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Musicians of To-Day By: Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
MUSICIANS OF TO DAY
AUTHOR OF "JEAN CHRISTOPHE"
MARY BLAIKLOCK
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
CLAUDE LANDI
[Illustration: Decorative]
WAGNER:
"Siegfried"
"Tristan"
CAMILLE SAINT SAËNS
VINCENT D'INDY
DON LORENZO PEROSI
FRENCH AND GERMAN MUSIC
CLAUDE DEBUSSY:
"Pelléas et Mélisande"
THE AWAKENING: A SKETCH OF THE MUSICAL MOVEMENT IN PARIS SINCE 1870
Paris and Music
Musical Institutions before 1870
New Musical Institutions
The Present Condition of French Music
It is perhaps fitting that the series of volumes comprising The Musician's Bookshelf should be inaugurated by the present collection of essays. To the majority of English readers the name of that strange and forceful personality, Romain Rolland, is known only through his magnificent, intimate record of an artist's life and aspirations, embracing ten volumes, Jean Christophe . This is not the place in which to discuss that masterpiece. A few biographical facts concerning the author may not, however, be out of place here.
Romain Rolland is forty eight years old. He was born on January 29, 1866, at Clamecy (Nièvre), France. He came very early under the influence of Tolstoy and Wagner and displayed a remarkable critical faculty. In 1895 (at the age of twenty nine) we find him awarded the coveted Grand Prix of the Académie Française for his work Histoire de l'Opéra en Europe avant Lulli et Scarlatti , and in the same year he sustained, before the faculty of the Sorbonne where he now occupies the chair of musical criticism a remarkable dissertation on The Origin of the Modern Lyrical Drama his thesis for the Doctorate. This, in reality, is a vehement protest against the indifference for the Art of Music which, up to that time, had always been displayed by the University. In 1903 he published a remarkable Life of Beethoven , followed by a Life of Hugo Wolf in 1905. The present volume, together with its companion, Musiciens d'Autrefois , appeared in 1908. Both form remarkable essays and reveal a consummate and most intimate knowledge of the life and works of our great contemporaries. A just estimate of a composer's work is not to be arrived at without a study of his works and of the conditions under which these were produced. To take, for instance, the case of but one of the composers treated in this volume, Hector Berlioz. No composer has been so misunderstood, so vilified as he, simply because those who have written about him, either wilfully or through ignorance, have grossly misrepresented him.
The essay on Berlioz, in the present volume, reveals a true insight into the personality of this unfortunate and great artist, and removes any false misconceptions which unsympathetic and superficial handling may have engendered. Indeed, the same introspective faculty is displayed in all the other essays which form this volume, which, it is believed, will prove of the greatest value not only to the professional student, but also to the intelligent listener , for whom the present series of volumes has been primarily planned. We hear much, nowadays, of the value of "Musical Appreciation." It is high time that something was done to educate our audiences and to dispel the hitherto prevalent fallacy that Music need not be regarded seriously. We do not want more creative artists, more executants; the world is full of them good, bad and indifferent but we do want more intelligent listeners .
I do not think it is an exaggeration to assert that the majority of listeners at a high class concert or recital are absolutely bored. How can it be otherwise, when the composers represented are mere names to them? Why should the general public appreciate a Bach fugue, an intricate symphony or a piece of chamber music? Do we professional musicians appreciate the technique of a wonderful piece of sculpture, of an equally wonderful feat of engineering or even of a miraculous surgical operation? It may be argued that an analogy between sculpture, engineering, surgery and music is absurd, because the three former do not appeal to the masses in the same manner as music does... Continue reading book >>
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The secret meeting was reportedly hosted by Jared Kushner, the senior adviser to US President Donald Trump.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz has told Sputnik that he considers Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Kozhin's remark that there were no negotiations on the supply of S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syria to be a demonstration of Moscow's respect toward Tel Aviv.
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In the NAFTA Deal, Trump Got What Democrats Couldn't
from Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Renewing America
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) at a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2018. Leah Millis/Reuters.
Critics are panning the president's new trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a minor update. They're wrong—it's a significant accomplishment.
Article by Edward Alden
Originally published at Politico Magazine
October 2, 2018 1:00 pm (EST)
No, the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) announced Monday is not, as President Trump predictably called it, "the most important trade deal we've ever made by far." Not even close. The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement with 11 Pacific Rim countries, which Trump walked away from on his first week in office, would have been far more significant for the U.S. economy. The Uruguay Round agreement that created the World Trade Organization in 1995, and China's subsequent entry into the WTO in 2001, for that matter, were vastly more important. The new NAFTA's economic impacts are likely to be minor in comparison because of the already deep cross-border trade ties in North America.
But the hyperbole should not detract from the president's accomplishment. He has succeeded in refashioning the agreement, ironically, in ways that have long been demanded by many Democrats and those on the labor left. Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative who negotiated the deal, has said, to much skepticism, that he wants to refashion U.S. trade policy to "return to the days where there was a substantial majority of people in both parties that voted for these trade agreements." Despite the confrontational and sometimes ugly way in which it was achieved – with tariffs and the threat of more against Canada and Mexico – the new NAFTA could be an important step in that direction.
To understand why, a little history is needed. U.S. organized labor and the Democratic Party were strong supporters of free trade well into the 1960s. They turned against trade liberalization for one big reason—they feared, with good cause, that lowering trade barriers and easing investment rules would result in a flight of investment chasing lower wages in Mexico, China and other developing countries. As the AFL-CIO's legislative director, Andrew Biemiller, put it way back in 1967, when U.S. companies like RCA were just starting to dip their toe into manufacturing in Mexico: "The U.S. worker cannot effectively bargain for higher wages, better health standards, better work rules—and all of these are cost factors – while the investment and trade policies of private firms operate to escape these costs. The advantage is only to those firms. This does not necessarily benefit the United States."
