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Cricket Longtail Spiloptila clamans

Described by: Temminck (1828)
Alternate common name(s): Cricket Warbler, Scaly Longtail, Scaly-fronted Longtail, Cricket Prinia
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors

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Sahel zone across n. Africa;
Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, n. Nigeria, Lake Chad region, Sudan, n. Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Described by: Cabanis (1861)
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Pubdate: Mon, 25 Sep 2017
Source: London Free Press (CN ON)
Copyright: 2017 The London Free Press
Author: John Gormley
Page: 7

Canada is nine months away from fully legalizing marijuana as police
agencies and provinces ask for more time on impaired driving and other
enforcement issues. But in Justin Trudeau's world, taking time is not
part of the equation.

A read of the Liberal government's background documents on cannabis is

Mantra-like, it repeats at every opportunity that Canadian youth - who
have among the highest rates of marijuana use in the world - are going
to be protected and prevented from smoking dope because legalization
will result in stringent regulation, prohibition for kids and a steady
diet of educational and awareness campaigns.

It's debatable how well youth will be discouraged from doing something
when it's fully legal for everyone else. If alcohol is any example,
don't bet on teen marijuana rates falling anytime soon.

The other theme is that legal adult possession of cannabis will
prevent profits from illicit pot sales "going into the pockets of
criminal organizations and street gangs."

The Trudeau government reiterates that "not later than July 1, 2018"
adults living in Canada will be able to:

* Buy fresh or dried cannabis, cannabis oil, plants and seeds for home
cultivation from government-regulated retailers or, where not
available, directly from federally-licensed producers online

* Publicly possess up to 30 grams of dried legal cannabis

* Share up to 30 grams of legal cannabis and cannabis products with
other adults * Cultivate up to four plants (not exceeding a height of
one metre) per household

* Prepare varying types of cannabis products (e.g., edibles) at home
for personal use, yet edibles are still to be regulated.

As part of regulating growers and manufacturers of cannabis, the
federal government also promises to set potency limits and standard
serving sizes as well as "tracking cannabis from seed to sale in order
to prevent diversion to the illicit market."

So, who is actually going to benefit from all of this? Most people
don't smoke weed, so it won't mean much.

In 2012, Statistics Canada estimated 3.5 million Canadians had used
marijuana during the past year. One unscientific survey estimates an
additional 900,000 people might try weed once it is legalized.

One area that is less clear but full of anecdotal observations is the
recent explosion of so-called medicinal marijuana use. Health Canada
notes a tripling in the past year of registered medical marijuana
users, now numbering more than 130,000.

Given the plethora of ailments for which people claim they get relief
from cannabis and how easy it is to become a registered user, it's
difficult not to believe that some of the use is recreational and was
done because of mail order access and the ease of home

While the federal government will establish and enforce cannabis
standards, provincial governments will control many of the local
retailing rules.

All today's user has to do, after legalization, is keep the supply
chain of their unlicensed illicit product and once it's in their hands
who's to know where it came from? It's unlikely the law will require
bills of sale for everyone's 30 grams.

These challenges in the practicality of cannabis laws may also explain
why the federal government harps on the illegality of anyone selling
or supplying to underage kids, yet children aged 12 to 17 will be
permitted to possess up to five grams before any charges can be laid.

The tangled web the Trudeau government is weaving deserves a closer
look and more time.

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Pubdate: Mon, 25 Sep 2017
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2017 Los Angeles Times
Author: Emily Alpert Reyes

The idea of alarms critics of the marijuana industry, who argue that
such venues would become a nuisance and drag down property values.

The idea of alarms critics of the marijuana industry, who argue that
such venues would become a nuisance and drag down property values.

Los Angeles lawmakers are laying the groundwork for what is widely
expected to be one of the hottest markets for marijuana in the
country, one that could bring more than $50 million in taxes to city
coffers next year.

The city is drafting rules to allow greenhouses that grow cannabis,
industrial facilities that process it, and new shops that sell it for
recreational use, not just medical need.

But anyone expecting L.A. to become the next Amsterdam may be
disappointed: It has held back, so far, on welcoming cafes or lounges
where customers could smoke or consume cannabis.

That has troubled some marijuana advocates and attorneys, who warn
that even after California legalizes the sale of recreational pot,
many tourists and renters could be left without a safe, legal place to
use it in Los Angeles.

"It's ridiculous that the city doesn't consider that," said attorney
Bruce Margolin, executive director of the L.A. chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Margolin said he was offended that even as cannabis was on the verge
of local legitimacy, "the City Council is still treating marijuana
users like criminals."

The question is one example of the thorny debates that Los Angeles
faces as it crafts new regulations on cannabis businesses, an industry
still in limbo between California and Capitol Hill.

Under draft regulations released earlier this year, it would be
illegal for L.A. pot shops and other cannabis businesses to allow
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It is also illegal, under state law, to consume it in a public place.
And smoking pot will remain illegal anywhere that cigarette smoking is
banned. At a recent city hearing, several speakers complained that
could leave tourists and renters in the lurch.

Tourists "can't smoke it outside. Can't smoke it in a hotel. Can't
smoke it in a rental car," said George Boyadjian, president of 420
College, which provides seminars on cannabis business regulations.
"Where are these people supposed to use their cannabis?"

Under some leases, "you can be evicted for committing a federal
crime," said cannabis attorney Pamela Epstein, owner and founder of
Green Wise Consulting. Epstein argued that if Los Angeles doesn't want
those renters to smoke marijuana outside, it needs to give them a
designated place to go.

The idea alarms critics of the marijuana industry, who argue that such
venues would become a nuisance and drag down property values.

"Most people don't even want a marijuana store in their community, let
alone a place where you can actually consume," said Kevin Sabet,
president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposed the
California measure to legalize selling recreational marijuana. He was
skeptical that Californians would have trouble finding somewhere to

Even if they do, "I don't think we should be in the business of
facilitating places where people can get high," Sabet said.

The Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs argued that permitting
marijuana to be consumed at businesses would ramp up the risk of
intoxicated driving.

Los Angeles Police Protective League President Craig Lally agreed,
saying it is difficult for police or users themselves to know if
someone is too high to drive.

And UC San Francisco clinical professor of psychiatry Peter Banys
argued that cities should hold off on allowing any "consumption cafes"
until there is better research on intoxicated driving.

"There are questions that simply haven't been answered," Banys

Margolin said the idea is hardly new, pointing to the famed shops of
Amsterdam. San Francisco already allows consumption lounges at a small
number of medical marijuana dispensaries, and as it prepares for
recreational pot, a city task force has recommended allowing cannabis
consumption at retailers.

In Colorado, Denver is launching a pilot program to allow
bring-your-own marijuana consumption at some businesses that do not
sell pot or alcohol, though it has yet to process any applications.
And Alaska and Nevada have also started exploring similar ideas.

