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Popular Chess Terms
The 1958 Interzonal Chess Tournament in Portoroz was one of the most important and strongest tournaments in chess history, and is still regularly discussed in chess circles today. This is the tournament where the 15-year-old Bobby Fischer earned the grandmaster title and first became a contender for the World Chess Championship. It is also the tournament where Mikhail Tal finally got his first chance to compete in a grandmaster tournament outside of the Soviet Union, and started one of the longest non-losing streaks in chess history on his march to the World Chess Championship.
1958 interzonal Chess Tournament Portoroz
This book, which is a collection of games of the great German chess Z. Tarrasch, enjoyed wide popularity at the end of last and the beginning of this century. For many generations it served as a textbook players at every stage of a chess game and is considered a classic.
300 Chess games - RUSSIAN EDITION
One for Each Day of the Year
This book is written in both German and English. Some knowledge of both Classic notation and Algebraic (mainly the latter) is needed to follow all the notes. The book is mainly a series of fairly difficult endgame studies. I went through the book and solved each problem in the manner that the authors suggested in their preface. It helped me win many Chess tournament games that would have otherwise been draws and also draw many games that should have been lost.
365 Selected Endgames
New York 1889 was the strongest chess tournament ever held up until that time. It was supposed to be for the World Chess Championship, but it has never been recognized as such, primarily because Steinitz, who helped organize the event and who was present as a journalist, refused to play.
6th American Chess Congress
This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME I
This is a combined work, taking five separate books and combining them into one volume, but then re-dividing them into two volumes.
A Complete Chess Course - How to Win at Chess - VOLUME II
This book makes a fairly thorough study of those endings most likely to occur in play, especially those with rooks. This book is best worked through as a course of study, so that the underlying ideas are absorbed and a sound positional judgment is acquired it is at first not necessary to understand every nuance, far less to try to remember the more difficult variations; indeed one might pass over the sub-variations at first reading.
A Guide To Chess Endings
This is the autobiography of George Koltanowski, the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. Koltanowski will be best remembered as an exhibitor, writer, promoter and showman. Possessed with an incredibly powerful memory, Koltanowski would often give exhibitions, playing several games blindfold simultaneously.
Adventures of a Chess Master
This is a reprint of the original third book, with all of the games converted into Algebraic Figurine PGN Notation with diagrams in the back. Alekhine died in 1946, so this third volume was edited by International Master and British Chess Champion Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, based in part on the notes left by Alekhine to some of the games.
Alekhine's Best Games of Chess - 1938-1945
This is the book that every chess master and grandmaster has read and studied, and every aspiring chess master should be reading. The author, a World Chess Champion, clearly explains the most complex and difficult concepts. Grandmaster Reuben Fine wrote that Alekhine's collection of best games was one of the three most beautiful that he knew.
Alexander Alekhine - My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1923
The book offers a sketch of the life and work of a talented writer and Soviet grandmaster Alexander Kotov. Chess games with commentary selected and grouped by topics (debut, a combination tactical strikes, defense, etc.) so that the book was not only an outstanding monograph on the players, but also a kind of textbook on the management of chess.
Alexander Kotov - RUSSIAN EDITION
A Picture Guide to the Royal Game
An Invitation to Chess is perhaps the most successful chess book ever written, with sales of over 100,000. It is a basic beginners book, starting with the moves of the pieces and rapidly advancing to more complex problems and examples.
An Invitation to Chess
>Francois-Andre Danican Philidor (1726-1795) is widely regarded as the strongest chess player ever in history prior to the modern era. He was so much better than any of his contemporaries that it is impossible for us to know how good he really was. The edition of the book that is reprinted here was published in 1871 by C. Sanson. This shows that the original Philidor book was still the standard work on the subject one hundred years after it was first written.
Analyse du je des d'echecs - FRENCH EDITION
Improve Your Chess by Studying the Games of the Master of Positional Play
For more than a quarter of a century until his death in 1935, Aron Nimzowitsch was recognised as one of the world's leading players. The leading Grandmaster of the Hypermodern school, his games were full of new ideas and plans, which were accompanied by landmarks in chess literature such as My System and Chess Praxis. Challenging old theories, his books are regarded as being the best teaching manuals and have strongly withstood the test of time.
Aron Nimzowitsch - Master of Planning
Bishop Against Knight, Rook Against Minor Pieces
The book can be used as a training manual for the enactment of endings, as well as a reference in the analysis of the deferred parties.
Averbakh Chess Endings - RUSSIAN EDITION
Revised in 2013 by Eric Schiller With Additional Games and New Chess Analysis
Billy Colias was one of the most remarkable players to come out of the Midwest. He overcame many obstacles to become one of the area's top players, and earned the title of FIDE Master before his untimely death in 1993. This book details his life and games, including thrilling victories against both amateur and professional opposition in the Midwest, throughout the United States, and in Europe
Billy Colias - Midwest Master
This is a book in Descriptive Chess Notation of great importance not only because of the question it addresses, but because of who asks and then answers that question. Dr. Max Euwe, who was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937, compares and contrasts Bobby Fischer with the three greatest players before him, world champions Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.
Bobby Fischer - The Greatest?
in the World Chess Championship
The distinguished author, himself a past world champion and President of FIDE, analyzes aspects of Fischer's play in comparison with previous holders of the title Alekhine, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Euwe, Lasker, Petrosian, Smyslov, Spassky, Tal. He examines the relevance of the respective ELO ratings of the earlier champions and provides more specific evidence for considering the true status of Fischer among the champions.
Bobby Fischer and His Predeccessors
Learn to Think the Way Bobby Does
Learn to think the same way Bobby Fischer did. This is the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable book on chess ever compiled. As the student, you start at the beginning and progressively develop your skills as you apply Bobby Fischer's principles and learn how to play Chess the Bobby way.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
In 1972, an epic chess match took place in Iceland between representatives of the two great super-powers of the world: Bobby vs. Boris. Boris was backed by the Mighty Soviet Union, with late night phone calls coming from his handlers in Moscow, telling him what his next move should be.
