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Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur has asserted a job advertisement regarding MLSU Recruitment. University has invited the applications from talented and eligible candidates to retain the service of an Assistant Professor in Music. Jobs seekers who desire to apply against MLSU Recruitment 2016 for the above mentioned post are required to send their applications through online mode on or prior to the last date that is well shown below. Applicants must apply for the declared posts as soon as possible.
|Post Name
|Assistant Professor
|Last date for submission of on- line applications
|10th February 2016
|Hard copy of the application form must be submitted by
|17th February 2016
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Essential Qualification:
Candidate must be Ph.D. in Music or similar degree required for working at universities; 2-year institutions may consider applicants with a master's degree. A music professor must have a working knowledge of, and ability to, convey techniques and theories involved in music composition, as well as the ability to perform music.
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Engagement of applying candidates will be done through their performance in test or personal interview which will be conducted by selection committee of organization.
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Help During a Business Visit in April (Tokyo)
Greetings from Paris !
I'll be on a business trip in Tokyo from 21/04 to 25/04 and I would need help finding my way around the city. My Japanese is very basic and I'll need to find business addresses. I've asked all my business contacts to send me a location map but I'm concerned that I may get lost ! Would someone be prepared to help me at least on the first day (drinks and meals will be paid!)?
I'll return the favour should any of you come to Paris in the near future !

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The IBF welterweight purse bid between champion Kell Brook and mandatory challenger Errol Spence Jr has been postponed another week. According to Eddie Hearn, a deal is very close between the two camps that will send Errol Spence Jr over to the UK. Both sides agreed to postpone the bid due to the fact that they believe they can reach a deal on their own terms.
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Periel Aschenbrand (BSS #7)
Approximate Interview Date: An afternoon in San Francisco in late August, 2005
Author: Periel Aschenbrand
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Strangely ambiguous about his identity.
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Music for a Great City
About the WorkComposer: Aaron Copland
© Richard Freed
Aaron Copland acknowledged an indebtedness to his colleague Virgil Thomson for showing him "how to make use of Americana in music." Thomson's use of folk tunes in such works as his 1928 Symphony on a Hymn Tune and his subsequent scores for Pare Lorentz's Depression-era documentary films The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River served as models of a sort for Copland in his own incorporation of similar materials in his music for the ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring, and also his Lincoln Portrait--but Copland always understood, as did the other great twentieth-century American composers, that the idea of a specifically American character in music did not depend on or require the citation of folk tunes. In 1941 he wrote:
Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality. American individuals will produce an American music.
By the time Copland wrote those words, American music had reached its maturity. From the time of Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles to the time of George Gershwin, Roy Harris, William Schuman, Samuel Barber and Copland himself, it was made manifest in large part by its sheer vitality?and it was given meaning and substance by the degree to which each of these composers put his own personal stamp on it.
For many listeners, Copland's own personal stamp is his evocation of the prairie, or of homespun America in an earlier and less complex time than our own. Let's remind ourselves that this composer was an urbane New Yorker, a son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, a man of his own time who studied (as did so many American composers) with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and simply put that experience, and all his others, to good use in developing an unmistakably American character in his music. His broad interests led him to compose such a work as El Sal?n M?xico, incorporating Mexican folk tunes, as well as Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring and others that include citations of the folk music of our own country. His open-mindedness led him to experiment with serialism as well as "Americana," and his deepfelt pride in and reverence for his country and the principles on which it was founded empowered him to stand up to the House Committee on Un-American Activities when that august body questioned his patriotism.
Copland's name had been included in the notorious Red Channels, a blacklist of supposed Communist supporters and sympathizers, published in the early postwar years with the aim of warning off prospective employers or patrons. (Among the other American musicians, writers and actors so honored were Leonard Bernstein, Burl Ives, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller, Louis Untermeyer, Lillian Hellman, Howard K. Smith and Pete Seeger.) When Copland was called before the committee early in January 1953, he personified dignity, composure and integrity, courteously but firmly refusing to "name names." In consequence, his Lincoln Portrait was removed from the program of the Inaugural Concert for President Eisenhower later that month; eleven years later, however, Copland received the Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson.
There is, in fact, hardly a major American prize or award that was not bestowed on him?and did not itself gain significance from being associated with him.
Music for a Great City
About as far from the prairies as could be, this work celebrates Copland's own New York, in both its descriptive focus and its musical character. In 1961 Copland composed the last of his eight film scores: it was for Jack Garfine's Something Wild, a "psychological thriller" set in New York and actually filmed there. It was a violent tale, of a young woman raped in a park and then held captive by a sadistic sociopath. The film did not do very well, and little notice was taken of Copland's contribution, but in 1962, when the composer accepted a commission from the London Symphony Orchestra for its sixtieth anniversary, he thought at once of that movie, in which, as he recalled, "indoor scenes of tense personal drama were interspersed with the realistic sights and sounds of a great metropolis," and he notified the LSO management of his "intention to incorporate parts of the film score in a new composition . . . " His original proposal for the title was Music for New York, but in deference to the source of the commission he changed it to Music for a Great City. The composition occupied him from the fall of 1963 to the following April, and he conducted the premiere in London on May 26, 1964, as part of the LSO's anniversary year celebrations.
Copland recorded the work in London a little more than two weeks after the premiere, as part of his comprehensive series of recordings of his own music for American Columbia (today's Sony Classical), and twenty-five years later Leonard Slatkin recorded it with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor (today the partner of its longtime rival in constituting SonyBMG), but there have been very few other performances. To be sure, the music resounds with impressions of a vigorous modern city, a far cry from ingratiating cowboy ballads and Shaker hymns, or even the meditative/triumphal gestures of the grand-scaled Third Symphony produced at the end of World War II. It has been noted also that by the time Copland composed this music he had begun using the twelve-tone approach, which tended to produce a sort of counteraction toward the expansiveness of the work that still tend to define his style for most listeners.
What we have here is essentially a four-movement descriptive symphony "about" a city the composer knew very well. In a note of his own, Copland wrote that, while "the nature of the music" he composed for Something Wild seemed to support the idea of concert treatment, he did not concern himself at all with thoughts of relating the concert work to the action in the film. He described the music simply as a four-part portrait of the city:
The four movements of the work alternate between evocations of big-city life, with its external stimuli, and the more personal reactions of any sensitive nature to the varied experiences associated with urban living. Music for a Great City reflects both of these aspects of the contemporary scene. The first movement, Skyline, opens with a broad introduction for full orchestra, followed by a percussion solo to introduce the jazz-oriented theme presented by brass, piano and pizzicato strings. For the second movement, Night Thoughts, I reduced the full-orchestra scoring to chamber music for orchestra, for what might be called a series of free contrapuntal variations.
The reality of big-city life returns in the third-movement scherzo, Subway Jam, which, as one might suspect, includes a great deal of brass and percussion. The final movement, Toward the Bridge, presents contrasting ideas, some jazz-inspired, that build to a big climax, followed by a coda with material from the introduction to the first movement.


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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
I Blame Skyrim
I can't believe
my last post
was when
I had LEFT for China
What's happened
since then?
Oh nothing just traveled allover China, spent a week in Tokyo, worked on
more MAD
, some small gigs here and there, went to visit Amanda in
, and oh yeah
I got Engaged!
I can't say I ever saw it going down atop a massive epic mountain in the middle of China in front of a bunch of people who don't understand a word i'm saying,
but it did.
As far as that
epic journey
there are loads of videos and pictures on facebook or you can just
watch the 2 short videos
that sum up our adventures below
After that I returned to
to work on a few more episodes of
and got a gig through
working on
Flash Banners
once again.
Then I
traveled to Tennessee
to visit
Amanda and Roo Roo
the lazy Dachshund in her new apartment.
And here I am. I actually
leave for Jersey tomorrow
But While here I was able to get an
awesome job rigging
the Jack character for the amazing
"Zombie Murder Explosion Die" Pilot episode
which is currently in production.
Check it out here!