Although some private cannabis clubs have quietly operated in
California cities, local governments have been slow to officially
embrace "social use" because it isn't as familiar to them as other
kinds of marijuana businesses, said Jolene Forman, staff attorney with
the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group opposed to the war on drugs.

Forman argued that a lack of legal spaces to smoke could have
unintended consequences, such as pushing renters or tourists to turn
to edibles that are harder to detect. Switching to edibles, in turn,
could make it harder for new users to determine how much they should

"If you give people spaces where they can safely smoke or vape, there
is no risk of that," Forman said.

When California hammered out state rules for permitting recreational
marijuana, it left the door open for local governments to allow
cannabis consumption at retailers as long as the facilities are
restricted to people 21 or older, keep marijuana consumption out of
sight of younger people or the public, and do not offer up alcohol or
tobacco as well.

West Hollywood has been drafting rules to allow lounges where
marijuana can be consumed. In July, the West Hollywood City Council
invited a panel of experts to weigh in on cannabis regulation. Among
them was Cat Packer of the Drug Policy Alliance, who warned that "if
consumers and patients don't have a place to consume, they're going to
do it outside."

"So if you don't want them consuming outside, I think it makes sense
to give them a space where they can consume responsibly," Packer said,
pointing out that consumption could include applying lotion or eating

Packer now heads L.A.'s Department of Cannabis Regulation, but it is
city lawmakers who are making decisions about those rules. Many Los
Angeles City Council members said they had not yet considered the
issue of allowing cannabis consumption at businesses, which has taken
a back seat to other concerns such as where pot shops can locate.

"The full force of our attention is on creating the requirements for
cultivation, manufacturing, testing and retail businesses," Caolinn
Mejza, a spokeswoman for City Council President Herb Wesson, said in a
written statement. "As time goes by we will deal with other issues and

Packer added that the city regulations are likely to continue to
evolve with time. "This is the beginning of the conversation," she

One councilman said he was open to the idea of cannabis lounges.

"It's hard to say you can't smoke in your home -- especially for
medical marijuana, where people have real needs -- and yet we won't
let you smoke somewhere else," said Councilman Paul Koretz, who has
concerns about how secondhand smoke affects tenants. "Either people
need to be able to smoke in their apartments or they need some other
places set aside."

Koretz added, however, that the city should first scrutinize the
hazards of people driving while high. Those concerns were echoed by
Councilman Mitch Englander, who said if Los Angeles considers allowing
marijuana consumption at businesses, the overriding question must be,
"Can they be regulated in a way that they would be safe?"

Cannabis business attorney Hilary Bricken said she was disappointed,
but not surprised, that many cities seem to fear that cannabis bars
will encourage "bad behavior."

Bars serving alcohol are everywhere, Bricken said, "but there's
clearly different treatment of cannabis, in a way that really doesn't
give cannabis a chance to be a responsible activity."
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by guest blogger Renee James, essayist and blogger

As a former colleague of mine used to say—and I mean this in the kindest way to every recent graduate reading this column—”Listen to me very carefully.” What you don’t know about life, the workplace, relationships and love is a lot. Don’t misunderstand me; I’m not saying you should. Despite the omnipresent news cycle that has supplied the backdrop of your life, the immediacy and attainability of almost everyone and everything everywhere on the planet that has shaped almost every aspect of your existence, and the fact that you have never once had to wait for reruns to see a favorite episode of a television show, you have much to learn. It takes real life, away from school and textbooks and smartboards and seminars, to teach you. And almost 40 years past my own high school graduation, I’m no expert. But that’s the real lesson here, the real truth that no one seems to ever tell you: No one is.

Be warned: What follows may well be your life in the years ahead. You wake up, kill a stinkbug that looks completely at ease perched on the bathroom faucet, rouse your children, tell them again to hang up their sodden towels, then remind them to put the cereal and milk away and comb their hair before leaving the house. Then you start a load of laundry, go to work or go about your day, concentrate as much as possible on the responsibilities for which you earn your wages or that go into managing your home, and then prepare a dinner that may or may not include all the food groups or all the family members. Then it’s time to run around in or out of the house completing the next set of agenda items, then fall asleep during the show you DVR-ed last week.

Enthralling, right? Fascinating, I know. Again, listen to me very carefully. This doesn’t sound all that exhilarating, but that’s my point. Unless you’re counting on world renown of one kind or another, with some minor adjustments, you’ll live some version of this life. My husband and I have for the past 30 years. So has everyone we know—and our friends and family cover a broad spectrum of ages, household incomes, and lifestyles. Regardless of the things that surround us or what degrees we hold, we are all living that unglamorous life you never see depicted on Bravo or read about on Twitter.

It’s fabulous and it’s good and not so good and then great and then pretty hard and then really hard and then funny and then relentless, and then it’s okay and then it makes you crazy. Jobs come and go. They can be a source of enormous accomplishment or a source of enormous stress—sometimes simultaneously. Maybe you’ll fall in love a bunch of times. Or maybe just once, and you’ll try to imagine living through the next couple of decades with that person. You may even do it. But you’ll also find that people move in and out of your life for reasons you may never fully understand. Children arrive and turn a couple into parents overnight. Families and friends appear and start a new chapter for you; but they disappear, too, and you’ll figure out how to manage the loss and the sadness because things will never really be the same. Life disappoints you; life delights you. You make mistakes. You learn from them. Or you don’t.

What I hope you’ll take away from this is that life is not one unending upward trajectory toward awesome.

Through it all, it’s unlikely you’ll remember the speeches you heard at graduation. You’ll be busy creating a life, a home, maybe a family. I hope you’ll live in a place that brings you comfort and a bit of sanctuary. You’ll pay your bills and walk the dog and plant some flowers and match up the socks that come out of the dryer and hug your kids and put away groceries and take out the recycling. You’ll wonder if marriage is supposed to be this hard or this fantastic—sometimes in the same week, sometimes in the same day. Once in a while you’ll read an outstanding book or see a memorable movie or play. You’ll find yourself at a Mumford and Sons concert in 2035 and remember every detail of how you discovered their music when you were 15. You’ll laugh and cry with friends or family. You’ll forgive and ask forgiveness. You’ll raise your children and, if you’re fortunate, one day you realize that you’d like them even if they weren’t your kids. You may find some time to give back to your community, and share your own unique gifts with others.

The days will become the weeks that become the years that become your life. Soon enough—and I know this sounds crazy—you’ll be 40 years past your own graduation.

One more time, listen to me very carefully. Please don’t spend the next 20 or 30 years thinking or saying things like this: Once we buy a house, or a bigger house, everything will be better. Once I drive the latest model, it will be better. Once I get a raise, it will be better. Once we take that trip to Europe, it will be better. I just need the 1,000-thread-count cotton duvet/the spa vacation/the projection home theater and it will be better.