Bobby Fischer vs. The Rest of the World
The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match
Reuben Fine was both one of the world's strongest grandmasters of chess and one of the world's leading authorities on psychoanalysis. In this book, he combines the two disciplines. This Fischer-Spassky book is really three books in one.
Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World Chess Championship
The First Collection of Celebrated Tournament Games Played by Bobby Fischer
This is the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. It is not to be confused with other books with similar names that were written by other authors. Here is the blurb on the original dust jacket, as published in 1959: THERE ARE 34 games in this book.
Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess
An Analysis of the Fischer / Spassky Chess Match
An analysis of the 1972 World Championship Chess Match from both sides of the chessboard - a Russian and an American analysis.
Both Sides of the Chessboard
M. M. Botvinnik - Selected Games Due to the interest of a wide range of players to be creative strongest chess player of the USSR, and later the first Soviet world champion Mikhail Botvinnik periodically came out of his best books, and commented on them in detail parties. T
Botvinnik Selected Games - RUSSIAN EDITION
Including all games from the World Chess Championship Match, plus previous games between Anand and Carlsen and a ground breaking history of the World Chess Champions, including representative games by each of the 19 prior holders of the world title. All annotated by Grandmaster Raymond Keene, OBE. Includes 36 annotated chess games, 234 chess diagrams, plus puzzles and quizzes based upon the games of the match.
Carlsen - Anand Match for the World Chess Championship
The Memoirs of a Grandmaster
Ludek Pachman's account of his political struggles is interspersed with numerous chess anecdotes about many of the masters he faced in tournament play, such as Alekhine, Bobby Fischer, Botvinnik, and Tal
Checkmate in Prague
Of the World Chess Championship
This is the authoritative book on the famous 1972 Fischer Spassky Match, and the book by the strongest player to write about the match. An appendix at the end contains all 20 games of the match in Algebraic Notation plus the concluding diagram for each game. Also added the five games Fischer played against Spassky before the match, which had resulted in the lopsided score of three wins by Spassky and two draws, with no wins by Fischer.
Chess - The Fischer-Spassky Games
HAVE you ever wanted to play chess with the masters? Reinfeld shows you how. Now you can play against some of the world's greatest masters, in the privacy of your study with no annoying "kibitzers" around, and with no time limit to harry you!
Chess by Yourself
Volume 3
Botvinnik's Chess Creativity, Volume 3 This third and final volume contains material relating to the years 1957-1967. Included are articles by Botvinnik in which he analyzes the results of matches for the world title (1958, 1961 and 1963.) The book contains three of his works: An essay "Albion chess and other" (1967), the article "The Art of a chess" and the work "Fundamentals of Chess Algorithms." Also published is a review by article originator "Endgame Botvinnik in batches." Most of the games are commented on by Botvinnik, a number of games includes comments by known Soviet and foreign players, the rest of the notes are by the originator. The publication covers the most games played by Botvinnik Chess in 40 years of activity, its commentaries, theoretical, analytical and historical works.
Chess Creativity of Botvinnik - RUSSIAN EDITION
Volume 2
This (second) volume is dedicated to the chess creativity MM Botvinnik, and includes materials (parts, articles, analyzes, studies) relating to the years 1941-1956.
Chess Creativity of Botvinnik - RUSSIAN EDITION
Volume 1
The publication covers the most games played by World Chess Champion Botvinnik Chess in 40 years of activity, its commentaries, theoretical, analytical and historical works. This the first volume contains 283 annotated games for the years 1924-1940, in chronological order, articles on events of this period, the article "On the definition of a combination." Also published is an introductory article by Mikhail Botvinnik (p. 5-113), that provides a list of the results of Botvinnik in tournaments, matches and team competitions.
Chess Creativity of Botvinnik - RUSSIAN EDITION
How to Improve Your Game
The present book is an endeavor to help the aspiring amateur by giving him the sort of games that are played by himself and his circle of intimates
Chess for Amateurs
A Century of Chess Evolution
This book is one of the great classics of chess literature. The author, Imre Konig, was an International Master of Chess and a great analyst as well as an entertaining writer. He describes the development of chess opening theory and discusses lines of play no longer in vogue but which remain powerful weapons for the practical tournament player.This book was originally published in 1950 as "Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik".
Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik
This is the masterpiece by World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capablanca who is regarded as the strongest chess player who ever lived, prior to the arrival of Bobby Fischer.World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik regarded Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals as the best chess book ever written.
Chess Fundamentals
Alekhine has long earned a reputation not only a brilliant experience, but also the best chess writer and theoretician of the first half of 20th century. Alekhine's Games, which are shining examples of chess creativity, are provided with detailed notes.
Chess Heritage of A.A. Alekhine - VOLUME 1 - RUSSIAN EDITION
Alekhine has long earned a reputation not only a brilliant experience, but also the best chess writer and theoretician of the first half of 20th century. Alekhine's Games, which are shining examples of chess creativity, are provided with detailed notes.
This is the second volume of a two-volume biography of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. This second volume is devoted to the art of the strategic concepts of the First Russian World Champion and his contribution to the theory and practice of chess endings.
Chess Heritage of A.A. Alekhine - VOLUME 2 - RUSSIAN EDITION


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A welcome breakthrough for mental health services
Last week's visit from representatives of the Alpert Medical School at Brown University and Butler Hospital represents a giant step forward for improving the delivery of mental health and addiction services on Block Island.
Much work remains to nail down all the details, but the visiting delegation made clear that it is committed to implementing a program. The visitors included Stephen Rasmussen, Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School, as well as senior staff members Dr. Jane Eisen and Dr. Robert Boland.
The program would enlist third and fourth year medical residents supervised by medical staff to deliver care over a secure internet link, using video and audio technology similar to Skype, from Butler Hospital and perhaps on occasion even on the island.
