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Top 5 Busiest Ports In China: PRC Seaports Dominate World's Commercial Trade
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As an economic powerhouse and world's top exporter, it should come as no surprise that seven of the top 10 largest ports in the world are located in China
Over the years, Singapore was known as the world's largest container port but today Shanghai is on the podium. Shipping is responsible for 90% of world trade and China is by far the most dominant force in maritime shipping and a major influencer of the world's commercial trade. The country is investing heavily in ports, roads, and railways as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Here's a breakdown of the top 5 ports in Chinese Mainland.
1. Port of Shanghai
With a new world record of 40 million TEUs handled in 2017, the port of Shanghai holds the crown of the world's busiest port. t handled 37.13 million TEUs in 2016, up from 32.53 million TEUs in 2012. It's staggering to think that when the port first started operations 40 years ago, it had a handling capacity of less than 8,000 TEUs. In comparison, second-placed Singapore managed 33.7 million TEUs. Shanghai alone accounts for more than a quarter of China's foreign trade in terms of value. It has seen a 71% increase in volume over the last decade and currently has the size of 470 football pitches. As a gateway port for the Yangtze River Delta, it's located close to many factories located in neighboring provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu. And given China's role as the world's largest exporter, its strategic location makes it one of the most important ports for foreign trade. Shanghai Port's developments in recent years have been astounding and nowadays it's also home to the world's largest automated container terminal, the Yangshan Deep Water Port.
2. Port of Shenzhen
Located in Guangdong Province, the port of Shenzhen connects China's southern hinterland to pretty much the rest of the world. Known as the gateway to the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong, Shenzhen maritime hub consists of an eastern and a western port. Tt's spread out over some 260km of the city's coastline and, basically, is a real 'collection of ports' along Guangdong province coastline. Around 560 ships call at Shenzhen Port monthly, covering over 130 international container routes. Shenzhen hosts more than three dozen shipping companies and tt serves as an export hub for electronics manufacturers and other businesses around the Pearl River Delta.
3. Port of Ningbo
The ports of Ningbo (also called Ningbo-Zhoushan) merged in 2015 as third largest port in China. Shanghai may be the busiest Chinese port, it's the port of Ningbo that holds the crown for being the first port to handle 1 billion tonnes in cargo throughput in a calendar year. Today it connects to more than 600 ports in over 100 countries and since 2016 the port has been increasing its efficiency to meet the rising demand. Already, it was offering regular intermodal rail services to the hinterlands. But it has recently launched new services, with its sea-rail transport lines now providing 11 train services to 36 cities in China and reaching farther out countries in central and northern Asia, and even eastern Europe. Why is Ningbo one of the busies ports in China? The answer is the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. According to Beijing, Ningbo has a strategic role to connect China to new destinations.
4. Port of Guangzhou
For centuries, Guangzhou was the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders. But it lost its monopoly to Shanghai, Hong Kong and other ports when the British gained control over it during the First Opium War. This South China port is located at the mouth of Guangdong Province's Pearl River and is largely considered to be the main port in the region. Once a trading port, it served as one of China's busiest ports during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today, thanks to its strategically-placed location, it has sea connections to over 300 ports in more than 80 countries all over the world. It handles mainly manufactured, industrial, and agricultural goods. In 2016, it managed 17.59 million TEUs. Given its location, cargo going in and out of nearby provinces such as Yunnan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Guangxi also go through the Port of Guangzhou.
5. Port of Qingdao
Established in 1892, Qingdao's port is today an important hub of international trade and sea-going transportation along China's Yellow River Basin and on the west coast of the Pacific. The port has been 2nd largest for foreign trade throughput in China for years. It is the largest port for inbound iron ore in the world, and the largest port for inbound crude oil in China. The port has 81 functional berths, of which 51 are dedicated to a single type of cargo. The remaining 30 berths handle other types of cargo. Qingdao port offers direct shipping routes to more than 150 countries.
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Using the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design
Chapter 1: Application and Administration (2010 ADA Standards)
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The Department of Justice published the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) title III regulations, which included the ADA Standards for Accessible Design (1991 Standards), on July 26, 1991.
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The 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design contains ten chapters. The standards include both scoping requirements (i.e. how many of a particular element or feature must be accessible) and technical requirements for the design and construction of accessible elements/ features (i.e. How wide must an accessible parking space be?, What is the minimum clear width of an accessible route?, What is the maximum permitted running slope of a ramp?, etc...).
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Ramanuya, indisk religionsstiftare, en på 1100-talet i södra Indien levande, berömd reformator inom den nyindiska hinduismen.

Han var själv brahmin och dyrkare av Vishnu och hyllade som filosof i början Adi Shankaras riktning av Vedantasystemet; men i motsättning till Vedantismens rena monistiska lära (Advaita; "icke dualistisk lära") utbildade han en modifierad form Vipista-advaita ("särskild, kvalificerad dualism"), enligt vilken människosjälen antas som existerande skild ifrån det högsta väsendet (Brahman), om också till slut uppgående i denna. Han beskrev sitt system i en berömd skriftkommentar till samma Vedantasutra som Shankara ägnat sin berömda kommentar (båda översatta i "Sacred books of the east" med Shankaras kommentar, band 34 och 38, med Ramanuyas kommentar i band 48).

För det högsta väsendet bibehöll han namnet Brahman, som uppfattas som personifierad i de mera personligt tänkta och verkande gudarna Vishnu och Rama. Själv blev Ramanuya av sin sekt ansedd som en inkarnation av Jesha (eller Ananta, "den oändlige") eller ormarnas kung, som uppbär världen. Ramanuyaerna, som anhängarna kallas, finns företrädesvis i södra Indien, där de står i motsättning inte bara till shivaiterna, utan också till vishnuiterna, som ha Vishnu-Krishna till sin medelpunkt. En särskild sekt är Ramanandaerna (se Ramananda).

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Q: No mapping exists from DbType System.DateTimeOffset to a known SqlCeType I have a SQL Server 2008 database that contains DateTimeOffset objects. As per this page,

SQL Server Compact provides support for replicating the new data types in SQL Server 2008 such as date, time, datetime2, datetimeoffset, geography, and geometry. The new data types in SQL Server 2008 are mapped to nchar, nvarchar, image, etc. For more information about data types in SQL Server 2008, see Data Types in SQL Server 2008 Books Online Documentation.

However, when I use the Microsoft Sync Framework and try to sync my SQL Server database to a SQL Server Compact database, I get the following error:

No mapping exists from DbType System.DateTimeOffset to a known SqlCeType.

The relevant Microsoft Sync Framework documentation is here. I am on SQL CE 3.5 SP2 and .NET Framework 4.0.
I'm kind of lost here. What am I doing wrong?

A: What version of ADO.NET and .Net Compact Framework are you using?  The docs for Sync FW v2.0 and v2.1 indicate that wrt datetimeoffset

If the server provider is hosted on a computer
  that is running ADO.NET 2.0 SP1, ADO.NET 2.0 SP1
  must also be available on the client for conversion
  to succeed. Automatic conversion of datetimeoffset
  on the client is not supported by .NET
  Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 or .NET
  Compact Framework 3.5.

That is consistent with your error.

