Irving Fine died rather young and left a small body of inconsistent work. The best of it is touched by genius and has stayed in limited circulation on the concert stage. Everything has been recorded, in some cases several times.
Besides the undeniable quality of his music, Fine also offers a good starting point for considering midcentury composition. Active from 1942 to 1962, Fine used American rhythms, mastered Neo-Classicism, had easy command of choral texture, and explored the twelve-tone system. It's easy to understand why Will Robin's recent centennial piece in the New York Times considers Fine's milieu almost as much as his music.
Fine's biographer, Phillip Ramey, suggests a similar perception by calling his book An American Composer in His Time. If Fine wasn't quite a major voice, he nevertheless touched on most things within his orbit.
The biography anthologies discerning comments on Fine by Harold Shapero, Richard Wernick, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Milton Babbitt, Leon Kirchner, Arthur Berger, and David Diamond. Ramey is an important composer himself and clearly has superb ears. This post was originally planned as a thorough overview, but now I advise those wanting to immerse themselves in Fine to just go read An American Composer in His Time.
Instead, then, for Irving Fine's 100th birthday, here are a couple of personal anecdotes, a brief overview of the canon, a reprint of his 1948 essay "The Story of Twentieth Century Music," and my own lo-fi performance of his best piano piece.
I always will owe Irving Fine a debt. I was only 19 when my girlfriend got me the job of rehearsal pianist for the Gregg Smith Singers. Reading music was always easy for me but I had almost no experience with classical music in general. The first rehearsal was Stravinsky's Mass with Robert Craft guest conducting.
I liked the Mass and some of the other music the GSS were doing, so I'd practice the parts at night. A few months in, Smith thought he'd try me out on a gig that had proper piano accompaniment. In addition to brand new works by living composers, the concert included one of the GSS signature pieces, The Choral New Yorker by Irving Fine.
The Choral New Yorker is made of three comic dances and a final long elegy, all settings of works Fine found in an old collection of poems from The New Yorker. Harmonically and rhythmically it is as if the basic shapes of Stravinsky were given an infusion of Gershwin.
The piano part was extremely fun to play and perfect for my abilities at that time. Some of the sounds I discovered in The Choral New Yorker undoubtedly inform my composition and jazz improvisation today.
Much later, I stumbled across a CRI compilation of composers at the keyboard that included Fine himself playing the "Waltz-Gavotte" movement from Music for Piano. I was astonished at the confident and musical pianism. The music was good, too, but the playing was really the thing. Rhythmic and elegant; indeed, almost swinging. Unfortunately only one of the other three movements of Music for Piano, the "Variations," was recorded and has never been reissued on CD.
Fine also performs on the rather recondite song cycle Mutability. I'd much rather he had completed Music for Piano! Still, even on Mutability there is real aliveness to Fine's keyboard artistry. What a shame he didn't record more as a pianist.
The Partita burbles and chortles amongst five happy winds before drawing to a heartfelt close.
The Sonata for Violin and Piano is not as well-balanced structurally: unusually for Fine, some ideas wear out their welcome. It's still worth hearing, as is the Toccata Concertante, a blaze of efficient motion slightly undercut by an overwhelming emphasis on the octatonic scale. The best parts of the Toccata have an engaging lyric sweep over compelling counterpoint.
The Fifties and Sixties instrumental music is less obviously Neo-Classic, instead becoming more lush and romantic or lean and abstract. This is the music that most fascinates scholars and critics, for while its value is obvious it remains curiously hard to assess.
The Notturno is a collection of intriguing ideas superbly crafted for string forces. The harp contributes some lovely special effects. As Ramey notes, we wish that the composer had stayed with his ideas longer, as the result is a bit unfocused. A highlight is the short post-Bartók "Animato," which shows how well Fine could write fast music.
Serious Song is often considered Fine's best piece overall. The echo of Neo-Classicism informs the counterpoint and structural balance, yet the idiom is quite restrained and specific to this work. If there were a dozen Fine pieces that sounded like Serious Song, he would have a much greater profile today.
At the recapitulation, Fine pauses to conjure the most astonishing harmonies in bell-like quarter notes.
Ramey singles out the Romanza as, "…one of Fine's most mature and personal scores." It has been recorded only once, a strait-laced rendition by the Boehm Quintette. Something more sardonic might need to be present to get the most out of this unusual score.
The three major Fifties pieces above essentially use tonal harmony. In three others Fine explored twelve-tone music, in a more obvious yet still personal way.
The best of these is the Fantasia for String Trio. Reduced to such a slender frame, the chromatic harmony breathes easily. More than in the other hyper-chromatic pieces, Fine's gift for melodic shape is unencumbered by dodecaphony. In addition, all three movements are the perfect length.
The general flavor is more Bartók than Schoenberg, although Fine's Neo-Classic heritage has final say. On the last page, the full aggregate is completed over a pure Stravinsky-Boulanger bass.
Some find more in the String Quartet and the Symphony than I do. Have a listen and judge for yourself! To me they seem a little underwritten, with less activity than in tonal works like Partita and Serious Song. When considering the density of the harmony, the argument is undercooked or blocky.
Once in a while an expressionist gesture will appear as a lonely rather undigested effect.
The Symphony has a powerful close, clanging chimes over ground bass, an amplification of the kind of thing Stravinsky worked out in Symphony of Psalms. The recording of Fine conducting the world premiere will always have special weight, for the composer suddenly died eleven days later of a heart attack, only 47 years old.
Irving Fine was more tuned to the needs of college choirs than anyone else of his era. As my own experience with the Gregg Smith Singers shows, his popular vocal pieces have done much to keep his name in circulation.
Despite their idiomatic excellence, these works are less interesting than Fine's instrumental music. The most serious is The Hour Glass with texts by Ben Jonson, but perhaps stronger musically overall are the comic pieces Alice in Wonderland, The Choral New Yorker, and McCord's Menagerie.
The song cycle Mutability is intriguingly dense but doesn't have convincing harmonic tension and release. (Ramey likes it more than I do.) The recording is most notable for Fine's own piano playing, for unfortunately the singer is below par.
The Childhood Fables see steady duty as a lighthearted addition to student recitals.
Lesser works include Blue Towers (1959) and Diversions (1959–60), orchestral pops trivia surprisingly close to Prokofiev, and other bits and pieces like the easy piano Hommage à Mozart (1956).
All of which will remain relevant as long as anyone takes an interest in American midcentury classical music.
Additionally, he spent "one week of agony" writing a 6,000-word article, "The Story of Twentieth-Century Music"; this would be published by the Grolier Society in 1948 as a chapter in the Book of Knowledge, and he was paid $200, a good fee in those days.
I found the book on eBay for $4.99. The essay is naturally dated but is still an interesting read. It's not easy to compress all this information into something for a general audience.
As mentioned at the top of the page, Irving Fine recorded the two middle movements of Music for Piano in the early Fifties. As far as I know, the whole set was not committed to disc until 1991, when Michael Boriskin recorded an essential New World recital that includes the three short sonatas by Fine's great friend Harold Shapero.
When considering the whys and wherefores of Boston Neo-Classicism, comparing the Shapero and Fine pieces on Boriskin's disc is a worthy crucible. There is doubt the Shapero pieces are better music. Honestly, I can't understand why professional pianists don't play these tiny masterworks more often, especially the first sonata in D Major.
Boriskin clearly listened to Fine's version of "Waltz-Gavotte" as he emulates some delightful dance rubato not marked in the score. A worthy 2001 recording of Music for Piano by Andrew Willis offers a more overtly passionate perspective than either Boriskin or Fine.
Just for fun, here's my own iPhone tape of the "Variations" from Music for Piano. I made this right before TBP soundcheck at the Oakland jazz club Yoshi's on December 3rd, 2014, exactly 100 years after Fine's birth. There are a couple of wrong notes and bit of background noise as the staff sets up the restaurant.
"Variations" is the longest movement of Music for Piano and exhibits all the best qualities of Fine's Neo-Classic music. It is essentially lyric and utterly diatonic. Indeed, no accidentals are required in the long theme, which moves from B to G to B before ending on an unresolved G-sharp minor.
The second section offers the only hint of instrumental brilliance. Perhaps worried about time constraints Fine plays it faster than the metronome mark and muddles it slightly. It still exudes a flair that eludes Boriskin, Willis, and myself.
While called "Variations," this piece feels more like four panels of a painting: the melodic shapes and harmonic coloring are consistent, but there is no conventional varying of a theme over a repeating form.
The third section is my favorite. Under the hands, it feels rather like a displaced Chopin nocturne, although Fine's own performance suggests the less rubato, the better. I love it so much that I ignore the score and repeat the second half as well as the first.
In the middle of the final section, Fine comes up with a wide-spaced chorale with syncopated bass line that is utterly original.
The main part is all in B major, of course, but Fine is careful never to state a clear B harmony, giving it a curiously immobile yet still charismatic harmonic texture. Eventually, that stasis goes all the way to the last bar, for there's no ending, just a transition to the last movement. Fine plays it that way on his record, leaving the music essentially unfinished (when you don't go on to the last movement).
Would a concluding B chord invalidate the previous "immobility"? Apologies for a sacrilege possibly even worse than adding a repeat to the nocturne: I improvise a final cadence to make "Variations" a standalone piano piece in four complete parts. The CalTrain seems to approve, going by in B right at the end. Or perhaps that was the composer's shade protesting the intrusion.
The Irving Fine Society is run by Nicholas Alexander Brown. Brown has also been in charge of the centennial festivities at the Library of Congress this week. Special note should be made of Brown's oral histories. Thanks to Brown for his personal encouragement (including sharing some rare documents) while I was working on this post.
Arthur Berger, another member of Fine's close circle, penned the valuable Reflections of an American Composer, available online here. There's not so much about Fine's music in this book but undoubtedly Berger and Fine shared a lot of the same concerns.
I was disappointed by R. James Tobin's Neoclassical Music in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint. The chapter on Fine is nothing but a synopsis of Ramey, and somehow Tobin thinks the arrangement Music for Orchestra supersedes Music for Piano.
I managed to speak with Phillip Ramey briefly last week. Ramey's book is extremely level-headed, so I was amused to discover that Ramey was a provocative firebrand in conversation. A taste of his personality can be found in Ramey's terrific interview about his biography of Fine with Frank J. Oteri in NewMusicBox.


