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a member of Making Music
Musical Director: Jenny Sumerling
This site is not maintained and is provided for reference only. Please go to cadenza.org.uk for the latest website.
Bright Star CD
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Cadenza at the Fringe 2019
Cadenza is delighted to be performing in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe again this year – we've been a consistent feature at the world's largest arts festival for over two decades. Following five sell-out concerts, Cadenza is delighted to be returning to the stunning surroundings of Greyfriars Kirk for another exciting programme of choral music, performing Puccini's magnificent Messa di Gloria alongside Haydn's Te Deum and Insanae et Vanae Curae and a Scottish première performance of Janet Wheeler's Alleluia. Tickets – priced £15, £13 (concesssions) and £4 (children) are available now from choir members or via the Fringe Box Office.
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Posted: Thursday 27 June 2019 at 2:21 pm
Another £2000+ raised for charity
Cadenza performs concerts on behalf of charities as part of our choir year. These typically take place in Spring, and allow us to show off a lighter side of our repertoire while raising funds for deserving causes. 2019 was no exception, and across two concerts – one in Edinburgh, the other in Athelstaneford in East Lothian – we raised over £2000 split across four separate charities. If you'd like Cadenza to make a real impact to your fundraising, please get in touch!
Posted: Saturday 15 June 2019 at 8:48 am
"An excellent performance"
At exactly 6.15pm yesterday (Monday 17th), John Brunning introduced the now annual Classic FM/Making Music Christmas collaboration to showcase "the most talented amateur musicians" in the UK. If you missed the live broadcast, you can catch up using the Classic FM player (we're on about 1hr 11mins in) – but be quick, as it is only around for seven days!
From a "torrent of entries" this year, Making Music had selected an initial long list of 10, then narrowed it down to the final five, one of whom would be featured at 6.15pm every evening this week.
We had chosen, as our submission to Making Music, Kenneth Leighton's beautiful and haunting arrangement of the 16th century "Coventry Carol". It is a lullaby sung by the mothers of 'doomed' children, and was traditionally performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called "The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors", depicting the story of Herod's massacre of the innocents. Brunning described our performance as "excellent".
We won't know till the end of the week if there are any other ensembles from Scotland, but we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that Scotland was represented again – and "excellently". We were also delighted that Brunning didn't forget to namecheck our two splendid soloists.
Posted: Tuesday 18 December 2018 at 12:27 pm
Cadenza to feature on Classic FM again
Hot off the press, we are delighted to confirm that Cadenza has once again been selected as one for the final five Making Music groups to be broadcast on Classic FM Drive on Monday 17th December at around 6.15pm.
The remaining four winners have not been publicly announced, but we are proud and delighted to be at least one ensemble which will be flying the flag for Scotland. We are first up again, so tune in (100-102FM) or listen online to John Brunning's Drive show on Monday 17th around 6.15pm to hear us. The other 4 finalists will be at the same time respectively Tuesday – Friday.
John will be playing another track from our popular Christmas CD Bright Star, a beautiful arrangement of a well-known carol, featuring two soloists from the soprano section of the choir, Lynne Samuel and Helen Heatlie. Tune in or listen again to find out which carol and what John Brunning has to say about it.
May we take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a good New Year in 2019!
Posted: Saturday 15 December 2018 at 8:53 pm
"A superb evening of choral music" …
…that was what Tim Wilcock said about Cadenza at the Fringe 2018 in his review published on Fringe Review, in which he awarded us a 'Highly Recommended Show" rating. He poured universal praise on the concert, from John Cameron's arrangement of Elgar's Lux Aeterna which was "a beautifully reflective opening, building to a sound that soared around this iconic Edinburgh venue" to Scarlatti's Stabat Mater, where "the choir pulled off this difficult work with aplomb, with crisp, bright entries, superb diction and a rousing Amen". The highlight of the concert, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms performed 100 years to the day since the composer's birth, was recognised as "a fitting celebration of the event with a faultless performance".
Posted: Tuesday 28 August 2018 at 10:48 pm
Fringe Box Office Sell-Out
Cadenza's annual performance in the Fringe is on 25 August – and still with a few days to go, we're delighted to say that the Fringe Box Office has completely sold out of their allocation of tickets! But don't worry – it's not too late! There will still be tickets available on the door – so be sure get in touch with us to reserve tickets, or to get to Greyfriars Kirk early to guarantee your seat at one of the hottest tickets in town! Doors open shortly after 7pm, with the concert itself starting at 8pm.
Posted: Thursday 23 August 2018 at 12:51 am
£217 raised for Waverley Care
A group of Cadenza members braved the cold and rain to bring a bit of musical festive cheer to the Christmas Market in Edinburgh's East Princes Street Gardens yesterday evening. They performed a selection of carols while volunteers from Waverley Care collected donations from passers-by. A grand total of £217.63 was donated by the kind visitors to the market.
Karen Docwra, Senior Fundraiser at the charity (and alto with the choir) said: "It was a fantastic hour of carol singing. Cadenza's support is helping us to make a very real difference to the lives of many people across Scotland who are living with HIV or Hepatitis C"
Posted: Thursday 14 December 2017 at 4:42 pm
Christmas Concert Updates
We hope you'll be able to join us at Polwarth Parish Church this coming Saturday 9 December at 19:30 for Cadenza at Christmas. Our annual festive mix of old and new carols, and a chance for you to join in too! Full details available on our Concerts page, and tickets are still available to buy online via Eventbrite or at on the door.
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our direct control, Cadenza will not be appearing as part of the Erskine Christmas Carol Concert this year as previously advertised. However, the event itself is still going ahead and we'd encourage you to attend on Thursday 7 December, from 18:30, at St Cuthbert's Parish Church. More details on this concert can be found on the Erskine website.
Posted: Monday 4 December 2017 at 1:42 pm
Cadenza Open Rehearsal 2017
Do you think you would like to sing with Cadenza? We welcome enquiries from enthusiastic singers of all voices who can:
tackle and enjoy music in a range of different styles, mostly a cappella
read music
memorise short pieces
do individual work on repertoire between rehearsals, and
commit to regular attendance.
If this sounds like you, you are most welcome to come to our Open Rehearsal on Wednesday 4 October 2017 at Broughton St Mary's Church, Bellevue Crescent, EH3 6NE, from 7.30 to 9.45 pm.
Posted: Wednesday 6 September 2017 at 4:54 pm
Congratulations @CadenzaChoir!
Another very successful Fringe concert been and gone, and we're still on a bit of high. We had a large and wonderful audience who seemed to be hanging so much on every note that you could almost hear a pin drop in the quieter passages, and then not only applauded with enormous enthusiasm but also cheered at the end of the concert. Thank you!! It's so encouraging to have such warm support throughout the performance.
Comments received so far since the concert:
"Congratulations @CadenzaChoir on a fantastic Fringe performance. A beautiful blend of voices filling the warm acoustic of Greyfriars Kirk."
"I was impressed by the soft and loud passages – especially the loud ones which I found terrifying!"
"Enjoyed both the Brahms and the Rheinberger enormously."
"The concert was excellent. I especially enjoyed the Requiem and the Monteverdi. You sounded great when you started to sing. The sound was very bright."
And one audience member couldn't imagine that even professional choirs would sound any better than Cadenza did on Saturday…. praise indeed!
Posted: Wednesday 30 August 2017 at 12:04 pm
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What is Impact Cleveland: EEM about?
The Impact Cleveland Extreme Energy Makeover program is a once in a lifetime opportunity. We were awarded a grant from TVA to provide energy makeovers for homes in the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG area map located below) target area. This page is dedicated to more information about this program.
Impact Cleveland's mission is to revitalize communities in Cleveland, TN. For the past two years, we have been working in the Blythe Oldfield community. The Extreme Energy Makeovers project is our first opportunity to expand outside of our current neighborhood, and revitalize homes in other areas of East Cleveland.
We will help communities learn from energy experts on our team about daily habits and home care practices that can lower their energy costs.
We will perform whole home, deep energy retrofits for qualified 20-year old homes or older in South and East Cleveland. These improvements could include HVAC installation and repair, insulation installation, window replacements, air sealing, and more.
Our goal is to provide the tools for your home to be as efficient as possible, and to reduce financial stress. We hope to see this initiative encourage and enable neighbors to strengthen their communities.
Our energy retrofits target older homes, your home must be 20-years old or older to be eligible for this program.
Do You Use Gas or Electric?
Impact Cleveland EEM is only able to work on homes that primarily run off electric. If your home has more than one heating system, electric must be the primary one you use to be eligible.
2. Your home is 20-years old or older.
3. The major appliances of your home are all electric. If your home has more than one heating system, electric must be the primary one you use.
What to Bring When I Apply?
Please bring a valid photo-identification that we may make a copy of.
Note: Your income level does NOT affect your eligibility for the project. We ask for this information because sometimes homes require repairs before we can start making energy improvements. This information will help us find options for those repairs to be made so that we can start work.
Note: Renters do not need to provide income information, because landlords are responsible for any repairs that will be necessary for work to start. Also, it is best if your landlord can apply with you, so we can explain the terms of the agreement. If that's not possible,they can give us a call at 423-472-9876.
Turn in a completed application and accompanying documents (see What to bring when I apply) to Impact Cleveland's office, located at 1075 Blythe Ave SE, Suite 2. Impact Cleveland accepts applications between 1pm and 5pm Mondays through Thursdays. If you need to setup an alternative time, you may call the office at 423-472-9876.
Once your application is processed, someone from our team will call you to schedule a PreScreen. A PreScreen is how we determine whether or not your home qualifies for the project. An energy advisor will evaluate the overall energy consumption of your home, including, but not limited to, your heating & cooling equipment, duct systems, lighting, and insulation levels.
If you pass the PreScreen, we will notify you, and begin working out the details to begin work on your home.
Is my property Eligible for Application?
If you can answer YES to the following questions, then you are eligible to apply.
2. Is your property 20 years old or older?
3. Does your property have Electric Heat?
§ If you have gas heat as your only heat source, or as the heat source that is used the most, you are probably not eligible to apply. If you have gas heat, but also have electric heat, and you use the electric heat the most, then you are eligible to apply (Electric heat could include space heaters). If you are unsure of what kind of heat you have, if you are not sure which you use more, or if you have any other questions, and we will be glad to help you figure it out.
Please bring the lease agreement with current tenant that we may make a copy of.
To complete this application, you will also have to sign our Landlord Provision of Services Agreement.
This agreement is designed to ensure that both the property owner and tenant enjoy the benefits of the EEM program. This agreement will have to be signed before a PreScreen is scheduled. Copies of the agreement are available in Impact Cleveland's office at 1075 Blythe Ave SE, Suite 2 Cleveland, TN 37311.
A PreScreen is how we determine whether or not your property qualifies for the program. An Energy Advisor from our team will schedule a time to evaluate the overall energy consumption of your home, including, but not limited to, your heating & cooling equipment, duct systems, lighting, and insulation levels. We have more information about this in our office for when you apply.
Do you live in our target boundaries? Impact Cleveland primarily serves the Blythe-Oldfield neighborhood in Southeast Cleveland, but we have expanded our reach through the TVA grant to include other parts of South and East Cleveland - known as the "CDBG" area. CDBG stands for Community Development Block Grant, and is a federal designation for low-moderate income neighborhoods. To learn more about the CDBG area, click here.
For those of you interested in getting your home properly inspected, you can now apply online to have the City of Cleveland inspect your home. You can submit the application online along with a $20 application fee. The completed document will act as a receipt for the applicator's payment. Once we receive the application and payment, the permit will be issued. The permit can either be emailed or picked up from Impact Cleveland's office. To fill out and submit an application, please click here.