What Biemiller was foreshadowing, of course, was what third party presidential candidate Ross Perot would call in 1992 "the giant sucking sound" of U.S. jobs moving to Mexico chasing lower wages. And it was no illusion. Trade economist Richard Baldwin has identified a big shift in the early 1990s, what he calls "the second unbundling," which came from the combination of mobile capital and modern information technology. Whereas companies once could not easily manage their best technologies in developing-country factories, today the biggest companies have global supply chains and can move production to wherever it can be done most efficiently for the company's bottom line. The car companies, for example, can marry the best U.S. technologies with the lower-cost Mexican labor force, an unbeatable combination.
Organized labor has tried for half a century to fight back. In 1971 the unions tried and failed to push through the Burke-Hartke bill, which would have slapped tariffs on a wide range of imports and pushed up tax rates on overseas investments by U.S. companies. The legislation went down in a hail of lobbying by U.S. multinational companies.
As a fallback, labor began pushing the idea of requiring that U.S. trading partners adhere to higher labor standards, a back-door effort to push up wages and costs in developing countries, hopefully mitigating the negative impacts on U.S. workers. NAFTA was the first trade agreement to adopt this provision, when incoming Democratic president Bill Clinton insisted on adding a labor rights side accord to the deal.
Such provisions have been a staple of subsequent U.S. trade deals, but they have done little or nothing to address the problem. Fueled by NAFTA preferences, Mexico is now the world's fourth-largest exporter and seventh-largest producer of cars. Yet the wage gap – the difference between what Mexican workers earn and what American workers earn – has actually increased since NAFTA was signed, leaving U.S. auto workers in an even deeper hole.
The new Trump NAFTA—renamed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – is unlikely to reverse these huge economic and technological forces. But it does some of what labor and the Democrats long wanted: It pushes back.
The new "rules of origin" on cars, for example, will require that a significant portion of the content in any vehicle sold tariff-free in North America comes from facilities where workers make at least $16 an hour, far above Mexican wage rates. That could bring some auto sector work back from Mexico to the U.S. or Canada. The agreement also promises long overdue strengthening of Mexican labor laws, which could finally permit independent union organizing in the export-oriented plants. And it weakens or eliminates so-called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions, which have long been criticized by organized labor. The unions argue that ISDS—which allows companies to sue governments directly over actions that harm foreign investments—have been used to challenge consumer safety, environmental and workplace protections that should be the prerogative of sovereign governments. And ISDS further encourages outsourcing of jobs by providing additional legal protections for companies in developing countries where legal processes may be weak or corrupt.
All this may be too little to get the unions and a majority of Democrats on board with the new deal. The AFL-CIO has withheld judgment; union president Richard Trumka praised the agreement for "some reductions in special privileges for global companies," but said "we still don't know whether this new deal will reduce the outsourcing incentives present in the original NAFTA."
Charles Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, went a bit further, saying that "as someone who voted against NAFTA and opposed it for many years, I knew it needed fixing. The president deserves praise for taking large steps to improve it."
The unions have opposed every major trade deal for the last 40 years, except the 2000 agreement with tiny Jordan that set a new benchmark on labor standards, and most Democrats have followed their lead. That may not change anytime soon, but with the new NAFTA, President Trump has done more to address their concerns than any Democratic president ever achieved.
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Israel and the Covid: between cutting-edge technology and state surveillance
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An ultra-sophisticated telemedicine system and exemplary reactivity, the Hebrew State uses high-tech to fight against the virus. While mobilizing its powerful surveillance services. Is it sufficient ?
This is a feat worthy of the "start-up nation": it only took a few days for the team at Chaim Sheba hospital in Ramat Gan, in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, to transform a parking lot into special unit for Covid-19 patients. Forty resuscitation beds at the cutting edge of medical progress, thanks to the establishment's close collaboration with the associated technological innovation center. "We told them : Give us everything you think is useful," says Pr Arnon Afek, deputy director of the hospital. A protocol had to be established as quickly as possible to treat these patients with minimum risk for the teams. For that, we needed to explore together all that technology has to offer. "
The result: an ultra-sophisticated telemedicine system with non-contact sensors to monitor and analyze respiratory patterns, "smart stickers" that monitor blood pressure, oxygen saturation of the blood and pulse. Caregivers even have a "coronamobile" to move around safely.
Mossad mobilized
In this crisis, Jerusalem has not failed to react, closing its borders from 4 March to nationals of several European countries, including France, launching a massive screening campaign, and above all by mobilizing its major asset: the world of high -tech. More than 320,000 Israelis work in innovation companies, about 10% of the workforce. Mobile applications for monitoring patients at home, voice analysis to detect symptoms of the virus, or, as at Sheba hospital, setting up innovative telemedicine tools. A dive into the science of tomorrow – available for the moment in a few large urban centers only.
The controversies, however, have not spared the Hebrew State. So on the lack of respirators. In early April, there were 2,864 in the country, including those in the military, when projections raised the possibility of 5,000 patients needing respiratory assistance. The Mossad itself was reportedly mobilized to procure new devices for hospitals on foreign markets.
Solutions that interest France
He is not the only security service to have been involved in this crisis. On March 16, the acting Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced the use of Shin Bet, internal intelligence, and authorized the use of means usually intended for the fight against terrorism. The goal ? Trace the patient's routes, list the people met and alert them of their possible contamination so that they isolate themselves. Solutions that interest France: they were mentioned during a meeting between the French and Israeli Ministers of Justice.
