#William Warshauer

[world-of-wales]

LAURA WARSHAUER SHARED SNIPPETS FROM HER TIME AT ST ANDREW'S WATCHING WILL & CAT FALL IN LOVE ♡

Laura Warshauer had a front row seat as a result of her close friendship with the pair. Whether it was William helping to carry her luggage, Kate comforting her on a night out, or just having a quiet drink in a cosy corner of a pub together, those memories live on.

Her interactions with them are something few can share – teaching Kate how to play the guitar, William buying her first ever Jack Daniel’s and Coke, eating takeaway food together or laughing and joking during road trips.

Speaking about her time at uni she said :

‘I graduated from school a year early and then spent what would have been my senior year at high school in St Andrews. It was a beautiful moment in time.

I wound up getting a front row seat to the very beginning of what would become one of the greatest and most iconic love stories of our time. It’s great to see Will and Kate, the same people they were then, on the world stage.’

Talking about their form life, she recalls that she'd her mother’s lasagne recipe and her aunt’s toffee – for William and some of his friends as well as chatting with him during meal times in the ‘Harry Potter-style�� dining hall.

William & Laura sitting together for the art history 02 class photo (fun fact william changed his course like 2 weeks later to geography)

She said:

‘Will lived down the hall with two of his friends from Eton. Kate lived on the floor below.

‘I met them the same week they met each other. I was struck by how normal Will was. You could talk about anything – the most mundane things.

'Coming back from a trip home to New Jersey with my big luggage, Will would grab my bag and take it inside the dorm.

‘We were all just trying to find our way. Even if you’d been at a boarding school like Eton, people were still in a new environment.’

‘I remember I made dinner for everyone on my birthday in December and Will brought me a gift – a stuffed animal from Tesco.

It’s a seal with a blue backpack with stars on it. It’s in a place where I can see it every day and I’m like, “How cool”. It’s adorable.’

Laura said Kate and William had instant chemistry and fell for each other months before the 2002 fashion show where Will saw Kate modelling and described her as ‘hot’ :

‘We went to a party at a castle. It was a Harry Potter theme and they did an auction for charity where people were bidding to win a date. Will bid £200 to win a date with Kate.’

This is the Glamis Castle Birthday party from 01 where Catherine was pictured with Olivia Bleasdale

While Ms Warshauer doesn’t know what they eventually did for their date, she remembered Kate’s reaction was effortlessly cool – showing she was unfazed by titles and comfortable around him.

She spoke about Kate extricating William from an uncomfortable encounter:

‘It was early on when Will and Kate were getting to know each other. This girl was talking to Will, and he was being polite, but it was obvious he needed a way out .

‘All of a sudden Kate walks up from across the room, puts her arms around him and enables him to turn to this other girl and be like “I’m sorry, I have a girlfriend”.

‘And then he turned to Kate and silently mouthed the words “Thank you”. I remember thinking at that moment that no one but Kate could have done that.

‘They had just met each other but it was clear they had a connection.’

Speaking about her friendship with The Princess of Wales she said :

‘Kate saw that I was upset one night while we were out. I was walking ahead so people couldn’t see that I was upset and she came up and put her arm around me and said “I hate seeing people I care about upset”. You remember these moments.’

A photograph of Kate and Laura taken in the town’s camera shop in 2001 shows their friendship. A trip taken to find equipment for Laura's CBS audition tape filming:

‘As you know, Kate loves photography, she loved it then. Even in her dorm room I remember the beautiful photos.

‘She and I went to the camera shop together to get everything we needed and then she filmed the audition for me.’

Laura had shared a photo on social media of herself and Kate – taken at a 19th birthday party during their time in St Andrews – in a show of support for the Princess following her treatment for cancer.

This party seems to be Oliver Baker's birthday. He's one of W&C's close friends and one of George's godparents.

Speaking about it she said:

‘The interest is even greater now than it was the first time.’

Reminiscing about the party where the photo was taken, she remembers that she had just been to Paris to visit her sister who was studying there. The outfit she has on in the snap is one she bought during that French adventure.

Even that trip to Paris had started with another cherished moment with WillCat. She said:

‘Kate and I were supposed to ride a taxi to the airport together but then Will gave her a ride so I got in on it. I love how he offered her a ride and that’s how I got to go.

