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Saturday, August 4, 2012, 8pm
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Huang Ruo: Shattered Steps (Huang Ruo, vocals) [West Coast Premiere]
John Wineglass: Someone Else's Child (Charles Holt, narrator) [World Premiere | Festival Commission]
Carlos Chávez: Discovery [Anniversary Tribute | Festival Commission]
James MacMillan: Woman of the Apocalypse [World Premiere | Festival Commission]
The Festival's second anniversary weekend kicks off with a monumental program including two world premiere Festival commissions, one West Coast premiere, an historic tribute, and three composers in the house. Chinese composer Huang Ruo's vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from indigenous folk, Western avant-garde, rock, and jazz. In the West Coast premiere of Shattered Steps, Huang is a featured soloist performing live vocal improvisation. The work is based on a tune he composed during a trip to the mountains in the Guizhou Province in Southwestern China, and the title translates in Chinese as Sui Bu, which has two meanings—broken steps, and small steps in continuous and rapid motion—each reflected musically in the composition.
Next will be the world premiere of Emmy award-winning composer John Wineglass' Someone Else's Child narrated by Broadway actor, singer, writer, and inspirational speaker Charles Holt. Commissioned by philanthropist David Kaun, Wineglass' symphonic poem was inspired by and integrates poems by kids in the Santa Cruz juvenile detention center and poignantly describes the life and thoughts of incarcerated youth in America today. The Festival then salutes an integral figure in its history with an anniversary tribute to celebrated Mexican composer and former Music Director Carlos Chávez. Alsop leads the Festival Orchestra in Chávez's Discovery, the first-ever Cabrillo Festival commission, premiered in 1969. Of this work Chávez wrote: "To me, 'discovery' means discovery of sound, discovery of music, inventing of music...," and he seized the opportunity to forge new and unfamiliar ground with the creation of this piece.
The evening concludes with a most special anniversary work, Woman of the Apocalypse, by preeminent Scottish composer James MacMillan, commissioned by patron Mary Solari and Music Director Marin Alsop as a centerpiece of the 50th anniversary season. This major new work is a concerto for orchestra inspired by a range of visual artworks depicting the Woman of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation, including those by Dürer, Rubens, Doré, Blake, and Marvenko, among others. MacMillan has a long and treasured working relationship with Alsop and the Cabrillo Festival, where ten of his works have been presented in the past. He is described by The Guardian (UK) as "...a composer so confident of his own musical language that he makes it instantly communicative to his listeners."
A Talkback Session with Marin Alsop and the composers follows the concert.
Program Notes
Shattered Steps (2006) West Coast Premiere
Huang Ruo (b. 1976)
Born on Hainan Island in China, Huang Ruo received his first musical instruction in composition and piano at age six from his father. He was exposed to both traditional and Western music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music before moving to the United States in 1995, where he earned an undergraduate degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and his doctorate at the Juilliard School in New York. He currently teaches composition at the State University of New York at Purchase.
A recipient of numerous awards, Huang's music is inspired by such diverse sources as Chinese folk music, the avant-garde, rock music and jazz, which he employs to create a seamless organic integration using a compositional technique he calls "dimensionalism." A number of his works include vocal improvisation, which Huang performs on this concert. Shattered Steps was introduced by the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra conducted by Xian Zhang on September 23, 2006 at Sioux City's Orpheum Theater. Huang writes:
The title Shattered Steps, in Chinese: Sui Bu, has two meanings: 1) broken steps; 2) small steps in continuous and rapid motion. The starting point of the entire orchestral journey begins with a mixture of these two definitions.
The running chain of small steps becomes the energy drive of the piece. The eternal pulse is constantly present wherever and whenever the music travels. The force rotates among the various orchestral instruments, from percussion to woodwinds, from woodwinds to strings, then passing onto brass, etc.
