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NEW YORK (AP) - Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community.
From the 1960s, when he was a political prisoner and South Africa was under the laws of apartheid, right up to recent times, when the racist laws of the land had fallen and he was among the world's most admired people, Mandela inspired concerts, songs, poems, fiction and movies.
Artists were equally drawn to the man and to what he stood for. During the more than quarter-century that Mandela was jailed, his freedom became synonymous with the freedom of his country. Songwriters and poets invoked his name in calling for apartheid's end and an artistic boycott of South Africa.
"Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world," Nobel laureate Toni Morrison once observed. "The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable."
Elizabeth Alexander, who read the inaugural poem at the swearing-in of President Obama in 2009, had years earlier written "A Poem for Nelson Mandela," which featured the lines: "Nelson Mandela is with me because I believe/in symbols; symbols bear power; symbols demand/power; and that is how a nation/follows a man who leads from prison/and cannot speak to them."
It took some daring to support Mandela during his prison years, when Mandela and the political movement he led, the African National Congress, were on international terrorist lists and opinions about him often divided between liberals and conservatives.
As late as 1988, just two years before his release, an all-star concert held to celebrate his 70th birthday was censored on British television to remove political content.
But just as South Africa managed a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, Mandela evolved from opposition leader to head of state to sage with remarkably little damage; he only seemed to gain admirers.
Over the last decade of his life, Mandela presided over a series of "46664" concerts in South Africa, named for Mandela's prison number (466) and the year he was jailed, 1964.
Here are highlights of works inspired by Mandela:
MOVIES: Some of Hollywood's greatest actors played him on film. Academy-Award winner Sidney Poitier, gifted at conveying fiery resilience and good-natured restraint, was an obvious choice to portray him for a TV movie in 1997. Morgan Freeman, another Oscar-winning actor of such august bearing that his roles have ranged from judges to God, played Mandela in 2009's "Invictus," directed by Clint Eastwood, about a South African rugby team. Danny Glover also starred in a TV movie about his life, while Mandela himself made a cameo at the end of Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," released in 1992. "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," starring Idris Elba and based on Mandela's autobiography, was just released this month.
CONCERTS: One of the landmarks of the movement to free Mandela was a 1988 televised concert from London's Wembley Stadium that celebrated his 70th birthday and featured such superstars as Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston and Sting. At the time, Mandela's African National Congress was still regarded as a terrorist organization by many countries and had been condemned by Britain's then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The BBC angered Mandela supporters by censoring political statements and angered the South African government by airing the concert at all. A 1990 concert celebrating his release featured Tracy Chapman, Neil Young and Mandela himself, who received a long standing ovation. Shows in his honor continued over the decades, with Will Smith, U2's Bono and Annie Lennox among those appearing.
SONGS: Songs protesting apartheid and praising Mandela were written throughout the 1980s and up through his release from prison in 1990, from Eddy Grant's "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna" to Steve Van Zandt's all-star "Sun City," featuring Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis and many other performers, which called for artists to refuse to play in South Africa. Songs directly about Mandela included a Bono-Joe Strummer collaboration, "46664"; "Free Nelson Mandela," by Special A.K.A., an off-shoot of the Specials, and Simple Minds' "Mandela Day."
LITERATURE: Nadine Gordimer's 1987 novel "A Sport of Nature" prophesized the end of apartheid and included a liberation leader based on Mandela. Poems about Mandela date back at least to the 1970s with "And I Watch it in Mandela," by South Africa's John Matshikiza. Jekwu Ikeme's "When Mandela Goes," published in 2004, bowed to mortality and looked to a future without the hallowed man, whose tribal name was Madiba: "When you go Madiba your nobility shall be our lasting inheritance this land you so love shall continue to love we shall trail the long and majestic walk your gallant walk shall be our cross and shepherd."
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Every Sunday you can enjoy Yoga with great view over the water on the IJ-shore. In winter or on rainy days the classes will be indoor (de Zaal) and in beautiful and sunny summer days we teach on the beach. Sometimes with big events & festivals there will be no Yoga, this you can always check on the website. The classes are dynamic and mixing different styles. Generally they start with a short meditation, warming up to a more active part (yang) ending with long intense stretches for the connective tissue (yin). Sometimes partner-exercises or massage basics from Shiatsu or Thai Yoga Massage. Every class is an inner journey, with full focus on the breath, respecting and exploring the limitations and finding peace in every single posture.
There are yogamats, blocks and fleeces. The mats are being used outdoor as well so if you want a clean surface, take your yogamat and put it on top. The indoor area is heated.
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Jimmy Savile used celebrity status to commit 214 sex crimes, police report
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The late entertainer Jimmy Savile committed more than 200 sex crimes over more than half a century, with most victims children and teens assaulted the length and breadth of Britain, from TV studios to hospitals and even a hospice, a police report said Friday.
Detectives said the scale of Savile's sex abuse was "unprecedented in the U.K." They have recorded 214 offenses allegedly committed by Savile between 1995 and 2009, including 34 rapes, on victims aged 8 to 47. In all, 450 people have come forward with information about abuse by the late TV presenter.
The number of Savile's crimes is likely to rise further as more victims' reports are officially recorded, said Detective Superintendent David Gray, the chief investigating police officer.
The catalog of abuse is the fullest accounting yet of the allegations against Savile, a TV and radio personality who died in October 2011 at age 84. Savile's elaborate funeral reflected his career as a popular entertainer and tireless charity worker, but a documentary broadcast late last year pulled the mask away, claiming that he was a serial sex offender who traded on his celebrity to prey on vulnerable children.
"This whole sordid affair has demonstrated the tragic consequences of what happens when vulnerability collides with power," said Commander Peter Spindler, head of the police specialist crime unit.
A report summarizing the three-month police investigation said Savile's victims ranged from a 10-year-old boy who said he was sexually assaulted after he asked for an autograph to children who were groped when they attended tapings of the music show "Top of the Pops," and pupils at a school for troubled girls who were allegedly offered cigarettes and trips in Savile's car in return for sex.
Police said Savile used his celebrity status to "hide in plain sight," winning the trust of institutions and targeting vulnerable individuals unlikely to speak out against him.
The report said Savile committed 50 offenses at medical establishments, including a cancer hospice and several psychiatric hospitals, 14 at schools, and 33 at television or radio stations; 73 percent of his victims were under 18 and 82 percent were female, police said.
"The details provided by victims of his abuse paint the picture of a mainly opportunistic individual who used his celebrity status as a powerful tool to coerce or control them, preying on the vulnerable or star-struck for his sexual gratification," the report said.
Peter Watt of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said Savile was an "evil and manipulative man" who "cunningly built his entire career around gaining access to vulnerable children."
Officials said Savile's abuse might have been brought to light earlier had authorities pursued allegations against him more seriously.
Spindler said Savile's victims would be disappointed he had not faced justice in his lifetime but could take comfort from authorities' resolve not to let it happen again.