Mental health disorders and addiction are diseases requiring medical attention. Isolated by the ocean, Block Island residents face unusual challenges in accessing care. On the island especially, issues of privacy and stigmatization can be enormous obstacles to those seeking help. The new program offers privacy and the promise of free or affordable care for all that seek it.
It is really a win-win proposition. The benefit to the Block Island community is obvious. The Brown medical residents will gain valuable experience in a technology and technique of care-delivery that shows growing promise especially for rural communities.
A tip of the hat to the Block Island Mental Health Task Force, the Alpert Medical School at Brown, and Rev. Steve Hollaway for his leadership in the effort. Also not to be overlooked is the generous and visionary financial support of island resident, Dr. Michael Brownstein.

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Assembly News and Updates
Always Being Made New
Assembly adopts: The Church and Criminal Justice: Hearing the Cries
Voting members of the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted "The Church and Criminal Justice: Hearing the Cries" — a social statement on criminal justice — Aug. 16 with an 882 to 25 vote. The social statement was formally introduced to the 952 voting members Aug. 13.
The assembly made two amendments to the statement — the first was to substitue a paragraph that now begins: "Confession is one 'mark of the church'", and the second amendment was adopted to correct what appeared to provide an editorial comment in the text.
The call for a statement on criminal justice emerged from concern among ELCA members over the "massive levels of incarceration in the United States," said Cynthia Osbourne, chair of the ELCA task force charged with leading this church in a study about criminal justice and the development of a proposed social statement. She introduced the social statement to the assembly earlier this week.
While commending positive aspects of the system, the statement conveys dissatisfaction with many areas about the criminal justice system that urgently need reform.
The statement affirms the fundamental principles of the U.S. criminal justice system, such as due process of law and the presumption of legal innocence, and it also recognizes serious deficiencies — overly harsh sentencing and persistent inequalities based on race and class. It calls ELCA members to ministry and compassion through some practices: hearing the cries of those affected, accompaniment, hospitality and advocacy. It asks members of this church to recommit themselves to visiting the prisoner; correct the flawed criminal justice system; participate in God's work with hands and hearts and to hear the cries of people affected.
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The ELCA social statements are on the website. Here is a link below. You'll see that the statement on Criminal Justice is under proposed statements. The website will be update soon to reflect the new approved social statement.


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I leave in 9 days for a short trip to Tucson, AZ to run a half-marathon with my brother. It will be the first time I've ever visited him where he lives since he graduated from High School. And he's lived in some awesome places in those 10 years: Chicago, Seattle, Kansas City, and now – Tucson. (Wait. I did visit him once in the six weeks he lived in Nashville, TN, but that's barely 100 miles from my house, so that doesn't count.) He has always come to visit me – he's awesome like that. I'm going by myself, leaving the kids with MrZ for a little over 48 hours. Part of me is totally excited for the Zoot Time, another part of me is kinda hoping the family falls apart in my absence so that they will then be forced to recognize that, even though I don't cook or clean, they can't live without me.
NikkiZ woke up at 4am this morning. By the time I left for work at 6am, I was exhausted and bitter and irritated and bitchy. It is not unusual for me to get up between 4-4:30am on the weekdays, but when I'm forced to get up because some kid I brought into this world thinks it's time to be awake? Then I suddenly have the urge to sleep until 9am.
Around 5am – when I was really started to feel the pain of the day to come – I gave her the following lecture:
Listen, kid. If you sleep past 5am either of the mornings I'm in Arizona, keeping your father from experiencing the true potential of pain you can inflict on a tired adult, I'm going to be pissed. I want you to get up around 4am, and then I want you to scream all day. Maybe add some pooping on clothing (his) or some throwing of food (something that stains) on the floor. If I hear you've slept late and been smiley for the entire time I'm gone? You're totally grounded.
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An exhibition chronicling the design and creation of Kasper Holten's production of Don Giovanni is currently open to view in the main entrance foyer at the Royal Opera House.
The exhibition was curated by set designer Es Devlin (Les Troyens and Salome), who is returning to The Royal Opera this Season with Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
'What is great about this exhibition is that it's a thing in itself,' says Es. 'Exhibitions like this can often end up as footnotes to a live event, which is frustrating. But walking into this exhibition, the artefacts are intriguing in themselves. That they are traces of a production is just one aspect of what's involved.'
The production, which had its world premiere on 1 February 2014, features video design by Luke Halls and costume design by Anja Vang Kragh. Using projections to evoke Giovanni's state of mind at key points in the drama, the design plays with themes of reality and imagination.
For the exhibition, Es envisaged melding the video design used in the production with conventional video in order to tell the story of the creative people involved in a major new opera production. To achieve this, the process of creating the costumes and dyeing them with 'ink stains' was filmed, and the footage projected onto dresses in the main entrance foyer. You can see the full process of dyeing the costumes and the making of Donna Anna's dress on our YouTube channel.
'The projections in the exhibition posed several technical challenges,' says Tom Nelson, ROH Creative Producer. 'We are working in a Grade 1 listed building, in an area with lots of daylight and limited space. There were also concerns about conservation due to the heat dissipation from the projector.' The exhibition uses a new bright projector by Casio that works at short distances and uses LED-hybrid technology to minimize heat.
'The end result is a really strong visual narrative that has never been achieved before in a Royal Opera House exhibition,' says Tom.
Exhibitions can be visited for free during normal daytime opening at the Royal Opera House, Monday-Friday, 10am–3.30pm. Before making a special visit, please call +44(0)20 7304 4000 to check that the Front of House spaces are open.]]>
Fairy and Mortal Worlds Collide
Frederick Ashton's The Dream received its premiere in April 1964, as part of The Royal Ballet's celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare. Based on A Midsummer Night's Dream, the ballet captures the comic confusion that arises in the play as mortal and fairy worlds collide. However, it is more than a straightforward narrative. By drawing on the unique personalities and talents of his dancers – most notably Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell as Titania and Oberon – Ashton created complex characters whose inner thoughts and feelings are brought to life through virtuoso choreography.
