| Contra Costa Times
Appearances by three guest conductors -- each under consideration to succeed Kent Nagano as music director -- highlight the Berkeley Symphony's 2007-08 season, announced this week. Hugh Wolff, Guillermo Figueroa and Laura Jackson will each conduct a subscription program during the new season, which runs Dec. 16, 2007, through May 1, 2008. The season also includes two performances, both conducted by Nagano, by the organization's newly formed Berkeley Academy Ensemble. Nagano, who announced earlier this season that he will step down as Berkeley Symphony's music director at the end of the 2008-09 season (he'll become conductor laureate at that time), conducts the season's first subscription program Jan. 31, 2008, at Zellerbach Hall; the program includes Mozart, Schubert and the U.S.
Euro finance ministers debate tax fraud
EU finance ministers discussed how they can tackle sales tax fraud and whether hedge funds need stricter rules at a meeting Saturday. A second day of talks between all 27 European Union nations aimed to make progress on what they can do to curb a growing value added tax fraud that leaches an estimated euro60 billion to euro200 billion (US$82 billion to US$272 billion) from their treasuries every year. Governments usually charge value-added tax to all customers in the supply chain, offering refunds to business-to-business buyers. But some criminals exploit the difficulty countries face in tracking transactions in other nations by wrongly claiming refunds for tax they have never paid elsewhere or by disappearing with the VAT they have collected from customers. More trade in easy-to-transport high-value items -- like computer chips, mobile phones and personal digital assistants -- has seen this problem grow.
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Early literacy is most important, teachers explain
Many Catholic elementary schools in the Vancouver Archdiocese are planning Open House events for parents of 3- and 4-year-old children through the Ready, Set, Learn and the Early Learners programs, sponsored by the Ministry of Education. This initiative is intended to build on the many reading activities that are already happening in B.C.'s families and communities. The program offers information about the typical development of pre-Kindergarten children, including tips for supporting children's learning in key areas of development. Concrete ideas how parents can help preschoolers develop their literacy skills are offered and take-home materials are provided. The primary teachers at Our Lady of Assumption Elementary School in Port Coquitlam are planning to meet and collaborate with parents to develop the early literacy of their children.
THE EASTER ISSUE
Moscow State University, Russian Federation, Apr 01, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ -- The First Ecumenical Nicaean Council (Nicaea is a town in Bythinia, Asia Minor) had compiled the Easter Rules and sanctioned the Easter calendar in the year 325 AD. This date is the cornerstone of christian and consensual chronology (Both Julian and Gregorian). Computational astronomy exercise made by Dr Prof A.Fomenko and team proves this date to be erroneus as the very Rules of Easter Day calculation contain sufficient astronomical information to find the earliest possible date of their compilation and to conclude that they could not have possibly been established prior to 784 AD. Related questions may be asked: when and where was Jesus Christ born, when was He crucified? Was The Old Testament compiled before or after the New One? Media Contact:Delamere Resources LLC Name: Franck Tamdhu Phone: E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Web Site:history.mithec.com ###History: Fiction or Science?Learn how and why Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt were crafted during Renaissance.
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