Sophisticated dark toned floral digital print in tones of burgundy, pink and blue touched with gray on a black background. Reverses to black on the back side, so you could use the reverse as an edge or trim. Smooth finish and firm hand, crosswise stretch with a bit of lengthwise stretch and no rolling at the cut edge. No seam finish required and you can use either or both sides. A rare find. Mid weight is right for so many things: tops and bottoms, tunic, t-shirt, cardi, vest, light jacket, duster coat, hoodie, skirt, dress or pants. I'm scooping up every green toned fabric I can find this season, and this one is really beautiful! I like the smoothness on this one so other garments will slide off and on easily. Makes a fabulous jean type pant to wear with black basics too! One way design.
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1. (1) New England (9-2): Patriots have played 6 teams this season that were in first place or tied for first, beating them by an average of 22 points.
2. (3) Green Bay (8-3): In 14 career starts vs. Minnesota, QB Aaron Rodgers has thrown 32 TD passes and only 4 interceptions.
3 (2) Arizona (9-2): Cards have 11 sacks of Russell Wilson in last 2 games at Seattle and have gone 21 games without allowing a 100-yard rusher.
4. (5) Denver (8-3): Peyton Manning continues to lead the NFL in TD passes (34). He has thrown for 3,558 yards, second to Andrew Luck (3,641).
5. (6) Dallas (8-3): Since 2006 season, QB Tony Romo has accumulated league-best 27 victories that he's pulled out in 4th quarter or overtime.
6. (8) Philadelphia (8-3): Entering Thanksgiving game vs. Cowboys, Mark Sanchez has thrown for at least 300 yards in each of his 3 starts.
7. (10) Seattle (7-4): Seahawks have won 4 of 5. The last 5 games are at San Francisco, at Philadelphia, San Francisco, at Arizona and St. Louis.
8. (9) Cincinnati (7-3-1): Bengals play 3rd straight road game at Tampa Bay. Remaining schedule is Pittsburgh, at Cleveland, Denver, at Pittsburgh.
9. (11) San Francisco (7-4): 49ers have a 3-game winning streak and play Seattle in 2 of their next 3. In last 5 games, they've averaged 17.4 points.
10. (7) Detroit (7-4): Lions didn't score a TD in last 2 losses on the road to Arizona and New England. Of last 5 foes, only Green Bay has winning record.
11 (4) Kansas City (7-4): Throw out the second game vs. Oakland, and other 4 remaining opponents have a combined record of 31-13.
12. (13) Baltimore (7-4): Former Texans RB Justin Forsett has rushed for at least 100 yards 5 times in his career, including 3 games this season.
13. (15) Indianapolis (7-4): Andrew Luck's streak of 8 300-yard passing games was broken by Jags, but Colts won 11th game in a row in AFC South.
14. (12) Pittsburgh (7-4): Of Steelers' last five opponents, Kansas City is only one not currently in first place in its division or at least tied for first.
15. (16) Cleveland (7-4): QB Brian Hoyer is in last year of his contract. In last 2 games vs. Cleveland and Atlanta, he's averaged 326 yards passing.
16. (17) San Diego (7-4): Chargers have toughest schedule left: at Baltimore, New England, Denver, at San Fran, at K.C. They're a combined 38-17.
17. (14) Miami (6-5): Dolphins have a 3-5 record against teams with winning records. Of last 5 foes, only Colts and Pats have winning records.
18. (20) Buffalo (6-5): Bills have league-best 46 sacks, including 7 in win over Jets. Mario Williams has 5 in last 2 games and leads team with 12.
19. (18) Houston (5-6): Texans trying to become 3rd team in 20 years to go from fewest takeaways (11 in 2013) to most (NFL-best 24 at present).
20 (19) St. Louis (4-7): Rams finished stretch in which they played 9 straight teams with winning records. 3 of last 5 foes have losing records.
21. (23) Chicago (5-6): Jay Cutler has committed league-high 18 turnovers, including 12 picks. His 6 lost fumbles tie Cam Newton for most in the NFL.
22. (21) Atlanta (4-7): Mike Smith has blown 2 games with poor last-minute clock management. Falcons 4-0 vs. NFC South, 0-7 vs. rest of NFL.
23 (22) New Orleans (4-7): They've lost 3 straight at Superdome but are still tied for first in NFC South. The bad news is they have 2 left at home.
24. (24) Minnesota (4-7): QB Teddy Bridgewater is 3-3 as starter. His 75.7 rating is 30th. Only Blake Bortles (70.8) and Geno Smith (67.0) are worse.
25. (25) N.Y. Giants (3-8): Giants have 6-game losing streak. There are rumblings Tom Coughlin's job is in jeopardy despite 2 Super Bowl wins.
26. (26) N.Y. Jets (2-9): 38-3 Monday night loss to Buffalo in Detroit was Jets' most lopsided defeat to Bills since 1989, when they were drubbed 37-0.
27. (27) Carolina (3-7-1): Since they tied Bengals, the Panthers have lost 5 in a row. But only one team left on schedule has winning record.
28. (28) Tampa Bay (2-9): Rookie WR Mike Evans from Texas A&M is 5th player in franchise history with at least one TD catch in 4 straight games.
29. (29) Washington (3-8): Redskins take 3-game skid into Sunday's game against Indy. They have tough closing schedule with Philly and Dallas.
30. (30) Tennessee (2-9): Zach Mettenberger's 345 passing yards in loss to Philly broke franchise rookie mark of 331 (Jacky Lee with 1960 Oilers).
31. (32) Oakland (1-10): To show how misleading stats can be, Raiders are most efficient offense in red zone, scoring TDs 77.8 percent of the time.
32 (31) Jacksonville (1-10): For 3 consecutive seasons, Jags have started with a 1-9 record. This is the first time they failed to win their 11th game.


After 5 match days, 2 round robin boxes, we are pleased to present the final standings of the B & C Invitational Teams.
Inv C. 1. Ashwin 2. Arjun 3.Tej 4. Alex .Viraj 6.Daniel 7. Ben 8. Florian 9. Charlie 10.Arnold 11. Oliver 12.JeffreyCongratulations everyone for competing and gaining some very valuable match play.
Look out for our new Invitational program starting August.
Vikram has made some huge gains this term which was evident with his Runner Up performance.
Congratulations Malhar Rajpal He has been working hard competing regularly in junior events. Malhar's understanding and point construction has helped him win some tight encounters. This season has been a positive learning curve for Malhar.


Sybil Vazquez Kitchen, 2019-04-19 02:25:38. Believe it or not, once upon a time, furniture was purely functional. Furniture designers did not make an effort to put any sort of artistic design into their furniture-the furniture was strictly utilitarian. Today, however, modern kitchen chairs are works of art! Some people assume that modern chairs and contemporary chairs need to be painted in certain ways and be made from specific materials. The truth is that as long as your chairs have artistic merit and can be multifunctional they can be considered contemporary chairs and modern chairs.
Susana Gross Kitchen, 2019-04-13 02:55:54. If the chairs in your kitchen can serve many purposes while still being chairs they are modern chairs. If the chairs can be used as works of art, they are modern/contemporary chairs.