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Eastern Mediterranean University Signs Collaboration Protocol with the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Published Date: Thursday, 27 October 2016
The Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) signed a collaboration protocol with the French university, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. The protocol that allows collaboration on academic programs and projects was recently signed in Nice
The protocol was signed by Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Özgür Eren on behalf of the EMU and Rector Prof. Dr. Frederique Vidal on behalf of University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Vice Rector in Charge of International Affairs, Jean Christophe Martin and Dean of the EMU Computer Engineering Department, Prof. Dr. Işık Aybay were also present at the signature ceremony.
The protocol will allow the universities to develop joint programs in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as allowing them to carry out joint research and academician exchange programs.
Guided by Prof. Serge Miranda, Dean of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Department of Computer Sciences, Prof. Dr. Eren and Prof. Dr. Aybay attended informative meetings about the university's academic programs and Antipolis Technology Park. Ideas were also exchanged regarding detailed collaboration projects.
The University of Nice Sophia Antipolis is a state university that was founded in 1965. The university has over 25 thousand students studying in eight faculties.


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Q: Broadcast Receiver when Location/GPS is called Is there any Broadcast, Intent-Filter for location, network, gps, Google? I mean like a Firewall. I want to intercept any app which tries to localize your cellphone.

A: Android is designed such that each app is in it's own world and doesn't know anything about other apps. So no.
You could only know when the internet, location services, etc, is available.
So you could know when your location has changed and catch that update, but you have no way of knowing if some other app is using that data.

