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The integration between PrivateServer Appliance and the Cisco Unified Call Manager Business Edition version 8.6.2 (from now on shortly CUCMBE) is made possible by setting up a SIP Trunk. Both the appliances can speak SIP, both work out the UDP transport protocols and the G711/ulaw codec and that's mostly all we need to start.
We'll see how to configure both CUCMBE and PrivateServer to make this link possible and running.
The Cisco phones connected to the CUCMBE can be both SCCP or SIP ones: it makes no difference to PrivateServer.


Incredible All Brick Walkout Ranch on prime Lakefront with 1.7 acres! Amazing recreational property boasts private dock for paddle boating, fishing & swimming, gazebo, 52 x 20 all-sport court, private 1/4 mile long, 5 ft wide concrete go cart track & 2-story lake house for picnics & campouts! House itself features triple crown molding, a stunning renovated kitchen including double oven with warming drawer & an enormous 9 ft granite island bar! Updated bathrooms showcase beautifully updated tiling, cabinetry & tops. Great full wet bar area in lower level. 2-story Lake house has main floor space & spiral staircase to 2nd floor loft! HUGE garage plus 2 extra storage sheds!


Medical errors are one of the nation's leading causes of death and injury. A recent report by the Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each year as the result of medical errors.
Going home from the hospital can be a hectic and confusing time. Start planning for going home as early in your hospital stay as is practical. Click the link below for some helpful tips to assist you in preparing to go home.
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aurous (MRSA) is the most common healthcare associated infection and a multi-drug resistant organism. MRSA infections can increase patient morbidity, mortality and hospital cost.
Medical errors happen when something that was planned as part of medical care doesn't work out, or when the wrong plan was used in the first place. Click the link below for more information on what you can do to for your patient safety.


Book - Understanding and Managing Children's Classroom Behavior: Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms. 2007. John Wiley.
Drs. Goldstein and Brooks describe the current functional approach to assessing, understanding, and positively managing behavior in the classroom. Together with contributions from renowned experts they discuss such themes as the mindset of effective educators and effective students; identifying and reinforcing the strengths and assets in students and nurturing their resilience; implementing practical strategies for improving the self-control and social skills of students; providing functional behavioral assessments; and applying problem-solving approaches to bullies and their victims.


In the world of the cloud, showcasing the partner ecosystem in an online marketplace has become an imperative. Salesforce has been in the vanguard of this trend. Since its inception in 2005, the AppExchange has grown to include more than 3,000 partner solutions that augment Salesforce's growing portfolio of cloud services. AppExchange has strengthened significantly Salesforce's position in the marketplace by cataloging the company's rapidly expanding ecosystem of ISV and consulting partners.
Facebook on Monday announced Marketplace, a new mobile app that facilitates buying and selling between peers. Marketplace allows members of a community to discover, buy and sell items, noted Facebook Product Management Director Mary Ku. The service is scheduled for rollout this week in the United States, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Users can access Marketplace by tapping a shopping icon at the bottom of the Facebook mobile app. The opening screen displays photos of items for sale by people who live in a user-defined geographic area.
Facebook has served as an online marketplace for armed militias in Libya and other war-torn countries, according to a news report published Wednesday. An array of light weapons bought and sold after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi unleashed a torrent of unregulated commerce in Libya, which previously had controlled online communications strictly, according to a study by Armament Research Services. Widespread trading of illicit weapons between online or hidden groups occurred between September 2014 and March 2016.
Dish Network on Monday launched Dish Media Sales, an automated marketplace that will let advertisers buy TV spots the same way they can buy ads online. With the initiative, Dish will give advertisers the ability to purchase targeted, linear TV ads, impression by impression, using real-time bidding technology — similar to the way online ads are purchased. "Our addressable technology offers an improved viewer experience as we deliver ads with greater relevance to a consumer's needs," said Adam Gaynor, vice president of Dish media sales.
Apple's dominance in the enterprise mobility marketplace waned during the second quarter on a precipitous drop in tablet marketshare, the balance of which went to devices running Android and Windows, according to mobility solutions firm Good Technology.
Amazon on Tuesday announced Amazon Business, transforming its 3-year-old Amazon Supply B2B marketplace with new features and benefits, and a massively increased product selection. Amazon Business offers customers everything from IT and lab equipment to traffic signs, industrial deep fryers and 55-gallon steel drums. Customers will need a business license to register. Orders of $49 or more for any of tens of millions of items will get free two-day shipping. The marketplace will carry more than 250 million items, said spokesperson Lori Richter.
Amazon on Monday launched a new marketplace for professionals who can help with everything from basic home cleaning to skilled labor, including electric, plumbing and appliance installation. Amazon Home Services enlists professionals who have been prescreened through background checks and are officially licensed and insured, and it guarantees service satisfaction. It provides upfront pricing on prepackaged services, as well as customer reviews. The number of services actually available at launch varies according to market size.
Six years into the current incarnation of the mobile app marketplace, a recent survey suggests that while smartphone owners have not lost their appetite for new apps, developers hoping to make it into users' everyday rotation have a higher bar to reach.
The wearable technology marketplace is already in place and growing. Now, enter the Apple Watch. Although it will speed up growth, this new space will be very different from the iPhone and iPad markets. Large companies like Google, Samsung and Sony, and smaller companies like FitBit and others have already thrown their hats into the ring and seen limited success. Apple did not create the wearable marketplace, but it has just poured some gasoline onto the growth fire.
Amazon reportedly is planning to test a local marketplace that could make it a one-stop shop for local services. Those services could include anything from dog walking to a plumbing. Backed by Amazon's already established ratings and recommendations infrastructure, the service could take on sites like Yelp, Angie's List and Craigslist. It might also threaten home improvement chains such as Home Depot and Lowe's, which also have begun assisting customers in finding local home service providers like painters and plumbers.