Belize Offshore Company (Belize IBC). Belize offshore formation.
Belize offshore company are permitted to issue Bearer Shares (if their M&As are written to permit that) and there is no additional charge to incorporate a company with this ability. The restriction is that any Bearer Shares must be held in the files of the Registered Agent (effective January 1. 2013). When and if a Bearer Share company is required, we should be specifically advised that the company is to be formed with M&AA that permit Bearer Shares, as our standard M&AA do not include that provision. The pricing is the same as for non Bearer Share companies.
BRIS GROUP can provide Belize resident nominee directors as well as nominee shareholders. We can also assist with opening bank accounts in Belize.
Annual fees in succeeding years for Belize offshore company will be $550 per year for a basic company, inclusive of all registered agent, registered office and government fees.
The above fees do assume a 'standard' Belize IBC, with up to US $50,000 in authorised capital (or equivalent amount in any other currency at the time of formation) and all shares having a par value. Should a 'non-standard' Belize offshore company be required, substantial additional government fees can apply, although we charge the same amount for our work in forming the company and providing Registered Agent, Registered Office, Apostille and Nominee services.
Formation of a Belize offshore company is simple and straightforward. Once we have established a business relationship with you in Belize, you need only contact us, reserve an available name for the company and provide any necessary KYC documentation. The incorporation process usually takes one business day. When an Apostille is also required, this adds an additional 2 to 3 days to the process.
We do require background due diligence on our clients before commencing a business relationship, in accordance with international practice and current Belize guidelines.


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ahh this is so relevant this morning. and for so many reasons!
reminds me of a conversation i had over the weekend with a father on a coffee date with his little girl about why "being shy is not good" - he said that you miss out on so many opportunities. i agree with his statement, however, being shy can be really magical at times. knowing when to keep to yourself and when to interact with others is really an art to be mastered. i prefer to keep to myself on most days, but on this day i was happy to say hello. you really never know what can come after a simple hello.


In the first of a new series where you lead the debate on key issues in grassroots sport, football coach Rob Andre tells us why he thinks ignoring goal difference at youth football tournaments is unfair. Do you agree?
Goal difference needs to be reintroduced at youth level. Children understand it and it is part of football.
I had a extremely unpleasant situation this month where my under-11s team - Blandford United Beechwood, playing in the Dorset Youth Cup - were left broken-hearted and now feel a real injustice towards the governing body, which can't be right.
We were playing in a Champions League-style format where the top two teams in a group went through to the quarter finals. At the end of the group stage, three teams were all on the same points. My team had a +15 goal difference and the second- and third-placed team both had +6.
But because goal difference is deemed unfair, the three managers had to draw lots.
So we all picked an envelope - if the number inside was '1' or '2' then your team were through to the quarter finals.
I picked '3', so my team was out. This was unfair on the children, as they had no control over this and it was not reflective if what they did on the football pitch.
Having to explain to children that, whilst they did everything so well in their games, I had let them down by picking the wrong envelope, they were so upset and to look at their faces and tell them was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I never want any child or manager to go through that again.
They understand goal difference and some of them based maths homework on points and our goal difference scenarios.
They feel completely let down and are disillusioned with the rules and the system. They all said: "football is about what we do on the pitch and goals, how can they tell us we were out by picking an envelope?" It is not fair.
Luckily I have good, honest and grounded boys in my team, who are now defiant and want to achieve even more. But they feel very let down by a very unfair system. I know the association do not like the word "cheated" but my children all used that word. That is how they see it.
They have been cheated by the system out of a competition - and competitive football is rare for them at under-11s - by an act that does not reflect football as they understand it.
For these situations goal difference needs to be reintroduced, as no child should be told they are out of a cup by the picking of lots. It is unfair on them and unfair on us coaches who put our heart, soul and time into our young teams.
Have your say - give us your view!
Do you agree with Rob that goal difference should be scrapped in tournaments such as this? Or do you think the 'no goal difference' policy is a good idea? We want to hear from you, so have your say in the comments section below.
If you have a strong opinion that you'd like to voice on anything in grassroots sport, or there's a topic that you'd like to put up for debate, email us at blog@teamer.net and you could be the next person to feature here on 'My view'.


