?Dangerous for Military? Isn't Synonymous with ?Dangerous for Society?

Here?s a letter to?US News & World Report:

Worried that sequestration will reduce the Pentagon?s budget, Mackenzie Eaglen quotes Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale?s allegation that sequestration would result in a ?less-capable, less-modern, less-ready force and [risk] creating a hollow military? (?Obama?s fiscal cliff stubbornness dangerous for military,? Dec. 7).

Please.

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Uncle Sam?s annual military budget today is more than seven times (!) larger than that of the nation (China) with the globe?s second-largest military budget.? And if China and all other nations, apart from the U.S., ranked today in the top ten according to absolute size of military budgets were to merge into one gigantic country, America?s current military budget would still be much larger than that of our new mega-rival ? larger than the combined budgets of these other nine countries by 52 percent (or $252 billion)!? Put differently, if sequestration does kick in to cut, as projected, $50 billion annually from the Pentagon?s budget, five years of such cuts would be necessary to shrink the U.S. military budget to the size at which it would equal the sum?of the world?s next nine largest military budgets.

With champions of fiscal prudence and market economies ? such as Ms. Eaglen?s employer, the American Enterprise Institute ? frantically insisting that modest belt-tightening by the colossus that is the Pentagon will bring calamity, ?Progressives? and others who endorse active government involvement in the economy can be forgiven for likewise issuing over-the-top, hysterical predictions about the calamities that await us from modest belt-tightening by the likes of the Department of Education and the F.D.A.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics
and
Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA? 22030

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The Hobbit?s Gandalf Sir Ian McKellen Has Prostate Cancer

The Hobbit’s Gandalf Sir Ian McKellen Has Prostate Cancer

Sir Ian McKellen, who you can see as Gandalf in “The Hobbit”, is not only battling the evils of Middle Earth but also prostate cancer. The Oscar-nominated actor reveals he has been suffering from prostate cancer for six years now. McKellen said he hasn’t had any treatment but the cancer is contained and not spreading. ...

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Can your smartphone see through walls? Engineers make tiny, low-cost, terahertz imager chip

Dec. 10, 2012 ? A secret agent is racing against time. He knows a bomb is nearby. He rounds a corner, spots a pile of suspicious boxes in the alleyway, and pulls out his cell phone. As he scans it over the packages, their contents appear onscreen. In the nick of time, his handy smartphone application reveals an explosive device, and the agent saves the day.

Sound far-fetched? In fact it is a real possibility, thanks to tiny inexpensive silicon microchips developed by a pair of electrical engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The chips generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz (THz) waves, that fall into a largely untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum -- between microwaves and far-infrared radiation -- and that can penetrate a host of materials without the ionizing damage of X-rays.

When incorporated into handheld devices, the new microchips could enable a broad range of applications in fields ranging from homeland security to wireless communications to health care, and even touchless gaming. In the future, the technology may lead to noninvasive cancer diagnosis, among other applications.

"Using the same low-cost, integrated-circuit technology that's used to make the microchips found in our cell phones and notepads today, we have made a silicon chip that can operate at nearly 300 times their speed," says Ali Hajimiri, the Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. "These chips will enable a new generation of extremely versatile sensors."

Hajimiri and postdoctoral scholar Kaushik Sengupta (PhD '12) describe the work in the December issue of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

Researchers have long touted the potential of the terahertz frequency range, from 0.3 to 3 THz, for scanning and imaging. Such electromagnetic waves can easily penetrate packaging materials and render image details in high resolution, and can also detect the chemical fingerprints of pharmaceutical drugs, biological weapons, or illegal drugs or explosives. However, most existing terahertz systems involve bulky and expensive laser setups that sometimes require exceptionally low temperatures. The potential of terahertz imaging and scanning has gone untapped because of the lack of compact, low-cost technology that can operate in the frequency range.

To finally realize the promise of terahertz waves, Hajimiri and Sengupta used complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, technology, which is commonly used to make the microchips in everyday electronic devices, to design silicon chips with fully integrated functionalities and that operate at terahertz frequencies -- but fit on a fingertip.

"This extraordinary level of creativity, which has enabled imaging in the terahertz frequency range, is very much in line with Caltech's long tradition of innovation in the area of CMOS technology," says Ares Rosakis, chair of Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science. "Caltech engineers, like Ali Hajimiri, truly work in an interdisciplinary way to push the boundaries of what is possible."

The new chips boast signals more than a thousand times stronger than existing approaches, and emanate terahertz signals that can be dynamically programmed to point in a specified direction, making them the world's first integrated terahertz scanning arrays.