"The victims themselves will get some sense of satisfaction from being heard," he said.
Savile, he said, "groomed a nation" for sex abuse.
A parallel report drawn up by senior prosecutor Alison Levitt and also published Friday faulted officials for not pursuing allegations more vigorously. Levitt's report noted that several women had spoken to police about Savile between 2007 and 2008, but no charges were brought, in part because the women declined to testify in court.
Levitt said police could have tried harder to get them to speak out, noting in particular that the women weren't told that other victims had corroborated their accounts.
"Having spoken to the victims I have been driven to conclude that had the police and prosecutors taken a different approach a prosecution might have been possible," she wrote.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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When a company gets a bad customer review on Yelp, Facebook, Twitter or any other social network, emotions can run high, because real damage to its reputation and sales can result.
The business owner usually has a knee-jerk reaction and responds in kind by attacking the offending customer with an emotionally charged online response.
Some businesses might take the opposite approach and choose the other extreme -- no response at all. By simply ignoring the bad review, a company hopes it will dissipate into the Internet ether, whereas a response might ignite a social media storm and cripple the company publicly.
But both the emotionally charged response and the ignore-it-at-all-costs response are big mistakes, says CEO Jay Shek at Locality, a search engine for local businesses that taps into ratings and review information from Yelp.
The better response is a measured one where you reach out to the upset customer offline and try to fix the situation. The result of this effort, good or bad, can be relayed online. The goal is to show readers of the bad review that your company is proactive when it comes to improving products and services.
Shek has seen his share of responses to bad reviews and has come up with four common mistakes companies make. There are exceptions, of course, that call for special responses.
For instance, if competitors or critics pretending to be customers are writing bad reviews, as in a recent case concerning Yelp reviewers, then legal action may be required. Generally speaking, though, Shek's list of common mistakes apply to most situations.
Mistake 1: Countering with fake positive reviews
Some companies will try to flood the social site with positive reviews, in hopes of blunting the sting of a critical one. A quick Google search on fake reviews will uncover a cottage industry of marketing firms specialising in producing them. But by doing so, a company runs the risk of getting caught and being publicly shamed.
Odds of getting caught are increasing, too. Review sites such as Yelp are getting better at sniffing out fake reviews. Web filters help identify fake reviews coming from the same accounts. Consumers, too, can often spot fake reviews by the way they're written: They are typically overly positive, not a lot of detail about the business, a generic feel.
Last October, Samsung was fined $340,000 for hiring writers and two marketing firms to post fake reviews in Taiwanese forums, both positive ones for Samsung products and critical ones for competitors' products.
Mistake 2: Overreacting publicly
Smaller retailers tend to overreact emotionally to a critical review, whereas a larger company's marketing pros are usually more seasoned and level-headed. Yelp is awash with small business owners ranting against customer criticism, but it only makes them look small, petty and, of course, unprofessional.
"It's natural to react emotionally, but you can't let that come through," Shek says. "Reacting negatively reflects even worse on your business than the initial negative review."
With a single, opinionated critical review -- as in, "the lasagna was terrible" -- you might not want to react at all, because there's not much to do anyway. With other critical reviews, a response should at the very least acknowledge the customer's frustration, as well as ways to fix the situation.
Mistake 3: Being too passive
As noted earlier, some companies will ignore negative customer reviews. But online reviews are the new customer surveys and comment cards. They're a form of feedback from your customers.
Companies pay thousands of dollars for this kind of research. "Now customers are giving you this for free," Shek says. "You shouldn't ignore it just because you think it's unjust or exaggerated."
This doesn't necessarily mean you have to respond to every critical review. However, you should constantly check for patterns. For instance, if many customers are agreeing that the lasagna is terrible, then the you might want to make changes to the recipe.
Mistake 4: Making a quick fix
When reacting to a critical review, the initial outreach should be done offline, because online comments can get snippy. An offline conversation with the critical reviewer affords a chance to really understand the issue and work to resolve it.
This is much better than a blanket fix, such as immediately giving any critical reviewer a 30 percent discount on their next purchase. "You don't want to train consumers to complain in order to get discounts and free stuff," Shek says.
Once a resolution has been worked out, you can post the results online. "Whether or not you've made the customer happy, the fact that you were open and honest about the problem and tried to address it increases your reputation online."
A lot of times the critical reviewer will be appreciative of your efforts and, in turn, post a positive comment. That's how a bad review can be made into a great marketing message.
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With the recently released "MMM" Album still causing a furore online and on the streets, MCG Empire Boss – Mc Galaxy comes through with the refix to DIO (which means come), the 3rd track of the critically acclaimed sophomore body of work.
Produced by the superbly talented rave of the moment – Krizbeatz, DIO (Refix) is a mid-tempo song with a high-life feel and a love theme, which shows yet another angle to the music ingenuity of the Sekem Master.
Fiokee helped with the guitar strings to give it a smooth highlife feel and was mastered by Selebobo. DIO (Refix) is definitely one to sacrifice your time and resources for.
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MURRIETA, Calif. – The Factory FMF/KTM Offroad Racing Team, known as the most successful offroad racing team in the motorcycle industry, is excited to announce its rider line-up for the 2013 season.
The seven-rider team will feature reigning AMA National Enduro Champion Steward Baylor; former GNCC XC1 and National Enduro Champion Charlie Mullins; 2-time GNCC XC2 Lites Champion Kailub Russell; reigning AMA National Hare & Hound Champion Kurt Caselli; reigning WORCS Pro 2 Champion Ivan Ramirez; former 125cc Motocross National and WORCS Champion and reigning X-Games EnduroX Gold Medalist Mike Brown; and multi-time GNCC Women's Champion and X-Games Women's Gold Medalist Maria Forsberg.
Baylor, a former GNCC XC2 Champion, will debut aboard his KTM 250 XC two-stroke machine in his first full season in the GNCC XC1 class. He will contest the title against his teammates Charlie Mullins, Kailub Russell and the rest of the talented field. Baylor will also return to the AMA National Enduro Series to defend his 2012 title which he earned in his first-ever full-time season in the series.
Mullins, who suffered from a laundry list of injuries in 2012, is back to 100% and ready to compete in the GNCC XC1 and National Enduro Series. Mullins took one win in the GNCC XC1 Series in 2012 and is looking to increase that number in 2013. His teammate, Russell, will also return to the GNCC XC1 Series where he finished 2nd in 2012 in a finale that came down to the final race. Russell is more determined than ever to get his KTM out front in order to work toward securing his first GNCC XC1 Championship.
The Factory FMF/KTM Team has chosen 8-time ISDE Top American Kurt Caselli as its lead rider in the AMA National Hare & Hound Series where he is already a 2-time Champion. Caselli will compete with and mentor Ivan Ramirez in that series while also using the race time as added preparation for the SCORE/Baja Series. Caselli, Ramirez and Brown will all return to compete in the SCORE/Baja Series where they collectively earned 2nd overall this past season.
