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I love this! The choreography (Ahmed Khan), styling (Arjun Bhasin, who also worked on Rang De Basanti (2006)), and looks (Avan Contractor, who also worked on Dil Chahta Hai (2001)) are all great. I'm also already bowled over by Asin. Three trailers will do that, right?!
Besides, it really reminds of Aamir Khan's Titan commercial (read about it and watch it here) from July, in which he says, "don't resemble your passport photo for more than three months...be born everyday". Apply the framework to a song, and we get one in which Aamir sports six looks. Sample these from this Mumbai Mirror piece:
The music (A. R. Rahman) is beautiful and youthful. Please release the soundtrack, guys! Here's the trailer:
PS: I promise more diverse content (read: posts on films other than those starring Aamir or Salman Khan) after this weekend. Hope I'm not boring you :)


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NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) has stated that "Technology is essential in teaching and learning mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and enhances students' learning." Geometer's Sketchpad is one of these examples. The program comes with program files to help deepen students' understanding of geometric concepts from slope to geometric transformations.


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New Car Review
2015 Buick Enclave: New Car Review
The 2015 Buick Enclave is a midsize-to-large luxury crossover that boasts exceptional practicality, high-end touches and impressive gas mileage. It's made huge strides compared to old Buick models, combining impressive fit and finish with state-of-the-art technology. For those in need of a premium family hauler, there might be no better choice -- unless you're looking to tow a big boat or crawl up the side of a mountain.
The Enclave is built on the same General Motors unibody architecture as the Chevrolet Traverse and the GMC Acadia. In a short time, all three have built reputations as capable people-movers. While the Acadia takes on a more truck-like personality, the Traverse is a well-rounded everyday runner, and the Enclave is the most upscale member of the family. It isn't quite at the caliber of a Lexus or a Mercedes, but for the price, it might present the best near-luxury value among 3-row vehicles.
What's New for 2015?
The Enclave offers no major changes for 2015, except for a newly available heated steering wheel and a few new color options.
What We Like
Spacious cargo area; 7- or 8-passenger seating; upscale interior; extensive safety equipment; plush ride; stylish appearance
What We Don't
Relatively low towing capacity; poor rear visibility; difficult to maneuver in tight spots
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The Buick Enclave uses a 3.6-liter V6 that makes 288 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque. The only transmission offered is a 6-speed automatic. The result is Environmental Protection Agency fuel economy ratings of 17 miles per gallon in the city and 24 mpg on the highway with front-wheel drive or 16 mpg city/22 mpg hwy with optional all-wheel drive.
Standard Features & Options
The Enclave doesn't technically offer trim levels like a normal car. Instead, there are three different equipment groups that drivers can choose from: Convenience, Leather and Premium.
The Convenience ($41,000) already features a long list of standard equipment, including such items as a rearview camera, a power driver's seat, a power lift gate, tri-zone automatic climate control, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, rear park assist and a remote starter. Buick's IntelliLink infotainment system with a center-mounted touchscreen is also standard.
Step up to the Enclave Leather ($44,200), and you add several more items. As expected, leather upholstery is one of them, along with heated seats. The Enclave Leather also adds 19-inch wheels, a blind spot monitoring system, heated front seats and a memory system for the driver's seat.
At the top end of the Enclave spectrum is the Premium ($48,100), which adds ventilated front seats, a Bose sound system, a navigation system, a power tilt steering wheel and dynamic headlights.
Options on all Enclave models include a rear-seat DVD player, a power sunroof, and the new forward-collision and lane-departure warning systems. Drivers can also choose between an 8-passenger model and a 7-passenger version at no charge.
Occupant protection comes from seven airbags, including 3-row head curtains and GM's OnStar telematics system. The new front-center-side airbag, an industry first, protects the driver and passenger from bumping into each other in a side impact. The Enclave is also equipped with anti-lock brakes, traction control and stability control. A blind spot monitoring system and rear cross-traffic warning also contribute to improving safety, as do newly optional forward-collision and lane-departure warning systems.
In government crash testing, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Enclave a rating of five overall stars, including four stars in frontal and rollover tests along with five stars in the group's side-impact assessment. In tests conducted by the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the Enclave earned Good marks in each of the agency's four major tests: moderate-overlap front, roof strength, head restraints and seats, and side impact.
Behind the Wheel
The 2015 Buick Enclave, like its GM large-crossover brethren, delivers a relaxed, car-like ride. Above everything else, it's comfortable, and thanks to Buick's efforts, this ride is free of most wind, road and tire noise.
The Enclave's crossover architecture exhibits more precision and agility than a similarly sized SUV. Its overall dynamics feel secure and confident. The Enclave is still a large and heavy vehicle, however, and it must be managed like one. Its size can become an issue on small city streets or in crowded parking lots. This crossover's poor rear visibility makes these driving venues even more challenging, but the standard backup camera helps.
The Enclave lacks the truck-like edge necessary for trail riding or mud running, but available all-wheel drive helps it deal with the harsh, on-road conditions that Mother Nature can bring.
The Enclave has good off-the-line acceleration but could occasionally use some extra hp. When it's loaded down with passengers and cargo or pulling a trailer, the V6 can seem labored.
Other Cars to Consider
Acura MDX -- The MDX offers more convenience and technology features but less overall space for passengers and cargo. The MDX's all-wheel-drive system is more sophisticated than the Enclave's.
GMC Acadia -- If you like the Enclave, we suspect that you'll also like the Acadia, which is GMC's version of the 3-row Buick. It boasts similar equipment but different styling, and it may offer more attractive pricing.
Jeep Grand Cherokee -- If you don't need 3-row seating, consider the Grand Cherokee, which offers similar upscale appointments to the Enclave. If you do want three rows, there's always the Dodge Durango, which offers many of the Grand Cherokee's benefits in a 3-row body style.
AutoTrader's Advice
We think the best 2015 Enclave is the entry-level Convenience model. It offers just the right amount of features, while the top two trims (Leather and Premium) bring some over-the-top amenities that needlessly push up the price. Do opt for the stand-alone navigation and rear DVD systems, which are absolutely worth the extra price. Cold-climate buyers should definitely choose all-wheel drive.


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Christ brings immortality and eternal life through the gospel—Be strong in the faith.
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Christ gives eternal glory to the elect—Shun contention and seek godliness.
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Paul describes the apostasy and perilous times of the last days—The scriptures guide man to salvation.
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Physics Students At Radio Astronomy Boot Camp
SOCORRO, N.M. August 8, 2013 – Four physics graduate students spent a week catching some waves in Puerto Rico in July. But they weren't at the beach; they were catching radio waves at the Arecibo Observatory during an intensive weeklong conference.
Lorraine Bowman, Phil Cigan, Rick Cosentino and Virginie Montes – all Ph.D. students in astrophysics – learned plenty of details about radio-astronomy and conducted team research using radio astronomy.
"They had lectures by renowned scientists during the day," Cigan said. "The conference had nice breadth and sufficient depth. In the evenings, we actually got to collect data and do a project."
Lectures covered areas from how the Arecibo dish works, how radio signals run through the telescope system and the wide range of research opportunities available in the radio spectrum.
"In short, radio observatory is looking at gas in galaxies," Cosentino said. "How are stars born? How do stars die? – the life and death of stars. The story of gas in the galaxy."
