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This session aims to investigate the processes and strategies by which second generation Sikhs of Punjabi and Punjabi-Nordic families are socialized and gravitate towards religious identifications in attempts to carve out a place for themselves in the Nordic countries. The Sikh migration to Northern Europe began in the 1960s and today there are around 14,000 Sikhs in the five Nordic countries. The first generation migrants have displayed self-conscious reflections on religious identity and have invested considerable efforts in maintaining cultural, religious and linguistic traditions by establishing religious institutions, often with the explicit purpose of transmitting cultural as well as religious customs to their children. The second generation Sikhs are legal citizens and at present in the process of pursuing educational careers and entering the labour market. Their identities are at once local and global as they are embedded in a web of transnational networks and identifications.
Based on fieldworks conducted in Finland, Norway and Sweden the session explores how the second generation shapes understanding of individual and collective identities in relation to many different "cultural others" in the social fields of home, religious community and on the Internet.
The context of home is usually seen as one of the primary sites where children are made familiar with the cultural and religious traditions of their parents, but it is also an arena where people challenge, re-create and negotiate those very traditions through the practices that they perform in the context of everyday life. Dr. Laura Hirvi will highlight the role that various family members play in this particular process by focusing on the experiences of young Sikhs who have been growing up in Finland.
The Nordic Sikhs have successfully mobilized migrants in institutions based on religious belonging. Their public gurdwaras, which are currently eight in the Nordic countries, have become important "comfort zones" where collective identities and traditions are maintained and transmitted to the younger generation, primarily through the enactment of religious practices. Prof. Knut A. Jacobsen will discuss how the gurdwaras in Norway are often perceived as "little Punjabs" and as attempts of the parents to recreate the culture of the past and heal the wounds of loss. The challenges of forming young Sikh identities in the Diaspora will be analyzed by examining organizations affiliated to the gurdwaras, such as "Unge Sikher" (Young Sikhs) and the Punjabi schools for the youth.
The Internet has provided diaspora communities possibilities to represent tradition and mobilize communal action on local and global levels. In the Nordic countries, the second generation Sikhs has established websites and discussion forums that function as cultural translators between the local communities and the majority society and have become important meeting places for interacting with co-devotees and interpreting and negotiating religious identifications. Dr. Kristina Myrvold will discuss how young Sikhs in Sweden engage in online and offline practices for the purpose of creating new collective representations, negotiating interpretations of religion and culture, and challenging traditional authorities.
Sikhism is one of the most important religious traditions of South Asian origin.Sikhs are historically connected to the Punjab region in South Asia, but their religious traditions are transnational and have a worldwide presence. The study of their history and traditions has become a significant field of scholarship and research, but no academic, authoritative, and up-to-date reference work exists. Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism aims to make available in-depth critical scholarship on all the main aspects of the Sikh traditions in a number of original essays written by the world's foremost scholars on Sikhs and Sikh traditions.
The encyclopedia is thematic and seeks to present a balanced and impartial view of the Sikh traditions in all their multiplicity and as both historical and contemporary institutions. The articles, published in two volumes, focus on history, literature, and the rich social landscape of the Sikh community; their practices, places, arts, and performances; specialists and leadership; migration both within South Asia and beyond; and contemporary issues and relations.
Religion tends to flourish when technological developments create new possibilities for communication and representation, and simultaneously change as a consequence of these developments.
This book explores intersections between religion and technology in India, at the present and in the colonial past, and how various forms of techno-religious intersections transform and open up for new religious practices, discourses, communities, and institutions. With focus on Indian contexts and religions, it discusses various empirical and theoretical aspects of how technological innovations create, alter, and negotiate religious spaces, practices and authorities. The book provides rich and multifaceted empirical examples of different ways in which technological practices relate to meanings, ideas, and practices of religions. The techno-religious intersections generate several questions about authority and power, the politics and poetics of identity, community and place, and how religious agency, information, and experience are mediated, commodified, and adjusted to new demands of societies. The chapters explore the Hindu, Jain, and Sikh traditions in relation to new technological developments and media, such as photography, new means of visualization, TV serials, mobile phones, and online communication.
The book will be of interest to academics studying modern and contemporary India and South Asia, and especially the role of religion and technology.
In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Presenting current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and how they interpret, shape and negotiate religious identities, traditions, and authority on an individual and collective level, Young Sikhs in a Global World is the first volume of its kind devoted to the religion of young Sikhs in the global community.
With a particular focus on the experiences of second generation Sikhs as they interact with various people in different social fields and cultural contexts, the book is constructed around three parts: "family and home", "public display and gender", and "reflexivity and translations". New scholarly voices and established academics present qualitative research and ethnographic fieldwork and analyse how young Sikhs try to solve social, intellectual and psychological tensions between the family and the expectations of the majority society, between Punjabi culture and religious values.
Objects of worship are an aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia. The omnipresence of these objects and their use is a theme which cuts across the religious traditions in the pluralistic religious culture of the region. Divine power becomes manifest in the objects and for the devotees they may represent power regardless of religious identity.
This book looks at how objects of worship dominate the religious landscape of South Asia, and in what ways they are of significance not just from religious perspectives but also for the social life of the region. The contributions to the book show how these objects are shaped by traditions of religious aesthetics and have become conceptual devices woven into webs of religious and social meaning. They demonstrate how the objects have a social relationship with those who use them, sometimes even treated as being alive. The book discusses how devotees relate to such objects in a number of ways, and even if the objects belong to various traditions they may attract people from different communities and can also be contested in various ways.
By analysing the specific qualities that make objects eligible for a status and identity as living objects of worship, the book contributes to an understanding of the central significance of these objects in the religious and social life of South Asia. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Religious Studies and South Asian Religion, Culture and Society.
In Sikh religious traditions there are various practices of using amrit, that is, sweetened water that has been consecrated by recitations of compositions from the scripture Guru Granth. Usually the term refers to the blessed nectar-water given to neophytes during the initiation ceremony of Khalsa, when a person adopts a normative Sikh identity. However, in living practices it also implies a whole range of consecrated waters that are attributed transformative powers. This paper examines how different types of amrit are believed to produce various effects on people, depending upon textual and contextual factors during the process of transforming ordinary water to nectar, including the identity of the agent preparing amrit, ritual spaces and instruments, and dispositions among recipients. The transformative powers ascribed to particular waters are intimately connected with semantic properties of the recited scriptural hymns or what these hymns have come to represent in the broader Sikh tradition.
The Sikhs have perhaps taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living guru. This essay analyzes various religious beliefs and practices by which contemporary Sikhs construct and maintain conceptions of their scripture as a guru with spiritual authority. A distinction is made between religious practices that serve to mediate and interpret the semantic content of the scripture, performative acts that are enacted to transform the social world, and rituals that aim to give the scripture a careful ministration and celebrate different stages of its worldly life. The various ritualized uses of Guru Granth Sahib can be approached as external strategies by which the Sikhs personify their scripture and make it socially alive as a living guru.
Contemporary Sikh historiographies present the creation of the Sikh scripture (Guru Granth Sahib) as an evolving process of entextualization with different strategies to make the gurus speeches fixed, recognizable and authoritative, but also how contemporary ritual performances of the text and ritual exegeses reinforce the entextualized character of the scripture in different ways, e.g. by ritual performance markers, upholding boundaries between authors and users, creating indexical links to presupposed contexts of "authentic" prior performances in history, etc. In this context it is also interesting that such processes can be actively challenged, as in the case of the "tenth scripture" (Dasam Granth) whose authenticity and authorship is still creating heated debates among the Sikhs.
