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LABEL PROFILE Label Profile: PRAH Recordings By Andy Battaglia · August 16, 2016
PRAH Recordings artists. From the left: Bryce Hackford, Oliver Coates, Tim Etchells & Aisha Orazbayeva, Suokas.
It makes sense that the story of PRAH Recordings is steeped in mystery. Since 2013, the label has occasioned a small but strategically expansive set of releases unbound by genre or creed, with experimental aims but no single target. Stephen Bass—the mastermind behind PRAH—speaks excitedly about new prospects for contemporary classical music and the kind of experimentation favored by the art-aligned improv set, but he also rises at the mention of acid house, punk rock and modern jazz. His listening habits have followed the usual twists and turns of a lifetime's worth of curious aural pursuits.
PRAH evolved out of Bass's involvement with Moshi Moshi Records, a larger label whose roster has included Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Lykke Li, Florence and the Machine, Disclosure and more. PRAH shares a home base in London, but also operates in Margate, "a crappy Victorian seaside town" that Bass says is a joy for its warmed-over atmosphere and its location one-and-a-half hours from the city. There, in a house he has taken up, Bass is building a recording studio and setting up the PRAH Foundation, for the sake of artist residencies and retreats. Thus far, he has hosted musicians (from upstart composers to the electronically inclined Ghost Culture to virtuosos from the Ligeti Quartet) as well as writers, publishers and creators affiliated with the radio and spoken-word enterprise In the Dark.
The seed for it all, Bass says, was planted when he met a bunch of emerging classical-music artists from a scene he didn't know. "As a kid, all that I heard I thought was boring—because sometimes it's fed to you in a really dull way," he says of classical music. "But I met all these brilliant people and realized that what they were doing, even though they were able to command huge orchestras and work as great players, was re-recording old stuff. It blew my mind because my sort of A&R is always about trying to find new and new-sounding things."
A mission statement for PRAH, which favors exploratory classical sounds but also electronic music and even rhythmic incursions for the club, states an ambition "to provide a platform to release music and projects whose worth might be more artistic than commercial—something a bit more thoughtful and slower than a normal label." To that end, Bass struck formative relationships with artists he helped foster and followed leads in any direction they took him. That impulsiveness has produced memorable records, and also an adventurous ethos, which led to the PRAH Foundation. "It's the pretentious dream of the common man," Bass says with a typically British self-deflating laugh. "You've got to prove that ordinary people can do fantastic things."
We asked Bass for the stories behind seven of PRAH's most enduring releases.
Oliver Coates, Towards The Blessed Islands
Spacey, ethereal cello sounds and other tones both classical and abstract make up the instrumental mosaic of PRAH's inaugural release.
Towards the blessed islands Oliver Coates .
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I initially read about Ollie, hilariously enough, in the magazine they have on the Eurostar train. I tracked him down and got in touch. He was brilliant: super-bright, super-intellectual, super-engaged and super-interested in so much music. He came up through the Royal Academy of Music, but he's got interest in everything else. He's integral to PRAH: what he does naturally is the same as what I wanted to do. He's the perfect artist for me. "The Clouds Flew Round with the Clouds" is such an incredible piece of music that, if the album was only that, I would have been proud to release it. It's so otherworldly and different from what I'd listened to normally, so ultra-atmospheric and beautiful. It's got all the mystery and energy of a great techno record, but in a slower way, with a luxuriousness and a depth to its sound. I think it's a completely jaw-dropping record, and anyone who would sit still and listen to in the right frame of mind couldn't help but be moved. I think all this music is good enough to reach beyond the classical world; I don't see why Ollie can't have a career as Oliver Coates rather than just a cellist who plays other people's music around the world. I'm used to meeting people who are self-taught guitarists or are just winging it—which is a brilliant a way of making music. But people who have such an exceptional command of their instruments are a thrill to watch. The cover art is by [graphic designer] Fraser Muggeridge—he designed it for the record but I decided it could stay as the PRAH logo. The logo sort of unlocked a door in my mind.
Oliver Coates. Photo by Gaelle Beri
Bryce Hackford, Fair
"Bryce Hackford"
Fair "Bryce Hackford" .
Hand-forged machine beats and trippy adventures with EQ travel the ambient spaceways on a second release that takes a stylistic swerve.
I met a lady who runs an art gallery in southeast London, and Bryce had been performing there. I found out about him, and liked what I heard. "Another Fantasy" is so up my alley: it's simple and beautiful and dramatic. It reminds me of [Detroit techno/house artists] Moodymann and Theo Parrish, or even [Chicago house producer] Lil Louis. It's great techno and house stuff, and yet it fit perfectly into PRAH, because it's got the drama of classical music, and is quite experimental. The bonus tracks are these two long pieces. To me that was perfect, because it married "Another Fantasy" and my love of dance music with long-form experimentation. You have to take time—it's stuff that can benefit from a bit of time. You have to make a space to listen to it. [In just the first two releases] the label went from acoustic organic music to this raw experimentation, like from the start of house music when it was made with instruments that people didn't really know how to use. To me Bryce has that, quite interestingly and naturally.
Bryce Hackford.
Oliver Coates, Another Fantasy
Another Fantasy Oliver Coates .
A meeting of the minds of PRAH's first two artists, with Coates taking a classical approach to a cover of a club track and Hackford on reciprocal remix duties too.
This was a suggestion of mine. It was just an experiment, but I can't think of an experiment that has worked as well in my experience. Ollie really got it straight away. He has a great love of Autechre and a lot of electronic music, so he just got it. Talk about being given a challenge and jumping in with both feet and really going for it. I think he managed to capture all the energy of the electronic version [of "Another Fantasy"] that Bryce made while just using the cello. Bryce loved it. I assumed he was thrilled—how could he not be? His remixes worked really nicely as well. Oliver really loved doing this, and it led, in a way, to Ollie's next release, Upstepping. I think it gave him confidence in what you can do with a cello. Certainly it highlighted how fierce and how powerful a cello can be in a different area of music. It's quite rare that you ask someone to do something and it exceeds all your expectations. If this was the only thing I ever put out on PRAH I would be overjoyed.
Aisha Orazbayeva & Tim Etchells, Seeping Through
PRAH Recordings
Seeping Through PRAH Recordings .
Proudly perplexing interminglings of avant-garde soundtracks by a Kazakhstani classicist and spoken-word musings by an artist/writer who reaches for poetic extremes.
