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PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley will take fans "out to the ballgame" as he performs his own arrangements of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Bless America at the Pittsburgh Pirates Opening Day on April 1, 2013.
The Pirates are scheduled to take on National League Central Division opponents the Chicago Cubs on Monday, April 1, 2013 at 1:35 p.m. at PNC Park. Tickets for the game can be purchased at http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/ticketing.
Bendix-Balgley will be flying directly to New York City after the ballgame for a violin recital—"a little crazy," he admits, "but I was really excited about the opportunity to play for Opening Day!"
Noah Bendix-Balgley has thrilled and moved audiences around the world with his violin performances. In May 2011, he won 1st prize at the Vibrarte International Music Competition in Paris, France. A Laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Noah also won 3rd prize and a special prize for creativity at the 2008 Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris. He was awarded 1st Prize and a special prize for best Bach interpretation at the 14th International Violin Competition "Andrea Postacchini" in Fermo, Italy.
Noah has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), the Orchestre National de Belgique (Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels), the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Italy), the Orchester Jakobsplatz Munich, and the Asheville Symphony (USA). He performed the premiere of a rediscovered Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra by Carl Stamitz at the German Viola Congress in Muenster, Germany. In March 2011, he performed recitals at the Jewish Music Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area featuring little known works by Achron and other members of the St. Petersburg School. Noah has performed in Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Iceland, China, Switzerland, Great Britain, Canada and the United States.
Noah is a passionate and experienced chamber musician. In 2011, he performed on North American tour with the Miro String Quartet. From 2008 to 2011, Noah was the 1st violinist of the Munich-based Athlos String Quartet, which won a special prize at the 2009 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin, and performed throughout Europe. In 2008, Noah was invited to participate in Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg, Germany, where he worked and performed with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Gary Hoffman and Lynn Harrell. He has collaborated with artists such as Ana Chumachenco, Wen-Sinn Yang, Hariolf Schlichtig, and percussionist Colin Currie. Noah has performed at number festivals in Europe and North America, including the Verbier Festival, the Sarasota Festival, and Centre d'Arts Orford.
Noah earned his postgraduate Meisterklasse diploma for violin in 2008 from Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich, where he studied with Professor Christoph Poppen and Professor Ana Chumachenco. In 2006, he received a Bachelor of Music degree with highest distinction from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was a student of Professor Mauricio Fuks and also a Wells Scholar. He has performed in masterclasses for Gidon Kremer, Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron, Joseph Silverstein, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Pamela Frank, and Itzhak Perlman.
Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1984, Noah began playing violin at age 4. At age 9, he played for Lord Yehudi Menuhin in Switzerland. From 1995 to 1997, Noah studied violin with Anne Crowden while attending The Crowden School in Berkeley, California. There he performed the premiere of Recitative and Freilekhs, a piece for violin and chamber orchestra written for him by Arkadi Serper. Noah was also featured as a soloist on the 1997 Crowden School tour of England and Scotland.
In his spare time, Noah enjoys playing klezmer music. He has played with world-renowned klezmer groups such as Brave Old World, and has taught klezmer violin at workshops in Europe and in the United States. Noah plays on a Lorenzo Ventapane violin, made in Naples in the early 19th century.
Noah first recital CD, "A Musical Tour of the early 20th Century" (Anima Records) was recorded in Switzerland in May 2011 and is now available.


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JUST DENNIS: Of international airports and geothermal and either, orDennis Joseph - Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at 9:21 AM
What the UWP Team Dominica led by Lennox Linton is doing is tantamount to opening a Pandora's Box. There is no doubt that the team has a hugely articulate leader to deliver the message and in so doing they will find resistance from those who have believed in the Dominica Labour Party(DLP) for so long though not necessarily in the election candidates of the DLP.
Let us face it the DLP is the oldest political party here in Waitukubuli and has been our rulers in government for a total so far of 34 years starting in 1961 with a break for the Freedom Party in 1980 that ruled for 15 years and the new UWP in 1995 governing for less than 5 years.
It simply means that many people have known the DLP far longer than any other party and would have developed sentimental feelings about it. When Lennox Linton in his radio talk show programs began to show corruption in the Labour government's dealings he was interfering with a belief and not just a political party.
The problem you encounter when attacking a belief is that those who have believed will have their head under water and think they are still breathing (adapted from John Legend, All of Me) and for so long that they cannot bring themselves to peek inside the Pandora's Box for fear the truth will jump out at them so instead they simply shout out against the bearer of truth just two words, "You lie." It was so in the time of Jesus the Christ and it is so now. People hate to hear unflattering reviews of the things they love and react in sometimes even violent ways against the messenger.
However, 'Action speaks louder than words' is a known slogan. While the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) may have placed in their election manifesto that the DLP is committed to building an international airport actions prove otherwise. In January 2000, The Labour Party won the elections and met on their plate the hundreds of acres of land already purchased for an international airport by the UWP at tens of millions of dollars cost to the taxpayer and simply allowed the land away to all and sundry claiming they wanted to locate the airport somewhere else. However, nothing happened. In the 2005 elections, again, the Labour Party promised an international airport and again nothing happened.
Then the Labour Party proceeded to do all through words and action to discourage we the people about an international airport and in particular by extending the Melville Hall Airport at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars which is stark 'in your face' proof that they had no intention of pursuing such a venture. When the Labour Party during their 50th Anniversary celebrations brought in Prime Minister Gonsalves of St Vincent to say to us that we do not need one, it was further evidence that the Labour government had no use for that kind of project.
The PM said that the UWP was just throwing pie in the sky. Now who is laughing as he joins the club? We were given the impression that the UWP politicians were a bunch of lunatics to suggest that they were determined to build one and the Labour crowd cheered. Then with no mea culpa, he hastily leaves for China in search of an international airport and again the Labourites cheer. Which way are you cheering Labourites? Should we not know where is that airport to be located, what investigative work has been done towards ensuring the takeoff and landing safety of the site, who are the people involved in the negotiations, how much is the real cost to we the people, what is the agreement with the builders and what is to happen to the newly renovated Melville Hall Airport and the Canefield Airport and on or is this just another election gimmick like the last ones? How many more times do we have to hear about an international airport before we actually see one. We the people should step out and say, "Either you build the bleeping thing or stop playing with our minds".
Now let us take a peek at the geothermal matter that seriously has my attention more so because I have just read that there has been an increase in earthquake activity in the region during the month of April. The Prime Minister at his Labour Day show-rally in St Joseph made little mention of the geothermal project, which we were once told, would be like oil is to the Arabs. By now, some of us may have forgotten the "geo" thing having other things to do but the residents of the Roseau Valley where the drilling is ongoing sleep with one eye open. In the time of the four blood moons they might want to sing, "I see bad moon rising" (Creedence Clear Water Revival)
The earth is a living organism and we are an intimate part of it so it is unwise to tinker with large sources of energy without having provisions for a worst-case scenario. You do not test a gun to your head with only one bullet somewhere in the chamber and pull the trigger without preparing for what might happen.
The Labourites at their recent Labour Party show-rally preferred to hear about who liked "cow meat" and so the geothermal matter took a backseat in the bus as far as the Labour Party rally speakers were concerned. We keep taking this geothermal matter lightly substituting its seriousness with stand-up comedy about trivialities but that is how nations are hit hard by what they call "suddenly" because they never want to see the signs coming preferring as in the time of the Biblical Noah to have a field day with denials and trivia.
