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Congress Permits VA To Raid $3.3 BILLIONS From Choice Card Programs
Jonah Bennett August 1, 2015
The Department of Veterans Affairs received the go-ahead from Congress to raid $3.3 billion from the Choice Card program in order to ensure that regular facilities stay open.
The Senate Thursday pushed through a plan approved by the House which allows VA Secretary Robert McDonald to make use of Choice Card funds for normal operations, Military Times reports. The Choice Chard program was initially established following revelations of abysmal wait times and manipulated waitlist data.
In effect, the Choice Card allows veterans to receive care from private providers if they have to wait more than 30 days for an appointment at a VA facility, or if they live more than 40 miles from a facility.
The program has had a rough start. First, officials chose to interpret the legislation to mean that if a veteran lives within 40 miles of any facility, regardless of whether it provides the necessary care, then that veteran cannot access the program. Some lawmakers, like GOP Rep. Bradley Byrne, have called the move "very self-serving on the VA's part." (RELATED: VA Choice Program Still Excluding Vets Who Need Help Most)
Second, many veterans are kept in the dark about the program's existence. Undercover footage of a veteran's experience at a VA facility in Georgia recently showed an employee saying the Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Oakwood wasn't accepting any more patients. The veteran, 33-year-old Chris Dorsey, was not informed about the Choice Card program. (VIDEO: VA Employee Tells Veteran That They Aren't Accepting New Patients)
Officials at the VA have maintained that veterans do not make much use of the program, but when Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted a survey of its members in March, the organization found that 43 percent of respondents had no idea the program even existed, but 92 percent said they were interested. Among veterans who qualify, VFW found only 19 percent were accepted because of poor staff training. (RELATED: Report: VA Choice Program Keeps Out 80 Percent Of Eligible Veterans)
Lawmakers are frustrated, with some critics arguing the VA waited until the last minute to mention a budget shortfall so that they would be able to deplete the Choice Card program.
"We're in this situation, quite frankly, because of gross ineptitude in planning that can only be characterized as malpractice in management," said Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, according to Military Times. "Congress cannot be expected to continue to bail out VA because of mismanagement."
Approval for repurposing Choice Card funds via the highway bill extension comes with certain conditions. Officials must submit biweekly reports to Congress on how they're using the funds. Additionally, the legislation allows veterans living within 40 miles of a facility to make use of the Choice Card program if the facility doesn't provide the care needed.
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James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment will use Sony's new VENICE motion picture camera system for principal photography on the upcoming Avatar sequels.
The first Avatar movie, released in 2009 and also shot on Sony professional cameras, shattered box-office records with its compelling story, immersive 3D and stunning visuals. These newest entries in the franchise will up the visual ante significantly with enhanced special effects, more elaborate production requirements and challenging live action sequences.
While principal photography on the Avatar sequels using VENICE is expected to begin first quarter of 2019, performance capture is underway now. The process is supported by a variety of additional Sony imaging technologies including multiple Alpha mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras, PXW-Z450 and PXW-320 camcorders and the compact RX0 camera. The production is also using Sony's F55 and Alpha cameras to record behind-the-scenes footage and stills.
Sony worked closely with Lightstorm to customise VENICE for its specific needs, with regular meetings taking place between Cameron, his production teams and Sony's engineering group.
The Sony-Lightstorm collaboration began in 1999, resulting in the development of a unique extension system allowing the camera body to detach from the actual image sensor block. A similar approach has been adopted for VENICE, with each sensor and camera body connected by a cable at distances of up to 20 feet with no degradation in image quality. For the upcoming Avatar sequels, multiple VENICE cameras will be paired in various 3D stereoscopic rigs. Using the new Sony cabling system, the only part of the VENICE carried on the rig will be the image sensor optical blocks, significantly reducing on-board camera weight to about three pounds per sensor block. By lowering the weight and improving ergonomics, Cameron and the Lightstorm team will have the ability to shoot with greater flexibility and freedom.
Click here for more information on the Sony VENICE camera system.


Harcourt & Haigh Actors At Large: Back In The Saddle!
Welcome back fellow bloggers and acting fans yep it's Friday an well you know the drill by now, so what happened? As you well know we said in Wednesdays blog we intended filming outdoors last night (Thursday 2nd May, mark it in your diaries as an Historic Event, folks) and, yep, we did! Oh yeah, H&H are truly back in the saddle!
Yes, we actually did some filming - it was only a few scenes, all scenes where it only required the two of us, like our opening scene of the episode and couple of the other scenes where it was just me and Chris. And in true H&H style some extra lines might just have been added in on set, you can't help ad lib every now and then - mix things up a bit. Well, it always works for Robert Downey, Jr., dammit!
We even turned into lighting directors for the night, using different light sources to get the right effect. Though our lighting rig consisted of the ambient street lights, a mobile phone flash and a pair of lava lamps (not necessarily at the same time, the lava lamps power cords aren't that long for a start). Well, we are a Low-to-No budget feature so we have to do these things ourselves with what we have to hand.
We were going to do some of the many running shots but, alas, it became too late as we really needed to see and review the footage from the shoot before Chris had to scoot on the last bus. Plus I wasn't wearing the right foot wear for the running shots; I was all very Peter Cushing on set. Yup, Slippers. What can I say, never sacrifice comfort for speed.
Well, that's it for H&H fans you all have a good weekend and we'll see in the future.


High schools throughout America have continued to change to meet the needs of students entering the 21st Century workplace. LaSalle High School has likewise done so. Our schools's mission statement is that LaSalle High School will be the high school of choice in our area. The exemplary quality of our student graduates will reflect the community's commitment to academic excellence.
We are now in the fifth year of the implementation of the new statewide graduation requirements. These changes took effect with the class of 2011 (this year's senior class) and beyond. Significant resources have been expended to purchase curricular materials that will match the state's curriculum and assist students in mastering the individual course level content expectations.
Our school improvement goals will be to positively impact student achievement in reading, writing, and mathematics. Our school improvement committee meets regularly throughout the school year. I urge you to contact me if you would like to be involved in these efforts. Furthermore, I would like to take this opportunity to personally invite you to either e-mail me at gfettig@eupschools.org, or call me at (906) 643–8800 to find out more information why the LaSalle High School is the place to be!


Today, having excess fat around the body has become the common issue and thus you can always keep on looking for ideas that will help you to look slimmer. One of them is body wraps that are helpful to lose some weight. Even the market is flooded with body slimming wraps, which assures you to lose some weight, but why to purchase some of them from the market if you can prepare them at home. Using Homemade body wraps for weight loss is multi beneficial as it not only make you lose weight, but also saves much amount to money which you have to spend over the products bought from the market.
• To prepare the body wrap you need to have an ace bandage or any fabric that is able to absorb water or you can wrap that around your body. If you don't want to spend even a single rupee over the cloth, then no problem as you can take an old pair of jeans and cut some straight long strips from that.
• To make the recipe for wrap you need to have tea bags, water, coconut oil and salt. If you don't have coconut oil then can also replace that with moisturizer.
• Requirement of Saran wrap for keeping the moisture in.
• It is up to your preference that if you want to sleep in it or not.
Recipe- There is different and a variety of versions of body wraps available. Some of them based over clay or some at white lotion. In this particular wrap we are going to use coconut oil because it contains moisturizing properties and is organic so have ability to heal some of the skin issues naturally. To make wrap, start by taking 2 cups of water and bring it to boil add salt, tea bags and coconut oil to it. Now, drink around 8 ounces of water after wrapping the body. Meanwhile, make the boiled water cooled for 2 minutes. It is the time to take bandage and dip that in resultant solution and soak the extra liquid.
With the help of another person, wrap the bandage tightly around the body. The heat of warm water will help to open the pores of the body. Now, time to use the Saran wraps to wrap the bandaged area. You can use the wrap when going to take a small nap of 1-2 hours in a day. Then after 2 hours unwrap the body and you would be able to get the beneficial results. To make the body wrap even more effective if you would do some simple exercises when body is wrapped because it is able to maintain the body heat which can give way to opening of pores.
Above mentioned are some easy steps which would tell you the techniques for homemade body wraps for weight loss. So, you need to prepare a solution and try quickly to shed extra fat around the body.


Clear Blue Media has developed a variety of mobile and desktop games including educational and serious games.
Learn the musical scales while saving the world! A large number of ships are approaching earth. Some of them are friendly, but others are trying to destroy the world! Using the musical scales as code, protect friendly ships that belong in the scale and destroy the other ships that do not. The more you know your scales, the better you can defend earth. Hitting a friendly ship will damage your space turret which is repaired at the start of every wave. However, any enemy ships that make it to earth will explode and permanently damage the planet. The scales change every wave to throw the enemy off, but they will start sending advanced ships that will be harder to hit. Good luck, you are earth's only hope against the Full Scale Attack!
Octoplay is a musical memory game. Match the pitches and the patterns played by the Octopus, and see how long you can keep up!
Find the hidden music symbols in the clutter!
Dexterity Now is designed to aid in building response-time skills for playing piano and guitar. Tap the numbered box on the screen as quickly as possible and a new box will appear; tap all of the boxes as soon as you see them and replay levels to improve your overall response-time.


Mucuna is a bio-available source of L-dopa, an amino acid that becomes the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain. Promotes happiness and overall well-being. This caramel-tasting bean deftly elevates mood, creativity, libido and sleep patterns, while soothing the nervous system. Mucuna's flavor deliciously complements other Moon Pantry foods and herbs.