The entire work is also written in an enigmatic way, closely related to the image of a series of broken steps that don't belong to anyone, and have neither a starting nor a finishing point. Although shattered into many fragments, they are still closely connected to one another. All there is in this image is a frozen moment of ongoing motion. It is also like a puzzle, waiting for all the broken pieces of steps to be matched back to their original form. In this soundscape, only towards the end of the piece is the enigma revealed, following the presentation of a series of broken musical fragments.
The formation of Shattered Steps also came from a simple tune I composed during my trip to the mountains in the Guizhou Province in southwestern China. This tune, sharing elements from Chinese folk, rock, and contemporary music, belongs to the present of the past and continues into the future of the present. Later on, I recorded it onto two different tracks with my own vocal improvisation. One of these serves as the introduction of this orchestral piece, while another one draws a conclusion at the end of the work. In this concert, I am singing it live with vocal improvisation.
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Someone Else's Child (2012) World Premiere/Festival Commission
John Christopher Wineglass (b. 1972)
John Wineglass received his undergraduate degree in composition (with a minor in viola) at the American University and his masters' degree at New York University while studying with Justin Dello-Joio at the Juilliard School. Wineglass has received seven Emmy Award nominations, three ASCAP Film and Television Music awards and has performed on five continents for numerous world leaders. Someone Else's Child was commissioned by Festival patron David Kaun. Composer John Wineglass writes the following notes:
Loosely based on the title and topic of the book by the award-winning authors Jill Wolfson and John Hubner [Somebody Else's Children], this work is a symphonic poem describing the life and thoughts of incarcerated youth in America today. It uses texts from a select number of poems from The Beat Within–a weekly publication of writing and art from kids in the juvenile detention center of Santa Cruz, California. I was deeply impacted, emotionally and musically, by my initial reading of these works introduced to me by David Kaun, and by my several visits to this guarded facility with poet and volunteer coordinator Dennis Morton.
The opening movement entitled Scarred is a dark description of a once positive 'light' entering into a sea of obscurity and eventual loss of identity. This brooding movement, marked Lento in tempo, opens with a six-note tone row or cluster played on the most delicate of instruments in the modern-day orchestra today—crystal wineglasses (no pun intended)—signifying the fragility and innocence of the human soul as it enters this world as a child, unabated until it is eventually 'scarred' by some of the perversions of this life. The extended techniques in the piano and harp, along with the ominous bass drum rumble, add to the sense of uncertainty.
Instability, the second movement, further depicts the life of chaos exemplified in the hundreds of poems I read through and includes constant meter changes and rhythmic hemiolas, both polyrhythmic or more specifically cross-rhythmic in nature, throughout. Starting in a 7/8 meter marked Vivace, this movement rips at 180 bpms with blaring French horns and counter-rhythmic melodies in the lower brass and strings. It saunters into a scherzo-like dance exemplifying the wickedness of perhaps the devil himself. I even briefly quote an altered version of Mary Had A Little Lamb for some resemblance of the idealized childhood most of these kids still desire today. The apex of this movement approaches with a chaotic wall of sound that comes to a screeching halt, representing utter brokenness. The narration begins—colored by the orchestra with an occasional period of silence—and the narrator, in a rubato fashion, manifests as a solo 'instrument.' Using different lines from the texts of a number of these select poems, a landscape is painted through the voice of detainees, giving details and reflections of his/her choices.
The third movement, entitled The Rise, opens with the text of the sun is in the sky, and offers a ray of light—the possibility of rising from the adversities of life. A slow Adagio with a rising melody in the strings is later doubled with the winds and then accompanied by the brass in an explosive fanfare and narrative celebration proclaiming that even in the darkest of adversity, "I rise… All of me…yet I rise. I am FREE again."
Text from Someone Else's Child for Narrator and Orchestra by children of the Hartman School Juvenile Hall, with additional text contributed by Charles Holt:
I can hear the keys dangling
as they walk by my cell,
like a rattlesnake hissing
in the hallway of hell.
Footsteps approaching
telling me to do well.
Is it a demon or an angel?
I can't really tell.
Voices in my head guide me.
My future's on the block.
Poems are my release.
My mind is turning like a clock.
