Police have charged four people following a burglary at a charity shop in Sunderland.
Shortly after 10pm on Thursday (March 21), police received a report that the Barnardo's store, on The Green in Southwick, had been raided.
Officers attended and found the front door of the property had been smashed, while a number of items including the till – which was found smashed nearby – and clothing had been stolen.
A 17-year-old male from Sunderland, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
All four males appeared before magistrates sitting at Newcastle Crown Court on Saturday (March 23) and are due to reappear before the courts in the coming weeks.
Witnesses or anyone with information regarding the burglary are asked to contact police on 101 quoting reference 1244 210319 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Циклоприєднання (, ) — перициклічна або багатостадійна реакція, в якій дві чи кілька ненасичених молекул, або й частин даної молекули сполучаються по термінальних π–зв'язках з утворенням циклічного аддукта, в якому зменшується сумарна кратність зв'язків (пр., реакція Дільса — Альдера i т.п.). Є такі системи їх позначення.

 За кількістю атомів, які зв'язуються в циклоприєднанні від кожного з реактантів i вказуються в дужках як сума цифр. Пр., реакція Дільса — Альдера є (4+2)-приєднання, а перша стадія озонолізу алкенів — (3+2)-приєднанням.
 За числом електронів, які беруть участь від кожного з реактантів i вказуються в квадратних дужках як сума цифр. При тому перед цифрою можна ставити символ їх орбіталі (σ, π, ω — останній стосується орбіталі, зв'язаної тільки з одним атомом), індексом знизу цифри позначають стереохімічний характер циклоприєднання кожного з фрагментів: a або s, тобто антаро- чи супраповерхневий, пр., реакція Дільса — Альдера — це [π4s + π2s]-циклоприєднання.

Також існує зворотній процес до циклоприєднання — циклореверсія.

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A completely perfect intro hike for Sophie Innes up Catamount Mountain - crystal clear, moderate temperatures, no bugs, no mud, interesting hiking and climbing, nice views.
Also of note is that this was the first time experiencing the new trail re-route in the initial part of the climb. I wonder if there are more trail re-route plans (the bouldery bit up to the conifers is kind of yucky).


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Orange Prize Sexism
Window and floor displays in most bookshops are almost invariably a sea of pink, peach and yellow covers – thereby signifying the latest chick lit titles and thus denoting women writers. On the other end of the literary spectrum, women have been snaffling up most of the prestigious awards – Hilary Mantel winning the Man Booker prize for Wolf Hall, Elizabeth Stout getting the Pulitzer for her story collection Olive Kitteridge, Alice Munro named as the Man Booker international winner, and Marilynne Robinson's Home honoured as Orange Prize novel of the year.
That last competition, of course, is only open to women and was set up in 1996 because of a perceived bias against women writers, though it's obviously not a perception that's been shared by either publishers or prize givers, who continue to promote and reward their women authors.
Neither is it shared by Annie Proulx, one of the most distinguished female fiction writers at work today, who as far back as 1997 (just after the Orange Prize was created) rejected the notion of a woman acquiring a unique role by writing about and for other women.
Spurning all "isms" – whether whether they be feminism, multiculturalism, historicism, deconstructionism "and a dozen other current whingeing or aggressive ideologies" – Proulx deplored the imposition of "gender boundaries" that sought to "remove men from the equation" and thus to fabricate a "distortion and reduction of the human condition."
Indeed, the idea of women being inherently more tender and co-operative than men struck Proulx as "wishful propaganda." Pointing out that "having a vagina and breasts instead of penis and testicles" did not necessarily bestow a special sensitivity or insight on women writers, she noted that "we are not just men or women, we are all human" and that "in the tension between men and women and in their fitting together lies the richness of life and literature."
Proulx expressed these thoughts in the Observer over twelve years ago, yet in the Guardian last week Orange Prize co-founder Kate Mosse was still arguing that this sexist award could still be justified – that, despite the success of so many women writers, "gender and writing and gender and reading continues to be a legitimate area of analysis."
And her reasoning for this? Apparently it's because of the "many more occasions" when all the main prizes have gone to male authors. Perhaps the judges just thought that on those occasions their books were better, though Mosse seems unable to countenance that notion.
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Police say a woman they thought was a passenger might actually have been driving.
Springfield police said Tuesday they have identified the driver in Saturday night's crash that left one woman in critical condition.
The crash occurred just after 8 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of National Avenue and Trafficway Street when a minivan collided with an SUV.
Police say two people from the minivan were transported to the hospital — Sierra Claxton, 31, had minor injuries and Shirley Ducker, 71, had serious injuries.
Police initially believed Claxton and Ducker were each passengers in the van, and the driver of the van had fled the scene on foot before officers arrived on scene.
Police announced in a news release Tuesday, however, they believe Claxton was the driver.
The initial scene, police say, was chaotic, with many people rushing to help, so it was difficult for police to conclude exactly how the people were involved.
But video evidence from a nearby business showed Claxton enter the driver's seat of the van minutes before the crash, according to the release.
The release says Claxton is in custody in connection with a drug warrant in Pulaski County.
Springfield police say they have not yet submitted a case to the Greene County Prosecutor's Office in connection with Saturday's crash.
Ducker was still at the hospital in critical condition as of Tuesday afternoon.
Police said it appears the van ran a red light prior to the crash.