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Tale of how a secret religious sect inspired a group of ancient artists
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A number of ancient painters once depicted the White Lotus Society-theme, which expressed their pursuit of an idyllic life. One of the painters was Zhang Ji.
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Detail of the painting "White Lotus Society" by Zhang Ji of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)
In ancient China there was a secret religious group called the White Lotus Society. Based on Buddhist tradition, the society had its roots in the Pure Land School of Buddhism.
It is said that the society was founded by Master Huiyuan (AD 334-416) in AD 402.
The Chinese Buddhist teacher gathered 123 monks at the Donglin Temple on Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province and announced the establishment of the religious organization.
The floral name of the society represents purity in Buddhism and serves as a symbol of the Buddhist Nirvana.
The name also originates from a big lotus pond at the Donglin Temple, which was also built by Master Huiyuan to promote his teachings.
A number of ancient painters once depicted the White Lotus Society-theme, which expressed their pursuit of an idyllic life. One of the painters was Zhang Ji, who was the nephew of Li Gonglin (1049-1106), a renowned painter during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).
Zhang was known by his courtesy name Touzi. He was deeply affected by his uncle's artistry.
Stretching over 8 meters in length, Zhang's handscroll features 31 people: 19 members of the White Lotus Society and 12 of their servants.
Viewed from right to left, the handscroll can be divided into seven sections. The first section portrays Master Huiyuan, who welcomes his old friend Lu Xiujing, a Taoist scholar, near the Huxi Bridge. They shake hands and chat cheerfully.
Holding canes, Master Tanshun and Zong Bing, who was a Chinese painter and a member of White Lotus Society, walk and talk with each other in the second section.
In the third section, the notable Buddhist scholar of the Six Dynasties (AD 222-589) Zhu Daosheng delivers a sermon to four eminent monks.
Sitting around and hearing, a young servant scratches his head and looks puzzled. Through the image, the painter vividly depicts how obscure Zhu's philosophy is.
The next two sections feature three members of the White Lotus Society kneeling on the ground, paying respect to Manjushri, and two eminent monks who debate on sutra. Mounted on a lion, Manjushri is a bodhisattva associated with insight.
The sixth section is one of the highlights of the handscroll.
It portrays a sitting group of monks and scholars proofreading sutra. One of them uses a long bamboo stick to point at the text while others listen carefully.
In the last section, a scholar exposing his chest, belly and legs admires a view of the waterfall while washing his feet in the lake. An attendant holding a towel stands beside him. The bold and unrestrained characters were typical among literati of the Wei and Jin period (AD 220-420). The section also features a lotus pond.
Influenced by his uncle Li, Zhang adopted the monochrome ink line drawing style in painting figures. He also used the Chinese painting technique called cun in portraying rocks, which were given texture through brushstrokes or dabs.
The treasure was secretly moved from the Forbidden City by Puyi (1906-67), the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
After Japan announced its surrender in 1945, the puppet emperor attempted to escape. On his way to Japan, Puyi and his accomplices were captured by the Soviet troops.
Meanwhile, a large number of national treasures, including the "White Lotus Society" painting, were saved.
Zhang's similar painting style to Li's led to a previous misunderstanding of the painter. For a long time, the handscroll was mistakenly considered as Li's work.
Not until the work was collected by the Liaoning Provincial Museum after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 did the connoisseur Yang Renkai doubt its authorship.
He read 12 postscripts of the handscroll carefully. One of them was written by Zhang himself, which said that he was very happy to own his uncle's painting and copied it in order to prove his painting skills.
People might feel confused as another postscript written by Li Desu, who was the younger cousin of Li Gonlin and uncle of Zhang, who indicated the painting was created by Li Gonglin.
Li Gonglin indeed drew a painting with the same theme, although it is lost, and his cousin's comment was left behind after Li's work.
However, according to Yang's findings, the content of Li Desu's postscript was not consistent with Zhang's painting, and it seemed that a skilled craftsman "grafted" Li's postscript on to Zhang's work.
The handscroll is probably the only survived work of Zhang.
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These were the words spoken by Irish Health Minister and paper tiger Simon Harris at the Irish Medical Organisation's annual conference as reported by the Irish Times (IT). Harris urged doctors to "come out fighting" in the information war with concerned parents and families looking for straight answers.
IT and other mainstream Irish media outlets have been openly biased and adversarial towards Irish parents and families when the tenants of informed consent and medical choice are being reported. Instead of providing balance and exposing the country's failing HSE and flawed secondary school immunization program, IT has continually doubled down to viciously attack parents and their vaccine-injured children. Reading between the lines of IT's Merck and Sanofi Pasteur-funded propaganda piece, it appears the Irish government has lost the narrative when it comes to their HPV vaccine program. Vaccine uptake has plummeted and rates are at all-time lows. Harris has resorting to taking on a fake tough guy persona in the public to push for more extreme measures to "take on the scaremongers." However, what Harris and his advisors don't seem to either understand or care about is that the HPV vaccines, and the unethical Irish secondary school program pushing them on kids, have both been flawed from the beginning. No amount of continued force will fix the mess Harris inherited from his predecessor Leo Varadkar.
Ireland's HSE is refusing to acknowledge that there has been even one case of a severe adverse reaction from the country's poorly run and authoritarian HPV vaccine roll out. The HSE has also refused to train health professionals about the well-documented signs and symptoms of HPV vaccine injury to assist them in more accurate reporting. Due to the fact that the HSE has accepted the ruling that the HPV vaccine injuries are psychosomatic and/or coincidence, there has been no help or funding with the medical care for the country's mounting vaccine-injured teenagers.
Sean Wynne of the Gardasil Awareness Group recently spoke with Cork's RedFM News station. Wynne discussed the recent vote by teachers in favour of a review of the secondary schools troubled HPV vaccination program. Irish schools and their staff have been unethically roped into being the action arm for Merck and Sanofi Pasteur to deliver the HPV vaccine to schoolgirls and boys, often without their parent's consent. It appears that the recent teacher's vote is a sign that those within the system will not continue to blindly follow orders.
Before becoming caught up in politics, Harris studied journalism at The Dublin Institute of Technology but failed to finish his degree as his political ambitions grew. For those journalists who didn't drop out or sell out, below is a collection of the most recent information on the HPV vaccine the Irish government can't and won't tell you.