While some of us live miles away figuring, "We not in dat" be reminded that Mt Pelee in Martinique was 4 miles away from the village of St Pierre as the crow flies and it took seconds for the volcanic eruption to destroy the whole place including 20,000 people leaving only one man in a prison dungeon and a child hiding in a cave to survive Nature's fury. For political reasons of an imminent elections poll and the desire to keep voters in the village for the polling day the people were told that there was no danger and the authorities sent in a group of so called experts who climbed the mountain and pronounced that 'all is well' just five days before hell was released on them.
God made man and we made politics but political war is mostly a rich man's war and a poor man's fight in which the poor people are made to destroy each other. It is amazing how poor people revel in the verbal slaughtering of one another on behalf of those who become rich while they benefit nothing but hopes of handouts. Yet as in the words of Abraham Lincoln 'God must love the common people; he made so many of them."
I think it is because God wanted to spread common sense everywhere, but the common people do not always use that gift. When it is not the pastors and priests it is the turn of the politicians to take boldfaced advantage of ordinary folk. However, the ordinary folk must look after their interests and one such is the preservation of our natural environment, their homes and the sanctity of the life God has given us. There are investors not bothered about the people's travails over the geothermal project except if it begins to hamper their agenda for milking the cow. There are those even in government who do not care two bleeps about the poor villagers in the surroundings but just the possible big money that would come to them win or lose or draw in that venture.
Yet the poor people have the liberty of voting which is a way in a democracy to stop all undesirable things in governance. This is not the age when God sent a prophet to anoint leaders but by our own ink stained finger, we do it ourselves so we have the option to say to those in government 'either, or".
It is time for the residents of the Roseau Valley to stand up and demand that an evacuation and rescue plan is put in place and that they are thoroughly informed of what this project means and how their lives could be impacted and not just call talk shows but say directly to their representatives, "Come talk to us because this time its either, or."
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Mr Joseph, what are your views on the Thomson Fontaine transfergate and landgate affairs? Tell us do you think that the best way to run a political campaign is to go all over the world and denigrate your country? You have to address the woeful shortcoming of your party if you want to appear to be fair, balanced and unbiased, but then again you never claimed to be. Saying country first is not enough: we need to actually put country first.
"gimic was taking place in the woodford hill and Wesley area paying people for their lands for building Airport and to still have them cultivating on the lands,then during that same time the same roads that they said would be"
You do not have a clue of what you are talking about. So, let me ask you the new Secondary School that was built in Wesley, where was it located prior to its present location? Why was it moved to the present location. Why, there was an issue in Court while Pierre Charles was prime minister over monies owed to the Trinidad government spent on the same project.
Why did the labor party case the contractors out of Dominica?
I am from Wesley, okay, and I have more than one relative who's property was declared public domain, they received some of the money, however to this day the remainder is not yet paid. And for your information Rosie Douglas is the one who told people they should re-take possession of their land because his government was not going to build any International Airport, because it was too expensive to build.
Besides Athie Martin contended that the eland was valuable land much more suitable for the growing of avocados. I do not know how much you were paid to come here and talk this nonsense, some of us knows the facts of the matter. Rosie Douglas even gave a thug from Woodford Hill half the Londonderry Estate, for what the thug calm was his pound of Beef for money he claimed he gave Rosie while he campaigned.
Athie, is still alive ask him why was the same thug from Woodford Hill went into action chopping down hundreds of years old Mangroves, on the river bank in the area called Broad Road, when the police was called to arrest the culprit, a phone call went to the police from Rosie Douglas preventing the arrest of that thug who continued to threatened and harassed the people of Wesley.
Finally, if they have not told you: be informed that the government of Trinidad & Tobago was undertaking 80% of the cost of the construction, while contribution of money was made by the PRC, and also Tiwan, so just hush you do not know what you are talking about.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Arthie cannot give anyone advice on anything. Ask Arthie about his hotel/guest house and how well it is doing. Ask Arthie about his water project that has not come off the ground after two or more years? The present prime minister did not negotiate or take land from the people of Wesley. You all want things to be done that are not being done. Then when a positive plan is put forward to do what you all want you get vex and cry foul. What do you really want? Maybe some of us are suffering from the syndrome of "Don't do it, but let me do it'?
These laborrats are in such denial it's scary. The country is at it's worse in terms of economic prosperity. Our GDP has dropped tremendously, unemployment is at an all time high, more people are leaving or trying to leave the country because of unemployment. But yet still they think when their shepherd pays a bill for them from his RED CLINIC handouts, this is all. They have no concept of financial independence rather thinking that the RED CLINIC will solve their problem. Shouldn't we as a people demand better.
People have ben migrating from time immemorial not only from Dominica but all over the world. They migrate for many different reasons one of them is for employment. Dominicans migrated to Cayenne, England, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Canada, Trinidad, Barbados, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Antigua, USA and many more. This has been happening long before many, many of us were born. So learn your country's history
Democracy works Dominicans should be proud as a people , one man one vote , may the best man wins, we as Dominicans have to admit progress has been made, since the British left under this Government, there are still more good things to come, after election let us all work together, for the common good of the island.
Never thought I would criticize DNO for not publishing my comment. I was not slanderous or libelous. All I said was that Denis Joseph was and is perhaps still an avoid acolyte of Patrick John. The world knows why Patrick John was catapaulted out of office. His record in defending democracy was atrocious. In fact he took steps to stifle free expression. All that time Denis was at his side as his chief spokesperson. In 980/81 Denis Joseph was in co with Patrick John to subvert the will of the people following the results of the 1980 general elections. They were in co inviting the KKK to overthrow the duly elected government of Dominica. That is what I said. That is part of our history. Denis cannot now come and pretend he was always an altar boy in church. He served in the engine room of the Labour Party under Patrick John between 1975 and 1979.
Anonymous May 21, 2014
"I would reply to this comment but i can't because you just told the world that 90% of Dominicans live in OUTRAGEOUS POVERTY. What else is there to say. Typical UWP propaganda. Your post speaks for itself. A lie by any other name is still a lie."
Let me give you an example of poverty in our country; working class people lives below the poverty line: i e. sometime last year, or the year, before a teacher at the DGS was beaten viciously by an student, he need to have some X-ray done on his head, the cost of that service in our hospital amount to four ($400.00) hundred dollars, if you do not wish to be bias, you will remember the man did not have four hundred measly dollars to pay to save his own life. If memory serves me correctly, people donated money to accommodate the hospital bill.
This man is a Secondary School Teacher, who could not pay for an X-ray! What would you say is the cause of that, could it be because he is a working rich man, absolutely not;he is a working poor, and part of the 90% in Dominica who exists below the poverty level. Poverty covers a range from extreme want of mere necessities to an absence of material comforts. So, all the people who live in houses in Dominica utilizing the pit hole as toilets are indeed living way below the poverty level, and the people who still lives in shacks, and 16 X 12 huts are all living below the poverty level.
Want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation, there are people in Dominica in a perpetual state of want. All the destitute people you see in the streets of Roseau, and in some villages they exist in total poverty. While you hide behind your fictitious name the poor and destitute of our nation are quite visible, and if you believe I just exposed the truth to the world, I am very happy to do it, because I have relatives in Dominica suffering also.
