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Thursday's news in under 5 minutes.
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We've rounded up all the latest stories from Australia and around the world – so you don't have to go searching.
1. Marcus Stanford appeared in court yesterday to face charges over Stephanie Scott's murder.
Marcus Stanford, twin brother of Stephanie Scott's alleged murderer Vincent Stanford, appeared in court yesterday.
ABC reports Stanford, age 24, has been charged as an accessory after the fact to the murder of Leeton High School teacher Stephanie Scott in April.
Stephanie Scott. Image via Facebook.
Ms Scott's burnt body was found in isolated bushlands approximately 70 kilometres from her home town, just days before she was due to be married.
Appearing in front of Griffith Court via video-link today, Marcus Stanford did not apply for bail.
His next court appearance is set for July 29th.
2. British fathers have made an emotional plea to their wives who may have fled to Syria to join IS.
Two fathers, whose children are believed to have been taken to Syria by their mothers have begged for them to be returned home to Britain.
Their wives Sugra and Khadija Dawood and the women's sister, Zohra, are thought to be en route to join IS militants in the Middle East, according to The Independent.
Akhtar Iqbal. Image via YoutTube.
They have taken their nine children with them after departing from Bradford in Yorkshire over a week ago.
Akhtar Iqbal who is married to Sugra Dawood gave an emotive plea to his wife, saying he loved her and asking her to contact him.
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"Please, please call me. It's been eight, nine days, you are out and we don't know where you are," he said.
"I miss you, I love you. All of you, I love you a lot. I can't live without you."
Mr Iqbal said he was "shaking with fear" thinking about his five children, who are aged between three and fifteen years 0f age.
Mohammed Shoaib wept as he pleaded with his wife Khadija to bring home his two children, aged five and seven.
"We had a perfect relationship, we had a lovely family. Please contact me whenever you want. Please come back," he said.
"I'm not angry, please come back, everything is normal, come back to normal life please. They are young kids, seven and five. We had a perfect relationship, we had a lovely family, I don't know what happened. Please contact me whenever you want."
The women were expected to return to their homes in Bradford Yorkshire last Thursday.
3. The man accused of murdering Masa Vukotic says he must have his mental health assessed, lawyer says.
The man accused of murdering Melbourne teenager Masa Vukotic will be assessed to determine if he is mentally fit to enter a plea in court.
Sean Christian Price is accused of stabbing the 17-year-old while she was out jogging in a Melbourne park.
He appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates court on Monday via video link, but details can only now be reported.
According to The Age defence counsel Ruth Shann told the court that Price needed further psychological assessment to determine if he was well enough to enter a plea.
"We need to understand more about Mr Price's condition, including his fitness to plea," she said.
Masa's father, Slavoljub, was in court with family members and a group of supporters wearing pink — Masa's favourite colour.
4. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says 'The Killing Season' proves Labor can't be trusted.
Controversy from Tuesday night's episode of The Killing Season spilled over into parliament yesterday as Tony Abbott taunted the Opposition Leader over the previous Government's failings.
Bill Shorten attacked Abbott over a controversial deal struck with the Greens that will most likely leave some pensioners out of pocket.
One from the archives. Via ABC.
"Given the Prime Minister has now done dirty deals with the Greens on the debt ceiling and slashing part pensions," Mr Shorten said "how can Australians believe a single word this Prime Minister says?"
Mr Abbott hit back saying: "I am a little surprised that the Leader of the Opposition should choose to start question time today talking about trust, given what we were told on The Killing Season last night.
"I want to say publicly: thank you to the ABC. Thank you to the ABC. I don't normally say thank you to the ABC, but I have to say Australia is indebted to you on this instance."
Maybe you ought to give them back some of their funding then? AHEM.
5. Ireland is mourning the death of five students after California balcony collapse.
Five Irish students and one other woman were killed yesterday when after a hotel balcony collapsed in California, while several others remain in a critical condition.
BBC reports the accident occurred during the 21st birthday celebrations of one of the students at around 1.00am local time on Wednesday.
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The victims, all aged between 21 and 22 years, were on a work exchange programme — over 700 Irish students are believed to be living in the area.
Philip Grant, the Consul General of Ireland to the Western United States told the press: "We're still in an emergency response mode. It's a formative experience, and to have this happen … has left us all frozen in shock and disbelief."
Mourners and local residents affected by the tragedy have begun leaving flowers and photos at the scene as forensic investigators examine the site.
Police chief have said their is no sign of criminal activity at this point.
6. Study: Women in their 40s should freeze their eggs at a young age.
A new study has found that a woman's chance of conceiving in her forties could be greatly improved if she froze her eggs before the age of 35.
The study conducted in Spain found that while women older than 44 had a 1.3 per cent chance of conceiving through IVF, women aged 38 and 39 had a 24 per cent chance.
"Women of 44 or older should be fully informed about their real chances of a live birth and counselled in favour of egg donation," lead researcher Dr Marta Devesa said.
According to The Guardian, Dr Devesa suggests women freeze their eggs prior to the age of 35, or use donor eggs from younger women to have the best chances of conception.
The study involved 4,000 women at the Hospital Universitari Quirón-Dexeus in Barcelona, Spain.
7. Teenager dies during routine wisdom teeth surgery.
A 17-year-old girl has died while getting her wisdom teeth out.
Sydney Galleger from Minnesota, USA suffered a cardiac arrest during the routine procedure.
Sydney Galleger, 17. Image: Facebook.
"We have all been blessed to have been touched by Sydney in one way or another," Sydney's mother wrote online, according to TIME.
"Her faith was strong, her heart was big, her laughter was infectious and her smile could light up a room."
Toward the end of Sydney's procedure, she started going into cardiac arrest. Emergency services were called immediately but nothing could be done to revive her.
Sydney was pronounced dead a week later.
8. Hundreds of Australian women targeted in nude photo leak.
Nude photographs of hundreds of South Australian women and teenage girls have been leaked on a US-based website.
The photos were either posted or provided directly by recipients of the images, although SBS reports some may have been taken from private Facebook accounts.
One of the victims believes the leak was an act of revenge.
