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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter
Elon Musk, in March 2020 in Washington, United States. SUSAN WALSH / AP
Multi-billionaire Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, of which he is already the largest shareholder, for 41.39 billion dollars (37.9 billion euros), as shown in a document sent to the policeman of the American Stock Exchange on Wednesday and revealed on Thursday April 14. After this announcement, the social network announced that it was going "examine carefully" Elon Musk's offer.
Mr. Musk says he is ready to pay 54.20 dollars per Twitter share (49.70 euros). This represents a "premium", that is to say a bonus, of 21% compared to the opening price of the title on Thursday and 54% compared to that of January 28, the date on which Mr. Musk started investing in Twitter.
The billionaire entered the capital of the social network to the tune of 9.2%, as shown by documents published on April 4 by the regulator of the American stock market, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Twitter then offered him to join the board of directors, which he refused.
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Musk will reconsider his presence in the capital in the event of failure
The CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla and founder of the aerospace group SpaceX assures that this award constitutes "his best offer" and that it will not be modified, adding that in case of failure he will reconsider his presence in the capital.
In a letter to the board, Musk says he believes Twitter "will not prosper nor fulfill its societal mission [de liberté d'expression] in its current form". The company must, according to him, "to be transformed into a private company"i.e. not listed on the stock exchange.
In his letter, Mr. Musk further assures:
"Twitter has enormous potential. I will make it happen. »
To explain his surprise takeover and rather hostile approach to the current management of the social network, the boss of Tesla ensures not to "play the classic back and forth game"preferring "go straight to the point". Twitter shares gained 13.6% in pre-market trading after the announcement of its proposal.
Elon Musk's offensive has already had several episodes: in early April, the market learned that the investor had become the largest shareholder in the social network, with just over 9% of the company's capital. This entry into the capital had triggered a series of twists and turns around the role he intended to play in the company – approached for a seat on the board of directors, he had finally announced that he would refuse it. It was probably a strategy to have freer hands, legally.
He is also being sued by some shareholders, who accuse him of having concealed his action, by not declaring his first investments in Twitter, in order to be able to acquire more shares at a preferential price.
"We believe that by the end of this episode series Elon Musk will have taken ownership of Twitter after its aggressive and hostile takeover, said financial analyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities. It would be difficult for other investors to take a stand, and Twitter executives are likely to be forced to accept this offer and start the sale process. » Mr. Ives believes that it is "now or never" to hand over the social network to the board. However, the analyst expects that the change of control will raise a few questions, in particular about "Mr. Musk's time split between Tesla and SpaceX".
An overtly political takeover attempt
This takeover attempt is, for Mr. Musk, overtly political. He enjoys, in his operation, the support of a large part of the Republican political class, very upset against the closure of Donald Trump's account on the social network after the attack on the Capitol, January 6, 2021. The star presenter of Fox News, Tucker Carlson, described this April 13 Mr. Musk as "our last hope".
Assumed libertarian, Elon Musk has claimed, for years, a very extensive conception of freedom of expression, and thinks that any form of "censorship" is dangerous. American conservatives, who view social media as "biased" in favor of progressive ideas, appreciate this position of principle – Mr. Musk does not hesitate, however, to employ various questionable means to silence his critics.
In fiscal year 2021, the company's turnover amounted to 5 billion dollars, up 37% compared to 2020. But the company continues to lose money: 221 million in 2021. Twitter currently has 217 million daily active users and aims to increase that number to 315 million by the start of 2024.
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Harold Robert Pratt Sr. (31 August 1912 – 6 January 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Coburg Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

Considered "arguably the best full-forward in the history of Australian rules", Pratt was one of the inaugural Legends inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

Known for spectacular diving and high-flying marks, Pratt topped South Melbourne's goalkicking for the first time in 1932 with 71 goals and for the next three seasons passed 100 goals. His total of 150 goals in 1934 was a VFL/AFL record which stood alone until Peter Hudson equalled it in 1971. Pratt also kicked ten or more goals in a game eight times, including 15 goals in a single game. His son, Bob Pratt Jr., also played for South Melbourne.

Early life
The son of Harold Robert Pratt and Olive Pratt (née Fosbrook), Pratt was born in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Brunswick West on 31 August 1912. He grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Mitcham, and was known as "Bob" to avoid confusion with his father.

Playing as a junior for local club Mitcham, Pratt attracted the attention of rival VFL clubs South Melbourne and . Whilst Hawthorn lost interest after a poor performance by Pratt in a match, South Melbourne signed him following a recommendation from the Mitcham coach.

South Melbourne

1929
Recruited from Mitcham, Pratt played his first game for the South Melbourne Second XVIII, against Hawthorn, on 15 June 1929. He was one of the best on the ground in a team that won 15.16 (106) to 4.9 (33), scoring four goals.

He played in the forward pocket for the Second XVIII in the 1929 First Semi-Final against Essendon, and was one of the best players for South Melbourne. He was replaced in the team for the preliminary final match against Geelong by Jack Richardson, most likely because Richardson had played 10 senior matches that year, rather than due to any disappointment in Pratt's performance (it was the prevailing wisdom that it was always better to play experienced senior players in Second XVIII finals matches); Geelong won the match.

1930
Pratt's senior VFL career began in the first round of the 1930 season, when (aged 17 years, 245 days) he played at centre half-forward for South Melbourne, against Melbourne at South Melbourne's home ground, Lake Oval. Although South Melbourne lost the match by 25 points, Pratt kicked four goals, and was considered to be South Melbourne's best player on the day.

He played the entire season of 18 Home and Away matches, kicking 43 goals for the season —  his best score was five goals in Round 10 against Fitzroy – and was second on South Melbourne's goalkicking list to the full-forward, Austin Robertson.

He was considered to have "immense promise".

1931
Still playing at centre half-forward, he played 15 games and kicked 23 goals, becoming the equal third highest goalkicker for South. Leading VFL footballer turned journalist Wallace Sharland complimented Pratt on his pace, stating that he had plenty of "toe". South Melbourne finished seventh with nine wins from eighteen matches.

1932
South Melbourne selected Roy Selleck, a recruit from Springvale, at full-forward, and selected Pratt at centre half-forward for the opening match of the 1932 season. Selleck was not a success (in fact he only played three senior VFL games), and he was moved to the forward flank for the second match, and Pratt was moved to full-forward for the first time. In his first game as full-forward he kicked 7 goals 1 behind.

Pratt topped South Melbourne's goalkicking for the first time in 1932 with 71 goals, fifty of them coming by Round Nine. His tally broke the previous record for goals scored in a season by a South Melbourne player, held by Ted Johnson, who kicked 60 goals in the 1924, 1925 and 1928 seasons.

On 2 July 1932, in the round nine match against Fitzroy, playing at full-forward, Pratt kicked 7 goals (The Argus noted that "Pratt was keen and accurate [up] forward", whilst The Age remarked on Pratt's "extraordinary marking and kicking") in a more accurate South Melbourne's 12.10 (82) win over Fitzroy 10.15 (75). After the match, Pratt was reported by goal umpire Greenwood and boundary umpire Treloar for striking Fitzroy's back-pocket Frank Curcio in the back, near the right kidney, in the third quarter. At the VFL tribunal hearing on Thursday, 7 July 1932, the charge against Pratt was not sustained ("Curcio said that he had no recollection of having been struck").

This was the only occasion that Pratt was reported in his entire VFL career.

