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What Is New Product Introduction?
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New product introduction or, as it is more generally referred to, new product development is the process involved in bringing any new product into being and then launched onto the market. So it is more than simply designing and then developing the product itself, it involves defining the market for the product, testing the market, bringing the product to the commercial market and advertising it and so on.
It is therefore a very complex process, which can usually be separated into two separate areas.
The first strand involves the product itself, the second involves the commercialisation of the product. However, it is important to note that the two strands intertwine and can happen simultaneously at times. There is a cross over at times because the design and technical issues will often be happening when the market analysis is being conducted.
Ideas and Light bulb Moments: Initial Stages
The idea for a new product is the very first stage of introducing any product. Someone has to think about it, which can either be a result of analysis and research, or it can be a 'light bulb' idea, where the designer suddenly realises that a product is required.
Once the idea is generated, then there is usually some kind of market analysis to ascertain if there is indeed a market for the product and if so, is it worth developing it?
It is also necessary to look at whether or not there are any similar products on the market that could threaten the development of this new item.
Design and Development
The design of the product needs to be carefully undertaken to ensure that it costs the absolute minimum but is fit for purpose and of sufficient quality. The production costs of the item also need to be broken down; how much will each item cost, can it be produced more cost effectively etc?
This process will also involve the financial feasibility of the product and whether or not it is worth bringing to market. If the decision is taken that it is, then production will proceed; if not, then the product will go no further!
The viability of the product needs to be examined by a process known as the business analysis, to ascertain how much the product should sell for and how must it will cost.
Market Testing
Once prototypes have been worked up, then market testing can begin as focus groups, customer discussions or even testing the product at a trade show. This is an important part of the process because it involves listening to the customers and whether or not they would actually buy the item and think that it is of any worth!
Planning Issues
If the prototype is to go ahead, then production needs to be planned. This will involve procurement, logistics, quality management tools, costing, pricing and so on. This should even involve a contingency plan to ensure that when something goes wrong (as it will) there will be some kind of Plan B to rely on.
Meanwhile those in marketing and advertising will be planning the launch of the product and raising its profile as soon as it is on the market.
Launching The Product
The product is then launched on the market. But this is not the end of the matter- after the launch of the product a review has to be undertaken to ensure that the product is still viable and that it has met sales targets.
In fact the review will also look at all the costs involved in bringing the product to market and whether budgets were met, if the price of the product is right and so on.
Introducing a new product to the market sounds really easy; in reality it is anything but!
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Chancellor Gorkon: You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.
General Chang: "To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.
Captain James T. Kirk: Earth, Hitler, 1938.
General Chang: I beg your pardon.
Chancellor Gorkon: Well... I see we have a long way to go.
Captain Spock: Mr. Scott, I understand you're having difficulty with the warp drive. How much time do you require for repair?
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: There's nothing wrong with the bloody thing...
Captain Spock: Mr. Scott, if we return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear, and we will never see the Captain or Doctor McCoy alive again.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Could take weeks, sir.
Captain Spock: Thank you, Mr. Scott.
[last lines]
[Kirk's final Captain's Log]
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no *one* has gone before.
Captain Spock: There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China.
Captain Spock: If I were human I believe my response would be "go to hell." If I were human.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: Course heading, Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk: Second star to the right and straight on till morning.
Captain James T. Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human.
Captain Spock: I find that remark... insulting.
[Dictating his personal log]
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, stardate 9522.6: I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?
General Chang: [over the public address speakers] "I am constant as the northern star."
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I'd give real money if he'd shut up.
[Kirk and company have prevented the assassination attempt at Khitomer]
Azetbur: What's happened? What's the meaning of all of this?
Captain James T. Kirk: It's about the future, Madame Chancellor. Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet. Your father called the future - "the undiscovered country". People can be very frightened of change.
Azetbur: You've restored my father's faith.
Captain James T. Kirk: And you've restored my son's.
[Watching a replay of the torpedo hit]
Commander Pavel Chekov: It is Enterprise. We fired them.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: That is not possible! All weapons visually accounted for, sir.
Captain Spock: An ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. If we did not fire those torpedoes, another ship did.
General Chang: [prosecuting] Dr. McCoy, would you be so good as to tell me? What is your current medical status?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Well, aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good.
[some scattered laughter from the audience; McCoy smiles, but sees Chang, unsmiling]
General Chang: [unamused] You have a singular wit, Doctor.
Captain James T. Kirk: Valeris, know anything about a radiation surge?
Lieutenant Valeris: Sir?
Captain James T. Kirk: Chekov?
Commander Pavel Chekov: Only the size of my head.
Captain James T. Kirk: [to himself] I know what you mean.
Captain Spock: [to Lt. Valeris] Lieutenant, the torpedo hit, once again, please.
[Valeris replays video]
Captain Spock: Hold.
[replay pauses]
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: It *is* Enterprise. *We* fired.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: That is *not* possible! All weapons *visually* accounted for,
[to Spock]
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: sir.
Captain Spock: An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: What, exactly, does *that* mean?
Captain Spock: It means that we can not have fired those torpedoes, someone else did.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Well, they dinna fire on themselves, and there were no the ships present.
Captain Spock: There was an enormous neutron energy surge.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Not from us!
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: A neutron surge that big could only be produced by another ship.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: Kronos One?
Captain Spock: Too far away. Very near *us*. Possibly *beneath* us.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: If there were a ship beneath us, the Klingons would have seen her.
Captain Spock: [pause] Would they?
Lieutenant Valeris: A bird-of-prey.
Captain Spock: A bird-of-prey.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: *Cloaked?*
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: A bird-of-prey cannot fire when she's cloaked.
Captain Spock: All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree. However, things are not equal. This one *can*.
Lieutenant Valeris: We must inform Starfleet Command.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Inform them of what? A new weapon that is invisible? Raving lunatics, that's what they'll call us. They'll say we're so desperate to exonerate the Captain, we'll say *anything*.
Captain Spock: And they would be correct. We have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: Assuming you're right, Mr. Spock, why would they fire on their own president?
Captain Spock: Indeed.
Chancellor Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
General Chang: "taH pagh, taH be?"
[on whether to help the Klingons]
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Captain Spock: They're dying.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!
[pauses... Spock cocks his head in surprise. Kirk recoils and proceeds]
Captain James T. Kirk: Has it occurred to you that this crew is due to stand down in three months? We've done our bit for king and country! You should have trusted me.
Captain Spock: Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
General Chang: I can see you, Kirk.
Captain James T. Kirk: Chang.
General Chang: Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."
Commander Pavel Chekov: I don't understand. If there was another ship underneath us, surely the assassins beamed aboard from that vessel, not Enterprise.
Captain Spock: You're forgetting something, Mr. Chekov. According to our ship's databanks, this ship fired those torpedoes. If we did, the killers are here. If we did not, whoever altered the databanks is here. In either case, what we are looking for, is here.
[the Excelsior is knocked off course by a huge shockwave, and Commander Rand intercepts a message from the Klingon moon Praxis]
Klingon Officer: [in Klingon] This is an emergency! We have suffered...!
[the message abruptly cuts off, replaced by the seal of the Klingon Empire, and then Kerla's face]
Brigadier Kerla: This is Brigadier Kerla speaking for the High Command. There has been an incident on Praxis. However, everything is under control, we have no need for assistance. Obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. This transmission ends now.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: An *incident*?