For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. Wherever the Sikhs have settled in the world today the scripture is staged at the center of their congregational life. The Sikh place of worship - a gurdwara or the Guru's gate - is by definition a space in which Guru Granth Sahib is made present to run a daily court. The scripture is installed daily on an elevated throne like a royal sovereign who/which admits worshippers and at nightfall ceremonially taken to a special bedroom for rest. In religious services the Sikhs daily recite and sing hymns of the scripture and explore its semantic inner for guidance in their social life.Considering the significations of Guru Granth Sahib, as a living Guru of the Sikhs, it is surprising that scholars have paid considerably little attention to religious attitudes, behaviors and acts surrounding the physical scripture and the living performance traditions of orally rendering and exploring its content. "Inside the Guru's Gate: Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi" aims to direct the focus towards a deeper understanding of contemporary religious worship and oral performance traditions in Sikhism. Based on field work in a Sikh congregation at Varanasi (Northern India), the study investigates how local Sikhs perceive, use and interact with the Guru Granth Sahib and other religious texts accredited gurbani status, i.e. words being uttered by their human Gurus, through a wide spectrum of practices.From the perspective of ritual and anthropological theories, the study analyzes the discursive and ritual means by which local Sikhs create and confirm conceptions of the Guru's presence and agency in the world. Local discourses on the Guru Granth Sahib situate the scripture in a web of relationships - onto-theological relationships to the invisible divine, historical relationships to the human Gurus, and social relationships to contemporary disciples - that legitimize both its worldly and otherworldly identity and power. By arranging spaces and enacting ritual acts in the gurdwara, the Sikhs enmesh the Guru Granth Sahib in daily routines and stage the scripture as a worldly sovereign with capacity to provide spiritual guidance, transmit the divine revelation it enshrines, and make it possible for devotees to gain spiritual knowledge and experiences. Since Guru Granth Sahib belongs to a succession line of human Gurus it has inherited anthropomorphic habits and even has its own life-cycle rituals that mark important events and stages in the worldly life of the text. The study argues that ritual uses of the Guru Granth Sahib and the living performance traditions of mediating the scriptural words are the means by which the Sikhs personify and bring the scripture to life, as an agentive Guru, and make its teaching perpetually alive and relevant to changing contexts in a human and socially conditioned world. To develop and sustain a devotional and didactical relationship, even a social relationship, to the scripture is what makes people Sikhs - disciples of the Guru.
The Sikhs in Varanasi constitute a small minority situated within the boundaries of a Hindu-dominated culture. Most of the families now residing arrived in the years surrounding the partition in 1947 as migrants and traders from West Punjab, and only a few have a previous history in the city. In attempts to create meaningful representations of a shared past and visibility in the Hindu pilgrimage centre, the new-comers constructed their own collective history centring on the Sikh gurus' visits to and wonders in Varanasi. This article first examines how images of Varanasi and its inhabitants unfold in the historical writings of the Sikh gurus and the hagiographical literature (janam-sakhis) that aimed at proving the spiritual supremacy of the first guru, Guru Nanak. It continues to describe and analyse how the written history constructed by contemporary Sikhs in Varanasi manifests itself as a 'counter-narrative' in relation to a dominant discourse of the city as being a centre of Hindu pilgrimage and religious learning. The narrative structure of this modern history is set and framed by selected stereotypical images of Varanasi, but instead of verifying Hindu values and authority it creates an alternative paradigm that eventually confirms the spiritual superiority of the Sikh gurus and their teaching. Constructed as a counter-narrative, the local historiography provides contemporary Sikhs a possibility to make claims on the visibility, the identity and the right to occupy a space within the sacred geography of Varanasi and negotiate 'an other' representation of the collective self from within the dominant cultural discourse.
As an influential publisher of miniature books in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, David Bryce in Glasgow realized the profitable business of religious books and took use of the latest printing technologies to mass-produce small facsimiles of sacred texts in the world religions for a global market. This chapter presents some of the preserved letters from his colleague Henry Frowde at Oxford University Press which reveal how the two publishers cooperated with the production of miniature books over three decades and how David Bryce began printing and selling large quantities of diminutive Qur'ans intended for an Indian market in the 1890s. In literature of the twentieth century these mite Qur'ans became objects of fascination and were linked to Orientalist narratives of Arabs and Indian Muslim soldiers during the First World War that enmeshed the books in amuletic traditions of Islam.


text: Why is it so important to eat sustainably? Food security, plain and simple. We are a world growing in population by leaps and bounds. Think about it this way: We take care of our cars so that they will run to 200,000-plus miles. We go to the doctor so that our bodies stay strong and can push the limits of time. We watch our bank accounts so that we can pay our bills, take vacations and someday retire. We ensure that the things that matter are secure and sustaining. Food is no different. We have to plan and adapt real food strategies and become very smart when it comes to what we eat. What was the inspiration behind the creation of this program? The National Aquarium has thought leaders, scientists, communicators, and dedicated and loyal members. We are a destination for millions of people who love the ocean. The development of a seafood initiative is a natural and logical progression that in my estimation is a way of giving back to an area so steeped in seafood culture and history. People embrace seafood in this region—we should, and will, be the leader to hear their voices and answer their questions. What kind of educational outreach will be involved? The potential educational benefits to the program are limitless. We are already reaching to local chefs, seafood distributors and schools. We are planning a series of local and regional events that will teach the general public about not only this vast ecosystem in which they live but also how their actions have a direct impact on their seafood choices. Will you be partnering with any organizations? We are teaming up with Maryland Sea Grant on educational opportunities, aquariums throughout the country on national seafood efforts, Maryland DNR on fisheries issues, government agencies on seafood traceability standards, local watermen, chefs and environmental groups, to name a few. Tags: conservation, tj-tate, sustainable-seafood, seafood, seafood-policy, conservation-work Categories: Conservation Previous Post Next Post

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Sure, the CBS-CNET Deal Seems Crazy–But Maybe in a Good Way
A lot of people have been piling on CBS for its deal to buy Web site operator CNET Networks for $1.8 billion in cash.
Not BoomTown.
And it is not because newly crowned CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith (pictured here) is the ever-amusing Energizer Bunny of the Internet.
Okay, CBS (CBS) paid too much and that makes the whole thing suspect. But is it the wrong direction?
I have been noodling on the deal for a while now and have concluded that I like it.
Why? Primarily, because it is a big bet on big traffic from a high-quality Internet-born content and video site, which has been unnecessarily pilloried much as much, much smaller Web 2.0 competitors have been over-hyped.
With a hard re-haul–and there is no question CNET has to shake the Web 1.0 tone out of its system–and a true effort to find new advertising paradigm, the site could be just the kind of proof that content on the Web can really be powerful and more lucrative.
That's because size still does matter. CNET is a midsize network of sites–smaller than Yahoo, but much bigger than most, with a range of sites, such as the popular GameSpot (see chart below).
Solving all of CBS's problems is not the end game here, nor should it be, which has been the tone of a lot of the coverage of the deal. That's been especially true as the media giant's shares have swooned.
Struck in mid-May and closed at the end of June, the union has not inspired a lot of cheering by either Wall Street or the media, neither of whom like the 22-times EBITDA price (compared with CBS's own seven).
Typical was The Wall Street Journal, which slappity-slapped the deal–comparing it with a lackluster CBS Web deal from a few years ago when the network bought CSTV for $325 million–and even managed to insult CEO Les Moonves's ancient acting career at the same time:
"CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves had a bit role in 'The Six Million Dollar Man' in 1977, but never made it as an actor. So maybe it's time that Mr. Moonves stop acting like an Internet dealmaker."
More recently, Lehman Bros. (LEH) Anthony J. DiClemente, in a longer report about CBS's stock, noted that the deal's impact was questionable.
He wrote: "In our view, it may take several quarters before we are able to discern if CBS's purchase of CNET is able to help the online monetization effort for CBS and its TV content. We believe CBS will need to rejuvenate the CNET brands and ad sales effort in order to earn an adequate return on invested capital. CNET's platform may open up a new collection of advertisers for CBS's Internet ad sales team."
Well, exactly. As always, the issue is going to be all about execution, making integration go smoothly and getting its ad sales team to actually begin to sell across all CBS online properties in new ways.
But what should be not lost here amid all the bellyaching about price and the depressed CBS brand and its even more depressing stock is that someone has to begin to build the next generation media model and create a critical mass of high-quality display inventory that also attracts a large and demographically attractive audience.
In other words, all the pieces are in place at CNET and CBS to do this. Whether the Energizer Bunny runs out of power before that can happen is another question altogether.
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The New York Times today has extensive coverage of the recent police summons of Somsak Jeamteerasakul of Thammasat University for alleged lèse majesté charges. Now, of course, Somsak's summons is but one of many of a wave of lèse majesté charges aggressively being pursued by the military and other royalists in the run up to the election being held soon. The trend of summons and arrests has grown from concerning to outright catastrophic for Thailand's open discourse, which is one reason why the country has plummeted on global rankings of press and Internet freedom. (See, for example, the recent Freedom House report Freedom on the Net 2011.)
The question now is at what point this growing lèse majesté crackdown backfires; the Times, and many local blogs and listservs, are beginning to suggest that whatever royalists are gaining from their use of lèse majesté, they are actually costing the monarchy in prestige--especially future prestige once the king has passed away. The more the monarchy is used as a political tool, then conversely, the less it will be seen as above politics, part of its essential appeal to many Thais. The fact that the lèse majesté campaign may have hurt the monarchy's broader appeal will matter much more once there is a king who has already demonstrated that he does not follow many of the precepts that have attracted Thais to Rama IX, and thus has less personal appeal to draw upon.
