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Schubert: Piano Qunitet D 667.
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Wilson.
Ireland: Orchestral Music: Halle/John Wilson.
Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: José Gallardo.
Performer: Gerold Huber. Singer: Mojca Erdmann. Singer: Christian Gerhaher.
Hugo Wolf - Italian Songbook.
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
Singer: Jamie Webster. Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Director: Chris Gray.
Do not be afraid - choral music of Philip Stopford.
Smetana, Dvorak - Piano Trios.
Orchestra: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Tan Dun.
Tan Dun - Concerto for Orchestra.
The Swiss Alp Watch from H. Moser & Cie costs $24,900 and is designed to look like the Apple Watch.
Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie has made a $24,900 (£17,000) mechanical watch that is shaped like the Apple Watch, comes in white gold, and is accompanied by an Apple-style promotional video.
According to Hodinkee, a watch blog, only 50 units are being made. The full name of the watch is the Swiss Alp Watch.
The high-end watch industry has had mixed reactions to the Apple Watch, which can cost up to $17,000 (£13,000) in the rose gold configuration.
The CEO of Swatch dismissed the Apple Watch as a "toy" that is far from the "revolution" Apple hoped it will be. Another high-end watchmaker, Roger W. Smith, said it was "bland."
For its part, H. Moser & Cie criticises the technology inside the Apple Watch, arguing that it distracts from real life rather than augments it.
"The Swiss Alp Watch does not allow you to make calls, or send messages to share the latest gossip; it does not give you the option to send beautiful sketches you have created on a two-inch screen or to share your heart rate," the description reads. "It does much more than that: it lets you reconnect to what matters in life. It takes you back to sharing emotions with your nearest and dearest without a filter, interface or embellishment."
"Most importantly," the company continues, "It is something you can pass on to your children one day without having to upgrade it!"
One of the biggest criticisms of the Apple Watch — especially the high-end version — is how long it will be functional for, as the internal components are electronic not mechanical.
A much-loved vicar has hung up her dog collar after seven years at the heart of four villages.
Canon Myra Shackley, who was the parish priest for Spofforth, Kirk Deighton, Follifoot and Little Ribston, led her last service of Holy Communion in the area at Rudding Park last month.
During her time in the communities, Canon Shackley has overseen 150 baptisms and more than 60 weddings and has been a familiar face at the village schools.
But she joked that she wouldn’t miss the impossible task of judging the Easter egg contest at Spofforth School, “an exercise in how to make several hundred people hate you all at the same time”.
Canon Shackley is moving to the outskirts of Saltaire but will continue to take the weddings of couples she has been working with. The keen beekeeper will also tend to her beehives, which are moving over the rectory wall into the churchyard to ensure continuous supplies of honey.
She said: “I can’t imagine what life will be like without trying to be in four places at the same time on Christmas morning, and the fact that I will not now be able to better my record of singing All things bright and beautiful more than 50 times in one year.
It is not yet known if there will be a replacement for Canon Shackley, but for the next few months at least Rev Sylvia Earle, the Priest in Charge for Collingham, Harewood and the four villages, will take services in all six churches.
Designed for use in ICT classes, this lesson uses film, internet research and informal role play to explore internet repression in China. These activities could be used as part of a theme day on China, or a cross-curricular Citizenship/PSE project or as a stand-alone lesson. Students learn about patterns of electronic censorship and internet repression in China and present their findings using ICT.
Rio 2016 will employ 85,000 security staff, more than double the number who worked at the London 2012 Olympics.
"There has never been anything like this in the country," said Games security chief Andrei Augusto Rodrigues.
However, organisers will not repeat a policy used during the 2014 World Cup of occupying the city's favelas.
Meanwhile the International Olympic Committee insists sailing and open-water swimming venues are safe.
An investigation by the Associated Press news agency claimed that human adenoviruses - which can cause intestinal and digestive illness - were present in the water at those sites at levels "roughly equivalent to that seen in raw sewage".
"Disease-causing viruses in some tests measured up to 1.7 million times the level of what would be considered hazardous on a Southern California beach," it added.
Test events in sailing, rowing and triathlon are taking place throughout August with Britain's Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee and Finn-class world champion sailor Giles Scott among those taking part.
The IOC said measures such as closing landfills and increasing water treatment works were continuing and that the World Health Organisation had assured it that there was "no significant risk to athlete health".
A representative for the British Sailing team told Reuters that they were "not too worried" about the water quality.
This weekend is Father’s Day and among those who will be celebrating is Los Angeles writer and dad John August. August wrote the films Go and Charlie’s Angels and he blogs about writing on his Web site, JohnAugust.com. He recently wrote a short story called "The Variant." And as he tells KPCC's Alex Cohen, he got a lot of help from his fans on Twitter.
March 28, 2008 Competition fuels both 21, about a college card-counter working Vegas, and Run Fatboy Run, about a shlub who runs a marathon for love's sake. But neither film takes the gold with NPR's critic.