GOODYEAR, AZ — Alright, all-stars, a bit of millennial nostalgia is headed your way.
Smash Mouth, the band behind the ever-popular 1999 anthem, "All Star," ("Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play") has been tapped to headline the Goodyear Lakeside Music Festival on April 27, 2019. And you may feel a bit like a rock star with free admission and parking.
The festival runs 4 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. at the Estrella Lakeside Amphitheater, 10300 S. Estrella Way Parkway, in Goodyear. Smash Mouth is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Local bands and artists will perform before that.
Food trucks will be there to grab a bite to eat, as well as a kids area, and a beer and wine garden. While the event is free, VIP tickets can be bought for $50. Those include special parking, an open bar, catered dinner, and shaded viewing area.
Time: 4 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.


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Pride of Baghdad is an amazing award-winning graphic novel published by Vertigo in 2006. Based on a true event during American bombing on Iraq in 2003, Brian K. Vaughan has written a brilliant and eye-opening story. That magnificent story was then illustrated masterfully by Niko Henrichon. Many acknowledged the brilliance of this graphic novel and it received widely positive reviews from readers and critics. In 2006, it won IGN award for best original graphic novel.
The story in Pride of Baghdad graphic novel focused around four African lions. These lions were the pride that had been living in Baghdad Zoo for years. Although memory of the wildlife still lingered in their mind, they had been used to the zoo, the food they got, the zoo-keepers, and the other animals around them. All in all, they lived a peaceful life.
One day, American military forces launched their airstrike during their invasion on Iraq. Baghdad was blown to pieces and the zoo got destroyed. The metal bars around their cage collapsed and for the first time in years, the four lions then wandered into ruined city of Baghdad.
Previously kept behind bars, the lions finally got their freedom. However, this came with a price. This newly found freedom led them into a journey into a chaotic world, a world that demanded the best of their survival ability.


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Dolní Dubová Hora (něm. Unter Eichberg) je osada, část obce Tuhaň v okrese Česká Lípa. Nachází se asi 2,5 km na východ od Tuhaně. Je zde evidováno 5 adres (č. p. 1, 3, 7, 10 a 12). Trvale zde žije 5 obyvatel.

Dolní Dubová Hora leží v katastrálním území Pavličky o výměře 2,86 km2.

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May 5, 2020 5:29PM PT
Steve Madden Hits Roadblock in Rothy's Suit After Judge Throws Out Motion
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Rothy's Point flat.
Rothy's Inc. has secured a victory in its ongoing legal battle against Steven Madden Ltd.
On April 30, a judge in Delaware District Court denied Steve Madden's motion to dismiss two of nine counts brought by Rothy's — namely, trademark dilution and patent infringement.
"We care deeply about protecting the intellectual property Rothy's works so hard to create, including for The Point. In the pending lawsuit, we are asking the court to hold Steve Madden accountable for what we have alleged is copying of our intellectual property," Marie Satterfield, SVP, general counsel and corporate secretary at Rothy's, told FN in a statement today. "Beyond that, it is Rothy's customary practice not to comment on the details of pending litigation."
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Rothy's The Point vs. Madden's Rosy flats.
Madden filed a suit against Rothy's in August 2019 after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the San Francisco-based startup, which claimed Madden's Rosy flats were a "slavish copy" of its The Point. In an August court filing, Madden argued that Rothy's had no right to demand it cease and desist, alleging that The Point is "strikingly similar to numerous other ballet flats that have long been sold in the marketplace." The brand claimed that its Rosy flats infringe neither on Rothy's patent or trade dress rights.
But in a countersuit in October 2019, Rothy's brought forth claims of trademark dilution and design patent and trade dress infringement, as well as unfair competition. In December 2019, Madden filed its motion, denied last week, to throw out two of the nine counts brought.
Over the years, Madden has been involved in numerous legal disputes over purported infringement. A decade ago, British fashion brand Alexander McQueen filed a trade dress suit alleging that its Faithful boots were being copied by Madden's Seryna boots. (The two later settled out of court.) That same year, Balenciaga filed a complaint against Madden over its lookalike Lego-inspired sandals; the French house received a payment of an undisclosed sum from the fast-fashion giant. Further, in 2017, eco-friendly label Allbirds accused Steve Madden of copying the design of its signature wool lace-up sneaker. In 2018, Alice + Olivia filed a suit against the Steve Madden-owned Betsey Johnson label for copyright and trademark infringement, alleging that Betsey Johnson used its signature face, the "StaceFace" on its handbags.
More recently, Steve Madden and Yves Saint Laurent settled a dispute out of court in May 2019, after Saint Laurent alleges that Madden's Sicily flats design infringed upon its high-heeled Tribute sandal. And in addition to the Rothy's suit, Steve Madden is currently involved in litigation against Deckers Outdoor Corp.-owned Ugg. In an April filing, Deckers claims that Steve Madden's Fuzz sandal is a "bad faith" copy of Ugg's Fluff Yeah.
A representative from Steve Madden did not immediately respond to FN's request for comment.

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27 February 2022 —
Areez Katki: Fruit Cubab
Areez Katki
Andrew Kennedy
Reeves Road Billboards
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Contemporary Zoroastrians are a highly dispersed diasporic micro-community, originally descending from Persia and now consisting of a global population of around 150,000. Among the Indian and Middle Eastern communities in Auckland's Eastern suburbs of Pakuranga and Howick is a closely knit community of Parsis, a subsect of Zoroastrian immigrants; approximately 1,200 of the 2,000 Parsis in Aotearoa live within this 20-kilometre radius, creating a uniquely concentrated, though almost invisible, cultural borough of the oldest iteration of monotheistic worship.
Areez Katki's Fruit Cubab proposes an exploration of Parsi identity through layers of visibility and invisibility – themes that have long been at the crux of the wider migrant experience. Executed through an investigation of archival material sourced from familial affects, this state of hybridity applies especially to diasporic individuals who have sought forms of assimilation in order to survive.
Katki's reframing of material culture from the migrant experience looks at how languages and plurality operate within him, accompanied by questions about cultural signifiers, codes and rituals. Where does this cultural material go when it is stored within the migrant body and kitchen? How does it contort and develop an identity of its own? How has this identity survived, without stable land, long since the exodus of Persian Zoroastrians in the 8th century?
Katki's Billboards stage a public invitation to peer into a richly historied threshold, treading broader thematic motifs that more than allude to the queer meanderings from a migratory imagination. Katki's own experience as a first-generation New Zealander are tethered to his Persian and queer identities – fortified by relationships bound with recipes, memory and maternal care. Fruit Cubab embraces the importance of history-making by suggesting a hybrid creature: one who has to adapt by finding ways to de-language and re-language signifiers of postcolonial identity.
→ RNZ Saturday Morning – Areez Katki: Breathing new life into the art of embroidery
→ ArtNow – Thinking Out Loud with Areez Katki: On the development of recent exhibitions in Aotearoa and Sri Lanka
About Areez Katki
Areez Katki is an artist and writer based between Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa and Mumbai, India. His practice surveys the phenomenology of postcolonial identities, which thread through layers of archaeology, spiritual cosmologies and their queer meanderings. Katki intuitively employs found materials, from textiles to language, embalming them with gestures that illuminate notions of hybridity from the migratory condition. Katki's work has been published and exhibited across Aotearoa, South Asia, Europe and North America. It is held in various private and public collections internationally. Recent projects include 'Language is Migrant' at the 7th edition of Colomboscope, (Sri Lanka) and an upcoming 2022 exhibition with Khadim Ali at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (Ngāmotu New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand).


