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Discussing federalism: Canadian, German federations a lesson for Pakistan - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Germany, Canada and America have certain similarities in their federalism but every society has its own problems and traditions. The spirit of federalism is fresh in Pakistan which needs debates among politicians to harmonise the system.
Pashto poetry session for peace held in Swat - Dawn
MINGORA: The first 'International Pashto Peace Poetry Session' was held here on Friday at Wadudia Hall in Saidu Sharif, Swat, where poets from Pakistan and Afghanistan expressed their desire for lasting peace in the region through their poetry.
World Peace Mushaira: A poetic homage to tranquility - The Express Tribune
MINGORA: To reinforce the district's perseverance in what has been a path of recovery from turbulent times over the last five years, Swat hosted a World Peace Mushaira on Friday.
TEDx Islamabad - a gathering of great minds! - Dawn
ISLAMABAD: TEDx Islamabad hosted a fabulous afternoon of technology, entertainment and design – a celebration of wonders, inspiration and dance of the minds – at the Awain-i-Quaid Auditorium in F-9 Park.
8 Amazing Things I Learned From TEDx Islamabad 2014 - Pakistaniyan
TEDx Islamabad was held in Aiwan-e-Quaid, Islamabad on Sunday (16th Nov, 2014). The event was arranged by Saad Hamid and Ahsan Mukhtar, two young and passionate friends from Isloo. Everything about the event was flawless, the management, the audience, the arrangements and on the top, the speakers.
Japan assists Pakistan, WHO RAHA strengthens KP and FATA Health sector-United Nations Information Centre
Islamabad: WHO RAHA program handed over ambulances, medical and diagnostic equipment to the health departments of KP and FATA donated by the people of Japan in a ceremony organized at the WHO country office in Islamabad. The ceremony was attended by senior officials from the federal and provincial governments, health development partners, UN agencies and the Embassy of Japan.
18th Amendment: Study group to facilitate devolution process - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research (NIHCR) at Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) on Monday launched the Pakistan Study Group on Federalism in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: CM vows to make province a development model - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak has assured international development partners and donor agencies that the government will ensure transparency and quality in the execution of development projects to make the province a model for the country.
CM meets donors in Islamabad today - Dawn
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is set to take stock of its development policy implementation in a high-level meeting to be held in Islamabad today (Friday). Chief Minister Pervez Khattak will chair the meeting, to be attended among others by bilateral and multilateral development partners, including the DFID, World Bank, ADB, USAID, Canada, EU, JICA, Germany and UN agencies.
Asian female peace leaders honoured: UNDP to hold ceremony in Bangkok; winners come from six countries - The Nation
THE United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will honour female peace advocates from six Asian countries today at the N-Peace (Engage for Peace, Equality, Access, Community and Empowerment) Awards 2014.
Development Advocate Pakistan: Not much thought goes into budget-making - The Express Tribune
KARACHI: Did you know that the annual budget in Pakistan is debated in parliament for roughly 15-20 days while India's legislature sets aside at least 75 days for the same job every year?
Public participation in budget-making stressed - Dawn
KARACHI: Pakistan must test out the concept of participatory budgeting to give voice to the poor segments to enhance the effectiveness and impact of budgets, said a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) publication launched on Thursday.
UNDP official advocates participatory budget at local level - Business Recorder
KARACHI: United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Pakistan, launched its third issue of 'Development Advocate Pakistan: on the theme of the Political Economy of the Budget' at a local hotel here on Thursday.
Foreign help: Displaced persons of North Waziristan to get job training - The Express Tribune
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) plan to impart employable skills training and employment facilitation to 200 women and men from North Waziristan Agency who are temporarily residing in Bannu District due to the ongoing military operation in the agency.
Germany, UNDP partner to support displaced persons - Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: German Ambassador to Pakistan Cyrill Nunn and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director in Pakistan Marc Andre Franche signed an agreement of one million euros at the German Embassy here on Friday to support the rehabilitation and return of displaced persons from the North Waziristan Agency of FATA.
Germany, UNDP pledge 1m euros for IDPs - Dawn
ISLAMABAD: Germany and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have pledged 1million euros for return and rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons of North Waziristan.
Germany, UNDP partners to support IDPs with 1mn euros - Business Recorder
ISLAMABAD: Cyrill Nunn, German Ambassador to Pakistan, and Marc-Andre Franche, Country Director of UNDP in Pakistan here on Friday signed an agreement of 1 million euros at the German Embassy to support the rehabilitation and return of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of North Waziristan Agency.
Seeking assistance: Govt to stage donors' conference for flood relief - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to host a donors' conference to secure the assistance of international lending agencies for rehabilitation and reconstruction in parts of the country devastated by the recent monsoon floods
Dar reviews flood relief, rescue activities - Pakistan Observer
Wednesday, October 01, 2014 - Islamabad—The Federal Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired the 3rd meeting to review the flood situation and relief and rescue activities, at the Finance Ministry Tuesday, in which he was given a presentation on Multi Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) which outlines the initial estimates of the damages caused by the floods in the areas of Punjab, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Govt to hold donors moot to seek funds - The Nation
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan would hold a donors conference soon to seek international financing for the rehabilitation of the flood affected areas of the country, as the floods have destroyed the crops, livestock and infrastructure
Dar directs PDMA to work for restoration of floods-damaged schools - Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar directed the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to work for the restoration of damaged schools, ensure availability of instructional staff and provision of classroom materials.
UNDP Country Director calls on Governor - Business Recorder
PESHAWAR: The UNDP Country Director in Pakistan, Marc-Andre Frache Friday called on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan here at Governor's House. Marc-Andre Frache was also accompanied by Program Manager Laura Sheridan, and Provincial Head of the Organization Edward Rees. He remained with the Governor for some time and apprised him about the services which this UN body is extending in the province as well as in FATA.
Fellowship on federalism: HEC, UNDP offer 12 indigenous scholarships - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched 12 indigenous scholarships for students pursuing MPhil in local universities and degree-awarding institutes.
HEC-UNDP Launch Fellowships on Federalism - Pakistan Observer
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Islamabad—The Higher Education Commission in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched the Indigenous MPhil Fellowship and offered 12 Fellowships for study in Pakistani universities and degree awarding institutions.
HDR 2014: Are they listening? - Business Recorder
The 2014 UNDP Global Human Development Report is being launched in Islamabad today. And it seems the authors couldn't have chosen a more befitting theme in the context of Pakistan's ongoing political state of affairs. Titled "Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience?" the 2014 UNDP report has two central themes. First, "that sustainably enhancing and protecting individual choices and capabilities and societal competences are essential". And second, that "human development strategies and policies must consciously aim to reduce vulnerability and build resilience".