When we speak of the poverty line, we are talking the level of personal, or family income below which one is classified as poor according to government standards, also known as poverty level, there is plenty of that in Dominica, check the salary rate in Dominica, and you will discover that all of our civil servants are actually existing in poverty, that's a fact! You can push it under the rug if you wish, but I will expose the dirty lining whenever, and where I find it. And this thing about UWP, you can continue to fool yourself, I am nonpartisan, and let me give you the meaning of that:
I am free from party affiliation, bias, or designation. You cannot say that because if you do, your handlers will find out and your gravy spoon will be snatched out of your mouth oui!
My only concern is Dominica, and not Red,Blue or Green like you, who dressed up in Red even when you are in bed sleeping. You cannot comment as you said, because there is no spin you can put on the truth that will change it, call me a liar if you wish, that changes nothing, and surely you cannot shut me up okay;you may have opened the Pandora's box.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
The world bank is not feeling what the poor in Dominica suffers you know. Since you know so much about the World Bank, and I suppose the IMF, I expect you also know how many times their advise has cause nations to fail economically.
Have you ever heard that before?
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
I totally agree with you. This Mr. Dodds as you must be aware is just writing HIS views without even thinking whether what he writes make sense. But you never know, he might be an expert on such things and better qualified than people working at the IMF and World Bank. If so, then as a patriotic and participative citizen he should do hi duty to his country and advise us about the way we should go to enjoy prosperity.
A secondary school teacher who did not have $400.00 to pay his hospital bill should be ashamed of himself. What was he doing with his money at the end of the month? Each and everyone should live according to their means. He needs to make sure he balances his budget well. I am sure the teacher did not tell you so. Many teachers and other Dominicans pay for insurances to take care of them when they are sick and you must know that. Make some sense.
Hey Dennis, i think you would do better on "the top of the morning show" with your jingles, rather than pump in all that oxygen about lennox mishak linton who doe not have the slightest idea of what he really wants to do for his country. This is the new DLP, Dennis, former freedomites under MAMO, AND YOU JUST CANNOT STAND THEM. That is your biggest problem. PJ was the biggest bobol man back in the days and you served his interest very well. First, manager of DBS, and, then, Director of Public Broadcasting.
Nice one can you all also remember Dennis use to say on the Radio oh I am the man with the MASTER PLAN when he was a cohort of Patrick John not the Labor Party because Laborites don't change overnight like Dennis ,but up till now his plan cannot be brought to the draughts men for csrutiny and approval.You see these guys cannot get to milk out Skerrit like how they did to Patrick John so they must be against him.
But I must also remind dennis Joseph that if he was a Laborite he would have always known that the first Party to bring the thoughts of an International Airport to Dominicans was the Labor Party .The first location was at Bantridge the second was I believe Castle Bruce ,and the last location that was under observation was Crompton Point stretching from Eden Estate all the way to the Old Tarrish pit just over the WoodFordHill Estate over the beach.So the Labor Party always had thoughts of an International Airport Dennis never brought up those items in his so called nonsensical Bible
From reading Dennis' article, then reading ALL the comments thus far, I deduce from that, that majority of Dominicans are not thinkers. Dominicans operate on political party loyalty, rather than the hard facts. Personal feelings, sentiments and emotions get the best of ust…the truth is the truth, whether it comes from Dennis, Sheila, or Kelvin. Dennis' article cites logical examples of failed governmental strategies. Action, or the lack of it has plagued this nation for way too long – then stalwarts come along to try and lighten the burden – we throw stones and cry wolf in the process. It behooves us as a nation to take pride in our collective future, not party allegiance. Dennis does not take sides here, he is merely telling you ignorant jacks that we're in for one more round of ass whooping from the current admin and their communist body guards, if we're not careful, that's all. Good luck, Dominica.
"Dennis does not take sides here, he is merely telling you ignorant jacks that we're in for one more round of ass whooping from the current admin and their communist body guards, if we're not careful, that's all. Good luck, Dominica." …[email protected],C (Rastafari), perhaps you did not read the article but it is fully in support of the UWP position on the airport
and the geothermal project, a very bias article I must say.
@LATITUDED810 Well i listened to the meeting and it was a gem. These eloquent speakers lev by Linton, the learned Sr Fontaine Isaac Baptise and others, seem to be bringing the msessage to Dominicans the world over.They are bringing the message of how evil and corrupt the Labour Party is. This seem to be widely accepted by the majority of Dominicans abroad. I highly commend Team Dominica (UWP) for this effort. These men have really exposed the wickedness of this Skerrit led government, and MORE AND MORE I THINK THAT CHANGE IS COMING! This election is about taking back Dominica from the evil ones, and bringing it to good hands and proper leadership.
I LOVE TEAM DOMINICA. They speak the truth since they believe in the truth.
I would love to know where this rumour that UWP sent a letter to someone in the USA informing that we do not need and airport……I just find it a bit contradicting as UWP had gone ahead an purchase land for the construction of an airport and this we know is a fact as there is PROOF of this…..BUT WHERE IS THE PROOF THAT THEY SENT A LETTER TO THE USA INDICATING WE DO NOT NEED AN airport. All this propaganda needs to stop and if you want to debate or put a point forward let there be facts behind what you are presenting. SMH….. Just like DLP administration spreading that UWP are going to privatize the PMH if they get into gov.
put it so the can see
A Live Science analysis of U.S. Geological Survey data finds that April's first three weeks were the busiest stretch for earthquakes going back to at least the beginning of last year. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said April was a record month for warnings from the Alaska-based center.
How about May? There were 17 magnitude-6 or larger earthquakes globally between May 1 and May 20, following a busy April that saw 26 temblors in that same magnitude range. By comparison, there were only six earthquakes this big in February, eight in January and just two in December.
I have read many of your articles, and you have extreme abilities as a writer. You have written this article with such loud clarity that i would grade you with "A+". But really what is going on with Sklerrit presently is that he is failing, fading, wilting and cowering under LINTON'S pressure, and that of Team Dominica (UWP). Before the advent of Linton he used to pound his 8inches chest and pretend to be a warrior, but the man was NOTHING MORE THAN A COWARD. Thank you Linton and Team Dominica (UWP) for this EFFECTIVE AND FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION, THAT IS BEING MADE TO BEAR UPON this wicked, desperate, unconscionable and corrupt Labour Party. THEY SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE A RESPONSE.
You can actually feel that CHANGE IS IN THE AIR. Change that is aimed at liberating thousands of Dominica from the wicked clutches of a gang that have impoverished most Dominicans and convert them to beggars.
Keep on lacerating the backs of those incompetent and lazy leaders in this corrupt Labour Party, while i continue to listen.
Skerrit is on the defensive and has no reply. That is how he hides, stammers, stutters and even insults when he meet brilliant minds like those in the UWP!
"Then the Labor Party proceeded to do all through words and action to discourage we the people about an international airport and in particular by extending the Melville Hall Airport at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars which is stark 'in your face' proof that they had no intention of pursuing such a venture. When the Labor Party during their 50th Anniversary celebrations brought in Prime Minister Gonsalves of St Vincent to say to us that we do not need one, it was further evidence that the Labour government had no use for that kind of project."(Denis Joseph).
You know, I thought I was crazy now I am convinced that there are people in the Labor Party who are much more crazy than me. It is amazing that people are so, dumb that they have spent half billion dollars: which is five hundred ($500,000,000.00) dollars to add a few feet of runway to the old airport, and installed landing lights which have yet to serve any useful purpose.