"I let a boyfriend take the photos while we were together and I guess that was his way of kind of getting back at me," she told Seven News.
The South Australian police are attempting to have the website blocked in Australia, but are unable to exercise much authority over the website and its owners as it is hosted in the United States.
Police are investigating those who may have leaked the images.
Yesterday, Independent Senator Nick Xenophon called the leak "sickening".
"The photos have to come from somewhere and if they come from an ex-partner, then that ex-partner who does such a nasty or spiteful thing ought to be subject to a sanction," he said.
9. State of Origin fans furious after Ron Clarke tribute disrupted.
While NSW took out last night's State of Origin clash in Melbourne, football fans are reeling after a rowdy crowd refused to stay silent during a tribute to the late Ron Clarke.
The minute silence for Ron Clarke. Image: Screenshot via Channel Nine.
The Origin opened with a minute silence for the legendary athlete, who passed away yesterday at the age of 78.
During the silence, shouts of "Queenslander" and "Gallen's a wanker!" could be heard from the crowd.
"You get 91 and a half thousand people in any space you're always going to get a few idiots and that's exactly what they were, completely disrespectful idiots who don't do our city, our state, or indeed our nation any credit at all," Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews told Nine News.
Clarke was a record-breaking Olympic track athlete and also served a stint as the Gold Coast Mayor.
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Anon 6 years ago
4. Why does the ABC need the funding back?, they're doing just fine without it, they even seem to have enough have staff dedicated to coming up with untruths about the government, if anything the government should cut more from the ABC.
FLYINGDALE FLYER 6 years ago
Rupert, thought youd be two busy tapping a phone somewhere to comment on this
Ahh well done, true ABCism at it best!, when you have no argument and no idea, insult.
I just thought a silly comment justifies a silly answer
aaand still nothing
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Saudi Aramco scales back preparations for flotation
Saudi state oil firm scraps plans to market shares to investors outside Middle East
in Business, Energy, Featured, Gulf States, Investments, Middle East / North Africa, News, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil corporation has scaled back preparations for its public listing by scrapping plans to market shares in the company to investors outside the Middle East.
Saudi Aramco has reportedly ruled out a formal investor roadshow across Asia, the US and Europe just weeks ahead of a planned initial public offering on Riyadh's Tadawul stock exchange.
Aramco's executives were expected to meet with major institutional investors across the world's financial centres over the coming weeks to promote the world's most profitable company in the run-up to its listing early next month.
The decision to focus on investors in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf is the latest blow to Aramco's long-awaited market debut, which was once expected to be the largest in history.
Aramco hoped to raise more than $30bn (£23bn) for the government by selling a stake in its vast oil wealth to help modernise the Saudi economy and gain a foothold in the international investment community.
The early plans prompted a fevered interest among many international banks and stock exchanges eager to lay claim to a piece of the company.
The once secretive oil producer revealed profits of $46.9bn for the first six months of this year, down from $53.2bn in the same period last year but still well ahead of the world's six biggest listed oil companies combined.
Aramco said it produced an average of 13.2m barrels of oil a day in the first half of the year, more than four times the rate of production of rivals such as ExxonMobil, and at the lowest cost in the world.
Despite Aramco's eye-watering profits, interest from global investors has cooled in recent months because of concerns over the company's ties to the Saudi state and its position at the centre of flaring conflicts in the Gulf region.
Major international investors have expressed scepticism over the $2tn valuation set by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, instead estimating its value at between $1.2tn and $1.5tn, according to a poll by Bloomberg.
International banks have also come under fire from green groups for undermining global efforts to tackle the climate crisis by supporting the listing of the world's biggest oil producer.
In a letter to bank chief executives, including the bosses of HSBC and Goldman Sachs, 10 environmental groups warned that the listing would lead to "the biggest single infusion of capital into the fossil fuel industry" in the period since the Paris climate agreement in 2015.
A Guardian investigation revealed this year that Aramco was the world's most polluting company because its oil output had produced about 4.4% of the world's total carbon dioxide and methane emissions since 1965. The company is also expected to lead the growth in fossil fuel production between 2018 and 2030, the period in which experts have warned that climate action is crucial to prevent runaway global heating.
The letter also raised concern over the banks' eagerness to help raise billions of dollars for Saudi Arabia, "given the horrendous human rights record of the Saudi regime".
The latest IPO plans, released on Sunday, confirmed that it would sell up to 1.5% of the company at between 30 and 32 riyal a share, which would value it at between $1.6tn and $1.7tn.
At this price the IPO would raise raise $24bn-$25.6bn to help reform the Saudi economy, on a par with the record $25bn raised by the Chinese online retailer Alibaba in 2014.
Aramco has reserved about 0.5% for Saudi retail investors, who have been promised tax cuts and a $75bn-a-year minimum dividend to sweeten the offer. Two-thirds of the shares are expected to be snapped up by institutional investors in the Middle East, with some support from investors in China and Russia.
The exact price of Aramco's shares will be announced by the company on 4 December, and will begin trading on the Tadawul market a week later.
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With an overall National Passing Rate of 78.54%, 30 out of 42 students of the University of La Salette College under the College of Arts and Sciences had passed the Social Work Licensure Examination last July 27-28, 2017.
The 30 examinees who successfully became Registered Social Workers are the following: Lorilyn Atianzar, Alfa Buhong, Jocelyn Caoili, Crystal Hei Dasalla, Jessa Mae Dimarucot, Vernice Himmayod, Glenn Paulo Labasan, Karen Joy Lumidao, Armida Maanao, Arian Mae Tanguiling, Camille Roque, Kenedy Binaliw, Charise De Vera, Judy Ann Dimarucut, Nelda Joy Lajhan, Princess Lozano, Alfa Mateo, Josie May Pagbilao, Reina Joy Pattaui, Grace Pineda, Lhea Charm Puguon, Mary Ann Sarandi, Christine Tumakip, Jenifer Umlano, Angel Banhan, Renefre Cabiso and Luningning Pacudan.
Oath Taking Ceremony will be held for the successful RSWs on August 20, 2017, at Tent City, Manila Hotel, One Rizal Park, Manila which will be administered by the Board for Social Workers. Inductees are requested to be in Filipiniana/Barong during the event.