For a change, I am in front of the camera in character and in costume. I have a small part in a film project being done by Jesse & Will at Ice Block Films. Their shooting schedule spans a full year and mine are the first scenes to be captured.
We spent the weekend running around the city shooting my character larking around doing her things while I ad-libbed all of her lines. I am grateful to Jesse for being cool with my spontaneous rewriting of his script. I am a horrible memoriser.
I'm not going to spoil the surprise and tell you anything about the film or my character, but the weekend culminated in an accordion concert in our living room. After we wrapped, Tod made us all dinner.
Jesse and Will are usually too busy with their creative work to socialise much, so to have them to myself for an entire weekend was delightful. We chatted up a storm on the trains, over a surprisingly wonderful lunch in Shimomaruko, and of course during dinner at home. It's likely I won't catch up with them again until I help them out behind the scenes on a shoot later this year and I can hardly wait.


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[RUSSIAN FEMALE DOCTOR IN JAPAN] Ocherki sovremennoy Yaponii [i.e. Accounts of Contemporary Japan]
Cherevkova, A.
St. Petersburg: tipo-lit. M.F. Paykina, 1898. Item #829
[4], 219 pp., 12 ill. 22.8x16.6cm. Period half-leather. Pale stamp of the private library "Pkhakadze" on the front endpaper, previous owner's ink inscription on the front endpaper and title page, stamp of "Stavropol Spiritual School" on the title page. Otherwise good.
Scarce first edition. Second edition published in 1903.
This book, with 12 charming engravings, provides a unique vision of Japan at the end of the nineteenth century. The author Anna Cherevkova – a Russian doctor of Ukrainian origin – traveled around the world as a naval surgeon on the "Khabarovsk" vessel in 1895-1896. Her first visit to Japan was on the steamship "Petersburg" in 1888. Cherevkova returned to Japan in 1889 and stayed there for almost two years, going back to Russia on April 26, 1891. Her next trip to the country was in 1895.
The timing of Cherevkova's voyage is in itself quite interesting. Following the Treaty of Shimoda (1855) which effectively meant the end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of seclusion, by opening the ports of Nagasaki, Hakodate and Shimoda to Russian vessels, the number of Russian visiting Japan increased rapidly. Their gaze was broader and better informed, and the "contact zone" became ever larger as the nineteenth century progressed. Accounts of Contemporary Japan was written during a warming of relations between the two countries and just a couple of years before the outburst of the Russo-Japan War (1904-1905).
In the book Cherevkova describes her voyage to the different cities of Japan (Nagasaki, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama, Nikko, etc.), giving interesting notes on the nature, architecture and customs of the country. Accounts of Contemporary Japan consists of 19 chapters, with each chapter focusing on a specific area of Japanese culture and daily life: Japanese theatre, Buddhist funerals, Japanese prison, Feast of snakes, etc. The narrative is marked with an abundance of Japan/Russia and Europe comparisons: "How big is the difference between this cheerful picture and that dreary desert, which is called Russian Far East", "Japanese children, in my opinion, are far from attractive and, of course, cannot stand any comparison with little Europeans", "The city is obviously large, yet it seems like something is missing, there isn't enough noise, that indefinite hum that is heard from afar when approaching every European settlement". The travel writing unveils at the time relatively unknown features of the eastern country and gives a hint about the relations between the people of the two empires: "The host greets us with kind bows and, recognizing right away that we are Russians, starts a conversation in Russian". Cherevkova's comments on various aspects of Japanese life are especially engaging: "Japanese music and singing, in my opinion, are so torturous that, having heard them once, you do not feel the slightest desire to undergo this torment again".
The book includes 12 engravings depicting children-nannies, Suwa Shrine, traditional Japanese dinner, geisha, tea-picking, tea house, rice planting, Kōtoku-in, a part of Nikkō Tōshō-gū shrine, grave of Ieyasu, Lake Chūzenji, and a hotel. The engravings were made in A.S. Suvorin typography (1877-1917) established by the noted Russian book publisher and journalist Aleksey Suvorin (1834-1912).
Overall, a very interesting firsthand account of the female-doctor's voyage to the Land of the Rising Sun.
Cherevkova issued a number of publications based on her travels: "With the Mormons" (ib., 1901); "Marriage and Divorce in Japan" (1900); "Chicago, Niagara, and New York" (1902); "Boston and Public Education in America", etc.
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Q: Setting Frame Rate on Logitech C210 webcam in C++ on Raspberry pi using v4l2 I've got some webcams connected to my raspberry pi and am capturing images using OpenCV. However, even thought the cameras aren't moving, the images look kind of shaky. When I only run one camera this doesn't seem to happen so I'm thinking that it is a USB bandwidth issue thing. To reduce the bandwidth I'm starting out by trying to reduce the frame rate. Logitech C210 should be able to support frame rates of 5,10,15,20,25, and 30 fps.
So I've been looking through the documentation on v4l2 since it appears that OpenCV uses this library anyway (although not very well). I've been using v4l2_ioctl() without problem to set camera controls. For some reason I have not been able to set the frame rate in a similar manner. Here is what I am doing following along the documentation here:.
int descriptor = v4l2_open("/dev/video0", O_RDWR);
v4l2_captureparm s;
s.capability = V4L2_CAP_TIMEPERFRAME;
s.timeperframe.numerator = 1;
s.timeperframe.denominator = 5;
if( v4l2_ioctl(descriptor, VIDIOC_S_PARM, &s) !=0 )
{
     cout<< "Failed to set frame rate "<<endl;
}

I have no problems compiling, but I do get the couted error message indicating that the value has not successfully been set.
Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!