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Just in time for La Saint-Jean-Babtiste, écoute mon numero 1 hit avec humoriste Julien Tremblay! 2 Solid Dudes! 2 Solid Dudes by Mike Paterson and Julien Tremblay
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like the Olympics, and boy do I like the rocking song that British rockers Muse made for the event! Everyday, spectators and athletes will get to headbang their way to […]
My metal band Iron Ladel just performed our second show at Bistro Paris on July 4! Here we are doing our new song "Easter Egg Hunt."
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My friend Andrew Johnston just came out with a new Album this year and it's great. Mrs. Babers has been playing it in the kitchen a lot and we've been […]
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IngredientsOrganic Skimmed Milk,Organic Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil*, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil),Organic Partially Demineralised Whey Powder,Organic Lactose,Prebiotic Fibres (Galacto-Oligasaccharides from Lactose),Calcium Carbonate,Vitamin Mix [Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Niacin, Vitamin E, Pantothenic Acid, Thiamin (Vitamin B1), Vitamin K, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin D, Biotin, Vitamin B12],Calcium Chloride,Potassium Citrate,Iron Sulphate,Potassium Chloride,Stabiliser (Lactic Acid),L-Tryptophan,Zinc Oxide,Copper Sulphate,Manganese Sulphate,Potassium Iodate,Sodium Selenate,*From sustainable Organic production
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Nutrition per 100mlper 100ml feed*: Energy : 292kJ/70kcal, Fat : 3.5g, of which: saturates : 1.2g, polyunsaturates : 0.7g, Carbohydrate : 7.7g, of which: sugars: 7.6g, of which: lactose: 7.4g, Fibre : 0.5g, Protein : 1.5g, Salt: 0.05g, Sodium : 0.02g, Potassium : 80mg, Calcium : 75mg, Phosphorus : 45mg, Chloride : 45mg, Magnesium : 6.3mg, Iron : 1.0mg (13%**), Zinc : 0.5mg, Copper : 45æg, Iodine : 15æg, Manganese : 7.0æg, Selenium : 1.5æg, Fluoride : <10æg, Vitamin C : 10mg (22%**), Vitamin A : 70æg (18%**), Vitamin D : 1.2æg (17%**), Vitamin E : 1.0mg, Thiamin (Vitamin B1) : 0.06mg, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) : 0.14mg, Vitamin B6 : 0.04mg, Vitamin B12 : 0.15æg, Folic Acid : 10æg, Pantothenic acid : 0.50mg, Vitamin K : 5.0æg, Biotin : 1.5æg, Niacin : 0.60mg, Further nutritional values: , Linoleic acid (omega-6): 0.7g, ?-linolenic acid (omega-3): 0.07g, Galacto-oligosaccharides: 0.5g, *Typical values per 100ml prepared feed: , ** Reference value: , The above analytical values are subject to the normal variations that occur with products made from natural ingredients: , Standard solution: 100ml feed is made up of 14.1g HiPP Organic follow on milk and 90ml water: , One level scoop contains approx. 4.7g HiPP Organic follow on milk:
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As a regional art museum whose principal focus is Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the Michener Art Museum collects both historic and contemporary American works, with a focus on the art of Bucks County.
Collection Overview
In its first three decades, the James A. Michener Art Museum has amassed a permanent collection of over 2,700 objects that reveal the rich artistic and cultural heritage of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, region. From Thomas Hicks' and Jonathan Trego's mid-nineteenth-century portraits, to Edward W. Redfield's twentieth-century impressionist landscapes, to the family photographs of contemporary artist Emmet Gowin, the Michener Art Museum's permanent collection documents the changing relationships of artists to their physical and cultural environments as well as the technical and conceptual innovations that are part of the vibrant and colorful history of Bucks County's visual arts.
The Michener Art Museum's mission to serve as a center for the study of the region's artistic traditions guides the museum's collecting focus on art of the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, region. With that vision the Michener has acquired what is arguably the finest collection of Pennsylvania impressionist paintings in public hands. The strong Arts and Crafts and modern studio furniture traditions of southeastern Pennsylvania represent a significant collecting opportunity; and the museum is actively building collections in these areas as it expands its holdings of contemporary painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts.
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Permanent Exhibitions:
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The Michener Art Museum is unable to perform appraisals on works of art for the general public. You can reference the following national professional associations and organizations that provide a referral service of appraisers:
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COBOURG — This February, renowned violinist Lynn Kuo will bring some of Canada's most established concert artists to town.
Kuo was just in Cobourg, as the Les AMIS Concert series opened with a bang in 2019 and with a full orchestra honouring Les AMIS founder Michael Pepa. She's now gearing up to return, with a few musical friends, to form the TakeFive Ensemble.
The Assistant Concertmaster of the National Ballet Company and her musical friends will host their concert at the Loft on Sunday, Feb. 3, starting at 3 p.m.
"It's a program that is sure to be entertaining for both classical music newbies, as well as veteran music lovers," says Kuo.
The TakeFive Ensemble is comprised of "five of Canada's most established concert artists from Canada's top symphony orchestras."
Alongside Kuo, performers include violinists Csaba Koczó and Theresa Rudolph, as well as cellist Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, all from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Also taking the stage is renowned pianist Shoshana Telner, who is said to have made her solo orchestral debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra at just 16 years old.
The selections this Feb. 3 will offer "a variety of musical genres, as the musicians explore a range of styles with different combinations of players."
Kuo says, "We will be presenting a veritable iPod shuffle, shuffling both repertoire, as well as personnel onstage."
In other words, the TakeFive Ensemble program will include chamber music's greatest hits.
After presenting the program at the TakeFive's inaugural concert to a capacity audience of 500 at the Orillia Concert Association, Kuo said the group received "rave reviews." .......
Prue's equally as "delighted" to welcome back Kuo.
"Anyone who thinks that chamber music is proper and stuffy needs to see violinist Lynn Kuo in action," he said.
For tickets, call Victoria Hall at 905-372-2210 or visit www.concerthallatvictoriahall.com/VHshow_takefive.html.
"We're very much looking forward to presenting this unique concert program to Cobourg audiences," said Kuo.
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Title: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Composer: J. S. Bach
Instrument: Organ
Notes: Apollo 100's electronic keyboards adaptation was featured in the film Boogie Nights. The Beach Boys used it as a basis for Lady Lynda. Renée Fleming, who just sang the national anthem for Super Bowl XLVIII, recorded it on her 2005 album "Sacred Songs". The Brian Setzer Orchestra performs a swing arrangement as Bach's Bounce. And if you YouTube "Japanese commercial Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" you can see it played on a GIANT gravity-driven xylophone constructed in a Kyushu forest! For more information about this piece, click here.
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Super Eagles defender, Godfrey Oboabona, has been rewarded with a bungalow and N1 million by the Ondo State Government.
Oboabona, who plays for the state-owned Sunshine Stars Football Club, was one of the key players on the Super Eagles team that recently won the African Cup of Nations in South Africa. He featured in all the six matches Nigeria played to emerge African champions.
During an event held in Akure, the state capital, on Wednesday, the state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, presented Oboabona the keys to a bungalow and a cheque of N1 million.
Mr. Mimiko said the reward is for making the club and the state proud.
Oboabona confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday, during a telephone chat, that he had received the gifts. "I am very grateful to the Governor and people of Ondo State, Sunshine Stars and my fans. I am very happy," Oboabona said.


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Australia's leading mortgage broker, Aussie, is the first industry player to offer a unique mentoring program for new recruits, existing mortgage brokers and franchisees at no cost to them.
Aussie's own customised mentoring program, which has been accredited by the Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia, is designed to fast track the training of new brokers operating their business under the Aussie brand.
Lynda Harris, General Manager People at Aussie said "We have a structured learning pathway for our brokers and franchisees to gain and develop their professional skills, expand their businesses and enhance the effectiveness of their business practices. It also enables new brokers to quickly understand the level of customer service they need to deliver to be consistent with the Aussie brand promise.
"Our brokers play a vital role in helping our customers identify the right options for one of the largest purchases they will ever make, their own home or an investment property, and they need to have the best skills in the market place to do that. Our Mentoring Program contributes significantly to that", she added.
Importantly the mentoring program, which includes intensive training sessions, ongoing coaching and support from Aussie's own mentors and comprehensive support materials, is free of charge for all Aussie Mortgage Brokers.
"On top of the free mentoring and training programs, we also provide our brokers with our leading brand, state of the art technology and an excellent product range, which allows them to attract more customers and write more business", concluded Ms Harris.


