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Brahms 1st Symphony and his Double Concerto performed by the Swiss Romande Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott. Presented by Catriona Young.
Brahms 1st Symphony and his Double Concerto performed by the Swiss Romande Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Nott. With Catriona Young.
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
Performer: Svetlin Roussev. Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
Performer: Bengt-Åke Lundin. Ensemble: Uppsala Kammarsolister.
Performer: Ronald Patterson. Orchestrator: Jean-François Zygel. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Murry Sidlin.
Orchestrator: Martin Schmeling. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stuart Challender.
Singer: Roberta Invernizzi. Singer: Sonia Prina. Singer: Christopher Purves. Singer: Krystian Adam. Choir: Wroclaw Philharmonic Chorus. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
Southside ISD is a school district in San Antonio, TX. As of the 2017-2018 school year, it had 5,651 students. The school received an accountability rating of C. 69.9% of students were considered at risk of dropping out of school. 18.1% of students were enrolled in bilingual and English language learning programs.
An average teacher's salary was $55,366, which is $2,032 more than the state average. On average, teachers had 9.1 years of experience. The average SAT score at Southside ISD was 859. The average ACT score was 17.9. In the Class of 2017, 89.8% of students received their high school diplomas on time or earlier. The drop...
Students in Southside ISD are part of the Texas Education Agency’s Region 20. Students who started eighth grade in 2006 in this region had a college graduation rate of 20.6 percent. View a more comprehensive breakdown of the higher ed outcomes in Region 20.
Scientists are coming closer and closer to the Bible, as more evidence arises of its accuracy, according to a report in Breaking Israel News.
Science now supports the biblical account of the first man and woman in that it recognizes “Mitrochondrial Eve” and “Y-Chromosomal Adams,” the report said.
“During the exile there was great Hester Panim – a hiding of God’s face,” he told BIN. “As a result the Bible became relegated to the back of man’s consciousness. At the same time, science at first seemed to diverge from religion.
What did Adam and Eve specifically have to do with “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”? Learn stunning Bible insight never discussed in church in the best-selling “Shocked by the Bible 2: Connecting the Dots in Scripture to Reveal the Truth They Don’t Want You to Know” — autographed only at WND!
The report explains the scientific view that now is suggesting all humanity has a common ancestry.
“The Torah has always claimed one common ancestor to all humanity as well as creation ex-nilo,” Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman said in the BIN report.
In 1987, the leading science journal Nature published a study investigating humanity’s origins.
“The study researched mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down from mother to both daughter and son. Because mitochondrial DNA is only passed on by the mother and never the father, it reveals maternal lineage,” the report said.
Rob Faw, a master Christian life coach who is a research fellow with the Arthur C. Custance Centre for Science and Christianity, said he analyzed 144 generations of mankind and confirmed a lineage beginning with Adam and Eve and moving onward to Queen Elizabeth II.
James Ussher’s rare “Annals of the World,” hundreds of years ago, calculated a birth date for Adam.
Originally written in Latin, it now has been translated into English and includes more than 10,000 footnotes and 2,500 citations from the Bible and Apocrypha. Ussher, who entered college at 13 and got his master’s at 18, spent more than five years researching and writing.
Ussher traveled throughout Europe to gather information from historical documents, many of which are no longer available.
He used the death of Nebuchadnezzar, a known date, to work backward through the genealogies to determine the age of the earth, at about 6,000 years.
Get James Ussher’s rare “Annals of the World,” the story of the ancient world from the Genesis creation through the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple.
In my new Technologizer column for TIME.com, I write about Google alternatives, including Bing and Blekko. I also say I’m sorry there aren’t more of them: Among both big longtime Google rivals and startups, there seems to be a widespread assumption that Google has the search-engine market locked up and investing in cor...
One of those big longtime Google rivals is Ask.com, which announced last week that it’s going to cease work on its own search engine, use one provided by an unnamed third party, and focus on its Q&A service. Yesterday, I met up with Ask CEO Doug Leeds here at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, and we talke...