Homeless for two years. Sleeping in the cold
They say this life ain't right for a 17 year old.
Am I destined to live this way 'til the end?
Will I prosper from it or live life in the pen?
What can a band-aid do
when the scar comes from within?
I'm laughing at time
and how I have disappeared
into the shadows.
Now I am standing by a cemetery.
Night stands with the moon –
which is guiding me
along an unknown path
with its merciful light.
But what can I say? I chose this life.
I'm married to my barrio. My 'hood is my wife.
Am I destined to live this way 'til the end?
Will I prosper for it or live life in the pen?
What can a band-aid do
when the scar comes from within?
The sun is in the sky
but in my mind it's still night.
Could I rise?
The shadow approaches
but my heart's without fright.
Should I rise?
Posted on the porch
with my brain filled with splinters,
my smile starts to fade
and my blood gets cold as winter.
But I wanna rise...
Above the eyes of appearances to the mind
Beyond my predicament where I am free.
I rise...
All of me...yet I rise
I am FREE again.
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Discovery (1969) Anniversary Tribute | Festival Commission
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978)
In the spring of 1967, Carlos Chávez guest-conducted the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, his first West Coast appearance in more than two decades. On the strength of those performances, the Cabrillo Festival approached Chávez in 1968 to commission a new work for the Festival. The result was Discovery, first performed on August 24, 1969 by the Festival Orchestra conducted by Richard Williams. When Chávez became the Festival's Music Director the following year, the piece was repeated on the opening concert.
In Discovery, Carlos Chávez limited and refined his tonal vocabulary in a new manner, restricting it to a series of very specific intervals while reducing the repetition of notes and motives. The composer provided the following notes for the 1969 world premiere:
To me, discovery means discovery of sound, discovery of music, inventing of music. And constant discovery, which had led me to drastically reduce the use of repetition: if one repeats one does not discover; if one discovers one does not repeat, because one does not call discovery what is already known and just done over again, no matter how disguised it appears to be. A few repeated notes (hardly any), no repeated patterns (rhythmic or melodic), no repeated "motives" or themes. The music proceeds in a constant flowing process of discovery.
All discoveries—I think—ought to be more or less substantially alike: there are elements of gestation, decision, search, strength, doubt, renewed strength, revelation, confidence . . . Probably the discovery of lands was not much more different than the discovery of music is.
Otherwise (you will realize) this music tends to escape from "tonality"; I would not say it is atonal, because such a thing can probably hardly exist.
There are musical intervals having a greater tonal connotation per se than others: the former being fifths, major thirds, major seconds (and their inversions) and all these I have banned or drastically reduced.
So, I have used actually a reduced alphabet—so to speak—which however does not to reduce possibilities but only directs them to unexpected fields of musical expression.
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Women of the Apocalypse (2012) World Premiere | Festival Commission
James MacMillan (b. 1959)
Scottish composer James MacMillan has had numerous works performed at previous Cabrillo Festivals, including several American and West Coast premieres. He was composer-in-residence in 2007, and returns this year for the world premiere of his Women of the Apocalypse, commissioned by Mary C. Solari and Marin Alsop in honor of the Cabrillo Festival's fiftieth anniversary season.
MacMillan's percussion concerto Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (1992) was featured at the 1996 Cabrillo Festival and The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie (1990), the first of MacMillan's works to draw attention, was performed at the Festival in 1999, followed the next year by the American premiere of his Triduum. In 2001 the Festival performed the American premiere of MacMillan's Symphony No. 2 (1999), his Tryst (1989) in 2004 and the West Coast premiere of his violin concerto A Deep but Dazzling Darkness (2001-02) in 2005. In 2007 the Cabrillo Festival performed the American premiere of his Stomp (with Fate and Elvira), composed in 2006, and in 2009, the American premiere of Three Interludes from The Sacrifice (2005-06), Macmillan's second opera. Last season saw the West Coast premiere of his Third Piano Concerto, performed by French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. MacMillan writes:
Woman Of The Apocalypse is a one-movement orchestral piece inspired by a range of visual art works on the topic through the ages, principally by Dürer, Rubens, Doré, Blake, Marvenko and others. The music is a kind of tone poem or concerto for orchestra. Although it is in one continuous movement, it is divided into five sections, each with a title referring to some aspect of the image and narrative.