I went to see a show of Aisha's at this weird, disused ex-dentist's office in east London that does avant-garde shows. There was no heating, and it was a freezing December night, and she was doing crazy stuff. She had a couple violins hanging from strings and was playing them with record decks. She's come up from the Royal Academy and is from Kazakhstan, now based in London. I did another album with her as well (The Hand Gallery) that is probably the hardest listen of anything, even though it's not as out-there as this one with Tim Etchells. She knew Tim and they recorded these pieces. I think it's brilliant, but I couldn't claim to fully understand it. The way he talks is so generous and giving and heartfelt. It is really otherworldly, and sounds like nothing else. It's a really brave, focused release—quite an art release. It used to be that all this great experimental music was being released, and someone has to keep doing it today. When it's good, you need to help in the discovery.
Aisha Orazbayeva & Tim Etchells.
Oliver Coates, Upstepping
Upstepping Oliver Coates .
The label's formative cello player expands into a more resolutely electronic sound-world, with percussive ticks and rhythms in tow.
I firmly believed that a lot of people whose music I respect from the dance world would really love Oliver's first album, so I wanted to do something that was going to catch the ears of those people. Much like Portishead became "at-home listening" for ravers in the '90s, I feel like there could be an affinity between dance music and what Ollie does atmospherically. He's interested in a lot of electronic music, so I just pushed him a little bit after the Bryce Hackford cover to make more music with beats or that would sit a little bit in that area. I wanted to put out something that could be sent to club DJs—that they would enjoy and then come back and explore further stuff. I think he really rose to the challenge to draw people into his world. I like its imperfections: you can hear somebody experimenting with house-made beats, how to make the sound of a kick drum, how to mix music for the dance floor or that sort of world with rhythmic patterns and sounds using the cello and the body of the cello.
Suokas, The New Cycle
Sergey Suokas
Republic of Karelia, Russia
The New Cycle Sergey Suokas .
Swelling strings and orchestral overtures conspire in an organic sort of dance music aimed directly at the head.
Suokas sent me a message on SoundCloud. He lives in Russia, near a forest— quite near Finland. He comes from a very different place, and seems to be making so much music. There seems to be a bit of a scene there. I'm quite pleased with it, and it's reached people. Gilles Peterson [the storied BBC radio DJ] played it, which is exciting for me. I have been listening to Gilles on the radio for 25 years now, so it is quite a thrill for him to be on board with something. Also Sergey (Suokas) follows him pretty avidly from the wilds of Russia, so that was nice for him—the fact that he can reach someone from somewhere so far. It is really quite hard to break out of Russia to the wider world. But this is one of those rare times when somebody sends music out of the blue and you gel with it and get on with it. I've never met him. But he wrote in his message: "Recently I recorded an album based on patterns and sounds played by my neighbors: musicians from conservatory and philharmonic orchestra[s]. I think this approach is common to your label, and we could work on it. … I knew about your label by release from Oliver Coates that inspired me to make almost the same thing—to imitate techno music through natural sounds."
Suokas.
Lung Dart, As I Lay Drying
Lung Dart
As I Lay Drying Lung Dart .
Collage-like aesthetics abound in a collection of would-be pop songs that never stay put for more than a fleeting moment.
This was a record I wondered about doing on Moshi Moshi at first, but thought it was too weird for that. I had to mull over whether it was right for PRAH. It falls under "experimental" definitely more than "contemporary classical." They use a lot of found sounds and have some vocals, so it's the first record I released that is vocal-focused. Obviously, Tim Etchells is vocal, but this is in a more traditional singing kind of way. They're really thoughtful people who make music in a thoughtful way, and want to present it differently. They have set up almost like an exhibition for the album in a gallery in London, where they're making videos for every song and they want to build a room for a perfect listening experience with pillows and stuff like that. [The event, on August 27-28, will transpire over 31 hours at Holdrons Arcade under the title "A Lie Down, A Listening Party, A Screening."] They wanted the vinyl released at 45 rpm so people could also listen it slow—you can also play it at 33 rpm. They're quite experimental in what they do. Lung Dart is pulling PRAH in a slightly different direction. It's like PRAH is a balloon and Oliver Coates was the first person trapped in the balloon pulling it in one direction, and Bryce Hackforod was next in pulling it in another. Lung Dart are pulling it and stretching it out in a different direction as well.
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UFC Fight Night 88 betting tips: Thomas Almeida vs Cody Garbrandt
May 27, 2016 3:13 am. by Staff Writer
Monday, May 30 from 11am AEST at Las Vegas, Nevada – watch on Foxtel from 8am
THE UFC returns to Sin City this weekend for Fight Night 88 on Fox Sports.
The main event pits two of the hottest young talents at the Bantamweight division against each other.
The duo have 90 per cent finish rate between them and are the two most ruthless strikers in the UFC today, so we are sure to see some fireworks on Foxtel this Monday.
UFC Fight Night 88 main event – Thomas Almeida vs. Cody Garbrandt
They might not be the biggest names in the UFC right now, but Thomas 'Thominhas' Almeida and Cody 'No Love' Garbrandt are two of the company's fastest rising stars.
Both men are 24-years-old and are undefeated, standing at 5'7.
From 28 combined fights Almeida and Garbrandt have 23 knockouts between them – firmly establishing themselves as the principal finishers at the bantamweight division.
The Brazilian Almeida boldly predicted he would finish the man they call No Love in the second round, a declaration that his opponent saw as an admission of apprehension.
"He's made a mistake by saying he will KO me in the second round." Garbrandt said.
"I think that's where he has f****d up. He just doesn't believe in himself. I now believe I will be the one to give him his first loss."
Despite the imposing 21-0 MMA record that Almeida boasts, Garbrandt believes he will be the man to give the Brazilian his first ever professional defeat.
"He's being praised by everyone after getting 21 straight wins so you would think he would be saying he would finish me in the first," he said.
"For him to say he'd knock me out in the second, feels like he has a little bit of doubt in himself you know? I want to make sure that bout won't go beyond the first round.
"I now believe I will be the one to give him his first loss,
"I'm the better martial artist, there's no doubt about it."
Notwithstanding his supreme confidence, it will take a monumental effort for the American to upset the heavily favoured Brazilian.
He may be heavily favoured in most betting markets, but the man they call Thominhas will not be taking his opponent lightly on Monday.
"I believe this fight will take my career on to the next level. But I will not be underestimating Cody." Almeida said.
"He has a boxing background. He has powerful hands and he likes the striking game, like me. It looks like it could be a war."
The only sure thing is that it's going to be a war
We are predicting an all-out offensive showcase.
Both men are have a penchant for the knockout and will look to end the fight at the first opportunity.
Almeida's trainer Diego Lima believes there would have to be an extraordinary set of circumstances that would lead to the fight going the distance.
"I don't see how this fight could be decided by points," Lima told MMA site Sherdog.com.
"They are two aggressive strikers with heavy hands and high-level technique, so you don't need to be a genius to predict it will end by knockout, and I don't think it will get into the third round."