1933
South Melbourne underwent a massive recruiting drive prior to the 1933 VFL season, recruiting Laurie Nash and Frank Davies from Tasmania, Wilbur Harris and Ossie Bertram from South Australia and Western Australians Joe O'Meara and John Bowe.
After a slow start, the team melded well together to win the 1933 premiership. Pratt, who kicked 109 goals for the season from eighteen matches, was "idolised by all South fans ... (who) flocked to the Lake Oval and other grounds to see him action." Pratt kicked three goals in the grand final to overtake Gordon Coventry as the VFL's leading goalkicker for the season.

1934
Pratt had a disrupted pre-season, barely training and playing only one practice match, yet he kicked eight goals in Round One against Collingwood. At the age of just 20, Pratt had already become a fan favourite at South Melbourne. Local newspaper the South Melbourne Record wrote of his performances "Nothing gave South fans greater delight than to see Pratt soaring above the packs. The fruits of victory would not taste so sweet if Pratt failed to reap a bag of half a dozen majors."

On 19 May, in the Round 3 match against  at Lake Oval, Pratt set a new club record for the most goals kicked in a game by an individual player, registering 15 goals and 3 behinds in a 42-point win. Eight of those goals came in a ten-minute spell. a record only broken since by Tony Lockett in 1995. He also kicked 12 goals against Footscray (including seven in a quarter) and 11 against Carlton and Essendon. Pratt reached 100 goals for the season in the third quarter of the Round 13 match against Carlton, the fewest games ever required to reach 100 goals in a season.

In a match against Carlton, Pratt kicked eight goals in the third quarter, which is one of the highest number of goals kicked in a quarter, by an individual in the VFL.

South Melbourne dominated the competition through the season and were considered the clear favourite to win the 1934 premiership. However, in the Grand Final, South were outplayed by Richmond, losing by 39 points, with Pratt kicking two goals to take his season tally to 150 goals. Post-match rumours of South Melbourne players accepting bribes to play poorly were so strong that Pratt and teammate Peter Reville confronted several players they suspected of playing poorly.

His total of 150 goals in 1934 is a VFL/AFL record haul; it is now shared with Peter Hudson, who equalled it in 1971.

In addition to his 150 goals, Pratt kicked 94 behinds, which is still the record for the most behinds kicked in a season (Pratt is also second on the second on that list, having kicked 93 points in 1933).

Pratt had his best Brownlow Medal result in 1934, polling 14 votes to finish eighth, six votes behind the winner, Essendon's Dick Reynolds. For all of this, Pratt did not win South Melbourne's Best and Fairest Award (won by Terry Brain). When Pratt asked a committee member why, he was given the response "You're very spectacular but not very effective." He did, however, receive the 2021 equivalent of A$1,133 from South Melbourne in recognition of his feat.

1935

Pratt was again a star performer in 1935, kicking 103 goals for the year and, for the third season in a row, being the VFL Leading Goalkicker (an outstanding feat, given that his teammates Roy Moore and Laurie Nash scored 52 and 51 goals respectively for the 1935 season as well).

Following a convincing win in the second-semi final against Collingwood, when Pratt kicked six goals, South Melbourne were again considered favourite to win the premiership. However, Pratt missed the 1935 VFL Grand Final through bizarre circumstances. On the Thursday night prior to the Grand Final he was clipped by a truck carrying five tonnes of bricks moments after he stepped off a tram on High Street, Prahran. Pratt injured an ankle and lacerated both legs due to the accident and was unable to play.

In response to the accident, the South Melbourne Record wrote The initial attack on the inhabitants of Adowa by Benito Mussolini's invading army upon Emperor Haile Selassie, is no greater shock than that received by SMFC officials when they learned on Thursday afternoon, through the press, that Bob Pratt had been involved in a collision with a motor truck.

The truck driver, a South Melbourne supporter, offered Pratt a packet of cigarettes as a way of apology.

In Pratt's absence Collingwood won the Grand Final by 20 points.

1936

Pratt's son Bob Pratt Jr. was born on 24 March 1936, and Pratt suddenly found himself unemployed when the newspaper he worked for, The Star, unexpectedly folded.

Annoyed at what he considered unfair treatment by club management towards him compared to interstate recruits, Pratt first sought to leave South Melbourne for another club in June 1936, stating that he was unemployed and believed another club could find him employment. Pratt relented when local politician Robert Williams MLC found him a job in a brewery.

Perhaps driven by his financial circumstances, Pratt was the only South Melbourne player to play in every senior game in 1936. The South Melbourne players, including Pratt, had suffered a large number of injuries over the season, and the (astounding in 1936) number of 39 different men played at least one senior game that season: and, "of [that 39] Bob Pratt is the only one who has played in every engagement, and on occasions he has had to nurse injuries certain to have kept most other players out of the game".

In the first round match against Melbourne, Pratt was well held by his opponent, Harry Long, who was the best Melbourne player on the day. Pratt kicked 5 goals and 5 behinds for the match; his first goal for the day came from an "amazing mark" which he took "almost on the goal line" ("[Pratt] went from behind the pack with a tremendous leap and took the ball in his finger-tips to score an easy goal"). That first goal of the 1936 season brought his VFL career total to 500 goals (in 106 matches).

1937
Injuries (including a split nerve that had been undiagnosed) restricted Pratt to just six games in 1937 for twelve goals (leading him to consider retirement on a number of occasions).

Pratt walked out on South Melbourne after round eight, 1937, believing club officials considered him part of the furniture and did not see it necessary to offer him the same benefits (such as travel, accommodation and employment) as his interstate teammates like Laurie Nash. Carlton attempted to recruit Pratt, offering to pay him to stand out of football while waiting for a transfer from South Melbourne. South Melbourne, however, refused to transfer him.

1938
Pratt abandoned plans to join Carlton but continual injury problems delayed the start of his year. In April, Pratt announced he was considering a transfer to Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Preston, who were offering him £6. He advised South Melbourne that, if they would continue to pay him the usual rate of £3 a week and take the risk of his breaking down, he would not consider any other offer. If, on the other hand, South Melbourne was reluctant, he announced that he would transfer to Preston and take the risk of his leg keeping him out of the game.

The full story emerged at the end of June 1938 (30 June was the closing date for clearances), when Mr. R.T. Mullaly, the Secretary of the South Melbourne Football Club, was interviewed by Percy Taylor, the Sporting Editor of The Argus.

Mullaly explained that Pratt had sustained an ankle injury three years earlier during the exhibition match South Melbourne had played against Collingwood, in Sydney, on 3 August 1935, and that his injury in that match was so severe that he was unable to return to the field after the half-time break. Although he received immediate treatment, he was unable to play in South Melbourne's next match, against Carlton on 10 August 1935; but he was fit enough to play against North Melbourne on 17 August 1935, two weeks later (he kicked 5 goals in the match). He continued to play for the rest of the season.

Then, just two days before the 1935 Grand Final, Pratt was hit by a truck, badly injuring the same ankle. Pratt received immediate medical attention, including intensive massage treatment, and was later taken, by South Melbourne, to a leading surgeon. As a consequence of the treatment he received, Pratt was able to play in all of the 21 games that South Melbourne played in 1936, scoring 64 goals for the season. Then, in 1937, after the match against North Melbourne on 14 June 1937, Pratt complained of pain in his badly jarred ankle; his ankle was X-rayed, and South Melbourne took him to "the best bone specialist in Melbourne", who diagnosed "arthritis". They sought a second opinion; and Pratt also continued to receive extensive massage treatment as well. Pratt did not play again in 1937.