A: DateTimeOffset is not supported - the type conversions the doc mention are for Merge Replication, not Sync Framework

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Q: Neo.DatabaseError.General.UnknownError - Java heap space - Neo4j - Cypher I loaded data (2.8 M) records using the LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS
When I try to create relationships using the following script in Cypher, I get the following error -Neo.DatabaseError.General.UnknownError - Java heap space
I also created an index to speed up the relationship process.
CREATE INDEX ON :Entity(ENT_ID)

PROFILE
MATCH(Entity)
MATCH (a:Entity {ENT_ID : Entity.ENT_ID})
WITH Entity, a
MATCH (b:Entity {ENT_ID : Entity.PARENTID})
WITH a,b
MERGE (a)-[r:RELATION]->(b)
RETURN r

I have already gone through the other links who had faced the same issue, but did not find the solution to the same. Hence I am reposting this question. My dataset has 2 columns ENT_ID and PARENTID. I am trying to create the relationship using the above query.
I have no background knowledge of Java or Java Virtual Machine. Just based on other links, I thought I would have the error would get wiped out by using the below properties:
neo4j.conf:
dbms.memory.pagecache.size=3g

-- Initial Java Heap Size (in MB) :
wrapper.java.initmemory=1024

-- Maximum Java Heap Size (in MB) :
wrapper.java.maxmemory=16000

-- other beneficial settings that should boost performance :
wrapper.java.additional.6=-d64
wrapper.java.additional.7=-server
wrapper.java.additional.8=-Xss1024k

JAVA VM Tuning:
 -Xmx4000M
 -Xms4000M
 -Xmn1000M

I'd appreciate any help
EDIT:
Based on the comment below: I used the following Query: It still throws me the same Java Heap Space:
PROFILE
MATCH (a:Entity)
WHERE a.PARENTID IS NOT NULL
WITH a
MATCH (b:Entity {ENT_ID : a.PARENTID})
MERGE (a)-[r:RELATION]->(b)

Kindly help.
Thanks

A: As Usman commented, the MATCH(Entity) line is useless, and worse, it's matching against every node in your db, not just :Entity nodes, and causing a cartesian product.
I think what you want is something like this, processing all :Entity with a parentid, and making a RELATION from them to their parent:
PROFILE
MATCH (a:Entity)
WHERE a.PARENTID IS NOT NULL
WITH a
MATCH (b:Entity {ENT_ID : a.PARENTID})
MERGE (a)-[r:RELATION]->(b)

This should avoid the cartesian product, and be complexity n where n is the number of :Entity nodes.
I removed the RETURN as you probably do not want to return millions of relationships. Afterwards, if you want a count of those relationships, though, you can use:
MATCH (:Entity)-[r:Relation]->(:Entity)
RETURN COUNT(r)


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An Interview with Kirstin Valdez Quade
Words By Kirstin Valdez Quade, Interviewed by Jessenia Hernandez
The Five Wounds explores what it means to have faith, both in and outside of the church. In past interviews, you've mentioned your intimate history and conflicted relationship with Catholicism. Was it ever difficult to challenge religious themes so candidly in your writing? How can writers explore the deeply personal, like religion, while still letting their characters find their own way?
As a fiction writer, I'm always exploring the deeply personal in my work: questions of family obligation, of longing to change one's life, of connecting with others. I can't imagine writing about themes that don't feel personally urgent.
My novel engages with the cultural history of Catholicism in northern New Mexico and the foundational narratives—elements that are central to my understanding of a place that matters so much to me. I think it's really important that we challenge these narratives, examine whose experiences have been written out of the narratives, and consider who these narratives benefit and who they hurt.
The Catholic Church's role in the region—across the globe, really—is, of course, complicated. It provides community and sustenance and ritual, it's the source of so much beauty and art and music—and it also served as an excuse for the forced subjugation of native peoples by the Spanish colonists, a legacy of pain that persists today.
These issues all get filtered through the specific needs and desires of the characters—Amadeo, in particular, because he's turned to these traditions. Angel, on the other hand, doesn't think much about Catholicism at all!
You were born in New Mexico and have spoken about feeling a sense of belonging there growing up. When building the fictional town of Las Penas in The Five Wounds, was it important to you to accurately depict the New Mexico landscape you're so familiar with, or did you take creative liberties with the setting to better serve your story?
The beauty of writing about a fictional town is that you can take all kinds of liberties! But it was absolutely important to me that my depiction of Las Penas be "accurate," that a reader who knows the area might recognize it, if not in its particularity, in its broader strokes. So the history of Las Penas is much like the history of other villages in the region, and it shares traits with those other villages.
At the same time, it was important to me that the village not be recognizable as any particular village. I wanted the flexibility that writing about a fictional place allows, and I also wanted to make clear that the characters are fictional.
The main narrative of The Five Wounds is told in the present tense. For this story and others you've written, are there specific elements that help you decide on tense, or is present tense something you often gravitate to?
The past tense is definitely my default—it is, after all, the most common storytelling tense, the one we use when relating stories of our lives to our friends or the events of the day to our loved ones. But there was something about the immediacy and rawness of the story "The Five Wounds," which the novel grew out of, that seemed to demand the kind of immediacy that the present tense offers. When I decided to expand the story, I toyed around with switching it to the past tense, but the story already felt to me like it was unfolding in the present.
How did your approach to revision look different when developing The Five Wounds into a full-length novel? How liberal are you when cutting content, and is there anything specific you look for?
Cutting is always a major part of my revision, whether I'm working in a short form or a novel. I know I write long, and I know as I'm writing that much of the material won't make it into the final version. When I first started writing, if one of my readers said an element wasn't working, I would try and try to make it work before, eventually, cutting it. Now, because I'm fortunate to have wonderful readers I trust, if someone suggests I make cuts, I make the cuts, and gratefully.
In past interviews, you've mentioned your love for backstory, a love that is evident through the delicate unraveling of your characters' pasts throughout The Five Wounds. Does backstory naturally interject itself as you write, or do you find it helpful to map out its contents and placement beforehand?
I never map out anything—though often, when I'm in the thick of a tangled draft, I wish I did! I find myself slipping into backstory when I need it as the writer, when I'm trying to learn who the characters are and what brought them to the present moment. Often my own questions about a character arise when a reader's questions might. Which does not necessarily mean that the reader needs all the information I discover in backstory! I typically write long drafts, and much of my revision process consists of cutting—weeding away everything that isn't necessary so that the story can thrive. And much of what I end up cutting is backstory—material I needed to get to know the characters, but that weighs down the story's forward motion. The key is to give only as much backstory as the reader needs without making it hard to find the path back to the present story.
You've said that the process of writing The Five Wounds was a bit trial-and-error, and that you hope to have a "roadmap" for your next project. Which approach would you suggest for budding writers practicing their craft, and how can writers avoid feeling restrained by an outline?
I don't think I'll ever be a writer who outlines before writing. I've tried it, and I know it works for other people, but it really doesn't work for me. If I know what's going to happen, then the mystery drains away, and I'm not as invested in the story. Once I'm deep in a draft, however, I will outline—I'll map where I've been and where I think the story is going—but with the understanding that it is always going to change.
I advise budding writers to try both methods: outlining and writing into mystery. It's only through trying lots of different methods that a new writer can figure out which process works best for them.
I see that you earned an MFA in fiction writing. Did you find your graduate school experience to be an indispensable step toward your later success with writing, and would you recommend that aspiring writers take part in a program like this?
At the time, the MFA was the right path for me for many reasons: it allowed me to devote two years to reading and learning and developing my craft; I found a wonderful community of fellow writers whose work I admire and whose feedback I am deeply appreciative of; and I found a mentor who changed the way I think about fiction. Being in an academic program also gave the pursuit a kind of legitimacy that was important to me at the time, and gave me a kind of permission—and it made it easier to explain to my family what I was trying to do! Having said that, though, there are so many paths to becoming a writer, and an MFA is just one of them. I definitely advise my students not to take out loans for MFA programs, because writing is financially precarious as it is.
You're currently working as an assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton. Did you always see yourself teaching, or was writing your primary goal? Have you faced any challenges, or unexpected benefits, to balancing careers as both a writer and professor?
I love teaching, and I was a teacher before I was ever a published writer. For me it's an excellent complement to writing. I get a lot of energy out of being in the classroom and I feel incredibly lucky to spend time with my students talking about stories. It is, of course, challenging to balance teaching and writing because there is never enough time in a single life!
For your next project, do you think you will move away from short stories and continue writing novels, or will both continue to call you? Do you find that you prefer one form of storytelling over the other?
I love both the novel and the short story form! I read both and I know I'll continue to write both. And in fact I have two projects in the works now: a new story collection and a novel!
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Interviewed by Jessenia Hernandez
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds, which is currently shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and is longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her story collection, Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Kirstin is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship, the John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She teaches at Princeton.
Jessenia Hernandez earned her B.A. with majors in English and Communication Studies from Florida Atlantic University. She dabbles in writing poetry and short fiction and had her short story "Skin" published in FAU's literary magazine, Coastlines. She loves to read YA fiction, high fantasy (the kinds of books with a map of a made-up world at the front), historical fiction, and the occasional cheesy romance to get her through reading slumps. She has worked as a writing consultant and bookseller, and one day hopes to edit and/or market fiction novels. She also earned a certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from FAU, and constantly strives to advocate for the rights and representation of marginalized communities. When she's not reading or writing, you can find her scream-singing to musical theater songs or experimenting with baking.