While your plumbing system's ability to send clean, drinkable water throughout your home is undeniably important, remember that all of the wastewater generated in your home must also be able to make a clean and convenient exit from your property. That is where your sewer line in Clovis, NM enters the equation. When you drain the sink, empty a tub, or flush a toilet, the water and waste that goes down the drains and toilets in your home ultimately makes its way to your sewer main line.
In order to ensure that your sewer line is able to function properly—and you probably don't need us to tell you how unpleasant a backed up sewer line can be—you need to ensure that your sewer line is installed by trained, qualified professionals. That's as simple as dialing our number. With the professional water line technicians at Mark Carpenter Plumbing on the job, you can count on the level of service quality that you deserve. We are a family owned and operated outfit, and have been since the company was founded in 2000. Contact us today to schedule any sewer line services that you may require.
The installation of a sewer line is not the type of job that you can entrust to a novice or a non–professional. You need to know for sure that the excavation required on your property is being completed carefully, so as not to disrupt that property any more than necessary. You must also know that your new sewer line is made of appropriate materials that will stand up to the test of time. While your sewer line may not be exposed to the elements, it is still possible for issues to develop which may compromise its integrity. Fortunately for you, our plumbers and technicians know precisely which type of sewer line you'll need installed to best benefit your home.
Needless to say, you also deserve to know that your sewer line installation itself is completed flawlessly. Any problems with the installation process, including insecure seams at the connection of your sewer line to drains, may cause serious damage, not to mention encourage unhygienic conditions on your property. Work with us, and you'll know not only that the job is done right, but precisely how much you'll be paying to have that job completed. We don't provide estimates that are subject to interpretation or change. Instead, we offer firm price quotes to inform our clients of precisely what they can expect to pay us to get the job done.
We also have cameras that we can put into your drain lines to show the internal condition of pipelines, replacing guesses with detailed diagnostic color images. Video inspections prove the added value of high pressure jetting for quality sewer and drain maintenance. Clogged sewer and drain lines are never inspected; lines must be open or cleaned prior to inspections for best results.
Even if your sewer line was properly installed at the time of installation, it may have degraded over time. This can happen for a number of reasons, including damages inflicted during construction on your property or in the nearby vicinity. Your pipe may be made of a material that has corroded over time, or tree roots may have busted into it as they seek out the much needed water within. Whatever the specifics of your case, we're here to ensure that your replacement sewer line is installed with care.
We're licensed for all the work that we do, including the installation of sewer lines ranging from 4" to 16" in diameter. Our technicians are trained in–house, so we know that they will do the work correctly every step of the way, and we are fully insured. If you are ready to schedule your sewer line installation with professionals that you can truly trust, just give us a call today. There's a real, live operator waiting to help you out on the other end.


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The Disordered Mind
Eric R. Kandel is a University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor at Columbia University and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory, he is the author of In Search of Memory, a memoir that won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which won the Bruno Kreisky Award in Literature, Austria's highest literary award; and Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, a book about the New York School of abstract art. He is also the coauthor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field.
Engaging . . . Kandel's well-constructed narrative smoothly blends historical perspective and first-person accounts with explanations of recent experiments . . . Excellent. --Alan Jasanoff, The New York Times Book Review Kandel is an astute reader and a reflective observer . . . Neuroscience comes alive in Kandel's study through the personal and imaginative ruminations of disordered minds . . . Kandel asks his reader to confront the anecdotal and inexplicable and think hard about what it means. --Stephen T. Casper, Science A lucidly written, accessible and fascinating read. --Eliezer J. Sternberg, The Washington Post Eric Kandel is one of the giants of 20th- and 21st-century neuroscience . . . [The Disordered Mind] is both easy to read and informative . . . I recommend it to behavioral neurologists and neuropsychiatrists, both for their own edification and for seeing what their more intelligent patients are reading. --Howard S. Kirshner, Vanderbilt University Department of Neurology, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Highly accessible . . . Kandel's deep compassion for people is also evident, as when he discusses how understanding the biological basis for mental disorders might take them out of the realm of legal culpability. The result of his work is an easily comprehended, meticulous synthesis of current research into the biological grounding of the human mind. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Kandel's clear and straightforward writing makes this informative scientific exploration accessible and compelling. --Library Journal Fascinating stuff ably interpreted by a master. --Kirkus Reviews No doubt neurons will be buzzing as readers contemplate Kandel's thought-provoking book. --Tony Miksanek, Booklist Praise for Eric Kandel [Kandel's discoveries] have truly changed our understanding of brain function. --Citation for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [Eric Kandel is] one of the preeminent neuroscientists in the world. --Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books
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El sistema lacustre Las Tunas está ubicado en el Partido de Trenque Lauquen, de la provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina.

Está formado por 5 lagunas y los canales que las comunican.

 La laguna Hinojo Chico es la de menor superficie: 1000 ha; tiene una profundidad media de 4 m.

 La laguna Hinojo Grande tiene 9.000 ha y una profundidad media de 6 m, y es conocida por la pesca deportiva de pejerrey (Atherinopsidae: Odontesthes bonariensis).

 La laguna Las Tunas Grandes es la de mayor superficie del sistema, con 25.000 has y una profundidad media de 10 m, y es conocida por la pesca comercial de pejerrey; es la única del sistema en la que se permite esa actividad.

 La laguna Las Tunas del Medio tiene una superficie de 4.000 has y una profundidad media de 4 m.

 La laguna Las Tunas Chicas tiene una superficie de 5.000 has y una profundidad media de 5 m.

Durante las inundaciones del año 2002, las lagunas Hinojo Grande, Las Tunas Grandes, Las Tunas Del Medio y Las Tunas Chicas se unieron formando un solo cuerpo de agua.

Partido de Trenque Lauquen
Lagunas de la provincia de Buenos Aires

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The root reason for why the cross is folly to the world is that it means the end of human self-exaltation.
The most worthy of living, the least worthy of dying. This is the life Jesus gave for you—that you might live.
Why did Jesus cry out, "Why have you forsaken me?" if he already knew why? Pastor John gives three reasons.
—John Piper, from What's the Significance of Simon Carrying Jesus's Cross?
When Jesus went to the cross, he bore our condemnation and purchased our healing. This lab explains what kind of healing and transformation we experience.