‘It was so cool to arrive in Paris and be like, “So guess who gave me a ride to the airport?”

‘The radio was on and Will was like, “Laura, you can sing with the radio”. It was just like popular music. It was sweet that he made that reference to me as a singer.’

[floydscoffee]

Five-Year, $36.4 Million Effort to Boost Coffee and Cocoa in Latin America

The international development nonprofit TechnoServe is leading the coffee-related efforts in a five-year, $36.4 million initiative designed to revive and bolster the coffee and cocoa sectors in six Latin American...

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2018/10/02/five-year-36-4-million-effort-to-boost-coffee-and-cocoa-in-latin-america/

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

fav story about will and kate from their dating days?

Oh, this is hard because a lot of stories about their dating days are rumours. But I've made a small list:

Laura Warshauer (who was at St Andrews with Will and Kate) said “Whenever Kate was in the room, Will was obviously paying attention to her. When we'd be sitting at lunch in the dining hall, and the two of them would be talking, it was amazing to see how natural it was, how they had so much to say to each other"

I love the fact they moved in together in their second year, just as friends, and that their friendship blossomed into a romance

The rumour of Michael Middleton making William mow the lawn because it's hilarious to me

Kate going as William's date to Laura Parker-Bowles' wedding. Like, that's his stepsister. That's a big deal

Kate saying that William used to cook her breakfast when he was trying to impress her and this coming up multiple times

The rumour that when William wanted to change his course at uni, the two people he spoke to were Charles and Kate

[mia-soufi2018]

Woman who shared a dorm with the Cambridges at St Andrews says Prince William 'was always paying attention to Kate Middleton' and the pair had a 'natural chemistry' and 'so much to say to each other'

By Hayley Richardson For Mailonline - May 14th 2021, 7:41:46 am

Laura Warshauer, from New Jersey, who met the couple in 2001 at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where they all lived at St. Salvator's Hall, told People they had 'definite chemistry'.

[keepingupwithlinmanuel]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is trying to revive Puerto Rico’s devastated coffee industry

Taking a break from conquering Broadway, making movies and writing books, Lin-Manuel Miranda tromped up a muddy slope in Puerto Rico’s highlands on Wednesday assessing his next challenge: helping revive the island’s ailing coffee industry.

Miranda is the public face of a multimillion-dollar, five-year effort that’s being spearheaded by The Hispanic Federation and includes heavy hitters like Starbucks, Nespresso and the Rockefeller Foundation.

“These are the ‘Avengers’ of coffee,” he said of the assembled group, likening them to a pack of superheroes. “And you don’t call in the Avengers when things are easy. You call in the Avengers when things are difficult.”

The island’s estimated 4,200 coffee farmers certainly need the help. Hurricanes Irma and Maria destroyed about 80 percent of the harvest last year.

Under this initiative, the Hispanic Federation — which was founded by Miranda’s father, Luis — and Nespresso are each investing $1 million in the project. Starbucks will invest another $475,000 and donate 2 million climate-resistant seeds. The Rockefeller Foundation is investing $500,000, and TechnoServe, an international nonprofit with a history of supporting the agricultural industry, will help implement the project.

The team has set the bar high. William Warshauer, the president of TechnoServe, said models suggest that coffee production could double its pre-hurricane levels within the next five years. And small farmers could see their profits increase 300 to 400 percent.

Puerto Rico’s coffee production was collapsing even before last year’s twin hurricanes. In 1995, the country produced 280,000 quintales — or 100 pound sacks — of coffee. Last year, before the hurricanes hit, production had fallen to just 65,924 sacks. But despite its decades-long struggle, coffee has always had a powerful role in the Puerto Rican psyche.

“We’ve always been proud of our coffee,” Miranda said, hiking up his pant-leg to show a small tattoo of a coffee cup.

Miranda — the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy for his work on the musicals “Hamilton” and “In the Heights” — has been a vocal advocate for the island and its post-hurricane recovery. His family is from Vega Alta, on the northern coast of the island, though he lives in New York.

Visiting Puerto Rico shortly after Maria tore through it, he said, he saw the denuded and brown landscape the storm left behind.

“You would never think you would see winter come to Puerto Rico but that’s what it looked like,” he said.