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Norfolk heroin, fentanyl dealer sentenced to 13 years in prison
Barry Jamel Alexander
Posted at 6:17 PM, Sep 17, 2019
NORFOLK, Va. – A Norfolk man was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin.
Court documents say 33-year-old Barry Jamel Alexander sold heroin mixed with fentanyl to an undercover police officer at a Norfolk 7-Eleven. According to records, he used his cousin as a middle man in an attempt to protect himself from criminal exposure, but the store's security cameras caught him handing the drugs to his cousin and receiving the drug money soon after.
Earlier that month, Alexander was said to have sold heroin mixed with fentanyl to a customer who overdosed on the substance and had to be revived with Narcan. At the time Alexander sold the heroin to the undercover officer, he knew that a customer had previously overdosed on his product.
Agents later interviewed some of Alexander's customer, who reported that over an approximately five-year period, they had purchased more than two kilograms of heroin from Alexander.
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Recently I came across this article which announces the release of a new Avicii album. Avicii, an EDM musician and DJ who passed away after a battle with mental health problems. The interesting part about this new album is the fact that the songs are being put together and released posthumously. While the songs were nearly finished, the record company used emails and notes that he had written to try and create an album that would be as close to what he would have wanted as possible. This reminded me of several different themes we have discussed in class.
The photo of Avicii that went along with the album announcement.
The main theme that jumped out at me was celebrity death and the afterlife. We spoke about making money off of dead celebrities and "resurrecting the dead" in ways such as having shows preformed by holograms. A lot of the discussion on those topics showed the negative side, such as problematic celeb tries still earning money and notoriety after they are dead. I feel as if this "resurrection" of Avicii will showcase the more positive side. All the proceeds of this album will go to The Tim Bergling Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps prevent mental illness and suicide. Avicii was not a notably problematic celebrity and all this album brings is help to those who need it and with this album Avicii's legacy will continue to evolve even after his death.
This article also made me think of our reading "Dial-a-Ghost on Thomas Edison's Least Successful Invention: the Spirit Phone", and how Avicii's songs (along with the notes and emails) could almost be seen as the physical remains of his personality. It creates a feeling of being able to communicate with the deceased even though they are not there.
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The AWBA, as the agent for the State, is responsible for meeting the State's obligations under the Arizona Water Settlements Act (AWSA), P.L. 108-451. Under Section 105(b)(2) of the AWSA, the State must:
Firm 15,000 acre-feet of non-Indian agricultural (NIA) priority Central Arizona Project (CAP) water re-allocated to the Gila River Indian Community (Community)
Firm 8,724 acre-feet of NIA priority Central Arizona Project (CAP) water re-allocated in the future to Arizona Indian tribes
Assist the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the obligations of the Secretary in accordance with Section 306 of the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act. Specifically, the AWBA must assist in the Tohono O'odham Nation firming requirement by providing $3 million in cash or in-kind goods or services, including water.
The AWSA requires the State to firm NIA priority CAP water for a 100-year period (until 2108) during times of water shortages and to deliver the water in the same manner that water with a Municipal and Industrial priority is delivered during water shortages. Based on the Indian Firming Study Committee Report, the total estimated volume of water needed to meet this requirement is 700,000-900,000 acre-feet: 450,000 - 575,000 acre-feet for firming the Community and 260,000 - 330,000 acre-feet for future settlements.
Arizona Water Settlements Act
The 2004 Arizona Water Settlements Act (AWSA) P.L. 108-451, settled longtime claims to water by the Gila River Indian Community and the Tohono O'odham Nation. A key provision within the AWSA is the provision for enacting State legislation creating an Indian Firming Program (Firming Program) for the Community and future Indian water rights settlements. The provision authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) and the State of Arizona (State) to develop a Firming Program to ensure that 60,648 acre feet of NIA priority CAP water made available for re-allocation to Indian tribes shall, for a 100-year period, be delivered during water shortages in the same manner as water with an municipal and industrial (M&I) priority is delivered during water shortages. Because the NIA priority water has a lower priority on the CAP system, in times of shortage this supply would be reduced or eliminated before M&I and Indian priority supplies are impacted. Therefore, in the case of reallocating NIA priority water to the tribes, the State agreed to increase the reliability of (firm) this block of water in times of shortage on the Colorado River.
The Secretary and the State further agreed to understake specific firming responsibilities for the Secretary and the State. Of the 60,648 acre¬feet, the Secretary has responsibility for 28,200 acre feet, as required by the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act (SAWRSA). The State agreed to increase the reliability of (firm) 15,000 acre-feet for the Community, consistent with the Settlement. Responsibility for the remaining 17,447 acre feet, which is to be dedicated for future Indian settlements, was divided equally (8,724 acre feet each) between the Secretary and the State. Therefore, the State's total responsibility under this program is 23,724 acre feet.
Indian Firming Study Commission
In 2005, the Arizona Legislature created the Indian Firming Study Commission (Study Commission) to develop the Firming Program for Arizona. The 2006 Report released by the Study Commission describes the State's obligation for Indian Firming and includes a summary of the Commission's recommendations to the Arizona Legislature.
The Study Commission concluded that the Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA), in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CAWCD), is the most appropriate and best suited entity to fulfill the State's obligations described in Section 105(b) of the AWSA. The Study Commission recognized that in order to fulfill this role, the AWBA would need to be provided with sufficient funding or the mechanisms to develop the funding necessary to implement the Indian Firming Program on behalf of the State and recommends that the Arizona Legislature provide the AWBA with appropriate funding to do so.
Gila River Indian Community
The AWBA, as agent for the State, must firm NIA Priority CAP water for the Community when supplies are insufficient to meet demand.
In 2015, the AWBA and the Community entered into an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) that establishes an annual process to ensure that the AWBA's obligations under the AWSA are satisfied. The 2015 IGA identifies a process for meeting a firming obligation if the AWBA Ten-Year Plan indicates a water shortage is likely. The Ten-Year Plan is updated each year and included in the AWBA Annual Report. The IGA provides flexibility in how a firming obligation can be satisfied by offering alternative firming options. The AWBA has entered into two additional IGAs to enable use of the firming options identified. This includes an 2016 IGA for the development of Firming Credits and a 2019 IGA for the development of ICS Firming Credits, allowing for an additional firming method.
In addition firming requirements, the AWBA was also required to deliver 15,000 acre-feet of water to the Community to establish the Southside Replenishment Bank. The Replenishment Bank may be used to fulfill obligations that might be created under the AWSA to protect the Reservation from off-reservation groundwater pumping (in the Southside Protection Zones). This obligation was satisfied in 2015.
In any year where a replenishment obligation is incurred within the Southside Protection Zones, the AWBA replenishment obligation may be satisfied in several ways including:
Delivery of water to the GRIC for direct use or for underground storage and recovery within the reservation
Extinguishment of long-term storage credits
Debiting the Southside Replenishment Bank
The AWBA must satisfy a replenishment obligation by June 1 of the third year for an M&I obligation and fifth year for an irrigation replenishment. The entity responsible for creating the replenishment obligation must reimburse the AWBA by paying the actual or estimated water replenishment costs or by delivering water or long-term storage credits to the AWBA for an amount equal to the obligation. Repayment must be within one year.
The Claims Resolution Act of 2010, which includes the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Agreement (Quantification Agreement), was signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 8, 2010. The Quantification Agreement requires that the AWBA firm up to 3,750 acre-feet per year of water until 2108. This obligation is part of the 8,724 acre-feet per year firming requirement identified for future settlements under the AWSA. The WMAT intends to lease the water made available under the agreement, thus the AWBA's firming responsibilities will be to the lessees. The enforceability date of the Quantification Agreement is currently April 30, 2021, but could be extended.
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SEATTLE—The Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board is accepting applications for a new member to help make walking in Seattle safer and easier. The volunteer board, which was created by Seattle City Council in 1993, plays an influential role in implementing Seattle's Pedestrian Master Plan. The board advises the Mayor and City Council, participates in planning and project development, evaluates policies and makes recommendations to all city departments including the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT).
Currently we are looking for a candidate to fill one vacant position and serve out the remaining period of this term, through April 1, 2015. This board member will then have the opportunity to be reappointed to a full two-year term, with the potential to serve a second full two-year term. Board members are frequent walkers of a variety of ages, levels of mobility, and walks of life, and from areas throughout the city. Members must be Seattle residents, and may not be city employees. The board meets the second Wednesday of each month from 6 to 8 p.m. at City Hall on Fifth Avenue between James and Cherry streets.
According to Devor Barton, recent chair and current board member of the Pedestrian Advisory Board, "A walkable community benefits everyone, and offers more advantages than any other form of transportation. Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board members work to make our community healthier, our streets safer, and our neighborhoods more livable."
The City of Seattle is committed to promoting diversity in the City's boards and commissions. Women, young persons, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities, persons of color, and immigrants are encouraged to apply. Interested Seattleites should submit a resume and cover letter explaining their interest via email by October 27, 2014 to: Howard Wu at howard.wu@seattle.gov.


