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The short life and brutal demise of Raymond Gubbay's Savoy Opera dealt a blow to the idea that you can run an opera company like a budget airline. But there has never been any doubt about the commercial allure of an outstanding operatic voice. In particular, the heroic and romantic qualities of the tenor have always resonated with the public.
There are high-minded singers who won't countenance the idea of stepping outside the gilded cage of art-song, but Luciano Pavarotti, a working-class baker's son, can't understand what his critics are complaining about when they disparage his forays into pop.
"I think the tenor has always been a popular singer," he says. "The tenor is the hero and the lover. A lot of songs that were pop songs of their time, like O Sole Mio or Mamma, were written for the tenor, anyhow."
Since 1992, Pavarotti has engulfed in his huge embrace many pop singers at his Pavarotti and Friends Concerts in his home town of Modena - from Stevie Wonder to the Spice Girls, Celine Dion, George Michael and U2. However, the tenor's charitable aim of raising funds for child victims of war has not always won over his critics, who regard the event as tawdry and undignified.
"Some say the word 'pop' is derogatory and means 'not important' - I do not accept that," says Pavarotti. "If the word 'classical' is the word to mean 'boring', I do not accept that either. There is good and bad music."
Pavarotti and Friends has produced countless "pull the other leg" moments, such as Deep Purple's Ian Gillan singing Nessun Dorma (not easy when you sound like a plumber with emphysema) or an earnest Michael Bolton duetting with Pavarotti on Vesti la Giubba, from Pagliacci. Pavarotti shrewdly keeps his powder dry by always appearing in a dinner suit and never deviating from his careful operatic method.
Sixty years ago, however, everybody felt perfectly comfortable with the idea of the tenor as pop singer. The versatile Austrian, Richard Tauber, found no difficulty in spanning opera, operetta, pop songs and novelty items, professing to find merit in all of them. Josef Locke, Londonderry's "Singing Bobby", became hugely popular in Britain as a variety artist with a repertoire of Italian songs and Irish ballads. His gifts as a tenor with the common touch were celebrated in Peter Chelsom's film Hear My Song.
The fact that the tenor's art is a perpetual high-wire act lends extra zest to the proceedings. While the crowd might adore the sweetness or resonance of the voice, there's the added frisson of knowing that at any moment it can all go horribly wrong.
"It's the most difficult voice," says top-ranking tenor Roberto Alagna. "It's not a natural voice - it's something you have to build, so it's a big risk and a lot of people are waiting all the time to see if you can hit this note or not. Everybody waits for the top note of a tenor, and it's a bit like a circus, because it's something abnormal."
If he can keep his nerve, and his bag of tricks is spectacular enough, a tenor can take the sky as his limit. It was Pavarotti's daring assaults on the nine high Cs in Donizetti's Fille du Régiment that helped to establish him as the world's top tenor in the late 1960s. On the other hand, when he cracked a top note in Don Carlos at La Scala, reports of his professional demise instantly rang around the world. And since the Three Tenors' debut in Rome to mark the World Cup in 1990, Pavarotti and his two partners have offered the most ostentatious demonstration of tenor-power ever seen, exploiting global broadcasting technology and publicity to pull in audiences unimaginable to singers of previous generations.
But the trio are only a contemporary manifestation of a great tradition dating back at least as far as Enrico Caruso, who used to sing Neapolitan songs in waterfront cafes before his operatic potential was spotted. "You live in the world in which you live," says Pavarotti. "You cannot stay out of the media, because it's part of the profession. I don't want to say it's a huge part, but it's a good part of it. With one Three Tenors concert, we sang to one-and-a-half billion people. I don't think Caruso sang to more than 100,000 people in his entire career."
Another of Pavarotti's formative influences was Mario Lanza, the Philadelphia-born former truck driver whose Hollywood movies gave many cinema-goers their first inkling of what an Italian tenor could sound like. "I think Mario Lanza did a lot for people of my age, with movies like The Great Caruso," Pavarotti suggests. "The movies weren't very sophisticated but they were very true, and I liked them very much. I would go to see his films at the age of 14 or 15 and then come home and stand in front of the mirror and do the same things he did."
Evidently, the idea of imitating your heroes in the bedroom mirror didn't begin with teenagers grabbing a hairbrush, curling a lip and trying to be Elvis. Speaking of whom, the King himself had always been under the spell of a fine tenor voice. "Elvis loved opera, and he especially liked Mario Lanza," recalls Marty Lacker, one of Elvis's "Memphis mafia" entourage. "He loved the power of the big voices, and he loved big orchestras. He liked real dramatic things." You can hear Lanza's effect on Elvis in recordings such as Can't Help Falling in Love or Are You Lonesome Tonight, while It's Now or Never was an unapologetic Americanisation of Lanza's 1949 hit, O Sole Mio.