The conference participants expected to collect data using the Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter dish. Unfortunately, the telescope became non-operational before they could collect data. So, the teams remotely used data from the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which also collects radio data.
Montes and Cosentino collaborated with fellow team members on a project to compare observational techniques. They used position-switching and frequency-switching methodologies to get a grasp on how to reduce noise in the data. Montes said they came up with a new method of combining the two methods in a novel way that allows for quick access of data and reduction of noise.
Caption: Lorraine Bowman (from left), Rick Cosentino, Phil Cigan and Virginie Montes at the entrance to Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Cigan was on a team with one of his collaborators – Dr. Megan Johnson from the Green Bank Telescope – that looked for evidence of interaction between two dwarf galaxies.
"We were trying to find the gas bridge between two galaxies – evidence that they interacted in the past," Cigan said.
Bowman's team looked at pulsars, also known as neutron stars. Using archival data collected at Arecibo that no one had yet examined, her team found a new pulsar that has yet to be confirmed.
Caption: the cradle that holds the secondary and tertiary dishes is 25 meters -- the same size as the VLA dishes -- is suspended over the main, 305-meter dish.
Her group found a millisecond pulsar – a neutron star which has a rotation rate measured in milliseconds. Her team measured the rotation rate at 1.93 milliseconds, which would make it among the five fastest spinning pulsars ever found.
"The signal was perfect – beautiful!", Bowman said. "Another member of my group got excited, 'Guys! Guys! Look at this!' It was a good surprise! Both archival data sets we had show the same signal, which rules out earth-bound interference. But it needs to be independently confirmed."
She said other team of researchers will observe that pulsar candidate again, which could lead to the publication of a discovery paper.
Bowman, Cigan and Cosentino all have experience with radio astronomy, predominantly from using the Very Large Array. Yet, they each said they came away from the conference with a greater appreciation and understanding for the discipline.
Lorraine Bowman, physics doctoral students, at the controls at the Arecibo Observatory.
The main dish of the Arecibo Observatory first opened in 1962.
"Single dish observing isn't necessarily what I do," Cigan said. "But it plays an integral role in quantitative analysis. You need to learn the basics. If you're going to do radio astronomy, it's another tool."
Cosentino said the Very Large Array is a precision tool, used to look at small areas, while Arecibo's single dish is a broader tool, used to look at wider areas.
"I've been doing radio astronomy for a while," said Cigan, who earned his master's at Tech in 2012. "Now, I see it in a different way. And the hands-on project was way cool."
All four said the highlight of the lectures was "Pulsars Are Cool – Seriously!", delivered by Dr. Scott Ransom of the NRAO in Virginia.
"He made me wish I was studying pulsars," Cosentino said.
"He can get away with publishing a paper with that title," Bowman said. "That tells you the caliber of science that he is doing."
Arecibo, along with the Very Large Array here in Socorro County and the Green Bank Telescope, are all operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, headquartered in Charlottesville, Va. The VLA is an interferometer, which combines signals from 27 dishes over an area up to 11 miles in diameter. The Green Bank facility is a steer-able 100-meter dish.
Arecibo is a static 305-meter primary dish with steer-able receivers at the dish's focal point. The secondary reflector dish is 25-meters in diameter, which is the same size as the VLA dishes. The tertiary reflector is 10-meters in diameter.
The Tech students got to explore the dish – walking across the catwalk high above the main dish and touring the three-level dome that houses the secondary and tertiary dishes and the receivers.
"The dome is on a rail and sits in a cradle," Bowman said. "We went into the dome, which looks like the Death Star. It's scary."
Technicians refill the liquid nitrogen tanks in the dome on a daily basis, to keep the electronics at about 15 Kelvins.
The Arecibo Observatory was conceived in 1958 by scientists at Cornell University.
"It was built, running and ready in 1962 for $10 million," Cosentino said. "On time and under budget. Who does that?"
Arecibo was originally built as an active observatory to study the Earth's ionosphere – the upper atmosphere from 30 to 600 miles above Earth – by using an antenna to probe the ionosphere. After the observatory was running, scientists started using the dish to collect radio waves from the distant reaches of the galaxy and beyond.
In the 1980s, Arecibo was used to map the surface of Venus, which has an atmosphere that is opaque to visible light. In 1995, Arecibo was used as a set for the climactic scenes of the James Bond movie, "Goldeneye", and for "Contact" in 1997 - along with the Very Large Array. Today, Arecibo devotes half of its observing to astronomy and half of its time to atmospheric studies.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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SAN DIEGO — The American Council on Exercise (ACE) didn't have to look far for its new president. After a year without anyone in that post, last month ACE promoted Scott Goudeseune to president. Goudeseune has been with the organization since 2000 and has been ACE's chief operating officer since July 2005.
"Following a thorough and global search process, Scott clearly stands out as a dynamic leader who has a proven successful track record in operations and business development," said Terry L. Bazzarre, ACE board chair and senior program officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "Through his effort, ACE will continue to have a very important role in the future shaping of national and state-wide health and fitness policy."
Goudeseune has more than 20 years of operations, sales and marketing experience. He previously served as ACE vice president of sales and business development. In 2003, he became vice president of operations and most recently served as COO.
During his tenure with the organization, ACE has earned accreditation by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies and has expanded key business relationships with leaders inside and outside the fitness industry, Bazzarre said.


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The rapid descent of Britain's inner cities into a seething pressure cooker of poverty, fear and violence has inspired a South London entrepreneur to 'cut out the middleman' by offering classes on how to menace, rob with violence and generally inflict grievous bodily harm upon oneself.
'Crime statistics show that you're ever more likely to get done over,' claimed businessman and former cage fighter Perez Wilson. 'It's high time we took back our streets – depriving those vicious thugs that roam them of their livelihood by assaulting ourselves before they can get to us, thus leaving them with nothing to rob. It's a form of empowerment – to paraphrase Mike 'The Streets' Skinner, -do- mug yourself.'
Potential victims are already flocking to the karate blackbelt's Southwark Dojo, where Wilson offers a number of modules, from Self-Intimidation and the Correct Wearing of a Hooded Top, right through to Staging a Stabbing or Shoot-out in Your Own Home. 'The results speak for themselves,' he said. 'Time after time my customers have staggered bleeding through a dark alleyway with absolute impunity. The crooks can only look on powerless – occasionally offering medical assistance to some of our more advanced students.'
Some have accused Wilson and his acolytes of taking things too far, claiming that A&E wards across London are reaching meltdown due to the large numbers of self-assaulted people. 'It's pandemonium every night,' claimed one junior doctor. 'We're seeing patients who've blacked their own eye, broken their nose or cracked a few of their own ribs – we even had one nutter last weekend who robbed his own store and then set himself alight – which was particularly annoying as I was hoping to help myself to a Blu-Ray player on the way home.'
Wilson however remains unrepentant: 'yes my customers are injuring themselves, but in doing so they're sending a message to that whole sub-strata of society that thinks it's okay to rob innocent people. At long last the general public is standing up for itself – if they want to beat themselves up and then flog their mobile to some dodgy Nigerian then there's nothing the criminals can do about it. This is about self-assertion, not self-abuse – that's a whole different kettle of fish and you're likely to get arrested if you do that in the street mate.'


