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- AMC Guided Adventures
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Since 2007, AMC Trail Crew members have built new backpacking shelters in the White Mountain National Forest at Kinsman Pond, Eliza Brook, and Garfield Ridge. This spring, with assistance from members of the Cohos Trail Association, they added another shelter to that list—not in the forest but in central New Hampshire. Indoors.
You can venture inside this full-size, Adirondack-style log shelter at Plymouth State University's Museum of the White Mountains, in Plymouth, N.H., where it serves as the centerpiece of a new exhibit. Trail Clubs: Connecting People with the Mountains is set to run through March 6, 2016.
The shelter—which arrived at the museum in more than two dozen pieces before being assembled in half of a day by eight to 10 current and former trail crew members, museum staff, and volunteers—was donated by John Nininger of The Wooden House Company, based in Wells River, Vt., Nininger worked on AMC's trail crew and as a shelter caretaker in the 1970s.
The exhibit celebrates the trail clubs, as well as the professional and volunteer trail stewards, who created and continue to maintain the region's extensive trail networks. Additional exhibit components include trail signs; hiker registers, such as a stretched goatskin version from the Randolph Mountain Club's Crag Camp; hiking guides and maps; crosscut and bow saws from the Chocorua Mountain Club; and a wood-and-canvas AMC packboard.
A companion booklet recognizes the work of these and other area organizations, including the Wonalancet Out Door Club, Chatham Trails Association, Dartmouth Outing Club, Squam Lakes Association, Trailwrights, and Waterville Valley Athletic and Improvement Association. "This variety brings enormous strength to the enduring work of mountain stewardship," writes the Randolph Mountain Club's Doug Mayer in his introduction.
The booklet also recognizes the clubs' longtime partnership with the White Mountain National Forest, as well as state agencies, such as the New Hampshire Division of Forests & Lands and Division of Parks & Recreation, and private organizations such as the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, for their roles in trail stewardship.
Catherine Amidon, the museum's director and a former AMC hut croo member, oversaw the exhibit's creation, along with curators Ben Amsden, director of the PSU Center for Rural Partnerships; Mike Dickerman, publisher of Bondcliff Books; and Steve Smith, owner of the Mountain Wanderer Map and Book Store. (The latter two also edit AMC's White Mountain Guide.)
Given that it's built of cedar, the exhibit's log shelter should survive the elements for quite some time—and it will have that opportunity. When the exhibit closes, the Cohos Trail Association plans to transport and reinstall the shelter alongside the club's namesake northern New Hampshire trail, for use by hikers and backpackers.
Find hours and directions, as well as more details about the "Trail Clubs" exhibit, at the Museum of the White Mountains website or call 603-535-3210.


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Saturday's NFL: Jets' C.J. Mosley reportedly opting out of season
New York — New York Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley has opted out of playing this season because of family health concerns, two people familiar with the decision told the Associated Press.
The 28-year-old Mosley was entering his second season with New York after signing as a free agent in 2019 following five years in Baltimore. He played in just two games last year for the Jets while dealing with a groin/core muscle injury.
The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Saturday because the team hadn't announced Mosley's decision. ESPN first reported that Mosley was opting out.
Mosley joins a growing list of players who are choosing to not play this season — if there is a season — amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
He is the second Jets player to opt out of the season. Offensive lineman Leo Koloamatangi also decided earlier this week to not play this year.
New England has had several players do so, including star linebacker Dont'a Hightower. Chiefs starting running back Damien Williams, a key to their Super Bowl run last season, said he wouldn't play. Giants tackle Nate Solder is also among those opting out.
The decision by Mosley leaves the Jets without arguably their two best defensive players. New York traded safety Jamal Adams to Seattle last Saturday along with a 2022 fourth-round draft pick for safety Bradley McDougald, first-rounders in 2021 and 2022, and a third-rounder in 2021.
Mosley signed a five-year, $85 million contract with the Jets in March 2019, but his decision means the deal will now run through the 2024 season instead of 2023.
He was off to a great start in his regular-season debut with New York when he got hurt. He had five tackles and intercepted a pass from Buffalo's Josh Allen and returned it for a touchdown in the opener. But, he injured his groin late in the third quarter of the game while breaking up a pass.
Mosley missed the next four games before coming back against New England. He acknowledged he still wasn't totally healthy in that game, and missed the rest of the season before eventually having surgery in December.
Mosley said in June he had been "cleared for everything" and was looking forward to having no limitations during training camp. So, this was likely an extremely tough decision to make for Mosley.
Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams will now have to plan his defense to be without Mosley, something he needed to do for much of last season. One positive is the Jets have several backups who saw lots of playing time a year ago in Mosley's absence.
Neville Hewitt, James Burgess, Blake Cashman, B.J. Bello and newcomer Patrick Onwuasor — who replaced Mosley in Baltimore last year — could all be in the mix to help make up for the loss of the four-time Pro Bowl selection.
The Jets also have veteran Avery Williamson returning from a torn ACL that sidelined him for all of last season. He was placed on the active/physically unable to perform list earlier this week but is expected to be ready to play when the regular season begins.
There had been some speculation that New York could cut Williamson, who's due to make $8.5 million against the salary cap this season. But Mosley's decision to opt out will likely mean Williamson will remain on the roster — and likely take over as the signal-calling quarterback on defense.
Brees takes a stand
Saints quarterback Drew Brees says he'll remain standing for "The Star Spangled Banner," but professed respect and support for those who protest racism and social injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.
"I'll always stand for the flag because of what it means to me and to honor all those who have sacrificed, who have served and died for our country, and all those who have struggled to move this country forward," Brees said in a conference call with reporters to discuss the onset of training camp.
"I acknowledge and respect anyone who chooses to kneel or any other form of peaceful protest to bring attention to social injustice and systemic racism that so many have endured and continue to endure in our country," Brees continued, adding that he "always will support and advocate for Black and brown communities in the fight for social justice."
The 41-year-old Brees, who is the NFL's all-time leader in yards passing, completions and touchdowns, is entering his 20th NFL season and 15th with the New Orleans Saints.
But before he even took a question, Brees opened the conference call with a statement about his introspection since early June, when he became seen by many as a symbol of white privilege for saying he would never approve of anyone disrespecting the flag by kneeling during the anthem. Those comments came while protests were proliferating across the country in response to a white Minneapolis police officer's video-recorded killing of George Floyd.
Brees faced a scathing backlash from several current and former Black teammates and other high-profile athletes such as LeBron James.
But the quarterback apologized soon afterward and said he realizes now that protesting by kneeling during the anthem, initiated by former San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick in 2016, was never about the flag.
Bosa's big bucks
Joey Bosa has become the NFL's highest-paid defensive player after signing a five-year contract extension with the Chargers. The five-year extension is worth $135 million, which includes $78 million guaranteed at signing and $102 million overall. The deal eclipses the five-year, $125-million extension that Cleveland's Myles Garrett signed two weeks ago. That contract included $100 million guaranteed for Garrett, a defensive end who was the top pick in 2017.
Extra points
After demanding a trade last month, Browns tight end David Njoku has changed his mind and tweeted, "I'm all in Cleveland. Time to work." Apparently unhappy that the Browns signed free agent Pro Bowl tight end Austin Hooper and then drafted Florida Atlantic tight end Harrison Bryant this spring, the 2017 first-round draft pick had his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, ask the Browns to deal him to another team.
... The Cowboys released Kai Forbath, clearing the way for Greg Zuerlein to be their kicker in 2020. Forbath signed a one-year contract in March after making all 10 kicks as the midseason replacement for a struggling Brett Maher in 2019.
... Safety Roderic Teamer and wide receiver Andre Patton were among six players released by the Chargers on Saturday
... Less than a week after left tackle Nate Solder opted out of the season, the Giants extended the contract of third-year tackle Nick Gates. The two-year extension is worth at least $6 million. The team also signed kicker Chandler Catanzaro.
... Jaguars defensive end/special teams standout Lerentee McCray has opted out of the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic.


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It's high time to admit (AMD) to have an A8-7680 processor in your portfolio, which I bought at official Polish distribution. This is an authentic AMD processor. It's high time to publish the official information about it on amd.com and immediately improve the graphics card drivers for Windows so that they work properly. As of today Radeon driver both the one automatically installed with Windows Update and the latest available 19.1.1 it does not work at all on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Bluescreen appears when installing, on a clean installation of Windows 10 bluescreen is already on the installation of drivers, and then on average every second run. On Windows 7 after installing the driver bluescreen appears every time. I don't write here about 3 frames per second in some game but about the operation of a brand new processor. Although how to work something that AMD doesn't admit and in principle Radeon drivers don't support this integrated R7 card ;-) ... because it doesn't exist :-). In the case of the open source amdgpu driver on Linux everything works properly. I attach a decoded kernel memory dump from Windows 10.
Is this the only place where I can report this type of problem to AMD?
If it's a hardware problem then I'm sorry for the reason in advance, but when you buy a processor, it's expected that the manufacturer will admit to it and provide drivers that at least the desktop of Windows will display stable :-).