March 27, 2008 An Army sergeant returns from Iraq to his Texas hometown, believing he's seen his last tour of duty. But he soon finds the Army wants to send him back. Wrenching, evenhanded, and so packed with incident and issues that it's as exhausting as it is moving.
March 27, 2008 A brilliant MIT student joins a professor and a group of mathematicians in a Las Vegas card-counting scheme. It's a sort of collegiate Ocean's 16, and it's sharp enough — even if the counting system, as explained (endlessly) in the film, is a bit complex.
March 27, 2008 Frustrated by the glass ceiling, an exec (Demi Moore) in the diamond trade decides to help a janitor with a jewel heist. Moore looks the part, and she and co-star Michael Caine are engaging enough, but a cleverer script would make for a better caper.
March 27, 2008 Vaguely pudgy guy (Simon Pegg) leaves ravishing, pregnant bride-to-be (Thandie Newton) at the altar, hopes to win her back five years later by running a marathon. David Schwimmer directs with an amiable looseness — and a bit more slapstick than necessary.
March 21, 2008 Six Tibetan teenagers trek to the top of the 23,000-foot-high Lhakpa Ri peak, on the north side of Mount Everest — a trek that might well be worthy of documenting even if the climbers weren't blind.
March 21, 2008 The work of America's military doctors and nurses in Iraq is recorded in Terry Sanders' documentary; there's no editorializing, admirably, though the sight of 19-year-olds having limbs amputated does raise questions about the politics of war.
March 21, 2008 An Eastern European immigrant struggles with family dramas after he moves to Australia with his wife and son. Richard Roxburgh's pretty but ponderous melodrama boasts fine performances, but its story proves so downbeat and attenuated that it's hard to stay engaged.
March 20, 2008 After his grandmother dies, 9-year-old Carlitos decides to jump the Mexico-U.S. border to find his mother, who is working in Los Angeles. What he doesn't know: She's on her way to find him, too, and many a danger awaits.
March 20, 2008 Three high-schoolers hire a broke, out-of-work bodyguard to protect them from a bully; punches get thrown, groins kicked, Life Lessons learned. The bottom line? It's generic, and a probable crowd-pleaser.
March 18, 2008 The Oscar-winning writer-director (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley) died Tuesday of a brain hemorrhage. The eight films he had completed won 10 Academy Awards and were nominated for 24.
March 14, 2008 Frenzied and elephantine where it needs to be light as a speck of dust, this exhausting attempt to bring one of Dr. Seuss's best-known children's stories to life is visually imaginative, but otherwise strictly for kids.
March 7, 2008 This weekend, Hollywood's biggest movie release is set in 10,000 BC. But two other "period" movies — The Bank Job and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — prove more interesting. Both play with movie styles that have mostly gone out of fashion.
March 6, 2008 In late-'40s New York, an adulterous husband plans to kill his wife while his best friend plots to steal his mistress. There's duplicity enough for a Restoration comedy — and conflicting dramatic impulses enough to make the film a mishmash.
March 6, 2008 A seemingly perfect bank heist goes wrong when thieves in London are overheard on ham radio. Based (loosely) on a real-life 1971 robbery, the film's an amusingly detailed, pleasantly plausible fiction.
Apple showcased updates to its OS X software, MacBook Air and Mac Pro hardware lines, and a completely overhauled version of iOS. Here are the highlights.
Apple opened up its 2013 Worldwide Developer Conference with a keynote address showcasing updates to the company’s OS X software, MacBook Air and Mac Pro hardware lines, and finished with a completely overhauled version of iOS, the software that runs on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch portables.
Apple has brought the tradition of naming its computer operating system after cats to an end. From now on, the California-based company will name its software after places in California. The latest version, OS X 10.9 is called Mavericks, named after a surfing area not too far from Apple’s headquarters.
Finder tabs: Instead of having multiple Finder windows open, you can merge those windows into a single window with multiple tabs. The feature is similar to how certain tabbed Web browsers work.
Tags: When saving a document, you can assign certain tags to it (Important, Draft, In Review, etc.) and pull up files that share the same tags.
Multiple displays: When using a second display, you can access the menu bar and dock on the extra screen. You can have a full-screen app open on each screen and drag assets between the two. Connecting to an Apple TV box via Airplay will turn the TV set that the box is connected to into a third display as well.
Battery life: Mavericks uses power-optimization features such as compressed memory, reduction of CPU utilization and “App Nap,” which manages how apps get access to system resources.
Safari: The Safari Web browser has been updated with a sidebar containing your bookmarks, Reading List and a section called Shared Links that contains only updates from people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn that contain links to various Web content.
iCloud Keychain: iCloud Keychain securely stores all the passwords you use for different websites on whichever Apple devices you use and automatically inputs them for you when you need them. It’ll also suggest strong passwords for new sites you join and store those as well.
Apps with push notifications: Similar to the little pop-up notifications you’ll get on your smartphone, Mavericks will deliver pop-up notifications for certain apps in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen, many of which you can respond to without actually launching the full app.
