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Mostly superior performance, particularly on specific workloads AFAIK. The requirement used to be maximum performance on vertex-intensive workloads eg wireframe models while consumer apps cared more about pixel shading performance. GL levels are more of a "checkbox" requirement, ie if you don't have them then your cards don't get bought even if current apps mostly use GL 2.1 and lower.
There are some other requirements like GL overlays (for floating a UI over a full screen model) but I think it's the first two that require a big development effort.
Sure. It's just not there yet, and the amount of work required is too big to "just borrow a few develoeprs and get there. I've also mentioned the possibility of making relatively more of the linux-specific bits open source to get the best of both worlds, but again that's a non-trivial task.
The key point here is that a code-shared proprietary driver allows us to write the 3D code once and use it across multiple OSes, while providing the same functionality and performance on an open source driver requires doing all the same work again on a separate implementation, and it's a *lot* of work.
Pretty simple. Right now some users can get by with current power management and others can not, and the difference often seems to depend on whether those users have working "low" and "mid" entries in the power tables.
Everyone would benefit from full dynamic power management and that's what we're working on, but we knew that would take time. I felt that in the meantime it would be possible to make some reasonable guesses for "mid" values on cards which didn't have those entries, so at least everyone would be at the same level rather than the current state.
The trap everyone falls into is thinking that it's an either-or choice, ie working on a short term solution delays a better long term solution. It would if the work was being done by the same people (and that's why I didn't ask our devs to work on improved static PM, or at least didn't push very hard), but community work on static PM would not slow down AMD work on dynamic PM.
Dave's main point (which was correct) was that community work on static PM *would* slow down work on other areas where the work would not be throwaway; he weighted the "throwaway" aspect a bit more highly than I did which is totally fair.


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This group is for all writers of color and those interested in work created by writers of color. An open group to everyone - at this time we will focus on work about and of the Diaspora. The group focuses on the work of African American, African and Afro-Latino writers and may explore other works written by or about other people of color. We will discuss prominent works, but most importantly discuss and work on our own work. We will have informational meetings, happy hours, mixers, write-ins, wo …
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This group fosters the development of local authors' work through honest but fair criticism; to provide encouragement and inspiration to those authors as they write and submit their work for publication; and to provide a support network for those authors. There are no fees or dues, but the Speculative Wordsmiths require a serious commitment. Members must be willing to participate fully in the group's activities, and to give as much as they receive. Strong membership participation is critical to …
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This restaurant is so much more than what you would expect from Salisbury. The outside looks very plain, but once you walk in you see and feel the beautiful Atmosphere. The piano player is a wonderful plus. The food is delicious a little on the pricy side but certainly not Unreasonable.
Brunch was very nice. Our waitress wasn't so attentive, had to ask for syrup (they forgot to put it out at the buffet) never got it had to go find some, had to get up and get our own coffee.....the food was good. You cant beat the view and the inside of the restaurant really is beautiful. Ive been twice for dinner and dinner was delicious.
Went there for a double birthday lunch. The brunch was great, a ton of food and had bloody marys and momisas. it was my friend Mike's 54th bday and my mom's 68th. Both enjoyed themselves. I have taken my mom and my grandfather both times and they enjoeyed the food and the view.
Very nice atmosphere. Wait staff were very pleasant and accommodating. My friend and I had lunch and the food was delicious! Would recommend it to anyone. Worth the trip!
We have been here 3 times and each time we had amazing food. Our waitress was not knowledgeable about the food, however. She could not explain the specials, and did not find out the answers for us.
I really enjoyed the seaglass.The food was delicious and I would definitely eat here again. My only suggestion would be that they expand their menu.
My husband and I recently went to Seaglass for the first time, and now I'm wondering why we waited so long to try it! We were seated immediately upon arrival. It was a beautiful evening, and the panoramic views overlooking Salisbury beach and the wide open ocean were spectacular! Our server was very friendly, knowledgeable, and provided us with prompt service. The drinks were delicious, the rolls were warm and toasty, our dinners (we both got filet with roasted potatoes and broccoli) were cooked to perfection, and the 3 scoops of various flavored gelato for dessert were the perfect way to end the meal. I am looking forward to our next visit! Also - there is a large bar area that seemed to be a pretty lively and "happening" area! Fun!!
