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Thursday, October 1, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
at Riverside Recital Hall
CNM guest artists
The ONIX Ensamble (Mexico)
Zachic IV (Bird of a hundred voices) (2007)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
1. Xopancuicatl (Cantos del tiempo de verdor)
2. Yaocuiucatl (Cantos guerreros)
3. Icnocuicatl (Cantos de reflexión)
4. Xochicuicatl (Cantos floridos) Alejandro CARDONA
(Costa Rica, 1959)
Arr. Francisco Cortés
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Silvestre REVUELTAS
(México, 1899)
Fantasías para flauta y piano (1998) Armando LUNA (1964)
El Tango del Diablo
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Astor PIAZZOLLA
(Argentina 1921-1992)
El Laberinto de Maxwell
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Hebert VAZQUEZ
(México 1963)
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano David VAYO
(U.S. 1957)
El Aguila Bicéfala (2004)
Estreno en México
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Gabriela ORTIZ
Alejandro Escuer, flute
Mexico City, 1963
Alejandro Escuer is a Mexican musician who has developed his own artistic foundations on music interpretation and composition, which have had an impact on his concerts and recordings with acclaimed reviews by TIME Magazine Art Director, New Music Connoiseur, Classical Music Review, American Record Guide and personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Dick, among many others. He is at ease improvising and performing as a soloist with symphony orchestra or solo recitals with piano, guitar, electronics, percussion, multimedia or ensemble. Alejandro Escuer has been a driving force for the consolidation of new music in Mexico. He founded ONIX in 1996 and has been the artistic director and producer of more than one hundred concerts with more than sixty premieres from México, Japan, The U.S., Canada, Portugal, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Corea, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Australia, Denmark, Austria, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, among many others. Alejandro Escuer has received numerous prizes and awards, including a Rockefeller Foundation Award (1995), The National Interpreters Competition INBA (first prize) 1986, 1987; The National Scholarship Award for the Arts (UNAM) 1989, 1991, 1995; Líderes de México Honorary Award 1998, and many recognitions and fellowships from FONCA. He is also an active scholar (full time tenure faculty at the Escuela Nacional de Música of the UNAM), and as such he has been giving master classes and concert-lectures across the American continent. Currently he is a visiting Fulbright professor at Indiana University and he has been invited by Columbia University, New York University, CalArts, and many other relevant institutions. Alejandro Escuer holds degrees from Conservatorio Nacional de Música (B.A.) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (B.A.). He obtained his soloist degree from Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam in 1991 (M.A./ Uitvoerend Musicus), and earned a doctorate in 1995 from New York University (Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy in Music Performance). Alejandro has had incredible teachers such as S. Gazelloni, K. Verheul, R. Dick, M. Arizpe, M. Salinas. Above all, he is a mutlidisciplinary artist, incorporating painting, photography and design methods to his approach to music. As a soloist he has recorded Jade Nocturno, Aqua, Aire Desnudo and Folklore Imaginario (http://www.quindecim.com.mx/).
Edith Ruíz Zepeda, piano
Mexican pianist Edith Ruíz has played in Mexico's main concert halls, as well as in the United States, Canada, Poland, Cuba, Colombia and Ireland. She has performed in international music festivals such as: Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara), Music Festival (Aspen), Clarinetfest 2006 (Atlanta), Clarinetfest 2007 (Vancouver), Festival Internacional Cervantino, Foro de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, Festival Internacional Eduardo Mata (Mexico) among many others. As collaborative pianist she continually performs with Mexico's City main orchestras, music schools and choirs, as well as competitions, festivals, auditions, recordings, radio and TV programs. She is currently the principal pianist at the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, and a full time tenure professor at the Escuela Nacional de Música/UNAM. Edith Ruiz is the pianist of ONIX Ensamble and she has recently founded ARTE CUBICO, her own school of music and arts. She has recorded two CDs with clarinetist Javier Vinasco for Música de Cámara Latinoamericana label. The first one includes Colombian music and the second one consists of works by Astor Piazzolla and Heitor Villalobos. She received the Gabino Barreda and Gustavo Baz Prada medals (UNAM), the Gwendolyn Koldovsky 2000 prize (Cleveland Institute of Music) and she is the second prize winner of the Darius Milhaud 2000 Competition (CIM). As a soloist she has performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puebla, Banda del Estado de Oaxaca, Camerata Cronos, Orquesta Juvenil de la Escuela Nacional de Música among others. She took her first piano lessons at the DOREMI Music Academy and finished her Bachelors Degree at the Escuela Nacional de Música/ UNAM in Mexico and a Masters Degree in Collaborative Piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Fernando Domínguez, clarinet
Fernando Domínguez studied clarinet at the Conservatory of Vienna with Roger Salander and bass clarinet with Harry Sparnaay at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In Mexico he has studied with Francisco Garduno, Luis Humberto Ramos and Abel Pérez Piton in the music schools of the Ollin Yoliztli and the Escuela Nacional de Música (UNAM). He has played as a soloist with the following orchestras: Sinfónica Vida y Movimiento, la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, Sinfónica de IPN, la Cámara de Bellas Artes and Sinfónica Carlos Chávez. He currently teaches at the Escuela Nacional de Música (UNAM) and plays with the pianist Tonatiuh de la Sierra as a duo performing in varied concert halls in Mexico City. He also performs with Ensamble 3, with the flutist Salvador Torre and the pianist Mauricio Náder with whom he has presented concerts in Forums such as: The New Music Forum, The Contemporary Music Festival in Havana, Cuba, Encounters with Mexico in Bogotá, Colombia, and in many other cities in Mexico. In 2000, Ensamble 3 won first place in the VII Chamber Music Contest of the National University. Fernando Dominguez is also a member of ONIX Ensamble, with whom he has performed in the international Cervantino Festival, The Festival of the Historical Center of Mexico and the Forum of New Music. In 2003 he was invited to become a member of Trio Neos. Fernando Domínguez has participated in the International Musik Ferienkuerse in Darmstadt, Germany in 2002 and has been the recipient of numerous grants from the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
Abel Romero, violin
Abel Romero is a Mexican violinist who has consolidated himself as one of the most active players of his generation. He performs as a solo chamber musician on a regular basis and due to his high quality performances and interpretations, he has appeared in many concert halls and venues in Mexico and around the world. Abel is the violinist of ONIX Ensamble and a member of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, one of the most important orchestras in México. He is involved with pedagogic projects oriented to improve music education at an early age. Therefore he often travels abroad to attend Suzuki method teacher training courses and other similar seminars and workshops. He is also an active young professor and as such he is a violin faculty member of Centro Escolar Cedros. Abel Romero obtained his Bachelor's degree in Music Performance from the University of Maryland, where he was offered a merit-based scholarship. He was a second prize winner of the IV National Violin Competition at the Escuela Nacional de Música which belongs to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His violin teachers were Daniel Heifetz, Natalia Gvodetzkaya, Archil Katzarava, Aaron Bitrán and Cruz Rojas. He has performed for world-renowned artists such as Pinchas Zuckerman, John Dalley, Zoria Zijmurzaieva and Jorge Risi, who have have coached him over the years. Abel Romero plays on a violin made in 2007 by Terry Borman.
Edgardo Espinosa, violoncello
Edgardo Espinosa was born in Mexico City where he undertook musical studies at the National School of Music, graduating with honors in 1990. Thanks to a scholarship from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, he continued his studies in London, England, with Richard Markson. While in Europe, he obtained several diplomas such as LLCM, FLCM and a graduate Studies Certificate from the London College of Music. Later on, he obtained a Master of Music Degree in musical performance from the Thames Valley University. He has attended several summer courses in the United Kingdom, Italy and Mexico, where he has received master classes from Maud Martin Tortelier, Wolfgang Laufer, Alan Smith and Ivan Monighetti, amongst others. Upon completing his studies, Edgardo Espinosa moved back to Mexico, where he currently holds a full-time tenure professor position at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. There he devotes himself both to teaching and to performing chamber music, with special emphasis in contemporary music. He is a member of important contemporary music ensembles such as ONIX Ensamble and Cello Alterno and performs regularly in the most important music halls all across his country. Additionally, he has recently participated in concerts in the United States, England, Spain and China.
Alejandro CARDONA
Zachic IV (Bird of a hundred voices)
Composed for ONIX, Zachic 4 is structured in four parts with a slow-fast-slow-fast design. The movements are: Xopancuícatl (spring songs or "songs for green times"), Yaucuícatl (warrior's songs), Icnocuícatl (songs for pondering or meditating), and Xochicuícatl (florid songs). The cuícatl (songs) of the Aztecs were divided into these four categories. The material for this work is partly (and freely) based on bird songs.
The first movement, Xopancuícatl, is a kind of fantasy in which the main materials of the work are presented, as are the timbers of the ensemble, which are slowly introduced. Yaucuícatl, emerges from this movement without a pause, as if the free materials were suddenly articulated through rhythm and time. This movement is a dance which recreates the Mexican "pitero" (flute) music and the sea-shell trumpets. The texture, however, has a certain polyphonic density, with different layers of materials. The form is created through contrasting juxtapositions. Icnocuícatl is a series of free chaconne-like variations on a lullaby from the Istmo de Tehuantepec region of Oaxaca called "Gregorio". In Xochicuícatl, the final movement, the bird songs take on an incisive rhythmic quality. The original material is recapitulated and, near the end, as a preparation for the closing section, there is a canonic passage, at different velocities, which is labeled "Nancarrow among the birds", a small homage to this Mexican composer born in the United States.
The word Zachic is the Mayan name for the bird which in Nahuatl is called zenzontl, and in Spanish cenzontle or sinsonte (in English it is the mocking bird). The Zachic was considered the "bird of a hundred voices". Some Guatemalan researchers claim that many Mayan-Quiché melodies are based on the songs of this particular bird. For the composer, the Zachic is a symbol of the incredible capacity of our people to transform their musical and sonic reality: nature becomes culture and culture becomes part of nature. This symbol of an initially imitative and then intertwined relationship between nature and culture is treated musically in different ways throughout the work. — A.C.
Silvestre REVUELTAS
Silvestre Revueltas' music -- most of it written during the last decade of his short life -- bursts with energy, instrumental color, and mocking humor. Revueltas began violin studies at age eight; the years 1913-16 found him in Mexico City studying composition and violin. From there Revueltas headed north to Texas to study at St. Edward College in Austin (1916-1918) and then to the Chicago Musical College (1918-1920). Revueltas returned to Mexico to give violin recitals in the capital and several states. But Chicago drew him back in 1922 for a four-year course of violin study. In the mid-1920s Revueltas made trips down to Mexico for several series of recitals of modern music; his piano accompanist was the young Carlos Chávez.
Ultimately, Chávez persuaded him to return to Mexico City to teach violin and chamber music at the National Conservatory and to serve as assistant conductor of Chávez's newly formed Orquesta Sinfónica de México, a position he held from 1929-1935. During this time, Revueltas also became active in the cause of artists' and workers' rights.
The Neo-Classical movement, which tried to marry old forms to new harmonies and melodic techniques, was sometimes criticized for producing arid, unlovable music. But Silvestre Revueltas never wrote a dull note in his life, and his Toccata for chamber ensemble takes an old Baroque form and injects it with the vitality of Mexican popular music and Revueltas' own keen ear for exotic sonorities. The work begins in an all-out rush after a quick bang on a drum. The woodwinds start it off with dazzling, coruscating scales, which quickly yield to the violins and horns. After some prefatory material, the violins play the main melody and the piece is fully underway. Baroque sounds in the Toccata include sections where the violins play melody with scampering contrapuntal accompaniment in the woodwinds, and the slower, minor-key melody that breaks the momentum in the middle, which winds around itself in much the manner of a Bach melody. But these scholarly methods cannot for a moment suppress the fun in the Toccata, and when the instruments finally come together near the work's close, with piquant fanfares from the brass and running melodies on the winds, the joy is irresistible. Revueltas closes the work with a fun little coda. Revueltas is often referred to as a "Mexican Stravinsky," but on the evidence of unique works like the Toccata, it's probably more correct just to call him Silvestre Revueltas. — All Music Guide
Hebert VAZQUEZ
In 2007 I concluded a musical Bestiary depicting six fabulous beasts or monsters that belong to different historical periods and cultural traditions:
1. El Trauco (2007) [solo Clarinet]
2. Jabberwock (2004) [Flute/Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet and Piano]
3. El laberinto de los sacrificios (2006) [Woodwind Quintet] (The labyrinth of the sacrifices)
4. El sueño del Kraken (2007) [Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano] (The Kraken's dream)
5. El Gólem (2006) [Bass Clarinet Duo]
6. El demonio de Maxwell (2007) [Fl./Alto Flute, Cl./Bass Cl., Vn., Pf. and Vc.] (Maxwell's Demon)
Each one of the pieces in the cycle may be performed separately, if desired. Maxwell's Demon is an imaginary creature that the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell created in 1867 to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. Maxwell imagined one container divided into two parts. Both parts are filled with the same gas at equal temperatures and placed next to each other. Observing the molecules on both sides, an imaginary demon guards a trapdoor between the two parts. When a faster than average molecule approaches the door he makes certain that it ends up on the left side and when a slower than average molecule approaches the door he makes sure that it ends up on the right side. So after these operations he ends up with a container in which all the faster than average gas molecules are in the left side and all the slower than average ones are in the right side, contrary to the second law of thermodynamics.
El demonio de Maxwell is dedicated to the Onix Ensemble, while the Bestiary was written for my 4-year-old-daughters, Emma and Natalia. — Hebert Vázquez
David VAYO
While in Mexico City in 2006, I spent an evening in the home of two musicians I deeply admire, composer Gabriela Ortiz and her husband, flautist-composer Alejandro Escuer. After dinner, Alejandro offered to show me two instruments he had recently acquired from a maker in the Netherlands: a contrabass and a sub-contrabass flute. These remarkable contraptions of PVC pipe allow a flautist to play in the range of the double bass and the tuba, and they have a haunting, chthonic quality. I fell in love with them immediately.
Because Alejandro plays all members of the flute family, I hit upon the idea of writing a piece in which he would start out on the contrabass flute (he vetoed the sub-contrabass because it's so cumbersome to transport) and gradually work his work up to the piccolo. When he mentioned that he'd be interested in my including his entire ONIX ensemble in the piece, I decided that all of the other instrumentalists would follow the same trajectory, from very low to very high, and that the rate at which the music unfolded would reinforce this arc of ascending energy- starting out almost inertly, then slowly and steadily accelerating to demonic velocity.
Two meanings of the title refer to these aspects of the plot line: the music becomes gradually more luminous as the notes rise, as well as more and more free of weight and encumbrance as the beat quickens. A third meaning of "enlightenment" is a state of spiritual understanding, often reached in a moment of transcendent revelation. The climax of the piece, a white-hot vortex of sound in which pitch and rhythm seem to vanish into a singularity, might be though of as representing such a moment. And indeed, on the other side we emerge into a different world, still at the uppermost extreme of musical pitch but now crystalline, mystical, a music of eternity rather than of time.
Gabriela ORTIZ
El Aguila Bicéfala
El Aguila Bicéfala (2005) (The two headed eagle) is dedicated to the ONIX Ensemble and was written thanks to the support of the Programa México en Escena of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes award.
On textiles and fabrics of the Mizteca zone of the Metlatónoc there are exquisitly conceived embroideries of fantastic birds with extended wings and two, three or even six heads. The two heads eagle was a common graphic motive from the beginning of colonial times. These eagles are bilateral symmetric and flexible designs that fit into rectangular or triangular spaces. Such motive has evolved through history and one can discover an iconographic resemblance with the Hasburg's eagle.
Just like in the designs on the textiles, my piece is based on geometrical similarities. Musical motives are interwoven in such a way that they overlap in order to create various geometrical acoustic shapes that unfold through a continuous musical discourse, a discourse where past and an imaginary future references meet to shape what I perceive as a unified present: a dual discourse that reflects my personal history through a sincretism that has permeated my cultural background.