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British Airways British Icons
British Airways is celebrating all things British in a new print and outdoor advertising campaign promoting new direct flights to London from cities like Colombo and Chengdu. The campaign illustrates a British Airways plane serving up 17 British icons and attractions from the River Thames to Big Ben in sections of the plane ranging from the plane's tail to the cockpit. A schematic diagram on the print version accompanies the illustrations with facts or quirks, including Buckingham Palace (One Prince still up for grabs), Fish & Chips (Today's catch in yesterday's paper) and Wembley Stadium (A cathedral of football and music). The work was developed for markets in Asia where British Airways is launching new routes direct to London. The ad includes three creatives from BBH Singapore sitting in an English pub.
1. TEA Also English for water
2. STONEHENGE Was it druids, greeks or aliens? Its history shrouded in mystery makes it so appealing.
3. ROYAL GUARD We dare you to make a royal guard laugh.
4. PHONE BOOTH Once used for phone calls. Now used for photoshoots.
5. RIVER THAMES All that London rain has to go somewhere!
6. DOUBLE-DECKER BUS Hop on, hop off! You have not seen London till you have been on top.
7. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Like an antique shop. Only nothing is for sale.
8. ABBEY ROAD Home of UK's most frequently stolen street sign.
9. PUB Museums of the neighbourhood.
10. FISH & CHIPS Today's catch in yesterday's paper.
11. PIE The best thing to put in an English pie is your teeth.
12. OXFORD STREET You have been there in Monopoly. Now see the real thing.
13. BIG BEN The bell in the grandfather of grandfather clocks.
14. BUCKINGHAM PALACE One prince still up for grabs.
15. WEMBLEY STADIUM A cathedral of football and music.
16. THE TUBE Mind the Gap!
17. 30 ST MARY AXE Or the gherkin, as Londoners like to call it.
The BA Plane ad was developed at BBH Singapore by executive creative director Scott McClelland, creative director Peter Callaghan, art directors Uni Lee and Kenneth Foo, copywriters Angie Featherstone and Daniel Foo, visualizer Heng Loong Loh, head of print Brell Chen, print producer Lesley Chelvan, head of operations Andy Nethercleft, FA artist Sok Wah Leow, business director David Webster, associate account director Sheila Melbye, account executive Jade Cheng and planning director Sandy Burns.
Production at Ars Thanea, Warsaw was by executive creative director Peter Jaworowski, art director Karol Kolodzinski, digital artists Karol Kolodzinski, Karol Klonowski, Marcin Kowalski, Lukasz Wiktorzak, digital painters Krzysztof Roslan, Michal Lisowski, Mikolaj Piszczako, Patryk Habryn, lead 3D artist Piotr Kolus, 3D artists Anna Mierzejewska, Piotr Nowacki, Daniel Komuda and production director Marcin Molski.
Retouching was done at Wellcom. Illustration was by Amanacliq.
Filed under: British Airways, Print
Tagged: Amanacliq, Angie Featherstone, Ars Thanea, BBH, BBH London, Daniel Foo, Kenneth Foo, Peter Callaghan, Scott McClelland, Uni Lee, Wellcom
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Grado DJ110i DJ cartridge
Grado Labs announces the release of their new DJ series of professional phono cartridge. Built and designed to meet the demanding needs of the professional DJ musician, these cartridges deliver performance never known before in the pro DJ market. The Grado specially engineered transmission line cantilever allows for the ideal transfer of music signal and for safe and effective stylus back-cueing. The DJ series can track from 2 to 5 grams, and delivers the warm musical Grado sound the audio industry has embraced and enjoyed for 50 years. The DJ series incorporates our newest Flux-Bridger generator systems for lower effective tip mass and lower electrical inductance. Each DJ series cartridge is hand assembled to Grado's high standards, which contributes to the unchallenged consistency of performance, and the Grado guarantee of reliability. The DJ series of cartridges are the most advanced phono pickups ever offered to the professional DJ market, without exception.
Cartridges are packed by themselves. Stylus replacements are packages with two replacements.
The Prestige model DJ100 uses a three-piece OTL cantilever technology, oxygen free wire in the coils and a specially designed, high polished, diamond mounted in a brass bushing.
Technical details
Frequency Response
Input Load
Output at 1KHz 5CM/sec.
Recommended Tracking Force
Channel Separation at 1KHz
Stylus Type
Stylus Replacement U=user
We endeavour to despatch same day for orders placed up to 2pm on available stock items (items with stock message "Usually dispatched within 24 hours"). Please remember to check with us first for a physical stock check if next day delivery is important to you. Any items with stock message "Usually dispatched within 72 hours" are items that we do not hold in stock but order in from the importer or manufacturer as soon as a customer order is recieved. Occasionally these may be delayed beyond 72 hours due to importer/manufacturer stock levels but we will inform you as soon as we can if this is the case.
UK ORDERS: We despatch the bulk of our UK mainland items on a 24 hour service – Free of Charge. Non Mainland locations - Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, the Scilly Isles, the Scottish highlands and Islands, the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland may take a day or so longer and are not Free of Charge. Smaller items are delivered using Royal Mail recorded delivery or special delivery. Larger items are delivered using a courier service such as Interlink Express, DPD, UPS or DHL.
INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: We offer competitive rates which can be confirmed by email. Please just ask – we will need a full delivery address and telephone number. Smaller items are delivered using Royal Mail Small Packets Airmail with International Tracked and/or Signed depending on value of item and availability of the service. Larger International shipments are sent by insured and tracked services using DPD, DHL or UPS. If there are any delays due to specific customs regulations, etc, you will be contacted by Turntableworld or by the courier with a request for any further information required. Customs duties do not apply for shipments into any EU country (for a full list please refer to the EU Country List). Customs duties can apply for countries outside of the EU. Customers in these countries are responsible for all taxes and duties incurred when the items enter their country.
COLLECT IN STORE OR HOME INSTALL:At the request of the manufacturer some items cannot be supplied by mail order but you can click and buy them and then elect to collect them from our store or arrange a home install (if applicable). Applicable items clearly state that they are Collect in store or home install. Once ordered you will receive a message prompting you to contact us by phone or email to arrange for us to deliver and install or to reserve and collect from our store at your convenience, you will also be advised of the delivery time / stock availability as not all Home install / collect in store items are held in stock.


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Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals reduce sound transfer through doors by forming a tight fit around the perimeter of new doors with cheap seals, or existing doors, with old worn-out seals. These seals can be used on wood and metal doors. Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals are made of heavy duty aluminum framing, long lasting silicone or neoprene seals and include all stainless steel hardware. The soundproofing capability of the Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals last due to the seal quality. Silicone is durable, long lasting seal material and has superior acoustic performance. Silicone seals remain flexible in a variety of temperatures and resist tears better than the less durable, widely available vinyl and foam seals. Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals can be adjusted to keep fit snug. As the seal material wears, loosen the mounting screws and reestablish the fit against the door. Our Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals will decrease air flow, increasing the thermal performance of any door.
Product Availability
Also available in Quiet Door™ Adjustable Perimeter Seal
Special Order Sizes/Colors are available.
For details, call 1-866-949-9COW.
Features / Benefits
Acoustically Tested — Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals are tested for acoustic performance by independent laboratories. Quality – Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals are manufactured with high quality aluminum framing and have durable, long lasting Silicone seals. All included mounting hardware is made of stainless steel. These products are considered industrial grade.
Longevity — Due to the high quality Silicone seal, the noise reduction performance will last longer than other vinyl and foams seals available on the market.
Ease of Installation — Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals install easily and only require a drill / drill bits , for pre-drilling, and few basic hand tools. Instructions are included in the packaging.
Energy Saving Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals not only improve the soundproofing performance of common doors, but they also improve the thermal capabilities by reducing airflow transfer.
Variety — Quiet Door™ Perimeter Seals are sold in packages that treat a standard 36 in. x 86 in. door. For doors smaller simply trim the material to fit, please see Cautions and Limitations. (link to "Cautions and Limitations" section below) For larger doors we will custom build to your door. For over-sized door applications, please contact our Acoustic Consultants for information.
Great for:
- Apartment and Condo Doors
- Band Practice Rooms
- Broadcast Studios
- Computer and Equipment rooms
- Dog kennel Doors
- Home Theater Doors
- Hotel and Resort Doors
- Office and Conference Room Doors
- Recording Studio Doors
- Warehousing and Industrial Manufacturing Facility Doors
Acoustic Data
Soundproofing seals and sweeps are tested with operational doors. Operational meaning they open and close like a door should. Then, a separate test is completed on a "static door", a door that is non operational. The static door will have a higher Sound Transmission Class (STC) number due to the lack of air gaps. When a door is hung the soundproofing performance plummets because of the additional air spaces. Compare the static door rating to the operational door rating. The smaller the difference in STC rating, the better the perimeter seals and sweeps will reduce noise transfer.
