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British International School art students Inthu-on Lueangworaphan, Nathanon Khanijow and Jooyeon Shon talk about their new works on display at the school as part of their International Baccalaureate courses. The IB Year 13 Visual Arts Exhibition opens Monday 24 March at 2.45pm and runs until 28 ...
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A perfect quick dinner for the holiday season is steak au poivre, French for steak with pepper sauce. I used a small piece of beef tenderloin, but any other quick-cooking steak — strip, rib-eye, skirt or flank — can be used.
The accompanying pepper and mushroom sauce uses shallots, a mild-flavored member of the onion family. Shallots break down as they cook, making a smoother sauce than their onion cousins. Red or white onions could be substituted.
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It is not a battle between Stratford and London - they should be able to fund both. They brag in their latest members newsletter (as if I could care less) about securing multi-million dollar funding from Ohio which will enable them to stage more productions in USA whilst at the same time failing to serve their non-Stratford audiences (Newcastle being an even more striking case than London).
It should be eminently affordable for them to have a semi-permanent presence in London because they are still getting that 50% of their ACE grant which was allocated to support a full-time London operation in the first place. Their finances are intriguing, their cost-per-production numbers based on grant received (£15.6 million) divided by number of productions staged per year is stratospheric compared with any other subsidised theatre, even much higher than the NT - given the impact of "the cuts" I expect this anomaly will eventually be noticed and they would do well to start to show a bit more activity for the money received.


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Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi was confirmed on Monday night as player of the tournament for the inaugural ICC World Twenty20, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday.
"The 27-year-old did not feature much in the thrilling finale to the event, which India won by five runs, as he bowled his four overs wicketless for 30 and failed with the bat, but he still had a remarkable tournament," the council said in a statement.
The council said Afridi averaged just 15.66 with the ball and boasted a more-than-competitive economy rate of 6.71.
Afridi scored a total of 91 runs.
"He still managed to play some important cameo innings for his country and he certainly didn't waste many deliveries as his strike-rate of almost 200 proves."
Afridi picked up the award from ICC President Ray Mali shortly after his side had lost to India at a packed Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.
The council said it was a very close-run contest for the player of the tournament award.
Afridi finished just one point ahead of Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark, Sri Lanka all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya, South Africa pacer Morne Morkel and Yuvraj Singh of India.
"The player of the tournament was decided by the commentators for the host broadcaster, ESPN STAR Sports."
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Even though Ubuntu 9.10 is officially completed, developers managed to slip in the new beta version of Apache CouchDB that stores addresses, notes and bookmarks.
Reason for the late change is Ubuntu One, which rests heavily on the CouchDB capabilities. Thanks to the recent CouchDB beta, all Ubuntu 9.10 users can communicate over the same address book that is stored in CouchDB and synchronized over Ubuntu One. Ubuntu users can then access their address book from practically every computer using Ubuntu One.
Even Tomboy notes can be secured and synchronized in this way. CouchDB can also pull in Firefox bookmarks so that Ubuntu One users have them close at hand. As Elliot Murphy writes in the CouchDB developer mailing list, Canonical supports developers to get their applications compatible with CouchDB so as to "cloud-enable" them.
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in Track & Field News of April 1957 on page 15 you can read:
1956 U.S. Olympic Trials, 16mm, sound, showing every event of this great meet. Half-hour showing time. Rental......
Are there anybody who has this movie on VHS or DVD videos to trade with me:
I've several Olympic Movies on DVD video: 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 to trade with and much more videos of the history of track & field.


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The entire globe is embracing the health awareness campaign program and most marketers do take advantage of this moment to promote their product or service by giving out health related promotional items. One health product that is in great demand right now is the pedometer. This wonderful health gadget can be as small as the size of a credit card or the beeper that we used to have before mobile phones came to existence, ideal for any tradeshow events.
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The journal has the aim of disseminating knowledge of static electricity in its fundamental aspects, its useful applications and in its hazardous nature. In doing so, the journal intends to cover the interests of amongst others, physicists, chemical, electrical and aeronautical engineers, and those working in medicine, biology and meteorology.
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Main Street savers hunting for better returns seem to be in the same boat as the so-called "smart money" on Wall Street: Lots of investors bought the recent stock market peak.