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The US faces a rather easy to manage short run fiscal crisis, and very challenging long-term fiscal and growth problems. The short-term crisis is due to the rapid growth of federal debt outstanding that will soon hit the ceiling set by Congress. I have no doubt that Congress will, and should, vote to raise the ceiling. The only major uncertainty about this is whether that will be tied to presidential and congressional actions to try to reduce the long-term fiscal crisis.
That Congress will have to raise the debt limit this summer is a no-brainer since revenues are not anywhere near large enough to cover government spending. Without a boost in the ceiling, the federal government will be unable to pay its bills, including pay to federal employees. Since both Republicans and Democrats know that, and since Republicans are likely to be blamed if the ceiling is not raised and the federal government "shuts down", congressional Republicans cannot credibly threaten not to agree to raising the ceiling. This is true even if they do not receive major concession on government spending from President Obama and congressional Democrats. Since many House Republicans oppose voting for substantial new taxes in order to gain Democratic support for spending reductions, prospects for an agreement before the debt-ceiling deadline on spending cuts and revenue increases are not good. Therefore, the best approach at present for Democrats and Republicans is to agree to an increase in the ceiling, and then afterwards try to work on a serious plan to meet the long-term spending-taxes-growth challenge.
However, contrary to much that is written, the US is not in any long-run real danger of explicitly defaulting on the federal debt, assuming debt limits are raised. If revenue is needed to pay Medicare and Medicaid expenses, purchase military equipment, pay interest on federal debt in the hands of the public, or finance other spending, the federal government can always resort in effect to printing money. To do this the government need not actually print dollar bills, for the federal government can issue enough new debt to cover its expenses that are not met by tax revenues. This is how the federal government financed its rapid increase in spending during the past several years.
If there were not enough demand by private investors and foreign governments like China for the new federal debt, the Fed would help out, to avoid explicit federal default, by buying government debt. In this way, the government could always get additional revenue to pay its bills. Of course, this approach carries major risks because banks get reserves when the government receives the "high-powered" money supplied by the Fed as it absorbs debt. Under normal economic conditions, the banks would spend most of their new reserves by extending loans to businesses and households, and by increasing their demand for assets paying higher returns than reserves do. The banks' spending increases the money supply in the form of additional currency, demand deposits, and other highly liquid assets. In effect, the Fed would "monetize" the debt issued by the federal government to finance the government's shortfall in tax revenue.
This growth in the money supply would increase inflation in the United States, and reduce the value of the dollar in international transactions. Inflation also reduces the real, as opposed to nominal, value of the US debt in the hands of the public. In effect, the US could avoid bankruptcy and a default on its debt by inflating away some or most of the real value of its debt. The government has the power to inflate away its debt because the debt is denominated in a currency that it controls, namely dollars, as opposed to gold or another currency.
This option to use inflation to reduce the real value of its debt is not available to states like California because the Fed will not purchase their debt. Nor is it available to countries like Greece, Portugal, and Italy because their debt is denominated in Euros. These countries cannot print Euros, nor do they have unlimited capacity to issue government debt that would be bought by the European Central Bank.
However, the impact of rapid inflation on the American economy, and America's reputation for fiscal responsibility, could be disastrous. Moreover, the government might be forced to increase the money supply, and hence inflation, at faster and faster rates in order to finance growing federal spending. So while default on government debt is not a likely prospect, avoiding the cost of growing rates of inflation does require resolution of America's long-term fiscal situation. This is why the looming fiscal problems are a potential crisis of the first order.
The components of a solution to this crisis are clear. One major needed reform is a significant slowdown in the long-term growth of entitlements, especially Medicare and Medicaid, because entitlement growth is the main component of the long-term spending problem. A resolution of the long-term crisis also requires tax reforms that would broaden the tax base by reducing various subsidies and exemptions from the base, but would also lower marginal tax rates on most corporations and households. A broader and much flatter tax structure would raise taxes on some families and businesses, but it would bring in more revenue while causing much less harm to the economy.
What matters for the wellbeing of future generations is the long-term growth rate of the economy. The growth of the economy also determines the real burden of the debt since it is the ratio of debt to GDP that determines whether a fiscal crisis develops. In an earlier post (see "An Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction Agenda for Congress and the President", 11/07/10) I spelled out some steps to allow America to regain its long-term growth rate of GDP of 3% per year. I hope the country can even do better than that. These steps include radically slowing the long-term growth of federal spending on entitlements, tax reform of the kind mentioned in the previous paragraph, more open immigration, especially of skilled individuals, free trade agreements, improved K-12 school systems, and a sensible and reduced regulatory structure.
All these and other reforms are feasible, but whether they will be implemented depends on whether both Republicans and Democrats put aside some of their partisan differences over spending, taxes, immigration, trade, and other policies. The present loud squabbling in Congress and by the president does not boost one's confidence in this happening.
Of course it carries major risks. Not only major risks but predictably and inevitably ends badly. Because it amounts to a blatant belief in the existence of some perpetual motion machine of prosperity whereby people can be more prosperous (i.e. consume more) without altering fundamental incentives to produce. In fact by reducing incentives to produce, because the government seems, in the very short term, to be providing services at no cost, which cause people to have a more relaxed attitude about their productivity.
What is the point of going into details about why such schemes are bound to fail; as if we were freshmen challenging their physics professor to discover and explain why this or that particular perpetual motion machine design does not work. So long as Americans do not understand that exceptional standard of living cannot be had without exceptional production, they are simply engaged in distractions along their road to decline.