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Note:This feature is part of our effort towards enabling you to access your GitHub backup even when GitHub is temporarily unavailable. We recommend noting down the clone URL so you can clone without relying on the web frontend.
In June 2018 many of us were surprised to see Microsoft announce the purchase of the developer platform GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub confirmed the deal . Wow! What a bomb. This is only the tenth multi-billion dollar acquisition of Microsoft in its history.
How will this change of ownership affect us and our work at GitHub?
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FRED DEVECCA Shares his Mystery Novel, The Nutting Girl
September 25, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Trident Booksellers hosts longtime screenwriter, photographer, director, actor, and free-lance writer/author FRED DEVECCA for a reading of his novel The Nutting Girl.
Middle-aged Frank Raven used to be a lot of things–a blind monk, a cop, a private detective, and a hard drinker. Now he doesn't do much except run a funky old movie theater in bucolic Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, dance and sing with the local troupe of Morris Dancers, and record bird songs on his phone. A lanky young wunderkind director, Nick Mooney, brings his Hollywood film crew to town and hires the "retired" Raven to protect his star: the wild, unpredictable, gorgeous, and prodigiously talented twenty-one-year-old Juliana Velvet Norcross, aka VelCro. Reluctant at first, Raven takes on the job and slowly sees that there is more to VelCro than the troubled rebel she appears to be. On the eve of filming, storms ravage the small village, and the river that runs through the center of town floods its banks. The storm passes, VelCro recovers from illness that Raven's girlfriend's daughter, Sarah, helped nurse, and filming begins. But during the first shot, she is swept away into the river, leaving no trace.
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Students are invited to come along to the mask making workshops after school in the LRC each day to make cool masks and even help prepare a short performance!
They are also encouraged look at the Who Said That? posters outside of the LRC.
A few of them are included below. Can you figure out which theatrical character spoke those words?
Students can record their answers on the papers provided and add their own favourite theatrical quotes to the empty speech bubble posters.
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Q: How can I built a HOC for guarding routes if I am using httpOnly cookie? I am storing my token in a httpOnly cookie, but when I want to built a HOC for guarding the routes there is no way to access the cookie directly inside a component, I have to do it inside the server side,
I tried to do something like this but it doesn't work:
import Cookie from "cookies";
const withAuth = (Page) => {
  Page.getServerSideProps = async ({ req, res }) => {
    const cookie = new Cookie(req, res);
    const token = cookie.get("token");
    if (!token)
      return {
        redirect: {
          permanent: false,
          destination: "/login",
        },
      };
    return {
      props: {
        token,
      },
    };
  };
  return Page;
};

