in a med-evac helicopter for a dramatic "rescue," a girl of about 10 years old in a party dress, no less, flit by me and ambled effortlessly up the stairs! I thought maybe I was hallucinating! She wasn't even wearing proper shoes! And I know this because I was at shoe-level when she went by! So after meditating a minute on whether it is worse to GET older or actually BE older, I decided instead to climb those stairs! The former is a constant life revelation. The latter, well, I wouldn't have even been ON that wall in the first place! Not giving up yet!
It was now about noon, so we found our way to a bus for the return to Beijing, SITTING in a seat this time! We decided to get back and take the night train to Luoyang. Despite all the sleep the night before, we were both conked out in about 10 minutes after the bus left the Wall.
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all this and some blue skies too. you must have avoided being able to "taste" the air as has been done on occasion in Beijing.


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"It was the best day of my life!" said my nearly five-year old daughter as we were lying in bed late last night. We went to breakfast, did some work in our community garden, went to the grocery store, went swimming in our $20 Target pool, and waited for Mommy to get home from work before heading off to swim lessons at our local recreation center.
Any other day this would be more than enough activity to earn "great day" status, but unbeknownst to me, this was just the beginning.
There was a mini-meltdown after face-planting at the community pool. No injuries were sustained but it was enough to create a bad mood. The lesson could be made up on Wednesday so no major issue. Getting my usually sweet little girl back in a positive mood was another issue entirely.
After an arduous conversation with an irrational child allowing her to lather my bald head with sunscreen did the trick. It was just in time as a family friend with 3 of her 4 kids rolled up for a planned visit while her oldest was at some sport practice nearby.
A prior version of myself would have lost my marbles with 4 children running around while my wife and her friend split a bottle of wine on our back porch. While every one was very well behaved it is still more action than I am used to. Kids were running in and out of the house, half-eaten snacks and wrappers littered across the floor and tables, and Amelia's slightly organized toys littered the floors across multiple rooms.
Again, a prior version of me would have been rocking back and forth in a fetal position after 20 minutes. The fact I wasn't is progress.
If the night ended there I would have considered it a good day. It wasn't nearly the end I expected—but I will get into that in a minute.
Since starting this blog I have talked incessantly about mindfulness. I was able to put it into practice for the majority of the day. Rather than stress about the future or dwell on the past I was present in the moment enjoying every aspect of the day. I didn't worry about the usual issues that plague my mind. I was doing exactly what I meant when I try to remind myself to "just be" meaning experience life in the moment without concern for the thought-forms of past or future. Most importantly I was able to experience a day in the life with my child.
I believe as we get older we forget how to live. I know I get caught up thinking about the mistakes of my past and over-analyzing every potential future occurrence. It prevents me from being present the majority of the time. Sometimes I just need to let go of the need to control and just live.
That "letting go" brings us to the end of the night when 4 children were dry from hours of play, the house was cluttered from activity, and the day was winding down. It was time to drain the pool as rain was expected overnight as well as wanting to protect the grass from more than 2 days of water pressure.
For the kids, a small plug in the bottom of the pool didn't drain it fast enough. Cups would help it drain faster and of course help the flower bed nearby. Watering flowers turned into watering each other and eventually getting back in the pool—fully clothed! The adults lost control as everything was getting covered in water. Then I got the effects of some splashing. The kids didn't know what to think at that point.
Keep in mind I am a bigger guy with a bald head, beard, piercings and tattoos. I can look "scary" even to people who know me well. When I got splashed it fell silent.
I turned around, walked away silently, and came back with the hose. It was on!
Nobody was safe! 4 kids came at me with cups of water at once. They were met with a jet stream of cold hose water. The younger ones got a less aggressive hosing but the older girls were recipients of a full on blast at times to the back of the head. They were in heaven.
At one point, and keep in mind we were all fully clothed, I was IN the pool picking up a couple of them and "gently" throwing them back in the water. We were experiencing summer. We were making memories.
A good day was made into a great day simply by letting go, living in the moment and aided by a water fight with a small group of kids.
Sounds like an awesome day! Great post!
Thank you. It is one I believe we all will remember for a while!
Thank you! It needs to happen more often than not. Time is the one resource we can never get more of. I've wasted a fair amount of it through the years.


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My hopes vs reality.. feeling like a FAILURE!
I have known for many years that I would home educate my children when I was finally blessed with a child.
Now that I have twins my plan still remains the same. However, the plan has been altered somewhat.
I have loved being a stay-at-home mama to my gorgeous boys. Of course, it has been challenging, (there are 2 of them), but totally worth it.
Israel and Josiah are 20 months now, and I can honestly say that they are lovely boys.
I know that every parent says that about their children and every parent has different thresholds. Mine is crying for no reason, I can't take it.
My boys are not cry-ee babies, God truly knew a limit of mine and granted me extra grace and for that, I'm eternally thankful.
Please don't misunderstand, my boys do cry, just not for no reason. Israel has recently been getting his top molars and it has been a nightmare. He's been in so much pain and discomfort and it has been tough to watch him suffer.
It was worse at night and he would SCREAM, Josiah would often wake up crying because his brother had woken him. All Israel wanted was to be held and all Josiah wanted was peace to sleep.
I haven't slowed down since the boys arrived because it hasn't been a possibility and I haven't wanted to. However, I notice now that my MS is making it that much harder to look after the boys sometimes.
I've recently had 2 bouts of gastroenteritis, so of course, that virus would weaken me and my fatigue be worse than usual.
I'm not great at admitting that I need help because I am struggling, I don't like getting pity or feeling weak.
Remember I told you about Trevor my annoying hand tremor. Well, he seems to have moved in permanently, making my life even more difficult and the physio said it's not just a tremor but also my fine motor skills.
Anton and I have had to have tough conversations about how I'm coping, it's hard for him to see me exhausted by 5 pm. Every time the conversation comes up, I tell him that I can handle it and will rest more.
I really do mean it when I say I am willing to push my body to the limit for my boys. I'll do anything for them.
I was horrified at the thought and couldn't help but feel like a failure. Her point was if I don't look after myself, how would I be able to take care of my boys. I knew she was right but I wasn't ready to accept that I was struggling.
It is so easy to look at me and think that I have everything under control all the time. However, that is not my reality, I really struggle at times. I have become a pro at hiding my struggles, but let me reassure you, they do exist.
Here I am months later, my body is still treating me like an enemy,😠 and so I prayed, prayed for wisdom.
Mainly it was me feeling like I would be a failure if I have to send them to nursery.
Sidenote, I don't think parents are failures or wrong for sending their children to nursery.
It just wasn't part of my plan, I wanted to be strong enough to manage on my own.
I started to see signs that part-time nursery was my answer in different ways and at different times.
I am NOT a failure, I just have to look after myself for a little while for the sake of my husband and children.
We found a lovely nursery with a manageable walk for me.
Best of all, God gave me peace about this decision.
So as of September Israel and Josiah will be going to nursery for 15 hours a week and in that time, I plan to focus on getting stronger.
This was not part of the plan, but plans change and it's how we adapt to change that reveals our character.