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Amid soaring meat costs, officials from East Africa and Middle East seek plan to keep animal diseases from disrupting livestock trade
Posted on June 13, 2011 by Susan MacMillan
New approach to Rift Valley fever outbreaks aims to ensure food safety as region boosts livestock imports from Africa (photo credit: ILRI/Dolan)
With increased trade in livestock products offering a possible antidote to high food prices, livestock experts from the Middle East and 12 African countries are meeting this week (13-16 June, 2011) in Dubai to develop a strategy that eliminates the need to impose devastating bans on livestock imports from the Horn of Africa, as prevention against the spread of Rift Valley fever. The strategy should expedite the flow of livestock products while increasing safety of the overall livestock trade in the region.
Convened by the African Union's Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the workshop will encourage officials and livestock traders to use a simple 'Decision Support Planning Tool' to guide and moderate their responses to Rift Valley fever outbreaks.
The 'decision support tool' for Rift Valley fever was developed by 30 experts and decisions-makers from across the Horn of Africa with technical assistance from researchers at ILRI, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other partners. The tool will be used by chief veterinary officers and other national decision-makers. Its framework identifies the sequence of events likely to occur as the risk of a disease outbreak increases.
Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne virus found in eastern, western and southern Africa, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Epidemics emerge periodically with prolonged rains. Climate and land-use changes could make outbreaks more frequent. A study done by ILRI economists Karl Rich and Francis Wanyoike indicated that the Rift Valley fever outbreak in 2007 cost Kenya at least USD32 million.
'We must avoid unnecessary disruptions in agricultural trade between East Africa and the Middle East,' said Ahmed El Sawalhy, director of AU-IBAR. 'Livestock products must be safe and action concerning disease outbreaks must be in line with the actual threat.' To this end, an animal health certification model suitable for pastoral livestock production systems and that promotes OIE standards has been developed by AU-IBAR in partnership with FAO and the Royal Veterinary College, London. The model is based on risk assessment and involves integration of both upstream animal health inspection and certification at entry points, markets and at the quarantines.
Time is also of critical importance in prevention and control of transboundary animal diseases. 'In the last Kenyan Rift Valley fever outbreak, control measures were implemented late—not until there were definitive signs of an outbreak,' said Jeffrey Mariner, an epidemiologist at ILRI. 'This tool links early warning signs to control measures that can be implemented before animals or people begin falling ill. The new tool could reduce the impact of Rift Valley fever, and maybe even prevent some local outbreaks and has the potential to prevent the spread of Rift Valley fever through trade.'
'The good news,' says Bernard Bett, an epidemiologist at ILRI, 'is that the impact of Rift Valley fever can be mitigated with early action during an outbreak, but veterinary officers and decision-makers need to know what interventions to implement—and when—as the stages of an epidemic unfold.'
Rift Valley fever is best prevented through animal vaccination. But vaccines are expensive and few governments are willing to pay for expensive vaccines unless evidence indicates an epidemic is imminent. Regional cooperation is required to build consensus on managing the disease and to prevent trade disruptions.
Larry Meserve, USAID/EA's regional mission director commented, 'President Obama's Feed the Future initiative aims to increase food security throughout Africa. To succeed, we must all help to improve the capacity of leadership in the Horn of Africa to anticipate potentially disastrous events like disease epidemics so that appropriate preventive or mitigating measures are taken before it is too late. Livestock is a vital staple crop in this part of the world, and both the private and public sectors have to do everything possible to prevent unnecessary disruptions in the trade of livestock and other commodities.'
Visit the official workshop blog site: http://rvfworkshop2011.wordpress.com
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Susan MacMillan on July 1, 2011 at 3:18 am said:
From ILRI's Markets Digest Blog comes this news:
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Following a meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 13-16 June 2011, some 70 regional and international livestock experts endorsed and adopted a set of recommendations aimed at enhancing safe inter-regional livestock trade between exporting countries in the Horn of Africa and importing countries in the Middle East.
The workshop participants made recommendations on the following aspects that were discussed during the 4-day meeting:
Standard Methods and Procedures
Rift Valley fever decision support tool
Communication between livestock trading partners
Animal health certification
Application of the principle of equivalence
The workshop was convened by a consortium of partners comprising the African Union – Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) as the lead implementing agency, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
For more information about the workshop activities and to access the presentations, please visit http://rvfworkshop2011.wordpress.com