...

Miranda — who stars in “Mary Poppins Returns,” a sequel to the classic children’s movie, and is preparing to reprise his lead role in “Hamilton” for its Puerto Rico debut in January — said he wanted the coffee initiative to bring hope to the island’s hard-hit farmers.

There’s a frequently repeated saying on the island that Puerto Rican coffee used to be served to the pope at the Vatican. “We’ll get there again,” Miranda said.

Miranda, who has been raising money for Puerto Rico’s recovery since the storm, has said proceeds from the “Hamilton” run will benefit the U.S. territory’s hurricane recovery.

“We are all pitching in to bring coffee back to Puerto Rico,” he said.

[newingtonnow]

The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War

By Matthew Warshauer

Connecticut has a remarkable Civil War history, and although it is a small state, it was in many ways instrumental to the Union’s survival. The history of that war surrounds Connecticut residents every day both in terms of its physical realities and in the lasting legacies of a complicated conflict that shook the nation between 1861 and 1865.

Three officers of Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Fort Brady, Virginia 1864 – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Lasting Legacies of a Complex War

Connecticut is home to more than 130 Civil War monuments.  They adorn the centers of cities such as Hartford and Waterbury, dot small town greens from Branford to Northfield, and stand silently in sacred places like West Cemetery in Bristol and the Congregational Church in Kensington. Indeed, the Kensington monument, an obelisk made of Portland brownstone designed by Nelson Augustus Moore and dedicated in 1863, is the oldest in the north—and one of the oldest in the nation.  Like these tangible memorials of the war, the legacies connected to race and slavery have continued well into the 21st century.  It was in 2009 that the Connecticut General Assembly passed a resolution apologizing for the state’s involvement in and support of slavery.

The connection between slavery and the Civil War is both obvious and complicated.  It’s obvious because the line that separated North from South was principally one where slavery began or ended, and, of course, the final result of the war was the death of the “peculiar institution,” as slavery was sometimes called. Yet the conflict is complicated because few in the North, and this was certainly true for Connecticut, entered the war to emancipate slaves.  The majority of Connecticut’s residents were not abolitionists.  Again, the state’s Civil War monuments are instructive.  Only three—the Sailors and Soldiers Memorial Arch in Hartford (1886), the Waterbury Soldiers’ Memorial (1884), and the Connecticut 29th Colored Regiment in New Haven (2008)—have any connection to race or slavery.  The majority of the state’s monuments, however, are testaments to sacrifice and the Union.  As Abraham Lincoln put it in the Gettysburg Address, they “gave their lives that the nation might live.”

Call for volunteers to a Connecticut cavalry unit, 1861 – Connecticut Historical Society

And yet the human sacrifice that the war required came home to Connecticut, as it did to every state. Some 55,000 Connecticut men joined the Union Army, a number which represented 47% of men between the ages of 15 and 50.  Ten percent of these men died and many more suffered horrible wounds and the lasting memories of watching family and friends perish.  Connecticut fielded 30 regiments, as well as cavalry and artillery units.  This included one full African American regiment, the 29th Colored Regiment, as well as the beginnings of the 3oth Colored Regiment, which was ultimately folded into the 31st Regiment United States Colored Infantry.  The level of black participation in Connecticut regiments was astounding, considering that the 1860 Federal Census revealed only 8,726 blacks living in the state, and of them only 2,206 were men between the ages of 15 and 50 (the most likely ages for service).  Seventy-eight percent of eligible black men enrolled in the 29th and 30th regiments. Just over 15% of these men died as a result of the war.

Connecticut Takes to the Battlefield

The state’s soldiers fought in every major engagement of the war: from Bull Run to Antietam and Gettysburg, in General William Tecumseh Sherman’s march on Atlanta and through the Carolinas, to the final days before Petersburg and Richmond.  They wrote home, complained of army life, worried about their families, expressed their torment and frustration when battles went poorly, and questioned the war’s meaning as they saw comrades blown to pieces.