These people are so ignorant, the International Airport the UWP was building cost just a little over three hundred ($300,000,000.00) million dollars. The Labor Party made the argument that they could have got one built for a fraction of what the UWP intended to spend, we are shocked to learn that they wasted two hundred million dollars more on the old municipal airport on the advise of Ralph Gonzalez when they could have built a new International Airport for less!
That is stupidity in its highest form.
If Dominicans go to the poles next election, and vote for these clowns, it will be all over for Dominica, and the people who vote for this Labor Party will deserve what they get! Half a Billion dollars, to just over three hundred million: this is unconscionable we have the most ignorant bunch of people in our government.
Note: $500,000,000.00 – $300,000,000.00 = $200,000,000.00; two hundred million dollars could have done lots of other things in the country, I cannot understand the mentality of the people we have in government, they are a bunch of ignorant dunce people!
Anybody who wish to hate me for this comment, are free to hate me,. In any event the taste of the pudding is in the eating, the facts are presented, only that the supporters of the Labor Party will find a way to down play let it be known the Labor Party has no intentions of building an International Airport, because if they intended, that five billion they wasted could have built an International Airport and two hundred million dollars would be left over.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
it matters May 21, 2014
Garcon, you always amaze me with your writing and reasoning. How did you arrive at five billion from five million? The fact of the matter is Dominica does not need an International airport – we simply cannot afford one period end of story. There is no industry, nor the occasional carnival, WCF & Jazz Festivals that can support an airport , which according to chatter could cost upwards of one BILLION dollars.
You see what I mean?
It appears as if you cannot even read, and understand; either that, or you are nothing more than a dunce idiot. Denis sated Half a billion dollars. Note: 1/2 indicates one half which 1/2 = .500. Half a of a billion must be five hundred million. I wrote in figures 500, 000,000.00 which is half of one billion. you are a are dunce. On million is written in figures like this 1,000,000 you must have six zeroes in a million the two last as .00 in the amount has no value. So if you need to write five hundred million it can only be write thus: 500,000,000.
A billion is ten hundred million dollars; so what are you babbling about you fool? I am tired of whipping my feet in the faces of idiots like you! Again I reiterate a computer cannot educate one who is a fool, who never excel in school, if you are a jackass an computer will do nothing besides expose your stupidity.
Garbage in garbage, that what it does!
And in the event you are wondering how to divide one by two, or the lessor, by the greator, you can only accomplish that by doing it exponentially in the negative, or simply by adding zeros as such 100/2 = 50.000, you move the point to the left of the five, and drop two of the zeros, by then you will arrived at 1/2 = .500.
Understand what you read before you tackle people who can kick your Butt, and make you stick you foot in your mouth. I hope you are more amazed now!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
it matters May 21, 2014
"Anybody who wish to hate me for this comment, are free to hate me,. In any event the taste of the pudding is in the eating, the facts are presented, only that the supporters of the Labor Party will find a way to down play let it be known the Labor Party has no intentions of building an International Airport, because if they intended, that five billion they wasted could have built an International Airport and two hundred million dollars would be left over."
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Your very own written words. Look, again and you will see where YOU WROTE FIVE BILLION.
Well, then if you see I error, it would be much better if you pointed the error out to me, I am human also you know; to error is to be very much human. I am not God, nor a god!
My whole argument is based on half a billion, five hundred million is equal to one half billion dollars.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
thank you so much Mr. Joseph
some DLP supporters can be so negative……if you were to tell one of dem happy birthday they would throw words back at you
All de talk of international airport…UWP is de ONLY party to actually make a serious move on it
someone mentioned free airport from US that was turned down bY UWP in 1998………YET……..they were still able to put work on de ground through their own efforts
DLP coming into office did not continue de efforts even though it is suggested that US wanted to assist
if de US see it as being feasible
UWP makes a move to bring it to reality
DLP let de idea rot in de bush
China couldnt help
venezuela coundnt help
Remember some say de US wanted to help eh
we in 2014 and DLP spreading toilets around
no highlight of Geothermal at St. Joe
so de next pie in de sky is an international airport
Go figure
Well said Mr Joseph and for those who spitefully choose to lack comprehension all because of what Mr Joseph wrote and that is belief I feel bad for u a man who got two ears and one mouth talks more than he listens is called a labourite be wise people choose right seek and go for the truth for the truth is right in this article.
Mr. Joseph! You know as well as I do that the uwp has no right to talk about an International Airport. Edison James the then leader of the uwp prevented us from having one when he wrote to the Americans and asked them do not interfere in our Domestic affairs when they promised to do the land work for the International Airport for us for free. Now whose head is under water! The proposed International airport by the uwp was serious flawed and was advised by a couple International expert bodies that they should not continue with it because Dominica would become the laughing stock of the Caribbean by having built such a flawed airport. You, Mr Joseph, should know that or are you just in denial?
Mr Joseph, I am going to pretend that you did not raise the questions you are raising about the geothermal project because you are only jumping on Athie's bandwagon because you all see this a a way of stunting the government's, and by extension the country's progress in a pathetic attempt to gain political power. Surely you endorse all the misinformation that is being spread all over the world by your party. Dragging your country into the mud but still trying to say you love your country. The truth is that all the concerns you have about the project have been and are still being addressed. It has been endorsed by various worldwide experts and reputable organizations who have nothing to gain by lying to our people. So yes Mr Joseph continue your political bias and keep your head buried in the sand.
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Mr. Joseph! You know as well as I do that the uwp has no right to talk about an International Airport.
Me; you know foolishness has it limits, you are contented with the way the Labor Party has kept the country down, and as a result more than 90% of the people of Dominica exists in outrageous poverty, and below the poverty line.
If you read Denis carefully, you will remember where he spoke about the head below the water, and breathing, or something to that effect. That is the same syndrome which have captivated you, now, do not take that as an insult, because I have been reading you, and I am not convinced that you are by any means ignorant. However, the statement you made above in the quote renders you more bias than Denis can ever be; he has defiantly analyze the situation and spoke the truth, only that because of your biasness, and political attitude you will never be able to accept his concept which is the truth.
To suggest that the UWP has no right to talk about International Airport is foolishness on your part; because assuming that Edison James wrote to anybody in the United States regarding the building of an International Airport or not, which I do not believe anyway; the facts are they the UWP, literally commenced construction on an International Airport in the country, even if you are fifteen years old you will remember The engineers and contractors from Trinidad were in Dominica working on the project which included the Secondary School in Wesley, when Athie Martin, the late Rosie Douglas, Ambrose George, the late Pierre Charles, and other members of the Labor Party chased them out of the country, and shut down the building of the International Airport, the same one the UWP, under the leadership of Edison James was building.