Mendelssohn's Dream
The score for The Dream is the incidental music Felix Mendelssohn wrote for an 1842 production of the play, compiled and arranged by John Lanchbery to suit Ashton's simplified version of the story. It demonstrates the composer's unique gift for orchestration – from the lively Scherzo with its chattering woodwind and strings to the majestic brass in the famous Wedding March – and transports the audience to the ballet's magical fairy realm.
Decoding 'Connectome'
For his new ballet, choreographer Alastair Marriott was in part inspired by Dr Sebastian Seung's theories about 'connectomes'. A connectome is a comprehensive map of the connections in the brain. Re-creating and decoding this complex network can, Seung argues, unlock the workings of the mind, and help us examine the extent to which neural wiring shapes our very identity.
Science and Emotion
Marriott was inspired by the idea that a person's memories, personality and intellect may all be determined by the make-up of their connectome. His choreography maps out four particular emotional aspects of life, which he derived from his interpretations of the four pieces by Arvo Pärt he selected for the ballet's score. Similarly, designs by Es Devlin, Bruno Poet and Luke Halls were influenced by both instinctive, personal experiences and the imagery and scientific theories linked to the connectome.
Master of both Ballet and Broadway
Choreographer Jerome Robbins's numerous ballets for American companies – including his 1956 The Concert for New York City Ballet – won him renown in the world of classical dance. But he was also equally talented and recognized as a choreographer and director for film, television and on Broadway, with some of his most popular works including the stage version and 1961 film of West Side Story and the musicals On the Town, Gypsy: A Musical Fable and Fiddler on the Roof.
A Comic Masterpiece
The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) entered the repertory of The Royal Ballet in 1975. Set to a series of nine pieces by Fryderyk Chopin, the work depicts the quirks and reveries of a concert audience at a recital. Robbins allowed the music to define the personality and disposition of the ballet's characters and took inspiration from programmatic names given to the pieces, such as the lovely 'Butterfly' Etude, to create a ballet full of wit, slapstick and genuinely laugh-out-loud moments, in what is generally agreed to be the funniest ballet ever created.
The Royal Ballet's triple programme of The Dream, Connectome and The Concert runs 31 May–13 June 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
The nominations for this year's Olivier Awards have been announced.
Joyce Di Donato, Juan Diego Flórez and Plácido Domingo have been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Opera alongside English Touring Opera.
Stefan Herheim's Royal Opera production of Les Vêpres Siciliennes and John Fulljames's ROH2 production of The Firework-Maker's Daughter (a co-production with The Opera Group and Opera North in association with the ROH and Watford Palace Theatre) have been nominated for Best New Opera production alongside ENO's Wozzeck.
The ROH's West End transfer of The Wind in the Willows has received two nominations - in the Best Entertainment and Family category and designer Nicky Gillibrand in the Best Costume Design.
A number of companies and artists who have recently performed at the ROH also feature:
Metamorphosis choreographer Arthur Pita (for his work with Ballet Black) and Clemmie Sveaas (for her performance in Cathy Marston's Witch-hunt) have been are nominated in the Outstanding Achievement in Dance category.
Designer Es Devlin is nominated for Best Set Design for Chimerica, while lighting designer Paule Constable has been nominated for her work on the National Theatre's The Light Princess.
Richard Eyre - whose production of La traviata returns to Covent Garden this Season - is nominated for his production of Ghosts in the Best Director category.
The ceremony will take place on 13 April at the Royal Opera House.
See the full list of Olivier Award 2014 nominations.
Highlights of The Olivier Awards will be broadcast by ITV at 10.15pm on 13 April. The ceremony itself will be live-streamed on a big screen in Covent Garden Piazza.]]>
Kasper Holten's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, starring Mariusz Kwiecień, Alex Esposito and Malin Byström, was screened live across the world on 12 February as part of our Live Cinema Season 2013/14.
The relay, which was presented by Bryn Terfel, included backstage films featuring rehearsal footage and interviews with the cast and creative team. In case you missed them, or just want to find out more about the production, here they are again.
An Introduction
'Don Giovanni is a story about a man who has seduced 2,065 women,' says director Kasper Holten. 'On the morning of one of his conquests, he gets stopped by the father of a woman he has just seduced and, in the ensuing fight, kills him. It is both a tragedy and a comedy - a farce that needs to move fast and be funny.'
Kasper Holten, conductor Nicola Luisotti and set designer Es Devlin discuss Mozart's classic tragicomedy and the challenges in staging it, while members of the cast introduce their character in the opera.
Don Giovanni's women and their music
Kasper Holten, Nicola Luisotti and singers Malin Byström, Véronique Gens and Elizabeth Watts introduce the three main female characters in Don Giovanni - Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina - as well as the different music that portrays their emotions.
'These characters that Da Ponte etched in his libretto have all our frailties and everything we come across in our lives,' says Elizabeth Watts, who sings the role of Zerlina, 'and so they are still just as real today as they were when they were written.'
Read audience reactions to the cinema relay
The Royal Opera House Cinema Season relays our performances to over 1,100 cinemas in 29 countries around the world. The next live relay will be The Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty on 19 March. Other productions in the 2013/14 Cinema Season include The Winter's Tale and Manon Lescaut.]]>
Award-winning stage designer Es Devlin was recently featured on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
She was interviewed by Kirsty Lang at her studio in South East London - a former factory packed with leftovers from past productions and models for forthcoming shows - where she introduced the initial designs for a future Royal Opera production.
'This is a 1:25 scale model of the initial design for the first Royal Opera production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,' she explained.
The production will open with The Royal Opera in March 2015. In preparation, she and her team have already broken down the piece minute by minute. 'We know exactly what is happening every minute of the piece - who is singing, how many voices there are, the combination of voices, and how many people are on stage.'