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New endowed chair in history goes to Nile Green, scholar of global history and Islam
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Nile Green
UCLA professor of history Nile Green, a prolific author whose research has focused on on Muslims in Asia, Africa and Europe, has been named the first Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History.
The Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair was created through a gift from UCLA alumnus Hollis Lenderking and is named to honor the Arab historiographer and historian Ibn Khaldun, widely considered as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics and demography. As a scholar, Green aims to bring global history into conversation with Islamic history.
"UCLA's history curriculum expanded — I should say "exploded' — my view of civilization during the tumultuous and pivotal era connecting the 1960s and 70s," said Lenderking, who earned a bachelor's degree in history from UCLA in 1971 and in 2009 also established the John Muir Memorial Endowed Chair in Geography, which is held by Glen MacDonald.
Lenderking recalled that when he was a student, the history department did not include specific classes on world history in the course catalog. He said he was fascinated to learn of its inclusion in recent years, especially considering the fact that the term "globalism" has become a lightning-rod for study and debate across societies, economies and cultures.
"It was hailed almost uncritically as the wave of the future in the 1990s, but has been rocked by disputation from every quarter in the decades since," Lenderking said.
At a recent lecture celebrating his becoming the new chair, Green borrowed a phrase from poet William Blake to ponder "A World in A Grain of Sand: The Historian's Dilemma of Scale" and how historians are reckoning with exponentially increasing amounts of data about more people in more places in more times.
"In recent decades, the accumulative character of historical knowledge has increased that dilemma, and access to big data will continue to do so, confronting the historian with the universal library imagined by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1941 story, 'La Biblioteca de Babel,'" said Green, who in 2015-16 he held the William Andrews Clark Professorship and who in 2018 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
But world history is not necessarily the same as the history of the world, Green would argue. And his exhortation to modern historians is to explore processes that use manageable or even micro-optics to address large-scale, macro problems.
"World history is defined by an approach, or method, rather than a fixed scale," he said. "It is the study of processes that are intrinsically inter-regional; that unfold across geographical, ethnic, linguistic, or political boundaries. Examining those processes doesn't necessarily require writing the history of the whole world."
Green has a new book coming out in May titled, "The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca." He's also currently writing a book titled "A Very Short Introduction to Global Islam," which seeks to address the questions what global Islam is and where it came from, as well as a book about the Indian Ocean, using Urdu and Persian travelogues to tell the story of interactions between India, Iran, Africa and Southeast Asia.
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Giant X-ray 'chimneys' are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way's center
The galactic chimneys (yellow-orange areas extending vertically) are centered on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
The center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity. A behemoth black hole — 4 million times as massive as the sun — blasts out energy as it chows down on interstellar detritus while neighboring stars burst to life and subsequently explode.
Now, an international team of astronomers has discovered two exhaust channels — dubbed "galactic center chimneys" — that appear to funnel matter and energy away from the cosmic fireworks in the Milky Way's center, about 28,000 light-years from Earth.
Mark Morris, a UCLA professor of astronomy and astrophysics, contributed to the research, which will be published March 21 in the journal Nature.
"We hypothesize that these chimneys are exhaust vents for all the energy released at the center of the galaxy," Morris said.
All galaxies are giant star-forming factories, but their productivity can vary widely — from one galaxy to the next and even over the course of each galaxy's lifetime. One mechanism for throttling the rate of star production is the fountain of matter and energy whipped up by the heavyweight black hole that lurks at a galaxy's center.
"Star formation determines the character of a galaxy," Morris said. "And that's something we care about because stars produce the heavy elements out of which planets — and life — are made."
To better understand what becomes of that outflow of energy, Morris and his colleagues pointed the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite, which detects cosmic X-rays, toward the center of the Milky Way. Because X-rays are emitted by extremely hot gas, they are especially useful for mapping energetic environments in space.
In images they collected from 2016 to 2018 and in 2012, the researchers found two plumes of X-rays — the galactic center chimneys — stretching in opposite directions from the central hub of the galaxy. Each plume originates within about 160 light-years of the supermassive black hole and spans over 500 light-years.
The chimneys hook up to two gargantuan structures known as the Fermi bubbles, cavities carved out of the gas that envelops the galaxy. The bubbles, which are filled with high-speed particles, straddle the center of the galaxy and stretch for 25,000 light-years in either direction. Some astronomers suspect that the Fermi bubbles are relics of massive eruptions from the supermassive black hole, while others think the bubbles are blown out by hordes of newly born stars. Either way, the chimneys could be the conduits through which high-speed particles get there.
Understanding how energy makes its way from a galaxy's center to its outer limits could provide insights into why some galaxies are bursting with star formation whereas others are dormant.
"In extreme cases, that fountain of energy can either trigger or shut off star formation in the galaxy," Morris said.
Our galaxy isn't quite that extreme — other galaxies have fountains powered by central black holes weighing a thousand times more than ours — but the Milky Way's center provides an up-close look at what might be happening in galaxies that are more energetic.
"We know that outflows and winds of material and energy emanating from a galaxy are crucial in sculpting and altering that galaxy's shape over time — they're key players in how galaxies, and other structures, form and evolve throughout the cosmos," said lead author Gabriele Ponti of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. "Luckily, our galaxy gives us a nearby laboratory to explore this in detail, and probe how material flows out into the space around us."
Morris said the centers of the nearest galaxies are hundreds to thousands of times farther away than our own. "The amount of energy coming out of the center of our galaxy is limited, but it's a really good example of a galactic center that we can observe and try to understand," he said.
Nine authors from five countries contributed to the study. The research was funded by NASA, the French National Center for Space Studies, the French National Agency for Research, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the German Aerospace Center and the Max Planck Society.
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The Greenwood Players Present Sleeping Beauty
Author: Genevieve Allen Hearn November 3, 2016
The Greenwood Players Present Sleeping Beauty The Greenwood Players are celebrating their 60th year of presenting well-crafted, entertaining stage productions. On November 29, they kick off their season with "Sleeping Beauty" which runs until December 3. It will be performed as a traditional pantomime complete with audience participation, quirky songs, and the ugliest "broad" you've ever seen! The cast and crew are busy working away at developing this wonderfully imaginative script into a polished production. Under the direction of the gifted Jeffery Pocock, whose set design is possibly his most elaborate to date, "Sleeping Beauty" takes on all the elements…
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Family Fun in the Valley: Haunted Houses and Kids
Author: Genevieve Allen Hearn October 20, 2016
Family Fun in the Valley: Haunted Houses and Kids By Laura Churchill Duke, Valley Family Fun There are a lot of haunted houses happening in the Valley this Halloween! Hantsport, Greenwich, and Kentville are all hosting them, and proceeds go for a great cause. Before you go, make sure your kids are ready for it. We had a terrible parenting moment last year when we forced our kids through the haunted house, thinking it would get better. It didn't. Talk to your kids before you go and make sure they really want to go. Before you go in, make sure…
Where to get a Scare this Halloween
Where to get a Scare this Halloween Visit valleyevents.ca for more info about times and tickets! KENTVILLE The Infirmary of Lost Souls In the basement of the Post Office at 495 Main Street Kentville Friday and Saturday Nights, 7:00pm – 10:00pm October 21, 22, 28, 29 $10 per person / $25 per family Visit the haunted hallways if you dare. All Proceeds from this terrifying experience will benefit Open Arms and Misfit Manor Dog Rescue. — HANTSPORT Haunted Churchill House Presents Once Upon A Nightmare Hantsport Memorial Community Centre October 21, 22, 23, 28, 29: 7:00pm – 10:00pm October 30:…
Ronald Deibert, founder and director of the renowned Citizen Lab, will be the H.T. Reid Lecturer at Acadia University Dr. Deibert's lecture, "War in the World Brain," is based on his bestselling book, "Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace," in which he explores how the digital technologies that have innovated global communication also create spaces for digital security threats emanating from criminal enterprises, corporations, and state governments. Acadia University's H.T. Reid Lecture series, a collaboration of the Department of History and Classics and the Department of Politics, was established in 1958 in order to give the opportunity to an…
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Return to the Garden Room
Return to the Garden Room By Thomas Clahane The first weekend of fall also brought with it the first concert of the season in the Sunday Garden Room series. One of the hallmarks of the Garden Room concerts in the past has been the diversity of classical genres that are presented, and this opening concert featured Art Song. It proved a perfect platform to feature the strong tenor voice of former Acadia music student Marcel d'Entrement and pianist Dakota Scott-Digout. Art Song is a short piece for solo voice, based on a literary text, supported by classical composition, and performed…
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Three Shorts by Susan Glaspell: Trifles, Suppressed Desires, and Woman's Honor
Three Shorts by Susan Glaspell: Trifles, Suppressed Desires, and Woman's Honor Written by Susan Glaspell Directed by Anna Migliarisi Dates: November 16-19 and 23-26; Time: 7:30pm; Location: Lower Denton Theatre, Acadia University; Tickets: available at Acadia Box Office (902-542-5500) or at the door; Cost: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students, $7 for groups of 8 or more Writer, theatre producer, actress, and feminist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) is largely known for her 1916 one-act play "Trifles" which is based on an actual murder case she covered during her stint as a journalist. But Glaspell was also a principal player in the American avant-garde…
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Trick or Trees