All of our Quiet Door™ Soundproofing products were tested as assemblies and not single products. Our tests included perimeter seals, doors sweeps and thresholds. For help in choosing an assembly or single product for your situation, please give our friendly consultants a call at 1-866-949-9269.
UL10B & CAN4-S104-80M CLASSIFIED — complies with NFPA 80 and NFPA 252 for application to Steel fire doors rated up to 3 hrs., and Wood type fire doors rated up to 1 ½ hrs. (Rating on some items may vary and are noted.)
POSITIVE PRESSURE UL10C CLASSIFIED — Category 'J' listed. Complies with IBC, UBC7-2 (1997) NFPA 80 and NFPA 252 for application to Positive Pressure Steel fire doors rated up to 3 hrs., and Wood type fire doors rated up to 1 ½ hrs. (Rating on some items may vary and are noted.)
ACOUSTICAL TESTED — to ASTM E90 and ASTM E413, by Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories in Geneva, IL.
AIR INFILTRATION TESTED — to ASTM E283, Standard Test Method for Determining Rate of Air Leakage Through Exterior Windows, Curtain Walls, and Doors.
ANSI/BHMA CERTIFIED — Certified gasketing complies with A156.22-2005, and is listed in the BHMA Certified Products Directory.
Cautions and Limitations
The Quiet Door™ line of perimeter seals and sweeps can be used on almost any door to reduce sound transfer and they can be used on almost any door type. Some older doors may not have enough mounting area. Please double check all measurements and dimensions.
For doors with overhead closers, install seals before the closer. Seals installed at head will require the closer body be installed 1/4" lower on the door.
The Quiet Door™ line of perimeter seals and sweeps may need to be trimmed to fit. When trimming our Adjustable or Automatic products, care should be taken to not cut internal mechanisms that could impact the functionality of the product.
Some pre-drilling is required.


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Achieve professional nails at home with this nail tip set! Use these tipsåÊto createåÊlong lasting and beautiful nails. PerfectåÊfor any special occasion! Each set includes 10 different nail sizes and 50 pieces in total! So you can do several nail manicures with one pack!
Why Are Some Products Not $1?
We offer Charity Edition Collections made exclusively with one mission in mind: to give back. These collections support causes like, standing against animal testing and abuse to supporting education and more. A portion of proceeds from sales go towards organizations making a difference in the world we believe in. Learn more.


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Decking is a great way to make practical use of slopes in gardens by creating different levels and steps. It is also fantastic for covering up unwanted surfaces. The deck boards can be laid in patterns or at angles creating texture and adding interest to your deck surface.
All our deck boards are pressure treated to protect the timber against decay and need little maintenance. We do, however, strongly recommend that your deck is oiled at least once a year. This protects the timber, treats and nourishes it. We can supply decking oil and currently stock the Cuprinol range
Ground level decks can be left plain or can be enhanced with a vast range of edgings, balustrades and panels. The edgings are designed in rope or chain and can be used on pathways as well as edging for decks. Balustrades can look equally stunning on ground level decks.
Above ground level decks really must have some form of balustrade and for any deck above 600mm above ground it is an essential requirement. We can supply a traditional range made up of Colonial, European or American designs using posts, rails and balustrades. These can be mixed with metal balustrades or timber/metal panels giving an elegant and fashionable finish to your deck. The timber panels are designed in a wide variety of styles including sunburst, diamond and topiary tree design.
A comprehensive range of standard Mouldings is available finished to a high specification. Traditional specifications to match period finishes can be machined to spec.
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Remember when you used to write a check for most of the things you purchased? In order to keep our purchase prices low for you, we are accepting all wholesale payments using eCheck provided by Green Payment Processing for Business (which is more secure than purchasing with a Credit Card). Credit Card processing costs our company $3.00 to $5.00 per transaction. As one of the hundreds of people that visit our website each day, we would much rather pass the savings onto you our valuable customers. The information needed for eCheck is taken from one of your checks (Bank Routing Number & Checking Account Number). eCheck Payments are processed through the Automatic Clearing House (ACH) Network. Your banking information is secure and does not get passed onto our company. The only information that the ACH Network provides to our company needed to fill your order is: Your Name, Shipping Address, Item(s) Purchased, and the Amount of the Purchase.
Thank you, K. LeMoyne Adams, President & CEO, L&A Medical Supply, LLC


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Visiting Alberta's farms and farmers – whether urban or rural – has always been a big part of my life in Alberta and summer is the prime time to make a visit. If you'd like to meet some farmers here's some ideas I've collected to help you be "Outstanding in a field" this summer.
Tag Archives: Taste Alberta
D-I-Y farm tours – Here's a pitchfork full of opportunities for city folk to connect with farm folk this summer in Alberta
Filed under Farms, Farming and Farmers
Savour food – cool things no. 11- @CalgaryFoodTour featured on @TourismCalgary Visit Calgary
Calgary Food Tours | Visit Calgary.
Thanks to Tourism Calgary for featuring my company Calgary Food Tours Inc. on their new Culinary Tourism feature page.
So many people look for food to enrich their travel. Exploring a city or country's food is a great way to really get inside a culture and understand it. Food and culture have always been intricately linked.
Calgary Food Tours allows me to share my insights on how Calgary's culture and food are linked with both local guests and visitors from around the globe. The culinary tours I've designed will help our guests discover all facets of Calgary's culture. Here's a dozen examples of how the links between our culture and cuisine play out in my business, life and city as follows:
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Savour food – @LisaMonforton's Taste Alberta article: Close-to-home-grown goodness
Taste Alberta: Close-to-home-grown goodness.
I like to read Taste Alberta in the Calgary Herald every Wednesday. The focus is on Alberta food producers and processors and today writer Lisa Monforton gave several tips for getting more regionally produced foods on your plate. I always learn something from Monforton. Because I don't watch TV, I didn't realize Shaw TV has a daily feature called Farm Fresh Everyday. You can see the farms they've featured thus far here. I'll be happy when they post the videos on the web. That would greatly increase my chances of ever seeing them.
Another initiative Monforton describes to help consumers identify local products is the use of bright orange stickers to flag and score local products on grocery store shelves. The program is called "Localize". You can learn more about that program here. Adding the score is interesting. It does add another layer of the transparency in food production most of us are now craving.
I'll be sharing some of my ideas about how to Eat Locally at the Southwood branch of the Calgary Public Library on Wednesday, June 5, 7 – 8:30 p.m. I enjoy the chance to meet people who are interested in this topic. I encourage them to be thoughtful in their choices. Afterall, being mindful is one the ways we can savour our food.
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Creative Writing Workshop
A creative writing workshop is a 15-hour program that meets as a trimester-long workshop, half-day workshop, or full-day camp. Workshops are age-based and enroll a maximum of six to eight students depending on the program.
Workshops are fun, engaging, and highly productive. We challenge students to set and achieve writing goals: they are encouraged to complete at least one well-developed, polished piece throughout the course of their workshop. Through our innovative workshop method, we empower students as peer leaders as they gain skills in writing, editing, analysis, and effective communication. The workshops allow a community of young writers to find each other, connect via their literary passions, and have lots of fun.
Workshops are student-centered and author-led. Students may find themselves drawn to any number of forms and genres, including fiction, personal narrative/memoir, playwriting, and screenwriting. Our students flourish in these multi-genre workshops where they can gain exposure to diverse styles and voices. Instructors help writers harness their ideas with the goal of completing one, polished piece by the end of each trimester or summer session.
Sessions are peppered with original and fun writing exercises, but focus primarily on writing—and completing—stories. It is a true workshop in which students get to share their writing in a safe and supportive space; students learn how to give and receive insightful feedback.
Creative Writing: Religious & Social Justice
Designed for young thinkers and writers to process their emotions surrounding social justice issues in today's society. Writers will reflect through dialogue and writing focused on empowerment and empathy.
Private sessions are also available to receive creative writing instruction.


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It's just like the Iditarod, with a few minor differences.
Like, people instead of dogs, shopping carts instead of dogsleds, and New York City instead of Alaska.
Otherwise, it's pretty much identical.
It's just like the Iditarod, with a few minor differences.
Like, people instead of dogs, shopping carts instead of dogsleds, and New York City instead of Alaska.
Otherwise, it's pretty much identical.
Gerry Casiello (my uncle) spends his retirement helping small businesses get off the ground in Connecticut.
Check out the third story. The lineup for Reno Galena High's starting lineup:
Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, and Kaitlin
Kaitlin?! There's always a wise guy!