Leeds, first of all, said that he was sorry that it didn’t make sense for Ask to continue to build its own search engine from scratch. He pointed out, accurately, that Ask had a history of doing inventive stuff that later showed up in in its larger competitors. (Parts of this 2007 Ask redesign look like a blueprint for...
Users, Leeds told me, won’t see a sudden change as Ask stops crawling the Web itself–there won’t be one big day when it flips a switch and goes from Ask search to Someone Else’s search. (Ask isn’t saying whose search results it’ll be using; it has a deal with Google for search advertising.) Instead, the site will evolv...
Oh, and there’s now an Ask.com iPhone app, which lets you speak to ask a question. An Android version is in the works.
SINGAPORE - With the minimum pay for Indonesian maids set to rise from $500 to $550 in 2016, maid agencies in Singapore expect to see a fall in demand for them with the wage hike.
But they do not expect this to last for too long.
"After the second month, the market tends to adapt," said Mr Gary Chin, managing director of maid agency Nation Employment, citing the experience from a previous wage hike.
The previous increase was in September last year, when the minimum pay for Indonesian maids rose from $450 to $500.
The Indonesian Embassy announced the latest increase in a letter in October to Singapore maid agents. One of the reasons cited was to protect the income of Indonesian women who go abroad to work. Singapore agents have to abide by the minimum wage or risk being banned.
Maids' pay rise in Singapore: Boon or bane?
There are about 125,000 Indonesian maids here, making up around half the foreign domestic worker population.
The increase applies to domestic helpers coming to work here from January, and those renewing their contracts in 2016.
While demand may stabilise in the short term, in the longer term wage hikes may cause employers to look for maids from elsewhere, said Mr Benny Liew, director of Comfort Employment.
While Filipino maids were in great demand in the past for their command of English, they are less sought after now, partly because of their higher starting salaries of US$400 (S$570).
Ms Dione Yap, 43, who is self-employed, said salary was among her considerations when she hired a maid from Myanmar.
The pay for an experienced Myanmar maid is around $500, comparable to the basic pay for a fresh hire from Indonesia.
Sales executive Fiza Sulaiman, 32, said she already pays her Indonesian maid around $550 each month and does not think she will be affected much.
She added that the pay rise was good for maids who do not often get one from employers.
According to Mr Liew, the wage increase may also lead to more people renewing their maids' contracts - instead of terminating them for new hires - and conducting private negotiations to pay them less than the minimum wage.
The smaller maid agencies expect to be harder hit by the new minimum pay.
Ms Sa'diah Saidi, owner of SJ Global Employment, said most of the maids she places are from Indonesia but she may have to look to Myanmar or Cambodia if wages continue to rise.
Some agents in Indonesia have also stopped recruiting in the meantime until they are clear on the new regulations, so supply may shrink.
She added that if wages continue to increase, it may become a luxury for middle-income families to have a maid, even if they need one.
SEATTLE – Microsoft released six patches Tuesday to fix software flaws that carry its highest threat rating, including three for defects that attackers were already trying to exploit.
The company said all six of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to obtain some access to other people's computers.
The Redmond software maker also released four other patches to fix vulnerabilities that the company deemed less severe.
Customers can download all the patches for free on Microsoft's security website and also can sign up to have them automatically delivered to their computers. The automatic update system went down for several hours Tuesday, but the problem was later resolved.
Microsoft said last month that it knew attackers were already trying to take advantage of defects in its Windows operating system, Microsoft Word software and PowerPoint presentation program.
Christopher Budd, a program manager with the Microsoft Security Resource Center, said that the company had seen limited attacks exploiting the flaws, but were nevertheless recommending that users apply those and other patches immediately.
Such vulnerabilities are rare. In most cases, security experts quietly provide Microsoft evidence of a security flaw, allowing the company to fix the problem in secret and release a patch before attackers can take advantage of it.
But recently, the company has been hit with a number of so-called "zero-day" attacks, in which flaws are targeted before Microsoft is aware of them or can release patches.