Criticized by defenders of individual freedoms, the program is now overseen by a parliamentary committee . And he is not the only one to raise the alarm. According to local press, the Minister of Defense launched a joint project with the surveillance company NSO – a company suspected of having supplied Saudi Arabia with the spyware that was used to track down journalist Jamal Khashoggi, before he was not assassinated in Istanbul on the orders of Riyadh.
To what extent can these surveillance tools be used in the fight against the pandemic? For the moment, fear of Big Brother does not seem to be a priority for the Israelis, who are more concerned about their health than their data. More than a million of them downloaded the Hamagen app ("shield") in order to be immediately alerted if they take the route of an infected person.
The fact remains that in the land of new technologies, a very small minority are falling through the cracks. 50% of the cases identified come from the ultra-Orthodox community which represents only 10% of the population. Religious cut off from the modern world, without smartphone or internet connection.
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The Chinese government is mulling to include physical education as a required subject to be taken at the country's annual college entrance exams.
The plan aims to prompt high school students to build up physical strength and take their physical health more seriously.
However, as CRI's Wei Tong reports, some education experts suggest students should be encouraged to develop their interests and habits of taking exercises instead of being forced to do so just for the purpose of exams.
A circular, recently published by China's State Council has proposed an assessment system for middle school students' physical health, including a compulsory PE exam for students being recruited to universities or colleges.
Currently, junior high school students must take a 30-point PE exam, which includes pull-ups, standing long jumps and 1,000-meter distance running as a prerequisite for the admission to senior high schools.
Recently, increasing study pressure has forced Chinese students to spend more time at their desks rather than on playgrounds. Obesity and poor nutrition are quite common, as described by Qu Guoyong, a middle school PE teacher at east China's Shandong Province.
"Many of my students suffer obesity and fail to perform the required number of pull-ups since they lack upper-arm strength. I believe the plan to include PE in the college entrance exam is a necessary step to prompt students to take more exercises. Meanwhile, some courses such as gymnastics, rope jumping and ball games have been set to develop students' interests in sports."
However, Cheng Fangping, a senior researcher on education studies with Renmin University of China says the plan is not feasible since the promotion of students' physical health cannot be achieved through PE exams alone.
"Students would take physical exercises just for the purpose of passing the exams rather than developing a healthy lifestyle. They would have no incentive to pursue more sporting activities after they finish the exams. They may have high exam scores but poor health conditions. So, teachers should encourage students to take exercises as an effective way of improving their learning efficiency."
Many parents are worried that their children might get hurt when taking part in sports. Others complain they have to pay a lot for sports facilities. Cheng Fangping believes that these are just excuses.
"Some students were injured when doing sporting activities. But we cannot conclude that sport is not safe based only on these occasional cases. What we need to do is to train school PE teachers in methods of safe physical exercise. Meanwhile, people have a misconception that they must use top-graded and expensive facilities when doing exercise. Actually, some sports like rope jumping, shadow-boxing and Chinese Kungfu do not require any strict conditions. People can do it wherever there is an open space."
Cheng Fangping suggests assessing students' physical health conditions in a more detailed and comprehensive way, similar to how it is done in America.
"In the US, an overall evaluation of a student's performance in the PE class and a detailed assessment of his body index such as muscular strength, endurance, and vital capacity will be taken into consideration when it comes to university admission. There is also a PE exam at the end of the last semester but this is just a reference instead of the only yardstick available by which to judge a student's physical health."
China's Ministry of Education says the detailed sports activities to be taken at the college entrance exam are yet released and the plan will be further discussed with regards to the timetable for putting the suggestion into practice.
For CRI, I am Wei Tong.


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A: Even though createContext is only called once, React creates instances of those contexts per rendering of a context Provider. When something calls useContext, React will go up the render tree to find the nearest Provider of the given type and get that values from the instance of that context.
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Did Trump call Kim's bluff?
May 17, 2018 By Takingonissues
What caused North Korea's striking about-face on talks with the US over the last few days? Was Kim Jong-un never serious about it in the first place, or did elements in his regime push back? Diplomats are puzzling over this and the prospects for the first US-North Korea summit ever, but it might not be that Kim called Donald Trump's bluff to get some personal respect from the world's biggest superpower. It might instead be that Trump called Kim's bluff and demanded a firm process for denuclearization — and that it start immediately:
In past months, Kim, who reportedly said he "understands" why the drills were going on, had gone forward with peace talks without asking for them to be toned down.
North Korea complained specifically about B-52 nuclear-capable bombers taking part in the military drills. But a Pentagon official told Business Insider that the bombers were never set to participate in the drills.
Additionally, North Korea invited journalists to observe the closing of its nuclear testing site after the drills had already begun.
But there is a possible motivation for North Korea's public about-face: The US reportedly demanded swift action on denuclearization, and North Korea may be bluffing.
Business Insider points to a little-noticed report from UPI last week, based on South Korean news reports, that laid out the White House plan to pursue denuclearization. Mike Pompeo had told Kim directly that the US wanted five nuclear weapons sent to France to be dismantled in exchange for normalization of relations:
The United States asked North Korea to remove five nuclear weapons, that would be then flown to France for destruction, according to a South Korean press report.
The Segye Ilbo reported Friday the U.S request from visiting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was part of a process to verify Kim Jong Un's intent. …
"It is my knowledge this position was directly conveyed to Kim by Secretary of State Pompeo," the diplomat said, adding the United States wants to shorten the time "as much as physically possible" to inspect and verify the removal of weapons.
If that's the case, then it puts an entirely different light on what's transpired over the last few days. It explains why the US has chosen not to react to the angry messages from Pyongyang over the last three days and instead chosen, in Trump's words yesterday, to "wait and see." Far from being pushed off of denuclearization, Trump and Pompeo set up a test to see whether Kim was serious or just yanking chains.