export default withAuth;

A: The getServerSideProps function only works in pages, not components.
The following snippet should help you create a HOC for authentication. This example uses the concepts of closures. I'll call this one withAdministrator.jsx.
// withAdministrator.jsx
export default (GetServerSidePropsFunction) => async (ctx) => {
  // 1. Check if there is a token.
  const token = ctx.req.cookies?.jwt || null;

  // 2. Perform an authorized HTTP GET request to the private API to get user data.
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  const { data } = await getAuth(`${process.env.PRIVATE_API_URL}/api/v1/users/user`, token);

  // 3. If there is no user, or the user is not an admin, then redirect to unauthorized.
  if (!data || data.role !== 'admin') {
    return {
      redirect: {
        destination: '/unauthorized',
        permanent: false,
      },
    };
  }

  // 4. Return via closure: 'GetServerSidePropsFunction'.
  return await GetServerSidePropsFunction(ctx);
};

You'll call it like this. Let's say you want to access the /admin route.
export const getServerSideProps = withAdministrator(() => {
  return {
    props: {},
  };
});

const Admin = () => {
  return (
    <YourComponent />
  );
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You can do anything you want inside the returned function. For example, you might want to fetch data after authenticating the user.
Further reading: Data fetching in Next.js.

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The MS Big Dinner Party event is a great way to get your friends and family together and show off your cooking skills, all while raising awareness and vital funds to find a cure for MS.
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The most awaited Wimbledon rematch is here: Prepare for Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal
Friday's match will be the 40th meeting for Federer and Nadal, and it will be their first at Wimbledon since the 2008 final, which is on nearly every short list of tennis's greatest matches and has inspired books and a documentary.
Wimbledon 2019: Nadal, Djokovic, Federer ease into quarters as legends show Next Gen the way
Four-time champion Novak Djokovic advanced along with two-time winner Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer into the quarter-finals of Wimbledon 2019.
Roger Federer seeded second at Wimbledon, Rafael Nadal drops to three
Roger Federer was confirmed as the second seed for Wimbledon on Wednesday, bumping Rafael Nadal down to third despite being ranked below the Spaniard.
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Rafael Nadal has criticised Wimbledon's unique seedings formula, which could hinder his chances of a third title when the tournament starts on Monday.
Rafael Nadal considered ending season after Indian Wells injury
Rafa Nadal revealed following his 12th Roland Garros title that he nearly dropped out of the season following the re-emergence of a long-standing knee injury in March.
Explained: How Nadal switched up the gameplan
Nadal also won 46 per cent (16/35) of 9+ stroke rallies in the two sets. Again a contrast to last year, where he won 65 per cent of such rallies.
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Rafael Nadal became the first player in any era to win 12 singles titles at the same Grand Slam tournament.
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Nadal, who becomes the first player to win the same Grand Slam title 12 times, going past Margaret Court's 11 Australian Opens, now sits two major titles behind his great foe and men's Grand Slam title record holder, Roger Federer.
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Shanghai Masters: Rafael Nadal, Marin Cilic through to semis
Shanghai Masters: While Rafael Nadal takes on Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals, Marin Cilic (Croatia) beat Albert Ramos (Spain) 6-3 6-4 in the first match on Friday.
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World number two Roger Federer handed Team Europe the maiden Laver Cup title after beating Team World's Nick Kyrgios.
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Rafael Nadal beat Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 to win the 2017 US Open title.
US Open 2017: Rafael Nadal's road to men's singles final
Rafael Nadal will play his third Grand Slam final of the year when he faces the in-form South African Kevin Anderson at the Arthur Ashe stadium on Sunday. He will look to clinch his third US Open title and 16th Grand Slam title of the career.
Wimbledon 2017: Winners of Men's title in ten previous editions
Wimbledon 2017 is all set to commence from July 3. Where Andy Murray is the defending champion, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal are strong contenders. Federer and Djokovic have won thrice in the last 10 editions.
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Chris Collins, new Head of Horticulture at Garden Organic, lead Food Growing Schools: London partner.
Congratulations to former Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins, and keen supporter of Food Growing Schools: London (FGSL), who has become the new Head of Organic Horticulture for Garden Organic, FGSL's lead partner. Garden Organic asked Chris to tell us how he became a successful gardener.
Chris has a CV most gardeners can only dream of, taking in two Royal Botanic Gardens and the green space at 'The Queen's church' Westminster Abbey. With a long TV history, Chris has popped up on everything from Blue Peter – where he ran the iconic London garden for nine years and then created a new one at the BBC's MediaCityUK studio in Salford – to Gardeners' World, This Morning, Children in Need, Garden Invaders and Turf Wars.
Chris is a familiar face to many schools, supporting a wide range of school food growing projects in London and across the UK – and taking selfies wherever he goes! Chris has supported many FGSL projects including our FGSL Schools Marketplace at City Hall, Growathon and numerous schools competitions, the School Food Matters Young Marketeers project at Borough Market and Edible Playground projects as a patron with Trees for Cities – to name but a few. FGSL look forward to working with Chris even more closely to achieve our dream to get every school in London growing food.
Chris trained at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh before working on diverse projects all over the globe, including Africa's oldest botanical gardens in Cameroon and a stint in Japan teaching British gardening techniques. Chris returned to the UK in 1998 and his career blossomed further at Kew and Westminster Abbey. He is also an RHS Chelsea Flower Show medal-winner!
Congratulations to Chris on his new role as Head Gardener with Garden Organic. FGSL look forward to working with him even more closely to achieve our dream to get every school in London growing food!
Read more about Chris Collins on the Garden Organic website.
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Luis Herrera de la Fuente (Ciudad de México, 1916 - Ciudad de México, 5 de diciembre de 2014) fue un director de orquesta, paleógrafo musical, compositor, pianista, violinista y narrador y creador de instituciones mexicano y uno de los más importantes músicos del siglo XX en México.

Datos biográficos
Nacido en la Ciudad de México, su padre había estudiado violín, y este y su abuelo cantaban con "voz excepcional". Inició su formación musical formal en 1924 (clases de piano con María Olvera, Modesto Sáenz y María Teresa Elorduy, en la Academia Johann Sebastian Bach propiedad del maestro Carlos del Castillo. En 1930 ingresó a la escuela de música de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, donde estudió composición musical con Estanislao Mejía, con José F. Vázquez y con Rodolfo Halffter. En 1932 estudió violín con Luis G. Saloma. En 1934 comenzó a estudiar canto con David Silva, en 1947 con Jesús Mercado. A mediados de la década de 1940 comenzó a estudiar dirección de orquesta en Zúrich, Suiza, con Sergiu Celibidache y con Hermann Scherchen. También muy interesado en dedicarse a la literatura (amigo de juventud de Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, de Juan Rulfo, de Miguel Guardia y de Juan José Arreola) y a la arquitectura, terminó por dedicarse a la música.

Orquestas dirigidas como titular

En México
En los más de setenta años de su carrera profesional desempeñó en distintos campos una importante labor en el desarrollo musical de su país: como creador de instituciones musicales, como compositor y como director titular de varias de las principales orquestas sinfónicas mexicanas; entre otras, la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (de la que fue titular durante 18 años), las orquestas sinfónicas de Minería, de Xalapa, de Jalisco y Juvenil del Estado de Veracruz.

En otros países
Fue titular de tres orquestas fuera de su país natal: sinfónicas de Perú y de Chile y Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra. Ha dirigido más de cien orquestas en varias de las principales ciudades de Europa, Norteamérica, América Central y Sudamérica, en Israel y en Nueva Zelanda.