Zombie Murder Explosion Die
I also
animated two logos for Flex-O-Lite
which is about to debut their first feature film. Hopefully you'll get to see those logo animations popping up on the big screen at festivals very soon. If you're interested in the company check 'em out
There is another project that is still being put into its final stages, but it's looking very good!
I'll say more as it all comes together.
As far as
personal work
. I have tried to get myself inspired for a
new short film
, but I am having a hard time. I've boiled up several ideas over the las
t few months
nothing has stuck.
I'm torn on where I want to go with my next film and I'm also stuck in that place where I want it to be short and sweet but my concepts always get overly complex and seem to go over the 5 minute
But here's to hoping I will just start something and go with it before the year is over. Here is some concept drawings I was messing with but looks like they will be scrapped.
But on the productive side, I
updated my website!
Brian and Beard
And I also
put together
an actual
pitchbook for a webseries
concept I have,
"Zombie Dad"
Here is the cover for the pitchbook!
And I just
finished designing
me and Amanda's
Wedding Invitation
, but I'd like to keep it a surprise so no images until after invites are sent out
why did it take me this long to post
on my blog again?...
I blame Skyrim,
if your unfamiliar it is a massive role-playing game with a free roaming world.
In other words
The Ultimate Time Waster
It has sucked me away from any life I had prior. I even
hoarding cheese
in the game, here is my collection taken a few weeks back.
I think I have a problem...
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Tommorrow I leave on a
14 hour
flight to
Beijing, China
, real quick
tons of fun
, although running the
artist table
was very
and a bit
did not break even
, I got about half of what I spent to run the table and print everything. However
I learned a lot from the experience
and know exactly what to do for the next con I sell at!
workshop was unorganized
and we started late plus ended before covering half of the material unfortunately
In the end though I had an amazing time, I saw the new
Trigun movie
which rocked,
danced my ass off
at the
, got my ass kicked at the
Smash Bros tourney
, and
surrounded by nerds
my great friends!
Now back to
China and Japan
Here is the rough plan
Arrive in Beijing, Find Amanda, get to Hotel
Great Wall
I venture around Beijing on my own
Summer Palac
Temple of Heaven
Fly to Huangshan, Yellow Mountain
Go up Mountain, check in to Hotel atop the mountain
Watch sunrise, go down the mountain, fly to Shanghai
Jade Buddha Temple, venture around Shanghai
venture around the Bund, check in to super nice hotel!
Fly to Tokyo!
Odaiba, meet up with Yuki and Henry
Hakone, near Mt.Fuji
Tokyo Disney Sea
Extra Day, All-You-Can-Drink cruise around Odaiba
EXTRA DAY, do whatever we missed, Namja Town? Sunshine City?
Fly back to NJ!
I'll be
filming everything
I can!
And if you need to contact me,
email me.
My facebook may not work in China.
See you in 3 weeks!
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Otakon 2011! then China
Its off to
tomorrow (technically today)
This year I was able to secure a
table at the artist alley
if your at Otakon please stop by, it's table
Here's a map
We are also running a Workshop on Saturday at 8pm,
Its called "How To Make Your Own Anime From Home Part2"
Between my last post and now there was a screening held at
Warner Quad Cinemas Ridgewood NJ
four independent films and a Klondike commercial
were shown of which
I had a hand in all of them
. From doing the ending credits, to full animation, to special effects, to editing, sound, and I even did the movie posters. It was a sold out screening and I was truly honored to be a part of it! You can see some coverage of the event here!
I also worked on more
Flash Banners
Wild Turkey Bourbon
and the
NY Jets
And I
returned to Bunko
, working on
Season 2 of MAD!
I don't think I can say anything about the episodes I worked on but my body will appear in one of the episodes, my headless body that is!
After my return from Otakon I have one full day and then I am on the
plane to Beijing
Anyway I hope to post again before I leave for China with an outline of my trip
Talk to you then and hope to see you at Otakon! Here is one of the products I'll be selling at Otakon.
Portal 2 shirts and mugs!
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I'm very late I know, Sorry
Wow, I owe my millions of followers a big apology (Sarcasm). But not sarcasm in regard to owing an apology.
I said I'd post at least once a month and here I am
I have no excuse except that
i've been busy
... and playing magic the gathering. But mostly busy, honestly.
Lots of little projects amounting to lots of work. I'll try to go through everything I can think of off the top of my head
DVD inserts and movie posters for
Crotchless, Cowboy C
afe, Tonic Clonic, & T.Harou
which are all Indie films by a company i've been working for known as
"Flex O Lite"
. They will be holding an even next Thursday (
Flex O Nite
) and screening all of these films it is free and open to the public:
Check it out on facebook
For the same company I have done a lot of digital effects here
and there including trippy portals, animation, motion tracking, motion graphics, a little sound design, and even some editing.
I also animated the
ending credits
Cowboy Cafe
which I tried to go with a modern "Good Bad and Ugly" credits feel.
Wolf Girl
is done and after seeing it I was very impressed and honored to be a part of it, look for it at festivals! I don't think it will have an issue getting accepted.
My work on
Feed A
is complete but it still has some post production to be done with sound design and color correction. But last I saw the film looked very promising and very freaky
I am also now a freelancer for
FLY Communication
an Ad Agency in NYC. I have really enjoyed working with them...
I won't say anything about a specific client we have been working for but let's just say there was some serious mis-communication and horrifcally tight deadlines.
But I have been animating and coding
Flash Banners for Prudential Insurance
through FLY, it's been a good experience to learn more about coding and working with a huge company like that. I am definitely enjoying working there.
Also myself, Emmanuel Espinal, Tris Waples, Shelley Low, and Giorgio Renna did some illustrations for a
Music Video
aired on MTV!
My brother also shot the entire music video. Check it out here:
I also animated the logo for
Seltzer Licensing
You can see the logo below.
If you can imagine this logo is actually the overhead view of two people shaking hands,
one blue one green.
So I animated them coming together and shaking hands in profile view and then had the camera go overhead to reveal the logo.
I also don't know if I'm allowed to show any of it so the logo will have to do for the moment.
The love of my life,
, is now off in
Beijing China
as I speak. She is there
studying Small Mammal bones at the Beijing Museum for her master thesis in Paleontology. Pretty sweet!
I am
planning a trip to meet her in Beijing
, from there to Huangshan, then Shanghai, and end in
for a week. It's not definite yet but we are doing our best to make it happen. If everything goes accordingly
I will be in Beijing early August.
I've begun creating fanart for
which is in a little over a month. Here is my first completed piece (It currently is watermarked)
Robot Rainicorn
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Where to start
So many developments! Where to begin?
Wolf Girl
is basically done! I just completed the very last shot. Now all that is left is some touching up and the final sound mix. They are shooting the live action segments of the film in just a few days, I am so excited to see it all together! I'll make it known here as the film enters
the film festival circuit.
I will also be creating the artwork for a 22 page comic known as
DJ Messiah
which will be so much fun and such a great experience! The deadline is tight and I want to make it look crazy awesome so i'll have go a little insane but i'm excited regardless. I don't now how much I can truly say about it but it involves, obviously, DJ Messiahs as well as Heavy Metal Demons and music battles of epic proportions all wrapped into a post apocalyptic story. I am in the process of creating all of the character designs. More on that as it develops!
Another project that I am doing with a collection of friends and colleagues is
Jasper & Smiley
, an animated short based on a children's book for the iphone. It is coming along and I am loving working alongside friends.
Then there is the 35 seconds of animation I will be doing for another live-action short, this one being a comedy in the spirit of Kevin Smith films. It's called
and is about to start as my partner on the project completes the rough designs and backgrounds for me.
AND! There is more. I am also doing special effects for a 10 minute live action indie short which looks so awesome. It's called
Feed A
and is done in the same vein as Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, & Quarantine. It has that shakey camera style and involves me doing some sweet gore & blood effects as well as muzzle flashes and bullet holes and crazy alien monster things!
So a storm of freelance is coming my way and i'm ready and willing to meet it. Excited for all these projects and plan to post updates along the way!
As for
, it has been accepted into the
Garden State Film Festival!