I thought I would tackle Motivation Monday a little differently today by adding in the angle of song. As you may know, I'm a professor of American music, so music plays in integral role in my life. There is so much power in this art form. It has the ability to convey complex emotions and share important messages that words often fail to express. I think that's why music can be such a motivating tool.
For our first Motivation Music Monday, I chose the song, "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" by Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam). It is, and has always been, one of my favorite songs. I have wonderful memories of my family sitting around the dinner table, listening to The Very Best of Cat Stevens album, and simultaneously breaking into song during the chorus. No joke; it was like an episode of 7th Heaven or something.
My dad and I also danced to this song at my wedding. Needless to say, it holds a special place in my heart.
I think this song has an important universal message as well, and that's what I want to share with you today.
Below is the song's opening verse/chorus, and the recording follows after that. If you're in a location that allows you to play music, I definitely encourage you to listen to it.
Wow. There is so much power in these words. What I especially love is that you can take this message and apply it to whatever challenges or opportunities that you're facing right now.
Are you a teacher bemoaning the fact that it is already August 7th? Are you heading back to school but feel like you haven't really embraced your summer?
If so, do it now. If you want to relax, if you want to go play, if you want to simply spend time with your family or your friends, do it.
If you want to sing out, sing out.
Are you stuck in a job that leaves you feeling empty? Are you in an unhealthy relationship that causes you pain? Have you committed yourself to something that is holding you back from the five most important things in your life? If so, reflect a bit, and consider letting go.
If you want to be free, be free. There's a million things to be, you know that there are.
If you've read my blog for a while, you know that I've been seeking that elusive work-life balance. It is an incredible struggle for me.
As I listened to Cat Stevens this weekend, his message really hit me hard. I DO want to sing out. I want to play, I want to spend more time with my husband, I want to laugh with those I love. I also know that the responsibilities, pressures, and expectations I feel from my job often hold me back.
If you find a new way, then you can do it today.
Yes, I am passionate about my job. Yes, I want to succeed in that position. But at the same time, I am determined to find balance and enjoy my life outside of work as well. I am back at school on August 21, and for the next 14 days, I am making this song my soundtrack.
I'm going to sing out, I'm going to be free, and I'll find a new way to balance that with my responsibilities. Because I can do what I want, the opportunity's on. I'll find a new way, I'll do it today.
What makes you sing out? What's your favorite motivational song? Does music play a big part in your life? Let me know below!
Thanks for sharing this song. I never heard it before, so I had to have a listen 🙂 And you're so right about the work-life balance! I hear ya!
I was in choir for about 11 years, and I've been playing piano for 26 years. I love music so much!
I love hearing things like this 🙂 It is so wonderful that music continues to play such a big role in your life.
Music definitely helps get me motivated! I love the message behind this song!
Thanks! Isn't it amazing how effective music is?
I love this. Music is my love language, and I am especially partial to anything before 1990. Cat Stevens is a perennial favorite, and I particularly love this song!
This quote totally goes for everything in life -If you wanna do it… What's stopping YOU!?
YES! Exactly. That's why I love it so much 🙂 It applies to everything.
This is a beautiful song! Music is such a big part of our lives. There are so many songs that the second I hear them I'm transported back to a time and place that holds special memories.
I love this post, wonderful song.
I love Cat Stevens. Father and Son always makes me tear up a little!
Yes – absolutely! That is a very powerful song.
I love this post so much! I wrote a similar post a while back about music that speaks to our souls. Cat's message in this song is just perfect! I think this is going to become one of my new theme songs, but I do really love Ben Rector's Brand New. It's just so good!
Music is so powerful… it can help heal, calm… it motivates and encourages… As a pianist, I often turn to music to express my feelings, and I encourage others to do the same. I love that you are using music for Motivation Monday!
Love me some Cat Stevens! This is going to be on repeat throughout the day.


What is GPS and How is GPS Tracking Possible?
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S.-owned utility that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing services. This system consists of three segments: space segment, control segment, and the user segment. The U.S. Air Force develops, maintains, and operates the space and control segments.
Consists of a constellation of 24 operating satellites that transmit one-way signals that give the current GPS satellite position and time.
Consists of worldwide monitor and control stations that maintain the satellites in their proper orbits through occasional command maneuvers, and adjust the satellite clocks. It tracks the GPS satellites, uploads updated navigational data, and maintains health and status of the satellite constellation.
Consists of the GPS receiver equipment, which receives the signals from the GPS satellites and uses the transmitted information to calculate the user's three-dimensional position and time.


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G:Class In Action
SANAA, New Museum building. Photography by Dean Kaufman.
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA have, in a short time, developed from a relatively little-known Japanese partnership to an internationally esteemed firm responsible for high-profile projects including The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and our museum, the New Museum in New York. Often referred to as an architect's architect, SANAA has avoided a signature style while embracing qualities of light, transparency, and openness. The show (in the gallery, the café, and lobby) marks SANAA's first comprehensive exhibition in New York and presents commissions and projects made over a ten-year period, characterized by an alchemy of understatement, lightness, warmth, and respect for human scale. Artworks discussed in these lessons include: Ugo Rondinone Hell, Yes! and ACT UP (Gran Fury) Silence=Death.
1. Architecture
2. Vernacular design
3. Alternative Spaces
4. Alternative Architecture
5. Scale
The following lessons focus on the architecture and the permanent works of the New Museum .
New Museum: Exploring the Building
New Museum Design Activity
ACT UP (Gran Fury)
5th Floor Plan
5th Floor Plan with office space
All content © 2009 New Museum of Contemporary Art. All Rights Reserved.


Bruno Mars is doing his part to make sure thousands of families in Hawaii have a home-cooked meal this Thanksgiving. The "Finesse" singer announced on Sunday, November 11, that he plans to mark the end of his 24K Magic world tour by providing meals to 24,000 Hawaii residents in need for the upcoming holiday.
The Grammy winner, who was born in the Aloha State, said he has donated the necessary money for the food to the Salvation Army's Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division. According to the Associated Press, the division hosts an annual Thanksgiving meal program to help those who otherwise would be unable to afford a holiday dinner.
The number of meals Mars opted to donate is a shout-out to the name of his song, album and 24K Magic world tour. What's more? The 2014 Super Bowl Halftime performer's contribution is "single-handedly expanding [the program's] reach across the state," according to a press release. It's also bringing meals to home-bound individuals.
The massive charitable act comes as Mars, 33, wrapped up his most recent concert tour, which just about ended on Sunday with the last of three shows at Honolulu's 50,000-seat Aloha Stadium. The 200-date tour, which kicked off in March 2017, had taken Mars all over the world. After a brief break following the Hawaii dates, Mars will formally conclude the tour in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve 2018.
In August 2017, Mars flexed his charitable muscle when he surprised a Michigan crowd by announcing a $1 million donation to aid victims of the ongoing Flint water crisis. He also provided scholarships to send students to Grammy Music Camp the following month and donated to Alabama tornado relief efforts in 2011.


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'Astro Navigation Demystified' makes the art of astro navigation (also called celestial navigation) easy and enjoyable to learn. This large, comprehensive manual of astro navigation is written in plain language and as the title suggests, it seeks to dispel the aura of mystery which surrounds the subject. Astro Navigation Demystified was written by Jack Case, a retired naval officer who believes that astro navigation is not just for navigators; the subject is an interwoven mix of geography, astronomy, history and mathematics and should appeal to both mariners and scholars alike.
Astro Navigation Demystified is available in both paperback and e-book formats from Amazon.com Amazon.uk Amazon.de Amazon.in and other Amazon sites worldwide.
The e-book version can be read with Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac platforms and will be downloaded automatically by Amazon to your device. A free Kindle Reading App can also be downloaded from Amazon.
David Clark, Master Mariner and Admiralty Pilot, says "This an ideal book for learning the art of astro navigation. It is perfect for navigation students, both professional and leisure orientated.
Where to buy books of the Astro Navigation Demystified series:
Astro Navigation Demystified at Amazon.com
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Applying Mathematics to Astro Navigation at Amazon .com
Applying Mathematics to Astro Navigation at Amazon .uk
Astronomy for Astro Navigation at Amazon.com
Astronomy for Astro Navigation at Amazon.uk
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Q: C++ std::deque implementation: why not use circular buffer? I did some search on the implementation of deque. According to this post, deque uses vector of vectors. I know pushing at the begin and end should be both in constant time, and also random access is required. I think circular buffer meets all these requirements, and is much simpler. So why not use circular buffer?
I also found the boost circular buffer. How it compares to deque?