UN agency asked to assess damages - The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has formally requested the United Nations Development Organisation (UNDP) to assess damages caused by the recent floods in Punjab, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). In an exclusive interview with The Express Tribune, NDMA spokesperson and member infrastructure Ahmed Kamal said the authority has sent a letter to UNDP through the Economic Affairs Division (EAD), asking the international agency to carry out a 'damage need assessment' (DNA) in flood-ravaged areas. If it agrees, UNDP will be assisted in carrying out the assessment by relevant national agencies, such as provincial disaster management authorities (PDMAs), agriculture and irrigation departments, he said.
GBLA passes Local Govt Act-2014 - Introduces social policy framework at grassroots levels - Pakistan Observer
Islamabad—Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) has unanimously passed the Local Government Act 2014. The Local Government Act 2014 was drafted by the Select Committee notified by the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. The Select Committee was provided technical support in this process by Strengthening Participatory Federalism and Decentralization Project of UNDP-Pakistan and Gilgit-Baltistan Policy Institute. Gilgit-Baltistan has had the Punjab Local Government Ordinance of 1979 enforced in the region since September 1979. The local governance system implemented in the region is based on two tiers: the District Councils and the Union Councils/Municipal Committees as the lowest tier.
Int'l donors trust in KP govt good omen - Insaf.PK
KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has termed it good omen for development of the province and prosperity of the people that the international donor agencies and world community are now trusting the provincial govt due to its transparent policies and candid actions to stop corruption, nepotism and other malpractices in the officialdom. He said that strategic development partnership framework has been evolved to ensure transparent use of the funds of donor agencies and remove possibilities of embezzlement at all levels. He said that such comprehensive and affective policy has enabled us to achieve our developmental targets accordingly. Similarly he said that confidence of the investors have also been restored to invest in different sectors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to such policies.
UN to spend $3.7 million on IDPs - Dawn
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will spend $3.75 million to support the authorities looking after the people displaced by the military operation in North Waziristan and engage them in productive work through enhancement of livelihood opportunities to meet their immediate needs like cash for work, basic skills training and business grants.
First National Parliamentary Conference on MDG tomorrow-Business Recorder
The first National Parliamentary Conference on Millennium Development Goals is being held from June 2 to 4 under the guidance of National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. The Speaker of the National Assembly will inaugurate the first National Millennium Development Goals Conference. It is an initiative of a young woman Parliamentarian MNA Mariyum Aurangzeb, who is the chairperson for Task Force on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Consulting or Insulting?-Business Recorder
By the end of this month, the government would have finalised three important decisions that will affect the lives of 200 million plus this year, and the many years beyond. And in all these decisions, the word 'consultative' has or will likely feature as the most important highlight of the process. However, not all is what may seem.
Shift to sustainable development goals under Vision 2025 planned-The Express Tribune
At Monday's National Millennium Development Goals Conference, hosted by the National Assembly of Pakistan with support from UNDP, in an attempt to sav e the country 's grace at international lev el, national and provincial task forces on the MDGs consisting of members of parliament and provincial assemblies came together to inform that Pakistan's development agenda will move its focus from achieving MDGs to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in accordance with the Vision 2025 development plan.
National Conference on MDGs: Govt allocates Rs. 12.5 billion to help accelerate progress-The Express Tribune
Minister for Planning, Dev elopm ent and Reform Ahsan Iqbal said this on the second day of the "National Parliam entary Conference on Millennium Dev elopm ent Goals" at the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services on Tuesday
The Express Tribune - Education reform: 'Robust effort needed for uplift of education'
LAHORE: Budgetary allocations, governance and politicisation of education were among the challenges facing the education sector in Pakistan. The country spent less than two per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education and ranked 177th globally in terms of public spending on education.
MDGs conference on Sunday - Pakistan Today
The National Assembly (NA) is holding a conference on millennium development goals (MDGs) for parliamentary task force on Sunday (today). It is the initiative of MNA Mariyum Aurangzeb, who is also the chairwoman of the Task Force on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The secretary- general Message on world press freedom day New york, 3 may 2014
Each year on World Press Freedom Day, we reaffirm our commitment to the fundamental freedom to receive and impart information and ideas through any media, regardless of frontiers, enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Better access to justice in KPK - The Express Tribune
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government is taking welcome steps to strengthen the rule of law and various state institutions with the help of the UN and several foreign governments. A recent UN Development Programme press release highlights the various projects, which include establishing mobile courts for remote areas, refurbishing civil courts, conducting training programmes and workshops that support citizens' access to justice. Concomitantly, scholarships for women lawyers to mitigate the gender divide in legal circles; training for judges, clerks, police officials to strengthen the judicial system; and information campaigns for the people about their legal rights are also being conducted.
Agents of Change - Dawn
NATION-building processes cannot work and development goals cannot be achieved if women are denied meaningful political participation. To ensure this, Pakistan's parliament introduced a 17pc gender quota in 2002 in all legislative houses.
MPAs familiarised with budget process - The News
LAHORE: SEVERAL members of the Punjab Assembly Tuesday participated in a pre-budget 2014-15 workshop organised by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan, with the objective of familiarising the MPAs with the budget process and the prevailing system of fiscal federalism in the country
N-Peace Awards 2014
UNDP Pakistan has recently become a member of the N-Peace network which is a multi-country network of peace advocates in Asia working on the advancement of women and peace issues. The network supports women's leadership for conflict prevention, relocation, peace building and promotion. Other countries that are part of the network include Nepal, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka , Afghanistan and the Philippines. Members of the N-Peace network represent civil society, government, non-government organizations, academia, United Nations Agencies, religious groups and the media.
Govt to adopt UNDP poverty measure - The News
ISLAMABAD: The government has shifted its definition of poverty from calorie intake to a multidimensional index to get a accurate estimate of poverty figures, Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said in Islamabad on Thursday.
Poverty index launched - Dawn
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission launched on Thursday a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) for the first time in Pakistan based on global MPI methodology for calculating poverty on a regular basis. The index was launched following a 10-day training course on MPI which ended on Thursday at the Pakistan Planning and Management Institute.
New poverty measurement initiated in Pakistan - The Hindu
A new poverty index for Pakistan based on the Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has been initiated with an agreement signed between the ministry of planning, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) on Thursday.
UNDP congratulates Pakistan for MPI development - The Nation
Islamabad - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has congratulated Federal and Provincial Governments for initiating development of the Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Pakistan.
UNDP delegation calls on KPK police chief - The Nation
PESHAWAR: A four members delegation of the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) called on the Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nasir Khan Durrani at the CPO Peshawar Wednesday.
Pakistan determined to achieve MDGs says NA Speaker - Aaj TV
ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that Parliament was cognizant of its responsibilities and would play its role in achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Ahsan for enhancing expenditures on social sector development, investing in people - APP
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Prof Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday stressed the need for enhancing expenditures on social sector development to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Addressing the launching ceremony of Pakistan Millenium Development Goals Report 2013, he said that people have to be at centre of all development strategies and goals for sustainable and inclusive growth. The event was organized by the Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).There are 8 MDGs adopted by 189 countries, including Pakistan in 2000 and to be achieved by 2015. The MDGs provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions.