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Paul O'Dette's Recital for the Ages
Posted by Edward McCue in Bach's Successors, Bach's Works, Organology, Other Artists
acoustics, Calgary, Calgary Bach Society, cello, Classical Guitar Society of Calgary, counterpoint, dance suite, fugue, gesture, guitar, gut string, harmony, lautenwerk, Leacock Theatre, lute, Monsieur Schouster, Mount Royal University, ornamentation, Partita in E Major, Paul O'Dette, phrasing, Silvius Leopold Weiss, Sonata in C Major, Sonata in G minor, Stephan Bonfield, Suite in C minor, Suite in D minor, Suite in G minor, The Calgary Herald, timbre, tone color, transcription, violin, violoncello
Paul O'Dette
Only one thing was on everyone's mind at the Leacock Theatre [at Mount Royal University in Calgary] on 25 January 2014, and that was Paul O'Dette's programming of a generous helping of Bach's lute works. Originally written for the lautenwerk, a keyboard instrument (and a curiosity even in its day) made with gut strings instead of metal, it could emulate a lute so exactly when played that it even fooled experts who listened to it in an adjoining room. Bach owned two of the instruments, and even though copies have been built so as to duplicate their sound, the music left behind for the lautenwerk still poses a problem – how do we play these keyboard masterpieces for their authentically-intended sound world, namely, the lute?
Bach's lute works have historically presented many problems for transcribers and performers, whether for guitar or for baroque thirteen-course lute, but this night, Mr. O'Dette showed that he had no problems at all adapting to the challenges posed by this very difficult repertoire. The greatest living lutenist, arguably, and certainly the most recorded of all time, gave a recital for the ages, and left us all with an incomparable musical experience of such high quality we could never forget.
Restoring these works of Bach to the lute repertoire has been an ongoing process for some time now, and Mr. O'Dette has played an important part in that story. Furthermore, it was never an easy step to take these works to the level of guitar transcription either, and many of the audience members being guitarists at this jointly-hosted concert by the Calgary Bach Society and the Classical Guitar Society of Calgary showed tremendous interest in Mr. O'Dette's polished transcriptional abilities and scintillating fingerwork skill.
Besides, the chance to hear Mr. O'Dette perform most anything at all, and to watch him as he artistically elicits a broad range of timbral tonal colors from his lute with unsurpassed musicality and transcendent technique was not to be missed.
The concert opened with the Suite in G minor (BWV 995), a transcription of the violoncello Suite in D minor (BWV 1008), but re-titled "Pieces pour la luth à Monsieur Schouster." From the first few notes one is struck by the meticulousness of phrasing, particularly in the breathtaking fugue which was executed with uncommon and unstinting mastery over such difficult-to-play counterpoint. His Allemande was sensitively played – stately, slow, every small phrase accounted for, and every ornament and turn clean.
Mr. O'Dette's sense of the dance is never lost, the rhythms played with an explorative ease, and gratifyingly, he let some of Bach's more adventurous harmonies resonate a little longer for our enjoyment. In the Courante, Mr. O'Dette explored the broader range of rhetoric underlying the piece both rhythmically and in each phrase shape. He takes advantage of the intellectual abstractions offered by these highly stylized dance pieces at every point, particularly in the Sarabande, a movement now famous to us today for its somewhat existential qualities. Like so many movements of the Baroque dance suite which became stylized to such a point that they grew to become their own unique, artistically complex, musical identities, the works on this night's program demonstrated how such works came to transcend the very rhythms and gestures for which these movements were originally written. It was entirely appropriate that Mr. O'Dette could convey a rich appreciation for the history and interpretation of these works and their intrinsic sophistication evinced through his manifestly astute playing of every note, every phrase and each color.
Next came the Partita in E Major (BWV 1006a), transcribed up a semi-tone and played in F, to accommodate the bassline. Absolutely hypnotic, lustrous, colored in ways I had never before heard, with fretwork skill that was truly outstanding, this is one of the toughest pieces to play on lute, from the point of view of virtuosity and skill alone. Yet the work is balanced throughout with quieter, genteel and often haunting moments of exquisite beauty, such as the Loure, a dance of subtler lilting demeanor, beautifully played by Mr. O'Dette. Always taking repeats, Mr. O'Dette adeptly showed a different timbral and Baroque character in every dance he played in this suite. The minuets have been taken slower on many recordings, but here, Mr. O'Dette is dedicated to a more authentic tempo in accordance with the speed at which these works would have been danced. The result was a nice narrative flow-through from Minuett I to II, with his handling of the Minuett II so moving, yet a little slower, never dragging, and with a premium paid entirely to the idiosyncratic beauty of Bach's beautiful close harmonies. Mr. O'Dette's interpretations of these dances underscores how these gallantries ought to be played – with intimacy, meditatively, even for private enjoyment. With these small pearls, Mr. O'Dette seemed to achieve the rarest of feats in concert performance, and that was to transcend the spacious hall of the Leacock Theatre and speak to us one by one as though playing to us in a private salon, respecting the original performing intent of these finely-crafted works.
The night only got better. Programmed in the second half was the evening's only work authentically written for the lute, namely Silvius Leopold Weiss's Suite in C minor, the composer's first work in the genre. Weiss, a close friend of Bach's, was as noted an improviser in his day as the great organist, and there is every sense that the suites we heard in the first half of the concert were written in Weiss's honor. Mr. O'Dette, who spoke familiarly and charmingly to his audience between every suite, extolled the work as a mature and idiomatically authentic example of a young composer who had truly found his creative voice with his instrument. And certainly the work was played that way, with contrasts of strong accents measured with tender beauty. This has long been a favorite lute work of mine, and to hear it played live for the first time, and so well, was a real treat.
To conclude, Mr. O'Dette turned to another difficult work by Bach, the Italian-styled Sonata in G minor (BWV 1001), originally written for violin.
By leaving the G minor sonata for the end with its famous, monstrous fugue that is so difficult to execute, Mr. O'Dette saved the best for last. Navigated with true facility and always contrapuntally clear, this work was played with outstandingly uncommon expression. Usually lutenists and guitarists merely try to survive this work and get to the end intact, but for Mr. O'Dette, expression counted for everything, and this was by far the most impressive work that he played all evening. The final Gigue was spun forth from his lute with such considerable alacrity that its performance was impossible to rival on any artistic level.
For his encore, to send us into the night, Mr. O'Dette chose the Largo from the violin Sonata in C Major (BWV 1005), which he played with such sincerity and beauty, none of us likely would have left had he elected to play all night. He continued his entrancing hold over us, never missing any of Bach's harmonic twists and turns along the way, giving each its due, and then more. It was worth every moment to hear Mr. O'Dette light up the room with one more resonant chord held for all its worth, one more graceful gesture, one more moment of refined beauty, the like of which in the hands of such a master, we are unlikely to ever hear again.
Stephan Bonfield – The Calgary Herald
The Lautenwerk
Posted by Edward McCue in Audio Recordings, Bach's Life, Bach's Works, Organology, Other Artists
acoustics, archlute, bell, brass string, chitarrone, color, dynamics, foreshortening, Gergely Sárközy, gut string, Hamburg, harpsichord, Hungaroton, jack, Jakob Adlung, Jena, Johann Christoph Fleischer, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Nikolaus Bach, lautenwerk, lute, lute stop, lute-harpsichord, manual, metal string, organ, Partita in C minor, plectrum, quill, resonator, soundboard, spinet, stop, tension, Theorbenflügel, theorbo, timbre, Zacharias Hildebrandt
Over a period of three centuries there are numerous references to gut-stringed instruments that resemble the harpsichord and imitate the delicate, soft timbre of the lute, including its lower-sounding variants, the theorbo and chitarrone (or archlute) or the harp, but little concrete information is available. Not a single instrument has survived, nor is any contemporary depiction known apart from a rough engraving of the early sixteenth century. Fewer than ten lute-harpsichord ("lautenwerk") makers are known, and there are reasonably detailed descriptions of instruments made by only two or three of them. Nonetheless, the instrument is mentioned fairly frequently in music books of the early seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century.
Much of the available information relates to three eighteenth-century German instrument makers: Johann Christoph Fleischer of Hamburg, Johann Nikolaus Bach and the organ builder Zacharias Hildebrandt.