Trick or Trees Sunday, October 30, 6:30pm-8:30pm KC Irving Centre's Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens 32 University Avenue, Wolfville Join us for a FREE, family friendly night of tricks, treats, and creatures that lurk in the Acadian Forest. Listen for animals that call out in the night, enjoy some delightfully frightful treats, and laugh through the night at our grim games. We hope to see you there; it will be a real scream! This Haunted Halloween Forest, organized by Acadia students in the Community Programming class, is open to everyone and will be fun for all ages.
"Small Beauty" Book Launch at the Box of Delights, Wolfville
"Small Beauty" Book Launch at the Box of Delights, Wolfville Thursday, October 27 Making its first East Coast appearance later this month, "Small Beauty" will launch at Venus Envy in Halifax on Wednesday, October 26 and at the Box of Delights Bookshop in Wolfville on Thursday, October 27. While trans identity gains increasing public attention in North America, be it through celebrity coming-out stories or legislative changes, there remains a dearth of trans stories not explicitly about transitioning. "Small Beauty" is just that. A novel by emerging author and long-time musician jia qing wilson-yang, "Small Beauty" explores the protagonist's transness…
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Crafting the Perfect Pairing for Cider Making in Nova Scotia
Author: Genevieve Allen Hearn October 6, 2016
Crafting the Perfect Pairing for Cider Making in Nova Scotia Julie Glaser, Ross Farm Museum, Hwy #12, New Ross Ross Farm Museum and Muwin Estate Wines are launching 'Cider Days', a weekend of activities on October 22 and 23, that focus on the centuries-old craft of cider making, but with a twist – they want the public to participate in the creation of a new product, 'The People's Cider'. Muwin, who produces the award-winning Bulwark brand ciders, in partnership with Ross Farm Museum, want more Nova Scotians to be aware of the myriad heritage varieties of apples still growing unattended…
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Horton High School Annual Harvest Craft Fair
Horton High School Annual Harvest Craft Fair October 15, 9am to 4pm Sally Benevides Hopkins The Horton High School music students are gearing up for the annual Horton High School Harvest Craft Fair! This year it will be on Saturday, October 15, from 9am to 4pm. The fair will be held at the school, in Greenwich, just south of the Old Orchard Inn. Admission is $2. This is the first local craft fair of the season! With over 150 tables of crafts, most of which are handmade by local artisans, there will be unique cards, candles, jewelry, jams, soaps, sweaters,…
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PASC Force U12 Girls: 1st place finish at FC Delco Cup
The Force competed in the FC Delco Players Cup held in Downingtown, PA over Memorial Day weekend. The Force finished in 1st place in the premier division with a record of 4-1 outscoring their opponents 19-3. They beat the PSA 02' White (3-1), the Unionville-Milliken Strikers White (8-1), lost to the AFFC Assault (0-1) and then went on to beat Super Nova (5-0) in the semifinals and FC Europa Attack (3-0) in the finals. Great job girls!
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The audience was small and exclusive, which helps explain why little has emerged thus far of what European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said at the Hotel Stanhope in Brussels on May 6. It was enough to cause something of a stir among his listeners.
For the European Commission and for Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia, Oettinger said during a dinner event, it is clear that price concessions for energy-intensive companies in Germany amount to an inadmissible subsidy. In the best-case scenario, he said, the Commission would ban such subsidies. But, he added, the worst case could see Brussels demanding that such companies pay back the money they had saved as a result of the discounts they have received.
Competitors and neighboring countries had filed an official complaint about these benefits with the European Commission, prompting the EU competition authority to launch an investigation. The German commissioner had sought to assure industry representatives that the process was only just beginning and that the outcome remained unclear.
That, though, seems to only have been partly accurate, which helps explain the current agitation. The scenario Oettinger outlined at the Brussels dinner is a horrifying one for parts of German industry and for the government in Berlin. The prospect of having to repay several billion euros is certainly a daunting one. Even worse, though, is that the competitiveness of entire industrial sectors would be put at risk. Also at stake is the Renewable Energies Act (EEG), a central component of Berlin's shift away from nuclear power and toward green energy, also known as the Energiewende.
Since 2000, Germany has used the EEG to promote the expansion of renewable forms of energy. To ensure that the construction of expensive solar and wind farms is worthwhile for private individuals and investors, they receive a guarantee that the electricity they produce will be purchased at a fixed price for a period of several years.
Here we go again. Expensive statutes and rules based on unavailable data.
President Obama's nominee to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, is awaiting a confirmation vote. Senate Republicans may still filibuster. The agency's reliance on "secret science," long a concern for the role it has played in EPA's decisions, is finally emerging.
In recent days I have been chasing information in old archives.
Many strange things have turned up. Here is one of them, a page as PDF as found by a search engine but alas the wonder of hashing, discovering the document from whence it came is a tangle of mystery.
Anchor ice never forms under a cloudy sky either by day or night, no matter how severe the weather, but it forms very rapidly under a clear sky at night. Anchor ice is readily melted off under a bright sun.
Thus the loosening of the anchor ice under bright sun is simple enough from the fact that water is transparent to heat-waves up to 1u.
It then goes on to point out that water is "exceedingly opaque" to longer heat rays and therefore a bit of a problem arises over how long wave gets out to space to freeze the bottom water in the first place.
Water being what it is, ice floats. Wonder how long before Rog goes, hang on a minute.
LONDON – Britain is preparing to privatize Royal Mail, the country's postal service, whose origins date to 1516 and the carrying of post for Henry VIII and the Tudor court.
The chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change committee Tim Yeo MP said he accepts the earth's temperature is increasing but said "natural phases" may be to blame.
Such a suggestion sits at odds with the scientific consensus. One recent [bogus] survey of 12,000 academic papers on climate change found 97 per cent [of 32% of the biased sample] agree human activities are causing the planet to warm.
It was a remarkable feat of organisation, courage and endurance. These two adventurers captured the imaginations of a generation.
News of the expedition's success reached London on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, 2 June. Returning to Kathmandu a few days later, Hunt (a Briton) and Hillary (a New Zealander) discovered that they had been promptly knighted in the Order of the British Empire, a KBE, for the ascent. Tenzing, a Nepali sherpa who was a citizen of India, was granted the George Medal by the UK. Hunt was ultimately made a life peer in Britain, while Hillary became a founding member of the Order of New Zealand. Hillary and Tenzing are also nationally recognized in Nepal, where annual ceremonies in schools and offices celebrate their accomplishment.
Under the new proposals, to be unveiled by climate and energy secretary Ed Davey today (27 May), the UK would call on the EU to commit to carbon dioxide reductions of 40% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, rising to 50% if other countries join in with more stringent targets on emissions. World governments are engaged in negotiations on a global climate change deal to replace the Kyoto protocol, with a new agreement to take effect by 2020. The proposals would make the UK the first country to set out its stance on emissions cuts before the next round of talks, in November.
Davey said: "The UK is a global leader in tackling climate change … That is why we will argue for an EU-wide binding emissions reductions target of 50% by 2030 in the context of an ambitious global climate deal and even a unilateral EU 40% target without a global deal.
WINDSOR, N.C.—Loggers here are clear-cutting a wetland forest with decades-old trees.
The U.S. logging industry is seeing a rejuvenation, thanks in part of Europe's efforts to seek out green fuel and move away from coal. Ianthe Dugan explains. Photo: Getty Images.
Behind the move: an environmental push.
The push isn't in North Carolina but in Europe, where governments are trying to reduce fossil-fuel use and carbon-dioxide emissions. Under pressure, some of the Continent's coal-burning power plants are switching to wood.
Remains of Mt Katmai, Katmai Caldera taken from the air.
The most massive volcanic eruption of the 20th century came during June 1912 in Alaska, explosive, heard 1,500 miles away. A good deal of the mountain vanished.
Mt Katmai is one of several peaks making up the Novarupta.
Doug writes he is not a computer man. Well Doug a computer is just a robot, a tool following our instructions, exactly, to err is human, jolly good idea too because Artificial Intelligence is and has been a dead end, damagingly so. The reason is simple enough, it is without what Doug uses, his eyes, and brain, he goes places does and experiences, reacts to changes. It's actually the noise, the randomness which breaks a precise binary way, always identical to variation and difference, no discovery.
The genetics of reproduction is doubly random, part tried and tested, part variation. Double because a second stage kicks in, won't go into this here.
Clone. Loved on battlefields, find the weakness, hey look, they are predictable, all the same.
At the same time eg. humans are all the same.
Follow the same path, sheep, guidance and that I am trying to avoid.
The smoothing in data seems to be asked only after the compilation is questioned: the spaghetti graphs that arrived after Mann was questioned, remember, showed that what we thought (were shown) as a simple trend was, in fact, a mess with a huge variability that disappeared after statistical fiddling. (Or appeared to disappear for promotional purposes) I don't know any-more about the ice core data, or the CO2 data.
CALLS have been made for the UK Government to close an "embarrassing" loophole that allows some wind-farm operators to name their own price as compensation for not operating.The issue has been raised by the regulator Ofgem, but the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed the loophole exists but will not name the exempted companies.The revelation will intensify criticism of a system that effectively makes consumers pay millions for generators not to generate.
Data exists for about 23 hours a day at a few minutes between samples, data currently amounts to about 56,000 readings.
I sat down for an hour with Steve Tobias a couple of years ago and told him about some of the correlations we've been finding between planetary and solar inertial motion, and solar activity levels. He listened attentively, but I don't think I made too much of an impression. This press release heralds a new paper published in Nature by Tobias and Fausto Cattaneo.
From thepoke.co.uk offers a handy insult generator for when you run out of 'swivel eyed loons' or 'fruitcakes and clowns' epithets to keep you laughing.
The head of the International Monetary Fund appeared in court today where she is expected to be formally charged in connection with a £270million fraud and embezzlement case.