MDGs: Pakistan off-track on 16 targets - Business Recorder
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is far away from achieving 16 targets set in the year 2000 and to be realised in 2015, reveals Pakistan Millennium Development Goals Report-2013. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of 8 goals adopted by 189 countries, including Pakistan in 2000 and to be achieved by 2015.
Parliament to play its role in achieving MDGs: National Assembly Speaker - Business Recorder
Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that Parliament will play its role in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Speaker said that a Parliamentary Committee had already been constituted to co-ordinate the achievement of Goals with the relevant stakeholders. The Speaker said this while talking to Haoliang Xu, Assistant Secretary General of United Nation along with UN Resident Co-coordinator and Country Director UNDP in Parliament House, here on Wednesday.
Pakistan urged to learn from other South Asian countries - Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: UN Assistant Secretary General Haoliang Xu and the new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Director for Asia and the Pacific has urged upon Pakistan to learn from other South Asian countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Unmet development goals - Dawn
WE can only agree with the assessment of Haoliang Xu, UNDP regional director for Asia and the Pacific, when he says that there is no "sense of urgency" in Pakistan at the national level to deal with this country's socio-economic crises. To illustrate his point, the UN official, while speaking to this newspaper, highlighted Pakistan's poor performance where the Millennium Development Goals are concerned. Instead of pushing us further into despondency, such observations, bitter as they are to digest, should prompt us to take remedial measures. Frankly speaking, our performance in the field of socio-economic development is nothing short of shameful.
Pakistan in Emergency No hope to achieve MDG - The Frontier Post
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is far away from achieving 16 targets of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set in 2000 and to be realized in 2015, Pakistan Millennium Development Goals Report-2013 has revealed. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of 8 goals adopted by 189 countries, including Pakistan in 2000 and to be achieved by 2015. The aim of Pakistan Millennium Development Goals Rsport-2013 is to assess progress towards the achievement of the goals, challenges towards achievement and help for post-2015 development agenda for Pakistan.
Consistent but slow progress on many of MDGs - The Nation
ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform (MPDR) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched the fifth National MDG Report for Pakistan which stated Pakistan has shown consistent, though slow, progress on many of the MDGs.
Neglected social sector keeps Pakistan lagging on 24 indicators - The News
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is lagging behind in 24 of 34 indicators of the eight millennium development goals with the deadline of MDGs of 2015 set by the United Nations fast approaching. This is revealed in the 'Pakistan's MDGs Report 2013' launched by the Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal and UN Assistant Secretary General/UNDP's Regional Director for Asia and Pacific Haoliang Xu on Wednesday. The missed indicators were mainly thanks to the neglected social sector.
Meeting MDGs: Pakistan still has a long way to go - Express Tribune
Islamabad: The country is unlikely to meet six out of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, according to a report launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday.
Carrot-and-stick policy for militants proposed
28 November, 2013 PESHAWAR: A mix of negotiations and force to tame militants and determination to engage with others is the way forward for building peace and reforming institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to senior government functionaries.
Importance of vocational training urged
November 24, 2013 LAHORE - Importance of vocational training becomes all the more important with the approval of generalised system of preference (GSP) plus status for Pakistan by the European Union (EU), said Hassan Nasir Jamy, regional director of National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC).
Pakistan's growing population poses a serious threat to food insecurity-Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The 14th Annual Research Conference with theme 'Pakistan's Population: New Realities and Challenges for Human Development' was informed here on Wednesday that Pakistan's growing population also poses a serious threat to food insecurity.
All political parties should unitedly speak for country's future-APP
ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (APP): Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said on Wednesday said slow progress on development had to be reversed, and all political parties should speak with one voice on the country's future. He was addressing 14th Annual Research Conference, organized by the Population Association of Pakistan (PAP), in collaboration with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
Growing population posing food insecurity threat: Speakers-The Nation
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's growing population also poses a serious threat to food security but at no point serious attention has been devoted to studying Pakistan's large population numbers, their distribution and the implications they hold for the country's development, politics, and ultimate stability.
UN seeks more support for humanitarian response in northwest Pakistan - Maverick Pakistan
30 October, 2013 - ISLAMABAD: More funds are urgently needed to continue critical humanitarian assistance for more than one million temporarily displaced people across northwestern Pakistan due to insecurity since 2008, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Pakistan Timo Pakkala said during a joint UN-government mission to Kohat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday.
Social Good Summit begins in Pakistan - Daily Times
September 25, 2013-ISLAMABAD: The Social Good Summit opened in Pakistan on Tuesday with the theme 2030 Now – how will the world look in 2030 and how can we shape it to improve the lives of those most in need?
Social Goods' bring betterment in lives of people - APP
ISLAMABAD Sep 24 (APP): 'Social Goods', commonly known as social media, innovations and technology are bringing betterment in lives by providing easy, sophisticated and rapidly synchronized atmosphere to the humans.
Modern technology beneficial in poverty reduction - Dawn
ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: Almost five years ago, Saad Hamid tried to decode a cell phone which had come from abroad, but was unable to do so.
UNDP summit: Experts explore technology's role as game changer - The Express Tribune
25 September, 2013-ISLAMABAD: Calling for innovative ideas to help improve lives of those in need, the Social Good Summit opened on Tuesday.
The Social Good Summit - The largest conversation in the world - UNDP looks forward to meet MDGs through new media and technology - Pakistan in the World
24 Sep 2013-Islamabad: The Social Good Summit - The largest conversation in the world - UNDP looks forward to meet MDGs through new media and technology ISLAMABAD (Staff Reporter) The Social Good Summit opened today in Pakistan with the theme 2030 Now - how will the world look in 2030 and how can we shape it to improve the lives of those most in need? The summit was organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan.
Court on a bus in Taliban-hit Pakistan - AFP
By Guillaume Lavallee (AFP)–Aug 29, 2013 PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Sweat pours down Judge Fazal Wadood's back as he sits behind a desk inside a custom-built green bus that is the latest weapon in the battle against Taliban influence in Pakistan.
The justice bus: mobile court tours Taliban-hit Pakistan - AlArabiya
AlArabiya - Sweat pours down Judge Fazal Wadood's back as he sits perched behind a desk inside a custom-built green bus that is the latest weapon in the battle against Taliban influence in Pakistan. Boasting a portrait of Pakistan founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah - and an air conditioner that struggles to fend off the intense summer heat - the bus is designed to go directly to the people, resolving their daily disputes in some of the most remote and dangerous parts of the country.