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Welcome 2018 with special sparkling cocktail
The Culinary Institute of America
Dec 26, 2017 at 10:12 PM Dec 26, 2017 at 10:24 PM
Everyone knows the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne." At least, everyone knows the last three words to "Auld Lang Syne," or at least the general sound they should make coming out of your mouth.
If you're like some of us, you may be a little fuzzy on the exact sentiment of this iconic New Year's anthem. And while humming along has gotten you this far, this year it might be worth giving those lyrics a quick Google.
"Auld Lang Syne," which roughly translates to "times long past" or "days gone by," is a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Set to that familiar folk song melody, the version we know (sort of) has been translated to modern English, and encourages us to think about the people with whom we've shared our lives. After all, what better moment for solemn reflection than while wearing a paper tiara and swinging a champagne flute?
So now that you know a little bit about what you've been hearing all these years, we're going to give you a cheat sheet for the most important part of the song. During the chorus, revelers in-the-know sing, ".and we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne." A cup of kindness is a special sentiment, and here at The Culinary Institute of America, we love kindness. But we also feel like raising a cup of kindness is sort of a missed opportunity.
Lucky for us, Culinary Institute of America instructor Rory Brown has created a special cocktail that we can use to fill our cups and raise to the New Year. This recipe for the Kindness sparkling wine cocktail mixes botanical gin, lightly spiced Drambuie (in honor of the Scotsman himself, Mr. Burns), and the complex sweetness of honey, all topped off with the requisite New Year's Eve bubbles.
If you're hosting a party, you can make the cocktail in a pitcher ahead of time_just leave out the sparkling wine. Guests can add that to their glass at 11:55. We like this cocktail served in a wine glass instead of the traditional champagne flute. Not only does it limit the opportunity for spills for an enthusiastic partygoer, but it also helps to distribute the aromatics of the cocktail.
Honey Simple Syrup is an easy make-ahead recipe that you'll enjoy for more than this cocktail. Use it to lightly sweeten lemonade for young guests (add a splash of sparkling water for bubbles) or as a sweetener for mulled apple cider. Choose your favorite honey, but keep in mind that some varieties, like orange blossom, are more flavorful than others.
When he created this cocktail, Brown said, "In an ode to the New Year, we have combined the sparkling wine you expect with the history you might have forgotten. Burns reminds us to take a minute to recognize the moments of the past year, for there is but one until we must begin again." We'll raise a cup of Kindness to that.
3/4 ounce (1 1/2 tablespoon) Drambuie
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) gin
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) lemon juice
1/4 ounce (1 1/2 teaspoon) Honey Simple Syrup (recipe below)
4 ounce (1/2 cup) sparkling wine
In a mixing glass filled with ice, combine the Drambuie, gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup, and stir to combine. Strain into a wine glass and top with sparkling wine just before serving.
Honey Simple Syrup
Makes about 3/4 cups (enough for 24 cocktails)
Combine the honey and water in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly until the honey dissolves. Cool completely before use.
Nutrition information per serving: 200 calories; 0 calories from fat; 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 0 mg sodium; 10 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 0 g protein.
This article was provided to The Associated Press by The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.

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American Lending Center (ALC), one of America's leading EB-5 regional centers, has joined the suit to support and stand with the international investor community as the first and only institutional plaintiff. Legal representation is being provided by Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, Tetzeli, and Pratt, P.A., a top Florida law firm with a record of aggressive advocacy and success in civil litigation and immigration law.
The lawsuit aims to substantially reduce the current EB-5 visa backlog facing investors and their families. Over the past several years, the wait time to become a U.S. resident has drastically increased, with some EB-5 investors delayed up to 15 years. During this time many children of investors "age out" of associated familial visas or green card eligibility as "derivatives" of their parents. If spouses and children of investors were not individually counted against the State Department's annual visa quota, a greater number would be available and the backlog would be substantially reduced.
An established innovator and industry leader, ALC received a record-breaking nine EB-5 project approvals in nine different cities for 30 newly approved investors in March of 2018 alone. The company is currently the largest non-bank SBA 504 lending institution, having successfully provided over 350 million dollars to American ventures and funded over 60 SBA 504 projects with parent company RCH.


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Q: For increment is not working properly in c# I want to increment my loop.At first I am initialization i=0 and k=0 and then i want to initialization i with that increment value.I have tried these code below but it is not working.Please help me out from these problem
for (i = 0; i < totalcount; i++)
{
  for (k = 0; k < totalstudent; k++)
  {
      dt.Rows.Add(companyname[i], companyemail[i], studentname[k]);
  }
}

i = totalcount;
k = totalstudent;
totalcount += totalcount;
totalstudent++;

But if i write in another way its getting increment.i have attached my below code.But that is not proper way.i can't write for loop again and again
for (i = 0; i < totalcount; i++)
{
  for (k = 0; k < totalstudent; k++)
  {
    dt.Rows.Add(companyname[i], companyemail[i], studentname[k]);
  }
}

for (i = totalcount; i < totalcount+totalcount; i++)
{
  for (k = totalstudent; k < totalstudent+totalstudent; k++)
  {
    dt.Rows.Add(companyname[i], companyemail[i], studentname[k]);
  }
}