Sportsbet are offering $1.14 for the fight not to go to the judge's table.
Lima is confident his man has what it takes to silence No Love on Monday, and reiterated what his athlete said in the build-up.
"'Thominhas' is ready for anything Cody brings to the cage, but what he loves most is to trade blows, so he'll do his best to keep the fight standing up. I'm really confident Thomas will knock him out.
"The only sure thing is that it's going to be a war."
While we are wary of the offensive threat that Garbrandt presents, we cannot look past the imposing record of Almeida, and we are predicting he wins by way of knockout.
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Here you can find the last 12 media releases and other news published by the FDFA, such as statements, announcements and articles, in chronological order.
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Switzerland's enlargement contribution to Bulgaria and Romania comes to a close
20.01.2020 — Press release EDA
Over the last ten years, Switzerland has provided CHF 257 million from its enlargement contribution to support projects in Bulgaria and Romania. The two countries joined the European Union (EU) in 2007. The contribution aimed to reduce economic and social disparities in Europe and within Bulgaria and Romania. The 93 projects, which came to a close in December 2019, have achieved good results. Switzerland's support contributes to greater stability in Europe, which is also in the country's interests.
Discover the world with the FDFA and with peace mind
17.01.2020 — Article EDA
Just what is the perfect trip abroad? And where would it take you? Swiss travellers have different needs and expectations – some prefer to go on their own, others would rather choose an organised tour. It doesn't matter if you're a backpacker or a jet-setter: the FDFA provides a wide range of services for anyone who wants to travel abroad.
Programme of members of the Federal Council attending the WEF Annual Meeting 2020
At this the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Federal Council stresses the importance of the event in Davos. This year all members of the cabinet will be in attendance; around 60 bilateral meetings are due to take place. President Simonetta Sommaruga will open the event on Tuesday, 21 January, together with Professor Klaus Schwab.
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis meets Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis today received his Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg in Bern for his first official trip abroad. The two foreign ministers discussed bilateral relations, Switzerland's European policy and international affairs.
United Nations World Data Forum: first events take place
Achievement of the sustainable development goals set out in the 2030 Agenda can only be measured with the help of official statistics. These will be the key focus of the third United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) to be held in Bern from 18 to 21 October 2020. Under the label of the «Road to Bern», a series of events is planned in the run-up to this high-profile international conference.
Processing of personal data by the FDFA: bill adopted by Federal Council
At its meeting on Friday 15 January 2020, the Federal Council adopted a draft federal act on the processing of personal data by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). This legislation fulfils the requirements of the Federal Act of 19 June 1992 on Data Protection while also taking account of more recent developments in internal organisation, technology and society.
Switzerland returns USD 1.3 million to Turkmenistan for the purchase of medicines
In line with its policy of repatriating illicitly acquired assets, Switzerland is returning approximately USD 1.3 million, which were confiscated in Switzerland, to Turkmenistan. The funds will be channelled into a health project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Le conseiller fédéral Ignazio Cassis à la réception de Nouvel An du corps diplomatique (fr.)
La réception de Nouvel An donnée par la présidente de la Confédération Simonetta Sommaruga a lieu à Berne ce mercredi 15 janvier 2020.
Federal Council reaffirms its commitment to responsible business conduct
On 15 January 2020, the Federal Council approved the revised Action Plans 2020-2023 on corporate social responsibility, and on Business and Human Rights. The federal government promotes the implementation of a responsible business conduct. It is an important contribution to sustainable development and to solving societal challenges.
Presentation of credentials
14.01.2020 - Presentation of credentials of newly accredited Ambassadors in Switzerland
Honeyland Oscar nominee
14.01.2020 — Article DEZA
Honeyland has been nominated for an Oscar in the categories Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary. The film's hero, Hatidze Muratova, champions environmental protection and the sustainable management of natural resources. She was discovered through the Nature Conservation Programme launched by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Young, creative and tech-savvy: Switzerland at the world's largest tech show starting today in Las Vegas
Today the Swiss pavilion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas opens its doors for the second time. From 7 to 10 January 2020 Switzerland is showcasing more than 30 start-ups at the world's largest trade fair for consumer electronics. Organisers Presence Switzerland and Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE), together with partners Innosuisse, the swissnex network and digitalswitzerland, are using the pavilion as part of their SwissTech campaign to position Switzerland as a leading innovation and technology hub and an attractive business location.
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Switzerland to attend IMF and World Bank 2019 Spring Meetings in Washington
President Ueli Maurer, Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, will be in Washington from 12 to 13 April 2019. They will attend the joint Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG).
Federal Council maintains support for Swiss cooperation in French-speaking world
The Federal Council decided at its meeting on 10 April 2019 to continue the voluntary contributions of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) to support cooperation activities with la Francophonie. CHF 1.7 million has been earmarked for the four-year credit period from 2020–2023.
Swiss official development assistance: 0.44% of gross national income spent in 2018
In 2018, Switzerland spent 0.44% of its gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA), only slightly lower than 2017 (0.46%). This is due to an increase in GNI, fewer asylum-related costs included in ODA, and cost-cutting measures adopted by Parliament.
Handing over the credentials of new ambassadors accredited to Switzerland
African Union and consultations: State Secretary Pascale Baeriswyl in political talks in Ethiopia
FDFA State Secretary Pascale Baeriswyl met members of the African Union on Monday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa at the organisation's headquarters. At the heart of discussions were peace and security policy and the issue of migration. On Tuesday she held bilateral consultations with her Ethiopian counterpart, State Minister of Foreign Affairs Markos Tekle. Ms Baeriswyl had come from Rwanda, where she took part in the remembrance ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide, with a delegation led by Marina Carobbio Guscetti, President of the National Council.
Positive review of Switzerland's international cooperation by the OECD