Edit:
     Ok, so it has something to do with the Iterator Invalidation Rules.It states:

all iterators and references are invalidated, unless the inserted member is at an end (front or back) of the deque (in which case all iterators are invalidated, but references to elements are unaffected)

My understanding is to overload operator like iter++, the iterators has to own a pointer to the node map and a pointer to the chunk, so if the node map is reallocated, the iterator is invalidated. But since the data never moves, the references are still valid.

A: A circular buffer cannot be expanded indefinitely. Eventually, you need to allocate a new one and copy all items over.
Deque can simply allocate a new vector in front of the previous ones and add a "middle" element there. I think of it as a a list of vectors rather.


When in 1815 during the Congress of Vienna European borders where delineated Prussia and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands couldn't agree on a 3.5 sqkm (1.4 sqmi) territory. Both countries where interested in zinc mines near the otherwise rather dull village of Kelmis. In June 1816 a compromise was reached. Neutral Moresnet would become a neutral area with joined administration. In 1830 Belgium gained independence from the Netherlands and took over the claims on the territory.
When the mine was exhausted in 1885 several ideas where put forward as what to do with Moresnet. Dr Wilhelm Molly proposed making Neutral Moresnet the world's first Esperanto-speaking state, named Amikejo (place of friendship). But this was not to be.
The Treaty of Versaille awarded the area to Belgium. Germany temporarily re-annexed it during WWII but had to return it in 1944.
I hate one post threads (especially when I started them).
I have learned today! I'd never heard of this neutral zone at all. It's no longer neutral, though, I would think. And I don't remember the border over there being that straight. What happened to it?
In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles, following WWI, officialised the annexation of the territory to Belgium, thus ending its neutral state.
Oh, right. I should probably learn how to read.
But how much longer is Belgium going to be Belgium anyway?
Another quite intersting fact about Neutral Moresnet is that the two settlements of Moresnet and New Moresnet were never part of the territory. Moresnet went to the Netherlands in 1815 and New Moresnet to Prussia. The territory was mainly Kelmis and the zinc mine.
After the mine was exhausted proposals included developing Moresnet gambling centre with a grand casino to remain administered jointly on the Andorra model. Other ideas included issuing stamps.
Moresnet the got swollowed up in requirement to punish Germany after WW1.


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Ghetto youths replace Atwoli's road signage, swear to sleep at the site
A section of youths from Nairobi have come to the defense of a city road named after COTU boss Francis Atwoli.
Led by their president, the youths from various slums in the city erected another signage on the same spot where the initial one named after Atwoli was pulled down last week.
"We are here to show Atwoli love because he is one of us from the ghetto who has succeeded and we look at him as a role model," the youths said in a statement.
The youths claimed they made the decision to come up with another signage after vandals destroyed the signage twice.
"We saw criminals denying our leader a peace of mind by destroying his road signage. That's why we contributed money and build him another signage," the youths said.
All the way from the slums of Mukuru kwa Yaba, Korogocho, Dandora, Mukuru Kwa Reuben, Kariobangi and Ruaraka the youths cautioned vandals against pulling down the new signage.
Speaking at Kileleshwa, Nairobi, the youths called out blogger Robert Alai and activist Boniface Mwangi for what they termed as uncalled for attacks against the COTU boss.
"When I look at revolutionaries like Bobi Wine, Julius Malema and Raila Odinga, they didn't begin their fight by pulling down signages named after President Moi," the youths said.
On Tuesday, 15 June, the road signage was burned and pulled down after another similar incident in May.
Images accessed by K24 Digital showed the signboard up in flames after unknown people used car tyres to set it ablaze.
It appears that the sign board was burnt at night since it was still there at the end of the day on Monday.
The sign board, which was reinstated barely a fortnight ago after it was brought down, has been at the centre of controversy.
A section of Kenyans on social media argued that the COTU boss has done nothing for workers he represents to warrant a road named after him.
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Lawmakers divided on president's comments on protesters
by: Kellie Meyer
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – As protests continue across the country, lawmakers in Washington are split over the president's response to the national outcry.
"This is a law and order president," Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) said Tuesday.
Loeffler said President Donald Trump's Rose Garden address is proof he's working to protect the American people.
"My first and highest duty, as president, is to defend our great country," Trump said Monday.
His comments came as peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd while in police custody continued to turn into riots. The president urged governors to crack down on violent protesters and threatened to send in the U.S. military should the governors fail to stop the violence.
As the president spoke Monday, police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters near the White House to make a path for President Trump to venture on foot outside the White House fence. He then stopped in front of St. John's Church just a few steps away from the White House.
Republican Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA) said the president was making a statement.
"The president made it clear the president was not going to be run by those who want to destroy us," he said.
Collins said police cleared the protesters because of violence in that area the night before.
"That was just absolutely unnecessary," Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) said.
Butterfield said he was disappointed in the president's speech and actions.
"What he did yesterday was not encouragement it was division."
Butterfield said he plans to attend a North Carolina memorial service for George Floyd on Saturday.
Bryant police search for suspect after stolen ATM is recovered at construction site


Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas gets his Sofia Open campaign underway as he takes on Jan-Lennard Struff on Thursday.
One of a pair of 'Next Gen' stars, alongside Karen Khachanov, to be headlining the Sofia Open, Stefanos Tsitsipas will be the last to get his campaign going in Sofia as he takes on Jan-Lennard Struff in Thursday's night match.
World no. 12 Tsitsipas is returning to competition for the first time since his stunning run to the Australian Open semifinals, which saw him score the biggest win of his career over Roger Federer in the round of 16 in Melbourne and back it up with a win over Roberto Bautista Agut to make a first appearance in the final four of a major.
Tsitsipas's Melbourne run built on a 2018 season which saw him reach the final of the Canada Masters, beating Novak Djokovic on the way; finish runner-up to Rafael Nadal at the Barcelona Open; win his first title at the Stockholm Open, and triumph at the Next Gen Finals as he rose from world no. 91 to world no. 16 over the course of the year. But there is no substitute, in terms of getting one's name and face out there, for beating one of the titans of the game at a major and although claims of a 'changing of the guard' seem to have been premature at the least – Novak Djokovic and Nadal contested the Australian Open final between them and safely handed fairly crushing defeats to a crop of young stars on the way to said final – it still heralded a significant step up for the Greek.
Tsitsipas was among those players crushed by Djokovic and Nadal, in his case suffering an absolute schooling at the hands of Nadal in the semifinals, losing 2-6, 4-6, 0-6 – a loss that doesn't look better in retrospect, given how much Nadal struggled when confronted with some real opposition in the shape of a sublime Djokovic in the final. It was clearly a defeat that Tsitsipas found tough to swallow, but he will have an opportunity to demonstrate his resilience and commitment to bouncing back when he makes his debut at the Sofia Open on Thursday.
World no. 51 Jan-Lennard Struff booked his own place in the second round with a 6-4, 6-3 win over qualifier Stefano Travaglia.
The German, who at 28 has never been ranked higher than world no. 44, a career high which came in May 2017, is looking to make his second ATP Tour quarterfinal of the season in Sofia after reaching the semifinals at the ASB Classic in Auckland in January, where he beat world no. 24 Pablo Carreno Busta.
Defeated in the first round of the Australian Open by Matthew Ebden, Struff like Tsitsipas is playing the Sofia Open for the first time in 2019. The 6'5" German, who has been consistently ranked inside the top 100 since late 2016, broke into the top 50 in May 2017 after having defeated Grigor Dimitrov on his way to the third round of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, and was a semifinalist in Winston-Salem and St Petersburg the same year. He couldn't maintain that top-50 ranking but stayed fairly stable throughout a 27-26 2018 season which saw him make the quarterfinals of four ATP Tour 250 events, and the third round of the US Open.
This will be the first ATP Tour meeting between Tsitsipas and Struff, although they played at the Genova Challenger in September 2017 when Tsitsipas defeated Struff 6-2, 6-3. The German journeyman has a big-serving, hard-hitting game, but he is just 7-33 against top-20 players, although it's worth noting that two of those wins have come on indoor hard courts, and often against erratic big hitters like Marin Cilic and Stan Wawrinka – not a description that fits Tsitsipas. This should be a match that's well within the capabilities of the Greek to win. The only question is whether he's still nursing an emotional hangover from the highs and lows of Melbourne, or whether he's ready to get back down to work in Sofia.


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Q: Capturing the tab click event in Android Tabview I have a tabview in my android app with 3 tabs. The tabs are all working fine.
Now I want to perform some additional logic when the tab (on the top) of the currently active tab is clicked.
Here is an example:
In one of my tabs, I provide an option for the user to sort things in different order. When the press the tab of the currently active tab, I want to reset all these sorting.
Is it possible to capture the tab click event in tabview and perform some additional logic?
Edit: Edited for clarity.

A: This is how your code should work :
getTabWidget().getChildAt(getTabHost().getCurrentTab()).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
        //do whatever you need

        }
});

A: If you ares till looking for a solution, I might have found one.
Take a look here: Android TabWidget detect click on current tab

A: I found one clean and easy solution for Detecting clicks on selected Tab
Steps:
1: Extend TabActivity in your class.
2: In the onResume() method implement the following method
For each tab (i) implement this:
TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();

public void onResume() {

 super.onResume();
     tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildAt(0).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                public void onClick(View v) {
                   count++;
                   tabHost.setCurrentTab(0);
    //based on your count value..you can do anything...like going back to homepage...
    //    similar thing exist on iphone (double tab a tab..it takes back to homepage)
     }
   });
 }

Since we always have a fixed number of tabs, implementing it separately is not a problem.

A:     for(int i=0;i<tabHost.getTabWidget().getChildCount();i++)
    {
        getTabWidget().getChildAt(i).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                if (getTabHost().getCurrentTabTag().equals(v.getTag()))
                {
                    int nextTab = getTabHost().getCurrentTab();
                    tabHost.setCurrentTab(prevTab);
                    tabHost.setCurrentTab(nextTab);
                    prevTab = nextTab;
                }
                else
                    tabHost.setCurrentTabByTag((String) v.getTag());
            }
        });
    }

You need a global variable;
    private int prevTab = 1;   //any tab except the initial one.

This code works for me. A little ugly thing is you must set same tag for tab and view
For example;
    intent = new Intent().setClass(this, AnaSayfa.class);
    spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("firstTab").setIndicator(makeTabIndicator(R.drawable.firstTab, "First Tab" , "firstTab"))
                  .setContent(intent);
    tabHost.addTab(spec);

and makeTabIndicator method is like that,
    private View makeTabIndicator(int drawable, String text, String viewTag){

        View view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.tab_layout, null);

        ImageView image = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        image.setImageResource(drawable);
        image.setAdjustViewBounds(true);

        TextView tv = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        tv.setText(text);

        view.setTag(viewTag);
        return view;
    }


KAMLOOPS — The preliminary numbers are in, and the Kamloops-Thompson School District is reporting an increase in students enrollment over last year.
Growth of 1.5 per cent or 132 students is being reported at the elementary level in kindergarten, primary Grades 1 to 3 and intermediate Grades 4 to 7, which is very close to what the district had projected for this year. The district is experiencing enrollment pressures in the Westsyde area, the Valleyview corridor, and the Southwest sector, but the increase still comes as welcome news.
"We know the birth rates 5 years ago, so we project about 1,053 kindergarten students of which all but 16 showed up, so we were about 98 per cent accurate there, and we had an increase of about 132 students in K-7," says Rob Schoen, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Schools. "As much as they're preliminary, they're pretty accurate and that means we're adding a few teachers as well, to Pacific Way, McGowan Park, Arthur Hatton, Raft River, Sun Peaks and Marion Schilling."
District officials expect secondary enrollment numbers to be flat, but an exact tally isn't expected to be finalized until later this month.