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Quantum Me and Quantum Dee Sculptures
Project Contacts: Terrence McDonnell
Davis McCarty, a Chicago-based artist, exhibits his sculptures at museums, iconic buildings, and art festivals around the world. As part of Mayor Emanuel's 50 x 50 Neighborhood Arts Project, the Beverly Area Arts Alliance and 49th Ward...
Keywords:Art Work, Cultural, Metal-Aluminum, Metal-Steel, Wind Loads
New York City Marathon Displays
Project Contacts: Kevin Poulin
With over 50,000 runners in 2014, the TCS New York City Marathon is the largest marathon in the world. Turning city streets into a raceday event requires eye-catching graphics and signage. SGH evaluated the structural design for...
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Heart of Hearts Sculpture
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To celebrate Valentine's day, the Times Square Alliance invites architecture and design firms to submit entries for a public art installation. In 2016, the alliance selected Collective-LOK's design, Heart of Hearts, as the winning...
Keywords:Art Work, Award Winning, Fasteners and Connections, Metal-Aluminum, Wind Loads
Boardwalk Hall
Project Contacts: Dominic Kelly, Joseph Zona
Constructed in 1929, Boardwalk Hall has hosted many legendary entertainment icons and events. In 2002, following a major renovation, the venue installed an aluminum truss assembly to support rigging for show or event equipment. While...
Services:Structural Investigation
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Every year, the big game requires a variety of exterior graphics and installations to transform the host venue into the Super Bowl venue. Working with the event coordinators, SGH evaluated the structural design for several large displays...
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Aza, 16, has a lot of intrusive thoughts that she can't escape – despite medication and the assistance of her therapist. For instance, she's disturbed by the possibility that she's not real, and terrified that she'll become infected with C diff. (Clostridium difficile) – a potentially life-threatening bacteria – and in the middle of her first kiss she's overcome with worry that her boyfriend's microbiome is invading her body. These are the sorts of things that go through her mind all the time, becoming overwhelming and causing her to harm herself (by reopening a cut on her finger, or even drinking hand sanitizer). When Aza's best friend Daisy learns that the father of a wealthy acquaintance of theirs, Davis Pickett, has disappeared pending a criminal investigation, she becomes obsessed with finding him (or at least information that could lead to his discovery/arrest) so they can claim the reward money ($100,000). Their investigation leads Aza to reconnect with Davis (they went to Sad Camp together when they were kids), and they tentatively begin falling for one another, despite Aza's issues and Davis' family problems. Whether they'll be able to overcome those issues/problems is another story. John Green braves the realistic fiction waters (again!) to bring us loveable, unique, and quirky characters whose problems are relatable. His portrayal of Aza's inescapable thoughts is at times funny, frustrating, and heartbreaking, but totally real. Perhaps not as quotable as "The Fault in Our Stars," but still beautiful and true.


UCLA center fielder Beau Amaral, a 2009 graduate of Huntington Beach High, has been named second-team Freshman All-America by Baseball America.
He was one of six outfielders to earn the honor. Amaral and Jabari Henry of Florida International, and Cohl Walla of Texas, made second team. Max White (Oklahoma), Logan Vick (Baylor) and Jeremy Baltz (St. John's) made first team.
In 64 games, Amaral, 19, led the Bruins with a .354 batting average, had a team-high 79 hits that included four home runs, 12 doubles and 31 runs batted in. He drew 20 walks, was hit by pitch 16 times and had a .442 on-base average.
The .354 batting average was the best by a Bruin freshman since 1998.
In UCLA's 12 postseason games — the Bruins finished runner-up to South Carolina in the finals of the College World Series — Amaral hit .396 with 19 hits, including six doubles and 13 runs scored in 48 at-bats.
"Beau had a tremendous season," UCLA Coach John Savage said, adding that Amaral was Honorable Mention All-Pacific-10 Conference. "He's a guy who would lead-off for us, hit second, play any role you put him in. On top of that, he played outstanding defense."
During the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., in late-June, Amaral batted .375 with three doubles, two RBIs and four runs. He joined teammates, fellow freshman infielder Cody Regis and sophomore pitcher Trevor Bauer, on the all-tournament team in Omaha.
"He really played under control on the big stage," Savage said of Amaral's performance at the College World Series. "That shows you something about his demeanor, his presence on the field and his upbringing. That's really a credit to his family.
"I really can't say enough about Beau. He came in and had as special a season of any freshman I've ever coached."


opens the door to allow $100 million to be dedicated to welfare for politicians—taxpayer-funded campaigns.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. This budget does nothing to make New York more affordable, create real jobs or empower small businesses.
In addition to these budget bills, the Senate's new majority passed two resolutions without any advance public input. Currently in New York, anyone convicted of a drug-related offense loses their driver's license for six months. The new majority passed a resolution that would make a significant policy change and jeopardize public safety by completely reversing this longstanding law.
Even worse, as multiple members of the majority pointed to various budget shortfalls as justification for their failure to fund some critically important programs, they ultimately voted to pass a resolution that would authorize a raise for both the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor to bring their salaries to $250,000 and $225,000, respectively.


An experiment on the effect of Pb pollutants on the growth and development of two widely used ornamental plants, i.e. Lantana sellowiana and Ixora chinensis, was conducted at the IPB Greenhouse, Baranangsiang, Bogor from mid September 1990 to the end of December 1990. The experiment aimed to determine the effect of concentration levels of Pb in the form of PbCl2 upon the growth and development of the two ornamental plants.
The experiment consisted of two units, each of which was based on the complete randomized design. Treatments consisted of four concentration levels of PbCI2, i.e. 0, 250, 2500, and 25 000 ppm, applied to each unit with three replications.
Observation during 12 weeks showed that treatments with 250 and 2500 ppm PbCl2 did not give significant damage to the growth and development of Lantana sellowiana. Concentration level of 25 000 ppm, however, interfered growth and development of this species six weeks after planting. On the other hand, the concentration levels used in this experiment had no toxic effect on the growth and development of Ixora chinensis.