The five section titles are:
1. A woman clothed by the sun: Main themes are presented, including a falling figure on piano, harp and percussion, before the drama of the movement is carried forward by call-and-response developments led by trombones, then horns and then trumpets as the music progresses through metric modulations. The falling figure appears in reverse before leading to—
2. The great battle: There are growls in the low brass, but the main thread in this section is led by violas and English horn. An extended series of declamations in the brass choir then leads to—
3. She is given the wings of a great eagle: Here the music scurries and floats, sometimes interrupted by one of the main fragments from the beginning before culminating in a violent surging on strings and percussion.
4. She is taken up: This is comprised mainly of a series of fanfares and ecstatic soloistic writing for string quartet. The violent surging returns before the final section –
5. Coronation: This begins with very high violins and a return of some of the declamatory music for brass, this time in a slow, solemn, ritualistic procession. The strings gradually descend into their lower registers as the music heads to a relentless, pounding conclusion.
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Y'ever Notice That The Media And Those Who Hate The Media Play By Two Different Sets Of Rules?
May 14th, 2012 11:50 AM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Tags: ACC, Dan Wetzel, MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh
For the past week, most of the folks in the mainstream media spent their time dismissing the talk of Florida State jumping to the Big 12. That's because folks who sign their names to their work — usually — try to actually speak to people in power or try to get real quotes to authenticate rumors they hear.
I know this first-hand because I spoke to two people inside the top levels of two ACC schools last week and they both told me all was well in their league. The sources were off so we were off. Ditto everybody else in the traditional media. And though Dan Wetzel's excellent column on ACC rage behind the scenes paints the picture as being obvious in hindsight, I don't recall Wetzel writing any of this before Andy Haggard's comments, either. Perhaps a "we in the media" might've worked better in his column.
Now, on the other side of the fence you have the bloggers and Twitterers and messageboard posters. Most are anonymous. Most run with any rumor they hear. Some are correct. Most aren't.
But here's what's interesting:
* Traditional media members get little credit when they get a story right ("It's your job!), but they get eviscerated whenever there's a mistake made or a "failed to see it in advance" type of issue. Like the FSU story.
* The blogs and Twitter users and messageboarders pay no price whatsever for getting it wrong when they toss stuff against the wall to see what sticks, but when they hit on a story — or even just a portion of a story — they're hailed as real, big-time newsbreakers.
We're a website. I hate the word "blog" because there are three writers on this site and still others provide outside, freelance type commentary as well. But we're closer to a blog than we are to the traditional media. There aren't 100 of us and we don't have copy editors looking over our stuff (obbvyussly). However, we try to carry ourselves like the traditional media because the three guy making up this site's staff all have traditional media backgrounds. So throwing out ideas to see what sticks or writing about "nip slips" isn't tops on our agenda for gaining credibility.
Basically, we've got a foot in both camps. So there's no bitterness associated with the above observations. We've been on both ends of the spectrum and enjoyed the rewards of both. We've also been discredited as being too traditional and as being up-against-the-wall-stuff-tossers.
Trying to walk that line — hell, trying to find that line to walk — we just find it interesting that the two parties are held to two such totally different standards.
Then again, people in this day and age basically go to news sources that validate their own opinions anyway. Whether it's Fox News or MSNBC, many people view those right- and left-leaning networks as being "fair and balanced," simply because they tell the listener/viewer what they want to hear. Ditto NPR or Rush Limbaugh.
It's the same with traditional media versus new media. If you want buttoned-up facts, you turn to traditional sources and sometimes you're going to be a day late.
If you want speculation and to hear what might happen next before anyone else hears it, you turn to folks who are more likely to run with a rumor without finding two corroborating sources first. But you'll have to live with a lot more false information.