Recently, Es has been working with Kasper Holten on his new production of Don Giovanni. Watch Kasper's video diary series about staging the new work.
She spoke about the connection between her work with pop acts and the opera, explaining: 'For Don Giovanni, we're using an extraordinary animator called Luke Halls, who I've worked with on Lady Gaga and Take That, and he is creating something for The Royal Opera that, I think, hasn't been seen before.'
Es has gone from designing for fringe venues of just 80 people to designing for arenas for up to 80,000, and moves effortlessly between concerts, theatre and opera. Her credits range from the 2012 Olympic Ceremony, to the award-winning Chimerica; from Les Troyens to the much-anticipated musical American Psycho.
Have you seen plays, operas or concerts designed by Es Devlin? Let us know what you think of her work.
Don Giovanni runs from 1-24 February 2014. Tickets are still available. Other Royal Opera production designed by Es Devlin include Salome and and Glass's Orphée. Watch an interview with Es about designing the set for Les Troyens.]]>
At a gigantic 15 truckloads in size, transporting the set for Les Troyens from the workshop in Thurrock in Essex to London's Covent Garden is a huge task.
Es Devlin's staging contrasts Troy, a warlike city rendered in gunmetal hues, with Carthage; a serene utopia of desert browns and oranges. Its impressive size also matches the epic tale of Aeneas and his flight from Troy to the North African citystate where he meets Dido, the Phoenician queen who he protects and falls in love with.
We recently filmed the set on its odyssey from workshop to stage:]]>
We recently caught up with Es Devlin, the designer behind the epic set for Les Troyens.
In this short film the designer talks in detail about the process of designing an opera and why model boxes are made for every main stage production. She also explains why clear design is essential for the teams who build the sets and props as well as the director.
Es has designed several sets for operas at the Royal Opera House, most recently for David McVicar's production of Salome, which returned to Covent Garden earlier in the season. She also designs stage shows for the world's top pop and rock, recently working with the likes of Kanye West, Take That and Rihanna.
In a few weeks, the attention of billions will be on Es's work as the closing ceremony of London 2012, which she designed, will be broadcast to the world.]]>
The large, light studio on the sixth floor is piled high with objects that divide into two categories: components for a vast war machine, and food – mountains of it. A half-eaten salmon on a platter jostles for space on the workbench with a domed tureen of mushrooms; rifle butts bristle out of cardboard boxes.
The studio floor is occupied by the frame of a giant horse's head being covered with a shell of lifelike weapons (actually fibreglass) by a team of 24 people – all trying to work in a space intended for a staff of 11. In his mezzanine office above the shop floor, Head of Props, Antony Barnett, is cool as a cucumber – or manfully concealing his panic – as he talks about the schedule for two of the biggest new productions ever to come through his department at the same time, Falstaff and Les Troyens.
"I thought last year was busy enough, with Anna Nicole and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But this time we've had to hire more freelance specialists – laminators, mould-makers, carpenters.' Like most of his permanent staff, Barnett himself can turn his hand to everything. 'That's what makes our job interesting. You have to come up with a way of making anything you're asked for by the designer."
Brushing past four giant chandeliers ("each bead on those strings is hand-threaded"), we inspect the 14 trolleys covered in discarded food that appear in the first act of Falstaff, where the Rabelaisian glutton lies on his (specially reinforced) giant bed. Canadian director Robert Carsen has decided that Falstaff is all about eating, so as well as the scene with 14 trolleys, he's included a restaurant scene with diners at eight tables, each at different stages of a meal. Then there's a gentlemen's club, again with drink and food, an act set in a 1950s American kitchen with fully equipped cupboards, and lastly a lavish banquet. For reasons of cost and hygiene, it's more efficient to construct the food than to produce it fresh each night. When The Royal Opera revives Falstaff in the future, it's good to know that the profiteroles will still be good as new.
The weaponry and huge chunks of metal to be used in Les Troyens have also been made from scratch – David McVicar and his designer Es Devlin have placed the conflict in the time of the Boer War and very little existing weaponry in the props department can be reused. Before starting the weapons in the middle of last summer, Barnett calculated how many individual pieces would be needed for the two huge structures that appear in the five-act opera. It was one and a half thousand! Now they are being welded to the giant frame which, at nearly eight metres tall cannot be hauled upright until it reaches the stage. Still to be constructed is a giant tree whose branches must be removable – and fireproof – and a miniature sandstone city, eight metres across. Any more detail would give the game away!
The traditional techniques of props-making are kept alive in the Royal Opera House's workshops – witness the leeks lovingly assembled out of paper rope, scrim and string, and the amazingly realistic lettuce leaf, beef joint or salmon side.
To create a half-eaten salmon, Barnett bought and cooked one himself. "It was delicious, but I had to leave enough to make the mould!"
He is always on the lookout for new materials and methods. Two of the most fruitful areas are the medical world and the aircraft industry. "Everything they develop for aeroplanes will be fireproof, which is good for us. We have regular visits from the fire-brigade to make sure we're following safety regulations."
Even an accident presented an opportunity for medical research. "I injured my arm and I was so impressed by the quick-drying plaster they used on me in hospital that I took the packet away and bought some online." The internet is a fantastic source of props, and Barnett and his colleague Julie spend time on eBay tracking down obscure items. He has managed to find a 1930s pram for The Ring, silverware for Falstaff's banquet, and for Liam Scarlett's new one-act ballet he found a Victorian bed and a beautiful old chair – all of which might have taken weeks to find in individual markets.
Next Season promises to be quieter – Robert le diable, directed by Laurent Pelly, includes a jousting scene and the notorious cemetery scene, giving makers a chance to carve artistic figures on coffins. But there will be nothing as demanding as this Season's two monster productions. How has Barnett managed to stretch his budget to create such an extraordinary number of props this Season? After all, as he points out, "Raw materials, such as metal and wood, have gone up. But as a department we've always made an effort to save money. We're skip-hunters… we love making something cheap look expensive."
