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CHINA: CSR Qingdao Sifang unveiled an ultra high-speed test train in December. As foreshadowed in the January 2011 edition of Railway Gazette International, the six-car trainset is intended to give engineers the opportunity to research train and track behaviour at speeds up to 500 km/h.
Researchers will explore fields including wheel-rail dynamics, structural reliability, new materials and technologies, comfort, vibration and noise. Other tests will examine safety parameters, current collection and aerodynamic performance; the train has a long, pointed nose said to resemble a traditional Chinese sword.
All vehicles are powered to give a total rating of 22·8 MW. Local reports suggest that the train features very lightweight structures and materials including carbon-fibre composites and a number of nano-components.
The trainset was developed with the support of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Science & Technology, with input from the China Academy of Railway Sciences, Beijing Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University and the Institute of Mechanics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.


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The Zapatista Communities can be a Good Starting Point
Another world is possible - from Chile to New York
Another Way of Seeing the World
Zapatistas: 18 Years of Rebellion and Resistance
New Movements and the Zapatistas
Intellectuals Weigh In
By Movement for Justice in El Barrio
From December 30, 2011 through January 2, 2012, the CIDECI-Universidad de La Tierra (Center of Comprehensive Indigenous Training-University of the Earth) hosted the "Second Seminar of Reflection and Analysis-Planet Earth: Anti-systemic Movements" in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Alongside renowned organizers, activists, and intellectuals from around the world, this multi-day, international forum sought to serve as a point of convergence for extended analysis and reflection on the current conditions and trajectories of anti-systemic movements from around the globe that are fighting against the most egregious ravages of neoliberal globalization and in doing so, constructing blueprints for a new world.
Among those in attendance, included intellectuals such as Sylvia Marcos, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Julieta Paredes, and Jean Robert, among others; community-based organizations, such as Movement for Justice in El Barrio (East Harlem, New York); representatives from the nascent Occupy Wall St. mobilizations; and indigenous activists from across Mexico and Latin America.
Organized to coincide with the 18 anniversary of the Zapatista uprising of January 1, 1994, the general tenor of the seminar reflected on the enormous epistemic, cultural, social, spiritual, and political contributions of the Zapatistas to social movements on an international scale. Many emphasized the importance of the innovating organizing strategies, political ideas, and decision-making structures of the indigenous Zapatistas. The following articles takes this as a point of departure and captures the essence of the ideas and experiences discussed at the historic international gathering.
By Marcela Salas Cassani, Desinformemonos
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
The movements of protest and insubordination which have arisen during 2011 in various parts of the world, such as Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Spain, Greece, Italy, Chile, Colombia, the United States and Greece "reflect a sense of widespread injustice and the possibility of an awakening which could increase the actions of collective rejection that we've seen up to now, "said Jerome Baschet, Doctor of History at the School of Higher Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, during the first day of the second international seminar of reflection and analysis, "Planet Earth: anti-systemic movements", which is being held from the 30th of December to the 2nd of January at the University of the Earth, outside San Cristobal.
"The logic of capitalist production is leading to us losing control of our lives, and now is the time to reclaim them", continued Baschet. "The global movement has arisen as a point of contact between all the struggles: the struggle against the theft of material goods, land, ways of living, the ability to decide. It is a movement which calls to all of those who feel dispossessed. "
In her turn, feminist anthropologist Mercedes Olivera said that those outside the logic of the market, like the zapatista communities, can be a viable starting point for "men and women to experience the construction of another civilization, based on solidarity and not on exploitation, to try to recreate the meaning of human existence, to restore the understanding of thje essential nature of the land and sustainability of production for consumption, to be able to test new ways of using and conserving natural resources, so we can change and guide our strategies towards the construction of a new paradigm of development and to attempt a civilizing process based on life and not on destruction, as the Zapatistas do through the process of autonomy".
Coming from various cities in Mexico, indigenous communities in Chiapas and the rest of the country, and from countries such as Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Yugoslavia, the UK, Puerto Rico and Chile, hundreds of attendees gathered at the Indigenous Comprehensive Training Centre (CIDECI) to hear the thoughts expressed by intellectuals and researchers into anti-systemic movements from around the world.
During the morning session of the first day, the book 'La Potencia de los Pobres', (the Potency of the Poor), by Jean Robert and Majid Rahnema, was presented. It was reviewed by Ana Valadez, Xuno Lopez, Carlos Manzo and Rafael Landerreche, who discussed in turn the true epistemiological meaning of poverty and wealth.
" 'La Potencia de los Pobres' is a book which cannot leave us feeling indifferent, and that makes us think about the difference between a man of power (poder) and a human being with potency (potencia). Power corrupts, but the lack of power (understood as the revolutionary potential possessed by every human being) corrupts even more", said Rafael Landerreche during his participation.
Later, in the afternoon session, Mercedes Olivera, Xochitl Leyva and Jérome Baschet reflected in turn on the importance of the Zapatista movement and the consequences that repression and the low intensity war have had on the development of the autonomy of the indigenous peoples, and on how capitalist production policies have led to uprisings in Europe, Latin America and Arab countries during 2011.
The seminar on anti-systemic movements is being held in the context of the 18th anniversary of the uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). On this occasion, as well as representatives of social movements, intellectuals and researchers such as Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, Boaventura de Souza, Fernanda Navarro, Javier Sicila, Jean Robert, Paulina Fernandez and Gustavo Esteva, among others, are also attending.
The meeting will continue on December 31st with the theme of the 'indignado' movement in the world, and different experiences of resistance in Latin America, with the participation of Paulo Olivares from Chile, Danay Quintana and Boris Nerey from Cuba; Julieta Paredes from Bolivia, Luis Andrango of Ecuador, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Movement for Justice in El Barrio, and Marvish Ahmad from Pakistan.