It won’t be. That will never happen, so don’t waste time waiting for life to get better because of an event or a thing or an activity. Not one of those things will really make a difference to your happiness—not one. “It” will get better because of you and what you say, what you do, what you are to yourself and those around you.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure that’s all true. I’m still figuring it out, too.

Renee A. James works at Rodale Inc. and also wrote an award-winning op-ed column for The Morning Call, the Allentown, PA, newspaper, for almost 10 years. Her essays were included in the humor anthology, 101 Damnations’: A Humorists’ Tour of Personal Hells (Thomas Dunne Books, 2002), and are also found online at Jewish World Review and The Daily Caller. Her blog, It’s Not Me, It’s You, addresses topics that mystify her on a regular basis.

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9 Responses to The Big Secret No One Tells You

  1. sarah June 13, 2013 at 7:42 am #

    amen, amen, amen!
    Beautifully said, thank you.
    Just had a conversation the other day w/ a dear friend about this exact topic

  2. Cindy Ratzlaff June 13, 2013 at 9:06 am #

    A-men! It never happens. Life is in the in-between moments. And, once we learn that, we have to relearn it every single day.

  3. maria (farm country kitchen) June 13, 2013 at 9:11 am #

    the great equalizer: stinkbugs! Thank you, Renee — you always get it just right. I find it funny when people meet me and say — “but you’re so normal!” The truth is every person I’ve met, rich, poor, famous, not famous, is “normal” too. And time passes in exactly the same way for all of us.

  4. Jean Nick June 13, 2013 at 10:13 am #

    Perfect. And I might add one more thing, or perhaps just say it another way: You will never have “more time” to do the things you like — not after you get your degree…or get a better job…or after the kids are in school…or go off to college…or even (most likely, I haven’t tried it yet) after you retire. Make time now and do something that you enjoy, even if its just for a few minutes, every day. You are worth it!

  5. Tracy Herz June 13, 2013 at 10:45 am #

    How true it is. And not only graduates need to step back and remember it, preferably at all times! Thanks.

  6. Alice Green June 13, 2013 at 12:03 pm #

    I worked for over 40 years for two different non-profit groups helping people. The day I turned 65 I retired and finally found my true vocation, the reason I was put on this earth – to be Retired! I have less money but much more time, to read, to write, to paint, to watch birds on the Cornel Lab website, to just be alive and enjoy nature and friends and life! I still try to protest and speak out against wars, Monsanto’s GMO’s, etc. but now I also try to enjoy the many good things that are also here in our world. Thank you Renee, for your wise words and reminders about life!

  7. Donna in Delaware June 13, 2013 at 8:53 pm #

    AMEN, RENEE, AMEN! Words to the wise young, middle aged, and some seniors! Well said. Love your posts!

  8. Renee June 13, 2013 at 9:51 pm #

    Thank you so much for sharing the perspective, everyone, and for adding your own ideas as well. We are all just “normal” as Maria puts it, facing life everyday and doing the best we can. I try to remind myself of this every day; sometimes more than once a day.
    The contributions you’ve shared give me an even better perspective on time passing and how to make the most of everyday life. Thank you again for your support and kind words.

  9. great feather pillows January 9, 2015 at 10:39 pm #

    Howdy are using Wrdpress for your log platform? I’m neww to the blog world but I’m trying to get started and set up my own. Do you need any coding expetise to makme yoiur own blog?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Where stock market will be in January 2017

Published: Jan 18, 2013 8:01 a.m. ET

Commentary: Four-year forecast is of a below-average return

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Where will the stock market be in January 2017, four years from now?

If you’re like the vast majority of investors, you’ve never even wondered. The investment arena is so short-term-focused that the typical investor’s “long term” barely extends from lunch until dinner.

That’s a shame, however, since the stock market’s return over the next four years may very well be more predictable than whether it will close up or down tomorrow.

That’s the good news, provided you’re willing to extend your focus beyond the very short term.

The not-so-good news is that the market’s return over the next four years is likely to be somewhat below average, at least according to a market-timing model that has exploited the stock market’s long-term predictability to turn in an enviable record.

That model comes from Mark Robertson, founder and managing partner at Manifest Investing. His model is based on the projections made by analysts at Value Line Inc., the New York-based investment-research firm, of the total returns that the 1,700 widely followed stocks they closely monitor will produce over the next three to five years’ time.

To adjust for analysts’ (if not humans’) tendency to be overly optimistic, Robertson focuses on the low end of the range of the three-to-five-year return projections for each stock. He then uses the average of those projections to forecast the stock market’s return over the next four years.

Take four years ago, for example — the most recent forecast for which the jury is in on how it did.

The end of 2008 and beginning of 2009 were the darkest days of the dark period that was the 2008-2009 bear market, of course. But Robertson’s model at that time was forecasting a four-year return of close to 20% annualized — double the long-term average.

Despite being reacted to with incredulity, that forecast has turned out to be remarkably accurate: The actual four-year total-return of the 1,700 stocks in the Value Line universe (as measured by the Value Line Arithmetic Index US:VAY  ) was 23% annualized — see chart above.

What does Robertson’s model project for the next four years? A total-return of 8.2% annualized, which is slightly below the two-decade average of 8.5% — and two to three percentage points lower than the market’s return over the last century of 10% to 11% annualized.

Though that’s not a terrible return, it does suggest that stocks are at least somewhat overvalued right now.

Robertson acknowledges that he is not the first adviser to use Value Line’s 3-5 projections as the foundation of a market timing model. Another is Dan Seiver, editor of an advisory service called The PAD System Report, about whose bearish market forecast I wrote last autumn. (Click here to read my Sept. 28, 2012, column.)

In an interview, Robertson distanced himself from Seiver’s bearishness. Investors’ appropriate response to his model’s latest forecast, he said, is not to run for the hills, but instead to “scale back” on their speculations and “begin to focus on higher quality stocks.”

However, for those with lump sums to invest in the stock market right now, Robertson said he would recommend investing only about 60% to 70% of the full amount now, and keeping 30% to 40% in cash.

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Cartesian Assess VCAS Ultra Compliance Against MovieLabs Specifications for UHD Content Delivery

Independent Assessment Ranks VCAS Ultra for Adherence to Rigorous Studio Standards

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - Sep 6, 2016) - IBC 2016 (Booth #5.A59) - Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, today announced the completion of an extensive third-party security review of its next-generation Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) Ultra architecture, further attesting to its ability to satisfy key security requirements for ultra HD (UHD) premium content services. Conducted by Cartesian, a trusted leader in providing independent content security consulting and advisory services to the digital video sector, the Farncombe Security Audit™ is an independent, multi-phase review of a system's overall level of security, designed to evaluate adherence to Cartesian's comprehensive set of security requirements as well as rigorous standards for UHD content, including MovieLabs' Enhanced Content Protection principles.