Such attacks have prompted some security researchers to release their own interim fixes. Microsoft also has occasionally taken the unusual step of releasing patches outside of its normal monthly fix schedule, so users can be safeguarded more quickly.
Budd said Microsoft isn't seeing any specific pattern to the burst of zero-day attacks. But he said the company is seeing more focus on attackers trying to infiltrate computers through applications – such as Word or PowerPoint – rather than the Windows operating system.
Microsoft software is a constant target of internet attackers, in part because the company's products are so widely used.
Microsoft has yet to release a patch for one other publicly known flaw – one affecting the Internet Explorer browser that is part of its Windows operating system. Budd said the company was seeing very few attacks as a result of the flaw.
(CNN) — By now, you probably know your tapas from your pintxos and your Rioja from your cava. Manchego may grace your cheese boards and smoky pimentón might spice up your soups.
But unless you're a booksy food geek or diehard Hispanophile, chances are you haven't discovered the unsung cuisine of Spain's comfort-food capital, Asturias.
That's because most people who go to Spain stick to its sunnier vacation spots such as Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla -- a misstep since Asturias boasts such standout scenery, music, religious sites and cuisine.
Ask any Spaniard -- Asturias' shamrock-green pastures, teeming seas and fertile farmland bear some of the most prized delicacies on the Iberian Peninsula, from aged Asturian Valley beef to dayboat sea urchins to pungent mountain cheeses.
The best part is, Asturias remains so far off the tourist track that -- at least for now -- you're more likely to run into herds of cows than hordes of selfie-snapping foreigners.
So get there stat, and eat up: It's worth visiting for these nine dishes alone.
Fabada is to Spain what feijoada is to Brazil and cassoulet is to France: a special-occasion bean stew that hinges on hyperlocal ingredients, exacting technique and the patience of a Tibetan monk.
Every other neighborhood tavern lays claim to la mejor fabada, so your best bet is to ask a local for a recommendation. Great fabadas start with real-deal fabas de la granja, slender, finger-like white beans of outstanding quality that have been cultivated in Asturias for centuries.
After being plumped to ultra-creamy perfection in a serrano ham broth for six to eight hours, the beans get a final hit of smoke and fat from compango, a medley of Asturian porcine delights including garlicky chorizo, morcilla (blood sausage), and pancetta. If a fabada is in your future, be sure to pencil in a postpran...
A recipe for chorizo a la sidra goes something like this: simmer chorizo in cider; serve. Deceptively simple and dangerously addictive, it's quintessential Asturian bar food -- a saucy, no-nonsense tapa that demands hunks of crusty bread for sopping and bottomless glasses of hard cider.
Since chorizo a la sidra calls for just two ingredients, there's no cutting corners: Only the best oakwood-smoked chorizo and dry Asturian cider will suffice.
Walk into any mom-and-pop joint in Asturias, and you'll find dozens of diners tucking into cachopo, an Asturian specialty of deep-fried beef cutlets stuffed with ham and cheese and served with roasted red peppers and french fries. Forget what you've heard about European portion sizes -- this glistening hubcap of carne ...
The dish has such a cult following that an unofficial Spanish Academy of Friends of the Cachopo hosts periodical cachopo throwdowns, and every July, Madrid ushers in a hotly anticipated Cachopo Week.
One of the world's finest blue cheeses, Cabrales (cah-BRA-less) gets its signature tang (and pleasant putrescence) from six months' maturation in the dank mountain caves of eastern Asturias (some of which you can visit).
The cool, dark environment -- always humid thanks to dripping stalactites -- is a perfect petri dish for the penicillin mold that slowly impregnates each wheel of cheese.
Cabrales is on most restaurant menus and also makes a wonderful if odiferous souvenir: In local cheese shops, seek out ones made with a mixture of cow, sheep and goat milk if your cheese taste could be summed up by "the stinkier, the better."
Otherwise, spring for a milder all-cow variety. Cabrales is so pungent and rich that it needs nothing more than hot toast and a butter knife to be a satisfying first course. And like most Asturian delicacies, it tastes best accompanied by an ice-cold glass of sidra.
