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8.111362 - BANFIELD, R. de: Lord Byron's Love Letter (Varnay, Ribla, Carruba, Carlin, Rome Academy Symphony, Rescigno) (1958)
Raffaello de Banfield (1922–2008)
The composer Raffaello de Banfield was born in 1922 in the English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Austrian flying ace Gottfried von Banfield (the last Knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresa) and the Countess Maria Tripcovich, who originated from Trieste, Italy. The couple had settled in Newcastle in 1920. De Banfield studied in Switzerland at the international Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and subsequently in Trieste at the Lyceum Dante Alighieri. He attended the University of Bologna and the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, where he was a pupil of Gian Francesco Malipiero. In 1946 he moved to Paris, to study composition at the Paris Conservatoire with Henri Büsser, and also with Nadia Boulanger. He remained at the Conservatoire until 1949, and during this time came into contact with many leading figures in French intellectual life of the period, such as Picasso, Cocteau and Poulenc, as well as the conductor Herbert von Karajan, who remained a life-long friend. The painter Leonor Fini introduced him to the French choreographer and ballet dancer Roland Petit. As a result de Banfield composed the music for Petit's ballet Le combat (The Duel), which had its first production in London in 1949. Based upon the Tancred and Clorinda episode in Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata, this ballet was subsequently performed frequently at the Vienna State Opera between 1959 and 1973, with choreography by Dimitrije Parlic.
De Banfield led an international existence, and in America he became a member of the intellectual circle surrounding the writer and composer Paul Bowles. Through this he met the writer and playwright Tennessee Williams and the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Up until 1958 he divided his time between Paris and New York, and maintained a friendship with Maria Callas. Later, after oscillating between homes in Italy, France, England and the United States, where he lived for more than ten years, he served between 1972 and 1996 as director of the Trieste opera house, the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, which he comprehensively renovated and modernised. In addition from 1978 to 1986 he was director of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, which had been founded in 1958 by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti. De Banfield achieved international recognition for his compositions, which included the ballets Quatuor (1957) and Acostino (1958), the one-act operas Lord Byron's Love Letter (1955) and Alissa (1965), and the Ritratto lirico, Colloquio col Tango ossìa La Formica (Conversation with the Tango or The Ant) (1959), as well as several works for solo soprano and orchestra, including For Ophelia, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa at a concert at the Royal Festival Hall, London in the mid-1970s. He received many honours, including being made a Grand Ufficiale of Italy and a Grand Cavalier of the Légion d'Honneur in France. He died at his home at Rive d'Arcano, near Trieste, in 2008.
The opera Lord Byron's Love Letter is as well-known for its libretto as for its music. The text provided by Tennessee Williams is based on a play that he wrote in 1946. The setting is Williams's beloved New Orleans at the time of the annual Mardi Gras, during the late nineteenth century. The plot revolves around an eccentric old lady, lost in the past, and her spinster granddaughter. Together they live, none too comfortably, in a decrepit house in New Orleans. The focus of their lives is an old love letter, purportedly written by Lord Byron, which they display to visitors for money. The opera Lord Byron's Love Letter was first performed at Dixon Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans on 17th January 1955, with the principal parts of the Old Woman and The Spinster taken by Astrid Varnay and Patricia Neway respectively. Both were leading singers of the time: Varnay was renowned for her unrivalled command of the Wagnerian repertoire on both sides of the Atlantic, and Neway for her creation of the part of Magda Sorel in Menotti's opera The Consul (available on Naxos 8.112023–24, coupled with Menotti's first opera Amelia al ballo). Neway subsequently created the rôle of the Mother Superior in the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, for which she received a Tony Award. The present recording of Lord Byron's Love Letter was made in Rome by RCA three year's after the work's première, with the soprano Gertrude Ribla taking over the part of The Spinster, and the distinguished American-Italian musician, Nicola Rescigno, conducting. When released in America at the end of 1958, Time magazine commented that 'Italian Composer Banfield's score offers some green and willowy moments of vocal beauty'. Nonetheless the recording's time in the catalogue was short, since when it has never been commercially reissued, becoming a sought-after rarity in the process, until its present republication.
The dramatic soprano Astrid Varnay (1918–2006) was born into an operatic family: her mother was a coloratura soprano and her father a spinto tenor. The year in which she was born they founded the Opera Comique Theatre in Kristiania, Sweden, although they were both born in Hungary, and they managed it until 1921.The family then moved to Argentina and later to New York, where her father died in 1924. Her mother subsequently remarried another tenor, and the young Astrid, after studying to be a pianist, decided at the age of eighteen to become a singer. She worked intensively, first with her mother and then with the Metropolitan Opera conductor and coach Hermann Weigert, whom she later married. She made her sensational stage début at the Metropolitan in 1941, substituting at short notice for Lotte Lehmann as Sieglinde in Die Walküre with no rehearsal. After this triumph, six days later she replaced Helen Traubel in the same opera as Brünnhilde, and her operatic career was effectively launched. She made her Covent Garden début in 1948 and, at the suggestion of Kirsten Flagstad, her Bayreuth Festival début in 1951. She sang every year at Bayreuth for the next seventeen years and at the Met until 1956, when she left following a disagreement with Rudolf Bing. She henceforth concentrated her career on Germany where she was revered, living in Munich. She moved from the dramatic soprano repertoire into that for mezzo-soprano in 1969, and during the 1980s into character parts. She made her last appearance in Munich in 1995, almost fifty-five years after her Metropolitan début. Her brilliant career is well documented in both commercial and unofficial sound recordings.
Gertrude Ribla (1919–1980) was born in New York and studied singing with Frances Alda. She won an amateur singing competition in 1936 and made her first NBC radio broadcast in 1941, subsequently singing in the 1943 national NBC broadcast of the third act of Rigoletto with Toscanini conducting. She won the Metropolitan Opera's Auditions of the Air in 1948, and made her début at the Metropolitan during the following year as Aida. Other parts which she sang there until 1951 included Leonore in Il trovatore. During the 1950s she was active across America, singing in Chicago and New Orleans as well as with the New York City Opera. In 1958 she took part in an Italian radio broadcast of Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper. Other parts which she sang included the title rôle in Turandot, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, and Marie in Wozzeck, excerpts from which she recorded with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1947. These are included as a bonus in this present release.
The conductor Nicola Rescigno (1916–2008) was born into a musical family in New York. He studied music with Pizzetti, Giannini and Polacco and made his conducting début in 1943, leading La traviata in Brooklyn. He subsequently was music director for opera companies in Connecticut and Havana, and first appeared at San Francisco in 1950, directing Madama Butterfly and Il barbiere di Siviglia. He was a co-founder of the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1953, and worked there until 1956, when he left to inaugurate the Dallas Civic Opera, where he was the music director until 1990. Here he worked with many of the world's top singers, having already struck up a close professional relationship with Maria Callas, with whom he recorded extensively. He first conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, where his father had been a trumpet player, in 1978. He appeared as a guest in Italy, Mexico, Portugal and the United Kingdom. He was particularly admired for his skills as an operatic accompanist.
The setting is the parlour of a faded house in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The time is the late nineteenth century. The noise of the Mardi Gras festivities may be heard from outside. Set stage left there is a marble mantelpiece, and beyond it there is a thick, dark and dusty curtain. Stage right a high door opens onto a cavernous hall. The furnishings are heavy Victorian in style. Beside a rose shaded lamp a woman of forty, the Spinster, is playing an upright piano, faultily. In the opposite corner, the Old Woman, in a black silk dress, sits motionless.