Fleischer built two types of instrument. The smaller had two 8-foot gut-stringed stops with a compass of about three octaves; in the lower two octaves these could be coupled with a 4-foot stop analogous with the pairs of octave-tuned bass strings (courses) on the lute. Below the soundboard of the instrument, an oval resonator in the shape of a shell, resembling the body of a lute, was attached.
Fleischer called his larger instrument the "Theorbenflügel" (theorbo-harpsichord). Its two gut-stringed stops together made up a double-tuned, 16-foot stop, with the pairs in the lower octave-and-a-half tuned an octave apart and in the upper range in unison. In addition, there was a 4-foot metal-stringed stop, and the combination of the 4-foot and the 16-foot stops produced a "delicate and bell-like" tone. This larger instrument was in the shape of a regular concert harpsichord.
Johann Nicolaus Bach, a second cousin of Johann Sebastian, was a composer, organist and instrument maker in Jena. He, too, built several types of lautenwerk. The basic type closely resembled a small wing-shaped, one-manual harpsichord of the usual kind. It only had a single gut-stringed stop, but this sounded a pair of strings tuned an octave apart in the lower third of the compass and in unison in the middle third to approximate, as far as possible, the impression given by a lute. The instrument had no metal strings at all.
According to contemporary accounts, even this simplest of versions made a sound that could deceive a professional lutenist, a fact considered almost miraculous at the time. But a basic shortcoming was the absence of dynamic expression. In order to remedy matters, J. N. Bach also made instruments with two and three manuals whose keys sounded the same strings but with different quills and at different points of the string, thereby providing two or three grades of dynamic and timbre. J. N. Bach also built theorbo-harpsichords with a compass extending down an extra octave.
J. S. Bach's connection with and interest in the lautenwerk was considerable. He clearly liked the combination of softness with strength which these instruments are capable of producing, and he is known to have drawn up his own specifications for such an instrument to be built for him by Hildebrandt. In an annotation to Adlung's Musica mechanica organoedi, Johann Friedrich Agricola described a lautenwerk that belonged to Bach:
The editor of these notes remembers having seen and heard a "Lautenclavicymbel" in Leipzig in about 1740, designed by Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach and made by Mr. Zacharias Hildebrand, which was smaller in size than a normal harpsichord but, in all other respects, similar. It had two choirs of gut strings and a so-called little octave of brass strings. It is true that in its normal setting (that is, when only one stop was drawn) it sounded more like a theorbo than a lute. But if one drew the lute stop, such as is found on a harpsichord, together with the cornet stop [the undamped, 4-foot brass stop], one could almost deceive professional lutenists.
The inventory of Bach's possessions at the time of his death reveals that he owned two such instruments as well as three harpsichords, one lute and a spinet.
The lautenwerk therefore differs from the harpsichord in several important respects. While historical references indicate differing approaches to design, there is general agreement that whereas harpsichords are designed to be strung in metal, the use of gut strings is of primary importance in a lautenwerk. However, simple replacement of metal strings with gut will not give satisfactory results.
Generally, a gut string requires a longer scale (or length at a given pitch) than a metal string, which in turn infers a larger instrument. Pitch for a given string length however, is a function not only of length but also of string material and tension. The lower-pitched strings of the lute-harpsichord are thicker and under less tension – a technique known as "foreshortening." Thus lautenwerks are often smaller than their metal-strung relatives. Extreme foreshortening of the scale, in comparison to the harpsichord, reduces the tension that a lautenwerk must bear. Lighter construction is made possible, thereby enabling a lautenwerk to better respond to the less energetic gut string. This is especially true of the soundboard, which can be half the thickness normally found in harpsichords.
Gut stringing has other implications for lautenwerk design. As gut strings have more internal friction than their metal counterparts, they generally have less sustain, allowing one to dispense with dampers to a large degree. Individual instruments will dictate where dampers are needed and how effective they need be, but one rarely finds a lautenwerk fitted with dampers on every string. Any resulting "over-ring" is likely to enhance the lute-like effect.
The lautenwerk also demands special attention concerning string layout. Thick gut strings vibrate more vigorously than thin metal ones at higher tension. This requires that more space be given between adjacent strings to avoid interference. This consideration encourages the builder to keep his design simple. Two choirs of gut strings seems to be the practical maximum, although a third choir strung in brass is sometimes found.
Harpsichords normally have one dedicated jack per string. Lautenwerks often have more than one jack independently serving the same string. Tonal variation is achieved by plucking the string at different points along its length. Dynamic and color variation can also be pursued by using plectra having different properties. This sort of elaboration is most often reserved for instruments having more than one manual. Adding more strings to achieve tonal interest is avoided, and resonant construction is maintained.
As noted above, the internal volumes of some of Fleischer's lautenwerks were determined by a dome-like structure shaped much like the back of a lute, and indeed modern instruments have been made in which a "lute shell" defines the exterior shape of the instrument. Internal structures placed below the soundboard are also sometimes found. Other modern makers adopt construction methods normally associated with other keyboard instruments.
Of the few attempts to reconstruct and record a lautenwerk, one of the more successful is the instrument built for the player Gergely Sárközy who performs a work that has traditionally been assigned to the lute, Bach's Partita in C minor (BWV 997), on a recording by Hungaroton.
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So Serious: NBCNews.com Swoons Over Drag Queen At Impeachment Hearings
By Gabriel Hays | November 13, 2019 12:56 PM EST
If you want a concise distillation of how serious the left's impeachment attempts are on this first official day of hearings, look at the Drag Queen journalists on the ground at Capitol Hill. Just try to tell yourself — without wincing — that this is a "sad" and oh-so-serious day for democracy, as Nancy Pelosi puts it.
It sure says a lot about the Democratic party when drag queens have become their shock troopers.
Pissi Myles, as he likes to call himself (please Lord, we hope that doesn't mean what we think it means), apparently fancies himself a journalist with a valid interest in covering impeachment politics. It's a nice reminder of just how much of a circus the Dems' attempt at removing Trump is, with freaks like Pissi Myles being the enthusiastic rent-a-clowns.
NBCNews.com reported on the attendance of "the award-winning drag performer," composing a headline that would have made the founding fathers seriously contemplate abandoning their American experiment. Read it and weep: "Drag Queen Sashays into Trump Impeachment Hearing."
Yes, it seems to be quite the spectacle. The site described his appearance, writing, "Spotted towering over the gray and blue suits packed into the first day of President Donald Trump's impeachment hearing was an enormous blond wig — that of Pissi Myles, a drag performer from Asbury Park, New Jersey.
The accompanying images were about as horrifying as one could imagine. Pissi, a clearly overweight male, was wearing an offensively red, way-too-short dress, sparkly red heels, and a curly blonde wig so ostentatious that Honey Boo Boo would have fainted on sight.
The most outlandish part of it all was that Miss Myles had her reporting rig all set up and ready to go. She was holding her phone with an extension arm, had her headphones in, and was giving viewers an up close and personal account of the morning's proceedings.
NBCNews asked Miles how his day was going, to which he replied in classic camp fashion, "It's a crazy day in Washington! I'm flipping my wig over the high-energy proceedings today." Hmm, wow. Though Pissi was comically aware of the spectacle he generated, adding, "Tensions are high, and the bar for who's allowed in the Longworth House is very, very low."
You can say that again.
The outlet obtained a bio about the Drag queen, stating that he "is an award-winning drag performer, comedy producer and winner of Philly Drag Wars and Miss Fish NYC who performs regularly in the New York area." Myles's Husband, David Ayllon told the site that the artist is covering the hearing via a new social media "startup app" called Happs.
It's a shame to even say it, but If Schiff and his drag queen soldiers beat Trump, then maybe he doesn't deserve to win.
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Gabriel Hays
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Q: If statement selecting nth posts in Wordpress loop I'm working within the Wordpress loop and need to only display a featured image for posts 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 etc (+3+1r) in sequence.
I can set up a counter variable and count the posts but unsure how I can select nth as per the above sequence if anybody can help with the syntax please?

