Police jurors award $9.4M contract to company for new jail

Edit The Washington Times 18 May 2016
JENNINGS, La. (AP) - The Jefferson Davis Parish Police Jury has awarded a $9.4 million contract to a construction company for a new jail just west of Jennings. The Lake Charles American Press reports (http.//bit.ly/1eOXZNb ) M.D. Descant Construction of Bunkie received the bid to build the 200-bed regional consolidated ... ....

Ireland 1518: Archduke Ferdinand’s Visit to Kinsale and the Dürer connection, by Hiram Morgan

Edit The Irish Times 16 Apr 2016
These included the enactment of what was probably a forced trial marriage at the door of a church; High Mass being “sung counterpoint which is neither descant nor plainsong”; the entertainment provided by the town to a delegation from the ships; the reciprocal hospitality offered by the archduke on the beach where he received his guests under a ......

Obscurity rules in SFCMP’s concert of music by David Lang

Edit The Examiner 16 Mar 2016
Last night the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP) began their one-week residency at Z Space with the first of two performances of their program Oscuroscape ... Obscurity was served through not only Lang’s choice of a comparative adjective for his title ... The seven violins then provide a descant arising, often through hocket effects, from the superposition of short motifs played by the individual instruments ... ....

Want to see your neighborhood in a new light? Move around the corner

Edit New Statesman 14 Mar 2016
" data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... had I become potential subject matter for another scribe? In the future would an article be published (or, more likely, downloaded directly to interested brains), in which this nameless man descanted on the strange melange of intimacy and anonymity with which he has been regarding me, day in and day out, for twenty years?. Wikimedia ....

Want to see your neighbourhood in a new light? Move around the corner

Edit New Statesman 14 Mar 2016
" data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... had I become potential subject matter for another scribe? In the future would an article be published (or, more likely, downloaded directly to interested brains), in which this nameless man descanted on the strange melange of intimacy and anonymity with which he has been regarding me, day in and day out, for twenty years?. Wikimedia ....

The Five Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: St. Paddy's Day Fun & ...

Edit Houston Press 11 Mar 2016
Stage magic is a wonderful thing ... To be truthful, it rarely happens ... It is astonishing ... $23-$49 ... Free ... Maybe you’re Irish for the day or even one of the longstanding families that participate in the Annual Houston Saint Patrick’s Day Parade each year (including the Hancock, Descant, Licarione, McElgunn, Horan, Miggins and Kearns families) — either way it's time to Paint H-Town Green, the theme for the 57th annual event ... ....

The Five Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: St. Patty's Day Fun & ...

Edit Houston Press 11 Mar 2016
Stage magic is a wonderful thing ... To be truthful, it rarely happens ... It is astonishing ... $23-$49 ... Free ... Maybe you’re Irish for the day or even one of the longstanding families that participates in the Annual Houston Saint Patrick’s Day Parade each year (including the Hancock, Descant, Licarione, McElgunn, Horan, Miggins and Kearns families) — either way it's time to Paint H-Town Green, the theme for the 57th annual event....

Maurice Steger review: Flamboyance and agility brought to the recorder

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 26 Feb 2016
MAURICE STEGER WITH THE AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA. City Recital Hall, February 24. Until March 5. ★★★½ ... Advertisement ... At times it is like hearing a recorder trying to be a saxophone ... In Vivaldi's Concerto in G major, RV 443 (played on the descant recorder), the attack in fast passages was effervescent, though the ensemble between soloist and orchestra took a while to settle ... 10 in F (based on Corelli). ....

Richard III - Now is the winter of our discontent - Act 1, Scene 1 (Part 1)

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Enter Richard Duke of Gloucester who starts the scene with the famous, much quoted, speech below;Richard Gloucester.. Now is the winter of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this sun of York;. And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;. Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; ... And descant on mine own deformity. ... here. Clarence comes ... ....

The curlew’s call haunts sands and hills

Edit The Guardian 06 Feb 2016
St Dogmael’s, Pembrokeshire I could hear the haunting call of a curlew – faintly, distantly, yet it still had a power to arrest and hold my attention. It bubbled up as though from the water itself, swelled to a crescendo and gently died away ... Related. Country diary. Ewden, South Yorkshire. Take the curlew's shilling ... To hear them descanting, to see them wheeling above the river in graceful, droop-winged flight was a kind of ecstasy ... ....

Literary Mixtape: Alexander Chee finds a heroine – with Beyoncé's help

Edit The Guardian 03 Feb 2016
When writing his novel set in the Second Empire in France, Alexander Chee wanted to avoid clichés from recent pop culture. A mix of Beyoncé, Azealia Banks and The Knife set just the right mood for a story about the ‘confident, bold, hilarious and sexy’ women of the era ... We’ve asked some of our favorite authors to make us a mixtape ... --- ... 1 ... And the descant she sings against her own voice in the recording is perfect ... [ed ... 2 ... 3 ... 5....

Here’s the Donald Trump bandwagon, and Rupert Murdoch nimbly leaping aboard

Edit The Observer 31 Jan 2016
It’s a simple ploy ... “Mr Trump is a better politician than we ever imagined, and he is becoming a better candidate… He might possibly be able to appeal to a larger set of voters than he has so far.” And so on and oleaginously forth, while the greater tweeting Murdoch sings descant ... ....

'God Bless Baseball': National pasttime as a metaphor for geopolitics

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 28 Jan 2016
Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada may or may not like baseball, but he holds a soft spot for millennials. His sinister, slightly funny, and intelligent God Bless Baseball, which played Jan ... Under Okada's direction, Ichiro's long-winded descants on baseball's "real" meaning balances against his protracted intimidation of other characters (the concept of an "inning" itself is a major theme) ... ....
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