[1] The Old Woman asks the Spinster when she is going to be able to play the piece of piano music correctly. The Spinster stops, distressed, and opens the window, swaying slightly to the sound of the music outside. She returns to her sewing. A knock is heard from the hall. The Old Woman conceals herself behind the curtain while the Spinster goes out to open the door.
[2] The Spinster invites the Matron in. The latter explains that she and her husband are visiting New Orleans from Milwaukee for the Mardi Gras. She asks to see the letter of Lord Byron advertised on the door. The Spinster explains that it was written to her grandmother, who had met Byron in Greece. The Old Woman keeps up a laconic commentary while the Matron and the Spinster talk about Byron's exploits.
[3] The Matron, interested, goes out to fetch her husband.
[4] The Matron returns with her Husband. He is wearing a paper cap sprinkled with confetti. The Matron explains to her Husband that the Spinster's grandmother met Byron. The Old Woman asks the Spinster to read a passage from the journal recording the encounter. The Old Woman comments that the Husband has been drinking.
[5] The Spinster starts to read from the journal while the Old Woman repeats and comments upon passages from it.
[6] While they speak an image of the Acropolis may be seen with a young girl and her middle-aged companion present. The companion leaves the young girl on her own. The Old Woman speaks of the scene as if in a trance. The Spinster describes the presence of Byron. On stage a handsome young man can be seen watching the young girl. She drops her glove, which the young man returns to her. The Spinster reads how the young girl recognizes Byron, while the Old Woman relives the scene.
[7] The Old Woman tells the Spinster to stop reading. The Matron asks if there is any more. The Old Woman replies that there is, and the Spinster offers to show the Matron the letter. As the Matron starts to open it, the Old Woman says she cannot do this. The Spinster explains that shortly afterwards Byron was killed; when her grandmother heard this she retired from the world. The Matron comments that this was foolish, which provokes reactions from both the Old Woman and the Spinster. The Spinster offers to read a sonnet which the young lady wrote to Byron's memory, entitled 'Enchantment'.
[8] The Spinster starts to read the sonnet. As she does so the Old Woman starts to accompany her, becoming more intense as she does so. At the climax she enters the room from behind the curtain.
[9] As the music from outside also gets louder, the Husband rushes out. The Spinster requests some money. Distracted by her Husband's departure, the Matron herself leaves hurriedly.
[10] The Spinster bitterly calls after the departing couple. At the door she is momentarily held by a figure in a grotesque mask. She yields but the figure rushes out, slamming the door. The Old Woman points to the letter from the Spinster's grandfather which the Spinster has dropped on the floor. The Spinster gives the letter to the Old Woman, as the noise of the Mardi Gras festivities outside grows louder.
[11] After the interlude which links the second scene of the first act, in which Wozzeck experiences frightening visions, and the third scene, a military parade passes by outside the room of Marie, Wozzeck's mistress. Marie, after singing along to the military music, shuts the window and proceeds to sing a lullaby to her son by Wozzeck.
[12] At the beginning of the third act, Marie, in her room at night, reads to herself from the Bible. She cries out that she wants forgiveness, as she is haunted by her infidelity to Wozzeck.
[13] Wozzeck has killed Marie, and drowned himself. After an intense interlude, which starts by depicting the rising water that leads to Wozzeck's death, children are seen playing in the sunshine. Hearing that Marie's body has been found, the children run off to see it, except for her little boy, who after an oblivious moment, follows the others.
Producer's Note
The sources for the transfer of the de Banfield were first edition red "Shaded Dog" label American RCA pressings. Although taped a year after RCA began recording complete operas in stereo in Rome, this disc was only ever released in mono. A rarity, it did not remain long in the catalogue, and has never been reissued. There is a momentary pitch fluctuation at 3:09 in Track 2 which is present in the LP master tape. The "Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome" is most likely a nom de disque for the orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
Since Astrid Varnay is already well represented on compact disc, I have chosen to fill out this release with one of the few recordings made by her Lord Byron co-star, Gertrude Ribla, again heard in twentieth-century opera. The Wozzeck scenes were transferred from the early 10-inch LP (ML-2140) which was its only previous reissue and was itself transferred from Columbia's wide-frequency range 33 1/3 rpm master lacquer discs.
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The draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is made and now Manchester United, Arsenal and Celtic know who they must defeat to move a step closer to the final at Wembley. Will it be sweet 16 for the British teams? Unlikely is the answer. Here's my take on all the games.
GALATASARY v SCHALKE
There are some stunning ties to look forward to next year and a few that are in the underwhelming category. This is definitely the latter. There will be some atmosphere in Turkey, but I can see Schalke making it through to the last eight as German football bites back.
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CELTIC v JUVENTUS
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The Hoops will have to take a first leg lead to Turin to have a chance. Easier said than done with the brilliant Andrea Pirlo pulling the strings for Juventus.
Verdict: Juventus
ARSENAL v B MUNICH
And so Arsenal's long wait for a trophy will go on. Any Gunners fans dreaming of a Champions League final in May can forget it now. Bayern Munich are a team on a mission after losing last year's decider on their own patch. Arsene Wenger and his players won't get in the way of that.
Verdict: Bayern Munich
SHAKHTAR DONETSK v BORUSSIA DORTMUND
For me the toughest game of the eight to call. These two aren't the biggest clubs left in the competition but they are extremely dangerous outfits capable of going all the way. Dortmund excelled in the group stages — just ask Manchester City — and are great to watch but Shakhtar have some really classy players like the much coveted Willian, Fernandinho and Luiz Adriano. This will be close.
Verdict: Dortmund
AC MILAN v BARCELONA
It's always special when these two giants collide — one of the great match-ups of European football. I can see only one outcome, though, and that is victory for Barca. Like Bayern, the Catalan club feel they blew it last season and want to put that right. Having the greatest player of all-time, Lionel Messi, in the best goalscoring form of his life will help. Xavi and Iniesta are equally determined to play and win again at Wembley, as they did in 2011. Then there is the extra incentive of doing it for coach Tito Vilanova who will undergo chemotheraphy over the the next six weeks.
Verdict: Barcelona
REAL MADRID v MANCHESTER UNITED
What an epic confrontation this promises to be. Obviously the headline act will be the great Cristiano Ronaldo returning to Old Trafford, but there is so much more to savour.
It's Jose Mourinho versus Sir Alex Ferguson. Special One against Special One. It is possible that this could be the last season for both at their current clubs which makes the tie even more appetising. Whether Jose indulges in the mind games remains to be seen. He might just respect Fergie too much for that.
But with Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonso and Mesut Ozil in Real's ranks United are going to have their work cut out even if Robin Van Persie and Wayne Rooney are on top form. Expect goals and two thrilling games.
Verdict: Real Madrid
VALENCIA v PSG
Given all the millions spent at Paris St Germain, return is needed on the investment and it should come in the shape of a quarter-final with perhaps better to come. Zlatan Ibrahimovic to make the difference.
Verdict: PSG
PORTO v MALAGA
The least appealing of all the games and it hard to see Spain beating Portugal in this one.
Verdict: Porto
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| 8.4°C Belfast
Domestic violence against men in Northern Ireland has increased by more than 40% in nine years – and that's just reported incidents.
PSNI figures reveal that the figure reached a record of 2,525 male victims in 2012/13, up 259 cases on the year before.