By Radio Regeneracion
Monday, 2nd January 2012
On December 31st, the second day of the international seminar: "Planet Earth: Anti-Sistemic Movements", there were presentations from various social struggles such as the student movement in Chile, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Movement for Justice in El Barrio from New York, the Martin Luther King Memorial Center from Cuba and from Luis Andrango, an indigenous Quechua from Ecuador involved in several organizations, including the National Federation of Campesino, Indigenous and Black Organizations of Ecuador (Fenocin) and Via Campesina, among others.
The companeras from Chile shared the sentiments and the methods of the student struggle in 2011, the year when this assembly-based movement arose to challenge the measures the government had taken concerning higher education.
This movement has shown itself repeatedly to be spontaneous, non-political, and yet written off as a teenage phase. But it (the movement) has shown another reality: from a non-party position the students took to the streets, overcoming the fear that exists in a country that has suffered under a dictatorship, a country whose constitution was tied up with that dictatorship to ensure a right-wing neoliberal system, so it is admirable that this student movement has spread to many people, who have joined the street protests.
The protests, which have included marches, nocturnal caceroladas (a form of demonstration involving the beating of saucepans), hunger strikes, occupations of facilities, strikes and barricades, have highlighted certain demands, such as the reform of the system of access to universities, an increase in public spending for universities, and the democratization of the higher education system.
This was followed by Danay Quintana and Boris Nerey, from the Martin Luther King Memorial Center in Cuba (CMMLK), who shared the work they do with that organization.
The CMMLK is an organization which has spent 25 years working in 2 areas: socialist theory and popular education, through which they seek to promote a horizontal form of education, with a network of popular educators working in communities and state enterprises to increase political participation and popular control, and thus achieve a change in the mentality and practices at a social and spiritual level, as a means to find other ways of living in order to re-establish socialism in Cuba.
But, they ask, how do you build socialism without reproducing capitalism, in a small country without natural resources and with the U.S. against them? For them, socialism is a process of anti-capitalist resistance. It is a process that does not culminate in the seizure of political power, but is permanently in construction.
The answer to the question of how to rebuild socialism is a wide one. They look at it from an economic and production-based perspective, insisting that a system of salaried labour produces a power structure which must be subverted by talk of socialism, and the promotion of community capacity, based on self-management.
They emphasise that capitalism is a great thief of time, so socialism must take into account the social cost of people's time, fostering a relationship with nature that makes social production and consumption sustainable, which means producing items for genuine needs and not for the unnecessary consumption promoted by capital.
The overflowing CIDECI auditorium gave an emotional response and resounding applause to the presentation from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a movement formed by Mexican immigrants living in New York. Their presentation consisted of a video showing their neighborhood (barrio) fight against the bad governments and the neoliberal capitalist system which deprived them of their native homes in Mexico.
The video showed how, after having suffered displacement in Mexico, they endured the same experience again, being stripped of their homes by wealthy speculators who wanted to build luxury apartments.
Their struggle is for dignity, against displacement, for the liberation of women, migrants, homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and indigenous peoples. "We are the Other Campaign", they say, "because the Other Campaign proposes organizing against oppression".
Their struggle is against political parties, who ensure that borders are open for money, but closed to people. Their struggle is against the capitalist system which marginalizes indigenous and immigrant communities.
"We as a community have the power, no matter how rich they are"
"What we want is for the people to have power"
They declare themselves autonomous because they believe in self-representation, without leaders or presidents. Without any doubt, their work and inspiration derives from the way of working of the Zapatista autonomous communities.
The Movement for Justice in El Barrio also works with Occupy Wall Street, sharing the ways of their Zapatista sisters and brothers, and also spreading awareness of the current situation of the Zapatista support bases, who are being repressed by the governments of Sabines and Calderon.
Marlina, from Occupy Wall Street, told us more about this movement which has managed to awaken thousands of people who want to address global issues, such as the the housing crisis and the growing debt. The Arab spring, Marlina said, was a great inspiration to the occupy movement, with the result that North American society, often characterized by apathy and disorganization, has risen in a collective awakening, which although it still lacks form, represents the first steps for many people, who keep walking and looking for new ways of working.
This movement, which has now grown to over a thousand camps around the world, and more than two thousand cities where actions have been taken, is now in the process of reorganization, as a result of government repression, which has managed to evict most of the camps.
It has also been a movement which has promoted solidarity gatherings, already about 20 organizations are working around the theme of women, which has led to them to organising a meeting in March.
Luis Andrango, indigenous Quechua from Ecuador, began by congratulating the EZLN on their 18th anniversary, and then went on to share some reflections on the question of land in this capitalist system.
The consequences of capitalism affect the countryside in various ways, including the criminalization of social struggle and protest, and the militarization of areas of conflict, leading to war and destruction.
All the native peoples of Ecuador are living through a phase of financial capitalism that uses strategies of domination, exploitation, looting and the commercialization of agriculture, and these strategies arise from the union of large transnational corporations, businesses, and the bourgeoisie, who are promoting agribusiness and agro-industry, causing death and misery in the countryside.
These agrobusinesses, as Luis Andrango calls them, are characterized by a worsening of the climate crisis and global warming; the commodification of food; the hoarding of land in the hands of transnational corporations, which are buying land in Ecuador for the purpose of speculating to promote what the companies called biofuels; the exploitation of those who work on the land, turning them into agricultural workers, which is the only way that this system can be profitable; and finally agrofuels require a package of agrochemicals which make the soil infertile and dependent on more agrochemicals.