Commander Janice Rand: Do we report this, sir?
Captain Hikaru Sulu: [turning to Rand] Are you kidding?
General Chang: "Cry havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War."
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: You understand, we have lost all contact with the Captain and Dr. McCoy.
Captain Spock: Yes, at the moment, they are surrounded by a magnetic shield. However, if I know the Captain, by this time, he is deep into planning his escape.
[Cut to Captain Kirk on the losing end of a fist fight with an alien at least twice his size]
Captain Spock: What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity before the Captain and Dr. McCoy freeze to death.
[In a conversation with Spock]
Captain James T. Kirk: You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We are both extremists. Reality has brought us somewhere in-between.
Lieutenant Valeris: We must inform Starfleet Command...
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Inform them of what? A new weapon that's invisible? Raving lunatics, that's what they'll call us! They'll say we're so desperate to exonerate the captain that we'll say anything.
Captain Spock: And they would be correct. We have no evidence, only a theory which happens to fit the facts.
General Chang: "Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
General Chang: Well, most kind... parting is such sweet sorrow. Captain, have we not heard the chimes at midnight?
Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, are you afraid of the future?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I believe that was the general idea that I was trying to convey.
Captain James T. Kirk: I don't mean this future.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: What is this, multiple choice?
[after Kirk wins a fight against an alien twice his size]
Martia: They'll respect you now.
Captain James T. Kirk: That's a comfort. I was lucky that thing had knees.
Martia: That was not his knee.
[Kirk looks at Martia in surprise]
Martia: Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.
Captain James T. Kirk: Anything you want to tell me?
[Martia smiles at Kirk]
Captain James T. Kirk: I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I'm gonna find myself a pot of black coffee.
Captain Spock: Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a photon torpedo?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Fascinating!
Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, I'm wearing a veridium patch on my back! Spock slapped it there just before we went on Gorkon's ship!
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Why, that cunning little Vulcan!
General Chang: In space, all warriors are cold warriors.
[after Kirk and Martia kiss passionately]
McCoy: What IS it with you, anyway?
Kirk: Still think we're finished?
McCoy: Now, more than ever!
[Kirk is fighting with Martia disguised as Kirk]
Captain James T. Kirk: I can't believe I kissed you.
Martia (appearing as Kirk): Must have been your lifelong ambition.
Captain Spock: The lieutenant was the first Vulcan to be graduated at the top of her class.
Captain James T. Kirk: You must be very proud.
Lieutenant Valeris: I don't believe so.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: She's a Vulcan all right.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: [to Uhura] Guess who's coming to dinner.
[the crew enter the bridge]
Kirk: Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it.
McCoy: And the good news is they're not going to prosecute.
Uhuru: They might as well have prosecuted me. I felt like Lt. Valeris.
McCoy: [looks at Spock] Well, they don't prosecute people for having feelings.
Chekov: Just as well, or we'll all have to turn ourselves in.
Federation President: Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: Nice to see you in action for one last time, Captain Kirk. Take care.
Cmdr. Nyota Uhura: You are Crewman Dax?
Crewman Dax: Yes Commander. What is the problem?
Commander Pavel Chekov: Perhaps you have heard Russian epic of Cinderella? If shoe fits, wear it!
[drops magnetic boots at Dax's feet]
Captain Spock: Mr. Chekov...
[camera pans down to show that Dax's feet are incapable of fitting into boots]
Captain Hikaru Sulu: In range?
Helmsman Lojur: Not yet sir.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: Come on, come on.
Helmsman Lojur: She'll fly apart!
Captain Hikaru Sulu: *Fly her apart then!*
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [referring to Gorkon's daughter, whom he believed killed Gorkon] That Klingon bitch killed her father.
Captain Spock: Her own father?
Lieutenant Valeris: It is an old story, sir.
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: They don't place the same value on life as we do, Spock. You know that. Mark my word, she did not shed one bloody tear.
Captain Spock: Hardly conclusive, Mr. Scott, since Klingons have no tear ducts.
Captain James T. Kirk: Mr. Scott?
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: [over intercom] Aye, sir?
Captain James T. Kirk: Did you find the engine room?
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: Right where I left it, sir!
Captain James T. Kirk: [Spock has beamed Kirk and Bones aboard just before they find out who framed them] No! No! Of all the - son of a - Couldn't you have waited two seconds? They were just about to tell us the whole thing!
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: You want to go back?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Absolutely not!
Captain James T. Kirk: [whispering] It's cold.
Captain James T. Kirk: Where's that damn torpedo?
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: It's ready, Jim. Lock and load!
Captain James T. Kirk: [clenches fist] Fire!
Chancellor Gorkon: And this is General Chang, my chief of staff.
General Chang: I have... so wanted to meet you, Captain.
Captain James T. Kirk: I'm not sure how to take that.
Excelsior Officer: [checking the scanners] I've confirmed the location of Praxis, but...
Captain Hikaru Sulu: What is it?
Excelsior Officer: [turning to face Sulu] I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis!
Captain Hikaru Sulu: [pointing to the image on the viewscreen] Praxis?
Excelsior Officer: What's left of it, sir!
Captain James T. Kirk: [Valeris has just engaged thrusters to take Enterprise out of Spacedock] Thank you Lieutenant, ahead one quarter impulse power
Lieutenant Valeris: [spins in chair to face Kirk] Captain, may I remind you that regulations specify thrusters only whilst in spacedock.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: [the bridge crew cough loudly, Chekov shakes his head, Uhura tuts softly. McCoy leans in to tease Spock] Jim?
Captain James T. Kirk: You heard the order, Lieutenant...
Lieutenant Valeris: Aye, sir!
Captain Hikaru Sulu: [seeing the convictions of Kirk and McCoy on the Klingon broadcast] Send to Commander, Enterprise: "We stand ready to assist you" - Captain Sulu, USS Excelsior.
Martia: You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume.
Captain James T. Kirk: How did you know that?
Martia: We don't get many presidential assassins.
Captain James T. Kirk: We didn't kill Gorkon!
Martia: Of course not. But there is a reward for your death.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: That figures.
Klingon Commander: This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison, to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: [seeing the Enterprise] Shields up! All right, now we've given them something else to shoot at.
Captain James T. Kirk: [on the viewscreen] Captain Sulu! You realize that just by talking to me, you're violating regulations?
Captain Hikaru Sulu: I'm sorry, Captain, your message is breaking up...
Captain James T. Kirk: Bless you, Captain.
Captain James T. Kirk: [dictating his personal log] The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and company to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. Note to the Galley; Romulan Ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.
Lieutenant Valeris: A Bird-of-Prey?
Captain Spock: A Bird-of-Prey.
Commander Pavel Chekov: Cloaked?
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: A Bird-of-Prey cannot open fire when she's cloaked!
Captain Spock: All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree with you. However, all things are not equal. This one can.
Captain James T. Kirk: Names, Lieutenant!
Lieutenant Valeris: I do not remember.
Captain Spock: A lie?
Lieutenant Valeris: A choice.