Contribución a la creación de instituciones
Entre las instituciones musicales realizadas con proyectos suyos y con su participación activa se encuentran: la Orquesta de Cámara de Radio Universidad, la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes, la Orquesta Filarmónica de las Américas, la Fundación para la Grabación de Música Mexicana, el Instituto Superior de Música del Estado de Veracruz y la Sinfónica Juvenil de Veracruz. Esta última obtuvo, en 2003, el diploma Anual de la Crítica Especializada como el Mejor Conjunto Musical del Año.

Reconocimientos
Entre otros, recibió los siguientes:

 Galardón Nacional "Ocho Columnas de Oro en México" (1989; por su aportación al patrimonio cultural de México)
 Premio Eduardo Mata (1995)
 Medalla Mozart (1991)
 Medalla José Vasconcelos
 Medalla de Oro del Club de la Ópera
 Medalla al Mérito Ciudadano, otorgada por la Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal
 Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de las Américas (México))
 Doctor Honoris Causa (en Artes y Humanidades) y diploma de artista distinguido, ambos otorgados por la Universidad de Oklahoma
 Caballero de la Orden de Leopoldo (Reino de Bélgica)
 Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Bellas Artes, otorgado por el gobierno de México en 2005.
 Premio Anual de la Crítica Especializada (dos ocasiones)
 miembro del Jurado del Primer Concurso Internacional de Piano Van Cliburn
 invitado al Concurso Tschaikowsky (Moscú)
 Homenaje Nacional, organizado por el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes y por el Gobierno de la Ciudad de México en el que le fue entregada la Medalla de Bellas Artes (1996)
 miembro de número del Seminario Mexicano de Cultura, que en 2003 le concedió la medalla de oro José Vasconcelos

Obras
Algunas de sus composiciones musicales (estrenadas en México y en el extranjero):

Música de cámara
Sonata para orquesta de cámara (estrenada en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México, en el 2009)
 Sonata para piano (1946)
Sonatina para violoncello solo (estrenada en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México, en el 2009)
Cuarteto para cuerdas (estrenada en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México, en el 2009)

Música orquestal
 Sonata para cuerdas
 [[Preludio a Cuauhtémoc]] (1960)
 Divertimento para orquesta de cámara número 1
 Divertimento para orquesta de cuerdas
 Dos movimientos para orquesta
 Divertimento para orquesta de cuerdas y cuarteto obligatto
 Fronteras (ballet)
 La estrella y la sirena (ballet)
 M-30 (en homenaje al XXX aniversario de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería) (estrenada en 2009 por la Sinfónica de Minería)
 Concierto para piano y orquesta (estreno mundial: 28 de mayo del 2011; Guadalupe Parrondo, solista; Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, dirigida por el propio compositor)
 Primera sinfonía (2010, publicada por Ediciones Mexicanas de Música junto con una obra para oboe y orquesta).

Sus grabaciones con la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, con la de Xalapa y la de Minería para CBS, Capitol, Vox, Ángel Digital y Guild, de Londres, circulan en México, Europa, Estados Unidos y América del Sur.

Libros
 Libro autobiográfico La música no viaja sola (Fondo de Cultura Económica)
 "Música y vida" (ensayo, publicado en el libro Pensamiento moderno de México, de Editorial Porrúa)
 Notas falsas, editado inicialmente por Breve Fondo Editorial y, en segunda edición, por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Publicaciones acerca de él
 América Latina en su música. Isabel Aretz. Unesco. Siglo XXI Editores (1977).
 Baker's Biographical Dictionary 01 Musicians. Nicolas Slonimsky. 6a. ed. (1978).
 Compositores de América, vol. 15. OEA, Washington , D.C. (1969).
 Diccionario enciclopédico de México, tomo II. (1990)
 El encanto de la buena música. Apreciación musical, México. (1981).
 Enciclopedia de México, tomos V y X (1987).
 Introduction to Twentieth Century Mexican Music. Dan Malmstrom. Universidad de Upsala, Suecia. (1974) (versión en español: Breviarios de Cultura Económica, W 263 (1977).
 Luis Herrera de la Fuente, un testimonio de la cultura del siglo XX. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. México. (1995).
 Music in Latin America: An Introduction''. Gerard Béhage. Prentice-Hall (1979).

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sinfónica de Minería, Herrera de la Fuente

Compositores de música clásica de México del siglo XX
Directores de orquesta de México
Pianistas de México
Violinistas clásicos de México
Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (México)
Músicos de la Ciudad de México