"We saw hefty inflows into stock mutual funds Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday [last week] even with the market starting to crack," Charles Biderman, founder and CEO of investment research firm TrimTabs, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Monday. "So that is not a good sign if you see individual investors getting in when the market is starting to break."
Individual investors get the rap for being terrible market timers, but hedge fund managers haven't had much better luck. In a reversal of a three-year trend, hedge funds saw inflows to equity-based products last month and outflows from fixed income, according to institutional investor tracker eVestment.
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TD Ameritrade Chairman Joe Moglia chose to look on the positive. "I think the reason why we're having the kind of [stock] correction that we've seen in the last few days is because we've had a pretty spectacular run," he told CNBC.
Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ignited a sharp stock decline and a spike in bond yields with talk that quantitative easing could start to wind down this year provided the economy holds up. "Bernanke gets involved because the economy is going better. That's almost a calming effect," Moglia said. "While you're backing-off on your buying, you're doing that for a really positive reason."
(Read More: Bond Fund Outflows Hit Record on Tapering Fears)
But so far, the stock and bond markets have been anything but calm in their reaction to the signaling from the Fed.
Biderman at TrimTabs said bond fund outflows are "starting to impact bond prices because the flows are pretty massive." Portfolio managers are being "forced to sell bonds to meet redemptions," he added. "That's not a good sign."
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I was under the impression zero-downtime deployments meant no downtime. No 503s.
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The New Zealand star got to meet one of her biggest muses this week.
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The 'Can We Dance' band open up on what fans can expect from their new record.
The 'Adore You' singer sent an emotional apology to fans this week about her bad news.
The US star is said to be keen to open for her on-off boyfriend when he hits the road next.
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The 'Happy' star became visibly emotional after realising the impact his song has made around the world.
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Chegg adds student discounts to its online textbook rentals
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The local spoon near where I live is known for its gyros, chicken kabobs and burgers. A no-frills diner, Johnny's has not changed much in years. A small flat-panel television for diners to watch that replaced a dying tube TV is the only change I've noticed in nearly seven years.
I suspect that Nick, and his brother Magic, who own Johnny's, like it that way. That is why I was a little surprised a few weeks ago to see a Facebook check-in deals decal behind the counter. If I showed Nick, who usually works the cash register, that I checked in at Johnny's on Facebook, I could get a free medium soft drink with a purchase of $5 or more.
If Nick tracked the ages of the people who take advantage of the check-in deal he would discover I am one of the few in my age group who take the time to use a location-based service to get a deal. According to a comScore Inc. MobiLens analysis of 16.7 million U.S. mobile subscribers who use check ins, only 9.7% of adults age 45 to 54 check in at a merchant. Most of those who check in are younger: 58.5% are between 18 and 34 years old. In its analysis, comScore found that 12.7 million of all check-ins were made with a smartphone.
That is about what I expected. Of my friends, it is the younger ones who typically use check-in services. I've tried some, but stopped using them once the novelty wore off. Last year I used Foursquare, another location-based service, for several months, but found only one merchant offering a coupon I could actually use. That was at Ram Restaurant and Brewery for a free cup of soup. Starbucks has a Foursquare deal for a $1 discount on a beverage, but only if you are the mayor—as Foursquare calls those who check in the most at a location—of that particular store. Have you seen the volume of 18- to 34-year-olds that move through a Starbucks? No way would I ever be mayor of a Starbucks.
But I could be mayor of Johnny's, or, better yet, just check in on Facebook, get a free soft drink and not worry about someone half my age trying to unseat me.
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Blues awarded customer experience prize
- 16 October 2012 12:10
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City are among the first clubs to scoop VisitFootball Awards for providing the best customer service to fans.
Four Barclays Premier League clubs are to receive awards for the quality of their customer care as part of a national scheme that is improving standards of fan experience at football stadia. Arsenal, Fulham and Liverpool are the others.
VisitFootball is a joint venture between the Premier League and the national tourism board VisitEngland.
It has has been assessing the care that customers receive at football grounds since August 2010 and for the first time handed out awards.
City received the 'Best Fan Innovation' for our City Square and Family Stand projects.
VisitFootball has adapted VisitEngland's 'Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme,' which is used to assess other tourist attractions such as theatres and museums, specifically for football stadia.