Captain Spock: Two months ago, a Federation starship monitored an explosion on the Klingon moon, Praxis. We believe it was the result of over-mining and insufficient safety precautions. The moon's decimation means a deadly contamination of their ozone layer. They will have depleted their supply of oxygen in approximately fifty Earth years. Due to their enormous military budget the Klingons do not have the resources to combat this catastrophe. Last month, at the behest of the Vulcan ambassador, I opened a dialogue with Gorkon, Klingon chancellor of the High Council. He proposes to begin negotiations at once.
Admiral Cartwright: Negotiations for what?
Captain Spock: The dismantling of our starbases and outposts along the Neutral Zone, an end to nearly 70 years of unremitting hostility which the Klingons can no longer afford.
[Quote adaptation from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962]
General Chang: Indeed. The record shows that Captain Kirk once held the rank of Admiral. And that Admiral Kirk was broken for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of regulations of the law. Do you deny being demoted for these charges? DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION. Answer me now.
Klingon Ambassador: The Chancellor of the High Council is dead - the result of an unprovoked attack while he traveled to see you under a flag of truce on a mission of peace. Captain Kirk was legally arrested for the crime. May I remind you that he and Dr. McCoy boarded Kronos One on their own free will? No of these facts are in dispute, Mr. President.
Federation President: I have ordered a full-scale investigation. In the meantime...
Klingon Ambassador: In the meantime, we expect the Federation to abide by the articles of Interstellar Law, which you claim to cherish. Kirk and Dr. McCoy will stand trial for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon.
Federation President: Out of the question.
[to Sarek]
Federation President: Ambassador Sarek, there must be some way to extradite these men.
Ambassador Sarek: Mr. President, I share a measure of personally responsibility in this matter, but I am obliged to confirm my esteemed colleague's legal interpretation.
Federation President: What is the position of the Romulan government, Ambassador Nanclus?
Ambassador Nanclus: I must concur with my colleagues.
Federation President: But you can't possibly believe that James Kirk assassinated the Chancellor of the High Council.
Ambassador Nanclus: Mr. President, I don't know what to believe.
Klingon Ambassador: I'm waiting for your answer, sir.
Federation President: This president is not above the law.
[as soon as Azetbur finishes her transmission to the Federation President, Kerla unrolls war plans on her desk]
Brigadier Kerla: Attack them now, while we still have the chance!
Klingon general #1: Attack them, or be slaves on their worlds!
Klingon general #2: We can take whole by force what they propose to divide.
Azetbur: War is obsolete, general... as we are in danger of becoming.
Admiral Cartwright: I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim.
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: I wouldn't.
Chief in Command: Sir, those men have literally saved this planet.
Federation President: Yes Bill, I know that. And now they're going to save it again... by standing trial.
Kirk: What are we all doing here?
McCoy: Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party.
Scotty: That suits me. I just bought a boat.
Uhuru: This had better be good. I'm supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy.
Chekov: Captain, isn't this just for top brass?
McCoy: If we're all here, where's Sulu?
Kirk: *Captain* Sulu, on assignment. Where's Spock?
Captain James T. Kirk: [Fighting Martia who has changed to look like him] Isn't it about time you became something else?
Martia (appearing as Kirk): I like it here.
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Captain Hikaru Sulu: Stardate 9521.6. Captain's Log, USS Excelsior. Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloguing gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We're heading home under full impulse power. I'm pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: [an energy wave has buffeted Excelsior] Don't tell me that was any meteor shower!
Captain Spock: Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefulness?
Captain Spock: This ship will be searched from bow to stern, Lieutenant Valeris, you'll be in charge.
Lieutenant Valeris: Aye, sir.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: I do not understand. If there *was* a ship underneath us, surely the assassins beamed aboard from *that* vessel, not Enterprise.
Captain Spock: You're forgetting something, Mr. Chekov. According to out databanks, this ship fired those torpedoes. If we *did*, the killers are here. If we did *not*, whoever altered the databanks is here. In either case, what we are looking for *is* here.
Commander Pavel Andreievich Chekov: What *are* we looking for, sir?
Captain Spock: Lieutenant?
Lieutenant Valeris: Two pairs of gravity boots.
Captain Spock: [to Valeris] What you want is irrelevant, what you have chosen is at hand.
[His ship is about to be destroyed by The Enterprise]
General Chang: [last words] To be... or not to be?
[Spock and McCoy are heading for the Torpedo bay]
Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, M.D.: Bet you wished you'd stood in bed!
Admiral Cartwright: Arrest those men!
Captain Spock: Arrest yourself!
Chancellor Gorkon: [last words to Kirk before death] Don't let it end this way, captain.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: [after seeing the Enterprise's torpedo hit the Bird-of-Prey] Target that explosion and fire!
[Considering a military strike against the Klingons]
Federation President: Suppose you precipitate a full-scale war?
Colonel West: In that case, Mr. President, we can clean their choronometers.
Ambassador Nanclus: Mr. President, they are vulnerable... there will never be another time.
Admiral Cartwright: The longer we wait, the less successful the hostages will be, sir.
Captain James T. Kirk: Signal our surrender.
Uhura: [shocked] Captain?
Captain James T. Kirk: We surrender!
Uhura: [to Gorkon's ship] This is Enterprise. We surrender.


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Congratulations to Karan Pabla who has won the top prize for Reading Ahead 2017-18. This means that his name will appear in a future book in the Vera series by bestselling crimewriter Ann Cleeves who has just launched our new Reading Ahead year.
Karan is 18 and has been at the college for two years. He took part in Reading Ahead while doing a GCSE English course. He says: "The Reading Ahead challenge had a massive impact on the way I read and write. It allowed me to develop my vocabulary and other vital skills, that I could use in lessons and everyday life to great effect. I thought it was a fantastic challenge, as it gave me the opportunity to read, and write about books that interest me.
He is back at Derby College this September to take a computing course.
Ten runner-up prizes of £25 Love2Shop vouchers were won by Reading Ahead participants from Islington Libraries, Warrington Livewire and Partners, The Manchester College, Merseytravel, Northampton College, Preston's College,
CONEL (The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London), Uxbridge College and Walsall College.
The prize draws for organisations have been won by Doncaster College, Merseytravel, Stockton Libraries and HMPYOI Norwich, all of whom will receive author visits.
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Fr. Arnel Aquino SJ
Come to the banquet of God,
our God who embraces all people,
our God who gathers all of humanity
and calls us with passion untold.
Come to the feast of our God,
our God who delights in us all,
our God in whose arms we're safely enfolded
who loves us with passion untold!
In the love of the Lord we belong.
In the heart of God we dwell.
In the banquet of God we herald and sing
the wonder of oneness,
the triumph of love,
compassion, salvation for all!
Come to the banquet of God.
Feast of all friends, meal of love.
Par-take in the goodness,
share in the majesty.
God's justice is mercy untold!