France's year-old movement to ban cars from city centers for one day is sweeping across Europe. This year, more than 150 cities in France, Italy and Switzerland declared their city centers car-free zones for September 22. French Environment Minister Dominique Voynet said the percentage of residents using their cars in the city centers dropped from 22% to 5%, with pollution falling by 20 to 30%. An opinion poll showed 83% of residents in the French cities involved wanted the experiment repeated. Voynet urged all European cities to participate in next year's 'City Center Without My Car' day, set for September 22, 2000.
A shopping mall will pay $2 million to the family of a teenager killed by a truck as she attempted to cross a busy seven-lane highway to get to her mall job. The family of 17-year-old Cynthia Wiggins accused the Walden Galleria in suburban Buffalo of using the highway as a moat to exclude residents of color from the mall. The mall denied entrance to the city bus Ms. Wiggins took to her job, forcing her to get off at an intersection with neither crosswalks nor pedestrian signals, and traverse seven lanes of highway. Defense lawyers claimed that the mall was not obliged to accommodate public transportation. Nevertheless they decided to settle the case. The mall has since changed its bus policy.
Most cars are banned from downtown. Major streets are closed to traffic on weekends and holidays. All metro stops have large bike parking areas equipped with racks. Cabs may not cruise but instead wait in line at designated taxi stands. Is this Amsterdam? The New York City of your dreams? Guess again-it's Medellin, Columbia. Renowned for its drug smuggling cartel, Columbia's second-largest city is making major strides toward blocking a car-tel of a different kind. Any ideas on how to smuggle Medellin's progressive policies into this country are welcome.
Plans to turn Paris' famed Place de la Concorde into a pedestrian-only zone moved closer to reality after France's Culture Minister approved the plan. The Place, dominated by an obelisk standing between the Tuileries gardens and the start of the Champs Elysees, is currently overrun with traffic and parked tour buses.
Even children with minor injuries following a traffic incident are at risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. PTSD consists of symptoms and psychological reactions that may follow a traumatic experience. According to the study, one-quarter of children suffered PTSD following a traffic-related injury. Furthermore, PTSD rates were similar to those of children exposed to violence. According to the study, traffic injury remains the leading health threat to American children. In 1996, 938,000 children under 21 years of age were injured in cars, 40,000 as pedestrians and 33,000 as bicyclists.
Hoping to quell corruption among traffic policemen, Mexico City is yanking ticket-writing authority from the city's 900 male traffic enforcers and creating a new, all-female squad of patrols. In a city where red lights are mere suggestions, the traffic policeman in his brown uniform often personifies corruption, notoriously eager for a bribe in return for pocketing his ticket book. "[Women] are more highly regarded by people," said Secretary of Public Security Alejandro Gertz. Added his spokesman, Valentin Perez: "Women, by nature, are more moral. They take the straighter road."
Road traffic is the fastest growing source of pollution in Europe. In some countries more people die as a result of this air pollution than car accidents, says a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report found that air pollution from cars in Austria, France and Switzerland triggered an extra 21,000 premature deaths per year from respiratory or heart diseases, more than the total number of annual traffic deaths in the three countries. The report shows air pollution from cars caused 300,000 extra cases of bronchitis in children, 15,000 hospital admissions for heart disease and 162,000 asthma attacks in children in the three countries. "The growing evidence that air pollution causes a major health burden adds to the effects of road traffic through noise, accidents and barriers to cycling and walking, and we need to address this head on," said Dr Carlos Dora, of the WHO Center for Health and Environment in Rome.
An architecture and engineering firm in Holmdel, New Jersey, recently added a new employee benefit-free: BMWs for all workers. ARCNET CEO Al Galdi said the cars are "a key component in attracting and rewarding the most creative and best [professionals]. I am honored to include these beautiful BMWs in the ARCNET benefit package." Gushed one worker, "Once we heard that Mr. Galdi would be adding BMWs to our benefits package last Christmas, we recognized the personal care he brings to the company."