The Development Assistance Committee presented the results of its review of Switzerland's international cooperation in Bern on 5 April 2019. Its findings are for the most part positive: Switzerland is a strong and reliable development partner. The Committee has made new recommendations to Switzerland to enable it to meet the challenges ahead. Among other measures, it calls on Switzerland to focus on its commitments and to work towards spending 0.5% of its gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA).
Good offices: Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis signs an arrangement for a mandate of protecting power for the USA in Venezuela
Switzerland is to represent the interests of the United States in Venezuela. Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis signed an agreement to this end with US Ambassador Edward T. McMullen in Bern on Friday 5 April 2019. The arrangement requires Venezuela's approval before coming into effect.
Federal Council decides on next steps for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Federal Council supports disarmament and, in particular, nuclear disarmament. It has decided to pursue, by resorting to external expertise, its analysis on whether Switzerland should join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and will review the situation before the end of 2020. It will use this reflection period to assess recent international and security developments.
Federal Council receives Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein for state visit
On Wednesday, 3 April, His Serene Highness Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein was welcomed to Switzerland by the full Federal Council led by President Ueli Maurer. The Hereditary Prince, who performs the duties of head of state, is being accompanied on the visit by his spouse, Her Royal Highness Hereditary Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, and a high-ranking delegation from the Principality. During official talks at the Bernerhof the delegations acknowledged the 100th anniversary of bilateral relations and discussed European affairs and cooperation between the two countries in an international context.
A Switzerland that is not content to stand by
This past year has been marked by droughts and flooding. The devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai in south-east Africa points to a future where such events will no longer be an exception. In view of the urgency of this global issue, the focus of this year's Annual Conference of Swiss Humanitarian Aid was 'Water in Crisis'. The conference brought together representatives of the international community, water experts and those affected to discuss the challenges ahead and new approaches and solutions.
In 2018 more than one in ten Swiss nationals lived abroad
At the end of 2018, 760 200 Swiss nationals lived abroad representing a 1.1% increase compared with the previous year. The majority were based in Europe, particularly in France. One fifth of Swiss nationals abroad were aged 65 or more and 6% were aged over 79. These are the results of the statistics on the Swiss abroad from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
Ignazio Cassis holds political talks in Egypt on bilateral cooperation, regional issues and migration
On a working visit to Cairo, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry. The talks focused on Switzerland's relations with Egypt, an important partner country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Mr Cassis, head of the FDFA, had started his working visit on Sunday with an event marking 110 years of bilateral trade relations, where he met with Egypt's Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr and toured a Swiss-supported project in migration.
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«Nelson Mandela and the 2010 World Cup have brought us all closer together.»
Interview with Nomfundo Mbuli, programme manager at the SDC's cooperation office in South Africa.
South Africa had its first democratic elections twenty years ago, after the end of apartheid. Since that moment, the SDC has been helping the country to rebuild. Many projects have been very successful, so much so that they have been extended to other parts of southern Africa. Employed at the cooperation office in Pretoria since 2001, Nomfundo Mbuli takes a look back at how her country has evolved since 1994 and the role that the SDC has had to play in that.
«Changes must take place in both donor and recipient states»
Donor states in the field of international development cooperation want to improve the effectiveness of the aid they offer. To this end, representatives of these states are to meet in Mexico from 15 to 16 April 2014 to attend the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. SDC director-general Martin Dahinden will lead the Swiss delegation in Mexico. In this interview he explains what the meeting will be about and what changes have been made in international and Swiss development cooperation over recent years.
Yves Rossier meets the Bolivian foreign minister, David Choquehuanca Céspedes
The SDC at the Geneva Health Forum
The Geneva Health Forum will take place in Geneva from 15–17 April. The SDC is supporting the international conference and will be actively involved through a number of activities. Health-care professionals will be discussing «Global health: interconnected challenges, integrated solutions».
Optimising transit container control implies a strong regional police cooperation
Interview with Besnik Murrani, Albanian customs officer
Since 2006, Besnik Murrani has been working as a customs officer at the port of Durrës, situated 30km from Tirana, the capital of Albania. He and his team are receiving training financed by the SDC as part of an inter-regional police cooperation project in the Western Balkans. Established by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Customs Organisation, the "Container Control Programme" is helping Balkan countries to fight organised crime in a more coordinated manner.
The SDC maintains its efforts for the reconstruction of Rwanda
Twenty years since Rwanda was devastated by war in 1994, a certain amount of stability has returned in the country. Together with other donors, Switzerland has made major contributions to the ongoing reconstruction efforts. The current SDC operations in Rwanda seek to further improve the working of institutions to give the population access to good quality basic services and an environment conducive to employment.
World Water Day – Switzerland calls for a comprehensive water goal in the post-2015 agenda
World Water Day is on 22 March. The conservation of global water resources is a priority for Switzerland. Numerous global issues and challenges are connected with water security – for example, food security, energy production, environmental protection and the health of the world population. Switzerland is calling for a comprehensive water goal to be set on the agenda of the post-2015 development and sustainability objectives with a strategy consisting of four key areas of action.
Strengthening national health systems: a priority for the SDC
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) devotes 10% of its budget to promoting and improving health care around the world. Debora Kern, health sector policy adviser with the SDC, believes Switzerland has a big part to play in reminding states of their crucial role in the provision of health care.
NABO goes Cuba: réseau d'observation des sols sur le modèle suisse
A Cuba, des émissions de polluants organiques provenant de l'industrie et du trafic routier mettent en danger les sols agricoles. Aujourd'hui, dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche commun, le centre de recherche cubain CENSA et Agroscope mettent en place un réseau d'observation sur le modèle de l'observatoire national NABO qui existe en Suisse. Les données sont censées permettre de déterminer la teneur des sols en substances nocives de manière systématique, dans deux provinces de Cuba pour commencer.
The SDC's outlook for 2014