Pakistan sets up mobile courtrooms on buses to deal with massive case backlog - Independent.ie
PAKISTANI officials have begun offering mediation in a mobile courtroom to test whether it can help clear clogged courts. The courtroom-on-a-bus will mediate small civil cases, minor criminal cases and juvenile cases, said Hayat Ali Shah, the head of the provincial judicial academy.
Justice on wheels: The busman's court in Peshawar - Express Tribune
PESHAWAR: Sweat pours down Judge Fazal Wadood's back as he sits perched behind a desk inside a custom-built green bus that is the latest weapon in the battle against crime in Pakistan. Boasting a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah – and an air conditioner that struggles to fend off the intense summer heat – the bus is designed to go directly to the people, resolving their daily disputes in some of the most remote and dangerous parts of the country.
KPK's Drive for Justice - Dawn
PESHAWAR: Sweat poured down Judge Fazal Wadood's back as he sat perched behind a desk inside the custom-built green bus court. The latest weapon in Pakistan's battle against a creaking judicial system, the $98,000 mobile court allows Judge Wadood to preside over cases and disputes that have dragged on for years because of the slow grinding process involved in regular courts. The situation has helped build frustration among the people and increased calls for Islamic sharia law at the government's expense. The bus has been set up by the high court in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province.
Media Coverage of the Mobile Court Launch
The Mobile Court was launched today by Mr. Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, Honorable Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court and Marc-André Franche, Country Director UNDP in Pakistan. The Mobile Court bus will provide justice rapidly for litigants who cannot afford to travel to courts in the cities.
UNDP-trained government staff to join electoral duties - The Nation
ISLAMABAD: More than 700,000 out of over 750,000 government employees trained by the UNDP would be joining election duties at the 69,876 polling stations across Pakistan on coming Friday while the remaining personnel have already joined their duties.
Women's political participation high priority for UN - Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a round-table meeting on Thursday underlined the importance of women's participation in the political process as the United Nations also declared it one of its top priorities. "Supporting national efforts for inclusive political processes and promoting women's political participation is a high priority for the UN Women especially as Pakistan is signatory to international instruments and covenants, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)," said Sangeeta Thapa, Deputy Representative of UN Women, in her welcome address.
Community infrastructure restoration, rehabilitation - Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has extended additional financial support to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan for $1.3 million bringing its total contribution to $6.7 million for community infrastructure restoration and rehabilitation in the crisis-affected areas of district Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
SFD assures assistance for KP's crisis-affected areas - Pakistan Observer
ISLAMABAD: The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has extended additional financial support to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan for $1.3 million bringing its total contribution to $6.7 million for community infrastructure restoration and rehabilitation in the crisis-affected areas of district Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
UNDP supports new initiatives at polling stations - APP
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is preparing to train polling staff for the May 11, general elections with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). According to a statement issued here, at the launch of its training programme for master trainers, the ECP demonstrated the polling process which includes several new initiatives taken to increase transparency and public confidence in the elections. Initiatives to be introduced at polling stations in the upcoming elections include the use of electoral rolls with voters' photographs, new counting forms and tamper evident bags.
UNDP supporting ECP in organizing polls efficiently - Business Recorder
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan has said that the UNDP along with its partners is supporting the Election Commission of Pakistan in organizing polls efficiently.
RAHA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa takes initiative for economic empowerment of women - Business Recorder
An endeavour to make women more empowered and economically developed, Refugees Affected and Hosting Areas Program (RAHA-KP) has undertaken an initiative to engage the communities in the development process especially the women. Under the program, an irrigation channel in Union Council Khazana, district Peshawar was inaugurated by Ms Elena Tischenko (The Chief South and West Asian Division, RBAP UNDP), and The Country Director of UNDP in Pakistan, Marc Andre Franche.
52 lakes in country are at GLOF risk - Daily Times
KARACHI: A Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) can wipeout human settlements, and to avoid that, 52 glacial lakes in Pakistan out of the 2,420 are declared as dangerous for inhabitation. GLOF in Northern Pakistan Project Director Khalil Ahmed said this while addressing a meeting with stakeholder held Thursday at a local hotel.
Mangroves for the Future (MFF) grants total $310,000 to different organisations, navy - Daily Times
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BlackBerry is allegedly in talks with Google, Cisco and SAP regarding the whole or part sale of its business, reports Mobile World Live.
The Canadian company seemed to be close to settling with the $4.7 billion offer from Fairfax Financial, however as more potential buyers crawl out of the woodwork, BlackBerry is seeming increasingly unsure of which direction it should take.
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Apple: Yes there are horrendous accidents, but we CARE
Tim Cook has sent a letter to all Apple employees stressing how much the company cares about industrial accidents in its Chinese factories. It comes a day after a graphic story in the New York Times about an explosion in a Chinese iPad factory and two weeks after Apple released a new Supplier Code of Conduct that goes into …
Any company using slave labor or sweat shops...
...should be ostracized but consumers are dumb. They buy primarily on price and don't know or care about the slaves who produced the products so CEOs could get multi-million dollar annual bonuses. Most people are in serious denial about the FUBAR world we live in and financial greed.
And fortunately so for those "slaves" who would get even worse jobs if people stopped buying eg Chinese products.
What else would they do? Spray DDT on farms by hand? Look at how people lived in China before their "industrial revolution" (try 80s) and how they live now. Not many would want to go back to a small bowl of rice a day.
They'ed stop having kids...
...learn to live within their society or come to the land of entitlement, aka the U.S.
You don't have a clue about other societies do you?
Such societies don't tradionality have things like pensions and retirement, so parents rely on their children to survive. No kids = life worse than death at old age.
They also can't go to the US because 1) their country doesn't let them (to this day most Chinese are still not eligible to have passports) 2) the US wouldn't let them anyway...
For all those who think Chinese slavery is good...
...we'll swap you for a Chinese slave. You get to move to China and live their life for 10 years and they come to the U.K. or go to the U.S. and live your previous life. Then in ten years you can tell us all again how lucky the folks in China are to be slaves so CEOs in the U.S. can reap fortunes annually in salary bonuses.
The stupidity that passes for knowledge is disgraceful.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, not US or Chinese either - but that starts getting complicated.
You'll also find many Chinese CEOs quite rich, look at ZTE or Huawei... Here's a list of Chinese billionaires to get you started: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/74/Worth_1.html
But more on topic I suggest you take a time machine (hopefully not made in China) and go back in time 15-20 years to China, before outside companies brought industry to China. Oh what joy their lives were back then without the "evil" US investment, what a great life it we working the pest infested rice paddies, no healthcare, no transport, and no salary other than a bowl of rice.
You win the Golden Strawman Award for spectacularly arguing against a position that no-one was actually taking i.e. the idea that slavery, Chinese or otherwise, is "good".
I agree with your comment about stupidity passing for knowledge, though.