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High school sports schedules for Saturday, Monday
Here are the Mansfield area sports schedules through Monday:
High school sports schedules for Saturday, Monday Here are the Mansfield area sports schedules through Monday: Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/1KkmB1d
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Saturday, Sept. 19
Temple Christian at Loudonville, 11 a.m.
Shekinah Christian at St. Peter's, 11 a.m.
Port Clinton at Willard, 11 a.m.
Ontario at Clear Fork, 11:45 p.m.
Watkins Memorial at Mansfield Christian, 1 p.m.
Oak Harbor at Lexington, 5 p.m.
Madison at Columbian, noon
Ontario at Manchester, 3 p.m.
Lexington at Big Walnut, 7 p.m.
Crestview at Riverdale, 7 p.m.
Hillsdale at Triway, 7 p.m.
Sandusky MBK Invite (Mansfield Senior) 9 a.m.
South Central at Colonel Crawford, 9 a.m.
Willard Tri (Willard) 10 a.m.
Temple Christian Tri (Temple Christian), 10 a.m.
Crestline at Lucas, 11 a.m.
Mansfield Christian at Hillsdale, 11 a.m.
Ashland at Ontario, 11:30 p.m.
Beaumont at Madison, 12:30 p.m.
Galion Invitational (Clear Fork, Lexington, Madison, Mansfield Senior, Shelby, Galion, Ontario, Plymouth, Crestview, Lucas, Mansfield Christian, St. Peter's, Ashland, Willard), 9 a.m.
Findlay Trojan Tournament (Ashland), 11 a.m.
Green Turkeyfoot Invitational (Ashland), noon
Lexington at Upper Arlington, 10 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 21
St. Peter's at Temple Christian, 5 p.m.
Ontario at Riverdale, 7 p.m.
Madison at Bellevue, 5:30 p.m.
Clear Fork at Fredericktown, 7 p.m.
Plymouth at Mapleton, 4 p.m.
Black River at Crestview, 4 p.m.
Hillsdale at Waynedale, 4 p.m.
Willard at Shelby, 4:15 p.m.
Lexington at Norwalk, 4 p.m.
Triway at Ashland, 4 p.m.
Columbian at Shelby, 4:15 p.m.
Sandusky at Willard, 4:15 p.m.
Mansfield Senior at Marion Harding, 4:30 p.m.
Ontario at Bellevue, 5 p.m.