Excess emissions from industrial facilities: What are they and why should we care about them?
Excess emissions are a specific class of emissions released during periods of startups, shutdowns or malfunctions (SSM) from industrial facilities. For decades, excess emissions have remained outside of the regulatory and enforcement focus of the EPA. In a recently published paper at the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, we analyzed a unique dataset of excess emissions from industrial facilities in Texas. Our findings suggest that these pollution releases occur on a regular basis and are large enough to represent a sizeable share of permitted emissions. Using an Integrated Assessment Model, we estimated that the health impacts of excess emissions are approximately $150 million per year in Texas.
Excess emissions due to SSM that go beyond a facility's permitted levels have been considered violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) since the law was enacted. While states have always been required to regulate these releases in their State Implementation Plans (SIPs), they have for years regularly granted automatic exemptions to facilities with excess emissions. Even though there have been several court decisions with regards to SSM requirements over the years, a great deal of uncertainty and inconsistency across states exists as to how excess emissions are regulated. In 2015 the EPA identified 36 states whose SIPs included language that was inadequate to meet the standards of the CAA with regards to how excess emissions were treated. States have begun to revise their SIPs, but the new EPA administration has signaled that it might consider withdrawing the 2015 SIP call.
The problematic regulatory landscape of excess emissions described above, is compounded by the fact that few states keep systematic records of excess emissions events and even fewer make that data available to the public in a comprehensive manner. Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma are the only three states that have developed comprehensive reporting requirements for excess emissions and make the information publicly available. Other states that collect data on excess emissions and make them available to the public do so on a case-by-case basis. For practical purposes, that makes analyzing the information on excess emissions very challenging.
Since 2003 the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), has implemented a 24-hour reporting requirement. Any facility in the state that experiences an excess emissions event (where emissions cross a certain threshold) has 24 hours to report that event to the TCEQ. The facility is then given two weeks to submit a final report that, if necessary, will provided updated/corrected information about the types and amounts of pollutants that were released.
Studying data from the Texas Emissions Inventory as well as the Air Emissions and Maintenance Events dataset (described above) over the period of 2003-2017 we arrived at the following key findings.
The magnitude of excess emissions is sizeable especially when compared to permitted emissions. Across all facilities, excess emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) represented 7.5% of permitted emissions in the time period 2004-2015. The relevant ratio for other criteria pollutants is 2% (sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide), 1.5% (for particular matter 10 and 2.5), and 0.5% (nitrogen oxides). Among the group of VOCs several pollutants had significantly high ratios of excess over permitted emissions. Examples include N Butane (22%), propylene (20%), ethylene (14%), and benzene (5.5%).
A small number of industrial sectors, emit the vast majority of excess emissions. The top five sectors—Natural Gas Liquids, Refineries, Industrial Organic Chemicals, Electric Services, Crude Oil and Natural Gas—emit upwards of 80% of excess emissions of all industrial sectors in Texas. Moreover, the ratio of excess to permitted emissions for those sectors can be substantial. Figure 1 shows the ratio of excess to permitted emissions of VOCs for the top polluting sectors.
Figure 1. Ratio of excess over permitted emissions of VOCs for top polluting sectors.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in August 2017, dozens of facilities had to shut down (and then later start upafter the storm passed) their operations to minimize damages from extreme weather. In the process they released approximately 2,000 tons of excess emissions. While one would expect that excess emissions are more frequent during extreme weather events, such as floods or hurricanes, our analysis showed that they are in fact a routine part of industrial operations. We found that only 10% of all excess emissions events can be attributed to force majeure weather (like lightning, flash floods, fires and hurricanes).
Excess emissions releases are highly skewed. While thousands of excess emissions events occur every year in Texas, the median event (that is, the excess emission event in the 50thpercentile of the distribution) releases less than one ton of a given pollutant. The top 5% of excess emissions events release the vast majority of pollutants across the most polluting industrial sectors. Further evidence of this skewed pattern can be found within the top polluting sectors. For example, the 6 most polluting refineries in Texas are responsible for 77% of all carbon monoxide excess emissions from all refineries operating in the state.
Using an Integrated Assessment model, we find that excess emissions are responsible for $150 million in health damages annually in Texas. This estimate pertains only to premature mortality attributed to secondary particulate matter emissions (formed from sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions). Given that this estimate included only mortality (and not morbidity), it can be considered a lower bound of health effects. As can be seen in Figure 2, excess emissions from refineries are responsible for a significant share of those health effects.
Figure 2. Health damages from excess emissions by year in Texas.
Excess emissions represent an under-regulated and under-studied class of emissions. Using data from the TCEQ, our research finds that excess emissions represent a substantial share of permitted emissions and that a relatively small number of facilities in a few industrial sectors are responsible for a sizeable share of excess emissions. While Texas has detailed reporting requirements for excess emissions and maintains a thoroughly documented dataset, the same is not true for other states. Given their magnitude and substantial health impacts it is imperative that other states begin systematically tracking excess emissions and making the data available to the public. This is particularly important given the current uncertainty around EPA's ultimate position on how excess emissions should be regulated.
Peer Reviewers: Eric Cornwell, Manager, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Lynn E. Hutchinson, General Counsel and Senior Program Manager, RTP Environmental Associates, Inc.
Environmental Protection Agency. State Implementation Plans: Response to Petition for Rulemaking; Restatement and Update of EPA's SSM Policy Applicable to SIPs; Findings of Substantial Inadequacy; and SIP Calls To Amend Provisions Applying to Excess Emissions During Periods of Startup, S. Vol 40 CFR 52.; 2015:33840-33985.
Zirogiannis N, Hollingsworth AJ, Konisky DM. Understanding Excess Emissions from Industrial Facilities: Evidence from Texas. Environ Sci Technol. 2018;52(5):2482-2490. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b04887.
US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Luminant Generation Co. vs. US Environmental Protection Agency. 2012. http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions%5Cpub%5C10/10-60934-CV2.wpd.pdf. Accessed July 26, 2018.
Federal Register. Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Excess Emissions During Startup, Shutdown, Maintenance, and Malfunction Activities.; 2010:40 CFR Part 52.
Reilly S. Court cancels arguments over EPA's plant startup rule. Energy and Environment News. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053555/. Published April 25, 2017.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Emissions Inventory Dataset.; 2016.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Air Emissions and Maintenance Events Dataset.; 2017.
Heo J. Evaluation of Air Quality Impacts on Society: Methods and Application. February 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/503 (accessed on 9/5/17).
Heo J, Adams PJ, Gao HO. Public Health Costs of Primary PM 2.5and Inorganic PM 2.5Precursor Emissions in the United States. Environ Sci Technol. 2016;50(11):6061-6070. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b06125.
Sierra Club. Petition to Find Inadequate and Correct Several State Implementation Plans under Section 110 of the Clean Air Act Due to Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction, and/or Maintenance Provisions. 2011.


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John Patrick O'Shea (born 2 June 1940) is a former  international rugby union player.

Educated at Lewis School Pengam, along with John Dawes, he was capped five times for Wales as a prop between 1967 and 1968.

O'Shea was selected for the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa and played in the first international against . In the match against Eastern Transvaal at Springs he became the first Lion ever to be sent off for foul play, after throwing a punch.

He played club rugby for Cardiff.

He is currently living in Australia.

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Q: Join 2 webservices in client side or server side I am working as service developer.
My web-service have support 2 method: get a student by student id and get class by student id.
Web UI actually need a data that is a student with class information embedded in.
So  I need to query student by id then keep in student variable, then query class by student id then classbyStudent. Then try to embed the class variable to the student variable.
So Where I should write these code above?
Should I write a third service to serve the student with class information?
Or leave it for client-side (angular Js)

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Yes, that's correct @jgusew. As @Sarah_Jewell noted earlier in this post Westpac now has a dedicated line for our PEXA/eSettlements team if you require assistance the day of or day before Settlement. When calling settlements, choose the PEXA Settlements option.
How do I double like this?
Yes - many of the banks now have PEXA specific lines we can call.
The issue for me is more why are we having to call the banks? They should be liaising through the workspace. We are finding less and less banks are liaising through the workspace conversations section as they are just relying on our offices calling this booking line.
Agreed - they can utilise the Conversation - maybe they should send a conversation 24 hours before Settlement to confirm they are on track or what any outstanding items are !!
The simple fact is that e-settlement (especially conversations) in its current form, has increased the 'touch levels' for both lenders and practitioners. Maybe higher levels of integration of User software/procedures, along with those guidelines with clearer activities/task/duties would be automated & incorporated better to suit ALL e-settlement users! Perhaps some clarity of steps, to be done by each party even backed up with Service Level Agreements, where actions are deemed as undertaken to be met by due date/time else blame/penalties for delay are apportioned. :-?
We are similarly very frustrated at also experiencing what you have described.
I am keen to know though, how do you expect to complete them all on paper when (not sure if you are in Vic) but they will just be turned away.
I am in NSW - I do not wish to conduct the matters by paper. I want to use PEXA but when a bank's representative has no idea of the process, what choice do you have?


"I played with Messi who is, for me, one of the greatest footballers of all time, and he is my idol in football," Neymar told The Players' Tribune during an interview alongside NBA ace Stephen Curry.
"As for Cristiano Ronaldo, he is a monster. Facing him is a pleasure and an honour, but we have to be more prepared.
"He is one of the greatest in football so you get smarter, you get alert, but at the same time you learn a lot, too.


Pushing the Limits has everything I look for in a young adult contemporary romance. Characters you can empathize with, an engrossing plot, sexual tension, pacing, structure, depth—it was all there for me.
The romance takes the front seat in Pushing the Limits, but it isn't all there is to the story and I loved that. Both Echo and Noah have their personal issues that they're dealing with, and they deal with them very differently. Their actions and circumstances make them opposites but in many ways they are a lot alike. I enjoyed watching them push through their problems, together and apart. The secondary characters were great as well, and I'm looking forward to reading Beth's story (Dare You To).
While this book is ultimately a romance, the plot is raw and engrossing. There is nothing sugar-coated about Echo and Noah's lives. Their circumstances were very believable, but they were also done in a way that didn't feel cliché, as these things can sometimes seem. It was extremely well-written, and all of the pieces came together perfectly.
There isn't a single thing I can think of to complain about. Pushing the Limits is the epitome of what contemporary YA should be, and Katie McGarry has made a fan out of me.
There's a part of the story that has stuck with me, and I feel the need to share a teaser from it.
I am so excited for this book-I love YA contemp romance and Harlequin Teen has been putting out some amazing books lately!
I've so been wanting to read this, so I'm really glad that it has so many great reviews. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Oh I think I'll fall in love with Noah! This story has gotten awesome reviews!
GAH....I've been needing a YA contemporary to blow me away. I immediately added this to my wishlist. Sounds like a must have!
Found nothing to complain about either! I was totally wrapped up in their stories.
Great review! I makes me want to read this novel very badly!
This sounds like a really good story. Now I want to read it. Thanks for sharing your review!
I've seen this book around a lot recently. A great review thank you.
This book touched me in a way few books have touched me. It was an awesome ride!
I might be willing to read it--I have heard of it. Thanks for the review!
I bought this book because I saw the cover on the B&N website and I kept coming back to it for about a week or so. I still didn't read the description. When I ordered it, I didn't read it right away...I actually waited a couple of days. When I started, I was hooked within the first three pages. I didn't move or go to the bathroom until it was finished. When I finished, I wanted to read it over right away!! This book was so very amazing and real. The above excerpt from page 278 was a moment in the book that just felt like it touched my soul!!!!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book. I have never been a huge fan of contemporaru novels, especially in YA. But then I read Beautiful Disaster, and Easy, and yeah I know they're now classified as NA (new adult), but I totally got sucked into contemporary because of them! This book, even though it's YA, is AMAZING. I love this book! Thanks for the review!!!
I want to read this book I have heard good things about this story. I have this book in my book wish list.
What a great review I heard so much about this book can't wait to read it on the top of my wishlist!
Thank you for the wonderful review. I received an ARC of this book and I really liked it..
Wow. I'd read the blurb for this one before and knew I wanted to read it, but after this review, I really want to get my hands on this book! I love the excerpt you selected...so powerful. Thanks!
The cover immediately caught my attention, and looked like something I would like. I read the summary, and it sounds so good. You're review convinced me to read it, thanks!!!