The question then becomes just whose chain in Pyongyang got yanked. Does Kim have a problem within the palace if he tries to give up the nukes in exchange for heavy investment from the West? New Yorker's Evan Osnos heard from Victor Cha, George W. Bush's point man on Pyongyang, who thinks this might be nothing but a pause to deal with internal politics and make Kim look stronger than he actually might be:
"I wouldn't be completely panicked just yet." He added, "There are hard-liners inside the North Korean government that are probably not as excited about this dramatic turn of events, and probably are dragging their feet a little bit." As the complexity of the situation sank in, the White House, on Wednesday, took a new tack, downplaying the celebration of its progress and adopting a posture of measured optimism. "The President is ready if the meeting takes place," Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said on Fox News. "And if it doesn't, we will continue the maximum pressure campaign that has been ongoing."
It was, almost certainly, not the final stutter step in lead-up to a North Korean summit. "I do feel like we are potentially on the brink of something quite historic," Cha told me. "But the thing about being on the brink of something quite historic is that, on the one hand, it could lead to something fantastic. On the other hand, it could collapse spectacularly."
Did the White House get surprised by the complexity of the situation, or just set up a test to expose it? That question may get left for historians to determine, but the sequence of events — and especially Pompeo's reported message to Kim — certainly makes the latter a credible option. The "posture of measured optimism" might just be intended to allow Kim enough rope to either tie the hands of any internal hard-liners or to hang himself. In the meantime, the economic and military positions haven't changed a whit, and pointedly won't until Kim agrees on a verifiable path to denuclearization. Nothing at all has been lost so far, and some good insight might well have been gained. At the very least, it put our CIA director in the same room as Kim Jong-un and his advisers, which has a value all its own.
Update: And if it was a test, it's based on past history. Glenn Kessler wrote about it ten years ago, and reminded everyone yesterday of the precedent:
The unraveling of the landmark deal to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programs began just weeks after its high point — the televised destruction of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in late June — when U.S. negotiators presented Pyongyang with a sweeping plan for verifying its claims about its nuclear programs.
Under the proposal, heavily influenced by the State Department's arms control experts, the U.S. requested "full access to all materials" at sites that might have had a nuclear purpose in the past. It sought "full access to any site, facility or location" deemed relevant to the nuclear program, including military facilities, according to the four-page document, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post. Investigators would be able to take photographs and make videos, remain on site as long as necessary, make repeated visits and collect and remove samples.
The United States pressed ahead with the proposal despite warnings from China, Russia and other countries that it was asking too much of the xenophobic North Koreans, officials said. North Korea immediately balked and the once-promising talks were at an impasse.
It's worth noting that the South Korean news sources report that the inspection in this deal offered by Pompeo would have been conducted by the IAEA, not the US directly:
If North Korea agrees to denuclearize following the Trump-Kim summit, and Pyongyang accedes to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or lands a similar deal bilaterally with the United States, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency will be the first to investigate the country, South Korean newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Friday.
North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles would be subject to inspections.
That had to be a conscious but subtle concession to North Korea's xenophobia based on the previous negotiation. It would be yet another test to see whether Pyongyang is serious about denuclearization or just throwing out smoke screens — and to make that determination well before sitting down at a summit.
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River Magic — Mangrove Tunnels and Firefly Kayaking in Bohol
12/18/2020 Asia , Fresh Water , Philippines Edit
As you, the loyal readers of my blog, might have noticed by now, I'm a huge fan of unique natural wonders, and I've been fortunate enough to experience some of them over the past few years, say an underwater sandfall. Witnessing a synchronous firefly night show is another rare phenomenon, rivaling anything you can see on the planet. Absolutely stunning a scene out of a fairy tale I'll be recounting today.
There is no denying that seeing a glimmering carpet of fireflies in your backyard is an awe-inspiring sight, but envision seeing tens-of-thousands of them all flashing on and off at once in harmony, alternating between light and darkness. Synchronous species of fireflies are found only in a handful of places around the world—including but not limited to the jungles of Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
On Bohol Island, a region in the central Philippines well known for its Chocolate Hills, you can watch the fireflies glow on trees in some mangrove forests and nipa palms along riverbanks, transforming a jungle into a Christmas wonderland. Here, you can choose to take a firefly watching kayaking or motorboat tour on Abatan River or have dinner at a floating restaurant on Loboc River. Can you guess my pick? Precisely, no pain, no gain! Kayaking not only allows you to paddle deeper into the forest but also it's the most eco-friendly option to observe fireflies, and much more beneficial to the local community who work hard to protect the river and its mangroves.
River Magic: Mangrove Tunnels of the Abatan River
Mangroves are important for the environment, among other things, as a shelter for fish and firefly larvae, to protect against flooding, and for absorbing carbon. The Abatan River is home to 32 of the 70 mangrove species known worldwide, as such one of the most diversely healthy river ecosystems in Bohol. Unfortunately, motorboat tours that have become more popular in recent years disrupt this unique and vulnerable river ecosystem. The waves created by the motorboats erode the soil underneath the mangrove trees where firefly-larvae find refuge for up to three years before metamorphosing into short-lived 'flashy' adults—let alone the fact that the erosion will make the trees fall and widen the river. Besides, fireflies are very sensitive to light and noise. To fireflies, light is like language is to humans. They communicate using synchronized flashes, and if there is too much artificial light, their signals get mixed up.
Kayakasia Philippines offers eco-friendly kayak tours on the Abatan River, and the combined tour of mangrove tunnels and firefly is outright spectacular. Paddle through the maze of mangrove tunnels by day, and wait for eerie fireflies to decorate the mangrove trees for Christmas at night. If there is only one thing you do in Bohol, it is this. Take my word for it.