Went with my boyfriend on Saturday night for our 4 year anniversary. Had to wait a little bit for our table to be set up, but that was fine, because they gave us the best table in the house! Without even asking we were placed in the middle of the windows facing the ocean. The view was outstanding and very romantic. The service was ok, but as a previous server these things don't really bother me. The live band was amazing and not too loud to the point where we couldn't hear each other. It also just happened to be a night where they had fireworks at the beach and we had front row seats to that! Absolutely incredible and romantic time. Would definitely go again.
Great food, great view, great venue!!!! We will be returning soon!! Thank you
This was my first visit at the Seaglass Restaurant but it will definitely not be my last. I can not count the number of people I have told about my experience there. I had the signature salad with grilled chicken and the taste was out of this world. The view was spectacular and the staff friendly and helpful. I will be back again and again because there were so many delicious items on the menu and I want to try them all. Thank you for a great time.
We went here on the spur of the moment (after contacting Open Table). It was terrific. Great Food (best onion soup ever), Great Service and FABULOUS View. Plus, they were filming a movie close by and they ended up filming on the beach right in front of us. Denzel Washington was there in all his glory. We'll definitely go back, even without Denzel.
This restaurant has all the components needed for a memorable evening - ambiance, view, attentive waitstaff and most importantly - great food. The menu has a lot of variety and the side dishes are creative and satisfying. There is also a comprehensive wine list. On this visit we enjoyed the scallop entree and the swordfish special. A very enjoyable evening!
If you are ever in Salisbury Beach and want to enjoy a scenic view while having a brunch that has something for everyone at a restaurant that offer excellent service, this is the place to go!
Met our children with their spouses for Brunch. It was wonderful. A little pricey, but you are right on the water so you pay for location location location. We thoroughly enjoyed it and the staff were very friendly.
This is my third time to Sunday brunch at Seaglass and it never disappoints! The staff was very pleasant and prompt to remove dishes when we were finished each trip we made. There was a wonderful variety of food to choose from and always fresh nothing on the buffet was left out too long and replenished as soon as things got low. Whether you are going for the breakfast or lunch choices Seaglass is sure to have the right choice for you!
We were seated at the corner windows for an excellent,expansive ocean and sky scenic view! We watched the sun set and the moon rise over the water with rolling waves gently crash on the beach below! We enjoyed sparkling water, provided by our daughter, poured champagne style by our waitress. wonderful chowder and crab cakes, great dinners, and fun, scrumptious dessert (which we had to bring home cause we were stuffed!). We were surprised when the bill came because our six children had already paid for or 40th anniversary dinner with some leftover!! Looking forward to going back!!
The food was superb and the service was impeccable. I will recommend this restaurant to everyone!!
Wonderful views, attentive staff and a superb meal. Family friendly, romantic couple friendly...atmosphere was casually-elegant. *****
We asked for a table with an excellent view and we weren't disappointed. I would say they gave us the best seat in the house. You actually felt like you were on a ship because all you could see was ocean. The food was great, our server - superb, and we had a wonderful, wonderful time.
I would drive the hour it takes to get there just for the onion soup. It is wonderful. I also had Haddock Oscar which was delicious. My husband had seared haddock with salsa. We skipped dessert, but the service was great and the view is wonderful. A very nice place for dinner.
Our reservatio-n was confirmed by e-mail and a phone call - very reassuring - Food excellent - service very efficient
Once again, while entertaining out of town guest we brought them to the Sunday brunch at Seaglass. Great view, great service, great food selection. Thank you.
We had a fantastic time at your restaurant and the food was great and very tasty. The only problem was when we ran out of water we had to ask for a refill. Also, when our meal was done and dishes were put aside by us, they were not cleared away fast enough. All in all, we will be back and I definitely loved watching the ocean as we had our meal. Thanks again. Lue & Bruce
Everything was outstanding. Would give it an A plus rating.
We came for brunch and it was wonderful. Sarah, took amazing care of us!
The food is always excellent. Service is excellent. We love the ambiance!