While I was writing A History of US I began trying out chapters and then books in schools in Virginia, in Rochester, in Chicago, and in San Diego. Teachers gave me feedback. Students gave me comments. I listened. I wrote a coordinated workbook to go with the text. Its focus was on history a sa reading subject, one that links all the disciplines together. So it included information on geology, on art, on anything I found interesting. There were original stories and pertinent math problems, along with essay tests. One teacher wanted more conventional work and suggested fill-in-the-blanks and true/false questions. I provided, adding ideas for historic research intended to lead to papers or student written performances or art. Getting the books published was hard, adding innovative classwork was going too far. But I'm aware of fresh educational winds. Schoolwork can now be fun, as well as challenging. Boring should not be in anyone's learning vocabulary.


So, if you have been reading Red Ted Art closely recently….. you may have noticed the odd Origami Dress or two or three pop up.. yes.. we made these Easy Origami Dresses a few weeks ago and totally fell in love with them. So we turned them into Pop Up Dress Cards for Mother's Day and today we have some super duper cute DIY Fashion Dolls From Wooden Spoons with Origami Dresses (teehee what a mouth full). Pip Squeak (8) has been enjoying drawing and sketching "fashion" for weeks now. And I love how this new love for fashion, combined with her love for simple craft stick dolls and my Origami Dresses have turned into this parade of wonderful DIY Fashion Dolls! Aren't they fun? And isn't it cute how her crafts are growing up?
When Pip Squeak was around 5.. she did these seriously cute Craft Stick Dollies….. and it feels like now (aged 8) she has graduated on to the next level of wooden dolls… (oh man, watching the video in the craft stick dollies post, is making my heart melt.. what a cutie, even if I am bias).
The following contains Amazon affiliate links, should you choose to purchase via these links Red Ted Art will make a small comission which goes towards the upkeep of this site! Many thanks!
Pop Over to our DIY Origami Dress tutorial and make a set of Paper Dresses with 11cm x 11cm sheets of paper! Add a small piece of tape to the back of the dress – this will allow you to slide the Wooden Spoon Doll in and out of the dress.
Then come back and watch Pip Squeak's (8yrs) instructions. Do check out her YouTube Channel too!
Aren't they easy? And don't they look adorable?!
Hope you have as much fun with these easy Wooden Spoon Dolls as we have. I love how you can change their outfits all day long!
What a super cute idea! I know this will take some time to do if the kids do it so I will for sure be trying this out with them! I know they will have endless hours of entertainment, thank you for the great post!


'Jimmy in Pienk' is a quirky comedy about Jimmy Bester, a rugged seventh generation mielie farmer who can give an accurate five-day weather forecast by simply sniffing the wind. He lives out his creative impulses by shearing sheep on the neighbouring farms – something he has to hide from his father who believes that "men are not creative".
When Jimmy's father suddenly dies in a freak accident, he is confronted by two menacing (and comedic) loan sharks who come to collect what his father owes. While packing his father's things, a distraught Jimmy discovers that his father had a twin brother, who was exiled from the farm for being gay. Fred is now a multi- billionaire and hair product tycoon based in Cape Town.
For the first time in his life Jimmy gathers the courage to leave his home and travel to Cape Town to seek help from his uncle, but Fred has a bitter grudge against the Bester family and he hatches a plan to exact revenge on the family that spurned him.
He convinces Jimmy to enter his reality TV show, "SA's Next Super Stylist". If Jimmy wins the competition, he can take home the prize money and save his family. With no experience in hairdressing, Jimmy knows that he is likely to fail, but he is willing to risk becoming a laughing stock if it offers him even just the slightest chance at saving his family. Under the fabulous tutelage of Bunny, his gay hair guru, Jimmy sets out to master the art of hairdressing and becoming a metro-sexual man.
With the final of the competition around the corner and the loan sharks' deadline looming, can an honest country boy like Jimmy keep up an elaborate lie, or will the urge to be himself sabotage his chances at winning the contest and saving his beloved farm?
Shot on location in Cape Town, the film stars Louw Venter, who underwent a gruelling diet and exercise regime in preparation for the part, in the lead role of Jimmy. The film also boasts an all star cast, including Gys de Villiers ('Hanna Hoekom', 'Verraaiers'), Terence Bridgett ('Disgrace', 'Skeem'), Gérard Rudolf ('Transito', 'Wolwedans in die Skemer'), Tinarie van Wyk-Loots ('Transito', 'Hond se Dinges') David Isaacs ('Joe Barber', 'Skeem'), Garth Collins ('Getroud Met Rugby', 'Superhelde') and Shaleen Surtie-Richards ('Egoli', 'Fiela Se Kind').


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School-University Partnerships Symposium 2018
Teacher Learning and Teaching in the Age of STREAM PARTNERSHIP FOR ALL
As part of the Centenary Celebration of Teacher Education at The University of Hong Kong, the School-University Partnerships Symposium 2018 (the Symposium) will be held to celebrate and share the success of different levels of partnership with local schools such as teacher education, research, and professional support. Our Faculty Dean, Professor A. Lin Goodwin would also take this golden opportunity to foster closer collaboration with schools and envision future partnerships with our stakeholders in the community.
The symposium will be officiated by Mr Kevin Yeung Yun-hung, JP, Secretary for Education, Education Bureau, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region followed by keynote speeches delivered by Professor John Williams, Professor of Education and the Director of Graduate Research in the School of Education at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia and Mrs Chua-Lim Yen Ching, Executive Director, Academy of Singapore Teachers and Deputy Director-General of Education (Professional Development), Ministry of Education, Singapore.
Interactive workshops sharing products of partnership from University-School Support Programme (USP) projects will be conducted by Faculty colleagues and other workshops centred around the theme of teaching and learning in the Age of STREAM will be conducted by principals and teachers from the following five schools:
Aldrich Bay Government Primary School
Shak Chung Shan Memorial Catholic Primary School
St Edward's Catholic Primary School
HKMA David Li Kwok Po College
SKH St Mary's Church Mok Hing Yiu College
Members of the media are welcome to cover the event. Details are as follows:
June 12, 2018 (Tuesday)
2:00 – 6:15 pm (Registration starts at 1:45 pm)
Keynote Session: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Parallel Workshops: 2/F, Runme Shaw Building, HKU
For details, please go to: http://100.edu.hku.hk/sup-symposium-2018/
The symposium is sponsored by the Tin Ka Ping Foundation. The year 2018 marks the 100th birthday of Dr Tin Ka Ping. The Tin Ka Ping Foundation supports the School-University Partnerships Symposium on "Teacher Learning and Teaching in the Age of STREAM- PARTNERSHIP FOR ALL" in acknowledgement of Dr Tin's high valuation of education and caring about teachers' development.
For media enquiries, please contact Ms Emily Cheung, Senior Manager (Development and Communications), Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 3917 4270 / email: emchy@hku.hk).