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Obituary: Claudia Bryar (1918-2011)
July 1, 2011
Veteran character actress Claudia Bryar died on June 16 at the age of 93. Her death was reported, under her real name of Hortense Barrere, last week in a Los Angeles Times notice.
Bryar appeared in small parts in hundreds of television episodes, from Father Knows Best to Hill Street Blues.
Her usual specialty was the nosy neighbor, the spinster, or the severe professional woman. The image above comes from "The Cure," a 1960 Wanted: Dead or Alive episode in which Bryar had a larger-than-usual role, a romantic lead opposite actor Harold J. Stone.
Bryar was an actress I had sought to interview in this space, but by the time I contacted her family last year, her health was too poor to permit it. However, our friend Ralph Senensky has written on his blog about Bryar and her husband, Paul Bryar, both of whom were close friends of his as well as charter members of the Senensky Stock Company. Ralph writes about, and shows clips from, Ms. Bryar's performances for him on Dr. Kildare here and in the telefilm The Family Nobody Wanted here.
6 Responses to "Obituary: Claudia Bryar (1918-2011)"
July 1, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Thank you, Stephen!
July 2, 2011 at 12:18 am
Slight correction Stephen. Not THE FAMILY HOLVAK, rather THE FAMILY NOBODY WANTED.
July 2, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Thanks for the wonderful words about mom!
Seeing the photos and clips is very moving…
All the best
Paul Barrere
July 3, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Is that Paul Barrere the guitarist from Little Feat?
July 4, 2011 at 8:49 am
Indeed it is!


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There was an interesting piece published in Mutineer Magazine yesterday about the a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would give states more authority to regulate alcohol. Purportedly, the bill would potentially block the interstate sales of beer and wine. This would put an end to out of state ordering of beer and wine on the internet, by phone and directly from your beverage purveyor.
According to the report, the "Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act of 2010" would declare congressional policy giving states the right to regulate alcohol sales in their borders. Right now, there are 125 co-sponsors in the House and no companion bill in the Senate.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association is lobbying heavily in favor of the bill and has already contributed to the coffers of bill cosponsors. The NBWA claims they're only trying to ensure states have better control in defending their alcohol laws, but bill critics claim that the NBWA is only trying to limit competition. Jonathan Yarowsky, lobbyist for the Beer Institute, states that brewers believe the bill "would lead to a protectionist and anti-competitive system that would hurt consumers."
The beer industry isn't the only one up in arms about this bill. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) and George Radanovich (R-Mariposa), who head the Congressional Wine Caucus, wrote to their colleagues that the House bill would "devastate California's and other states' wine industries, stunt economic growth and harm consumers by allowing discriminatory law and regulation to be passed and go unchallenged."
Again, we are dealing with legislation being pushed by distributors to protect their right to control alcohol. It appears that there is a lot of this going around, perhaps trying to save distributors in a time when most consumers and craft purveyors are trying to loosen restraints that make it too difficult to obtain, and afford, alcohol.
Of course, you cannot blame distributors for trying to keep a stranglehold on the industry. But, the fight over this bill is similar to the battle over Initiative 1100 in Washington. We'll keep a close eye on this legislation as it makes its way through committee.


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McHenry's Mike and Kathy Whitehead had no idea where skiing would take their daughter Becky.
Becky was 21 when she gave skiing a try through a program with Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association. She was a novice, although she had bowled, played soccer and played softball through NISRA.
Becky was a natural on the slopes. Now 28, she is in PyeongChang, South Korea, for the Special Olympics World Winter Games, which start today. She will compete in slalom, giant slalom and Super G in the intermediate division.
"I didn't realize, until this, they had these [Games]," Mike Whitehead said. "It's outstanding. When we watched her that first time, she just coasted down the hill, I was totally impressed. I couldn't even ski like that."
Becky suffered many seizures as an infant, which left her what medical personnel consider "educably mentally handicapped." She has worked full-time at Cardinal Packaging in Crystal Lake for 10 years and lives with her parents.
Becky won a gold medal at State Winter Games a year ago in Galena, which made it possible for her to be invited to the World Games. She is one of five NISRA athletes from Illinois. NISRA manager of Special Olympics and adapted sports Dave Dauphin also will be with the group coaching the snowshoe athletes.
After Becky won her gold medal, she was selected as one of Illinois' five allotted spots.
Mike and Kathy are in Korea to watch Becky compete.
Dan, her 25-year-old brother who lives in Arlington Heights, had work commitments, but he was able to attend the sendoff dinner Wednesday at the Marriott on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
"Some of the kids were skiing through NISRA [seven years ago] and she wanted to try it," Kathy Whitehead said. "Without having any experience, she decided to go. I went with her a couple times and she's always at the bottom waiting for me."
Becky, a 2003 graduate of McHenry West High School, has worked with Barrington teacher Shandra Nosal as her ski coach. Nosal volunteers her time to NISRA and often takes the athletes to Wilmot, Wis., for practices.
"I got my own new skis, that's great," Becky said. "I already met one friend, McKenzie [McNamara], from Pennsylvania, another skier."
Becky skied with McNamara during a December training session at Lake Placid, N.Y.
Becky also received new bags, gear and apparel as a member of Team USA.
"It's amazing all the stuff she's got," Kathy said. "She's excited and nervous."
Mike and Kathy said the Super G is probably Becky's favorite event of the three because there are not as many turns and it's faster.
PyeongChang is the site for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and is located about 3 hours from Seoul. Team USA flew into Seoul, then traveled to PyeongChang.
Dauphin will be coaching 17 members of the snowshoe team in races from 25 to 3,000 meters.
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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature Edward Hirsch on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Edward Hirsch is the author of eight volumes of poetry, and is also a critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. His most recent work is "The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems" (2010).
Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated both at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in folklore. His first collection of poems, "For the Sleepwalkers," was published in 1981 and went on to receive the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. His second collection, "Wild Gratitude" (1986), received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Since then, he has published several books of poems, most recently "Special Orders" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008); "Lay Back the Darkness" (2003); "On Love" (1998); "Earthly Measures" (1994); and "The Night Parade" (1989). He is also the author of the prose volumes "The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration" (Harcourt, 2002), "Responsive Reading" (1999), and the national bestseller "How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry" (1999), which the poet Garrett Hongo called "the product of a lifetime of passionate reflection" and "a wonderful book for laureate and layman both." Most recently, he published "Poet's Choice" (Harcourt, 2007), which collects two years' worth of his weekly essay-letters running in the "Washington Post's" Book World.
About his poetry, the poet Dana Goodyear wrote for the "Los Angeles Times Book Review," "It takes a brave poet to follow Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton into the abyss . . . Hirsch's poems [are] compassionate, reverential, sometimes relievingly ruthless."
Hirsch has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award.
He has been a professor of English at Wayne State University and the University of Houston. Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Additional information is available online at hope.edu/vws.
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Soft and Smooth Mini Bagels Debut
If finding great-tasting, on-the-go snacking options kids enjoy is an ongoing challenge, Downers Grove, Ill.-based Sara Lee North American Fresh Bakery has set out to provide the solution with the introduction of four varieties of 100-calorie Sara Lee Soft & Smooth Made with Whole Grain Mini Bagels.