A good part of the excitement in seeing a new play is the sense of anticipation and discovery, and it's rare to determine how the emotions and plot are going to unfold. Diversionary Theatre's production of "The Hour of Great Mercy" features a complex plot dealing with religion, homosexuality and a potentially tense family reunion. In the Alaskan town of Bethlehem, a gay Jesuit priest Ed (Andrew Oswald) has left the Catholic Church and seeks to reconnect with his estranged brother. The reason for the falling out between the two forms part of the play's plot.
The premise of the drama is inspired by playwright Miranda Rose Hall's (a founding member and current resident playwright of LubDub Physical Theatre Co. based in New York) relationship with her father.
When Hall was attending the graduate school at the Yale School of Drama, her mentor was acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl. While Hall was trying to decide on a topic for her graduate thesis, Ruhl suggested that she write a gift play for someone that she loved.
The Alaskan setting is important to Hall's story. She spent a few years working with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, helping marginalized groups in Anchorage and Missoula, Montana.
Director Rosina Reynolds hasn't been to Alaska, and she did a significant amount of research in preparation for the rehearsals.
The need to connect to people in a lonely place is a crucial theme of the drama. Reynolds is working closely with Hall to help the writer tell her story on stage.
While the script specifically deals with Catholicism and homosexuality, one aspect of Hall's story that Reynolds finds unique is the universality of the plot.
"Learning to reconcile with inner-faith and stay true to your own sexuality and beliefs is a very large part of the play," she said.
"I want audiences to feel like it's never too late to love somebody," she said.
Throughout the evening, Hall incorporates both light and dark moments with humor, warmth and levity, especially in scenes where the characters display vulnerability. She does view her theatrical piece as one that's, overall, an empathetic one.
With an interesting premise and a talented cast of mostly local artists including Tom Stephenson, Patrick Mayuyu and Dana Case, Diversionary's latest production gives San Diegans an opportunity to watch a new work from a rising playwright. The experience should be one that is both personal and universal.
"The Hour of Great Mercy" is running at Diversionary Theatre through March 3. For tickets or more information, visit diversionary.org or call 619-220-0097.
—David Dixon is a freelance film and theater writer. He can be reached at daviddixon0202@gmail.com.


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Q: How to add my lib to LDFLAGS? I have next structure of a project:
cruceGame/
    src/
        libCruceGame/...
        cruceGameCurses/...
        multiplayerCurses/...
        networking/...
        parser/...
    docs/...this doesn't matter...

The project has a Makefile.am in src/ folder:
AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/src/libCruceGame -I$(top_srcdir)/src/networking -I$(top_srcdir)/src/cruceGameCurses -I$(top_srcdir)/src/multiplayerCurses
LDFLAGS = -no-undefined
CFLAGS += -std=c99

if DEBUG
CFLAGS += -g -Wall -DDEBUG
endif

lib_LTLIBRARIES = libCruceGame.la libNetworking.la libCruceGameCurses.la libMultiplayerCurses.la
bin_PROGRAMS = cruceGame

cruceGame_SOURCES = cruceGame.c

cruceGame_LDADD = libCruceGame.la libNetworking.la libCruceGameCurses.la libMultiplayerCurses.la
cruceGame_LDFLAGS = -lncursesw -lpthread

libCruceGame_la_SOURCES = libCruceGame/deck.c \
              libCruceGame/team.c \
              libCruceGame/round.c \
                          libCruceGame/game.c

libNetworking_la_SOURCES = networking/network.c

libCruceGameCurses_la_SOURCES = cruceGameCurses/main.c \
                                cruceGameCurses/cli.c

libMultiplayerCurses_la_SOURCES = multiplayerCurses/main.c \
                                  multiplayerCurses/cli.c \
                                  multiplayerCurses/ircHandlers.c

You can find project here(look in develop branch): https://github.com/danij/CruceGame
I am trying to pack cruceGameCurses and multiplayerCurses into libraries, but it uses the libCruceGame. When I use this makefile, i receive errors about unreconized reference to libCruceGame functions.
So, my question: How I can add libCruceGame to LDFLAGS?
PS The project isn't wrote by mine, I only contribue and I am beginner in librariies.

A: Try changing this line:
cruceGame_LDFLAGS = -lncursesw -lpthread

to this:
cruceGame_LDFLAGS = -lncursesw -lpthread -L/directory/your/lib/is/in -lname

where name is the middle part of the library filename.  That is, if the file is libfoo.a or libfoo.so, the name used with the -l option is just foo.


These are mbr's choice of the most exciting products of 2018. British made dropper posts, alt drivetrains, computers that live inside your tyres and more.
UK brand USE have been around pretty much since the year zero of British mountain biking and they're well known for their static seatposts. Seeing them finally reveal a dropper post is a pleasing sight. And in typically USE fashion, it's significantly different design to how everyone else makes droppers. It's an entirely mechanical design which prizes practicality and serviceability.
Box Components are not going away. They have a fight on their hands against the twin behemoths of mountain bike groupsets – Shimano and Sram – but they're confident they offer something significantly different to the established giants.
Essentially a compact digital air pressure sensor with built-in communication with smartphones. The Hutchinson ConecTires lives inside your tyre (mounted at the valve hole inside the rim) and beams out live tyre pressure info to an app on your phone. It even has a motion tilt sensor in it so it knows how much you get your lean on (or not). It can assess your riding and then give you advice on setting up your tyres to best suit your rides.
Crank Brothers' very top of the line track pump. Magnetic, minimalist and comes with a 'burst tank' for blast-inflating tubeless tyres.
After hiding in the sidelines for a couple of seasons, French forkers BOS are back with a vengeance it seems for 2018. Much simpler in setup and options than previous techno-tastic BOS suspension forks, the new 150-170mm Devilles basically offer you three selectable preset tunings.
It's all hidden away inside a rear hub but Rotor's RVolver freehub design drastically reduces the drag of your rear wheel, resulting in longer freewheeling and less energy lost to friction all round. Not only that, it may also have an added benefit of reducing undesirable drivetrain forces on bike rear suspension.