Police started recording the statistics nine years ago.
They also show that in one year alone (2011/12) the level of reported incidents jumped 25% (from 1,833 to 2,266).
But this may be only a fraction of the true figure due to the reluctance of many men to come forward because of embarrassment and shame – a scenario the police and support groups hope will change.
Northern Ireland's first crisis centre for male abuse victims, Men's Aid NI, was opened earlier this year.
Earlier this month the Belfast Telegraph revealed that domestic violence – Northern Ireland's so-called hidden crime – has reached epidemic proportions with 27,190 recorded incidents last year alone, the highest level ever.
Police deal with 60 domestic-related call-outs each day.
Since records began in 2004/5, there has been a 41% increase in domestic violence offences against men aged 18 and over.
To put that figure in context, a 9% increase in incidents of abuse of women was recorded over the same period, according to the PSNI's annual bulletin on domestic abuse.
Now male victims of what largely remains a taboo subject are urged to report abuse.
Men's Aid NI chairman Peter Morris (right) said it was time to dispel the perception that in cases of domestic violence that men are the aggressors and women the victims.
"Domestic violence against men can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse and threats of abuse," he said. "It can happen in heterosexual and same-sex relationships and, as with domestic abuse against females, can go largely unreported.
"We know there are many men in Northern Ireland who are living in fear of their partners and we want them to know there is help out there."
Of the 10,204 domestic abuse crimes concerning someone with a known age and gender last year, police said 25% (2,525) were men over 18 – up 259 cases in just 12 months.
Some 77% of the cases related to victims of violence against the person, with more than half violence with injury.
Mr Morris said that it wasn't uncommon for male recipients of violence in the home to fly under the radar in today's society.
He said: "Shame is a major factor for male victims. It's why a lot of them don't come forward and don't want to talk about it.
"Men are also reluctant to seek help because they think to do so may imply they are weak and not masculine. On top of all that, there's a lack of support agencies for men and difficult for these organisations to get funding."
Statistics from the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland revealed that the 27,190 incidents of domestic violence across the province last year dwarfed those of a sectarian (2,261) and racist (1,220) nature. Deaths from domestic crime in Northern Ireland are now averaging five per year.
A police spokesman said: "The PSNI understands that victims of domestic violence, both male and female, may have suffered abuse many times before calling the police. While more victims are making the brave decision to tell police what has happened to them, there are still many who are suffering in silence. We'd encourage anyone facing domestic violence or the threat of domestic violence to report it to us. For more, visit the PSNI website Domestic Abuse section at www.psni.police.uk."
Brian* (38), from Belfast, was a victim of physical domestic violence for almost a decade.The former security worker left his job four years ago to take care of his children. He never brought any charges against his abuser, who is now his ex-wife. (*Not his real name)
"I left our family home four years ago in January. I couldn't take any more. I found myself walking towards a river, fully intending to throw myself into it.
"That night, the only thing that stopped me doing it was my children. The next day I called my doctor and I was referred for counselling, which helped me turn a corner.
"It wasn't always like that. When we moved in together things were great at first, but then I began to notice something wasn't quite right.
"Her whole behaviour and attitude started to change and she developed a temper. Then she started going out and not coming home for days on end.
"She had two children from a previous relationship and we had four kids together, but her behaviour just got worse.
"When we were sitting at home on a Saturday evening she'd become very violent after a few drinks.
She'd turn the music up full blast. I'd go to bed because I'd have work the following day and she'd start shouting up the stairs, calling me names. She told me I was skinny, dire looking and ugly.
"If I went downstairs to tell her to turn down the music she would react violently.
"She used to dive for my face with her nails. And then she would usually call the police to have me put out of the family home.
"Often I walked the streets, and I spent many nights sleeping in a pile of bags behind shops.
"One night she came down the stairs and smashed a glass all over the floor.
"Then she flew for my face; that was what she always went for.
"She clawed her nails down my face and tore it apart – and I had to go to work in that state. But no-one questioned me.
No one paid any interest to me. I've still got the scars. You can see them in the summer when my face is slightly tanned, because they always stay white.
"My clean, ironed shirt was hanging on the door another night I was due to go to work, but she said I wasn't going anywhere and she stamped all over it.
"That was a regular thing.
"People have told me I should have left her but it's hard when there are kids involved.
"A relationship like that affects all your relationships because you don't know who you can trust."
William* (42), from Belfast, suffered horrific sexual abuse as a child when he was at boarding school. Now single, he claims he was psychologically abused by his former wife for five years. He didn't bring any charges against her (*not his real name)
"It's hard to explain the scenario I was going through because there wasn't any violence as such. It was more psychological and emotional.
"We didn't argue regularly, but when we did it was a fully-blown bust-up. It was never physical; just name calling. She would call me a f****** b****** or f****** sh*** and the likes. She said things to bring me down; things that were meant to really hurt. She used to tell me I was useless and that I needed help. And sometimes that was in front of the kids.
"She saw all our problems as being my fault. After the sexual abuse during my childhood, I became a very inward-looking person. Then, throughout our marriage, I battled with low self-esteem, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. My personal problems got worse after our first child was born because I was very protective towards him. It began to drive a wedge through the relationship.
"When intimacy broke down, I felt my wife's reluctance to be together was a punishment. It was as if she was controlling me by making it clear that she didn't want to be intimate with me.
"There were also money issues. I used to do the weekly shopping because my wife said I didn't give her enough money to buy groceries. But then she used to go out and buy things that were unnecessary because she said the money she earned was her own.
"For a long time I blamed myself and I didn't realise what was happening. Had I known better, I would have left long before her."
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On the 12th of September I found myself in a fight at a Trustee Board meeting over a worrying policy being passed at the board with no debate from the wider student body. This report – which I have attached below – was a brief for the Guild Trustee Board to secretly pass policy to help spy on Muslim students. Muslim students have this Wednesday passed a motion unanimously to end the policy.
This victory is the result of Muslim students getting organised to fight against an initiative by the police designed to spy on them. Together with a big campaign and this widely supported open letter to Guild Councillors they have effectively stopped in its tracks a programme by the Guild of Students that the police have described as a "sector leader" in enaging with Prevent.
A policy, with the Orwellian title of "good campus relations" was passed by the Guild Trustee Board based on the rationale that "Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism continues to present a risk to campus cohesion" (actual quote from the report). The report starts with explaining what Prevent is: "The UK Government and police forces have also been promoting a series of initiatives labelled as the "Prevent" agenda, which seeks to involve a wide range of stakeholders in community cohesion to identify those who may be at risk of religious and/or political radicalisation."
Unknown to nearly every student the Guild has worked extensively with this Islamophobic scheme which spies on Muslim students. The Guild has been collecting and handing over data of our political activity to the police because "many vulnerable students are at risk of radicalisation and we need to ensure there are confidential, robust methods to respond appropriately " Page seven of the report.
In the words of the report "The University & Guild have been identified as sector-leaders in engaging positively with the police on "Prevent." The report identifies that the Guild has set up its current freedom of speech request forms to help identify and assess the activities of its student groups. The report which you can read attached is incredibly hazy on the details of its changes to the freedom of speech forms and process. However, one of the key changes, which is not directly mentioned in the report, is that students have to disclose the religious and political affiliations of any speakers they invite to the university 21 days prior to the event, who then hand this information over to a committee with anti-terrorism police sitting on.