Excellent....from the time we walked in until we left. The hostess and wait staff were very attentive to our needs. Will definetley return.
Sea Glass is a perfect place for a large family get together. We had plenty of room to move around and visit different family members. The restaurant is quiet and hopefully our large group didn't bother the other diners. The service was excellent and the variety of food choices was fine for everyone.
Been here several times and have never been disappointed. Great ocean view if you sit by the ocean windows.
Views and ambience are spectacular! My husband and I dine out a lot. We are always searching for great restaurants'. This is one I took the time to write a review. The service is outstanding!! Jamie and Jessica are 2 that I remember. They made you feel as if you were the only one in the restaurant. If you are in the area check this restaurant out. You will not be disappointed.
The food and service was out standing. Must try, A beautiful restaurant on the water. Piano player and singer, very enjoyable. The right place to go for dinner or their Sunday Brunch.
I had lunch here with a group of girlfriend's for my sister's "sprinkle". Overall, it was an enjoyable experience except for our waitress. She seemed put off by everything we asked and was not friendly at all.
Treated with smiles and friendly service from the 1st greeting to the last good bye. The ocean provided a beautiful background for enjoying a delicious meal.
We thoroughly enjoyed our experience at Seaglass. The menu had a variety of high end food that was not outrageously priced. The view was spectacular! The lighting and the set up of the tables was cozy without being crowded. We loved it and will definitely be back.
Great views, great service, reasonable prices. Seaglass provides a pleasant dining experience with unique water views from its big, ocean-facing windows. Our waiter, Jon, was entertaining, and gave us efficient, outstanding service. Our party of four was happy with the portions and the food quality.
Seaglass has it all. Great food, ambience, and great service. Situated on the water at Salisbury Beach, no matter where you sit in this restaurant you have an ocean view. Menu items change seasonally and the food is always great. We went with two other couples who had never been there and had several questions. Peg took the time to answer their questions and checked on us frequently throughout the evening. Even though it was fairly busy, Peg made us feel we were her only table.
we took my granddaughter and her intended for brunch for her birthday. It was by far the nicest place we have ever been to for brunch, everthing was fantastic. we can't wait to come back and bring other people with us.
A thoroughly enjoyable brunch. I had an omelet, which could have been hotter, although otherwise delicious, so I really didn't have room to sample the other multitude of offerings. The Bellinis were delicious! and, of course, the view is fantastic! We even saw a couple of brave surfers!
I presented two familty members (and spouses) with gift certificates to SeaGlass Restaurant and show tickets to Blue Ocean Music Hall for their birthday. I used OpenTable to reserve and request a Table for 4 on the water. The restaurant honored my request with a fabulous water view table. My family was delighted with the atmosphere and the service. They said the service was fabulous from entry to exit. Two members had the filet mignon, one had the haddock with crab and lobster meat, the other a salmon entree. All raved about the quality and quantity of the food. I had alerted the restaurant that my family was there to celebrate two birthdays and they were kind enough to present the table with complimentary dessert. A must return!
Seaglass is an outstanding restaurant. The food is outstanding. I drove 90 minutes and it was worth drive.
Tried this spot in November and loved it. Not so busy as summer and a very attentive waitstaff. Good food and nice atmosphere. They have floodlights lighting the water just outside the restaurant and it made you feel like you were at an acquirium. Very pleasant.
Great location, great atmosphere, excellent service, good food selection, and reasonably priced. It was a great experience.
Highly recommend. Wide selection on menu, friendly staff and it was a full moon over the water to top it off !
There were six of us. All were more than pleased with quality of the food, service and lovely decor. Seaglass is directly on the ocean, which the restaurant illuminates at night. Prices are very fair for the high quality. Restaurant is in the same building as the very lovely and well run Blue Ocean Music Hall, where we saw Judy Collins. We were with old friends and it felt like "prom night."
We love going back to Seaglass. Lovely service and food.