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Орган «Ригер-Клосс» (ор.3554) — орган, находящийся в Харьковской областной филармонии.

История
В 1986 году в помещении Успенского Собора Харькова был открыт Дом Органной и Камерной Музыки Харьковской филармонии. Чехословацкие специалисты органостроительной фирмы «Rieger-Kloss» установили духовой орган (op. 3554) с 3 мануалами, педалью и 3554 трубами. С 1 декабря 1986 года (первый публичный концерт) в ДОиКМ Харьковской филармонии проходят органные концерты известных харьковских исполнителей и гастроли мастеров органной и камерной музыки из Австрии, Германии, Италии, Польши, Франции, Чехии, Швеции, Японии и др. стран, исполняются вокально-органные, литературно-органные, хоровые концерты.

В 2009 году глава Харьковской областной государственной администрации А. Б. Аваков подписал решение о передаче Успенского Собора в ведение Харьковской епархии Украинской Православной Церкви. Планировалось, что до 2010 года в Соборе параллельно по согласованному графику будут проходить концерты органной музыки и церковные службы. В начале 2009 года был подписан контракт на строительство нового органа «Alexander Schuke» (4 мануала, 72 регистра) в новом строящемся филармоническом комплексе, где с 2010 года должен был разместиться Органный Зал Харьковской филармонии. После открытия нового филармонического комплекса Успенский Собор полностью перейдет в ведение Епархии. Однако, до сих пор в Соборе проходят как концерты органной музыки, так и другие мероприятия Харьковской филармонии. Актуальную информацию можно получить на сайте Харьковского органного зала http://filarmonia.kh.ua/afisha/

Состав регистров органа «Ригер-Клосс» (ор.3554)

Примечания

См. также
 Органные залы Украины

Культура Харькова
Харьков
Появились в 1986 году на Украине
1980-е годы в Харьковской области
1986 год в музыке

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Палаццо Пітті (італ. Palazzo Pitti) або Галерея Пітті — палац та галерея мистецтв у місті Флоренція, найбільший з флорентійських палаццо, що нині існують.
 Джон Пітті (англ. John Pitti; 1978 року народження) — панамський футбольний арбітр.
 Мадонна Пітті (італ. Tondo Pitti) — мармуровий барельєф, створений Мікеланджело близько 1503—1505 рр. для Бартоломео Пітті.
 Вівтар Пітті або Містичні заручини св. Катерини Сієнської (італ. Pala Pitti) — вівтарний образ, котрий створив італійський художник і чернець Фра Бартоломео (1472—1517).
 Пітті (футболіст) Люіс Пауло Даніель Барбоса (порт. Luiz Paulo Daniel Barbosa; 29 листопада 1987, Сан-Жозе-дус-Кампус, Бразилія) — бразильський футболіст.