The Via Campesina organization, founded in 1993, consists of 150 organizations in 70 countries worldwide, representing a huge global peasant movement, based on social struggles and international actions, as well as the worldwide campesino struggle for food sovereignty.
Their main work is focused on campaigns for agrarian reform, they also struggle against violence against women in the countryside, to preserve their native seeds, in defence of rural migrants and for food sovereignty, for which reason they plan to regain their capacity for autonomous organization. .
Finally, he said that to put an end to capitalism, it is necessary to build a political alliance between the countryside and the city, so as to enable organization and the realisation of "globalising the struggle, globalising hope"
We would also like to share the comments from Raquel Gutierrez, who was unable to come to the seminar but did send some thoughts about progressive government policies, the policies of the left, which she equates with the Mexican right, since they promote megaprojects and displacement to "encourage progress." So she called for organization from a base of autonomy, for collective and community involvement to fight in order to set limits and to boycott the transnational appropriation of the land, the time and the strength of the people.
Raquel Gutierrez referred to the evils of patriarchy and the system of domination and power relations, an issue that often seems not to get into the lists of priorities, yet without such reflection and subsequent work it is hard to imagine that this new world can be built. Because, as the compa from Ecuador said, without feminism, there is no socialism.
by Marcela Salas Cassani
Hundreds of activists and academics from around the world gathered at the International Seminar "Planet Earth: Anti-Systemic Movements" to discuss the importance of the 1994 Zapatista uprising on its 18th anniversary. In the context of the popular insurrections that have emerged this year across the globe, the seminar held from Dec. 30 to Jan. 2 in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, concluded, with Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, that seen in retrospect Zapatista influence has been so strong that "one cannot view the left or the struggle against capitalism without this point of reference."
De Sousa Santos stated that the explosion of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) on the scene January 1, 1994 was the first major moment of global resistance to neoliberalism. The uprising gave visibility to indigenous struggles that had been growing since the eighties in Latin America and soon became the precursor to other movements.
"They taught us another way of seeing the world. They broke with Marxist orthodoxy by developing a new discourse, a new semantics and new ideas. They taught us a new organizational logic that had a fundamental influence on the whole world," De Sousa Santos said in an interview.
Paulina Fernandez, a professor of Political Science at UNAM who has followed the Zapatista movement since its inception, spoke to Desinformemonos about the transcendence of the Zapatistas. "It is still not possible to see clearly the magnitude of the importance of the Zapatista uprising. I track the news on Internet everyday and the EZLN is cited all over for one reason or another—it is a permanent reference."
"Despite efforts to silence them, hide them away, marginalize them and isolate the movement up in the mountains, and without media information about what they are doing, the Zapatistas are building a real alternative process on a daily basis. They are proof that this country can function in a different way when its people are committed and they do it without the intervention of laws, institutions, parties, politicians and the vices and practices that official institutions are the ones guilty of the corruption of this country," added Fernandez.
Representatives of indigenous peoples, among them Salvador Campanur, Purhépecha from Cherán, Michoacán and Santos de la Cruz, Wixárika from Bancos de San Hipólito, Durango, agreed that "in all the processes that we have experienced as indigenous peoples, the Zapatistas have been very important. Before, indigenous struggles were isolated and not linked up, but since 1994 we began to realize that we suffered from a common problem and we began to interact and develop solidarity between peoples, not only in Mexico but in the world."
Campanur noted "Although the words 'dignity', 'liberty' and 'justice' already existed it was the Zapatista brothers and sisters who in 1994 taught us to use them in each one of our struggles."
Javier Sicilia, poet and leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, said in an interview that "the last 18 years have been fundamental since the Zapatistas–by revealing the negation of the indigenous world that had been going on for centuries–also revealed the dysfunction of the State and the neoliberal system, and gave new content and new possibilities not only to the nation but to the entire world."
Many participants linked the Zapatista movement to the new movements in Spain, Greece, the United States, Tunis, Egypt, Yemen and others. French historian Jerome Baschet stated that, "The logic of capitalism is causing us to lose control of our lives and it is time to recuperate that control. The world movement has arisen as a crossroads of all struggles: the struggle against the looting of material goods, of land, of ways of life, of the capacity to decide. It is a movement that calls on everyone who feels dispossessed." He added that the latest uprisings "reflect a general sense of injustice and the possibility that a collective awakening could intensify the reactions of rejection that we've seen so far."
Feminist anthropologist Mercedes Olivera observed that the Zapatista communities have developed outside the mercantilist logic, which can be a viable point of departure for "men and women to dare to experience the construction of another civilization based on solidarity not exploitation, to try to recreate the human sense of existence, recover the vital sense of the land and the sustainability of production for consumption, to be able to practice new forms of using and caring for natural resources, and in this way we can change and reorient our strategies toward building a new paradigm of development and attempt a civilizing process based on life and not on destruction, like the Zapatistas do in their autonomy."
In the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States that has spread to cities throughout that country and the rest of the world "there are many people who have been strongly influenced by the Zapatista struggle", says Marlina regarding the Movimiento por la Justicia en el Barrio (Movement for Justice in the Barrio), a Latino collective that forms part of the Other Campaign in New York City.
Marlina asserts that "what many people of the Occupy movement are trying to do is break the relationship between capital and humanity", noting that the Zapatistas have provided clear and inspiring messages for people in the United States. "The Zapatista resistance encourages us to keep up the struggle to build a different world," Marlina concluded.