In other words such macro-economic gimmicks, such as printing money or buying government debt (pay your debt with your credit card), amount to a blatant and futile theater of going against fundamentals by inflating a bubble, based on the moronic belief that somehow a nation can substantially consume more value than it produces. What external entity will be willing to step in and cover the value shortfall? Or do Americans believe that they can somehow trick or coerce, through macroeconomic manipulation, other nations into producing more than they consume and offer the surplus to Americans? Remember that the much ballyhooed American trade deficit is only around 5% of GDP. In other words, Americans live 5% above their means. That's it. Even extreme, much maligned cases like Greece amount to consuming 20% more than the nation produces. Therefore, the fundamental principle still holds: A nation can only be as prosperous as the value of goods and services it produces.
This is essentially the principle of conservation of energy applied to economics. It cannot be circumvented by macroeconomic manipulation or other gimmicks intended to bamboozle the electorate into hoping that there is some road to prosperity through lower incentives to produce. The existence of this very basic principle should be common knowledge, yet it never ceases to amaze me how politicians in various countries use such smoke and mirror arguments about nobel-prize driven economist macroeconomic manipulation that will turn up goods and services consumed in excess of what is being produced. The electorate seems to always fall for it. Yet there is no such machine, even Greece produces a value equal to 80% of what it produces and the small 20% shortfall led to catastrophic consequences within a mere 10 years.
So inflation is essentially a coercive, centrally orchestrated way to force a reluctant American public to accept a de-facto decrease in their compensation . Of course, such decrease becomes mathematically inevitable when people encouraged by their politicians believe that they can have a relaxed approach about their productivity while enjoying exceptional levels of consumption (ie. prosperity) i.e. again inexistence of an underlying perpetual motion machine of prosperity. Government i.e. the electorate printing dollars to bribe themselves with their own money.
I am surprised to the extent of ignorance that seems to exist amongst the American electorate regarding the reasons behind what would seem the incredible fortune of being the most prosperous nation in the world, amongst almost two hundred. But with such fundamental reasons being, as it turns out, unrecognized and being followed out of tradition rather than rational thought, Americans are all but set to decline. Prosperity cannot be maintained if you fail to recognize why you have it in the first place.
Again the American electorate's belief that somehow America holds some fundamental strategic advantage whereby by virtue of controlling the US dollar can somehow use this quirk to power some perpetual motion machine of prosperity whereby Americans prosper to six times the world average doing the same things that three billion people in the developing world are now learning how to do. It is a suicidal and distracting delusion serving only short term political goals.
Given the fact that the American electorate seems all but impossible to recognize that higher prosperity cannot be achieved by muting incentives to produce, making use of such macro-economic gimmicks, such as inflation etc., to go against fundamentals (i.e. the inevitable equality of value between goods produced to goods consumed) is a mathematically disastrous game that will surely end badly. Such gimmicks only serve to push the US into an inevitable, unstable and deserved implosion point.
Indeed, the diverging economic growth between America (and nearly stagnant Europe, the sick man of the world) and the galloping emerging economies, will dwarf every other effect when it comes to American prosperity relative to the rest of the world.
The blatant divergence between the above statement and the delusional mood of the American electorate describes the juggernaut facing American prosperity and its certain path of decline.
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My advice is to reduce your standard of living in a planned and voluntary manner, move to a rural area, learn to live there without depending on governments for goodies and keep some gold and silver around. If sufficient numbers did that, the government would be forced to change its profligiate and pandering ways. Otherwise, both Posner and Becker are arguing for the same people who got us into this mess can get us out. It does not seem persuasive to me. It might work if Posner and/or Becker were President and Speaker of The House but I assume that they are both too smart to do that.
I am very concerned about the waffling over the debt ceiling. I seems to me that this is one of three large humps in the road to economic recover for the US.
As business views the debt ceiling mess, I think they see no reason to hire in the US. Consumers are not consuming, and the government appears incompetent. If I were the head of a company, I would look to markets where consumers had recovered and the government kept promises it had made. US business seems to have recovered in the backs of foreign consumers. Why not continue that trend.
Jim ...... the BIGGIE that took us down was the resounding crash of housing starts dropping from 2.5 million to 300,000. Fallout from the froth laden faux "market" created by the corruption of most of the financial sector. As that sector won't really "come back" as 700,000 is about the number for pop growth and replacement we will have some adjusting to do........ but life will eventually go on.
Walter: Indeed! bouncing back from deep recessions is likely quicker in nations with a stronger safety net. If folks get unemployment, and are not as worried (or drained) by US H/C costs, they're likely to be more confident about "going shopping".
As for companies locating....... or seeking markets, it is good to remember that we're still a $14 trillion economy that imports only $2 trillion and exports two thirds of that amount........ a figure that offers nearly $50,000 GDP per capita. Bit tough getting a fair piece of it these days........... but still where are you going to go for a better shot?
Pradeep! Thanks for reposting the same fairy dust and NOT responding to any of the posters here. That assures us that you are indeed a bot........ or some sort of transponder rebroadcasting recycled Heritage bilge.
The idea that everyone should own a house is dead. No growth there. The spending feuled by that market including the equity borrowing is dead. The salaries of most jobs will be going down. That is why the standard of living will be going down. In the great depression the majority of Americans lived in rural areas and could grow their own food and generate their own power with windmills. Soime of those folks never had ANY money but sustained themselves. Then again they probably didn't want EVERYTHING particularly having someone else pay for it. Look at the price of farmland. Up and up.
Jim........ I haven't put forth the idea of everyone owning a home....... though it does strike me that in most cases it's a fine place to raise one's family.
Yes......... the utter corruption of the financial sector from mortgage brokers to "bond raters" and on up to those geniuses at the top flaunting their degrees from Wharton while "not understanding" "complex" derivatives.......... or, Hahahaha! the risk to one's company (and the nation) of lending trillions at 30 times assets.
Yep....... just saw an article about a Tulsa farm land speculator out bidding everyone in MI for a hunk of land........ not even a farmer. Ha! the next next bubble? Suppose in some reflex common to a dying animal Congress WERE to get rid of the (silly) ethanol subsidy? I never thought it a good idea to maintain our fleet of gashogs using someone else's tortillas anyway.
IF.......... we require eth for oxygenation, it should be simply mandated and paid for at market rates without the distortion of the huge subsidies finagled by Archer Daniels erudite and WELL funded lobbyists.