The festival will run from March 31st to April 3rd at Asbury Park New Jersey
will be shown on
Saturday April 2nd at The Synaxis Restaraunt
Here are the details for my screening:
And for the festival in general:
I am not sure if I will be attending yet, but please let me know if you are going and I will make sure I make it! Hope to see you there.
Also recently put together my dad's website
Check it out here:
Annnd I am off early tomorrow morning to go to Ohio and from Ohio I will be going to Tennessee to stay with my girlfriend Amanda for an unspecified length of time. I may stay there till she finishes her semester in late April. I am bringing my cintiq and all my supplies so I can work my ass off while I am there wiith no distractions 'cept for herself and her stinky rat dog.
Here's the valentine's Day card I did for her:
Next update will be when I'm in Tennessee! :)
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Monday, January 10, 2011
A New Year
A new year and a new New Years Resolution, well two actually.
1. Make a new animated short film (not for a client)
2. Move out of my parent's house
The latter may prove to be more difficult until I get the proper funds, but i'm doing what I can.
So Amanda is currently on route back to Tennessee, hopefully I can see her soon but the work that being near NYC brings in cannot be denied right now.
In any case I have some stuff for you to check out!
Deviant Art had a contest for the cover to a comic book which preludes the movie "Inception", here was my submission:
The animated segments i've been doing for the live action short film "Wolf Girl" (title in progress) has been coming along. It went from being 2 minutes of animation to 2 min and 20 sec. I've just hit the 1 minute mark and i've got a little over a month left to finish this thing. I will surely be working my ass off until then. I can't be showing any animation but here's a screenshot for now.
And lastly I give you the masterpiece I created with the help of Amanda and her disgusting dog Roo Roo as well as my brother and sister in law's dog Brundle
I give you
Roo Roo Save Channukah
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Michigan Tennis beats Illinois--twice!
Glory, friends, sweet shining glory! Both Michigan tennis teams (men's and women's) have beaten Illinois in convincing fashion. On April 7, 2012, #15 Michigan women defeated #19 Illinois 6-1 at the Varsity Tennis Center. Michigan won the doubles point and all but court 5 of the singles court in a rout of their ranked opponents. 1 court and national #10 Emina Betkas needed three sets to win, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Michigan courts 2-4 all won in straight sets. With this win in hand Michigan women's tennis has improved to 13-5 on the season including a 6-0 mark in the Big Ten.
Michigan men's tennis played at Illinois' Atkins Tennis Center on April 6, 2012. The match was decided by a 4-3 margin in favor of Michigan. 1 court and national #10 Evan King won the critical fourth point to break a 3-3 dual deadlock over national #4 Dennis Nevolo, 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-3. 2 court Shaun Bernstein had a tough day, losing to national #31 Roy Kalmanovich 6-1, 6-2. Michael Zhu fared little better on 4 court, falling 6-2, 6-1. Suprisingly in doubles Petrone/Zhu lost their match; usually Franks/Buzzi is the doubles team more likely to drop their game. With the doubles point in hand thanks to the usual diligence of King/Bernstein and victories from Petrone and Franks(!) on 3 and 5 courts Michigan wrapped up another tough road win. Michigan is now 12-5 with a 5-1 Big Ten mark. With some luck in Columbus April 22 against #3 Ohio State (24-2, 6-0 B10) Michigan could win the regular season title.


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December, freezing evening! Ah, it's obvious.
It's snowing...!!!don't go he said, when have I ever listened to you love! I said.
Umbrella, gloves, jackets and warmers please he said, of course I can't go without it, Grrrrr.... stop babysitting me I said.
Walking on the snow spread streets like I cared for none, I was my own boss on those empty streets. Taking a walk alone was my favorite thing to do. But, but, but no....not any more.
I'm perfectly alright, did not mean to scare you.
All excited to visit the famous tea room in the town. I arrive and wait for my favorite pot of tea. I did what I did always, looking around for interesting things I can take note of and praise the lord for the learning he has hidden in each and every moment.
In my head, I spoke to myself: oh, I can't be wrong, he is surely on a date. Anyone can guess that. Look at his neatly combed hair, a perfect knot in his tie, tucked in shirt, that suit and shining black shoes. A stubborn I said: I was not wrong at all.
He made himself comfortable and sat there waiting for her. For a minute, my concentration diverted as my tea made its way. By the time I shifted my glance, he stood up like a real gentleman and pulled out the chair for her. He kissed her hand, from his expressions, I assumed her hands were as soft as flower petals.
Of course it was none of my business to stare at him and embarrass him. Even he did not care about the world. I couldn't stop noticing this sweet little incident though. All I could see was, him offer immense love and care for her.
Sipping his tea and talking as if he was the only one in that room, I'm sure he made her comfortable. Holding her hands for hours, without taking his eyes off her for a second, he escorted her back and made his way to the door.
Was there anything special in this? This is very common you might say. Hold it right there....I was imagining her the whole time. Confused? Let me explain.
I'm sure there was a handsome guy waiting for his date, I'm sure he ordered for his drink and I'm also sure that there was no date present. When I saw this incident unveil in front of my eyes, at first, it felt hilarious. Who would dress so well and act as if they were on a date?
Couldn't take this confusion anymore, I asked my waiter friend what was happening? He then said, the man whom we all witnessed just now had absolutely no one in his life, he comes here once in a while to meet his imaginary date and leaves.
This shocked me, I was in tears and ran straight back home and hugged my love. I held him tight and said, please baby-sit me as you always do. I will always listen to whatever you say and will always love you to the moon and back.
Wiping my tears off, he chuckled and said, I'm sure, you saw something sweet or strange happening around you again isn't? Don't even think of It, I will never stop my care towards you my stubborn little bird.
I dedicate this to all those who still prove that the world is full of love and miracles.
To: Love, a miracle that heals sorrows.


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.. red the ordination of women as rabbis. The Reform movement currently has the largest membership of any Jewish religious group in the United States. It is well represented in Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Australia; and, in recent years, it has had some limited success in Israel, as well. CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM The Conservative movement emerged in Germany and America in the last century.
The early leaders of Conservative Judaism broke away from the German Reform movement in order to pursue a middle route between radical reform and reactionary stagnation. In America, leaders of the Reform movement actually helped to establish Conservative Judaism in the early twentieth century, in the belief that the new Jewish immigrants coming from Eastern Europe could identify more easily with Conservative Judaism than with Reform. Most Conservative Jews believe that some kind of divine revelation took place at Mount Sinai. Some maintain that the written Torah was given to Moses. Others agree with the Reform movement, saying that the Torah is divinely inspired, but the work of human hands.
Especially when it comes to Jewish law, Conservative Judaism takes a stance between plain reason and blind reliance on tradition. Unlike the Orthodox, Conservative Judaism believes that Jewish law should be continually examined to meet the needs of every new generation. Unlike the Reform, Conservative Judaism maintains that Jewish law should be modified by rabbis and sages, and not by individual Jews. Conservative Judaism teaches that Jews should offer three prayer services daily and follow other traditional customs, such as wearing a kippah when praying (some Conservative Jews wear a kippah at all times, as do Orthodox Jews). But Conservative Judaism also tries to accommodate the modern world.
Conservative Jews generally send their children to public schools, supplementing this with religious schooling several times a week Conservative religious schools emphasize the Hebrew language and knowledge of the Bible. Conservative Jews prepare to be rabbis at the graduate school called the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York or the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. Conservative Judaism originally opposed the idea of women serving as rabbis, but in the last few years many women have graduated the Jewish Theological Seminary and gone on to serve as Conservative rabbis. At one time, Conservative Judaism was the largest movement in the United States, but its popularity has dwindled in recent years. Like the Reform movement, it is represented in countries around the world (with an especially large following in Great Britain) and it has made some in-roads in the State of Israel. RECONSTRUCTIONIST JUDAISM The newest of the four modern Jewish religious movements in the United States is the small Reconstructionist movement. This movement broke away from Conservative Judaism in the 1920s to follow the teachings of the brilliant rabbi, Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan felt that Judaism needed, not small changes, but a reconstruction for our time.