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As an Arbiter Bibendi by day, I treat this as a fun table of friends from which I only really wish to sip and sup and mention some of the wines I truly enjoy or...
2015 is stunning for a balance seldom found from the lively Sangiovese -one which could certainly bring out the best from just about any autumnal fare but go it alone as a glass by itself nicely. — 2 years ago
Fragrant and flavorsome this is a Syrah of thick skinned berries, savor, density and yet lift combined by stature and grace. — 4 years ago
Nicholas had this 4 years ago
Mineral and textural, trembling and penetrating, this is a fencer's wine of parry/riposte, advance/retreat, discipline/berserk. Extraordinary! — 4 years ago
Delightful Oregonian Brut Nature Rosé made from Pinot Meunier in a fragrant, bright pink apple cider expression, chutney, and peachy mango pickle. Beguiling and every bit as charming as it is exotic. Raising this glass to the West —and the wondrous Lett family. À santé! — 3 years ago
Fresh off the maiden delivery this is bright and bracing and despite the edgy hop notes and gunflint of a little shocky state having just landed this is effusive and charming with ruby grapefruit and fresh firm strawberries. A charming glass as ever. — 4 years ago
Good grief… Words fail. Spectacular. — 4 years ago
Simply delicious! — 3 years ago
Lovely red of graceful depth, with brambly berried fruit, the lift of red plum skins, and fresh and nimble tannins. A delight. — 3 years ago
Bright and buoyant this is woodsy and resinous but bright and taut with red fruit; pomegranate, red cherries, cinnamon bark, dried orange peels all combine to great effect -an elegant expression of Les Serpentières. — 4 years ago


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Family buttons
When I got in trouble for pushing -2's buttons, I pictured something like the Great Glass Elevator inside her brain. There's the one for bossing her around. Being judgmental. Snobby. There's hot. There's bothered. The funny thing is that the only thing I really remember us disagreeing about was Barbie & the Rockers vs. Jem & the Holograms.
I talk almost every day with her now, trading micro-updates in bursts of text for hours a day. And it's not just OMG did you see this YouTube video, but When Did You and Jim Start Talking About Marriage, and I'm Nervous About Getting The Grandchildren Conversation conversations. I Think I could See Myself in New York (like me!) and I Bought Used Furniture Online and Saw an Indie Band in Concert (like her!) conversations. Our relationship has grown closer through cyberspace, but no doubt buffered by 2.5 hours of geography.
So we are three hours into our road trip to Glens Falls when I push -2's buttons for the first time, with what I thought was a pretty witty retort. Bossy. Judgmental. Snobby. And then I Further Do The Wrong Thing by deflecting with humor — 3 hours being a personal best (many more hours if you include the night before when she spent the night at my house with no insults!) — instead of apologizing. We cover the miles in silence and when I try to explain what I meant, funny!, I get nowhere. We travel in silence while I think about how much I like think I've changed, when I have someone telling me the same things years later. Thoughtful. Open-minded. Still sarcastic. At hour four we are less than 30 minutes away from picking up 11 and 7 at the Albany airport when we slow and then come to a complete stand-still traffic jam. So, great. We're fighting and now we're not moving.
It just so happens that there is one thing I absolutely love to do in the car and that is perfect for traffic jams. Pluck my eyebrows. (I am nothing if not good for finding opportunity out of bad situations) So I am inspecting my face in the pulldown mirror, which -2 immediately tells me is disgusting. Another button. I've been a Picker my entire life: picking at cuticles, scabs, zits, you name it, and -2 has always been utterly grossed out by it. Except this time. It may have been the ennui, or the reflection off two feet of snow creating the perfect lighting but I was able to convince -2 to take a look in her own drop down mirror. A minute later she had the contents of her entire toiletry kit dumped out on her lap and she shows me the bronzer she uses on her face. Bronzer! Somewhere in here, she brings up this weirdo show that she loved when we were younger, and before I can even speak, I am singing the entire theme song to Zoobilee Zoo, which is blowing my mind because I never even watched it with her. She is even more shocked than I am; we both have tears streaming down our faces.
Upon picking our brothers up at the airport 30 minutes after their plane landed, I can only assume that they were so overjoyed to hear that we were speaking to each other that is why they did not notice and comment on how spectacular both our eyebrows were shaped and filled in.
At the corner coffee shop the next morning, we switch our orders for Here and set up the House Scrabble set for four. Someone asks if we can play proper nouns and everyone looks to me as the default. Hey, I can play casual, and we establish "Glens Falls rules" where anything goes as long as it's a Real word somewhere. The coffee is delicious and as I look out at the gorgeous Glen Street buildings blanketed in snow I almost forget that we're here for a funeral. A misspelled word appears on the board, which I point out with the offer of a do-over. I can't offer you a transcript, because I can't even remember what I said, except that it generated quite a response from all three of them. -2 asks the boys to See What I Put Up With? I turn to 7, who can always be counted on as my ally, but who is staring at his tiles, avoiding eye contact. 11 tells me to re-examine my approach. Ouch. And here, I thought I was being gracious with the do-over. You push enough buttons, something's gonna snap. Instead of trying to look nice, it's time to make it.
7 thoughts on "Family buttons"
Great post, PLD. I love your transitions. And, thanks for the tips on the buttons. I'll try to use them in person in t minus 2+ months!
Great blog you have here. very honest, refreshing and relatable insights. keep it up!
THANK GOD YOU ARE BACK. I've been missing PLD like crazy. Always a great read…love it.
thanks for stopping by…your blog is great and i am enjoying the read.
BTW- I would love a craftsman style house but ours is more ranch/cottage.
What a fun post. Larry King will be out of business if you keep this up!:D
Thanks, all. MMG — you've known me for almost 10 years, surely you know my buttons!
Anonymous — shame you didn't leave your address, I'd send a bouquet of flowers to someone who leaves such a flattering note! Thanks so much!
Michael — i'll start working on my suspenders equivalent. Handbags perhaps?
What you and your readers don't realize is that all it ever takes to make me forget about the buttons that you've pushed is if you would finally let ME be President, Librarian, Teacher or Head Waitress on Rollerskates.


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Instructions for collecting more parameters with Justuno and sending them to your Klaviyo integration
Note: If you have an integration set up in Step 3 of your promotion already, please disconnect it in order for the step 1 integration to work.
At a Glance
1. How to Generate an API Key to use with Justuno
2. Instructions
Note: Step 1 integration allows for deeper integration with Klaviyo lists and facilitates the overall collection of more visitor information far swifter than previous integrations.
How to generate an API Key to use with Justuno.
- Click the Settings tab
- API Keys.
- Under Private Keys, click Create API key on the top right.
- When you are ready to complete the process of integration, copy the API Key from your Klaviyo account (shown above).
1. Navigate from the initial Promotion Management View to a promo's settings drop-down menu and select to edit the promotion. If an email layer already exists, move to the next step. Within the design canvas view, find the Email Form in the layers area and click to add that layer to the promotion overlay.
2. While either the Email Form field or the submit button field is selected, hit Change Form.
3. Scroll down, and select the Klaviyo option, then enter your API key.
4. Once the API credentials are accepted by the authentication process, you will see that Klaviyo has successfully been integrated into your promotion. Now, click Next. And select which email lists you would like to send submissions.
Note: In Klaviyo, one must review their list settings as most are set to double opt-in. Which will require an email that has not been used and is valid to accept the double opt-in.
5. Upon finishing the selection of desired lists, a form will be generated from the associated Klaviyo fields, and can now be edited within Justuno's form builder. You are free to import fields from the preselected lists or bring in custom fields. Just make sure these fields match the form setup in the ESP.
Note: It is best practice to ensure that any fields marked as required within the initial Klaviyo list settings be marked as such to match within the Justuno Form Editor prior to finalizing the form creation; this practice will avoid unforeseen issues with Klaviyo's API resolving discrepancies between the expected structure/formatting of the form data and the actual structure/formatting of the form data that a Justuno promotion is submitting.
Note: If you are sending information that does not require a user to fill anything out, make sure the hidden field options are checked. We have some very commonly used data properties that are available for direct auto-populating within fields, and can be set via a drop-down menu located just below each field:
- Current URL (the URL a user is on when they submit the form)
- IP Address (the visitor's IP address)
- Coupon Code (the coupon code they receive in the post-engagement screen)
- Referring URL (the URL the user clicked on to get to the new page on your website.)
- Previous Referring Domain (the URL of the last domain the user came from)
- First URL Visitor Landed On (the URL the user first landed on)
6. Click Next, then configure the Klaviyo integration settings. Once finished configuring, click Next.
Note: Justuno also has the ability within the Klaviyo integration to either enable or disable duplicate email subscriptions per list. This built-in function will cross-reference the email addresses that are contained within the pertinent lists to be synced with the Justuno and will filter accordingly. This feature will work regardless of whether or not the list being synced is preexisting and contains subscribers from a date prior to the current promotion's creation.
7. Review your form then click Create Form and edit the design to your preferences. If you are pushing the coupon code to Klaviyo please make sure you have a coupon code presenter layer in the post engagement. Here is an article to help you with that setting.
tags: Klaviyo Integration, Step 1, Design Canvas, Edit Form, Change Form, Email, Customize Fields, Klayvio, Klayvio, Klavyio, Klavyo