They need to boycott all phones and tablets if they are true to there convictions
I hope people will realize that if you want to boycott because of working condition in China, you need to simply not buy phones or tablets at all because they are all made there. Foxconn is in fact one of the best of those factories where workers line up in hope to get a job.
If you're going to buy a Samsung phone instead you are shooting yourself in the foot twice, you're hurting a US company over a Corean one and you're not helping conditions in China at all...
Americans are completely disconnect from the dynamic of the situation in China. The factories may not be paradise, but the alternative is even worst. Its up to the Chine governement and the people of China to come up with solutions.
Why just phones and tablets?
The problem is widespread across all industries. The electronics industry is actually not as bad as others, thtat's why they get so many applications for jobs whenever there's vacancies.
So if you want to start boycotting, boycott everything from China. Good luck with that.
You may want to start by throwing away your computer, broadband router, energy saving lightbulbs, car, man food items these days, clothes... All made in factories with worse conditions that phones...
"They need to boycott all phones and tablets if they are true to there convictions"
No. "They" don't need to do anything, if you mean consumers.
Apple, as well as the rest of Silicon Valley need to stop with the happy talk in the bubble. Slavery is a systemic result of Capitalism. This has never been addressed, only reinvented (going on 5.000 years now). There is no other end game to the Business Model - manufacturing industries get there eventually. Left all to themselves, Silicon Valley reinvented slavery in Asia and indentured servitude in the valley itself (lawsuit about "poaching employees"). Again - all by themselves!
Where is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when we need him ?
The crime of the Congo (soon to not be a Hollywood Movie, out of Copyright)
Gee no volunteers from the UK or US
I'm shocked we don't have any volunteers from the UK or US that want to exchange places with those lucky bastard slaves in China that have it so good because scumbag CEOs feel the need to have goods produced in slavery in China. I would think UK and US citizens would be lined up to swap jobs with those lucky slaves in China.
Where are you folks... the ones that believe the slaves are so lucky thanks to big companies that export jobs for personal financial gain?
Are you a real moron or just talking out of your ass? Do you know what slavery is?
These employees joined these companies by their own choice and are free to leave their current jobs for other companies, plus they get paid - a lot more than the national average salary.
Maybe you should learn the true meaning of slaves by taking a work vacation in North Korea. I hear they do work for the west as well...
who cares
I hate Apple the entire idea of it from proprietary to slick to ego boo. Yet I see no resaon to give a darn if factory workers in ANY factory suffer. I did...when I got tired of it, on one occaission I organized a union, and on another, I got fired for trying to do so. This may be the one aspect of Apple that is dcecent and honest...straight up exploitation, much more pleasant than left loony baloney.
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Those willing to swap their current job in the UK or US with a slave laborer in China helping CEOs to receive many million dollar annual bonuses for supporting slavery please sign up below so we can make arrangements for your trip to China for the next 10 years... Remember it's an honor to be a slave to a wealthy US CEO.
Correction from BSR
It's probably worth mentioning that the corporate responsibility consultant firm BSR, corrected some of the accusations made in the New York Times article, the main being that Apple knew and could act tougher against worker rights abuses but had purportedly chosen not to. Although the main thrust of the article isn't questioned, some of the more incendiary accusations are.
Listening to Apple's empty words of concern on this issue is starting to grow seriously tiring.
They can quote audit's and inspections all they want, because like every type of audit, a complete fraud of best behaviour will be put on for show. I know it, you know it, they know it.
Apple can tell us they care until the world ends, they obviously don't, or else they wouldn't be doing business with these factories in the first place. How about Apple pull back the manufacturing to the west, and make only say $350 profit per handset instead of $400. With a $100bn in the bank, I imagine they could afford to.
(those figures were from a recent news item suggesting a $650 iphone 4s costs $196 to make)
Ehm, Mr Tim Cook is quite far from telling the truth when he says that Nokia is doing the same. Actually Nokia has over 10 own factories, in all parts of the world, including few still in Europe, and alhough for sure they also use chinese subcontractors for some tasks, they made the phones by themselves. Apple doesn't have any own factories as far as I know? So, sorry, but it's quite different and cannot be put into same basket.
"Most people are in serious denial about the FUBAR world we live in and financial greed."
Blissfully unaware, more like, given the sort of newspapers they read, and which rely heavily on advertising for the products of said FUBAR world.
As has already been noted, how many, faced with Fairtrade bananas at £1.20/kg or unfair-trade ones at £1 choose the former?
"Costs of $196 on a $649 device make for profits of nearly 70 per cent."
Only a salesman would come up with that sort of maths. I make it 231%
There's an open opportunity for Cook/Apple to show sympathy - make sure the casualties are cared for...
A tale of two quotes
Apple CEO Tim Cook : «We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain».
Hon Hai (owner of subsidiary Foxconn) chairman Guo Taiming (aka Terry Gou) : «Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache».
The difference between the caring Mr Cook, on the one hand, and the rather less caring Mr Guo, on the other ? What the latter really thinks gets by his PR consultants to a higher degree than in the former case....
China ?
"An explosion at the Ri-Teng (a subsidiary of Pegatron) factory in Shanghai injured 59"
If my memory serves, isn't Pegatron the manufacturer of HP's laptop motherboards for their I7 chips? The motherboards that had the overheating and BSOD problems because they packed the hot motherboard components too closely?
When are we gonna learn that China makes CRAP. Lead painted children's toys - poisonous dog food - drywall impregnated with volitile chemicals that made houses rebuilt after hurricane Katrina unfit for human habitation. All built in factories that use humans as replaceable parts. Injured workers that can no longer work can still serve the State - as fertilizer on China's state run farms. Even in death, China's subjects still serve the State. STOP BUYING FROM CHINA - make it yourselves at a decent wage. Their cheap labor is not worth the price Apple just paid.
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Fun and cozy rustic home located in the North Valley close to the Balloon Fiesta Park, just up the street from the Convention Center and only a few miles from Sandia Casino and Golf Course. From May 1st to Septmeber 30th enjoy the clean in-ground pool! Year round is a large hot tub great for relaxing after busy day. Property is completely fenced with an automatic gate for security and privacy. Driveway can accommodate 4 vehicles or two with trailers. Street parking in front of home with electric available can accommodate any size RV. Front park like yard is relaxing and a great place to enjoy a meal outside or BBQ on the grill. Pool and hot tub are private and snuggled between main house and the pool/guest house. Pool has a deep end and is heated when needed. Pool house is included in the rental and has a full bath, queen bed and kitchen.
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I am a retired firefighter for the City of Albuquerque, Realtor, avid outdoorsman and love to travel to places where I can spearfish and enjoy the ocean. This photo is of a King Salmon from Bodega Bay CA.