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Freak Show & Tell: Birth Control? What Does That Mean?
The Lunatic Channels
by Tara Ariano
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That's where I come in! Here's an unflinching look back at TV's Week in Freak Shows.
Pretty Wicked Moms (Lifetime)
Who Is This Now? Nicole N.
Why Are We Watching Her? She's thinking about getting pregnant.
How Did She Get Here? Apparently, focusing all of her love and energy on her shih tzu, Sommer, isn't doing it for her anymore.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Nicole's friend Emily takes her for an informational consultation with Emily's own OB/GYN, Dr. Marcus, who asks, "Do you use anything for birth control?" Nicole: "What does that mean?" Later, Nicole describes the circumstances under which she'd prefer to become a mother: "I want the stork to bring it. It would be great. And clean, you know? Not all that stuff on it? Just a pretty baby."
What Have We Learned? If, God forbid, this very dumb woman does end up raising a child, I pray she doesn't homeschool it.
Watch the whole episode here.
Couples Therapy (VH1)
Who Is This Now? Liz.
Why Are We Watching Her? She has just confirmed that she's pregnant.
How Did She Get Here? She thought it was a good idea to make a life with Flavor Flav; now, she has regrets.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Liz's reaction to her pregnancy is hysterical sobbing, even though she's in her second trimester, so, presumably, on some level, she did know already. Then she starts acting so strange (nodding out, slurring her words) that an ambulance is called; when EMTs arrive, she's locked herself in her room. Did she … take something? We don't know.
What Have We Learned? Having a child with Flavor Flav is apparently an experience Liz really doesn't want to repeat.
Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas (WeTV)
Who Is This Now? Rob.
Why Are We Watching Him? He's been relieved of his wedding ring, so he's enjoying a wild, unencumbered evening.
How Did He Get Here? Rob and his wife, Remy, are in a couple's counseling boot camp; the directors took his ring away temporarily as part of an exercise.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Rob finds a woman at the bar, tries to get her to dance with him, and eventually gives her a lap dance, and not, from what we can tell, at her request. Later, as he prepares to return to the boot camp house, the woman offers him his number and he takes it — not for himself, he later explains, but in case one of his fellow boot-camp participants decides not to stay with his wife and immediately needs another lady to keep him company.
What Have We Learned? Rob is gross, but Remy can live with it, and now they're having twins, so I guess their marriage is great?
Princesses Long Island (Bravo)
Who Is This Now? Ashlee.
Why Are We Watching Her? She's having a fight with her (sort of) friend Joey and involving all their mutual friends in it.
How Did She Get Here? Even though she's 30, Ashlee still lives at home with her parents, and still socializes with all the same people she knew when she was in high school; thus, she's still having high school–type fights.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? The details of Ashlee and Joey's fight are not important, by which I mean: The fight is stupid. All you need to know is that it takes place over a nice lunch out in the vineyard at a winery that's quite a drive from everyone's homes in Great Neck. So after the blowout, Ashlee flees from the vineyard back to the main winery building and calls her parents to cry about how mean everyone was to her. (Ashlee does not mention telling Joey, who has a troubled relationship with her mom, "Your mother was right about you," which is … pretty crappy.) After getting through a very one-sided version of the day's events, she demands that her parents get her out of there, as opposed to, say, calling a cab or a car service and dealing with it herself the way any other 30-year-old would. When Hal, Ashlee's father, suggests that she get someone at the winery to call a car service for her, Ashlee whines that there has to be a "Teterboro" around there somewhere that will have a jet or a private plane she can take home instead. Then, as the rest of her friends are figuring out who's going where for the rest of the day, Ashlee just takes off and no one has any idea where the hell she went.
What Have We Learned? Ashlee sucks and no one should waste a second looking for her spoiled ass.
Celebrity Wife Swap (ABC)
Who Is This Now? Gerardo.
Why Are We Watching Him? He's being challenged to reconsider his contributions to his household.
How Did He Get Here? He's traded wives with Sisqo, and Mrs. Sisqo (a.k.a. Elizabeth, Sisqo's girlfriend) is not as submissive as Gerardo's wife, Kathy, is.
What's the Grossest Thing We See? Gerardo tries to disguise his male chauvinism as acceptable behavior for a traditional Latino man, saying things like, "A modern marriage doesn't work for me. The worst thing my wife could do is make me do chores." Meanwhile, he orders Elizabeth (who normally doesn't cook at home) to make dinner for the 50 to 80 members of the Bible study group he hosts at the house, criticizes everything she does, and doesn't help her prepare the meal, choosing instead to sit in the dining room and get a new tattoo.
What Have We Learned? Gerardo was actually less objectionable in his "Rico Suave" days.
Watch the full episode here.
Tara Ariano is the West Coast editor of Previously.TV.
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U.S.-Chile Relationship
President Barack Obama meets with Chile's President Sebastián Piñera, in the Oval Office. June 4, 2013.
The United States and Chile share a close relationship based on shared values.
The United States and Chile share a close relationship based on shared values. Both countries also recognize the benefits of working together on issues of common interest, including broad-based economic growth; clean energy development; cooperation on science, technology, and innovation; access to quality education; improved natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and environmental enforcement; facilitating trade; and travel and tourism.
Both countries also share a strong commitment to expanding economic growth and job creation through integration into global markets.
At a June 4th meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera noted that since the two countries signed a free trade agreement in 2004, trade between them has more than tripled. Today, Chile's economy is booming.
"Chile has been on a remarkable growth trajectory," said President Barack Obama. "And the progress that it's made in terms of strengthening its economy, pulling people out of poverty, establishing a strong manufacturing and industrial and service base, its strong exports sector are all proof of the talents of the Chilean people but also Chile's embrace of democracy and human rights and a market economy. And as a consequence, Chile has become not only a leader in the hemisphere but also a leader in the world."
An important element of the U.S.-Chile relationship is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP: a high-standard trade agreement between the United States, Chile and nine other countries that will eliminate barriers to trade and investment, open new markets, and deepen investment ties across the dynamic Pacific region. The TPP could potentially create a trading region with about 26.4 trillion dollars in annual economic output.
"We've got strong relationships throughout the hemisphere, but the relationship between the United States and Chile is as strong and as important as any of the relationships that we have," said President Obama.
The United States is committed to working with Chile to meet its needs for access to energy, enhance the role of renewables, and facilitate continued economic growth.
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A closing scheme for finding almost-invariant sets in open dynamical systems
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Continuation and collapse of homoclinic tangles
January 2014, 1(1): 111-134. doi: 10.3934/jcd.2014.1.111
An equation-free approach to coarse-graining the dynamics of networks
Katherine A. Bold 1, , Karthikeyan Rajendran 2, , Balázs Ráth 3, and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis 4,
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology (BME), H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
Received February 2012 Revised October 2012 Published April 2014
We propose and illustrate an approach to coarse-graining the dynamics of evolving networks, i.e., networks whose connectivity changes dynamically. The approach is based on the equation-free framework: short bursts of detailed network evolution simulations are coupled with lifting and restriction operators that translate between actual network realizations and their appropriately chosen coarse observables. This framework is used here to accelerate temporal simulations through coarse projective integration, and to implement coarse-grained fixed point algorithms through matrix-free Newton-Krylov. The approach is illustrated through a very simple network evolution example, for which analytical approximations to the coarse-grained dynamics can be independently obtained, so as to validate the computational results. The scope and applicability of the approach, as well as the issue of selection of good coarse observables are discussed.
Keywords: Complex networks, coarsegraining, network evolution, equation-free approach, graph limits..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 68U20, 37E25; Secondary: 65Z0.
Citation: Katherine A. Bold, Karthikeyan Rajendran, Balázs Ráth, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis. An equation-free approach to coarse-graining the dynamics of networks. Journal of Computational Dynamics, 2014, 1 (1) : 111-134. doi: 10.3934/jcd.2014.1.111
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Robert Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, Yuan Lou. Evolution of dispersal and the ideal free distribution. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2010, 7 (1) : 17-36. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2010.7.17
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Nikolay Dimitrov. An example of rapid evolution of complex limit cycles. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2011, 31 (3) : 709-735. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.31.709
Claudio Canuto, Anna Cattani. The derivation of continuum limits of neuronal networks with gap-junction couplings. Networks & Heterogeneous Media, 2014, 9 (1) : 111-133. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2014.9.111
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I recently had some driver issues with my laptop, specifically related to my video display driver. I wanted to install the original proprietary display drivers for my ATI 4670 mobile display adapter but soon after noticed that I had some issues with it. I'll explain that in another article. I'll try to explain how you can install the display proprietary drivers, as well as the original drivers from ATI in this and my next article.
Keep this in mind however, ATI is known to drop support for linux users very fast, so by the time I finished doing my the installation, I found out it was impossible for my display adapter to be installed. Anyways, for those that still have support, you can follow the steps below to install the proprietary drivers.
Step 1. – Remove existing installation of drivers.
Step 2. – Install the proprietary drivers.
After you've completed these you need to reboot your computer, afterwards you can start practically to install a fresh fglrx again with new xorg.conf.
Generate a fresh xorg.conf before rebooting else you will not be able to see anything but a blank / black screen!
Heads up! If these options do not work for you, it means that your display adapter is not supported by the proprietary drivers. See at the end a link to an article where you can still install a driver for your card.