All 20 clubs in the Barclays Premier League were judged by a professional tourism assessor across eight areas of the supporter match experience, such as ticketing, stewarding, catering, toilets and the club shop.
Visit England commended the improvement in customer care since the scheme started two years ago, hailing the Premier League for taking the care of supporters visiting its stadia so seriously.
The success of the scheme in addressing standards of customer care in the Barclays Premier League is such that it is to be expanded this season to include the assessment of facilities for away support, accessibility and hospitality.
For the Awards the panel brought together the marks and comments of the assessors from Live Tourism to determine which clubs and personnel offered the highest quality for Premier League football fans.
This is what the judges said about City:
Manchester City has set the benchmark for football clubs with their City Square and Family Stand.
"The all-weather food and drink outlets, giant TV screens and post-match player and legend appearances in City Square are clearly a hit with the fans.
"This is how to look after people so they will want to come again.
"In the Family Stand it's the little things that matter: the catering where the kiosk is at child height, the age- appropriate food portions, the entertainers who keep young fans engaged, the breast-feeding facilities for mothers.
"This is thinking about their fans as customers at the highest level."
Richard Scudamore, Premier League Chief Executive said: "The one thing that you cannot guarantee at a Premier League match is the result but one thing we should be striving for is that every fan who comes into our grounds is receiving a high standard of experience.
As the VisitFootball Awards show, not only are clubs like Manchester City providing that, but they are going above and beyond.
"A lot of effort has been put into making Premier League grounds more safe and welcoming over the last 20 years, which is why we have seen traditional fans being joined by more sections of society.
"Nearly a quarter of attending fans are women now, 13% of season ticket holders are children and overall 63% of supporters coming to a match do so with a family member."
James Berresford, VisitEngland Chief Executive added: "We have had a magnificent summer of sport in England. The London 2012 Olympics & Paralympic Games highlighted the importance of a warm and friendly welcome.
"The volunteers at The Games will be an important part of the legacy and showcased to the world that we are nation which loves our sport, gets behind the teams and knows how to welcome visitors whether they are local or international.
"The Premier League has already been playing its part over the last two years to improve its football welcome and I'm delighted that our Quality Assured Stadium programme has had such an impact.
"They should be congratulated for taking this so seriously and the progress made so far. But it's also important that football clubs continue to build on these improvements.
"If we want to show the commitment both the sporting and tourism industries have to providing fans with a high quality, highly memorable experience, then the Premier League expanding its VisitFootball scheme with us is exactly the right signal."


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Secrets from Katy Perry's stylist
Kate Midena HE'S the man behind the wardrobes of Katy Perry and Kate Mara, and now Johnny Wujek lets us in on some style secrets of his own — and his favourite red carpet fashion moment EVER.
Where to get Kate's dress
ELLE HALLIWELL THE Duchess of Cambridge made her Australian arrival a bright one, wearing a wattle-coloured Roksanda Ilincić dress for her arrival in Sydney.
Will this save Australian fashion?
Kate Midena BIANCA Spender thinks it will 'push Australian fashion into the limelight', and Baz Luhrmann has signed on as creative director for the store's opening. So expectations for this fashion destination are high.
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ANGELA MOLLARD THIS story could change your life. And maybe stop you from catching pneumonia. But the blokes should probably take a deep breath before reading it.
Who were the runway disasters and divas?
Melissa Hoyer Style Commentator THE key moments of fashion week are not always on the runway. Here's our snapshot of the stuff that kept everyone talking backstage and beyond.
Don't even try to buy this top
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Elle still has the body at 50
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Check out Eileen Brady's minute of insight for entrepreneurs that works for all of us!
"It's really the individuals that can get up and say … I'm just going to try and win the day and move on and win the next day that end up making it."