"Cartesian has performed content security audits in support of the major studios for more than a decade, and we have established a clear and thorough methodology in accordance with the most stringent standards for next-generation premium content," commented Jean-Marc Racine, SVP at Cartesian. "As service providers consider their options for securing UHD delivery, they can see that VCAS Ultra has been independently assessed for its compliance against recognizable security requirements and technologies outlined by MovieLabs' specifications."

Verimatrix was among the first of the industry's leading content security vendors to sign up to use the Farncombe Security Audit Mark, which indicates that a digital media content system has undergone an extensive security review and that a detailed assessment report with the audit results is available for interested parties to review upon request. The Mark provides a greater level of transparency into the security of VCAS Ultra, signifying that it has been meticulously reviewed against industry standards, including ranking of elements that make up the pillars of UHD content security -- embedded hardware-based security, trusted software security, and forensic watermarking.

"As soon as VCAS Ultra was first introduced, we enlisted Cartesian's expert team to closely scrutinize the multi-layered solution to evaluate its ability to provide secure, end-to-end chains of custody for UHD security," said Petr Peterka, CTO of Verimatrix. "We are very proud of the results from this audit."

Content owners interested in learning more about the results of the Farncombe Security Audit for VCAS Ultra can request further information from Verimatrix or visit the company's booth at IBC 2016 #5.A59.

To learn more about the Farncombe Security Audit™ Mark, visit

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Verimatrix specializes in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe. The award-winning and independently audited Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) and ViewRight® solutions enable cable, satellite, terrestrial, IPTV and OTT operators to cost-effectively extend their networks and enable new business models. As the established leader in cardless security solutions, the company has leveraged its innovative 3-Dimensional Security approach to provide harmonized rights for premium content delivery to a range of devices over new hybrid network combinations.

Maintaining close relationships with major studios, broadcasters, standards organizations and its unmatched partner ecosystem enables Verimatrix to provide a unique perspective on video business issues beyond content security as operators introduce new services to take advantage of the proliferation of connected devices. Verimatrix is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. For more information, please visit, our Pay TV Views blog and follow us @verimatrixinc, Facebook and LinkedIn to join the conversation.


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Three BHS Students Selected For Senior Music Festival

BHS is proud to announce that Giovanna Fernandes, Amanda Harrigan, and Ariana Hall were selected to partcipate in the Massachusetts Northeastern District Senior Music Festival. After auditions of over 1,100 students from more than 50 public and private schools held in November, 450 students from grades nine through twelve were selected to participate in this prestigious Massachusetts Music Educators Association event.

The students will rehearse with guest conductors and then perform in a concert to be held at Lowell High School in Lowell, MA on Saturday, January 9, 2010.

Amanda and Ariana were also recommended for the All-State Music Festival in March.

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We take a closer look at the maximally extended version of Schwarzschild spacetime, and investigate the geometry and topology beyond the event horizon, leading us to the notion of “white holes”. We discuss the concept of wormhole, its implications, and choices of coordinate system which allow us to quantify them. We then consider the laws of thermodynamics in the presence of event horizons, and find that Schwarzschild black holes have entropy and temperature, and undergo an evaporation process through the emission of thermal radiation. We introduce the holographic principle, and briefly discuss the implications it has for our understanding of the interior region enclosed by the horizon surface.


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Chris Hadfield takes Victoria on odyssey through sound and space

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Commander Chris Hadfield, seen here in the International Space Station, is coming to Victoria for a series of performances with the Victoria Symphony starting March 24.

Commander Chris Hadfield, seen here in the International Space Station, is coming to Victoria for a series of performances with the Victoria Symphony starting March 24. Photo credit: NASA via Flickr/Creative Commons

There are few questions Chris Hadfield hasn’t been asked.

It’s been twenty-five years since Commander Hadfield was accepted into the astronaut program by the Canadian Space Agency, and his work — on the ground and in space — is embedded into Canada’s national consciousness, to the point when sharing that I was researching for this interview, not one person failed to summon their own Hadfieldism.

“He graduated from my RMC academy,” said one Canadian. “You know, he was the first dude to record a song space,” offered my Australian roommate. “He is a pretty interesting and amazing guy,” astronaut candidate Jay T. Cullen told me in an interview just a few weeks ago.

I spoke with Hadfield in the lead up to a series of performances at the Royal Theatre with the Victoria Symphony this weekend, where he will take the audience through a journey of sound and space, marrying music, storytelling, and imagery.

Hadfield’s credentials are lengthy — engineer, fighter pilot, astronaut, Twitter celebrity, musician — and his media presence wide. (Few could forget when he dropped the Leaf’s ceremonial puck. From space.) It truly feels that there’s nothing left to ask him.

So we began on the southern Ontario corn farm where Cmdr. Hadfield was raised.

This interview has been edited for clarity.

The Martlet: In the documentary Here I Stand, you spoke about farming being a good foundation for pursuing space travel. Can you elaborate on that?

Hadfield: Farming teaches self-reliance and an understanding of machinery and a sense of responsibility at a young age. And the necessity of being aware of how everything is working around you and being in tune with your environment so you can anticipate things happening. It also teaches you a work ethic, but also the pride that comes from work; how you can feel very satisfied with life as a result of having done demanding work. I think it set me up well. I was very lucky to have been raised on a farm.

Did you ever have a blueprint for your life? Did you ever say to yourself, “I want to be an astronaut,” or did it all just fall into place?

[Laughs] When I decided to be an astronaut it was impossible — they didn’t exist in Canada. We had no astronauts, no astronaut program, no space agency, and I made the conscious decision on July 20, 1969, the day the first two people walked on the moon, to try and turn myself into somebody that could be trusted to do something like that. And so, 26 years later, I had a chance to fly into space and I worked on it pretty much every day. And that’s true for all astronauts; no one is just sort of bumbling through life and then suddenly they fly a rocket ship. It is very much the result of changing who you are to gain the skills and experience necessary that you can be trusted to do something as dangerous and as high consequence as flying in space.

Ski instructor, pilot, astronaut, musician — you’ve worn many hats. What role do you enjoy most?

I like doing a complex thing that takes a lot of skills and preparation that has a definite clear purpose, and I like doing that well. And I think that applies to all four of those things you listed; being a ski instructor — actually, I was a downhill ski racer as well as a ski instructor — a pilot, then a fighter pilot, then a test pilot, which is the most demanding of all those things, and then an astronaut which is the rarest of the rare.

And a musician playing with the Victoria Symphony — it definitely requires a lot of preparation and real-time skill, and there’s pretty high consequences if you mess it up in front of everybody. I’m not a thrill seeker at all. I don’t like having adrenaline in my veins, I’m not trying to impress anybody, I don’t have a bucket list. To me, the most worthwhile and satisfactory things are the things that require the most skill, that took the longest preparation to get ready for, and are the most difficult to execute but come with a great sense of satisfaction when they are executed well.