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We started renting vacation homes over 14 years ago in Bodega Bay, CA and have been hooked ever since. The amount of money we saved by cooking at the rental home and spending fun time with our family and friends was so much better than sitting in a hotel room waiting for the others to get ready and sitting....again... at the restuarant. I love cooking together, playing games and having drinks in the hot tub afterwards. Try it and I believe you will too!
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Our kitchens are stocked full of everything you need to cook a fantastic meal! When we decided to start renting out our former residence we knew exactly what was needed for a great vacation home as we had ten+ years experience by renting others. HOT TUB & POOL IS A MUST! What better way to wind down a long day of touristing than to relax in a private clean hot tub and cool off in the pool. Outdoor patio is required to have a social gathering vs watching TV. Enjoy your friends and family by cooking & playing together vs waiting for people to get ready in a hotel room and then go sit down again at a restaurant.
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Theme: Thème [1'58]
Variation 1: L'istesso tempo [0'58]
Variation 2: Più mosso [0'53]
Variation 4: L'istesso tempo [1'25]
Variation 6: Molto adagio [1'50]
Variation 9: Quasi adagio [1'17]
Variation 10: Allegro vivo [1'16]
Ballade pour piano seul Op 19 [15'07]
Angela Hewitt's recordings of French piano music have received the highest critical acclaim, her 'tenderness, Gallic wit, verve, and—the most important ingredient of all—charm' proving perfect for works by Chabrier, Debussy, Ravel and indeed Rameau and Couperin. Now she turns to a composer who is more serious and introspective, with a refinement that has led to him being relatively overlooked by performers. But in Angela Hewitt's hands this music is an utter joy.
This album includes the major work Thème et variations, Op 73—one of Faure's greatest works for piano—and a selection of Valses-caprices and Nocturnes. It ends with a more radiant piece from Fauré's youth, the earliest piece included on this recording—the Ballade pour piano seul, Op 19, dedicated to Saint-Saëns.
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For a long time I have wanted to record my favourite solo piano works by Gabriel Fauré. I was first introduced to his music at the age of fifteen when my teacher, Jean-Paul Sévilla, gave me the Ballade to learn. He was a great lover of Faurés music, and we were privileged to hear him perform so much of it in Ottawa, where I grew up. He introduced all his students not only to Faurés piano works, but also to the chamber music and especially the songs. I vividly remember buying the LPs of the complete mélodies and listening to them time and time again, following the words and translations (being an avid student of French). I passed many a happy hour in Faurés company. All of the works on this album I learned by my mid-twenties, and most of them much earlier. They are old friends.
When you mention the piano music of Fauré to people, whether they are professional musicians or not, you usually get one of two responses: either they dont know it, or else they consider it to be little more than salon music. Those who do know it, and who love it deeply, will defend Faurés artistry and achievements with great passion.
It is amazing to think that when Fauré was born in 1845 Schumann had just completed his Piano Concerto, Chopin had written his third Piano Sonata, and Berlioz La damnation de Faust. By the time Fauré died in 1924 Schoenbergs Pierrot lunaire was already twelve years old. The world around him also became a different place during those eighty years. Fauré remained remarkably unaffected by political events, with the exception of World War I. In 1908, in a letter to his son, he wrote: For me, art, and especially music, exists to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
A musician will recognize, within a few seconds, the music of Fauré. It is unmistakable thanks to its harmonic language and melodic contours. Along with the music of Bach, his piano works are among the most difficult for pianists to memorize. Constantly shifting harmonies, enharmonic changes pushed to the extreme, slight variants in passages that are otherwise similarall of these things, added to the sheer technical difficulties, probably put a lot of people off. It is an art that is made, as one of his best biographers, Jean-Michel Nectoux, puts it, of grandeur and refinement, in the image of that of Marcel Proust who would become intoxicated by this music, as he once wrote to Fauré.
Like Debussy, Fauré was born into a non-musical family. They came from Ariège in southwest France. Gabriel was the sixth child, and not particularly wanted by his parents. At birth he was sent to a wet-nurse and didnt see his family for four years. His first musical experience was from hearing the religious songs in the local convent, and playing around with its harmonium.
When Gabriel turned nine, his father was persuaded to send him to Paris to study in the new École Niedermeyer. At a time when composers like Meyerbeer and Spontini were all the rage, it was courageous of Louis de Niedermeyer to start a school where religious music above all was taught. Gregorian chant, Palestrina, the organ works of Bachall of these became familiar to the young Fauré. When he won competitions at school, the scores he received as prizes included Handels Judas Maccabaeus, Haydns Seven Last Words from the Cross, Bach keyboard works and Mozarts Don Giovanni. The discipline was rigorous. It was not permitted to play Schumann or Chopin, whose music was considered unsuitable for young people. Practice had to be done in a room with fifteen pianos going at once.
When Niedermeyer died, the sadness of the fifteen-year-old Fauré was soon replaced by the joy of having a new piano teacher, just ten years his seniorCamille Saint-Saëns. A great friendship developed between the two and lasted until Saint-Saëns died in 1921.
Many great French composers earned at least part of their living as an organist, and Fauré was no exception. After leaving school he held several posts in churches in Rennes and Paris, including Saint-Sulpice, before going to La Madeleine where he stayed in one capacity or another for more than twenty-five years (from 1877 to 1905). Throughout his professional life he complained of never having enough time to compose. Married (not very happily), and with two children, he had to augment his organists salary by giving endless lessons and by becoming a school inspector. He complained to a friend that he spent at least three hours every day on trains, that he was sick to death of the Gare Saint-Lazare, and that he didnt want to hear any more sonatas. Most of his composing was therefore done during the summer months and on vacation.
In 1892, when the position of professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire became vacant, Fauré was vehemently rejected by the director, Ambroise Thomas. It was only four years later that he got the post, and then in 1905 was named director, staying in that capacity for the next fifteen years. He was nicknamed Robespierre for the multiple reforms he brought in. Among his pupils were Ravel, Enescu and Nadia Boulanger.
We open this album with the Thème et variations Op 73Faurés longest and certainly one of his greatest pieces for solo piano. It was begun in the summer of 1895, most of which Fauré wasted lobbying for the job of music critic of Frances leading newspaper, Le Figaro (a post he finally got in 1903). Its premiere didnt come, however, until December 1896 when it was performed by Léon Delafosse at St Jamess Hall in London. Several things could have led Fauré to compose a set of variations at this time. No doubt he heard his friend Louis Diémer perform Rameaus Gavotte et six doubles, which figured that year in his recitals. Saint-Saëns had just composed his Thème varié. But most likely it was Faurés love of Schumann and his Études symphoniques that was his greatest influence.
In the copy from which I learned the Thème et variations back in the 1970s, there were footnotes dating from when it was the test piece for the exams at the Conservatoire in 1910 (in which one of the First Prize winners was none other than Clara Haskil). Some cuts were suggested, and several variations were to be left out. There were also notations for an orchestration of the work by Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht when it was put on as a ballet, Rayon de lune (Moonbeam), in 1928. I dont really want to imagine either of these things.