Skerrit may not have anything to do with it then since he was a mere boy, a junior member of the party, I blame him however for listening to the crap, and brainwashing he received from Ralph Gonzalez which has prevented him from going all out to build the airport, even after the Chines government told his administration, the only way Dominica will begin to make some progress, is when we build an International Airport. Another thing if you have documented proof of Edison writing to anybody telling them Dominica should not have an international airport, I suggest you make copy's of that letter available to DNO so that they can publish it to prove your argument is correct, unless you can do that, it must be recorded as a another lie perpetrated by the Labor Party.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Bunch of jokers,whom do you all want to even believe that UWP was going to build Airport.Let me say this first and foremost it was also just before Elections that this gimic was taking place in the woodford hill and Wesley area paying people for their lands for building Airport and to still have them cultivating on the lands,then during that same time the same roads that they said would be relocated and diverted Thousands of Dollars were being spent on re-habilitating those Roads in Woodfordhill and Wesley .Now with the conditions of the Roads between Pond Case and Melville at that time was in now able to accommodate the vast movement between these areas for any mobilization of any heavy equipment to move to and from,with the comparison of the Roads today one can admit that this is more suitable to move this pieces of Heavy Equipment and that should make Dominica ready to the construction of an International Airport.So with all this talk of UWP building Airport was just a smoke screen.If I may recall the DLP never declined to the construction of the Airport I have always been hearing that the country cannot afford it at the time ,so if now is the time let it be.There are now better infrastructure in place to accommodate it ,there is an alternative route via the EOL recently reconstructed highway,the reconstructed Canefield to Pond Case and then to MelvilleHall roads,the Roads between BoisDiable to Hatten Garden Via the Carib Reserve ,and especially all of the single lane Bridges between pond Case and Melville Hall by then will accommodate two lanes even the Deux Branch Bridge which is over Sixty-Four years old is being re-constructed to accommodate two lanes and the MelvilleHall Bridge that was in the eyes of the Parl. Rep. is now being re-constructed in to two lane bridge.So now these infrastructure are in place we should be ready for the International Airport
Mr. Joseph thanks again. A lot of us depend on you to express what we can't express in the way you do. Hard-headed people learn the hard way. Unfortunately, there are times when the innocent suffers through ignorance. Closed-minded people are difficult to understand and have the greater difficulty in accepting positive change. The opportunity is now available for those of us who care to make things right when that ink stains our fingers. We appreciate the enlightenment.
If it's true that Up wrote to the Americans and they stopped their funding of the airport, that tells me the Americans clearly saw good reason in the Uwp's letter to stop their funding, afterall the Americans were at that time clear allies of the Freedom Party.
That old chestnut just does not bring forth any truths in my opinion.
No, just understanding the messenger's message. Trying to put fear in the people. Sometime before the drilling we were having several of these earthquake activities going on in DA and the caribbean. Surely it wasn't the drilling that cause that. With no scientific evidence you are trying to play on our ignorance. Why behave this way? Do we have to sell our souls to the devil to ensure that we win at any cost?
The team Dominica came to St. Croix, yes I have it recorded. Mr. Baptiste said, the young women in Dominica have to prostitute themselves because they cannot find work under the Skeritt administration. Yes, Mr. Baptiste called the young women of Dominica Prostitutes' . Why would team Dominica say that young mothers in DA are waiting with their children where Skettit passes in order to get money. How do you accept such inhuman sexist comments.
denis joseph your article don't mean any thing, birds of same feather flock together. stop all the crying
Yes mr. Denise you have knock the nail on the head and i give you maxium support. The truth most be exposed. In Dominica we need more bold people no matter what party we support and move from the ignorant crisis, our politicians most be told of their stupid decisions and keep our heads high up.
As usual your articles are always deep and thought provoking Dennis, pity more people don't read and ponder on your words. The people who know better looking for their money under the table, does who don't know better, just sing for their supper making no effort to educate themselves. Instead they just limit their source of news to one medium and we know that the majority of these are one sided. Look I just read that Mervin Paul going to head DBS, look is now the DBS faith full will have no clue of what is really going on.
Back to the issue of lies and promises, Its not only the airport issue they keep promising every elections either.
In 2000 Ambrose promised the people of Kings Hill a multi- purpose resource center, in 2005 he again promised that it would be a reality, in 2009 he sang the same song and successfully fooled so many people who keep shouting his praises. Guess what? he held a meeting last week in Kings Hill to discuss and promise it again. Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.
I know from listening to persons from other constituencies that they too were promised similar improvements in their communities and are still awaiting them.
Other than patching potholes after months and months of complaining by community members we are hardly seeing anything done on a community level by this DLP administration. Is high time people open their eyes and stop swearing oaths of allegiance to political parties and take that oath of allegiance to country.
Mr. Joseph, thanks for the damage control article. However no amount of damage control can change the fact that the idea for an international airport for Dominica was not the idea of the UWP. To say otherwise would be an outright lie and you know it. If you were honest you would not imply that the DLP was not interested in building an international airport, the simple truth is that Dominica could not financially afford an international airport. The UWP tried and it quickly became a financial disaster even before the first instalment was made, pushing Dominica to the brink of financial chaos. You need to do better at your damage control, ignoring the facts won't help.
Very good article, however, the sad thing about the information which is disseminated is that most of our people do not read so they will not be privy to that wealth of information which will cause them to think and make informed decisions.
Some of our family and friends have caused party colours to blind us.


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I've been in a good number of training sessions and meetings the past few weeks, so in catching up on my reading, I saw this apropos post from Nicholas Carr about the multitasking virus. Josh Waitzkin (of Searching for Bobby Fischer fame) initiated the discussion on Tim Ferriss' blog. Christine Rosen also weighs in at The New Atlantis. The idea behind Josh Waitzkin's post, his experience watching today's students multitasking during a lecture from one of his favorite professors, has strong correlation to meeting behavior both in-person and online. We've all seen people bring their notebook PCs into a meeting. The rest of us are left wondering if they spend the time checking email, chatting in IM, and watching YouTube. Bringing a notebook PC to a meeting is akin to chewing gum in same, so if you bring one, plan on sharing. Last week I participated in a couple meetings in which all the participants hunkered down for a couple hours at a stretch in a conference room to work on a project. We all brought our notebooks, but we actively used Meeting Center to share content, co-edit and transfer files. It definitely streamlined the process. Michael Caton, Collaboration Evangelist, WebEx
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Despite being the resident classic arcade gaming guy here at Arcade Sushi, even I was surprised to learn that there was a laserdisc game featuring the comedian Gallagher. What the heck kind of game is that?
Gallagher's Gallery (a.k.a. Gallagher), came out in 1992 by American Laser Games, the creators of the Mad Dog McCree laserdisc games. It's an interactive shooting game where Gallagher taunts players in four different stages. After you complete the four stages, you then move on to the gallery, where you shooting rubber duckies, bowling pins and other items. Once you've completed those stages, you then challenge Gallagher in, "The Death By Melon" stage, where you try and stop him from smashing watermelons.
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"This is a totally different company than SCI," said Carroll, who worked for SCI as a director before purchasing what was then Lewellen Funeral Services in 2007.
The publicly traded SCI, also of Houston, is the largest funeral and deathcare company in the world, holding 12 percent of all funeral homes in the U.S., according to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA). The company owns 1,509 funeral homes and 476 cemeteries across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico and earned more than $3 billion in revenue in 2016, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Experimental Geography presents a panoptic view of this new practice through a wide range of mediums including interactive computer units, sound and video installations, photography, sculpture, and experimental cartography created by 18 artists or artist teams from six countries as well as the United States.
Geography can involve the study of specific histories, sites, and memories. Every estuary, landfill, and cul-de-sac has a story to tell. The task of the geographer is to alert us to what is directly in front of us, while the task of the experimental geographer — an amalgam of scientist, artist, and explorer — is to do so in a manner that deploys aesthetics, ambiguity, poetry, and a dash of empiricism.