To each his own. As stated, we're somewhere in the middle of those two groups. Just trust us on this one — the two types of media are held to very different standards.
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Local youth used some of their vacation time for community service.
Members of the Dandy Doers 4-H Club met behind the Mercy Hospital at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 31.
The Dandy Doers divided into two different groups to deliver Meals on Wheels. The salt dough Christmas ornaments they made the meeting before were delivered to each house along with a meal. After Meals on Wheels, the club members met at Pizza Hut for lunch.
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New staff will need to ensure that they are in the HR system. This system is used by parking administration to verify staff employment status prior to the issue of parking permits.
Please note that if you no longer require a parking permit by payroll deductions for 2014 you must email@example.com and request that your 2014 payroll deductions are to be ceased.
Permits and Costs
Annual or Half Yearly Permit
Only valid in the year of issue.
The annual permit is valid from 1 January to 31 December.
Cost: $393.47
Half Yearly First Semester Permit
Valid from 1 January to 30 June
Cost: $196.74
Half Yearly Second Semester Permit
Permit goes on sale in mid June and is valid until 31st December
Cost: $196.74
Collect Parking Permits
Permits may be collected between 8:30am and 4:30pm at Facilities Management, Services Building. Please take photo ID when collecting your parking permit. If you would like another Staff member to collect your permit on your behalf please provide them with written authorisation to do so.
Definition of a Staff Member
A member of Staff means a member of staff of the University, whether academic or professional, whether tenured, fixed term, probationary or otherwise and who is an employee in either a full-time or part-time capacity. In the case of a part-time employee who is also a student, they must be working more than eight hours a week on a regular basis directly for the University.
Purchasing a Staff Parking Permit
To collect your permit, you will need to show photo ID and provide your staff number to parking administration to have your employment status validated.
Payment by Payroll Deduction
Payroll deductions are not available to contract or casual staff. To qualify for payment by payroll deduction, it is essential that the staff member be employed by the University as a full or part time permanent employee and be on the University's automatic payroll system before a permit can be issued. If you no longer require a staff parking permit and wish to stop payroll deductions, you will need to notify Parking Administration in Facilities Management and return any currently valid staff parking permit. Deductions will cease upon receipt of written notification and return of the permit.
Staff eligible for payroll deductions will pay $15.13 per fortnight, and are eligible to salary sacrifice.
Single Upfront Payment
A form is no longer required for this payment method.
If you are employed on a contract ending prior to November in the year of issue, a casual staff member or employed through a recruitment agency contracted to the University, then you will need to pay upfront for your parking permit. Payroll deductions and salary sacrifice are not available. To purchase a staff parking permit by upfront payment you will need to call into Facilities Management and show photo ID. EFTPOS facilities are available - we do not accept cash. If you choose to return your staff parking permit prior to the end of the permit period, you may be eligible for a pro rata refund.
Staff Validation
The Staff Validation permit is designed to allow staff to park in staff areas while providing the flexibility of using daily paid permits. A Staff Validation permit can be obtained by completing the online Staff Validation application form.
A staff validation permit will be issued free of charge after verification of staff member status. Depending on your staff member status, you may be issued with either a half yearly permit, which expires on 30 June, or a yearly permit, which expires on 31 December in the year that it was issued. If you have a half yearly permit and your staff member status changes and you need to park on campus in second semester you will need to renew your permit.
Staff validation permits are also available for collection at Facilities Management, Services Building between 8:30am and 4:30pm. If you would like your validation permit sent out in the mail you will need to complete the validation parking permit form available on the University's internet site: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/parking/staff/validation-form.html. Please select the appropriate campus when applying for your staff validation.
Reserved Permit
This permit allows the parking of a motor vehicle in parking bays designated and sign posted "Reserved Permit Holders Only" the permit must be displayed at ALL times when parked in reserved bays. Eligibility conditions apply for drivers of salary package vehicles, Deans, Deputy Deans, and Heads of Department, Deputy Heads of School, Executive Directors and Directors. For further information on this type of permit, please contact Parking Administration.