A: You are using wrong structure. Y0u should use
struct v4l2_streamparm

instead of
struct v4l2_captureparm

First check if your camera does support those frame rates for desired resoulution and pixel format:
v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext

Then, you need to set resolution and pixel format. For example:
struct v4l2_format fmt;
meset(&fmt, 0, sizeof(fmt));
fmt.type = V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE;
fmt.fmt.pix.width       = 1280;
fmt.fmt.pix.height      = 720;
fmt.fmt.pix.pixelformat = V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG;
fmt.fmt.pix.field       = V4L2_FIELD_NONE;

if (v4l2_ioctl(m_fd, VIDIOC_S_FMT, &fmt) != 0)
{
   // Error
}

Ideally nominator and denominator should be selected from one enumerated from device. Also you should get v4l2_streamparm structure:
struct v4l2_streamparm streamparm;
memset(&streamparm, 0, sizeof(streamparm));
streamparm.type = V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE;
if (v4l2_ioctl(m_fd, VIDIOC_G_PARM, &streamparm) != 0)
{
   // Error
}

streamparm.parm.capture.capturemode |= V4L2_CAP_TIMEPERFRAME;
streamparm.timeperframe.numerator = X;
streamparm.timeperframe.denominator = y;
if(v4l2_ioctl(descriptor,VIDEO_S_PARM, &s) !=0)
{
     cout<< "Failed to set frame rate "<<endl;
}

A: Also be sure to check you arent having problems powering those webcams.  The pi cant provide much power from its USB ports and anything like a wifi dongle(god, i hate that word) may be competing for power and i have seen bad pictures as a result before...Maybe a powered hub that is RPi compatible, ie one that doesnt have a 5v connection to the Pi.  Buy a rpi recommended powered hub.

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Our final tasting to celebrate Cider Week VA is local favorite Potters Craft. Over the last few years the potters crew have built a reputation for creativity in their recipes, drawing a lot of inspiration from the craft beer world, yet still maintaining a strong connection to traditional cidermaking values. The ciders being tasted today showcase all those qualities. We will be opening the Ryesap (Basque influenced, aged in whiskey barrels), Double Simcoe (made with Simcoe hops), Cider Nouveau (aged with Merlot and Petit Verdot skins from King Family Vineyards), and Pelure de Pomme (fermented on the skins along with extended maceration post fermentation). Come on by and enjoy the great diversity cider can provide!
In research, one of the best ways to preserve the taste of the wine is by the packaging of it. I am so glad that some of my friends teach me how to drink and give me information regarding some of the drinks. I am looking forward to this cider making value of yours. I am so curious too about whiskey aging and it sounds really tasty. This kind of skill is best in the markets nowadays, you can sell them at higher prices too.