It's intriguing that even while opera has become more or less a byword for the idea of exclusiveness and remoteness from everyday life, operatic terms continue to hold their own curiously warped meanings in the pop arena. The word "diva" is routinely applied to any female pop singer who sells a few million units, while "operatic" has become a loose portmanteau term encompassing all manner of taste crimes. Russell Mael of Sparks brought a parody of La Scala to 1970s hits such as This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us, while Jim Morrison used his baleful baritone as one instrument in what he called the "total theatre" of the Doors' performances.
Freddie Mercury managed to smuggle some of the overheated emotions and sheer implausibility of the average operatic plot into Queen's otherwise leaden pomp-metal. His natural heir is Justin Hawkins of the Darkness. Whether you'd describe Hawkins as a tenor is difficult to assess - this may be a man who has already travelled beyond mere terminology - but if ever a performer was "bringing opera to the masses", this must be the guy.
· Adam Sweeting is writer and producer of Arena: Pavarotti - The Last Tenor, to be shown on BBC2 on Saturday.


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FUJIFILM Corporation today announces that it will implement a worldwide price increase for its offset printing plates effective from 1st July 2011. The increase will be double-digit, with the exact figure decided regionally based on local conditions.
Although Fujifilm has been proactively undertaking an intensive programme of structural reforms to reduce fixed costs and improve efficiencies, the cost of many raw materials has risen dramatically recently, significantly affecting the cost of plate manufacture.
In 2011 alone, the cost of aluminium and other major raw materials used in the manufacture of plates has increased dramatically. Although Fujifilm has tried to absorb these costs, the extent of the increases and the knock-on effect on the cost of manufacture has meant the company is unable to maintain the current pricing levels of offset plates. This coincides with an announcement last week about the increase in price of Fujifilm's graphic arts film products.
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I stared at his chest, I knew my eyes kept drifting downwards, but I somehow held myself together.
"Eve. Please, I cannot stand here naked. Can I at least have your dressing gown? It may be small but I can hide myself." I really didn't want to give it to him, but I gave in. "Thank you." He smiled as he slid it on, in doing so I caught a glimpse of his crotch and I felt my body shudder.
"Eve, what is it? Are you cold?" I thought I'd take the opportunity.
"Yes, extremely. Would you keep me warm in my bed? I won't do anything you don't want me to. I promise." I pulled a sexy smirk and bit my lip as I looked him up and down.
"Of course princess, but I must stay true to my word I gave to the king. He gave me his blessing."
"He gave you his blessing for what exactly?"
"Well it is customary for a prince to marry a princess, is it not?"
"I think so. But you're not a prince." I felt my heart drop. I could never be with him. (If this was real).
"Well, actually..."
"You are!?"
"My mother and father were the king and queen of another distant kingdom. But it was overrun by the wizard who attacked you. He is the only wizard in existence and he wishes to control your kingdom. That is why I am your knight. I am here to protect you, but also to avenge my parents." I was struck back by the confident speech he performed. I pulled him onto the bed, which was difficult, but I succeeded.
"Eve. You must know. I do have strong feelings for you. It is only because of my position as a knight that I cannot act upon it."
"Please Keth. I've fallen for you since the moment you saved me from Suzie. Let me love you."
"Eve. I cannot. There are rules against these thin...." I pressed my finger to his lips.
"Rules are just guidelines. They are made to be broken." I pushed myself forward and pressed my lips on his; he put his hands on my shoulders and pushed me back. We stared at each other for a few seconds and he pulled me back and we resumed kissing.
It was everything I hoped it would be, but it was as if Keth wasn't himself. He was kissing me ferociously and digging his nails into me, but I liked it. He stopped again and looked at me. "Eve, I must tell you. I do want this to go further, but I simply cannot allow it. You must understand it will risk the relationship we may be able to have in the future. I'm sorry, but this must stop." He stood up, pulled the fluffy blanket from the edge of my bed and made his bed on the floor.
I was so distraught. My mind was raging and I could not control myself. I walked out of the room and walked down to the kitchen. I pulled out the biggest alcoholic drink I could find (whiskey) and went back upstairs.
"Keth? I wanted to apologise. Here, have this. It will make you feel better and help you get to sleep." He was groggy, but he sat up and took a swig from the bottle.
"This is putrid! What is it?!"