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Se denomina persona monónima a quien se conoce y designa con un monónimo, es decir, por  un nombre único. En algunos casos, dicho nombre ha sido elegido por el individuo, que puede haber tenido originalmente un polínimo ('nombre múltiple'). En otros casos, ha sido determinado por las costumbres del país o por alguna persona o grupo interesado.

Numerosos músicos y actores han adoptado nombres únicos, tales como Sandro, Cher, Adele, Shakira, Beyoncé, Fey, Bono, Moby, Madonna, Prince, Björk, Rihanna, Sting, Xzibit y Cantinflas, entre muchos otros.

En España, en Portugal y en Brasil, es común que los futbolistas sean conocidos por un nombre único. Así es el caso de Xavi, Pelé, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho,  Kaká, entre muchos otros.

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Bibliografía
Encyclopedia Americana, Danville, CT, Grolier, 1986 ed., ISBN 0-7172-0117-1.
Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, 1996, ISBN 83-86328-60-6.
Richard Holmes, "Voltaire's Grin", New York Review of Books, 30 de noviembre de 1995, p. 49–55.
Richard Holmes, Sidetracks:  Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, New York, HarperCollins, 2000.
William Smith, Dictionary of the Bible:  Comprising Its Antiquities..., 1860–65.
Peter Wetzler, Hirohito and War:  Imperial Tradition and Military Decision-Making in Prewar Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8248-1166-6.

Enlaces externos
Peter Funt, "The Mononym Platform", The New York Times, 21 de febrero de 2007.

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This program, made by Charles Strawbridge aka mrchay, allows you to take an html5 project and convert it to an Android .apk very simply.
In short : you need the Java Run time (JRE) but apparently not the Dev. Kit (JDK) installed.
You then copy your html5 project to the html5 folder and run the go.bat file.
In about a minute, the console window closes, and you have a signed apk in the same folder at the go.bat file.
The key used is a generic one but you can create your own (Google how) and place it in the key folder.
The download from the project page above includes 7z.exe and 7z.dll in the tools folder.
It appears that these are for 64 bit Windows OSes.
I replaced both of these files from my 32 bit install of 7-zip and it worked fine on my WinXP 32 bit OS.
That (mrchay) looks interesting (but I havent tried it yet).
I just found out about another technique for getting HTML5 apps to run "natively" on Android OS.
The author adds 2 lines of code to his .html file, and an icon image to his project on the server.
The Android user needs to install the browser "ChromeBETA" on his android device (free from the Play Store).
When the user has loaded the html page from the server into his ChromeBETA browser he can select the browser menu option "add to home screen".
ChromeBeta will then install a standalone app with a shortcut icon on the user's desktop/home screen (using the supplied icon image).
This app can then be run as a standalone application (without needing online access).
Seems to work OK (e.g. http://www.zen226082.zen.co.uk/PongGoneWrong4.html).
Limitations:- ChromeBETA is a bit unstable for a regular user.
It would be nice if all browsers could do this.