What is it about the process of making music, particularly in space, that brings you joy?

I think there’s a common perception that music just exists. And, of course, it doesn’t. Music is a creation. Music is a process of invention. Music is a personal or a group expression using a language that is somewhat universal. And to me, the greatest joy in music is in the creation of music; looking around inside a song when I’m playing it by myself, or better, when I’m playing with other people and seeing how we are making it this time, how we are creating it, how we are celebrating it, how we are changing it.

And I love that sense of creative, inventive, artistic discovery that comes from music. Just playing music by yourself in a quiet room is kind of limited. To play music standing on the edge of a cliff, or on the top of CN Tower, or on the front balcony of The Empress Hotel, or as a busker down on the harbour of Victoria, or wherever: location and surroundings feed the inspiration, and so playing in a spaceship with the world going by and you cross all of Canada in eight minutes or you go round the entire planet sixteen times a day—that’s sixteen sunrises a day. It’s a very inspiring place to write music and to record and play and celebrate life through music.

You’re joining the Victoria Symphony to play three concerts at the Royal Theatre. What can the audience expect?

I’m very much looking forward to the concert. It’s a real privilege to be able to play with a group of super skilled and accomplished musicians, to be able to play music that I wrote or wrote with other people. But also it will be a chance to really interact, talk, and tell stories about the where and why on each of the songs, and what lead up to them, and do a Q&A with the audience. There also will be imagery projecting up behind the symphony of the type of environment I was in when the music was being created. If you listen to the music that’s one thing, but if you could be where the composer was when they were inspired to write that, you could have that transport of not just the music but also the psychology and the imagery. I think it becomes more significant than just music. That’s why you seldom see a movie without a soundtrack, because they’re additives, they multiply on each other. I think it’s a lovely way and maybe as complete a way as I know how of sharing the almost surreal and extremely rare experience of space flight.

ROCKET MAN with Chris Hadfield takes place this Friday, March 24, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, March 25 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street. Tickets are $32–82, and are available at the Victoria Symphony Box Office at 250-385-6815.

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An historic vineyard with a reputation for quality recorded as far back as the XII century. Located in the Torbe suburb of Valpolicella in the district of Negrar at an altitude of 375-400 m s.l.. Facing south-west with vineyard rows planted north-south. Good ventilation. Red hillside terrain composed of marly limestone and basaltic toar from the Eocene era. Dry stone walls (marogne) shore up the terraces and the ground is covered with rich, deep and fresh humus.
The Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara grapes produced here are dried on bamboo racks (arele) in technologically well-equipped drying lofts near the vineyard.
The Amarone this vineyard makes, called Campolongo di Torbe, is extremely elegant, rich and well-balanced, with a characteristic fine almond bouquet.


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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Educating Ourselves

This morning I read an interesting article about the Princess Author Syndrome. As I was reflecting on it I was thinking about the need for all authors to educate themselves on the industry. Especially if you are thinking about traditional publishing as these tweets from Writer Beware blogger Victoria Strauss this morning illustrate.

(read the rest in my Twitter feed)

Scott Berkun takes an unsentimental approach with 28 things no one tells you about publishing.

If you are into experimenting with Indie publishing you will know that learning never stops in this game. Kathryn Rusch has a great blog post on this and how she is weighing up which of her many projects will go down the traditional route. (Along with a fascinating story about a rejected YA series because of main characters race.)

Elisabeth S Craig talks about the pro and cons of being a Hybrid author and that ties nicely into Porter Anderson’s big thought piece on publishing terms that get confused. Porter also profiles a company that wants to partner with authors... but be wary. (see above)

Ryan Hanley looks at the 7 harsh realities of self-publishing as a side hustle from your day job.

Kiwi author D C Grant has a great opinion piece on the ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors) blog about collaborating with publishers on projects. Here in NZ we face the real prospect of having celebrity rugby players biographies or chef’s cook books as the only NZ themed content on the shelves in the next decade. Which brings me to another excellent Alli post on collaboration with other authors in marketing and publishing. (Take the time to have a look at the Triskele Trail e-book,)

Charlie Redmayne CEO of HarperCollins addressed the Scottish Book Trade conference this week with a warning that Amazon could be disrupted this year. The Bookseller reports on Charlie’s candid state of the publishing nation speech which includes why they bought Harlequin, what kind of celebrity book they are looking for and yes he is related to....

In the Craft Section,

When you need a pep talk – reach for these inspirations.

In the Marketing Section,
Book covers- forget Fabio d-i-y covers. (Bookmark this!)

Book Marketing truths few experts will admit- a stellar post by Angela Ackerman.

Website of The Week
It’s not really a website...more of a web guru. Jane Friedman is a great resource for writers. This week she talks with Laura Backes on picture e-books for children and shares her round up of 5 great digital resources for writers.

To Finish,
Roz Morris asks whether you can teach writing to anyone. This is always the dilemma faced by creative writing tutors everywhere.
Chuck Wendig explains why adults read so much Young Adult fiction. (This is the argument you use when someone questions your book choice.)

Educating ourselves about the publishing industry is just good sense, don’t you think?

Thursday, February 19, 2015

It’s All Subjective

This week I have been mulling over the perfect conference program. This is highly subjective. Why do you go to conferences? Some people say networking. Some say up-skilling in your craft. Some say to learn new approaches to old ideas. That’s my ideal, learning. I’m not into great big crowded rooms where everybody is glad handing and I know no one. So planning the perfect writers conference for me has to have plenty of learning opportunities and meet and greet without being overpowering. We are in the middle of refining our program for Tinderbox2015 and I have a big problem. I want to go to everything!

As I look through this week’s links for you it is amazing how many of them link into something in our conference program.

Passive Guy has linked to two posts this week that have people talking. Do publishers really understand SEO (do you?) and Authorpreneurs. from The Economist which has weighed in saying what authors should be doing regarding their business which is finding influencers and publishers should be publishing celebrity authors to stay afloat. Reading the comments on both those articles is entertaining. And in breaking news Pharrell is writing a series of children’s books... about being HAPPY.

Porter Anderson takes a good long look at publishing terms everyone gets wrong and the implications for planning your writing business. Do you really get royalties if you self publish? And why you need to know the differences.

Publishing Perspectives has an interesting opinion piece about whether agents and publishers want authors that know about the publishing business. Do MFA programs want clued up authors?

Darcy Pattison talks about her last 18 months. This is chock full of information about the decision to Indie Publish and what she has learned. (this is a bookmark post!)