Using the scanner, the researchers can reveal a razor blade hidden within a piece of plastic, for example, or determine the fat content of chicken tissue. "We are not just talking about a potential. We have actually demonstrated that this works," says Hajimiri. "The first time we saw the actual images, it took our breath away."

Hajimiri and Sengupta had to overcome multiple hurdles to translate CMOS technology into workable terahertz chips -- including the fact that silicon chips are simply not designed to operate at terahertz frequencies. In fact, every transistor has a frequency, known as the cut-off frequency, above which it fails to amplify a signal -- and no standard transistors can amplify signals in the terahertz range.

To work around the cut-off-frequency problem, the researchers harnessed the collective strength of many transistors operating in unison. If multiple elements are operated at the right times at the right frequencies, their power can be combined, boosting the strength of the collective signal.

"We came up with a way of operating transistors above their cut-off frequencies," explains Sengupta. "We are about 40 or 50 percent above the cut-off frequencies, and yet we are able to generate a lot of power and detect it because of our novel methodologies."

"Traditionally, people have tried to make these technologies work at very high frequencies, with large elements producing the power. Think of these as elephants," says Hajimiri. "Nowadays we can make a very large number of transistors that individually are not very powerful, but when combined and working in unison, can do a lot more. If these elements are synchronized -- like an army of ants -- they can do everything that the elephant does and then some."

The researchers also figured out how to radiate, or transmit, the terahertz signal once it has been produced. At such high frequencies, a wire cannot be used, and traditional antennas at the microchip scale are inefficient. What they came up with instead was a way to turn the whole silicon chip into an antenna. Again, they went with a distributed approach, incorporating many small metal segments onto the chip that can all be operated at a certain time and strength to radiate the signal en masse.

"We had to take a step back and ask, 'Can we do this in a different way?'" says Sengupta. "Our chips are an example of the kind of innovations that can be unearthed if we blur the partitions between traditional ways of thinking about integrated circuits, electromagnetics, antennae, and the applied sciences. It is a holistic solution."

IBM helped with chip fabrication for this work.

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Scion, Honda Top EPA Fuel Economy Guide - Environmental Leader

The 2013 Scion iQ electric vehicle and the Honda Fit electric vehicle topped the EPA?s annual list of fuel efficient vehicles.

The 2013 Fuel Economy Guide, published by the EPA and the US Department of Energy, also gave high fuel-efficiency marks to vehicle models made by Ford, Mitsubishi, Daimler AG automotive branch Smart, Toyota and Tesla. The guide ranks fuel economy leaders in each vehicle category from two-seaters and minicompacts to midsize and midsize station wagons.

The Scion iQ EV was the most fuel efficient car overall and in its minicompact class, with miles per gallon equivalent of 121 combined, 138 city and 105 highway.

The Honda Fit EV, the second most fuel-efficient car, topped the small station wagon class with 118 mpg equivalent combined, 132 city and 105 highway.

This year, the EPA and DOE added a second top 10 list of most efficient vehicles that includes only conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles. In that list, the Toyota Prius was the most efficient with 50 mpg combined, 51 city and 48 highway.

Other 2013 models powerd by conventional fuel that topped their respective classes in efficiency includes the Toyota Prius v, Ford C-Max Hybrid, Chevrolet Spark, Audi and Scion iQ.

The least fuel-efficient cars by class included 2013 models made by Bentley, Bugatti, Cadillac, Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Maserati and Rolls-Royce.

Meanwhile, Consumer Reports said road tests showed the 2013 Fusion Hybrid sedan and C-Max Hybrid?fall short of the estimated 47 mpg fuel economy rating assigned by the EPA.

Consumer Reports said Fusion Hybrid had a 39 mpg efficiency overall, 35 mpg in the city and 38 mpg in highway conditions. Road tests showed the C-Max Hybrid had a 37 mpg efficiency overall with 35 and 38 for city and highway, respectively.

Last month, Hyundai Motor America and Kia Motors America agreed to lower the fuel economy ratings for more than one million vehicles sold in the US and Canada, after an EPA investigation found the automakers overstated mileage claims in 13 models.

The auto companies, which are both owned by Hyundai Motor Group, said they will lower fuel economy ratings for about 900,000, or 35 percent, of the group?s 2011-2013 model year vehicles sold in the US through October 31, 2012. Another 172,000 vehicles sold in Canada also had overstated mileage claims, Hyundai and Kia said.