Perhaps the most famous and hardest-hit regiment was the Connecticut 14th, which arrived at Antietam (September 17, 1862), the single bloodiest battle of the war, after only a few weeks of training.  Samuel Fiske, a member of the 14th and a minister from Madison, Connecticut, wrote home about the Maryland battle on September 18: “I have at last turned over a new and bloody leaf in my experience, and seen a battle, and am now writing you, sitting in a newly plowed field all strewn with the dead of our gallant Union soldiers, still unburied, lying as they fell.”  The regiment suffered again only a few months later in Virginia at Fredericksburg (December 11-15, 1862).  Fiske wrote on the last day of that battle, “Oh! My heart is sick and sad.  Blood and wounds and death are before my eyes; of those who are my friends, comrades, brothers…. Another tremendous, terrible, murderous butchery of brave men.”

Finally, at Gettysburg, the 14th gained some degree of redemption.  Protecting one of the most important points of the Union line, the men withstood Confederate Major General George Pickett’s famous charge on July 3, 1863, leaped over a stone wall, and captured six enemy battle flags.  Three men from the regiment (Elijah W. Bacon, Christopher Flynn, and William B. Hincks) received the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor. The once disheartened Sam Fiske exulted in the victory, writing on July 4th, “I have at last had the desired opportunity of seeing a battle in which there was real fighting; hard, persistent, desperate fighting; a fighting worthy of a noble cause and the confidence of a gallant people….Hurrah for the gallant old 14th!”

Such stories of suffering and victory were repeated by Connecticut men serving in regiments spread throughout the nation—in the west at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the deep south of Louisiana, in Florida, the Carolinas, and in the defenses around Washington, D.C.  Yet as much as these men suffered in the cause of war, those at home suffered too.  Women gave constant attention to the needs of the soldiers in the field, and a virtual river of supplies poured through Connecticut’s soldiers’ aid societies.

Civil War Sanitary Commission, Harpers Weekly, April 9, 1864

On the Home Front

The Hartford Soldiers’ Aid Society became the central organizing body for all other state aid societies. Its first president, Sarah S. Cowen, constantly peppered newspapers with appeals, writing to the Hartford Daily Courant in May 1863, “It is hoped that the battles which are now being fought, and those constantly impending, may stimulate the humane public to new efforts in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers.”  The societies raised money, collected a wide assortment of garments, medical supplies, and books, as well as food.  They collected just about every conceivable item and often received letters from soldiers, as well as regimental chaplains and surgeons, requesting specific materials.

On occasion, women slipped notes into boxes or garments.  Ellen M. Sprague of Andover stuffed the following into a sock: “My dear Friend and brother in our Country’s cause: To your care and keeping I commit these socks, and trust they may never be disgraced by any conduct of their wearer.  Loyal fingers fashioned them, and may a patriot’s tread, whose very step shall tell against our rebel foes, wear them threadbare (if need be) in crushing the wicked rebellion.  In every stitch is knit a prayer for our nation’s weal, and the hope that peace may smile upon our land long ere these be unfit for use.” (Her letter was published in The Courant in March 1863.) Women also traveled to battlefields before the cannons had cooled to care for the sick and wounded.  They met troop trains arriving in Connecticut and helped set up hospitals to care for the men.  They attended funeral after funeral, and no one in Connecticut escaped the ravages of war.

Connecticut’s War Industry

Yet the home-front effort was not solely about the relief of suffering or providing the material comforts of home to those on the battlefield.  Another part of Connecticut’s workforce diligently produced every means of destruction.  Home to a remarkable array of arms and munition companies, and then to a host of newcomers once the war began, the Nutmeg State was a virtual arsenal. The most well-known manufacturers are Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (Hartford), Eli Whitney Jr. Company (New Haven), Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company (Hartford), and Savage Revolving Fire Arms (Middletown). Yet, there were others in the state, such as the Connecticut Arms Company in Norfolk, William Muir in Windsor Locks, and the Norwich Arms Company.  There were also a host of smaller subcontractors.

Additionally, firms like Collins & Company, in Collinsville, the same company that had made a portion of John Brown’s infamous pikes for his raid on the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, produced swords and bayonets; and Hotchkiss & Sons in Sharon manufactured all sorts of newly designed artillery shells.  Arms historian David J. Naumec wrote, “Connecticut’s firearms industry achieved an unrivaled degree of success during the Civil War, manufacturing enough firearms to equip a large portion of the Union armies.” Many of the state’s manufacturers were also innovators.  Between 1862 and 1863, more than 70 patents were issued to Connecticut inventors, the vast majority, some 75%, for weaponry.