FALCON aims to convert the lignin waste stream from lignocellulose-based bioethanol plants to a crude oil, which can be used directly as a low-sulphur marine fuel (value chain 1) or, alternatively, as a renewable feedstock for aromatic fuel additives (value chain 2) and chemical building blocks (value chain 3) such as substituted monomeric phenols. These three new value chains can be readily linked to existing 2G biofuel plants and thus contribute to their viability. In addition, the valorisation of the lignin-rich waste stream will support the creation of 'zero-waste biorefinery' concept.
The project has a strong industrial drive as it is built around a consortium that includes mainly industrial/SME partners covering the entire value chain supported by two academic partners (Table 1). Considering end-of-life, the targeted final products close the renewable carbon cycle. Bio-fuel/-additives are converted into CO2 and H2O when being combusted in engines. The same will happen to the bio-chemicals, e.g. when they are incinerated after end-of-life, they are converted into CO2 and H2O, too.
Lignin bio-oils are already being used as fuel additive for heavy-duty engines to reduce soot emissions. Therefore, the new technology/process developed in FALCON can be directly integrated in this existing value chain. In this project, the objective is to mature over a period of four years from bench scale (1-10 litres) to pilot scale (ton-scale) of enzymatic low-sulphur heavy fuel oil production from lignin. Preliminary combustion experiments can be conducted at a component level with bench scale volumes, whereas multi-component level tests become possible for pilot scale volumes.
However, FALCON aims to go beyond the initial bulk product as the phenolic nature of the lignin crude oil can also be used as a green chemical intermediate for aromatic bulk chemicals (e.g., monomeric phenols) and resins (e.g., phenol formaldehyde resin). Therefore, this project will generate at least three value chains from the lignin waste stream: shipping fuels, fuel additives and chemical building blocks.
The project also includes method development and optimization of efficient technical separation processes, on the one hand of the low-sulphur heavy fuel oil from the aqueous lignin waste stream and on the other hand of the chemical building blocks resulting from the conversion of low-sulphur heavy fuel oil. In addition, it aims to develop a method for the initial low-sulphur heavy fuel oil preparation that can be directly linked to or integrated in the current 2nd generation biofuel production plants. Directly processing the wet lignin-rich slurry resulting from the conventional biofuel production process, removes the need for drying of this waste stream, reducing processing costs. Currently, lignin bio-oil is obtained by pyrolysis, which is a high-energy demand process. We replace this step with a sustainable down-stream process (enzyme treatment), which we will validate by means of a Life Cycle Assessment. As such, our new value chains fit seamlessly to the recently developed biofuel value chains, ensuring easy implementation of the innovative new FALCON process.
Production of solvent tolerant laccases that generate oxidized lignin in the presence of mediators, which will break-up of the intermolecular β-O-4 bonds, resulting in a liquid lignin fraction with smaller lignin-fragments (lignin oil).
Development of a separation process that extracts the low-sulphur lignin-derived heavy fuel oil from the aqueous lignin waste stream for further processing, aided by small amounts of organic solvents.


14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
It is also worth noting a bit of trivia: The story is set in the contemporary Western Tokyo's neighborhood of Koganei, the real-life location of Studio Ghibli. Watch the teaser, embedded after the jump.


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Is the Ruger 57 the Best Handgun of All Time?
You'll love bringing this pistol to the range.
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byRichard Douglas
Catching the world by surprise, Ruger revealed the second-ever pistol to use the 5.7x28mm cartridge. Its only competition is the original FN Five-seveN. Even then, the Ruger-57 enters the market at a much lower price point.
For most consumers, this makes a somewhat niche caliber much more accessible, and for good reason. The Ruger-57 is a blast to use, acing every category I've tested it in. Ruger markets their newest pistol as "fun to shoot; cool to own," and I don't disagree.
The Ruger-57 features a bright-green front sight with all-black, adjustable rear iron sights. While shooting, it's absurdly easy to keep track of the sights because of how easy the gun is to handle.
In addition, this full-size pistol comes pre-threaded to mount optics, with red dot sights available to purchase separately. This is another point in favor of the Ruger-57 over the FN. The fiber-optic sights, as well as the length of the barrel, combined with the amazing 5.7 x 28-millimeter ammunition, make it a breeze to hit targets accurately even twenty yards away.
It's definitely fun for a day at the range, and could even be taken out for small game or varmints. If you're a beginner, however, you'll definitely want to find a proper hunting rifle.
Though it enters the market as Ruger's affordable version of the Five-seveN, this pistol is anything but cheap. The grip is glass-filled nylon, while the slide and magazine are steel, making this remarkably lightweight while still feeling solid.
This might be surprising for those who view Ruger as an "affordable" brand but their weapons hold up to high standards of reliability. In my experience with the gun, it had no issues whatsoever throughout a day at the range. It's still fairly new to the market, however, so time will tell.
If you aren't considering buying this weapon, then you will once you get your hands on it. The first thing you'll notice is that it's shaped differently than 9-millimeter pistols, due to the 5.7 x 28-millimeter ammunition. Despite that, it still fits comfortably in your hand.
The textured grip is just right, providing a solid handle on the weapon while still remaining comfortable. Depending on the size of your hands, you might find the magazine release awkward to hit due to the size and shape of the Ruger-57, but otherwise, this full-size pistol handles much like any other.
Shooting the 57 will sell you on it immediately. This gun shoots like a dream, with a satisfying flash and bang, but with a recoil that's easy to handle. After taking a shot, you can easily center the sights again and take another, and the 20+1 capacity makes you want to fire again and again.
The Ruger-57's trigger is easy to reach despite the size of the gun due to the narrow grip design. The trigger itself features an integrated safety to prevent accidental discharges due to impact. Even with the safety, the trigger felt comfortable and didn't tire my finger out at the range.
Pulling the trigger requires about 4.5 pounds of force. It feels crisp and snappy and has a slight positive reset that may take some getting used to.
Magazine and Reloading
The magazines that come with the Ruger-57 are steel and fit twenty rounds in an efficient double-stack. It's always surprising to find a pistol that loads twenty rounds, especially one that's so smooth and easy to fire.
Loading a magazine is easy, and feels just like loading an AR pistol. So if you're used to handling an AR pistol, you should have no problem with the different caliber.
Ruger included a textured cutout at the bottom of the grip, which helps with gripping the magazine. As stated earlier, the magazine release was a little awkward to hit from a standard grip, but men with larger hands might not find this an issue.
Length and Weight
Due to its nylon frame, the Ruger-57 is remarkably light when empty, weighing only 24.5 oz. Regardless, the steel slide gives it enough heft to handle recoil much on its own.
Due to the shape of the 5.7 x 28-millimeter magazine, the grip is longer than your average pistol. Ruger compensated by making the grip thinner, making the 57 surprisingly easy to hold. It's certainly a full-size pistol with its 4.94-inch-long barrel, making it not the ideal choice for concealed carry.
Recoil Management
For a gun as powerful as the Ruger-57, the sights barely move. It's remarkably easy to shoot, and before long you'll find that your entire twenty-round magazine has been spent.
In terms of felt recoil, the 57 kicks a bit more than a .22, but less than a 9-millimeter. For the amount of punch the bullets have, this is incredible. Even with the light recoil, the blast and flash of discharge feel impressive.
Quite possibly the only drawback of the Ruger-57 is its price, which is still pretty reasonable. While at $799 it's pricier than most pistols you would buy, its only competition in the market of 5.7 x 28-millimeter is the FN Five-seveN, which sits way up at $1,199.
The obscurity of the ammunition doesn't necessarily help its case, however, as the fairly esoteric 5.7 x 28-millimeter magazine is rather difficult to find. On the other hand, Ruger introducing this new gun might encourage more manufacturers to start selling this ammo, making it less rare for consumers in the future.
In terms of practical use, most may find the Ruger-578 large for concealed carry, so you might want to find a more suitable firearm for that purpose. However, it's still a strong pick for home defense or even small game. At the end of the day though, you'll love bringing this pistol to the range.
With that said, if you're in the market for a pistol that handles like a dream and are interested in expanding to a new caliber of ammo, then this is for you. The Ruger-57 will, without a doubt, be one of the most fun pistols you shoot.
Richard Douglas is a firearms expert and educator. His work has appeared in large publications like The Armory Life, Daily Caller, American Shooting Journal, and more. In his free time, he reviews optics on hisScopes Fieldblog.
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Roche Diagnostics International Ltd (Roche Diagnostics), a subsidiary of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, is a provider of diagnostic system solutions to clinics, laboratories and doctors' offices. The company develops, produces and services instruments and software systems used in in-vitro diagnostics and bioanalytical research. It also offers diagnostic analysis systems and workflow solutions; and molecular diagnostic reagents and test systems. Its major products include point-of-care testing devices and blood glucose meters, among others. The company offers its products and services to hospitals, commercial diagnostic laboratories, healthcare professionals, researchers and pharmacists. It has operations in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, among others. Roche Diagnostics manages all the central functions of the Diagnostics business of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and is headquartered in Rotkreuz, Switzerland.