In addition to racing with Caselli and Ramirez in the SCORE/Baja Series, Brown, also plans to return to the AMA EnduroCross Series where he won his first main event last year as well as multiple podium finishes. Brown has stepped up his training program to put a bigger effort toward this series and securing more wins to put him in a better position for the championship hunt. Brown will be joined by special guest rider, Red Bull KTM's Taddy Blazusiak, at each round of the AMA EnduroCross Series.
The most successful rider of the 2012 Factory FMF/KTM Team, Maria Forsberg, is back for 2013. In 2012 alone, Forsberg secured the GNCC Women's Championship, X-Games Gold Medal and AMA EnduroCross Women's Championship. She plans to return to both series to defend her titles in 2013.
"I feel we have a very strong team for 2013," stated Factory FMF/KTM Team Manager Antti Kallonen. "We have put together a solid team of riders, each of whom is equally capable of winning a championship. We have a great group of riders and mechanics as well as the best offroad race bikes available and together we hope we have a recipe for success. We are looking forward to the 2013 season and a chance to win all the championships!"
For more on the Factory FMF/KTM Racing Team please visit www.ktmusa.com.


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Ann Curry -- I'm Leaving "Today"
Ann Curry I'm Leaving "Today"
Ann Curry said goodbye to "Today" today -- hours after her lawyer negotiated her exit from the show -- sobbing as she told viewers, "I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but man did I try."
Curry cried as she said goodbye to her co-anchors and viewers who got to know her over the last 15 years on the show.
In an interview with USA Today, Ann said, "In every single co-host's first year, there have been kinks to be worked out, and perhaps I deserve as much blame for that as anyone."
When asked if she felt she was given enough time to work out those kinks, she flatly replied "No, I do not."
As for taking a beating by "Good Morning America" in the ratings recently, Curry says, "I know I am not to blame for the ratings worries ... and my bosses have said to me there are many factors involved."
Under her new deal, Curry will continue to produce for "NBC Nightly News," "Dateline," "Rock Center" and "Today" and will fill in as anchor on "Nightly News."
As TMZ previously reported, Ann was guaranteed $20 million for the last two years of her contract but NBC didn't want to pay that amount ... so they negotiated a lesser deal where Ann will stay on and still make good money.
When asked by USA Today about the $10-$20 million a year salary, she said "I can say that I'd love to earn that much." Fact is ... Ann was getting $10 mil a year.
We broke the story ... Savannah Guthrie will be named Ann's replacement and NBC wants her firmly in place before the Olympics so they can showcase her next to Matt Lauer.


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Chapter XXIII.—Arsacius elected to succeed John. The Evils wrought against the Followers of John. St. Nicarete.
Arsacius, brother of Nectarius, who had administered the bishopric before John, was, not long afterwards, ordained as bishop of Constantinople. 1613 He was of a very mild disposition, and possessed of great piety; but the reputation he had acquired as a presbyter was diminished p. 414 by the conduct of some of the clergy to whom he delegated his power, and who did what they pleased in his name; for their evil deeds were imputed to him. Nothing, however, operated so much to his disadvantage as the persecution that was carried on against the followers of John. They refused to hold communion, or even to join in prayer with him, because the enemies of John were associated with him; and as they persisted, as we have before stated, in holding a church in the further parts of the city, he complained to the emperor of their conduct. The tribune was commanded to attack them with a body of soldiers, and by means of clubs and stones he soon dispersed them. The most distinguished among them in point of rank, and those who were most zealous in their adherence to John, were cast into prison. The soldiers as is usual on such occasions, went beyond their orders, and forcibly stripped the women of their ornaments, and carried off as booty their chains, their golden girdles, necklaces, and their collars of rings; they pulled off the lobes of the ear with the earrings. Although the whole city was thus filled with trouble and lamentation, the affection of the people for John still remained the same, and they refrained from appearing in public. Many of them absented themselves from the market-place and public baths, while others, not considering themselves safe in their own houses, fled the city.
Among the zealous men and excellent women who adopted this latter measure was Nicarete, a lady of Bithynia. She belonged to a noted family of the nobility, and was celebrated on account of her perpetual virginity and her virtuous life. She was the most modest of all the zealous women that we have ever known, and was well ordered in manner and speech and in behavior, and throughout her life she invariably preferred the service of God to all earthly considerations. She showed herself capable of enduring with courage and thought the sudden reversals of adverse affairs; she saw herself unjustly despoiled of the greater part of her ample patrimony without manifesting any indignation, and managed the little that remained to her with so much economy, that although she was advanced in age, she contrived to supply all the wants of her household, and to contribute largely to others. Since she loved a humane spirit, she also prepared a variety of remedies for the needs of the sick poor, and she frequently succeeded in curing patients who had derived no benefit from the skill of the customary physicians. With a devout strength which assisted her in reaching the best results, she closed her lips. To sum up all in a few words, we have never known a devoted woman endowed with such manners, gravity, and every other virtue. Although she was so extraordinary, she concealed the greater part of her nature and deeds; for by modesty of character and philosophy she was always studious of concealment. She would not accept of the office of deaconess, nor of instructress of the virgins consecrated to the service of the Church, because she accounted herself unworthy, although the honor was frequently pressed upon her by John.
After the popular insurrection had been quelled, the prefect of the city appeared in public, as if to inquire into the cause of the conflagration, and the burning of the council-hall, and punished many severely; but being a pagan, he ridiculed the calamities of the Church, and delighted in its misfortunes.
Soc. vi. 19; Pallad. Dialog. 11–20. Cf. Theodoret, H. E. v. 34. Soz. has much separate material.
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Lakers drop second straight, fall to Blazers
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Dwight Howard's 33 points and 14 rebounds were not enough for the Los Angeles Lakers in
a 116-106 loss to the inspired Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
Nicolas Batum had 26 points and the Blazers led by as many as 19 in handing the Lakers their second straight loss to open the season. Damian Lillard, the sixth overall pick in the June draft, had 22 points and 11 assists in his NBA debut for Portland.
The Lakers' troubles were compounded by the loss of guard Steve Nash to a bruised left leg late in the first half.
Nash, acquired by the Lakers this summer, collided with Lillard and limped to the locker room. Although the team initially reported he was fine, Nash struggled when he returned for the second half and left the game for good a short time later.
Kobe Bryant had 30 points for the Lakers.
The loss, as well as the injury to Nash, came a day after Los Angeles dropped its season opener at home 99-91 to the Dallas Mavericks, spoiling the Lakers debuts of both Howard and Nash. Howard had 19 points and 10 rebounds in his first game in gold.
It was apparent for the second night in a row that the Lakers were still getting used to each other. The starters rarely played together during an 0-8 preseason.