(Repeat Verse and Refrain)
2013 | Catholic Songbook™
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lyrics and chords, why is there no chords? can I ask for it? thanks in advance.ReplyDelete
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Opinion: Heritage Action Says Ditch the Budget Deal
Heritage Action communications director Dan Holler on why conservatives should vote down the Ryan-Murray budget agreement. Photo: Associated Press
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... I ... the now the Rev Reese and the other side of the budget debate is Heritage Action communications director Dan Dollar who also joins on the line from Washington to and ... why his heritage action come out so strongly against this bill ... I think the deal is pretty self explanatory sixty three billion dollars in spending increases over the next twenty one months ... and I don't care what sort of promises are made over the next decade as far as entitlement reforms or fee increases ... the fact the matter is the bill increases spending in the near term ... and for those of us who are concerned about the debt and devastating the sizes of government ... that's not an acceptable outcome ... a day and ... not Republicans only control the house they don't control the Senate they don't control the White House ... he rejects this deal ... then what's the outcome that were likely to see ... um I think the outcome that were likely to see is the outcome that we've seen ... multiple times in the past couple years ... which is that Republicans and Democrats will pass in the present to sign ... a bill that aligns with the Budget Control Act and subs subsequent sequester ... aam you prayed now you have this whole attitude in Washington that ... their people like Tom Cole of Oklahoma you ... will not abide by the spending caps ... and he wants to raise taxes this is a Republican ... so we have to cave on the sequester now in the spending levels now so we don't have a bigger in the future ... I don't accept that wraps ... it and we are doing on the other side is the Republicans can risk another government shutdown ... I in in this deal at the very least you get what the sequester was trying to do you get ... a custom mandatory spending in you wants to re impose the tax in two years honey respond to that ... well you have promises that deeper cuts ... more than a third that that's a tough and it's not starting until the ... twenty two that isn't very on top ... today we had to be honest about what prompts aren't like that or did she ... good thing for a broader percent ... United have the depth breadth body ... into with the government shut out because they've been increased and they want it ... as an unsustainable system ... that is a play with that in their people ... and a lead they control ... they wouldn't it ... why they haven't done a book ... so we could pass that bill said sequester level ... to get you in a response plan to keep the floors and the left ... is just a matter of will and ... she and wasn't there this time ... den Heritage Action took a lot of flack for pushing for a government shutdown last time around ... it is conceivable ... that if they don't pass this deal ... House Republicans could see another shutdown ... why a risk that's why over promise to the American people something they can deliver getting the only control the house ... well it's clear that house are presented as a service ... and small ... tests if the government open to its area reset ... as Obama did ... Up by Zona up ... and going for it is not too much to ask is not over promise that ... this ay ay ay ay is free to the spending levels in two thousand eleven ... and you're already going that Apple and ... Exxon except when it comes to the American people use to keep it ... and Heritage Action communications director Dan holler thank so much for joining us ... a slap


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Graham urges Trump to defend democracy with Russia sanctions
8 January 2017, Nirapad News: A top Senate Republican is urging President-elect Donald Trump to defend democracy in the United States and around the world by punishing Russia for trying to interfere in the American presidential election as U.S. intelligence agencies allege.
"He's going to be the defender of the free world here pretty soon," Sen. Lindsey Graham, a frequent Trump critic, said in remarks broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "All I'm asking him is to acknowledge that Russia interfered, and push back. It could be Iran next time. It could be China."
Trump has consistently refused to blame Russia in the hacks that American intelligence agencies say were directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. intelligence officials on Friday briefed the president-elect on their conclusions that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 election in order to help him win the White House. An unclassified version of the report directly tied Putin to election meddling and said that Moscow had a "clear preference" for Trump in his race against Hillary Clinton.
Trump has repeatedly sought to downplay the allegations, alarming some who see a pattern of skepticism directed at U.S. intelligence agencies and a willingness to embrace the Russian leader. On Friday after receiving a classified briefing on the matter, Trump tried to change the subject to allegations that hadn't been raised by U.S. intelligence. "Intelligence stated very strongly there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. Voting machines not touched!"
He then declared in a series of tweets on Saturday that having a good relationship with Russia is "a good thing, not a bad thing." Trump added, "only 'stupid' people or fools" would come to a different conclusion.
Trump had earlier urged Americans to get on with their lives. Graham retorted in the broadcast Sunday:
"Our lives are built around the idea that we're free people. That we go to the ballot box. That we, you know, have political contests outside of foreign interference."
There has been no official comment from Moscow on the report, which was released as Russia observed Orthodox Christmas.
But Alexei Pushkov, an influential member of the upper house of parliament, said on Twitter that "all the accusations against Russia are based on 'confidence' and suppositions. The USA in the same way was confident about (Iraqi leader Saddam) Hussein having weapons of mass destruction."
Margarita Simonyan, the editor of government-funded satellite TV channel RT who is frequently mentioned in the U.S. report, said in a blog post: "Dear CIA: what you have written here is a complete fail."
During the election, Trump praised the Russian strongman as a decisive leader, and argued that the two countries would benefit from a better working relationship — though attempts by the Obama administration at a "Russian reset" have proved unsuccessful.
At the same time, intelligence officials believe that Russia isn't done intruding in U.S. politics and policymaking.
Immediately after the Nov. 8 election, Russia began a "spear-phishing" campaign to try to trick people into revealing their email passwords, targeting U.S. government employees and think tanks that specialize in national security, defense and foreign policy, the unclassified version of the report said.
The report said Russian government provided hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. The website's founder, Julian Assange, has denied that it got the emails it released from the Russian government. The report noted that the emails could have been passed through middlemen.
Russia also used state-funded propaganda and paid "trolls" to make nasty comments on social media services, the report said. Moreover, intelligence officials believe that Moscow will apply lessons learned from its activities in the election to put its thumbprint on future elections in the United States and allied nations.
The public report was minus classified details that intelligence officials shared with President Barack Obama on Thursday.
In an interview with The Associated Press after the briefing, Trump said he "learned a lot" from his discussions with intelligence officials, but he declined to say whether he accepted their assertion that Russia had intruded in the election on his behalf.
Trump released a one-page statement that did not address whether Russia sought to meddle. Instead, he said, "there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election" and that there "was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines."
Intelligence officials have never made that claim. And the report stated that the Department of Homeland Security did not think that the systems that were targeted or compromised by Russian actors were "involved in vote tallying."
Trump has said he will appoint a team within three months of taking office to develop a plan to "aggressively combat and stop cyberattacks."
On Saturday, he said he wanted retired Sen. Dan Coats to be national intelligence director, describing the former member of the Senate Intelligence Committee as the right person to lead the new administration's "ceaseless vigilance against those who seek to do us harm."
Coats, in a statement released by Trump's transition team, said: "There is no higher priority than keeping America safe, and I will utilize every tool at my disposal to make that happen."