Source: (2002) UNAFEI Newsletter. Tokyo: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. Downloaded 3 October 2003. 108:1- 34.
This document presents training course information on the enhancement of community-based alternatives to incarceration. Measures to implement and improve community-based alternatives to incarceration at all stages of the criminal justice process were examined during the 8 week period. This was accomplished through comparative analysis of the current situation, possibilities and problems encountered in community-based alternatives, and an examination of the availability and utilization of such alternatives. Among the obstacles to the development and further adoption of community-based alternatives might be the lack of support and understanding of the criminal justice practitioners. Scarcity of resources is also a problem in terms of both funds and personnel. The many forms of community-based alternatives are community service, probation or other forms of supervision in the community, conditional sentences that allow offenders to serve their sentences in the community with certain conditions such as obtaining treatment for drug problems, fines, restitution, electronic monitoring, and conditional release such as parole. Examples of innovative community-based alternatives under way in some countries are the restorative justice approach and community diversion programs. Participants were offered the opportunity to share experiences and views on the challenges they face in the course of adopting community-based alternatives to incarceration. Abstract courtesy of National Criminal Justice Reference Service, www.ncjrs.org.
UNAFEI Newsletter. Tokyo: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. Downloaded 3 October 2003. 108:1- 34.


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Kevin Hart is an extremely likable guy. The first movie I remember seeing him in was my favourite film from the Scary Movie franchise – Scary Movie 3. Flicking through his IMDB page he has certainly had an interesting career (interesting being the key word – Epic Movie?! You're better than that Kevin!). He's not one of those comedians I specifically follow but he's one who I always enjoy when he happens to be in a comedy that I'm watching. When the opportunity arose to get along to a pre-screening of Night School, a film that Hart not only stars in but is one of the writers of, I was keen to get along with wife by my side for a wee chuckle. And a wee chuckle was had indeed.
In terms of story line Night School is neither groundbreaking nor overly original. After losing his job as a successful salesman, endearing and likable misfit Teddy Walker (Hart) needs to return to high school to get his GED in order to get a job to financially support his "out of his league" fiance. Due to it being a comedy he has been lying about his financial status for their entire relationship and pretending to be a rich douchebag in order to be the man he assumes (incorrectly) she wants him to be. Upon returning to his old high school in order to successfully earn said qualification through the night school programme, he meets a mixed group of oddball adults who are all in similar but different situations. Think The Breakfast Club meets Billy Madison and you pretty much arrive at Night School.
Typical comedic and silly obstacles get in the way of this group of now friends as they try and succeed. All familiar tropes are presented here – from the once bullied kid at high school who is now the Principal right through to a running the hallways not wanting to get caught chase scene. The morality of honesty and the importance of learning are briefly touched on in typical comedy movie style and an unsurprising ending leaves us all feeling warm about the idea of second chances and how everyone can be better if they set their mind to it. It's fair to say in terms of story line there is absolutely nothing new on offer here other than some not fully developed ideas around the modern educational system and its inability to work for those with learning difficulties – a topic that if had been given more focus could have made for some really interesting commentary. Unfortunately it is not given enough time to blossom into a proper element of the story and is instead just used as a plot device to draw the movie out a bit longer.
The ensemble cast of Night School are utterly fantastic. Special mention to Mary Lynn Rajskub (Brooklyn 99) Romany Malco (Weeds) and Rob Riggle (every comedy movie ever made) for contributing to the strength of said ensemble. The script soars in the scenes that revolve around this group of actors exchanging one liners and insults and the banter between their characters works so well that it is incredibly funny and incredibly engaging when the film focuses solely on the play between these characters. Sadly only one or two scenes gives these actors the room to do this before the film gets lost in ridiculous capers and situations which forces the characterisation to fall second to the sitcom-esque situations they find themselves in. The rare moments where the movie allows these actors to develop their characters more fully and work off one another is where the script truly comes alive and the dialogue is genuine and funny.
Sadly like a lot of comedy movies Night School is far too interested in dragging out the telling of a story we have all heard too many times and spends too long reaching a conclusion we all knew was coming from the second we sat down in the cinema. As a result what could have been a hilarious and tightly written character comedy ends up being a cliched story which is 30 minutes too long and which feels overloaded with unwanted cliches (dance off, anyone?) which ultimately means Night School fails to be something more than a fairly run-of-the-mill comedy movie. When the jokes hit – they hit hard but unfortunately they are so wrapped in tediously forced moralising and comedy cliches that they feel a bit far and few between.


Grout may begin to show stains and wear and tear over time. Perhaps the tile grout on your flooring doesn't match the tile grout on your shower walls. Maybe you are just looking for a change but want to minimize the expense and labor involved in replacing existing grout joints. Here are some helpful tips for staining and sealing tile grout.
Look for grout colorants that come in a variety of colors that allow you to stain and seal all at the same time.
Purchase grout stains at local hardware stores, home improvement centers or directly from a tile store.
Pick your color. Darker colors do not show dirt and wear as much as a light color grout. You might choose a darker grout because you want to add contrast and dimension to the room. Choose a lighter color in the same color shade as your tile if you want a more subtle look.
Tile grout stain can be applied to both new and old grout, but it must have adequate time to fully cure. A newly tiled and grouted room should cure for a full 30 days before applying a stain.
Make sure your tile and grout are clean and dry before applying the new stain. Use a regular household cleaner and scrub brush to clean the grout lines, and let dry thoroughly before staining.
Purchase a grout stain applicator kit or buy the pieces separately. You will need a narrow, stiff bristled brush, a sponge and a nylon scrub pad.
Apply an even coat of the stain to the grout using the narrow brush. Use the damp sponge to wipe and clean the grout as you go along. The scrub pad can be used for removing any excess stain from textured tile.
Let the grout stain dry completely. Most water-based stains also act as a sealant to prevent the joints from stains, damage and wear. However, you may use another product specifically designed to seal and protect grout stained with an oil-based stain.
Grout stains are available in both water-based and oil-based options. Oil stains soak deeper into the cement-based grout than a water-based stain, but either can be used.
Ask for samples of the grout stain. Take these home and match to your tile to pick the best color for the look you want to achieve.
Read the instructions on the stain your purchase. These will give specifcs regarding cure timing.
Tiles with a glossy finish are easier to stain because any excess stain can be easily wiped off.
Purchase some disposable, fitted gloves to protect your hands from the chemicals color in the stain.
You may only use a lighter stain on an already light shade of grout. You cannot lighten an already dark grout with a lighter color because the pigments penetrate the grout and the darker color will show through.
Use the right tools and brushes to apply the grout stain. Read the recommendations on the label of the manufactured brand you choose.


CHICAGO, Ill. – Jay Korhonen had quite the impressive Saturday for Illinois Tech Men's Swimming and Diving, helping lead the Scarlet Hawks to a Senior Day win over Lake Forest College. For his efforts, the senior was named the Liberal Arts Conference Men's Swimmer of the Week by both the LAC and CollegeSwimming.com.
On Saturday, Korhonen set season-best times in both the 100 Yard Breaststroke (1:01.86) and 200 Yard Individual Medley (1:15.83). He won both events, with his 100 Yard Breaststroke time besting the field by nearly six seconds. The swims helped the Scarlet Hawks push past the Foresters and finish the regular season with a 9-3 record in dual meets.
The Scarlet Hawks will now head to the Liberal Arts Conference Championships, which will take place at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. The four-day event begins on Wednesday, February 14 at 7:00 p.m., followed by 10:00 a.m. preliminaries and 6:00 p.m. finals times on each of the next three days. Stay tuned to www.illinoistechathletics.com for news and links to any live coverage of the LAC Championships.