The Blazers, who finished 28-38 last season and out of the playoffs, opened their season with eight newcomers on the roster after an offseason rebuilding effort around All-Star Lamarcus Aldridge, Wesley Matthews and Batum.
Portland pulled out to a 30-26 lead late in the first quarter after Matthews' 3-pointer. Lillard extended the lead to 35-26 with a running bank shot in traffic.
J.J. Hickson's jumper made it 41-34 for Portland, but Bryant answered for the Lakers with a 3-pointer. Batum's fast-break jam gave the Blazers a 46-40 lead and Portland went into halftime with a 62-57 lead.
Portland took its momentum into the second half, going up 72-64 on another slam by Batum. Sasha Pavlovic's 3-pointer gave the Blazers an 88-76 lead just before Howard was called for his fourth foul.
Matthews' jumper made it 102-83 in the fourth quarter. Batum had a 3-pointer to make it 108-94 as the game slipped out of reach for the Lakers.
Batum's opener comes after an uncertain offseason as a restricted free agent. The Blazers got into a poker match with the Timberwolves over the 23-year-old Frenchman, eventually matching Minnesota's four-year offer sheet worth more than $45 million.
The Blazers wore new red uniforms for the opener and encouraged fans to wear red, but the crowd was nonetheless sprinkled with plenty of Lakers gold. Among them was a fan that lifted a sign reading, "I love Steve Nash."
Nash, a two-time NBA MVP, was acquired in a sign-and-trade with the Phoenix Suns this summer.
NOTES: The Blazers declined team options for next season on guards Elliott Williams and Nolan Smith, and forward Luke Babbitt, to maintain salary cap flexibility. All three will become unrestricted free agents at the end of the season, but the Blazers will retain their Bird rights. … Portland added 10 players to the roster of the team's NBA D-League affiliate, the Idaho Stampede, including training camp participants Coby Karl, Justin Holiday and Dallas Lauderdale.


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One such model is the Shell Model, which accounts for many features of the nuclear energy levels. According to this model, the motion of each nucleon is governed by the average attractive force of all the other nucleons. The resulting orbits form "shells," just as the orbits of electrons in atoms do. As nucleons are added to the nucleus, they drop into the lowest-energy shells permitted by the Pauli Principle which requires that each nucleon have a unique set of quantum numbers to describe its motion
When a shell is full (that is, when the nucleons have used up all of the possible sets of quantum number assignments), a nucleus of unusual stability forms. This concept is similar to that found in an atom where a filled set of electron quantum numbers results in an atom with unusual stabilityan inert gas. When all the protons or neutrons in a nucleus are in filled shells, the number of protons or neutrons is called a "magic number." Some of the magic numbers are 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, and 126. For example, 116Sn has a magic number of protons (50) and 54Fe has a magic number of neutrons (28). Some nuclei, for example 40Ca and 208Pb, have magic numbers of both protons and neutrons; these nuclei have exceptional stability and are called "doubly magic." Magic numbers are indicated on the chart of the nuclides.
Filled shells have a total angular momentum, J, equal to zero. The next added nucleon (a valence nucleon) determines the J of the new ground state. When nucleons (singly or in pairs) are excited out of the ground state they change the angular momentum of the nucleus as well as its parity and isospin projection quantum numbers. The shell model describes how much energy is required to move nucleons from one orbit to another and how the quantum numbers change. The figure above shows an energy diagram of the two filled shells of the ground state of 12C. Promotion of a nucleon or a pair of nucleons to an unfilled shell puts the nucleus into one of the excited states.
Excited nuclear states decay to more stable states, i.e., more stable nucleon orbitals. Measuring transition rates between nuclear energy levels requires specialized alpha, beta, and gamma detectors and associated electronic circuitry to precisely determine the energy and half-life of the decay. Quantum mechanics and shell-model theory permit nuclear scientists to compute the transition probability (rate of decay) between nuclear states. For nuclei whose structure can be described by a small number of valence nucleons outside filled shells, the Shell Model calculations agree very well with measured values of spin and parity assignments and transition probabilities.
An example of transitions between a nucleuss energy levels is shown above. The ground states of 12B (5 protons, 7 neutrons) and 12N (7 protons, 5 neutrons) are related to each other and to the 15.1 MeV state in 12C. Each has a nucleon in the third energy level, each has the quantum number 1+, 1, and each decays to the ground state of carbon. The boron and nitrogen beta decay emit an e- and e+ respectively. The 15.1 MeV state in carbon decays by gamma emission. The shell model calculations of these transition probabilities agree quite well with the measured rates even though different decay mechanisms are at work in each case. Nuclear theorists keep refining the shell model to understand the details of nuclear structure and to make that knowledge available for applications in nuclear technology.


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Situated on the West Coast of the United States, the city of San Francisco has long been home to many generations of Asians who immigrated to the United States. In a lot of cases, they are Buddhists, but since they are from a variety of cultures and countries, the way they practice Buddhism also varies.
At an intersection in San Francisco, not far from the city's Japantown, two buildings provide an interesting contrast. One is a Catholic church designed in a Japanese style to attract Japanese-American worshippers. Across the road sits a Western-style building that appears inside and out much like a church but is actually a Buddhist temple. Ron Kobata, the Japanese-American resident minister, wears a robe much like a Christian minister would, but he does not pray to God. He prays to Buddha.
"The acculturation took place to adopt some of the customs of, perhaps you can say, the Judeo-Christian tradition," said Kobata. "For example, the regular church services on Sundays, and introducing pews into the temple."
Kobata is a monk from the school of Shin Buddhism, which originated in Japan some 800 years ago. It arrived in San Francisco a little more than 100 years ago, in 1898, under the title Buddhist Churches of America, a name chosen so the monks could blend in more easily in a predominantly Christian country.
"The leadership at that time decided to adopt that term so as to become less alien," he added. "So there was an effort to become more cultivated to this country."
During World War II many Japanese-Americans were rounded up into detention camps and nearly all San Francisco's Shin Buddhist temples were abandoned. Today, however, this school of Buddhism is rapidly expanding and has a presence in many parts of the United States.
From Japantown to Chinatown and the Tien Hau Temple, Chinese immigrants in San Francisco first established this Temple in 1852. It was moved to its present location, also in Chinatown, in 1910. It is dedicated to the Goddess of Heaven and Sea, Tien Hau, also referred to as Mazu.
"Mazu is the goddess of the sea. Since the Chinese came here on boats, they wanted to be blessed and protected by her. So they invited her to San Francisco," said temple volunteer Susan Lau.
This is the oldest Buddhist temple in all of San Francisco. It has no monks or nuns: it only has Susan, who keeps up its day-to-day operations.
"We all love this very old, traditional temple," she added. "I always feel comfortable here because I love the temple so much."
The temple has become one of San Francisco's tourist attractions.
One French Catholic family came with a purpose.
"We want to [have] good fortune," said the father. "That's why we came here."