Try this – go to MSN Maps
Enter these values
Address in: norway
City: haugesund
Address in: norway
City: trondheim
Click "Get Directions"
That's one heck of a detour!
From Norway to Norway, via the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.
(via devnull)
It turns out modern pro wrestling may be more like Roman gladiators than we thought.
– New theory says Gladiators were pampered stars not abused slaves
– Gladiators earned so much from sport that Emperor capped their salaries
(via Metafilter)
It's Mordor. With a |
Folks have been grabbing screenshots from the Lord of the Rings movies and making animated gifs out of them. Like
(via MetaFilter)
Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles scanned and put online into the public domain!
(via Scott Watermasysk's blog)
A handy little application that lets you type in C#, VB.NET or ASP.NET snippets and run them. Much easier than starting up the IDE and creating a project, just to test out a few lines of code.
apress is offering a free .pdf book on C# and the development tool SharpDevelop
The Angry Chicken – a pretty funny ad for running shoes, demonstrating the sport of parkour – or free-running. Apparently, the shoes being advertised are not particularly good for parkour, but when has that stopped advertisers?
(via MetaFilter)
U.S. Wraps Up Search for Banned Weapons in Iraq
Now maybe those guys can help OJ find the real killer.
A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, discovered in October of 2004 has been upgraded to 'extremely critical', since it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.
it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.
Microsoft has released patches – if you're not set up to automatically download critical updates, here's how to make sure you're updated.
Of course, if you're not running IE, you're all set – this one can't touch you.
(via ACM TechNews)
Japanese roboticists claim that robots will win the soccer World Cup by 2050 UNLESS ANAKIN CAN DESTROY THE ORBITING CONTROL SHIP IN TIME!
It'll probably take a little longer to program the robotic hooligans to destroy the stadium afterward.
back again…
Spamford's back…
Warn a friend!
(apologies to Marshall Mathers)
Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace, the 'reformed' spam king of the 90s, got into a new venture – producing spyware, then selling spyware removal program (which apparently didn't work). Tech dirt reports that he's agreed to stop that as well.
What's next for Spamford and his quest to make your PC useless? Who knows? Maybe he'll come to your house and whack it with a mallet.
(via Cartoon Brew)
… the an 5000 year old animation was discovered on an earthenware goblet in Iran.
(Story has a link to an animation constructed from the images.)
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The Community Leadership Course for Veterans™ (CLCV™) initiative aims at leveraging the skills and experience of post 9/11 veterans for the betterment of the broader Pittsburgh region, our opportunities and organizations. This is a new offering of our thirty-year old organization which is recognized as the premier source for identification and connection of leaders across sectors with issues, each other, and with community needs/opportunities.
Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. is proud to have served and graduated the inaugural cohort of CLCV in 2014.
Through participation in the six month long course, CLCV class members have the opportunity to develop a greater understanding of our region, meet with business and community leaders, as well as utilize their leadership skills to accomplish a community impact project in partnership with a local non-profit organization. From April to September, this course provides participants with the exposure, experiences and connections that prepare them to tackle the challenges of our community. Bi-weekly sessions cover topics such as corporate landscape, nonprofit landscape, history of Pittsburgh, savvy networking and more. The knowledge and associations obtained through CLCV can provide committed participants access to the platforms needed to take on leadership roles within Southwestern Pennsylvania communities.


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This documentation is for an older version. If you're using the most current version, select the documentation for that version with the version switch in the upper right corner of the online documentation, or by downloading a newer PDF or EPUB file.
MySQL Instance Manager is been deprecated in MySQL 5.1 and is removed in MySQL 5.5.
This section discusses how Instance Manager starts server instances when it starts. However, before you start Instance Manager, you should set up a password file for it. Otherwise, you will not be able to connect to Instance Manager to control it after it starts. For details about creating Instance Manager accounts, see Section 184.108.40.206, "Instance Manager User and Password Management".
On Unix, the mysqld MySQL database server
normally is started with the mysql.server
script, which usually resides in the
/etc/init.d/ directory. In MySQL 5.0.3, this
script invokes mysqlmanager (the MySQL
Instance Manager binary) to start MySQL. (In prior versions of
MySQL the mysqld_safe script is used for this
purpose.) Starting from MySQL 5.0.4, the behavior of the startup
script was changed again to incorporate both setup schemes. In
version 5.0.4, the startup script uses the old scheme (invoking
mysqld_safe) by default, but one can set the
use_mysqld_safe variable in the script to
0 (zero) to use the MySQL Instance Manager to
start a server.
Starting with MySQL 5.0.19, you can use Instance Manager if you
modify the
my.cnf configuration file by
use-manager to the
[mysql.server] section:
[mysql.server] use-manager
When Instance Manager starts, it reads its configuration file if
it exists to find server instance sections and prepare a list of
instances. Instance sections have names of the form
[mysqld] or
[mysqld, where
N is an unsigned integer (for
[mysqld2], and so forth).
After preparing the list of instances, Instance Manager starts
the guarded instances in the list. If there are no instances,
Instance Manager creates an instance named
mysqld and attempts to start it with default
(compiled-in) configuration values. This means that the Instance
Manager cannot find the mysqld program if it
is not installed in the default location.
(Section 2.7, "Installation Layouts", describes default
locations for components of MySQL distributions.) If you have
installed the MySQL server in a nonstandard location, you should
create the Instance Manager configuration file.
Instance Manager also stops all guarded server instances when it shuts down.
The permissible options for
[mysqld server
instance sections are described in
Section 220.127.116.11, "MySQL Instance Manager Configuration Files". In these
sections, you can use a special
option that is recognized only by Instance Manager. Use this
option to let Instance Manager know where the
mysqld binary resides. If there are multiple
instances, it may also be necessary to set other options such as
datadir and
port, to ensure
that each instance has a different data directory and TCP/IP
port number. Section 5.5, "Running Multiple MySQL Instances on One Machine", discusses the
configuration values that must differ for each instance when you
run multiple instance on the same machine.
[mysqld] instance section, if it
exists, must not contain any Instance Manager-specific
The typical Unix startup/shutdown cycle for a MySQL server with the MySQL Instance Manager enabled is as follows:
The /etc/init.d/mysql script starts MySQL Instance Manager.
Instance Manager starts the guarded server instances and monitors them.
If a server instance fails, Instance Manager restarts it.
If Instance Manager is shut down (for example, with the /etc/init.d/mysql stop command), it shuts down all server instances.


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- Swift Purple Raptor
- Item Level 40
- Binds when picked up
- Mount"Mount" is not in the list of possible values (Cloth armor, Leather armor, Mail armor, Plate armor, Axe, Dagger, Fishing pole, Fist weapon, Mace, Miscellaneous, Polearm, Staff, Sword, Bag, Enchanting bag, Engineering bag, Gem bag, Herb bag, Leatherworking bag, Mining bag, Soul bag, Arrow, Bow, Bullet, Crossbow, Gun, Idol, Libram (relic), Shield, Sigil, Thrown, Totem (relic), Wand) for this property.
- Races: Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Blood Elf
- Requires level 40
- Requires Riding (150)
- Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This is a very fast mount.
- Vendor 5005
Swift Purple Raptor can be purchased for 5005 from the quartermaster of the Argent Tournament
- Factional reputation discounts do apply.
Patch changes Edit
- Patch 3.1.2 (2009-05-19): Added.
External links Edit
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.


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Diaper Drive for Child Crisis Center of AZ
Collections September 18th to October 6th
Posted for Student Council
What does Child Crisis Center need?
- Diapers- sizes 5 & 6
- Pull-Ups- size 3/4 T, 4/5 T
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that generally affects the lungs and is spread through the air. Although it can affect humans, it becomes more problematic when cattle is infected. Farms need to sacrifice the cows that carry the disease and can't sell any products until they are sure that their animals are healthy. Cows have to be tested in order to prevent the TB spreading in specific farming areas. However, outbreaks do happen and farmers have to sacrifice a lot of cows, meaning a big money loss and even having to close the farm.
During the last few decades, TB has spread from small territories to large areas in England and Wales, which was thought to be related to the lack of badger control. Badgers can be affected by TB too, as many other wildlife animals and livestock, so back in 1998 the government decided to start culling badgers in order to regulate the spreading of TB.
Last Friday (the 13th), Kevin Newell, a member of the Grampian Hunt Sabs Association, gave a talk on the truth about the badger culling at the vegan Bonobo Cafe. The audience was informed on how the culling is done and all the controversial fractions that have urged the necessity to create associations and groups standing against it.