A: $posts = get_posts();

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A: Ah, then simply use the for loop in comments above to get the IDs, and then inside your existing wp loop use if(in_array(get_the_id(),$ids)){//dosomething}

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Donor: Charlie and Maxine Matthews
Charlie and Maxine Matthews
Brother and sister, Charlie and Maxine Matthews, learned altruism, compassion, and the love of nature from their mother. These values impacted the community through the hard work and service of this quiet family. As lifelong area residents, they have contributed their time and energy to our community throughout their careers and into retirement. Following a series of donations from the Matthews, Reid chose to name its new meditation garden, located in front of the inpatient tower, in their honor.
"The Matthews have often spoken of their mother's appreciation for the outdoors," said Randy Kirk, Reid Foundation President. "That is why we chose our meditation garden as the perfect naming moment for their family." Charlie shared, "We observe people walking by at Reid and wonder if our contribution has made a difference in their lives." Kirk said Charlie and Maxine have undoubtedly helped many patients and families. "It is easy to see the long-term impact of philanthropy at Reid," said Kirk. "From the tangible things like beautiful facilities and state-of-the-art equipment, to the intangible such as the talent here to assist families through challenging moments, lives are impacted every day."
The brick path curves around a peaceful stream stretching between Reid's Ginkgo Plaza and a labyrinth. The walkway is used often by patients and families for rest and reflection.
Charlie is well known in the community as a teacher at both Richmond High School and Earlham College. He also appeared in numerous productions at Richmond Civic Theatre. In addition to his local claims to fame, Charlie worked on Broadway and in film.
Maxine's loyalty is demonstrated by her devotion that spanned 32 years of devoted service provided to a prominent Richmond
insurance firm, retiring as assistant office manager. Out of the office she was involved with the Richmond YWCA and strongly promoted the inclusion of minorities in their group activities throughout the 1940s and 50s.
A dedication ceremony for the Matthews Meditation Garden was scheduled for May 22, 2010. At that time, a plaque was added to honor the family's commitment to Reid's healing environment. "Our mother loved life," Maxine added. "This is what makes our involvement with health care at Reid so perfect."
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If so, then one is not AVAILABLE if you only AVAIL. Same way one is not AVAILABLE if he/she is only ABLE.
Most at times when we say, "I AM AVAILABLE." Its usually with regards to our presence and consent. This is a necessary expressions of AVAILABILITY but not surface definition of the term.
The full measure to look forward to Avail and to be Able is what I believe, is the discipline God want us to practice in the execution of assignments and the use of gifts which HE has entrusted into our care.
Philippians 2:13. For it is God which worketh in you BOTH to WILL and to DO for HIS good pleasure.
To WILL is to AVAIL and to DO is to be ABLE to fulfil HIS GOOD PLEASURE. God does not work in isolation of WILL and DO. The scripture uses the word "BOTH"
Let's say I'm a footballer, the fact that I avail or will to play in the black stars is not a quarantee that God will let it happen or that I can perform to be selected. I will have to justify my inclusion beyond will into doing through practicing, training, etc. In the same vain, the fact that I am a celebrity in music is not the quarantee that singing a gospel song will rain down anointing.
Until I can avail or will out to the custodian of the anointing (the Holy Ghost), my ability can't experience anointing or power. It's a fact.
Don't forget to note this: Whether WILL or DO, it is "GOD THAT WORKETH IN YOU"
Don't be deceived, it's not by power or might, it's by the SPIRIT.
No matter where you have reached, no matter the height you have attained, you are nothing without God.
Don't push Him to prove it to you.
Be a good stewards of HIS GRACE.