Radial basis function networks can be trained quickly using linear optimisation once centres and other associated parameters have been initialised. The authors propose a small adjustment to a well accepted initialisation algorithm which improves the network accuracy over a range of problems. The algorithm is described and results are presented.


Sometimes, expectations can get the better of us. Take, for example, The Lone Ranger. For those who haven't read the first volume from Brett Matthews and Sergio Cariello, you're missing out on the best comics Dynamite Entertainment has ever produced. Those first issues were a gorgeously illustrated, downright cinematic introduction to John Reid, taking us inside his head and showing us how he became the man he was meant to be.
In other words, it's quite the pedigree to live up to. And perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that Dynamite's second iteration of The Lone Ranger doesn't match up to the first. To be honest, that would be unfair to even expect. But the accessibility and charm are surprisingly lacking in this first issue, as Ande Parks and Esteve Polls seem to expect us to love the Ranger without question, rather than refine the character even further.
The reason I say that is because, in a lot of ways, the Ranger isn't really the protagonist of this story. Considering this is a first issue, that's not necessarily the most intuitive introduction in the world. Focusing on a widower as he tries to move on after his wife is killed by bandits, it seems that Ande Parks is focused more on telling us how tough the Old West was, rather than showing us through the Lone Ranger's travails. The misstep with the narrator is compounded by the reality that he can't even solve his own problems — the Lone Ranger does end up coming around to save the day, but ultimately his screen time feels so short beforehand that the victory lacks the tension needed to make it feel really satisfactory. Unless you're already well-acquainted with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, you're going to probably be scratching your head at what the big deal is.
In terms of the art, Esteve Polls doesn't quite have that sweeping widescreen gravitas that Sergio Cariello did, but there are shades of those hard Chaykin lines in his characters' faces. He definitely goes for old-school panel compositions, which — at least most of the time, a few visual continuity issues aside — seem to flow nicely. It's clear that the action sequences, the few that there are, are where Polls really shines, especially with an image of the Ranger holding his horse's reins in his teeth as he uses both hands to aim a rifle. Colorist Marcelo Pinto, one of the lone creative holdovers from the first volume, punches up Polls' work as high as it'll go, particularly with a gorgeous moonlit night, where a young John Reid struggles to deal with losses of his own.
Once you push through a slow beginning and a somewhat jerky middle, you see Parks try to slip in that exposition of John Reid's past, but ultimately, it comes off as too little, too late. Whether or not there's a Vol. 2 in front of it, it's still billed as Issue #1 — and every issue is someone's first. Unfortunately, with the Matthews/Cariello run still fresh in our minds, it makes the dropoff for The Lone Ranger seem that much more apparent. This isn't a bad book by any stretch of the imagination, but it does feel misguided. I want to know what Ande Parks thinks about the Lone Ranger, I want to know more about how John Reid and Tonto operate. Because right now, it feels like The Lone Ranger is just going through the motions.


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Amaan Bali: From Nodeep Kaur To Disha Ravi, India Has Always Abused Its Female Activists
As we celebrate Disha Ravi and now Nodeep Kaur being granted bail there are many activists, often of Dalit and minority backgrounds, still languishing in India's broken justice system
Amaan Bali
The space for dissent in Narendra Modi's India is narrowing every single day, but the history of India tells us that irrespective of who is in power in Delhi, the nation has never been kind to its female activists.
As we celebrate Disha Ravi and now, after much delay, Nodeep Kaur being granted bail for trumped-up and laughable charges of sedition and conspiracy there are many activists, often of Dalit and minority backgrounds, still languishing in India's jails and broken justice system.
The courts may eventually provide justice for some of them, but only after they have been abused and spend considerable periods of their lives in the system or in jail. The purpose of intimidating entire minority communities and chilling free speech has been served, everyone knew that most of these cases never had any grounds.
Let us use this opportunity to take a look at how some of India's female activists have been recently treated so that we may continue to raise our collective voices for their freedom.
Safoora Zargar is an activist from Jammu and Kashmir and a vocal advocate against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). Being a Muslim woman and activist brings with it considerable risks in Modi's India. She led the protest at Shaheen Bagh and was arrested during her pregnancy, and jailed during the height of the COVID pandemic.
She was constantly vilified by the media and a narrative was built around her that she instigated violence in the nation's capital. Delhi Courts gave her bail after human rights organizations began protesting the inhumanity of her detention. Safoora continues to raise her voice for the oppressed.
Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita are both post-graduate students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and were arrested on multiple occasions, including under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), for taking part in the anti-CAA protests of 2020.
Soni Sori is an Adivasi activist and fights corporations engaging in tribal land grabbing. She was arrested by Delhi Police in 2011, after being accused of supporting Maoists. She was also tortured and sexually assaulted by Chhattisgarh state police. She would eventually be acquitted on multiple charges due to the lack of any evidence of wrongdoing.
Inderjit Kaur, an activist that supported orphans in Punjab, spent 45 months of her life in a Jodhpur jail after she was arrested from Darbar Sahib post-Operation Bluestar. She was visiting Darbar Sahib when the Indian military began its invasion and sustained life-threatening injuries from the cross-fire. During her 45-month detention, she met her son only twice, "I was not sure whether I would see my children ever again" she would later recall. Inderjit Kaur was harassed and abused in detention.
Gulfisha Fatima, an MBA student, was arrested by the police on April 9, 2020, for addressing the anti-CAA protestors at Seelampur. She has not been given regular access to family or lawyers during this period. She is currently at Tihar Jail facing a UAPA case.
Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade-unionist, civil rights activist, and lawyer from Chhattisgarh. She has fought for exploited contract workers in the factories of Chhattisgarh, and has founded multiple organizations such as Janhit (a lawyers collective), and the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan (CBA).
Sudha was arrested under the UAPA on August 28, 2018, in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. Police claim that documents recovered from a co-accused's electronic device indicate she was an active member of a banned Maoist organization, CPI. However, it has now come to light that the evidence was actually planted.
Gauri Lankesh was a fearless journalist and was a staunch critic of Hindutva. She founded her own Kannada fortnightly, 'Gauri Lankesh Patrike', which made her a target for far-right violence. She would be shot and killed by Parashuram Waghmore. He claimed he was saving his religion.
Amaan Bali is born and raised in Kashmir. He is an entrepreneur and author of the upcoming book, "Growing up on the right side of Kashmir History". You can find him on Twitter at @amaanbali.


Viv Halton was born in Ealing, West London, and educated at Notting Hill and Ealing High School and the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She gained a music degree from Anglia Ruskin University and holds diplomas from Trinity College of London and the London College of Music. She now teaches the clarinet and saxophone full time at the Perse School, Cambridge, where she is the Head of Wind and the Director of Wind Bands.
Viv conducts the Cambridge Wind Band, which was formed in 2012 to provide a a friendly and welcoming music-making environment for adult amateur wind players in Cambridge and the locale.
Viv regularly plays the clarinet and bass clarinet in the Sampson Orchestra and other local orchestras, including the K.239 Chamber Orchestra which she helps administrate, and lead alto sax in Cambridge Symphonic Winds.
As a saxophonist she has recorded for the BBC (most recently for Children in need) and for Jazz FM. She very much enjoys playing jazz saxophone with the Halton Trio and of course with the three other members of Simply Reeds.