All this has happened at the University of Birmingham in response to a threat based on an "incident" in 2009, which the report sums up as follows.
"The issue of student vulnerability to radicalisation was brought to national attention with the arrest of an alleged terrorist on a flight to Detroit in December 2009. Colleagues will recall that the arrested person had been President of the Islamic Society at UCL. These events prompted a letter from Lord Mandelson (then Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills) to Vice-Chancellors informing them of a UUK Working Group on Extremism had been created, and reminding HEIs of "a duty towards all their staff and students particularly in identifying and protecting vulnerable young people.
The President of UCL ISoc was later shown by an independent inquiry to have been radicalised after being at university so this case is irrelevant. This incident is however the reason for the founding of Prevent "the biggest spying programme in Britain in modern times" -Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, Liberty .
Since prevent has been set up officers working for Prevent have asked university chaplains, lecturers and union officials to point out to them depressed, quiet or isolated Muslim students as apparently they are "vulnerable" to becoming terrorists. Prevent officers attend activist meetings undercover on campus and the University of Bradford say they have been asked to disclose students' names and dates of birth to a liaison officer working as part of Prevent. The Guardian claims that its inquiries show that several colleges in London and Lancashire have been asked for the same disclosures.
This is an initiative to spy on a group of people who have done nothing wrong, based on their shared religion. It is a breach of human rights and a recipe for further isolation of the British Muslim community. Forty English universities have been singled out as "particular risk" of radicalisation and are being targeted for work with Prevent. Which universities are amongst the forty is not clear; however we do know universities like Bradford and Lancaster have rejected working with Prevent. Student unions including Goldsmiths King's College, Warwick, Manchester the London School of Economics, University of the Arts London, Queen Mary and Imperial College have all have refused to work with prevent and help spy on their students.
The Guild's work & policy to counter "extremism" has been done entirely behind closed doors in consultation with the police and university. Until I became a trustee and this report was presented outlining the work of the past year with the government's prevent initiative I had no idea of the repressive policies and practices carried out behind closed doors between the Guild, university and police. It makes me wonder what is going on elsewhere in other universities if they can do this here without anyone batting an eyelid.
"Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism" is not a threat on campus, any suggestion that it is simply based on massive paranoia. The policies in place now are based on this Islamophobic rationale and violate the human rights of all Muslim students on campus. Furthermore Prevent has been perpetuating the isolation of Muslim students, who with this policy in place should rightly be distrustful of their union, which seems committed to working with a police initiative to spy on their activities.
The Trustee Board must accept this policy and ensure the Guild now ceases this work immediately, stops handing over information about student's political activities to a committee with anti-terrorism police and changes the regressive freedom of speech forms.
I have combined this post with a letter the Trusteeboard. Along with another letter to Emma Thompson, a Guild Trustee who is also the Vice Chair Police Association of Higher Education Liaison Officers, which has responsibility for "assisting the National Prevent Delivery Unit in producing a Preventing Violent Extremism Guidance for Police Officers working within Universities" to ensure the message get across that the model implemented by the Guild of Students and University of Birmingham is not acceptable and has been completely rejected.


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Toronto Transit Commission Launches Mobile Site for Transit System
Transit riders in Toronto now have an mobile version of the TTC website to check transit info while on the go. The new site launched Friday as part of a larger TTC tech initiative that will expand the trip planner and eventually be part of the Open Data initiative so applications like Google Transit can get updated information.
The new TTC site can be found at m.ttc.ca, mobile.ttc.ca and mymobile.ttc.ca you can see a screenshot of the homepage on the right. All the basic options are there to check routes and maps. The trip planner (below) let's you map out your trip from start to finish an includes not only the basic info, but also stop numbers and walking times/distances.
The TTC announcement indicates that there is far more to come, including numbering all the bus stops around the city. I hope the TTC add features like being able to know when the next bus or streetcar is coming (a very handy feature that we already have here in Vancouver). I guess I'm a little surprised that Toronto didn't have a mobile version of the transit site already, but now they do.
If you're a TTC rider, give the site a shot and let me know what you think. Ping me at tris [at] thenextweb [dot] com or @TheNextWebCA on Twitter.
Streetcar image by TMAB2003 from Flickr
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Robin DiAngelo holds a Bachelor's Degree in History and Sociology from Seattle University, a Master's Degree in Education from the University of Washington (UW), and a PhD in Critical Multicultural Education & Whiteness Studies from UW as well. Since 2007, she has been an Associate Professor of Multicultural Education at Westfield State University in Massachusetts.
Arguing that "all education is political and no teacher is objective," DiAngelo candidly declares that her "teaching agenda" is devoted to "changing the way students see themselves in relation to the world around them" – specifically, to have them engage in "critical self-reflection" that leads to "multicultural awareness" about the prevalence of "social injustice" and the degree to which racism is "embedded in the foundation of U.S. society."
DiAngelo says that because she grew up "poor and white," for many years she herself was largely blind to the "race privilege" she enjoyed as a white person – until introspection eventually helped her gain "deeper insight" into how a racist American society had "socialized" her "to collude with racism."
In a lengthy 2011 essay titled "White Fragility," DiAngelo writes that "white people in North America live in a social environment" that "protects and insulates them from race-based stress" while building "white expectations for racial comfort." "Whiteness," she says, refers to "the specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color." This "dominance," DiAngelo explains, "leads to racial arrogance" and renders whites blind not only to their own "history of brutality towards people of color," but also to the "structural inequality" that pervades society and rewards white people with all manner of "privilege." She argues that in order to minimize whatever guilt might be sparked by a conscious awareness of these historical and ongoing injustices, whites routinely cite their own "individualism," "hard work," and "virtue" as the qualities that have helped them attain greater levels of financial and professional success than many blacks. "Because whites live primarily segregated lives in a white-dominated society," adds DiAngelo, "they receive little or no authentic information about racism and are thus unprepared to think about it critically or with complexity."
"Whites are taught to see themselves as individuals, rather than as part of a racial group," DiAngelo elaborates in a 2015 piece titled "Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism," because "individualism enables us to deny that racism is structured into the fabric of society. This erases our history and hides the way in which wealth has accumulated over generations and benefits us, as a group, today. It also allows us to distance ourselves from the history and actions of our group."
"The disavowal of race as an organizing factor" in both "individual white consciousness" and "the institutions of society at large," says DiAngelo, "is necessary to support current structures of capitalism and domination," for "without it, the correlation between the distribution of social resources and unearned white privilege would be evident." DiAngelo claims that "whites have no compunction about debating the knowledge of people [like herself] who have thought complexly about race," and that they "generally feel free to dismiss these informed perspectives" rather than attempting to learn from them.
"Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture," DiAngelo avers, but "they will not be informed opinions." "Our socialization," she says, "renders us [whites] racially illiterate. When you add a lack of humility to that illiteracy (because we don't know what we don't know), you get the break-down we so often see when trying to engage white people in meaningful conversations about race."
By DiAngelo's telling, racism encompasses "economic, political, social, and cultural structures, actions, and beliefs" that "systematize and perpetuate an unequal distribution of privileges, resources and power between white people and people of color." But only whites can be racist, she maintains, because "the direction of power between whites and people of color is historic, traditional, normalized, and deeply embedded in the fabric of U.S. society."