"Its called whiskey. It makes you sleep better. It's like a potion. Take some more" He took a few more swigs and it only took him that many for him to lose his mind and become completely drunk.
"Y-y'know. I've always thought those r-rules were stupid." He slurred his words with hiccups. It had done the trick. I turned my back on him and began to strip down.
"I never realised you were so beautiful. Turn around sweetheart. Let me see you." His words became confident again, like the alcohol had left his voice, but still had the effect on his mind. I turned around, now only in my lace underwear. "What is it you want Keth. I know you don't want to sleep with me."
"Oh but I do."
"You – You do?" I didn't expect him to change his mind so quickly.
"Well, come here then." He stood up, stumbled, then began to walk over to me.
"Let us make the new prince of Winteroaks, my princess."
Two hours later, Keth was out for the count, but I was stood at my window with one of my parents cigarettes. I'd never smoked after sex, but now seemed like the right time. When I'd finished, I took the empty bottle from Keth's hand and threw it into the bushes outside, then slipped, still naked, next to Keth, who was also, stark naked. I cuddled up next to him, to which he subconsciously responded, and fell into a deep sleep, having the past two hours running through my head whilst I did.


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142 year-old historic Alberta church destroyed in blaze
New studies find Alberta Métis face heightened burden of disease, injuries
Scientists researching earthquakes tap possible geothermal energy source
Interest in dual credit programs jumps as students realize benefits of starting early
Popular off-roading areas under close watch over May long weekend
Albertans asked to submit ticks to aid provincial monitoring efforts
City police constable receives Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal for helping on the ground in Haiti
Female driver dead after highway collision with tractor trailer near Lethbridge
Thousands attend for Vaisakhi Day parade in Edmonton
Let Alberta's Catholic teachers use judgment in religious instruction, union says
Witnesses pull driver from central Alberta pond after his vehicle becomes partially submerged
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits TELUS World of Science in Edmonton
Trans Mountain fight 'going to be ugly,' says industry veteran at Edmonton oil, gas conference
Lower costs drive drilling boom in 'bellwether' Montney shale formation in northwest Alberta, BC
Time for Americans to decide their priorities for NAFTA talks, Canadian manufacturers say
Leduc mayor hopes Ford distribution centre will spur more investment in region
Champion Petfoods building big new plant near Edmonton
Auditor general slams federal temporary foreign worker program — Alberta working with employers
Indigenous families, without answers for so many years, frustrated by slow start at federal inquiry
Michael Flynn to decline Senate Intel committee subpoena, invoke 5th Amendment later today
Ford replaces CEO Mark Fields amid sagging stock price and transition into 'mobility' company
Israelis and Arabs share 'common cause' against Iran and extremism, Trump says
Twitter co-founder: I'm sorry if we made Donald Trump's presidency possible
Prince Harry brings girlfriend Meghan Markle to Pippa Middleton's wedding reception
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This Workshop for Ethics in Business luncheon will examine the intersection of Web 2.0 technologies and the effort to hold corporations to account for both the harms and benefits they create. As Steve Rochlin and James Farrar wrote recently in the Financial Times, big global challenges such as climate change, energy policy, poverty, access to education, and human rights exist where business and society overlap. Web 2.0 has the potential to enable meaningful dialogue, collaboration, and problem solving between companies and their stakeholders. Will it rise to meet the challenge?
Participants include John Abell of wired.com; James Farrar of SAP; Gerhard Pohl of Development Gateway Foundation; Emily Polk of CSRwire.com; Steve Rochlin of AccountAbility; Devin Stewart of Carnegie Council; and Andrew Zolli of Pop!Tech.
This event, which is organized in collaboration with AccountAbility and SAP, is part of the Carnegie Council's Workshops for Ethics in Business series, sponsored by Booz & Company's strategy+business magazine. Support also comes from SAP, Merck, and New York University's Center for Global Affairs.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former world number one Adam Scott says he will be glued to television coverage of the Olympic Games in August, but does not plan to watch any of the golf.
Two weeks after announcing that he would skip the Rio Games, the first prominent player to do so, Scott on Wednesday spoke about his decision, saying he has not abandoned Australia and feels that he represents his nation every time he competes.
"I love watching the Olympics, the swimming and athletics (track and field), absolutely," the 2013 Masters champion told Reuters, before adding that he would tune out the golf.
"I don't need to see the same guys play four more rounds."
That is the sort of comment golf's ruling bodies no doubt hoped to avoid when they persuaded the International Olympic Committee to add the sport to the Games schedule for the first time since 1904.
South Africans Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel, both of them former major winners, have followed Scott's lead in skipping Rio.