Podobed O.V., Fedorova L.M., Iakusheva I.V., Abakumova O.Yu., Tsvetkova T.A., Kovaleva G.G., Gavril'chak A.V., Shekhter A.B.
Abstract: Effect of phosphatidylcholine, isolated from soy beans and sunflower seeds for laboratory use, on synthesis of RNA, DNA, albumin and content of newly synthesized mRNA in polyribosomes was studied in hepatocytes after chemical hepatectomy produced by single administration of CCl4 into rats; histological and histochemical studies of liver tissue were also carried out. Phosphatidylcholine from these plants was found to prevent hepatocyte dystrophy and necrosis development, to activate the macrophage response and to stimulate reparation inducing synthesis and secretion of the tumor necrosis factor. The rate of highly labelled RNA synthesis, mainly mRNA, decreased in liver tissue of rats treated with CCl4, was increased approximately 2-fold after the phospholipid administration. The phospholipid from soy beans restored the albumin synthesis as well as the content of newly synthesized mRNA in rat polyribosomes, while phosphatidylcholine from sunflower seeds restored effectively the mitochondrial DNA synthesis. Promising application of these phosphatidylcholines as hepatoprotectors is discussed.
Reference: Podobed O.V., Fedorova L.M., Iakusheva I.V., Abakumova O.Yu., Tsvetkova T.A., Kovaleva G.G., Gavril'chak A.V., Shekhter A.B., The effect of phosphatidylcholine on repair processes in liver cells in acute CCl4 damage, Voprosy meditsinskoi khimii, 1995, vol: 41(1), 13-16.


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Robert Downey Jr.'s pretty intense at the best of times! So when Jimmy Fallon asked him to star in an "Intense Staredown" sketch on Wednesday Oct. 8's The Tonight Show, the The Judge star was in his element.
Donning a long wig and traditional black robes, Downey Jr. and Fallon perched on animal skins, and looked (intensely!) at each other from their vantage point on top of a mountain.
Taking intense to a new level, Downey Jr. contorted his face in a series of hilariously bizarre expressions as he gave his deep and meaningful commentary about everything from world peace, Domino's stuffed crust pizza and sneezing!
Determined not to be outdone, Fallon looked similarly serious about his list of infinitely wise quotes, the oddest of which were the tales from the hairs on his body.
After the sketch, Downey Jr., who is expecting his second child with wife Susan Downey, revealed to Fallon he has high aspirations for his unborn baby, who will be his first daughter.
"Our daughter will probably be an actress," he said, before adding ironically, "that's a stable career."
Watch Downey Jr. and Fallon ponder the mysteries of the universe in the clip above.


New Michigan City company will manufacture cannabidiol | What's New LaPorte?
A Colorado company is expanding into Michigan City to add to the growing business of industrial hemp. PHM Brands LLC will be one of the state's first processors of cannabidiol, or CBD.
PHM Brands sells a variety of agricultural-based specialty ingredients and blended products in 5 locations throughout the United States. PHM, headquartered in Denver, CO, is a family of companies that include Panhandle Milling, New Mexico Milling, Specialty Grains, Specialty Blends, Specialty Feeds, Hippo Extracts, and Viobin.
The company will be investing more than $6 million and creating 32 new jobs averaging $20 per hour for the Michigan City facility in its first phase.
PMH Brands received an industrial hemp research license in February 2018, becoming one of just a few Hoosier companies legally allowed to handle hemp in Indiana.
When will this plant be opened, and where is it going to be in Michigan City, and how do I apply for this job?


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Langhi: UN Received Final Report on Briberies During Libyan Political Meeting in Geneva
By libyareview
On Saturday, Zahra Langhi, a women's rights activist participating in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), revealed new details of appeals submitted regarding the existence of corrupt practices and the use of political money in an attempt to influence the nomination process for the position of Libya's Prime Minister.
On her Facebook account, Langhi said that the final report and its confidential annex on the issue of bribery and other corrupt practices during the LPDF, had been completed. It was handed over to the United Nations (UN) Secretariat and the member states of the Security Council (UNSC).
"The report will be publicly published on the UN official website on March 15th. The confidential annex will not be placed on the website, but rather it is expected to be leaked by some member states of the UNSC," she added.
The LPDF member added that the issue of bribery in the LPDF was referred to the Committee of Experts on November 21st in order to investigate the serious allegations of bribery and political money.
"A number of witnesses have been contacted to investigate these allegations," she added.
She said that "on November 17, a group of women submitted their first complaints about the existence of corrupt practices, including bribes to buy votes, and the use of political money in an attempt to influence the nomination process at the upcoming executive authority."
The Libyan activist noted that they therefore prepared a statement, signed by about 60 LPDF members, and referred it to the Secretary-General of the UN, calling to suspend the membership of those who were involved in such practices and exclude their candidacies.
She added that, some LPDF female members, in coordination with 11 Libyan human rights organizations, demanded the continuation of the administrative investigation. This was announced by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), regarding the allegations of the involvement of some participants in LPDF in Tunisia in taking bribes to buy votes in favour of some candidates.
Langhi emphasized that those organizations addressed this in an open letter sent to the Secretary-General of the UN, the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN in Libya, and the Acting Libyan Attorney General. In which the organizations called for the need to take all necessary measures to help reveal the truth and disclose the results of the investigation.
Briberies


CATV amplifiers are electronic devices that accept a varying input signal and produce an output signal that varies in the same way as the input, but has larger amplitude. There are several physical and electrical specifications to consider when selecting RF amplifiers. Physical specifications include package type and connector type. Package types include Surface Mount Technology (SMT), flat pack, and Through Hole Technology (THT). RF amplifiers may also be connected or use waveguide assemblies.


The summit of London's iconic Centre Point building has been transformed into an exclusive members' club, its interior masterminded by Tom Dixon.
The eagerly awaited Paramount members' club, which rises 33 floors above London's West End with a 360º view over the city, is due to open this October.
The luxury club will feature a new wraparound champagne bar on the top floor, as well as a sleek dining area, bar and lounge space on the lower two levels.
Dixon says the 1966 Richard Seifert building was a 'difficult' space to work with, with low ceilings and a distinctly corporate interior. 'Our challenge was to enrich the existing space, making the building as dramatic on the inside as it was on the outside,' he says.
Drawing inspiration from the Brutalist architecture of the 1960s, Dixon's interior uses geometric shapes and materials in copper, brass and concrete to tie in with the aesthetic of the original building. 'We are seeing a revival of interest in the architecture of that period, and a lot of people are reassessing what they used to dismiss as large slabs of concrete,' he says.
Dixon has worked in close collaboration with lead consultant Mark Way, designing the mezzanine-level reception desk and the members' bar on the 32nd floor. An installation on the building's 1960s facade illuminated the familiar Centre Point sign in electric blue, in the run-up to the launch earlier this month.


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A Penny for Your Thoughts: News of Greater Falls Church
September 4, 2014 11:10 AM by Penny Gross
Fairfax County schools kicked off a new school year on Tuesday. Drivers are reminded to observe lowered speed limits in school zones, and never, ever, pass a stopped school bus with flashing red lights. Speeders and scofflaws in our school zones will be ticketed. Drivers should also be aware of children walking to school, or waiting for the school bus in their neighborhoods, and s-l-o-o-w down!
Tuesday also was the first day for the Bailey's Upper Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences, the first vertical design school in the Fairfax County Public School system. The new school, at 6245 Leesburg Pike in Seven Corners, was converted from a 1980's style vacant office building into a modern, light-filled, multi-level school in less than nine months, a remarkable achievement. The building looks the same on the outside, but the interior was completely redesigned and renovated for a capacity of nearly 800 third, fourth, and fifth graders. The original Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences on Knollwood Drive will house kindergarten, first, and second grade students. Both campuses will be overseen by current Bailey's principal, Marie Lemmon. The magnet program and the Spanish immersion program will continue at both locations.
I was familiar with the former office building, but a tour of the new school revealed very little of the old, with the exception, perhaps, of the elevator lobby and its floor to ceiling windows with spectacular views of Seven Corners all the way to National Airport. The main entrance to the new school is from the rear parking lot, with a glassed-in vestibule that provides a transition on rainy days and keeps the interior lobby climate-controlled. A large interactive touch screen welcomes visitors, with information about both campuses. Students access their classroom levels via widened stairways. The third grade level color scheme has orange highlights; fourth and fifth grades have yellow and lime green. Curvy white tables for four or six fit together for larger work surfaces, and a variety of seats – including some "rocker" stools that accommodate bouncy kids – add pops of color. A special paint allows teachers and students to write on some walls, with washable markers, of course! The 200-seat full service cafeteria overlooks lushly treed neighborhoods to the northwest, and the library above has a similar view.
Physical Education is offered in four dedicated rooms, and plans for an outdoor playground and other outdoor amenities will be the subject of a Proffer Condition Amendment, anticipated to begin this fall, since the approval of the office use years ago mandated no changes to the outside of the structure. For now, the school will designate a portion of the large parking lot for outside play. Bailey's Upper Elementary resolves a critical overcrowding issue at Bailey's, and 19 trailers at the original campus will be removed. Total cost for the building and construction, funded by the 2013 School Bond Referendum approved by voters, is $19,990,000, including a purchase price of $9,370,000. Welcome to our newest school in Mason District!
Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
Author: Penny GrossPenny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be e-mailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov


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The two pop-ups, which were deployed by Denise Risch (NOAA) in July were successfully recovered on September 12th and 15th.
While one of them was placed in the Mingan Islands, the other one was deployed further offshore, close to Anticosti.
Denise was pleased that her hydrophones successfully recorded and now she has to listen hundreds of hours of recordings! Now, the big question is: did she manage to capture sounds of minke whales?
Picture of a happy pop-up recovery team
Denise Risch (NOAA), Alain Carpentier and Joanna Prime
Last days out
The weather in September was not spectacular, especially when we have to head to the southern edge of Banc Parent. We kept the boats in BBR and on the 27th we finally got out.
Rafale leaving BBR (Rivière-au-Tonnerre)
With on board Christian Ramp, Andrea Kuster and Sylvie Castay
We did not make it offshore; in fact, we saw the first spout while passing the buoy at BBR…. A blue whale!
The only blue in Mingan this season, actually the first one since 2006! The last sighting of a blue whale on the North Shore goes even further back – 2001. It turned out to be Mercure (B061), known since 1980. The lady is a very regular whale, sighted often in Gaspe and Sept-Iles, the last time in 2007. It was, however, the first time she visited the North Shore. This area used to be known for blue whales in the 1980s and early 1990s. Maybe she knew this area from back then despite never been sighted by us, or maybe she was exploring new grounds!
Speaking of whales that know this area, Curly (F002), the second ever identified fin whale by MICS, returned to the area this season.
She was feeding just a few miles away from Mercure. She is one of the few whales which has been sighted throughout the season. This year we had seen her in June and July, followed by a gap of no sightings, and then the return of Curly in September! Where has she been? We thought she had vanished like all the other fin whales which we had seen at the beginning of the season. That is not the only mystery of Curly. Despite a very regular sighting history – we have never seen her with a calf – in now over 32 years.
We tried to head offshore one last time on the 30th, but poor visibility obliged us to turn around and bring the boats back to Mingan via the North Shore for the end of the season. No blue or fin whale was sighted this time, only a single minke whale shared Banc Rouge with numerous harbor porpoises. When entering the Islands we surprisingly encountered half a dozen minke whales just north of PT, among them two tiny ones. They were feeding along a current line together with two dozen gray seals. We also encountered other large groups of up to 100 gray seals on our way to Mingan! At 6:00pm on September 30th we pulled the last boat out!
A minke whale spy hopping
A minke whale & grey seal
The team is almost ready to leave the station; the boats are stored in the basement and all the boxes are almost packed. The team will disperse all over North America and Europe for a winter at home (impatiently waiting for the next season to begin…).
We thank you for your daily, weekly or even longer visits (a special thanks to our sessions from this year). Thank you for visiting us on our web site and Facebook, and for you encouragements and support. Thanks for the moments we shared together.
A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who helped during this season, to all our partners and to the village of Longue-Pointe.
The team wishes you a good winter. Hope to see you next season!


Most financial institutions offer borrowers a variety of mortgage repayment options.
Repayment Mortgage with Balloon Payment: interest payments throughout the mortgage term with partial repayment of capital; the outstanding capital balance (the balloon payment) has to be paid at the end of the mortgage term.
Capped Rate: variable mortgage rate that cannot go above an agreed maximum, for a fixed period (usually 2 years).
Because business requirements change constantly, many holders of commercial mortgages reappraise their mortgage arrangements on a regular basis. If the business is prospering, the borrower may well find that mortgage finance is available at a lower rate of interest from an alternative lender.
Commercial mortgages are available for the purchase of business properties that incorporate living accommodation, such as shops, guest houses and B&Bs. If the living accommodation covers more than 40 percent of the property's floor area and is occupied by the mortgage holder, the terms of the mortgage are subject to regulation by the FSA.
In reality, the main consequence of being subject to this regulation is that you might find yourself having to convince HM Revenue & Customs that you really are running a business and not just using business premises as a private residence.


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On Bal Thackeray's 94th birth anniversary, MNS goes saffron, unveils new flag with Shivaji's royal seal; Raj inducts son into party
Rithala Assembly Election 2020: AAP's Mohinder Goyal seeks reelection in Muslim-concentrated constituency against BJP's Manish Choudhary
Badli Assembly Election 2020: Purvanchali, Gujjar votes hold sway in semi-rural seat where AAP's sitting MLA locks horns with Congress' Devender Yadav
On Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary, Mamata takes dig at Modi and Shah; says Netaji's fight against Hindu Mahasabha still relevant today
Always opposed CAA-NRC, but Delhi elections will be fought on issues which affect National Capital, says Arvind Kejriwal
NIA raids Akhil Gogoi's residence in Guwahati; RTI activist to remain under police custody till later today
India Press Trust of India Dec 27, 2019 08:54:22 IST
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out searches at the residence of RTI activist and peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who was arrested by the agency earlier this month, officials said
Gogoi, whose custody was to end on Friday, has been booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code and stringent Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act, the officials said
Officials of the anti-terror force searched Gogoi's residence in Nizarapara area of Guwahati and also seized copies of his PAN card, an SBI debit card, an Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) and a bank passbook.
New Delhi: The NIA on Thursday searched the residence of arrested RTI activist Akhil Gogoi here, and seized several documents and a laptop computer, officials said.
The activist, who advises various farmer organisations, was arrested when Assam was witnessing widespread protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Officials of the anti-terror force searched Gogoi's residence in Nizarapara area of Guwahati and also seized copies of his PAN card, an SBI debit card, an Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) and a bank passbook.
After the three-hour search that began at 7 am had concluded, Gogoi's wife Gitashree Tamuly showed a list of the seized items to reporters. A certificate of registration by the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, a letter from Superintending Archaeologist of ASI Milan Kumar Chauley, files marked "Credit-Deposit ratio KMSS File Misc", "Jail 2015", "Jail Diary 2014" and "NHPC LSHEP 2015" featured in the list.
"They (NIA) wanted to see the files in our house and selectively took some of them. I asked them to give me copies of the seized files but they declined. I was also asked if Akhil had met militants when he was jailed earlier," Tamuly said.
The NIA team also asked for the documents relating to the KMSS orchid environment park in Kaziranga but she told them she had no information about them, Tamuly said. The KMSS office in Gandhibasti area of the city was also raided and nine books, including one on the life of China's revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, Marxism, and KMSS leaflets were seized, KMSS president Raju Bora said.
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader, whose NIA custody was to end on Friday, was brought from New Delhi and will be produced before a court here. While being taken to the NIA court, Gogoi only inquired about the well being of the waiting journalists. The NIA has accused Gogoi of being involved in "terror
activities" and using the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to promote enmity among different groups that was against national integration.
He has also been accused of having links with the banned ultra-Left outfit CPI(Maoist).
National Investigation Agency(NIA) conducts raid at activist Akhil Gogoi's residence in Guwahati. He was arrested by Assam Police on December 12 as a preventive measure amid protests against #CitizenshipAmendmentAct pic.twitter.com/DhTA1RUt89
Updated Date: Dec 27, 2019 08:54:22 IST
Tags : Akihil Gogoi, Assam, Citizenship Amendment Act, Guwahati, Indian Penal Code, National Investigation Agency, NewsTracker, NIA, RTI Activist
Anti-CAA protest at Shaheen Bagh, powered by women, has become symbol of resistance and spawned replicas across country
SC agrees to hear plea challenging National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Act, 2019, tells Centre to reply within four weeks
Three Tamil Nadu men with alleged links to Islamic State arrested in Ramanathapuram; trio also connected to cases being probed by NIA
Citizenship Amendment Act comes into force even as nationwide protests continue; Home Ministry yet to frame rules for law
1NIA raids Akhil Gogoi's residence in Guwahati; RTI activist to remain under police custody till later today
2Palghar's aanganwadi workers struggle to make ends meet after Amrut Aahar Yojana reimbursements continue to be delayed
3Kamal Nath govt makes reading of Preamble mandatory in Madhya Pradesh schools, says step taken to teach basic principles of justice, equality, liberty
4Despite keeping mum on CAA and NRC, Arvind Kejriwal's AAP may find favour among Delhi Muslims for education reforms, power subsidy
5Pakistan 'spews venom', takes to hate speech like fish takes to water: India tells UN after Islamabad again rakes up Kashmir issue


- There were rumors in 2016 and 2017 of UFC fighter Paige VanZant possibly coming to WWE but we haven't heard anything on those rumors in several months. Below is new TMZ Sports discussion on who would be more popular in WWE, VanZant or Ronda Rousey.
VanZant recently appeared on The TSN MMA Show and was asked about a possible WWE run.
"I would love to (do) something with the WWE, they are an amazing organization," VanZant said. "Obviously, it's my love; I love some of the looks behind it, I love everything they do with these girls. It's about being beautiful and badass and I think that's something that I emulate as well and I would love to show off. So, yeah, hopefully that opportunity does come up."


I had been looking for the perfect Black Angus Burger with Goat Cheese and Roasted Banana for a long time, that 100% natural burger to eat at home when you bite into it and you notice that the meat is authentic.
Needless to say, so far, is the best Burger with Goat Cheese and Roasted Banana I have eaten in my entire life, healthy, natural and with a taste that I am sure that all lovers of good meat will not leave you indifferent.
Step to detail how I accompanied her at home obtaining an original result that left no one indifferent.
We grill on low heat the burgers on a griddle with a drizzle of olive oil. To the point that we like it.
When they are practically ready, we will incorporate in a corner of the plate several slices of banana to roast them for a minute or less.
We will proceed to assemble the hamburger by opening the bread. Placing on top of it the burger, the tomato slice, the two slices of goat cheese and some more of roasted banana.