According to Mullaly, Pratt had begun training some two months before the 1938 season had started, and had played well in some of the club's practice games; only to have complained, once again, of ankle problems. He was appointed vice-captain to Herbie Matthews two weeks before the season began. Although not playing, he was retained on South Melbourne's training list and, as a consequence, was receiving £1 a week – and only seemed to become anxious about the condition of his ankle as the closing date for clearances had approached, and had asked for the club to arrange another X-ray. Mullaly thought that it was "absurd" for Pratt to contemplate gaining a clearance to another club if, in fact, he was not fit to play for South Melbourne. The two medical men consulted by South Melbourne reported, on Friday 24 June, that Pratt had arthritis and that he must retire.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, on 28 June 1938 (two days before the VFL's clearance applications closed), Pratt appeared at South Melbourne's Tuesday night training session and, despite the medical advice that had been given to him, he declared that, despite his chronic arthritis, he wanted to play again with South Melbourne, and that he would train in earnest, and was hoping (despite his lack of condition, and his long absence from the playing field) to be selected in the next few weeks. He reported that he had previously found that "he was not inconvenienced while on the field", although he did experience great discomfort for some time after each game; and, also, he said, he was confident that, although he had a chronic injury, playing VFL football would not do his injury any further harm.

Pratt went on to play seven matches in 1938 (his first, against Collingwood, was in round 11, on 2 July 1938), kicking 32 goals, including nine goals against Geelong in the final round. South finished last on the ladder that season with two wins and sixteen losses.

1939
In 1939, Pratt played 16 games with South Melbourne, scoring 72 goals for the season. Towards the end of the season, there were many rumours that he would retire from football; and, when asked, he said that he would play the last match of the season, and implied that he would be returning to South Melbourne in 1940.

Move to Coburg

In 1940 Pratt sought a clearance to fellow VFL side Carlton. When told that he would have to stand out of VFL football for three years to do so, he signed with Coburg Football Club in the VFA; although fellow VFA side Port Melbourne, much of whose territory was shared with South Melbourne, had offered Pratt substantially more.

Also transferring to the VFA for the 1940 season was Collingwood full-forward Ron Todd, who moved to Williamstown. With former South Melbourne teammate Laurie Nash at VFA club Camberwell (and still considered amongst the best footballers in the country), and the interest generated by the VFA having legalized throwing the ball in 1938, there was talk that the VFA, traditionally the lesser of the two leagues, would now match the VFL for crowds.

In that time he continued his incredible goal scoring record, kicking 183 goals during 1941 (a mark bettered only once in VFA/VFL history, by Ron Todd in 1945), including 22 goals in a game against Sandringham. In all, Pratt played 40 games for Coburg, kicking 263 goals.

War service
On 26 February 1942 Pratt enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), serving as a Corporal in the 7th Medical Receiving Station, defending airfields in the Pacific and in Borneo.

While in service, Pratt had the opportunity to play football, representing the Stores team in the RAAF competition. Playing at full-forward, Pratt helped Stores to the 1942 RAAF premiership, kicking three goals in the grand final against the "Rookies".

Pratt was discharged on 14 November 1945.

Post-war career
Returning from overseas duty, Pratt sought to play for South Melbourne in 1945 but was posted north by the RAAF and did not play during the season.

Pratt caused a sensation when he attempted a comeback with South Melbourne in 1946 aged 33; he was reported to be marking and kicking at full-forward "in something like his old style" during the pre-season practice matches.

Freely granted a clearance from the VFA back to South Melbourne, and looking exceedingly well and seeming keen to play at his best, kicked two early goals in his return match, against Carlton in the first round of the 1946 season, which turned out to be a comparatively entertaining display of football, but also rather tame and blood-less compared with the teams' last meeting in the 1945 "Bloodbath" Grand Final. During the match, Pratt received a career ending leg injury.

Interviewed at the time, Pratt said "I'm playing only for the money" but when his wife Olive interrupted and said that he would still play for nothing, Pratt replied "Well, she might be right, too."

Asked late in life why he never coached, Pratt replied "It was no trouble to me to do things that the ordinary bloke couldn't do, but if he didn't do it, I couldn't understand why."

Personal life
Pratt married Olive Sandstrom on 24 August 1935 at All Saints Church of England in St Kilda, after playing against Geelong earlier that day. His teammate James Reid was best man. Over a thousand people attended the wedding, with over 400 people outside, jostling to see the couple. Two constables were required to keep the crowd away from the church doors and pickpockets took advantage of the crush of people to steal from the crowd.

Pratt had a son, Bob Pratt Jr., who also played for South Melbourne; but following a string of injuries, retired following increased business pressures.

Pratt worked at various times for the Melbourne Star newspaper, as an inspector of news agencies and as a sales representative for soft drink companies, as well as writing a football column for The Argus newspaper. He also raced greyhounds and played competitive lawn bowls.

Following a long illness, Pratt died on 6 January 2001 at Frankston Hospital.

Style

Pratt was averse to weights training, believing that it took away from the athleticism required to play football. Instead, he trained with professional sprinters, which he believed helped him as it built his initial acceleration (essential to any footballer) and aided his kicking accuracy.

His contemporaries were full of praise for his exploits:

 South Melbourne teammate Laurie Nash once wrote of Pratt; "He was the greatest high mark I have ever seen. How he didn't kill himself in some of his marking efforts I will never know."
 Richmond legend Jack Dyer wrote that it would be difficult to convey Pratt's greatness to future generations of football fans who had not been privileged to see him in action.
 Three-time Brownlow Medal winner Dick Reynolds of Essendon wrote that Pratt was the best forward he had seen, saying that "none rivalled the greatness" of Pratt, adding that he was a master of judgement and long kicking. Of his high-marking skills, Reynolds recalled that Pratt "[would] be waist-up over the whole bloomin' pack sometimes, then he'd almost slide over the top of the squad, swing around over the pack and as he came down you'd think he'd break his neck, but lucky for him he knew how to fall and roll like a cat so he didn't hurt himself."
 Jack Regan, Collingwood's champion full-back of the 1930s, said that, in all of his years playing senior VFL football, Pratt was his most difficult opponent, and that he stood out from all the other full-forwards he had played against: "The greatness of Pratt apart from his brilliant marking and fine kicking was his determined ground play. When beaten for the mark he would dash for the ball like a terrier".
 In the opinion of the former West Australian champion rover Johnny Leonard, who had been the captain coach of South Melbourne in 1932 (he played 12 VFL games with South Melbourne in 1932), Pratt was a champion: "I think Pratt was the most freakish footballer I ever saw. He was more freakish than Ted Flemming, and that's saying something. He had a heart as big as a grandstand and stood up to heavy punishment as well as risking a broken neck in his phenomenal leaps for the ball. He was a great footballer".

Honours and legacy

In 1996, Bob Pratt was names as an inaugural member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and, along with 11 other greats of the game, was immediately elevated to "Legend" status, the highest honour in Australian Football.

At the time of his death in 2001, he was the last living member of the Swans 1933 Grand Final team. He was named beside Tony Lockett in the forward pocket in their official Team of the Century.

Along with Bob Skilton and Paul Kelly, Pratt was named an official "Swans Legend" in 2009.

Sydney has named their Leading Goal kicker Award the "Bob Pratt Trophy".

His tally of 37 goals in finals football was a club record until 2008.

In 2009, The Australian nominated Pratt as one of the 25 greatest footballers never to win a Brownlow medal.