The manifestations of "experimental geography" (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of buildings, and sound art of the breaths exhaled in running the evacuation route of Boston. In the hands of contemporary artists, the study of humanity's engagement with the earth's topography becomes a riddle best solved in experimental fashion.
The approaches used by the artists featured in Experimental Geography range from a poetic conflation of humanity and the earth to more empirical studies of our planet. Ilana Halperin melds immediate physical and personal actions with geologic contexts; she offers poetic conflations of differing fields of interest. Creating projects that are more empirically minded, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), a research organization, explores the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface, embracing a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling its mission. Using skill sets culled from the toolbox of geography, the work re-familiarizes the viewer with the overlooked American landscape, including man-made islands, submerged cities, traffic in Los Angeles, and the broadcast antennas in the San Gabriel Mountains, and other details drawn from everyday experience.
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Last Friday, Health Occupation Students of America Organization, part of the Livingston Area Career Center, held its second annual food drive with the goal of providing non-perishable foods and monetary donations to the Livingston County Community Food Pantry.
Health science instructor at LACC and the HOSA sponsor Ruth Rodino said last year she and the HOSA students collected 200 pounds of food and around $75 in donations. This year, donations were down at $61.44, but food donations were up significantly, with a total of 887 pounds of donated items. This bounty was presented by HOSA members to the food pantry Nov. 16.
The students helped give to the food pantry and in return they received a life lesson, Rodino said.
"The kids had no clue, they hadn't really had that need in their own lives," said Rodino. "So to see this amount of food being given away to families was awesome for them."
On Nov. 9, Rodino said her students put up posters around the school advertising a hat day, in which students could pay three food items or $2 and they would be allowed to wear a hat for the day (usually an offense on school grounds). At the same time, Rodino and her students in the Certified Nursing Assistance program challenged the rest of the LACC classes to see who could raise the most food donations.
"I think sometimes if you have an incentive, kids are more apt to do something,' said Rodino, who challenged her own classes to donate enough to fill the PTHS Marching Indians' music trailer.
Rodino didn't believe the goal would be met, let alone surpassed, but that is what happened this year.
" With the amount of food that we did have, we were left with the question of how we would get it all over to the food pantry. We loaded a lot of stuff in there (the trailer) and one of my students had a full car. Just getting that amount of food items transported was a big undertaking."
Rodino said she feels its necessary to impress upon the students the importance of being community members. She believes in selflessness, a "not always about me" kind of mentality and in showing her students that life happens outside of the classroom, too.
"They do go to a clinical site and get those hands-on skills, but I don't think students always realize what all is outside their world," said Rodino. "At the end of the day, it was so good to see my students' expressions. They were just in awe and it was awesome to see the learning process come to life for them. It's not always what you read in books or talk about in class, it's about that world learning and world experience that really sticks with them."
After congratulations from both LACC Director Tera Graves and PTHS Principal Eric Bohm on a job well done, Rodino said she hopes the focus of the spotlight will be on the students who donated and put everything together. She hopes her students have come away with the fact that their involvement in the community matters and as they progress in their careers and continue on in education, she hopes they will see places where they can contribute to whatever community they are a part of.
"I was just a coordinator," said Rodino. "It was great to be recognized and we had to have permission to wear the hats, but I had several teachers who told me 'good job' but I wished they were telling that to the students. I told them I was so proud of them for what they did and I am looking forward to keeping this tradition going for years to come."
Students organize food pantry drive
Last Friday, Health Occupation Students of America Organization, part of the Livingston Area Career Center, held its second annual food drive with the goal of providing non-perishable foods and monetary donations to the Livingston County Community Food Pantry.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Out in the hallway, where the Vancouver Canucks brought Henrik Sedin to be interviewed because the tiny visitors' locker room at HP Pavilion couldn't have handled the crush, reporters crowded around the captain and ... how to put this? He said a bad word.
It rhymed with woolspit.
Coming from this thoroughly decent gentleman, it was as out of character as ... well, as his brother Daniel earning a post-game, game misconduct penalty for abusive language, for telling referee Kelly Sutherland what he thought of the boarding penalty in overtime that cost the Canucks a 4-3, season-ending decision Tuesday night at the hands of the San Jose Sharks.
No matter how you feel about the Canucks, the idea that their season, and almost inarguably their era of excellence, should end on an undeserved penalty to one of the most decent human beings in the game is damned poor symbolism.
In the hall, Henrik stood up for Daniel, just as Danny would have done for Hank had the roles been reversed. Hardly surprising, considering that these magnificent twins are so joined at the hip that each took exactly the same 905 games — staggered, because Henrik has been an iron man and Daniel has had a broken leg and a concussion — to surpass the points total of the Canucks' previous franchise scoring leader, Markus Naslund.
And the call WAS terrible. Shoulder to shoulder as they chased the puck, Daniel was just stronger on his skates, and Sharks' Tommy Wingels veered off-balance and fell badly into the boards.
Wednesday morning, when he woke up in his hotel room, Sutherland would no doubt be seeing the highlights on TV and thinking: "Man, I blew that one." He'd probably be hearing from the league, too, and if there is any conscience in the NHL offices, sitting out the rest of the playoffs.
Conspiracy theorists will suggest that Sutherland had it in for the Canucks because of coach Alain Vigneault's comments about his work after a Vigneault bench minor — again, for abusive language — cost his team a game earlier this season. The head coach swore (not literally) that all he had said was "That's an elbow!" and Sutherland assessed the penalty. A livid Vigneault railed post-game that referees ought to be held accountable for their screwups, the same way players and coaches are. That wouldn't have gone over well.
Still, the idea of a vendetta on this scale is probably a stretch. Not that referees haven't made the Canucks pay for their past sins — flopping, head-snapping, chirping; parts of their game that the chief offenders of yore, Alex Burrows and Ryan Kesler and Max Lapierre have worked hard to leave behind, some harder than others. The zebras have long memories, and as terrific a player as Burrows is, officials may never cut him a break if he plays until he's 40.
But that it happened to one of the twins was cruel and unusual punishment.
They are not quite choirboys, but the NHL may have no more honest players. They have been mocked for their red-headed, fringe-bearded, buzz-cut sameness, derided as soft, called "sisters" for their refusal to fight — and have just kept plugging away.
Even when the law let them down, as in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final, when Boston's Brad Marchand speed-bagged Daniel's head five or six times while a referee — Kelly Sutherland; how's that for coincidence? — stood by and watched it happen, the twins stayed classy.
They knew, they have always known, that in some ways they would forever be judged just a little more harshly because of being non-violent people in a violent game.
"The referees are doing a good job," Daniel said, after that 2011 final debacle, when the Bruins simply pushed the Canucks out of the game.
"They're going to call what they see. We play hard whistle to whistle and whatever happens, happens. Like I've said before, if we start fighting back and throwing punches, that's when [they say] we're frustrated.
"So for us, it's a lose-lose situation. We're either too soft or we're frustrated. That's the way it is."
The key to their success in those days, the key to their failure in that final and in these playoffs, is that the Canucks' power play can no longer make the opposition pay for taking physical liberties.
"I've always said if teams want to play you like that, we always scored on the power play, which made them stop," Daniel said. "So it was up to us to make them pay, and we couldn't do that."
If it was true in June of 2011, it's doubly true in May of 2013.
Their cycling, telepathic game was never better than in that window of opportunity following the 2004-05 lockout when, for a few years, the NHL decided referees would be mandated to call the rules as written. What a concept.