In addition to her professorial activities, DiAngelo since the early 1990s has provided workplace training and consulting on issues of "cultural diversity and social justice, with a special focus on race relations." Her training sessions take "an anti-racist approach" founded on the premise that "the historic and current power differentials between people of color and white people" are the result of longstanding "dynamics of internalized racism and internalized dominance." Among DiAngelo's clients have been the City of Seattle, the Washington State Department of Health & Human Resources, the YMCA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the UC Davis School of Nursing, the Commonwealth Corporation, and many schools, both public and private.
For additional information on Robin DiAngelo, click here.
Further Reading: "Robin DiAngelo" (LinkedIn.com); "About Me" (RobinDiAngelo.com); "Philosophy of Teaching & Courses Taught" (RobinDiAngelo.com); "White Fragility" (by Robin DiAngelo, 2011); "Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism" (by Robin DiAngelo, Huffington Post, 4-30-2015).
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Patio Decor
One of the first things I fell in love with before we purchased our house three years ago was the side patio. Despite all of the things we immediately identified as projects for this house, the patio spaces and landscaping were not on that list. The previous owners did a fabulous job of defining the outdoor living areas which we absolutely love.
But when it comes to decorating those outdoor spaces, I am just now getting around to making my dreams for them a reality. I have teamed up with Gordmans to show you the end result and I'm so happy with how our side patio turned out!
I went into Gordmans knowing that I had $150 to spend. I also wanted to find pieces I could repurpose inside our home during the off-season. Because Gordmans is an off-price retailer, it the perfect place to shop the excess inventory from department and specialty stores but at Gordmans' greatly reduced prices. It means any budget goes so much further.
The first thing I found was this darling, over-sized lantern. I love putting real or battery-powered candles in it to set the mood around our patio furniture.
Not far from the lantern I found these adorable turquoise, glass canisters. I added some rock filler with some small votive candles to really complete them. I love the beach vibes they lend to this summer space.
I like to literally bring the inside out and make it feel as much like an outdoor living room as possible. I saw this wood clock and knew it would help me accomplish just that. During the non-summer months I know it will easily find a home inside as well.
But no patio is complete without a matching set of planters. I found these and felt they blended the beach vibes with the overall farmhouse feel we have throughout our home.
I know I'll be able to use these year after year and not get sick of the color or style.
We try to spend as much time outside as possible and it deserves as much attention to detail as any other part of our home. I'm so pleased with how it all looks and Gordmans really helped me take this space to the next level.
Now excuse me while I grab a glass of wine and get back to my patio. ?
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Looking for bike planter y'all have for sale
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You can't beat the original from 1941 which took an amazing 45 years for it to be premiered on TV in Britain because of Disney refusing to give permission for it to be shown.
I wonder whether this new version will eventually get seen on TV in the next few years? You mentioned the "mild threat and violence" - did the BBFC give it a PG certificate? - I wouldn't have said that about the original.


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Archive for February, 2016
Letter: Reporting abuse
Having the bishop or his representative discuss with the victim the pros and cons of filing a complaint is exactly why the Church is in such trouble.
The shirt box
Treasures are funny. So are those little boxes that we keep them in. Usually, when someone finds our treasure chests, the "treasure" part might not be immediately recognizable. I have an old shirt box with scraps of paper, and it is full of gems — that is, they are gems to me: written gems.
'Woman, there is your son': Entrustment on Calvary
It is a well-known point that St. John Paul II claimed in "Mulieris Dignitatem" that "the moral and spiritual strength of a woman is joined to her awareness that God entrusts the human being to her in a special way."
Dealing with 'twin sins' of despair and presumption
Q. You've spoken about God's love before and how it is important to know that God will never stop loving us. But my issue is that I teach young people who seem to think that, since God loves them, it doesn't matter how they live.
A question for Lent: Why are we faithful?
We know it as the "parable of the Prodigal Son," the story that possesses a remarkable quality: the ability to consistently produce new questions within us. What question will arise in us this Sunday?
'Spotlight' is not anti-Catholic, Vatican newspaper says
The Vatican newspaper said the Oscar-winning film, "Spotlight," is not anti-Catholic.
Archdiocese to move into historic 3M headquarters
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis plans to move its central corporation offices to the 3M Company's former headquarters in St. Paul. The archdiocese signed a lease Feb. 29 for the 75,000 square foot building in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood, northeast of downtown.
Tea cup art a visual reminder of domestic violence
Women with a personal experience of domestic violence or sexual assault etched their feelings into clay tea cups that a St. Catherine University student has made as part of an art installation to be on exhibit in March.
BSM student jurors decide no death penalty for Jesus
High school students in suburban Minneapolis got an education in the legal system and capital punishment by participating in a mock trial of Jesus using the present-day form of justice used in Texas, where by far more convicts are executed than any other U.S. state.
Red Bull event to help fundraising for Cathedral window
As skaters from around the country and the world compete at the annual Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championships Feb. 26-27 at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, spectators can send a text to help pay for the Cathedral's east rose window.
Hennepin painting recommended for removal from Capitol room
In a Jan. 8 letter to the subcommitte, the Minnesota Catholic Conference expressed opposition to the painting's removal because it represents an important moment in the history of Christianity in the state.


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The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans:
Some present-day humans derive up to ∼5% …of their ancestry from archaic Denisovans, an even larger proportion than the ∼2% from Neanderthals…We developed methods that can disambiguate the locations of segments of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans and applied them to 257 high-coverage genomes from 120 diverse populations, among which were 20 individual Oceanians with high Denisovan ancestry…In Oceanians, the average size of Denisovan fragments is larger than Neanderthal fragments, implying a more recent average date of Denisovan admixture in the history of these populations (p = 0.00004). We document more Denisovan ancestry in South Asia than is expected based on existing models of history, reflecting a previously undocumented mixture related to archaic humans (p = 0.0013). Denisovan ancestry, just like Neanderthal ancestry, has been deleterious on a modern human genetic background, as reflected by its depletion near genes. Finally, the reduction of both archaic ancestries is especially pronounced on chromosome X and near genes more highly expressed in testes than other tissues (p = 1.2 × 10−7 to 3.2 × 10−7 for Denisovan and 2.2 × 10−3 to 2.9 × 10−3 for Neanderthal ancestry even after controlling for differences in level of selective constraint across gene classes). This suggests that reduced male fertility may be a general feature of mixtures of human populations diverged by >500,000 years.
Take a look at the supplements for the functional stuff. I am not going to address that. Much of those results have been circulation or in other papers over the years. Rather, I want to highlight the variation in patterns of Denisovan admixture in non-Oceanian groups. Here is an important section:
Taken together, the evidence of Denisovan admixture in modern humans could in theory be explained by a single Denisovan introgression into modern humans, followed by dilution to different extents in Oceanians, South Asians, and East Asians by people with less Denisovan ancestry. If dilution does not explain these patterns, however, a minimum of three distinct Denisovan introgressions into the ancestors of modern humans must have occurred.
You see it on the figure above. The South Asian groups consistently jump well above the trend line for inferred Denisovan as a function of shared ancestry with
Australians non-West Eurasian ancestry. Also, if you look at the admixture patterns for Denisovan ancestry in South Asia you see they follow the ANI-ASI cline. That is, it seems to come into the South Asian populations through the "Ancestral South Indians." Interestingly, the Onge sample of Andaman Islanders has less Denisovan than low caste South Asian groups, reminding us that though the Onge and their kin are the closest modern populations to the ASI, they are not descended from the ASI. The highest fraction of inferred Denisovan is in the Sherpa people of Nepal.