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The man accused of shooting and killing two people in a Knoxville church Sunday wrote that he hated liberals and was bitter he couldn't find a job, police said Monday.
Authorities added he may also have been angry about possibly losing his food stamps.
Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen said investigators discovered a four-page letter in suspect Jim David Adkisson's vehicle outside the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, where the shooting occurred.
In the letter, Adkisson, 58, of Powell, Tenn., "repeatedly included disgust for what he perceived to be the liberals in our country," Owen said. "And he repeatedly said how frustrated he was he could not get a job."
Adkisson, charged with one count of first-degree murder, is scheduled to appear at a preliminary court hearing next Tuesday.
Police and witnesses said Adkisson pulled a 12-gauge shotgun out of a guitar case and opened fire while children performed Annie Jr. Sunday morning. He fired three times before members of the congregation tackled him. Seven adults were injured. Two had been released from the hospital, and the others remained in serious or critical condition Monday, Owen said.
"The intention was to shoot as many people as he could with the expectation he would be killed by the police," Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam said.
Other potential motives include the loss of public benefits, Owen said.
When searching Adkisson's residence, police found a letter from the state informing him he would be receiving fewer food stamps or none at all, Owen said.
"That might have been a trigger," Owen said.
Police said they don't believe Adkisson ever attended the church. His ex-wife, Liza Alexander, may have attended at some point, said Ted Jones, 56, president of the congregation. She was not there Sunday, he said.
Alexander received a restraining order against Adkisson in March 2000. She wrote in court records that she feared him. "Jim David Adkisson told a friend of mine that one of his options is to blow my brains out and then blow his own brains out," Alexander wrote. "I am in fear for my life and what he might do."
Owen said police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime. Because of that, the FBI has joined the investigation, said Stacie Bohanan, spokeswoman for the FBI's Knoxville division.
"Anytime someone uses force to obstruct another person in the free exercise of their religious beliefs, that becomes a violation of the federal civil rights statutes," she said.
Jones said Unitarians advocate for civil rights and social justice. It was unclear whether Adkisson intentionally targeted the church.
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This is my first spoken-word written. It's got a little bit of everything in here, actually. Got my anorexia, the rape, some fights, and some extras in here for ya'll to enjoy. Thanks!
Today, I drove to town
And as I was driving I thought to myself
How easy it would be to just let go
Let go of the steering wheel and crash
Crash, crashing like my life did
My life went crash, and all my hopes
Everything I've ever aspired to be came crashing down
Downward toward the floor I'd worked so hard to get up from
Down where my silhouette is still visible because I was a doormat
And I thought that was my place,
Let them do their thing, just wait for it to end
But it never ended, did it?
Did it? The social workers ask me
Were you hurt? Yes, I answer
But you did nothing
Nothing was done to stop the pain from
Tearing into my body
I tore my heart open just to make more room
I tore my skin open to make room for the blade
I tore my stomach open to drain the food
And I tore my hair out when I still wasn't good enough
Will I ever be good enough for you?
When will I have done enough for you to want me?
To love me?
I remember when I was still a child, still believed
In God, in love, and in fairy tales
All of them are intertwined, without an ending
Because it can't be happy, and it can't be sad
So it shouldn't ever end, should it?
I believed trust should be given, as freely as an uncaged bird
And I trusted you, every part of you
I believed love was in excess, that I just had to find it
But I never did, it always kept running away
In the opposite direction
I remember when I was told I had an ED
That's eating disorder, like when women
Weren't happy with themselves, they starvED
They still do, I ate nothing for the sake of being lovED
Being beautiful, wantED, like your belovED
Like you love everyone else, everyone but me
Remember when you promisED to always be there?
I guess promises are futile, aren't they?
Always being editED, changED, to suit your own desires
Remember when you callED me and asked for forgiveness?
I don't, either.
Sometimes I lay awake at night
Just lying on my bed
Lying to myself, saying I'm worth it
Saying I'm worth better, more than you think I am
But it was a lie, just like your lies
Because your world lies to me
Just like I lie to all of you
I quit cutting, that one's true though
I quit smoking, that's a lie
I just quit when I get near my Grandma, because
I've hurt her enough by not being there
As much as I should be
I quit drugs, that's true
Because every time, I think of you
How you lied to me, ruined my trust in you
When you told me your love for meth was through
I'm supposed to look up to you
You're my brother, that's what we do, isn't it?
I quit crying, that's a lie
Because I never cry in the first place
At least not where you can see me
Hear me screaming out my rage at myself
Because I'm not as good as everyone else
I quit trying, that's a lie too
I'm always trying to win you over
Trying to be the perfect light in your otherwise
Ugly world, full of lies
Just like the lies I hide in my eyesight
I just look away.