Kaplans idea of God was unique in Judaism, for while all Jews believed that history was an important aspect of the Jewish religion, Kaplan viewed history as the unfolding of God in the world. In this light, God could be said to be the sum total of all things that are, were, and are yet to be. In its philosophy, Reconstructionist Judaism differs from Conservative Judaism. In practice, however, Reconstructionist Judaism adheres closely to its parent. Reconstructionist Jews generally send their children to public schools and to afternoon or Sunday religious school for instruction in Hebrew and Judaism.
As in the Conservative and Reform movements, students train to be rabbis at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Philadelphia) only after completing four years of undergraduate work at another university. The Reconstructionist movement has always been a staunch supporter of womens rights in Judaism. Indeed, the first recorded ceremony of Bat Mitzvah was held for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. Women in the Reconstructionist movement are encouraged to become rabbis and the first ordination of a Reconstructionist woman rabbi was held in 1974, only two short years after the first Reform woman was ordained. HASIDIC JUDAISM Hasidic Judaism is a very vocal sub-group that wields influence beyond its small numbers. Its beginnings can be traced to the late 1700s, but the group that calls itself Hasidic today bears little resemblance to its early progenitors.
Hasidic Judaism began in an honest effort to restore the joy of Judaism to the average Jew. It succeeded due to the charisma of its early teachers; and where it continues to succeed today, it is still due to charismatic central leaders who are known as rebbes (a Yiddish term used instead of the term, rabbis). Like many other reactionary movements, the main idea of Hasidic Judaism is that Jews should stop living in the modern world and return to the good old days. On close inspection, however, the good old days (that is, the eighteenth-century world which Hasidism represents in both dress and practice) were really days of oppression and ignorance for the average Jew. It was only in such a world that Jews could have given credence to the claims that their rebbes worked miracles, cured illnesses, and exorcised demons.
One group of modern Hasidimthe followers of the Lubavitch rebbe who call themselves Habad (often spelled, Chabad) Hasidimhave proven very canny in the use of modern media to get attention. Their persistent and growing presence on the Internet, for example, makes it seem like they number in the millions while quite the opposite is the case. Despite their outward look of modernity, their medieval roots were recently exposed when their rebbe died. He was soon proclaimed by his followers to be either the messiah or a harbinger of the messiah. Huge billboards called for the dead rebbes resurrection. It is easy to see that such a call for the resurrection of a charismatic leader is outside the character of mainstream Judaism and has been so since at least the first century, C.E. In terms of belief, the Hasidic movement hardly differs from the Orthodox movement, except that it is consistently more stringent and less modern. While study is encouraged for men and boys, women are accorded a lower place in Hasidic Judaism than they are in any other Jewish religious group. Unlike the vast majority of Jews in this or any other age, the Hasidim read the Bible as the literal word of God believing, for example, that the world was actually created in seven days. Hasidic Judaism is also cult-like in its demand for complete and blind faith on the part of its adherents who live in small tightly knit, carefully controlled communities. The Hasidic movement is the smallest Jewish religious group in the world Like many other radical, rightwing movements in the history of Judaism, Hasidic Judaism is probably vestigialthe last gasp of a movement which once brought new vigor to the Jewish world.
Ironically, early Hasidism was the exact opposite of present day Hasidismit set out to be a liberalizing influence in a Jewish world that was itself moving toward the radical religious right. Bibliography n/a Religion Essays.
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SmartStops comment : As we dig up other studies we'll add to article.
The article was originally published in 2008.
SmartStops comment on 08/4/11: Markets have dropped 9% in last nine days with the whole debt ceiling "show" going on in U.S. government. Do you think you needed to have given back your gains? Think again!
Market timing is the art of making investment decisions using indicators and strategies to observe and determine the direction of prices. Many believe that market timing involves predicting the future, when in reality, the goal of market timing is to participate in periods of price strength and avoid periods of price weakness.
The general investing public has been told that market timing is a high risk proposition. Most of what has been written about the topic focuses on its failure and the risk investors take when trying to time the market. A typical study focuses only on the negative consequences of missing a few particular up days in the market – calculating the negative financial impact of missing those days and concluding that attempting to time the market is foolish. The biggest fallacy with these studies is in the assumption that attempting to time the market will invariably result in missing some important up days. Why should that assumption be made? Where is their study that supports such an assumption?
Then there is the problem of the missing data. That missing data is the data from the study that clearly shows that the benefits of skipping a few of the worst days more than makes up for the potential drop in performance from missing a similar number of up days. This critical distinction is generally not investigated or is deliberately ignored. Unfortunately these studies misinform the public and encourage investors to neglect their
investments in anticipation of riding those big up days, resulting in the acceptance of substantially more risk than necessary. Let me show you the data from one of the major studies used to frighten investors about market timing. This is only one of many studies that purport to show the hazards of attempting to protect your capital. It's commonly referred to as the "Black Swan" study because it deals with unusual market events (Black Swans and Market Timing: How Not To Generate Alpha, by Javier Estrada, International Graduate School of Management, Barcelona, Spain).
The period in this study encompasses more than 100 years of daily data on the Dow Jones Industrial Average from December 31, 1899 through December 31, 2006. In total the study examines 29,190 trading days. A $100 investment at the beginning of 1900 turned
into $25,746 by the end 2006, and delivered a mean annual compound return of 5.3%. Here are the most widely publicized parts of the study you are most likely to have seen:
1) Missing the best 10 days reduced the terminal wealth by 65% to $9,008, and the mean annual compound return one percentage point to 4.3%.
2) Missing the best 20 days reduced the terminal wealth by 83.2% to $4,313, and the mean annual compound return to 3.6%.
3) Missing the best 100 days reduced the terminal wealth by 99.7% to just $83 ($17 less than the initial capital invested), and reduced the mean annual compound return to −0.2%.
Wow, we wouldn't want to miss those best days would we? Better ignore market timing and just ride through the declines.
Now here are the parts of the study you may never see because the folks publishing the data don't want you to know how helpful market timing can be:
1) Avoiding the worst 10 days increased the terminal wealth by 206% to $78,781, and the mean annual compound return by more than one percentage point to 6.4%. (Benefit of avoiding ten worst days is $53,035 more profit vs. risk that missing ten best days might reduce results by $16,738.)
2) Avoiding the worst 20 days increased the wealth by 531.5% to $162,588, and the mean annual compound return to 7.2%. (Benefit of avoiding 20 worst days is $136,842 more profit vs. risk that missing 20 best days might reduce results by $21,433.)
3) Avoiding the worst 100 days increased the wealth by a staggering 43,396.8% to $11,198,734, (Yes, that's $11 million!) and more than doubled the mean annual compound return to 11.5%. (Benefit of avoiding 100 worst days is $11,172,988 more profit vs. risk that missing 20 best days might reduce results by $25,633.)
Guess what – I like those odds. But there is absolutely no evidence that market timing will cause us to miss any of those best days. That is an entirely unsupported conjecture. It is very possible to capture many of the good days and avoid many of the bad days with market timing that is less than perfect. Think about this possibility the next time you encounter one of these unfairly biased studies that attempts to show the risks of market timing. Here is some basic advice about market timing that will definitely help. You don't need to be an expert to be a successful market timer.
1) Keep it simple. Simple market timing strategies work as well or even better than complex strategies, mainly because they have fewer assumptions. By keeping it simple, one doesn't need to know the ins and outs of Fibonacci retracement levels, Parabolic Stop and Reverse calculations or how to count the Elliott waves.
2) Believe in the importance of trends and the assumption that whatever the current trend direction might be, it is likely to continue. If your market timing efforts are based on simply defining and then staying on the right side of the current trend then you won't get caught up in trying to forecast tops and bottoms.
3) Know your critical time period for defining trends. If you are concerned about results over a period of years you don't need to worry about tomorrow or the day after or worry about what happens over the next ten minutes. Give some careful thought to the time period that might have the most impact on your investments, and then learn how to define that trend. What happens over a period of months is
significant even to those long term investors that might be concerned about trends of years or more.