Compared to traditional 300-calorie bagel offerings, the 100-calorie mini bagels provide a preportioned snack that moms can confidently provide to their children as an easy breakfast option or quick lunch addition. The "Made with Whole Grain" varieties contain 9g of whole grain per serving, which is nearly 30 percent of the USDA daily intake recommendation for kids ages 2-8. The 100 percent whole wheat mini bagels provide 20g of whole grain per serving, which is more than 40 percent of the USDA daily intake recommendation for kids ages 9-18.
Varieties include: 100 percent Whole Wheat; Made with Whole Grain blueberry; Made with Whole Grain cinnamon and Made with Whole Grain plain. They provide families with a simple and portable snack that has the whole grain nutrition, mild taste and soft texture inherent in Sara Lee Soft & Smooth products.
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Statistics have shown that their are approximately 134 marijuana users, 58 people abusing prescription drugs, 22 cocaine addicts, 10 people using hallucinogens, and 5 people that use inhalants who live in Lisbon, Ohio.
There will also be close to 16 people arrested for drug charges and around 12 DUIs in Lisbon this year.
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When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Calhoun Street, Old Town
Descriptiion: Enjoy great barbecue and blues by Lavon Stevens and the Earl Williams Band. There will be drinks, fun and shopping.
The Little Sisters of Hoboken come home from a trip to Hollywood and have a tale to tell in the May River Theatre production of "Nunset Boulevard," tonight through Sunday. Performances are at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling the box office at 815-5581 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. The theatre is in Ulmer Auditorium at the Bluffton city hall, 20 Bridge St.
Todd Yohn blends his sometimes bawdy original tunes with quirky stand-up in an R-rated return engagement tonight through Sunday at the Hilton Head Comedy Club. The veteran North Carolina-based guitarist and songwriter has been featured on HBO and Comedy Central and remains a regular contributor to national syndicated radio shows such as "Bob & Tom." His offbeat songs and physical approach to comedy have also led to headliner status on cruise ships and at comedy clubs across the country. Yohn performs at 9 p.m. tonight, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday and 9 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $12 per person, 18 years and older, and advance reservations are recommended. Details: 681-7757, www.hiltonheadcomedyclub.com.
He performs at 9 p.m. tonight, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday and 9 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $12 per person, 18 years and older, and advance reservations are recommended. The Comedy Club is at 430 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head. Call 681-7757 or go to www.hiltonheadcomedyclub.com
The Jazz Corner will host "Sax in the City" with Bobby Ryder's Swingin' Quintet. Enjoy a "Salute to Saxophone Greats" David Sanborn, Stan Getz, Junior Walker, Coleman Hawkins, Earl Bostic, Kenny G and others beginning at 8 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. and intermission is about 9:30 p.m. The jazzy restaurant is in The Village at Wexford, C-1, 1000 William Hilton Parkway. Call 842-8620 or go to www.thejazzcorner.com
Socialize to live music around 10 p.m. Fridays at the Wild Wing Café in Bluffton. Enjoy Good Times tonight followed by dance party with DJ SLK T on Saturday. The café is at 1188 Fording Island Road. Call 837-9453.
J. Howard Duff performs from 8 to 11 p.m. every Friday evening at the Old Town Dispensary on Calhoun Street. Tap your toes to his brand of Lowcountry blues and rock 'n' roll.
Bluffton Relax-and-Create Meetup Group meets at 10:30 a.m. on first Saturdays at Each Other's Muse Studios, 19 Buckingham Plantation Drive, Bluffton. Join for creative, art-orientated, no-pressure fun. For more information, go to Bluffton Relax-and-Create at www.meetup.com/Bluffton-Relax-and-Create/
An exhibit of "The Beaufort Basket" by sweetgrass basket maker Jery Bennett-Taylor is on display through Aug. 26 in the York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center National Historic Landmark, St. Helena Island. This will be the first in a series of exhibits celebrating Gullah traditional art in South Carolina. The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Special hours can be arranged by appointment. The museum tour includes an introduction by a docent, a video on the history and a self-guided tour of the historical collections displayed in four small galleries.
Lectures can be scheduled. No photographs are allowed inside the museum - no cameras, videos or cell phones. Admission is $5 per adult and seniors; $3 per child 17 and younger. Groups rates are not offered.
The Penn Center National Historic Landmark is at 16 Penn Center Circle West. To get to the center, drive through Beaufort on U.S. 21 over the bridge and follow the signs to Penn Center Historic District. Call 838-2432, go to www.penncenter.com or email email@example.com
Diane Britton-Dunham and James Denmark will dish up a bit of dis and a lil bit o dat, it's going to be HAWT, oh yeah! The August gallery show at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center will feature influences from the Sea Islands Gullah to Louisiana's Congo Square - as the title implies anything good goes in the pot. Meet Britton, the glamorously earthy Lowcountry painter, and Denmark, the evocative, world-renown collagist, both with a taste for multi-media spices and based in Beaufort. The gallery is at 2127 Boundary St. The gallery is free to browse Tuesday through Saturday. Call 379-2787 or go to www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org
The Hilton Head Comedy Club will host a special "Evening with Elayne Boosler" at 7 and 9 p.m. Aug. 29. The veteran comedian and talk show regular has more than 100 television appearances and five Showtime comedy specials in addition to headlining live performances across the country. She will perform two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $20 and reservations are recommended. The Comedy Club is at 430 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head. Call 681-7757 or go to www.hiltonheadcomedyclub.com
From Port Royal, with musical love
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Iraq war veteran Josh Hisle pairs with Michael Ronstadt (of the music dynasty family) to create the sounds and lyrics of undeniable depth, as commented by Neil Young at Sundance Aug, 26 at Street Music on Paris Avenue in Port Royal. Ronstadt's extreme cello style and extensive knowledge of songwriting and performance bring a blazing fire of skill, emotion and delivery that will leave you amazed, among other things.
Street Music on Paris Avenue is a free concert series gift from the town of Port Royal and is produced by ARTworks, the arts council of Beaufort, Port Royal and the Sea Islands. The 2011 Summer Series celebrates American Roots Music, a broad category of music including bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music all native to the United States or developed to such a degree that musicologists consider it distinctly new. These genres are "roots music" because they are the basis of later developments, such as rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz. All the concerts are free at 6 p.m. Bring chairs and dancing shoes. The rain location is The Shed, adjacent to the street venue, in Old Village Port Royal. Call 279-2787 or go to www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org
Kiwanis schedule 27th annual chili cook-off
The Kiwanis Club of Hilton Head Island will hold its 27th annual Chili Cook-off from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, rain or shine. This year's event will focus on local chili cooks in the professional and amateur category with separate awards for each. In addition to the popular local Chilly Willy Band providing entertainment there will be a supervised area with free children's games and activities so parents can fully enjoy the festivities.
Tickets will be available in advance for $10 at several Island locations including The Coastal Discovery Museum, Burke's Pharmacy and any Kiwanis member. Each ticket entitles the holder to as many samples of chili as they want. Tickets on the day of the event will be $12.