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One drop on either side where the cord ties the strings together and all will be good.
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Enbridge says Line 5 Injunction Unnecessary
Inspections show no damage to twin pipelines
CALGARY, AB and LANSING, Mich., June 22, 2020 /CNW/ - Enbridge Inc. (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) (Enbridge) said today the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction sought by the Attorney General of Michigan is legally unsupportable, unnecessary, and will be vigorously opposed by Enbridge.
Enbridge understands the importance of the Great Lakes to the State and the need to protect the Straits, the environment and people. As part of its thorough maintenance and inspection program, Enbridge first noted a disturbance to an anchor support on the east leg last Thursday and immediately shut down both legs of the Line 5 dual pipelines crossing the Straits of Mackinac as a precautionary measure. The east leg pipeline remains shut down, while the west leg was restarted after a thorough review and consultation with our safety regulator.
"We have been working very closely with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), to ensure it is able to assess the safety of the dual pipelines. This included informing them of our completion of Remote Operated Vehicle inspections of the west leg of the line, which confirmed there was no mechanical damage to the pipeline or any support-anchors. We have also provided engineering assessments and other materials to State officials." said Vern Yu, Enbridge's Executive Vice-President and President, Liquids Pipelines. "We continue to work with PHMSA to answer their questions about our assessments of the dual pipelines."
Line 5 is a critical source of 540,000 barrels per day of propane and crude oil supply for Michigan and surrounding areas that make up the regional supply network for the State, producing transportation fuels and consumer goods. Line 5 has operated reliably and safely in the Straits since 1953 and continues to do so today.
A copy of Enbridge CEO Al Monaco's June 21, 2020 letter to Governor Whitmer which chronicles communication with the State on June 20 and 21, as well as undertakings to provide all findings to both the State and PHMSA, is attached to this release.
Forward-looking information, or forward-looking statements, have been included in this news release to provide information about Enbridge Inc. ("Enbridge" or the "Company") and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including management's assessment of Enbridge and its subsidiaries' future plans and operations. This information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as ''anticipate'', ''expect'', ''project'', ''estimate'', ''forecast'', ''plan'', ''intend'', ''target'', ''believe'', "likely" and similar words suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. Forward-looking information or statements in this news release include statements with respect to the Line 5 dual pipelines and any expected or possible litigation and the effects thereof, regulatory and permitting actions and decisions, and economic and other benefits.
Although Enbridge believes these forward-looking statements are reasonable based on the information available on the date such statements are made and processes used to prepare the information, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and readers are cautioned against placing undue reliance on forward-looking statements. By their nature, these statements involve a variety of assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, levels of activity and achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Assumptions regarding the expected supply of and demand for crude oil, natural gas, NGL and renewable energy, and the prices of these commodities, are material to and underlie all forward-looking statements, as they may impact current and future levels of demand for the Company's services. Similarly, the COVID-19 pandemic, exchange rates, inflation and interest rates impact the economies and business environments in which the Company operates and may impact levels of demand for the Company's services and cost of inputs, and are therefore inherent in all forward-looking statements. Due to the interdependencies and correlation of these macroeconomic factors, the impact of any one assumption on a forward-looking statement cannot be determined with certainty. The most relevant assumptions associated with forward-looking statements in this news release with regards to the Line 5 dual pipelines include the impact of government and regulatory actions, approvals and litigation on ongoing operations.
Enbridge's forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to those risks and uncertainties discussed in this news release and in the Company's other filings with Canadian and United States securities regulators. The impact of any one risk, uncertainty or factor on a particular forward-looking statement is not determinable with certainty as these are interdependent and Enbridge's future course of action depends on management's assessment of all information available at the relevant time. Except to the extent required by applicable law, Enbridge assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made in this news release or otherwise, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. All subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to Enbridge or persons acting on the Company's behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements.
About Enbridge Inc.
Enbridge Inc. is a leading North American energy infrastructure company. We safely and reliably deliver the energy people need and want to fuel quality of life. Our core businesses include Liquids Pipelines, which transports approximately 25 percent of the crude oil produced in North America; Gas Transmission and Midstream, which transports approximately 20 percent of the natural gas consumed in the U.S.; Gas Distribution and Storage, which serves approximately 3.8 million retail customers in Ontario and Quebec; and Renewable Power Generation, which generates approximately 1,750 MW of net renewable power in North America and Europe. The Company's common shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol ENB. For more information, visit www.enbridge.com.
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Diddy Regrets Not Marrying Kim Porter in Emotional Post after Her Death, Gets Blasted for Dating JLO
P. Diddy gets candid and admits being ready to marry Kim Porter though "it's too late." He also responded to a fan who accused him of messing with Jennifer Lopez while dating Kim.
Months after Kim Porter's death, P. Diddy admits he's ready to marry her "but it's too late."
A CANDID CONFESSION
Twitter feasted on what is now a deleted comment from Diddy who responded to a fan asking him why he never married Kim and accused him of being fake.
"never fake," the rapper wrote. "I wasn't ready and that's it. I'm ready now but it's too late" he adds, before advising "don't be like me."
Source: Rollingout.com
DIDDY'S SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH KIM
Since Kim's untimely death in November, Diddy has been very vocal about how special she was to him. His most recent pronouncement was two days ago when he shared a photo of what he revealed was the first time he told Kim he loved her. The couple was standing in front of a Rolls Royce and Diddy explained Kim had selflessly flown 12 hours and ridden 3 hours into the desert just to see him.
"She took like a 12 hour flight to LA and 3 hour ride to the desert. With no complaints. Was always ride or die. From day 1!"
He continued,
"I called her BONNIE AND I WAS CLYDE! This picture will go down in history as the first time I said she was MINE!!!! AND THE FIRST TIME I TOLD HER I LOVE HER, little did I know I was hers. Miss you BONNIE and will forever. Maaaaan life is beautiful to have had these experiences. Love you baby."
ON MESSING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN
Diddy's post gained mileage but it also drew attention to another relationship he had – his high profile romance with Jennifer Lopez. One commenter pointed out that despite his devotion to Kim, "you ended up messing with JLo at that time."
Diddy didn't hesitate to agree with the commenter and replied, "yes I did."
Kim and Diddy dated on an off for thirteen years from 1994 to 2007. Sometime in between their romance, Jennifer entered the picture. It was the summer of 1999 when Diddy and the multi-faceted star were rumored to be dating. They split in 2001.
P. Diddy and Jennifer Lopez arriving for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards on September 7, 2000 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. | Source: Getty
THE REASON BEHIND THEIR FINAL SPLIT
Though she and Diddy reunited and went on with their relationship for several more years after, the final straw for Kim was when she discovered Diddy had impregnated another woman, Sarah Chapman while she was pregnant with their twins, D'Lila Star and Jessie James. Chance Combs was born five months before the twins. Kim was upset that she didn't' learn about it firsthand from Diddy.
"I would have preferred to find out from him because that's a man,"she told Essence in September 2007.
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Their relationship was never repaired since then but they managed to become close friends and co-parents to their children, Christian and the twins. Diddy also continued to stand as a father to Kim's son, Quincy Brown with producer Al B! Sure.
A CONTINUED DEVOTION TO KIM
This is the reason why Kim's death was such a big blow on Diddy who shared a long history and friendship with her. Kim was discovered dead in her home and was later confirmed to have died from complications of pneumonia. In a series of tributes following her death, Diddy deemed her his soul mate and vowed to be the best father to their children.
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package org.openqa.selenium.support.ui;

import static java.time.Instant.EPOCH;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
import org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException;
import org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchFrameException;
import org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException;
import org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.function.Function;

public class FluentWaitTest {

  private static final Object ARBITRARY_VALUE = new Object();

  @Mock
  private WebDriver mockDriver;
  @Mock
  private ExpectedCondition<Object> mockCondition;
  @Mock
  private java.time.Clock mockClock;
  @Mock
  private Sleeper mockSleeper;

  @Before
  public void createMocks() {
    MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
  }

  @Test
  public void shouldWaitUntilReturnValueOfConditionIsNotNull() throws InterruptedException {
    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH);
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenReturn(null, ARBITRARY_VALUE);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
      .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class, NoSuchFrameException.class);

    assertThat(wait.until(mockCondition)).isEqualTo(ARBITRARY_VALUE);
    verify(mockSleeper, times(1)).sleep(Duration.ofSeconds(2));
  }

  @Test
  public void shouldWaitUntilABooleanResultIsTrue() throws InterruptedException {
    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH);
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenReturn(false, false, true);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
        .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class, NoSuchFrameException.class);

    assertThat(wait.until(mockCondition)).isEqualTo(true);

    verify(mockSleeper, times(2)).sleep(Duration.ofSeconds(2));
  }

  @Test
  public void checksTimeoutAfterConditionSoZeroTimeoutWaitsCanSucceed() {
    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH, EPOCH.plusMillis(250));
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenReturn(null);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0));
    assertThatExceptionOfType(TimeoutException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .withNoCause();
  }

  @Test
  public void canIgnoreMultipleExceptions() throws InterruptedException {
    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH);
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver))
      .thenThrow(new NoSuchElementException(""))
      .thenThrow(new NoSuchFrameException(""))
      .thenReturn(ARBITRARY_VALUE);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
      .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class, NoSuchFrameException.class);

    assertThat(wait.until(mockCondition)).isEqualTo(ARBITRARY_VALUE);

    verify(mockSleeper, times(2)).sleep(Duration.ofSeconds(2));
  }

  @Test
  public void propagatesUnIgnoredExceptions() {
    final NoSuchWindowException exception = new NoSuchWindowException("");

    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH);
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenThrow(exception);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
      .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class, NoSuchFrameException.class);

    assertThatExceptionOfType(NoSuchWindowException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .satisfies(expected -> assertThat(expected).isSameAs(exception));
  }

  @Test
  public void timeoutMessageIncludesLastIgnoredException() {
    final NoSuchWindowException exception = new NoSuchWindowException("");

    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH, EPOCH.plusMillis(500), EPOCH.plusMillis(1500), EPOCH.plusMillis(2500));
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver))
      .thenThrow(exception)
      .thenReturn(null);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
      .ignoring(NoSuchWindowException.class);

    assertThatExceptionOfType(TimeoutException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .satisfies(expected -> assertThat(exception).isSameAs(expected.getCause()));
  }

  @Test
  public void timeoutMessageIncludesCustomMessage() {
    TimeoutException exception = new TimeoutException(
        "Expected condition failed: Expected custom timeout message "
        + "(tried for 0 second(s) with 500 milliseconds interval)");

    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH, EPOCH.plusMillis(1000));
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenReturn(null);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .withMessage("Expected custom timeout message");

    assertThatExceptionOfType(TimeoutException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .withMessage(exception.getMessage());
  }

  private String state = null;