Maps and Calendar: Apple’s Maps app sports a feature that sends directions right to your iPhone’s lock screen. There’s also deeper integration with the Calendar app: for instance, creating a new calendar item will let you designate the location of, say, a meeting and then tell you when you need to leave based on your location and your destination.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off Maps and Calendar integration.
More info about OS X Mavericks here.
Leveraging Intel’s latest-generation Haswell processors, Apple is promising “all day” battery life with its revamped line of MacBook Air notebooks. The 11-in. model’s battery is promised at up to nine hours and starts at $999. The 13-in. model is promised at up to 12 hours and starts at $1,099. Both are available starting today. More info here.
After going years without a boost, Apple’s Mac Pro desktop line is finally getting overhauled. Housed in a tubelike case, the computer will feature 12-core Intel Xeon processors, PCI Express gen 3, dual GPUs to support up to three 4K displays and PCIe flash storage. More info here.
Apple’s Phil Schiller shows off the new Mac Pro.
Apple also showed off a cloud-based version of iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) that runs in Safari, Internet Explorer and Chrome Web browsers. You can drag and drop images from the desktop into Pages. Word documents open and can be edited in Pages as well. As Harry noted during the liveblog, “It all looks like Apple software, but in the browser.” It’ll be rolling out to the public later this year. More info here.
Apple CEO Tim Cook touted iOS 7 as “the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone.” And it’s true. All the icons are still there in the familiar grid, but all the felt and wood-grain design elements have been taken out to pasture. Everything looks far more modern than it did before, and it’s all presented in a flatter, more layered interface.
A 3-D cutout view of iOS 7’s layered structure.
It’ll be interesting to see how the general public responds to the new design. It looks a lot slicker, but some may find it less homey than previous versions.
There’s a parallax effect for 3-D-like motion for home-screen images. Basically, your background photo responds to the angle at which your phone is being held to make it seem like your icons are floating above the picture.
Control Center gives you quick access to common settings (sound, brightness, connectivity options) by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
Multitasking has been expanded as well to include all apps instead of select ones like music apps or apps like Skype.
The revamped Photos app organizes your photos by location and date. Apple calls the feature Moments.
Siri has been overhauled with a less-robotic female voice and the addition of a male voice.
“iOS in the car” is a new initiative involving several major car companies in which they’ll build the ability to turn your car’s information screen into a stripped-down version of iOS, with access to Maps, messaging and voice-activated controls. Look for it in cars starting in 2014.
The App Store will finally allow you to let your apps automatically update themselves.
The long-rumored iTunes Radio feature has been realized. It functions very similarly to Pandora, letting you play custom Web radio stations based on particular artists. Songs can be purchased in iTunes or shared with friends; the service is free but ad-supported. If you’re an iTunes Match subscriber, the service contains no ads.
Activation lock makes it so your phone can’t be used if it gets stolen, even if the thief wipes everything first.
The beta of iOS 7 will be available for iPhone 4 and up, iPad 2 and up, iPad Mini, and the fifth-generation iPod Touch in the coming weeks. The final version is coming this fall. More info here.
A 39-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection with the kidnapping of a woman Thursday night in Quebec City.
Charles Brisson was charged with breaking and entering, death threats, assault with a weapon causing injury, kidnapping, forcible confinement, fleeing police and resisting arrest.
The 22-year-old victim managed to escape after being abducted in her building and forcibly taken to Montmagny, 85 kilometres east of Quebec City.
Police said the kidnapper smashed a patio door of the victim’s apartment, then assaulted her spouse before forcing her into his truck with him. When he reached Montmagny, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, Highway 20 was closed because of bad weather, so he took a detour into the town. When he stopped at a gas station, the victim was able to escape from the truck and hail a nearby ambulance.
Police officers from the Sûreté du Québec managed to locate the suspect, who was arrested after a high-speed chase.
The Crown prosecutor objected to the release of the accused, who will return to court on Feb. 5.
Making our county safer is the aim of a nine-page report outlining Thames Valley Police’s key challenges.
Released this week, the Safer Bucks Plan was put together following a community consultation.
It says that while crime in the county has seen a decrease, there is still work to be done on victimisation, community safety and offending.
The report says: “Community safety is an area of concern for all communities and consistently highlighted as a high priority by our residents.
The force set out is Buckinghamshire priorities for the year as protecting children and young adults, protecting adults who are vulnerable due to where they live, reducing acquisitive crime and re-offending, reducing substance misuse and dealing with hidden crime.
The report also highlighted the need for the force to work together with other agencies including the councils, fire service and ambulance service.
It talks about working with other agencies in ‘thematic groups’ to tackle issues such as domestic and community violence, anti-social behaviour and reducing re-offending.
When you purchase the CDs listed below you are supporting our triennial International Tour. You may order any of these items by emailing one of our fundraising chairs James Lynch or Sarah Lucas. When ordering, be sure to indicate which items you would like, their quantity, and the best method for contacting you.
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The mosquitos have won. They've ruined the outdoors. They've ruined lives. And now they're targeting Lindsay Lohan, not just through sickness, but with jail time.

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