They come and they go, another is nearly done. Where does the time go? Its been another busy weekend so far.
Friday, I motored up to Stamford to pick up Rufus and bring him back to ours for an overnight visit. We had fun as usual. Auntie Rachel was off work on Friday making a wedding cake for her cousin, she decided to do the finishing off at our house as we have more room in the kitchen and she wouldn't get pestered by her cats. This is the finished result, I am sure you will agree it looks marvelous. Emma and Nev wanted an all chocolate cake, this is the recipe she has used before - here. The flowers were made by Stu's mum.
We walked the cake round to my sister in laws, leaving them to drive it to the venue!! It did get there in one piece, thank goodness, though Emma ended up holding it on her lap all the way. We then visited great Grandma and Pat, went to the park, played Duplo, waited, and waited and waited for Pops to get home, why are they always late when you want them home early?
Then on Saturday they hunted for the missing screws and nuts to fix the bike seat onto the bike.
We then cycled to St Ives with Auntie Rachel and Stu to feed the ducks - actually ended up being more swans than ducks. Its so lovely along the quay in St Ives, plus it was another beautiful weekend weather wise. He insisted on keeping his wellington boots on and who are we to argue!
Waiting for his sandwich - scratch on his face was from a fall after the measuring session! Boys, I'm sure his parents think we knock him about.
Then it was just so exhausting he had to have a sleep - he sleeps in a double bed at ours now so we have make him a 'nest' to stop him rolling out. This was taken whilst trying to wake him up, so that we could have a quick play before taking him home!
Saturday evening - wedding party. Not a brilliant photo of the new Mr & Mrs Ward - I took this on my phone. Emma looked stunning and we had a good time, great to catch up with family and friends.
I just love weddings! Who doesn't? The cake looks just fabulous, I'm glad to hear that it made it safely to it's destination! You all always have the most exciting weekends, how are you not all tuckered out and having to take naps?
Looks like a wonderful weekend! that cake is amazing, glad it made it safely, eek!


Sophie Dymoke is a Fashion Designer and Sales Director. Her increase in the limelight is because of her life partner Matthew Goode. He is a famous English actor. Ther are living together with three kids.
Sophie Dymoke is the partner of popular actor Matthew Goode. Their relationship is confusing. They were first spotted together in December 2005 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel. Some sources claim that they did not date instantly but waited till 2007 to began the relationship. While other sources claim that they had begun dating since 2005.
Matthew Goode is a phenomenal actor born on April 3, 1978, in Exeter, England. His father was a geologist and his mother worked as a nurse and theatre director. He started his career in 2002 with a TV show Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. Matthew is featured in both TV and films. His role in the movie Stoker (2013) and The Imitation Game (2014) helped him in bagging awards like Best Supporting Actor and Ensemble Cast Award.
Sophie Dymoke's date of birth and place is not mentioned in reliable sites. But sources say, she is 34 years old and as per her age, she was born in the 1983 year. Sophie's nationality is British and ethnicity is unknown. Her details regarding parents, siblings, and friends are also missing. Her education was from the University of Wales.
Sophie's career history is not that long. there is also limited information on her work. She first entered the fashion world as a fashion designer. She has worked for a popular brand VINCE as a sales director. Currently, Sophie is working for MiH Jeans brand in the same position.
Sophie has a decent job and but her salary and net worth are not revealed. However, her husband Matthew has a net worth of around $3 million.
There is no doubt that Sophie looks stunning. Her appearances in events impress everyone. Her blonde hair and dark brown eyes compliment her fair skin. Sophie has slim body type but other features like height, weight, body figures, etc are still not disclosed.
Sophie Dymoke is mostly seen on red carpets with her husband. She is not active in social networking sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. She is living a life away from media.


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The Load album signaled the Metallica's re-entry to the musical landscape, approximately five years after the release of their international smash success, Metallica (informally known as the Black Album).
Load saw the band embrace a collective sound and identity far removed from their thrash metal roots, again some fans cried 'sell out'. Regardless, the album was hugely popular.
As on previous releases, the fourteen songs that would eventually make up the album began as rough demos created by principal lyric and music writers James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich in Ulrich's basement recording studio, "The Dungeon."
The band took over 30 demos into The Plant Studios in the spring of 1995 where they would work for approximately the next year.
Once again, Metallica teamed up with famed producer Bob Rock, who had been at the helm during the recording process for Metallica's Black Album.
Metallica's Load Lyrics
Ain't My Bitch
The House Jack Built
Bleeding Me
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
The songwriting dispenses almost entirely with Metallica's traditional thrash metal style that characterized the band's sound in the 1980s. In place of staccato riffs, Hetfield and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett experimented with more blues based tones and style and a lot of minor chords.
As the group had become friends with country star Waylon Jennings prior to the recording of Load, he is often credited as influential to the album's new sound, particularly songs like "Mama Said."
Additionally, Ulrich adopted a minimalist approach to his drum recording, abandoning the speed and complex double bass patterns of previous albums, this resulted in a more 'modern' sounding album.
James Hetfield displayed a lyrical evolution as well, writing what many feel to be his most personal and introspective lyrics. "Until it Sleeps," the album's lead single, addressed his father's losing battle with cancer, while "Mama Said" explored his relationship with his mother. This was a clear a departure from the political and social overtones of albums like ...And Justice for All and Master of Puppets and was deeply more personal to him. It's nothing like the pure do the lyrics by the numbers effort of Hardwired.
The cover of the album is original artwork entitled "Semen and Blood III." It is one of three photographic studies by Andres Serrano created in 1990 by mingling the artist's own semen and bovine blood between two sheets of Plexiglas.
Here's the lyrics to the partner album to Load, Reload. While it was considered a 'leftovers' album, it was the best kind of left overs where some of the songs, tasted better the morning after!
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Armed Derbyshire man chased neighbour with a hockey stick after a dispute over a potted plant
Jon Cooper
Published: 15:20 Monday 17 June 2019
An armed man chased a neighbour through a Derbyshire town centre while wielding a hockey stick after an on-going dispute about potted plants.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on June 14 how Abdel-aal Ali Mohammed-Ali, 54, of Market Place, Buxton, admitted using threatening behaviour after he pursued the neighbour across Market Place while waving a hockey stick in the air.
Market Place. Buxton.
Prosecuting solicitor Mark Fielding said: "There was background between the two of them. It appears the most recent background was on the day of the incident.
"There had been a confrontation between the two over a potted plant."
Mr Fielding added that the complainant went to Sainsbury's and was returning home at 11.30am across Buxton Market Place when the defendant ran towards him with a hockey stick in the air as if he was going for him.
The complainant stated the defendant had been shouting and making threats and he said he had been extremely frightened during the incident which was captured on CCTV footage.
In a victim statement, the complainant added that he suffers with anxiety after he had once been stabbed in the face by someone else in a separate incident and he stated he has post-traumatic stress disorder and the latest incident had heightened his anxiety.
The complainant, who lives in the same flats as Mohammed-Ali, also claimed that all he had done was ask the defendant to stay away from his stairwell and plants.
Former University security officer Mohammed-Ali pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour after the incident on September 21, 2018.
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Defence solicitor James Riley said Mohammed-Ali has mental health issues and he had felt threatened and had claimed that he had been assaulted by the complainant and had acted in self defence but he went too far.
Mr Riley also added that the complainant had referred to his neighbour as "Ali Bongo" in a police statement because he thought he was "crackers" and he had told the defendant not to come up his stairs and not to go near his plants.
But Mohammed-Ali claims he has suffered abuse from his neighbour, according to Mr Riley, with sexual comments and cultural and racist references and a witness said they had heard the complainant making provocative, howling noises.
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Mr Riley added: "Mr Ali says he has suffered harassment and abuse of the vilest nature."
The court heard that the complainant is a keen horticulturist and according to Mr Riley he grows a lot of things which allegedly obscure views at the flats.
Magistrates adjourned the case to consider a probation report before sentencing on June 25.
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Q: Find $x$ such that $\sqrt[x]9=81$ Find $x$ such that $\sqrt[x]9=81$
If I simplified this to $9^{\frac1x}=81$, then we have $x={\frac12}$
I'm stuck here,
My question:  can we rewrite $\sqrt[\frac{a}{b}] c\quad$ as $\sqrt[a]{c^b}\quad$ for all positive  real number $c$?