The theme, in C sharp minor, is presented with march-like solemnity, becoming haunting in the second line when the dynamic falls to piano. The ascending scale of the opening is repeated after eight bars, but with different harmonies. We can already hear Faurés fondness for bass lines, the proper performance of which is essential in his music. In the first variation, the theme appears in the bass while the right hand weaves a filigree web in the high register. The second is scherzo-like, also giving room for the cellos to shine. Energy builds in the third variation which combines duplets and triplets. Fauré insisted that they should be clearly defined. The fourth variation carries on the élan of the previous one, while capturing a haunted feeling in its middle section. The texture of the fifth is not easy to make clear: double thirds and double sixths abound in this unhurried waltz. The sixth is rather spooky, with the bass rising in octaves while the right hand descends in sighs. The seventh, eighth and ninth variations are all wonderful moments, with the latter expressing a rapturous stillness. This is broken by the very difficult tenth variation which demands great agility combined with precision, lightness, and a big reserve of power for its ending. The audience usually thinks this is the end, but it isnt. In what can only be described as a moment of pure genius, Fauré switches to the major mode for his final variation which looks sparse on the page but is one of the most intense things he ever wrote. Every time I play it I get the shivers. As Robert Orledge writes in his excellent biography of the composer: It raises the whole work onto a higher, almost religious plane the chorale rises from its serenity to a climax of transcendental intensity, making the flashy excitement of the penultimate variation seem trivial in comparison.
The first two of Faurés four Valses-caprices were, unsurprisingly, especially loved by Saint-Saëns. The second one, dedicated to the wife of one his best friends, André Messager, was a particular favourite of Paul Dukas and Isaac Albéniz (who asked to hear it played shortly before his death). They were written between 1882 and 1884, around the time of the composers marriage to the daughter of the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet. I love the physical feel of playing this musicpassing the melody between hands (Fauré was ambidextrous), the imaginative passagework and harmonies that encircle it, the rhythms of the dance, the surprising turns in the harmonies and the different colours that Fauré demands, the boisterous bits contrasted by moments of great tenderness. The second of the two is more sophisticated, especially in the middle section beginning in C sharp minor. The transformation of that rather shady, nightclub-ish tune into something exultant surely owes something to Liszt. For me these are underrated works that should be played more often.
The three Nocturnes that I have chosen for this recording are not only my particular favourites, but each comes from a different period of Faurés life: youth, maturity and old age. The complete cycle of thirteen Nocturnes spans his entire creative life, giving us a wonderful opportunity to see how his work developed. The Nocturne No 5 in B flat major, Op 37, is contemporary to the second Valse-caprice. The first phrase could only be Fauré, beginning in B flat major and ending in D major. The turbulent middle section in B flat minor (a rare key in Faurés music) has swirling arpeggios, and transforms the second of the opening themes in a most imaginative way, even presenting it at the climax in B major. As in all of Faurés music, there is a grace combined with a contained strength behind every note. He was always complaining that people played his music in the half-light. According to his son, Fauré played with an iron hand in a velvet gloveand what velvet!
The Nocturne No 6 in D flat major, Op 63, was written after a break of ten years, during which time both his parents died and he wrote his famous Requiem. It remains one of his most popular pieces for piano and a masterpiece in the piano literature. When asked where he found the inspiration to write the ecstatic opening, he replied in the Simplon Tunnel. One could write many words about this piece. Perhaps it is best simply to listen. As Nectoux points out, five years later Schoenberg wrote his Verklärte Nacht, and found this same road of stars that we hear in the middle section, marked Allegro moderato.
The Nocturne No 13 in B minor, Op 119, is Faurés last piece for solo piano. It was finished in December 1921, just two weeks after the death of his old friend Saint-Saëns. Since 1903 Fauré had been suffering from severe hearing lossone in which the highest and lowest tones were horribly distorted. Beginning like a Bach chorale, and not shunning dissonances in the beautiful part writing, it gives us only the essentials, insisting ever more vehemently as it progresses on the interval of the third that begins the piece. Another excellent Fauré biographer, Jessica Duchen, says this Nocturne seems to stare death straight in the face. The final four bars reach out with a final upward gesture, only to fall back in despair.
We finish this album with a more radiant piece from Faurés youth, the earliest piece included on this recordingthe Ballade pour piano seul, Op 19, dedicated to Saint-Saëns. It was written in this original version for solo piano in 1879, at the same time as his first trip, together with Messager, to Munich to hear the complete 'Ring' cycle of Wagner. What makes the Ballade perhaps all the more beautiful is the suggestion of nature, rather than its actual depiction (as found in Act II of Wagners Siegfried, in the Forest murmurs sequence). Originally conceived as a suite of separate pieces, the Ballade finally took on a unified form resembling that of Liszts piano concertos. In April 1881 Fauré finished a version of the work for piano and orchestra and played the premiere himself, conducted by Édouard Colonne. (I have frequently performed bothtrying to remember which parts to leave out when I play it with orchestra!) In July 1882 Fauré met Liszt for the second time, in the company of Saint-Saëns, and presented him with the Ballade. Liszt, then seventy years old, gave up trying to play it after five or six pages, saying he didnt have enough fingers, and asked the young composer to continue. Faurés style is already beautifully apparent in this work that is full of freshness, joy, enthusiasm and lyricism.
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The Pierces took the stage at Hollywood's Hotel Cafe this past Tuesday evening. The crowd was a-plenty, standing room only, bubbly and eager in anticipation of, seemingly, their girls. Walking onto the stage from the front, the stunning pair were helped onto it by their band, and instead of introducing themselves via spoken word, they launched into the first song of their set. The bond between them was more apparent than ever in support of any previous statement uttered as such, yet even through shared vocals and stage presence, both were able to convey an individual style in their appearance and attitude.
Catherine, her microphone a useful stage prop and utilized in brilliant conjunction with her voice, worked a more glam look with lined eyes and shiny lips, her blonde hair punctuated by blunt bangs, and donning a dark blue one-sleeved dress. Sister Allison, complete with guitar, expressed a more bohemian style, with her also-long brown hair parted down the middle, fresh-faced with a sleeveless top, broad belt and long, flowing white skirt. Opposites? Perhaps, but not really. Their overall inner synchronicity commandeered the evening, and went hand-in-hand with their passion and reverence for their ability to perform, shared with their band. Seeing the pair get so involved with their own compositions proved as much of the show itself, being that it was far from a persona, but all them – dancing, swaying, foot-stomping, eyes to the ceiling and all.