William A. Buckingham, Connecticut’s governor throughout the Civil War – Connecticut Historical Society

A State Divided

The massive outpouring of support for the war makes it seem like Connecticut was largely unified in its dedication to the Lincoln administration and the war effort, but nothing could be further from the truth.  Nearly half of Connecticut’s population was steadfastly opposed to fighting the South.  The state descended into chaos at the start of the war, splitting into warring Republican and Democratic factions that sometimes faced off violently.  Before the Southern states even seceded, the two parties faced off in the 1860 gubernatorial election, a contest that would decide the level of the state’s involvement once the war began.

Democrats pitted the popular former governor Thomas H. Seymour against Governor William A. Buckingham.  Fearing a Republican defeat, the party pulled Abraham Lincoln from his travels in New York and New Hampshire, and in March 1860 he delivered five speeches in Connecticut.  Buckingham won the election by a mere 541 votes, receiving 44,458 to Seymour’s 43,917, with some 10,000 more votes cast than in the previous year’s election.

Opposition Calls for Peace

When the war finally began in April 1861, Democrats immediately opposed it.  A white “peace” flag appeared in Ridgefield, where two men were shot while attempting to tear it down.  Other peace flags were put up in Avon, New Milford, New Preston, Windsor, and West Hartford.  Upon hearing such reports, Thomas Seymour, then serving in the General Assembly, announced that there existed “a growing sentiment among the people for a peaceful settlement — and honorable peace.”  He insisted that the South could not be forced back into the Union and was quoted in The Hartford Weekly Times saying, “There seems to be a radical mistake on the part of many people.  They appear to think the South can be conquered.”

13-inch seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, near Yorktown, Virginia, 1862 – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Although the raising of peace flags and violent opposition in the streets declined over the course of the war, the animosity and struggle for political control continued.  Most significant was the 1863 gubernatorial election, which once again placed Governor Buckingham against Seymour.  Had Buckingham lost this pivotal election, his defeat could have ended Connecticut’s support for the Lincoln administration and the Union.  The focal point of the contest became the opinions of soldiers at the front.  The Courant and The Hartford Times published dozens of soldiers’ letters and regimental resolutions advocating either Buckingham or Seymour for governor.  It was the most concentrated, sustained political effort of the war.

A soldier from the 27th Regiment wrote, in a letter published in The Courant, “I hope, in all favor, that our friends will not allow Tom Seymour to be elected Governor of Connecticut.  Don’t do it! For mercy’s sake, don’t let him be Governor.” A soldier from the 22nd shot back, “Almost to a man, rank and file, heartily endorse the nomination of Gov. Seymour, and daily wish and pray that he may be elected.” Ultimately, Buckingham won the election by just 2,634 votes, almost precisely the number of Union soldiers furloughed to return home and cast ballots. Democrats charged fraud, and the uneasy dispute over the war continued well through its end.

To some extent, the differences between Republicans and Democrats grew to encompass the issue of race.  Though Republicans had not inaugurated the war to free America’s nearly four million enslaved, once the conflict was in earnest, emancipation became a means to win.

Emancipation vs. Abolition

Handbill issued by The Hartford Courant in April 1865 that signaled the end of the Civil War – Connecticut Historical Society

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation sapped the South of its labor force, and Republicans came to accept this necessity. Democrats utterly refused, and railed against a war waged for abolition.The reality, however, was that emancipation and abolition were not the same.  Emancipation placed the needs of the Union ahead of the needs of slaves; it was not about black social and political equality.  Abolition was the opposite.  It was focused on equality and human rights, and in the minds of many endangered the Union.  Lincoln had famously stated, “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”  This was the difference between emancipation and abolition, and it accurately reflected attitudes in Connecticut.

In the spring of 1865, the General Assembly passed an amendment to the state constitution removing the word “white” in determining who could vote, and scheduled an October referendum on the subject.  The change was overwhelmingly rejected by Connecticut voters, and it was Republican votes that secured the amendment’s defeat.  The state’s residents may have ultimately supported emancipation, but they were not advocates of black civic equality—they were not abolitionists.