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Earthsea Quartet
Tehanu Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness.
Pub. Date: February 23 2012
Author: LE GUIN, URSULA K.
This title includes: "A Wizard of Earthsea"; "The Tombs of Atuan"; "The Farthest Shore". Tehanu Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness. But over the years, Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death. Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back?
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Philosophy as Drama: Plato's Thinking through Dialogue
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2020.08.03 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Hallvard Fossheim, Vigdis Songe-Møller, and Knut Ågotnes (eds.), Philosophy as Drama: Plato's Thinking through Dialogue, Bloomsbury, 2019, 247pp., $114.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781350082496. Reviewed by Brooks A. Sommerville, University of British Columbia Roughly sixty years ago, certain interpreters dragged the study of Plato's dialogues into the modern world by subjecting them to analytic philosophical methods. So goes the prevailing history of Plato scholarship. With this development, specialists could explain their research to their colleagues using familiar modern categories, and -- what is perhaps just another way of saying the same thing -- it conferred modern respectability on a set of texts whose place in philosophical research had come into question. Unfortunately for the study of Plato, the story does not end there. This newfound respectability came at a cost, for it did not fall equally on every Stephanus page. While scholars readily saw how they could apply modern techniques to the crisp,... Read More
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    public static final String USERNAME = "username";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "password";
    public static final String BATCH_SIZE = "batchSize";
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The Tavis Smiley Show Begins This Week on Public Radio International; Premier Programs Jumpstart Show's Return to Public Radio
MINNEAPOLIS --(Business Wire)-- April 28, 2005 -- Public Radio International (PRI) announces the much-anticipated return of The Tavis Smiley Show to public radio, a two-hour program scheduled to begin Friday, April 29, 2005. The premiere broadcasts feature such luminaries as poet and author Maya Angelou, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jill Scott. In addition to an always impressive guest lineup, the program also features regular contributors Cornel West, Connie Rice, J.C. Watts, Dr. Ian Smith, Michael Eric Dyson, and other leading voices. The Tavis Smiley Show is heard in a growing number of cities across the nation, including New York, Houston, Seattle, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Washington, D.C.
"It's good to be back," says Smiley. "Public radio is the perfect place to have a rigorous exchange on a difficult subject or simply to explore ideas that make you laugh -- and we'll do all of that on my show. Because of the range of guests we invite to the mic, we're in the enviable position of being able to re-introduce the nation to itself. We probe the ideas, the artistry, the poetry of people who create it, and we celebrate those things that make us the same or unique as humans and as Americans. It's definitely good to be back."
Tavis Smiley is one of the nation's most prominent media personalities. He hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS and is a regular commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Texas Southern University honored him with the opening of The Tavis Smiley School of Communications and The Tavis Smiley Center for Professional Media Studies, making him the youngest African American ever to be so honored.
Recipient of numerous honorary doctorates, including one from his alma mater, Indiana University, he established the Tavis Smiley Foundation "to enlighten, encourage, and empower black youth." He has authored eight books -- including The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education, Keeping the Faith, and On Air: The Best of Tavis Smiley -- and has his own imprint (Smiley Books) with Hay House. He lives in Los Angeles.
The Tavis Smiley Show is produced by Smiley Radio Properties, Inc. and is supported in part by Wells Fargo and Kaiser Permanente.
About Public Radio International(R)
PRI is public radio's leading source for innovative programming and audio content. The Minneapolis-based network provides over 400 hours of programming each week, content that is broadcast and streamed online by its 728 public radio station affiliates nationwide, who reach 31 million listeners each week. PRI is the managing partner of the satellite radio company American Public Radio, LLC, established with Chicago Public Radio(R) and WGBH Radio Boston. PRI's cultural programming is available via XM Public Radio. Its news and information programming is available via Sirius Satellite Radio.
PRI is known for driving innovation in public radio through partnerships with stations, independent producers, and other organizations, and for working collaboratively to pool resources and share risk, cultivate new talent, and bring diverse voices and perspectives to the public airwaves. Its best known offerings include The Tavis Smiley Show, produced by The Smiley Group Inc.; Marketplace(R), produced by American Public Media(TM) in association with the University of Southern California; This American Life, produced by Chicago Public Radio(R); PRI's The World, a co-production of BBC World Service, PRI, and WGBH Radio Boston; Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?(R), produced by Wisconsin Public Radio; PRI's From the Top(R), produced by From the Top in association with WGBH Radio Boston and New England Conservatory of Music; and PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, produced by PRI and WNYC, New York Public Radio(R); as well as 24-hour program services -- Classical 24(R), produced by American Public Media(TM); and BBC World Service, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation. For more information on PRI and its programs, visit the PRI website at www.pri.org.


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Q: Passport Facebook authentication for website users plus local authentication for admin I am creating a website with node and express framework in back end, and angular in front end. I am using passport for authentication. The users of my website can login or signup using only their Facebook ID this is working so far. Now I have to create an admin login. The steps I am going to follow are-
1] Create a separate route which has some secret string at end to get to login
   page. like localhost:8080/p08jnl
2] When on this page I have username and password input, where the admin enter
   the credentials, and would use passport local authentication for this.
3] The admin routes can be accessed only after login from the admin portal, I
   will define a middleware isAuthenticated() on those routes.
The thing I am concerned about is, for the routes for users I had defined an isAuthenticated() function so that only authenticated users can access those routes.
Would any authenticated user be able to access the routes for admin?
more details on my authentication-
when my website's URL is called
'localhost:8080'

I send a page which has the Facebook authentication button on it, no angular web app is sent, when user authenticates via Facebook, then the client angular web app is sent.
I am planning to send a page ,when the admin URL is called, with username and password input fields .After successful login, the admin angular web app would be sent.

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Would any authenticated user be able to access the routes for admin?

Simply create another middleware called isAdmin, which checks if that user is an administrator. Then Place the isAdmin middleware before any /admin routes (or /p08jnl routes in your case).