Sanford entered the world of professional baseball in 1919 with the formation of the Class D Florida State League. In its inaugural season, the Celeryfeds won the first half pennant, finishing in a tie with Orlando for the best overall record. Although the league folded in 1928, it was revived in 1936, and once again included a team from Sanford called the Lookouts, which was part of the Senators family of clubs. This struggling team finally turned around when they acquired former Major League star, Dale Alexander, as manager and first baseman in 1939. In over 80 years of Florida State League history, no team has ever matched their .737 winning percentage that season. The next season, the Sanford Seminoles emerged as the city's baseball team.
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Sanford, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
The present-day Sanford area was originally inhabited by the Mayaca/Joroco natives by the time Europeans arrived. The tribe was decimated by war and disease by 1760 and was replaced by the Seminole Indians. In 1821, the United States acquired Florida from Spain and Americans began to settled in the state.
Camp Monroe was established in the mid-1830s to defend the area against Seminoles during the Seminole Wars. In 1836, the United States Army built a road (present-day Mellonville Avenue) to a location called "Camp Monroe," during the Second Seminole War. Following an attack on February 8, 1837, the camp was renamed "Fort Mellon," in honor of the battle's only American casualty, Captain Charles Mellon.
The town of Mellonville was founded nearby in 1842 by Daniel Stewart. When Florida became a state three years later, Mellonville became the county seat for Orange County, which was originally a portion of Mosquito County. Citrus was the first cash crop in the area and the first fruit packing plant was constructed in 1869.
In 1870, a lawyer from Connecticut by the name of Henry Shelton Sanford purchased 12,548 acres of open land west of Mellonville. His vision was to make this new land a major port city, both railway and by water. Sitting on Lake Monroe, and the head of the St. Johns River, the City of Sanford earned the nickname of "The Gate City of South Florida." Sanford became not only a transportation hub, but a leading citrus industry in Florida, and eventually globally.
The Great Fire of 1887 devastated the city, which also suffered from a statewide epidemic of yellow fever the following year. The citrus industry flourished until the Great Freezes of 1894 and 1895, causing planters to begin growing celery in 1896 as an alternative. Celery replaced citrus as the city's cash crop and Sanford was nicknamed "Celery City." In 1913, Sanford became the county seat of Seminole County, once part of Orange County. Agriculture dominated the region until Walt Disney World opened in October of 1971, effectively shifting the Central Florida economy towards tourism and residential development.
The cigar industry was first brought to Florida by Cuban immigrants in the 1830s and became one of the nation's most important industries in the Southeast. By the last quarter of the 19th century, with Tampa serving as the cigar manufacturing center in the state. In the late 1800s, cigar factories began to appear in various other Florida cities, such as Jacksonville and Tallahassee.
Cigar manufacturing first appeared in Sanford sometime between 1909 and 1912. The Florida cigar industry came to its height in the first quarter of the 20th century, but then declined during the Great Depression and World War II, due to the accumulation of labor union conflicts over the years, the mechanization of production, and changing consumer demands. The industry was revitalized during the 1950s as production soared, despite the decline of the number of workers. Following the Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s and the U.S. embargo on Cuban products in 1962, the Florida cigar industry again declined. The Cuban embargo included tobacco, thus forcing American cigar rollers to begin using Dominican tobacco.
This collection contains images of Naval Air Station (NAS) Sanford from its inception in 1942 to present day. The Naval Air Station (NAS) Sanford was commissioned on November 3, 1942, as a naval aviation training facility during World War II. The Navy continued to train pilots at NAS Sanford throughout the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
NAS Sanford was temporarily decommissioned after World War II in 1946, and then recommissioned as the Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Sanford in 1950, due to the outbreak of the Korean War and the ongoing Cold War. Soon afterward, the station was renamed NAS Sanford and redesignated as a full naval air station. On February 6, 1959, NAS Sanford was dedicated as Ramey Field in honor of Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Ramey. In 1968, due to lack of funding caused by the Vietnam War, Congress directed the closure of NAS Sanford.
he City of Sanford assumed authority over the former NAS Sanford facility the year after it closed and renamed it the Sanford Airport, which was managed by Commander J. S. "Red" Cleveland. The airport underwent various name changes over the next several decades: Sanford Regional Airport, Central Florida Regional Airport, Orlando-Sanford Regional Airport, and its current name, Orlando-Sanford International Airport. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, several Naval buildings were demolished and new buildings were constructed.
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the religious history of Sanford, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
The photographs in the General Collection range in date from the late 1870s to the early 2000s. Many of the photographs within this collection contain photographs taken in and around the Sanford community and city proper. Additional photographs from outside of Sanford, taken in DeLeon Springs and the Tallahassee Children's Museum, as well as a postcard collection of cityscapes throughout the state, are included within this collection. Important social, political, and educational figures from Sanford's history are also displayed. Various clubs, organizations, schools, businesses, attractions, and government entities are what comprise the Student Museum's General Photographic Collection.
Francis served her community in several ways. She delivered babies for both white and black families from Seminole County, primarily patrons who either preferred natural births or could not afford deliveries at a hospital. In the 1950s, it cost $70 to stay nine days where soon-to-be mothers were taken care of, including three home-cooked meals; mothers were also taught basics in infant care. Francis was assisted by her sister, Annie Walker, who did the cooking. If a mother could not afford the costs, Francis would not turn her away. "There's a lot of charity here but I wouldn't feel good taking money and knowing the mother can't eat when she leaves here," Francis mentions in a newspaper article.
The house and ward also served as a school, where Francis taught nurses the art of midwives. Nurses would come from across the state to learn how to delivery infants naturally. A heavy burden on a single working mother, Francis had three daughters, Cassandra Francis Clayton, Daphne Francis Humphrey, and Barbara Francis Torre, Clayton and Humphrey became school teachers and Torre became a purchaser at Seminole Memorial Hospital. The "Midwife of Sanford," Marie Francis and her family contributed to Sanford's development and well-being for the better half of the twentieth century.


Which of the following could occur if your pituitary gland did not function properly?
All of the above are correct. The pituitary gland releases ADH which helps prevent the loss of water in the kidneys (A). It also (B) directs the release of thyroid hormones controlling metabolic activities, (C) releases FSH and LH to help with reproductive capabilities, and (D) releases growth hormone during childhood and adolescence.


Did you know I used to shoot a ton of celebrity red carpet events? It's true. Everyone from Alanis Morissette to Matt Damon to Jessica Simpson to Katy Perry have been in front of my lens at various events in Toronto over the last decade. Sometimes, it's just a fleeting moment, like seeing Alanis on the red carpet at the Canada Walk Of Fame ceremony. Other times it's a live performance, like seeing Katy Perry sing "I Kissed A Girl" at Fashion Cares. And occasionally there are rare moments where I've been able to spend significant one-on-one time with a celebrity, such as with Matt Damon at the ONEXONE charity event at Maple Leaf Gardens.
So for Throwback Thursday this week, let's go back 11 years to the 2005 Much Music Video Awards. It featured performances from The Killers, Arcade Fire, and the Black Eyed Peas among others. k.os was the night's big winner, with four awards (though Billy Talent was nominated for nine). I got to hang out backstage for all of it and photograph celebrities like the aforementioned as well as Carmen Electra, Backstreet Boys, Vivica A. Fox, and tons of others. Here's a sampling of photos from that night.


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Ten-year-old Rupert Patterson might be small for his age, but he makes up for it with a BIG imagination. His wild stories and wacky inventions are legendary around town, and his fellow citizens are getting a bit tired of his superhero routine. When a robber comes to town, Rupert's life takes on a whole new dimension as he believes it is up to him to save his hometown. Kids and adults alike will fall in love with this heartwarming film and its lessons about true heroism.