4) Concentrate on your exit timing. Investors in general tend to spend too much of their effort on figuring out what stocks to buy and when to buy them. They leave their exits to chance or just sell when they need to raise cash. They forget that it is the exit and not the entry that determines the outcome of an investment. Let me repeat that statement: "It is the exit and not the entry that determines the outcome
of an investment." Please don't forget that! Remember that Black Swan study we referenced? If we want those big profits we have to know when to sell to avoid those big declines.
5) Don't expect perfection. Even the world's most successful investors make mistakes but these successful investors are quick to take their losses and move on. Successful investors are also willing to sell a stock to reduce risk and then willing to buy it back even higher if the trend resumes. Don't expect or attempt to buy at bottoms and sell at tops. Take it easy and just do your best to capture the easy parts of the obvious trends.
6) Do some homework. If you are looking for some suggested reading I would recommend Gerald Loeb's classic book, The Battle for Investment Survival and Dr. Van Tharp's more recent book, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom. Of course, when it comes to exits I have to put in my plug for www.SmartStops.net. It really is the best exit service bar none.
7) Always limit your risk and know how to calculate exactly how many shares to buy for each investment you make. A detailed webinar on this topic can be found on this blog in right hand column. Controlling risk is a simple two-step process that this webinar will explain.
Believe it or not, you are now well on your way to being a successful investor and market timer. Good luck and remember to keep it simple!
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This is the Calliope (Red) House's Boys performing a Haka at our School Cultural Festival. This Haka is called 'Ka Mate' and is the famous Haka that the New Zealand Rugby team 'the All Blacks' perform as a challenge to the other teams before every rugby international. It was filmed at the Tamaki Intermediate School Hall on Friday 5th December 2008.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tamaki Int - Maori Boys Haka Highlights
Posted by Myles Webb at 8:36 AM
4 comments:
- Little Voices, Little Scholars. said...
Thank you for sharing this. It reminds me of NZ- my home ( at this moment I am in HK ).
Mrs She
- January 12, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Mr Lamshed said...
Nice job boys.. well done.
- January 13, 2009 at 5:08 PM
- NZWaikato said...
Thanks both for your feedback - if you haven't seen either of the blogs associated with these teachers then you should both are well worth the look!
- January 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- jack202 said...
What are they saying for?
Did they do that for perform?
or Just are they doing?
- March 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM
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Vivid and invaluable account of the ecology and culture of the lower Ganges Delta. It is surprising how little literature there is on the this area.
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This book deals with the ecology and culture of the lower Ganges delta, where 150 million people live. A land traversed by thousands of miles of rivers and canals in west Bengal and Bangladesh, there is hardly any place on earth where so much poverty is concentrated and where nature can be so demanding. It is a place where rivers change course and devour whole villages and croplands, where floods submerge millions of acres, where devastating cyclones create mayhem on a grand scale, and where, with global warming, conditions can only get worse. Thomas describes how irrigation and flood control have degraded the natural environment; how commercial shrimp production has destroyed wetlands and livelihoods; how landless peasants have settled on shifting islands of sediment that can be washed away in hours; how swelling populations have pushed ever deeper into mangrove forests; how peasants contend with landlords whose callousness is truly unbelievable. But the overall picture is not entirely bleak. Bengalis are extraordinarily resilient and ingenious in adapting to the environment. They love their land and its broad rivers, its culture and its age-old traditions. Historical materials and vivid accounts of early travelers are brought up-to-date by the author's observations and contemporary reports that reveal the futility of many of the efforts to manage river systems and wetlands. Traveling by bus, boat, and rickshaw, the author's impressions and anecdotes add an immediacy and human dimension which, accompanied by his striking photographs, complete the picture of a fascinating part of the world that is rarely seen by western tourists.


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Chances are that you have never heard of Chania. It is a quaint little town, worth at least a couple of hours of your time if you are in the west of Crete. There are cheap Ryanair flights from many European destinations: I paid mine only 20€! Chania has a harbour built by the Venetians in the 14th century, complete with breakwater, fortresses, bastions now half in ruins, and a pretty lighthouse. You can walk all around the area, and admire the port, then relax and look at the blue sea.
|Church of Agios Nikolaos
|Candles in a sandbox, Santorini
|Harbour, Heraklion
|Looking out at the sea from the fortifications
|Morosini Fountain
The appeal of Heraklion lies nonetheless in the fact that it is so close to the ruins of Knossos palace. Wait for it in my next post!


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The neighborhood of Shin-Okubo, nondescript and seldom visited, is an unlikely spot for a grand cultural experiment. Yet here, in full sight and sound of the railroad tracks, stands the Tokyo Globe, a reconstruction of Shakespeare's theater that opened its first season with a series of his history plays - in English and without translation.
Other offerings this season will include productions of Shakespeare's late romances by Britain's National Theater and a visit by the Royal Dramatic Theater Company of Sweden, presenting Ingmar Bergman's production of ''Hamlet'' and Strindberg's ''Miss Julie'' in Swedish.
In an age when Japan has vaulted to the top in trade and finance, the ambition, even the vanity, of the Tokyo Globe project is somehow fitting. ''It says something about Japan,'' said Michael Pennington, joint artistic director of the English Shakespeare Company, the British troupe that performed the Wars of the Roses cycle beginning with ''Richard II'' and ending with ''Richard III.'' ''If you imagine an expensive new theater opening in the middle of London and the first companies invited are two Kabuki companies and then Ingmar Bergman,'' he said, ''eyebrows would be raised.'' 'Most Popular Playwright'
Yet the Globe's producers are confident of Shakespeare's appeal to Japanese theatergoers. ''If you ask who is the most popular playwright in Japan, we would have to say Shakespeare,'' said Seiya Tamura, senior managing director of the Shinjunku-Nishitoyama Development Company, the real estate concern that built the Tokyo Globe as the price for being allowed to construct condominium apartments on Government-owned land. ''Shakespeare is universal,'' Mr. Tamura said. ''He does express the character of human beings. We feel that the current century is a time of big changes similar to the time between the Middle Ages and the modern age, and in that kind of time, Shakespeare's plays are important.''
Shakespeare scholars here agree. ''There is no one else here comparable to Shakespeare,'' said Yushi Odashima, a professor of English at Tokyo University and perhaps Japan's foremost Shakespeare translator. ''There are 15 productions a year of plays I have translated. So I think it's natural to have a balance, one theater mainly for Shakespeare.'' #3 Historical Sources The theater's planners decided to model the Tokyo Globe on the second Globe theater, opened in 1614 after the first burned. The architect for the project was Arata Isozaki, who designed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Palladium discotheque in New York City. Mr. Isozaki and the Japanese Shakespeare scholars who advised him drew upon three historical sources -a sketch of the second Globe from the outside, a sketch of the interior of another Elizabethan theater, the Swan, which offered clues about seating arrangements and stage construction, and a contract for the building of the 17th-century Fortune theater, which specified that many features of the Globe be copied. To these Mr. Isozaki applied his imagination and his own interest in the neo-classical principles of much Renaissance architecture.Continue reading the main story
He came up with a 24-sided near-circle, complete with Shakespeare's thrust stage jutting into an audience seated in three tiers. Mr. Isozaki has pointed out that in some ways, the Elizabethan stage resembled Japan's Noh theater (dating from the 14th century), with a thrust stage with pillars only partly roofed over. He also discarded some conventions - the Tokyo Globe is not made of wood and is not partly open-air. And he added some distinctive touches of his own -the Tokyo Globe is salmon-pink on the outside, high-tech gray on the inside, with grids and portholelike windows. The new theater, which seats 650 to 700 people, cost $16 million. The Audience Prepares
Coming attractions include a Japanese opera production of Salieri's ''Falstaff'' and an original Japanese musical production.
As part of their program, the members of the English Shakespeare Company mounted a stylish, modern-dress production of ''Henry V,'' which alluded, among other things, to the British war in the Falklands as a parallel to the zealous nationalism that infused Henry's centuries-earlier invasion of France. Mr. Pennington said the company decided to make no concessions to the Japanese audience, and indeed, some of the characters spoke with appropriate, although to Japanese ears probably unintelligible, Welsh, Irish and Scottish accents.