Kayakasia's tours might seem a bit pricey as opposed to motorboat tours, but they only hire local guides, invest a portion of profits into conservation, and even sponsor the school and college education of some of their guides, including Jeremy. A truly motivational and knowledgeable kayaking guide who dreams of building a new house for his parents. "I must study hard, paddle hard to make my dreams come true", he speaks with sparkling eyes as we paddle deeper into the mangrove forest in the late afternoon sun.
The river is quiet. We glide through the bends and turns, past occasional villagers harvesting nipa palms along the waterway. "Many of the locals harvest nipa, a species of palm that grows in mangrove forests, and sell them for thatching", Jeremy explains.
As we keep drawing in our paddles, we find comfort in the tranquil rhythm of the river. The soft murmur of crickets grows in confidence with every pull of our paddles deeper into the forest, with mangroves bending their dark, spindly arms embracing us on either side. Beneath us, the river perfectly mirrors the mangroves' roots, seamlessly creating a mysterious undergrowth. The darker the dusk, the louder the crickets chirp in the leafy canopy above us. A scene that's not short of magic and fantasy, brought to life by the river's natural beauty.
River Magic: Firefly Watching in the Christmas Wonderland
In the blink of an eye, it's time to paddle out of the forest before the pitch-black darkness sets in. Our kayaks gently break the reflections on the water, as we float beneath the mangrove trees into the dusk. Soon the sky lights up with twinkling stars, and we paddle quietly in search of a firefly colony along the river lined with mangrove trees.
Entranced by a soft golden glimmer in the distance, the jet-black river carries us toward the pulsating Christmas tree. Glittering branches illuminated by thousands of fireflies appear like a blinking map of the universe. Stars and lightning bugs sprinkle a magical feeling into the night.
No image can capture the magic of the light display. Image credit © John Albert Garsuta
In a trance, I gaze at the fireflies adorning the leaves like fragments of gold dust. One of nature's most enchanting spectacles unfolding before me, my eyes catch a glimpse of Tinker Bell's fluttering wings. The shimmering little fairy waves her wand to conduct this dramatic symphony of light. Showered in pixie dust, I believe I can fly.
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Ava Group (AVA), a provider of security risk management services and technology will be showcasing its portfolio of security solutions at Intersec Dubai 2019, stand S3-C48. Intersec Dubai features a rich selection of exhibitors in Security, Safety & Fire Protection, attracting visitors from the Middle East, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and well beyond.
Ava Group will be presenting the latest exciting solutions from its technology division - which incorporates Future Fibre Technologies (FFT) and BQT Solutions. As a provider of risk management services and technologies, Ava Group offers a portfolio of complementary solutions encompassing both fibre optic intrusion detection and high security access control and locking.
As a key event for the region and beyond, Intersec Dubai is the perfect way for security providers and buyers to start 2019"
Future Fibre Technologies will be showcasing its enhanced Aura Ai-2 controller. Featuring unrivalled high-sensitivity detection, location accuracy, cut resilience capability and the industry's longest linear range - this product features new ultra-low noise optical detection electronics. This ensures a single controller can cover a distance up to 110 kilometres, accurately detecting, locating and reporting multiple disturbances to just +/- two metres.
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A 50-year-old developer with residential buildings throughout downtown, Reliance had seen hundreds of requests from tenants looking for affordable downtown housing. "People would say, 'I don't care what it is, but I can only afford $800,'" says Jon Stovell, president of Reliance. When the historic Burns Block building on East Hastings Street near Pigeon Park was left unoccupied in 2006, Reliance jumped on the chance to convert the single-room-occupancy hotel into 30 microlofts. In a concerted effort with the City of Vancouver, which offered heritage restoration grants and relaxed the minimum home requirement from 320 to 229 square feet, Reliance completed the redevelopment of the Burns Building in August 2011.
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Reliance was contacted by New York City's head planner in January 2012, inviting Stovell and others to New York to discuss the economics and design of the lofts. Shortly after that visit, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a public competition for architectural firms to come up with their own micro loft concept. "We like to think that they stole our idea," says Stovell with a chuckle.
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Could you do me a great courtesy and lock this thread?
look if you won't stop liking music wrong what do you expect the poor lad to do?
I think that the obvious choice would be to lock deej's thread since it has a handful of posts compared to ums's and also since it was made in the spirit of deej being deej. what if you were to somehow combine the thread titles?
Maybe rename "rolling face tat thread 2018" to "RIP Fredo Santana"
Monday, February 12, 2018 1:32 PM	I Love Music	Thread: 2018 Rolling Boring Face Tat Rap for Rap and for Face Tats but Mostly for Rap has been locked.
any reason why here? i didn't request it and it's a strange thing to shut down for no particular reason.
It wasn't me, but I presume because it seemed like everybody sorta agreed/resigned themselves into going with deejay's thread. Particularly via UMS cπng the entirety of the original boring rap thread into the face tat one. then someone revived it this morning to talk about the music that was briefly discussed therein rather than carrying it over to the face tat thread.
I thought that your thread was the best solution to the problem and was in fact, very funny.
there's a history of multiple threads for singular topics; really not clear why this seems like someone's best idea.
at the very least, that's where i was planning on posting new rap i discovered and clearly someone else did as well.
I'm not gonna unlock it at the moment. Don't want to step on another mod's toes. Maybe whoever did lock it will show up and shed some light or you could try changing their mind?
In the meantime, what are some examples of multiple threads for singular topics you had in mind? Are you talking in terms of rolling threads specifically or just in general like there's 800 smashing pumpkins threads or whatever?
further, same point i made upthread stands: no one new to the site is going to have any idea that "face tat"= "rap thread"
Competition is vital for a healthy marketplace.