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How to prevent public disclosures and ensure confidentiality during clinical trials
The confidentiality of patient data is an essential consideration in any clinical trial — but stakeholders must also consider the confidentiality of the invention being trialled. If just one member of the public can access information about the invention before a European patent application is filed — whether this is through writing, oral disclosure or use — the invention may lack novelty.
This is so important due to the sheer number of stakeholders involved in a clinical trial, which can include sponsors, Contract Research Organisations (CROs), investigators and site personnel, healthcare personnel, regulatory agencies and participants.
We've recently given five top tips to help you ensure that confidential information remains completely confidential. Here, I explore some more tips to ensure that the performance of a clinical trial doesn't become novelty-destroying prior art.
1. Ensure that you have confidentiality agreements in place which include IP provisions
Clinical trials themselves don't guarantee confidentiality, as illustrated by the UK Courts in AGA Medical Corporation V Occlutech (UK) Limited [2014] EWHC 2506. Here, Dr Kurt Amplatz provided a device for occluding defects in the arterial septum of the heart (e.g. a "hole in the heart") to medical personnel at Bratislava's Children's University Hospital before the priority date of EP(UK)0957773.
The personnel involved in the first clinical trials of the occluder device weren't under an express obligation of confidence as they weren't asked to sign any form of confidentiality or non-disclosure undertakings. Mr Justice Roth found that the medical personnel weren't under a duty of confidence in equity (implied confidence), concluding that there can be no presumption of confidentiality simply because this was a clinical trial of new medical devices.
As this case highlights, it can't be assumed under UK Patent Law that a clinical trial on its own implies a duty of confidentiality. Accordingly, confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements play a key part in safeguarding a Sponsor's proprietary information.
In contrast, during parallel Opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office (EPO), public prior use wasn't considered to have been proven. This was based on established case law (T906/01, T152/03, T229/06) that in the medical field there is a prima facie assumption that any person involved in clinical tests of a prototype device is obliged to confidentiality.
2. Ensure a tight control over the fate of all non-used therapeutics at the end of the clinical trial
While the Boards of Appeal of the EPO found in T598/12 that a trial participant isn't a member of the public in the strict sense, a particularly contentious area of law is whether unused and unreturned trial drugs form a public disclosure.
A general principle of the European Patent Convention, following the Enlarged Board of Appeal's Decision in G1/92, is that the chemical composition of a product is state of the art when the product as such is available to the public and can be analysed and reproduced by the skilled person, irrespective of whether or not particular reasons can be identified for analysing the product.
Even a theoretic possibility of analysis is sufficient and this can have serious repercussions for clinical trials in which the therapeutic isn't administered or implanted in a healthcare setting, as highlighted by the Boards of Appeal of the EPO in T7/07. Bayer Pharma AG's patent European Patent No. 1214076 for the combined use of ethinylestradiol and micronised drospirenone as an oral contraceptive marketed as Yasmin® was revoked by the Opposition Division. One ground of attack during opposition was a lack of novelty due to public prior use. This was based on the fact that not all unused contraceptive tablets were returned at the end of the trial.
The women participating in a clinical trial of Yasmin® in the late 1990s hadn't signed any confidentiality agreements. The Boards of Appeal concluded that after handing out the tablets Bayer had effectively lost control of them and the women were in no way barred from disposing of them as they wanted. As there was no explicit or indeed implied duty of confidentiality, the unused drug became publicly available. Although the women had been informed of the active ingredients, they were unaware that drospirenone was present in a micronised form. However, it was concluded that a theoretical possibility of analysis by a skilled person existed.
An incident like this might be prevented by including instructions such as "patient must return all unused drugs" in documentation relating to the accountability of dispensed drugs.
In the pending Opposition Appeal T41/17 (to be heard in mid-February 2020), Bayer is again defending the purported public prior use of unused tablets dispensed during clinical trials.
This time, the case relates to the control of non-administered tablets containing polymorph 1 of sorafenib tosylate, a cancer drug.
The Opposition Division followed T7/07 in agreeing that information given to patients cannot be regarded as prima facie confidential. Indeed, it might be considered unethical to bind trial patients by general explicit or implicit confidentiality obligations, as they should be able to discuss medication with their spouses and doctors. However, it was found that trial participants were under a legal obligation to use the tablets according to a stipulated schedule and return any non-administered drugs. In contrast to T7/07, loss of control over the return of the dispensed drugs hadn't been established, as patients were legally prevented from disposing of the drugs and also from passing on information contained in them to third persons not bound by confidentiality. Any 'breach' therefore didn't allow a conclusion to be made that the tablets were available to a member of the public.
Another Opposition Appeal to keep an eye out for in 2020 is T1427/16, the Oral Proceedings for which are scheduled for late June. The Opponent/Appellant Hexal AG asserts that the trial participants weren't bound by a confidentially agreement and that the statement on the blister packs of alogliptin ("For clinical trial use only") can't be taken as a substitute of a confidentiality agreement. All tablets handed out to the trial participants became publicly available.
Hexal AG also asserts that even if a confidentiality agreement existed, Takeda lost control over the unused tablets handed out to participants who did not complete the study, particularly those participants referred to as "lost to follow-up".
The Decisions from T41/17 and T1427/16 will provide further insight on what restrictions the EPO requires clinical trial participants to be bound by in order that unused drugs don't become 'public'.
3. Consider what information is required to be shared with the trial participant
You should refrain from disclosing any specifics of the drug being trialled to a trial participant that they are not required to be informed about. Then, even if the trial participant is found not to have a duty of confidentiality, the patentable features of the drug (such as polymorph and formulation) will arguably not have been made available to the public.
4. Consider filing a patent application prior to the announcement or performance of the clinical trial
Plausibility is currently a hot topic at the EPO, as patent applications attempt to meet the standards of sufficiency and inventive step. The EPO has repeatedly emphasised that it isn't always necessary to report the results of applying the claimed composition in clinical trials (or at least to animals). However, the technical effect of the invention must be either self-evident, predictable or based on a conclusive theoretical concept (i.e. it must be plausible) at the time of filing, based on the information in the application and the common general knowledge of the skilled person. The inclusion of in vitro studies demonstrating the activity of the compound against a molecular target implicated in a disease may be considered sufficient to render the claimed effect plausible.
The timing is paramount — always liaise with your patent attorney to discuss the optimal time to file.
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The Bydgoszcz Academy of Music is a Polish state music university located in downtown Bydgoszcz. Its origins date back to 1974, as Branch of the High School of Music in Łódź  till 1979. From 1979 to 1981, it was established as Bydgoszcz State Higher School of Music, comprising for four departments. Since 1981, it is called Academy of Music – "Feliks Nowowiejski".

Patron
Since December 1, 1981, the patron of the music university is Feliks Nowowiejski (1877–1946), a Polish composer, conductor, teacher, organist and virtuoso.