They have come to visit the God of Fortune, whose statue sits in one corner of the temple. He seems to have a lot more incense sticks offered in front of him than the other gods. In Buddhism, incense sticks are burned as offerings to gods.
More recent Asian immigrants, such as those from Thailand, have brought their own versions of Buddhism. A building near San Francisco's Golden Gate Park has been converted into a temple named Wat San Fran Dhammaram. The temple was established in 2002, and today has more than 600 worshippers, most of whom are ethnic Thai. Seven monks and five nuns live here.
"I enjoy it a lot. If I had known that the life of a monk is like this, I would want to be ordained a long time ago," said Phra Anandapanyo who has been a monk at the temple for less than a year.
For many Thai immigrants in San Francisco, their form of Buddhism, called Dhamma Buddhism, gives them a sense of home. Everyone shares a common bond. Other schools of Buddhism also give their followers a feeling of family. Matthew has been a Buddhist for 30 years.
"We have our problems in our board meetings," he said. "And our financial concerns, but through that we find deeply spiritual unity here. We enjoy each other's company pretty much. It's like a family."
Tibetan Buddhism is another school of Buddhism increasingly popular in the United States. Ron Kobata says one of the reasons for this is that the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, is such a revered figure in the United States, as well as around the world.
"In terms of interest in Buddhism in America, that's definitely growing," he said. "But I attributed that to the attraction the Dalai Lama has brought to Buddhism internationally."
"I think he has been like the superstar of all those schools of Buddhism in the United States," said Matthew. "He really helped to define the concepts that were hard to describe like Nirvana and Karma. These words are becoming part of the American lexicon."
Tibetan Buddhism has enriched an already very vibrant Buddhist community San Francisco. Matthew happily accepts such diversity. He can pray using Japanese, Mandarin and Vietnamese.
"And so to define yourself as a Buddhist is one thing but to refine yourself as a human being is something else," he added. "Any religion can help you do that. I think all different schools of Buddhism have slightly different techniques to accomplish that worldview."
Buddhists in San Francisco consider themselves very fortunate. They live in one of the most beautiful cities in America and have an abundance of choices to satisfy their spiritual needs.


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- Original name:
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- Born:
- Oct. 7, 1897, Sandersville, Ga., U.S.
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- Feb. 25, 1975, Chicago (aged 77)
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Elijah Muhammad (born Oct. 7, 1897, Sandersville, Ga., U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1975, Chicago) leader of the black separatist religious movement known as the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslims) in the United States.
The son of sharecroppers and former slaves, Muhammad moved to Detroit in 1923 where, around 1930, he became assistant minister to the founder of the sect, Wallace D. Fard, at Temple No. 1. When Fard disappeared in 1934 Muhammad succeeded him as head of the movement, with the title "Minister of Islam." Because of dissension within the Detroit temple, he moved to Chicago where he established Temple No. 2. During World War II he advised followers to avoid the draft, as a result of which he was charged with violating the Selective Service Act and was jailed (1942–46).
Muhammad slowly built up the membership of the Black Muslims through assiduous recruitment in the postwar decades. His program called for the establishment of a separate nation for black Americans and the adoption of a religion based on the worship of Allah and on the belief that blacks are his chosen people. Muhammad became known especially for his flamboyant rhetoric directed at white people, whom he called "blue-eyed devils." In his later years, however, he moderated his antiwhite tone and stressed self-help among blacks rather than confrontation between the races. Because of Muhammad's separatist views, his most prominent disciple, Malcolm X, broke with the group and, before his assassination in 1965, helped to lend an identity to the group (once known as the American Muslim Mission and now part of the worldwide orthodox Muslim community) that split from the Nation of Islam after Muhammad's death in 1975. Another group, retaining both the name and the founding principles of Elijah Muhammad's original Nation of Islam, was established under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan.


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BANGKOK – While BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion claws for a diminishing market share in North America, the smartphone maker maintains a reputation in Southeast Asia that in some places harkens back to its glory days.
It's sometimes hard to remember that RIM was once the darling of the tech industry, with legions of addicted fans dubbing the device the CrackBerry.
For a reminder of those heady times visit Siam Paragon, the biggest mall in Bangkok and one of the largest in Asia. There the BlackBerry retail store is just steps away from outlets selling designer labels like Prada, Dolce & Gabbana and Lamborghini.
Indonesia is also a bright light, having become RIM's biggest market in Southeast Asia. The company holds roughly half of the local handset market and has been ranked the top-selling smartphone there for the past two years.
The BlackBerry also ranks as the No. 2 smartphone in the Philippines, and the No. 3 smartphone in Thailand and Malaysia.
But it is Indonesia, the world's fourth most populated country, that will likely play a key role in RIM's future as it struggles to launch its new BlackBerry smartphones in the fickle North American and European markets.
At the same time, the company aims to sell its older device inventory at a discounted price in countries that are just starting to adopt smartphone technology.
One of the unique characteristics of Southeast Asia is that, for many in the region, buying a low-priced smartphone is the only reasonable option, said Melissa Chau, a technology analyst for research group IDC based in Singapore.
"In general, in these emerging markets you've got a strong polarization of the really rich and the really poor," she said.
"Everyone who lives in the urban areas already has a smartphone. But how we bring phones to cities in more rural areas — especially with more affordable headsets — that's going to be the next frontier."
Indeed, RIM has proven it already has its finger on the pulse of emerging markets and has successfully marketed BlackBerrys as exclusive yet affordable in countries like Nigeria, where it is ranked as the No. 1 smartphone.
In Asia, executives believe that a similar opportunity is being mined by the company, particularly in Indonesia.
"It's quite a warm feeling walking around Jakarta because it's probably like New York five years ago in the sense that everyone is walking around with a BlackBerry," said Hastings Singh, managing director of RIM's south Asia operations.
"If you can afford a BlackBerry you have one. It almost is at that point."
In a perfect world, RIM's business model would have all of its current customers in Southeast Asia eventually graduate to its new premium-priced models that will run on the BlackBerry 10 operating system.
There's still plenty of space for smartphone competition in Southeast Asia, especially outside major cities where a notable portion of the population doesn't own a phone capable of Internet and email.
"The dynamics here are different from the western world, and I think that's something that is absolutely fantastic for us," said Urpo Karjalainen, senior vice-president of RIM's Asia-Pacific operations.
Selling older phones to smaller markets proved to be a temporary fix for RIM in 2012, as it tried to cut its losses amid the two delays of its latest devices, which are now expected to debut in the coming months.
The company kept its overall subscriber base growing for longer than many analysts anticipated, but even those numbers are starting to slip. In the third quarter, about one million users shifted away from the BlackBerry, and the company reported its subscriber base fell to 79 million.
BlackBerry subscribers anywhere in the world are valuable to RIM partly because each pays a lucrative monthly service fee to operate on the company's networks.