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Intelligent Process Automation: Let Analytics Drive Your Workflow
by Henry Morris
Defining cross-functional processes, such as order-to-cash or procure-to-pay, is the subject of a lot of discussion today. These processes are executed by multiple applications that are, at best, partially integrated. What happens when exceptions are flagged while responding to, for example, an order that exceeds a customer's credit limit? An alert is raised to which an information worker must respond. Exceptions tend to occur over and over again, so they must be managed by information workers using tools such as phone, fax, email, instant messaging — in particular, Microsoft Office productivity tools. However, productivity tools provide no assurance of consistency in how these tasks are handled, even though this type of exception is likely to recur on a regular basis.
Companies rely on information workers to be the glue that fills in the gaps in end-to-end business processes. These "gaps" represent the repeatable, operational decisions that information workers are alerted to and to which they must respond. Since these short exception-handling processes repeat over and over, they must be handled consistently to achieve both greater efficiency and better compliance. Such decision-oriented applications for information workers represent the next major frontier for business-process automation.
"The Move to Intelligent Applications," below, shows the move to intelligent process automation (IPA) as the latest step in the evolution of enterprise applications. It is the next logical step in a journey that began with the automation of horizontal processes from core financials to Material Requirements Planning (MRP), then went to application suites and Web applications.
The Move to Intelligent Applications
IPA software automates repeatable, operational decisions within those business-process sets where analytics drive the workflow. Software solutions that enable IPA are beginning to emerge in both packaged and custom-built forms. These solutions exhibit a variety of characteristics such as the following:
Continuous in-process, rather than after-the-fact, data integration
Run-time event-driven capabilities, including Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
The ability to optimize straight-through business-process workflow based on advanced analytics or statistics and data mining
Highly automated exception-handling, when needed, triggering further specific process flows where analytics aid in or automate decision-making while other workflows continue
IPA addresses three major business imperatives: compliance, performance management, and the streamlining of multi-organizational connectivity:
1] Compliance is a top priority for many organizations in light of increased regulatory controls across more industries than ever before. For example, compliance decisions could include when to recognize revenue or to whom to extend credit. IPA focuses on driving consistency in the way repeatable, operational decisions are made — within and across organizational boundaries — from your customers to your suppliers.
2] Performance management: Dashboards are now widely used to measure and manage business performance with key performance indicators (KPIs). But a dashboard that simply reports on what has happened is of limited use. A dashboard that shows the current state of a business process (i.e., business intelligence, or BI, about a business-process set) and how it deviates from established norms is far more valuable.
Providing a process context for business-process management (BPM) will be a major stimulus for developing and deploying IPA. Including the performance of your entire supply chain, as well as your own organization, is key.
3] Efficient multi-organizational interconnection. Both of the imperatives above are most often executed in one legal entity. The demand is to get compliance, performance management, and other business-process sets working across organizations the same way they work within organizations.
IPA software makes it easier to automate by simplifying the way you link process sets together among the entirely different code sets, data sets, and infrastructure that are involved across different legal entities.
How Does IPA Work?
Incorporating analytics that select among decision alternatives within a process can yield measurable improvement, as shown in "Business-Process Flow: IPA," below. This example illustrates a business-process flow in an IPA-enabled system.
Business-Process Flow: IPA
For example, let's say a shoe manufacturer receives a big order from one of its retail customers. Unfortunately, the order exceeds the customer's credit limit. Should the manufacturer increase the credit limit or turn down the order?
Orders above the credit limit are not one-time events; they recur regularly. Hence, IPA, which deals with repeatable operational decisions, is appropriate in this case.
"Business-Process Flow: IPA," above , shows the straight-through processing defined for normal order-management transactions. Let's assume that an exception has been defined for the above-credit-limit transaction. The transaction flow, Workflow A, is monitored and when a specified event condition is detected, an exception is declared. Control is then turned over to another process flow, Workflow B, which has been developed to handle this exception. If no decision is needed, the exception invokes the prescribed rule; if a decision is required, one of three possible scenarios can occur:
1] The exception transaction can be turned over to a human credit manager to make the decision, probably with some specific analysis of the various elements in the credit history of the customer.
2] When multiple stakeholders' inputs or decisions are required, either a structured (workflow) or unstructured (collaboration) resolution process involving several human decision-makers is triggered (still in the process context, and ideally still with the guidance of analytics).
3] In a fully automated IPA environment, analysis leads to a precoded decision without the need for any human intervention.
In both cases 2 and 3, other transactions continue to flow straight through the workflow and, when the result of the exception process is known, it also continues. A record is kept not only of the transaction, but also of the decision that is made and, later, the outcome of that decision. The decision and its outcome are analyzed and used to adjust the rules and decision criteria appropriately, incorporating learning and ongoing improvement.
This IPA example incorporates BPM to orchestrate the process flows and BI to provide analysis at the point of the decision (as well as all the underlying data and logic integration and management software). Such a converged solution extends the capabilities and overcomes the limitations of traditional BI and traditional BPM.
The SAP NetWeaver Business-Process Platform
As a platform for IPA, SAP NetWeaver's runtime components form a strong base; they include SAP NetWeaver Application Server (SAP NetWeaver AS), SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI) integration broker, and the business-process manager within the SAP NetWeaver application platform and process integration layers.
Version 2004s of SAP NetWeaver contains a unified runtime for executing guided procedures, collaboration tasks (Outlook-like), Business-Process Execution Language (BPEL)-based straight-through processing, and hard-core workflow modeling. This technology is currently deployed to coordinate and automate simple and complex intra-corporate and inter-corporate processes.
Other key business-process platform components include:
SAP NetWeaver Portal, which serves as a key interface for process design and execution
Task management's universal Worklist, which is an alert inbox that also provides the context for quick issue resolution
Alert framework for SAP NetWeaver, which is a central element of the SAP NetWeaver architecture, providing the essential capabilities to invoke alerts and trigger follow-up processing, and offering other essentials such as escalation paths, based on response times
At Sapphire 2006 in Orlando, SAP and Microsoft unveiled Duet, software for information workers that enables access to SAP ERP from within the Microsoft Office environment, initially from Outlook. This product is only the beginning of new kinds of development. I expect to see structured applications built out of Duet and enterprise services that will automate decision-oriented processes. There will also be guided procedures to walk through the necessary steps for successful process execution across information workers and workgroups.
IPA automates the movement, analysis, approval, and action steps required to support daily, repeatable, operational decisions whether they are exception-based, straight-through, or both. However, for that capability to be meaningful and cost-effective, the user needs to consider multiple business processes — business-process sets — rather than simply one-off business processes.
This approach is a challenge in today's IT environment because companies are looking for quick returns on investment (ROIs) — often in less than a year. However, thinking in terms of business-process sets can reach across an individual's entire organization and out to the customer and supplier ecosystems. When this happens, it typically means cultural changes for your organization, as well as training and other related needs that simply cannot be implemented within a single budget year.
The solution is to think in terms of a highly flexible IPA infrastructure where everything is considered to be a service, in the computer science sense of the word. Such an approach allows you to switch out the old and upgrade capabilities much more quickly.
Similarly, where there is no competitive advantage to automating a business-process set, you should use one of the many industry-specific templates that are emerging both from IT suppliers and industry groups (for example, ACCORD for insurance). As a result, users can effectively deliver IPA that crosses application and organizational boundaries and does BI on-the-fly to enhance your customer service, improve staffing and workflow, and better support partners and suppliers.
Henry Morris, Ph.D., is group VP and general manager of integration, development, and application strategies for IDC.
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Hersilia kinabaluensis est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Hersiliidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique du Sabah en Malaisie à Bornéo. Elle se rencontre sur le mont Kinabalu à  d'altitude.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle .

Étymologie
Son nom d'espèce, composé de kinabalu et du suffixe latin , « qui vit dans, qui habite », lui a été donné en référence au lieu de sa découverte, le mont Kinabalu.

Publication originale
 Baehr & Baehr, 1993 : The Hersiliidae of the Oriental Region including New Guinea. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Arachnida, Araneae). Spixiana Supplement, ,  (texte intégral).

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Notes et références

Hersiliidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique du Sabah


I wanted to write novels since my teenage days, but like many people I pursued a career, in my case social and market research, marketing and business development.
When I started No Remorse in 2008, in my spare time, I was Queensland Director of a national market research agency. Writing about consumer behaviour was something I did regularly, both for client reports, and as a contributor in the national e-magazine Marketing Update. I had also some years earlier co-authored and edited two published books on small business.
Creative writing, I discovered, is an entirely different beast. I found that it helps to seek advice early, particularly after my first draft eight months later was just under 300,000 words. I attended writers' boot camps, courses, read lots of books about writing fiction, talked to other writers and got myself a professional editor. Four years later I have great reviews, won fourth prize in a screenplay competition, am finalising my second novel and am well underway with planning the sequel to No Remorse.
In June 2013 I was awarded the Mystery/Suspense category prize in the 2013 Indie Reader Discovery Awards for No Remorse.
I also maintain a blog, write short-stories and travel articles, as well as articles about writing and self-publishing.
I enjoy applying my experience as a social and consumer researcher to the motivations underlying the behavior of my characters. I also like researching the technical detail of jobs, locations, weapons and other elements in my stories. Even if most of it doesn't make it into a book. And I enjoy blending the creativity of fiction with my experience in marketing.
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'Put it in the back yard:' Yet another HOA restricting the American flag
If Sergeant Chris Link wants to display the American flag in his HOA-governed Texas community, he'll have to put it in his back yard. That's the suggestion offered by Falls of Fox Creek HOA manager, Tosha Purifoy, as reported by KCEN Channel 6.
HOA rules in the Killeen community limit flag displays to just 4 days per year: Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day and Flag Day.
The rest of the year, the flag cannot be proudly displayed in the front yard or on the porch. That's ironic, because Falls at Fox Creek is just a few miles from Fort Hood military base.
According to the KCEN report, Link rents his home in the gated community. And the HOA President says that the owner of the home wants Link to remove the flag.
No doubt, that's to avoid trouble with the HOA.
Associa Hill Country manages the community. A management representative tells KCEN that HOA governing documents don't allow for free standing flag poles. And while restrictive covenants do allow a flag pole attached to the house, installation of the pole must first be approved by the Association.
In this case, the owner of the home that Link rents did not receive HOA approval to put up a flag pole attached to his house. So…no flag display for Link, unless he puts in the back yard.
The Sergeant says he's prepared to fight the HOA on the issue of displaying his American flag, especially since federal law gives him the right to do so.
Link's neighbors are just as outraged by the HOA's restrictions. In solidarity, several neighbors have put up American flags in front of their own homes.
The problem with the Freedom to Fly the American Flag Act
Most federal and state laws pertaining to HOA-governed property start with the assumption that a private homeowners association has the freedom to restrict just about anything they want.
That's the root of the problem in Falls at Fox Creek.
The way the American Flag Act is written, the HOA has greater rights than its homeowners and residents.
Yes, federal law creates some narrow restrictions for homeowners, condominium, and cooperative associations to comply with Fair Housing Acts.
But just about any other HOA covenant, restriction, or rule — no matter how ridiculous or petty — is assumed to be valid and enforceable. And, in most cases, the HOA can impose fines for a resident's failure to comply.
If the homeowner or resident disagrees, the only choices are to launch a legal battle — with a long shot of winning — or pack up and move out.
The so-called "contractual" agreement
The HOA industry, including trade group Community Associations Institute (CAI), lobbies consistently for strong protection of HOA "contractual" rights contained in governing documents.
The problem: almost all governing documents for mandatory-membership housing associations are one-sided. These legal "contracts" are written by and for the benefit of real estate developers and the private HOA governing entities. Housing consumers — be they owners or tenants — play no active role in writing Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, Bylaws, or rules.
But most of the time, the courts will uphold the HOA's right to enforce any official rules authorized by the governing documents.
Limitations of The Freedom to Fly the American Flag Act
The Flag Act assumes the HOA has broad freedom to restrict displays of anything on personal property, as well as common property. Then it makes a narrow exception for the Association's rights to limit displays of the American flag.
And, of course, that exception is further limited by the following conditions (emphasis added):
SEC. 4. LIMITATIONS.
"Nothing in this Act shall be considered to permit any display or use that is inconsistent with-
"(1) any provision of chapter 1 of title 4, United States Code, or any rule or custom pertaining to the proper display or use of the flag of the United States (as established pursuant to such chapter or any otherwise applicable provision of law); or
"(2) any reasonable restriction pertaining to the time, place, or manner of displaying the flag of the United States necessary to protect a substantial interest of the condominium association, cooperative association, or residential real estate management association."