The figure to the right is from Admixture facilitates genetic adaptations to high altitude in Tibet, and the authors find that the Sherpa are at one extreme in an ancestry cline in comparison to other East Asians. The figure is hard to make out, so I will tell you that many of the Sherpa are fixed for the red component, while other Tibetans are in positions in the middle, and most East Asians have low fractions of the red, with the Dai having none. The Gujarati sample form the HapMap have low fractions of both East Asian components. This is almost certainly an artifact of the shared ancestry of all eastern Eurasians (and perhaps Oceanians), of which the ASI were one descendant group. The proportion of Denisovan in low caste South Asians indicates that the fraction in ASI was about at the same level as the Sherpa. I suspect that ASI and the Tibetan groups got their Denisovan via different paths, but it doesn't seem like we know yet.
Overall I do marvel at what ancient DNA can tell us. Without it we wouldn't be talking about any of these admixture events; they'd be signals too weak to have left an obvious mark in the genome.


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(This is the L Storm film review, which is a 2018 Hong Kong action crime thriller film that is the 3rd film in the Storm series directed by David Lam)
L Storm is the 3rd film in the Storm series and this time it features back the renowned Louis Koo who has been catching criminals in the previous two films. It is directed by David Lam and also features some new casts such as Kevin Cheng and Stephy Tang, and it also serves as the debut film role for Adam Pak. Without further ado, let's see if the series could still hold on to its fire with almost the same formula in the L Storm film review below!
Investigator William Luk, portrayed by Louis Koo, is on another hunt as there are intels involving corruption and money laundering that involves people from the Mainland China. One of the Customs Officers is the prime suspect, but he and his team could not find enough evidence to capture him. Just then, someone has accused William that he has been laundering the money himself, but this time with a pretty concrete proof that he did. Could William manage to evade from both the police and the other triads before he can clear his name?
L Storm Film Review
The L Storm follows the almost similar and familiar formula of most of the Hong Kong action thriller films. In fact, it follows it to the heart and I could say that this really makes the story pretty predictable. It's a pity that the director could not make a slight change or at least a twist to the formula. The action scenes are pretty well done, and I could feel the tension rising as the characters fight with weapons and fists. Some of the fighting choreographies are pretty sick, which really signifies the experience of Hong Kong cinema in its action choreography. Pacing wise though, it's pretty good as there are a nice balance of action, tense and quiet scenes, even including some comedic moments.
The characters themselves are of the same old cliché, where the teammates are mostly minor characters with only some speaking lines, and the girls are there for their beauty, though some of them are pretty beautiful. The antagonist and the main character is just okay, but Adam Pak's performance as the bad guy does change it up a bit with his personalities, and fighting style. Otherwise, don't expect too much characterisation from this movie. Soundtrack wise it's pretty normal, with the familiar tracks that are very typical of Hong Kong cinema, and is there basically just for increasing tension or make things more dramatic, but they are not very memorable.


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Three Teams Selected For The Spin Your Thesis! 2016 Campaign
This year ESA education has selected three teams to bring their experiments to another gravity level in the name of science. The campaign will take place from 5 to 16 September 2016 at the Large Diameter Centrifuge facility located at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
During the preparation of their experiments, the students will be supported by ESA's Education Office and hypergravity experts. A member of the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA) will also be at hand to provide advice and expertise in gravity-related research.
The selected teams and their experiments are the following:
PlanOx: This team composed of three PhD candidates and one master student from the Centre of Micro-BioRobotics at the Italian Institute of Technology in Pisa. The aim of their experiment is to induce oxidative stress in planarian worms by exposing these animals to hypergravity conditions, and to counteract the induced oxidative stress through the exploitation of a strong inorganic antioxidant, i.e., cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria).
Achilles: This team composed of one PhD and three masters students from University of Minho and University of Porto will investigate the potential of hypergravity to be used as a tool to develop novel tissue engineering strategies for tendon regeneration.
HypE: This team team is composed of one master student from the University of Pisa and one PhD student from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. The project will investigate the effect of hypergravity on human microvascular endothelial cells in order to better understand the effect of gravitational loading/unloading on this critical cell type.
This opportunity complements other gravity research opportunities offered by ESA's Education Office, such as 'Fly Your Thesis!', 'Drop Your Thesis!' and Rocket EXperiments for University Students/ Balloon Experiments for University Students – 'REXUS/BEXUS'


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I'm having issues with the display of my Steel HR / Steel HR Sport. What should I do?
This article will help you if you encounter any of the following issues:
- Your Steel HR / Steel HR Sport is in Demo Mode
- Your Steel HR / Steel HR Sport cycles through different screens on its own
If you encounter any of the issues mentioned above, try to perform a factory reset. To do so, perform the following steps:
- Go to the Settings of your mobile device, select Bluetooth and locate the watch in the list of devices. Select the small icon to the right of the watch and select the option to Forget or Remove the device.
- Press and hold the button on the side of watch for 10 seconds. It will now show Display Exit.
- Press and hold the button on the side of the watch for 3 seconds until the words, Reset in 5 clicks appear on the screen
- Press the button on the side of the watch 5 times (the display will count down from 5 to 1 with each press).
The watch will then show go.withings.com.
- Try the installation process again.


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ride (off) into the sunset(redirected from riding into the sunset)
ride (off) into the sunset
To resolve or conclude things in a neat, happy, and satisfactory fashion; to retire from work, use, or relevance, especially on a positive note or after a long and successful period of activity. An allusion to the clichéd endings of western movies, often showing the main characters riding horseback into the sunset at the conclusion of the film. Often used sarcastically, ironically, or humorously. Despite the turbulence in the first few years, the president is now riding off into the sunset with a huge approval rating and a whole host of policies enacted under his watch. I'm tired of comedies that see everyone just ride into the sunset at the end. How about showing some realistic consequences for the things these types of characters do?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
ride off into the sunsetachieve a happy conclusion to something.
In the closing scenes of westerns, the characters are often seen riding off into the sunset after everything has been resolved satisfactorily.
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Uptime – a commodity to techies
As a tech company, we're constantly chasing this thing called uptime, what is it really?
First off, I think that HUGE credit needs to go to SUSE for creating this parody music video. It's not only VERY well done, but as a techie (or geek) it spoke to me and is effectively the basis of this article.
Speaking of uptime as a commodity, you'd immediately think that uptime was something tangible that you could pick up and put in your pocket… well, it almost is.
When a tech company, providing a mission critical service, advertises itself , you'll hear them talking about 99.9999999999999999999% uptime – I remember when NetDynamix (in one of the first sales meetings we had) was presenting to a potential client and they asked us how many 9's we would guarantee them. Truth be told that I actually had NO idea what they were talking about but I quickly retorted something along the lines of, "we prefer to focus on getting the job done, keeping you online as much as possible and focus on the 9's only if we're dropping the ball – which is something that's not in our vocabulary"
(I was sweating bullets as one normally does when they're improvising)
So what is 99.99999%, what is uptime and why does it matter so much?
Basically when we speak of uptime, we're talking about the amount of time (referred as a percentage) in a month that our servers HAVE BEEN or WILL BE up and online and providing you the service which you pay us for.
It's kind of the same confidence that you want when pulling into a petrol station expecting them to have fuel so you can fill your car up.