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Vitamin D Supplementation and Metabolism in Vitamin D Deficient Elderly (VitD)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01145703
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Investigator terminated study due to low enrollment of eligible subjects)
First Posted : June 17, 2010
Last Update Posted : September 5, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|Vitamin D Deficiency Metabolic Syndrome
|Dietary Supplement: RDA Vitamin D3 only Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D2/3 Repletion only Other: Vitamin D2/3 Repletion + AEX Other: Vitamin D2/3 Repletion + RT
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|39 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Factorial Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation With and With Out Exercise on Metabolic and Physical Consequences of Vitamin D Deficiency in the Elderly
|Study Start Date :
|May 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2013
|Active Comparator: RDA Vitamin D
Dietary Supplement: RDA Vitamin D3 only
800 IU of Vitamin D3 daily for 6 months
Other Name: ergocalciferol
|Experimental: Vit D repletion + 6M Supplementation
Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D2/3 Repletion only
Vitamin D repletion with 50,000 IU of Vitamin D2/3 up to 3 x week(until levels are >75 nmol/l; 6-12wks) followed by 6 months maintenance supplementation with 2000 IU Vitamin D3 and up to 1000mg Calcium daily
Other Names:
|Experimental: Vit D repletion + 6M Supplementation +AEX
Other: Vitamin D2/3 Repletion + AEX
Vitamin D repletion with 50,000 IU of Vitamin D2/3 up to 3 x week(until levels are >75 nmol/l; 6-12wks) followed by 6 months maintenance supplementation with 2000 IU Vitamin D3 and up to 1000mg Calcium daily plus aerobic exercise training
Other Names:
|Experimental: Vit D repletion + 6M Supplementation +RT
Other: Vitamin D2/3 Repletion + RT
Vitamin D repletion with 50,000 IU of Vitamin D2/3 up to 3 x week(until levels are >75 nmol/l; 6-12wks) followed by 6 months maintenance supplementation with 2000 IU Vitamin D3 and up to 1000mg Calcium daily plus resistance training
Other Names:
- glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months ]
- muscle structure, inflammation and metabolic function to cause sarcopenia and frailty [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months ]
- physical performance, balance and strength to increase strength and balance to reduce fall risk in older people [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months ]
- cognitive function [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|40 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 40-85 years of age
- Women must be post menopausal (absence of menses for 12 months or greater)
- 25-hydroxyvitamin D level below 20 ng/ml (50 nmol/L)
- BMI 25-45 kg/m2
- Non smoker ( non smoking for at least 12 months:cigarettes, cigars, pipes)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Symptomatic heart disease, CAD, CHF, or uncontrolled hypertension (BP over 180 mm HG) unless medically stabilized
- Currently being treated for active cancer
- Type 1 diabetes; insulin treatment for diabetes, poorly controlled diabetes, HgA1c >10%
- Allergic to lidocaine
- History of seizures or taking anti-seizure or anti convulsion medications
- Untreated dyslipidemia with National Cholesterol ATPIII 10 year cardiac risk score greater than 10% (www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/atp3upd04.htm)
- Taking oral steroids, warfarin or other medications interfering with fat/muscle metabolism that may not be safely discontinued temporarily for specific procedures (ie for 72 hours prior)
- Taking medication that interfere with ability to replete Vitamin D
- Abnormal liver function 2 times normal levels
- Abnormal renal function (BUN above 40 mg/dl, Cr above 1.8 mg/dl, CrCl<60mg/dl)
- Hypercalcemia (Ca>10.2mg/dl)
- Anemia HCT below 30 mg/dl, platelets below 100,000/cm3
- Chronic pulmonary disease (on supplemental O2)
- Other systemic disorders that are not medically treated and stable or affect the ability to absorb Vitamin D.
- MMSE below 24, dementia or unstable clinical depression by exam
- Abnormal response to exercise test (ST segment depression greater than 2mm, chest pain, significant arrhythmias, extreme shortness of breath, cyanosis, exercising BP above 240/120 mm HG, or other contraindications to exercise) *requires follow up treatment w/ primary MD for continued participation in study
- Aerobically trained with VO2max greater than 2 SD above age-adjusted mean
- Participant is, in the opinion of the investigator, unable to adhere to the study protocol due to medical or orthopedic conditions that limit ability to exercise or travel to the Baltimore VA for protocol procedures.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01145703
|United States, Maryland
|Baltimore VAMC
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|Principal Investigator:
|Andrew P Goldberg, M.D.
|Baltimore VAMC/GRECC
|Responsible Party:
|Andrew P. Goldberg, GRECC Director, Professor of Medicine, Baltimore VA Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30AG028747 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|June 17, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 5, 2014
|Last Verified:
|September 2014
Body Composition
Cardiovascular Risk
Cognitive Function
Metabolic Syndrome
Vitamin D Deficiency
Insulin Resistance
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Deficiency Diseases
Nutrition Disorders
Vitamin D
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Bone Density Conservation Agents
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PUBLISHED: 13:49 16 January 2008 | UPDATED: 11:47 06 July 2010
WORKS by giants of British contemporary literature and drama, a powerful Greek tragedy and a new stage version of a hugely successful 1980s British film go together in the new-season programme of Westacre River Studios.
WORKS by giants of British contemporary literature and drama, a powerful Greek tragedy and a new stage version of a hugely successful 1980s British film go together in the new-season programme of Westacre River Studios.
Music and drama from the studios' own stable of performers abound in the first half of 2008.
And these productions will be complemented by visiting companies offering everything from shows specially for youngsters to a play for grown-ups about a much-loved children's author.
Alan Bennett's ageless and touching Talking Heads series of monologues is seldom out
of the repertoire at the studios, at West Acre.
In the latest offerings, to be presented in February and March, Issy Huckle stars as the precise and punctilious Peggy in A Woman of No Importance,
while Irma Bullough reprises her role as the widowed Muriel in Soldiering On.
March sees the launch of an occasional series celebrating
the one-act plays of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Harold Pinter, pictured below.
A double-bill running for four performances features his
1996 work, Ashes to Ashes,
while the darkly comic The
Dumb Waiter is a 1960 play dating from Pinter's much earlier and formative writing days.
The studios spring into April with their home-grown production of Gregory's Girl, a stage adaptation of Bill Forsyth's wonderful comedy movie about gawky young Scot Gregory and the object of his teenage desires, the football-mad Dorothy.
But the stage atmosphere is transformed in May, when the studios' Andy Naylor offers a new adaptation of the Euripedes classic play, Trojan Women.
The ancient city lies in ruins, its conquerors divide the spoils, but the human spirit is not so easy to conquer…
And May 3 sees a one-off performance of Rohan McCullogh's sensitive biographical play,
The Tale of Beatrix Potter.
Rohan's own mother was Miss Potter's cousin, and the visiting production touches on aspects of the author's life, from her solitary childhood to the extraordinary and enduring success of Peter
The studios welcome Pandora's Box Children's Theatre Company for three separate shows for younger theatregoers on February 15, March 27 and May 31.
Burglar Bill, Pirate School and Katy and the Nurgla are all under an hour long, and there will be morning and afternoon performances of each.
The new season also features another session of the studios' popular Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Anyway? quiz nights on Saturday, February 9 and a Valentine Special lunchtime session by the Cocktail Jazz Band on Sunday, February 17.
Westacre River Studios are a few miles off the A1065 Fakenham to Swaffham road at West Acre. For full programme information or to reserve seats, call 01760 755800 or visit www.westacreriverstudios.co.uk
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This is the second installment from Naxos of piano concertos by the intriguingly named Brazilian composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907–93). The forces of the first volume are retained (Volume 1 was released in 2005; the present works were recorded in Warsaw in 2006 and 2007). The sixth concerto claims to be a world premiere recording (there are actually no alternative versions of the other concertos currently available).
The obvious link is to Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri's compatriot. The Naxos booklet note quotes Aaron Copland, who gushed unapologetically about Guarnieri (referring to him as "the most exciting talent among Latin American composers"). On the present evidence, it is easy to see what Copland referred to.