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Works with the local and national Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and has served as the legal and legislative director for Utah SHRM and Salt Lake SHRM. For such services, National SHRM honored him with its prestigious Capital Award, given annually to one of SHRM's 170,000 members worldwide. Utah SHRM has given him its Award for Professional Excellence.
Counsels employers on how to minimize and manage risks, including those involving: civil rights, discrimination, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), sexual harassment, other harassment, retaliation, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), payment of wages, overtime pay and exemptions, employee benefits, drug and alcohol testing, workplace violence, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), affirmative action, unemployment compensation, employee misconduct, investigations, unions, unfair labor practices, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), employment contracts, noncompetes, defamation, torts, wrongful discharge, mediation and arbitration.
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Works with clients regarding preventive employment law activities, such as investigations, supervisor and employee training, policy and handbook reviews, job descriptions, human resource audits and counseling on day-to-day employee problems.
Has published numerous articles on employment law topics.
Popular public speaker, often addressing the news media and local and national employer groups on various employment law trends and issues.
Serves as an arbitrator and mediator in employment law disputes.
First Amendment Law:
Assists news and publishing organizations in obtaining access to places and records (FOIA and Utah GRAMA), and in minimizing risks (and responding to claims) of defamation, invasion of privacy, tort and other matters related to publishing.
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Operators of heavy goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles are required to obtain an operator's licence and obey the undertakings attached to that licence. The operator's license system is subject to scrutiny by the Traffic Commissioner for the relevant traffic area. If any concerns arise during the application for, or use of a licence, the Traffic Commissioner may call the operator to attend a public inquiry.
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What can local policymakers learn from this? As expected, academics spend a good deal of time debating the definitions of 'industrial strategy' and 'innovation policy'. Much of the literature is also focused on national government, rather than subnational actors.
There are two more useful contributions. First, academic authors have developed a number of rationales for doing industrial policy, and associated roles for the state. Much of this is helpful for policymakers developing theories of change and clarifying objectives. Second, the empirical literature talks in detail about policy governance and management tools, and provides heuristics / 'how to' design principles that derive both from theory and from real-world experience.
In the main body of this document, we draw on a number of these heuristics to develop 10 principles for local industrial strategy. Below, we provide a quick review of the main rationales for policymakers to conduct industrial policy in the first place.
One rationale for industrial policy comes from Joseph Schumpeter, the pioneering theorist of entrepreneurship.  Schumpeter makes two central points. First, new ideas and innovations change the economy and society through a process of 'creative destruction'. Transitions from one technological paradigm to another are often chaotic, and have winners and losers, even if the long-term result increases overall welfare.  Second, the entrepreneur is the central figure in this process, as the transformer of new ideas into new products and services. In this scenario, the State has important strategic roles in supporting entrepreneurship and the creation of new ideas; and in compensating the losers from creative destruction. In practice, this could involve a mix of competition policy, support for startups and scale-ups, welfare programmes for 'losing' groups and ABIs for 'losing' communities and places.
A second rationale comes from endogenous growth theory. In this picture, human capital and new ideas are important drivers of long term economic growth.  New knowledge and innovations help push the technological frontier forward; these ideas 'spill over' from inventors to the rest of society, which can then make productive use of them. But at the same time spillovers also mean that inventors cannot capture the full value of new ideas, discouraging innovation. Worse, research and experimentation are risky (ideas may not work out), expensive (e.g. accessing skilled people or specialist infrastructure), and may require cooperation to pay off (e.g. setting common technological standards). Taken together, these market and co-ordination failures mean that societies will typically 'underinvest' in innovative activity.  In turn, this suggests multiple roles for the State, in funding and incentivising basic research in universities and businesses; subsidising advanced education and training; supporting knowledge transfer, networks and collaboration; and through regulation, standards and competition policy. In practice, the extent of policy involvement will vary from sector to sector. The standard policy mix involves a series of cross-sector ('horizontal') interventions along the lines above. A more interventionist, active state approach sees market failures as the norm in many sectors, especially knowledge-intensive and 'frontier' activities, and develops more intensive, 'vertical' support and public-private partnership working.
This blog was written by Dr Max Nathan, City-REDI, University of Birmingham and Deputy Director, What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth.
It was first posted here as part of a What Works Centre piece, part of the Centre's industrial strategy design guide.
It features in our 10 Principles report, which forms the centrepiece of a major programme of work with central and local decisionmakers in 2018 and 2019.
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By the end of the first year, a new car loses around 30% of its value.
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Statement of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Bolivia
The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Bolivia calls for respect for the will of the citizenry:
This electoral process has taken place in very complex conditions. During this electoral observation, the OAS Electoral Observation Mission has witnessed the obvious inequality between the candidates. The use of public resources during the campaign has been evident.
Despite these conditions, citizens participated in great numbers in a peaceful, and orderly manner on Sunday, October 20. It is essential that the will of the citizens be fully respected, honoring the values contained in the Inter-American Democratic Charter of the OAS.
The OAS Mission expresses its deep concern and surprise at the drastic and hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results revealed after the closing of the polls.