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Time Dislocated: Masculinity and the Performance of Breathing
From: On the Accumulation of Bodies: Sayak Valencia's Gore Capitalism
By Laura G. Gutiérrez	November 8, 2019 Tags Gore Capitalism, Sayak Valencia, Rafa Esparza, breath
In 2012, Los Angeles artist Rafa Esparza used the following materials to stage his performance STILL in LA's Elysian Park: soil, artist's breath, translucent balloons, jute rope noose, shovel, and a cardboard box. Only a few spectators experienced this performance and there was little to no documentation of the day's events; the image used here is one of a few exceptions.
I want to pause and point to the fact that under the materials listed to be used to effectuate the performance is the artist's breath. In his work, Esparza is keenly aware, in other words, of the ways in which laboring brown bodies exert physical power and strength in the name of profits, in the name of capitalism, in the name of gore capitalism. We may be tempted to align this particular piece with artists such as Piero Manzoni's Artist Breath (1960) wherein the Italian artist inflated red balloons with his own breath and displayed them. However, I situate Esparza's use of breath in this piece as being in conversation with works by other queer Latinx artists such as Nao Bustamante's Sans Gravity (1993-2003) and Ryan Rivera's Breath Piece (2002) who both performed live and video works where they pushed the limits of their respective body and being by holding their breath.[1] These pieces, as Esparza's, are performative and ephemeral and interested in process as opposed to having a product that could easily enter the logic of the art market, as in the case of Manzoni. Moreover, the violence that is gestured and/or performed in Sans Gravity, Breath Piece and STILL relate queer brown bodies, because they are the ones performing, to enduring processes of colonialism and other forms of oppression.
The bulk of Esparza's work in the years that have transpired during this decade center performance and installation in order to link the histories of colonialism, enslaved and migrant labor, dissident sexual desires, and religious and secular rituals or performative practices, and they most often figure his own body. Yet, in STILL, the attention to the artist's breath gestures towards a making visible of the labor of inhaling and exhaling; that is, a gesture towards life itself, yet a precarious life for him–a brown queer man born to immigrants from a small town in Durango, Mexico–and others like him in the urban centers in the United States. Esparza, halfway buried in the soil of Elysian Park yet vertically standing, uses his breath to blow air into the balloons while the jute rope noose sits around his neck.
Elysian Park is centrally located and adjacent to the Los Angeles River and was a significant location for Esparza to stage his performance for several reasons. The park's layered histories include the battle of Chavez Ravine, which displaced many people, mostly of Mexican origin, in the middle of the twentieth century to make way for the Dodger's baseball team stadium. The park has also been an important site for gay male cruising in the city, where mostly black and brown people meet up to have sexual encounters, countering the ways in which violence against black and brown people at the hands of the state (particularly police, and in the case of Esparza's LA, the LAPD) and other "violence specialists," to use Sayak Valencia's term, is an everyday reality often now made viral. In the logic of gore capitalism, it is "important to underscore that within this criminal web the violence specialists occupy a liminal space where it is not always possible to separate their work from that of the government's security forces. In fact, it is well known that the 'specialists in inflicting damage (such as police, soldiers, guards, thugs, and gangs) play a significant role in collective violence,' and that many of the figures are employed by the state or otherwise entangled in it" (Tilly, 4-5, Valencia, 65-66).
In the eight years since the Spanish-language publication of Capitalismo gore and its translation and publication into English, the Black Lives Matter movement, which emerged in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, has become a global movement that makes relevant and necessary connections to other movements and to realities where the police state and the narco state use the same logic regarding the commodification of violence. We may also want to make a connection to Eric Garner's homocide and his repeated plea of "I can't breathe" to Esparza's and the other performances mentioned above.
In the reality that Valencia describes, the dead body is worth more than the body that is alive. In Valencia's own words, "gore capitalism tells us that nothing is untouchable and that all taboos of economics and respect for life have been shattered. There is no longer any space for restrictions or for salvation: all of us will be affected" (70-1). And, I would add, many have already been affected. But for others, it is a matter of time. It is a matter of breath. Valencia's contribution through her text and now translation makes visible the underbelly of globalization; it signals that blood and violated and torn bodies–as we see in graphic form in mainstream media and in viralized fashion in social media)–index capitalism's dystopia. These images counter the idea that free and open markets lead to freedom. But I am also drawn to Esparza's performance because it signals life (and by extension, death) through breath. We might ask ourselves, then, when we will take our last breaths.
[1] While Nao Bustamante's Sans Gravity is well documented and exists in video format, I became aware of Ryan Rivera's Breath Piece through Sandra Ruiz's book Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYUP, 2019).
Escape Routes to Capitalismo Gore My first encounter with Capitalismo gore was in 2012. Back then, I was living in Barcelona with a group of activists and academics, and we were asking each other about the violence in Mexico, represented in the European media through an endless collage of blood and mutilated bodies that went beyond ...
Gore Capitalism and the Contemporary Grammars of Violence and Resistance In Gore Capitalism, transfeminist intellectual Sayak Valencia gives us a vocabulary, a taxonomy to articulate a horror that before 2010 we did not have words to name in Mexico. We had the numbers, the statistics, the hard, cold data to understand the economics and the politics. What we did not have ...
Gore Capitalism Then and Now I proposed the concept gore capitalism to explain the atrocious quotidian violence that has taken place on the Tijuana border for over a decade. Thus, operating through a theoretical, philosophical, and transfeminist framework, gore capitalism became a concept used within the Spanish-speaking nation...
Countering Gore Capitalism Gore Capitalism was first published by a small press in Spain in 2010. That was four years before the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Guerrero. It was before the discovery of mass graves in 31 of Mexico's 32 states. Before we knew of the government created clandes...
Laura G. Gutiérrez
Laura G. Gutiérrez, a Mexican and Latinx visual cultural and performance studies scholar, is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (2010) and essays and chapters on Latinx performance, border art, Mexican video art, and Mexican political cabaret. She is completing a monograph on racial and sexual panics in mid-twentieth century Mexico through a reading of cine de rumbera films as well as well as a book on contemporary Mexican and Latinx visual and performance art.
On the Accumulation of Bodies: Sayak Valencia's Gore Capitalism
Introduction: On the Accumulation of Bodies
By David Sartorius
Escape Routes to Capitalismo Gore
By Héctor Parra García
Finding Meaning in Gore
By Iván A. Ramos
By Laura G. Gutiérrez
By Alex Pittman
Gore Capitalism and the Contemporary Grammars of Violence and Resistance
By Abeyamí Ortega
Countering Gore Capitalism
By Dawn Marie Paley
Gore Capitalism Then and Now
By Sayak Valencia
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The Narrabri Gas Project has been responsible for a succession of spills, leaks and unapproved releases of produced water from sources that range from drill rigs, well sites, cuttings ponds, storage reservoirs, tankers, poor operating practices and poor container cleanout practices by contractors. Santos' internal records show that many have not been reported as required by the Conditions of Operating and many of these events have been recorded and communicated only by community members.
Santos is not being proactive in its monitoring and/or not being honest in its reporting of incidents. Either way this is a poor way for a reputable company to operate.
More than 20 occurrences of spills, leakages and failures are known to date, many of which happened long after Santos purchased the field from Eastern Star Gas (ESG).
In mid-2011 a large spill (not reported at the time) of alleged produced water from the Bibblewindi facility decimated approximately two hectares of vegetation. Santos declared that "the spill was only 10,000 litres of water, some of which was recovered" which would equate to two cups of water per square metre. Obviously far more water than this was spilt as significant pH changes were measured (and reported by Santos' consultant CH2M Hill) 277 metres from the spill site, to the depth of measurement (pH 10.0, 8.5 and 8.2 at depths of 0-50, 50-150 and 500-600 mm respectively, compared to a background level of 5.6).
The response by Santos destroyed its credibility in the eyes of the community and was highly disappointing for shareholders. All vegetation in the area has remained dead for the past 5 years, resulting in further ridicule of Santos' response.
In 2012, the NSW EPA issued Santos with fines for 2 separate discharges into a local waterway of polluted wastewater from CSG activities at Bibblewindi by ESG in 2010.
Then, despite being formally warned by the EPA for a water discharge incident in 2011, in 2013 Santos itself was fined for a pollution incident which involved a leak from a CSG wastewater storage pond.
Santos has also been fined more than $50,000 by the NSW Land and Environment Court for four separate breaches of the conditions of its petroleum title, including the failure to report a leak of CSG water from another of its storage ponds in 2014.
Also in 2014, Santos was fined for contaminating an aquifer at the Bibblewindi water storage site, the first proven case of its type in Australia. A suite of heavy metals was found, including uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines. A run-off incident at Leewood in early 2016 has prompted the EPA to investigate the adequacy of Santos' erosion controls on site.
Santos employees and contractors appear derelict in their duties. Santos has been issued with warning letters for storing environmentally damaging material at the Narrabri Operations Centre, while a long-term contractor was issued with warning letters and penalty notices for breaches of the POEO Act. In spite of these notices, a further complaint against Santos is pending with the EPA, where an employee was observed and filmed leaving a high point vent and its security cage open while he left the site. This is a clear breach of the Conditions of Operation for all water/gas line vents, imposed by the EPA in 2015 after an automatic vent failed and released water and gas into the environment.
While it was clear that the infrastructure Santos acquired with its $924m takeover of ESG was poorly constructed, it is also clear that it is now poorly operated.
It is highly embarrassing that the community is usually the one to identify, document and communicate first about these spills and leaks. It is also disheartening that Santos doesn't seem to be able to prevent these types of incidences from happening time and again.
Read more in the Home Truths Report.