The audience sat attentively, several following along in Japanese-language texts of the play and listening to earphones that gave a few seconds' synopsis in Japanese between scenes. With a seriousness characteristic of the Japanese approach to both work and culture, many said they had read the play carefully. Several in the crowd said they were Shakespearean scholars, university professors or English teachers.
Some confessed that much had gone over their heads. But others went away satisfied. ''I read about it, and so I was interested,'' said Hiroshi Kumada, 29 years old. ''This is the first time I've seen Shakespeare. I think I basically understood what happened, although I didn't understand the words.''Continue reading the main story


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Social media's biggest comedian on what keeps him tweeting and performing (and, uh, pleasuring himself) at full clip
"Books are my friends—if there aren't people around, books are the second most fun thing. Moby Dick and Beloved are two of my favorites, but right now I'm reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, and she's just unbelievable—total command of every aspect of writing. There's no such thing as writing that's better than hers."
"My thighs and buttocks are just massive. I'm not even kidding—my weight can fluctuate by 20 pounds and nobody will even notice, they're so big. I have the body of, like, a retired African American major league catcher. Furious thighs and ass that just help power me around and get me from A to B. Other than running and occasionally throwing in an Insanity DVD, I don't really have to do anything for them—thighs and butt take care of themselves."
"When I met my wife she told me she liked to run, so I lied and said I did, too, even though I never had. I trained in secret to impress her. I ran the New York marathon in 2006, and now I run races all the time. I'm a mega Brooks loyalist—I've compared them with others, but always returned to Brooks."
"I've listened to hard rock and metal since I was a little kid, but once I found the genre 'stoner rock,' I was like, 'This is the good stuff.' I love tuned-down guitars and stuff like Yawning Man, Masters of Reality, High on Fire... anything with just sludgy, nasty metal. Other people don't care for it, maybe, but I don't care about them."
"I'm six three, which is slightly taller than your average bed. I've taken over a thousand naps on a floor next to couch in my life, because there's no couch I fit on. A California king is skinnier than a regular king bed, but it's also longer, so it's just that my whole body can fit on it. The one we have I think is from Crate Barrel. It does the trick. I've conceived children on it. It works."
"I've written some 15,000 tweets in the past few years, and when I was approached about turning them into a board game, I instantly said yes—I love board games, and the idea of having my jokes populate one was insane to me. It combines aspects from a lot of classic games, but it has the patina of my personal filth all over it, so it's for adults only. Or, you know, scummy children."
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No balloons to be seen Monday. Too bad sight, too much snow. Together with Lasse, Inga-Lill, Bengt, Hasse, Tore, Peter, Henrik and Ulf I made a 7km long trip towards a cozy little Austrian food-place. Nothing better than a germknödel floating in melted butter after a long walk, hmm!
During diner Simon's cousin Hanna got baptized and ever since she's the proud owner of the title 'Ballonggrevinna af Dachstein'. When it was supposed to be bedtime we got a free screaming concert of our Dutch neighbor, a little boy who obviously didn't agree on something. Besides his high dissatisfied frequencies my ears had most trouble with the creative amount of very, very bad swearing words from both of his parents.
Tuesday seemed to be a nice day for some ballooning, however, the wind was pretty strong. It seemed to be something local, so with a lot of helping hands Simon managed to lift off and make a long, nice flight (with a soft landing!). He flew around 33km, however, when retrieving in the mountains it's easy to drive around 80km for the same distance. We passed Gosau and saw a lot of balloon teams retrieving from the balloon event there. Nice! I feel like my grandmother now, but oh, the Austrian environment is really breathtaking (and for the insiders: the driver was very good too!).
Let's see about tomorrow and the rest of the week. The weather doesn't look that wonderful unfortunately…
Currently I'm sitting in the hotel lobby accompanied by four Dutchman who don't realize I'm one of their fellow-countryman. I secretly enjoy this very much since they obviously come from the same farmer-like region I originate from. Haven't heard this dialect for over half a year! Seems they just started their 'let's look at pictures from our grandchildren and melt away with oooehh's and aaah's' –phase. 'Leeeeuwwwk heee?'. Ow no, now it's about all their diseases and insurance coverage; I better have a look for my Swedish friends!
For the Dutchmen:
'Ja jong, wat 'n ziekte, en dan he'm ze ook nog kleine kinder!'.
'Wat is de mooise plek van Groningen? De bus naar Friesland'.
'We he'm het Pieterpad geloop'n met vrie'n van oons. Nederland heeft ook heeeeule mooie plekkies'.
'Oma Jannie en Opa Appie, he'.
'Ee'm lekker optutt'n'.
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Chiefs miss out on top spot
Posted: 31 October 2017 Time: 17:25
Polokwane City and Kaizer Chiefs played to a 0-0 draw in an Absa Premiership clash at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Tuesday night.
Amakhosi played deep in their own half in the early stages and nearly caught Rise and Shine on a counter-attack in the sixth minute with Joseph Molangoane gifted acres of space on a galloping run but his decision-making in the final third let the visitors down.
Bernard Parker came close to opening the scoring in the 16th minute with a brilliant diving header which was saved by George Chigova, although the striker was flagged for offside.
Steve Komphela's charges dominated play after half-an-hour and looked more likely to find the opening goal, although they were let down by some wayward crossing.
Bernard Molekwa's troops contained the visitors well up to the end of the first half that ultimately ended goalless.
Rendani Ndou missed an opportunity to give Rise and Shine the lead 10 minutes into the second half after missing an open goal from three yards out after Itumeleng Khune saved Jabulani Maluleke's header.
With Chiefs struggling to get a goal, Gustavo Paez was introduced in the match after 65 minutes with Parker making way.
However, Hendrick Ekstein should have broken the deadlock 15 minutes before time but his shot from inside the box sailed over the crossbar with only Chigova to beat.
Either side could have nicked a goal in the closing minutes with end-to-end attacks.
HOME: Polokwane City
Coach: Bernard Molekwa
Formation: 4-2-3-1
- 1 George Chigova
- 5 Walter Maponyane
- 5 Ndivhuwo Ravhuhali
- 15 Thabang Klaas
82 mins - Vusimusi Mngomezulu
- 22 Sibusiso Mbonani
- 26 Thabiso Semenya
- 8 Jabu Maluleke
- 12 Salulani Phiri
84 mins - Lorence Vilakazi
- 21 Sammy Seabi
- 17 Rodney Ramagalela
- 19 Rendani Ndou
AWAY: Kaizer Chiefs
Coach: Steve Komphela
Formation: 3-4-2-1
- 32 Itumeleng Khune
- 3 Erick Mathoho
- 4 Daniel Cardoso
- 26 Lorenzo Gordinho
- 10 Philani Zulu
- 12 George Maluleka
- 14 Siphiwe Tshabalala
86 mins - Edmore Chirambadare
- 23 Joseph Molangoane
- 27 Hendrick Ekstein
76 mins - Dumisani Zuma
- 31 Willard Katsande
- 25 Bernard Parker
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I wrote awhile ago about idiosyncratic reactions and the challenge they pose to drug researchers. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges which is some ways might be considered a blessing is that, thanks to extensive pre-clinical testing and rigid regulatory standards, the number of incidences of adverse drug reactions is very low making it difficult to develop a sufficient body of data to determine the mechanism of the reaction. However, at this point in time, we have methods for investigating the genetic profile of patients and thus the potential exists to correlate adverse reactions with a genetic signature, but only if we have enough patients to work with.
A commentary in the April 26th issue of Nature describes a potential solution to the problem of lack of data….increasing the rate of adverse event reporting and pooling the data in a global database.
And now for something completely different…..
For anyone out there who teaches first year organic chemistry…the discussion by Euripides G. Stephanou of the paper published by Williams et al., which describes the chiral make-up of compounds released from forests into the atmosphere might make an interesting side bar example when the subject of stereoisomers is introduced.