As RIM prepares to launch the new BlackBerrys in higher end markets — including countries like Thailand — the company is expected to move ahead with aggressive discounts for its older devices which it hopes could maintain or grow its subscriber base further.
A price cut would likely gain favour with local carriers because keeping the price of smartphones down in Southeast Asia is a priority. Hardly any telecom companies offer the type of subsidy programs that help North American consumers finance their higher priced handsets like the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S3.
"The cost of the device is actually a pretty big deal here," said Chau.
"I think that's why RIM has been able to hold on in that area."
For RIM's investors, it will be important for the company to maintain its existing subscribers in emerging markets, as it makes a case to North American and European customers with its new line of devices, due early this year.
In its outlook, RIM said it expected continued pressure on operating results in its fourth quarter, which ends in February, and expects to post another quarterly loss.
In the meantime, the company is launching a feature on its BlackBerry Messenger chat program that allows BlackBerry users to transfer money between each other. The peer-to-peer banking system is called BBM Money and will be first tested in Indonesia.


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Lefty Propagandists Viciously Attack McDonalds, Push Wage Hikes
Trust liberals to combine "tasteless" with something as tasty as McDonald's.
In a May 1 video entitled "You Salt My Fries, I'll Salt Yours," progressives at The Agenda Project Action Fund blasted McDonald's for allegedly underpaying its workers and opposing minimum wage hikes. The video made misleading claims about the minimum wage, while employing class warfare to viciously attack business executives. Despite praising President Barack Obama, the video singled out three Republican senators as supposedly pandering to big corporations.
The Agenda Project, the same group that accused Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., of trying to push "Granny Off the Cliff," created the video which accused McDonald's of "Running Over America One Minimum Wage Worker at a Time," alongside their "main pal" Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. and Sen. "Teddy" Cruz, R-TX.
The video featured an actor playing "Ronald McDonald," a far creepier version of the classic mascot as a McDonald's executive. McDonald clowned around while he complained about minimum wage proposals and lobbied Republican senators to defeat the wage hike. The cigar-smoking clown pushed workers to settle for welfare payments instead of higher wages before hitting and driving over his own sister, a minimum wage worker at McDonald's. "If I pay her more, I make less. It's simple McMath," the clown quipped.
The Agenda Project also made their partisan affiliation evident, praising Obama while insulting only Republican politicians. "Obama wants to give Americans a raise of $10 and 10 cents for an hour of work, that's Hamburglary," the clown said, while pretending to gag himself.
On the other hand, the clown spoke cordially on the phone to his "main man" Mitch McConnell. He said "I wanted to thank you for killing that minimum wage hike. As they say in the business: you salt my fry, I'll salt yours," and promised to get McConnell "a little special sauce for that re-election."
He also insisted on calling Rand Paul and "Teddy" Cruz, saying with a wink "you don't want to put all your egg McMuffins in one basket, am I right?"
The Agenda Project has a history of smearing Republican politicians with propaganda videos. In May 2011, they released the infamous "Granny Off the Cliff" video which featured a Paul Ryan look alike pushing an elderly woman off her wheelchair over a cliff.
Liberal campaigns like this often falsely equate the minimum wage campaign to the Civil Rights movement. While complaining that his employee would join the "Give America a Raise" bus tour, the clown scoffed "like riding a bus ever made social change happen." Meanwhile, a caption at the bottom of the screen snidely read "Tell that to Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders."
Unsurprisingly, many of the facts and arguments presented were very misleading.
For example, the clown declared that no business "still manages to make a profit" with higher minimum wages, saying "They don't exist, not in America, not anywhere." Another caption at the bottom of the screen asserted that McDonald's franchises flourish in Australia where minimum wage is $16/hour.
According to John Stossel of Fox Business, the comparison to Australia is flawed. While businesses may survive higher wages, this mandate had a negative impact on workers. Stossel said in July 2012 that young, unskilled workers suffered from Australia's minimum wage laws. He wrote that, in December 2011, "63% of all jobs lost were jobs for young, unskilled Australians," specifying that the June 2012 unemployment rate for teenage workers was a whopping 16.5 percent.
These so-called progressives also parroted the tired liberal fallacy that businesses would respond to minimum wage hikes by reducing executives' salaries rather than reducing hiring or raising prices.
However, economic research indicates that, far from hurting CEOs, minimum wage laws hurt wage-earners and consumers. The Congressional Budget Office found in February 2014 that current minimum wage proposals would cost 500,000 jobs. This confirmed the Cato Institute's 2012 findings that minimum wage laws "[come] at the expense of lower skilled workers who are shut out of the labor market." Cato also found in that same study that "A decision to increase the minimum wage is not cost-free" because "consumers may also pay for it with higher prices."
— Sean Long is Staff Writer at the Media Research Center. Follow Sean Long on Twitter.


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University of Notre Dame faculty and students are encouraged to incorporate the theme of the Notre Dame Forum – "Going Global: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization" – in courses, speaker invitations, panel presentations and other events throughout the 2017-18 academic year.
In a letter to the Notre Dame faculty, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the University's president, wrote: "After an initial period of optimism about the prospects for greater prosperity and progress that would seem to accompany open borders, free trade, the spread of democracy and the 'leveling dynamism' of new technologies of communications and data sharing, we are newly aware of the widening gap between rich and poor, the persistence of conflict, epidemics, political authoritarianism – and of what Pope Francis has called 'the globalization of indifference.' At the same time, our government and elected officials face a demand for greater accountability to the people.
"In this context, we must subject proposed laws and policies to rigorous analysis, identify the role of government in advancing human flourishing, and ask how civil society and Catholic institutions, including Notre Dame, can contribute to the common good."
Father Jenkins has invited Andrew Card and Denis McDonough, chiefs of staff to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to discuss U.S. foreign policy in a keynote Notre Dame Forum event at 7 p.m. Oct. 4 (Wednesday) in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. "Views from the West Wing: How Global Trends Shape U.S. Foreign Policy" will be moderated by Maura Policelli, executive director of the Global Policy Initiative in the new Keough School of Global Affairs.
"As principal advisers to Presidents Bush and Obama, Andy and Denis played important roles in the White House during many significant international events over the past 20 years, including the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and the raid in 2011 by U.S. Navy SEALs on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan," Father Jenkins said. "We are honored that they have agreed to participate in the Notre Dame Forum, and I know their insights will stimulate members of our campus and local community to think deeply about U.S. foreign policy in an increasingly complex world."
Andrew Card
Card served as Bush's chief of staff from November 2000 to April 2006 and was the individual who informed the president of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 during a visit to an elementary school in Florida. He is the second-longest-serving White House chief of staff in history.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Card served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for eight years. He joined the administration of President Ronald Reagan in 1983, serving in various roles, including deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs, where he was liaison to governors, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials.