Which States Would Be Affected Most by Obama's Proposal to Lift the Social Security Tax Cap?
New Jersey, Maryland and Connecticut lead the list of states that would bear the brunt of the Social Security tax hike that Sen. Obama has suggested.
In a new Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact, economist Gerald Prante ranks the 50 states from least to hardest hit, assuming Sen. Obama's proposal to lift the wage tax ceiling becomes law.
The wage tax ceiling was $94,700 for a single person in 2006, the most recent year for which tax data is available. In 2008, the ceiling is $102,000, so the maximum Social Security tax for a single person is 12.4 percent of the first $102,000 in wages, or $12,648.
The "donut hole" idea is that wages up to the ceiling would be taxed as usual, followed by a non-taxable amount up to $200,000 or $250,000, and then all wages above that would be taxed.
Read the Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact here. More on the presidential candidates' proposals here and here.


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La Selecció valenciana de futbol és la representant del País Valencià en futbol. Va disputar el seu primer partit el 1918 i es va mantindre activa durant els anys 30 i 40 del . Entre 2001 i 2006 va disputar un partit amistós internacional a l'any, aprofitant les vacances de Nadal. Des de 2006 la Federació Valenciana de Futbol, associació encarregada dels partits, no ha tornat a organitzar cap partit amistós.

Història
Històricament, la selecció valenciana té dues èpoques ben diferenciades. La primera té lloc als anys 20 i 30 del , abans de la Guerra Civil, quan diverses seleccions de "regions" de l'Estat espanyol disputaven partits front altres regions o altres països estrangers. La selecció valenciana va debutar el 1918, en un partit que guanya a l´Aragó per 5-0. En aquesta època, Catalunya seria el gran rival dels valencians, jugant fins a 4 partits.

Així mateix, durant la Segona República es van disputar diversos partits amistosos contra el València CF, on el combinat nacional valencià estava compost per jugadors valencians d'altres equips. Aquests partits es van disputar els anys 1931, 1934, 1935 i 1936 a l'estadi de Mestalla. En 1941 es va reeditar un partit amistós de les mateixes característiques, en homenatge a la consecució del Campionat d'Espanya per part del València CF.

La segona etapa arriba a partir de l'any 2001, quan després del franquisme, es comencen a popularitzar de nou les seleccions "autonòmiques", que disputen amistosos durant el descans de Nadal. Els partits estan organitzats per la Federació Valenciana de Futbol, qui destina els beneficis dels seus partits al futbol base. En estos anys, la selecció valenciana disputa partits internacionals contra països com el Camerun, Bulgària, Lituània o Colòmbia entre altres. Des de l'any 2006 no se celebra cap partit degut a la falta de suport econòmic i finançament, ja que Ràdio Televisió Valenciana, principal promotor dels partits, va deixar d'aportar els 150.000 euros necessaris. Posteriorment en 2007, ja sense el suport econòmic, es va tractar d'organitzar altre encontre, però la majoria de jugadors va declinar l'oferta i la Federació va desistir.

L'any 2020, la Federació Valenciana de futbol va anunciar a través del seu president Salvador Gomar que s'havia estat parlant amb alguns futbolistes professionals com ara Vicente Iborra i Paco Alcácer per a la tornada de la Selecció Valenciana absoluta. La idea de la Federació seria disputar algun partit amistós benèfic després de la pandèmia del COVID-19 que suposara el retorn de la selecció absoluta masculina i el debut de la selecció femenina.

Partits
El darrer partit de la selecció valenciana va ser el 28 de desembre de 2006, a l'Estadi Martínez Valero d'Elx, front el Perú, al qual va guanyar per 3-1.

En total, els valencians han jugat 12 partits (7 guanyats, 1 empatat i 4 perduts), amb 30 gols a favor i 16 en contra.

Jugadors
Alguns dels jugadors que han vestit la samarreta valenciana han estat Farinòs, Rufete, Albelda, Ballesteros, Quique Medina, Juan Sánchez, entre altres.

La última convocatòria a la selecció (any 2006) estava composta pel següent equip:

Seleccionadors
Alguns dels seleccionadors valencians més coneguts han estat Pep Claramunt i Benito Floro.

Altres categories

Selecció valenciana amateur
La selecció amateur o d'aficionats —denominada així per estar formada per jugadors no professionals tot i ser la mateixa que la professional o sènior— és l'encarregada de defensar al País Valencià en la Copa de les Regions de la UEFA. Amb el nou format disputat per regions el combinat valencià no s'ha classificat per a disputar la contesa europea en cap ocasió.

Les seleccions regionals d'aquest torneig estan conformades per jugadors de Tercera Divisió, Preferent o inferiors, menors de 35 anys. És a dir, d'acord amb la definició de la UEFA de futbolistes aficionats, no professionals. L'únic requisit per a ser seleccionat és tindre llicència en un equip del País Valencià.

L'accés a disputar la Copa de les Regions és dirimit en la Fase espanyola de la Copa de les Regions de la UEFA, on la Selecció Valenciana va aconseguir el seu millor resultat l'any 2008, quan es va proclamar vencedora del Grup F de la Primera Fase Espanyola de la VI Copa de les Regions UEFA. Aquesta fase preliminar del Grup F es va disputar entre el 7 i 9 de desembre de 2007 en la localitat valenciana de La Nucia (Marina Baixa). Després de la seua classificació per a la Fase Intermèdia Espanyola, va jugar el 30 de gener i 29 de febrer de 2008 contra la secció amateur de la Selecció Catalana, que va véncer l'eliminatòria.

Al desembre de 2019, la selecció valenciana va disputar la Primera Fase espanyola de la XII edició de la Copa de les Regions de la UEFA en Vícar (Almeria). Va empatar a zero contra la Selecció d'Andalusia i va perdre 2-1 contra la Selecció d'Astúries.

Categories inferiors
La Federació de Futbol de la Comunitat Valenciana organitza un total de 22 combinats de seleccions valencianes masculines i femenines. Competeixen en les diferents categories juvenils de futbol, així com en futbol sala i futbol platja. Aquestes 22 seleccions valencianes tenen a la radiotelevisió pública À Punt com a patrocinador.

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Web oficial de la Federació Valenciana de Futbol

Valencia, Pais
Futbol al País Valencià


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Rabbit Hunt
Hunting Games » Rabbit Hunt
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Rating: 3.97/5 stars (100 ratings)
Rabbit Hunt Instructions
Just move the scope (using your mouse) over the running rabits and hit the left click button to shoot...and that's it! What could be easier than that?! BUT as you will see, even if this game is pretty simplistic, there are little nuances that make it exciting.
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Rabbit Hunt Walkthrough
Alright, if you are looking for a hunting and first person shooter game that has a lot of levels with increasing difficulty, then Rabbit Hunt may NOT be the game for you. HOWEVER, if you are looking for a hunting game that has nice graphics, is NOT too complicated, BUT still has enough challenge to pose then you definitely want to check this one out.
You see, Rabbit Hunt has only one level. BUT it is an exciting and action packed one. It seems that the game author packed everything in that single level. There are rabbits all around - some seem to move around the screen calmly...as if they are not afraid of you. Other rabbits though move like they are trying to catch on the nearby mall sale to shop for carrots. That's the challenging part. There will be like 3 to 4 rabbits on the screen at one time. Taking down all of them is a pretty hard feat.
Also, forget about spamming the left click button. It won't work. There seems to be a one second delay after you can fire your next bullet. Also, try advancing your scope by a notch or two before firing. Again, a lot of the rabbits are running like crazy...like there's no tomorrow. Pointing your scope where they at and firing right away will most likely resultin a miss.
Believe me when I say this 1 level game is challenging. My first try at it? It came to an abysmal score of 10 hits and 18 misses. And that's coming from an avid hunting and first person shooter game fan.
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With a haunting soprano and folk guitar to bring it in, this song quickly moves into a murky rock groove. Complete with dirty guitar and swirling percussion, the energy gives a sense of immediacy, and a druidic affect, with the uptempo pulse carrying through the arrangement boldly.
The drums take on an orchestral sound; the vocals, for brief seconds, seem to multiply and scatter across the mix; and somehow the feeling becomes medieval: we are marching across a chalky desert, in a storm. The crystalline falsetto of Kalandra becomes the star that leads us home.
Kalandra is a power-folk trio of Norwegian musicians with a shared passion for the strange. This song is featured on our CHILL Angeles playlist.
An Eastern-inspired tabla-pocket meshes nicely with the sputtering bass and layers of falsetto.
Carty somehow mirrors the then-acoustic sound of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, with generous verses and a feeling of absolute truth, just with a full band and better vocals.
The combination of a sibling duet, a natural acoustic guitar, and some fiddle mojo strikes the right balance to support these harmonic hooks.
A reflection on the strategies we use to connect with others, delivered with a sense of both sadness and relief.