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Have you ever heard of Alaska Bypass? It's a service the U.S. Postal Service offers only in Alaska, allowing shippers to send shrink-wrapped pallets of goods at Parcel Post rates using private airlines. The Postal Service pays airlines to carry the goods to rural Alaskan communities by delivering these goods directly to the stores located in rural areas. The shippers effectively and entirely "bypass" the Postal Service's delivery network. The Postal Service has to pay the airlines much more than it receives in postage for this program. In FY 2010, the Postal Service lost $73 million on Alaska Bypass. In addition, the people receiving the shipments are usually retail merchants, because the orders must be at least 1,000 pounds. The Postal Service doesn't provide this kind of service for retailers anywhere else in the country. Alaska Bypass began when it was much more difficult to get goods to rural Alaskans than it is today. There are even some that say it no longer seems to fit with the Postal Service's mission. The Office of Inspector General Risk Analysis Research Center has developed a white paper, Alaska Bypass: Beyond Its Original Purpose, which outlines the history of the program and the shift away from its original purpose. The paper offers various options to improve the program. Should the Postal Service continue to pay for sending large shipments of goods to retailers and be permitted to charge the shippers more for this service? Should the 1,000-pound minimum order requirement, targeted to retailers, be eliminated in order to extend the benefit directly to consumers shopping online? What do you think? Click here to read the white paper and we invite you to share your thoughts about this program on our blog. This blog is hosted by the OIG's Risk Analysis Research Center.
on Nov 14th, 2011
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Out of 23 posts in industrialized countries, the U.S. Postal Service is one of the few remaining posts not offering an eMailbox solution to its citizens. And while there are private sector technology industry standouts in the U.S. that have developed widely popular e-mail and secure storage services, their business models sacrifice consumer privacy in the interest of ad-based revenue generation. In an increasingly digital world, it may make sense for the Postal Service to offer eMailbox services in addition to traditional delivery. A consumer would also be able to sign up for an accompanying highly secure data storage area service called the eLockbox, which would provide added security for the archiving of important legal and personal documents with anytime, anywhere secure access. Today many electronic documents, especially financial records, reside primarily on the banks or billers Web site and not with the consumer. The Office of Inspector General Risk Analysis Research Center's new paper eMailbox and eLockbox: Opportunities for the Postal Service (Report Number RARC-WP-12-001) explores these concepts. This white paper is the fourth paper in the Digital series, and presents a case for offering an eMailbox and eLockbox. Some of the paper's findings include: 1.As communication channels become increasingly consumer-centric, the eMailbox and eLockbox would empower individuals to transition to full electronic delivery at their own pace. 2.The linking of one's physical identity and address to the eMailbox address will provide high identity assurance necessary for transactions, which require privacy, confidentiality, authentication and non-repudiation such as for legal and financial correspondence. 3.The Postal Service, offers protection from theft, interference, fraud and forgery under federal law, utilizing two law enforcement organizations (the Office of Inspector General and the Inspection Service). 4.Advertising mail would only be allowed from entities registered with the Postal eMailbox system and with the consent of the receiver. Together, the concept of the eMailbox and eLockbox services reflects a natural extension of the Postal Service's role in the physical world as the trusted custodian of the nation's address management system. The product provides a digital service linking American households and businesses in a trusted and verifiable way, while empowering consumers to determine the pace and extent of the service's use. This product suite should be further developed as the organization implements new digital services. What do you think? Would you use a Postal eMailbox? This blog is hosted by the OIG's Risk Analysis Research Center.
on Nov 7th, 2011
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U.S. Postal Service Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) consists of specialized containers such as sacks, pouches, trays, hampers, over-the-road containers and pallets. Although the Postal Service does not maintain a perpetual inventory of its MTE, a 2010 audit indicated approximately 359 million pieces in the system of 400 processing facilities, over 30,000 post offices and thousands of mailers nationwide. Proper MTE management and availability ensure the safe, secure, and timely movement of mail between Postal Service facilities and its customers or contractors MTE may be used only to transport mail, and borrowers of MTE (such as private mailers) are responsible for its proper use and return. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Over the past few years Postal Service has experienced a significant loss of plastic and wooden pallets. Since fiscal year 2005 the Postal Service has spent over $240 million on close to 19 million plastic and wooden pallets, many of which can no longer be accounted for internally or externally. Realizing the significant cost of leakage of MTE from its inventory, the Postal Service has studied both the movement of MTE as well as ways to reduce leakage. As a result of its precarious financial condition and a freeze on all information technology initiatives, two technological initiatives to better track MTE have been shelved. The Postal Inspection Service has been proactive in both reaching out to the public on this issue, and investigating MTE theft and misuse. The Inspection Service has an ongoing national MTE recovery initiative to locate misappropriated and misused MTE, especially pallets. What do you think about the MTE situation? Is there a cost-efficient way to track MTE? What else should the Postal Service do to reduce leakage? What are your experiences using plastic or wooden pallets? Give your comments below. And if you know of any pallets or other MTE being misused or taken from the system, contact the OIG Hotline, which accepts confidential and anonymous complaints. This topic is hosted by the OIG's Transportation Directorate.