To begin with, badgers are either shot ("free shooting" them has been allowed since 2012) or trapped in cages placed in the woods where they wait to be killed later. Apparently, some badgers aren't tested on TB before or after they are killed, making the culling pointless.
Research has been done on whether the culling has been successful so far and has shown that it hasn't. It has only brought badger slaughter, while the areas affected with TB keep growing. Surviving badgers are moving around more than they usually do because they are being hunted; if infected, these fleeing badgers could be contributing to spread the TB.
Some other concerns are money centered. Between 2012 and 2014 £16.8 million were spent on the badger culling; money that was taken from taxpayers. That amount was bigger than the one directed to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. During those two years 2476 badgers were killed, meaning that £6800 were spent on each. This raised questions on how people's money is being used and whether such an enormous amount should be directed towards trying to find a system through which decrease the virus instead of to using an unsuccessful method involving the killing.
TB is found in farming areas where no badgers live, so the reason why it's been transmitted has to be related to something else. Scotland has been in a TB-free status for six consecutive years thanks to all the hard work regulating farms with outbreaks and routinely testing livestock. But the disease has spread out in Wales and England.
Some DEFRA initiatives include plans on vaccinating the badgers or even developing oral vaccines to be added in chum left in the woods so that badgers can eat the cure, making the process faster and cheaper.
In any case, badger culling is still ongoing in the UK. There are many ways to help stop it. Team Badger Coalition was created to raise awareness about badger culling by campaigning and letting people know what's happening with badgers, cattle and TB. Hunt Saboteurs Association go out to fields trying to find badgers to protect them.
They always accept anyone eager to volunteer, but help is accepted in many other forms: writing to MPs about the issue, donating money (when not possible, donating food or equipment is great), getting involved in charity fundraising, getting informed on the topic and sharing information. Even the smallest bit of help is really appreciated.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770 –March 26, 1827) was a German composer and pianist who is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music and remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven was the grandson of Lodewijk van Beethoven (1712–73), a musician who came from Mechelen in present-day Belgium and moved at the age of twenty to Bonn. Lodewijk, the cognate of German Ludwig, was employed as a bass singer at the court of the Elector of Cologne, eventually rising to become Kapellmeister or music director. Lodewijk had one son, Johann (1740–1792), who worked as a tenor in the same musical establishment, and gave lessons on piano and violin to supplement his income. Johann married Maria Magdalena Keverich in 1767; she was the daughter of Johann Heinrich Keverich, who had been the head chef at the court of the Archbishopric of Trier.
Beethoven was born of this marriage in Bonn. There is no authentic record of the date of his birth; however, the registry of his baptism, in a Roman Catholic service at the Parish of St. Regius on December 17, 1770, survives. As children of that era were traditionally baptized the day after birth in the Catholic Rhine country, and it is known that Beethoven's family and his teacher Johann Albrechtsberger celebrated his birthday on December 16, most scholars accept December 16, 1770, as Beethoven's date of birth. Of the seven children born to Johann van Beethoven, only Ludwig, the second-born, and two younger brothers, Caspar Anton Carl and Nikolaus Johann , survived infancy.
Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age. and his first music teacher was his father, but the boy had other local teachers: the court organist Gilles van den Eeden (d. 1782); Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer, a family friend, who taught Beethoven the piano; and Franz Rovantini, a relative, who instructed him in playing the violin and viola. Beethoven's musical talent was obvious at a young age. Johann, aware of Leopold Mozart's successes in this area with son Wolfgang and daughter Nannerl, attempted to exploit his son as a child prodigy, claiming that Beethoven was six when he was seven on the posters for Beethoven's first public performance in March 1778.
Some time after 1779, Beethoven began his studies with his most important teacher in Bonn, Christian Gottlob Neefe, who was appointed the Court's Organist in that year. Neefe taught Beethoven composition, and by March 1783 had helped him write his first published composition, a set of keyboard variations (WoO 63). Beethoven soon began working with Neefe as assistant organist, at first unpaid (1781), and then as a paid employee (1784) of the court chapel conducted by the Kapellmeister Andrea Luchesi. His first three piano sonatas, named "Kurfürst" ("Elector") for their dedication to the Elector Maximilian Frederick (1708–1784), were published in 1783. Maximilian Frederick noticed Beethoven's talent early, and subsidized and encouraged the young man's musical studies.
In March 1787 Beethoven traveled to Vienna for the first time, apparently in the hope of studying with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The details of their relationship are uncertain, including whether or not they actually met. After just two weeks Beethoven learned that his mother was severely ill, and returned home. His mother died shortly thereafter, and his father lapsed deeper into alcoholism. As a result, Beethoven became responsible for the care of his two younger brothers, and he spent the next five years in Bonn. Beethoven was introduced to several people who became important in his life in these years, including Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, who became a lifelong friend and financial supporter. In 1789 Beethoven obtained a legal order by which half of his father's salary was paid directly to him for support of the family.
From 1790 to 1792, Beethoven composed a significant number of works (none were published at the time, and most are now listed as works without opus) that demonstrated his growing range and maturity. Beethoven was probably first introduced to Joseph Haydn in late 1790, when the latter was traveling to London and stopped in Bonn around Christmas time. They met in Bonn on Haydn's return trip from London to Vienna in July 1792, and it is likely that arrangements were made at that time for Beethoven to study with the old master. With the Elector's help, Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 and began studying with Haydn. Beethoven left Bonn for Vienna in November 1792, amid rumors of war spilling out of France, and learned shortly after his arrival that his father had died.
Beethoven did not immediately set out to establish himself as a composer, but rather devoted himself to study and performance. Working under Haydn's direction, he sought to master counterpoint. He also studied violin under Ignaz Schuppanzigh. Early in this period, he also began receiving occasional instruction from Antonio Salieri, primarily in Italian vocal composition style; this relationship persisted until at least 1802, and possibly 1809. By 1793, Beethoven established a reputation as an improviser in the salons of the nobility, often playing the preludes and fugues of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. With Haydn's departure for England in 1794, Beethoven was expected by the Elector to return home. He chose instead to remain in Vienna, continuing his instruction in counterpoint with Johann Albrechtsberger and other teachers.
Although his stipend from the Elector expired, a number of Viennese noblemen had already recognised his ability and offered him financial support, among them Prince Joseph Franz Lobkowitz, Prince Karl Lichnowsky, and Baron Gottfried van Swieten. Beethoven's friend Nikolaus Simrock began publishing his compositions; the first are believed to be a set of variations (WoO 66). Establishing a reputation in Vienna as a piano virtuoso, Beethoven apparently withheld works from publication so that their publication in 1795 would have greater impact following his first public performance in Vienna in March 1795, a concert in which he first performed one of his piano concertos. Shortly after this performance, he arranged for the publication of the first of his compositions to which he assigned an opus number, the three piano trios, Opus 1. Around 1796, by the age of 26, Beethoven began to lose his hearing.
In May 1799, Beethoven taught piano to the daughters of Hungarian Countess Anna Brunsvik. He composed his first six string quartets (Op. 18) between 1798 and 1800, commissioned by, and dedicated to, Prince Lobkowitz. They were published in 1801. He also continued to write in other forms, turning out widely known piano sonatas like the "Pathétique" sonata (Op. 13). He also completed his Septet (Op. 20) in 1799, which was one of his most popular works during his lifetime. With premieres of his First and Second Symphonies in 1800 and 1803, Beethoven became regarded as one of the most important of a generation of young composers following Haydn and Mozart. Beethoven had few other students. From 1801 to 1805, he tutored Ferdinand Ries, who went on to become a composer. The young Carl Czerny studied with Beethoven from 1801 to 1803. In the spring of 1801 he completed The Creatures of Prometheus, a ballet.
As early as 1801, Beethoven wrote to friends describing his symptoms and the difficulties they caused in both professional and social settings. On the advice of his doctor, Beethoven lived in the small Austrian town of Heiligenstadt, just outside Vienna, from April to October 1802 in an attempt to come to terms with his condition. There he wrote his Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter to his brothers which records his thoughts of suicide due to his growing deafness and records his resolution to continue living for and through his art. Perhaps Beethoven's most important aristocratic patron was Archduke Rudolph, the youngest son of Emperor Leopold II, who in 1803 or 1804 began to study piano and composition with Beethoven. Over time, his hearing loss became profound. Beethoven's hearing loss did not prevent his composing music, but it made playing at concerts—a lucrative source of income—increasingly difficult. His position at the Theater an der Wien was terminated when the theater changed management in early 1804, and he was forced to move temporarily to the suburbs of Vienna with his friend Stephan von Breuning.