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How Tech is Saving the Environment – Technology Innovates and Saves
Technology is here and it is evolving. That means, it is also looking towards saving the world. What does that mean, how can technology save the world? Here are just a few examples.
Our world has come to rely on technology to do almost everything. While that is a good thing, because we can do everything faster, it also means that we are somewhat dependant on the tech, rather than on ourselves. Some would call it egomaniacal to strive to be completely independent while others would call it rational. Whatever you want to call it, technology has integrated into our world and everyone uses it daily. Imagine a world without the internet. You could browse it, listen to music or bet online, using promotion codes like this Betfair promotion code. That by itself is a scary thought.
However, the technology is here and it is evolving. That means, it is also looking towards saving the world. What does that mean, how can technology save the world? Here are just a few examples.
This has always been a question the world wanted to answer, or rather, in the past two centuries, ever since industry was created and integrated into every country. From coal and fossil fuel plants to gas plants, nuclear plants and wind farms. We have found ways of innovating and making the process of creating electricity much cleaner. Even hydroelectric plants have evolved to make better use of water and stop contaminating it. Clean energy is one of the first steps in making the world a better place. It will only get better, as more countries move from fossil fuels to wind or nuclear energy.
The world has a limited amount of materials. If we keep using what is in the Earth's crust, we will eventually deplete it, which will either force an insane price jump for everything, or force us to look at other nearby planets as a source of materials. That is probably not a good option, seeing how our space travel is still lacking, let alone planet and asteroid colonization, even for mining. That is why recycling plays such a big deal in saving the environment. Technology helped make recycling easier, better, while using less energy at the same time.
Some of the biggest polluters are cars with internal combustion engines. There has been a trend lately, of making electric cars, one which will keep on persisting until most fossil fuel based cars are replaced. Technology also made fossil fuel cars pollute less, much less than the cars from 40 years ago, most of which are still in driving condition and some of which are driven regularly, especially in poorer countries. Electric cars will one day be extremely affordable and the charger networks will be integrated into every country and possibly, every gas station, as well.
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Technology is evolving and it is striving to save the world, among other things. The more it succeeds, the better it will be for all of us. There will be more new inventions whose only purpose will be to help the environment.
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Sooner or later, you may be unable to avoid playing the game. Bluffing becomes more challenging, but is still possible. It is never a bad preliminary bluff to feign injury, limping to the first tee and extending your left hand for the opposite number to shake, with an apologetic mention of your arthritic right wrist, which has never fully recovered from the time you saved your neighbour's dog from drowning. 'It's nothing, honestly. Sure to loosen up in an hour or two. Don't mention it.' Your opponent may be consumed with pity for your misfortune; or his spirits may soar at the prospect of inevitable victory. Either way, his game will suffer.
The Swing
The theory behind golf, as any golfer will tell you, is quite simple. Starting with the club head near the ball, slowly bring it back behind your head and swing it down on the same path. Club head hits ball and sends it away straight, true, and singing a happy tune that inspires you to quote the great American golfer Arnold Palmer: 'What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.'
A successful outcome merely requires you to make sure that your feet are correctly placed in relation to the ball; your grip neither too strong nor too weak; your arms, wrists, elbows, hips and knees braced, cocked, and bent in the prescribed angular manner so as to resemble an irregular tetrahedron rotating and counter-rotating simultaneously on a fixed axis; your body coiling and uncoiling like a wound spring, smoothly yet powerfully with wrist snap but without snatching or jerking the club as it comes to the ball in an even, accelerating arc, and after the strike, continues over your left shoulder in what is called the follow-through or finish. Remain perfectly balanced throughout, with your eye fixed on the ball, head down and unmoving, and your job is done.
A five-year course in pirouettes and pointe work at the Royal Ballet School under the personal supervision of Darcey Bussell may not be enough to achieve this with any guaranteed consistency, but should get you started on the right track. If we were to select a single hurdle, it would be this: the untrained person is not naturally adept at keeping his head still while all the rest of him is in violent movement.
Most of us can manage, at best, one thing at a time, which is why concert pianists and prima ballerinas are relatively thin on the ground – certainly not numerous enough to populate the world's golf courses and urban driving ranges. The golf shot requires you to do and not do at least eight things in the space of a second, with several (or more) people watching, all earnestly willing you to make a hash of it, apart from your playing partner who is no less earnest in his desire for you to succeed and has told you twice to watch out for the trees on the right. This is equally off-putting.
There are various ways to tackle the difficulty of perfecting the swing. Try them all, ideally one at a time.
The natural swing strategy
Forget everything technical you have been taught about the golf swing. Empty your mind, relax, and play your natural game. Imagine you are splitting a log, swatting a fly, hitting a nail or a computer with a hammer; or performing any other simple task that involves a swing and which you can manage without prior study of an instruction manual. (If you can't think of any, golf may not be for you). You will hit the ball every time, but may have to dig it out of the ground afterwards.
The alternative sport strategy
If you are having trouble with golf, think of a ball game you are good at, and play that. How about cricket? Take guard (middle and leg, or middle stump, it doesn't matter much) five yards behind the ball and when the starter calls out your name, dance down the wicket like Botham in his pomp and knock the bowler back over his head for a straight six. If tennis is your game, your tee shot will be a deftly executed half-volley lob from the baseline, flat-footing your opponent who is crowding the net 150 yards away. Sport may not be your thing, of course. Do not let this put you off golf.
Many successful players are not remotely athletic. Think of Colin Montgomerie. If you are one of those people who can only relax when tidying the house, imagine the ball is an alien clump of dog hair, or a rejected Brussels sprout, to be expelled from the kitchen with extreme prejudice and a stiff broom. 'Sweep it away,' you might hear the venerable BBC golf commentator Peter Alliss say. The advice is sound.