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Egypt's president behaves like his predecessors

Boys sit in front of graffiti and Arabic, bottom, that reads, "regime you're afraid of a paint brush and a pen," in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Boys sit in front of graffiti and Arabic, bottom, that reads, "regime you're afraid of a paint brush and a pen," in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Graffiti depicting Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi as a pharaoh and Arabic that reads, "void," covers a wall in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Graffiti depicting Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi covers an outer wall of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Some six months since becoming the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Morsi is widely accused of having abandoned pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Egyptian riot policemen march past a mural on the wall of the presidential palace depicting president Mohammed Morsi, left, former military council ruler Hussain Tantawi, center and ousted president Mubarak with Arabic anti-Morsi graffiti, in Cairo, Egypt. Some six months since becoming the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Morsi is widely accused of having abandoned pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, an Egyptian protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask while posing for a photo next to a mural painted overnight on the exterior wall of the presidential palace depicting president Mohammed Morsi, left, former military council ruler Hussein Tantawi, center and ousted President Mubarak with Arabic that reads "no, the brotherhood's constitution is not valid," in Cairo, Egypt. Some six months since becoming the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Morsi is widely accused of having abandoned pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

CAIRO (AP) ? The freshly scrawled graffiti depicting Mohammed Morsi as a pharaonic Saddam Hussein tells the tale of high hopes dashed with record speed: Barely six months after becoming Egypt's first democratically elected president, the Islamist is widely accused of abandoning pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways.

Some say it should come as no surprise: heavy-handed rule has a history in Egypt and in much of the region ? as do unfulfilled promises of reform.

In the past three weeks alone, Morsi has given himself near-absolute powers; placed himself above any oversight; allowed or looked the other way when his supporters set upon peaceful protesters outside his palace or besieged the nation's highest court to stop judges from issuing an unfavorable ruling; and, ominously, indicated he was spying on his foes.

Borrowing a page from his predecessors' governance manual, Morsi justified his actions by speaking, albeit cryptically, of a "conspiracy" aimed at destroying state institutions and derailing the transition to democracy. He offered no evidence to back his allegation, saying only that he would do everything he can to protect the nation.

"I see what you don't see," he told state television a week after he touched off a political crisis Nov. 22 by issuing decrees that gave him sweeping powers.

The actions of the 61-year-old, U.S.-trained engineer have a lot to do with a political system that in six decades of de facto military rule has grown accustomed to having one man with all the power concentrated in his hands. Some in Egypt argue that one-man rule is an enduring legacy of pharaonic times when the leader was treated as a god.

In Morsi's case, critics and analysts believe his actions are dictated by the powerful group he hails from, the Muslim Brotherhood, although they only have anecdotal evidence to support that contention.

"In the final analysis, he is a dictator," said analyst and former lawmaker Emad Gad. "But he is only carrying out the will of the Brotherhood after he promised to be a president for all Egyptians."

Gad and others were surprised that Morsi made the power grab so quickly.

But Gehad el-Haddad, a Brotherhood spokesman, dismissed charges that Morsi embraced an autocratic style of governance, emphasizing the president's popular election.

"Those who claim he is a pharaoh or a dictator need to produce proof to back their argument or be quiet," he said.

The Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest Islamist group, had been outlawed for nearly 60 years until it emerged as the country's most powerful political force following Mubarak's ouster in last year's uprising. Critics accuse the group of monopolizing power as a prelude to its longtime dream of turning Egypt into an Islamic state.

The military officers who seized power in 1952, ending three decades of a Western-style democracy under a monarch and British occupation, promised to return to the barracks after six months. Instead, they founded decades of military rule with Gamal Abdel-Nasser emerging as the country's strongman two years later after a power struggle with an older officer.

Anwar Sadat, who succeeded him in 1970, jailed his rivals a year later to consolidate his grip on power, marketing his move a "corrective revolution."

Mubarak began his 29-year rule with a series of goodwill gestures toward the opposition, ordering the release of hundreds of Sadat's critics, promising a gradual move toward democracy and pledging to step down after two terms in office. Before his ouster, his son, Gamal, was poised to succeed him.

Such transformations are found elsewhere in the region. Syria's Bashar Assad succeeded his father, Hafez, in 2000 amid high hopes that the young leader would relax the police state that was established in nearly 30 years of iron-fisted rule.

Assad did not disappoint, but the so-called "Damascus Spring" he tolerated lasted less than a year before authorities began to arrest dissidents and jail them again. Assad is now fighting for his survival in a civil war that has killed at least 40,000 Syrians since March 2011.

Even the late Moammar Gadhafi brought hopes for a better life and development to Libyans when he seized power in a 1969 coup that toppled the monarchy. He rode a wave of popular support for several years before he began ruling the North African nation as a fiefdom, with his family dividing up its vast oil wealth.