A: Yes you can! Note that $$\sqrt[\frac a b]c=c^{\frac {1} {\frac a b}}=c^{\frac b a}=\sqrt[a]{c^b}$$

A: Let $\,a,b\in\mathbb N\;$ and let $\,c\in\mathbb R^+\,.$
We could define the symbol $\,\sqrt[\frac ab]c\,$ as that positive real number $\,x\,$ (it is unique) such that $\,x^{\frac ab}=c\,.$
Therefore ,
$x^a=c^b\;,$
$x=\sqrt[a]{c^b}\;.$
Hence ,
$\sqrt[\frac ab]c=x=\sqrt[a]{c^b}\,.$


A Russian company accused of bankrolling a massive online operation to disrupt the 2016 presidential election argued Monday that it had broken no federal laws, that it was merely supporting free political speech and that the fraud charge against it should be thrown out.
Concord Management and Consulting was one of 16 Russian individuals or companies indicted by a federal grand jury in February at the behest of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The company is accused of defrauding the government by failing to register as foreign agents and failing to report its election-related expenditures to the U.S. government.
A large campaign of "information warfare against the United States," led by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, used Facebook, Twitter and othersocial media to build support for then-candidate Donald Trump and attack his opponents, most notably Hillary Clinton, according to the indictment.


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Letter: State Treasurer Responds To Letter From Wilton's Gail Lavielle
by Denise L. Nappier
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Dear Editor:
I write in response to a letter by state Rep. Gail Lavielle, featured in the Nov. 5 edition of The Wilton Daily Voice. In that letter, she raised concerns over the recent issuance of bonds to pay a portion of the State's GAAP deficit and to restructure Economic Recovery Notes – both of which were approved by the Connecticut General Assembly during its last session. I believe Rep. Lavielle left out some important facts, and that the public deserves a fuller description of these transactions.
Rep. Lavielle says the issuance of the GAAP conversion bonds is "like taking cash out on a credit card to pay the bills." In fact, the bills that created the State's GAAP deficit were paid long ago, which has resulted in a negative balance for the State's General Fund for GAAP purposes. What that has meant, in practical terms, is that we have had to use cash balances of other funds to cover that negative balance for many years.
By issuing bonds, the proceeds will be used to help cover the negative cash balance in the General Fund. These proceeds can never be used to pay a bill or be treated as revenue because of a specific covenant included with the bonds – a promise even more ironclad than state statute. And that really is the essential element of this more disciplined approach to addressing this structural GAAP deficit: a plan is in place that has already cut the GAAP deficit in half, with the remaining repayment "deemed appropriated" over the next 15 years. So rather than leave it up to the legislature to decide whether to pay down the GAAP deficit in any given budget cycle, there is a long-term structured plan to do so.
Her statement that "this fills up the state's coffers, but it doesn't strengthen its cash position," just doesn't make sense. The strength of our cash position is a direct function of what's in our coffers. The fact is that this bond issue has already significantly improved the State's cash position, and we can now cancel a stand-by line of credit that, thankfully, we never needed to draw upon.
In addition, establishing a comprehensive plan to eliminate the GAAP deficit sends a message to the credit rating agencies and others that Connecticut is serious about fixing a chronic long-term problem. Moody's Investors Service specifically cited our state's commitment to eliminating the GAAP deficit as a "credit strength," and described the GAAP proposal as a "significant accomplishment" during the last legislative session.
Finally, Rep. Lavielle questions whether it was "responsible" to employ a variable rate structure in extending certain Economic Recovery Notes. The real answer can be found in the current markets: we took advantage of very low short-term interest rates that are available in today's market. The variable rate structure came at a lower cost to the State than fixed rate obligations. And, because the variable rate bonds are callable at any time, the State has the option to pay the ERNs off early and, if interest rates rise, the State can quickly convert them to fixed rates. Future interest rate risk is mitigated by the fact that the bonds will be paid over just three to four years, and don't have nearly the same risks of a variable rate structure over a longer term.
In closing, I share Rep. Lavielle's concerns over the State's fiscal health and overall discipline. That is why I believe these two transactions were optimally structured so that the State can meet its obligations in a cost-effective and prudent manner.
Denise L. Nappier State Treasurer