That's good news for the ROH's finance department!
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Do you use a P.O. Box or lock box address as you billing provider address to receive payments? If you submit claims electronically, you will be required use only a street address or physical location as the billing provider address. Continuing to report a P.O. Box in the billing provider address field will cause your claims to reject.
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), all physicians and other health care providers that submit claims electronically are required to transition to the Version 5010 transactions by Jan. 1. One of many data reporting changes in the Version 5010 transactions is the requirement to report only a street address or physical location as the billing provider address.
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
On November 15, the Nassau Academy of Medicine recently presented a check in the amount of $5,850, from the Joseph Millett, MD Memorial Fund to the Lions Club District 20k2 Diabetes Education Board.
Lions Club District 20K2 Treasurer, Thomas Grosso accepted the donation from NAM President Vincent Geraci, Jr. MD, while Helen McQuade, daughter of Dr. Millett was on hand to make the presentation of the ceremonial check.
Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 202 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world. They are best known for working to end preventable blindness and sponsoring camps for newly diagnosed children with Diabetes.
The Nassau Academy of Medicine was established in 1953 to establish, conduct, operate and maintain and Academy of Medicine to provide educational opportunities and training of a postgraduate nature for members of the medical profession in Nassau County, and to diffuse among people knowledge of the achievements of scientific medicine.
The Joseph Millett, MD, Memorial Fund was created in 1966, following the death of Dr. Millett, to provide an endowment for medical research. At the suggestion of Mrs. Joseph Millett, a donation this donation has been made to an organization such as the Lions Club as Dr. Millett dedicated his medical career to treating diabetes patients.
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
On November 7th, the Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program launched in New York. This means that eligible professionals (EPs) and eligible hospitals in New York will be able to complete their incentive program registration. More information about the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program can be found on the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Basics page of the CMS EHR website.
If you are a resident of New York, and are eligible to participate in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, visit your State Medicaid Agency website for more information on your state's participation in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. Click on a State below to access its website.
As of November 7th, 39 states have launched Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs and through October, 23 states have issued incentive payments to Medicaid EPs and eligible hospitals who have adopted, implemented, or upgraded certified EHR technology. CMS looks forward to announcing the launches of additional states' programs in the coming months.
For a complete list of states that have already begun participation in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, see the Medicaid State Information page on the CMS EHR website.
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November 11, 2011 1:15 PM
(AP) ALBANY, N.Y. — New York courts specializing in the state's 4,000 medical malpractice cases filed each year have begun expanding following the success of a Bronx judge in settling cases early.
The approach, shown to cut court backlogs and save money, has been extended to Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, with some Erie County judges getting trained.
"It was proving to be a cost savings to hospitals and directly impacting the indemnity insurance of doctors," New York Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau said.
Starting Dec. 1, Pfau will become coordinating judge of the court system's medical malpractice segment. The pilot program is using a $3 million federal grant to train more judges in medical issues. Pfau herself will take cases in Brooklyn, where she is an acting state Supreme Court justice in the commercial division. She said it would be good to make the program citywide and makes sense to extend it to Long Island.
Bronx Justice Douglas McKeon, who began focusing on malpractice cases 15 years ago, said he has helped settle more than 1,000 since, with 12 to 15 cases now on the calendar monthly for intense discussions. Once the city's Health and Hospitals Corp., which runs 11 public hospitals, created its own claims and law department in 2006 and explored settling cases sooner instead of later, the program "really took off," with a 95 percent settlement rate for the corporation's cases, he said.
Corporation deputy counsel Suzanne Blundi said they essentially revamped their whole commitment to patient safety, developing systems to improve care, manage claims and decrease payouts, which dropped from $196 million in 2003 to about $130 million last year.
The effort has entailed trying to investigate malpractice claims early on and also expediting settlements, Blundi said.
"If you have a matter that needs to be resolved, getting compensation to the injured person in a timely fashion is important. We see it as a continued relationship with our patients. … OK, there's an error, and we're going to help deal with it," she said.
McKeon said it's easier for the corporation as a municipal entity. "They don't have investments they have to get certain returns on. They're not an insurance company or one of these captive creations some hospitals put together," he said.
Without close scrutiny by one judge, cases can come back several times before various judges with settlements discussed but doctors refusing to agree, McKeon said. "To me it's a waste of court resources. … I always felt if you could extrapolate it across the state you could probably save a sizable sum of money."
Now attorneys generally go through evidence discovery before serious settlement talks begin, Pfau said. "In a malpractice case, all of that discovery is very expensive."
In one recent case, where a woman was hit by a car, taken to a city hospital and ended up brain damaged, a settlement was reached for about one-sixth of the initial demand and without the hospital admitting liability, Pfau said. At issue was whether the pressure in the patient's head had been appropriately monitored.
Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, an advocacy group, said he has questions about the special courts and their negotiated settlements that should be studied. "Even though people are not forced into it, I have no idea how coercive or not the pitch is," he said.
Leslie Kelmachter, president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, said McKeon has put together a very good program, that malpractice issues are often straightforward, and the lawyers can support earlier settlements on behalf of their clients, the injured victims, as long as they are fair. "There shouldn't be any pressure on the plaintiffs to settle. It should be voluntary," she said.
It makes sense for the pilot program to target high-population areas with a large number of cases and high hospital malpractice costs, Pfau said. Many cases involve obstetrics and Medicaid patients, sometimes mothers coming to emergency rooms to give birth without any prenatal care, she said.
"What you're finding is in poorer communities you're getting higher incidence of this and in poorer communities you're finding the huge verdicts," said McKeon, a member of the medical malpractice reform working group of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's team revamping Medicaid. He said other factors include lawsuits needlessly naming every doctor in a patient's medical record who had little to do with the case, and preventive medicine's increase in diagnostic tests, which create more opportunities for poor communications between diagnosing and treating physicians, he said.