Annual Permit
Only valid in the year of issue.
The annual permit is valid from 1 January to 31 December.
Cost: $900.59
Payroll deductions will pay $34.64 per fortnight, and are eligible to salary sacrifice.
Free Parking
Free parking is available in Carpark 15 which is located near the Ray Watt Oval and Carpark 16 which is located near the railway station both are on the Eastern side of the campus. You can view Carparks 15 & 16 on the campus map.


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Colorado Mountain College Conference on Sustainability 2014
This is a CMC internal conference for Sustainability faculty, staff, students and community partners.
The speaker will be Dr. Stephen Mulkey who assumed the post of president at Unity College in Unity, ME, on 1 July 2011. Prior to his appointment to Unity, Dr. Mulkey served as director of the program in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho from 2008 through spring 2011. As director, he led an initiative obtaining National Science Foundation funding for the creation of a new Professional Science Master's degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, which included degree tracks in Sustainability Science and Climate Change. With major funding from NASA, he directed a statewide project focused on climate change education. View Dr. Mulkey speaking at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit.
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Come to the Botanic Garden as Steve Poltz performs his playful and humorous acoustic songs at Summer Nights on August 22.
With an unmatched sense of humor, charming presence and catchy melodies, southern California's Steve Poltz is a fan favorite in the acoustic music scene. Poltz has been writing his fun, often satirical acoustic songs since the 1990s (with his former band The Rugburns), and scored several major hits in Canada, the United States and Australia. Since then, he's released six albums and performed for countless audiences across North America. Poltz is currently touring Canada and the U.S. performing with his guitars Smokey Joe, Flowerpot and Trailer-Trash.
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Phosphor Kickstarts A New Touchscreen E-Ink Watch, The Touch Time
To paraphrase Cracker, what the world needs now is another e-ink smart watch like I need a hole in the head. However, Phosphor has been in this game for years and I'm willing to give them at least the benefit of the doubt. Like the Pebble and the Strata, Phosphor has created a unique, feature-rich watch that adds some very interesting features to their well-known e-ink watch line and ups the ante… Read More
Phosphor Releases The World Time Sport
Phosphor has just announced a new world time/dual timezone model, the World Time Sport. The company is well-known for their e-ink watches (we reviewed a few here) and this one uses a unique touch interface to scroll through multiple timezones as well as various screens including a dual-time screen for travelers. Read More
First Hands-On With The Phosphor Reveal Crystal Watch
The Phosphor Reveal is one of the coolest timepieces I've seen in a long time. This is an extremely simple digital watch with a surprising trick: it shows the time by "flipping" little jewels from dark to light. The face is actually covered in little crystal nubs but some of the nubs can retract into the body of the watch and, in essence, disappear. The watch contains a few hundred Swarovski… Read More
Phosphor World Time Watch Full Review
Phosphor watches can be credited with a very special honor. That being of the brand the officially popularized and mainstreamed e-ink watches. While they didn't invent the concept, they made them cool enough and affordable enough for mainstream adoption. With prices under $200, now everyone can have a neat looking, easy to read e-ink watch on their wrist. The newer World Time watch adds just that… Read More
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I'm not a big fan of gimmick watches. While I love that guys like Tokyoflash are pushing design forward when it comes to wrist wear, I worry that much of their work is too esoteric and could alienate some potential watch nerds with their complexity. The biggest problem, I feel, is that on the low end the watch world is separated, like computer RPGs, into two two camps - the Tolkein-esque "fancy… Read More
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Yesterday Matsushita Electric Works (to be branded as Panasonic from October this year) presented [JP] "the world's first lighting device", which – in contrast to existing fluorescent models – doesn't need mercury to discharge gas. The company even claims their new technology could might one day be as important as LED and OLED. Matsushita speaks of an… Read More
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[photopress:scaled.IMG_1375.JPG,full,pp_image] After years of suffering, watch geeks are finally getting products dedicated to their quirky and specific tastes. Sure, any oldster can sport a gold Rolex, but what is an Emo kid with a gadget fetish to wear? A Swatch? Companies like Tokyoflash and Nooka have filled that techno-void with watches that are both high-tech and cool looking. Now, add… Read More
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This edition of The quarter close highlights the SEC report on IFRS, the latest on conflict minerals, health care reform, and several FASB releases that are sure to keep you busy this fall. Video perspectives are also now available.