At 19:40 on Sunday, October 20, the TSE disseminated the results of the TREP. These figures clearly indicated a second round, a trend that coincided with the only authorized quick count and the statistical exercise of the Mission. Our information was shared today with the TSE and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At 20:10, the TSE stopped disclosing preliminary results, by decision of the plenary, with more than 80% of the votes counted. 24 hours later, the TSE presented data with an inexplicable change in trend that drastically modifies the fate of the election and generates a loss of confidence in the electoral process.
At an appropriate time, the Mission will issue a report with recommendations ahead of a second round.
We urge the electoral authority to firmly defend the will of the Bolivian citizenry in strict adherence with the Constitution and its complementary laws in an agile and transparent manner.
It is extremely important that calm is maintained and any form of violence is avoided in this delicate situation, so that departmental calculations are carried out normally and without interruptions and with guarantees for our observers and the electoral staff.
We hope that the result of the final calculation will adhere to the will of the voters expressed at the polls.
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Play by Friedrich Schiller
For the 1962 Spanish film, see The Robbers (film). For other uses, see Robber (disambiguation).
"Die Räuber" redirects here. For the opera, see Die Räuber (opera).
First edition, 1781
The Robbers (Die Räuber, German pronunciation: [diː ˈʁɔʏbɐ] ( listen)) is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 and premiered on 13 January 1782 in Mannheim, Germany, and was inspired by Leisewitz' earlier play Julius of Taranto. It was written towards the end of the German Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement, and many critics, such as Peter Brooks, consider it very influential in the development of European melodrama. [1] The play astounded its Mannheim audience and made Schiller an overnight sensation. It later became the basis for Verdi's opera of the same name, I masnadieri.
Plot and description
The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Karl and Franz Moor. The charismatic but rebellious student Karl is deeply loved by his father. The younger brother, Franz, who appears as a cold, calculating villain, plots to wrest away Karl's inheritance. As the play unfolds, both Franz's motives and Karl's innocence and heroism are revealed to be complex.
Schiller's highly emotional language and his depiction of physical violence mark the play as a quintessential Sturm und Drang work.[ citation needed] At the same time, the play utilizes a traditional five- act structure, with each act containing two to five scenes. The play uses alternating scenes to pit the brothers against each other, as one quests for money and power, while the other attempts to create a revolutionary anarchy in the Bohemian Forest.
Schiller raises many disturbing issues in the play. For instance, he questions the dividing lines between personal liberty and the law and probes the psychology of power, the nature of masculinity and the essential differences between good and evil. He strongly criticizes both the hypocrisies of class and religion and the economic inequities of German society. He also conducts a complicated inquiry into the nature of evil.
Schiller was inspired by the play Julius of Taranto (1774) by Johann Anton Leisewitz, a play Friedrich Schiller considered a favourite. [2]
Count Maximilian of Moor has two very different sons, Karl and Franz. Karl is the elder son, and the Count's favourite. In comparison, Franz is described as ugly, and he was neglected during his childhood. As the younger son, he has no claim of inheritance from his father. Franz spends his time in the play scheming to remove Karl as well as the count. At the beginning of the play, Karl is a student in Leipzig, where he lives a relatively carefree life, spending freely, accruing large amounts of debt. He writes to his father in hopes of reconciliation.
Franz uses the letter as an opportunity to push a false narrative of Karl's life on his father. Throwing away the original letter, Franz writes a new one that claims to be from a friend, describing in the barest terms the types of activities Karl is claimed to be doing in Leipzig. The letter describes Karl as a womanizer, murderer, and thief. The letter shocks the old Count deeply, causing him to declare — with the help of Franz's suggestions — Karl as disinherited.
Karl, having hoped for a reconciliation, becomes demotivated at the news. He agrees to become the head of a robbers band that his friends created, in the idealistic hopes of protecting the weaker and being an "honourable" robber. There are tensions in the band, as Moritz Spiegelberg tries to sow discord among them. Spiegelberg hopes to be the leader of the group and tries to encourage the rest to replace Karl. Karl falls into a cycle of violence and injustice, which prevents him from returning to his normal life. He eventually swears to stay forever with his band of robbers. Shortly after, the band receives a newcomer, Kosinsky, who tells them the tale of how his bride-to-be, importantly named Amalia, was stolen from him by a greedy count. This reminds Karl of his own Amalia, and he decides to return to his father's home, disguised.
In this time, Franz has been busy. Using lies and exaggerations about Karl, he manages to break the count's heart and assumes the mantle of the new Count of Moor. Bolstered by his new title and jealous of Karl's relationship with Amalia, he attempts to convince her to marry him. Amalia, however, stays true to Karl and denies Franz's advances. She sees through his lies and exaggerations about Karl.
Karl returns home, disguised, and finds the castle very different from how he left it. Franz introduces himself as the Count, and with some careful questions, Karl learns that their father has died, and Franz has taken his place. Despite Karl's carefulness, Franz has his suspicions. In a moment with Amalia — who does not recognize him — he learns that Amalia still loves him.
Franz explores his suspicions about the identity of his guest. Karl leaves the castle. He runs into an old man, who turns out to be his father — he is alive. The old count was left to starve in an old ruin and in his weakness is unable to recognize Karl. Incensed by the treatment of his loved ones, Karl sends his robbers band to storm the castle and capture Franz. Franz observes the robbers approaching and takes his own life before he can be captured. The robbers take Amalia from the castle and bring her to Karl. Seeing that Karl is alive, Amalia is initially happy. Once the old count realizes that Karl is the robbers' leader, he in his weakened state dies from the shock. Karl tries to leave the robber band but is then reminded of his promise to stay. He cannot break this promise and therefore cannot be with Amalia. Upon realizing that Karl cannot leave, Amalia begs for someone to kill her; she cannot live without her Karl. With a heavy heart, Karl fulfills her wish. As the play ends, Karl decides to turn himself over to the authorities.