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Movie Review – Wave, The (2015)
April 3, 2018 August 4, 2018 Rodney Twelftree
Principal Cast : Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Thomas Bo Larsen, Mette Horn, Fritjhov Saheim, Herman Berhoft, Arthur Berning, Silje Breivik, Laila Goody, Eili Harboe.
Synopsis: Although anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
The Wave (aka Bølgen in its native Norway) is a 2015 disaster epic directed by Tomb Raider reboot helmer Roar Uthuag, a man who is also due to give us a semi-sequel to this film in The Quake later in 2018. With a disgustingly low budget, The Wave accomplishes that which continues to elude many a mega-millions Hollywood production of similar scope: it's a film with decent characters, an engaging premise, and despite limited means, legitimately exciting (if minimally used) visual effects. Sure, it's not a world-ending apocalypse favoured by the Michael Bays and Roland Emmerichs of the world, but Uthuag's intimate flotilla of destruction unleashed by a massive tidal wave (er… spoiler I guess?) is a masterclass in genre film-making in that it achieves so much with so little.
The Norwegian town of Geiranger, a popular tourist destination nestled on the edge of a glacial lake beneath enormous mountains, is under constant threat. High above the town is the Akerneset mountain, on which a crevasse is closely monitored by a group of scientists, including geologist Kristian (Kristoffer Joner), who await the collapse of billions of tonnes of rock into the water below, which would cause a massive 80-foot tidal wave to stream down the lake and devastate Gerianger within ten minutes. On his last day in town, due to move away with his family – hotel receptionist wife Idun (Ane Dahl Torp), son Sondre (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) and daughter Julia (Edith Haagenrud-Sande) – Kristian discovers that the crevasse is shifting, although his warnings come too late: the avalanche occurs, and the resulting wave sweeps all before it.
The Wave boasts a story structure like a great sexual experience. The first act is all foreplay: the gradually rising tension as the stakes are set, people discover the impending disaster, and the human characters are all inserted into their various locales ready for the money shot. Said money-shot is explosive and jaw-dropping, destructive without being pornographic, and all-too brief. Finally, there's the third act pillow-talk, the "who among them survived" questions as the human characters rise from the destruction to make their way to relative safety. The Wave borrows liberally from its genre forebears such as Dante's Peak, The Day After Tomorrow, and even The Impossible, as it generates empathy for the core characters and throws just enough ancillary ones into the mix to provide expendable ballast.
While The Wave might not offer anything new to say in its modus operandi, and ticks all the boxes of disaster film archetype, the film's a hell of a lot of fun. Uthaug ekes out considerably decent emotional resonance for Kristian and his family, taking them from relatively freewheeling Norwegian family unit into bloodied and bruised survivors of a major natural disaster in an arc that screams twee but ends up feeling flavorful. I think a lot of this is to do with the acting, prominently Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp as the parents stuck in this ghastly scenario, convincing in their believable fragility and romantic relational status. Small roles to Fridtjov Saheim, as Kristian's boss, and Eili Harboe, as a hotel colleague of Idun's, are nicely spliced into the film to humanise the movie's otherwise gargantuan scope.
What's amazing to me is just how much Uthuag and his team have achieved with such a minuscule budget. Filmed at an approximate cost of $6 million, The Wave feels like it was shot with a major Hollywood blockbuster budget at hand, and it's a testament to Uthuag's skill as a film-maker that he can make so little look and feel like so much. The cinematography (by John Christian Rosenlund) is absolutely gorgeous, although if you've spent any time on Google Earth looking at the real Geiranger you'll appreciate how little they'd have to do to make it look stunning. The wave itself, which comes midway through the film, is used sparingly, in about half a dozen full-screen shots, with the terror and tension elicited mainly through sound effects and people's reactions. There's an effectiveness to its use, borne of expense minimisation, and the film's canny use of the CG sparingly works in favour of maintaining that unseen impending doom feel. Not to mention Magnus Belte's pitch-perfect disaster-film score, which resonates, pulsates and soars when required and delivers the perfect accompaniment to the on-screen action.
The Wave is a masterclass in blockbuster destruction and impact. A simple premise, presented without ostentation or histrionics, directed with silky skill by Roar Uthaug and performed by an admirable cast, and a sonic blast of fun and excitement make this film an outstanding low-budget affair that delivers. It's rare one can say that about a film without feeling like you're pandering to the lowest common denominator, but The Wave rises above its bigger budgeted transoceanic cousins and in most respects actually outdoes them. Entertaining and engaging, The Wave comes highly recommended.


Is Judaism a false faith?
If Christianity is the only true "religion" then all other religions are false faiths. Understanding that, ultimately, Satan and his demons energize, inspire, and are behind all false religions (Satan seeking worship for himself and not to the only true and living God). Is Judaism a false faith exercising false worship of a false god, and, bottom line, a worship of "demons"? I don't mean any ill or to be blunt; I'm just curious and think this would be the logical and reasonable deduction. Some people think that Judaism is truly worshipping the true Jehovah but they just don't know any better as to recognize Jesus as the promised Messiah.
You began your inquiry with a clear statement of the ultimate issue. "If Christianity is the only true 'religion' then all other religions are false…" This, in turn, leads you to ask a question that many would rather avoid: "is Judaism a false faith exercising false worship of a false god, and, bottom line, a worship of 'demons'?" With reliance on the help of the true God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—I will try to so answer.
There is only one true God, "for"—as the Apostle Paul put it—"although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many 'gods' and many 'lords—yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist." The critical question therefore is to correctly identify this one true God in sharp contrast with all of the false gods. And it is the foundation belief of biblical Christianity that the one and only true God has revealed himself to us as a trinity—one God who exists in three persons; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
It's important to realize that while God spoke of himself with plurality terminology (think of Genesis 1:26 where he says "let us make man in our image, after our likeness") the full disclosure of his triune nature only came with the New Testament revelation. I think that is one reason why Jesus said blasphemy against himself was forgiveable. It was no easy thing to adjust to this fuller revelation. Yet the record shows, beyond question, that Jesus himself is Jehovah. He created food to feed 5,000. He commanded the wind and the waves to obey him, and they did obey him. He called dead Lazarus back to life. He was crucified, dead and buried, but then rose from the dead on the third day as he promised, and visibly ascended into heaven. And he also claimed that he alone is "the way, the truth, and the life" and that "no one can come to the Father except by him" (John 14:6). The Bible says "he came to his own and his own received him not" (John 1:11). By "his own" John meant the Jews who were living while he was on earth. But Paul wrote—several years after that—that there was still a veil over the hearts of most Jews and that seems to continue to this day. It is only when "the veil is removed" (2 Cor. 3:16) that they are able to recognize the truth about Jesus. And the truth is that (as Paul said) "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we [and they] must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
"But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, 'Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.' That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much morewill these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree."
During the second World War these words of the Apostle Paul were taken seriously by many Dutch people during the Nazi occupation of their country. Even though the Jews living among them did not believe in Jesus, those Dutch Christians knew that their own hope of eternal life depended on the saving work of a Jew named Jesus. They understood that it was to the Jews alone among all the peoples on earth that God had chosen to bring forth the Messiah who takes away the sin not only of all Jews who believe, but also of all Gentile believers as well. And so—Yes—those who refuse to worship Jesus as God are, in effect (even though they are not aware of it) serving demons.
Thank you for asking this momentous question.


While the scorching summers are almost here, all mummies must be on a lookout for some cool breezing recipes to keep their kids healthy and cool.
How about an easy Summer Squash Soup?
The delicate flavor, soft shell and creamy white flesh of summer squash is a perfect addition to any summer meal and when you serve this to your kid as soup, you can be happy for the great tasty and healthy combo all in one recipe.
Today I shall share two easy recipes of Summer Squash Soup, that you can serve to your kid and see him/her savoring this yummy soup.
In a large pot, heat oil over medium heat. Add the cumin seeds and cook, stirring often, until just fragrant. Add the garlic and onion and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes.
Now add sliced squash and cook until just softened, this will take around 10 minutes.
Add curry powder and vegetable broth and bring to a boil. Lower heat to medium-low and simmer about 15 minutes.
Remove from heat and, using a hand-blender or traditional blender, puree it and allow it to cool.
Peel and cut yellow squash, potatoes, and onion.
Now puree them in batches in your blender. Blend until smooth and creamy.
Pour the mixture into a big mixing bowl through a fine mesh sieve, so as to separate any unblended chunks.
Add buttermilk to it in the mixing bowl. Mix well.
Refrigerate it for an hour so as to get a chilled summer soup. Alternatively you can also serve it warm.
Garnish with Parmesan and a dollop of sour cream.
These were the two easy and yummy summer squash recipes. Try these out and let us know how they turned not. Not just your kid, but you too can enjoy these delicious soups.
Do you have more squash recipes to share?