Since pre-Roman times, sidra (hard cider) has been the tipple of choice in Asturias, whose cool, rainy climate favors apple trees over grapevines.
Cloudy, briny, and refreshingly effervescent, sidra bears little resemblance to the one-note, oversweet Strongbows and Magners most of us are used to drinking.
In chigres, the old-timey cider taverns you'll find across the region, bartenders make a show of pouring cider into glasses from high overhead, a technique said to aerate the wine and give it its characteristic fizziness.
Chug down your glass in one gulp as tradition dictates, or risk disapproving looks from locals.
The #1 food experience in the world is in Spain.
Often inelegantly translated as "fish loaf," pastel de cabracho is a delicate rosy-pink mousse made from onions, celery, cream, and the sweet flesh of the scorpion fish, which inhabits Asturias' rocky coastal areas.
The humble dish got a high-brow rebrand in the 80s when Basque chef Juan Mari Arzak featured it front and center on his Michelin-starred menu at Arzak in San Sebastian.
Spread the pastel on a toasted baguette slice, add a dollop of mayonnaise (a traditional sidekick), and wash it down with a crisp Galician albriño.
When February's Antroxu (carnival) festivities roll around, Asturianos of all ages flock to the fairgrounds for frixuelos, hot crêpes rolled in sugar and eaten out of hand. Purists gobble them down plain, but Nutella, caramel, and strawberry jam are usually at an arm's reach for those with a sweet tooth.
Frixuelos are so universally adored that you'll find them on dessert menus throughout the region.
Handmade in small dairies called caserías, this crumbly cow's-milk cheese stands out for its striking roxu (red) varieties flavored with smoky, piquant pimentón.
Nobody knows how the spice found its way into the traditional recipe, but it was probably a happy accident -- a bag of paprika toppled into the fermentation vat, perhaps. What's certain is that afuega'l pitu has long been prized in Asturias, so much so that in the 18th century, farmers used the cheese as a currency to ...
If you can't find it on restaurant menus (sadly, it's often eclipsed by the more widely produced Cabrales), seek it out in local queserías and gourmet shops.
With more pastry shops per capita than any other region in Spain, Asturias lays claim to some of the country's most delectable sweets --case in point: moscovitas.
These chocolate-dipped cookies, baked in a small pastry shop in Oviedo called Confitería Rialto, have devotees across the peninsula. One taste and you'll understand why: Each silver-dollar-sized wafer is suffused with toasted Spanish almonds, crunchy toffee, and bitter chocolate.
Are the Gold Majors a Buy Again?
The gold majors have taken big hits in their share prices but have begun to fix the myriad self-inflicted wounds. Are the majors a buy, or should investors look elsewhere?
Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD), Newmont Gold, (NYSE:NEM), Goldcorp (NYSE:GG), Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX), and others have seen scary declines in their share prices since all-time highs in 2011.
Barrick Gold hit $55 per share and is now at $18, a decline of 67%! Likewise, Newmont's high is $70, and it now trades hands near $25, down 64%. Goldcorp is "only" down 50% and Freeport-McMoRan is down about 40%. Freeport is also a very large copper producer, so that has helped it outperform those other pure-play gold ...
With many of the majors' stock prices down by a half to two-thirds, the first question to ask is how much did the underlying gold price decline? From about $1,900/oz. to today's roughly $1,300/oz., gold is down about 30% from its 2011 peak. Yet, Barrick and Newmont, off by more than 60% each, are down twice as much as ...
For the most part, the majors did just about everything wrong. With gold at $1,900/oz. and seemingly headed above $2,000/oz., the majors simply got fat and stupid. There was room for corporate excess and empire building, and the management teams dove right in. Growth for growth's sake became the norm because growing pr...
More specifically, instead of concentrating on prudent, profitable, organic development, the majors went on an acquisition spree. That took them to far-flung corners of the world, where they paid large sums to inherit projects will all sorts of known and unknown risks. For example, Barrick and Newmont ran into huge res...

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