Sometimes, I play my music really loud
And my sister would get mad at me
Because she can't hear her tunes over mine
And my parents would say it makes me
Anti-social, that was the word
But I'm really social with the voices in my head
No, they don't speak to me
They're memories, lodged into my subconscious
Replaying over and over, reminding me of history
And I don't want to hear, don't want to listen, so
I turn my music up louder, and louder still
Til I break my earphones and have to get new ones
And I break those, too, but I still hear the memories
Sometimes, when I write, I forget why I'm writing
I think I'm doing it to please people
To get some money, maybe make a living off of it someday
Some days, I forget why I started--
To stay sane, through the turmoil and pain
I should have that memorized, I guess
I'll work on that
I'm not going to write about how I wish I could hate
For more than a minute, as minute the issue is
I wish I could pause every minute I'm with you
So I can just live in that moment, just that one minute
And relive that minute over and over until
I have it memorized, every second of that minute
And every minute thought you have, I want to know
Because I'm just that interested in you
And I want you to know, that I love everything in my life
Because though it's almost over, though I will die relatively soon
There's nothing I would take back, ever
Every person has affected me, both good and bad
But the bad influences made me better, made me a better
Person, with a better personality
And I thank you for that
So thank you.


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Injury to Garda's knee acidental, says man (55)
CARRICKMACROSS District Court has heard how a man who fled from a female Garda did not intentionally injure her while resisting arrest.
Gerrard Crossan (55), Cargahogue, Shercock Road, Monaghan was charged with drink driving, dangerous driving and failing to stop for Gardaí, and an additional charge of assault at the sitting of the court.
The court heard that Garda Lyndsey O'Brien had pursued the man on foot after he fled his vehicle on the evening of 23 October of last year at the man farm.
Garda O'Brien pursued the man and jumped on his back, landing him face first into the mud, and managed to restrain him.
During the course of the tackle, Garda O'Brien sustained an injury to her knee, for which the additional charge of assault was brought on Wednesday by Superintendent Cunningham.
His defence solicitor indicated that O'Brien would plead guilty to drinking driving and failing to stop, but not to the assaulting the officer, who he claims he did not intend to injure whatsoever.
The solicitor suggested that the injury to Garda O'Brien arose out of the tackle.
Judge Sean MacBride suggested he pay €1,000 by way of compensation to the Garda, as €1,000 "would keep the doctor away and keep you out of jail". The case was adjourned to 18 January.


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text: Shivaraj Kumar | Raaj | Wallpapers | Rakshita | Videos After lots of speculations, Hat-trick hero Shivaraj Kumars 100th movie Jogayya has started rolling. Chief Minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa unveiled the logo of production house Prem Pictures at Taj West End Hotel in Bangalore on Sunday night. Katta Subramanya Naidu and Shobha Karandaje were present in the function.The film Jogayya would be launched on April 24 at the Bangalore Palace grounds, says Prem. It is a sequel of Shivaraj Kumars Jogi, which has set new records in Kannada film industry. Now director Prem is hoping to make it even bigger than Jogi. He is planning to rope in Bollywood heroine Priyanka Chopra.Several Sandalwood celebrities like Rebel Star Ambareesh and his actress wife Sumalatha, Power Star Puneet Rajkumar, Golden Star Ganesh, Raghavendra Rajkumar, Vijay, Chiranjeevi Sarja, Yash, Pooja Gandhi, Aindrita Ray, Sharmila Mandre, Radhika Pandit, Dr. Jayamala, Rockline Venkatesh, K.Manju, S Narayan, Jai Jagadish were present at grand inaugural function in Taj West End Hotel in Bangalore.However, the movie Jogayya is being directed by Prem and produced by his wife Rakshitha. Shivaraj Kumar will play the lead role in it. Now Shivanna, Prem and Rakshitha are considering Legend of the Underworld as the caption of the film.


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By sending a single team of judges and lawyers, Ilac hopes to avoid the chaos that happened in the aftermath of the conflicts in Bosnia and East Timor, where some 20 law organisations dispatched missions, all of which were effectively doing the same thing.
To date, the clearest impression of Sri Lanka's post-conflict legal system has come from investigations carried out by senior Australian judge Justice Marcus Einfeld, in conjunction with Australian Legal Resources International. On the back of Einfeld's work, Ilac has made requests to all its member organisations, including the International Bar Association and the Am-erican Bar Association, to find judges, lawyers and pro-secutors to participate in its mission, due to start in mid-March. Ilac's aim is to help Sri Lanka's legal system and judiciary return to the state it was in before the conflict.