This legacy of racial intolerance, as well as that of the sacrifices of Connecticut soldiers and those on the home front, is symbolized in the state’s Civil War monuments.  That today we understand the war as the death knell of slavery does not mean that those who fought the conflict meant it to be so.  It was a result of the war, but not an intent.

Matthew Warshauer, PhD, is a Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/connecticut-and-the-civil-war/

[todayclassical]

February 28 in Music History

1688 FP of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's opera David and Jonathas in Paris.

1714 Birth of castrato Gioacchino Conti (Gizziello) in Arpino.  

1739 Publication in London by music publisher John Walsh, Jr. of Handel's Trio Sonatas, Op. 5.

1747 Birth of American composer and horse breeder Justin Morgan.

1758 Birth of castrato Domenico Luigi Bruni in Umbertide. 

1796 Death of German composer Friedrich Rust in Dessau. 

1808 Birth of English harpist and composer Elias Parish-Alvars.

1834 Birth of baritone Charles Santley.

1837 Death of bass-baritone Luigi Zamboni. 1857 Birth of American composer and conductor Gustave Kerker in Herford.

1858 Birth of mezzo-soprano Marie Brema.

1860 Birth of baritone Mario Ancona.

1862 FP of Gounod's opera The Queen of Sheba in Paris. 1876 Birth of American composer John Alden Carpentier, in Park Ridge, IL.  1877 Birth of Russian pianist and composer Sergei Bortkiewicz in Kharkov.  1882 Birth of American soprano Geraldine Farrar, in Melrose, MA. 

1882 Birth of tenor Octave Dua.

1882 The Royal College of Music is founded in London. 1888 Birth of French conductor Eugene Bigot in Rennes. 

1888 FP of P. I. Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso for cello with an arrangement for piano accompaniment in Paris. 

1895 Birth of Brazilian pianist Ms. Guiomar Novaes in Sao Joao da Bao Vista, Brazil.  1898 FP of V. Kalinnikov's Symphony No. 2.

1904 Birth of soprano Maria Laurenti.

1904 FP of Vincent d'Indy's Symphony No. 2 in Paris. 

1907 Death of contralto Rosina Brandram.

1908 Death of soprano Paulie Lucca.

1912 FP of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3 Sinfonia Espansiva and Violin Concerto, soloist Emil Telmányi, composer conducting in Copenhagen.

1915 Birth of American music editor and music librarian of the Library of Congress William Lichtenwanger, in Asheville, NC. 1917 Birth of English conductor and harpsichordist George Malcolm.  

1926 Birth of American composer Seymour Shifrin. 

1927 Birth of tenor Ragnar Ulfung.

1929 Birth of bass Joseph Rouleau.

1929 FP of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Concerto dell'estate 'Summer Concerto'. New York Philharmonic, Arturo Toscanini conducting.

1934 Birth of soprano Sylvia Geszty.

1936 FP of Roy Harris' Symphony No. 2. Boston Symphony. Prelude and Fugue for strings, Philadelphia Orchestra.

1940 FP of Henry Cowell's Old American Country Set in Indianapolis. 

1942 Birth of bass-baritone Alexander Malta.

1949 Birth of American composer Meira Warshauer.

1950 Birth of American composer Stephen Chatman in Minnesota.

1953 Death of bass Felix Vieuille. 

1958 Death of mezzo-soprano Alice Gentle.

1960 Birth of Russian composer Dmitri Capyrin in Moscow.

1961 Birth of Finnish composer Petri Kuljuntausta in Tampere.

1965 Birth of German conductor Marcus Stenz.

1968 Birth of American composer Charles Griffin in Richmond, NY.

1976 Death of tenor Fritz Krauss.

1976 FP of Ralph Shapey's oratorio Praise in Chicago.

1994 FP of George Tsontakis' Winter Lightning fourth of Four Symphonic Quartets from poems by T.S. Eliot. Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz conducting.

2000 Death of tenor Amedeo Zambon.

[blogtintonghop24h]

Kate từng giả vờ làm bạn gái William thời đại học

Kate và William thời hẹn hò. Ảnh: AP.