Proceeds from the event benefit the Children's Center, Strive to Excel, The Coastal Discovery Museum, Operation R&R, Marine Corps Scholarship Fund and several other youth programs. Beer, wine, soda, hot dogs and ice cream will also be available for purchase. In addition, there will be a limited number of corporate sponsorships available which will include 20 tickets to the event.
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Sentara Leigh Hospital welcomes first baby of 2016
First baby born in Hampton Roads
January 10, 2016
By: Jessica O. Swink
Hampton Roads' first baby of the new year was born at 12:01 a.m. at Sentara Leigh Hospital to Scott and Bridgette Perry of Norfolk.
Weighing 7 pounds and 13 ounces, baby Christian was 21 inches long.
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The NorthBay Heart and Vascular Center is the only comprehensive center for advanced heart and vascular services in Solano County. NorthBay Medical Center operates Solano's first accredited Chest Pain (Heart Attack) Center, as well as providing PCI (balloon angiography) and heart surgery. The surgical program offers the latest techniques in a state-of-the-art operating suite, including off-pump coronary artery bypass, valve repair and valve replacement surgery. Our physicians are trained in minimally invasive techniques used to treat vascular disease (blocked blood vessels) preventing the need for open surgery.


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This is the Shinshin ATD-X, the prototype of what could be Japan's very own stealth fighter if they don't get to buy Lockheed Martin F-22s. It's very sleek, but I'm sad it doesn't transform like a Varitech.
The Japanese military seems to be very happy about it, although it's not clear it will ever pass the prototype test phase. For now, only a full scale mockup for radar profiling—it appears as a group of insects or a bird, they say—and a RC model have been built. [Flight Global]


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Thursday, July 1, 2010
What Pro Wrestling Could Learn From UFC 116
Lesson #1: Brock Lesnar is a star: WWE may never quite realize how special a person it had on its hands in the man they dubbed as "The Next Big Thing." As it turns out, they were right – but Lesnar became that big thing not in WWE, but in UFC, where he is inarguably the biggest draw in the history of the business. And that's no surprise. Lesnar, who battles Shane Carwin for the undisputed heavyweight title this Saturday, is the perfect combination of gifted athlete, imposing big man, and charismatic performer. In many ways, he was exactly the kind of star that the wrestling business longs for. Unfortunately, Lesnar never quite developed a passion for the sport. It probably didn't help that Lesnar's wrestling career coincided with a relatively down business period for WWE – in between the historic boon of the Monday Night War and the popularity generated by John Cena, Batista, Rey Mysterio, and others once they became main event stars. Who knows how much better WWE would be doing today if Lesnar stuck around?
Lesson #2: WWE could still be making money off of Brock Lesnar: Perhaps not since The Rock has an ex-WWE performer achieved such mainstream success. Lesnar is the centerpiece of a company whose pay-per-view numbers are dwarfing those of WWE, and that is receiving the kind of mainstream media attention that WWE wishes it could. Why not take advantage of Brock's star power by reminding everyone that they had a hand in creating it? Put out a Brock Lesnar DVD featuring some of his best matches and interviews with WWE superstars who worked with Lesnar. Extend an olive branch to Lesnar to see if he'd be interested in making an appearance on WWE television – even if it is just a satellite interview. Heck, offer to induct him into the WWE Hall of Fame. McMahon may harbor a little resentment toward UFC for cutting into his pay-per-view business, but he'd be foolish to not try to cash in on an obvious money-making opportunity.
Lesson #3: There's still a big pay per view audience out there: Vince McMahon has blamed WWE's sagging pay-per-view buy rates on everything from the economy to viewing parties. And yet, while some WWE pay-per-views barely teeter around the 100,000 buy mark – and TNA pay per views draw just a tiny fraction of that - UFC is still regularly hovering around 1 million buys – a mark even WrestleMania couldn't reach. WWE and TNA have both tried to offset the declining revenues by jacking up the price of each pay-per-view, but in the process may just be driving many fans away. It's obvious that UFC is offering fans something that the pro wrestling industry is not, and wrestling promoters should be trying to nail down what that is.
Lesson #4: A straight up, one-on-one fight can be a big draw, with the right build up: WWE scrapped many of its usual pay-per-view titles this year in favor of several "concept match" pay-per-views. Their main selling point is not the competitors involved or the storylines between opponents – but rather the gimmick behind a match. In February, it was the Elimination Chamber. At Extreme Rules, it was all the no-disqualification bouts. Last month it was the Fatal 4-Way concept, and this month it's the Money in the Bank ladder match gimmick. There's been no evidence that this new formula is working. Meanwhile, this Saturday's UFC show is likely to do monster business using a time-tested formula – two big-name, credible stars doing battle for the biggest prize in their sport – the undisputed world heavyweight title. To help drive home the importance of the match, UFC – as it usually does – is airing a "countdown" show featuring interviews with the fighters and their trainers. On UFC's web site, it has compiled the predictions of dozens of fighters and celebrities for the big fight. In other words, UFC is treating Lesnar vs. Carwin as a truly big deal, and so it feels like one.
Lesson #5: A storyline doesn't have to be complicated to be compelling: Brock Lesnar was the UFC heavyweight champ, but he took some time off due to a health problem. In the meantime, Shane Carwin won a match to decide an interim heavyweight champion. Now Lesnar and Carwin will fight to decide the undisputed championship. Lesnar has looked dominant, but so has Carwin. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose. It's a simple formula that is as old as time. And for decades the pro wrestling business had success selling matches with just such a formula. Unfortunately, wrestling promoters have routinely strayed far from that formula in recent years – instead feeling the need to unnecessarily complicate storylines with layer upon layer of twists and turns. Two stars. A world title. When done right, that's enough.
Lesson #6: Stars aren't that hard to create: In recent years, wrestling companies have been very slow to develop new main-event stars. They typically argue that it takes years of dues-paying for fans to accept a new face at the top of the cards. But UFC has proven time and again that this is not necessarily true. I'd venture to say that before a few months ago, most casual MMA fans had never even heard of Shane Carwin. Now, he's one-half of what's being promoted as the biggest MMA fight in history. How did that happen? Through its promotional machine, UFC told its fans that Carwin was the real deal - a giant of a man who has never lost a match and who has knocked out all his opponents in the first round. Fans have bought the hype (rightfully so) and now accept Carwin as a bona fide top star. In wrestling, the task should be even easier, because unlike with MMA, a fighter's credentials can be largely exaggerated, if not entirely made up. If WWE wanted to, they could have promoted Bryan Danielson as the greatest technical wrestler in the world before his debut – and some fans would have bought it. Instead, he was treated as an over-rated and under-sized "rookie" on the first season of NXT, and he ultimately failed in his short-lived WWE career. In wrestling, you reap what you sew. Treat a wrestler like a star, and he has a better chance of becoming one. Treat him like a loser, and you're sealing his fate as one.
- Al Castle
Pro Wrestling Illustrated senior writer
6 comments:
- Michael said...
Excellent points. I agree with everything you said.
- July 2, 2010 at 12:55 AM
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UFC116 FULL MATCH HIGHLIGHTS WATCH Lesnar Beat Carwin Full Fight Highlight VIDEO ON http://www.ufc116ufc.notlong.com
- July 5, 2010 at 1:50 AM
Great article. As a life-long fan, the current state of professional wrestling just makes me sad. I stopped watching WWE 2 weeks after Shawn Michaels retired. It was like a breath of fresh air to actually feel excited about watching a match such as Lesnar vs Carwin. I am beginning to wonder if WWE will ever pull out of its stagnant malaise.