She recounted that "women from the movement for justice came one night to Liberty Plaza and instead of talking about economic policies and political struggles, they talked about what it means to be a woman, a mother and a mestiza in the United States. They talked about their families and their dignity, and I cried during the talk because for me the discourse on "right living" or "vivir bien" was something really different from the fancy discourse on economic policies. And I believe that the power of the Movement for Justice in the Barrio is to talk about the truth of human experience and the truth of the devastation of the earth, and that's a discourse that cannot necessarily be understood in capitalist terms."
Daniela Carrasco attended the seminar in representation of one of the most important movements of 2011: the Chilean student movement. A Chilean student from the collective Tendencia Estudiantil Revolucionaria, Carrasco reflected on the lessons of the Zapatistas for the Latin America student movement.
"The great example that we have taken from the Zapatista movement is the assembly as a from of organization. For many years, the Chilean movement was characterized as very bureaucratic and personalist, its was focused on certain presidents that ended up negotiating with the government and often betraying the movement. This year this logic was broken, the rightwing that formed part of the Confederation of Students was kicked out and the assembly was adopted as the method of validating all decisions we make. We got to the point where we even voted on building a barricade—yes or no—in an assembly and this has been really satisfying. All our members vote raising their hands, knowing that they are participating and not just spectators, in an act of taking back the struggle in the streets."
"For a long time, it was said that students didn't participate, that they didn't have political training, that they weren't involved in almost anything, that they didn't care what happened in society. But this year, the panel members of the seminar agreed, "has shown the opposite in Latin American, in the United States, in Arab countries and in Europe, where youth—sick of a system that produces inequality, poverty, unemployment and hopelessness—are questioning what is happening and are going beyond protest," said Carrasco. "We built a Chilean movement that is expanding into a 'student spring'– in Colombia, in Costa Rica, in Mexico…"
Carlos Marentes, of the Unión de Trabajadores Agrícolas Fronterizos (Union of Border Agricultural Workers) of El Paso, Texas, told the crowd, "the Zapatista influence continues to extend among us, especially around the need to organize from below with other movements and the importance of pushing an alternative to the industrial model of agriculture that threatens our planet."
Fernanda Navarro, doctor in Philosophy who has followed the Zapatista movement since 1994, spoke at the afternoon panel the last day of the seminar. She told Desinformémonos that the main challenges facing the Zapatistas "are to continue to build autonomy, strengthening themselves and to prove that bad governments and corruption and violence cannot uproot the seeds that have been planted and what is growing in the Chiapan mountains."
The Zapatista movement "was a totally new political phenomenon that broke the mold and that's why it has become a point of reference for many movements for social justice for women, small farmers, workers, people who live on the margins, due to their innovative ways of existing that broke with class Marxism," Sylvia Marcos, professor and researcher on gender issues, told Desinformémonos.
Julieta Paredes, of the Bolivian organization Women Creating Community condemned the way in which social movements usually see women as "just another sector" and women's issues "as just one among many issues of the left."
"But women are half of all sectors and half of all issues, and community feminism-a category of analysis that represents the movement she forms part of–locates patriarchy as a system that articulates all oppressions, historically built on the oppression of women. In this sense through the defeat of patriarchy, "the community can encompass the entire social body to be able to build relationships of freedom."
Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, a prominent Mexican intellectual, was unable to attend but sent a message to the seminar stating, "Just consider the immense mobilization of the indignados and the Occupy movement that struggle for the another possible world… There has never been a [mobilization] of this magnitude, and the mobilization began in the jungles of Chiapas with the principles of inclusion and dialogue." Gonzalez Casanova added "increasingly throughout the world people are struggling for what in 1994 seemed only 'a post-modern indigenous rebellion.'"
Marcela Salas Cassani writes for Desinformemonos.org, an "autonomous, global communications project" and sister organization to the Americas Program, that covers grassroots movements throughout the world and the ideas and aspirations behind them. Its team has been in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas reporting on an international seminar there to commemorate and reflect on the 18th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising.


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Investigation of Raman Modes and Born-Effective Charges in AgNb1/2Ta1/2O3: A Density-Functional and Raman Scattering Study
Kotagiri, G P and Niranjan, Manish K and Asthana, Saket and Karthikeyan, R (2016) Investigation of Raman Modes and Born-Effective Charges in AgNb1/2Ta1/2O3: A Density-Functional and Raman Scattering Study. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99 (1). pp. 332-339. ISSN 0002-7820
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Using ab initio density-functional theory, the Born-effective charge tensors and zone-center phonon mode frequencies are computed for AgNb1/2Ta1/2O3 in monoclinic P2/m and orthorombic Pbcm symmetries. The experimental mode frequencies are obtained from deconvolution of Raman spectrum of prepared AgNb1/2Ta1/2O3 samples and are compared with computed mode frequencies. The Raman modes with high (>350 cm−1) and low frequencies (<90 cm−1) correspond to Ag and O vibrations, respectively. The modes in intermediate frequency band (120–350 cm−1) are dominated by Nb(Ta)–O vibrations. The computed effective charge tensors of cations at A (Ag) and B (Nb, Ta) sites are found to be diagonal. The off-diagonal components of charge tensor are found sizeable only for O ions in orthorhombic AgNb1/2Ta1/2O3 with Pbcm symmetry. Further, charge tensor structure of O ions is found to depend on site symmetry in the unit cell. Charge tensor components for Nb, Ta, and O ions differ significantly from their nominal ionic values suggesting (1) large local dipole moments induced by off-centering of Nb(Ta) ions and tilting(rotations) of Nb(Ta)O6 octahedra, (2) hybridization between d-orbitals of Nb(Ta) and p-orbitals of O atoms. Furthermore, the electronic structure, directional dependence of effective charges and performance of LDA (GGA) exchange-correlation functionals with regard to computed values are also discussed.