Beethoven's return to Vienna from Heiligenstadt was marked by a change in musical style, and is now designated as the start of his "Middle" or "Heroic" period. The first major work employing this new style was the Third Symphony in E flat, known as the "Eroica" (1805). The middle period work includes the Third through Eighth Symphonies, the Rasumovsky, Harp and Serioso string quartets, the "Waldstein" and "Appassionata" piano sonatas, Christ on the Mount of Olives, the opera Fidelio, the Violin Concerto and many other compositions. The French occupation of Vienna slowed work on Fidelio, his largest work to date, for a time. It was delayed again by the censors, and finally premiered in November 1805. In the Autumn of 1808, after having been rejected for a position at the royal theatre, Beethoven received an offer from Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia, for a well-paid position as Kapellmeister at the court in Cassel. To persuade him to stay in Vienna, the Archduke Rudolph, Prince Kinsky and Prince Lobkowitz, after receiving representations from the composer's friends, pledged to pay Beethoven a pension of 4000 florins a year.
During May 1809, when the attacking forces of Napoleon bombarded Vienna, according to Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven, very worried that the noise would destroy what remained of his hearing, hid in the basement of his brother's house, covering his ears with pillows. In the spring of 1811 Beethoven became seriously ill, suffering headaches and high fever. On the advice of his doctor, he spent six weeks in the Bohemian spa town of Teplitz. The following winter, which was dominated by work on the Seventh symphony, he was again ill, and his doctor ordered him to spend the summer of 1812 at the spa Teplitz. After a failed attempt in 1811 to perform his own Piano Concerto No. 5 (the "Emperor"), which was premiered by his student Carl Czerny, he never performed in public again. Despite his obvious distress, Czerny remarked that Beethoven could still hear speech and music normally until 1812. In early 1813 Beethoven apparently went through a difficult emotional period, and his compositional output dropped, but was finally motivated to begin significant composition again in June 1813, when news arrived of the defeat of one of Napoleon's armies at Vitoria, Spain, by a coalition of forces under the Duke of Wellington. This news stimulated him to write the battle symphony known as Wellington's Victory which was performed in early 1814.
The following summer he composed a piano sonata for the first time in five years (No. 27, Opus 90). This work was in a markedly more Romantic style than his earlier sonatas. By 1814, Beethoven was almost totally deaf. As a result of Beethoven's hearing loss, his conversation books are an unusually rich written resource. Used primarily in the last ten or so years of his life, his friends wrote in these books so that he could know what they were saying, and he then responded either orally or in the book. The books contain discussions about music and other matters, and give insights into Beethoven's thinking; they are a source for investigations into how he intended his music should be performed, and also his perception of his relationship to art. Beethoven was also one of many composers who produced music in a patriotic vein to entertain the many heads of state and diplomats who came to the Congress of Vienna that began in November 1814. His output of songs included his only song cycle, "An die ferne Geliebte," and the extraordinarily expressive second setting of the poem "An die Hoffnung" (Op. 94) in 1815.
Between 1815 and 1817 Beethoven's output dropped again. Beethoven attributed part of this to a lengthy illness (he called it an "inflammatory fever") that afflicted him for more than a year, starting in October 1816. About this time, Beethoven began a renewed study of older music, including works by J. S. Bach and Handel, that were then being published in the first attempts at complete editions. He composed the overture The Consecration of the House, which was the first work to attempt to incorporate these influences. A new style emerged, now called his "Late period". He returned to the keyboard to compose his first piano sonatas in almost a decade: the works of the Late period are commonly held to include the last five piano sonatas and the Diabelli Variations, the last two sonatas for cello and piano, the late string quartets, and two works for very large forces: the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony.
By early 1818 Beethoven's health had improved, and his nephew moved in with him in January. On the downside, his hearing had deteriorated to the point that conversation became difficult, necessitating the use of conversation books. Two commissions in 1822 improved Beethoven's financial prospects. The Philharmonic Society of London offered a commission for a symphony, and Prince Nikolas Golitsin of St. Petersburg offered to pay Beethoven's price for three string quartets. The first of these commissions spurred Beethoven to finish the Ninth Symphony, which was first performed, along with the Missa Solemnis, on May 7, 1824, to great acclaim at the Kärntnertortheater. The fourth movement of this Ninth Symphony features an elaborate choral setting of Schiller's Ode An die Freude ("Ode to Joy"), an optimistic hymn championing the brotherhood of humanity. There is a well-attested story that, at the end of the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience; hearing nothing, he wept.
Beethoven then turned to writing the string quartets for Golitsin. This series of quartets, known as the "Late Quartets," went far beyond what musicians or audiences were ready for at that time. Beethoven wrote the last quartets amidst failing health. In April 1825 he was bedridden, and remained ill for about a month. The illness—or more precisely, his recovery from it—is remembered for having given rise to the deeply felt slow movement of the Fifteenth Quartet, which Beethoven called "Holy song of thanks ('Heiliger Dankgesang') to the divinity, from one made well." He went on to complete the quartets now numbered Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Sixteenth. The last work completed by Beethoven was the substitute final movement of the Thirteenth Quartet, which replaced the difficult Grosse Fuge. Shortly thereafter, in December 1826, illness struck again, with episodes of vomiting and diarrhea that nearly ended his life. Beethoven was bedridden for most of his remaining months, and many friends came to visit. He died on March 26, 1827, at the age of 56 during a thunderstorm.
Beethoven is acknowledged as one of the giants of classical music; occasionally he is referred to as one of the "three Bs," along with Bach and Brahms, who epitomize that tradition. He was also a pivotal figure in the transition from the 18th century musical classicism to 19th century romanticism, and his influence on subsequent generations of composers was profound. Beethoven composed in several musical genres and for a variety of instrument combinations. His works for symphony orchestra include nine symphonies (the Ninth Symphony includes a chorus), and about a dozen pieces of "occasional" music. He wrote seven concerti for one or more soloists and orchestra, as well as four shorter works that include soloists accompanied by orchestra. His only opera is Fidelio; other vocal works with orchestral accompaniment include two masses and a number of shorter works.
His large body of compositions for piano includes 32 piano sonatas and numerous shorter pieces, including arrangements of some of his other works. Works with piano accompaniment include 10 violin sonatas, 5 cello sonatas, and a sonata for French horn, as well as numerous lieder. Beethoven also wrote a significant quantity of chamber music. In addition to 16 string quartets, he wrote five works for string quintet, seven for piano trio, five for string trio, and more than a dozen works for various combinations of wind instruments. In his Early period, Beethoven's work was strongly influenced by his predecessors Haydn and Mozart. His Middle (Heroic) period began shortly after Beethoven's personal crisis brought on by his recognition of encroaching deafness. Beethoven's Late period began around 1815. Works from this period are characterized by their intellectual depth, their formal innovations, and their intense, highly personal expression.
My collection contains the following orchestral works by Beethoven:
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage cantata, op. 112.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in CM, op. 15.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto) No. 2 in BbM, op. 19.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in cm, op. 37.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto) No. 4 in GM, op. 58.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto) No. 5 in EbM, op. 73, "Emperor."
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto) No. 6 in DM, op. 61a, version of Violin Concerto in DM.
Concerto in CM for violin, cello, and piano, op. 56, "Triple."
Consecration of the House: Overture, Chorus.
Coriolan: Overture to in cm, op. 62.
The Creatures of Prometheus ballet, op. 43: Overture and Selections
Egmont Overture in fm, op. 84.
Fidelio Overture, op. 72b.
Lenore Overture No. 1, op. 138.
Lenore Overture No. 2, op. 72.
Lenore Overture No. 3, in CM, op. 72a.
Leonore Prohaska, Wo0 96: Funeral March.
Minuet of Congratulations, Wo0 3.
"Namensfeier" Overture, op. 115.
Romance for Violin No. 1 in GM, op. 40.
Romance for Violin and Orchestra (Violin Romance) No. 2 in FM, op. 50.
The Ruins of Athens: Overture, op. 113′ Turkish March, op. 113 no. 4; March and Chorus, op. 114.
St. Stephen, op. 117: Overture.
Symphony No. 1 in CM, op. 21.
Symphony No. 2 in DM, op. 36.
Symphony No. 3 in EbM, op. 55, "Eroica."
Symphony No. 4 in BbM, op. 60.
Symphony No. 5 in cm, op. 67.
Symphony No. 6 in FM, op. 68, Pastoral.
Symphony No. 7 in AM, op. 92.
Symphony No. 8 in FM, op. 93.
Symphony No. 9 in dm, op. 125, "Choral."
Tarpeja, Wo0 2: Triumphal March.
Violin Concerto in DM, op. 61.


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