The first act takes place in the Castle of the Count of Moor. The key characters are the Count of Moor and his younger son Franz. Not in scene, but mentioned, is the Count's older son, Karl. Karl is a student in Leipzig, who lives freely but irresponsibly.
First Scene
The old Count Maximilian of Moor receives a letter from Leipzig, containing news about his older son Karl. The content, however, as read by his younger son, Franz, is upsetting. Supposedly written by a friend of Karl's, it describes how Karl accrued massive debts, deflowered the daughter of a rich Banker whose fiancé he killed in a duel, and then ran from the authorities. Unknown to the Count, the letter was written by Franz himself – the content entirely false – with Karl's actual letter destroyed. Greatly disturbed by the news, the Count takes some supposedly "friendly advice" from Franz and disowns Karl. The Count hopes that such a drastic measure would encourage Karl to change his behavior, and upon his doing so, the Count would be glad to have Karl back. The Count has Franz write the letter and impresses upon him to break the news gently. Franz, however, writes an especially blunt letter as a way of driving a deeper wedge between Karl and his father.
Second Scene
At the same time as Scene 1, Karl and a friend of his, Spiegelberg, are drinking at a pub. With the arrival of a few more friends comes the arrival of Franz's letter to Karl. Upon reading the message, Karl lets the letter fall to the ground and leaves the room speechless. His friends pick it up and read it. In Karl's absence, Spiegelberg suggests that the group become a robber's band. Karl returns, and is obviously disillusioned from the bluntness of his father's letter. His friends ask that he become the leader of their robber's band, and Karl agrees. They formulate a pact, swearing to be true to each other and the band. The only discontent comes from Spiegelberg, who had hoped to be the leader.
Third Scene
In this scene Franz visits Amalia. Amalia is engaged to Karl. Franz lies to her, hoping to make her disgusted with Karl and to win her for himself. He tells her Karl gave away the engagement ring she gave him so that he could pay a prostitute. This extreme character change, as presented in Franz's story, causes Amalia to doubt the truth of it, and she remains true to Karl. She sees through Franz's lies and realizes his true intentions. She calls him out, and he lets his "polite" mask fall and swears revenge.
Franz begins setting the foundations of his greater plan of removing both Karl and the Count. He hopes to shock the old Count so greatly that he dies. He encourages Herman, a bastard, to tell the old Count a story about Karl. He promises that Herman will receive Amalia in return for his help. Herman leaves the room to carry out the plan, and just as he's left, Franz reveals that he has no intention of holding up his end of the promise. Franz wants Amalia for himself.
Herman arrives to the castle in disguise. He tells the old Count that he and Karl were both soldiers, and that Karl died in battle. He follows with Karl's supposed last words, placing the blame on the old Count's shoulders. The old man is shocked and receives only harsh words from Franz. He cannot stand it, and falls to the floor, apparently dead. Franz takes up the title and warns of a darker time to come for the people on his land.
During this time, Karl is living life as the Leader of the robber's band. They are camped in the Bohemian forests. The band is growing, with new members coming in. The loyalty of the robbers to Karl grows too, Karl has just rescued one of their own, Roller, from being hanged. The escape plan is carried out by setting the town ablaze which ultimately destroys the town and kills 83 people. In the forest, they are surrounded by a large number of soldiers, and a priest is sent to give an ultimatum – give up Karl and the robbers live, or everyone dies. The robbers, however, stay true to their leader and with the cry "Death or Freedom!" the fight breaks out, ending the second Act.
Third Act
Franz seeks again to force Amalia to join him. He tells her that her only other option would be to be placed at a convent. This hardly bothers Amalia, she would rather be in a convent than be Franz's wife. This angers Franz and he threatens to take her forcefully, menacing her with a knife. Amalia feigns a change of heart, embracing Franz, and uses it as an opportunity to take the weapon. She turns it on Franz, promising the union of the two, knife and Franz, if he threatens her again.
After a long and exhausting battle, the robbers are victorious. Karl takes a moment to reflect on his childhood, and his recent actions. In this moment, Kosinsky, a newcomer, arrives in scene. He wishes to join the robbers, but Karl encourages him not to. Karl tells him to return to normal life, that becoming a robber would be damaging. Kosinsky presses the matter, and describes what caused him to want to be a robber. His story shares many points with Karl's, especially that Kosinsky also had a fiancee by the name of Amalia. Kosinsky's story ends with the loss of his Amalia to his Count. Karl, seeing perhaps a sliver of his upcoming fate, decides to return home. His robbers, now including Kosinsky, follow him.
Fourth Act
Karl arrives to his homeland, and tells Kosinsky to ride to the castle and introduce Karl as the Count of Brand. Karl shares some memories of his childhood and youth, brought forth by the familiar scenery, but his monologue becomes progressively darker. He feels a moment of doubt regarding the sensibility of his return, but he gathers his courage and enters the castle.
The disguised Karl is led by Amalia through the castle halls. She is unaware of his true identity. Franz, however, is suspicious of the strange Count of Brand. He attempts to get one of his servants, Daniel, to poison the stranger, but Daniel refuses on account of his conscience.
Daniel recognizes Karl from an old scar of his. They discuss the goings-on of the castle and Karl learns of the plot that Franz has carried out against Karl and his father. Karl wishes to visit Amalia once more before he leaves. He isn't concerned with vengeance at this point.
Fourth Scene
In a last meeting with Amalia, who still does not recognize Karl, the two discuss their lost loves. Karl discusses the reality of his actions, in their violence, and explains that he cannot return to his love because of them. Amalia is happy that her Karl is alive, despite his distance, and describes him as a purely good person. Karl breaks character at Amalia's faith in him, and flees the castle, returning to his robbers nearby.
Fifth Scene
In Karl's absence, Spiegelberg makes another attempt to rally the robbers against Karl so he can be their leader. The robbers remain loyal to Karl and Schweizer, one of his close friends, kills Spiegelberg for this attempt. Karl returns to the band, and is asked what they should do. He tells them to rest, and in this time he sings a song about a confrontation between the dead Caesar and his murderer Brutus. The song discusses patricide, this coming from a legend in which Brutus was possible Caesar's son. This topic reminds Karl of his own situation, and he falls into depressive thoughts. He considers suicide, but ultimately decides against it.