Source: Freedom to display the American flag act of 20005
What's reasonable?
Sgt. Link argues that limiting display of the American flag to four days per year is not reasonable. But what if the HOA does not agree, and insists on imposing monetary fines on the tenant?
Will this become yet another legal battle with an HOA? Will the owner of the property be held liable for his tenant's noncompliance? Will the HOA threaten to put a lien on the landlord/owner's home? Will the owner then move to evict Sgt. Link?
If the HOA digs in its heels on this issue, any of these things is possible.
As you can see, the absurdity of Falls at Fox Creek HOA flag rules opens a huge can of worms.
And federal law, as written, does not prevent an HOA from making up ridiculous "time, place, and manner" restrictions, and calling them "reasonable." ♦
News Source:
Flag Fight: Killeen HOA threatens to fine soldier if he doesn't take down American flag
Sgt. Chris Link who lives in the Falls of Fox Creek community in Killeen said the feud started Wednesday when he received an email that he needed to remove a flag that was hanging on a pole in his yard.
Author: Lea Wilson, KCEN-TV
Updated: 10:31 PM CDT May 17, 2019
Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005
Categories Enforcement of Rules, Covenants & Deed Restrictions, First AmendmentTags American flag, Texas
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City Research Online - Creative Clusters: Towards the governance of the creative industries production system?
Creative Clusters: Towards the governance of the creative industries production system?
Pratt, A.C. (2004). Creative Clusters: Towards the governance of the creative industries production system?. Media International Australia(112), pp. 50-66.
The aim of this paper is to critically assess the notion of the creative cluster, and to consider whether it is an appropriate tool for the governance of the creative industries, or even a suitable point from which to begin an analysis of the creative industries. The paper argues that creative clusters are formally a sub-set of business clusters. A critique of the business clusters literature highlights its short comings: namely a focus on individual firm preferences and a lack of attention to non-economic, situated (temporal and spatial) variables; a lack of attention to the specificity of particular industries and their associated regulatory peculiarities; and, finally, information issues associated with the operationalisation of the cluster model. The paper concludes with a discussion of an alternative approach, namely looking at the creative industries production system, that would better meet the concerns of those seeking to govern the creative industries and creative clusters.
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Teacher education programs have been stuck in a socio-historical vacuum for a long period of time. Then, technology changed everything. In today's teaching environments, educators have to be prepared to face complex challenges and find a way to implement technology into the curriculums. Students have much different needs and interests when compared to those of previous generations; which means that the methods of teacher education need to evolve more than ever.
Every state requires teachers to complete the needed education, pass exams and obtain a license. The job duties, responsibilities and career outlook require specific training and preparation for an educator to be able to face the daily challenges of this profession. The modern approach to teacher education aims to enable instructors to recognize and address the needs of today's students, make progress in their careers and explore the different educational trends. Although the educational system is remarkably resistant to innovation, we are currently witnessing a true revolution that imposes chances in the mindset of old-school teachers. Unlike traditional teaching methodology, the modern approach is substantially student-centered. The educator needs to help the students work at their own speed, encourage them to actively participate in the class, and develop their creative and critical thinking skills.
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Teachers weren't always prepared to implement new strategies and encourage students to think around the concepts introduced in class. Thanks to today's teacher education programs, educators are finally able to find the right approach by introducing content their students are interested to learn. Students impressed by virtual reality aren't keen on completing classic homework assignments. That's why universities prepare future educators to experiment with different types of content and media. Teaching methods are a changing matter. In order to improve the educational process and bring all concepts closer to the students, teachers need to be more flexible and open to changes. The term "teacherpreneur" depicts the new model of educators that needs to be cultivated by today's ways of teacher education.


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Q: check for permutation in Scheme I need to write a function in a scheme that takes two lists and returns true if one list is a permutation of the other.
For example
(permutation '(3 4 7) '(7 3 4)) would return #t
(permutation '(3 4 7) '(c 3 4 5)) would return #f
This is the code I got so far but I'm stuck:
 (define (permutation list1 list2)
  (cond
    ((equal? list1 list2))
    ((not (list? list1)))
    ((memq (car list1) list2) (permutation (cdr list1) list2))
    (else #f)
    ))

Thank you

A: You have permutations if and only if

*

*removing the elements of list1 from list2 produces the empty list, and

*removing the elements of list2 from list1 produces the empty list.

If you had a function (let's call it "without") that removed all the elements of one list from another list, you could write
(define (permutation? xs ys)
  (and (empty? (without xs ys))
       (empty? (without ys xs))))

Assuming that you have a function remove-first that removes the first instance of an element from a list, you can define without using a fold:
(define (without xs ys)
    (foldl (lambda (x ls) (remove-first x ls)) ys xs))

All that remains is remove-first:
(define (remove-first x xs)
  (cond ((empty? xs) '())
        ((equal? x (first xs)) (rest xs))
        (else (cons (first xs) (remove-first x (rest xs))))))

(In your Scheme, remove-first may already be available as remove.)


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