From 1988 to 1992, Card served in President George H. W. Bush's administration as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff, where he managed the daily operations of the White House. He also served for a year as U.S. secretary of transportation and coordinated disaster relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Card was acting dean at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and was executive director in the Office of the Provost from 2011 to 2014. He was appointed president of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire, in 2014, serving until his retirement last year.
Denis McDonough
McDonough was appointed chief of staff in January 2013 and served throughout Obama's second term. He previously held several positions in the National Security Council, including deputy national security adviser. It was in that role that he was among the small group joining Obama in the White House Situation Room on May 1, 2011, monitoring the progress of the SEAL raid on bin Laden.
A graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, McDonough earned a master's degree from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Prior to joining the Obama campaign in 2007, McDonough worked as an aide to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, focusing on Latin America; as a senior foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Daschle; legislative director for Sen. Ken Salazar; and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Since leaving the White House in January, McDonough has worked as a senior principal for the Markle Foundation, an organization that seeks to boost employment opportunities and expand job training. He also is a visiting senior fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also is executive fellow of the Global Policy Initiative in the Keough School.
Maura Policelli
Policelli provides strategic direction for the Keough School's Global Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C. Before coming to Notre Dame, she was chief of staff for Oxfam America and previously held that same position for two members of Congress, Jane Harman and Gabrielle Giffords. She has more than 20 years of experience in national politics, public policy and communications, including in the Obama administration as senior vice president for communications at the U.S. Export-Import Bank. She earned a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a law degree from Georgetown University's School of Law.
Since its establishment in 2005, the Notre Dame Forum has featured major talks by leading authorities on complex issues, including the role of the presidential debates in our political process, immigration, sustainability, global health, the global marketplace, K-12 education, women in leadership, and the place of faith in a pluralistic society.
More information on the Notre Dame Forum is available at forum.nd.edu
Originally published by news.nd.edu on August 25, 2017.


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"For groundbreaking contributions to computational physics through the development of novel methodologies and algorithms to probe soft matter systems, thereby providing understanding of their diverse behaviors."
Background:Daan Frenkel (1948)
Undergaduate education: U. Amsterdam: 1966-1972
PhD Degree: U. Amsterdam, 1977.
Employment history:
Postdoctoral research UCLA (1977-1980)
Research scientist Shell (1980-1981),
Assistant/Associate Professor: U.Utrecht 1981-1986.
Since 1987:
Group/division leader FOM Institute AMOLF (Amsterdam) Professor of Computational Physical Chemistry U. Utrecht. Since 1998:
Professor of Computational Macromolecular Chemistry U. Amsterdam.
Main current research interests: Computer simulations of structure and dynamics of soft-matter systems. Simulations of nucleation phenomena. Novel Monte Carlo algorithms and coarse-grained modeling techniques. Co-author (with B. Smit) of book: Understanding Molecular Simulation.
Significant awards and distinctions:
" 1997: Physica' prize and lecturer of the Dutch Physical Society. " 1997 Lennard-Jones' lecture of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
" 1998 Elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
" 1999 Bourke lecturer and medalist of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
" 2000: NWO Spinoza Award
" 2002: Elected Member of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
" 2004: Rothschild Professor, University of Cambridge (UK)
" 2005: Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
" 2006: Foreign Member Royal Society (London). " Member of the Dutch Physical Society and the American Physical Society.
Barry Schneider (Chair), Sharon Glotzer (12/06), Uzi Landman (2005 Recipient)(12/06), Beverly Berger (V. Chair)(12/07), David Ceperley (12/07)


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S&H Concert Review
Leipzig Gewandhaus: 8 December 1855
BEETHOVEN Emperor Concerto,
MOZART Arias from Figaro,
SCHUMANN Introduction and Allegro
Appassionato; Symphony no.2 Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment/Mackerras with Robert Levin (pianoforte) ) Nuccia Focile (soprano)
James Rutherford (baritone) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 23 January 2001
A recreation of a mammoth concert given in the Leipzig Gewandhaus (Clothiers' Hall) as a triple-decker programme (nearly three hours with intervals) was a tempting prospect, heightened by the sight of a very beautiful Streicher piano on stage, upon which after the customary Overture (Weber's Oberon) Robert Levin played the Schumann Introduction and Allegro Appassionato. From an allocated seat in the middle of the QEH, however, it sounded distinctly muted and liable to be covered even when only a few orchestral instruments were involved. One wondered how this music would have sounded in the original Gewandhaus to its 1855 audience, with its wooden walls, floor and ceiling, splendid acoustics and uninterrupted views for the audience in serried ranks at right angles to the platform, women in the front rows facing each other - 'the women staring at each others' dresses and the men staring at each other' according to a contemporary account.
The QEH is really quite the wrong hall for this sort of historical reconstruction exercise, and the programme had no great coherence for modern tastes. Nuccia Focile had little time to relax into Al desio (a more florid aria which replaced Deh vieni when another singer replaced Nancy Storace, who was no longer available as Susanna in 1789 - interesting to hear, but not a patch on that imperishable favourite). The quasi-amorous duet Crudel! perche finora went better later in the evening, Focile persuasive in leading along James Rutherford's Count in his brief sole appearance.
Clara Schumann was keen that her husband advanced his reputation by major symphonic works, but the dark 2nd Symphony has always seemed to me the ugly duckling of the four, its strenuous first movement 'capricious and refractory' according to the composer, but possibly also reflecting Robert's depression in 1845. The scherzo was fast driven and there was a forced energy in Sir Charles Mackerras's finale, ending with 'an optimism that has not been easily won' (John Warrack). Only the adagio esspressivo was an oasis of relaxation. There was no particular revelation in Mackerras's account with a period instrument orchestra of Schumann 2, and one realised how CDs can foster unreasonable expectations of technical perfection. There were several roughnesses and cracked notes from the perilous natural horns, to remind us how commonplace those accidents were on the still notoriously treacherous valved horns not so many decades ago.
Best of all was the Emperor concerto, certainly so from a front seat near to the tail of the unframed 1847 piano (only two iron bars over the unvarnished soundboard). Beethoven seemed more skilful in allowing the soloist his head than Schumann, with well judged instrumentation in the tuttis. I liked Robert Levin's continuing to play through the long initial ritornello after signing in at the outset with his opening flourishes as a call to attention - no doubt normal practice in those days. I cannot vouch for how it all sounded far away at the back, and the forest of microphones made clear again how totally different is a live concert from CD or broadcast of the same music. That this event was not an unqualified success was a demonstration that the right auditorium, for both atmosphere and acoustics, is a key ingredient in the mix.
Peter Grahame Woolf
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Apple's newest iteration of the iPhone was greeted with mixed reactions from the market. A lot has been said, both praises and disappointments, about what it should have been in the first place. since the local launch of the iPhone 4S with Globe and Smart is just a couple of days away, let me share with you what I think of this phone. Check out our iPhone 4S review after the jump.