- July 6, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Thanks for sharing this link, but unfortunately it seems to be offline... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please answer to my post if you do!
I would appreciate if a staff member here at prowrestlingillustrated.blogspot.com could post it.
- September 14, 2010 at 3:38 PM
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated said...
That was not a link someone from our staff posted.
Jeff Ruoss/Managing Editor
- September 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Awesome site, I hadn't come across prowrestlingillustrated.blogspot.com previously in my searches!
Carry on the fantastic work!
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Posted 6/12/13 (Wed)
By Zach Stenberg
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Rain, rain, go away, come again another day. That is what many of the contractors are saying as heavy rains so far this spring have literally bogged down construction activity. Since the first part of May, the Watford City area has received nearly nine inches of rain. And that record amount couldn't have possibly come at a worse time for contractors.
Wolf Run Village, a housing project being built to provide housing for essential workers for the city, county, and school district, was especially hit hard with all the rain. The workers on site were dealing with the water coming down from the fields and were constantly doing trench work fighting the mud.
"The excavator spent 75 percent of his time last week pushing mud and we were constantly pumping water," says Jake Walters, project manager for Wolf Run Village.
"We're two weeks behind and still dealing with the water before we can finish pouring the concrete for the foundations," says Walters.
According to Walters, they did get to pour one and a half times, but their efforts to lay more concrete has been delayed four times in five days.
With teachers moving into the apartments in August, crews are prepared to start working extended hours to meet the deadline.
With more rains in the forecast, Walters has rig mats coming in from Minot.
Rig mats are 15x15 poly-plastic or wooden crates that displace the mud and water so that equipment can still operate and drive on the site.
Contractors will be working seven days a week, with the potential of crews working around the clock.
The houses that can now be seen in the elementary parking lot are scheduled to be set in two weeks.
Fortunately, most projects were far enough along to do work inside.
With businesses such as Farmers Union Oil Company, OK Tire, Cash Wise grocery, Cash Wise liquors, and ALCO all hoping to be able to open in their new locations in July, the deluge of rain water has turned their construction sites into a quagmire of mud.
"We're grading now and will try to pour concrete this week and we'll be pouring as fast as we can," says Doug Anderson, project manager for the new Farmers Union Oil Co. store. "We poured concrete in nine below temperatures last winter. We just deal with the weather."
The new Farmers Union Oil Co. store had all the materials and concrete crews there to pour concrete for their roads and parking lot last week before the rain showers.
At the Farmers Union Oil Co. site, graders have come in and worked on the road. Concrete is set to pour this week.
"We provide access to the OK Tire Store, and last week, we couldn't provide access, so they had to stop," says Anderson.
Anderson says the rains have pushed back the schedule about a week, though the store will still be able to open around the first week of July.
Contractors have been working on site at the Farmers Union Oil Co. store site seven days a week since November. During the rain, workers shifted their efforts indoors painting, tiling, and setting counters.
According to Steve Williams, Watford City building inspector, until the rain-damaged roads are brought back to standards, the city will not issue occupancy permits. And that is posing a serious problem for several apartment complexes that are nearing completion.
"Right now the biggest thing on some of these projects is getting the roads back to being passable," says Williams. "Some of these roads aren't even passable and the city will not grant occupancy if the roads aren't usable for emergency vehicles to get into."
Even with all the rain, many construction sites are still working seven days a week.
"Many projects were far enough along that they had work to do inside," says Williams. "Even with the rain, things dry out pretty quickly around here. It'll be a busy summer. People will be catching up and will be building into the fall."
Some of the buildings had six to eight inches of mud inside, so now the cleanup begins.
While the rains definitely dampened work on these projects, according to Williams, they also brought to a halt several city projects.
"The remodeling of the City Hall project came to a halt with all the rain," stated Williams. "It was not the time to be tearing off the old roof."
And according to Justin Smith, Public Works superintendent, the water and sewer extension crews to the east of Watford City are now dealing with all the water.
"The rain has put the project about a week behind," says Smith. "They'll pump the water off to the side and then let it all dry out. The project is still scheduled to be finished this summer."


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As Japanese stocks surged Friday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, for one, appeared proud to be a buyer, even as it laid bare some of the country's worst features.
"We are always big buyers of 'humiliation,'" the broker said, adding that in the past 12 to 18 months, Japan has racked up an impressive list of embarrassing landmarks.
That includes three recessions in five years, 11 ministers of finance in seven years, a violent shift from a trade surplus to a trade deficit, a government debt topping 1 quadrillion yen (that's a "1" followed by 15 zeroes), and the lowest valuation for the banking sector in more than 30 years.
"To top it off, the demographics have deteriorated to such an extent that Japan has become the first country where sales of adult diapers now exceed those of baby diapers," the broker said.
Still, policy makers are trying to solve the country's problems, the strategists said, and they believe the longer-term policy environment is no longer bond-market friendly.
"The reflationary zeal of today's policy makers in Japan means that we are now secular buyers of the region on dips," the strategists said.
Also offering some inspiration, Japan has managed to dig itself out of deflationary hole before. In December 1931, for example, Japan departed from the gold standard, causing massive yen deprecation, they noted.
And stocks jumped 152% between late 1932 and early 1943, they pointed out.
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By Patricia Boccadoro
PARIS, 17 FEBRUARY 2008- After their successful visit to Paris three years ago, shortly after Alexei Ratmansky had taken over the company, the Bolshoi Ballet, in full force and splendid form, made a welcome return to the Palais Garnier in January, bringing three different programmes.
After his greatly admired reconstruction of The Bright Stream, set to a 1935 score by Shostakovich, Ratmansky has gone further back in time to the Bolshoi's more traditional repertoire, opening the season on January 5th with a new full-length staging of Le Corsaire, the original of which had been premiered at the Paris Opera in 1846. Although several versions of the ballet had been since shown in Russia, it had only been represented in the West by the famous bravura pas de deux danced by Fonteyn and Nureyev in 1962, now so often seen in galas throughout the world.
Le Corsaire is a work based on Lord Byron's 1814 epic poem of the same name which tells the tale of a young Greek girl, Medora, who is sold to the elderly Said Pasha to become a member of his harem but is rescued by her lover, the dashing pirate, Conrad. There are a lot of swashbuckling pirates, lascivious women and seductive slave girls in swishing trousers, quarrels between rival sultanas opulently attired, and lots of adventures involving people being captured, escaping, seized and then rescued before everyone is finally drowned in a spectacular shipwreck, excepting of course, the happy lovers who fall into each other's arms.
But the story is of little interest; the main value of the work lies in the dancing, almost three and a half hours of it, much of it highly enjoyable if over-long in parts.
Ratmansky, together with ballet master Yuri Burlaka, have based their restaging (which they insist is not a reconstruction), on the 1899 ballet created by Marius Petipa for the Maryinsky company. Much of the choreography is based on texts and scores found in the Harvard University Theatre Collection in the U.S., and about half of the ballet can be credited to Petipa. They devised what was missing themselves in the style of the work, cutting the original near five hour work down by omitting many of the mime scenes.