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8.573518 - PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 6 / Waltz Suite (São Paulo Symphony, Alsop)
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sergey Prokofiev was born on 15th April 1891 at Sontsovka. His precocious musical talents were fostered by his mother and his first compositions emerged when he was only five. In 1904, on Glazunov's advice, his parents allowed him to enter St Petersburg Conservatoire, where he continued his studies until 1914 and also quickly left behind the influence of older teachers such as Lyadov and Rimsky-Korsakov, arousing enthusiasm and hostility in equal measure. During the First World War he was exempted from military service and after the Russian Revolution he was given permission to travel abroad, first to North America, where he took with him several major scores that were soon to establish his reputation in the West.
Unlike Stravinsky and Rachmaninov, Prokofiev left Russia with the idea of returning home. His stay in the United States was at first successful—he often appeared as a concert pianist and fulfilled prestigious commissions for the likes of the Chicago Opera. By 1920, however, he had begun to find life more difficult and relocated to Paris, renewing contact with Dyagilev for whom he wrote several ballet scores. He spent much of the next sixteen years in France, though he returned periodically to Russia where his music received qualified approval. By 1936 he had decided to resettle permanently in his native country, taking up residence in Moscow in time for the first official onslaught on music that did not accord with the social and political aims of the authorities. Twelve years later, his name was included in the notorious 'Zhdanov decree'. Despite partial rehabilitation, his final years were clouded by ill health and his death—in Moscow on 5th March 1953, barely an hour before that of Stalin—went largely unnoticed.
If its predecessor [Naxos 8.573029] offered an obliquely affirmative take on the notion of a 'victory symphony', the Sixth Symphony is a decidedly equivocal response to the aftermath of war and its consequences. Prokofiev began work on it towards the end of 1945, but the onset of ill-health the following year delayed its completion and the work was not finished until February 1947. Yevgeny Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra gave the première in Leningrad on 11th October, where it was well received by audience and critics alike, but the official response was initially cautious—leading to its outright condemnation in the 'Zhdanov decree' of February 1948. Thereafter the work made its way relatively slowly, and it was not until the 1980s that performances occurred with some frequency. Despite his ambivalence to abstract music, Prokofiev regarded the symphony highly (he had considered dedicating it to the memory of Beethoven), but a more tangible influence is that of Nikolay Myaskovsky—twelve years Prokofiev's senior, with whom he enjoyed lasting personal and professional friendship.
The first movement opens with a sardonic descending gesture on brass that prefaces the first theme, expounded cautiously on strings then woodwind in typically unpredictable harmonies that offset the often soloistic orchestration. At length this makes way for the second theme, a plaintive and Eastern-sounding melody initially on oboes before being taken up by horn and upper strings. A surging idea on strings and woodwind emerges as codetta to an exposition which ends with fugitive echoes of the first theme. The development begins with an ostinato pattern from piano over which strings then woodwind exchange phrases of an ominous idea that is derived from the first theme, which latter heads forth in increasingly animated terms prior to its violent culmination on brass and percussion. A ricocheting horn motif subsides into the calm recall of the second theme in more subdued tones, all that is heard of a reprise that summarily passes into a coda whose bringing back of the ostinato pattern rapidly erupts into massive brass chords. These remain subdued though unresolved as the music dies away.
The slow movement begins with shrill exchanges on upper woodwind over glowering chords on lower strings and percussion which presage the heartfelt main theme, unfolding on brass and strings before being restated in expressively heightened terms. A brief transition with the piano to the fore leads into a more restrained second theme, initially shared between strings and woodwind before this is taken up by upper strings and transformed into its predecessor on the way to a central climax that centres on an ominous 'ticking' motion on woodwind and percussion over thundering timpani. Dying away, this is followed by a glowing recollection of the second theme from horns and strings, with solo woodwind and strings intoning further variations as are punctuated by chords on piano then brass. Upper strings then build towards a climactic restatement of the first theme heard across the orchestra, which culminates in a return of the shrill exchanges and glowering chords as heard at the opening. From here the music subsides into a tranquil coda, in which elements of both themes are gently laid to rest.
The finale's main theme is immediately announced in animated terms by upper strings and woodwind, over a forceful rhythmic accompaniment on piano and lower strings. A subsidiary and more ambivalent theme is allotted to woodwind over quietly marching strings, prior to a curtailed return of the first theme. There follows an agile fugato with the main theme always to the fore, one whose momentum is maintained through to the subtly altered restatement of the second theme—elements from both these themes now being combined as the music heads towards a recklessly affirmative climax. At length it dies down on solo woodwind and strings, itself making way for the unexpected return of the chant-like theme from the first movement over hesitant gestures on piano and strings. The mood grows ever more ominous, before this erupts despairingly on strings and brass—the focal-point towards which the whole work has been headed—then the rhythmic accompaniment from the outset provokes a furious activity, whose deadening final thuds are brutally answered by the desperately defiant closing chords.
Prokofiev was never averse to recycling music between projects, and his Waltz Suite—written at much the same time as the Sixth Symphony and premièred in Moscow on 13th May 1947 under the composer—does so with sections from three separate works. Thus the first and fifth waltzes derive from the opera War and Peace, the second, fourth and sixth waltzes from the ballet Cinderella, and the third waltz from the aborted score for the film Lermontov—thereby resulting in a waltz-sequence which works (surprisingly?) well as a quasi-symphonic entity.