In 2000, Pratt was named at full-forward in Coburg's Team of the Century".

Notes

References
 Atkinson, G. (1982) Everything you ever wanted to know about Australian rules football but couldn't be bothered asking, The Five Mile Press: Melbourne. .
 Branagan, M. and Lefebvre, M. (1995) Bloodstained Angels, Self-Published, Melbourne.
 Cresswell, T. & Trenoweth, S. (2006) 1001 Australians You Should Know, Pluto Press, Australia. .
 Hobbs, G. & Palmer, S. (1976) Football's 50 Greatest (in the past 50 years), Bedford Usher & Associates Pty, Ltd., Melbourne. .
 Main, J. (2009) In the Blood, Bas Publishing, Melbourne.
 Roberts, M. & Winkler, M. (1998) High Flyers: the Greatest Marks of All Time, Penguin Books, Ringwood. .
 Wallish, E.A. (1998) The Great Laurie Nash, Ryan Publishing, Melbourne. .

External links

 Bob Pratt's playing statistics from The VFA Project

1912 births
2001 deaths
People from Mitcham, Victoria
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
Sydney Swans players
Sydney Swans Premiership players
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
Coburg Football Club players
VFL Leading Goalkicker Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II
Royal Australian Air Force airmen
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
People from Brunswick, Victoria
Military personnel from Melbourne