The impressive costumes, infinitely more costly than anything seen in Russia these last ten years, are by Elena Zaitseva, who based them on the original designs by Yevgeni Ponomarov and the richly decorated set designs of the pasha's palace and pirates' cave as well as the dramatic shipwreck scene of the last act, are by Boris Kaminski. Using clever lighting effects and modern stage technology, the boat is first seen on the horizon and then comes alarmingly close before theatrically splitting into two. The weakest point of the ballet lies in the score where music has been added by Delibes, (for the "Jardin Animé" scene), Pugni, Drigo, (the "Corsair pas de deux"), Zabel, Gerber, and Peter von Oldenberg to the original score by Adam.
However, what was dateless and outstanding was the understated brilliance of the two principals. Svetlana Lunkina was a feminine, gentle Medora, more princess than slave, bringing radiance and emotion to her role throughout the performance and exuding her own delicate charm in Act II, which seemed never-ending, with or without her. Watching her, so exquisite and pure, brings the great Ekaterina Maximova to mind, which is not surprising as the legendary ballerina is now her coach. Partnered by the romantic Denis Matvienko, a guest from the Maryinsky, the famous pas de deux which was danced with elegance, elevation and grace, was a joy to see.
The lovely pas de trois of the odalisques, a jewel of Petipa's choreography also revealed Natalia Osipova, (who also gave one performance as Medora,) amongst the three remarkable soloists. Osipova, one of the big names of the future, gave a striking demonstration of her extraordinary elevation coupled with a natural stage presence.
Grigorovich's Spartacus is a perennial crowd-pleaser providing it has the right interpreters. With spectacular male dancers to pull it off, it can be seen again and again, and spectacular they all were, from Carlos Acosta in the title role, to a nasty, gloriously cruel Crassus, to the three outstanding young shepherds, not forgetting the virile and earthy corps de ballet, all bared breasts and thighs! If one adds to that the fragile, sensitive dancing of Nina Kaptsova as Phrygia, Sparticus' wife, the stage was set for a fine evening of blood, sweat and guts! Which we got. The ballet, parts of which are undeniably out-dated, was a roaring success.
Spartacus, to a score by Khachaturian, was first created in 1956 for the Maryinsky, restaged in another version the following year for the Bolshoi, but not taken up by Grigorovich until 1968 when it was premiered with Vasiliev and Maximova in the leading roles. Despite its "modernity", it is a classical ballet based on classical steps, full of passion and virtuoso variations, particularly for the men. It is a work ideally suited to the actual company, with a strong story line, full of dramatic situations and realistic circumstances, telling the story of the slave, Spartacus who incites his fellow slaves to rebel against their Roman oppressors. It's about real people.
It was indeed perhaps the finest performance of Spartacus I've seen. Acosta, born to dance this role, was absolutely astounding in the first act, his act. He not only had the strength but the rage of a trapped animal. There was a wild, primitive quality to his dancing from the moment he arrived on stage with his long, black, matted locks and unkempt, unshaven face. He formed a surprising and unusual couple with the slender and refined Kaptsova, heart-stopping in her suffering in the last act, a small, injured animal. Their two pas de deux were sublime, including the breathtaking "Russian" style one-arm lifts, where the ballerina was shown high in the air before being lowered gently to the ground.
Alexander Volchkov was Crassus, the leader of the Roman troops. Tall, blond, aristocratic and magnificent, with his clean-cut beauty, he was a splendid foil to Acosta, and more than held his own in his great, spectacular leaps, where his body changed direction in mid-flight, and cat-soft landings. Aegina, the mistress of Crassus was interpreted by Maria Allash, suitably flashy and hard.
And amongst the shepherds, it was easy to distinguish 18 year-old Ivan Vasiliev, the potentially brilliant young star already acclaimed in London. To begin with, he has a FACE. An expression of utter joy and rapture when he dances, plus a leap with "ballon", that quality of hovering in the air peculiar to the young Nureyev, that leaves a spectator breathless, and wondering whether what they saw was really true. Happy days ahead.
A third programme, Ratmanski/Petipa/Petit completed the season, with Roland Petit' ballet, Dame de Pique being particularly well-received.
In the three years that he has been there, Alexei Ratmansky has done an amazing job; the company, youthful, strong, dynamic, and bursting with energy is on the way to becoming the wonderful legend it once was. Not only is he giving back to the dancers what they were famous for, a Russian repertoire full of big productions, as its name implies, but he has instilled in them a joy of dance within a secure artistic framework, both of which have been lacking in recent years. Moreover, the young generation is brimful of talent. Specialists might quibble over certain technical flaws, but does it really matter if this company does not have the same elegance and refinement of the French dancers, or the lyricism and precision of the Maryinsky theatre when they have so much else to offer? Here is a magnificent troupe not afraid of entertaining the public!
The Orchestre Colonne, conducted by Pavel Klinichev, rose to the occasion and played splendidly. Klinichev, resident conductor at the Bolshoi since 2001, gave the music his all, and at the end, staggered wearily on stage, more exhausted than the dancers, to his well-deserved vociferous acclaim.
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Earlier this fall, Walter Isaacson published a biography of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Among the most interesting tidbits in the book, from a tech perspective, was the revelation that Jobs, immediately prior to his death, was working on an Apple television, now colloquially called the iTV.
"I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use," Jobs told Isaacson. "It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it." At the time, Bloomberg reported that the iTV launch was being overseen by Jeff Robbin, the same guy who helped build both the iPod and the iTunes store.
Unsurprisingly, Apple issued no formal comment on the iTV. But according to the Guardian, the Apple iTV is very real, and possibly nearing production. In an article filed on Saturday, Julliete Garside writes that Sharp, the Japanese technology giant, will handle the displays on the new iTVs – caveat: iTV is a nickname coined in the blogosphere, and by no means a working title – and estimates that the device will hit in the "second half of 2012."
Garside's chief source is Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies, a US investment bank. Not only does Misek believe the iTV is imminent, he also indicates that the rest of the market has begun to adjust accordingly. "Other TV manufacturers have begun a scrambling search to identify what iTV will be and do," Misek says. "They hope to avoid the fate of other industries and manufacturers who were caught flat-footed by Apple."
So is this the real deal? Well, possibly, although as plenty of tech pundits have scrambled to point out, an Apple iTV is far from a guaranteed success. Consider, for instance, the sheer amount of cheap, powerful television sets being produced today. Whereas Apple created its own product categories with the iPod and iPad, with the iTV, they would be vying against a cadre of established, well-entrenched players.
"I'm not saying that Apple should give up on a television product," Scott Raymond of ZDNet wrote recently. "I simply think that they should focus on an expanded product built on the existing Apple TV platform. Make it bigger. Add [recording] capabilities. Put Siri in it. Then allow it to be plugged into a TV of our own choosing. The market for televisions is huge because there are so many different categories that consumers want, based on size, location, affordability, and so forth."
In an interesting wrinkle, if an iTV does arrive next year, it might vie against a similar product from Microsoft. Last week, Matt Hickey of the Daily reported that Microsoft was actively seeking to incorporate its Kinect motion-sensing technology into a new television set, possibly with the help of Vizio and Sony.