Today was a #MSWL day on Twitter. Agents and Editors write on Twitter what Manuscripts they wish would come across their desks. Type #MSWL in the search bar. If you do query an agent or editor from this, mention the tweet. Another cool search on Twitter is #tenqueries. Agents and Editors going through their slush pile will comment on ten queries live on Twitter and their immediate response. This is a great heads up about what grabs and what doesn’t.

In the Craft section,

Author Biz has a great interview with Editor Shawn Coyne who is working on a story grid book for editors. This is a bookmark post! (and a print out the Storygrid and stick it on your wall post.)

In the Marketing section,

Lindsay Buroker has been sourcing covers from fiverr for short stories - she explains how to do this.

7 must do tactics for promotional tweets. (please don’t spam... the 90/10 rule should apply- thats 90 pieces of interesting stuff for every 10 promotional tweets)

Website of the Week
Bibliocrunch is an interesting hangout. Not only do they host chats on Twitter but they have lots of resources for the Indie Authors.
Here are two of their recent articles- Using Skype to organize a virtual writing groups and

To Finish,
John Green is known for a lot of things that he does well. However today he found out something he doesn’t know well - The quotes from his books. This made for a great confessional post to his brother about how he always assumed that the quote memes were from his books...oops

If you are interested in finding out more about Tinderbox 2015 - The National Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference in Wellington, NZ, October 2-5th  send us an Email to 2015tinderbox AT gmail DOT com and we’ll put you on our dedicated mailing list for updates and news.

John Green's confession below.

Tweet from a conversation thread with J K Rowling.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Scrubbing Up

This morning parts of New Zealand were declared officially in drought. (finally…)
The kids have gone back to school.
The floor still needs scrubbing.
I’m still trying to find my desk under the summer onslaught of papers, Christmas wrappings and other detritus that has to be put away.

Business as usual.

I need to change my mindset.
Scott Berkun has descriptions of 3 writer mindsets that he switches through.

I need to revisit the story that makes me have nightmares.
Mark Wisniewski has 3 pieces of advice that he should have given when he taught writing.

I need to understand my history as a writer and view my books as an annuity.

I need to relook at my print book project.

Conference planning is underway with my great team. News will be coming soon. If you found yourself instantly linking to some of the above for a different way of looking at your career ... you may want to keep October 2-5th free and come to Wellington.

In the Craft Section,
Every one of these is a bookmark post...

In the Marketing section,

To Finish,
Joanna Penn revisits her favourite craft books for writers... and I’m nodding my head as I own about half of her list... Now do I dive into a craft book or scrub the floor…(save the water…)

Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Cost Of Writing

What are the odds that a reclusive writer who wrote one book that has topped best seller lists for nearly 60 years would suddenly decide that the time is right at age 88 with severe medical issues (deaf and nearly blind) to bring out the first book she ever wrote.  (insert dead fish smell here.)

This has been the main topic of conversation this week in the publishing blogosphere.

Once the usual literary crowd finished celebrating that Harper Lee was releasing a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird then saner heads started asking why and the story becomes increasingly unlikely. Is it a rights grab by a lawyer who took over Harper’s sister, Alice's, law firm after her death a few months ago. Is HarperCollins behaving ethically in this whole affair? Is the lawyer to be trusted or have they played a very long game? There are lots of questions around this. Where is Atticus Finch when his creator needs him?

Staying with things legal... Tess Gerritson talks about what is happening with her landmark legal battle with Warner Brothers who bought out New Line who had the option on her book Gravity 15 years ago... and it makes for some nervous reading for writers selling film options.

So the first two items this week are after the book has been written, Chuck Wendig looks at the emotional rollercoaster of writing the book with his handy guide.

Susan Kaye Quinn talks about the need to create... and how that jumbly mixed up feeling is telling you something important.

That something important could be the startling finding from last weeks author earnings report about that 30% of books being published without ISBN’s. Here in NZ we are in a relatively fortunate position of getting free ISBN’s. But in the rest of the world it is a different story. It is a real cost. Porter looks at the issues raised by the author earnings report and then discussion over ISBN’s and their value get a hammering in the comments.

If you have a toe in the academic publishing world these five predictions for 2015 are for you.

Seth Godin amplifies his call to publishers that if you aren’t selling direct to consumer you are....

In the Craft Section,
Kristen Nelson on what is uneven writing

Susan Kaye Quinn on not rushing to publish

Writing exercises - changing the tail.

In the Marketing Section,
The big story this week is Bookbaby beginning Print On Demand. This is big news for those who don’t want all their stuff in the Amazon basket. Canny marketers have also discovered how you can play both sides...

Jami Gold on branding 101

Odd Stuff

To Finish

It is possible that Harper Lee stared at each of the 5 reasons why writers avoid writing in the face and took them on board or she didn’t know how to follow up the first book (first book syndrome) or, as everybody suspects, the phenomenal success frightened her to reclusiveness. But if this is a rights grab... it will be a landmark in publishing... as the day when some publishers lost all moral credibility.
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  I had open heart surgery in 1986 for stenosis of the mitral valve.The valve was just cleaned out.
  I did have Rhumatic Fever when I was a child.
  I now have stenosis of the mitral valve, approx. 40 to 50%
  also have a leaking bicuspid.
  I've always experienced palpatations for which I have been taking several medications.  propanol, toprol etc.
  Last fall I was changed to beta pace after suffering an attack of atrial fibrillation.   Rythm was restored by electric shock.
  I have had three attacks of atrial fibrillation in the last couple of months.  The last one I was given 180 M of cardizem plus increas of beta pace from 160m per day to 240.
  I became so dizzy I couldn't even dress and was again admitted to hospital.  This time the rythm had returned but was beating so slow I was put on strick bed rest until medication wore off.
  My question is--shouldn't I get a full evaluation from someone like the Cleveland Clinic?  How can I get my doctor (He is a cardiologist) to reccommend me?  I asked him and he said He was evaluating me every time I come in.  He says it's just a matter of  getting me the right doses of the medication.
  I'd appreciate any advice I can get.
  By the way--I'm from Dr. Cosgrove's home town and I've followed his career with much interest.
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Absolutely, you should have a second opinion, especially since a.fib is one of the reasons to start seriously thinking about valve replacement, even more so when it is difficult to control (be that because the patient can not tolerate the medications or otherwise.)
Your choice being the Cleveland Clinic for this second opinion is a good one in that here we have a vast experience, much more so for cases such as yours where there has already been something done to the valve (you say that yours was "cleaned out".
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Factor Markets in England before the Black Death

Factor Markets in England before the Black Death

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Paper given at The Rise, Organization, and Institutional Framework of Factor Markets (2005)

Abstract: The origin of modern English factor markets can be dated to the two centuries of active commercialisation that preceded the Black Death of 1348-9. An active market in labour appears to have developed first and was well established by the end of the twelfth century. Evolution of an active market in land followed the legal reforms initiated by Henry II in the 1160s and 1170s, which severed the established feudal connection between land holding and personal obligation and created legally secure and defensible property rights in land. Thenceforth, first freehold land and then villein land were bought and sold with increasing frequency. This had a galvanising effect upon the growth of a capital market, since land now became a security against which credit could be obtained. Moreover, as, in an inflationary age, land became an appreciating asset, so men increasingly borrowed in order to acquire land.