Would you consider retitling your thread something else? Something with a strong trademark that contains the word "rap" to suit your business needs but does not contain the words "face tat", to avoid product confusion among the common consumers of rap threads?
xp, sure: reopen it with the title "2018 Rolling Rap and Hip Hop Thread"
I'm going to regret this, aren't I?
don't see why! Everybody's following the rules.
It was me that locked it, I thought it was another of the five or six dumb threads started to make a point.
Honestly I think having a second rap thread just for the sake of having 'rap' in the title is pretty dumb as well but if it's healthy competition you're after then I hope you're prepared for the free market to have its say.
will we never get it sorted?
it's a good thread that is temporarily being abused. let it pass.
Wil no-one rid me of this turbulent thread?
I get anxious just reading it and it's the type of broken interaction model that almost killed me a decade ago. Just not healthy for anyone.
I wish we could get a licensed therapist on retainer to help referee in cases like what's been happening in that thread.
I'm no libertarian, but I am very much against activist modding and having mental health specialists on standby.
The over the top love for The 1975, especially on ilm, I consider a long game con. It makes no sense otherwise.
God, they are such crap.
I was shocked when I skimmed over that thread.
They aren't on my radar at all, so I relistened to some stuff to make sure and then I did research to make sure this wasn't like a longform reddit type of joke.
I only looked because it was the cause of some angst and I did the Arrested Development "...her?!?" when I realized it was about that band.


No loss of life or limb!
Only if the inquisitor is really really sure!
Let me say that personally, I'm kind of pleased at this. I probably shouldn't admit this in public, but one of my greatest fears is to have my fingers cut off. Of course, I'm even more afraid of being set on fire, and I'm sure that limited burning was just fine. But mostly, these rules are just ridiculous. Prosecutors are always certain that their targets are guilty. There have actually been psychological tests regarding this, although I'm not going to take the time to dig this up. So this just meant that inquisitors were always going to use torture. And since they could only use it once, that meant they were going to be extreme.
But what is most ridiculous about this is the first rule. They couldn't kill the heretic with torture. But if they tortured her and she confessed, they could then kill her. It makes little sense. But it isn't supposed to. It is just what the powerful do to make their oppression of the weak seem just.


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                    this.FalseCode[this.FalseCode.Length - 1].IsTerminator;
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            this.Condition = this.Condition.ResolveEntityNames(parser);
            this.BatchExecutableEntityNameResolver(parser, this.TrueCode);
            this.BatchExecutableEntityNameResolver(parser, this.FalseCode);
            return this;
        }

        internal override void ResolveVariableOrigins(ParserContext parser, VariableScope varIds, VariableIdAllocPhase phase)
        {
            this.Condition.ResolveVariableOrigins(parser, varIds, phase);
            if (phase != VariableIdAllocPhase.REGISTER_AND_ALLOC || this.TrueCode.Length == 0 || this.FalseCode.Length == 0)
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So that's what I have done, and will be doing…brainstorming! As you probably know by now I don't have a title yet for the 2nd book in my trilogy. I'm working hard to change that situation. I've already held a brainstorming session or two and soon, soon, you'll see some of the results of that. I'll keep you posted, stay tuned.
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2012 NBA standings: Timberwolves slide into 3rd place in Northwest
The Minnesota Timberwolves are now a full eight games back of the Thunder, who they will host on Thursday night.
By Peter Berkes Dec 20, 2012, 12:18pm CST
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The Minnesota Timberwolves' recent two game losing streak has moved them down to third place in the Northwest Division, a half game behind the Denver Nuggets. The team had previously won four straight, but dropped two in a row on the road to the Magic and Heat, and face a tough test on Thursday night against the Thunder.
The Thunder stand alone in first place in the Northwest at 21-4, a full 7.5 games clear of the second-place Nuggets. Minnesota is eight games behind in third place, tied with the Utah Jazz. The Portland Trail Blazers are bringing up the rear in fifth place, but are only one game behind Minnesota and Utah.
The Thunder were the overwhelming favorite to win the division, and their current 12-game winning streak has all but put it out of reach of the other teams by mid-December. The Timberwolves will try to end that streak on Thursday night, but face in uphill battle in doing so.


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#computersecurity | #comptia | Four Cybersecurity Stocks for July – | #cybersecurity | #informationsecurity
Angela Dennis
The coronavirus has destroyed many parts of the economy, but a big winner of the disruption is cybersecurity stocks.
This is due to the increase in remote work by many companies to avoid exposure of their employees to the virus. Of course, this has increased security risks that companies need to guard against.
Even before this development, corporate spending on cybersecurity was exploding especially with the rise of cloud computing. For example, total corporate spending on cybersecurity was $37 billion in 2018 and is expected to cross $42 billion this year. This doesn't include spending by state, local, and the federal government.
More data and processes that are integral to a company's operations are taking place in real-time in the cloud. As the cloud's importance grows, companies must spend more.
Therefore, the coronavirus is an accelerant of this trend. Home networks and personal devices that are now being widely used for work are less secure than office networks. Confidential data is increasingly under attack.
These are the 4 of the strongest cybersecurity stocks:
Palo Alto Networks Inc. (PANW)
PANW has been a leader in cybersecurity due to its successful track record of innovation. The company's three-month price return stands at 38.7%, and the stock may continue to rally into July given the growth of the sector, and PANW's leading position.
PANW has thrived by continually introducing new, useful products. Recently, it debuted PRISMA ACCESS which is designed for remote workers. It also launched a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) which is enmeshed with machine-learning tools. This intuitive firewall intelligently detects and prevents threats, recommends new security policies, and makes Internet-of-Things devices safer to use.
POWR's POWR Ratings is consistent with its stock price's strong performance and successful product launches with a "Buy" rating. It has an "A" in Trade Rank and a "B" grade for Peer Rank, Buy & Hold Grade, and Industry Rank. Within the Software – Security group, it's ranked #5 out of 23.