Prior to this, I was using an iPhone 4 and have actually decided not to get the iPhone 4S (was able to get the iPhone 4 free last year with Globe in exchange for a 3-year contract). Do read on our iPhone 4 review from last year to get a better perspective before reading on.
Frankly, I did not see any significant compelling reason to upgrade. I share this same advice to folks who asked me and even on TV guesting and interviews. The opportunity to upgrade came by accident so I accepted it thinking I also needed to actually use and review the handset in order to be more reasonable with my earlier conclusion.
But before I go there, let me walk you thru what the iPhone 4S offers and how is it different from the iPhone 4.
Better Hardware Configuration.
Twice the processor, more storage, better camera and faster connectivity — that's what the iPhone 4S added to the table. it now sports dual-core processors that was used on the iPad 2 as well as options for a 64GB storage (with 16Gb and 32GB still in the menu) and HSDPA connectivity that can do up to 14.4Mbps.
There's no LTE or even HSPA+ here so the iPhone 4S will not really maximize the speeds of the HSPA+ network of Smart and Globe.
Apple also bumped up the camera on the phone to 8MP with option to record video up to 1080p full HD. More on the camera quality and HD features later.
For good measure, they also added Bluetooth 4.0. no NFC support here, a technology that seems to be the trend now.
Still Same Old Design.
The iPhone 4S sports the same old design as its predecessor so there's nothing to really worth mentioning in the design department.
Yes, the design and solid construction of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S is already impressive but folks like me still want bigger screen. A 4.3-inch display seems to be the minimum size when it comes to flagship handsets so the 3.5″ on the iPhone 4S feels like in the mid-range category already.
And while the design of the iPhone 4S already screams premium craftsmanship, a little bit more screen real estate would have been great (catching up to the times, eh?). Nevertheless, the 960×640 screen resolution is among the best resolution we've ever seen on most handsets (which normally is in the 480×800) this size.
Well hello there, Siri!
One of the purportedly best features of the iPhone 4S is the personal assistant function that's built into the OS which is called Siri.
What makes it different from any other dictation, voice control or voice recognition software is Siri's ability to understand semantics a little bit better than the rest. That means, you don't have to say commands in a specific structure so it can understand you. The best part is that Siri actually has a sense of humor and personality.
Siri isn't new either. It's been a stand-alone app for about a year in the iTunes App Store (where few people noticed or ever used it). Apple bought the company and yanked Siri from the Store to make it part of iOS5. It's curious though that Apple would not make Siri available to the iPhone 4.
There's also a catch here though — you will need to be connected to the internet to be able to use Siri. this is because the commands are processed in the cloud (Apple servers) and other related services like Wolfram Alpha. That means activating and using Siri entails data charges and also contributes to faster battery consumption.
My other beef is you'll have to talk clearly with a little bit of an America accent when talking to Siri. otherwise, you'll just end up repeating yourself and be frustrated in the process.
I've been using the iPhone 4S for a couple of weeks now and have not gotten used to telling Siri to execute commands. The only time I whip it out is to demonstrate to people how it works or how funny some of the answers are.
For the most part, I don't see Siri as an essential feature for my daily use.
Still the Best Camera.
When iPhone 4 first came, it had the best camera in any handset that I've used. it was so good I am comfortable not bringing my Canon S95 with me and use it to take photos instead. Same with the HD video.
The iPhone 4S brings it up a notch and brought it an 8MP camera with full HD 1080p video recording capabilities.
The camera is one of the fastest I've used on a phone. from experience, I think it can do something like 2fps when taking stills.
Images are a bit saturated so colors look deeper and more prominent. Over-all sharp and clean images even at low-light conditions.
Video recording at 1080p is fast and focused with very minimal dropped frames. The microphone picks up a lot of unwanted noise though.
The Network: #globeiphone4s or #smartiphone4s
This is the first time that the iPhone 4S will be offered on more than one network in the country. after being exclusive to Globe Telecom for the past 3 years, Smart Communication will also offer the iPhone 4S both on prepaid and postpaid plans this coming December 16, 2011 (both networks have invited us to attend their launch party).
This offers more option for subscribers to choose the network that works best in their location. I believe it's the type of postpaid package that will play a huge factor when people pick the network.
We still don't have the details of the postpaid plans form Globe and Smart so we can't say much in that aspect (will update come December 16).
As mentioned earlier, the iPhone 4S only comes with an updated HSDPA chip that has a theoretical speed of up to 14.4Mbps. Unfortunately, the HSDPA and HSPA network of both telcos are somewhat congested compared to their newer and faster HSPA+ network so don't expect really great mobile internet connections compared to the ones that use the Galaxy S2 or Galaxy Note.
It's in the OS.
Apple has also rolled out the latest version of their mobile OS. while iOS5 is also available on earlier models of the iPhone (3GS and iP4) and other iDevices, Siri only natively works on the iPhone 4S. you can read more about iOS5 in our earlier post here.,
The dual-core processor helps improve performance of multi-tasking and 1080p video encoding. Twitter is heavily integrated into the OS and Notification looks Android-ish.
iCloud is best used to synchronized all your iDevices and back them all up in the cloud (does not sync and backup SMS messages though). It's not perfect but it works. iMessage is great as a compliment to regular SMS especially when your contacts are using an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad on iOS5.
Battery life is something that's always an issue with the iPhone 4 since it was first introduced. The iPhone 4S had some problems with iOS5 with batteries draining really fast but a fix was rolled out to address this. Expect a good whole day of normal use, a day and a half if you're lucky and around 12 to 18 hours if you're a heavy user.
What's the Bottomline?
The iPhone 4S is a great phone over-all. If you haven't switched to an iPhone, this is the best time to convince you to get one. It's not a big deal if you're coming from the iPhone 4 but will surely get the benefits if you're using the older 3G or 3GS.
Siri doesn't contribute much to the over-all user experience. you won't miss it even if you turn the feature off.
Apple iPhone 4s specs: 3.5″ display @ 960×640 pixels Apple 1GHz A5 dual-core chip 16GB, 32GB & 64GB internal storage 512MB RAM HSDPA or EVDO 14.4Mbps WiFi 802.11b/g/n GPS w/ aGPS Gyroscope 8MP camera with LED flash 1080p video recording 2nd front-facing camera 2 mics w/ noise-canceling Bluetooth 4.0 iOS 5
Apple did a bit of re-engineering with the internal circuit to provide better antenna reception for better call quality and 3G signal. So, if you're thinking about that "grip-of-death" issue that plagued the old iPhone 4, it's no longer an issue here.
The iPhone 4S may not be the top choice for a lot of people this year because of the large number of competing handsets that is at par in terms of performance and hardware configuration.
Where the iPhone 4S excels is the smooth integration of the OS and the complementing hardware. it may not have the fastest processor, the biggest screen, or the fastest 4G chip but that's not the game that Apple plays. The iPhone 4 is already a great smartphone. Apple just made it a little better with the 4S. — Yugatech.com


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