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The latter part of last century and more so this century saw the rise of the importance of patient experience. Numerous studies have been published investigating the link between patient experience and health outcomes. It is one of the quadrants of the quadruple aim of healthcare, with the others being staff experience, health outcomes and costs. In Australia, among other countries, national safety and quality standards include references to the importance of engaging or partnering with consumers to improve patient experience. In addition to the policy, there is now a multitude of ways to measure this concept, and 'real-time feedback' is the buzz phrase these days.
So for all the above reasons, there is a lot of activity undertaken by health and aged care services in gathering patient and consumer feedback. However, I believe we need to delve deeper into the question of 'why' in order to advance the concept of patient experience to the centre of our healthcare endeavours.
Why do we gather patient and consumer feedback? Is it just to 'tick boxes' because of regulation policies, or is it more about trying to improve our services? I would suggest a mixture of both for most organisations.
Such purpose is fine, but what is missing is an opportunity. Recently, I was speaking with a large metropolitan health service who commented that they already had good mechanisms in place to seek patient feedback, so why introduce another one like Patient Opinion? My response was to ask them the following question; 'What return does the patient see for providing their feedback? I was told that they would eventually see improvement in the organisation. I pressed a little harder, asking what would the patient sees immediately from taking the time to provide feedback? The response was something like this – 'Well nothing immediately, we just need their feedback so that we can produce reports'.
And that I think is the point of difference with Patient Opinion. We see feedback as an opportunity for health services (and aged care) to engage in a dialogue with the storyteller. But it's also an opportunity for the storyteller to see and feel that they've been heard and that someone is listening and responding to their concerns. Patients can also see when and how changes are being made where necessary, as well as seeing that others have read their story to further enhance the feeling of 'being heard'.
Fundamentally, the difference between traditional methods of patient feedback and Patient Opinion's online forum is that traditional feedback services tend to treat the patient as a 'data point' rather than using the feedback to establish dialogue and build trust. By giving us the 'gift of their story', patients are able to see that their gift is nurtured with care, and returned to them 10-fold.
While data points are important for measurement , and help services produce reports, feedback should seek a higher importance by fostering a relationship that benefits both the giver and receiver of the feedback.
Why do we seek feedback from patients and their carers?Why do we seek feedback from patients and their carers? https://www.careopinion.org.au/content/uk/1/android-chrome-256x256.png Care Opinion +617 3354 4525 https://www.careopinion.org.au /content/au/images/logos/co-header-logo-2020-default.png
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Thanks for your feedback.
Response from Smartcook on 13 Aug 2019 at 15:27
I 'tell my story" once a month at the Royal Adelaide Hospital on Orientation Day for new clinicians. I've been told that some people have said it's the most important part of the day.
Response from Michael Greco, CEO, Care Opinion Australia on 13 Aug 2019 at 15:38
Thanks Smartcook - what a wonderful gift you are providing new clinicians by telling them your story. And pleased to hear that the clinicians find it a valuable exercise. Thank you for sharing this.


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Hardwell has just announced a preview of his first single from his upcoming debut album. The track "Young Again" features British vocalist Chris Jones, who brings raw, emotional vocals on top of guitar strings and piano chords. "Young Again" will be out on October 20 and gives a glimpse to fans and listeners alike of what's to expect from Hardwell's upcoming LP. The 26 year old Dutch producer has been quite busy recently, with his recent I AM HARDWELL tour taking over North America and the continuous management and growth of his Revealed Records label.
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With an adrenaline fueled opening, the pilot of "Preacher" was predictably going to be a hard act to follow and it was. "See" started a tad slow and esoteric (offering a somewhat oblique look at the "Saint of Killers) but then slowly evolved into a more interesting segment when "God's" two hit men arrived at the church to "summon" or remove forcibly Genesis from the Jesse Custer. Tulip provides a bit of comic relief and Cassidy proves that a vampire is more than a match for two "angels" in this second episode of the new series.
Custer (Cooper) is releasing that voice (Genesis) more in this episode and still fighting off Tulip (Negga) because he does not do bad things anymore. (But we know that he will and that he does.) Odin Quincannon (played by Jackie Earle Haley), a man who brings a Mac-truckload of workers and an entourage of muscle with him when he travels, is introduced.
The highlight of this episode though was Cassidy (Gilgun).
(It is interesting to note, in this "Brit heavy" cast, that both Gilgun and Negga have worked on a series before, though not together. The simply brilliant, and quirky English E4 series "Misfits" saw the two actors playing young offenders with special powers. Those interested can catch the entire series over on Hulu.)
Stepping away from the main plot lines of Tulip enticing Jesse ("Thanks for getting me all wet.") to join her life of crime, the pervert school bus driver and the coma girl ("Open your eyes.") it is Cassidy who runs the show.
Coming back into the church to find a comatose Jessie about to be split open with a small chain saw, the vampire mistakenly believes that the two western garbed angels are little "Van Helsing's" who want him. Before he can finish threatening the two, DeBlanc (Scottish actor Anatol Yusef ) shoots Cassidy in the stomach.
This sets off a splendid fight to the death in Custer's church. Fiore (English actor Tom Brooke) uses the small chainsaw as a weapon and DeBlanc uses his pistol and later a hymnal to attack the vampire.
The battle is violent, bloody and manic. Cassidy eventually overpowers the two angelic hit men and after devouring enough blood, self heals. He then cuts the two bodies up, deposits them in the giant box, that the two brought into the church, but has to wait till sundown to bury them.
The weird and archaic equipment that Fiore and DeBlanc used while attempting to capture Genesis was quirky. The slow motion turning of the musical crank and DeBlanc crooning the children's nursery rhyme was odd and funny. (Just as funny was the idea that Genesis was to be contained in a coffee tin labelled "Old Time Coffee.")
Custer himself was much less violent this week. His only real outpouring of hand's on altercation being that of shoving the bus driver's head in a hot tub of water while telling the miscreant to "forget the girl."
There were some great little moments: The sign "Free Jesus With Every Purchase" was a lovely touch. Does it imply that one free's Jesus when they make a purchase, or that a free Jesus is given with every purchase?
Cassidy talking sh*te about "The Big Lebowski" and working the word "Sh*te" in several times – "Gob-sh*te being one variation on the word – and his threatening to do drugs at the start of the episode.
Tulip at the whore house poker game, with Quincannon's moving men, along with her kidnapping of Custer, was just brilliant. How can anyone not love what Ruth Negga brings to a role?
On that note, as good as Cooper is, both Negga and Gilgun own this series so far. Of course, Cooper's character has not yet reached fruition with the power of Genesis so that may well change.
Sheriff Root (W. Earl Brown) dourly questioning the resurrected Fiore and DeBlanc at the end of the show was a surprise. Although resurrected may be a misnomer as the originals were hacked to pieces via chainsaw and buried. This is more a case of Fiore and DeBlanc 2.0.
"See" ended on a cliffhanger of sorts. Jesse tells the girl in the coma to open her eyes, in that deep Genesis voice, and we will have to wait a week to see if it worked (although we know it will).
"Preacher" airs Sundays on AMC. Tune in and catch some great performances, a quirky script and marvel at the genius of Seth Rogen and co.


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MYTH: You can always rent your condo.
|There are condos and condos.
Some fairly scream restraint and refinement.
While this does not usually involve an interview, an application is involved, and it may ask for as much information as a co-op application, complete with business and personal references, a letter from the applicant's employer, a financial statement plus substantiation in the form of bank statements, statements from financial institutions (UBS, Merrill Lynch, wherever you keep your money), a reference from the applicant's last landlord or managing agent, and perhaps more.
|Some just scream.
Of course you can work at home.
I know of at least one condo where smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building, including inside the apartments.
And which condo's rules would that be?
The fact is, a "cond-op" is a co-op with few rules. If it's newly constructed, it's a land-lease co-op; otherwise it would be a condo. For more on this subject, see http://www.withconfidence.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-exactly-is-cond-op-and-what-are.html
A condominium can't default on its underlying mortgage because condos cannot have underlying mortgages, as most co-ops do. This also means that there's no hidden debt in the purchase of a condo.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I live in and own a condo. This happened completely by accident.
|101 Warren Street, built in 2006, and
perhaps the most sought-after building
in the Tribeca area.It turned a rather
uninteresting neighborhood into a
But your needs may be different. If you don't have a lot of cash for a down payment, or if it's possible you'll want to spend a couple of years away some time soon and will need to sell or rent your property, the condo form of ownership may be essential.
If you're planning to make the residence your permanent and primary home for, say, eight or ten years or more, you may well be better off in a co-op.
Bottom line, if you choose a condo, don't automatically assume that there are no rules. Every building, co-op or condo, has rules. Read them carefully before you sign the contract.