Lastly? Every once in a while when feeling like we are all "broke" DO take a look at GDP per capita........ and AVERAGE income per capita. It too goes up each year.
And ha! IF we continue to strangle the middle class and shove the lower income folk completely underwater............. soon even the socks of those in the prime deck chairs will be dampened as well.
Good food for thought here... I agree with Pradeep Despandee. Prosperity cannot be maintained if you fail to recognize why you have it in the first place.
S&P says they'll downgrade if there isn't a credible budget plan. Any comments? Pundits are crowing this will happen even if the debt ceiling is raised.
Here is an analogy. Suppose I made $22,000 a year in income, but spent $36,000. I had been doing this for hte last several years, mostly in bad investments, feel-good projects etc. I had racked up a debt of $140,000. I serviced the interest on this debt at $5000 a year.
I came to you and said, "Banker Bob, I need more money to fund my lifestyle. Increase my credit limit to $160,000 please. "
As my Banker you would ask, "What's your growth in income going to be?" I said "Umm about 2%. But if you don't increase my credit limit I will refuse to pay the $5000 interest to you." as Banker Bob, you would say "Hey. You are legally obligated to pay the $5000 interest. STOP USING SCARE tactics and GET YOUR SPENDING under control. No more credit increase."
The "income" of the US Federal government is $2.2 trillion a year, expenses are $3.6 trillion a year, and the debt is about $14 trillion. they want the credit limit raised to $16 trillion so they can borrow more. "Income" growth even if they raised taxes and the economy grew, would not be more than 2-3% a year.
What should they do? REDUCE SPENDING.
adding to the previous comment I made, the interst payments on geovernment debt is about $500 billion a year.
there is one important difference between me 7 anker Bob, and the federal government.
Imagine if I could tell Banker Bob, "OK. You don't want to lend me more money 'cos you think I am financially incompetent? Fine. I'll just go ahead and issue myself a loan and take on the risk of default myself!". UH?? that is exactly what our federal government has been doing through quantitative easing. Over the last couple of years, no one else is touching the federal debt, the large bulk of US issued treasury securities have been bought by...the US treasury!
We have a financially incompetent entity (our government) able to issue itself debts! Grrreat.
Baj Indeed! But add in that we're more like a corporation that had a "CEO" having lied the board into a $4 trillion war, and...... back to your family analogy, the bread winner has had several VERY tough years. One guesses that, in addition to the horrors of The Palin thingy is among the reason so many of us voted for C H A N G E.
BTW........ even at a given (POOR growth!) GDP our revenue is NOT etch in slate. Like the beleagured family battered by a miserable job market there ARE the basic costs that much be covered.
And......... as we approach certain limits, it may be worthwhile to consider how many NEW tasks our Federal purse has to cover. You mentioned one! $500 BILLION of interest payments on the D E B T ginned up as Reagan-HW, and Bushy EACH practiced what HW termed Voodoo Econ of cutting tax revenues too low........ and then promptly embarking on a spending spree. In Reagan's case at the Pentagon, in Bushy's an illegal, lie-based "pre-emptive" attack on a disarmed and largely neutered sovereign nation. Yep! in your dysfunctional family when daddy both takes a pay cut but goes on a bender and a fancy cruise vacation, trouble is sure to follow.
Nasty deal mopping up after guys like that! I remember the smaller version when Clinton came in after the Reagan/HW affair; yep then too! DEBT! DEFICITS!! AND nearly 10% unemployment.
As for not likely quantitative easing? Hmm if a smidge of taxes "might sink" or fragile econ and cause haha! the "job creating corpies" to curl up like sowbugs, what do you suppose high rates of REAL dollar, PRE-earning a profit, interest would do to them?
(BTW.... did you know that large corps ARE net job losers? Yep! best thing to do after getting the product accepted is to cut costs. Gotta do it......... but it's NEW young start-ups that are the job generators - perhaps why President Obama wisely granted some cap gains breaks on infant companies, eh?
Lastly? Do remember that in our nation that we are not here to serve the Treasury, but that the treasury and government are here to serve US.
The idea that anybody has some sort of obligation to answer every comment strikes me as absurd as claiming that blogs should be disregarded because they have no editors or fact checkers. It's an attempt to take over the discussion on someone else's bandwidth and dictate to the blog proprietors what they can write about.
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MOZART'S ROSES
N - The Magic Flute
Original Production
"Magic Flute" Overview Essay
Freemasons and Rosicrucians
NE - Welcome!
E - Other Music
A Few Little Words About the Motet
Facts and Fun about Madrigals
Origins and Flourishing of the Concerto
What is a Requiem?
3 Lenten Works
Haydn: A Tribute
Allegri: Miserere
Bach: Cantata 4
Bach: Chaconne in D minor
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Bach: Motet 6
Bach: Prelude and Fuge in B-minor
Bach: Passion According to St. John
Brahms: A German Requiem
Durufle: Requiem
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Faure: Requiem
Handel: Christmas Portion of Messiah
Liszt: Évocation à la Chapelle Sistine"
Poulenc: Quatre Motets
Program Notes: 11-20-09
Program Notes: 4-18-14
Program Notes: 4-3-15
SE - Original Compositions
Trinity "Hodie" Service
"Peace I Leave With You"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Epiphany"
S - Roses
Sources for Old Roses
Useful and Interesting Rose Books
Around the Garden
2012 Rose Garden
HYBRID MUSK
HYBRID PERPETUAL
OLD SHRUB
PIMPINELLIFOLIA HYBRID
POLYANTHA
SW - Chamber Music
The Berlin Piano Trio
Philomel
The Colorado Quartet
Schotten-Collier Duo
Oberlin Baroque Ensemble
W - Other Mozart
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart: Church Sonatas
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Magnificat from Vesperae de Dominica
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart's Requiem and Freemasonry
Sampling of Solo and Chamber Works from Youth to Full Maturity
Two Works of Mozart: Mass in C and Sinfonia Concertante
Mozart: Mass in C, K.317 "Coronation"
NW - Kaleidoscope
Whimsy >
Egg Art
Exceptional Artifacts
Garden Ephemera
Musical Rarities
Alfred Whittaker Introduction >
Alfred Whittaker CV
Alfred Whittaker Essays
Multidisciplinarity in Education and Research
Buff Beauty
CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAM NOTES
by Judith Eckelmeyer
Oberlin Baroque Ensemble
Gartner Auditorium
Michael Lynn, baroque flute and recorder
Marilyn MacDonald, baroque violin
James Caldwell, baroque oboe and viola da gamba
Catharina Meints, viola da gamba
Lisa Goode Crawford, harpsichord
Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741): Cantata, "Ecce nunc benedicite"
for tenor, recorder, violin, and continuo
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667): Tombeau fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancrocher
for solo harpsichord
Antonio Bononcini (1677-1726): Aria, "Sospenda le lacrime"
from the oratorio Il trionfo della grazia
Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747): Aria, "L'alma smarita, o bella"
from the opera Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
for tenor, viola da gamba, and continuo
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Trio Sonata in C major, S. 1037
for violin, flute, and continuo
J.S. Bach: Toccata