Nevertheless, none of these nascent factor markets functioned unconstrained. Money wages were determined more by custom than by market forces. Serfdom prevented half the population from full and uninhibited participation in the labour market. Villein land was subject to the will of the lord, excluded from the jurisdiction and protection of the royal courts, and governed by manorial custom. The legal security of leasehold tenure long remained inferior to that of freehold tenure. Until 1283 Jewish moneylenders were in a stronger legal position to enforce debts than their Christian counterparts, and the latter had to contend with the Church’s strictures against the charging of interest enforced by canon law. Moreover, In England, as in much of the rest of northern Europe, interest rates were high. These constraints ensured that English medieval factor market operated with sub-optimal economic efficiency. They also left a legacy of legal, tenurial, and institutional complexities which it would take later generations centuries to reform.

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Trav, Gwen, and I are getting back from camping today (hopefully I'll find some time to post about that tomorrow). I talked about some of the reasons for my excitement for our trip in my most recent post from Connected Mom

How do you reconnect when you feel like daily life is getting too distracting?

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This past weekend, Gwen had a bit of an adventure. For the first time she slept away from home without her father or me, her very first sleepover. Trav and I had a wedding to attend, and as it was very close to her grandparents' house, the easiest thing for all of us was to have Gwen sleep there. She was so excited for a sleepover with her Nonnie; Trav and I were so excited for a fun night together, and a chance for a bit of sleeping in!

It was surreal, driving away from my parents place. My preschooler was a baby just yesterday, and here she is, having her first sleep away. It was only for a night, but it was a milestone nonetheless.

Now, we are starting our week of vacation. Today is the beginning of our 3 days of camping, something I am so looking forward to. Life gets so busy and hectic sometimes. Its so easy to get caught up in the routine of the everyday, and let it all just slip by. We wake up, we get ready, we're off to school and work, we come home, make dinner, have bath time half the days, maybe have time for a brief play or some yoga, then its time to get ready for bed. A few precious hours of sleep and its time to do it all again. We get as much together time in there as possible, liberally sprinkle all waking hours with hugs and kisses and I love yous, but it isn't enough sometimes.

I'm so looking forward to the next 3-days as a way to relax and reconnect as a family. 3 days of enjoying nature, being outside (which we all love), hiking, cooking over a campfire, without the normal interruptions of school/work, chores, or technology. There will be no laundry, no dishes, no vacuuming. There will be no TV, no videos, no kindle, no computer. The iPhone will be there, but turned off in the car, in case of emergency only. We will sleep side-by-side, in our sleeping bags, under the moonlight. We will listen to the sound of the woods, and the rushing of waterfalls. We will make our fingers gooey with s'mores, then rinse them in the stream. We will hike until we are tired and sore, looking at all the beauty that the environment displays to us, then sleep deeply, satisfied. We will do it all together, without the normal distractions from each other.

Gwen is growing and changing everyday. I know these times are fleeting. This chance to reconnect is so cherished.

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Martini Beef-less Tips over Lemon Pepper Pearl Couscous

Oh Martinis – Is there anything that automatically says “schmancy” like you?

I don’t have my list yet of action items/resolutions ready to launch 2013 into infamy yet but I do have a recipe to share that combines some of my very favorite things into a dish that is both simple and lavish at the same time. A perfect way to level up any ordinary day and gives you a delicious way to use any leftover martini ingredients you may still have after everyone’s kissed their sweethearts, the ball has dropped and the party is over.  We modeled this recipe after those martini steak recipes out there swimming in the internets. This recipe combines that unique juniper berry flavor that comes from gin with a savory bite from stuffed green olives and a nice “beefy” taste from the gardein. If you’re more into tofu – you can always substitute it in or replace those olives with pearl onions to make this a ‘gibson.’ See part of what makes martinis so popular is that much like those designer coffees we all love – you can personalize them with vodka instead of gin. You can choose shaking or stirring or dirty-ing them up. You are the master of your own boozey destiny.

I recommend always saying the name of this recipe in a Marilyn Monroe fashion with an extra “Dahling” here and there with a side of Pink Martini.

Martini Beef-less Tips over Lemon Pepper Pearl Couscous

Martini Beef-less Tips

2 packages Gardein Beef-less Tips, defrosted
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
2 tablespoons Bragg’s Liquid Amino Acids
Dash of Liquid Smoke
2 tablespoons Gin (or Vodka is that’s your poison)
2 teaspoons Vermouth
1/2 teaspoon Lemon Pepper
1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
1/3 cup Large Green Olives stuffed with Pimientos
4 Lime Wedges

Lemon Pepper Pearl Couscous

1 1/3 cup Pearl Couscous
1 tablespoon Olive Oil
1 1/3 cup Water
1/3 cup Lemon Juice
1 1/4 teaspoons Lemon Pepper

Read the instructions on your Couscous package and adjust your cooking times and water according to the product instructions.

Saute your Pearl Couscous in a tablespoon of Olive Oil in a large sauce pan until it is lightly brown over a medium heat.  Stir in Water, Lemon Juice and Lemon Pepper and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat to low, cover and let simmer for around 10 minutes or until tender. While it is cooking, use a fork to mix and fluff your Couscous.

While your Couscous is cooking, start your Beef-less Tips.

In your favorite cast iron skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil over a medium heat. Once your oil is hot, toss in your Beef-less Tips and pour 1 tablespoon of Braggs and a few dashes of Liquid Smoke over the top. Brown your Beef-less Tips in the hot oil until they are evenly cooked and have lightly crispy edges. Then remove from heat.

In a small mixing bowl whisk together 1 tablespoon of Olive Oil, 1 tablespoon of Braggs, Gin, Vermouth, Lemon Pepper and Dijon Mustard. Pour your mix over your Beef-less Tips in the hot skillet once they’re removed from heat. Add your Olives and toss your ingredients in the hot skillet to evenly coat everything.

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HELSINKI — Nokia says it has completed the $7.5 billion sale of its troubled cellphone and services division to Microsoft, ending a chapter in the former world leading cellphone maker’s history that began with paper making in 1865.

The Friday closure of the deal, which includes a license to a portfolio of Nokia patents to Microsoft, follows delays in global regulatory approvals and ends the production of mobile phones by the Finnish company, which had led the field for more than a decade, peaking with a 40-percent global market share in 2008.

Nokia said the total transaction price would be “slightly higher” than when it was originally announced on Sept. 3 because of adjustments made for net working capital and cash earnings. The deal was to have closed during the first quarter but was held up because of delays in approvals, including from China.