So if you were a courier company and I told you that the petrol station around the corner from your office could only guarantee that they'd have fuel for you 75% of the month, you probably wouldn't bank on them as a place to refuel your fleet of trucks. However… 99% sounds just fine, right?
The answer to that question would probably be yes, but there's plenty more 9's that we can fit behind the missing decimal point…
When 99% just isn't good enough!!!
I'm being serious. Sometimes 99% isnt good enough.
I should probably start off by saying that uptime excludes any planned service outages such as planned maintenance or regular scheduled maintenance windows. So, if every Monday your provider has scheduled to do maintenance between 01:00am and 03:00am, this 2 hour window does not affect their uptime.
Regular/Scheduled outages aside. Consider this:
- 99% uptime – often referred to as "two nines"
allows for a total of 14.4 minutes a day
or 1.68 hours a week, 7.2 hours a monthwhereas;
- 99.9999999% uptime – often referred to as "nine nines"
allows for a total of 31.55 MILLISECONDS of downtime A YEAR
Now I don't know how you feel, but as an business who relies heavily on multiple systems to get my work done and knowing my luck… Murphy would ensure that the 14.4 minutes of downtime would happen to me when I most needed my email or internet access. In fact, Murphy would ensure that my internet was down for 14.4 minutes and then my email directly after that for another 14.4 minutes.
I'm digressing. Just because the provider is offering 99% – that doesn't mean that every day we should expect to be down for 14.4 minutes.
Being realistic seems like a better option
I think back to when I spun the story to get out of answering the "how many 9's will you give us" question.
Surely it's better to strive for the best possible uptime rather than guaranteeing something unrealistic?
Yes and no. If I look at NetDynamix, because that's the only real data I have, our various servers over the last 90 days have had an uptime of 100%
However, in the same period of time, VARIOUS client's have been affected with internet and power outages due to many reasons out of our control, from things such as copper theft to bills not being paid, etc.
Essentially what I'm saying here is that uptime gaurantees are usually very focused on the part of the service a tech company delivers. Let's look at the petrol station analogy again.
If I park my car at home and take a walk to the petrol station expecting them to fill my car up, I can't very well be upset with them for being unable to do so since I left my car at home.
Similarly, if our services are up and all links and networks that get the service from us to you are up, but your office electricity is out due to cable theft, we are somewhat exonerated in this instance. 90%* of the time we don't get blamed for problems outside the scope of our service. Techies, you've all experienced the 10% of the time when you get blamed for the internet being down when there's a power outage? (am I right?)
So where do you place the pegs when dealing with your uptime guarantee?
Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy…. Redundancy!!!
We strive for 99.99% uptime at all times, which allows us a total of just under 5 minutes of unscheduled downtime a month and we're proud that we meet this goal 99.999%* of the time. The big secret of course is that at this stage of the game, redundancy and proactive monitoring are words that drive our network design and server/service implementation because redundant systems are essential in order to guarantee your clients only the best.
I know that many providers operating in our space usually don't even own or manage their infrastructure, let alone having any redundant infrastructure sitting around waiting to be brought online when disaster hits.
How do you deal with uptime guarantees? Share your comments with us below.


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For Release:
George Jackson
WASHINGTON—The American Federation of Teachers today placed the Washington Teachers' Union under administratorship to ensure that democratic procedures are followed promptly for the 2010 WTU internal elections. This action is part of an ongoing effort by the AFT to ensure that the WTU elections are carried out in a manner consistent with the WTU constitution and does not currently involve the day-to-day operations of the WTU.
According to the WTU constitution, elections were supposed to be held last spring, with the installation of new officers by July 1. For various reasons, starting with the failure to properly elect an elections committee, that election was delayed. The AFT intervened to manage that initial concern, but unfortunately, the new election committee was stymied in its attempt to carry out the election.
"The AFT intervened for one purpose only—to ensure that the WTU membership has the right to a timely and fair election of its officers," said AFT President Randi Weingarten. "Intervention like this is uncommon, and we avoid in every way possible involving ourselves in political differences between union officers."
The AFT said the WTU is refusing to comply with an Aug. 4 AFT executive council order requiring the union to begin election procedures immediately. This order was the result of an investigation conducted by the AFT in July. The investigation produced a number of findings, one of which was that the election process should begin immediately, with the AFT managing the proceedings.
In an Aug. 16 letter, the holdover officials of the WTU—President George Parker and the WTU executive board—informed the AFT that they did not intend to adhere to the ruling of the investigative committee, prompting the AFT to declare the administratorship.
"The 4,000-plus members of the WTU deserve an election process that is democratic, fair, transparent and timely," Weingarten said. "We are confident in our ability to work through the current difficulties to provide them with the chance to properly elect their leaders."


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Police have raided Sony Music's offices in Mexico City, seizing albums, master recordings and cover art for one of Latin music's biggest stars.
Mexico's public ministry and federal police were acting on a court order concerning ranchera singer Alejandro Fernández. A two-time Latin Grammy winner, Fernández was signed to Sony Music from 1998 to 2008 but left last year for Universal. Sony has gone ahead with plans to release an album of unreleased material, called Diferente, which Fernández alleges they have no right to do.
"Sony assumed that they could take tracks that weren't part of previous albums and release them as an eighth album, as if it were new material, over which they had rights," Jose Luis Caballero, Fernández's attorney, told Billboard. "It's perfectly clear that the company's contract is limited to seven albums."
Caballero said that they had issued a cease and desist letter two weeks ago and after this was ignored, sought a search and seizure order. Police reportedly seized 6,397 Fernández CDs, masters of unreleased music, and art for Diferente.
Sony Music issued a statement saying it was "surprised and disappointed" by the raid, calling the recordings "totally authorised". "We trust that the Mexican courts will confirm our rights as soon as possible," a spokesperson said.
Fernández has sold more than 15m records worldwide.


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Comscore Releases '2013 Brazil Digital Future in Focus' Report
Brazilian Internet Users Spend 27 Hours Online Per Month, More Than Any Other Latin American Market
Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 7, 2013– Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, today released the 2013 Brazil Digital Future in Focus report. This annual report examines how the prevailing trends in web usage, social media, online video, digital advertising, mobile and search are defining the current marketplace and how they are likely to shape the coming year. Key trends and highlights will be presented via a complimentary, live webinar on Thursday, March 14 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time (5:00 PM Brazil). This session will be broadcasted in English. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Events_and_Webinars/Webinar/2013/2013_Brazil_Digital_Future_in_Focus
"The Brazilian digital landscape saw significant change in 2012 led by the strong emergence of Social Networking, in addition to increasing media consumption in terms of online video and display advertising," said Alex Banks, Comscore managing director for Brazil & VP Latin America. "As these media vehicles continue to grow, they are providing new and exciting opportunities for publishers hoping to attract audiences and marketers seeking to reach consumers."