In the same night, Herman enters the forest, delivering food to an old and ruined tower. In the tower, the old Count of Moor is left to starve following the unsuccessful attempt on his life. Karl notices this, and frees the old man and recognizes him as his father. His father does not recognize him. The old man tells Karl what happened to him, how Franz treated him. Karl becomes full of rage upon hearing the story, and calls his robbers to storm the castle and drag out Franz.
Fifth Act
That same night, Franz is plagued by nightmares. Disturbed and full of fear, he hurries about the castle, meeting Daniel whom he orders to fetch the pastor. The pastor arrives, and the two have a long dispute over belief and guilt, in which the pastor's opinions are explained. Franz asks the pastor what he believes the worst sin is, and the pastor explains that patricide and fratricide are the two worst, in his opinion. But of course, Franz has no need to worry, since he has neither a living father or brother to kill. Franz, aware of his guilt, sends the pastor away and is disturbed by the conversation. He hears the robber's approach and knows, from what he hears, that they are there for him. He attempts to pray, but is unable to, and begs Daniel to kill him. Daniel refuses to do so, so Franz takes the matter into his own hands and kills himself.
The old count, still unaware of Karl's identity, laments the fates of his sons. Karl asks for the blessing of his father. The robbers bring Amalia to their camp, and Karl announces his identity as Karl of Moor and the robber's leader. This news is the final straw for the weakened old Count, and he finally dies. Amalia forgives Karl and expresses that she still wants to be with him. Karl is bound by his promise to the robber band, and cannot leave. Amalia will not live without Karl, so she begs that someone kill her. One of the robbers offers to do so, but Karl insists that he do it. Karl kills her, and regrets his promise to the band. He decides to do something good by turning himself in to a farmer he met whose family was starving. The farmer would receive the reward money and be able to support his family.
Playbill of Würzburg performance, 1804
Maximilian, Count von Moor (also called "Old Moor") is the beloved father of Karl and Franz. He is a good person at heart, but also weak, and has failed to raise his two sons properly. He bears responsibility for the perversion of the Moor family, which has caused the family's values to become invalidated. The Moor family acts as an analogy of state, a typical political criticism of Schiller's.
Karl (Charles) Moor, his older son, is a self-confident idealist. He is good-looking and well liked by all. He holds feelings of deep love for Amalia. After his father, misled by brother Franz, curses Karl and banishes him from his home, Karl becomes a disgraceful criminal and murderous arsonist. While he exudes a general spirit of melancholy about the promising life he has left behind, Karl, together with his gang of robbers, fights against the unfairness and corruption of the feudal authorities. His despair leads him to express and discover new goals and directions, and to realize his ideals and dreams of heroism. He does not shrink from breaking the law, for, as he says, "the end justifies the means". He develops a close connection with his robbers, especially Roller and Schweizer, but he recognizes the unscrupulousness and dishonor of Spiegelberg and his other associates. Amalia creates a deep internal twist in the plot and in Karl's persona. He swore allegiance to the robbers after Schweizer and Roller died for his sake, and he promised that he would never separate from his men, so cannot return to Amalia. In deep desperation due to the death of his father, he eventually kills his true love and decides to turn himself in to the law.
Franz Moor, the count's younger son, is an egoistic rationalist and materialist. He is cold-hearted and callous. He is rather ugly and unpopular, in contrast to his brother Karl, but quite intelligent and cunning. However, since his father loved only his brother and not him, he developed a lack of feeling, which made the "sinful world" intolerable for his passions. Consequently, he fixed himself to a rationalistic way of thinking. In the character of Franz, Schiller demonstrates what could happen if the moral way of thinking were replaced by pure rationalization. Franz strives for power in order to be able to implement his interests.
Amalia von Edelreich, the count's niece, is Karl's love, and a faithful and reliable person (to learn more of their relationship see " Hektorlied" ( de)). She spends most of the play avoiding the advances of the jealous Franz and hopes to be rejoined with her beloved Karl.
Spiegelberg acts as an opponent of Karl Moor and is driven by crime. Additionally, he self-nominated himself to be captain in Karl's robber band, yet was passed up in favor of Karl. Spiegelberg tries to portray Karl negatively among the robbers in order to become the captain, but does not succeed.
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The family of Treusch von Buttlar at Willershausen, around 1730/40, served as an inspiration and background to his drama.
One source of The Robbers was Christian Schubart's Zur Geschichte des menschlichen Herzens [Concerning the History of the Human Heart] (1775) as well as the real-life story about the case of two Treusch von Buttlar brothers. The older good brother Ernst Carl and the evil younger brother Hans Hermann Wilhelm. This was one of the greatest social and legal scandals in early eighteen century Franconia.
Major Wilhelm von Buttlar married Eva Eleonora von Lentersheim at Obersteinbach castle (Obersteinbach website refers to him as Franz). Her father Erhard von Lentersheim was an epileptic and alcoholic. He was put under a guardianship. As the son-in-law, Wilhelm exercised the right of disposing of his goods to himself. Additionally, to further benefit Wilhelm because Wilhelm's mother-in-law, Louisa von Lentersheim (née von Eyb), had property of her own, Wilhelm had her strangled on December 7, 1727, by a servant. While the trial lasted for years, it did not end in conviction. Schiller also went to school with Wilhelm Philipp Johann Ludwig von Bibra (Adelsdorf) (1765–1794) at the Carlsakademie. As a close relative of the murdered mother-in-law, Wilhelm von Bibra may have spurred Schiller's interest in the incident. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The play is referred to in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Fyodor Karamazov compares himself to Count von Moor, whilst comparing his eldest son, Dmitri, to Franz Moor, and Ivan Karamazov to Karl Moor. [7] It is also referred to in the first chapter of Ivan Turgenev's First Love [8] and briefly in chapter 28 of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. [9] G. W. F. Hegel in his The Phenomenology of Spirit is thought to model the 'law of the heart' after Karl Moor. This was first suggested by Jean Hyppolite [10] and by others more recently. [11]
Peter Newmark notes three translations in the Encyclopedia of Literary Translation: [12]
The Robbers. Translated by Alexander Fraser Tytler. G. G. & J. Robinson. 1792. Public domain; widely available in many formats.
The Robbers, with Wallenstein. Translated by F. J. Lamport. Penguin. 1979. ISBN 978-0-14-044368-4.
The Robbers. Translated by Robert David MacDonald. Oberon. 1995. ISBN 978-1-870259-52-1. The same translation apparently also appears in Schiller: Volume One: The Robbers, Passion and Politics. Translated by Robert David MacDonald. Oberon. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84002-618-4.