Laura Warshauer, một người bạn thời đại học của vợ chồng Công tước xứ Cambridge, đã chia sẻ trong cuốn "Kate: The Future Queen" của tác giả Katie Nicholl rằng Kate Middleton đã chủ động bước tới khi thấy Hoàng tử William, người sau này trở thành chồng cô, đang nhận được quá nhiều sự chú ý không mong muốn khi tham dự bữa tiệc trong kỳ học đầu tiên tại trường St Andrews.

"Hôm ấy Kate và tôi đang ăn bánh hạnh nhân. Kate chưa bao giờ là một người thích uống rượu, cô ấy cũng không cần chất cồn để  trở nên tự tin hơn. Hoàng tử William khi đó đang bị một cô gái bám lấy và cảm thấy không thoải mái chút nào. Tuy nhiên, anh ấy vẫn rất lịch sự, còn cô gái kia thì lại không hiểu ý. Rồi bất ngờ Kate bước đến từ đằng sau, vòng tay qua người William. Anh ấy bèn nói 'Ồ, xin lỗi, nhưng tôi có bạn gái rồi'. Và thế là William và Kate vừa quay đi vừa cười tủm tỉm", Laura kể.

Laura nói thêm chỉ có Kate là cô gái duy nhất trong phòng dám làm điều này. Và thời điểm đó, cả hai mới theo học ở trường St Andrews được một tháng.

Theo Laura, hoàng tử nước Anh đã gửi lời cảm ơn tới Kate nhờ pha "cứu nguy" kịp thời này. Hai người nhanh chóng "trở thành bạn đồng hành" của nhau, và Kate đặc biệt gây ấn tượng với William khi mặc một bộ trang phục táo bạo trình diễn catwalk cho một chương trình từ thiện của trường.

Kate mặc táo bạo trong màn catwalk ở trường St Andrews, khiến William bị "hạ gục".

Ban đầu, William và Kate chỉ là bạn bè, nhưng không lâu sau thì mối quan hệ này thăng tiến thành tình yêu, khi cả hai nhận ra có chung khiếu hài hước tinh nghịch.

Sau khi quen nhau ở trường St Andrews vào năm 2001, Hoàng tử William và Kate vẫn tiếp tục hẹn hò dù đã ra trường. Năm 2007, cả hai chia tay một thời gian ngắn nhưng không lâu sau thì quay về bên nhau. Cả hai kết hôn vào ngày 29/4/2011 và đã có ba con.

Theo Ngôi sao

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[world-of-wales]

Miss Catherine Middleton with her friends at Laura Warshauer birthday party at St Salvator’s Hall during their first year at university (Photo Courtesy - Laura Warshauer) | 23 DECEMBER 20

Laura had made her mum's lasagne & aunt's toffee recipe for everyone & Prince William of Wales or Will as he was known to his friends had brought her gift – a stuffed seal with a bagpack as gift from Tesco01

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Moody’s Selects Partners for Reshape Tomorrow, Aiming to Help Small Businesses Thrive

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) today announced the selection of its inaugural list of partners for Reshape TomorrowTM, its innovative, global program to help owners of small and growing business overcome the challenges of expanding their enterprises.

Moody’s has selected a network of six partner organizations and programs, supported by grants from Moody’s Foundation, that focus on empowering entrepreneurs — especially women and members of untapped communities — by helping to provide the expertise and tools needed to navigate the credit process and thrive. Over 50 organizations from around the world applied to participate in the program, which is a key part of Moody’s global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.

“Moody’s is proud to partner with these innovative organizations as the core of Reshape Tomorrow. Together, we aim to empower owners of small and growing businesses with the knowledge, resources and confidence they need to create a better future,” said Arlene Isaacs-Lowe, Global Head of CSR at Moody’s. “We believe these programs can make a real impact on the lives of entrepreneurs seeking to build a more prosperous future for themselves and their communities.”

Each of the programs emphasize preparing small business owners to successfully access credit through better technology, tools and expertise. Moody’s support will include philanthropic grants as well as practical resources and skills-based volunteer participation by Moody’s employees around the world.

The following partners and programs were selected for Reshape Tomorrow:

Acumen – with support from Moody’s, Acumen will deliver “Acumen Post,” a global program of strategic and operational assistance for small business owners including coaching, finance, sales and technology support.

“Acumen is excited to partner with Moody’s to provide our visionary social entrepreneurs with the support they need, as they scale their businesses to serve low-income consumers with goods and services that allow them to improve their lives and lift themselves out of poverty,” said Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen.