Director-general of the SDC Martin Dahinden took stock of the agency's activities over the last year at the SDC's annual press conference, and painted a picture of some of the upcoming challenges for this year. Expanding the global programmes in view of the latest Dispatch on Switzerland's International Cooperation in 2013-2016 will allow us to react to the worldwide challenges of food security and migration, Mr Dahinden said, adding that the decision to increase the SDC's commitment in fragile states has also proved to be right. These issues were presented in greater depth by the deputy head of SDC South Cooperation Department, Willi Graf, and the delegate for Swiss Humanitarian Aid, Manuel Bessler.
Switzerland's strong commitment to Poland through a range of projects
During his official visit to Poland on 27 and 28 January 2014, President Didier Burkhalter visited one of the projects benefitting from Switzerland's support as part of its EU enlargement contribution.
«Development is a human right»
The Asia Brief from December 2013 on the SDC's programmes in South Asia shows that a human rights approach is important for development. What is the basic premise of the human rights approach and how is it applied? The ethnologist Pia Lignell, who worked from 2011 to 2013 as SDC deputy country director in the Afghan capital, Kabul, answers our questions.
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French Health Body: Omicron Variant Found in Paris on Person Who Returned from Nigeria
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A case of the Omicron variant has been detected in the Paris/Ile-de-France region, the health authorities of region said in a press release this Thursday morning.
This is the first confirmed case in mainland France. The infected is a man who returned from Nigeria in late November.
The wife of the infected man also tested positive for COVID-19 and tests are underway to find out if it is the Omicron variant, according to the BFMTV. The couple have been in solitary confinement at their home since their arrival on French territory.
The World Health Organization [WHO] designated the new coronavirus strain, which was originally detected in South Africa, as a variant of concern during an emergency meeting last week. The WHO dubbed the new coronavirus strain B.1.1.529 Omicron, the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
South African health officials have said the Omicron variant was discovered in fully vaccinated individuals, is more transmissible, but the cases have been mild.
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Breaking! Teen Mom Star Announces She Quits
Jul 27, 2017 at 6:48 pm | By Dru Marie Allen
Girl, Bye!
Parting is always such sweet sorrow, especially when it's with a long-time member of the Teen Mom cast. As the girls get older and their families get bigger, sometimes they have to step back to focus on their personal lives, or just to get away from the drama and pressure of being in the public eye.
This recent update makes it look like one of the long-time cast members might be wrapping up her last episodes soon.
Source: @j_evans1219/ Instagram
Parting Ways?
Source: Instagram @j_evans1219
Nothing lasts forever, and, as sad as it is, that applies to the cast of Teen Mom. The girls have been relatively open about how long they plan on staying with the show; even though some seem to want to stay on for as long as possible, others are already hinting at calling it quits. That includes more than just the main cast of girls. The stress of the lifestyle is catching up with Ryan Edwards' new wife, Mackenzie Standifer.
Facing Bullying
If you're wondering what led Mac to want to quit the show, it may be her recent experiences facing backlash on social media from some members of the Teen Mom fanbase. Mackenzie has always had her haters, but they've come out with a vengeance ever since she was caught on film letting Ryan drive while high out of his mind on Xanax… and then claiming that she didn't know he used drugs until that moment.
Pair that with her implying Maci was at fault for Ryan's drug use, and it was enough to feed the trolls, who have been relentless on her social media accounts for weeks.
Source: Instagram @kenziestandifer
Fans were alarmed when Mckenzie took to Instagram to make what may be a show-altering announcement. Without any kind of caption or explanation for her post, she simply posted a picture of a button that read: "I QUIT."
She hasn't updated her Instagram since, so fans are trying to figure out if this means that we've seen the last of Ryan's new wife.
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Film auteur Agnes Varda marks her California return with artful glee
Agnes Varda peers through the celluloid curtain of her art installation "My Shack of Cinema" at LACMA, her ode to filmmaking. The museum takes a look at the French auteur's time in the Golden State in the exhibition "Agnes Varda in Californialand." (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Oakland revolutionaries are spotlighted in Agnes Varda's 1968 documentary "Black Panthers." (Agnes Varda)
The Sausalito artist lifestyle is on view in Agnes Varda's 1967 short documentary "Uncle Yanco." (Agnes Varda)
Agnes Varda takes a look at the street art and artists of Los Angeles in 1981's "Mur Murs." (Cine-Tamaris)
Hollywood looms large in Agnes Varda's "Lions Love (...and Lies)" from 1969. (Max Raab / Agnes Varda)
Agnes Varda's walk-in art installation at LACMA, "My Shack of Cinema," features walls and a roof made of 35-millimeter film strips from her 1969 classic "Lions Love (...and Lies)." (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
By Reed Johnson
"Let's sit inside," Agnès Varda proposed. "We'll have a kick."
Lifting her cane, the mother of French New Wave cinema began shuffling across the floor of the gallery at the Broad Contemporary Museum at LACMA.
Her destination, a few paces away, was her art installation "My Shack of Cinema," a one-story walk-in structure with walls and roof made of 35-millimeter film strips from "Lions Love (...and Lies)," Varda's 1969 classic about an easygoing L.A. ménage à trois, the murder of Robert F. Kennedy and the demise of Old Hollywood. For seats, there were stacks of film canisters and a couple of armchairs, which the Los Angeles County Museum of Art added "to be nice to me," Varda said, plumping herself down in one.
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"This is very strange," the 85-year-old auteur continued, surveying her makeshift celluloid surroundings at LACMA's new exhibition, "Agnès Varda in Californialand." "I have never been in the middle, of the center, of film. So you have the feeling that the time has been spread out.
"This is inside the work, inside the whale again."
Like much of her artistic output, Varda's shack is a fanciful, multi-layered metaphor. It is equal parts artist's studio, architectural canvas for experimental living, echo chamber of memory in present tense and children's treasure chest. It is a love shack dedicated to her passion for filmmaking and life.
"When we are kids, we need a shack," she had told a media gathering the night before. "A child needs to have something that is his little corner, his little nest, his own shack. But the more we grow older, we have different ways of approaching the theme. But it's a theme that a lot of artists have approached, because it's like in the big world it's a little place."
Varda has come to Los Angeles this fall not only for the LACMA exhibition but to serve as guest artistic director of the AFI Fest, which began Thursday. The festival features photos from her influential 1962 film "Cleo from 5 to 7," which it's also screening, along with her "Documenteur" (1981) and four films that have inspired Varda during her six-decade career: Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket"; John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence"; Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"; and Martin Scorsese's "After Hours."