A fair share of The Pierces' songs covered the basic matters of the heart – relationship woes, heartbreak, love (the good and the bad of it all), and the splendor of life. Not necessarily in that order, of course, but colored for good measure in rich, bleeding hues and a bit outside of the lines. Based in New York by way of Birmingham, each song touched a bit of where they've been and where they're going. And despite it being their third show of the day, the energy was high and, therefore, resulted in reverberating sound.
"Sticks and Stones", which highlighted some Southern flair, was even sung in a tall-tale sort of way. Painting a picture with nature's basic celestial elements and involving mention of "a witch's spell / But it just might blow your top / Then you start to run just as I'm having fun / And it's awfully hard to stop" made for a fun and bouncy yet twisted few minutes. Think something framed in the KT Tunstall kind of way – except, quite thankfully, a little less commercial. Performances of "Space and Time" and "You and I" from their upcoming album also titled You and I – due out this coming March – punctuated the set with a view looking toward the near future. And their encore as requested by the audience, "Boring", sultry in a siren's call sort of way, took us anywhere from "Paris, France / Londontown / NYC", amusing with their feigned apathy.
In between songs we were treated to back-and-forth banter and glances that only sisters could knowingly throw in between each other, particularly during the song "We Are Stars", in which the pair sang about how 'we're all made up from the same stuff', like the stars but that the only way to satisfy us is the love of another. Case in point, post-song, Allison poked fun at her sibling, stating that she was told it by Catherine that it was written for her, but then "ten minutes later I heard her telling some other guy that she wrote it about him", met with an appropriate wrinkling of the nose and sheepish smile. Rounding out their set by interacting with their audience through firm confidence and humility that could only be expressed by true talent in our opinion, The Pierces delivered a show that was truly a delight to be involved in.
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Two recent house fires, one in New Jersey and one right here in Levittown has prompted me, in the interest of fire safety, to review both of them. The fire in South Plainfield, NJ two weeks ago took the lives of four young children and one adult. It scarred the lives of the members of that volunteer fire department's members. They witnessed horrors there that they will long remember.
The other house fire took place in Levittown on Feb. 24. In that fire, three children and one adult escaped with very minor injuries. The Levittown Fire Department volunteers responded quickly and extinguished the fire.
Both are two early morning house fires with occupants inside, two very different outcomes. Which house fire closely resembles your home?
The common denominator in both these fires is obviously smoke detectors.
As you may have heard on the TV reports, there were no working smoke detectors in the New Jersey fire and people died a horrible death. In the Levittown fire, smoke detectors were present and operated and the occupants escaped. The family's pet dog also shares the credit for also alerting them.
If there were working smoke detectors in the New Jersey fire, I'm sure the outcome would have been different. In this day and age, there is no excuse not to have smoke detectors in your home to alert your loved ones.
Most fire departments give them away for free; some will even come and install them for you if you can't. The Nassau County Fire Marshal's office, whose job it is to investigate fires, reports that residential fires where a working smoke detector was present, there was no loss of life!
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that these simple, cheap devices save lives, and yet the many fire chiefs I have spoken to report that many homes they have entered did not have a smoke detector.
In New York, it's the law; at least one working smoke detector must be present. Enforcement is difficult. What is most frustrating is when there is a fire and death or serious injury result no charges are filed, (unless its a rental, then they go after the landlord). As long as we let this happen these fires will occur again and again.
So I ask again, which of these homes bests describes your home? There are many different types of smoke detectors out there, some talk to you. There have been studies where it was found many children are not awakened by the standard smoke alarm. Do you know if your alarms will wake your family in time?
You should also have an escape plan. Once the smoke alarm wakes you, what's your plan to get out? If you have questions, call your fire department for advice.
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|Creative Writing Program's Manhattanville Review Celebrates First Anniversary
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The Manhattanville Review, an online journal created by Manhattanville College's MFA in Creative Writing Program, is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City Sunday, May 25.
The Manhattanville Review is a reincarnation of Inkwell, the MFA Program's former literary journal, which is no longer in print. Unlike its predecessor, the Manhattanville Review is exclusively online, which is easier to produce and eliminates the paperwork which allows the students running it to be more involved in the editorial decisions, Camille Rankine, assistant director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program and editorial director of the Manhattanville Review, said.
She added that being online also allows it to reach a wider audience. "We didn't have a lot of subscribers to Inkwell; it was a respected journal but it wasn't very widely read. Online, our reach is potentially everybody who has an Internet connection, so that brings a lot more attention to the writers and artists that we do publish."
Tiffany Ferrentini, one of the editors of the Manhattanville Review, also noted that being online is a lot more efficient. The editors used a web platform, Submittable, to collect submissions, which allows each of the editors to make notes on each piece, as well as accept and decline submissions.
"When we were working on Inkwell we only accepted submissions through the mail, so if we were going through submissions and someone had a whole stack of papers, no one else could review them and give their input until that person was done," said Ferrentini, who is pursuing her MFA at Manhattanville.
Working on the Manhattanville Review gives students in the MFA Program the opportunity to get involved in the editorial process as well as improve their writing skills. Rankine said, "As a writer I think it's really helpful to see what goes into that process and learn from that. You learn how submissions are viewed by editors and how you want to present yourself in order to have the strongest submission possible."
"I think it's all about the hands-on experience," said Barbara Perez Marquez, a student in the MFA Program and one of the editors of the journal. "Through the Manhattanville Review I get the chance to be behind the scenes. We learn about what goes on in the heads of editors and, in turn, that prepares us to be betters writers."
The anniversary celebration will feature readings from Erika K. Stanley '13, winner of this year's Alumni Contest, Charif Shanahan, contributor and programs director for the Poetry Society of America, Dina Nayeri, author of "A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea," and Manhattanville Professor Elizabeth Eslami, contributor and winner of the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction.
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e.g. 仕方あるまい
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Dan Campbell, who has served as the agency's Managing Director for 5 years, has been named Executive Director, where he will concentrate on planning, policy and transition issues. Joseph Osterman, Director of the Board's Office of Highway Safety, will be the Board's new Managing Director. Mr. Campbell joined the agency as General Counsel in 1990 after 20 years with the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission.
"The appointments announced today reflect the depth of professional talent we are privileged to have at the National Transportation Safety Board," Chairman Engleman Conners said. "Given our agency's responsibilities for transportation safety in all modes, and given the fact that more than 90 percent of U.S. transportation deaths occur on our highways, Mr. Osterman's extensive experience in highway safety will provide an excellent perspective in meeting these challenges."
Mr. Osterman has been with the NTSB for 19 years. He began his agency career as a Field Highway Accident Investigator and has additionally served the Board as Investigator-in-Charge, Major Investigation Branch Chief, and Highway Division Chief. Before coming to the Board, the Philadelphia native was engaged in law enforcement investigations in Pennsylvania and with the U.S. Army. In his new position, Mr. Osterman will focus on the primary management needs of the agency.
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