Autobluff strategy
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every golfer has two swings: his practice swing, a flowing movement of seamless grace, poise and athletic beauty; and his actual swing, an ugly heave. To put it another way, the golf swing is much easier without the complication of a ball. It is, as the Rules of Golf often say, 'a question of fact' that if there is no ball, the club will not be able to smash into the ground six inches behind it, or sail through the air six inches above it. In order to succeed, you merely have to convince yourself that the ball is an illusion. Any good bluffer should be able to manage this.
Golf tries one's patience like no other sport. After a few misses, the most phlegmatic golfer loses his cool, slashes wildly with his club, and the ball, which has stubbornly refused to move hitherto, disappears. Whether it sails through the clubhouse window, over a railway line or into a pond is immaterial. There is a lesson here, and it is all about summoning your latent fury, channelling it, and releasing it. You can imagine that you have already missed the ball three times before you address it.
Alternatively, think of a typical morning away from the golf course. You have an online banking transfer and a couple of phone calls to make – to cancel your mobile phone contract and change your electricity supplier – before driving round the M25 to check in for a Ryanair flight at Stansted.
Angry now?
Never despair. There is probably someone who is worse at golf than you are. If you can find such a person to play with – as an opponent, not a partner – golf will become much easier and more enjoyable.
This requires a few lessons from a qualified instructor or brave parent but is quite easy, and as long as you remember not to cross your hands on the wheel, and to stay on the left in two-way traffic, you should reach the golf club in good time for your game. By contrast, hitting a golf ball off the tee with a wooden club (or 'metal') is problematic in the extreme, and playing the fairway wood is an ambitious manoeuvre best left to the expert golfer. The driver is the longest club in the bag, and the longer it stays in the bag, the better. Most golfers carry a 3-wood and a 5-wood, and these are more user-friendly weapons, especially when the ball is nicely teed up in the heavy rough after successful identification. Male golfers should not be caught dead with woods beyond a 5-wood.
Iron play
Every golfer likes to have half a dozen irons in the fire, and at least as many in the bag. The standard panoply is seven: irons 3 to 9, plus a pitching wedge which counts as an iron and a sand wedge which doesn't. Any more irons than that – a number 2 or a gap wedge – and you are showing off.
The iron shot would be straightforward but for the awkward fact that every club is a different length, requiring a different stance and a different swing. No one can explain this, but the best solution is to choose one iron, somewhere in the middle of the range – between 5 and 7, which suggests 6 as a popular choice – and stick to it. Chopping and changing is asking for trouble. Make sure irons 3 and 4 have some soil on them before you set out, and your opponent will imagine you are in the habit of using them. This marks you out as someone who plays a bit.
Golfing mortals separate naturally into two groups: group one is reasonably good at getting to the green but can't putt. Group two encounters all sorts of trouble on the way to the green but feels blithely confident about putting, once there.
Group two golfers never understand why group one golfers get so agitated over the simple matter of hitting the ball in the hole from close range. But the point is this: if you have got on to a green in two, three or four shots, the desire to complete in only one or, at most, two more is intense. This induces a state of nervous anxiety, with all sorts of twitches and, almost inevitably, failure.
Group two golfers, rarely on the green in fewer than six shots, are under no such pressure. After their travails in the rough, the woods, ponds, bunkers and other hazards, the green is a safe haven, and on reaching it, they feel positively light-hearted. If called on to putt, they dispatch the ball with one deft and carefree stroke, and in this way often halve and may even win the hole.
So it is the better golfer who gets in a tangle with his putting, adopting and constantly revising strange crouches, contortions and peculiarities of grip, stance and club design. Some grip the putter a foot from its base; others hold it vertical, or screw an extension onto the handle (in the manner of a snooker player) to jam in the folds of their belly in a futile bid to stop it from wobbling during the putting stroke, a job that might otherwise be entrusted to a corset. Right-handed golfers putt left-handed, one-handed, backhanded or with their hands crossed over. All these tactics work brilliantly, until a short putt is missed. Then doubt creeps back in. The 'yips' or 'twitch', when it sets in, is an awful to behold for all but the twitcher's adversary. Back goes the putter head, smoothly enough; but as it returns to the perpendicular, a sudden jerk twists it to one side. Consumed by the idea that he is going to miss, he does. It would be cruel to mention the names of Doug Sanders and Bernhard Langer in connection with crucial tiddlers missed before a TV audience of millions, so we won't. It would also be wrong, and an insult to the patron saint of shaky putters, Leo Diegel (1899–1951), an American professional who missed so often from close range that he devised a stiff-wristed, elbows-out style that became known as 'Diegeling'. 'How they gonna fit him in the box?', Walter Hagen asked at Diegel's funeral.
Bluffers tempted to follow Diegel's example should know that Diegeling was no help on the 72nd hole of the Open Championship at St Andrews in 1933. Faced with a putt for victory and two for a play-off place, Diegel left his first putt virtually on the lip of the hole and crouched over the ball in his familiar style – elbows splayed, forearms parallel to the ground – only to miss the final tap-in 'by the widest possible margin' as renowned golf correspondent Bernard Darwin reported.
The example of Leo Diegel is only an extreme illustration of what every golfer knows. In the right hands, no putt is too short to miss. So there would be no excuse in golf for that abomination, the conceded putt or 'gimme', were it not an invaluable tactical weapon.
The accomplished bluffer establishes a psychological advantage by conceding putts of extravagant length in the opening stages of an encounter. The idea is to pressurise the opposition into extending reciprocal generosity, and lower his competitive guard. The sting comes at the death, when the opponent picks up his ball from its spot close to the hole and prepares to shake hands, congratulating himself on a narrow win.
'I'm rather afraid the victory may have to be mine,' you say, 'on account of your not having completed the final hole. I always feel it would be wrong to deprive a man of the satisfaction of holing out for a win, don't you? Such a pity there had to be a loser today, and that it had to be you.'
Why not putt this is your pocket? The Bluffer's Guide to Golf.