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7 Procedural Fairness in Hong Kong Competition Law
Kelvin Hiu Fai Kwok, Thomas K. Cheng
From: Antitrust Procedural Fairness
D. Daniel Sokol, Andrew T. Guzman
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- Fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) — Unfair trading conditions — Basic principles of competition law — Enforcement and procedure
This chapter explores the current state of a number of procedural issues under Hong Kong's competition enforcement regime, including the party's right to legal protection, access to case file, agency engagement, and the sufficiency of judicial oversight. It further examines the case of Television Broadcasts Ltd v Communications Authority, which is arguably the only competition law case in Hong Kong. The case concerns an issue of overriding importance that is bound to be litigated under the recently enacted Competition Ordinance (CO): the applicable standard of proof under the CO. Should the courts decide that the criminal standard of proof of beyond reasonable doubt applies under the CO, the enforcement of most provisions in the CO will be rendered practically impossible. Such a ruling would be tantamount to a judicial repeal of the CO.


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Japan Update, I would like to thank you for the opportunity that your web site, guest book and weekly publication in Okinawa gave me this past year!
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Date Posted: 2001-09-21
I am of Okinawan/American descent and I am now 37 years old. I grew up in the United States with my father and, over time, had lost contact with all of my Okinawan relatives (including my mother). Approximately one year ago, I stumbled upon the Japan Update website while trying to learn more about Okinawa. I found the web site to be quite interesting and was intrigued by the entries in the guest book. On a long shot, I thought that I would make an entry into the guest book with hopes that someone would contact me with some information about my Okinawan relatives. As it turned out (and unknown to me at the time), my entry was also printed in the Japan Update publication.
An American family stationed at Kadena AFB e-mailed me and extended a very gracious offer to assist me in my search for my family, including an invitation to come to Okinawa. I did come to Okinawa, and with the assistance of several other individuals at Kadena AFB, I was able to meet my uncle, three aunts and a cousin. It was a wonderful experience and I have even located some of my Okinawan relatives on the west coast of the U.S.
I am hoping to bring my children to Okinawa some day, so that they can gain some insight into their Okinawan heritage as well. Again, many thanks Japan Update! ! !
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Moore Shelving: The Pull Out Shelf Company
One of the vendors at Florida's Largest Home Show that caught my eye was Moore Shelving.
They install pull-out shelves, which is something I love. I had quite a few drawers in my kitchen in Germany, but haven't had any since I moved back to the States. I miss them. So, when I saw how easy it is to install them in your existing cabinets, I was very excited!
This is especially great in the kitchen, but also works well in bathrooms, offices, craft rooms, and garages, too.
They even offer special shelves that fit around the plumbing under your sink, to help you utilize every inch of space.
Here are some photos I took at the home show:
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You can see more photos, and read all about their products by visiting their website at Moore Shelving.
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The former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos has been found guilty of corruption and is facing up to a decade in jail.
An arrest warrant was issued for the Ilocos Norte Representative after she was found guilty of seven counts of corruption
It stems from private organisations Marcos, 89, created while holding a variety of posts in government.
Imelda Marcos could be facing a decade behind bars after being found guilty of seven counts of corruption
The court's fifth division acquitted her in three counts of corruption.
Marcos was sentenced to imprisonment for a minimum of six years to 11 years and a month maximum.
Marcos is the widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and served as First Lady from 1965 to 1986.
She is currently a member of the House of Representatives for Ilocos Norte.
It is thought the former First Lady can post bail while appealing the conviction.
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This week, the Compass team met up to do some insight-driven ideation. We first went over some of our key takeaways from Reframe to refresh about the insights that should guide our solution-brainstorming. We then laid out our narrow How Can We statement in front of us, which states "How can we increase Rice off campus students' awareness and comfort in using the food pantry?"
With the statement in view, we each grabbed a stack of Post-Its and started writing ideas down. These ideas ranged from surgical improvements to unfeasibly radical changes. We were all working individually, sticking our finished Post-Its all over the table until it was practically covered in colorful squares.
We then began to evaluate. We grouped similar ideas together and organized everything into different categories. Some of the key points of our discussion included:
- Roughly half of our ideas involved changing the contents/location/setup of the food pantry. However, we realized that most of these ideas involved making big changes to the food pantry that would not be very feasible. Therefore, we decided to focus on the other half.
- Solutions that target the stigma surrounding food insecurity could encourage those who do know about the food pantry but do not use it to make the decision to visit the food pantry.
- Social media advertising/marketing techniques are 1) not self-sustaining and 2) can compromise anonymity, and therefore do not meet our design criteria.
- Many of our solutions require closer collaboration with the food pantry administration itself.
Our Initial Feasible Solution:
A two-pronged approach that involves…
- Advertising & Rebranding:
- Reduce perceived stigma with use
- Self-sustaining posters to advertise the pantry as a resource for everyone
- Rebrand food pantry
- Reduce perceived stigma with use
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- Involving college OC Representatives to promote the food pantry as a resource


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8 Mugs of Delight: What Your Coffee Tells About You?
Bangalore: The bond between Indians and coffee dates back to the 1870s. Initially the beverage was not warmly accepted but as the clock ticked and time passed, the changing lifestyle trends have made coffee one of the most cherished drinks among Indians.
The craze was truly visible when Mumbai witnessed the long queues in front of the global coffee major Starbuks' first outlet in India last October.
However, it is said that the type of coffee you choose tells a lot about your personal character and taste. Read on to know what your cuppa says about you, as listed by The Economic Times.
1. Espresso
What Your Coffee Tells About You: Espresso lovers are friendly and easily adaptive. You really like the taste of the coffee, an exceptional but commendable trait. It is regarded as the unfiltered cigarette of the coffee kingdom and it says that Espresso drinkers tend to be moody, hard-edged and hard working. They possess leadership qualities and love challenges.
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Daniel F. Harrington founded Chartwell Wealth Management in 2001. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He holds his Series 7 General Securities Representative license in addition to Series 63 and Series 65 Investment Advisor Representative Licences. He is also a registered life insurance agent and a Series 24 licensed General Securities Principal.
Mr. Harrington is a renowned monthly columnist for The Providence Journal. He is a former member of the East Providence City Council where he acted as liaison to the East Providence Police & Fire Pension Board. He is the former Foundation Board Chair of the Lynn Healthcare Center and past Chair of the Economic Development Committee for the East Providence Chamber of Commerce. Mr Harrington currently serves on the Board of Directors of Barrington Christian Academy


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The Season Fifteen title has already been made available for the US since 2011 and the UK since 2012.
While it is thought to contain the same four episodes of Fiery Flynn, James to the Rescue, Edward the Hero and Stop That Bus!, an established treatment may see an extra two episodes filling the bill.
In these exciting episodes, your favourite engines brave the rails to rescue their friends.
Discover that being heroic is more than having speed and strength; its about teamwork and a big heart which puts every Really Useful Engine on the right track.
Rescue on the Rails from ABC for Kids hits Australian DVD shelves on June 19th 2013.
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Given the stressful nature of their jobs, Canada's first responders ― police, paramedics, firefighters and correctional workers ― are living with much higher rates of mental disorders than the general population, according to a recent national survey published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
"It's a community that's hurting," Andy MacDonald, a veteran firefighter and first responder community consultant for Homewood Health Inc., told attendees at Benefits Canada's 2017 Mental Health Summit in Toronto on Nov. 7.
MacDonald acknowledged the macho culture of silence as something that's exacerbating the problem by discouraging and stigmatizing any signs of emotional weakness.
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Something Strange and Delicious: Peach Pie for Daniel
So. Guess whose book came out today?
Yeah, the great Susan Dennard's, is whose. Her super delicious steampunk fantasy, with necromancy and debonair awesome, debuts today: Something Strange and Deadly. Buy it. Read it. Hold it close to your heart just like I do. To celebrate Sooz' debut, I decided to pair two of my favorite things–Sooz' book and baking, with two of Eleanor Fitt's favorite things–the Spirit Hunters and baked goods. Thus I kick off Something Strange and Delicious! Get ready to rumble.
Plus, if you spread the word about her book, you can enter for a hardback copy of the book PLUS a super-shiny steampunky plate (it reminds me of book 2! Being a crit partner has advantages). I might increase the amount of winners if there are a lot of responses. Open internationally.
CLICK HERE to enter!
(PS, you can also win by checking out the Something Strange and Deadly Outbreak contest run by Sarah J Maas and Erin Bowman.)
Though Sooz is one of my hallowed critique partners, I'm not exaggerating when I say this book will rock your socks off.
Kinda like the Peach Pie I made for Daniel. (Or the Beignets for Joseph.)
Daniel Sheridan is one of the Spirit Hunters, a group of extraordinary people dedicated to stopping the thrust of the Dead in Philadelphia. He's cocky and short-tempered, brilliant with machines, but a bit mushy on the inside, with maybe the tiniest bit of tang.
So, pretty much, he's a bourbon-soaked peach pie.
First, start with some ripe peaches. Bring 'em up to your nose and smell the suckers–if they don't smell like a peach, they're not ripe. For the small ramekins, one peach per pie worked just dandy for me. Slice up the peaches and toss them in a bit of flour and cornstarch, along with some dashes of ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Just do it to taste, you'll be fine.
And then splash on some bourbon and a bit of lemon juice, and let the fruit marinate as you work on the pie crust. I maybe went a little Emeril on it and splashed more than some, but, yanno. No more than a few tablespoons, maybe. Maybe.
I did drain the peaches a little before slapping them between the crusts, but that was partially because I didn't have much time after it cooked to let the pie settle.
Next up, work on the crust. Growing up, I swore by shortening crusts (and having struggled with a butter one in sweltering humidity, lemme tell you, they have their uses). Still, for Daniel, go for a butter crust. The butterier the better. Then the savory butter will pair with the bourbon and ZOMG YOUR TASTEBUDS WILL DANCE.
Bake for about an hour, let rest for an hour or more, and serve with ice cream.
You know you wanna make it. And re-read SS&D while you eat it 😉
But if you haven't had a chance to get your hands on the book yet, enter the giveaway! Open until July 31st. The more entries, the more winners.
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Peach Pie for Mr Sheridan
Adapted from Annie's Eats.
2lbs peaches, or 1 per ramekin; sliced. (Leave the skin on or off, up to you.)
3/4 c sugar
3T flour
3T cornstarch (increased for more humid climates)
A few dashes of nutmeg, ground ginger, and cinnamon
1T lemon juice
2-3T bourbon (eyeball it)
The pie crust I made as-is using Annie's fabulous all-butter recipe, though rather than ice water, I use cold milk.
Good luck, guys, and I'll see you tomorrow with (fingers crossed) some "Spirit Catching Beignets" for Joseph.