Living in Poznań since 1919, Feliks Nowowiejski repeatedly visited Bydgoszcz in the interwar period as a conductor and composer. On April 3, 1921, he conducted in Bydgoszcz the local choir "Halka" in a room on Torunska street, and on November 18, 1923, he led a concert in the Seminar Building on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Polish independence. One of the large-scale event he attended was the unveiling of the Monument to Henryk Sienkiewicz in Bydgoszcz, the first at the time in Poland, on July 31, 1927. During the ceremony, in the presence of President of Poland Ignacy Mościcki, Feliks Nowowiejski conducted a solemn concert performed by the orchestra of the 68th Infantry Regiment and combined choirs of Bydgoszcz and Poznań.

History

Pre-war traditions

Institutionalized teaching traditions for future artists and musicians started in the city here at the beginning of the 20th century. Prior to this time, music teaching habits developed already, in the building of the parochial school as well as schools of the Carmelite Monastery (now defunct, at the location of the Theatre square) and the Jesuit College (now the city hall).

In 1904, Arnold Schattschneider (a conductor) and Wilhelm von Winterfeld (a violinist, conductor and composer) founded the Bromberg Conservatory of Music (), at Adam Mickiewicz Alley 9, which performed its activities until 1945.

After the restoration of the Second Polish Republic, Bydgoszcz started to develop music education. Main elements of this movement in the years 1925–1927, were the Municipal Institute of Music () and the Municipal Conservatory of Music, founded in 1927 by Zdzislaw Jahnke, a professor in Poznań Conservatory. The Jahnke conservatory, like the German Conservatory of von Winterfefd, led teaching music at three levels (lower, middle and higher-academic), and the structure of the school consisted of 8 departments (singing, piano, orchestral instruments, liturgical music, pipe organ, group music, pedagogical seminar, music theory and other additional subjects).

During interwar period, the Municipal Conservatory of Music raised as the leading music school in the city, thanks to the quality of the pedagogical team: among them was Józef Paderewski (1871–1958), brother of Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Bydgoszcz conservatories trained many respected musicians and music educators, including Alfons Rezler (conductor, founder of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra in 1938) and Marta Suchecka (violinist, educator).

During the Nazi occupation, the Municipal Conservatory of Music has been converted into a German school. Von Winterfeld Conservatory of Music ceased its activities in 1944, after the death of its Director.

Post-war attempts (1945–1974)

After the end of World War II, the process of rebuilding a music education system in the city started over. The Municipal Conservatory of Music resumed its activities, in its own building at Gdańsk Street 71. The school kept its instruments and an almost its complete teaching staff. However, within the new socio-political education system, the Conservatory was soon nationalized. As a result, and several years later, emerged the Primary Music School and the State Secondary School of Music.

Although since 1946, Bydgoszcz put efforts to have a Music University created, ministerial decisions only established an Academy of Music in Gdańsk. In parallel, in the 1950s, several musical institutions were established in Bydgoszcz:
 Pomeranian Philharmonic;
 Opera Studio;
 First and Second degree Music schools.
This movement intensified the needs of a local environment regarding higher musical education, as regularly advocated in the 1960s by Andrzej Szwalbe, director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic and Konrad Palubicki, professor of the national State Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Branch of the Academy of Music in Łódź (1974–1979)
The efforts to set up in Bydgoszcz a Music Academy found the support of the central government in July 1974. This approval allowed the rector of the Academy of Music in Łódź, Zenon Ploszaj, to establish on the 1st October 1974, in Bydgoszcz, a branch of Lódz Music.

On October 1, 1975, first classes began with 25 students of the Instrumental Faculty, led by Deputy Dean and manager of the academy, Miroslaw Pietkiewicz. Initially, the classes were conducted in the halls of the Pomeranian Philharmonic and the Music School, and lectures performed by professors coming from Lódz. Part of the staff comprised also musicians from the Pomeranian Symphony Orchestra and Capella Bydgostiensis, the Chamber music ensemble.

In 1976, a Musical Education department was created and the academy moved into its main building, provided by Voivodeship at Slowackiego street 7, which still remains today its headquarters.

In April 1979, students got their own lodgings at Libelta street 14, thanks to the great help provided by Andrzej Szwalbe, then director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic. Between 1977 and 1979, a major took place at Slowackiego street 7 so as to adapt interiors to the needs of musical teaching. In September 1979, the building housed a national congress of art schools rectors.

State High School of Music in Bydgoszcz (1979–1981)
On November 27, 1979, Polish Council of Ministers created in Bydgoszcz a State High School of Music, independent from the Academy of Music in Łódź. Its first rector was Roman Suchecki.

Soon in 1980, the university reached its full working structure, similar to other music schools in the country, with the creation of two new departments: Composition-Theory of Music and Vocal-Acting. The same year has been established in the Instrumental Department an Extramural Studies capability and an Instrumental Recording Studio.

The academic year 1979/1980 welcomed 120 students, crowned by a tour of the Academic Symphony Orchestra, composed of university pupils.

Music Academy of Bydgoszcz (since 1981)
On December 1, 1981, the university was renamed Academy of Music "Feliks Nowowiejski", completing its integration among the other Polish Academies of Music. The motto of the university Musica spiritus movens (Music moves spirit) has been then placed at the front of the building beside a crowned eagle.

In the 1980s, effort was put into training teachers and creating research units, to replace the initial pedagogic staff, essentially composed of teachers commuting from Łódź , Poznań, Gdańsk, Warsaw or Kraków. The local teaching team was in place in the 1990s.
Gradually new departments and positions have been established:
 Piano, String Instruments, Chamber Music Ensembles and Conducting (1982);
 Choirmaster Postgraduate (1984);
 Departments of Music Theory, Composition and Foreign Languages Study (1987);
 School Vocal Postgraduate (1989);
 Laboratory of Musical Culture of Pomerania and Kujawy (1990);
 Chair of Wind Instruments (1991);
 University publishing house (1992);
 Pedagogical Studies (1994);
 Instrumental Studies Postgraduate (1999);
 Laboratory of Church Music (2003);
 Vocal Studies Postgraduate (2004);
 Interdisciplinary Department of Jazz and Popular Music (2008).

In 1983, a building dedicated to educational purposes and student accommodation has been bought, located at Staszica street 7, at the corner with Kołłątaja street. In 1989, with the delivery of the new concert hall, university authorities renewed a majority of the musical equipment: first-class concert Steinway & Sons pianos, chordophones, pipe organs, wind instruments, percussion instruments.
In 1996, the school obtained full autonomy, including the acquisition of the rights to carry out doctoral curricula in the field of art.

From 1974 to 1999, 1127 students have been graduated from the academy. Between 2002 and 2009, the number of university teachers increased from 120 to 150, including 55 professors, and the number of students raised by 60% to 552 from 2002 to 2015.

In 2007, the academy received in charge the historic building of the Pomeranian Arts House (built in 1887), previously run by the Opera Nova Bydgoszcz authorities. After a series of overhaul works, including a 2009 European investment projects fund, the modernization of the facility has been carried out to fit the edifice to teaching purposes, comprising the restoration of the concert hall and the 19th century facade.

The strategic objective set by the board of the Academy of Music is to increase the number of professors, as well as the capacity to deliver doctoral degrees, so as to give a more important dimension to the university.

In 2019, the city authorities launched a project to erect a new building for the Music Academy – "Feliks Nowowiejski", at 9-11 Chodkiewicza street.

Curricula
Bydgoszcz Academy of Music comprises four faculties, teaching also the following musical fields:
 Animators for musical activities;
 Symphony orchestra and choir conducting;
 Training music teachers and sound directors.

The curriculum unravels from the First degree, leading to a Licentiate diploma or a second cycle studies, conferring the title of Master's degree of Arts.