Millar, Daniel and Leipacher, Mark (2010). The Robbers (unpublished). Presented by the Faction Theatre Company. [13]
Klaus van den Berg has compared the Lamport and MacDonald translations, "The two most prominent translations from the latter part of the twentieth century take very different approaches to this style: F. J. Lamport's 1979 translation, published in the Penguin edition, follows Schiller's first epic-sized version and remains close to the original language, observing sentence structures, finding literal translations that emphasize the melodramatic aspect of Schiller's work. In contrast, Robert MacDonald's 1995 translation, written for a performance by the Citizen's Company at the Edinburgh Festival, includes some of Schiller's own revisions, modernizes the language trying to find equivalences to reach his British target audiences. While Lamport directs his translation toward an audience expecting classics as authentic as possible modelled on the original, McDonald opts for a performance translation cutting the text and interpreting many of the emotional moments that are left less clear in a more literal translation." [14]
Michael Billington wrote in 2005 that Robert MacDonald "did more than anyone to rescue Schiller from British neglect." [15]
The Red-Cross Knights (1799), play by Joseph George Holman
I briganti (1836), opera by Saverio Mercadante and libretto by Jacopo Crescini
I masnadieri (1847), opera by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Andrea Maffei
I briganti (ca. 1895), opera by Lluïsa Casagemas (op. 227) and libretto by Andrea Maffei. Not published or performed.[ citation needed]
The Robbers (1913), film adaptation by J. Searle Dawley and Walter Edwin. [16]
Die Räuber (1957), opera and libretto by Giselher Klebe. [17]
Death or Freedom [ de] (1977), loosely based German film adaptation with Gert Fröbe and Peter Sattmann
Gending Sriwijaya [ id] (2013), Indonesian film adaptation by Hanung Bramantyo
" Amalia", D 195, Op. post. 173 No. 1, is a lied by Franz Schubert based on text from act 3, scene 1. [18]
^ Stephanie Barbé Hammer, Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity ( Wayne State University Press, 2001), page 32.
^ Johann Anton Leisewitz, Encyclopædia Britannica
^ Schwinger, Hans (2020). Die Schwebheimer Linie derer von Bibra und ihr Ende. Books on Demand. p. 26.
^ Martinson, Steven D. (2005). A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 93–99. ISBN 9781571131836.
^ "Die Schlossgeschichte". schullandheimwerk-mittelfranken.de (in German).
^ Bibra, Wilhelm von (1888). Beiträge zur Familien-Geschichte der Reichsfreiherrn von Bibra (in German). Vol. 3. pp. 103–104.
^ Fyodor Dostoevsky. "The Brothers Karamazov". Retrieved 20 June 2011. [ non-primary source needed]
^ Ivan Turgenev. "First Love". Retrieved 22 September 2013. [ non-primary source needed]
^ Jane Eyre, Project Gutenberg [ non-primary source needed]
^ Michael Inwood (9 February 2018). Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit: Translated with introduction and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 432ff. ISBN 978-0-19-253458-3.
^ Ludwig Siep (16 January 2014). Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Cambridge University Press. pp. 142ff. ISBN 978-1-107-02235-5.
^ Newmark, Peter (1998). "Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)". In Classe, O. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1238–1239. ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7.
^ Berge, Emma (2010). "The Robbers". The British Theatre Guide.
^ van den Berg, Klaus (2009). "The Royal Robe with Folds: Translatability in Schiller's The Robbers" (PDF). The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review. 2 (2).
^ Billington, Michael (29 January 2005). "The German Shakespeare:Schiller used to be box-office poison. Why are his plays suddenly back in favour, asks Michael Billington". The Guardian.
^ Schönfeld, Christiane; Rasche, Hermann, eds. (2007). Processes of Transposition: German Literature and Film. Rodopi. p. 23. ISBN 9789042022843.
^ "Giselher Klebe – Räuber – Opera". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
^ Otto Erich Deutsch et al. Schubert Thematic Catalogue. German version, 1978 (Bärenreiter), p. 133
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April's top stories: Hydro Tasmania's wind farm, Ofgem's record fine on SSE
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As Hydro Tasmania signed a cooperation deal with Chinese energy firm Shenhua Group to jointly invest $1.6bn to build wind farms in Australia, UK energy regulator Ofgem said it will impose a fine of £10.5m on utility giant SSE for the prolonged and extensive mis-selling of gas and electricity. Power-technology wraps up the key headlines from April 2013.
SSE faces record fine from Ofgem for mis-selling power
In April, UK energy regulator Ofgem said it will impose a fine of £10.5m on utility giant SSE for prolonged and extensive mis-selling of gas and electricity over a two year period.
The fine is the largest ever imposed on an energy supplier by the watchdog.
Ofgem said in a press statement that SSE breached its obligations relating to telephone, in-store and doorstep sales activities between 2009 and 2011.
"In particular, SSE consistently failed, over a prolonged period of time, to conduct its sales activities in a way that would provide clear and accurate information on prices and potential savings to enable customers to make an informed decision about whether to switch suppliers," the watchdog added.
BP to sell US wind farms, concentrate on oil and gas
Also this month, BP said it is planning to sell 16 US wind farms and a portfolio of several other existing projects in the country in a bid to re-focus on oil and gas operations.
The move follows a series of asset sales worth about $38bn, to help finance the compensation costs related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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A view from the Bridge is a modern day ancient Greek Tragedy. You are invited to follow the tragedy through the love story of Catherine and Rodolpho.
Rodolpho is an illegal immigrant from Italy. He is a suave, handsome male, who Catherine falls for instantly. This creates a complicated love triangle between three significant figures.
Watch as tension rises and drama builds, leading to an inevitable climax that brings everything together.
The performance will take place on the 8th and 9th of July at 7pm at Norwich Steiner School.
Leon (both nights) one of two "Submarines"
Mollie (8th) and Connor (9th) as the other "Submarine"
Keep up to date with our written blog, with behind the scenes views and rehearsals.
Tickets are only £5 for over 18s, and £2.50 for children. This money will fund the play and the equipment hired, such as the lights and recording paraphernalia. Apply for tickets over email to [email protected] or at the schools reception. We advise against children under the age of 13 to attend, for this is an adult play, but the decision can be up to the adult accompanying them.
The play should have a running time of 1 hour and 30mins including a 20min interval in the middle, where the refreshments will be served for donations.
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