The Sea Glass was a great experience. The food was excellent and the waitress and staff were very helpful. I have Celiac's Disease and had no problems with the food. My friend said his bread pudding was the best he has had. We had a great time. We also enjoyed the music,
Went to Seaglass after viewing Festival of Trees next door. We had a reservation for 7:30 p.m.and were seated promptly. Food and service was great - no one rushed us out after eating, as it was a group of 5 of us who get together every other month or so to catch up, and we did not leave till 11:00 p.m. Did not know there was entertainment there - made it hard to hear a bit when we were talking, but was good music and people watching on the dance floor.
The dining room was full, but not crowded or noisy since tables are nicely spaced. There was a great acoustic duet. Perfect selection of music that was neither instrusive nor boring. The restaurant is in an ugly building, but nice inside. The lighting is nice and there is a nice fireplace. Starters..beet salad was great. Both the garden and wedge salads were very good. Two of us had haddock oscar and both thought the dish was perfect. The fish was moist and firm. The seasoning and sauce did not overwhelm the fish. One diner had the beef marsala...fabulous. One guest had a steak...also very good. Shared 3 desserts. Chocolate ganache cake, oreo covered ice cream, creme brulee. All were great. Had a wonderful night.
Once again the Sea Glass out did themselves. The food was rated A +, the service A + as well. This is an amazingly good restaurant and the view is pretty spectacular as well. Hurry in to see the Gingerbread House before it comes down in January!
We were a party of four and ordered four different entrees, and appetizers. All were excellent , we especially liked the choice of fresh fish cooked any way you like it with a choice of five different sauces. The French onion soup was especially good and the crem brûlée was delicious.


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Excellent room. Spacious, large bathroom. We had a double room on the 2nd floor. Shower flow was a little on the weak side. Hotel room was very quiet.... Full size coffee pot in room, not just the little pods. Breakfast buffet included Texas shaped waffles, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, yogurt, instant oatmeal, cereal (raisin bran, fruit loops, and I think the other was coco puffs), muffins, toast, etc. Bananas and apples for fruit. Neutral review for location and surrounding neighborhood because this is a hotel on the loop and not downtown. The neighborhood is an OK neighborhood...not a ghetto or anything like that...but just not downtown. The hotel was easy to get to, but again, it was not downtown. I would stay here again but do wish it was downtown. If you are just traveling through and not seeing the town, then this is the hotel for you, no doubt about it. And really, it's not THAT far from downtown anyway...but still..I just wish it was.... by Becky from Texas on 05/13/13


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It is never advisable to put someone with PTSD in an environment where there is likely to be uncontrolled exposure to provocative events -- such as gunfire and visuals of people shooting guns -- because this could stoke a flashback in the PTSD sufferer.
"This would especially not be recommended in a situation where that person had a gun in his/her hand or at least quick access to one. That would truly be a questionable activity and in this case, it was a deadly one," Rizzo wrote in an e-mail forum to journalists who were asking him about the Kyle case.
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January 15 – Happy Birthday Tony Solaita
Back in the mid-to-late sixties, the Yankees' big league lineup had fallen apart. All of the great players from their early-sixties dynasty were over-the-hill or out-of-the-game all together and none of the players they traded for seemed to work out. We Yankee fans were left hoping that youngsters from the team's farm system would be coming up soon to restore greatness to the franchise. But even the team's prospects from that era seemed grossly over-matched when they reached the big dance. The promises the Yankee front office made about players like Steve Whitaker, Roger Repoz, Ross Mosschito, and Frank Tepedino all ended up being broken.
I thought Tony Solaita would be different. First of all, he was and still is the only native of American Samoa to play baseball. Secondly, he was a left-handed power hitter, perfectly suited for Yankee Stadium. In 1968, he had hit 51 home runs for the Yankees' A-level affiliate in the Carolina League, and his name started popping up in the New York Daily News whenever Yankees of the future were being referred to. Then there was the home run contest before a Boston Red Sox/Yankee game at the Stadium. Tony competed against Mickey Mantle, Carl Yaztrzemski, Rocky Colavito, Hawk Harrelson and Reggie Smith. Solaita won the thing by hitting four home runs in his ten swings but it was a fifth swing he took that most impressed the fans and press in attendance that day. Solaita drove a ball barely foul down the the right field line that hit the famous facade at the top edge of the Stadium. That seemed to prove we finally had found the next Mickey Mantle. But we had not.