"A Kinect-enabled TV would most likely network with local PCs running the next version of Windows and also allow for gesture-based TV control (think: waving your arm to turn the set off)," Hickey wrote. So Microsoft ropes in Vizio and Sony, and Apple ropes in Sharp, and Microsoft and Apple go head to head in a next-generation-TV-set-Battle-Royale. Sounds like fun.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Obama Administration on Sunday continued acting in a way that Israeli experts likened to a childish tantrum by taking personal offense at and demanding an apology for remarks made by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.
Speaking at a closed-door event at Tel Aviv University last Monday, Yaalon said Israel could not rely on a "weak" United States to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons.
The defense minister said the Obama Administration's blunders in handling the Syria and Ukraine crises, as well as being clearly outclassed in nuclear negotiations by a wily Iranian regime, had severely diminished America's image on the international stage.
The outcry from Washington was immediate and exaggerated.
US Secretary of State John Kerry personally phoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bellyache over his defense minister's transgression. State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki (pictured) later told reporters she was "confused" by what the White House is pretending is Yaalon's earth-shattering position and his impertinence for stating it publicly.
Last Thursday, Yaalon phoned US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to clarify that he intended "no harm to the United States or our relationship with it." But for Psaki, that wasn't nearly good enough.
When asked on Friday about the status of this enormously dire situation, Psaki said that the Obama Administration had "clearly expressed our displeasure at [Yaalon's] offensive comments and an apology would be a natural next step."
A source in Israel's Ministry of Defense told the Ynet news portal that Yaalon loves America and fully appreciates Israel's relationship with it, but will never shy away from speaking his mind. The source charged that the Obama Administration is "out to get" Yaalon because it doesn't like having to deal with Israeli officials who stand their ground.
Another Israeli political expert told The Times of Israel that Washington's reaction to Yaalon's remarks was nothing short of "childish." He said the Obama Administration is already fully aware that Yaalon is a man who "doesn't mince words," and more often than not is saying exactly what most other Israelis, including Netanyahu, are thinking.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
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In particular, the current endgame is leaps and bounds ahead of the endgame that existed when I first started writing, about two years ago. Back then, level 60 dungeons such as Stratholme and Scholomance were a joke, as everyone "raided" them with 10 people, twice as much firepower as was necessary. They provided very little challenge, and the quality of play was abysmal. Raiding was Molten Core, where half the DPS was AFK watching TV. It required 30-40 level 60s, which was next to impossible for the small guilds to build towards.
Today on Skywall, both the heroic and normal dailies pointed at Botanica. As 40g and 7 Badges for one run is a great opportunity, I was trying to get into a pickup group (it was a bit early, and few guildies were online). I joined a group of 4 people who were all from the same guild, Hysteria, a small guild who's name I did not recognize.
That run turned out to be one of the best pickup groups I've been in. The players in this guild had a high level of skill. The tank kept everything on him, the mage sheeped and counterspelled efficiently, the warlock banished and switched demons on the fly, the rogue pulled off some tricky saps, and everyone did solid DPS. It was the type of run that I love, where everyone is playing with focus and skill. It was such an unexpected pleasure to find this run with a pickup group.
It turned out that they were a small casual guild working on Karazhan. They only raided one or two nights a week, and were up to Shade. They were planning their first expedition to Zul'Aman sometime in the new year.
It really struck me that this guild could not have existed in the old WoW endgame. The 60 dungeons would not have provided the challenge they needed to hone their skills to their current degree. The skill level is basically what I would have expected from a Blackwing Lair guild, and yet this is an entry-level TBC guild. They also wouldn't have had the numbers to field raids in the old game, and in the end they probably would have broken up and died.
And yet, in the current game, they are not only surviving, they are doing well. They have challenges that they are working on, challenges which are worthy of their skill, and have further challenges to look forward to. They don't have to raid four nights a week if they don't want to, nor do they need to marshal 25-40 people in order to progress.
I like that people, especially non-hardcore raiders, are playing with greater skill than before. To me, that's a sign that the game is healthy. I like that guilds such as this have new challenges available to them, and can continue to progress at their own pace.
In some ways, I guess I see my first guild in these guys. But where we found only barren rock after hitting the level cap, and were essentially forced to scatter to the large raiding guilds if we wanted new challenges and progression, this guild has found fertile soil and is thriving.
And this is mostly due to the efforts of Blizzard. They have made the endgame more challenging, with better and smoother increases in available challenges, which has encouraged skilled play, and they have made the endgame more accessible to smaller guilds. All in all, the WoW endgame of today is far superior to the WoW endgame of two years ago.
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Nice post! I agree with the sentiments here completely. And it would be kind of nice to see a new "things gone right" meme sweep through the blogosphere here in the midst of the Holidays.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:14 AM, December 23, 2007
Yup , nice post. im allways listening to people in guild chat advising others never to join a Heroic Pug as its just an expensive repair bill and a wipefest. And yes usually i run them with a bunch of trusted peeps for quick easy badges. But every now and then i join lfg and see who i get. Of course you get some nightmares but then you get some great groups who play with skill and now and again you even learn something new. Its nice to play with different people now and again too. I went to blood furnace heroic with a pug after 2.3, i couldnt help but check their gear out and was slightly worried when i saw a few greens amongst them. Then to my suprise we cleared the place without a wipe.ReplyDelete
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I've been thriving on that fertile soil for a while now, never got passed KZ but because guilds don't need to be as big as they used to, they can be alot more social. I really couldn't play without a guild like that.ReplyDelete
Also I've been farming the daily heroics for 2 weeks now, and only met 2 bad PUGS out of 12 or so. But our server (venture co) is above mediocre comapred to my old one so maybe that helps :P
I had played as a paladin in 2004, and got quickly turned off by 40 man raiding, and basically quit the game for over a year after.ReplyDelete
I restarted playing about a year ago, and I must say, with TBC its been great, exactly for that fertile soil you are talking about.
My guild thrives there, we are a small family-style guild. We value friends and people a lot more than loot and progression.
But that doesn't mean we don't have skill, and with all the different avenues for progression that TBC gives us, it doesn't mean we don't have gear either.
Our evenings are usually 1 heroic for ourselves, and one lesser instance to help our dear friends who dont' have level 70 characters yet.
- Anonymous1:27 PM, December 26, 2007
Truly great post, and a great point. I too belong to a guild that was not thriving under the old endgame, but has currently cleared Kara and looking towards ZA and Gruul's in the New Year.ReplyDelete
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The Scottish Executive introduced the Fresh Talent Scotland Scheme to help overseas graduates to stay and work in Scotland. Starting the summer of 2005, international students who have graduated with a first degree, Masters, PhD or HND from a Scottish University or College within the past 12 months and who have lived in Scotland while studying, will be eligible to apply for the scheme to stay in Scotland to live and work for up to two years.
Students (such as Junior Year Abroad participants) who have not done a full degree at a Scottish university are not eligible for this program.
The Fresh Talent scheme, formally introduced in a statement in the Scottish Parliament by First Minister Jack McConnell February 25, 2004, is aimed at increasing the inward flow of talent to Scotland and reversing its population decline.
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Well.that is encouraging for us.This year in Germany they also adopted the same criteria ,but they will give 1 year work permit.
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