So much hope had been placed on Morsi's shoulders during his campaign and the early days of his presidency that liberals found it hard to accept his latest grab for power. Many of them voted for him in June not so much out of conviction as out of a desire to see the defeat of Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq. Morsi narrowly beat him, winning only 51 percent of the vote.

Morsi had fed these expectations by promising inclusion and equality, suggesting at one point that he might appoint a Christian as vice president. In the end, he gave the job to a Muslim judge, and the one Christian among his four assistants has quit in protest of his handling of the political crisis.

In fact, of the 17 people he named to a presidential advisory council, seven quit over the same issue. Most of those who remain on the panel are Islamists.

All those who quit, in addition to Vice President Mahmoud Mekki, said they were not consulted about the president's Nov. 22 decrees. Morsi has vowed never to infringe on the freedom of the press, but since coming to office, Egypt has seen a private TV station closed and several newspaper journalists and bloggers hauled before the courts. Brotherhood members or sympathizers have been named editors of most of the nation's 50-plus state publications, including its flagship dailies. Hundreds of Islamists are besieging a media complex on the western outskirts of Cairo to protest what they see as a hostile editorial line of the powerful, privately owned TV networks.

The spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, offered a rare glimpse of the vast influence he wields in Egypt when he criticized prosecutors for releasing most of the dozens of protesters who were arrested last week in clashes with Morsi supporters near the presidential palace. The prosecutors cited a lack of evidence in the release, but they still drew the ire of Badie, who has no official capacity in Morsi's administration.

Also Sunday, the man thought to be the Brotherhood's most powerful member, Khairat el-Shater, indicated in statements on TV that he had voice recordings of individuals allegedly plotting to destabilize Morsi's rule. El-Shater did not identify the individuals and did not say how or why he had access to the recordings. Like Badie, he has no official role in government.

Morsi and his Brotherhood supporters, however, must contend with a very different Egypt than his predecessors ? one in which nearly every adult has a strong opinion on topics such as political leaders, the economy and how to reform the police force.

"He has made a huge mistake when he did not accurately read the Egyptian population in terms of whether or not they will accept what is essentially a return to authoritarian rule," said Tarek Radwan, a Middle East expert at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center in Washington. "He saw himself as having 'revolutionary legitimacy,' which allows him to take the drastic steps he did. He does not have that mandate."

Evidence of the new Egypt has been on display since the uprising that toppled Mubarak began on Jan. 25, 2011, with wave after wave of demonstrations, strikes and sit-ins that at times made the country look almost ungovernable.

In the past three weeks, tens of thousands of Morsi opponents have rallied in Cairo and elsewhere against the decrees and a draft constitution that they see to be favoring Islamists, restricting civil liberties and giving clerics a say over legislation.

And then there is all the graffiti ? the unflattering caricatures and slogans against Morsi and the Brotherhood that the protesters have spray-painted on the walls outside the presidential palace.

Associated Press

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Analysis: Distrust among members of Congress complicates "cliff" talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his Republican opponents in Congress enter a crucial week in the "fiscal cliff" impasse with more than just differences over taxes to bridge: Also in the way is pervasive mistrust among members of Congress that discourages big concessions for fear the other side won't reciprocate.

That distrust is fueling doubts among Republicans and Democrats about relying on the other side to live up to any bargains struck now on deficit reduction in the future, Capitol Hill aides say.

Because resolution of the immediate cliff issues depends in part on commitments by both sides to a framework for overhauling the tax code and entitlement programs over the next year, an atmosphere of disbelief could impede any agreement on the cliff.

Nearly everyone - from Obama to most of the 535 members of the House of Representatives and Senate - say they want to avoid the cliff's $600 billion in harmful tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in automatically in the new year, and replace them with more reasoned savings.

Obama wants the tax cuts that originated during the administration of President George W. Bush extended for middle class taxpayers only, while Republicans want them extended for all, including the wealthiest.

But widespread credibility issues could cause problems for Democrat Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner if and when they have to sell any agreement they forge to their parties in Congress.

The task for Boehner, who met Sunday with Obama, may be greater because many Republicans distrust each other as well as the Democrats.

The distrust between the parties is nothing new, having been built up over years of partisan recrimination. But it's now become a regular feature of debate on the cliff, on and off the floors of the House and Senate.

Some Democrats have spoken darkly of a hidden Republican agenda to gut, not just cut, social safety net programs.

Republicans, said Oregon's Peter DeFazio in a December 5 House floor speech, are acting under the "guise of deficit reduction," to "somehow kill Social Security, which they've never supported."

GOING OVER THE CLIFF?

Republicans, for their part, say they don't believe Democrats will follow through on promises to make spending cuts.