Solaita got just one at-bat in pinstripes, striking out against the Tigers John Hiller. I'm still not sure why, but the Yankees sent him back down to the minors and he seemed to get worse instead of better over the next five seasons. They ended up trading him to the Pirates organization in 1973 and then he was selected by the Royals in the Rule 5 Draft that same year. He finally got a chance to play some big league ball with Kansas City in 1974 but by that time he was already 27-years-old. He became a good backup to Royal first baseman, John Mayberry as well as a DH. After three years with Kansas City he was traded to the Angels and played three more seasons in Anaheim. He eventually went to Japan where he finally once again became a top home run hitter. During his seven years in the Majors, he played in just 525 games and he hit just 50 home runs.
After his playing career was over, Solaita returned to his native Samoa where, with his brother, he began a baseball program for Samoan children. In February of 1990, Tony was tragically shot and killed on the island, during an argument with a man. He was just 43-years-old.
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Since you're trying to take a look at the files in a certain directory try using a command that'll list the files in whatever directory you specify instead of trying to go to that directory and then listing those files.
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TUCSON- A new push to re-energize the film industry in Arizona is calling for the state legislature to pass a bill to give production companies tax incentives to film within the state.
It's been an ongoing battle for the film industry for year in Arizona, with multiple failed attempts to get the state legislature to pass film incentives. Supporters of the bill say the lack of incentives has caused production companies to pass over filming in Arizona.
From adventurous western flicks to comedic coming of age stories, Arizona has a rich history on the silver screen.
Shelli Hall, Director of the Tucson Film Office, said the lack of tax incentives sends production companies away to other states, keeping away much needed jobs.
"New Mexico, when they started their film incentive seven years ago, they have a crew base in the state of only 200 people...now they have one that's over 5,000," Hall told News 4 Tucson.
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Officers would like the public's assistance again this year to keep an eye out in their neighborhoods this Christmas season.
Chief Eric Snow said the burglary rate was low last year in comparison to years before. He credits such a low rate to concerned citizens.
"I would like that rate even lower this year," he said. "Last year, we had great public participation. Citizens were calling in and watching their neighbors' houses. If we could get that participation again, it would be a big help." -------for the rest of the story see The Yazoo Herald printed edition or subscribe to the Digital Edition.----------


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Kilgore Trout is a largely obscure science-fiction writer living in Cohoes, New York. Although his work is widely published, it is used only as filler text in pornographic novels and magazines. No one, reader or fan, has ever acknowledged Trout for his writing. Trout himself can find copies of his fiction only by seeking them out in lurid sex shops.
One day in 1972, Trout receives a letter from Fred T. Barry, a wealthy industrialist from Midland City. Barry, strangely enough, has come across Trout's work and is an ardent fan. Barry uses his influence as chairperson of Midland City's arts commission to garner Trout an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the city's annual arts festival. A hermit for many years, Trout nonetheless takes Barry up on the opportunity to appear in Midland City, where he plans to use the festival as his chance to espouse to the reading public the highly unconventional views expressed in his stories.
Dwayne Hoover, a prosperous entrepreneur in Midland City, has no knowledge of Trout. Despite owning a lucrative car dealership and several other businesses in town, Dwayne is miserably unhappy and suffers from serious inner turmoil. His wife had recently committed suicide, and his son Bunny is estranged from him because Dwayne refuses to accept the young man's homosexuality. Dwayne also is involved in a torrid and less than fulfilling affair with his secretary, and he also is experiencing hallucinations, panic...
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Published in 1973, Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions is a satiric novel that mixes humor with a depressing worldview. The satiric tone of the novel is established early when Vonnegut explains that the title of his book is actually a registered trademark of General Mills, but that it is "not intended" to disparage their "fine products." However, the focus of Breakfast of Champions is not only the superficiality of corporate slogans. Vonnegut deconstructs the pursuit of happiness in America, as well as the concepts of liberty and equality. The novel is also deeply personal, and Vonnegut inserts himself into the text. The sprawling narrative even contains felt-pen drawings of things like electric chairs, an anus, and fried chicken. Vonnegut's tale follows an unconventional plot and introduces characters in a seemingly haphazard way, but it is primarily organized around the stories of Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover.