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Silviculture technical assistance in Peru supports sustainable forest management
PERU – Last week, three USDA Forest Service representatives traveled to Peru to improve the curriculum of a certification course for forest regents. Forest regents in Peru are responsible for developing management plans for timber harvests and carrying out oversight of timber harvest operations. Forest regents play a key role in the forest sector in Peru, and to date the required training for forest regents has not been adequate. The Forest Service representatives –David Gwaze, National Silviculturist, Washington Office; Tim Douville, Medicine Bow National Forest; and Dan Kipervaser, Coconino National Forest– were not only able to provide feedback on the curriculum for the forest regents certification course, but also supported the development of a continuing education course for forest regents.
The team spent the week in the Amazonian region of Loreto. They visited a forest concession (an area designated by the government for timber harvest) to learn first-hand about the important role of forest regents. They also participated in the National Forest Regents Meeting to see how the training is currently carried out and to provide suggestions on how the training can be improved. During the week, they also presented at a Forestry Fair on the latest tools and technologies in forestry, and large-scale forest restoration projects. Additionally, they met with forestry students at an Amazonian university to share their experiences and career paths in forestry. These interactions provided opportunities for the Forest Service representatives to share their reflections on how to improve the forest regency program and to build a roadmap for future support.
The USDA Forest Service, with funding from and in cooperation with U.S. Agency for International Development, has been working to support the forest sector in Peru since 2009. In that time the expertise of the USDA Forest Service has been leveraged to help develop and launch the new forestry law and regulations, the Peruvian Forest and Wildlife Service, and to build capacity in the regional Amazonian governments. The forest sector in Peru faces a myriad of challenges, among those, the ability to adequately maintain oversight and control of forest resources, while concurrently promoting the stainable harvesting of timber as an essential part of the rural economies in the Amazon Region. The support provided last week by the Forest Service representatives was part of a much larger effort to promote sustainable forest management and conservation in Peru.


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Generally, the release schedule at Alteryx consists of two major releases each year, and smaller releases as needed to fix critical issues or special requests. This week we will be launching a patch update to Alteryx that is a combination of critical fixes and minor updates.
The critical issue: Alteryx can sometimes become unresponsive when the computer it is running on goes in and out of sleep/hibernation or when the screen dimensions change dramatically like when attaching to dual monitors.
Minor Updates:
- In 10.1, we put in a fix to handle field renaming where we would recursivley rename field headers and wind up with unusable field names and it would take a really long time to complete. In applying this fix, we changed the behavior of renaming numerical field names. This was unintentional and we fixed this.
- We resolved a problem where inserting into a table that did not have columns in the table order failed.
This patch is now available from downloads.alteryx.com. We will be releasing one more update next week. The upcoming update will include support for Predictive Tools with R 3.2.3. If you work with predictive tools, you may want to wait until that update is released. We will activate the in product update notification next week with the Predictive Tools update.
With version 10.0, Alteryx extends our in-database capabilities to include support for platforms that came up in discussions with customers, prospects and partners as related to their 'big data' use cases, specifically Amazon Redshift, Cloudera Impala, Teradata and Spark. With the emergence of 'data lakes' as a single repository hosting multiple datasets, users face the need to blend and analyze larger volumes of data that would be inefficient to move around, making it the perfect use case for Alteryx in-database analytics.
I had been with Alteryx for about two months when I started hearing people talk about CEF [Chromium Embedded Framework]. I did a little digging on my own, and true to its name, found that CEF was a framework for placing chromium based browsers within applications. Shortly after, I learned I would have a chance to use this technology myself for the upcoming release of Alteryx.


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Thinking, not emoting, about NAFTA
One of the big public policy issues Canada is wrestling with is whether, and on what conditions, NAFTA can be renewed. Unfortunately, the political class seems more intent on whipping up emotion around the topic than helping Canadians to come to grips with the real issues and how we might turn this mess to Canada's advantage. In order to fill this gap, Sean Speer and I co-wrote three op-eds (and Frank Buckley joined us on the first one) hoping to illuminate for Canadians some of the stakes, the realistic options and where Canada's interests truly lie in these negotiations. In retrospect I see that the summary of our argument is that the NAFTA negotiations are like any dispute in a long-term relationship, like a marriage. There are three lessons to be learned:
- Get to understand what the other person wants. It's not all about you!
- Look inward to find where you might have contributed to envenoming the dispute. You might think all the fault lies elsewhere, but usually responsibility is shared.
- Before your roving eye draws you to another potential partner, be sure you really understand how much you have invested in your existing relationship and how hard it would be to replace.
Sean, Frank and I applied Lesson One in the Globe on 3 July 2018 in which the three of us laid out what the Trump administration wants and how their world view is an important break from many of the assumptions of recent decades. The fact that Trump may come up with the wrong answers to the questions that exercise him does not mean he is wrong to ask them. There is also a video version of this piece on the page.
Then Sean and I applied Lesson Two in a 6 July 2018 piece for Macleans' magazine where we reviewed the many ways that Ottawa has antagonised the Trump administration while bringing no benefit to Canada. As the current occupant of the White House might have tweeted, "Sad!"
Finally, we applied Lesson Three in a 20 July 2018 Globe op-ed examining the idea that "diversifying" our trade, especially to China, will somehow offer some kind of realistic alternative to our deep economic entanglement with the US. Not bloody likely!
Why pursuing happiness makes many unhappy
It is fashionable in public policy circles to suggest that a chief object of such policy should be to promote "happiness" among the public and that we should therefore be less concerned with measures of economic growth than with measures of happiness in determining what policies to pursue.
Thus when Pierre Trudeau once mused that we should obsess less about GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and more about NSB (Net Socfial Benefit) he was lionised as a great philosopher
There may be some truth in this idea, but not all that much. In fact as I demonstrate in my column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia newspapers, happiness is a slippery concept that often means promoting the happiness of some immediately causes the unhappiness of others.
While GDP may have its flaws, at least it measures something objective, and there are few people who would argue that they would like less rather than more of whatever it is they want (whether parks, or environmental protection or toasters or airplanes or hospitals or public transit). GDP measures our production of the means that each of us needs to pursue our own vision of happiness, and that is perhaps the best we can do….


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So I saw this movie the other night and it was like watching my life on film, only my life five years from now—an almost an Ebenezer Scrooge moment where I was being shown what would become of me if I continued on the path I was on. The movie is called MOTHERHOOD and stars Uma Thurman. (It's on cable right now if you want to DVR it.)
Basically, Uma plays a writer whose life has been taken over by motherhood and as such hasn't had time to write in years. To say I could relate is an understatement. I've hardly had time to work lately, and not because of lack of desire. You just can't concentrate much when you only have a one-hour naptime to work with. And even if you have someone else in the house to help—like my husband in the evenings—you still can't accomplish much when you have to nurse a baby every couple of hours. So I found I was forgoing writing in order to do things like shower and eat breakfast.
But the more I don't write, the more I miss it and the more I stop feeling like myself. Or like my old self. And then I watched Uma say this:
"It's just that every day from the second I wake up till the second I pass out cold, my day, like the day of almost every other mother I know, is made up of a series of concrete, specific actions. And they're actions that kind of wear away at passion, if you know what I mean. The actions are petty and small like… Like refilling coffee cups or folding underwear. But they accumulate in this really debilitating way that diminishes my ability to focus on almost anything else."
My husband turned to me at this point in the movie and said, "This is depressing."
Uh, yeah.
So I've decided I'm going to make a concerted effort to write again. I need it, it makes me happy, and I think in the end it'll make me a better mother. Because a happy mom is a good mom, right?