The Asia Foundation – Moody’s will support “Accelerate Women’s Entrepreneurship: Supporting Migrant Women-Owned Businesses,” a Shanghai-based program helping migrant women grow their businesses through a tailored training program of coaching and networking.

“We are honored to join with Moody’s in accelerating women’s entrepreneurship by supporting migrant women owned businesses in China with an intensive, 2 year program focused on providing them with upgraded skills and resources to grow their businesses--in particular, to access credit and capital--through financial and entrepreneurship education and skills training, networking, and business coaching,” said David D. Arnold, President and CEO, of The Asia Foundation.

Echoing Green – Moody’s support will enable the “Loan Readiness and Impact Funding Initiative,” a global program to improve social entrepreneurs’ ability to access credit while cultivating a community of early stage lenders committed to social impact.

“We are thrilled to partner with Moody’s to create a program that will enable early-stage social entrepreneurs to access much-needed funding, in the form of loans, to grow their organizations and businesses,” says Cheryl L. Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, a nonprofit organization that supports emerging leaders who are launching organizations to change the world for the better. “Too often these entrepreneurs are locked out of the early capital they need to grow and increase their impact. The Loan Readiness and Impact Funding Initiative will build the foundation for Echoing Green Fellows to become ready and connected to debt-funding to help their organizations go further, faster.”

TechnoServe – Moody’s will support the “Smart Duka Initiative” in Kenya, helping a thousand retail shop owners to grow their businesses through training and coaching on sales, inventory management and technology, and “Working Capital Financing for Box Shop Entrepreneurs,” in South Africa, which will provide input finance to youth and women retail entrepreneurs within the Box Shop program.

"Working with Moody's will help TechnoServe provide expanded training and support to thousands of entrepreneurs in Kenya and South Africa," said William Warshauer, President and CEO of TechnoServe. "These enterprises are critical for reducing unemployment and boosting local economies, and we look forward to expanding our impact through this new partnership."

WEConnect International – with Moody’s support, WEConnect International will launch the “Global Training Program for Women Entrepreneurs and Financial Institutions,” in Canada, Germany and Nigeria.

“WEConnect International is proud to partner with Moody’s on this training program to help women business owners access capital and markets. We are thrilled that Moody’s has also joined our more than 80 corporate members, who are committed to building more inclusive global value chains and women’s economic empowerment,” said Elizabeth A. Vazquez, CEO and Co-Founder of WEConnect International.

Village Capital – through Moody’s partnership, Village Capital will deliver the “FinTech Incubator Program,” in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico City, a capacity building program to give entrepreneurs the tools to grow successful businesses, such as team management and financial planning.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Moody’s into the family of partners working with Village Capital to support financial health entrepreneurs in Latin America," said Allie Burns, Managing Director, Village Capital.

Reshape Tomorrow is part of Moody’s efforts to open the door to a better future, through its recently launched global CSR program. The program focuses on four core areas: empowering people with financial knowledge, activating an environmentally sustainable future, helping young people reach their potential, and sharing our passion and purpose with the world.

Further information is available at http://moodys.com/csr.

About Moody’s Corporation

Moody's is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody's Analytics, which offers leading-edge software, advisory services and research for credit and economic analysis and financial risk management. The corporation, which reported revenue of $4.2 billion in 2017, employs approximately 12,300 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 42 countries. Further information is available at www.moodys.com.

Moody’s believes in a world where more people have access to opportunity, and where everyone has what they need to grow and thrive. We are committed to opening the door to a better future through our global corporate social responsibility programs empowering people around the world with the knowledge, resources and confidence they need to succeed. For more information visit moodys.com/csr.

Contacts

Moody’s Corporation STEPHEN MAIRE, +1 212-553-7424 Global Head of Investor Relations and Communications stephen.maire@moodys.com

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MICHAEL ADLER, +1 212-553-4667 Senior Vice President Corporate Communications michael.adler@moodys.com

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LARA JOSEPH, +44 207-772-1026 Assistant Vice President Corporate Communications lara.joseph@moodys.com

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HECTOR LIM, +61 282-708-141 Senior Vice President Corporate Communications hector.lim@moodys.com

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