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Varda has been enjoying the tributes and attention, which she repays with patience and good humor. Chicly attired at the LACMA interview in a flowing purple dress, she wore a button that read "I Can't Remember Your Name" and a new version of her familiar pageboy haircut, auburn at the lower reaches and white on top, as if someone had dipped her in powdered sugar, lending her the appearance of a kind of punk Joan of Arc.
"I'm a big bear, and they give me honey," she said. But, she allowed, awards and accolades aren't really the point. "I don't want to be honored, I wanted to be loved — my films."
But not her personally?
"Yes, I also want love. Who doesn't want love, c'mon!"
Encompassing photography, sculptural installations and film screenings, LACMA's exhibition traces two periods, first the late 1960s, then the early 1980s, that Varda spent living and working in California with her husband, the director Jacques Demy, and the couple's two children.
Like the shack, California became a creative universe unto itself for Varda. During her time here, she made five films that capture the Golden State in all its orange-blossom and carbon-monoxide allure during an era of breakneck transformation. Stretching and collapsing the boundaries between fiction and documentary, her films were as self-consciously aware and stylized as her image-obsessed subjects.
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"She's always interested in the relationship between art and life," said Bernardo Rondeau, LACMA assistant curator of film. "Los Angeles is a city where those two things can kind of coexist in a way that you can't in other places."
Although Demy had been invited to Hollywood to make studio films, capitalizing on his 1964 international hit musical "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," Varda and her husband were most captivated by America's blooming countercultures and then-marginal communities. "I remember going directly to Watts, East L.A. I didn't run to see only Bel Air," she said.
They were equally mesmerized by the sheer novelty and profusion of America's consumerist affluence. "We were discovering the cheesecake and the convertible cars that open like this — bru-uhhr! So we had fun when we came, me and Jacques Demy, in '67."
The individual and collective pursuit of freedom — political, sexual, artistic — and the rewards and discontents of actually attaining it, is one unifying theme of Varda's California output. Whether her subject was Oakland revolutionaries ("Black Panthers"), Sausalito hippie artists ("Uncle Yanco"), an expat single mother in Venice ("Documenteur, an Emotion Picture") or East L.A. street painters ("Mur Murs"), Varda turned an empathetic and prescient gaze on the state's hothouse social experiments.
But in contrast with other '60s films that used L.A. and California as an abstracted backdrop, her works are insistently street-level and human-scale.
"She goes and she engages with people," Rondeau said. "She doesn't see them at a remove, she lets them speak for themselves."
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Those qualities coalesced in "Lions Love," perhaps the most emblematic of Varda's California films. Its trio, composed of Warhol superstar Viva and the authors of "Hair," James Rado and Gerome Ragni, are whimsical but savvy flower children living in a rented hilltop home, comporting themselves with the goofy pluck and verve of characters in a Noël Coward play.
Struggling to grow up in a land of ephemeral pleasures and childlike gratifications, the threesome is rocked by two seismic spasms: Robert Kennedy's assassination, and the arrival of an avant-garde New York filmmaker (and Varda stand-in) played by Shirley Clarke, who's been hired to make a studio picture.
In some ways, the California on view in Varda's films has moved into the past. Returning to L.A. this fall, she said, she notices the men are clean-cut, not shaggy.
"The richer are richer, the poor are poorer, which is the same all over the world." This time, too, Varda is without Demy, who died of AIDS in 1990.
In the wide-open cinematic spaces of Vardaland, la liberté is more than just another word for nothing left to lose. And, she insists, she has never felt freer in her life.
"The more old you are, the more you feel free. I don't have to justify myself. They don't like it, fine."
Yet as the interview wrapped up, and she exited her love shack, Varda leaned toward a reporter, thinking once more of her late husband.
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"It was taken from me," she said in a voice she had not used all morning. "I wanted to get old together."
The moment passed.
Already Varda was on to her next interview, ever ready for the new encounter, still comfortably ensconced inside the house of cinema, still getting her kicks.
reed.johnson@latimes.com
Agnès Varda at AFI Fest
Where and when: "Cleo From 5 to 7," 3 p.m. Sat., Egyptian Theatre; "Documenteur," 4:30 p.m. Sun., Chinese 5.
Tickets: https://afifest.afi.com/sections
Agnès Varda in Californialand
Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd.
When: Through June 22. Closed Wednesday.
Information: (323) 857-6000; https://www.lacma.org
Reed Johnson is assistant city editor. In 2018, he rejoined the Los Angeles Times, where he'd previously worked as a feature and arts writer from 2000-14, including four and a half years as the paper's Latin American culture writer, based in Mexico City. He also has worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, based in São Paulo, Brazil; as managing editor of Zócalo Public Square; and as a reporter for the Detroit News, the L.A. Daily News and the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union.
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Lorry boss apologises for Taiwan's worst train wreck
There have been mounting questions over how full the train was, and why there were no barricades on that section of the track.
April 5, 2021 8:27 AM 2 minute read
The families of victims gather at the site of a train accident near Taroko Gorge in Hualien, Taiwan on April 3. The train partially derailed in eastern Taiwan on Friday after colliding with an unmanned vehicle that had rolled down a hill, killing and injuring many. Photo: AP
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A construction site manager whose lorry slid on to a railway track and led to Taiwan's worst train disaster in decades has apologised for causing the death of at least 50 people.
Rescue workers say they may yet find more bodies. More than 200 passengers were injured in the derailment.
Lee Yi-hsiang, 49, said he was "deeply remorseful". His flatbed lorry was parked on an embankment but slipped down it, causing the train to derail on Friday near the city of Hualien, the BBC is reporting.
Lee was part of a team who regularly inspected Taiwan's mountainous eastern railway line for landslides and other risks.
He was questioned over the weekend by prosecutors and released on bail, but on Sunday he was taken back into custody because he was deemed a flight risk and had a previous conviction, Taiwanese media reported.
Reading a statement to news crews outside his house, Lee said he would cooperate with crash investigators, and "take the responsibility I should take". He was then taken away by police.
The eight-carriage train was travelling from the capital Taipei to Taitung when it hit the truck and crashed inside a tunnel north of Hualien.
The train was packed with people travelling to celebrate a long-weekend holiday, and many of the nearly 500 passengers on board may have been standing because the train was so full.
Some survivors lost their whole families, and Taiwan declared three days of national mourning.
Crews are still removing the train wreck from the tunnel. There are fears more bodies could be found.