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INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (AP) — A farmer who appeared on ABC's "The Bachelor" has pleaded guilty in a fatal crash last year near his home in northern Iowa.
In an agreement with prosecutors announced Tuesday, 36-year-old Chris Soules pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of leaving the scene of a serious injury accident. The misdemeanor charge carries a penalty of up to two years in prison. Soules' attorney says he could also get a deferred judgment and no jail time when he's sentenced in January.
Soules had been charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash, a felony that carries up to five years behind bars.
Soule was arrested after he rear-ended a tractor in April 2017, killing 66-year-old Kenny Mosher. Soules called 911 and waited for first responders, but left before police arrived.
Soules appeared on "The Bachelor" and "Dancing With The Stars" in 2015.


text: Human Rights Watch urged Mohammad Bin Salman to release all evidence on Khashoggi at once [Getty] Istanbul, Turkey - Turkey has accepted Saudi Arabia's proposal to form a joint working group to investigate the case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished after entering his country's Istanbul consulate over a week ago. "In the context of the cooperation between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as a result of an offer from Saudi Arabia, we have decided to form a working group in order to enlighten all aspects of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi incident," Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin told Anadolu Agency on Thursday. {articleGUID} Istanbul's public prosecutor will continue to pursue the ongoing investigation separately, the news agency added. The announcement of the working group is a new development in terms of cooperation between the two countries after Turkey's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Saudi authorities would allow them to enter and search the consulate premises. However, the sides have been negotiating the nature of the visit, which is still pending, according to reports. Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's policies, entered Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain necessary official documents ahead of his marriage to his Turkish fiancee. WATCH: Explainer: What we know about the Khashoggi probe (1:35) Khashoggi 'killed in consulate' Turkish officials said police believed the Saudi journalist was killed by a team specially sent to Istanbul - a claim denied by Saudi authorities. Local media on Wednesday published the identities of what it said was a 15-member squad of Saudi officers allegedly involved in the disappearance of Khashoggi, along with CCTV footage from the time they spent in Turkey. The footage included visuals from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport while they were entering and leaving the country, as well as ones showing them checking in and out of a hotel close to the consulate building. Human Rights Watch warning {articleGUID} US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday that bin Salman should immediately release all evidence and information Saudi Arabia holds regarding the status of Khashoggi. Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW, warned on Thursday against Saudi Arabia's participation in the official probe. "Given that Saudi Arabia will not provide any evidence about Khashoggi's movements in and out of the consulate, they cannot be trusted to conduct a genuine - far less effective - investigation," Whitson said. Khashoggi left Saudi Arabia last year, saying he feared retribution for his criticism of Riyadh over the Yemen war and its crackdown on dissent and royal family members. The United Nations, the United States and some members of the European Union have all called for a thorough investigation and explanation over the fate of the Saudi writer, as international pressure grows on the Riyadh. SOURCE: Al Jazeera News Jamal Khashoggi Middle East Turkey Saudi Arabia Human Rights Watch


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The Tottenham Spurs and Arsenal F.C League Cup match on Wednesday ended with the Sours coming away with a 2-0 victory, but it was not without drama after Dele Alli was hit on the head by a bottle that came from the stands.
The midfielder was stuck while trying helping Tottenham secure their 2-0 victory over Arsenal F.C and earn a place in the League Cup semifinal. The bottle, in this case was plastic and thrown from the crowd in attendance in relational against Alli after an earlier incident with Arsenal goaltender Petr Cech. It was first time that Tottenham had won against Arsenal since 2010 and that is good news for punters, and preferred sports betting sites such as bet365, who are hoping to see the Spurs go to the finals
"It made the goal a little bit sweeter and the win."
The incidents resulted in helmeted police going into the stands to act as a barrio between fans of Arsenal and those in attendance for the Tottenham Spurs. The fan responsible for throwing the bottle has not been identified, but if caught will be banned from future games at Emirates Stadium.
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Mauricio Pochettino, manager of Tottenham, commenting on the incident said,
"It's lucky it wasn't a big issue. Only one stupid person made a mistake. I hope that Arsenal take responsibility and, through the cameras, they can identify [who it was]. It wasn't a problem but it could have been a big problem, some big issue and how are we going to fix it?"
The only team standing in the way of Tottenham making to the finals. For Mauricio Pochettino, the fact they have not earned the trophy is a black spot, but the clubs spending pales in comparison to other Premier League teams, and their progress has been evident with results such as yesterday's match against Arsenal.
Tottenham's goals both came as a result of goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga kicking the ball high. The first of those came 20 minutes into the first half after Alli connected with Gazzaniga's kick who then passed it to Son Heung-Min who sent it past the goal to make it 1-0 for Tottenham.
The second goal came after Gazzaniga once again sent the ball high, Harry Kane quickly sent the ball to Alli who sent it over the head of Czek making it 2-0 for Tottenham at the 59th minute of play. Three weeks earlier Tottenham has lost to Arsenal and yesterday's win was revenge, and with Arsenal losing to Southampton the Sunday before, they have lost the last two matches after going 22 games without a defeat.
With the win, the Spurs are in contention in four different fronts including Chelsea and Man City. There run in the F.A cup begins in January, then there is the Champions League last 16 and the Premier League. They will next face Everton on Sunday before meeting Bournemouth on the 26th.


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With VoIP technology becoming an inevitable source of cost-effective communication with advanced functionalities, there is a tremendous demand for VoIP communication. This has seen an uncommon rise in the quantity of new players joining the VoIP market. Organizations are attempting their best to investigate the capability of VoIP market by attempting to assemble solid client base through their VoIP services.
Then again, VoIP solution providers are consistently discovering fresher approaches to take care of this demand, and administration suppliers to grow their business by enhanced administration offerings and maximizing their current network resources. In doing as such, the difficulties confronted are numerous.
Billing is one such challenge which service provider has to take care of in tandem with their service offerings. As the volume of VoIP traffic expands, it turns out to be progressively troublesome for administration suppliers to handle charging functionalities. Further, wasteful or broken charging will bring about to miss out on clients and in this way, income. Hence, it requires having dynamic charging programming.
VoIP Billing Softwares Gives The Solution:
VoIP billing software has the capacities of taking care of complex charging issues and give extra elements to consistent business run. Highlights incorporate universal get back to, calling cards, call shop, reporting, discount (end), PC to telephone, broadband telephone, and so forth. In this way, it considers every one of these administrations and creates a charge as needs be. Thusly, it diminishes 80% of the time required in manual charging.
Benefits of VoIP Billing Software:
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Edward Mujica will close games for Oakland A's
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LOS ANGELES — Edward Mujica, the man in Oakland's bullpen with the most experience pitching in the ninth inning, will take over the closer job in the wake of Tyler Clippard's departure to the Mets.
Mujica has 49 saves, the bulk of them with St. Louis in 2013, when he converted 37 of 41 opportunities.
Mujica, like Clippard, Ben Zobrist and Scott Kazmir, the other A's players traded in the past five days, is a free agent after the season, so there remains a chance he, too, could be moved this week or in a waiver deal next month.
Manager Bob Melvin said that left-hander Drew Pomeranz was a consideration to close, but he has been good in many roles in the bullpen and will continue to be a multi-use reliever, coming in with men on base, working multiple innings. Closer Sean Doolittle (left shoulder) is not expected to return to the A's until late next month.
The A's recalled right-hander R.J. Alvarez from Triple-A Nashville on Tuesday to take Clippard's roster spot.
Alvarez, acquired in the Derek Norris deal with San Diego last winter, had two previous stints with Oakland, compiling a 13.00 ERA and allowing four homers in 10 appearances.
Alvarez did not allow a homer in 24 innings with Nashville and he was 2-3 with five saves, a 4.13 ERA and a .244 opponents' average with the Sounds, including a .170 mark against right-handed hitters.
Briefly: Melvin said that with Zobrist's departure, third baseman Brett Lawrie could wind up playing some more at second base on occasion. ... Coco Crisp (neck) went 3-for-4 with two homers, three RBIs and three runs at Class-A Stockton and has three more rehab games scheduled there. ... When Crisp returns, it is likely that outfielder Jake Smolinski will be sent down, despite how well he has played in a platoon role. Smolinski has options remaining, unlike fellow backup outfielder Sam Fuld. ... Pat Venditte (right shoulder) worked two innings for Stockton, allowed one hit and one run and struck out three.
Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
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Award nominee: Sean Doolittle was announced Tuesday as one of 15 candidates for the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award, which honors "values, integrity and services." Feller was the first professional athlete to enlist after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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The date of July 26, 2002, is a very memorable one for Edmonton Eskimos fans. On this night, Ricky Ray made his first CFL start as he quarterbacked the Eskimos to a 37-27 win over the British Columbia Lions. I was in the Molson Suite at Commonwealth Stadium, and even though I was suffering from tracheitis, I was watching greatness at the very beginning. Ray was stellar that night against the Lions as he threw for four touchdowns.
Over nine seasons in Edmonton, Ray put together an amazing resume. From 2002-2003 and again from 2005-2011, the native of Happy Camp, California became the Eskimos all-time leader in career completions (3225), passing yards (40 531), and passing touchdowns (210). When the Eskimos traded Ray to the Toronto Argonauts for Steven Jyles, Grant Shaw and a first round draft pick in the 2012 CFL Draft on December 12, 2011, there were expectations that Ray would show just the same amount of greatness in Toronto that he did in Edmonton.
Unfortunately injuries over the last few years have taken its toll on Ray. He did win a Grey Cup for Toronto in 2012, (after winning two Grey Cups with the Edmonton Eskimos in 2003 and 2005), but injuries to his shoulder, rotator cuff, MCL and lung, have been just as much of a story in analyzing Ray's career in recent times than his exceptional performances on the field.
However when Ray plays, he still performs at a high level at age 37. On Saturday, Ray was stellar as he completed 35 of 43 passes for 376 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-6 Argonauts win over the Montreal Alouettes. Ray also set an Argonauts record in touchdown passes (99) and became the first quarterback to lead two different teams in touchdown passes.
Meanwhile, the Edmonton Eskimos picked up defensive end John Chick from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Monday. The trade was necessary for Edmonton because of all the injuries they have had in 2017. One of the recent injuries was Marcus Howard, who is out for the year with a ruptured left Achilles.