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Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Works for Piano 4-Hands
Official Release: December 2021
Artist(s): Duo Sollini - Barbatano
Composer(s): Camille Saint-Säens
EAN Code: 7.46160913261
Edition: Da Vinci Classics
Format: 1 Cd
Genre: Piano
Period: Romantic
Instrumentation: Piano 4 Hands
Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Works for Piano 4-Hands quantity
SKU: C00492 Category: Da Vinci Classics
Duo Sollini – Barbatano
Camille Saint-Säens
The four-hand piano duet is a chamber music ensemble with rather unique qualities. By allowing twenty fingers to play on the piano keyboard's eighty-eight keys, it responds to two entirely contrasting needs. From the one side, the two players may divide among themselves a certain number of notes: this is a welcome opportunity for amateur players, whose limited pianistic skills prevent them from playing difficult pieces. By sharing the burden of a more complex performance with a fellow pianist, amateurs can produce aurally satisfactory performances even without being great solo virtuosos. However, and from the other side, a piano duet may also multiply the notes. In this case, each one of the two pianists will be a virtuoso in his or her own right, and the sum total of the notes they can play together will abundantly exceed those playable by a single musician, however talented. When employed in this fashion, the piano duet may become the epitome of pianistic virtuosity, both because of the technical accomplishment it requires of the players, and due to the impressive aural result it may achieve.
The works for piano duet composed by Camille Saint-Saëns respond to both needs, and this variety is fascinatingly exemplified in this Da Vinci Classics album.
Saint-Saëns is regarded as one of the greatest French composers who lived between nineteenth and twentieth century, although his works still await the recognition they deserve. Whilst Saint-Saëns' standing as an absolute master of composition is not debated, his music seems to challenge the usual labels: he was not an Impressionist, he was not a Romantic, but he was also not really a Classicist (it would be difficult to describe his Samson et Dalila as a Classicist work!). He had a sense of humour, he liked instrumental virtuosity, and had plenty of musical ideas which he knew how to thoroughly develop.
Saint-Saëns had been an exceptional child prodigy, showing unmistakable signs of musical genius at the age of three, and going on as an extraordinarily precocious piano virtuoso. His pianistic proficiency is clearly mirrored by the most brilliant of the pieces for four-hand piano duet recorded here. However, he was also an organ virtuoso, and it was indeed as a church organist that he earned his living for many years. From the organ balcony, he used to delight his listeners with breath-taking improvisations, mirroring his fecund musical imagination, but also (in some cases) ending up as new themes or musical ideas for his written compositions. He taught piano only for a short time, but left a trace due to his open-mindedness and to his inclination toward contemporaneous music. He was a polymath, who authored scientific essays in a number of fields, but he also wrote poetry and plays, as well as popular books issued under a pen name.
He was both popular and unpopular, and this division between admirers and censors lasts until present day. Some of his works rank among the best-known pieces in the entire classical music repertoire (ironically, one of these is Le carnaval des animaux, of which he had forbidden the publication), and, during his lifetime, he enjoyed an immense renown. He was admired and praised by Franz Liszt, who ranked him among the two top pianists of the era (the other, of course, was Liszt himself). On the other hand, a large portion of his output still awaits rediscovery, and this is one of the reasons why this Da Vinci Classics album is particularly welcome.
In this recording, both Saint-Saëns' genius and the reasons for its limited appreciation can be observed. Along with absolute masterpieces, there are other works which in fact are little masterpieces in their own genre, but fall abundantly short with respect to the "seriousness" one normally associates with the great repertoire of classical music. Of course, these standards are entirely artificial, and a tragic mood is not a required quality for a musical masterpiece. Indeed, being able to create beautiful works out of occasional pieces, or of pieces written for the amusement of the music lovers is the mark of a true and real genius.
For example, the Duettino op. 11 unmistakably belongs in the ranks of amateur music, and immediately suggests, upon hearing, the bourgeois salons of the nineteenth century. Written by a twenty-years-old composer, but unpublished until 1863 and not premiered until 1868, it brings to our eyes the images of the mid-century cultivated class. Its two sections, both in G major, are contrasting in mood. The piece opens with a calm and cantabile tune with elegant variations, whilst the second part is a quick perpetuum mobile with a continuous and flowing movement of semiquavers. Saint-Saëns' mastery of the "effectful" writing is also displayed by the occasional heroic moments, and by his capability to craft a piece with a perfect balance of all the needed ingredients.
The Variations sur un thême de Beethoven op. 35 were written in 1874, and therefore postdate the Duettino by nearly two decades. Saint-Saëns was a great admirer of Beethoven's music, but in this case he turned his attention to the ironic and mischievous side of the German genius' music. When thinking of Beethoven, in fact, most people conjure the image of a perpetually frowning man. Of course, many of Beethoven's masterpieces are marked by a deeply tragical vein, and his pessimism is abundantly justified by the circumstances of his life and illness. Still, Beethoven was also more than capable of smiling, of joking (and also of hoping and of praying, as could be the case). In his Sonatas op. 31, several moments of pure joy, and sometimes of good-humoured irony are found, and it is one of these that inspired Saint-Saëns. Beethoven's theme is found in the Trio from the Minuet (third movement) of his Sonata op. 31 no. 3. Saint-Saëns adorns it with eight variations with an added fugue, clearly reminiscent of Beethoven's own variation cycles. The potential for a dialogic writing was already embedded in Beethoven's original, and Saint-Saëns' scoring for piano duet brings it to light in a very impressive fashion. Saint-Saëns' variation cycles explored a wide palette of musical and technical effects, considering many possibilities in terms of compositional devices and of pianistic solutions. The result is a magnificent composition, which places high requirements on the players as concerns both their musicianship and their technique.
One should not forget, in fact, that Saint-Saëns remained a great piano virtuoso throughout his life, and that he also liked to engage with his friends and colleagues in musical "duels" aiming at demonstrating the contenders' musical imagination and pianistic technique at the same time. These Variations almost seem to stem from one such occasion.
The Danse macabre op. 40 ranks among Saint-Saëns' most famous and celebrated works, to the point that he himself would cite it (with some self-irony) in the Carnaval des animaux. It was conceived at first as a chanson, set to lyrics written by a physician, Henri Cazalis. The composer later orchestrated it with hypnotic and unheard-of solutions. It met with a very mixed reception: the xylophone had not been previously employed in classical music and in an orchestral piece, and the screeching solo violin or the parody of the sacred tune of the Dies irae disconcerted many listeners. In spite of this, the work quickly conquered its (large) audience, and the composer realized a brilliant version for two pianos. It was the famous arranger Ernest Guiraud who created the transcription for four-hand piano duet performed here, probably taking as his point of departure the orchestral (rather than the two-piano) version.
By way of contrast, König Harald Harfargar op. 59 is one of the least known among Saint-Saëns works. Harald "Fair Hair" (this is how Harfargar is translated) is a mythical (but also historical) figure of Norway. He lived in the tenth century, and is credited with the unification of the entire Norwegian country. Therefore, he is also the symbolic patron of his land, and has been celebrated in poetry and tales. One such example is the poem by Heinrich Heine to which Saint-Saëns alluded in his composition. According to Heine's imagery, the King "sits in the depths below", where he admires a beautiful Water Fairy. His contemplation can only be interrupted if his beloved country is in need, in which case he will rise to defend it.
The remaining pieces of the Album are, as previously stated, beautiful examples of Saint-Saëns' capability to create little masterpieces out of occasional pieces. For example, the small, unpretentious Feuillet d'album op. 81 is as diminutive as its name, but, at the same time, it displays the composer's mastery in the elaborated polyphony of its central part. The Pas redoublé op. 86 and the Marche interalliée op. 155 are inspired by the military world. The former is a "quickstep" concert march, in which the march's usual pace is doubled (hence the name) so as to become a charge; its three themes are separated by interludes, and the result is both pleasant and inspiring. The Marche interalliée had been commissioned to him by Admiral Ernest Fournier, who presided the "Cercle Interallié", the Club of the Inter-Allies, as one might translate its name. As Saint-Saëns wrote to his publisher, the Admiral's invitation was "impossible to refuse". He planned to write a "monster-piece", whose orchestration he entrusted to Guillaume Balay, the music director of the Republican Guard, and later he re-transcribed it for piano duet.
A completely different mood is found in the two remaining pieces. The Berceuse op. 105 is delicate, refined, purposefully naïve; perhaps, Saint-Saëns was thinking of his two children, who died within the space of less than two months, in 1878. Little needs to be written about Le Cygne, probably Saint-Saëns' best-known tune, and the only movement of Le Carnaval des animaux whose publication he authorised. Still, in spite of its immense celebrity, this piece never ceases to enchant, to enthrall and to touch its listeners; it is the demonstration that a famous work can also be a real, fully-fledged, masterpiece.
Chiara Bertoglio © 2021
The Sollini-Barbatano Duo was born in 2004 and has consolidated during the years, after prestigious solo and chamber activities, Marco Sollini and Salvatore Barbatano's experience who stand out as one of the most appreciated Italian piano duos, even at an International level. The Duo deals with piano four hand repertoire pages as well as significant works for two pianos, and performs also solo with orchestra. They have played in Italy and abroad for important associations, festivals and in prestigious halls among which: Grosse Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Krakow Philharmonic, Smetana Hall in Prague, Ahmed Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi Theatre in Izmir, Manoel Theatre in Malta, Solti Hall at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Saint Petersburg Palaces Festival, Schouwburg Festival in Jakarta, International Music Festival in Santorini, Kur-saal in Bad Wildbad, Interfest in Bitola, Kamerfest in Pristina; furthermore at the Preporodna Hall in Zagabria, at an exclusive concert dedicated to the twenty year anniversary of the Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Croatia and Italy, to the presence of the president of the republic Ivo Josipovic. Also significant are the Italian performances for important concert seasons, among which the Sicilian "Friends of Music Association" in Palermo at the Politeama Palace, Bibiena Theatre in Mantova, Viotti Festival in Vercelli, Alba Music Fest, Amiata Piano Festival, Bari Piano Festival, etc.
They have recorded many times for the Vatican Radio and RAI Radiotre.
In their repertoire appear as well the integral collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's Concertos for two pianos and orchestra, performed and recorded with the OCM conducted by the Maestro Francesco D'Avalos, and also W.A. Mozart's Concerto for three pianos and orchestra K. 242 "Lodron-Konzert", performed with I Solisti Veneti Orchestra conducted by Claudio Scimone. The Sollini-Barbatano Duo has also performed Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnaval des aminaux, played with the soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Campania. In 2011 they have performed, in world premiere, The Arabian Nights by Patrizio Marrone, with Ugo Pagliai and Paola Gassman as reciting voices.
The two artists blend their musical experience also in the direction of the International Music Festival "Armonie della sera", of which Sollini is the creator and the artistic director, while Barbatano is the artistic coordinator. In 2015 the composer and Oscar winner Luis Bacalov wrote and dedicated to the Sollini-Barbatano Duo the track "Tanghitud 4".
Several important musicians like Michele Dall'Ongaro, Sergio Calligaris, Antonio Giacometti and Patrizio Marrone have dedicated to the Duo their own compositions. The Duo has also recorded several CDs among which one dedicated to Sergej Rachmaninov's integral collection of compositions for piano four hands; one with chamber musics by Gioachino Rossini, shared with some artists of the La Scala Orchestra in Milan; one dedicated to the music for piano two and four hands by Pietro Mascagni and one with "Shéhérazade" and "Capriccio espagnol" in the original versions of Nicolai Rimskji-Korsakov.
The Sollini-Barbatano Duo has performed solo with several orchestras among which: Malta Philarmonic Orchestra, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, Euro Sinfonietta, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Sanremo Symphonic Orchestra, I Solisti Aquilani, Symphonic Orchestra Città di Grosseto, Croatian Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti.
They have also performed the complete Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer op. 52 and op. 65 with the Choir of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa.
A CD with the Mozart and Kozeluh Concerts for two pianos and piano 4 hands was published by Sony Classical. In June 2019 the music magazine Suonare News published the CD with the complete Fantasie for piano 4 hands by Franz Schubert.
In the year of Beethoven's 250th anniversary, they released a CD (Sony Classical distribution) with the complete original music for 4 hands piano and the Symphony no. 5 op. 67 in the piano version for 4 hands by Alfredo Casella.
The piano Duo Sollini Barbatano it has been defined by the Russian press "The twenty golden fingers of Italy".
Camille Saint-Säens: (b Paris, 9 Oct 1835; d Algiers, 16 Dec 1921). French composer, pianist, organist and writer. Like Mozart, to whom he was often compared, he was a brilliant craftsman, versatile and prolific, who contributed to every genre of French music. He was one of the leaders of the French musical renaissance of the 1870s.
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Google's new mobile voice and data service may save you money, or it may not. Either way, it offers network redundancy and coverage advantages for work and personal use.
Now that the details of Google's Project Fi wireless service for the Nexus 6 are available, people are understandably looking to see if it's a good buy.
The base plan costs $20 a month for unlimited voice minutes and texts in the U.S., plus free texting around the world and low-cost calls while abroad in 120 countries. Mobile broadband data is priced in 1GB increments, costing $10 each. And if you don't use all of the data you've paid for, you get a credit for the unused allocation, so you never pay for what you don't use, helping to manage costs.
I've seen several price plan comparisons between Project Fi and the other major carriers. Ron Amadeo's write-up at ArsTechnica is a well written example, plus it includes similar plans from Republic Wireless and Ting. The former combines Sprint's network with Wi-Fi coverage, while the latter offers very flexible plans; if you under- or overuse your plan's voice or data allocation, Ting will automatically shift you up or down to the appropriate plan.
Such flexibility is nice and it comes with Project Fi. That's leading some to say Google's effort isn't anything new. Except it is when you consider a key aspect of mobile broadband: Coverage.
When people ask me what carrier they should use for their phone, I rehash the old saying about real estate: It's all about three things; location, location, location.
Meaning, where will you primary use the service? It doesn't matter if one network advertises the fastest speeds in the nation if you don't live or work in an area where you can get those speeds.
And this is where Project Fi differs because it doesn't just rely on a single carrier network paired with Wi-Fi for service. Instead, it offers a pair of carrier networks in addition to Wi-Fi with an advertised seamless hand-off between the three choices. Google says the phone will pick the best network at the time for a given location.
Although I don't currently use a Nexus 6 -- I opted for the smaller Moto X -- I'm a perfect candidate for Project Fi.
When I travel for work, I always take both my phone and an LTE tablet. The phone uses an AT&T SIM while I opt to use T-Mobile's service for the tablet. The main reason for the tablet? Besides being useful for content consumption and light work, it serves as an outstanding Wi-Fi hotspot thanks to the long battery life as compared to that of my phone. And by choosing a different carrier than the one I use on my handset, I have network redundancy. It's a strategy that has served me well for work over the years; not once have I had both networks become unusable at the same time.
Project Fi changes that. Instead of toting two devices, I can get similar network redundancy with a single device. And the best part is, I don't need to worry about which network would provide the best experience at the time or in a particular location. The phone manages that for me.
I suppose I could leave the tablet behind and just get a second SIM card to accomplish the same thing. I typically buy my phones unlocked so an AT&T SIM and a T-Mobile SIM could each work in my phones. And handsets are starting to include support for a wider variety of network frequncies but again, swapping SIMs is a manual process. If you've ever carried two SIM cards on a work trip though, you'll know they're easy to lose. And having two separate carrier accounts means two phone numbers as well as two bills to manage and pay. That's not ideal.
Even in certain locations where a carrier typically provides a good experience, it can vary wildly. Some network frequencies penetrate walls better than others, for example, so wouldn't it be nice to switch to a different carrier that's better suited for indoor usage as needed?
Consider too when a particular cell tower, or the wired backhaul to it, is saturated with users. An alternative network you can seamlessly switch to is ideal.
Is Project Fi the best available plan for everyone? Not likely, or at least, not yet.
Some people don't need such coverage flexibility and since the service is currently only available for a single handset, it's not even a viable option for many.
But Project Fi has the potential to bring more disruption to the market, particularly with broader phone support in the future. This can help put a little more of that control back in consumer's hands while raising the bar for coverage and service alike.