Fortinet Inc. (FTNT)
This Sunnyvale, California-based company makes network security appliances. It provides Unified Threat Management security solutions to government organizations, corporations, and service providers. FTNT competes with PANW in providing Next Generation Firewall services and is one of the leading providers of VPN services. It's also the first security provider to enable an SD-WAN feature in their NGFW offering.
The stock price for FTNT has increased by 28.58% year-to-date. Over the past 12 months, FTNT is 75.74% higher. Its chart below shows its strong gain following the March lows to new highs. Since then, it's been consolidating between $130 and $150.
(source: finviz.com)
FTNT has an overall POWR rating of Buy. It's graded "A" in Trade Grade and "B" in Buy & Hold, Peer Grade, and Industry Rank. Among cybersecurity stocks, it's ranked #6 out of 26.
Zscaler Inc. (ZS)
Zscaler is a network security firm that specializes in cloud technology. ZS has returned an impressive 135.5% since the beginning of the year. In June, the firm entered into a contract with the US Department of Defence (DoD) to provide secure cloud management solutions.
Its twin offerings, Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) are highly versatile and capable of protecting data across several distinct cloud environments. ZPA was accorded FedRAMP high authorization, the first cloud service to obtain this distinction. It was the first such cloud service to obtain it.
ZS has been one of the strongest stocks in the market with a more than 200% gain off the March lows. In June, it's been consolidating in a sideways pattern with a pattern of higher highs and higher lows. The stock is very strong on a fundamental and technical basis.
This strength is confirmed by its POWR Ratings which gives it a "Strong Buy". It's an "A" for Trade Grade, Buy & Hold Grade, and Peer Grade with a "B" for Industry Rank. Among cybersecurity stocks, it's #1 out of 23 stocks.
Qualys, Inc. (QLYS)
Qualys provides cloud security solutions to its customers. One of its more popular offerings is its Remote Endpoint Protection. It offers a sixty-day free trial and has had remarkable success in converting free users into paid users.
Like some big winners in stock market history, it has a consistent track record of beating estimates and raising guidance. In the next year, it expects to grow sales by 15% and earnings by 43% while maintaining gross margins above 70%.
QLYS is rated "Buy" by the POWR Ratings. It has a "B" for Trade Grade, Buy & Hold Grade, and Peer Rank. Among cybersecurity stocks, it's ranked #7 out of 23.
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Q: why it is giving 403 Forbidden Error? I am new in python i am trying to write code to fetch data from database while oracle to check whether user is register or not .This code is for web application But it is giving 403:Forbidden Error .I am unable identify whether problem in code  or it needs some more configuration I am working on windows 7.

      import logging
      import tornado.escape
      import tornado.ioloop
      import tornado.options
      import tornado.web
      import tornado.websocket
      import os.path
      import uuid
      import time
      import cx_Oracle

      from tornado.options import define, options

      define("port", default=5000, help="run on the given port", type=int)

      class Application(tornado.web.Application):
        def __init__(self):
            handlers = [(r"/", MainHandler),(r"/loggedin/page", UserIndex),]
            settings = dict(
            cookie_secret="__TODO:_GENERATE_YOUR_OWN_RANDOM_VALUE_HERE__",
            template_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "templates"),
            static_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static"),
             xsrf_cookies=True,
              autoescape=None,
               )
            tornado.web.Application.__init__(self, handlers, **settings)

        class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
          def get(self):
             self.render("mainPage.html")

        class UserIndex(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
           def post(self):
               userid=self.get_argument('userid')
               pwd=self.get_argument('pwd')
               con=cx_Oracle.connect('system','system','localhost:1521/XE')
               c=con.cursor()
               coun=c.execute("select count(*) from dmsuser where email= '%s' and pwd                          ='%s'" %(userid,pwd))
             con.close()
              if coun.fetchone()==(1,):
                 self.render('loggedinPage.html')
              else:
                 self.render('mainPage.html')

       def main():
         tornado.options.parse_command_line()
         app = Application()
         app.listen(options.port)
         tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()

A: I can't be sure without the template, but my guess is you're not including XSRF data in the POST request. Since you've set xsrf_cookies=True in the app configuration, you need to include the xsrf data in your form template:
<form method="post" action="...">
  {% module xsrf_form_html() %}
  ...