That window, like that of the Sedins and the Canucks, is now closed. It is no coincidence, that when the interference standard was relaxed and the rodeo returned, the twins' effectiveness waned.
For a short time, a two-headed show of guile and sleight-of-hand the likes of which hockey had never seen before from a pair of twins was made possible by a rare period of clarity — forced clarity, of course, when the league was hoping to win back its fans after losing an entire season to greed.
A lot of factors — poor trades and drafts leading to a lack of a supporting cast, advancing age, injuries to forwards that ate up a disproportionate share of the season — contributed to the fading of that act. But the NHL has its share of the responsibility, too.
Like the absurd ending of Game 4 on Tuesday night, it's not something of which the league should be terribly proud.


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For most, WrestleMania is WWE's marquee show of the year. But in terms of excitement and unpredictability, nothing tops the Royal Rumble.
Held each January, the Rumble has earned a rightful reputation for being the true one night where the "anything can happen in the WWE" mantra holds true.
Although WrestleMania brings the big name, the glitz, the glamour, the giant, sold out caverns of stadiums, it's the Royal Rumble which sets the pace and kicks off the Road to WrestleMania.
Although very few actual matches from the Rumble itself remain memorable over the years, the Royal Rumble match itself is one of the most exciting matches WWE puts on each year.
For me, some of my most memorable moments as a wrestling fan come from watching the Royal Rumble. How can we forget Ric Flair's incredible performance in the 1992 Rumble (made stronger and even more memorable by Bobby Heenan's commentary)? Or how about John Cena's surprise return in 2008? Or Edge's in 2010? And we can't forget the finishes of the 1994 and 2005, which set up the start of new eras in the company (Shawn Michaels winning in 1994 and Batista and John Cena in 2005).
The Rumble remains memorable, though, for its surprise entrants, which have really begun making the Rumble a must-see event. On one hand, you have the legends returning. My two favorites: Jimmy Snuka and Roddy Piper entering back-to-back in the 2008 Rumble at Madison Square Garden, and Jim Duggan entering to a huge ovation in 2009. Watching these back in recent weeks, what's really funny is watching The Undertaker sell for Snuka and Duggan in these matches.
Then on the other hand, you have superstars returning. Who could ever forget the giant ovation for Chris Jericho last year, when he entered at No. 2? Or the aforementioned Edge in 2010, Cena in 2008, or the Big Show in 2001?
And even though some might not win the Rumble, we often get a look at what's ahead for WrestleMania. In 2004, Brock Lesnar ran in and eliminated Goldberg, setting up their match, and in 2005, Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle had a big run-in which led to their Mania classic.
That's why, this Sunday, I am going to be in my recliner, feet up, chicken wings in my hands, enjoying what is going to be a great show.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Watch for a Royal Rumble preview here on SLAM! Wrestling on Sunday, as well as the PPV report after the show and a photo gallery by ace photographer Mike Mastrandrea on Monday morning.
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The Pettersson D500X Bat Detector is an ultrasound recording unit intended for long-term, unattended recording of bat calls. In contrast to time expansion bat detectors, the D500X records full-spectrum ultrasound in real time with virtually no gaps between recordings. The recorder is equipped with four slots for CF cards, which typically makes it possible to leave the unit in the field for more than a month. The triggering system allows the device to automatically start recording as a sound is detected.
The recording length can be selected in steps from 0.3 up to 20 seconds. In order not to fill the card too fast at locations with high activity, a minimum time between two recordings can be applied. The recorder is normally operated in a low-power mode with no pre-trigger (i.e. the recording starts as the sound exceeds the chosen threshold level), but both pre-and post-trigger functions are available in the standard (not low-power) mode. The D500X stores the bat calls in time stamped wav files.
The D500X comes in a rugged and weather-protected aluminium housing.
Various accessories are available, such as an external microphone with extension cable up to 100 m and a soft protection case with hooks to hang the unit in e.g. a tree.
This item is usually despatched within 5 days.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Frank Maloney, mentor of former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, has retired after spending more than 30 years in boxing as a manager and promoter.
"For the last year I have gradually fallen out of love with boxing and my passion has been missing," the 60-year-old Maloney said in a news release on Thursday.
"I did much soul searching over the summer and my heart is no longer in the sport that I loved so much. The sport has changed so much over the last few years."
Briton Lewis was world champion when he retired from the ring in 2004, having won 41 of his 44 fights.
Writing by Tony Jimenez; editing by Ken Ferris


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By Chris Whitaker, The Americus Times-Recorder
Anthony Sargent scored 23 points, and Marcus Scott added 18 as Georgia Southwestern beat Columbus State, 77-74, at the Storm Dome on Monday night.
It was the Hurricanes' fourth win in six tries against the Cougars.
GSW (6-8, 3-5 PBC) scored the first 11 points of the game and eventually built a 16-point lead in the second half (47-31) before Columbus State (4-9, 2-5) rallied to tie the game at 66 with just under three minutes remaining.
The Hurricanes answered with a 9-2 run before holding on for the win.
"I thought we played with a real sense of purpose," said coach Mike Leeder. "The last few possessions we were making our free throws or dunking the ball. We hit a stretch where we were having jump shots, and they got back in the game. We went back to driving to the basket and got the foul or a layup and dunk."
The sense of purpose came after what Leeder described as the worst performance any of his teams at GSW on Saturday when it lost to then-winless in the conference UNC Pembroke.
"We came in Sunday and said we weren't going to talk about (Pembroke)," said Leeder. "We had a fantastic practice and the 45 minutes this morning were great."
The Hurricanes started the game on a 11-0 run and never trailed; they led 42-29 at the half.
Leeder said one big difference was having Damayrius Adside back on the floor after missing the last two games. He had four assists in 21 minutes, and his lone basket of the game put GSW ahead 63-57.
"It was huge to have him back in the rotation," said Leeder. "He did pretty good for not playing in a week."
Columbus shot 44 percent in the first half, but Leeder said it was the best defensive half his team has played this season. Rick Russell got in early foul trouble in the second half, and that's when the Cougars made their move.
"He's always quarterbacking things for us defensively," said Leeder, "and with him not playing as much in the second half certainly hurt."
Sargent was 7 of 17 from the floor and made 2 of 7 3-pointers while going 7-for-8 at the free-throw line. He and Scott combined for 28 points in the first half.
Chris Rawls had 11 points and eight rebounds, but it was his energy down the stretch - along with the crowd noise - that pushed the Hurricanes on.
Sean Miller scored 18, and Javarus Stewart had 14. Chris Telesford and Carlos Wright each scored 12 for the Cougars.
The win has them back in the middle of the pack after Clayton State lost again, this time a 68-67 defeat against Georgia College.
"We're one game up from last, and that shows the balance of the league," said Leeder. "Aiken, Armstrong and Augusta are head and shoulders above everybody else, and with Georgia College here on Wednesday, it puts such a premium on defending your home floor."
Tip-off for Wednesday's home game with GCSU is set for 7:30 p.m.
PICTURED: Anthony Sargent
PHOTO BY: Chris Fenn


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Firefighters across the Bay Area are on high alert as rising temperatures and strong winds fueled several blazes Wednesday in the North Bay, and officials kept an eye out for the tiny spark that could lead to disaster in the South Bay or East Bay.