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U.S. stock index futures rose across the board following the upbeat S&P/Case-Shiller home price report and a day after the Dow and S&P 500 logged their worst one-day performance in 2013 amid worries about Italy's election result.
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Home prices rose 0.9 percent in December, according to the S&P Case-Shiller's composite index of 20 metropolitan areas, beating expectations for a gain of 0.5 percent. Prices in the 20 cities jumped 6.8 percent year-over-year, posting the best gain since 2006.
Both European and Asian shares traded lower on Tuesday after Italy's election on February 24-25 resulted in deadlock, with no party gaining sufficient seats to win a majority in the country's upper house. Analysts warned a hung parliament would make it even harder to pass key legislation needed for structural and fiscal reforms.
(Read More: Italy 'Hung, Drawn and Quartered' by Political Deadlock)
"It was the worst possible outcome, feared by market participants and European policy-makers alike," said Tobias Blattner, European economist at Daiwa Capital Markets. "Italy is facing Greek-style political gridlock and possibly new elections."
Meanwhile, analysts expect Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke to try to counter market concerns about Italy, when he delivers his semiannual testimony on monetary policy to the Senate Banking Committee starting at 10 am ET.
Bernanke may also try to neutralize fears the Fed could curtail its asset purchase program, under which it purchases $85 billion in Treasurys and mortgage securities each month. In the minutes of the last two Fed meetings, there was clear discussion about the end of easing, and it was noted that some Fed members wanted an earlier end to quantitative easing. (CNBC Explains: Quantitative Easing)
"I think Bernanke's got a much trickier speech now," said Barry Knapp, head of equities portfolio strategy at Barclays. "Had the Italian elections gone as expected, he would reassure the market they weren't going to take away the punch bowl and you would have had a Bernanke bounce."
Bernanke is also likely to discuss the "sequester," automatic spending cuts due to kick in on March 1 if Congress does not reach agreement on how to prevent them. (CNBC Explains: Sequester)
Among earnings, Home Depot gained after the home improvement retailer posted results that topped expectations. The company also announced it would buy back as much as $17 billion of its own shares, and raise its dividend 35 percent to 39 cents from 29 cents a share. On Monday, rival Lowe's topped Wall Street expectations, with sales benefiting from rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy.
Macy's rose after the department store retailer reported quarterly results that exceeded Wall Street expectations.
Also on the economic front, the Commerce Department will release new home sales for January at 10 am ET. Economists in a Reuters survey forecast an annualized rise of 381,000 new sales, compared with 369,000 in December.
In addition, the Conference Board will release its consumer confidence index for February at 10 a.m.
The Treasury is scheduled to auction $35 billion in five-year notes on Tuesday, with results to be released in the afternoon.
—By CNBC's JeeYeon Park (Follow JeeYeon on Twitter: @JeeYeonParkCNBC)
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lliam wrote:Elgar £20 notes withdrawn
The £20 English banknotes featuring Sir Edward Elgar have been withdrawn by the Bank of England and are no longer accepted in shops.
The Bank of England has been gradually phasing out the Elgar notes since 2007, replacing them with new notes featuring 18th-century economist Adam Smith.
The first Elgar notes, displaying the composer and Worcester Cathedral, where his Enigma Variations were premiered, were issued in June 1999.
Elgar's removal from the £20 banknote has been called a 'national disgrace' by Jeremy Dibble, a music professor at Durham University, since the arts now no longer feature on Bank of England notes. "Dropping Elgar tells us much about the way in which the arts are now viewed in England. Bank notes should applaud the greatest aspects of England and English culture.
lliam wrote:Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z0teQ3my5e
It is an innovation of Wahhabism, the most fanatical and extreme form of Islam, which started in Saudi Arabia and has now spread to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to Pakistani communities in the UK.
I'd hope that as these folks live in the UK (or any other Western society), their strict rules will lessen under pressure from younger generations.
Schmeelkie wrote: We aren't forcing the Amish to dress like us...maybe because they're less likely to be accused of stomping on women's rights, but still.... Again, I don't have a good solution and do see it as a problem, but I doubt outlawing burkas is the answer.