Investigators have been going through the train's recording devices and CCTV footage from the front carriage, the chairman of the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board told reporters.
"It's believed the train driver might have only had 10 seconds at most to react and there was not enough distance to emergency brake," he said.
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Success in downtown Howell is the direct result of years of planning and dedication ...→
December 18, 2018 / Downtown Howell
What really makes a great downtown? Is it the inviting restaurants and shopping? Is it a vibrant arts and cultural scene? Or is it the steady hum of economic development activity?
This past spring, Howell was named the winner of the 2018 Great American Main Street Award, a national competition that recognizes exceptional Main Street communities each year.
By winning the award, the quaint, rural community of Howell now serves as a model for comprehensive, preservation-based commercial district revitalization, and has become an example for other cities and towns across the state.
Michigan Main Street reached out to some of the residents and leaders of Howell to hear why they think Howell is a great Main Street community and what led to their success.
As you view the video above, you'll get the chance to hear more about Howell's journey and the winning combination that put this community on the map as one of America's best downtowns.
MEDC facilitates the Michigan Main Street program, which assists communities interested in revitalizing and preserving their historic and commercial districts. For further information, visit: www.miplace.org/communities/mms
December 18, 2018 / Downtown Howell/ Comment /Source
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Howell Main St. Unveils Concept Ideas for Downtown's Future→
Howell Main Street Inc. and the Howell Downtown Development Authority have much to keep in mind when planning for the future, having received feedback from community members in the form of a survey and input session.
Posters, maps and sticky notes with ideas were posted all over the walls of the Meabon Room at the Howell Carnegie District Library Thursday night for Howell Main Street Inc.'s "Unveil Open House". The display was the culmination of consultants, city leadership, Main Street and the DDA's efforts over the course of several months in which they gleaned data and sought feedback on what the community would like to see in Downtown Howell's future. Howell Main Street Inc. received the consultation services as a part of their win earlier this year for the National Great American Main Street Award.
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Howell Main Street Seeks Input on Downtown's Future at Community Forum
November 01, 2018 / Downtown Howell
Community members had the opportunity to share their thoughts on the future of Downtown Howell at an input session hosted by Howell Main Street Inc.
The forum, held at Block Brewing Company in Howell Tuesday, sought feedback from residents, developers, and property and business owners. The event was separated into two parts, the first being a presentation of results from a recent survey that also sought community members' input on the future of Downtown Howell. Jay Schlinsog, Principal with Downtown Professionals Network, says nearly 800 people responded to the community-wide survey, offering their opinions on land uses, services and experiences that could make the region a more dynamic area.
November 01, 2018 / Downtown Howell/ Comment /Source
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Community Survey for Future of Downtown Howell
October 01, 2018 / Downtown Howell
Howell Main Street Inc. has kicked off a 6 month Future of Downtown Development technical service, fully funded through Main Street America and the Michigan Main Street Center.
As part of this service, the project team and Downtown Professional Network consultants have put together a survey to help us a feel for what the community overall is open to and would like to see as our downtown district continues to grow and thrive. Please take a few moments to complete the following survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/howell-mi
PLEASE NOTE: None of these projects are in the pipeline to take place in our Howell. This is simply to help the Main Street consultants gauge what types of designs and businesses you think would be a good fit for our downtown's future. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey and feel free to share with others!
After collecting survey responses later this month, Howell Main Street Inc. will hold a couple of public input sessions, and we would love to have you join us! Sessions will be held on the following dates:
Downtown Futures Community Input Forum - Tuesday, October 30th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Block Brewing Company
Futures Reveal and Open House Event - Thursday, November 1 from 4:00-7;00 p.m. in the Meabon Room at the Howell Carnegie District Library
October 01, 2018 / Downtown Howell/ Comment
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On 4th January this year I wrote this post. I listed places I wanted to visit this year, things I wanted us to do.
Somehow, it is now 11th June and we are heading at full speed to the half way point of the year. I want to take a moment to revisit my list and see what we have done and what we still need to do. I want to decide which places I definitely still want to visit and which, if any, can be crossed off or bumped to a "maybe" list.
Here is my list, with the places we have visited marked off.
We haven't done terribly well have we!
Actually we have. I just seem to have ignored my original list! We have visited our "usual" places (Richmond Park, Morden Hall Park, Box Hill) very frequently, we have been to a couple of other National Trust properties (Claremont, Polesdon Lacey) and we have visited several other places including Chatsworth, Rare Breeds Centre, British Wildlife Centre, RAF Museum and Magna.
It seems I just need to stop ignoring my list and plan.
So, which of the original places can be "bumped" or removed? As much as I hate to do it, Goodwood will have to be removed. The Festival of Speed is being held on a weekend that Gordon is working a night shift and the Revival is on whilst we are on holiday, so we can't attend either of these.
Other than that I don't want to change the list at all. I still want to make an effort to visit all these places, but maybe I should amend it to have the "must visit" places at the top and the "if we have the time/money" places lower down.
Top of my list will still be the Natural History Museum. I really, really want to take the kids and I know they will absolutely love it. The kids also want to go to the Science Museum again. I need to pencil in dates on the calender to do these trips because these really are "must visit" places.
Next would be one of the zoo trips, either London or Whipsnade. This will be totally cost dependent though. Do they do a Home Educators discount?
Covent Garden and the Dali Exhibition can be done on a day trip into London any time. Again, I should just pencil a date on the calender shouldn't I!
That leaves the Horniman Museum, London Cable Cars, Royal Observatory Greenwich and Grant Museum of Zoology, which I guess are the "if we have time/money" trips.
As with my post in January I am writing all this down in the hope that I will do something about it. In fact, tomorrow I am going to have a look at the calender and pencil in two or three dates for the "must visit" places.
I know we have done a lot so far this year and we have enjoyed all the places we have been to. However, I don't want to look at this list again in another 5 months and realise that, despite going to lots of different places, we still haven't managed most of it!
I will go to the Natural History Museum with you. And any of the others, but let's start with that!