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Learners create art inspired by authentic NASA planetary image data while learning to recognize the geology on planetary surfaces, uniquely inspiring learner engagement. This presentation and accompanying activity use the elements of art - shape,... (View More) line, color, texture, value - to make sense of features in NASA images, honing observation skills and inspiring questions. It aligns with the NGSS cross-cutting concept of Patterns. Videos, images, and an interactive poster that breaks down activity elements deepen user access. (View Less)
Maps and images are examined, compared and contrasted in this introductory lesson. Beginning with the school building map typically posted in their classroom, students analyze the information it contains, describe its features, and determine its... (View More) purpose. Students then examine maps at different scales to compare and contrast the amount of detail and the purposes. Maps are then compared to NASA satellite images. The use of satellite images to measure and map land usage is explored through images of Las Vegas taken in 1972 and 1992 (note: see Related & Supplemental Resources for link to more current images). The URL opens to the investigation Directory, with links to teacher and student materials, lesson extensions, resources, teaching tips, and assessment strategies. Note that this is investigation two of four found in the Grades K-4 Module 1 of Mission Geography. The Mission Geography curriculum integrates data and images from NASA missions with the National Geography Standards. Each of the four investigations in Module 1, while related, can be done independently. (View Less)
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RecitalKHOZYAINOV'S BRILLIANT PIANISM IN MILL VALLEY RECITAL
by Abby Wasserman
Sunday, January 13, 2019
In its third concert of the season the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society Jan. 13 presented Russian virtuoso Nikolay Khozyainov. His intelligent and sensitive interpretations, masterful pedal work, and virtuoso technique left the near-capacity audience in Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church astounded and ...
RecitalMTA BENEFIT CONCERT FEATURES FAURE, DVORAK, JANACEK AND BARBER WORKS
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, November 11, 2018
In a splendid concert Nov. 11 the Music Teachers Association of California, Sonoma County Chapter, presented their sixth annual benefit concert before 40 avid listeners in the Santa Rosa home of Helen Howard and Robert Yeats. Highlights of the performances, involving eight musicians in various perf...
RecitalSERKIN'S SINGULAR MOZART AND BACH PLAYING IN WEILL RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Friday, November 09, 2018
Returning to Weill Hall following a fire-related recital cancellation in 2017, pianist Peter Serkin programmed just three works in his Nov. 7 concert, three masterworks that challenged both artist and audience alike. It needs to be said at the outset that Mr. Serkin takes a decidedly non-standard a...
RecitalLIN'S PIANISM AND PERSONA CHARM SCHROEDER HALL AUDIENCE
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, October 21, 2018
In somewhat of a surprise a sold out Schroeder Hall audience greeted pianist Steven Lin Oct. 21 in his local debut recital. Why a surprise? Because Mr. Lin was pretty much unknown in Northern California, and Schroeder is rarely, very rarely sold out for a single instrumentalist. But no matter, and...
RecitalIDIOMATIC SCHUMANN AND BEETHOVEN HIGHTLIGHT WALKER'S CONCERTS GRAND RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Mostly known as a concert producer and indefatigable promoter of Sonoma County music, pianist Judy Walker stepped into the soloist's role Sept. 23 in a sold out recital for the Concerts Grand House recitals series. Two Scarlatti Sonatas, in D Minor (K. 213) and D Major (K. 29), began the hour-long ...
RecitalDEDIK'S POTENT BEETHOVEN AND CHOPIN AT SPRING LAKE VILLAGE RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Monday, September 17, 2018
Anastasia Dedik returned Sept. 17 to the Spring Lake Village Classical Music Series in a recital that featured three familiar virtuoso works in potent interpretations. Chopin's G Minor Ballade hasn't been heard in Sonoma County public concerts since a long-ago Earl Wild performance, and Beethoven's...
RecitalDUO WEST OPENS OCCIDENTAL CONCERT SEASON
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, September 09, 2018
Before a full house at the Occidental Performing Arts Center Sept. 9 the cello-piano Duo West, playing from score throughout, presented a recital that on paper looked stimulating and thoughtful. Beginning with MacDowell's To A Wild Rose (from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51), the transcription by an unan...
RecitalMUSICAL ALCHEMY INSIDE A HIDDEN GEM
by Kayleen Asbo
Friday, May 25, 2018
The Petaluma Historical Library and Museum is a hidden gem of Sonoma County, a gracious building that is one of Sonoma County's loveliest venues for chamber music concerts, with a fine period piano particularly suited to Romantic music. Of the surprisingly large array of festivities there, one of t...
RecitalHEAVENLY SCHUBERT AND DEMONIC CHOPIN
by Terry McNeill
Saturday, April 21, 2018
One of the anomalies in the long ago "Golden Era" of romantic pianism (about 1905 to 1940) is that the virtuoso giants of the time didn't play Schubert. It took the German pianist Artur Schnabel to bring the beauties of Schuber's work to the public's attention, and now they seem to be on almost ever...
RecitalKENNER'S ALL POLISH RECITAL HAS PADEREWSKI RARITY
by Abby Wasserman
Sunday, April 08, 2018
Kevin Kenner's April 8 recital at Dominican University's Angelico Hall had been advertised as all-Chopin, but he added a detour into another seminal Polish composer-pianist, Paderewski. Several of Mr. Kenner's teachers were Poles, he speaks Polish, and he navigated at the piano both composers' deman...
CHOPIN BALLADES FEATURED IN CONCERTS GRAND RECITALby Terry McNeill
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Pianist Nancy Lee Harper made an elegant North Coast debut Feb. 24 in the Concerts Grand House Recitals series in a private Santa Rosa home.


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The National Association of Convenience Stores' Scholarship Initiative
A member of the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), Bob Juckniess is an award-winning executive leader and CEO of Royal Buying Group. One aspect of NACS that members like Bob Juckniess support is the association's scholarship and internship program, organized by the NACS Foundation.
To support and recognize dedicated convenient store employees who could one day hold leadership positions, the NACS scholarship program was created in 1991 in honor of Jim Yates and David Erickson. Many leaders in the convenience story industry started at the store level, working their way to the top with a commitment to learning. This scholarship honors individuals who maintain a similar mindset and attitude. The NACS internship program recognizes and develops future retail leaders in honor of Teri Richman, a NACS staffer and lobbyist who dedicated more than 20 years to industry initiatives.
The scholarship and internship programs through NACS provide ways for convenience and fuel retailers to develop, reward, and retain those who make up the next generation of industry leaders within their companies.


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It seems that a US Army Colonel at ISAF Joint Command (IJC) in Kabul has had an "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" moment (cultural video reference for the young ones). And luckily for us it has been put out on the internet for your reading pleasure, sort of…. You could read it on the UPI news service website, but it has disappeared. Thankfully, it has been published here.
Colonel Lawrence Sellin opens with this:
Throughout my career I have been known to walk that fine line between good taste and unemployment. I see no reason to change that now.
Consider the following therapeutic.
I have been assigned as a staff officer to a headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months. During that time, I have not done anything productive. Fortunately little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well.
Well, that was candid. It sounds like the French civil service. But it gets even better/worse, depending on your perspective:
Officially, IJC was founded in late 2009 to coordinate operations among all the regional commands in Afghanistan. More likely it was founded to provide some general a three-star command. Starting with a small group of dedicated and intelligent officers, IJC has successfully grown into a stove-piped and bloated organization, top-heavy in rank. Around here you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a colonel.
For headquarters staff, war consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information. Even one tiny flaw in a slide can halt a general's thought processes as abruptly as a computer system's blue screen of death.
My God, the next morning at work must have been so awkward.
But really, this guy is on a roll:
Next month IJC will attempt a giant leap for mankind. In a first-of-its-kind effort, IJC will embed a new stovepipe into an already existing stovepipe. The rationale for this bold move resides in the fact that an officer, who is currently without one, needs a staff of 35 people to create a big splash before his promotion board.
Like most military organizations, structure always trumps function.
This stovepipe hater is one step away from being my choice for officer of the week, he just needs to admit he was wrong about the Shinwari.