A dry winter and spring led state fire officials to announce last week that this year's fire season will be unusually long and potentially dangerous.
Temperatures this week are expected to peak Thursday, hitting the 100-degree mark in some Bay Area communities and prompting some departments to increase daily staffing, post fire danger signs in regional parks and remind residents in fire-danger zones to take serious steps to protect their property.
Thursday's forecast calls for a high of 86 in downtown San Francisco; 89 in San Mateo; 92 in San Jose; 94 in Gilroy; and 95 in Livermore. Temperatures are 20 degrees higher than normal for this time of year, said Will Pi, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Cal Fire officials say wildland fires are up 61 percent through the first four months of the year, caused primarily by the dry winter.
"In the last couple of days, we've seen a significant increase above what would have already been a very high number of fires this year," said Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.
On Wednesday, the heat fueled three wildfires that burned in Wine Country; a handful of minor fires were reported in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, but crews pounced on them quickly, and none caused any reported damage by Wednesday evening.
About 280 firefighters were divided between a Sonoma County fire and two others in Napa County. Crews from Alameda County Fire as well as Livermore-Pleasanton Fire, Hayward and Fremont had all been dispatched to help fight the Yellow Fire in Sonoma County.
Cal Fire has banned open residential burns in Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa San Mateo, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.
The agency, which oversees much of the state's wildfire coverage, also ramped up its seasonal firefighting staffing ahead of schedule.
"We've also increased the department's daily staffing level so we had additional firefighters and equipment ready to respond," Berlant said. "Obviously they were needed because we had a rash of fires break out overnight."
The biggest of the three North Bay blazes was the Yellow Fire, which by Wednesday had burned at least 125 acres of oak woodland and rolling hills east of Healdsburg in Knight Valley and was 50 percent contained. There were also smaller fires burning north of Napa and near the Schramsberg Vineyards, Berlant said.
The National Weather Service issued a red-flag warning for the East Bay hills and the Diablo Range beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday — signaling an earlier start than normal to this year's fire season in the Bay Area, a local fire marshal said.
The warning, which was set to end at noon Thursday, comes after an unseasonably dry April that caused vegetation in the area to turn brown quickly. Division Chief Jim Crawford of Cal Fire's Santa Clara County unit said the red-flag warning applied mainly to Bay Area land above 1,000 feet, where winds are higher but "dryness reaches down to the valley floor."
"There are still a lot of opportunities to have fires break out in other areas," he said.
He said that in the South Bay and East Bay areas, they've doubled engine companies from three to six and have 15 extra firefighters staffed throughout. They've also got a helicopter and bulldozers at the ready.
Crawford said this week was a transitional week for Cal Fire, with 42 extra seasonal firefighters coming in for training. He said they took an extra step to make sure those crews are ready to break away from training and join in any necessary firefighting.
Fire personnel also posted "barbecue suspension" signs in parks throughout the region this week. On Wednesday, fire danger signs were posted at Garin Regional Park in Hayward and Mt. Diablo State Park in Contra Costa County.
With fire danger peaking early in the year, fire officials are asking residents to be proactive in protecting their homes and community.
"The most important person in protecting a house from wildfire is not a firefighter, but the property owner," said Contra Costa County Fire Marshal Lewis Broschard.
Homeowners who live on the edge of open spaces are asked to maintain at least 100 feet of defensible space between their home and the wildland area. They're also being asked to avoid using power tools as much as possible.
Kristy Hubbard, who has lived next to Briones Regional Park near Martinez for more than 20 years, said fire season is "just another part of the year" but that she and her family were well prepared.
"We have never had to worry," she said with a smile as she knocked on her wood bannister."
Staff writers Eric Kurhi and Katie Nelson contributed to this report. Contact Natalie Neysa Alund at 510-293-2469. Follow her at Twitter.com/nataliealund.


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The Education Minister put out this statement today:
Hekia Parata
Minister thanks school communities
Education Minister Hekia Parata would like to thank the 35 school communities in greater Christchurch who took the time to meet with her over the last two weeks.
Ms Parata visited 35 of the 37 schools proposed for closure or merger as part of the Government's Education Renewal Plan.
"I would like to thank those schools' communities for their engagement, generosity of spirit, and commitment to their children's educational future. I got a real sense of each community and their hopes and plans for their children's education.
"Throughout the meetings, some schools were emphatic that they did not want the timeframe to be extended, others wanted it to be extended to various times, and one school asked for a 5-year moratorium. Of the 35 schools, there was no consensus.
"It was apparent to me that a lot of the schools were getting on with their submissions and were seeking certainty.''
Ms Parata says she has decided to extend the consultation timeframe for the Aranui cluster only.
"Due to the complexity of the Aranui cluster, the fact that there is one proposal for all five schools and that the creation of a new facility is not proposed until after 2017, I have decided to extend the timeframe for their submissions until March 7, 2013.''
All other schools' submissions on their proposals are due on the current timeframe of December 7, 2012. The Ministry of Education has already received submissions from three schools. The Minister will advise boards of her decisions in mid-February 2013. Work on the cluster plans is not due until mid-2013.
Of the 215 schools across greater Christchurch, 13 are proposed for closure and 18 for merger. It is also proposed five Aranui schools will form a new Year 1-13 campus and two Banks Peninsula schools will become attached to the Akaroa Area School while remaining on their own sites.
"Our Government has committed $1 billion to rebuilding the education sector in greater Christchurch over the next 10 years. It's not simply about putting back what was there, but focusing on what can be done better. There is every opportunity for Christchurch to become a leading education city," Ms Parata says.


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Went to the drag strip, caught a video of the Heavy Hauler:
Here's one of my slow '88
14.727 @ 90.23mph 1/4
9.301 @ 73.04mph 1/8
1.982 60'
Stock '68 455 on stock VIN9 exhaust with a Y-pipe and Cat, gained a measly .2 sec in the 1/4 switching to and 8.5" w/3.42 gears from a 7.5" w/3.08 gears but I know my '60 and 1/8 times increased, need to dig up the old slips.
Car could really use some headers and better exhaust to wake it up a bit, it's quick off the line but chokes at the top end.
Probably could go into the 13's with exhaust upgrade alone.


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mediaworkz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 6 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
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people looking to buy foreclosure properties
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- Optional additional copy: "Compare foreclosure properties online"
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Jimmi24 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Empire Steals
We put together a daily deal for entrepreneurs and internet marketers. Anything from SEO services to software to stock images, if it will help you build your online business, we'll bring it to you at a smoking deal.
Every entrepreneur dreams of building an empire and we want to help them do that one deal at a time. We need a logo that says who we are and exudes success.
We are a blank slate at this point and open to many different ideas about the look and feel of the logo.
Entrepreneurs and internet marketers. These guys are VERY web savvy and have seen every sales pitch under the sun.
I'd like the logo and design to appeal to web design savvy people. Nothing too over the top cartoony and cheesy but not too serious either.
I sound like a dating profile that can't decide.... not tall but not short. I hope you get the idea.
I would like more than just the company name written in a fancy font. The logo should include a meaningful symbol related to the industry, name, or making money (no dollar signs though).
I like clean designs with a modern look and feel.
The final product will need to be delivered in the following formats:
- vector file
- jpeg (small, medium, large)
- gif
- png
- favicon image for browser tabs
Please let me know if you have any questions at all. I would be glad to clarify on any aspect of the project.
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