Welcome to the third quarter 2012 edition of The quarter close. The summer months didn't slow the pace of the regulators and standard setters. If you're just getting back from summer vacation, you're returning to a number of new proposals and other releases. With the end of the third quarter quickly approaching and year-end not far behind, we'll help get you up-to-date with the latest developments.
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Front and center. The SEC made good on its promise to release its report on IFRS and a final rule on "conflict minerals." If you haven't heard of "conflict minerals," this is worth a read, as the rule is expected to have wide-ranging implications. In standard-setting news, the FASB may have parted ways with the IASB on an impairment model for financial assets.
Accounting hot topics. Along with an update on health care reform, we provide important refreshers and some new insights on segment reporting, debt restructurings, income taxes, and more. Also, take a look at the upcoming offsetting disclosures, as you just might be affected.
Hot off the press. Several FASB releases are sure to keep you busy this fall. Look here for the highlights and comment letter due dates. In addition, take note of the final standard on indefinite-lived intangible assets—you may be able to take advantage of the simplified impairment test this year.
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Now that we're in the holiday season, I now have some precious free time to do what I enjoy the most: talk some fantasy hockey. The 2008 year was full of newsworthy events in the hockey world. Evgeni Malkin staked his claim as the best hockey player in the world with a tremendous 2008, ascending to the top of Dobber's Keeper-League Player Rankings. Simon Gagne returned from a severe concussion to spark a potent Flyers attack. Sensational sophomore Pat Kane is leading the rebuild in the Windy City, and the Hawks are currently a playoff club in the always-tough Western Conference. Here are my 10 biggest surprises (good and bad), my Unleashed Players of the Year, and of course some Mats Sundin talk!
My 10 Biggest Surprises of 2008
10. We will start the list off with the return of Simon Gagne. Gagne missed most of last season with a severe concussion, and there were doubts about him ever returning to play in the NHL. He has been on fire since returning at the end of 2008. He currently is on pace for 99 points and over 40 goals, helping to lead a very potent offense in Philadelphia. The concussion issues will always hang over Gagne, and must be kept in mind in the fantasy world, but it sure is nice to see him back and ripping it up.
9. Checking in at number nine is the Ottawa Senators' freefall from elite status to bottom-feeder. Ottawa finished off an inconsistent 2007-2008 with a playoff berth, but were quickly dispatched by the eventual Eastern Conference Champion Pittsburgh Penguins in four games. The Senators have been awful to start the 2008-2009 campaign, with the solid play of Alex Auld being the lone bright spot. Jason Spezza has become the scapegoat of the media as well as coach Craig Hartsburg, who looks to be in way over his head. It doesn't help that the Senators secondary scoring has all but vanished, with Mike Fisher and Antoine Vermette both slumping.
8. The emergence of David Krejci has probably taken even the most optimistic of Bruins fans by surprise, and he checks in at number eight. Krejci filled in last season for the injured Patrice Bergeron on the second line and earned rave reviews for his smart, steady play at both ends of the ice. He never really took off offensively until later in 2008, and Krejci currently has 33 points through 32 games (as of December 21st). The Bruins are the class of the East right now thanks to great team depth, and Krejci is a big part of that. His offensive potential is sky high, so if you have a Bruins fan you know who keeps talking about Krejci, it may be time to start listening. With Patrice Bergeron's latest injury (presumed to be a concussion), it looks like Krejci will see even more responsibility.