Since We Met opens with a capricious theme for upper woodwind, given added suavity by strings and brass before heading into a more speculative episode as punctuated by rhythmic gestures from lower strings and with notably resourceful scoring—the initial theme at length resuming to provide a robust conclusion. In the Palace begins with delicate exchanges on woodwind and strings, making way for a main theme that is plaintive and incisive by turns, and decked out with especially piquant harmony—the secondary episode betraying a hint of wistfulness that persists through to the hushed close. Mephisto Waltz is the most energetic, its often sweeping gestures enhanced by glinting percussion, and while the central episode is correspondingly subdued, the prevailing rhythmic activity reasserts itself for a lively ending.
End of the Fairy Tale is by contrast the most inward waltz, its elegant main theme sounding especially sensuous on divided strings—and if the secondary idea is slightly more animated in profile, the conclusion is one of enveloping repose. New Year's Eve Ball commences with a rush of activity that persists through the agile and occasionally arch-sounding main theme, for all that its successor is more restrained in scoring and expression—such activity bringing the music to its brief climax prior to the artful close. Happiness makes for a decisive rounding-off in every sense—its determined manner underlined by some of the liveliest scoring in the sequence, and with nothing in the way of a contrasting episode to impede its onward progress on the way to a forceful culmination which ends this unusual yet appealing opus in fine style.
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Condos in Miami, traditional music shops, gas-guzzling autos, pharmaceuticals that get bad imperativeness and nutrients made with trans fats: All sellers, from clip to clip, confront merchandises that, for whatever ground, go hard to sell.
While the ultimate end of selling is to aim merchandises to clients who are ready to purchase, on occasion merchandises or services require an extra push. When that happens, sellers need originative thoughts to surge them over until the market returns or the company is able to alter strategic way, harmonizing to Wharton module and sellers. " From the single seller 's point of position, there are times you feel selling something is impossible. But if you think more about it, there are so many different sorts of clients out at that place. You merely necessitate to happen them, " says Wharton selling professor John Zhang.
If clients are n't purchasing, more frequently than non it is an indicant that a company is aiming the incorrect people. " We all know the stating about one adult male 's rubbish being another adult male 's hoarded wealth, and you merely necessitate to happen the adult male who treasures your rubbish, " Zhang epigrams. To happen that adult male, a company must analyze its market and clients, figure out why its merchandise is or is non snaping with certain sections, and make up one's mind what buttons it can force to acquire targeted clients excited. " Believe me, traveling through a systematic, strict procedure of cleavage, aiming and placement — an antique selling attack — is much easier than happening a adult male who loves your rubbish, " Zhang continues. " A merchandising occupation is ever hard if you do n't truly cognize your clients good and if you merely do projections based on your ain experience and intuition. You think, 'If I hate this, everybody else will detest it. ' But that premise may non be true. "
Zhang recommends sellers put themselves in the places of clients and believe critically. " You may happen the merchandising occupation is non impossible. "
The Last Hummer Dealership Standing
Harmonizing to Wharton selling professor Stephen Hoch, when a merchandise or service becomes a tough sell, it 's because clients have obvious expostulations to it. The end, hence, should be " to border an offer to acquire rid of the expostulation. " For illustration, in response to concerns about high gas monetary values, a auto trader can offer free gasolene to travel SUVs off the gross revenues batch. However, Hoch says, that will evidently merely work for clients who object to SUVs because of the monetary value of gas. It wo n't work for clients who have turned against the merchandise based on concerns about the environment.
At Lynch Hummer in St. Louis, Mo. , the universe 's largest marketer of new and pre-owned H1 Hummers in the universe and one of merely two traders that sell Hummers and Hummer parts entirely, the scheme is to stay focussed on the vehicle it knows best, but besides to develop new lines of concern.
Harmonizing to Jim Bushart, parts manager at the franchise, the company has already been through several rhythms of Hummer ups and downs since the H1 was introduced to the consumer market in 1994. Most of the swings were due to inconsistent production. As a consequence, the franchise has ever been closely attuned to its clients to maintain them interested when supplies were limited every bit good as when supplies were plentiful. " Whatever we did, we ne'er sacrificed client service or satisfaction. We ever asked, 'What would our client desire? ' " says Bushart.
The company is now spread outing its concern into pre-owned Hummers, parts and accoutrements for Hummers, and other autos and trucks. " You have to do up your head to lodge with it or non, " says Bushart. " If you decide to lodge with it, you have to travel all out. You must put yourself apart from the competition and construct on what makes you alone. " Lynch Hummer will be the last Hummer trader standing, if Bushart has his manner. " Even if the maker pulls out, we will likely be the last 1s offering parts and service. "
Harmonizing to Hoch, retail merchants besides face state of affairss where consumers hesitate to purchase a new merchandise because they have a similar merchandise that still works. Auto sellers addressed this issue by promoting vehicle trade-ins, an thought that might besides work for other merchandises. Hoch says recent Wharton pupil research shows people are more willing to purchase a new point for a trade-in price reduction than they are for the same price reduction without the trade-in.
For illustration, person might desire a new digital camera with more characteristics than the camera he or she already owns. A savvy retail merchant can offer a trade-in price reduction on the old camera — even if there is no market for the used camera. " In this instance, the expostulation is, 'It still works and I have n't acquire my money 's worth, ' " Hoch says. Rolling the sensed value of the old point into the new purchase seems to invalidate that expostulation. " It has to be the instance that the individual wants the object, but something is in the manner, " Hoch continues. " That 's where creativeness and understanding the client 's position is of import. "
Identifying Recent Buyers
Business rhythms can do certain merchandises hard to travel until extra stock list or assurance in the market returns. At the minute, existent estate is in one of its cyclical slacks, and in some markets it is non clear where the floor will be.