In 2008, a PhD-third cycle has been created in the Instrumental Department, in addition to the possibility of postgraduating in one of the four faculties. Since 2010, the academy can award the degree of Doctor in musical instrument and conducting, and possess a doctor habilitation.

Under bilateral agreements, the academy regularly cooperates with schools abroad, such as:

"Feliks Nowowiejski" Academy of music of Bydgoszcz is also a regular partner of the Erasmus Programme.

Departments and structure
The school is divided in four faculties:
 Faculty of Instrumental Music;
 Faculty of Composition, Theory of Music and Sound Engineering;
 Faculty of Vocal Music and Drama;
 Faculty of Conducting, Jazz Music and Music Education.

It also developed cross-departments curricula:
 Pedagogy;
 Foreign Languages;
 Early Music;
 Contemporary Music;
 Jazz and Popular Music;
 Piano Chamber Music
 Recording Studio and Music library.

Academy facilities
All buildings are located in Bydgoszcz downtown, within the so-called Music District of Bydgoszcz ().

Main building

The academy moved into its main seat in 1975, located at Slowackiego street 7. Together with Pomeranian Philharmonic and the building of the Music Schools Group, they form a network surrounding the Jan Kochanowski Park where is displayed a gallery of sculptures related to composers and virtuosos.

Other places
A 90-bed capacity is offered to students, with several buildings. One is located at Staszica street 3 and Staszica street 7 (at the corner with Kołłątaja street).
The other tenement stands nearby the Pomeranian Philharmonic building at Szwalbego Street 4.

Other teaching facilities include a tenement at Warminskiego Street 13 and the Pomeranian Arts House at Gdańska Street 20.

Altogether, these buildings offer a total capacity of:
 14 rooms for collective lectures;
 42 rooms for individual lessons;
 a pipe organ practice hall;
 a music library;
 an auditorium with 100 seats (at Staszica street 3);
 a concert hall for 140 seats in the main building of the academy.

A project for the construction of a new Music Academy building complex is currently ongoing, into order to gather all these scattered facilities in one place. An architectural competition should pick out the best project to be erected by 2020 on an abandoned green areas between streets Kamienna, Chodkiewicza and Gdańska Street.

Artistic activities
In addition to teaching and research activities, the Music Academy conducts a large-scale artistic activity, radiating through the whole Kujawy-Pomerania.

The university houses:
 two choirs (one Academic, one chamber music choir);
 an academic Symphony Orchestra (est. 1976);
 an ensemble of ancient music;
 numerous ensemble for chamber music and for soloists.

Regularly, concerts are organized or co-organized by the academy where ensembles attend recurrent regional events.

On both stages of the university are regularly held concerts and opera performances with the participation of students, teachers and guests. Some are regular events listed in Bydgoszcz calendar of cultural events, such as:
 Bydgoskie Tuesdays Music – , (since 1981). Held once a month in the Concert Hall of the university;
 Pipe organ Thursdays – , (since 1992). Held every other month in the Concert Hall of the academy;
 Musical Mornings – , (since 1994). A monthly cycle for children;
 Palace Concerts, organized every month in Lubostron Palace;
 Academic Concerts (since 2002). Held every other month in Ostromecko Palace and co-organized by Bydgoszcz Municipal Cultural Centre;
 Student Workshop Opera;
 Great Cycles – ;
 The Music Academy in City Monuments.

Student ensemble or soloists attend festivals and music competitions, at regional, national and international levels, among others:
 International Piano Competition "Ignacy Jan Paderewski";
 Festival of Music Competition Laureates (since 1994);
 International Choral Meetings "Arti et Amicitiae" (1994–1998);
 Forte Piano, Student Festival (1994–1999);
 Festival of Young Organists and Vocalists "Jerzy Popieluszko", held since 1996 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bydgoszcz;
 Singing Competition "I. J. Paderewski" (since 1999);
 Organ Evenings, held since 2001 at the Saint Andrew Bobola's Church in Bydgoszcz.

The cultural activity of the academy ranks third in the musical institution production of the city, after Opera Nova and the Pomeranian Philharmonic.

Research
Primary field of research is science of music, comprising theory, history of music, history of performances and practice and local music culture.

Scientific research is mostly carried out during regularly organized sessions and academic conferences, but also through individual studies and team projects. Between 1980 and 2004 the Academy of Music has organized 31 conferences, with topics related mainly to classical music and traditional music in Kujawy and Pomerania.

The results of the research are published in monographs published by the academy and publications of other academic centers from Poland and abroad. In particular, one can notice the work concerning musical life of Kujawy and Pomerania, as well as a series of musical scores called "Composers scores of Bydgoszcz".

Pomerania and Kujawy Workshop of Musical Culture
Since 1990, the Laboratory Research of the university focuses on regional themes. It involves collecting and documenting data regarding musical culture in Kujawy and Pomerania and setting-up of scientific sessions devoted to this subject.

Their product is reflected in an annual scientific journal, representing an overview of musical life in different periods, from the Old Polish days to contemporary times.

Notable personages

List of rectors
 1975–1979, Dr. Miroslaw Pietkiewicz, director of Academy of Music in Łódź, vice-rector of Bydgoszcz Branch from October 1977;
 1979–1980, Professor Zenon Ploszaj, violinist;
 1980–1987, Dr. Roman Suchecki, cellist;
 1987–1993, Professor Franciszek Wozniak, composer and pianist;
 1993–1999, Professor Dr. Antoni Poszowski, music theorist;
 1999–2005, Professor Jerzy Kaszuba, accordionist;
 2005–2012, Professor Maria Murawska, pianist;
 2012–2020, Professor Jerzy Kaszuba, accordionist;
 Since 200, Professor Elżbieta Wtorkowska, music director.

Doctors Honoris Causa
 Professor Jerzy Godziszewski, pianist, on November 27, 2007;
 Đặng Thái Sơn, pianist, on April 27, 2010;
 Professor Mieczysław Tomaszewski, musicologist, on May 28, 2010.

Notable alumni
Notable former students and alumni of Bydgoszcz Music Academy "Feliks Nowowiejski" include:
 Rafał Blechacz, winner in 2005 of the 15th International Chopin Piano Competition;
 Paweł Wakarecy, finalist in 2010 of the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition, being the only Pole reaching this stage;
 Krzysztof Herdzin, pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, record producer, multi-instrumentalist (piano, double bass, violin), winner of several national and international music competitions.

See also

 Bydgoszcz
 Main building of Bydgoszcz Music Academy
 Music Schools Group in Bydgoszcz
 Opera Nova Bydgoszcz
 Pomeranian Philharmonic
 Gdańska Street in Bydgoszcz
 Kołłątaja street in Bydgoszcz
 Pomeranian Arts House in Bydgoszcz
 Szwalbego Street in Bydgoszcz
 Słowackiego Street in Bydgoszcz

References

External links
 Bydgoszcz Academy of Music

Bibliography

Education in Bydgoszcz
Music schools in Poland
Cultural heritage monuments in Bydgoszcz
Music
Educational institutions established in 1974
1974 establishments in Poland

