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Sunday, 19 February 2012
400 Iran exiles reluctantly move to new Iraq home (AP)
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Saturday, 18 February 2012
Film and Music Blog News ? Blog Archive ? How Music Lessons ...
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Parents always want only the best for their children. Aside from academics, they want their kids to shine in different fields. Extra-curricular activities, particularly attending music classes, are a perfect way to spend the time whenever they?re not in school. This way, they get to learn more about the arts from a different perspective even when they are not in the classroom.
When children show a liking in singing or in playing a musical instrument, the common next step for parents is to enroll them in a music school to gratify their interest. But it may not be known to them that there?s more to learn than just music. There are actually many benefits that go with joining a music class, which children can gain from until they become mature adults.
Research show that children who are exposed to music early on exhibit excellence in the academics. They do better and have higher grades in comparison to those who are not into music. They have a less difficult time in doing their school work and home assignments. There?s something in music that makes their brains better grasp more information, which translates to improved memory and better class standing.
Being able to play a musical instrument helps in boosting one?s self worth. A bashful child who masters a musical instrument and is ultimately able to create beautiful music shall grow to believe that he or she is smart and powerful after all. With the knowledge that not all people have the same chance or capability, the child will definitely start to believe in him or herself more.
Music as an art balances off the mind of a person who is too much into the academics. It relieves children of the tension that they experience because of school work, examinations and other requirements. It actually contributes to the body?s over-all health since it eases feelings of anxiety, depression and loneliness. A child who is frazzled in school may have to channel the stress he or she is experiencing by getting into music classes.
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Crews battle fire at BP's Cherry Point, Wash., refinery (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Fire crews are battling a blaze at the largest refinery in Washington state on Friday afternoon as flames engulf a tower at BP Plc's Cherry Point facility in Ferndale, according to the company and local media.
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Friday, 17 February 2012
Dudamel and LA Philharmonic make waves in Caracas
Violinist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Martin Chalifour, left, shakes hands with Venezuela's conductor Gustavo Dudamel before a concert at Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Violinist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Martin Chalifour, left, shakes hands with Venezuela's conductor Gustavo Dudamel before a concert at Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Cellist from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Ben Hong, left, teaches young musicians from Venezuela?s nationwide orchestra program in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Venezuela's star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy. They are also giving a boost to the famed Venezuelan music teaching program known as "El Sistema." Dudamel is a product of the program, which has brought music education to children throughout the barrios of Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XAC103 - Venezuela's conductor Gustavo Dudamel walks between musicians after directing a concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela's conductor Gustavo Dudamel walks between musicians after directing a concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela's conductor Gustavo Dudamel directs the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the L.A. Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh off winning a Grammy. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Star conductor Gustavo Dudamel is thrilling fans in Venezuela as he performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in his homeland, fresh from winning a Grammy.
They are performing a series of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and giving a boost to the famed Venezuelan music teaching program known as "El Sistema." Dudamel is a product of the program, which has brought music education to children throughout the barrios of Venezuela.
Virtuosos from the L.A. Philharmonic took time to teach young musicians in the orchestra program, and have raved about their training and enthusiasm.
"The learning for me is really to feel the passion from these young artists," said Bing Wang, a 44-year-old violinist originally from Shanghai who is the orchestra's associate concert master. "I have never been here, but I feel through Gustavo and through music we are all connected."
Dudamel was typically passionate and energetic as he led the orchestra on Wednesday night in Mahler's Symphony No. 6, his curly hair bouncing when he jumped at a crescendo. The sold-out audience in Teresa Carreno Theater applauded enthusiastically for several minutes.
"At a personal level, it's a huge challenge, physically just as much as mentally," Dudamel said on Thursday while attending several separate performances by Venezuelan youth and children orchestras. "It isn't easy, but it's wonderful."
The symphonies have been attended by many young musicians shouldering instrument cases. Many of them have studied for much of their lives in El Sistema, or the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela.
"Mahler is very difficult," said Maria Gabriela Barreto, a 21-year-old violinist in the audience on Wednesday night who said she learned from the musicians' style and who praised Dudamel's magnetism.
The 31-year-old conductor is a national hero in Venezuela. Outside the hall, vendors sold T-shirts and buttons emblazoned with images of him. Also on sale were chocolates wrapped in portraits of Mahler.
Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic won a Grammy on Sunday for best orchestral performance for Brahms' Symphony No. 4.
Fans who couldn't get tickets watched the concert on a large screen set up on a terrace outside the concert hall.
"It's been truly an experience, every day something different," said Vivian Gonzalez, a 60-year-old retiree who hasn't missed a concert in the series.
The finale comes on Saturday night, when a chorus of about 1,200 singers, including roughly 400 children as young as 7, will join both the L.A. Philharmonic and Venezuela's Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in performing Mahler's Symphony No. 8. The performance will be broadcast live to more than 400 movie theaters across the U.S., and will also be shown in Argentina, Colombia and Brazil.
It's the first time the L.A. Philharmonic has performed in Venezuela. Dudamel, who is in his third season as the orchestra's music director, said it was a dream for him to lead both orchestras in Venezuela.
"Two at once. It's something historic," Dudamel said. "It's a presentation of unity, of harmony."
"It's an enormous honor for me to be part of this family."
Dudamel joined the audience and applauded at performances by children's orchestras as well as the White Hands Choir of deaf and disabled youth. Singing that accompanied the choreography of white-gloved hands brought some in the audience to tears.
Afterward, the choir members lined up to hug Jose Antonio Abreu, the 72-year-old founder of El Sistema.
Abreu, a former congressman, started the program in 1975, and it has expanded throughout the country since then, providing instruments and training for many children whose families otherwise couldn't afford it. The network of orchestras has been financed by successive governments over the years, and similar teaching programs have sprung up in places from Scotland to California.
Abreu said this week's concerts are similarly making music history.
"We're innovating," Abreu said in an interview in his office. "What's happening here now with this Mahler project is an example for the world, and it's unique."
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China to launch next manned spacecraft in summer
BEIJING |
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch its next manned space mission sometime between June and August, which will attempt to dock with an experimental module launched last year, state news agency Xinhua reported Friday.
It will be China's fourth manned space mission since 2003, when astronaut Yang Liwei orbited Earth 14 times, becoming the country's first man in space.
For the next mission, three astronauts will attempt to dock with the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module, launched on September 29 as part of China's exploratory preparations for a space lab, Xinhua said.
China has already carried out a successful docking test between an unnamed spacecraft and the Tiangong 1.
"The new space docking mission is ... another chance for China to test its docking technology," Xinhua cited an unnamed spokesman for China's manned space program as saying.
"The three crew members ... will enter the Tiangong 1 vehicle to live and work there, conducting space science experiments," it added, without elaborating.
China aims to have a fully fledged space station by about 2020.
However, it is still far from catching up with the established space superpowers: the United States and Russia.
Russia, the United States and other countries jointly operate the 400-tonne International Space Station, to which China does not belong.
But the United States will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority.
China also plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover. Scientists have raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon around 2020.
(Reporting by Sally Huang and Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/Fr3NYiPTKN0/us-china-space-idUSTRE81G0D520120217
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
Jeremy Lin: Treasuring Jesus More Than Basketball Success ...
Lin then adds the following commentary about his coming to treasure Jesus more than basketball success:
When Paul wrote in Philippians to press on for an upward prize, he was living for that, and it made his life meaningful (Philippians 3:15). And I realized I had to learn to do the same. I had to learn to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth, I had to stop chasing personal glory, I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams ? give it all up to God and say, ?Look, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I?m going to let you take care of the rest.? This is something I struggle with every day. . . . Playing for great stats is nice, but that satisfaction ? that happiness ? is only from game to game. It?s temporary.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Portugal records double-dip recession in 2011 (AP)
LISBON, Portugal ? Portugal's economy contracted by 1.5 percent last year, pitching it into a double-dip recession amid an acute financial crisis, the country's statistics agency reports.
Portugal needed a euro78 billion ($103 billion) bailout last year to avoid bankruptcy after a decade of feeble growth.
The government has enacted steep pay and welfare cuts and tax hikes in an effort to reduce Portugal's debt burden, but the measures have crunched spending.
The National Statistics Institute said Tuesday that preliminary data indicated the downturn gathered pace in the final quarter.
The government forecasts a contraction of 3 percent this year as Portugal endures its worst economic period in recent memory.
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