The Fourth Concerto of 1968 is a substantive statement that includes serial procedures. The piece omits violins. The busy, densely scored opening attests to the music's determination (Naxos's recording shows no sense of crowding, to its credit). Yet there are moments of real fantasy here, too. Varied and colorful though the terrain may be, doubts surface from time to time as to the memorability of it all. There is no doubting Guarnieri's orchestrational skill. The wide-ranging central movement of the Fourth is marked "Profundamente triste" and contains moments of huge beauty as well as post-Bartókian nightmare. Max Barros seems perfectly attuned to Guarnieri's mode of expression. The brief, five-minute finale glitters. The melodic shapes are angular in a way that seems to imply a sort of pre-Stravinsky. All credit to the Warsaw Philharmonic, which negotiates the tricky and rapid corners with aplomb.
Dating from a mere two years later, the Fifth Concerto is a work of free atonality. The feeling is that Guarnieri is perfectly at home in music that is relaxed without being actually aimless, and able to contrast this with glittering, rhythm-driven passages. The central panel here is fascinating. It contains passages hewn of granite, set against the most delicate textures. The finale includes some native Brazilian instruments and is an absolute, airy joy. Barros ensures that rhythms dance, sometimes playfully, sometimes mysteriously.
The Sixth Concerto is the most concise here, lasting a mere 12 minutes. Modestly scored (piano, strings and percussion), affable and approachable, it forms the perfect end to the disc. The central Calmo contains the most overtly romantic music of the disc.
Camargo Guarnieri (1907–93) is surpassed only by Villa-Lobos in the pantheon of Brazilian composers. I actually think he's the better of the two. His music overflows with dandy tunes, piquant harmonies and scorings, bracing rhythms, sun-drenched color, inimitable zest and brio; it bursts with emotion, too—life-affirming energy, sensuous mystery, nostalgic melancholy. And he's a fine craftsman. However intricate the instrumental interplay or figuration, however ornamented or elaborate the melodic lines, the music is always bracingly clean, the architecture unpadded and deliberate. Like Villa-Lobos and Ginastera, he draws on Amerindian dances, using indigenous sources much as Bartok used (and transformed) Central European peasant music.
Naxos issued the first three of Guarnieri's piano concertos five years ago (8.557666) and now completes the cycle of all six. Concertos 4 and 5 are full-scale works, ambitious in scope, drama, and variety, with solo parts of demanding brilliance and bravura, and are somewhat spikier and more chromatic than the earlier concertos. Allegros are rugged, exciting, ostinato-driven. The central andantes are florid and nocturnal, with iridescent arpeggios and sinuous wanderings in the piano, ghostly woodwind sighs, and unexpected outbursts of angry defiance—in Concerto 5 a twinkling scherzo pops up right in the middle of the slow movement—that evoke night falling across both verdant Amazonian rainforest and darkening human thought. Anyone who responds to the piano concertos of Bartok, Prokofieff, Barber, or Corigliano will want to hear them. Concerto 6 is a later work, simpler in idiom and only a concertino in size, and scored for just piano, strings, and percussion. Even so it still has enough voltage to power St Louis in the summertime.
Pianist Max Barros and the Warsaw Philharmonic play the socks off these concertos. Add that to Naxos's ultra-vivid sonics, and you've got an hour of musical thrills.
This second installment completes the cycle of all six Guarnieri piano concertos, and remarkable works they are. Nos. 4 and 5 are thorny, often atonal pieces that will present no problems to anyone who enjoys, say, the first two piano concertos of Bartók, or even Samuel Barber. Driving rhythms fortified by characterful keyboard figuration and colorful percussion sonorities typify the outer movements, while the central slow movements offer a haunting lyricism that somehow manages to remain utterly personal and captivating.
The Sixth concerto is a short piece, a "concertino" really, more obviously influenced by the folk music of the composer's native Brazil, but it's no less beautifully crafted. As with the first volume, the performances are totally committed, virtuosic, and remarkably well-played given the music's novelty. Max Barros negotiates the rambunctious allegros with plenty of dazzle but no trace of hardness to his tone, while the Warsaw Philharmonic under Thomas Conlin does an impressive job of accompanying him. The engineering also is notably clear and well-balanced.
Barros delivers shoals of notes with unfaltering brio and a complete command of the idiom, and he is brilliantly partnered and recorded.
I won't beat around the bush. This is a really excellent disc in every regard. Mozart Camargo Guarnieri has been one of my most pleasurable discoveries of recent years via the cycle of symphonies released on BIS featuring the really excellent Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paolo under John Neschling (see review review). But perhaps this should have come as no surprise to me given that Aaron Copland, returning from an extended goodwill tour of South America in 1941 wrote; "Guarnieri is the most exciting talent among Latin American composers…what I like best about his music is its healthy emotional expression…he is the most authentic musician of the continent." Who am I to argue with that! This is quoted by James Melo in his extremely informative and lucid liner-note which provides the icing on a disc for which I have nothing but praise. The music itself is instantly appealing without being superficial, the soloist Max Barros plays with total technical command and stylistic aplomb. On this form the Warsaw Philharmonic sound world class tackling the rhythmic complexities of the scores with real panache and flair under the clearly skilled hand of conductor Thomas Conlin. Add to that a recording rich in detail but set in the generous acoustic of the Philharmonic Hall Warsaw it allows the cutting brass and oh so important percussion to impact in a thrilling manner. Having recently had a run of discs where the orchestra involved sounded under-rehearsed and technically stretched how good to encounter music—by definition unfamiliar to the players—performed with such skill. Available at Naxos' bargain price this is simply too good to miss.
This is the second volume of piano concertos by Guarnieri from Naxos and with this disc the cycle of six concertos is complete. Guarnieri's compositional arc can be traced through these concertos. Numbers 1–3 on the earlier disc are ultimately simpler and direct in their manner—the performances on the earlier disc are every bit the equal of these. By the time he came to write the 4th concerto in 1968 Guarnieri was seeking ways of combining native Brazilian elements—all the melodies are his own but the folk influence is clear—with contemporary compositional techniques such are 12 tone serialism. But he was selective with the parts of that rigorous technique he chose to use; they are more structural than tonal: the form involves themes, retrograde themes in the exposition, inversions and the like. The real talent of any composer is to use these forms without the listener being painfully aware that he is attending some kind of public composition class—and that is the case here. If I had to characterise it at all I would say its along the lines of 'Mr Bartók's Holiday in Brazil'. Across the three concertos there are certain recurring features. The outer movements burst with joyful muscular energy. If you respond to Ginastera and his powerfully athletic and rhythmic earlier "Objective Nationalism" this will be for you. The opening movement of the Concerto No.5 [track 4] encapsulates all the many virtues of the music, performance and engineering—fantastic big horn and brass playing interspersed with unbuttoned thwacks on the timps. Across all six concertos Guarnieri runs the distinct movements together creating unified works. The central movements tend to be simpler and more song-like than the equivalent movements in Ginastera. The latter composer is extraordinary in his creation of strange haunted night-scenes strong on atmosphere. Guarnieri prefers a more directly lyrical approach which is equally effective. That being said the central Sideral (Astral) [track 5] of the Concerto No.5 is beautifully sparse and cool—a lovely flute solo over chilly string chords and numb piano at 4:30 and a stunning solo violin at about 7:50 demonstrating yet again the quality of both music and performers. Guarnieri has a real ear for orchestral colour too—it is not just a case of layering on unusual percussion and syncopating! Interestingly the liner tells us that this central movement was the first composed; would it be too much to see it as the heart of the entire disc?—marvellous in every respect. As before there is no break into the concerto's finale—I love the way as the slow movement disappears into outer space the percussion creep in like industrious ants quickly drawing the rest of the orchestra into their restless toccata titled Jocoso (playful).