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They say that the second toughest job in the Church is being the pastor of a church. Do you know what the hardest job is? Being the pastor's wife. This is something I have thought about a lot because I may one day be a pastor and my wife will have to deal with that. She is a gracious, compassionate, loving, patient woman who I know is definitely up to the task as long as the church we may serve in one day does not try to place expectations on her that are unrealistic or, worse yet, sinful.
Mark Driscoll wrote a post on The Resurgence about loving the pastor's wife that is really good. (Thank you to my friend, and soon-to-be pastor, Adam Powers for sharing it with me.) The quote above comes from it and the rest you can read here. Read it and then think about how you treat the pastor's wife at your church and make sure you are not placing expectations on her that she does not need.
By His Grace,


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Elizabeth Crim and Kaylyn Buchanan have been friends since the second grade. The two, now juniors at Lakewood High School, got together for coffee last year and started talking about how women are …
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Elizabeth Crim and Kaylyn Buchanan, the teenage founders of Rooney Ranch Elementary School's Women Who Lead afterschool club, are willing to help anybody who's interested in launching Women Who Lead at their local school. For information on the school district's rules and guidelines on starting an afterschool club, or to learn more about Crim and Buchanan's Women Who Lead curriculum, send an email to email@example.com.
Elizabeth Crim and Kaylyn Buchanan have been friends since the second grade.
The two, now juniors at Lakewood High School, got together for coffee last year and started talking about how women are treated in today's global society.
"It's something we're passionate about," Buchanan said. "We wanted to do something that would empower the young women in our society."
Thus, they formed Women Who Lead, an afterschool club for girls in grades three through five at Rooney Ranch Elementary School in Lakewood.
"We encouraged (the girls) to pursue their own leadership roles, now and in the future," Crim said. "The girls became more confident in their place in society."
The club had its first meeting in September 2018 and has met 16 times. It had 11 members from Rooney Ranch and three student volunteers from Dunstan Middle School, also in Lakewood. Libby Vernon, a retired teacher from Rooney Ranch, served as the club's advisor and Michael Orthun, an eighth grade English teacher at Dunstan, helped with some of the club's programming.
"We care about equality," said Lisa Lambert, one of the Dunstan students, who was speaking on behalf of herself and the other two eighth-grade volunteers, Paschana Minter and Mazzy Mason. "We don't believe that females should be treated better than males or vice versa. We just believe in what's right."
Crim and Buchanan designed and taught all of the club's curriculum, which included a variety of hands-on activities that required the girls to use their imaginations and/or envision themselves as a leader. For example, club members created a female superhero, became entrepreneurs and started their own business, and learned about strong historical and modern-day women through books and videos.
"They learned the realm of possibility that's open to them in life," Orthun said. "There's nothing that should be allowed to hold them back."
Vernon, who has known Crim and Buchanan since they were third-and-fourth graders at Rooney Ranch, said she is proud of them "beyond words."
"As a teacher, I know this was not a small endeavor," Vernon said. "Seeing them put something like this into motion is inspiring and exciting. It has been phenomenal watching how much the girls in the group have matured since the first meeting."
The club's culminating event took place on April 25 with Jefferson County Commissioner Leslie Dahlkemper as a guest speaker.
Dahlkemper talked about her career as a journalist, a member of the school board and now, a county commissioner.
"What you see as success will change through the years," Dahlkemper told the nine club members in attendance that day. "Know that it's OK if you take detours along the way. You have so much to do with your life and so many things you can pursue."
She discussed with the girls that it's OK to make mistakes and that "sometimes, the best solutions come from collaborating with others who have a different perspective."
Third-grader Darwin Neff said she learned a lot from the club's meetings, and especially had fun listening to Dahlkemper tell her story.
"I learned the importance of staying calm and not letting others' ideas of us be the limit of us," Neff said.
Crim and Buchanan are happy that the club was a success.
"We learned we can make a difference and that we can impact a group of girls who are willing to improve themselves and the world around them," Crim said.
Buchanan agreed.
"Making change doesn't have to be something huge," she said. "Something small can make a big difference."
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When it comes to Christmas music this year it'll be hard to beat this new release from Naxos featuring some of the world's best-loved holiday classics by Leroy Anderson (1908-1975). Eleven of the selections are already on Naxos' five albums devoted to his complete orchestral works (indicated by the number of the album they're on in parenthesis). But the remaining six are Anderson arrangements unique to this disc (indicated by a "U" in parenthesis). In these troubled times, holiday cheer will be hard to come by this year, but playing this CD should certainly help, and the kids will love it!
With a little imagination it's tempting to make up a Christmas story about the selections as they appear here. So for the benefit of those readers who are still young-at-heart, here goes!
With a fresh blanket of snow on the ground and beaming sunlight, what better way to start Christmas day than with an early morning Sleigh Ride (3)! After lunch it's into the Horse and Buggy (2), and off to Grandmother's house we go. On the way we hear a Song of the Bells (2) echoing through the hills, and pass a local band playing a Suite of Carols for Brass (3).
Arriving at Granny's, and before we can even knock, the front door opens magically to reveal an enormous black grimalkin standing on its hind legs. It beckons us in with its front paws, and begins to dance around the living room. As the Waltzing Cat (2) passes Granny's upright radio, we begin to hear the music for A Christmas Festival (4, see above). Then slowly but surely the feline phantom shapeshifts into Granny with cane in hand and a knowing smile on her face typical of those who've made it to The Golden Years (1). Now as you've probably already guessed, Granny's a witch! But we love her anyway.
She bids us welcome, asking that we make ourselves comfortable and begin opening our presents. While unwrapping them, we hear on the radio a Suite of Carols for Woodwinds (5), followed by some exceptional orchestral arrangements of Angels in Our Fields (U), O Sanctissima (U), O Come, O Come Emmanuel (U), O Come Little Children (U), the Coventry Carol (U), and the Burgundian carol Patapan (U). A sumptuous dinner follows served up by Granny's devoted housekeeper Liù, who's a China Doll (1), if there ever was one.
Having finished this magnificent repast, we sit around the fireplace reminiscing. But the mechanical clock on the wall soon reminds us it's late, as the toy trumpeter inside appears tooting Bugler's Holiday (1). So it's time to journey home, and en route we pass some itinerant fiddlers performing a Suite of Carols for Strings (2). What a perfect ending to a memorable day!
All kidding aside, a special thank you should go to Leroy's son Kurt Anderson, conductor Leonard Slatkin, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and executive producers Jim Selby and Klaus Heymann for giving us one of the best holiday albums to appear in years.
From the sound perspective it should be noted that this release is cut at a significantly higher level than the other Naxos Anderson discs. Consequently you may experience some high end brightness, which may require reducing the playback level. On the other hand, any children listening may be screaming with such delight that you just might have to turn it up! Either way, the soundstage and detail remain just as impressive as on the others CDs.
The three remaining works [Canons (to the memory of Stravinsky), 6 Pieces, String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor] are flintier post-Schoenbergian nuts to crack. Well played though they are by Joshua Gordon, the six Pieces for Cello are aridity personified. The aphoristic Canons (to the memory of Igor Stravinsky) for string quartet (1971) is more enticing, aptly grave in its pared-back way—serial Stravinsky (hence Webern), the natural model. © 2006 Fanfare Read complete review
These were first released on Koch International in 1993 where they saw good service. Re-release at Naxos budget price will give them even wider currency. These were always fine performances with recordings to match and a decade on their place in the Sessions discography is unaltered.
The Quintet was premiered by the Lennox Quartet in 1959 though the augmented Grillers had performed the first two movements the previous year. It's reminiscent of the Schoenberg quartets, a powerful, occasionally rather sickly work, with Sessions' famously long line reserved for the central adagio. Here the first violin unfolds an evocative aria, with material harmonically advanced but never dense. The cutting sabre of the first violin is again a feature of the quintet's finale, a forceful Schoenbergian one.