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Q: Why is my JSON returning escape code for a single quote (apostrophe) I'm receiving JSON data from server that contains text which should have an apostrophe but instead I see the escape code for an apostrophe. Is this an issue with the way the JSON is formatted?
This is how I have it on server-side:
[{"testJ":6387,"title":"This is JSON's return",}]

This is what I'm getting back:
[{"testJ":6387,"title":"This is JSON's return",}]

If I have not provided enough detail, please let me know and I will try to add more information.

A: Your JSON is almost valid, but you have a problem, you have add one comma that shouldn't be there. (the last comma).
You can check this using a JSON validator site like
http://www.freeformatter.com/json-validator.html
http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
http://jsonlint.com/
On the other hand, think that the apostrophe is a way to enclose text, so what you are using to parse the JSON is what is having the problem. Try to put an escape character before the apostrophe, so should be like this on the server side
[{"testJ":6387,"title":"This is JSON\u0027s return"}]

For more information you can refer to the RFC https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt and in section 2.5 you will find more information.

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At the heart of the Resort, the friendly and relaxing main bar is open all day. You can also pull up a lounge chair and enjoy the large terrace. Come evening, the big lounges and impressive central fireplace lend this bar quite a different atmosphere – a great place for friends and family to share quality time together.
At an altitude of 2,100 m, Club Med Tignes offers ski lovers one of the most beautiful ski domains in the world: the Espace Killy. Professional ski and snowboard instructors, who are perfectly familiar with the ski domain, will guide you over the slopes best suited to your level of skill, to ensure you progress safely but surely in the best possible conditions. This is done in small groups of approximately 12 people.
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A convergence analysis is given for the Grünwald–Letnikov discretisation of a Riemann–Liouville fractional initial-value problem on a uniform mesh tm=mτ with m=0,1,…,M. For given smooth data, the unknown solution of the problem will usually have a weak singularity at the initial time t=0. Our analysis is the first to prove a convergence result for this method while assuming such non-smooth behaviour in the unknown solution. In part our study imitates previous analyses of the L1 discretisation of such problems, but the introduction of some additional ideas enables exact formulas for the stability multipliers in the Grünwald–Letnikov analysis to be obtained (the earlier L1 analyses yielded only estimates of their stability multipliers). Armed with this information, it is shown that the solution computed by the Grünwald–Letnikov scheme is O(τtmα−1) at each mesh point tm; hence the scheme is globally only O(τα) accurate, but it is O(τ) accurate for mesh points tm that are bounded away from t=0. Numerical results for a test example show that these theoretical results are sharp.
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Last night I attended an opening night event for Mampalooza, an arts conference and festival celebrating motherhood. The room was filled with an array of supporters from members of the Association for Research on Mothering (part of York University in Toronto), to Alana Ruben Free who publishes the Mom Egg Literary Journal to entrepreneurs, musicians, artists and writers. And of course in their midst, floating across the room was the always outrageous, outspoken and punkishly glamorous Joy Rose, founder of Mamapalooza (who also writes the "Living Loud w/Joy Rose" column on The Lohasian).
May is Mother's Month*Celebrate with MAMAPALOOZA!
Every year I feel like saying, this has been the best year ever! Well it has.
With the successful registration of the Motherhood Foundation and Mamapalooza Festival Stages solidifying their place in local communities, partnerships and alliances with other Mom-minded organizations are on the rise.
Last year and this year sees us partnering with great feminist organizations like Women's Media Center, ARM ~ Association for Research on Mothering and government organizations like Office For Women, Westchester, New York and Camden Parks, Educational Institutions like the campus of Irvine and Mom businesses like our community partnership at Hot Moms Club. Wow, that is beautiful work.
We are poised to face our next big challenge head on.
When we started putting a name and face on performance by women who were mothers six years ago, we invented a genre. The next challenge we face has to do with translating our numbers into a formula big business can recognize. We are many and we are mighty. Our mission must continue to empower women not only through performance, but through financial stability.
This does not mean compromising our creativity or our values, but it does mean taking stock and collectively counting our numbers, because the numbers do not lie.
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Moms Rock and so do YOU!
Thank you for helping to change the world one song, shout, yelp and hiccup at a time.
Remember, even when we're overwhelmed, underpaid and completely unsure how to move forward, we HAVE CREATED SOMETHING GREAT, MEANINGFUL and CELEBRATORY TOGETHER.
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Does Religious Belief Make You More Racist?
Sarah Estes Graham, Psychology Today, July 6, 2010
{snip} But new research suggests that religious belief can also make you more racist. A recent meta-analysis (considered the gold standard for evidence in the research world) synthesized numerous studies from the Civil Rights Era to the present, considering intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest/agnostic religiosity, and found positive correlations between religiosity and racism in all but the agnostic group.
Intrinsic, extrinsic, and agnostic, terms popularized by Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport in the 1950's and 60's, are still widely used by social scientists conducting studies on religious belief and practice. Broadly defined, they correlate with fundamentalist and evangelical Christians (extrinsics), liberal Christians (intrinsics) and seekers or agnostics. Extrinsics prize social belonging and conformity to the status quo, and tend more toward right-wing authoritarianism. {snip} This is the group that provides the most fuel for red-state/blue-state, theist/atheist debates.
Intrinsics value the internal seeking relationship and tend toward more progressive social ideals. {snip} Agnostics are a bit further down the openness line, religious to the extent that they are open to existential questions but undecided to the point of affiliational lack.
The study found that both extrinsic and intrinsic believers showed more racial prejudice than those who were not religious. Extrinsics showed more racism in both explicit and implicit measures. Intrinsics stated that they were less racist on explicit self-report, but were equally biased on implicit measures (reaction-time tasks bypassing self-report, {snip}). Only the agnostics were less racist on both counts.
There are a number of caveats to be considered before you drop your church membership or go trolling for prejudice on the nearest Christian message board. As we all know, correlation does not equal causation. When considering the effects of priming studies, one must be aware that certain primes can activate or trigger entire clusters of values. {snip} The meta-analyzers themselves noted that when they controlled for authoritarianism, the correlation between racism and religiosity disappeared.
To get to the bottom of this causality question, an experiment was conducted at Baylor University (a Southern Christian University). This was the first study specifically designed to gauge the effects of religious primes on racial attitudes. The researchers subliminally primed different groups of participants with neutral and Christian primes, and found that the group receiving the religious primes showed a small but significant increase in prejudicial attitudes toward African Americans. It should be noted that the groups tested were predominantly white, Christian Americans. {snip}
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Accomodation: Three bedrooms with double bed and two bedrooms with two single beds. All of them with private bathroom.
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Q: mongoose / mongodb best way to calculate stats I have the following query`s :
function calculate_stats() {
         Users.count().then(function(allusers) {
                Users.count().then(function(dead_users) {
                    Users.count().then(function(banned_users) {
                        Users.count().then(function(vacation_users) {
                            Users.count().then(function(in_hotel_users) {
                                var aliveusers = allusers - dead_users - banned_users;
                                var accounts = {
                                    registred: allusers,
                                    alive: aliveusers,
                                    dead: dead_users,
                                    banned: banned_users,
                                    vacation: vacation_users,
                                    inhotel: in_hotel_users,
                                    outsidehotel: aliveusers - in_hotel_users,
                                    outsidehotelonline: 0
                                };
                            });
                        });
                    });
                });
            });