  @Test
  public void timeoutMessageIncludesCustomMessageEvaluatedOnFailure() {
    TimeoutException exception = new TimeoutException(
        "Expected condition failed: external state "
        + "(tried for 0 second(s) with 500 milliseconds interval)");

    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH, EPOCH.plusMillis(1000));
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenReturn(null);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .withMessage(() -> state);

    state = "external state";

    assertThatExceptionOfType(TimeoutException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .withMessage(exception.getMessage());
  }

  @Test
  public void timeoutMessageIncludesToStringOfCondition() {
    TimeoutException exception = new TimeoutException(
        "Expected condition failed: waiting for toString called "
        + "(tried for 0 second(s) with 500 milliseconds interval)");

    Function<Object, Boolean> condition = new Function<Object, Boolean>() {
      public Boolean apply(Object ignored) {
        return false;
      }

      @Override
      public String toString() {
        return "toString called";
      }
    };

    Wait<Object> wait = new FluentWait<Object>("cheese")
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0));

    assertThatExceptionOfType(TimeoutException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(condition))
        .withMessage(exception.getMessage());
  }

  @Test
  public void canIgnoreThrowables() {
    final AssertionError exception = new AssertionError();

    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH, EPOCH.plusMillis(1000));
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenThrow(exception);

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper)
      .withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
      .ignoring(AssertionError.class);

    assertThatExceptionOfType(TimeoutException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .satisfies(expected -> assertThat(exception).isSameAs(expected.getCause()));
  }

  @Test
  public void callsDeprecatedHandlerForRuntimeExceptions() {
    final TimeoutException exception = new TimeoutException();

    when(mockClock.instant()).thenReturn(EPOCH, EPOCH.plusMillis(2500));
    when(mockCondition.apply(mockDriver)).thenThrow(exception);

    final TestException sentinelException = new TestException();
    FluentWait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(mockDriver, mockClock, mockSleeper) {
      protected RuntimeException timeoutException(String message, Throwable lastException) {
        throw sentinelException;
      }
    };
    wait.withTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(0))
      .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(2))
      .ignoring(TimeoutException.class);

    assertThatExceptionOfType(TestException.class)
        .isThrownBy(() -> wait.until(mockCondition))
        .satisfies(expected -> assertThat(sentinelException).isSameAs(expected));
  }

  private static class TestException extends RuntimeException {

  }
}

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A former Senator, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has expressed his intention to contest in the forthcoming 2019 presidential election.
Forty eight year-old ex-Datti Baba- Ahmed is a successful scholar and businessman said he is capable of unifying the country and bringing peace to all the regions.
According to a statement signed by the Chairman of the Datti Baba-Ahmed Campaign Media committee in Abuja on Friday, Ibrahim Biu, Senator Baba-Ahmed as a young and vibrant Nigerian who has all the credentials to move Nigeria to the next level.
He added that Baba-Ahmed's passion for educational advancement enabled him obtained additional educational qualifications at London Business School, Harvard Kennedy and Harvard business school respectively.
"He has a reputation of speaking fearlessly against corruption, bad governance and societal problems. His uncompromising stance against corruption remains an important ingredient needed for a leader that wants to steer the ship of the Nigerian state. This is a man that will favour building institutions over creating strong personalities.
"Senator Datti has also been a proponent of Security, Economy and Education (SEE) programme. His position is that, with the right investment in these critical sectors of the economy, Nigeria will be an inch away from the problems militating against the nation.
"The common yearning in the Nigerian political space is for a fresh face to lead, heralding a departure from the recycling of leaders that Nigeria has always had for decades.
"The youth who are the majority of Nigerian population, are in desperate need of a leader and a mentor that they can rally behind with their support having been disappointed so many times by the old stock.
"In an era of total distrust for leaders, Nigeria is in dire need of a young, energetic and competent leader with no baggage to run for President in 2019," the statement reads.
In December 2017, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed resigned his membership of the All Progressive Congress, accused the party of intolerance and bias.


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The Art of Misdiagnosis
by Gayle Brandeis
Beacon Press, 2017
Review by Christian Perring on Jan 2nd 2018
The title of Gayle Brandeis's memoir tells the reader what to expect, as does the description in the blurb. But as she writes it, she brings her readers along with the experience of the frustration of dealing with her mother Arlene, and the anxiety of wondering what has happened to her when she disappears. After her mother's body has been discovered, she copes with the grief at the same time as raising her new-born child. Arlene was a complicated and difficult person who was a candidate for psychiatric diagnoses. Gayle reflects on her childhood when her mother encouraged her and her sister to present with symptoms of physical illness in an apparent attempt to get the attention of medical doctors. In her later life, Arlene was convinced her husband was persecuting her, trying to ruin her life. She imagined elaborate scenarios of plots to get at her, and she made many accusations. It was very difficult to reason with her, and she would imagine that other people were in on the plot if they didn't believe her. Arlene was also busy at work making a never-released documentary titled The Art of Misdiagnosis which was meant to expose medical malpractice and incompetence, and the prevalence of little-known disorders that explain many people's mysterious symptoms. Spread through the book are excerpts from the documentary. Gayle reflects on what her mother says in her documentary, sometimes with appreciation and at other times with a more critical attitude.
So although the main story arc is fairly simple, there is a lot going on in this memoir, with flashbacks, digressions, and multiple voices. Brandeis herself is a talented writer with several other publications to her name, and here her approach is direct and reflective. While there is a very steady stream of memoirs of people coping with major mental illnesses, there are only a handful about surviving the suicide of a close family member, and Brandeis's, while very specific to her situation, deals with common themes. Her account of her anger at her mother for her difficult spells of difficult behavior, combined with her need to protect herself and her family from the corrosive effects of her mother's actions, is especially striking. She also makes clear her love for her mother, her gratitude for the good times they shared, and her admiration for her mother's achievements. Brandeis's experience of grief as she goes through her mother's belongings after the suicide, and learning about the details of the suicide, are especially moving.
Christian Perring teaches in NYC.
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Denver wants more safety education after first scooter death
by: Alex Rose
DENVER — The city of Denver is pushing for more education about how to ride electric scooters safely after a rider died following a crash in the Highlands.
Cameron Hagan, 26, was allegedly traveling the wrong way when he collided with an oncoming car near West 32nd Avenue and North Eliot Street on Aug. 4. He died from his injuries Monday.
The memory of the crash will forever be burned in the mind of Christian Johner, who was riding on a different scooter near Hagan at the time of the crash.
Johner says Hagan tried to cross over to the right side of the road when he was struck by the oncoming car.
"Cameron had an open heart and open mind towards everyone," Johner said.
Hagan's death is the first scooter-related death in Denver since the pilot program began more than one year ago.
"This is not just a scooter issue, this is an issue for everybody," said Heather Burke with Denver Public Works.
Hagan's death comes at a time when traffic-related fatalities are on the rise in Denver, with at least 50 deaths happening so far in 2019.
"We want to ensure everyone is getting around our streets safely, so we'll be looking at different options into how we can educate people and that may include having the scooter operators fund an education campaign," Burke said.
Currently, people are supposed to ride scooters in bike lanes and on roads with speed limits of under 30 mph. There is a proposal heading to City Council to ban scooter use on sidewalks and have them operate like bicycles.
Burke says the scooters will shut down in ride-restricted zones, including the 16th Street Mall, Union Station and Coors Field before, during and after Rockies games.
Denver Public Works is looking into potentially shutting down all scooters after a certain time of night, and re-assessing speed limits, according to Burke.
"Treat them with respect," Johner said. "I mean, they're fun, no doubt about it. Motorcycles are fun too, but they're all dangerous."