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Q: Include month if not there in php array I have an array  like this in php
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [month] => April-2014
            [total_booking] => 2
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [month] => May-2014
            [total_booking] => 5
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [month] => June-2014
            [total_booking] => 25
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [month] => October-2013
            [total_booking] => 1
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [month] => July-2014
            [total_booking] => 4
        )

)

I have to make this array
if i selected two months from_month , to_month  if there are no any months in this array it should be included  eg:
i have selected from_month 2014 feb to_month 2014 may . but if in my array only 2014 feb, 2014 april,2014 may only so iwat to include 2014 march in correct place.
like this
 Array
            (
                [month] => March-2014
                [total_booking] => 0
            )

this is my code
 foreach ($newarray as $month => total_booking) {
         //sorting

      }

     foreach ($newarray as $month => total_booking) {
             //if there is no month in array betwean to_month and from_month it

            should be  included in correct place as sorted

          }

A: Loop through it and test if values are missing:
$prev_month = false;
foreach($your_array as $k=>$values){
    if($prev_month!==false){ // first itteration will be empty, dont do useless checks
        // Test if themonth after the previous month matches this one
        if( $prev_month+1 !== $values['month']  ){
            // FILL IN THE BLANKS
            // splice in at position $thisIndex (<- this you'll have to do)
            array_splice( $prev_month, $thisIndex-1, 0, $newDateBookingsArray); // -1, we want it before this item!
            // (dont forget to loop in case more than 1 items miss)
        }

    }
    $prev_month = $values['month']; // save value for next round
}

Edit: TS first asked to sort the array, the code to use a custom sort can be found in the edits of this post.

A: The best way is to take reference from the start date and end date you inputted and look it up in the master array..
Here it is(please scroll for answer)
$your_array=array
   (
     array
        (
            'month' => 'April-2014',
            'total_booking' => 2
        ),

    array
        (
            'month' => 'May-2014',
            'total_booking' => 5
        ),

    array
        (
            'month' => 'June-2014',
            'total_booking' => 25
        ),

    array
        (
            'month' => 'October-2013',
            'total_booking' => 1
        ),

    array
        (
            'month' => 'July-2014',
            'total_booking' => 4
        )

);
        $start_date="Jan 1 2013";
        $end_date="Dec 31 2014";
        $timestamp1=strtotime($start_date);
        $timestamp2=strtotime($end_date);
        for($i=$timestamp1;$i<$timestamp2;$i=$i+24*60*60){
            //echo $i;
            $gapmonth[]=date('F-Y',$i);
        }
        $gapmonth=array_unique($gapmonth);

        //convert $dataS(ORIGINAL ARRAY) to one dimentional array so the life will be easier
        foreach($your_array as $val){
            $derived_val[$val['month']]=$val['total_booking'];
        }

        foreach($gapmonth as $val){
            if(array_key_exists($val,$derived_val)){
                $total_booking=$derived_val[$val];
            }
            else{
                $total_booking=0;
            }
            $finaldate[]=array('month'=>$val,'total_booking'=>$total_booking);
        }
        echo "<pre>";
        print_r($finaldate);

OUTPUTS
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [month] => January-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [month] => February-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [month] => March-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [month] => April-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [month] => May-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [5] => Array
        (
            [month] => June-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [6] => Array
        (
            [month] => July-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [7] => Array
        (
            [month] => August-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [8] => Array
        (
            [month] => September-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [9] => Array
        (
            [month] => October-2013
            [total_booking] => 1
        )

    [10] => Array
        (
            [month] => November-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [11] => Array
        (
            [month] => December-2013
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [12] => Array
        (
            [month] => January-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [13] => Array
        (
            [month] => February-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [14] => Array
        (
            [month] => March-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [15] => Array
        (
            [month] => April-2014
            [total_booking] => 2
        )

    [16] => Array
        (
            [month] => May-2014
            [total_booking] => 5
        )

    [17] => Array
        (
            [month] => June-2014
            [total_booking] => 25
        )

    [18] => Array
        (
            [month] => July-2014
            [total_booking] => 4
        )

    [19] => Array
        (
            [month] => August-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [20] => Array
        (
            [month] => September-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [21] => Array
        (
            [month] => October-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [22] => Array
        (
            [month] => November-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

    [23] => Array
        (
            [month] => December-2014
            [total_booking] => 0
        )

)

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We recently got to hang out with Josh and Amanda, some Santa Barbara friends who came to visit us and the ministry here in Madagascar. It's always a joy when our two worlds of Santa Barbara and Madagascar merge and this was no exception.
Often times what stands out to visitors has become just normal life stuff for us so we often walk past it without a second glance, thought or even an awareness or appreciation of how different life is here in Madagascar.
So… we're taking a look at Madagascar through their eyes with tons of pictures and little writing….
enjoying cirque rouge… a beautiful mountainous area with a steam running through it that runs to the ocean. the sand in this area comes in all shades of pink, red, purple grey and even yellowish/green. it's quite incredible!
what kid doesn't love balloons, a horse carousel and bounce houses?
buying bread at the bakery… most of the croissants and pastries aren't anything to write home about but their palmiers… those are fantastic!
sharing a meal with good friends and Malagasy family at Maman'i Aby and Dina's house. on the menu, squash and coconut, ground beef with carrots, green beans and potatoes, grated carrot salad and rice.
remnant forest outside of Antsanitia… absolutely beautiful and how Madagascar should look!
to these two characters who were behind the lens in all these photos and who graciously allowed us to see and share Madagascar through their eyes… thank you!
Thanks for all those great pics Alissa!!!
So interesting to see your life!!!


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Q: glDrawArrays медленнее чем glDrawPixels Столкнулся с тем, что glDrawArrays медленнее чем glDrawPixels.
Что может тормозить работу glDrawArrays. В процедуре я выполняю следующее:
glGenBuffers(1, @cN);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, @cN);
Затем использую glBufferData(...)
...
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS,0,width*height);