</form>


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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Karzai remarks raise questions about Afghan war By DEB RIECHMANN,Associated Press - Tuesday, November 16 Send IM Story Print KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai has interfered in corruption cases and even threatened to join the Taliban if foreigners didn't stop meddling. Now he is demanding that the U.S.-led coalition begin reducing its military operations and stop what the military believes is its most successful tactic _ night raids against suspected Taliban commanders. It's the latest in a series of rifts between the international community and the mercurial president, who leads an impoverished nation that is growing tired of foreigners as 130,000 troops battle a stubborn insurgency. Although both sides tried Monday to downplay the dispute, Karzai's remarks renewed questions about the direction of the war just days before NATO prepares to unveil a new strategy that will keep troops in combat until at least 2014. Karzai's demands may play into the hands of critics in the United States who think President Barack Obama should honor his desire to begin withdrawing troops next July if conditions allow. U.S. officials have been working for months to clarify Obama's remarks, saying that they didn't suggest a mass exodus of troops in 2011. "The time has come to reduce military operations," Karzai told The Washington Post in a weekend interview. "The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life ... make it more civilian." Asked what was wrong with the military strategy, Karzai replied: "The raiding homes at night. Terrible. Terrible. ... Bursting into homes at night, arresting Afghans, this isn't the business of any foreign troops. "The Afghan people don't like these raids. If there is any raid, it has to be done by the Afghan government within the Afghan laws. This is a continuing disagreement between us." NATO and diplomatic officials said Monday that Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was irked by Karzai's comments. In response to earlier complaints by Karzai, Afghan security forces now accompany all special operations teams and use bullhorns to ask targeted individuals to give themselves up peacefully. It was unclear whether Karzai's latest complaints would result in a slowdown of such raids, which have increased six-fold over the past 18 month and now average more than 200 a month, according to the coalition. NATO claims the night raids have helped make a significant impact on the leadership of insurgent networks. In the past three months, more than 300 insurgent leaders have been captured or killed; more than 850 lower-level militants have been killed; and at least 2,170 foot soldiers have been apprehended, according to coalition figures. More than half of the operations result in the capturing or killing of targeted individuals, according to the coalition. No shots are fired in more than 80 percent of the operations. The coalition hopes night raids will weaken the Taliban by pressuring the midlevel commanders to abandon the battlefield and force the top insurgent leaders to the negotiating table. In his message for Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday on the Islamic calendar, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said Monday that the insurgents aim to increase operations nationwide. But in his statement, which was e-mailed to the media, Omar also appealed for funding from Muslims around the world _ a sign that NATO's campaign may be hurting the militants far more than they have acknowledged. Karzai remained unconvinced. "I would like to have an end sooner rather than later to these nighttime raids in Afghan homes no matter how effective they are in the sense of the military in the United States or in NATO," Karzai said. "How can you measure the consequences of it in terms of the loss of life of children and women because he have captured Talib A?" Although the number of Afghan civilians killed or injured in the war soared 31 percent in the first six months of the year, Taliban bombings and assassinations were largely responsible, according to the United Nations. The U.N. said the number of deaths and injuries caused by NATO and Afghan government forces dropped 30 percent compared with the first six months of last year, largely a result of curbs on the use of air power and heavy weapons. At a news conference Monday, Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar said the president had confidence in Petraeus' strategy to rout insurgents, improve security and bolster governance and development. He said he did not think Karzai's comments would affect the NATO summit, which begins Friday in Lisbon. At the summit, coalition leaders will seek to convince troop-contributing nations that progress is being made and that the war effort merits continued support. They will also discuss transition _ the plan for Afghan security forces gradually to take the lead in defending and protecting the nation by 2014. "We have clarified to NATO that the president is talking within the framework of transition and his quotes in the interview have to be seen within the context of the overall interview," Omar said. "When he talks about reduction of military activities and reduction of international forces in Afghanistan, the president makes it conditioned on the ability of the Afghan security forces to take responsibility." Omar said the president's remarks reflect a "mature partnership" between Karzai and NATO where partners can freely express their views about how certain things within the strategy could improve. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Karzai's comments were in line with NATO's intent to start handing over responsibility for security to Afghan government forces next year, allowing international troops to take on more of a support role. "I can't say I agree with everything President Karzai has said ... but we also have to recognize that he is the elected president of the country and that he can express his views as he wishes," Karzai. Karzai has a history of lashing out when he senses international interference into Afghan affairs. Earlier this year, members of the Afghan parliament said that in a closed-door meeting Karzai twice threatened to abandon the political process and join the Taliban insurgency if pressure continued from lawmakers and foreign backers who have demanded he do more to end graft, cronyism and electoral fraud. While Karzai has pledged to fight corruption, he became angry this summer when one of his close aides, Mohammad Zia Salehi, was arrested for allegedly accepting a car in exchange for his help in thwarting another corruption case. Karzai intervened and ordered Salehi's release. 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Richard Kelly Kimble, 59, of Saint Robert, MO passed away April 14, 2019 at his home. Kelly was survived and loved by his wife of 35 years, Kathleen, his three children, Larissa Thornsberry, Kelley (Bill) Mitchell, and Jeremy Kimble, his mother Shirley Roeder, of Plymouth, Ohio, sisters Deb (Ken) Johnston, Toi Duty, brother, Michael Kimble, and several nieces and nephews. He also loved being a Pappaw to Haley, Jacob, Billy, Jack, Braelynn, and longtime family friends Mark and LeeAnn Creighton. He was preceded in death by his father, Louis Kimble and his step-father Eugene Roeder. Kelly was a pipe welder and fitter by trade and had a passion for tinkering and fixing things. He was a hard worker dedicated to providing for his family, but he also enjoyed playing as hard as he worked. He loved the outdoors and made memories taking family and friends out to Lake of the Ozarks on his boat. Kelly had a great sense of humor, always quick with a joke to make someone smile. Kelly loved to travel the world, and thankfully he had a job that allowed him the opportunity. From deep sea fishing in Florida to helping build a gold mine in Nome, Alaska, Kelly always embraced and enjoyed life and the world around him. A private memorial for family was held at Lake of the Ozarks, MO. A celebration of life will be held in Plymouth, Ohio at a future date. As an expression of sympathy, memorial contributions may be sent to Kathleen Kimble c/o Larissa Thornsberry at Central Bank.
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When we got home I asked Caleb what he would like to study in science this year. So far, he has said Volcanoes and Kingdoms (plant, animal, fungi...,etc). I'm thinking that will be fun.
Posted by Lisa at 10:54 p.m.
I'm winging it with science too -- I'm not going with a textbook, we'll be using the library and a few reference books.
June 10, 2008 at 10:28 p.m.
Hello Lisa! HOw are you? I hope that you are doing well and that school is going wonderful for you! Have you started another blog for your homeschooling? I was considering doing that as well in January, I am still unsure right now though...guess we will see if I can start to keep up with the blog I currently have before messing with another, lol :o) Life has been busy but it sure is good to take a break this evening to stop in and say hi!
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