        });
    }

but is really this the best way to nest them like that, to get the final result?
How would i acually proceed to get a good way to calculate the stats.
Wouldnt this be performance in-effective?

A: Since all the queries seem independent of each other, you can execute them in parallel. You can use a promise library like Q(using the Q.all method) to create a combined promise from all, or use use Promise.all if using ES6
function calculate_stats() {
    var promiseArr = [
        Users.count(),
        Users.count(),
        Users.count(),
        Users.count(),
        Users.count()
    ]

    Q.all(promiseArr).then(function (results) {
        var allusers = results[0];
        var dead_users = results[1];
        // and so on

        var aliveusers = allusers - dead_users - banned_users;
        var accounts = {
            registred: allusers,
            alive: aliveusers,
            dead: dead_users,
            banned: banned_users,
            vacation: vacation_users,
            inhotel: in_hotel_users,
            outsidehotel: aliveusers - in_hotel_users,
            outsidehotelonline: 0
        };
    })

});
}


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Customers who select the price cap must also sign-up for our budget program , which helps make your fuel bills more manageable by spreading out the cost over 11 months. For even greater convenience, you'll want to consider automatic delivery of your heating oil, which frees you from having to call us when you need fuel. We keep track of your fuel use and make an automatic delivery before your heating oil gets too low. There is no extra charge for this service.


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Anglo-American musician Jackson Baird is a self taught improvising multi instrumentalist who performs on keyboards, percussion, guitar and bass. Influences range from Pixinguinha and Ary Barroso to Steve Coleman and Robert Glasper.
Baird has lived and worked as an artist in Belgium, Spain and Brazil and continues to draw on diverse musical cultures to enrich his vocabulary. Baird is currently house pianist at the Dizzy Afro-Latin Jazz jam and now enjoying a residency at Trip-Space to explore both solo piano improvisations and duets with a menaggerie of singers and musicians covering Blues, Swing, experimental and ritual musical forms.
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IT'S THE MESSAGE, NOT THE MEDIA, THAT PERSUADES.
Accept the fact that traditional ad agencies often lack the consulting expertise to develop positioning and differentiation strategies while martech firms are totally focused on digital media. Then accept the fact that you may need a Creative Strategist to bridge that planning gap.
After 20 years as a CEO/Creative Director of my own ad agency, working directly with 200 tech company CEOs and CMOs, I can fill that planning gap and then introduce you to the ad agency/martech groups needed for execution.
The marketing world is experiencing dramatic changes and one of the major issues issue's is creativity, the critical gap between messaging and media.
MarTech is very clearly defined in most peoples' vocabulary today as the process for distributing marketing messages via digital technology and social media. However, the rapid acceleration of this technology has left a gap between the corporate concepts that are critical to a company's presence in the market and the vehicles deployed to spread the message.
As a result the messaging quality is suffering. This is what forced development of the Creative Strategist role. What follows are abstracts and excerpts from a series of recent publications discussing various approaches and solutions for the creativity gap that has developed between the planning and the execution stages of marketing. The last page of the white paper is a look at the costs and processes I use for my clients to bridge that gap.
It's true. Social Media is valuable, but primarily as a tool for the distribution of the content/messages that impact sales and branding. Messages in turn are becoming heavily dependent on neuroscience to alter the brain chemistry required of changing a prospective buyer's attitude. Artificial Intelligence is starting to play a role.
An article in ADWEEK last summer sheds some light on the challenge of management vs. the media gap with a note regarding Deloitte's acquisition of Heat, a hot creative shop.
Apparently it took a year to come to the realization that stand-alone digital didn't do the job. Deloitte has now combined creative, business strategy, and digital transformation. That's what Creative Strategists do to earn their keep.
"When the agency takes on a new client, Jonny Bauer's (Chief Strategy Officer) team begins a deep-dive research mission—sifting through financials, launching ethnographic research on customer behavior, embedding with various parts of the business. The goal is to unearth the client's purpose (a word you hear constantly at Droga), which is the idea from which everything else will emerge. In Bauer's view, it's this process that gives the agency its biggest edge.
Over the past couple of decades Keith spent a great deal of time counseling senior management and marketing executives on developing more effective communications programs. And in the process discovered that executive frustration with the universally poor return on marketing dollars is quite commonly due to a lack of understanding and/or faith in the marketing communications process coupled with the age-old curse of inadequate accountability.
Specifically it advocates a much greater depth of customer knowledge and involvement than the norm, a unique concept of creative formatting, and the development of a team approach for its implementation. Initially it's more work than the traditional non-integrated process but it offers benefits that range from survival to dramatic growth.
Curious to see if a Creative Strategist fits your needs? Send an email to keithbates@kbates.com. I'd be happy to assess your present messaging.