By the time Guarnieri completed his final concerto in 1987 he had passed his eightieth birthday. Originally titled Three Moments for Piano and Chamber Orchestra this is by some way the most condensed of the six works. Yes he does revert to a simpler more open style but it would be quite wrong to see this as a slackening of the creative drive. Far from it, the upper strings in particular have some very demanding passage-work—hurdles which the Warsaw players negotiate with seeming ease. Again the heart of the work is the central Calmo, muito sentido which does have the feel of a reflective backward musing. The final movement—scored as with the rest of this concerto just for strings and percussion accompanying the piano—is appealing but somehow lacking as much personality as in the earlier works.
Taken individually these are marvellous works and collected together on this disc they are an essential addition for anyone with an interest in 20th century piano concertos or South-American music in general. A small observation is that listened to sequentially, although the style evolves, there is a degree of sameness that might lessen the overall impact of each work when heard in isolation. But clearly, Guarnieri is seeking to use the form of the piano concerto to develop certain compositional ideas so why should we expect radically different solutions? These are in effect six branches from the same tree. I notice from the liner-note that pianist Max Barros has founded a publishing company and the back cover indicates that this same company provide the editions performed here. Clearly Barros's commitment to the cause of South-American music in general and Guarnieri in particular goes way beyond learning some works because he was asked to. But this degree of identification and passion for the music oozes from every pore of this and the earlier disc—clearly a labour of love and one that should be applauded. It is also worth noting that each of the six concertos was recorded at different sessions over a period of three years. The continuity achieved by performers and engineers is first rate but again reflects an extended commitment that I for one am very grateful for. The liner mentions another four concertante piano works by Guarnieri—surely we can expect them from this team. Apparently he wrote two violin concertos too…come on Naxos what are you waiting for!
On what might seem a different tack; has any Guarnieri been performed at the BBC Proms? I cannot find a comprehensive list of Prom repertoire but it strikes me that this is exactly the kind of music that deserves that kind of stage—exciting, involving, instantly appealing—the Piano Concerto No.1 with its Gershwinesque echoes is a perfect 'Prom Novelty' and more appropriate to a concert series like this than 'Sondheim at Eighty' (and that's coming from someone who has spent his performing life in the theatre!). Better still, bring this entire team of performers over to play it—I for one would go a long way to hear the Warsaw Philharmonic and Max Barros in this kind of form. Collectors who already have this composer's music on their shelves will not hesitate. For those new to his work any of the symphonies or these concertos will provide an excellent point of entry depending on an individual's preference. However the Naxos price advantage makes this disc and its companion irresistible.
Guarnieri's Piano Concertos Nos. 4, 5, and 6 (Naxos 8.557667) as performed by Thomas Conlin conducting the Warsaw Philharmonic with Max Barros, piano, gives you full-throttle music, excellently executed.
This is exciting, dynamic modernism, alternately brash and pellucid. Its motor-sensory insistence suggests early Prokofiev or middle period Stravinsky. The melodic invention and overall orchestration suggest nobody.
The generous inclusion of the last three concertos (composed 1968–87) gives us an extended look at the composer in a sort of international modern framework. It's not music overflowing with South American folk strains. They are not well-known works, at least in the States, but they should be. No. 6, in fact, enjoys its world premier performance here.
If you love the modern style, this one will be a real treat. Bravo Guarnieri!
With a name like Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (his brothers were named Verdi and the slightly misspelled Rossine), a compositional career was probably inevitable. Though a prominent figure in Brazilian concert life, and one preferred by Copland to Villa-Lobos, Camargo Guarnieri has found only intermittent performances in the U.S. and Europe. His music is ideal for inclusion in the Naxos label's effort to rediscover various national traditions. Perhaps Camargo Guarnieri suffered because he lived long enough to change his style several times (although this was never an issue wit Stravinsky). After an initial strong rejection of serialism, he accepted a loose version of its principles in the Piano Concerto No. 4 heard here. He passed through several phases of free atonality, and in the Piano Concerto No. 6 he returned to the upbeat style of his youth, including elements of Brazilian nationalism and French neoclassicism. The strong point of this music is the consistent personality that shows through no matter the style. Camargo Guarnieri never offers the dramatic collision of Brazilian consciousness and European sensibility that one finds in the works of Villa-Lobos. But these three piano concertos, dating from between 1968 and 1987 (when Camargo Guarnieri was 80 years old), have a basic feel in common in spite of the fact that the Piano Concerto No. 4 is quasi-serial, the Piano Concerto No. 5 is freely atonal, and the Piano Concerto No. 6 returned to the more clearly Brazilian style of the composer's earlier years. All the concertos weave the piano into a dense texture rather than setting it up in opposition to the orchestra. All have clear, easy-to-follow forms; they are neoclassical at heart despite the evolving language. And none of the pieces, even the Piano Concerto No. 4, completely dispenses with percussion-based Brazilian rhythms; Pianist Max Barros supplies the requisite tone, fluid and brilliant, and the Warsaw Philharmonic, seemingly an unlikely choice, actually is well-attuned to the crisp qualities of the music. An enjoyable item for fans of Latin American music.
'Guarnieri is the most exciting talent among Latin American composers', wrote Aaron Copland long before the Brazilian gained international acclaim. Guarnieri was also the most progressive South American composer working in the 20th century, his six piano concertos—written through much of his life—pointing to an inquiring mind ready to experiment while still keeping his roots in Brazilian music. We have followed his progress through to the 1950's in his first three concertos previously issued by Naxos, and we are still in the world of modern tonality mixed with serial themes when we reach the Fourth from 1968. It would be a generalisation to describe them as a Brazilian version of Prokofiev, but they have that similarity of balancing moments of hard-hitting activity with passages where peace and creamy beauty take over. That format covers the first two movements of the Fourth Concerto before Guarnieri unleashes a profusion of notes in a jagged final Rapido. The Fifth composed two years later is in much the same mode though with an added element of South American jazzy rhythms in the opening movement, while the little Jocoso (Playful) creates the highly energised finale. And so we turn full circle for the Sixth composed in his Eightieth year, the whole concept being tonal, immediately likeable, and in its brevity compacts so much that he had said at length in his younger years. Max Barros is the admirable soloist, tackling pages black with notes in playing of considerable technical brilliance. But the orchestral role is equally demanding and requires an ensemble of the Warsaw's credentials to perform it with so much detail. They are conducted by the highly experienced Thomas Conlin, the lengthy recording time evidence of the preparation involved. Good sound.


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Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers
Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers
President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States.
In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training, adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually return home to serve in their communities. They also describe how the volunteers made a difference in their host countries and how they became citizens of the world for the rest of their lives. Among many others, the interviewees include a physics teacher who served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who worked in an agricultural program in Guatemala in the 1970s, a builder of schools and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989 to 1992, and a retired office administrator who taught business in Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.