Trout is an eccentric, unsuccessful, and aging science fiction novelist who knows very little about science. He refers to mirrors as "leaks" that serve as gateways between universes. His work has been widely published, but only in pornographic magazines. However, when he receives a call to go to an arts festival in Midland City, it seems that he has become "fabulously well-to-do." It turns out that his lone fan, Eliot Rosewater, has recommended Trout to speak at the Midland City Arts Festival. Trout may not be famous, but at least he owns a tuxedo, which is required. Upon reflection, Trout is not inclined to leave his parakeet, Bill, all alone, and he is about to decline the invitation when he realizes although "they don't want anything but smilers out there…maybe an unhappy failure is exactly what they need to see." So Trout decides to attend.
Trout has never met Dwayne Hoover of Midland City, though the reader learns early on that the two men will encounter one another before the end of the novel. Unlike Trout, Hoover has had great success running a Pontiac dealership. He has gone on to invest in other businesses in Midland City and has made a great deal of money. In fact, everyone that sees Dwayne agrees that he is "fabulously well-to-do." Sadly, the narrator explains, the chemicals in Dwayne's brain are making him act erratically. Hoover's life has not been the same since his wife committed suicide. She drank Drano, a chemical that is designed to unplug...
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Chestnuts, Fairies, and a Sword-Wielding Mouse King Make Ballet Tucson's Christmas Nutcracker a Must-See This Weekend
Thursday, December 20th, 2012One of my happiest holiday childhood memories revolves around chestnuts. As a little boy, growing up in London in the late 1960s, I would look forward, with great anticipation, to the arrival of roast chestnuts. These decidedly December-flavored treats never seemed to be available during the rest of the year and I, therefore, have always associated the tasty nut with Christmas.
My favorite childhood haunt was the British Museum, sitting in all its Greco-Roman splendor on Great Russell Street. Londoners call it "The B.M.," and its paved forecourt always seemed dizzyingly awash with visiting students and scholars, meeting, laughing, hugging, comparing notes, and poring over guides and floor plans to the museum's astonishing collection of artistic and archaeological treasures. Around the middle of December, each year, the throngs of budding intellectuals were quietly joined by a solitary, hardworking and — in my mind at least — somewhat melancholy old man hunched, slightly, over an incandescent steel barrel. He was the Chestnut Man. I took him to be a World War II veteran dressed, as he was, in a faded military jacket, with a grey, flat cap, and palm-sized woolen gloves that exposed his fingertips. I found the Chestnut Man fascinating and — aged perhaps six, and clutching my mother's hand — I would trade him two shillings for a small, white paper bag filled with chestnuts, hot to the touch and freshly plucked from his roasting barrel.
Not to be confused with the horse chestnut — an unpalatable nut common in the United Kingdom and used by school boys in the strange game called "conkers" — the edible or "sweet" chestnut is actually produced by a beech tree of the family Fagaceae. When properly roasted, and once the hard, reddish brown shell has been removed, the sweet chestnut is a heavenly snack: pale yellow in color, with a meaty consistency and a taste similar to macadamia nuts.
And so, each December when Ballet Tucson's award-winning production of the ever-popular Nutcracker opens with an alluring and solitary dancer, The Chestnut Lady, elegantly serving her wares, it cannot fail to strike a chord of memory and delight in my heart.
Nutcracker was first performed in St. Petersbug, Russia in 1892, based on a story by the German author E.T.A. Hoffman, and choreographed by Lev Ivanov and Franco-Russian ballet dancer Marius Petipa. It was first performed outside Russia in 1919 (Budapest), and in the Twentieth Century went on to enjoy tremendous worldwide popularity, especially in the United States.