Schmeelkie wrote:Lliam, Analog - I see your points, but I still can't agree with the law. It's assuming if you outlaw the burka, those so very intolerant men will let their women go out without it. Much more likely if a law like that passed, these women would now be confined to their homes - cutting off what little freedom they have.
Shapley wrote:I was able to see the St. Louis Symphony perform at Powell Hall yesterday. Joshua Bell was in town to perfrom Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major, with David Roberton at the baton. Both did a fantastic job, in my opinion.
The concert opened with Symphony No. 1 by Kalinnikov. I was not familiar with this piece, but it was performed well. I partucularly enjoyed the second movement.
After the intermission, the concert resumed with Prokofiev's Lietenant Kije Suite. I thought the orchestra did an excellent job with this piece, one of my favourites.
As usual, our St. Louis audience had trouble with applause. They applauded furiously after the first movement of the Kalinnikov Symphony, which Prompted Robertson to acknowledge the applause, and advise us that there would now be three encores. Apparently, he is accustomed to this.
I mentioned a while back that the audience sat in silence after the first movement of Shore's Lord of the RIngs Symphony, which led to an awkward situation, given that conductor apparently refused to continue until the applause had been generated. We had to be more or less prompted to applaud. Of course, it didn't help then that none were familiar with the work as a 'symphony', and that the movment ended aburptly, leading the audience to wonder whether or the movement was over or they were experiencing technical difficulty. After that, the audience was on its guard, applauding at every lull in the music, which was equally awkward.
I bring that back up because it seems that, once so bitten, the audience remains forever applause-disfunctional. When Joshua Bell completed the first movement of the Tchaikovsky concerto, the audience stood to give him a standing ovation. Thus, once again, Mr. Robertson had to advise us that there would now be two encores. I did read, however, that applause after the first movement of that piece is not unexpected. A well-deserved ovation was given, appropriately, at the end of the work, but I thought the earlier attempt had dampened the impact of it.
We're such uncultured barbarians here in the Midwest. Maybe the Orchestra needs to add one of the 'Applause' signs such as they have on television game shows...
jamiebk wrote:(PS...you were lucky to hear such an esteemed musician play the Tchaikovsky...I heard it live once myself and was in awe over what it took to play it.)
Shapley wrote:jamiebk wrote:(PS...you were lucky to hear such an esteemed musician play the Tchaikovsky...I heard it live once myself and was in awe over what it took to play it.)
It is amazing to be able to watch them perform. Not being a musician myself, I am in admiration as to how they are able to produce such music flawlessly. I did not see any sheet music in front of Mr. Bell, nor could I see how it would have been much help, as his animated playing would have made it difficult to hold his focus on the page.
Our local symphony performed Vivaldi's Four Seasons last Spring, and I was amazed at the soloist ability to keep her place on the page as she wove back and forth, moved about, and even turned around, without losing her spot. She did have the sheet music in front of her, and I observed her turning pages between solos. I saw no inditication that Mr. Bell had any sheet music at all.
jamiebk wrote:Most of the "pros" don't use sheet music. reading the music often inhibits them...it's all in their heads (and hearts)
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The "West Division" is comprised of the conference's new faces – Temple, Boise State, Memphis, SMU, Houston and San Diego State. The winners of the East and West divisions face off in the first formal Big East championship game at the site of one of the participating teams.
"We are very pleased with the result and the announcement of the new geographic divisional structure for the future of Big East football," said Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti. "This composition allows us to continue to build on strong existing rivalries while providing a platform for new rivalries. Most of all its great for our fans keeping a majority of our games in the East"
The Big East will announce its 2013 football schedule Dec. 3 after the Big East's athletic directors' meeting in New York.
Divisions will be revisited in 2014 when Navy joins the conference for football only.
"This new alignment gives the conference and its fans the best of both worlds – national exposure that is a result of the Big East being in six of the top 10 U.S. media markets – with a schedule that focuses on spirited regional rivalries," said commissioner Mike Aresco. "This unique combination of nationwide scope and regional flavor reflects our commitment to innovation in response to the changing landscape in college football, while honoring a tradition of success on the field and in the classroom."
Rutgers will play five games within its division next year and eight total conference games – nine if the Scarlet Knights qualify for the championship game.
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