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Just wanted to give you all an update on our development case. Traffic has been a concern of ours since the start of this campaign. For the KKRPA to make a solid case on traffic with the OMB, we need to bring on a traffic specialist. Before retaining such specialists, I wanted to be sure that our concerns could be validated and supported.
I presented the info to a traffic consultant and had a teleconference earlier today. To summarize, we do have valid concerns with traffic in our community as the proposed development currently stands.
She identified issues with the layout, traffic capacity and the flow of traffic. The developer eliminated a collector from the previous plan which would cause a spillover of vehicles to other streets to get to Glendon Rd. The developer has provided no justification for such change.
As an FYI – Glendon itself won't be an issue with 4-5 lanes projected to start next year.
With this latest information, this puts us in great shape for moving forward. Our goal is to try and come up with a resolution that will give us a win-win plan.
Yesterday I received a generous donation of $400 from one household. I can't stress enough how important it is that we get all members of our community supporting this campaign. We all need to share in the cost of this endeavour.


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Street Knowledge is a set of four photo-video journeys.
This run begins at City Airport and finishes at the British Library
- via Canada Tower, and the Royal London Hospital.
Streaming video in Windows Media format. Approx. 7 minutes.
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Community Gathering Schedule
Currently, except for 12/26/11 and 1/02/12, Community Gatherings are held on Monday evenings, at St Paul's Cathedral on Tremont Street, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. The first half hour of the CG is set aside for socializing or mini working group meetings. The hosting working group is responsible for providing food - see FAWG representative for $100, or for reimbursement (be sure to submit receipts and change, if applicable). On 12/26/11 and 1/02/12, the CG will be held at the Communtiy Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, from 7:30 to 9:30.
See Community Gathering Proposal for more info: http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Community_Gatherings
If you represent a working group and want to take advantage of a Community Gathering, please choose a date and enter the relevant information, below.
12/19/11 Ad Hoc Welcome to Occupy Boston
12/26/11 Houseless & Allies Massachusetts Housing Crisis
1/02/12 Citizens United
1/09/12 Direct Action
1/16/12 Media
1/23/12 Outreach
1/30/12 Creative Arts and Subversive Actions
2/06/12 Women's Caucus Feminism 101 (tentatively)
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7.2. Base Plates
7.2.1. How can one account for base-plate distortion due to welding?
When grouted, such curling or distortion is of no consequence. Otherwise (e.g., if leveling plates are used or if the base mates to a steel element), the gap allowance of 2005 AISC Specification Section M4.4 should not be exceeded. Additionally, see Specification Section M2.8, Finish of Column Bases.
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7.2.2. When a steel base plate bears on less than the full area of concrete, the nominal bearing strength 0.85f'cA is multiplied by the lesser of 2 or the square root of the ratio of geometrically similar concrete area to base-plate area. Why?
The 2005 AISC Specification Section J8 is consistent with ACI 318 provisions, which recognize the increase in bearing strength that results from the confinement that is provided by the concrete surrounding that providing direct bearing resistance.
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7.2.3. What are the preferred hole diameters in base plates?
The recommended maximum hole sizes for anchor rods in base plates are given in the 13th Edition Manual Table 14-2. It is noted that these hole sizes permit a reasonable tolerance for misalignment in setting the bolts and more precision in the adjustment of the base plate or column to the correct centerlines. Note that these hole sizes are such that flame-cutting will often be required. An adequate washer (see 7.2.4) should be provided for each anchor rod. Because these hole sizes are recommended as maximum sizes, the use of smaller hole sizes is often justified if anchor-rod groups are set accurately.
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7.2.4. What thickness and size of washer is required for the preferred hole diameters in base plates?
A general rule of thumb is given in AISC Design Guide #10 Erection Bracing of Low-Rise Structural Steel Frames1: the minimum thickness should be one-third the diameter of the anchor rod and that the minimum diameter (or length and width for a non-circular washer) should be 1-in. larger than the hole diameter. When the anchor rod transmits tension, the washer size must be sufficient to transmit the force to the base plate. Washers of the appropriate size can generally be fabricated from plate.
[1] Fisher, J.M. and M.A. West, 1997, Erection Bracing of Low-Rise Structural Steel Frames, AISC, Chicago, IL.
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7.2.5. When should grout holes be provided for base plates?
Grouting of base plates can be accomplished for common base-plate sizes without the need for grout holes. However, the use of a grout hole should be considered when the smaller side dimension of the base plate exceeds approximately 24 in. Two grout holes may be required for very large plates or long rectangular plates. See the discussion on grouting in Appendix B of AISC Design Guide #11.
[1] DeWolf, John T. and David T. Ricker, 1990, Column Base Plates, AISC, Chicago, IL. Second Edition
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A cousin pointed out this article to me on Facebook, which makes some good points about what some might see as a controversial subject: homeless people using their slim resources to pay for cell phones.
As Kat Ascharya points out, people are often inclined to judge a homeless person talking on a cell phone as being wasteful with their limited financial resources. The truth is that a homeless person who understands and makes use of the advantages offered by today's cell phones should be applauded for making smart financial choices. If you read the article, you will see what I mean. I've posted just a small tidbit below but encourage you to click through and read the whole thing.
I also want to point out, however, something that is less subtle about the article. Street Stories can be found anywhere if you just take the time to stop and listen. The article author not only bothered to smile and say hello to someone she knew was homeless, but she engaged him in conversation. Only by asking and listening can we see past the "homeless" label to the humanity of the person inside.
His phone, then, functions as an important conduit. On the surface, it's his most important, practical tool. He can call places for work with it. He can call up shelters and other social services to see what's available. He calls public transportation to find out which bus lines are running and check out schedules.
E-mail and text is especially important. He can reach out to friends to see if he can crash with them for a night or two, especially if the weather is rough. But he has to be careful. "You don't want to impose," he said. "You can't exhaust your friends. Otherwise they'll get tired of helping you, thinking, 'Why are you still struggling?'" The hidden worry is that you'll never leave.


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There are plenty of sports-based online slot machines out there and there are also a number of animal-related games; we've reviewed several of either but this is the first we've seen to combine both those subjects. Wild Games from Playtech introduces us to three animal competitors in this sporting competition and there are enough bonus games to keep everyone happy.
This slot has five reels and twenty five paylines and the game revolves around trying to trigger the bonus games which allow you to play the games. The basic symbols are represented by 9, 10, J, Q, K and A but the higher value symbols are a basketball and a football.
There's loads of special symbols and we'll start with our three characters which are a bulldog, a cheetah and a hippopotamus; there's also bronze, silver and gold medals and a Wild Games trophy for the wild symbol.
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These bonuses are triggered by landing the character stacked wild on reel three and there are three different athletic events to be won as follows:
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- 100M Dash Bonus – this is similar to the above bonus game but you'll select from three cheetahs; you'll get 8 free spins and a gold medal becomes wild and turns into an expanding wild, a silver medal will become wild and randomly clone one more wild on the same reel. A bronze medal becomes an extra wild.
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If you can land three or more medals of the same colour you'll be given the option to select a highlighted medal in return for cash. Gold medals return more cash than silver which rewards more than bronze.
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