The much earlier 1938 Quartet is far less uningratiating work. In fact it shows Session's strongest features in the deliberate inspiration of Beethoven's Op.132 Quartet. Krenek referred to this work's "long breath of thematic developments" – and he was referring specifically to the first movement, though it equally applies to the central one as well. The key and tempo changes are invigorating, the faster central panel of the opening movement being especially breathless and exciting. That slow movement is expressive and intense, whilst the finale is vibrant, slashing and energising. There are delightful lines for the viola and for some rough and tumble cellistic moments strong on rustic undertow. The surging rhythm drives a freewheeling ending. One can understand the popularity of the quartet in the same way that one appreciates the respect in which the quintet is held – though for me the quintet remains a remote and unlikeable work.
The brief Stravinsky Canons is a cool two minute elegy. And the Six Pieces for Cello, written for the composer's cellist son, are brief but never aphoristic. They make considerable demands on rhythmic control but also extend a genuinely warm romance in the lulling Berceuse, ending with an Adagio epilogue.
With expert performances and reprised notes this is a self-recommending disc. Those unconvinced by the quintet may yet revel in the quartet, a work well worth getting to know – and at this price there's no reason not to.
As part of their successful 'American Classics Series' Naxos turn their attention to the string chamber music of Roger Sessions. These recordings were issued previously on the Koch International Classics label in 1993 and also I believe in 1997.
The stature of Roger Sessions among modern American composers is unquestioned; especially as a teacher. The catalogue of his 42 compositions includes nine symphonies written between 1927 to 1978, three concertos, two operas, a cantata and works in other large formats, as well as chamber music and solo piano works. Of Sessions' chamber music four scores are represented here, the exception being the Second String Quartet (1951), Duo for Violin and Piano (1942), Sonata for Solo Violin (1953) and an incomplete first movement from the Duo for Violin and Violoncello (1981).
New York City-born Sessions won every major award, including a Pulitzer Prize. Although he composed for three-quarters of a century, from 1910 to 1985, his most productive period came after the age of 60. The String Quintet, the Six Cello Pieces and Canons for String Quartet all date from this late period. His careers as composer and teacher were paralleled by a third, that of writer about music. A highly literate man, Sessions published four books and over forty articles. These include his Norton lectures at Harvard University (Questions about Music), his harmony textbook, Harmonic Practice, and his valuable work The Musical Experience as Composer, Performer, Listener. His essays, edited by Edward T. Cone, are published as Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays and his letters, edited by Andrea Olmstead, appear as The Correspondence of Roger Sessions.
The influences of Stravinsky and Bloch, and later of Dallapiccola and Schoenberg, are found in his music, but these voices are used for distinctly personal ends. Certain identifying features characterise the style. One is the much-discussed "long line". Sessions' long phrases arch gracefully and participate in a highly complex contrapuntal texture. Another characteristic is rhythmic flexibility achieved by frequent shifts of time signature and the use of polyrhythms.
These characteristics are employed in the twelve-tone String Quintet, commissioned by the Music Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Sessions' love for Mozart's Quintets in G minor and C major and Schubert's Quintet in C major, "tempted as a stimulus and challenge to adopt this medium for the new work". The première of the String Quintet took place in 1958 in Berkeley with the eminent Griller Quartet, who performed only the first two movements, as the composer had not completed the score in time. Through the generosity of Paul Fromm the complete String Quintet was given its première in November 1959, in New York by the Lenox Quartet.
Formally, the first movement Movimento tranquillo resembles the first movement of the String Quartet in E minor in that, it too, is modelled on Beethoven's A minor Quartet, with three expositions. The second movement Adagio ed espressivo is aria-like and the third and concluding one marked Allegro appassionato is a sonata allegro.
In 1971 the editors of Boosey & Hawkes' periodical Tempo asked distinguished composers to contribute Canons for a 1972 issue dedicated to the memory of Igor Stravinsky, who had died in April 1971. Stravinsky had written of Sessions in 1963, "Roger Sessions is one of the people I most admire and respect: as composer, scholar, teacher, intellect. But last and most, he is a dear friend." Sessions wrote the brief Canons for muted string quartet in August 1971, aboard a ship bound for Oslo. The inscription at the end of the manuscript reads, "On the high seas."
Still in his "neo-Classical" tonal stage, Sessions wrote the String Quartet No. 1 in E minor. Sessions penned the score whilst staying in the summer of 1936 at a ranch near Reno in Nevada, in order to establish residency to obtain a divorce from his first wife and to marry a former student. The score was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and given its première by the Coolidge Quartet at Coolidge's Eighth Festival of Chamber Music, in April 1937, in Washington D.C. The young Elliott Carter wrote in 'Modern Music' of, "a new and important quartet by Roger Sessions. Though no single theme is outstanding (as is often the case with Beethoven) every detail, the cadences, the way the themes are brought in, the texture, the flexibility of the bass, were such as to give constant delight, and at times to be genuinely moving. His sense of a large line gave the music a certain roominess without ever being over expansive."
The Viennese composer Ernst Krenek wrote to Sessions (7 March 1939) of the String Quartet, "I like especially the originality of the harmonic features which give clear evidence of a very personal and deep expressiveness of your music. Furthermore, I was very much impressed by the long breath of some thematic developments, especially in the first movement."
In a programme note for a performance by the Gordon String Group in January 1941, Sessions stated that he was influenced by Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132, in the formal structure of the work. Marked Tempo moderato the first movement of Sessions's first String Quartet is a triple exposition, three "stanzas". Each stanza contains three themes which are varied at their return. A specific tempo grants each of the three themes part of its identity. The effect is one of a huge stretto. The second movement Adagio molto begins with an Adagio and is continued by a brief scherzando interlude that leads back to the Adagio. About writing the central movement Sessions remarked that, "It seemed to me that I was writing like Alban Berg already." The third movement Vivace molto, a sonata-allegro form, was Sessions' strictest form to date. The introduction is followed by the first theme in the viola and the second theme appears in the cello. Sessions commented, "The last movement is probably the most orthodox movement I ever wrote. But it's a lot of fun. To me it brings back the smell of sagebrush and the lovely place out in the country where I lived in Nevada. I rode horseback!"
A swift check has shown that for these works the Group for Contemporary Music currently seem to have the market to themselves. From their foundation in 1962 until 1971 the Group for Contemporary Music was in residence at the Columbia University in the City of New York, followed by a residency at the Manhattan School of Music until 1985. The Group performs throughout with a splendid security of ensemble in performances that abound in character and precision. I especially enjoyed their vitality and convincing sense of forward momentum in the concluding movement Allegro appassionato of the String Quintet and their warm and tender interpretation of the lengthy Adagio molto movement of the first String Quartet is first class.
A few years later Sessions completed the Six Pieces for Solo Cello between writing his Symphony No. 6 (1966) and Symphony No. 7 (1967). The Six Pieces for Solo Cello were written for and dedicated to Sessions' son John, a cellist. The score had its première at an all-Sessions concert held by the International Society for Contemporary Music, in Carnegie Recital Hall (now Weill Hall), in New York, in March 1968. As in Sessions' Double Concerto (1971), where two instruments converse with one another, a conversation can be imagined here too, in the contrasting and recitative-like passages given to the solo instrument. The participants in the second movement, Dialogue, Sessions and his son, neither argue nor question and answer one another; it is a friendly conversation. The fourth movement, Berceuse, had definite familial associations for Sessions as well. After his granddaughter (John's daughter, Teresa) was born he saw her lying in her crib and immediately thought of the opening four bars of the music.
The cellist Joshua Gordon carries the score's lyrical message with intensity and accomplishment, assisted by the recording that gives the cello a realistic presence. There have been several recordings of Sessions' Six Pieces for Cello in recent years and the ones most likely to be encountered are those from Matt Haimovitz on his 1995 release entitled 'The 20th-Century Cello' Vol. 1 on Deutsche Grammophon 4458342 and also from Pieter Wispelwey on his 2001 disc of '20th-Century Solo Cello Works' on Channel Classics CCS7495.
The Koch International Classics engineers have provided a clear and well balanced sound quality and the liner notes from Andrea Olmstead are exemplary. The chamber music of Roger Sessions is well served by this splendid Naxos release.