7. Roberto Luongo and Martin Brodeur each going down with long-term injuries has added a twist to the Vezina race this season. If these injuries occurred in 2010, Team Canada would be in a world of hurt as they are far and away the two best goalies from Canada (and the world, for that matter). Brodeur isn't expected back until early March, while Luongo remains week-to-week, but it probably will end up being a month-to-month injury. It seems that star goalies have been having a rough go of it this season, even workhorses like these two. Luongo has played in 73 or more games each of the past four seasons, while Brodeur has played in 70 or more since 1996 (with one 67 game season in the mix). In addition to Luongo and Brodeur going down, Evgeni Nabokov has been hurt, and Marty Turco might as well be hurt the way he has been playing. The Devils have played very well in Brodeur's absence, while the Canucks have yet to receive the consistent goaltending from either Curtis Sanford or Cory Schneider that Scott Clemmenson has been providing New Jersey.
6. Nicklas Lidstrom's reign as king of defensemen checks in at number six. Lidstrom, unarguably the best defenseman of the past 25 years, won his third straight trophy in 2008, continuing an incredible run that has seen him win six of the last seven trophies. He led the Red Wings to yet another Stanley Cup, firmly cementing his place among the greatest of all-time at any position. Lidstrom has been very good this season, but it appears that age is beginning to catch up to him. With all of the young talent in the league, Lidstrom may be in tough to keep his Norris streak going.
5. Jaromir Jagr leaving the NHL didn't really get the attention it deserved, and I am not exactly sure why. Perhaps the greatest European skater ever, Jagr left to little fanfare or media attention. Is he gone for good? I have a sneaking suspicion that we will see him somewhere in the NHL before he officially hangs them up, but if not it was a very low-key farewell to one of the most exciting and dangerous forwards of all-time. The Rangers definitely miss both his leadership and offense, as they have been in tough to score goals this season without him, sitting 26th in the league with a measly 2.44 goals-per-game.
4. The circus rolled in to Tampa Bay when Oren Koules and Len Barrie purchased the team last season. They convinced Dan Boyle to sign a long-term contract by giving him a no-trade clause, but they ended up forcing him to accept a trade out west to San Jose. I wonder if Boyle still regrets leaving Tampa Bay for San Jose? The two owners then hired Barry Melrose from ESPN, while at the same time criticizing former coach John Tortorella for becoming a television commentator. Melrose and the team parted ways after an awful start, and the team has continued to struggle under Rick Tocchet. The Lightning are last in the league with 2.22 goals-per-game, and free agent signing Radim Vrbata hated things so much that he left his contract in Tampa Bay to go and play in the Czech Republic. I wonder how long until Al Strachan starts up the Lecavalier-to-Montreal trade rumors again…
3. The Mats Sundin saga kept a fairly low-key NHL off-season interesting, and now that it is finally over (Sundin signed with the Canucks, in case you live under a rock), it is worth looking back. To be honest, doesn't it seem a bit weird that Sundin has actually made a decision? Keep February 21st, 2009 marked in your calendar, as that is when Sundin and the Canucks pay a visit to the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
2. Evgeni Malkin carried the Crosby-less Penguins into the post-season in 2008, and he continued to help carry the load once Sid the Kid returned. Malkin's effortless skating and wizardry with the puck have earned some comparisons to former Hab great Jean Beliveau. Malkin is currently on pace for a whopping 140 points, leading Crosby, and the rest of the NHL, in scoring. It is with little surprise that Malkin is my choice for Unleashed Player of the Year. He proved that he doesn't just belong with the best in the game; he stands alone. That title will probably bounce back and forth for the next decade between Malkin, Crosby, and Ovechkin.
1. A change we can believe in. The year 2008 will go down in history as Barack Obama's year, but the Chicago Blackhawks aren't far behind. All kidding aside, the Hawks have gone from a perennial laughing stock to one of the premier franchises in the league. The team began to broadcast their home games, hired former Chicago Cubs president John McDonough, and have put an exciting team on the ice to attract fans back. The Hawks have been selling out at home this year and look ready to challenge for a post-season birth after years of futility. Led by Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, the criminally underrated Patrick Sharp, and the surprisingly healthy Martin Havlat, the Hawks are flying once again.
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