for solo violin
(Transcribed from the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, S. 565, for organ by Jaap Schroeder)
J.S. Bach: Cantata, "Meine Seele rühmt und preist," S. 189
for tenor, flute, oboe, violin, and continuo
Program Notes by Judith Eckelmeyer
(Note: These program notes received commendation from Robert Finn in his Plain Dealer review of the concert)
One of the most difficult aspects of twentieth-century culture for a lover of baroque music is that the contemporary recording and publishing industries--as advanced as we perceive them to be--provide only an incomplete and skewed window on the enormous musical productivity of the years from 1600 to 1750 (roughly). Even setting commercial and marketing interests aside, we must cope with matters of changing historical understanding and varying taste, which allow for "revivals" or "overshadowing" of composers, compositional genres, instruments, and even performance styles from that by-gone era over two hundred years ago. We are, to some degree, at the mercy of those who uncover their gems of antiquity, or those who decide whether or not the discovered information merits publication, and of those who make selections of works for performance. For each work brought before the public today, there remain certainly hundreds not available to us.
Besides the incompleteness of our picture of the baroque era, that information which we think we know is sometime misconstrued from that era to this; truly, we glimpse the baroque era darkly! We are tempted to assume, for instance, that figures such as Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Corelli, Couperin, Schütz, and Purcell, whose names and works are known in our time, were as familiar and famous in their own time. Historical reality is often quite different from our supposition. While Handel and Monteverdi were indeed widely known and sought after in their lifetimes, Bach was a provincial, known outside his working sphere principally to other musicians, not to the public. It is perhaps the supreme irony that the most famous works of the then-most-famous composers now lie in obscurity, while the-unknown composers' works which all the world recognizes and loves today are sometimes revealed to be by someone else! In a word, things are often not as they appear in the world of baroque music.
A case in point is the life and music of J.J. Fux. This was a man whose conservative and scholastic upbringing in southern Austria led him almost inevitably to travel to Italy, where he absorbed the style of Corelli and also of the late Renaissance composer Palestrina. Becoming adept at sixteenth-century counterpoint, Fux also evolved a more up-to-date practice of accompanied "mixed" style with differing textures and vocal/instrumental combinations. His work became known as the "culmination of baroque music in Austria;" he was clearly more than a passable composer for the emperors Leopold I, Joseph I, and Charles VI, whom he served serially as Kapellmeister in Vienna. His extensive output was understandably almost entirely sacred and vocal. But his Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) is still considered the "most important textbook of counterpoint."
Fux's solo motets fall into his "mixed"-style category, as compared with his mass settings and multiple-voice works, which are consciously modeled on Palestrina. The solo motets incorporate a wide variety of vocal idioms and accompanying modes, heightened by expressivity and beauty of melody line.
Froberger's name seeps into most history books because of the enormous corpus of his keyboard works, which make up nearly one hundred percent of his compositional endeavor. If the middle decades of the baroque could claim a keyboard specialist, it would be he--not only for his own performing ability and extensive output, but also because through his frequent travels (from his birthplace, Stuttgart, to Vienna, where he served Leopold I for a time, then to Rome, Brussels, England, Germany, and France) he became familiar with the trends in compositional styles of the principal musical centers and began to adapt them within his own style of composition. In a sense, he formed a foundation for what would become an international exchange of style later in the century. His works, almost entirely unpublished in his lifetime, form a virtual catalogue of mid-seventeenth-century keyboard genres. He has often been named as the originator of the standard keyboard suite of dances in the order of allemand, courante, sarabande, and gigue; nevertheless, we now know that later publishers of his music imposed this pattern on his very different organization of the dances. What he did accomplish, however, is interior to each dance movement: a regular binary structure and a focus on a single tonality.
The Tombeau fait à Paris sur la mort de M. Blancheroche is a highly evocative movement of his twenty-second suite. It carries the further rubric: "lequel se joue fort lentement à la discretion sans observer aucune mesure"--that is, the expressive content of each measure will guide the performance, freeing it from a strict, bar-line-dominated dance tempo and rhythm. In each of the two repeated sections, there are astounding rhythms and dissonances; in the second, particularly, dissonant and chromatic passages become excruciating outcries, and near the end an anguished rising line is followed by descending figures forming grief-filled cataracts of tone over a dominant pedal.
The Bononcini brothers, Giovanni and Antonio were like Fux and Froberger in service at court in Vienna: Giovanni to Leopold I and Joseph I, Antonio to Joseph I and his successor Charles VI. Both had left their home in Modena to study with Colonna in Bologna, then went to Rome, Vienna, and Berlin before employment at the Hapsburg court. Antonio, the younger brother, remained firmly associated with Charles' court even though in his later years he was actually working in Italian cities "owned and operated" by Austria. His output was almost entirely vocal and quite extensive, including more than twenty "dramatic" works (operas and oratorios), some forty cantatas, and twelve sonatas for his own instrument, the viola da gamba.
Giovanni, on the other hand, had made an enormous name for himself and began his prodigious output at a relatively early age. His career in Rome took on the character of international stardom; by 1700 his musical style had become a resounding success and was imitated everywhere in Europe. His Viennese career ended about 1714, and after four more years in Rome, he went to London as composer to the Royal Academy of Music. Here he enjoyed two wildly successful seasons, becoming principal competitor with Handel for public and royal favor. His association with the Jacobites brought a political end to his success, but after a few trips to France he returned to England to direct the private concerts of the Duchess of Marlborough. Evidently not a careful man in his musical commitments, he was dismissed by the duchess for publishing a series of sonatas for her mother, her social and political rival, and he was removed from the Academy of Ancient Musick at the discovery of his plagiarizing a motet of Lotti. His late career blossomed again, however, at the Hapsburg court, where Empress Maria Theresia awarded him a pension for life. The style of his enormous output (more than sixty dramatic works, sixteen published and some 250 unpublished cantatas for solo voice and continuo, and well over twenty large sacred works) helped to establish the "galant taste" at the turn of the century.
Antonio Bononcini's Il trionfo della grazia,overo La conversione di Maddelena is an oratorio for the Emperor Charles VI's chapel in Vienna for Lent 1707. Giovanni's Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare vincitore della Mauritania is a court "festa," composed in late 1704 or early 1705 during his service to Joseph I.