Ilac's first mission was to East Timor on the back of a UN invite. Its executive director Christian Ahlund is currently in Kabul assessing the local interest in receiving a mission to assist in the rebuilding of its legal system. Ahlund was invited to visit by the EU.


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Ex-Manchester United striker Dion Dublin urges Louis Van Gaal to re-sign Paul Pogba
LOUIS VAN GAAL was last night urged to snap up France star Paul Pogba for a second spell at Manchester United.
Sir Alex Ferguson allowed the talented midfielder, 21, to leave for Juventus two years ago.
Former United striker Dion Dublin said: "Pogba is exactly the sort of player United need.
"He's got energy, spark and a hunger Rooney has he's also very brave.
"He comes with a bit of a bad boy image but he's a quality footballer."


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BeschreibungThe question of the cosmic reality of Christ is central to modern Christian awareness. We see lively debate about Christ's nature in relation to the earth and creation, not only within the Church itself but also in more speculative areas of thinking and feeling, such as creation spirituality and the New Age movement.The works of Teilhard de Chardin and Fritjof Capra have stimulated many to think spiritually about the created world and the part of humankind in its evolution. These issues were also illuminated by Rudolf Steiner in his Christology, which placed the Incarnation at a pivotal point of earthly evolution.Exploring the work of the cosmic Christ, Schroeder draws upon these sources and clarifies the concepts of "reality, evil, and the meaning of cosmic." He summarizes the cosmic dimension of Christ in the New Testament and the developing consciousness of humans in relation to the Logos, and examines how we are to engage personally in a natural but deeply conscious relationship with the Christ among us.Hans-Werner Schroeder, born in 1931, is a priest of the Christian Community. He teaches at the seminary in Stuttgart and is part of thc leadership of this movement for religious renewal.
PortraitHans-Werner Schroeder, born in 1931, is a priest of the Christian Community. He teaches at the seminary in Stuttgart.
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Verlag: FLORIS
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How much is the natural world really worth? If you're studying its rainforests, for example, should their value be estimated in terms of the wood that they contain? Or should it also include the indigenous animal and plant species which are known to contain useful pharmaceuticals - such as the lethal poison from the skin of an Ecuadorean frog, discovered recently, which could lead to a painkiller that may be stronger than morphine but without morphine's side-effects? Or, given that "carbon-trading" will soon be a common phrase, in which countries buy and sell permits to pump out carbon dioxide, should we put a value on rainforests based on their ability to absorb atmospheric carbon, and hence mitigate the greenhouse effect?
Increasingly, earth scientists are trying to put serious values on to what our environment provides us with - a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week service economy that never shuts down or takes a holiday.
The focus of this examination is mostly at US universities, including Cornell and Stanford. At the former, Professor David Pimentel of the ecology department last month released a study, performed with eight graduate students, making a "conservative" estimate of the value of that service economy.
"If all the planet's biota, all the plants and animals and micro-organisms, sent a bill for their 1997 services, the total would be $2.9 trillion [pounds 1.81 trillion, or pounds 1.81 thousand billion]." The US's share of that bill would, by their calculations, be $319bn. When you bear in mind that the US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - which measures the value of goods and services produced in the country - was around $6.8 trillion, you can see that the ecosystem is a significant, yet unrewarded, part of any economy.
If "the ecosystem" were in fact a trading partner which charged - for air, water, animal breeding, seafood, hunting and so on - then the laws of supply and demand might rapidly put the US into deficit. "When you compare our spending to preserve biodiversity to the benefits we reap, we're really getting a bargain," commented Professor Pimentel, whose work was published in the December issue of the journal Bioscience.
In fact the value Pimentel's team put on the world's ecosystem looks quite tame compared with two others published in 1997: one put it at $33 trillion, and another, by Gretchen Daily and colleagues at the biological services department of Stanford University, at $20 trillion.
Their estimate is based on the "replacement value" of the biosystem, rather than its direct "service value". The question Daily poses is: "If you were setting up a happy life on the moon, you would have to think: what can perform these tasks - air purification, detoxification, preservation? And how much would it cost?"
Yet, she points out, production indices don't take any notice of those sorts of values. "The public is completely unaware of it."
The fact that scientists have to point out these contradictions is partly because the history of economics - reaching back before the invention of money, to the time of barter - has never assigned self-ownership to things deemed "inanimate", a definition which itself was often stretched bizarrely.