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Dr. DuPont just taught a full class at The Dawson Academy for Advanced Dental Training. The dentists were from all over – Puerto Rico, Canada and nine different states. They all came to St. Petersburg for 3 days to learn specialized techniques as well as a thought process to apply their knowledge from Dr. DuPont. This is only one of the classes that he teaches and it is about balancing patient's bite. Since we are able to save most patient's teeth, or restore them completely with implants for a lifetime, the forces that are placed on our teeth, fillings, crown or dentures must not be traumatic. If the teeth hit incorrectly, it can damage the teeth, the bone, the gums, and cause headaches as well as put more stress on the entire system.


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Journal Publishes Student Essay
The journal Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric is publishing Rutgers-Camden major Natalie Midiri's article on rhetoric.
In her article "The Stylistic Effects of Human Rights Rhetoric: An Analysis of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2011 LGBT Human Rights Speech," Midiri analyzes the historic international gay rights speech Clinton delivered in Switzerland to the United Nations in December 2011.
"Rhetorical style is relevant in public discussions where arguments could influence subsequent policy decisions," says Midiri, a Mount Laurel resident. "I'm in love with Clinton's speech. I think it's a well-crafted speech, but in my article, I'm critical of it."
In her speech, Clinton talks about the work required to protect LGBT people whose human rights are still denied in many parts of the world today.
"In this speech, Clinton is speaking to American legislators, U.N. representatives, and lawmakers in Uganda, where virtually no legal protections are offered to LGBT people," Midiri says. "Her message is clear, but I think in her speech, there's a distinct separation between the LGBT community and those who are in power. It's delivered in a way that maintains that the LGBT community is voiceless or that it is segregated from the greater community."
Read more about Midiri's published article here.
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Even though you know that there is nothing like job security, you feel low-spirited when your employer lays you off. Tension grips your soul and dark thoughts flood your mind. As unlimited expenses start to threaten your savings, you begin to cringe.
You think of taking loans for unemployed with bad credit and no guarantor when you encounter unexpected termination. However, you should be wary of your spending. To pay your regular expenses and your unemployed loan, you should save money as much possible as you can. Here are some brilliant ways to save money when you are out of work.
Even if you are employed, you should avoid dissipating money in restaurant bills. Restaurant food is more expensive than home-cooked meals. You should not mind eating out if you have enough savings and you are certain that you will quickly grab a new full-time job. If you have taken a loan to meet your day-to-day expenses, it is wise to avoid eating restaurant food. Buy groceries and cook them at home instead.
Many people face difficulty swallowing insult and embarrassment when they are laid off, consequently they begin to drown their sorrows. In order to save money, you should try to cut back on cigarettes and alcohol even if you are addicted. These habits are very expensive and eat up a huge part of savings.
Exercise is paramount to stay fit and robust, but you do not necessarily need to go to the gym. You should do brisk walk, stretching and jogging. Gym is not bad to join, but you should avoid it if your account is not compatible with it.
Not to mention, personal vehicle is more expensive than public transports, especially when you are in the quest of a new job. Get a monthly pass that will help you save a few pounds more. If you have to cover a very short distance, try to go on foot.
Since the day one you are laid off, you should make a realistic budget to track your savings. Jot down all your expenses to calculate whether you have enough savings to meet them. Make sure that you have funds separate for meeting emergency funds. Find out what you can exclude from your list to save additional money. Then, decide on the amount of loan that you should apply for. If you follow this route, you will be able to pay off your debt along with meeting all expenses.
You get unemployed loans only when you have a current source of income such as a part-time job or income-generating asset. Thus, you should immediately find a part-time job to earn extra cash. This will not only support you financially but help you stay motivated also. Do not hesitate to find work out of your specialised field.
When you need funds, first of all, you should approach your family and friends. Their help is cheaper than financial institutions because you do not have to pay interest back. As long as you have a good relationship with your friends, you should not deny accepting financial help. However, make sure that you will pay back their money.


Happy Birthday Guru Nanak Dev JI…..
This morning we went to Katong Gurdwara to hear the closing of the Akhand Paath. They have two halls, one is slightly smaller where they did the Akhand Paath. So in the big hall they first sang Asa Di Vaar. Asa Di Var is a collection of 24 pauris or stanzas written by Guru Nanak Devji (Sri Guru Granth Sahib, page 462-475).Some people argue that the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak Dev ji wrote the first 9 together on one occasion and later wrote 15 more stanzas on a different occasion but Professor Sahib Singh and some of the foremost Sikh scholars believe that the whole Var was written at the same place as the Var itself proceeds in a definite uniformity. The whole Var was compiled by the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan Dev ji in 1604 AD.
When Guru Arjan Dev ji was compiling the Holy Granth, he added a few Sloks of Guru Nanak and in some cases Guru Angad Dev ji, the second Guru of the Sikhs. These Sloks are tied together in a way that they relate to the same theme as highlighted in the pauri. In its present form, the Asa Di Var contains a few more shabads recited by Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru.
The Asa Di Var kirtan is recited in the early morning hours in a very melodious way and style as mentioned by Guru Arjan Dev Ji called "Tunde Asraje Ki Dhuni" after the name of the contemporary brave and pious king Asraj. One of the hands of the king was amputated, so he was called Tunda meaning (one hand amputated) . The deeds and the ode of this king was sung by the bards in that typical fashion which then was extremely popular and melodious and was therefore adopted to performing Asa Di Var.
The sangat at this Gurdwara is very friendly. You can just feel the warmth.
Afterwards we went for a wander to the local town. Today has been slightly cooler at 26 degrees C and 88% humidity, at this rate I might have to wear my fleece!!
Which is about 15 minutes away from the Gurdwara.
Was not sure about this one!
The restaurant is vegetarian as they use dairy products in some of their dishes but no eggs. The lunch was very good. We may try and go back to this restaurant.
Afterwards we had a wander to a plaza.
We returned to the gurdwara for the evening programme, the atmosphere was fantastic.
SANTA CRUZ— Gurutej Khalsa had always dreamed of being a cop, a dream he chased by attending the federal law enforcement academy and graduating at the top of his class.
But police agencies in New Mexico— unable to see beyond his turban and long beard— weren't eager to hire him.
"We borrowed $1,200 on a used pickup truck, and that's what capitalized the company," said Daya Khalsa, one of the five founders.
Those were the company's humble beginnings, he said. Today, Akal is one of the country's leading private security firms, employing thousands and attracting federal contracts worth hundreds of millions. Despite its success, the company has kept its headquarters in the small village of Santa Cruz, just south of Española.
Devinderjit Singh Khalsa, 23, a college student and Akal employee, said he thinks the company has remained loyal to the Española Valley because that's the community that nurtured it.
"We consider ourselves to be an integral part of the Española community …," he said. Twenty-four years ago, Akal Security had no administrators— just five friends working as guards and trying to keep their business afloat. Because he was the only one of the five who could balance a checkbook, Daya Khalsa said, he was handed the tasks of keeping the company's books and handling its payroll. He carried out those duties when he wasn't on guard duty.
From Day One, the company's philosophy was simple: Provide a level of service that's a cut above what others in the industry provide, Daya Khalsa said.
The quality of service has left an impression on its customers.
"Akal is just head and shoulders above as far as I'm concerned," said Mick Miller, public safety director for Expo New Mexico. Akal has been providing security at the State Fair since at least the mid-1980s.
I called my credit card who arranged, to have out visas for Vietnam sorted in Singapore. The cost was SGD$300 each and would be processed within 24 hours. A bit out of our price arrange. Something we can discuss at the hotel.


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