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Nannolaimus är ett släkte av rundmaskar. Nannolaimus ingår i familjen Cyatholaimidae.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life och Dyntaxa:

Källor

Rundmaskar
Nannolaimus


Andris Nelsons kept his cool Thursday night, and the result was luminous performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra of Mozart's Sinfonia concertante and Bruckner's Third Symphony.
The usually highly active conductor was a picture of calm command as he steered his orchestra through the two scores—one an intimate conversation for solo violin and viola and orchestra, the other a grand, almost astronomical vision of themes in their orbits.
With majestic music by Bruckner to come, Nelsons de-emphasized Mozart's marking of "maestoso" in the Sinfonia's first movement, opting instead for an understated, decorous approach, confirmed by the collegial playing of two BSO principals in the solo roles, concertmaster Malcolm Lowe and violist Steven Ansell.
The solo parts were often written in imitative style, each phrase passing from one player to the other, and soon Lowe and Ansell had established a pattern, with Lowe stating the phrase straight with his silvery-toned violin, then Ansell sliding in underneath with a differently inflected, maybe slightly subversive version. However, the two played as one in the movement's capricious cadenza.
Mention must be made of the orchestra's four wind players—Keisuke Wakao and Mark McEwen, oboes, and Richard Sebring and Rachel Childers, horns—for stylish and graceful phrasing that nicely complemented the strings.
Lowe modified his tone to something rounder and perhaps a little hollow (and closer to Ansell's contralto-like viola) for the dark-hued Andante that suddenly deepens this entertaining piece. The music needed no exaggerated gestures to be deeply touching, and received none. The soloists stretched their phrases just enough, and Nelsons made the forte climax just dramatic enough as he moved the music steadily to its conclusion.
Mozart marked the finale Presto, and Jan Swafford's program note described it as "a darting and laughing romp," but in Thursday's performance the reflective mood of the Andante seemed to linger, rendering the music more delicate and thoughtful than brilliant. The emphasis was more on expressive phrasing than on speed, and the brief excursions into minor keys took on greater-than-usual importance. The warm-toned horns reinforced the mood.
Looking back, one realized that the Andante's influence had extended to the first movement as well, and that the whole performance appeared to be aimed at bringing this work's disparate parts together in one expressive arc. Although the result was a rather understated performance overall, the unity achieved was worth the effort.
Unity of character was certainly the watchword in the splendid performance of Bruckner's Third that followed. In a Boston Classical Review interview earlier in the season, Nelsons spoke of himself as "subjectively" discerning a composer's intentions, but on Thursday he seemed to find little that was subjective or psychological about Bruckner's score.
Instead, Nelsons traded his hortatory gesticulations for more businesslike management of the proceedings, trusting his players to build Bruckner's great edifice of sound without frantic urgings on his part.
And build it they did, in that lapidary way of Bruckner the organist, adding stops as he approached the fortissimo, topping it off with what organists call the "big reeds"—in orchestral terms, the massed brass. It even seemed, at these moments, that the BSO brass players gave their section an organ-like, piercingly reedy tone, emphasizing brilliance over heft.
In the Adagio, on the other hand, the brass warmed up to meet the strings halfway, as the latter went from a velvety sound at the opening to deeper bows and a more assertive tone. It was this kind of attention to sound chemistry that gave each room in the edifice, including the smaller ones, its own wealth of color and detail.
One felt grateful for such pleasures, in the absence of the usual "subjective" routes into a symphonic piece. Nelsons's architectural approach ruled out creating much suspense in the first movement's pianissimo opening bars, or romantic ardor in the lyrical second theme, or nervous excitement in the loud coda. This performance was not a narrative, but a magnificent object.
The Adagio (further marked "like an Andante") was not so much a building as a seascape, its slow waves of sound building and breaking inexorably, transparent even at their peaks. The comparatively brief Scherzo captured that alternately muscular and airy quality typical of Bruckner in this genre, which carried over, maybe a little too much, into the rustic, fiddle-style trio.
It seemed as though the unfettered energy released in the scherzo echoed in the finale, which started objectively enough but acquired a folk-dance swing in the second theme that had even the CEO-maestro shaking a leg on the podium. The movement's distinctive staggered-octaves theme was both weighty and bold, and the climactic final statement of the symphony's trumpet motto lifted the audience out of its seats.
Thursday's concert marked the first time in this listener's experience that a BSO concert was interrupted by applause between every movement. It was just a smattering, and the conductor simply waited it out, neither acknowledging it nor trying to stifle it.
This violation of the old taboo didn't seem to disrupt the performance any more than applauding a solo in a jazz club does. An "amen" now and then helps the preacher get fired up.
Still, one wondered what it signified on this occasion. Is Nelsons's star quality bringing more of the "uninitiated" into Symphony Hall? Did people, having clapped for the first movement of the Mozart, feel obliged to clap for every other movement after that? Or did they just not feel like waiting an hour to express how they felt?
One has to admit, there is something impressive about the collective discipline it takes for everybody in a packed Symphony Hall, knowing there's one more movement coming, to greet the thrilling finish of the scherzo in Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" Symphony with total silence.
How much longer can that custom survive? It may be that the old prohibition on applause between movements—not so old really in historical terms, just a century or so—is going the way of the five-minute pause that Mahler specified after the first movement of his Second Symphony. Something that feels that artificial is hard to sustain in an increasingly unzipped world.
The clapping in Symphony Hall Thursday night seemed to be taking one more brick out of what some people consider the rigid, church-like atmosphere in a concert hall. Church isn't what it used to be, either. People clap there too.
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The applause after every movement was pretty much confined to the high school students scattered in groups in the second balcony. This happens occasionally, but usually they pick up on the idea that we don't applaud after every movement and don't persist throughout the concert. Don't know why these kids — attentive and engaged — didn't take a clue from the rest of the audience.
The fact that applause between movements was once commonplace is interesting, but not necessarily a good reason for making it commonplace again. There are many things that were once common practice which I don't think anyone would like to see reinstated. People use to come and go, hold conversations, eat and drink during performances. Performances of only single movements of symphonies and performances with the movements broken up by other unrelated pieces of music were also once commonplace. Obviously there are times when it is absolutely against nature not to spontaneously react to a performance, but most of the time applause during the performance simply distracts and breaks the focus on the music.
The lack of applause between movements is not the reason for classical's declining audience. Every genre, every venue has it's own etiquette whether it's a classical concert or a hip-hop concert and it shouldn't be that difficult for anyone with a brain in a new situation to observe the behavior of others and act accordingly. The lack of education and the general dumbing down of our culture are the culprits, not the generally accepted rules of concert going decorum.
I can imagine a concert hall outfitted with a jumbotron or electronic ticker providing information about pieces as they're played. Please, not at Symphony Hall, though.
A few years ago, James Levine wheeled around in his chair in exasperation after the first two movements of a Schumann symphony were followed by sustained applause. The audience laughed nervously, and Levine adapted by using quick segues between movements for the rest of the evening.
As Bill suggested, the culprits were probably mostly high school and/or college students brought in as part of a BSO outreach program. They probably should receive viewing tips along with their ticket envelopes.
Fans at a tennis match know they need to quiet down when either player is ready to serve. At a football game, though, it's expected that the home crowd will yell in unison to try to disrupt the visiting team's offense. Every sport and activity has its own etiquette; that's part of the experience.


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Alexis Evans - She Took Me Back b/w It's All Over Now (7")
Heading from Bordeaux, the Anglo-French Alexis Evans is not a newcomer in the music scene. He discovered Afro-American music as a child and learnt to play guitar thanks to his father, an English musician. At the age of 17 he debuted with his first project "Jumping to the Westside", with which he was awarded the "Cognac Blues Passion" prize and flew to the "International Blues Challenge" in Memphis, Tennessee. Soon after in 2016 he exploded onto the French scene with "Girl Bait", his astonishing debut album that hit the airwaves of FIP, France Bleu, and Jazz Radio amongst the others. Despite his young age Alexis Evans has already built a household name, touring extensively his country with explosive live sets at RDV Erdre Nantes, Rhino Jazz St-Etienne, Lyon Ninkasi, Club Nubia Paris, Festivals Relâche Bordeaux, Jazz à Vienne as well as Festivals in England, Estonia, Switzerland and Wales.
She Took Me Back
It's All Over Now
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Ricardo Rodríguez Álvarez conocido como Calo (León, 12 de agosto de 1916 - 8 de mayo de 1980) fue un jugador y entrenador de fútbol. Hermano de los futbolistas César Rodríguez Álvarez y Severino Rodríguez Álvarez, y padre del también futbolista Alberto Rodríguez Ramos.

Trayectoria
Jugó en la posición de defensa en el Fútbol Club Barcelona de 1944 a 1950, tiempo durante el cual jugó 84 partidos, marcó cuatro goles y ganó tres ligas. Su hermano César también jugó en el FC Barcelona como delantero.

Al acabar su contrato con el Barcelona jugó en el Zaragoza, en el Lérida y en el Cultural Leonesa, club de inicio de su carrera.

Clubes

Como jugador

Como entrenador

Palmarés

Véase también
 Anexo:Futbolistas del Fútbol Club Barcelona en partidos de Liga

Enlaces externos

Referencias

Futbolistas del Fútbol Club Barcelona en los años 1940
Futbolistas del Real Zaragoza en los años 1950
Futbolistas de la provincia de León
Futbolistas de la Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa en los años 1950
Futbolistas de la Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa en los años 1940
Entrenadores de la Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa
Entrenadores de fútbol de Castilla y León
Futbolistas de la Unió Esportiva Lleida
Nacidos en León (España)
Fallecidos en León (España)