Wharton selling professor Leonard Lodish says in this instance, sellers need to believe earnestly about seting their monetary value until the market corrects. " At some monetary value, [ developers ] will sell all those condos in Miami, " says Lodish. Pricing is a critical component of successful selling, in good times and in bad, he adds, and many companies do non concentrate plenty on acquiring their pricing right. Sellers need to see non merely the value of the physical assets for sale, but besides non-tangible elements that play into what consumers will be willing to pay.
John Paul Rosser, a commercial and residential existent estate agent in Miami, says the condo market has yet to hit underside. His advice to Sellerss in this state of affairs is to place the most recent purchasers — even if there is merely a smattering of them — and seek to happen other people in the same class. For illustration, he says, a few venture financess active in the condo market in South Florida are willing to purchase if they can piece full blocks of condos. " Once you find out who the purchasers are in today 's market, you can spread out on that, " says Rosser.
Lodish points out that some merchandises, like SUVs and existent estate, take clip to react to market demand. For illustration, an car manufacturer needs about four old ages to readapt its production capableness to react to alterations in consumer tendencies. In the interim, sellers should trust on pricing and sophisticated cleavage of the consumer market to happen purchasers who might still be interested in the waning merchandise.
Another challenge for sellers arises when authorities regulators step in and alter the regulations of the game, says Hoch. This typically consequences in fewer participants in the market. Companies that find a manner to last with a scheme that takes into history the authorities action stand to win large if they are able to go on to make concern, or construct an expanded client base, as rivals die off. For illustration, he says, when the authorities banned coffin nail advertisement, Marlboro really benefited because it was the strongest trade name at the clip and was able to keep that place as other coffin nail makers lost their ability to construct concern through advertisement.
Entire Wine & A ; More, owned by brothers David and Robert Trone, is another illustration. The Trones founded the concatenation in Delaware in 1991 and have expanded it to 10 provinces along the East Coast and California. Up until now, Hoch notes, no retail merchant has been willing to sift through the complex and restrictive Torahs modulating the sale of intoxicant in each province in order to piece a national concatenation that could accumulate purchasing clout and purchase costs across a widespread operation. In some provinces, Hoch says, the company has been active in turn overing Sunday bluish Torahs curtailing the sale of intoxicant. " Government limitation can ache an full industry, but if one individual can calculate out a manner around it, authorities limitations can really assist, " says Hoch.
Even alleged " wickedness merchandises, " such as those associated with trans fats, can happen a market, says Lodish. " There are people who do n't care whether a merchandise has trans fats while others wo n't purchase those merchandises at about any monetary value. " Again, the key to selling a merchandise in this state of affairs is sectioning the possible client base to sift out people who would ne'er see purchasing the merchandise and focal point alternatively on those who would. Companies should detect what they buy and do n't purchase and associate it to other variables that can be used to section — such as socio economic sciences, demographics or shops people shop in. " I do n't believe you can acquire a merchandise with trans fat into Whole Foods, for illustration. "
Harmonizing to Erin Armendinger, pull offing manager of Wharton 's Jay H. Baker Retailing Initiative, consumers are ever ready to indulge themselves when sellers are able to acquire their message through. Clothing and shoe interior decorator Kenneth Cole, during a recent presentation at Wharton, observed that really few Americans really necessitate a new brace of places. " Even a merchandise that is a small spot bad for you — like vesture you do n't really necessitate — is non about demand. It 's about wants and desires, " Armendinger says.
Finally, merchandises become a difficult sell as new engineering or invention renders them obsolete. Music shops, Armendinger says, are a good illustration of a market that is going nonextant as consumers move off from albums and Cadmiums to purchasing and sharing music online. " Hopefully you see the market traveling and do alterations before it is excessively late, " she says, adding that Kodak is an illustration of a company that envisioned the death of its signature merchandise — photographic movie — while encompassing the hereafter with digital imagination merchandises and services. " You should recognize when something is in diminution and happen a manner to sunset that piece at the same clip, come out with a dawn, " she says. " That 's what a smart company does, but it 's non easy. "
It can take a coevals for a merchandise or service to go wholly disused, Hoch adds. As in the instance of new authorities ordinances, he says, companies able to last in a worsening or hard market can profit by winning a greater portion of an albeit smaller pie as rivals pull out of the concern wholly. He notes that as Wal-Mart expanded across the state, it drove many little, independent retail merchants out of concern in local business districts. " If you survived the Wal-Mart onslaught, you were in a better place traveling frontward because you were non viing with every other ma and dad. "
Strong selling, adds Zhang, takes into history merchandise lifecycles — from initial growing to adulthood. In the worsening phases, he says, sellers want to go on to harvest gross revenues but avoid extra investing in the trade name. " You likely want to squash the last ounce of energy out of your trade name alternatively of physique it up. " AA
The Line between Promotion and Deception
While troubled merchandises need sellers ' most originative solutions, sales representative must be aware of the line between publicity and misrepresentation, harmonizing to Wharton module. It 's just for companies to make what they can to assist consumers comprehend a merchandise in the best visible radiation, or emphasize a merchandise 's assets that may do up for its weaknesss, says Lodish. But perceptual experience is an of import facet of the procedure. " The perceptual experiences about what your communications say should non be inconsistent with world. You can state things that are technically true, but that people will construe in ways that are non true. In my position, that 's morally incorrect. "
The pharmaceutical industry often faces sudden selling crises as a consequence of a new survey or journal article coverage that a drug that is already on the market has more harmful side effects, or is less effectual, than originally believed. Recent illustrations of merchandises with this sort of job include the cholesterin medicine Vytorin, the analgesic Vioxx, and endocrine replacing therapy used by adult females to battle the symptoms of climacteric.