Key insights from the 2013 Brazil Digital Future in Focus (#FiFBrasil) report include:
- Consumers in Brazil spent more than 27 hours per month online on their desktop computers, representing the highest average engagement of all 8 Latin American markets analyzed. (Source: Comscore Media Metrix)
- The Brazilian internet audience is very young on average, with 18 percent of users age 18-24 and 30 percent of all users age 25-34. (Source: Comscore Media Metrix)
- Mobile phones and tablets are becoming more important to the Brazilian internet landscape. Page views from Non-PC devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets) reached an all-time high at nearly 6 percent. (Source: Comscore Device Essentials)
- Online Retail continues to grow in Brazil with the total number of category page views up 9 percent during 2012. Mercado Livre remains the top Retail property, reaching more than 14 million visitors in December. (Source: Comscore Media Metrix)
- Online Advertising is on the rise, with more than 789 billion display ad impressions delivered in 2012. Portals and Social Networking are the two largest content categories for delivery of these ads, representing a combined 45 percent of the market. Dafiti.com.br was the largest display advertiser in Brazil with more than 25 billion ad impressions in 2012. (Source: Comscore Ad Metrix)
- Social Media sites capture the largest percentage of consumers' time in Brazil at 36 percent. Facebook has emerged as a strong leader in the category with nearly 44 million unique visitors in December 2012, up 22 percent vs. year ago. (Source: Comscore Media Metrix)
- Online video consumption in Brazil grew 18 percent in 2012. Google Sites (YouTube) remains the top video property, while VEVO ranks second. Facebook was one of the fastest-growing online video properties with a gain in its video-viewing audience of more than 400 percent. (Source: Comscore Video Metrix)
Complimentary Webinar
Join Alex Banks, Brazil Managing Director & VP Latin America on Thursday, 14th March as he shares key insights from the 2013 Brazil Digital Future in Focus report and discusses what these trends mean for marketers.
To register for the English session of the webinar, please visit: http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Events_and_Webinars/Webinar/2013/2013_Brazil_Digital_Future_in_Focus
To register for the Portuguese session of the webinar, please visit: http://www.comscore.com/por/Insights/Events_and_Webinars/Webinar/2013/2013_Brazil_Digital_Future_in_Focus
About Comscore
Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, delivering insights on web, mobile and TV consumer behavior that enable clients to maximize the value of their digital investments. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com/companyinfo.
Ana Laura Zain
Sr. Manager, Corporate Marketing, EMEA
Comscore, Inc.
+44 20 3111 1730
Multi-Platform Content Measurement
Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform provides an unduplicated view of total audience behavior across desktops, smartphones and tablets.


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Attendee QR Codes
Attendee QR Codes
As an event organizer, you have the option of sending unique, fully encrypted, QR Codes to your attendees through emails, vouchers in PDF form, or even through the InEvent app
QR Codes are useful for many reasons. For an event organizer, they help in the access control of their event attendees by knowing who is or who is not allowed into the event. This is especially useful in situations where the number of guests may be large, or the event is held at a big venue, like a stadium.. Furthermore, they are not shareable and attendees cannot gain access to another person's QR Code, making it more secure for use.
An Example of a QR code below:
QR code on the badge : ACCREDITATION
After printing the QR Code through the accreditation solutions, all attendees will have their QR Code printed and affixed to a badge/ID card of the organization hosting the event.
For more information, go to Accreditation .
QR code: on the APP
After downloading the app, all the attendees who are logged in have access to the QR Code in VOUCHER or MY QR CODE. Press MENU then choose either 1 - Voucher or 2- My QR Code
QR code in the confirmation email:
If the confirmation email option is enabled in the tools, once an invitee signs up and is registered onto the attendees list, they will receive a confirmation email with their QR Code. For more information go to Confirmation email
To enable the confirmation email simply press, SETTINGS > TOOLS > Then in the CONTROL section, enable the CONFIRMATION EMAIL checkbox by going into Edit Mode (top right) and clicking on the box for CONFIRMATION EMAIL. Click on the END tab to save the changes.
Note: use the Search function on the top right to quickly find this option.
Additionally, the InEvent platform has an option of sending an automatic confirmation email that should be used to send a QR Code 24 hours in advance of the event's start. To send this automatic email, go to MARKETING > COMMUNICATION > AUTOMATIC EMAILS.
Then from the left side menu click on MEDIA, QR CODE and drag and drop it to the email
QR Code : PDF
To extract the exclusive QR Code from your platform direct attendee, you must have the 'VOUCHER' tool enabled. For more information, access the Digital Ticket Voucher
After that you should go to PEOPLE > ATTENDEES, Select an attendee and click on their name, then Click on the EDIT button in the top right corner. A new window to the right will open. Click on the SEE VOUCHER Icon, which is highlighted in the image below:
A downloadable PDF will open in the next page, containing the attendees information and their QR code, you can download the PDF and send it to your attendee.


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Office of Student Engagement
Get Involved
Student Life at Fayetteville State University is vibrant and alive with Bronco Pride! Built upon a strong foundation of tradition and commitment to scholarship, leadership and service, the Office of Student Engagement provides many opportunities for you to transform your dreams into reality.
At FSU, there are various pathways for you to explore, develop and thrive through experiences outside the classroom that are exciting, fun, and engaging.
Programs and experiences help you identify a clear path for discovering and realizing career and personal dreams.
So, get Involved, join a club, serve your community, become a leader, and have an unforgettable FSU experience!


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Thirty-six of the most academically outstanding and socially committed US citizens have been selected to be part of the 2017 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge - and six will be joining the Department of POLIS.
Mr Montana Wilson
MPhil Development Studies
Montana Duke Wilson is an enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and is descendent of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Prior to receiving his bachelor degrees, Montana held commissions as a criminal prosecutor and public defender for the Fort Peck Tribes. Upon the successful completion of his MPhil, Montana plans to return to his reservation to pursue a career in economic development for his tribes.
Mr Nicholas Ahamed
MPhil International Relations and Politics
Nicholas Ahamed joins Cambridge from Stanford University where his research focused on bringing rigorous methodologies to questions of politics, race and voting. His thesis examining Islamophobia in America synthesized the lessons of his Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and his minor in Statistics. Subsequently, he served as a data scientist at Civis Analytics providing data-driven strategic recommendations and targeting guidance to PACs in the 2016 election.
Ms Anna Forringer-Beal
MPhil Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies
Anna Forringer-Beal's undergraduate research at the University of Michigan focused on understanding the experiences of Central American women as they migrated to the United States. While researching at the Undocumented Migration Project, she was able to explore how cultural perceptions of immigration and gender influenced modern policy. As an MPhil student at Cambridge, Anna's research will compare human trafficking policy in the United Kingdom and the United States to better understand their impact.
Ms Rebecca Resnik
MPhil Public Policy
Rebecca Resnik has served the United States in the Department of Defense and as a Foreign Service Officer at the Department of State. After graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in international politics and security studies, she began her career in the world of intelligence, concentrating on counter-terrorism and combating proliferation. Rebecca currently serves as the Public Diplomacy Coordinator for Mainland Southeast Asia, developing outreach programs that promote U.S. Government priorities in the region.
Ms Chelsie Riche
MPhil African Studies
At Rutgers University, Chelsie Riche received her BSc degree in Africana Studies and History. She served as president of the Galvanizing and Organizing Youth Activism (GOYA) organization, where she planned 5k walks to promote literacy, and collected school supplies for local and global communities. At Cambridge, Chelsie's research will centre on the contemporary student led #FeesMustFall movement in post-apartheid South Africa.
Ms Jessica Van Meir
MPhil Development Studies
As an undergraduate at Duke University majoring in Public Policy and minoring in Psychology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Jessica Van Meir has focused on using policy for the advancement of gender equality, whether through combatting campus sexual assault, advocating for transgender rights in Ecuador, or increasing menstrual product access for girls and women in Kenya and the US. Through the MPhil in Development Studies at Cambridge, Jessica plans to further study how states and citizens negotiate space in cities and explore methods for combatting poverty in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.