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When I met José Saramago in Lisbon, in the late autumn of 2008, he was frail, but clearly relishing a reprieve. He had just recovered from a near-fatal respiratory illness, and was bemused by his escape, though he refused, as a die-hard atheist, to consider it a miracle. Writing with renewed energy, he was excited about his José Saramago Foundation moving into new premises in the Casa dos Bicos – the 16th-century House of Spikes near the sea – and was about to begin a tour of Brazil.
It seems fitting to pay tribute to him in a blog, since he so enthusiastically took up the form in his 80s. His unflagging drive may have been one of the benefits of late fame: his breakthrough novel, translated as Baltasar and Blimunda, came out only when he was 60, and he spent his earliest working life as a car mechanic. His blogs, published two months ago in book form by Verso as The Notebook, reveal an often sharp, sometimes mischievous, engagement with the world, whether skewering George W Bush as a "liar emeritus" or the cruel absurdity of the Gaza blockade.
Like many writers born outside powerful metropolitan centres (Portugal in the 1920s was no longer the world power it had been), from James Joyce to Orhan Pamuk, his writing sought to invent (or remake) Portugal as the centre, insisting on the universality of its inhabitants' experience. Yet this with an ironic, self-mocking wit. His brilliant novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, which gave form to a pseudonym of the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in 1930s Lisbon, entailed an imaginative leap, he later wrote, to describe the city beyond the "poor neighbourhoods" he knew as a child. He was happy recalling his family's peasant origins. There is a touching description in his childhood memoir, Small Memories, of how his grandparents in Azinhaga would take ailing piglets into their warm bed, since the whole family depended on their survival.
Above all, he was a master of speculative fiction, of compassionate, ironic parables, or "what-ifs". He told me his work was about "the possibility of the impossible", and that it made a pact with the reader to imagine the development of an idea, however absurd its premise. Yet there was always a grounding in reality. Talking to the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles about his film adaptation of Saramago's novel Blindness (starring Julianne Moore), I was struck by a key difference with the author.
For Meirelles, the story about a whole society that goes blind was about the fragility of the veneer of civilisation, and how rapidly it could break down into violent mayhem. For Saramago, the device of mass blindness simply exposed society for what it already is, anatomising the stark workings of power and who controls it. His experience had already laid that bare to him.
For Saramago, the task of anyone who writes was to "enlarge the world". He did that not with pomp, but through attention to the lesser characters and smaller lives. One of his last books, The Elephant's Journey, shortly to be published in the UK (where he had been due to visit in the summer of 2010), was a gentle human comedy spun from the tale of an elephant from Portuguese India bestowed by the Portuguese king as a wedding gift to the Habsburg Archduke Maximilian. Journeying by foot from Lisbon to Vienna, the elephant Solomon, a curiosity to all who meet him, suffers successive human attempts to impose meaning on what eludes their understanding.
We recall that blood was shed, first on one side, then the other, and that all sides make up the blood that flows in our veins. We, the inheritors of this city, are the descendants of Christians and Moors, of blacks and Jews, of Indians and Orientals, in short, of all races and creeds considered good, along with those that have been called bad. We shall leave to the ironic peace of their tombs those disturbed minds that not so long ago invented a Day of the Race for the Portuguese, and instead reclaim the magnificent mixing, not only of bloods but above all of cultures, that gave Portugal its foundation and has made it last to this day.
That blog was written when Saramago was 86. Such shafts of sanity and humour will be missed.


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'Shameful': 82.4 Percent of Medicaid Expansion Is Comprised of Childless Able-Bodied Adults
By Phil Kerpen | December 18, 2014 | 3:20pm EST
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One of the most perverse consequences of the feverish backroom deals used to get Obamacare past the finish line was the funding formula for the law's Medicaid expansion, which started with the infamous Cornhusker Kickback, a sweetheart deal for Nebraska alone to get 100 percent federal funding for Medicaid expansion that was used to get then-Senator Ben Nelson's vote.
When the whistle was blown on that dirty deal, Nelson implausibly explained that the Nebraska-only provision was intended to be a "placeholder" for higher Medicaid funding for all 50 states. And that's what ended up ultimately passing: if a state expands Medicaid to able-bodied adults, the new population is eligible for 100 percent federal funding through 2016, phasing down starting in 2017 until it reaches 90 percent in 2020 and permanently thereafter.
Yet states continue to receive an average of 57 percent federal funding for the pre-expansion Medicaid population of needy families and people with disabilities. In short, under current law, states are given a huge financial incentive to favor able-bodied adults over the truly needy. It's shameful and it should be fixed.
Here is a good explanation of the problem and a sensible proposal for a solution:
"Under current law, States face a patchwork of different Federal payment contributions for individuals eligible for Medicaid and CHIP. Specifically, State Medicaid expenditures are generally matched by the Federal Government using the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP); CHIP expenditures are matched with enhanced FMAP (eFMAP); and the ACA provides increased match for newly-eligible individuals and certain childless adults beginning in 2014. This proposal would replace these complicated formulas with a single matching rate specific to each State that automatically increases if a recession forces enrollment and State costs to rise beginning in 2017. This proposal is projected to save $17.9 billion over 10 years."
The author of that paragraph? President Barack Obama.
It comes directly from the budget he submitted to Congress on February 13, 2012, and it was the kind of bipartisan reform that should have been able to pass Congress easily. It would have fixed a serious perverse incentive problem, reduced administrative complexity, and saved billions for federal taxpayers.
Just four months later, however, the Supreme Court struck down Obamacare's provisions purporting to force states to expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults or lose all of their federal Medicaid funding for their existing programs. It was a resounding 7 to 2 decision, and it set off intense legislative battles over the issue in state capitals.
It also prompted President Obama to completely abandon his proposal for a single matching rate. His apparent political calculation was that dangling 100 percent federal funding for the expansion population would make it irresistible for state legislators and governors to go along with the now-optional expansion.
Yet at present 19 states have rejected Medicaid expansion and four are still considering it. So the 100 percent funding wasn't irresistible at all, but it does mean that the 27 states that have adopted Medicaid expansion now face budget pressure to cut care for the truly needy while maximizing the number of healthy able-bodied adults they add onto their Medicaid rolls.
A study by Jonathan Ingram of the Foundation for Government Accountability found that 82.4 percent of the expansion population is comprised of able-bodied, working-age adults with no children. Analyzing what he called "the new Medicaid math," Ingram determined that the current funding formula creates overwhelming pressure on states that adopt Medicaid expansion to cut Medicaid for the poor children and the disabled who are in the traditional Medicaid program. He also found empirical examples of such cuts in state like Arizona and Oregon, which were early to expand Medicaid to childless adults.