Anyways, everybody at ISAF should be able to provide a satisfactory answer to this five second long question:


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Business may help put rail service back on track
By DON LEHMAN- The Post-Star | Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 5:03 pm
Freight traffic could resume on the Upper Hudson River Railroad as soon as next year, as a northern Warren County business seeks to get its product to market more cheaply. Barton Mines would use trains to transport product from its North River mines to markets right now, if it could, said Chuck Barton, chief operating officer of the company. Barton said the company has made an application to the government to begin using rail transportation when freight traffic resumes on the Upper Hudson line. He said the status of that application was unclear. The company, which mines garnet and produces garnet-related products, recently expanded production at the North River site and plans to re-enter the European sales market, Barton said. It also is working on a material that would use a byproduct of its production process, and if it decides to sell that material commercially, rail transportation would be an efficient way to get it out of Johnsburg. "If it was to materialize, the railroad would be a nice option," he said. It's been at least four decades since freight trains used the rail line that begins in the hamlet of Tahawus, Essex County and makes its way south to Saratoga Springs. Representatives of a Maine-based railroad company were in Warren County last week to meet with Barton representatives and Warren County officials.
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Representatives of a Maine-based railroad company were in Warren County last week to meet with Barton representatives and Warren County officials.
Fred Monroe, chairman of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, said the railroad representatives also inspected the tracks on the Upper Hudson line.
The company, Maine Eastern Railroad, was one of three prospective operators for the railroad that met with county officials earlier this year.
The county is preparing to put out a request for proposals for a railroad operator for 2011, and the prospective operators that met with supervisors in February indicated they wanted to be able to have freight rights in addition to operating the North Creek-based tourist railroad.
Engineer Spike wrote:I have never gotten a clear answer as to where the ore went after it reached Saratoga.It does not seem to have continued as a unit train. Does anyone know?
Engineer Spike wrote:I have never gotten a clear anwer as to where the ore went after it reached Saratoga.It does not seem to have continued as a unit train. Does anyone know?
march hare wrote:Hmmm, not sure about this one.
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This is the room where I throw shit that doesn't fit in the closet or the junk drawer or look particularly pleasant anywhere else.
Next time? Call before you come over so I can clean up a little, jerkoid.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Awesomocity - The Home of Bullshit
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- Sweet Mama Jones said...
i want to steal this word so bad and say it outloud to people except i can't say it right the first time it comes out of my mouth. kinda loses its cool when i stutter. guess that's what i get for intent to steal.
- August 17, 2009 at 4:13 PM
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Oh sweet baby Jesus, I hadn't thought about Boner in years!!! How do you think that god freak Kirk Cameron feels when he remembers that he talked about erections, weekly, on national television?
What I'm trying to say is, thanks for the reminder, and I look forward to whatever ends up in here.
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend!
This post is all about a virtual pajama party! A sewing community group I belong to is hosting a virtual pajama party where we all created our own pajamas and then we periscope about them!
Since I don't own any really good pajamas (not sure why I never did this before!), I decided to make two pair!
First up is a pair I made that are a little bit "spicier" for the hubby! I purchased the fabric from Hancocks a few weeks ago with the intention of just making a simple nightgown. That was prior to finding out about the virtual Pajama party. (Great timing!) The fabric Is an Aqua colored, light weight cotton, with a little bit of stretch and a very soft to the touch.
I used an actual pattern and of course I changed it a little bit (you know how I do!), the pattern is Kwik Sew 3726. It's a very easy and quick pattern to follow and the instructions were great!
It's a lingerie pattern that has a teddy and a slip version. I used the slip version to create my pajama top. The changes I made to the pattern were:
- Elastic under the bust for fit
- Decorative lace under the bust
- Decorative ribbon for the straps
The bottoms where made using my favorite one-piece legging pattern Kwik Sew 3770...
...I just widened the legs a bit so they weren't snug and added an elastic waistband. I am very pleased with my results!
For my second pair, I made the pajama top from a pattern I created a few months ago for a cruise. You can see that top and read the review HERE.
The bottoms where made using my favorite one-piece legging pattern Kwik Sew 3770 (Same as above). For this pair, I decided to make them shorts instead of pants and added a cuff.
The fabric was in my stash and is a bright yellow colored, light weight cotton with the little stretch. I purchased it several months ago from Hancocks.
I added Navy colored piping around the neckline, the armhole, and the cuffs of the bottom, along with matching Navy colored buttons… I really love the contrast look!


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happiest of mondays to you all. this weekend was a wonderful time of creating, recharging and relaxing for me. i got to google chat with some of my kindred artist friends on saturday. so great! here are some links to check out as you ease your way into a new week.
taking the links i love to a whole new level this week. ten things i l o v e...
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love this idea for a fun fall snack.
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Email marketing is still one of the most effective forms of online marketing, that's why so many companies spend so much time perfecting this aspect of their online business. The software you use to send your emails, your email marketing software if you most likely already offers some tremendous features regarding analytics (stats). But, sometimes you might need to drill down ever deeper, or get some information that is not natively available with your normal email marketing service. In this case you might need to find an alternative source to get the data you need, here are a few choices that you might like to try.
This service lets you test and track your emails. You can preview emails, check spam filtering, run page tests, transactional testing and more with Litmus. For instance, do you want to see how your email looks across multiple email clients and devices? With Litmus you can ensure that the email design you choose works well for many different settings and devices. For instance, do you want to know how your email looks to customers who turn their images off? You can.
Litmus – http://litmus.com/
Using a very adaptable and intuitive interface, you can track email delivery and activity across devices. Did your email list subscriber open the email, click on a link, unsubscribe or report your email as spam? If you want to know this type of information then Mailjet is for you. What's more, you can switch back and forth between the free and paid version so you only pay for what you need.
Mailjet – https://www.mailjet.com/
Google Analytics
There are a few apps you can use to get more information about your email marketing data. Two of them are Sign-Up.to, an automatic Google Analytics email tracking tool and dotMailer, a one-click Google Analytics tracking code tool. Learning Google Analytics URL builder will help too. These tools give you additional functionality to monitor and track your email marketing campaigns and especially Google Ads.
Sign-Up.to – http://www.signupto.com/
dotMailer – http://www.dotmailer.com/
Google Analytics – https://www.google.com/analytics/apps/results?q=email%20marketing%20software
Google Analytics URL builder – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?rd=2
Aside from all the other website analytics that HubSpot offers, they also offer some really awesome email marketing analytics that are set up in a way that's easy to decipher and understand. You can move the data around and view it in any order or by any criteria that you want. You'll be able to get a better understanding of consumer engagement than other formats, including a thorough analysis of your calls to action.
HubSpot – http://www.hubspot.com/products/analytics
Want to know how your email marketing is doing compared to your closest competitor? You can use this free tool to do so. Simply put your information in, as well as theirs, and you'll be able to benchmark your email against your competitors. When you enter your information you'll choose what you want to improve and you'll get suggestions too. This works best if you use your own domain name for sending out information and you send out a lot of emails.
ReturnPath – http://benchmark.returnpath.com/
If you would like to outsource all your email marketing analytics and data collection to another company, you can do that. This is a company that will do it for you, but you can likely find many other companies that can handle email marketing analytics for you, too. They can figure out what data you need to know, and find out how to collect it, so you don't have to.
SpiderTrainers – http://www.spidertrainers.com/analytics/
As you know, this is an email marketing solution, but you should be aware of all the different in-house analytics that it offers. You have the ability to find out who opened your messages, who did not, which links were clicked and by whom, how much revenue a particular email message generated, the unsubscribe rate of a particular email message, and so much more.
AWeber – http://www.aweber.com/email-analytics.htm
This is another email marketing platform, but with some really good analytics included that others don't have. GetResponse allows you to study a lot of different metrics which are the same metrics that AWeber offers with some additional and more intuitive report structures. GetResponse also offers easy and simple landing page creation that is not really part of analytics per se, but which does make it rather simple to use in conjunction with marketing.
GetResponse – http://www.getresponse.com/features/email-analytics.html
The important thing to remember when gathering analytics from your email campaigns is to know in advance what information you want to know, how you'll gather this information, and then what you'll do with it when the results you get… and of course in my humble opinion the only stats that really matter with email marketing to most businesses are the number of sales and inquiries they receive.