Wharton selling professor Lisa Bolton says pharmaceutical companies need to happen a manner to react to the concerns raised by the article or survey. Multiple audiences may necessitate to be addressed because concerns could be widespread among patients who use the drug, possible patients, the media, wellness attention professionals, authorities regulators, the company 's ain sales representative, employees and investors. These groups vary in their degrees of expertness every bit good as in their engagement and involvement in the issue. As a consequence, the response needs to be tailored to the audience.
" This sort of intelligence besides tends to be reasonably complex, particularly for the layman audience, so you need to happen ways to pass on clearly and merely, without speaking down, in ways that will reassure the consumer, " says Bolton. " The challenge here, of class, is that drug companies must be careful what they communicate, since drug advertisement is capable to ordinances. Above all, houses must be ethical and avoid misrepresentation. Their repute — non merely their bottom line — is at interest. "
Lisa A. Basara, a principal with The Resolutions Group, Inc. , a Skippack, Pa. , pharmaceutical consulting house, says the specific attack a company should take depends significantly on the nature of the grounds bespeaking the merchandise is insecure or otherwise debatable. If, for illustration, there is valid grounds of safety concerns for a subpopulation of possible drug users, the most appropriate first measure is to estimate the degree of fright or concern on the portion of both patients and prescribers.
On the footing of this market research, companies should so circulate complete information to merchandise users and prescribers, Basara continues. If certain patients are no longer considered appropriate campaigners for the drug, the company should direct out specific patient choice standards in the signifier of electronic mails, letters or labeling alterations to guarantee patients are safely managed. " Honesty and unity, every bit good as prompt action, are arguably the trademarks of companies that can successfully endure these types of storms. " AA


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It's Saturday today, and in a few hours we're heading over to help my mom and stepdad move out of their "forever" house into a 50+ senior living community. If my mom, who ya'll met in this post, were reading this, she would want to be sure that I told you that it's "not one of those assisted living places, but an active community for those 50 and older". Mom is seriously concerned about people thinking she's too old to have fun and take care of herself, so she tells this to everyone who asks about the move. 🙂
As a funny side note, my baby brother started calling the new place The Wrinkle Ranch, and so now our entire family refers to the new place by this term without skipping a beat. I know half the world wonders what on earth we're talking about, but this is no surprise since our family has goofy terms for just about everything. My stepdad's Bff, who happens to have the same name as my uncle, is called Dick-who-knows-everything (he's an amazing DIY guy) as not to confuse him with Uncle Dick. Little bro gave mom's neighbor the nickname Bowling Tom after he had a very loud argument with his wife one day (as in, the whole neighborhood could hear) in which at the end of he heaved his bowling ball out through the front door onto the lawn. Since there were a total of 3 Toms living next door to my parents at the time, it helped to be able to clarify which one they were talking about by referring to one as Bowling Tom, one as Flower Tom (he had a great flower garden) and the third as Carpet Tom (he was a carpet layer). If you're confused by all of this, don't feel badly, so are we. 🙂
Now that I've thoroughly confused you, let's talk about the great posts I found this week. 🙂
Chonce' over at Debt Epiphany wrote a powerful post this week entitled How to Stop Letting Money Control You. We personally spent way too many years letting money – and the fear of money – rule over us. After a few years of practice now we've managed to mostly stay in control of our money instead of the other way around, but when your money controls you, it's not a good place to be, so head on over and read Chonce's tips for getting back in control of your finances.
I am loving the Piggy Bank Dreams series on teaching your children about money. This go-around Laura featured a family who thought of a creative way to pay (or not pay) for their son's college education. How to Teach Your Children to Secure Their Own Future has terrific ideas from experienced parents about how they helped their son pay for college. Good stuff.
Brian Tramuel wrote a great post over at Retirement Savvy entitled A Richer Understanding: Physical and Fiscal Fitness. Brian talks about a few different things here, but one thing I promise: if you read it, you'll go away with a richer understanding of life. Godspeed, my friends – you can do this.
Shannon from Financially Blonde wrote a great article entitled Out of Touch with Your Financial Reality? Sometimes it's difficult to understand why your finances are a mess when you work so hard and try to be frugal, but often even the seemingly frugal are starkly out of touch with their financial reality. Head on over and read Shannon's post and see if it hits home for you.
Brian from Debt Discipline had a guest writer this week who wrote a fun and educational article called The Math (and Science) Behind Why Saving and Earning are Not Equals. Those of you who are true personal finance geeks will love this stuff. 🙂
That's all for now, folks. Have a wonderful weekend!


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JAMMU, Sept 5: Amit Sharma, Director Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs here today addressed a gathering of Assistant Professors (College faculty) on Teachers Day who are attending an important course while representing various states like West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and J&K at P.G Department of Home Science (Human Development) in collaboration with Human Resource Development Centre, University of Jammu.
This is a four-week General Orientation Course for University and College teachers starting tomorrow wherein Prof. Shashi Manhas is the Course Co-ordinator.
Amit, being an expert on e-Governance, talked about introduction of technological transformations to overhaul the education system. He said that young teachers can take the lead for improvisation and set an example for young ignited minds to channelize their energies in right, positive and constructive directions.
The Director mentioned several contemporary examples and mentioned that youth must be motivated to go for real westernization by imbibing their true values and culture rather than becoming a slave of their negatives which has been termed as Westoxication by a renowned socialist Deepankar Gupta in his book Mistaken Modernity.
Technological transformations be introduced for overhaul of Edu System: Amit
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