Let's be clear: I disagree strongly with President Obama that Medicaid, a welfare program, should be expanded to able-bodied adults, giving them a disincentive to work and pay their own way. But I couldn't agree more with his 2012 proposal that each state should have a uniform federal matching rate. This fix should be high on the agenda for the new Congress and the president should sign it.
Phil Kerpen is head of American Commitment and a leading free-market policy analyst and advocate in Washington. Kerpen was the principal policy and legislative strategist at Americans for Prosperity for over five years. He previously worked at the Free Enterprise Fund, the Club for Growth, and the Cato Institute. Kerpen is also a nationally syndicated columnist, chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition, and author of the 2011 book "Democracy Denied."
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Kyrgyzstan: Protests To Enter Third Month
May 05, 2000 00:00 GMT
By Bruce Pannier
Every day for the past two months, dozens of demonstrators have gathered in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek to protest against government interference in the parliamentary elections earlier this year. RFE/RL correspondent Bruce Pannier reports on what the protesters want and how the government has responded.
Prague, 15 May 2000 (RFE/RL) -- The protest is small but determined. As they have done each day for exactly two months today, some 100 demonstrators are gathered in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, to protest against vote-rigging and the jailing of a prominent opposition figure.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have broken up demonstrations in other towns and arrested and fined protesters, including some of those in Bishkek.
In the early days of the protest (on March 16), one protester had this to say to RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service:
"Frankly, this is not a struggle between an opposition candidate and a pro-government candidate. This is a fight between the authorities and the people."
The protesters are demanding new elections in several districts, where they and international observers say the vote counts in the February parliamentary elections and March run-offs were falsified. And they want opposition politician Feliks Kulov, arrested shortly after the elections, released from prison.
In the weeks leading up to the elections, the government, in the form of the Central Election Commission and the court system, did severe damage to the hopes of political opposition parties. The Election Commission barred the second- and third-largest parties -- El and Ar-Namys -- from the running, citing minor violations in registration. And in a dubious ruling, the courts barred another opposition party, the Democratic Movement of Kyrgyzstan, from running, saying that it had violated its own party convention rules.
Leaders from those parties tried to run as independent candidates. But they faced other forms of pressure.
Daniyar Usenov of the El party, for example, found himself facing charges from a case that had been closed back in 1996. He ran anyway, and international monitors (OSCE) say he won his Bishkek district seat outright. But the official results said he had to compete in a run-off election. Before that occurred, his opponent submitted evidence that Usenov had evaded taxes, and he was disqualified.
Some of those protesting in Bishkek are taking up Usenov's cause. But the main catalyst for the protests was the treatment of another opposition figure -- Feliks Kulov, head of the Ar-Namys party, who was also running as an independent.
Kulov, a former communist apparatchik who at various times has been vice president, head of national security, governor of the Chu Region, and mayor of Bishkek, had said winning a seat in parliament would be a prelude to running for president later this year. He had wide support in his Kara-Buura district and was favored to win the seat.
Before the votes were counted, his supporters were already complaining of flagrant election fraud. Kulov was declared the loser, and a demonstration began in Kara-Buura district the night of the runoff. The complaints were validated when officials from the local election commissions came forward and admitted buying votes and taking payments to forge ballots. One official committed suicide.
The demonstrations spread within days, even hours, to five of Kyrgyzstan's seven administrative regions (Talas, Osh, Batken, Issyk-Kul, Chu).
Kyrgyzstan's government has the best record in the region for allowing public demonstrations, and usually after a few days everyone goes home. But these demonstrators did not return home. The Navruz holiday on March 21 swelled the number of demonstrators and lent a festive atmosphere to calls for new elections, investigations into vote rigging, and resignations of government officials.
Authorities took action a week into the protests (March 23), breaking up the one in Kara-Buura and arresting more than 100 people. That same day, Kulov was arrested at a hospital in Bishkek -- like Usenov, he was brought in on old charges, in his case, of abuse of power. The protestors added freeing Kulov to their list of demands.
Last week, authorities broke up an unsanctioned march through Bishkek and beat several of the protesters. Protester Tinaiym Suierkulova said even such heavy-handed tactics would not stop her.
"When we went toward the post office on the way to the protest, about 400 militia officers surrounded us, handcuffed us, put us on buses, and started beating some of the people. But as long as authorities do not fulfill our demands, we will continue to come out [to demonstrate]. We are ready for anything. If they beat us, kill us, that is just the way it will be. Until our demands are met, we will stand here as we are standing here now. If it is necessary we will commit self-immolation, commit suicide. Until they free Kulov and give him his mandate, we are not going anywhere."
Security Council Secretary Bolot Januzakov said last week the demonstrators are being deceived.
"I explained to them (the demonstrators) that they should not follow certain people who are interested only in achieving their personal ambitions. That is shameful."
Bishkek is now the only place where demonstrations continue. Some protesters have been fined and some arrested, and the location of their protest has been forcefully moved from the center of town to an outlying area. The numbers have never exceeded several hundred, but there is a dedicated core of some 100 people who have showed up every day, braving first snow and now heat. The demonstrations are now entering their third month.
(Naryn Idinov of the Kyrgyz Service contributed to this report.)
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On March 6th, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with the New York City Police Museum (on whose Board of Directors I have the privilege to serve) working with many other police museums from around the country as part of the 2nd Annual National Police Museum Conference which was held at The New York City Police Museum.
Representatives from police museums around the country have come to visit our Museum and we have had the opportunity to share ideas and ways that we can collaborate with one another as we all work to fulfill similar missions to educate our children and public about the important work done by the police departments in our respective cities and states.
This Conference has also given us an opportunity to demonstrate how our very talented board of directors functions and works together to be the very best that we can be.
On Monday evening, the conference attendees were taken by bus to McFaddens where they had a wonderful opening reception which was very generously hosted by Dave Gildea. On Tuesday morning, the Museum hosted a retail session where the attendees had the opportunity to hear from a retail expert. And, for the following session we had two speakers from the IRS. The session was incredibly helpful, explaining some of the grey areas of nonprofit tax law and UBIT, (unrelated business income tax) for nonprofit organizations.
The afternoon session on how to organize, recruit and retain a great board of directors was attended by several members of our Board of Directors including former Police Commissioner Howard Safir.
Overall, it was wonderful to be a part of this Conference and to share all of our accomplishments and challenges with our colleagues from other cities and states around the country.