Hence, "inanimate" things can be exploited by whoever first claims ownership of them. It's an attitude that has been applied to everything from fossil fuels to live animals, and even (in the times of slavery) to fellow human beings.
The key element remains the same, though. It is an axiom of economics that anything which does not have to be paid for has no monetary value - even if its absence would cause the most horrendous problems. (Think of the oxygen in the air.)
Experiments to mimic Spaceship Earth have been done in a small way from time to time: the most memorable was in 1991, when the Biosphere II project in Arizona tried to see whether eight people could live in a self-sustaining ecosystem in an enclosed dome.
The results were so disastrous as to be laughable. Paul Ehrlich, also of Stanford, recalls: "It cost $200m to build an ecosystem 1hectare in area for eight people, and $1m a year to power it. They thought they had designed a self-sustaining system. In fact bacteria in the soil started producing carbon dioxide which was then absorbed by the concrete the building was made of. The oxygen level in the air fell from 21 per cent to 14 per cent - like going from sea level to an altitude of 17,000 feet (5,200 metres). The nitrogen oxides concentration increased by a factor of 75.
"It all went crazy, vertebrate animals died, and they had to pump in oxygen from outside. All these things are supplied easily by nature - but we don't know how to replace them."
Professor Geoffrey Heal, an economist from Columbia University, reckons that the pace of environmental wastage could enormously increase the cost of basic necessities - such as water - within our lifetimes.
"It's a reasonable forecast that by 2020 the price of water in some parts of the world will be at least half that of crude oil, and the investment in providing it will be comparable with that for providing electricity."
But natural processes will almost always be cheaper than manufactured ones. "New York City recently had a problem in which water it gathered from the nearby Catskills mountains was becoming polluted. A purification plant would have cost $4bn.
"It was cheaper to buy the land around the water source and prevent people from using pesticides in adjoining land, to stop pollutants entering the source." Soil bacteria could then clean the water naturally, he pointed out.
But such changes could require changes in the forms of ownership of land, possibly back towards that used in medieval Britain, where on each piece of land there might be separate rights to grow crops, fish, hunt, live and raise taxes. Each right could be owned by different people.
While it might cause social upheaval to introduce such changes in modern society, "it will probably be bigger if we don't do it," according to Professor Heal.
The biggest problem, though, is that many urban dwellers are too cut off from the source of their goods, said Professor Ehrlich. "In New York people think food materialises magically overnight in the supermarkets. They have to be made aware that they are fundamentally dependent on ecosystems."
It's either that - or wait until nature sends its own form of bailiff around to collect the unpaid debts.
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Since the general was appointed by President Obama for the job, the international effort in Afghanistan now becomes more personally Obama's war.
General McChrystal will spell out Britain's role in his plans - and in response to this Gordon Brown is expected to increase the number of British troops to 9,800 and agree to keep this number on the ground into next year.
Previously the Prime Minister had agreed to an extra 750 being sent to Afghanistan (bringing the current total to just over 9,000) on a temporary basis to help out in the August elections and then come home.
British ministers and commanders are haunted by two spectres - that the seeming tactical failure two years ago of British troops in Basra might be repeated in Helmand, and the failure in military credibility by the Nato alliance as a whole in Afghanistan.
Comparisons are being made with the failure of the UN protection effort in Bosnia in the Nineties. UN member nations passed resolutions to protect refugee Muslim enclaves such as Srebrenica but, apart from the UK and France, refused to provide the necessary troops - with the result that Srebrenica was seized by Serb forces and thousands of unarmed Muslims were massacred in July 1995.
Key Nato allies in southern Afghanistan have announced that they are to pull their forces out - the Dutch will withdraw from Uruzgun next year, and the Canadians are pulling out their fighting troops in 2011.
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"Hmm" I mumble. I could buy it for her. I mean its not like I'm short on cash.
"Shall we go?" she asks.
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Now all is required is the capability to plug in a freeview dongle for PVR functionality,
I don't really understand why media player manufacturers don't do this - it would allow to dispose of an extra box!
How is the picture quality?
Does this come with an internal Hard dive? Or are you supposed to hook one up via USB? thanks.
Great review :) The original unit passed me by so I'm happy to see this.
A bit OT, but what would you recommend for wirelessly streaming only music from my PC to my HiFi in the same room? Would prefer to continue to use Winamp on the PC to control my playlists and don't want to rely on the existing wireless newtork as signal strength is weak. Something very simple and preferably cheap would be ideal. Just using a 3.5mm to phono lead isn't an option unfortunately.
No internal HDD, the full sized Playon does though, I believe.