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Second Irish consulate friendly addition to Krakow
October 5, 2007 Adelina Krupski 0 Comments Poland
Irish Ambassador in Warsaw Declan O'Donovan recently announced plans to open an honorary consulate of Ireland in Krakow. In relation to the proposal, Marek Nawara, representative of the Malopolska Province (Lesser Poland Voivodeship), was asked to appoint someone for the position of consul.
O'Donovan recommends that the appointed consul comes either from a business or legal profession.At this time, there is only one Irish honorary consulate in Poland, located in Poznan, the administrative capital of the Wielkopolska Province (Greater Poland Voivodeship).
The idea of a second honorary consulate emerged as a result of the growing Polish community in Ireland, accompanied by the influx of Irish tourists in Poland. Taking the reciprocal case into consideration, Poland only has its Embassy in Ireland, with no consulates at present. Poland's entrance into the EU marked the beginning of a new stage in the history of Ireland, which immediately opened its job market to incoming Poles. The Polish Embassy in Ireland estimates that in 2006, 70,000-80,000 Poles were employed on the Emerald Isle.
According to the Irish Times, the number of Polish residents increased 30-fold between 2002 and 2006. Dublin has become the home for 80 percent of Poles in Ireland. Official 2007 figures show 600,000 Poles in Britain and 200,000 in Ireland, of which nearly half say they do not intend to return home, according to a new survey. Professor Krystyna Iglicka-Okolska from the Research Center on European Migrations told Gazeta Wyborcza she estimates that about 1.5 mln people have left Poland in recent years. In light of many cultural similarities, explained a Dublin graduate visiting Krakow, the Irish can easily relate to Poles. "There are a lot of cultural parallels between Poland and Ireland. We have both gone through a period in our country's history where it has become necessary or desirable to leave the homeland in order to find employment – a period that has very recently ended for the Irish, but is continuing for the Polish community." The opening of the consulate is considered a priority, according to O'Donovan, who says that Poles living and working in Ireland have a hugely positive impact on the development of the economy. "We facilitate their presence and try to help," said O'Donovan.
He also stated that it is on account of Poles that the "grey zone" is diminishing, an occurrence which favors emigrants and Ireland itself.
During an interview with the "Warsaw Voice," O'Donovan said, "Links between us have developed enormously since Poland became a member of the EU in 2004 and as many Polish people have traveled to Ireland to take up employment. Many Irish people have also traveled in the opposite direction for business and tourism purposes." "I have a sense that both sides are deepening their knowledge and appreciation of each other at all levels – political, economic, social and cultural – and I expect that this trend will go on into the future."
During the meeting between O'Donovan and Marek Nawara, attention was also brought to supporting a collaboration between learning institutions in Poland and Ireland. Programs to keep Poland's top students at home are in the preparatory stages."We hope we can persuade them to use all the learning capabilities here in Poland without the necessity of leaving the country," said Elzbieta Lenartowicz, the vice mayor of Krakow.
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Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2 April 2019 – The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with global additions of 171 gigawatts (GW), according to new data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today. The annual increase of 7.9 per cent was bolstered by new additions from solar and wind energy, which accounted for 84 per cent of the growth. A third of global power capacity is now based on renewable energy.
· Hydropower: Growth in hydro continued to slow in 2018, with only China adding a significant amount of new capacity in 2018 (+8.5 GW).
· Solar energy: Solar energy capacity increased by 94 GW last year (+ 24 per cent). Asia continued to dominate global growth with a 64 GW increase (about 70% of the global expansion in 2018). Maintaining the trend from last year, China, India, Japan and Republic of Korea accounted for most of this. Other major increases were in the USA (+8.4 GW), Australia (+3.8 GW) and Germany (+3.6 GW). Other countries with significant expansions in 2018 included: Brazil; Egypt; Pakistan; Mexico, Turkey and the Netherlands.
· Geothermal energy: Geothermal energy increased by 539 MW in 2018, with most of the expansion taking place in Turkey (+219 MW) and Indonesia (+137 MW), followed by the USA, Mexico and New Zealand.


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Jerusalem Post Health & Wellness
Israeli researchers aim to find 'cure for the incurable' to prolong life
"Nothing less than a paradigm shift"
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Updated: APRIL 29, 2021 19:47
ElaPharma (illustrative)
Imagine a drug that could treat a series of incurable diseases. An Israeli company, whose treatments are based on research first conducted at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, say they can stop death – the death of body tissue, that is.
Meet ElaPharma and its founders Prof. Ilana Nathan and Roi Paul Nathan. The company is developing a treatment for what is known scientifically as necrosis, the main mode of death of body tissue, associated with a wide array of diseases that currently have no drug-based cure.
"ElaPharma's unique technology is nothing less than a paradigm shift – stopping cell death," Roi Paul Nathan, who is also the company's CEO, told The Jerusalem Post. He said that "our novel technology is addressing the cellular necrosis pathway. We target the cellular injury that leads to cell death and organ failure using molecules that inhibit necrosis.
Prof. Amnon Albeck participated in the research.
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"The idea is that we can live longer and in better health and stop diseases that don't have a cure," Nathan added.
The company, which has several patents and is in its preclinical stage, believes it could revolutionize the treatment of a number of diseases, from heart attack and stroke to liver and pancreatic disease and even Alzheimer's and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Let us say a person suffers from a heart attack, Nathan described. He is rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and the emergency responders fight to keep him alive. His cells are already dying due to lack of oxygen.
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ElaPharma, which was founded in 2015, is developing a drug that would be administered in such cases to stop necrosis already in the ambulance, giving the patient a better shot at staying alive and preventing further damage to the heart.
In the case of a stroke, for example, the company's drug would be meant to stop the cell death process early on, hopefully preventing speech and memory loss, which is often associated with stroke trauma.
The company spent more than 15 years identifying the key mechanism involved in the necrosis process and found molecules that inhibit enzyme activation, hence delaying cell death. Nathan said it will still be a number of more years to get the drug on the market, due to the need for clinical trials of the optimal molecules that were identified for therapeutic purposes. The hope is that a product for the treatment of necrosis associated with heart attacks would be available by 2029 and a similar treatment for necrosis associated with chronic heart failure by 2031 – in line with the standard timeline for pharmaceuticals.
Myocardial infarction (Credit: ING)
In vivo studies showed 85% effectiveness in stopping liver failure and 80% improvement in results following traumatic brain injury.
"After that, we knew we had something amazing in hand," Nathan told the Post.
In addition to these drugs, ElaPharma is also developing a new solution for organ preservation that would increase the shelf-life of organs and therefore enable more successful transplantations. Organ shortage is known to be among the greatest crises facing biomedicine today.
Its organ preservation solution is expected to be released to the market within three years, as it is under the Food and Drug Administrations' medical device regulatory path, which is less involved.
"We have addressed a fundamental challenge in the field of organ transplantation," Nathan said, "extending the period during which an organ can be kept alive after its removal, preventing cellular injury through the inhibition of necrotic cell death."
Recently, a leading strategic investor and a few more angels invested in ElaPharma and achieved 65% of the raising round. The company is looking to raise additional capital and the opportunity to invest is still open, but only for the near future.
"We are on the right path to find a cure for the incurable and prolong life," Nathan said.
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Grants, scholarships, and loans are all examples of some of the different types of financial aid programs that an individual can use to pay for accounting college. It is important to note, however, that these three types of financial aid programs are not the only financial aid programs available to students; in fact, there are actually a number of other programs that are often overlooked. Two financial aid programs that are commonly overlooked are scholarship contests and work-study programs. Scholarship contests are a type of financial aid benefit in which an organization agrees to pay for some or all of an individual's education if he or she wins a sweepstakes, a lottery, a writing contest, or some other similar event. Work-study programs, on the other hand, are a type of financial aid benefit in which an individual is allowed to earn his or her college tuition and/or room and board by working for the school or, in some cases, an employer related to the school. Both of these financial aid programs can be very helpful to an individual who is attempting to pay for his or her education, but there are some important details about these programs that an individual should keep in mind.
First, it is important to remember that while an individual may be required to meet a number of different requirements before he or she can enter a contest, most of the requirements are no longer applicable when the contest is over. This is important because an individual who wins a scholarship contest will typically be able to use the benefits of the scholarship even if he or she no longer meets the academic or financial requirements that an individual would be required to meet in order to keep a standard scholarship. In other words, an individual will typically be allowed to keep a contest scholarship as long as he or she stays in school.
Secondly, work-study programs typically require an individual to meet a series of financial requirements before he or she can enter the program. Meeting a series of financial requirements is also required in order to stay in the program. This is important because you may lose work-study benefits can be lost due to a change in financial status.
Third, contest scholarships and work-study awards do not need to be repaid. This is actually one of the major differences between loans and most of the other financial aid programs that are available because a student will never be required to pay back a contest scholarship or a work-study award (unless the student has received more money than he or she actually needs for the education that he or she has already received). Fourth, it is typically more difficult for an individual to win a contest scholarship or get into a work-study program than it is for an individual to obtain another type of financial aid. The reason for this is that there are only a limited number of contests and work-study opportunities available, and there are typically more applicants for these programs than there are prizes to be awarded or slots allowed. An individual should be prepared to seek other financial aid opportunities in case he or she does not win the contest or does not get accepted into a work-study program.
Finally, it is important to remember that there are a number of different organizations that offer contests; however, work-study programs are typically run by each school as a part of the Federal Work Study Program. Students interested in a work-study program should check with the financial aid office of the school to which they are applying. Students interested in contests should check with their high school's guidance office, the school that they are planning to attend, their local library, and scholarship clearinghouse websites such as Scholarship Hunter or FinAid.