The former mobile leader, which had also provided a significant boost to the Finnish economy, gradually lost its grip on the market as it failed to meet the smartphone challenge of Apple’s iPhone, Google Inc.’s Android operating system and cheaper competitors in Asia.

In an attempt to reverse the slide, it teamed up with Microsoft in 2011, replacing its old operating system with one based on Windows, but it took them eight months to produce the first Nokia Windows Phone, and consumers didn’t warm to the handset or subsequent models.

Nokia will now focus on networks, mapping services and technology development and licenses, saying it will give more details of the deal and future plans when it releases first-quarter earnings on April 29 — the last report to include the ailing devices and services division. It is also expected to name the new Nokia CEO.

“The new Nokia can now go forward and concentrate on its remaining assets,” said Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics, near London. “It has one of the best IPR (intellectual property rights) assets in the entire industry and it has good mapping services.”

Nokia said two plants will remain outside the deal — a manufacturing unit in Chennai, India, subject to an asset freeze by Indian tax authorities, and the Masan plant in South Korea, which it plans to shut down. The adjustments have no impact on the deal and Nokia “will be materially compensated for any retained liabilities,” the company said.

Microsoft said it will acquire some 25,000 Nokia employees in 50 countries, including 4,700 in Finland, leaving the Finnish company with 6,000 workers in the Nordic country.

The Nokia headquarters in Espoo, near the Finnish capital, Helsinki, were draped Friday in a banner with the words “On the Move.” They will be taken over by Microsoft and Nokia’s remaining workers in the area will move to nearby offices.

Microsoft said that former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will serve as executive vice president of the Microsoft Devices Unit, which will include Nokia’s former Lumia smartphones and tablets. Microsoft Mobile Oy, a subsidiary of Microsoft, will develop, manufacture and distribute Lumia, Asha and Nokia X mobile phones and other devices, it said.

Nokia’s share price remained almost unchanged, closing at 5.25 euros on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.

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How Dreyer Am I?: Composer Richard Einhorn screens Carl Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc," for which he has written a new score.

Cabrillo Music Festival salutes the many sounds of the cinema for summer lineup

By Philip Collins

MUSIC'S VERSATILE yet often-neglected role in film history provides the central focus for Cabrillo Music Festival's 34th season (Aug. 111).

Within the festival's eight-concert series, music director Marin Alsop has programmed five film showings, each with live musical accompaniment. The film lineup is more than a cameo salute, stretching across most of the century and encompassing diverse genres. From the earliest marriages of celluloid and sound to recent experiments, Alsop hopes to demonstrate the myriad ways in which music and film may interact.

Alsop's selection of concert repertoire parallels the cinematic slate in its diversity, with major orchestral scores contrasted by two programs of mischievous enterprise that draw plentifully from popular sources.

James MacMillan's acclaimed percussion concerto, Veni, Veni Emmanuel, Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, Philip Glass' Violin Concerto, Joan Tower's Concerto for Orchestra and other orchestral scores tower like redwoods over the breezy jazz arrangements of Alsop's own 11-piece ensemble, String Fever, and guest composer David Rimelis' playful scores.

Movies, however, get top billing. Early silent comedies, cartoons and full-length features, along with a purely orchestral presentation of Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront, offer a wide-angle-lens view of music and cinema's myriad

"I wanted to explore what is one of the 20th century's greatest inspirations for music," says Alsop. "I selected films that have scores which are extremely integral to their success."

Historic re-creations of scores for two of Mack Sennett's silent comedies--Love, Speed & Thrills (1915) and Teddy at the Throttle (1917)--as well as Charlie Chaplin's original music to City Lights are designed to provide illuminating points of reference in the appreciation of Richard Einhorn's 1993 score Voices of Light for Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Jean Mitry's adaptation of Arthur Honegger's 1924 symphonic movement Pacific 231 for his 1949 film on trains will demonstrate Einhorn's process in reverse.

In creating a concert version of Chaplin's City Lights, Alsop had to re-create and score countless sound effects. "Chaplin's music is lovely," she explains, "and he envisioned the sound effects as part of the score. It was a replacement for dialogue; in fact it is the dialogue."

The 1920s was a rich decade for experimentalism in cinema. It was a time when filmmakers drew plentifully from the innovations of the contemporary arts--painting, literature and, of course, music. The Passion of Joan of Arc was heralded as a landmark in the genre, but when the original copy and prints were destroyed in two successive fires, the film dropped out of circulation. To the relief of many--except perhaps the Catholic Church--a print was found in 1981.

Einhorn's musical setting of this long-lost masterpiece has been playing to sold-out houses since its premiere in 1993. Scored for four soloists, chorus (Cabrillo Chorus) and orchestra, Einhorn's Voices of Light combines contemporary minimalist vernacular with Dreyer's expressionist imagery to create a hybrid of powerful expression.

"The imagery bores through your brain," says Alsop. "There are lots of close-ups and off-center camera angles, and the characters are contorted."

Einhorn's music counterpoints the film's rapid and irregular camera movements with broad gestures and sustained harmonies. "The music has an otherworldly kind of pace that gives the overall feeling of medieval, chantlike qualities," adds Alsop.

THE MISSION San Juan Bautista concert is the hands-down perennial favorite of the festival, and this year's concise programming of two major, religious-based works--MacMillan's Veni, Veni Emmanuel and Gorecki's Symphony No. 3--perfectly suits the occasion.

One would hardly expect a percussion concerto to be a medium for sacred expression, but Veni, Veni Emmanuel is built exclusively upon the Advent song of the same name. Twenty-year-old Colin Currie (performing here) is one of two percussionists in the world who have mastered the work's extraordinary virtuosities.

Lastly, there is Gorecki's popular Symphony No. 3. The score's tranquil setting of prayers written by concentration-camp prisoners for mezzo-soprano (Wendy Hillhouse) evokes a spirituality of universal appeal that should prove to be among the festival's most exalted finales.

The Cabrillo Music Festival:

City Lights Gala, Aug. 1; 8pm; $15.
Opening Night, featuring works by Honegger, Glass and Tower, Aug. 2; 8pm; $7$24.
Music, Art, Food & Wine Festival, Aug. 34; 11am8pm.
Voices of Light, Aug. 3; 8pm; $7$24.
Free Family Concert, with works by Rimelis, Aug. 4; 2pm.
Music in the Mountains, benefit concert, Aug. 8; 6pm; $75. Lemon Yellow Farm.
String Fever, featuring Mack Sennett comedies, Aug. 9; 8pm; $18.
On the Waterfront, Aug. 10; 8pm; $7$24.
Grand Finale, featuring works by MacMillan and Gorecki, Aug. 11, 4 and 8pm; $25; Mission San Juan Bautista.

All concerts at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium unless indicated. (408/429-3444)

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