In spite of his relative obscurity in the eighteenth century (in comparison, especially, with the Bononcinis), J.S. Bach seems well-known to us today, both his music and his personal life. But Even this familiarity carries with it a "caveat," for modern scholarship is constantly revising information about him and his works. The three pieces attributed to him on this evening's program among those which are now considered unlikely to be the products of his hands.
The Trio Sonata in C major, S. 1037, is scored in the "authoritative" edition of Bach's works for two violins and continue. In Bach's time the work may well have been performed by any other two viable melody instruments instead of the violins; these exchanges of medium were an accepted practice and part of the baroque esthetic. The sonata, however, is most currently entered in the "Doubtful or Spurious" list in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, with the name of Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756) given as the possible composer. This is the same Goldberg of the "Variations," although there is some uncertainty that Bach wrote them, as Forkel's story has it, through Goldberg's attempt to soothe Count Keyserlingk with music; for, talented harpsichordist that he was, Goldberg would have been about fourteen at the time the variations were published!
In these days of Webber's Phantom of the Opera, we are again reminded of the once enormous popularity of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ, and its role (through Stokowski's transcription of it for the orchestra, for instance) in the Bach revival earlier this century. It now seems that this is not Bach's own work; even though it appeared at one time in a collection with authentic works of his, there is no evidence of a copy in his own hand. A recent theory is that (the same!) Goldberg may have composed the music about 1750. Furthermore, on the basis of the music itself, it is likely that the work may not have been for the organ to begin with, but is rather, perhaps, a transcription of a work for solo violin or violoncello piccolo. Jaap Schroeder's transcription for solo violin is thus a return to the supposed original medium.
In the mid-1950s, Karl Anton and Alfred Dürr proposed that Bach's Cantata No. 189 was actually written by Melchior Hoffman (1685-1715), who succeeded Telemann in 1704 as director of music at the Neukirch, the Opera, and the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Hoffmann's total output is small but otherwise representative of the vocal genres of the time. This cantata for solo tenor and small ensemble differs from the usual pattern of Bach's Leipzig cantatas by the omission of the grand opening chorus and the concluding chorale.
We might well ask, "Is nothing sacred?" Regardless of attribution, this music which has borne Bach's name for so long is still as powerful, charming, and enjoyable as ever. Now it is a rose by another name.
Judith Eckelmeyer © 1988
As the Oberlin Baroque performance is not available on YouTube, please enjoy this performance:
Toccata in D Minor, BWV 565 | Annegret Siedel, violin
(Note that this performance has listed Jaap Schroeder as "arranger")
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And A Player To Be Named Later: How Can It Be?
Watching the Yankees-Met game—and when you see A.J. Burnett pitch the way he's pitching the first two innings, with a sick, knee-buckling curve and serious, moving 95-mph heat, you wonder how does Burnett have an ERA barley under 5.00? David Wright practically backed out of the batter's box on a Burnett curve that landed dead center of the strike zone.
And the same goes with Kyle Farnsworth. Earlier this year, he was electric against the Yankees. A 98-mph fastball with movement and life, and a sick slider that broke practically to the feet of the batter after starting in the zone.
It makes you wonder why some guys who have filthy stuff just can't keep it going; why they sometimes strike out two batters on 6 pitches, then lay an egg and give up a 6-run inning before getting the last out (Farnsworth, I'm looking at you.) Is it lack of concentration? Focus? Just wondering. What do you all think?
In a word--and this is a little cliche, but still true--it's nothing more nor less than baseball. Maybe it is lack of focus. Maybe his release point was just a little too high, or he started his weight towards the plate just a little too soon, or maybe his grip on the seams was just a little bit off. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Just my take. Baseball's the hardest sport to play there is, even if you are taking steroids. It requires such a ridiculous amount of grace and explosion.
Found your blog via Jeff Pearlman's site by the way. Nice. I, too, feel your pain at modern society's craving for short-and-sweet blogs while I like to be long and wordy. Keep it up.
Thanks so much for the comments. Appreciate the shout out. Will put your blog on my links I like section...cause I do. Like your stuff.
And hey, you're probably right about the lack of focus. It was funny yesterday how Burnett was lights out the first two innings, got a bad call. And then unravelled in the third because a bad call/play got inside his head. Lucky he was able to bounce back, but for 3 batters he couldn't find the strike zone when he had been totally sharp before that. Interesting...to me at least.
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Richard Guy Swett
July 15, 1935 ~ May 11, 2020 (age 84)
Richard Guy Swett, 84 years old, passed peacefully on May 11, 2020 at Brigham Health and Rehabilitation Center in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Richard was born July 15, 1935 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Guy and Anna Swett. He had an older sister, Anita (1934-2014). When he was a child, his family moved to Wichita, Kansas, where his father owned and operated a gas station on Waters Street. Growing up, Richard worked at his father's station and learned how to repair cars. His skill for mechanical tinkering and repair led him to work for Boeing Aircrafts repairing airplanes and later for Allied Signal as a technician. In 1965, he married Dorothy S. Hoops (1943-2007) just two days after his 30th birthday. His job transferred him to Salem, Massachusetts, so he and Dorothy moved to Essex, Massachusetts just a few months after their marriage. Adjusting to life in New England was not easy for the Midwestern couple, but they eventually settled in the small town of Georgetown, Massachusetts in 1972. Dorothy and Richard started a family and spent their life together in Massachusetts. They continued to travel to the Midwest to see family throughout their lives. Richard is remembered for his love of fixing anything broken, reading (especially Louis L'Amour books), opera and flash mobs, and researching his ancestry. It is through his research that he discovered his family's link to John Swett, who immigrated to Massachusetts from England in the early 1600's and whose children (John Jr. and Stephen) were instrumental in establishing the town of Newbury, Massachusetts. The historic building, the Swett-Ilsley house was built by Stephen Swett in 1670 and still stands in Newbury today. The irony of accidentally returning to the original area of his family's lineage struck Richard with humor and fascination.
Richard is survived by his three adult children – son Darryl of Georgetown, Massachusetts, daughter Dedra of Tampa, Florida, and daughter DruAnne of Aurora, Missouri. He is also survived by his nephew Sam Drake of San Jose, California, grand nieces, and many cousins.
Services and burial will be private, the Twomey, LeBlanc, & Conte Funeral Home 193 High St. Newburyport, MA 01950 is assisting Mr. Swett's family with his funeral arrangements.
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