I think it'd work better the other way round w/r to PVR functionality - Virgin, Sky etc integrate media streaming into their PVR boxes.
I agree with Misha - add PVR and iplayer and then you have the perfect box.
go for a squeezebox for streaming music. can' do better than that. you could probably pick up a squeezebox v3 on ebay for relatively cheap. i got mine a year ago for a hundred quid. excellent device
As timple says - you really want iplayer as well. This is why I hunted in the loft for an old Shuttle unit, clean installed XP SP3, added a quiet fan and wireless keyboard/track pad (£29 for both) and was sorted with a cheap media PC that will stream, play from cards/USB and do iplayer etc. VGA connection from integrated graphics to TV.
You get so much more flexibility from a PC, even an all in one unit like the Acer Aspire Revo R3610 - I was going to buy one of these till I found the Shuttle fulfilled our modest needs.
Not to mention that it is available for couch browsing ;)
"we can't think of a single important format or file system that's left out"
I know it's not terribly fashionable to like MS stuff, but the lack of .dvr-ms or .wtv support on these boxes kill them for me. These would be a secondary box for me in the kitchen, and in the kitchen I want to be able to watch tv that was recorded on the HTPC in the living room.
Windows Media center is almost Apple-like in the way it just works (for me at least) when it comes to recording tv. & of course it's an absolute doddle to set up, which is more than can be said for yet another failed attempt of mine to set up MediaPortal over the weekend - this time it was an SQL problem that put paid to that little foray away from WMC.
Getting back on topic, without pvr functionality, or support for .wtv or dvr-ms, then these boxes have limited appeal for me. I know I could use DVRMS Tool box to auto convert to something this can support, but that means having two lots of recordings, one for the lounge and one for the kitchen. Not great for the WAF....
Having said all that, the price is tempting!
QED's Live uPlay Receiver is finally out and is £65 at audiovisualonline.co.uk
Looks like that is my ticket :)
@Alan Clinch:
Picture quality is pretty much as good as your source file, though obviously the player will scale material of resolutions lower than your monitor/TV.
As Wildkard said, it doesn't have an internal drive nor room for one. You can tell by its size. You can use any form of USB or networked storage.
Daniel's recommendation is pretty good :)
As for iPlayer functionality, we can but hope it will be added at some stage, though I wouldn't hold my breath.
A PC is always going to be more flexible and offer more features, but even without extras like the remote thrown in is bound to be more expensive - unless you dig up an old/preowned model like you did; always a good option to keep in mind.
And... your Shuttle is connected over - shudder - VGA? ;)
You like MS stuff?! Admittedly we kinda liked Windows 7...
Some of these boxes do support PVR. In fact, A.C.Ryan offers some, though none as far as I'm aware with HD support...
LaCies's LaCinema Black MAX includes a TV tuner for those that are after PVR functionality too. However it's a lot more expensive aswell.
So is this the best bang for buck media Player?
The fact that this unit doesn't come with Freeview is a plus point for me. I got rid of the telly a year ago. Now I don't have to pay for a TV licence and I like having that choice. I'm really annoyed at the way monitors and televisions are merging. I'd like a reasonably priced no-freeview monitor to plug my HDMI DVD player in to.
G Hell - i see where your going with that. Just be carefull you dont watch anything live on iplayer/itvplayer/tvcatchup etc, as that WOULD be breaking the law without a current TV licence. Stuff thats not live seems to be fair game with the usual caveats of personal home use etc, but i wouldnt like to fight any of these minor points in court...
from here:
"The law states that you need to be covered by a TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes, on any device, as they're being shown on TV. This includes TVs, computers, mobile phones, games consoles, digital boxes and DVD/VHS recorders.
You don't need a licence if you don't use any of these devices to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV {snip}"
Dealbreaker: How well does it work, streaming from a computer with Windows 7?
Same question as nMeden. carnt get my hyundai HDR-350q to connect to w7 for love nor money. can connect to my vista laptop but only get public and user folders, which are on "C" drive. Will this stream from my w7 desktop and access all my shared folders which are spread over several drives ?
Similar question to nMeden & djzigy – What about streaming from a Mac?
I'm not looking for a lot, just a simple media player for playing .avi with subtitles, but one that really plays every .avi.
Before I had a LaCinema and it wouldn't play half of the .avi's or sometimes it wouldn't play the subtitles.
Which one would you recommend?
I have one and have issues with;
1) USB support - will not recognize some drives
2) the media manager does not work
3) it does not play all formats
but the main reason you should not buy one, it is still for sale on there site and they have stopped support for it. so when you try to engage with them to fix the issues, or see when it is fixed, they give you the finger
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