This week's Monday Memo is all about Momentum as we head into the holiday season and the close of 2018! It spotlights our continued focus on building bridges to success, promoting healthy practices, leveraging our community connections and empowering the youth we serve in so many ways.
In this week of Thanksgiving, thank you for making transformation possible each and every week…and thanks for ALL you do for others.


This is simply a short post to wish all of our fellow Kentuckians well. Ice Storm 2009 has knocked us off of our feet, hasn't it? I've never experienced anything quite like this. There are people who still don't have power while others have regained power, but not their footing.
Personally? We were without power for about a week. The worst part of the entire ordeal was when our beloved 20 year old cat, Prissy, died. Fortunately, God designed us in a way that we're able to keep on going even when our heart's are breaking.
This would be me thanking Him for that.
I know that a lot of us Kentuckians are battling various degrees of sickness now, too. Everywhere you go, there's evidence all around you – coughing, sneezing, people rubbing their heads and leaning on grocery carts, etc.
Better days are ahead and I know we're all looking forward to them. For the time being, I thought you might need a little joke as much as I did when an internet buddy sent it to me. She knew I'd lost a MUCH loved family member (Prissy) and thought (rightfully so) that I might appreciate a chuckle. Two chuckles are better than one, so let's see if it'll coax one out of you…….
John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.
John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back.
John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. In desperation, John threw up his hands, grabbed the bird and shoved him in the freezer.
Can You Even Believe This Past Week?
If you're reading this in Kentucky, you're either one of the lucky few who never lost their power, one of the lucky ones who have their power back on, or you're (like me) on a computer that's hooked up to a generator.
In Kentucky, we've taken a huge kick to the stomach, but the worst is over. With any luck, all of us will have power back on very soon.
I'll write more very soon, but at the moment (due to the loss of a family member – my beautiful cat, Prissy, who was 20 years old), I just want to lie under blankets, drink coffee, and eat chocolate.
I hope your week's going much better than mine. If not… I highly recommend chocolate cake.


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Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy
Right Before Our Eyes: Dissent, Democracy, and Creative Resistance in Hong Kong
10:00 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT
Online Platform: WeBEX
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Since the passing of the National Security Law on July 1, 2020, the world has been witnessing the 'un-doing and dismantling' of the relatively high autonomy of Hong Kong. This session situates the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests as part of the global movement against tyranny and dictatorship. People in Hong Kong have stood up against a powerful authoritarian regime to safeguard the core values of democracy, freedom of expression and the rule of law. It is now incumbent upon members of the international community to take meaningful actions and to extend our full support. We will discuss the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement touching on its impact and interrelationship with Canadian and other movements for democracy. The event explores the movement as a form of creative resistance, as well as an expression of freedom.
Brian Leung
Brian Leung Kai-Ping is a Hong Kong democracy activist who is currently pursuing his political science Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses on political economy, social movement, China, and Hong Kong. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Hong Kong, during which he participated extensively in the Umbrella Movement of 2014. Since then, he has been an active political commentator on Hong Kong politics and published a bestselling edited volume on Hong Kong's identity politics. In 2019, he became an icon of Hong Kong's anti-extradition movement, after unmasking himself and reading a statement on behalf of protesters at the Legislative Council.
RU Stand with Hong Kong
Ryerson Stands With Hong Kong is a student support group at Ryerson University that seeks to raise awareness about the democracy movement in Hong Kong and the CCP's oppression around the globe. Some of their work in the past includes: fundraising to support Canadian advocacy work and Hong Kong protesters, delivering presentations and tabling to engage in dialogues and share information about the movement in Hong Kong, organizing mental health workshops to support the wellbeing of students who have been impacted by the Hong Kong crisis. A member of the group will speak.
Ontario Universities Hong Kong Awareness Group
ONUHKAG is a student-led group aiming to advocate for academic freedom and human rights, particularly related to Hong Kong and other regions under CCP control. The group seeks to connect pro-Hong Kong movement students across Ontario, Canadian Hong-Kongers, and other diasporic communities in Canada. ONUHKAG's work primarily involves delivering presentations, webinars, organizing events and rallies in Toronto and advocacy work on campuses. A member of the group will speak.
Dr. Ken Moffatt
As the Jack Layton Chair, Professor Ken Moffatt aims to build community-oriented engagement at Ryerson through a multi-disciplinary approach. He is particularly interested in politics, sociology, educational theory, social work, queer theory, and creative arts. Professor Moffatt brings to this position his research expertise on the effects of neoliberalism and new managerialism on policy and education; community-based, culturally-focused social interventions; mechanisms of power contributing to social inclusion and exclusion; as well as critical reflective practice and pedagogy.
Dr. Winnie Ng
Winnie is an active member of Toronto Association for Democracy in China. For over three decades, she has championed the rights of workers through her involvement with various labour organizations and networks. Winnie is a former Unifor-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice & Democracy at Ryerson, and former acting executive director of the Labour Education Centre. For eight years, she was the Canadian Labour Congress' Ontario regional director. She is an executive member of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, the labour co-chair of Good Jobs for All Coalition, and a board member of Labour Community Services. She is the recipient of numerous distinctions including the Urban Alliance on Race Relations' Leadership Award, and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award.