Earlier this year, Pfau issued, and the Administrative Board of the Courts approved, new rules for the state trial courts on medical malpractice, calling for settlement conferences 45 days after court papers are filed indicating that the case is ready for trial. Only attorneys fully familiar with the case and authorized to settle it are to appear, and judges may also order insurance representatives and others with an interest to appear.
Federal data showed just over 1,800 medical malpractice payments statewide for $736 million in 2009, down from 2,400 payments for $822 million three years earlier. The New York Public Interest Research Group noted that 10 percent drop occurred even as the number of doctors practicing in the state increased to almost 65,000.
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
The American Medical Association (AMA) has advised local medical societies and physicians that they have met with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the enrollment revalidation process. In their letter the AMA stated that the CMS director agreed to extend the provider enrollment revalidation process through 2015.
CMS has indicated in the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Matters Special Edition (SE) article SE1126, that it may be appropriate to delay; however there has been no delay to 2015 that has been formally announced by CMS. If CMS were to delay the final compliance date of revalidation into 2015, the process will still continue.
If you have received a revalidation request letter from National Government Services you are still required to complete your enrollment forms for revalidation and return them to National Government Services within 60 days from the date of the letter as the letter indicates. National Government Services is working toward sending the second letter soon. If you receive a letter during that phase you will also need to comply within 60 days from the date of the letter and revalidate your provider number by sending in a fully completed CMS-855. Failure to do so may lead to deactivation of your Provider Transaction Access Number (PTAN) and billing privileges to Medicare.
Note: Please remember that the revalidation process does not change or alter normal provider enrollment laws for Medicare. If you have a change of address, reassignments, additions to practice, changes in authorized officials or other information updates you are still required to submit that change within 30 days. You cannot wait for revalidation to update your enrollment record. That is not in compliance with Medicare regulation.
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The MLN fact sheet titled "The Basics of Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) for Provider and Supplier Organizations" is designed to provide education to provider and supplier organizations on how to use Internet-based PECOS to enroll in the Medicare Program and can be found at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/MedEnroll_PECOS_ProviderSup_FactSheet_ICN903767.pdf on the CMS Web site.
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Marriage 101, a premarital seminar and training, will be held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday and Wednesday of each month from 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. at the Spiritual Life Center, Bldg 8939. To register call 334-255-3447/3903. View Flier
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The Family Life Ministry at Fort Rucker is pleased to announce "Marriage 101," a premarital 2-day seminar held twice a month (2nd/4th, Tuesday-Wednesday). The "Marriage 101" seminar and training is mandatory for those wishing to tie the knot at Fort Rucker. The topics covered are: marital expectations, communication and emotional intimacy, personality differences, conflict resolution, spiritual intimacy, relating with money, and sexual intimacy. To enroll in the training and to obtain more information, please call the Spiritual Life Center, (334) 255-3447 or (334) 255-3903.
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Daimler AG To Create New Board Of Management Position For 'Integrity And Legal'
STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- Supervisory Board decides to expand the Daimler Board of Management
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- Further initiatives to strengthen compliance activities will be implemented successively
- Dr. Manfred Bischoff: " Compliance and integrity are extremely important to the Daimler Group and we intend to set new standards in this respect. This is why we have decided to create a dedicated Board of Management position for Integrity and Legal. "
- Dr. Dieter Zetsche: " The new Board of Management position is a consistent step in the further development of our corporate structure and culture. No business in the world is worth violating applicable laws, regulations or ethical standards. "
Daimler AG is to create a new Board of Management position for "Integrity and Legal." The Supervisory Board today passed a resolution on the expansion of the Board of Management. The new position will be filled externally. The new Board of Management member's tasks will include managing the global Legal and Compliance Organization and the related processes, as well as business ethics and the sustained anchoring of compliance and integrity throughout the Group.
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Update: I had a appointment with my OB this morning and everything is looking good! We got the final results of our NT and quad screen. Our DS risk was 1:4700 and something else was 1:1100 but I cant remember what it was. Everything else they test for was 1:>50000. At our next appointment I will have my 1 hour glucose test, ugh!
QOTW: Every year that DH is not deployed we spend the 4th of July holiday with his family in IL. The Saturday before the 4th the town next to his does a fantastic fireworks display and then we go to his hometown's parade on the 4th. We will be spending 11 days up there this time since we won't be traveling with Colt for a while. I will be so ready to come home though!
No real updates, just anxiously awaiting my a/s on Thursday morning. I also have a cervical measurement u/s at my OB on Friday so I will be getting to see the little guys twice this week!
We are going to be in Maine for the 4th and we are staying for the whole week. DH has to work though since he is saving all of his vacation time for when the babies arrive, but at least he can work from Maine. I guess this is also our babymoon since we have no other trips planned. My parents are coming for the second half of the week and so are my brother and his fiance. We will also be celebrating our two year wedding anniversary on July 3rd.
Hope everyone has a great week and a happy 4th!
Hi Everyone I hope you are all feeling good!
No updates.. I am feeling good, just getting anxious to feel some sort of movement!! My tummy has definitely gotten bigger the last week or so though so that has been exciting!
QOTW: No real traditions... we usually just barbecue at home, especially if the holiday is during the week. We live really close to where our city does their fireworks, so usually fourth of July evening is spent trying to pry kitties from their hiding spots! I do have to say that I just realized that this will probably be the first fourth of July in a very long time that I will not be having beers!! Oh well, it is for a very good reason!
I hope you all have a great week and holiday!
Moving over from 1st tri!
EDD 12/29/12 with twins, we are team green.
How are you feeling? Any exciting news or updates?
I *think* the nausea is getting better. Maybe? Still just want to nap all the time. Luckily I only have 2 more days of work before a one month vacation. Hopefully my energy returns before I start my new job next month.
Update: Things are going very well so far. I feel Jackson move around everyday and DH got to feel him for the first time on Sunday! The only thing that has been bothering me is my carpal tunnel. I have to wear my brace on both arms at night time and almost all day long to have any relief.