The decidedly cosmopolitan origins of Nutcracker are well reflected by the international flavor of Ballet Tucson's company: long-time principal male dancer Daniel Precup is of Romanian origin; Kyle Peterson was born in the United Kingdom; Akari Manabe joins the company from Kobe, Japan; while Canadian dancer Kate Kaupas' home town is Calgary. And Kate's success story with Ballet Tucson is particularly noteworthy. She joined the company three years ago as an apprentice; in her second year she won the Kim Terry Memorial Scholarship for excellence in dance; and is, this year, a featured soloist as the Dew Drop Fairy. Perhaps one out of every class of young dance students will be fortunate enough to land a job as a professional company dancer, and perhaps one in twenty of those will experience the thrill of performing onstage as a featured soloist, so the Friday premiere of Nutcracker will be a big night for Ms. Kaupas.
"Performing with Ballet Tucson is one of the most inspiring experiences of my professional dance career," Kaupas said. "I feel very privileged to be cast in such an important role and I look forward to bringing Dew Drop Fairy to life this weekend at Centennial Hall."
And it's not just the dreams of professional dancers that will manifest themselves this weekend. Ballet Tucson is committed to sharing the uplifting experience of Nutcracker throughout our community. "We give 1,000 free Nutcracker tickets to underserved children and their families, and to social service agencies in our community," said Operations Manager Cynthia Hansen. "The Board of Directors goes out and raises money to support this program. We travel to Tucson's most needy schools to teach dance with our 'Put Your Best Foot Forward with Ballet Tucson' educational outreach. In addition Assistant Artisitic Director Chieko Imada and her team of Ballet Tucson dancers teach five classes per week to elementary students in some of Tucson's most impoverished areas."
As I have said in this column before, it is one thing to talk about supporting the arts and another to actually do it. Ballet Tucson brings excellent classical and contemporary ballet to Tucson, while reaching out to underprivileged communities to foster an appreciation of the arts at a grassroots level. That is more than supporting the arts; it is building an artistic community from the ground up. And, perhaps most important of all, Founder and Artistic Director Mary Beth Cabana's Ballet Arts School is training the next generation of professional dancers. Her students have gone on to win scholarships and/or perform professionally with New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB), The Kirov Academy and many other world-class companies. That is quite a remarkable accomplishment for a school in our small city. You have to start somewhere, and many of Ms. Cabana's youngest students will be appearing in this weekend's Nutcracker, some of them in their first-ever public performance.
Operations Manager, Cynthia Hansen, says it perfectly: "We believe the arts have the power to transform lives and we do our part by introducing children to the discipline and wonderful world of dance."
So, if the Chestnut Lady, the feisty Mouse King, the Fairies, the Snow Queen, and the Snowflakes are still not quite enough excitement for you, bear in mind that this production of Nutcracker may just introduce some of the great dancers of tomorrow. One of the mice children making his or her debut this weekend could be soloing at American Ballet Theater ten years from now. That is the stuff of Christmas dreams.
A few days ago, and to my considerable amazement, I discovered a small stash of fresh, sweet chestnuts at the supermarket."What are these?" the lady at checkout asked, wrinking her nose and holding them up close, then peering, quizzically, at their dark and streamlined shapes. Unroasted, and still cased in tough, sanguine shells, the pretty chestnuts looked nearly identical to the ones a little boy used to wolf down during cold winter evenings on Great Russell Street.
I'll be roasting them tomorrow afternoon, so if you see happen to see a TucsonCitizen.com blogger and dance enthusiast outside Centennial Hall this weekend, with a smile on a face and a little white bag of chestnuts in his hands, that'll be me.
Ballet Tucson performs Nutcracker this weekend at Centennial Hall. Show times are Friday, December 21 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, December 22 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm; Sunday, December 23 at 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Ticket prices range from $17 to $56 and are available through the Centennial Hall Ticket Office.
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) What firms stand out in the wealth management arena? It seems the competitive advantage depends on the industry segment a firm is targeting, but Morningstar, the investment research firm, has identified what it believes to be the top-tier performers in the U.S. wealth management industry.
"Our research team views wealth management as a profitable business with high shareholder returns, because these firms tend to have wide economic moats, or strong competitive advantages, which we attribute to long-standing client relationships and falling costs as production increases," says Jim Sinegal, Morningstar's director of financial services equity research. "Over the last few years, the financial services sector has experienced significant change, including rising capital requirements and lower interest rates. As a result, competition has increased."
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