"The reason we haven't heard Democrat ideas for entitlement reform may be because they have no plans to cut or to reform entitlement spending at all," Republican Representative John Fleming of Louisiana declared on the House floor last week.

"This is just another game from their play book - raise taxes and increase spending, as always," said Fleming.

And some see behind the firm Democratic stance a desire to go over the cliff in order to discredit Republicans, who several recent polls have indicated will bear the lion's share of the blame.

"I think their whole game plan is take the economy off the fiscal cliff and then blame Republicans," Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said on CNN December 2.

And neither side trusts the other's math. While Obama maintains his plan will shrink deficits by $4.4 trillion over four years, the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee says it's more like $400 billion.

Doubts about the worth of promises are fueling a renewed argument over the federal debt ceiling which could greatly complicate resolution of the impasse over the cliff.

The nation's borrowing limit - which controls the government's capacity to borrow money to pay past debts - will need to be increased by the end of February. Under current law, an act of Congress is required to do that.

Obama is demanding, as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, enhanced presidential authority over the debt limit, in order to stop Republicans from using it as leverage against the White House.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other Republicans are resisting, saying that without debt ceiling leverage, the White House won't make the cuts it's promising.

"Look," McConnell said in the Senate last week, "the only way we ever cut spending around here is by using the debate over the debt limit to do it."

More broadly, members well aware that Congress gets mired in gridlock on much lesser pieces of legislation, find it hard to conceive of Congress succeeding at the far more complex tasks of overhauling the tax code and entitlement programs.

The truth is that many members of Congress share the same low regard for Congress that the public expresses in surveys.

Indeed, a regular theme in floor speeches by members of both the House and Senate is dysfunction - their own.

(Editing, additional reporting and writing by Fred Barbash; editing by Todd Eastham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-distrust-among-members-congress-complicates-cliff-talks-060409852--sector.html

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Travel Expenses for Home-Based Business

If you are self-employed your business may well be based at your home address, although you perform the majority of your work at your customers' sites. This can apply to a range of trades from plumbers to computer consultants, and even medical professionals.

In order to claim the costs of travelling to your customers' sites against your taxable profits, you need to show that your trading activity does not cease when you arrive home. The following records should help prove this:
  • Precise records of all journeys to your customers' sites, including the date, the mileage, and any public transport tickets and parking receipts.
  • A diary of the time spent working on proposals, quotes and other business related paperwork at your home address.
  • Business-related paperwork such as invoices and quotations should show your home address as the business base.
  • Any insurance policy you need for your business should show your home address as the operational base for the business.
  • Where your business is operated through a company, having the registered office for that company at the home address can also help. HMRC will be able to see these details, but you can hide them from prying eyes on the Companies House register.
  • You can also make a claim for the cost of running your business from home, so speak to us to see what can and cannot be claimed as a business expense.

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Festive performance at church by Thames Philharmonic Choir

Festive performance at church by Thames Philharmonic Choir

In a rare festive performance the Thames Philharmonic choir will be delivering their first Christmas concert for years in Surbiton tonight.

At the refurbished St Andrew?s Church, they will be singing a varied selection of seasonal classics and more unusual numbers, including music from Handel?s Messiah, Bach and Vaughan Williams.

Jackie Morgan, an alto in the choir, said: ?We do not often do an actual Christmas concert, so it will be both unusual and interesting for us, and make a change from what we usually do.?

Morgan has sung with choirs for most of her life, she said: ?I love singing Christmas carols. I really miss it.

?It is a wonderful thing to do, and I know from experience that audience members get frustrated if they can?t sing along, so we will be inviting them to sing at our concert.

?Christmas is not Christmas if you don?t have Christmas carols.?

The soloists at the concert will be Katherine Crompton, a soprano, and Morgan Pearse, a baritone, who are both postgraduate students at the Royal College of Music.

Renowned former Royal Choral Society chorus master, John Bate, will be conducting. Scholar of the prestigious Trinity College of Music, he has performed at venues such as King?s College, Cambridge, and throughout Europe.

Morgan said: ?Everyone says it is a fabulous place with really great acoustics, and somewhere really nice to sing now.?

She added: ?I hope people will enjoy the variety of music we are singing, it is quite a lovely programme, all in what is a very nice ambience.?

The concert starts at 7.30pm, with an open rehearsal at 2.30pm. Adult tickets cost ?12, concessions cost ?10.

To book call the box office on 07522 524081, or visit thamesphilchoir.org.uk.

Source: http://www.kingstonguardian.co.uk/news/10096492.Festive_performance_at_church_by_Thames_Philharmonic_Choir/?ref=rss

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