QOTW: We always have a big pool party at my mother's house with our entire family. So excited to show off my bump next weekend!
hunterjumper, thanks for doing the check-in! Glad to hear your screening tests came back good!
Hope all the 2nd tri ladies are doing well, and safe travels to those who will be going away for July 4th.
How are you feeling? Week 2 of my cold and it's finally better. Never been this sick for so long! Also have a lot of BHs the last few days which has gotten me worried. OB nurse told me to drink lots of water but I don't think it's helping much.
Any exciting news or updates? I have been able to hear LO's hb via my stethoscope this past week; it's something I hadn't expected this early.QOTW: Since I will be out of town for 4th of July I want to know what your plans are for the holiday? Any traditions that you do every year? Since we moved back to the Boston area, we've been going to SIL's place for dinner followed by walking out on the Charles for the fireworks. Not sure if we're doing it this year b/c I don't know if I want to stand for 1-2 hrs with no easy access to bathroom facilities...
Update: I have been feeling good. I think I'm finally feeling movement! It feels like a popping/pulsing feeling. I have my monthly appointment tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to meeting with the OB again. The only negative is I have been dealing with insomnia the last few nights. I'm hoping it is something I ate/drink and not a look at what will be coming.
QOTW: For the actual fourth, I'm not sure where I will be because my father and DH need to o work on one of the two construction projects they are working on. We may do a clam bake whereever. HOwever, on that Friday we are heading up to ME for my grandfather's 90th birthday weekend. We really don't have any traditions so to speak, but I do like to catch the fireworks somewhere.
How are you feeling? Feeling good. Been tired the last couple of days with a headache. I was a sleep at 8:30 pm last night.
Any exciting news or updates? My OB appt last week was nothing special. I heard the HB again :-)Since I will be out of town for 4th of July I want to know what your plans are for the holiday? Any traditions that you do every year? We have no traditions, I always try to drag my DH to some firework show. We have a friend who is going to be throwing a 4th of July party on the 6th. That will be fun.
QOTW: Since I will be out of town for 4th of July I want to know what your plans are for the holiday? Any traditions that you do every year?
No traditions yet but it's our 1st 07/04 here...i know that from where we live you can see downtown's fireworks so I just hope to make have a nice dinner and watch the fireworks. We've noticed our furbabbies have become terrified of them so we'll have to sedate them and stay close for this year.
How are you feeling? Any exciting news or updates? I feel good for the most part. My joints are starting to hurt a lot, especially my hips from sleeping on my sides. My blood sugar seems to be a lot better now, but the after breakfast number is still questionable from time to time.QOTW: Since I will be out of town for 4th of July I want to know what your plans are for the holiday? Any traditions that you do every year? No traditions really, usually just cookout. This year, I'll be staying inside for sure, as it was 104 degrees today!
No updates - we have our gender scan planned for July 9th so hopefully our muppet will cooperate!
We usually go to DH's parents house on the 4th (in central Nebraska). It will be fun but I am not in the mood to travel right now.
The only question I have that I am curious about is completing your family. I know I am putting the cart ahead of the horse but it took us 3 years to get pg with this LO and we always wanted 3 so we are having to rethink how we will complete our family going forward. I would like to hear others opinions on this and what they are going to do to achieve their ideal family size.
Hello ladies!! Please add me. My EDD is 12/12 with a singleton.
I think I feel little one in the evenings sometimes although I know it is really early. I still get sick in the mornings a couple times a week and I am still tired all the time. I am hoping the second tri energy burst happens soon . I also started feeling RLP for the first time last night... At leastthat's what I hope it is. I can't wait to hear LO's heartbeat at my next appointment, 7/10.
DH are going to FIL's for a party. The have one every year. It's going to be a hot one!
Update: Found out last week that we are having boys!!
Qotw: I wish we were doing something for the 4th! We usually find something to do last minute like a pool party, but I find it extra miserable this summer with the Houston heat. I need a vacay
Update: I'm feeling pretty good. Still tired on and off, but it's much better than it was. I'm definitely more irritable lately, but I think it's b/c I'm surrounded by idiots at work.
I *finally* got to hear the baby's heartbeat at my last ob appt. Very cool!
QOTW: No real traditions. We usually go to see the fireworks and later watch the Macy's fireworks on tv.
Update: Nothing much at the moment, just anxiously awaiting my a/s on 7/9! I've been feeling pretty good all around. I'm still taking Zofran more often than not, and am wondering if my all day m/s plans on sticking around the whole time?! I feel like it's a normal part of daily life now Energy has been pretty decent, and I'm enjoying the ride!
QOTW: I think we plan on heading downtown to Freedom Fest with some friends. There will be a concert and big fireworks show. I'm sure we'll melt, seeing how it's been about 250 degrees here already!
Hope you ladies are having a wonderful week
Lferr417 1/4/2013 pregnant with 1 perfect little babe
rounding the corner this weekend into 2nd tri Could i be added
July 1st is our 1st wedding anniversary so will be doing dinner that night, and 4th of July is our "dating" anniversary (10 years- cant believe it!) we always do the town fireworks with our fams. His house is close enough to walk down to the local stadium too which is great.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 514 - 09 February, 2000
Written Answers. - Orthodontic Service.
Mr. Finucane Mr. Finucane
181. Mr. Finucane asked the Minister for Health and Children the allocation made to deal with waiting lists for orthodontic treatment in the Mid-Western Health Board in each of the years from 1998 to date; the average waiting period for the various categories for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3750/00]
Mr. Martin Mr. Martin
Minister for Health and Children (Mr. Martin): The provision of orthodontic treatment in the Mid-Western Health Board region is the statutory responsibility of the Mid-Western Health Board.
The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. I have asked the chief executive officer of the Mid-Western Health Board to forward the relevant information and I will revert to the Deputy as soon as it is collated.
Dáil Éireann 514 Written Answers. Orthodontic Service.