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– News of October 10, 2017 –
Lockheed Martin introduced at the end of last month an orbital base concept for Mars, called Mars Base Camp. The concept of assembling a base in orbit as a starting point for ground expeditions therefore seems to be a real trend at NASA and its industrial partners. We can therefore imagine a martian travel where a crew would go to the LOP-G space station thanks to an Orion capsule. It would then travel between the space station in orbit and Mars Base Camp space station in Mars orbit, using an interplanetary spacecraft. The Mars Base Camp space station could therefore carry out missions to the surface of Mars thanks to a dedicated lander, also designed by Lockheed Martin. This spatial mission scheme has the advantage of proceeding incrementally. It also offers refuges to astronauts at regular intervals, if anything goes wrong on the martian surface.
It is almost certain that the first part of the journey will be possible, thanks to the LOP-G space station, and the Orion capsule. Regarding the journey from the Moon to Mars, it will take at least 15 years to be a reality according to NASA's new guidelines. That said, the Mars Base Camp concept is very interesting. The martian space station is composed of two modules, a habitat module and a laboratory module. In Lockheed Martin's plans, part of the Mars Base Camp space station would be sent ahead in martian orbit. The other part would arrive with six astronauts on board, responsible for assembling the space station. Lockheed Martin's proposal also contains a lander. But all this is at the stage of preliminary studies, and we can think that the concept will evolve a lot before a final design is validated.
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Companies Are Ripping Off Ontario's Water Resources
It is bad enough that the government allows multinational companies to privatize a public resource, it is even worse that taxpayers are being hosed by charging so little for it. Several industries get a total free ride when it comes to taking our water. Those who do pay for taking water are charged a paltry $3.71 per million litres used. This is not a typo.
Mike Schreiner Leader of the Green Party of Ontario
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Ontario must stop allowing big companies to rip off the province's water. It is bad enough that the government allows multinational companies to privatize a public resource, it is even worse that taxpayers are being hosed by charging so little for it.
Several industries get a total free ride when it comes to taking our water, an explosive new report from Ontario's Environment Commissioner revealed. Those who do pay for taking water -- "phase one" industrial and commercial users that include bottled water producers; vegetable and fruit canning facilities; and certain types of chemical manufacturers -- are charged a paltry $3.71 per million litres used.
This is not a typo.
This nominal fee works out to less than $10 for enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. That works out to $0.00000371 per litre. After the ECO report I walked down to the basement in Queen's Park to double check that a 500ml bottle of water was still selling for $2. That's right, you can buy a litre of bottled water at Queen's Park for more than it costs a company to take 1 million litres of our water.
This absurd system enables the provincial government to recover only 1.2 per cent of the money it spends on water quantity management programs. Since the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) receives less money today than it did in 1992, the budget it has for water management is not enough to make it an effective steward of our water resources. Yet, the province is essentially giving away our water.
To make matters worse, industrial water users such as nuclear power stations; the iron and steel industry; golf courses; and many other industries pay no fee to take water. Not only does this result in underfunding of programs that manage and protect our water resources, it also provides no incentive for companies to use water responsibly.
In 2003, Dalton McGuinty's Liberals promised to bring in a water taking fee. The MOECC began charging a small fee in 2009. That fee has not changed even though the ECO advised the government at the time that the fee was inadequate. It was too low to create incentives for water conservation, and it would not provide cost recovery for water management programs.
For years, under pressure from the Green Party and others, the Liberals have promised to raise the fee. Even the 2012 Drummond Commission Report -- in which the Liberals mandated its focus be limited to cutting spending -- recommended increasing Ontario's water-taking fee to provide full cost recovery. And the 2012 Liberal budget said the government would take steps to recover the costs of environmental programs and services, including water-taking.
Yet, the Liberal government has failed to act.
Meanwhile, the government's flawed Permit To Take Water (PTTW) process threatens the quantity and quality of Ontario's water. The ECO report is especially critical of the lack of transparency and accountability in the PTTW process. Many high-risk uses of water receive little or no public scrutiny. The ECO concludes "that increasing water demand from a growing population is reducing the baseline water flows for some streams and rivers."
The Grand River watershed, where Nestle is applying to take even more water for its bottling operations, is particularly stressed by low water levels, according to the ECO. Yet, it took a legal challenge by community and environmental groups to restrict Nestle's water-taking in Wellington County during drought conditions.
The MOECC is also being challenged by the largest municipality in Wellington County for an amended water-taking permit issued to a quarry operation that is adjacent to wells producing 25 per cent of Guelph's drinking water. The City of Guelph is asking for conditions that protect the quality and quantity of the city's drinking water.
The MOECC has failed to resolve the matter even after pressure from all political parties.
All people should have the right to clean drinking water. It is clear that the province desperately needs to overhaul its PTTW process to prioritize water-taking for public drinking water and for growing local food. And the Liberals need to stop dragging their feet on charging water-taking fees that provide full cost recovery for water protection and management services.
We must act now before the well runs dry.
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Watch Macklemore's Intense Performance of 'Drug Dealer' on 'The Tonight Show'
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Macklemore performs with Ariana Deboo and The Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Nov. 16, 2016.
Just a few weeks after releasing the harrowing video for "Drug Dealer," Macklemore brought the substance abuse cautionary tale to The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (Nov. 16). Mack was joined by singer Ariana Deboo for the intense performance of the song that recalls the rapper's past struggles with substance abuse.
Opening with Mack seated on the stage, bathed in a single spotlight and wearing a white undershirt and black jeans, the MC solemnly rapped the lines, "They said it wasn't a gateway drug/ My homie was takin' subs and he ain't wake up/ The whole while these billionaires they kicked up/ Paying out Congress so we take their drugs."
His eyes closed tight as he recalled friends who died and rattled off a list of celeb victims (Prince, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger, Pimp C, A$AP Yams and DJ AM), Macklemore stared into the camera while Deboo crooned the chorus: "My drug dealer was a doctor, doctor/ Had the plug from Big Pharma, Pharma/ He said that he would heal me, heal me/ But he only gave me problems, problems."
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Intense frustration is building across the aid community that despite its best efforts it has been unable to dent the catastrophic levels of suffering in South Sudan, worsened by war and a political class that doesn't seem to care.
The stock taking, part of a high-level meeting on South Sudan's crisis held on the sidelines of the UN's General Assembly gathering, was so awful that some aid officials are exploring alternative ways to alleviate the misery.
The metrics of suffering in South Sudan are shocking. Around 7.5 million people, or 60 percent of the entire country, are in urgent need of aid – 1.4 million more than a year ago.
The number of people displaced by the conflict between President Salva Kiir and his former vice-president Riek Machar has surpassed four million, including two million who have fled the country.
Mark Lowcock, the newly-installed chief of OCHA, the UN's office for emergency aid coordination, said famine has been narrowly averted in northern Unity State, but "the conflict has caused the number of people, just one step away from famine, to increase from one million to at least 1.7 million since February."
And then there is a cholera outbreak – South Sudan's worst ever, which particularly impacts the displaced.
"There is a recognition that something must change, and we can't find ourselves in a year from now in the same place," Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam USA, told IRIN.
As the civil war splinters the country into armed militia fiefdoms, it makes the task of humanitarian delivery far more complicated and dangerous.
Aid convoys travelling from Juba to Yambio in the southwest of the country have to negotiate with "12 different groups" along the road, said David Shearer, chief of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, known as UNMISS.
UNMISS is overstretched and has proved unwilling to challenge government or rebel soldiers blocking humanitarian access. On several occasions it has also failed to effectively protect civilians sheltering in UN camps.
Fewer than 700 of what was meant to be a more robust 4,000-strong Regional Protection Force, authorised by the UN Security Council a year ago, have arrived.
They are sorely needed. One of the most disturbing figures is the number of humanitarian workers who have been killed. Eighteen have so far lost their lives this year, bringing the total since the outbreak of the civil war in December 2013 to at least 85, said Lowcock.
South Sudan's First Vice President Taban Deng Gai suggested at the UN last week that aid organisations were putting themselves at risk by not asking the government for protection.
"All armed actors must stop violent attacks on aid workers," said Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende. "It is just terrible that people that really come to South Sudan... and really try to support people in dire need [are] killed."
But in his next breath, Brende added: "the international community has to continue its humanitarian support."
Therein lies the dilemma: how to continue assisting the millions of South Sudanese in need, while having only limited leverage over the warlords pursuing the war.
There is a long history of aid and donor money being pilfered and skimmed by the country's elite. In May, the government increased NGO registration fees six-fold to $3,500.
"Arbitrary and exorbitant taxes, burdensome regulations, and outright egregious rent-seeking behavior towards NGOs slows the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarians in South Sudan," said Rob Jenkins, acting assistant administrator at USAID.
South Sudan was ushered into existence in 2011 with a large push from Washington. The United States remains the top humanitarian donor, spending over $700 million this year. Efforts to reform the aid system would therefore need Washington's support.
There seems to be willingness to at least explore options. In early September, USAID Administrator Mark Green told Kiir the US would be "undertaking a complete review of our policy towards South Sudan," according to an interview with the Washington Post.
"It's not a binary choice. There are some pretty significant downsides – politically and in terms of delivery itself – with the current approach to humanitarian assistance," said Payton Knopf, coordinator of the South Sudan Senior Working Group at the US Institute of Peace, and former head of the UN Panel of Experts on South Sudan.
"That does not mean, however, that the answer is to stop humanitarian operations. There are alternatives," he told IRIN.
So, "there needs to be far more reflection on conditionality and taking a much stronger, more unified line towards the government," he said.
But is the political will really there to, for example, divert assistance through a friendlier third country?
Some aid officials in New York cited the example of Operation Lifeline Sudan, a massive relief operation into southern Sudan run through Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda in the 1990s, as a potential alternative model of aid delivery.
A similar approach now would mean bypassing Juba in the flow of aid and money to the needy.
But OLS had a logistical imperative and was founded on a negotiated agreement between Khartoum, the then-rebel SPLA, and the aid community. Circumstances are different now.
The government in South Sudan jealously guards its sovereignty, and already accuses the UN system of siding with the rebels.
"I don't see any real appetite for cutting or shifting humanitarian aid," said a regional analyst who asked not to be named due to their work with a Western donor.
The fear is that there could be retaliation by the government if conditionalities over access were introduced.
"The difficulty with conditionality is that it's got to work on the basis that the people on the other side of the table care," said the Western diplomat.
"The South Sudanese authorities seem to feel immune to conditionality because they seem to think if you don't feed our people that's fine."


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