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When you practice, do you mean your stage show?
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It seems like you guys have a different flavor from the other R&B groups.
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"I bring the love," Pleasure said.
"I'm on the business grind all the time," said Baby Blue, who is starting his own clothing line, Marco de Bleu. In New Edition terms, he's the Michael Bivens of the group.
"I'm bringing the sexiness to the group, the dancing," Spectacular said. "Make the ladies scream. That's me."
In February, Atlantic Records signed Pretty Ricky to a major-label deal via their father Blue's management company, Blue Star Entertainment. The kids then proceeded to knock out an album, Blue Stars, in record time for a May 24 release date, just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
"We got a couple of joints for the ladies," Pleasure said. "We got a couple of joints for the dudes."
"We all about the ladies," Baby Blue added.
"Make sure you add that we make feel good music," Spectacular said. "We trying to bring slow music back to the club."
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In St. Tropez, at the heart of the French Riviera, the sun really does shine brighter and the Mediterranean is truly bluer. Or maybe that's just the effect of the chilled rosé going to your head when you visit St. Tropez. If long leisurely lunches and days spent poolside interrupted only by shopping for Provencal handicrafts are what led you to St. Tropez travel, the historic charms of this seaside town will be a bonus.

What to Do in St. Tropez

The list of things to do includes rest, relax, eat, and drink, but there are also some sights to see in St. Tropez:

 • Place de Lices
 • Chapelle Ste. Anne
 • Vieux Porte
 • Pointe du Capon
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 • Museum of l'Annonciade

When to Go to St. Tropez

If you want to travel to St. Tropez when it is its most glamorous and buzzing, then go in July or August. You'll find, however, that hoteliers are well aware how coveted their rooms are then, and you'll pay dearly to stay. The weather is still good in May, June, and September. Off-season St. Tropez can be charming, even if you can't expect beach weather.
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The French Riviera is a premier resort destination for good reason: It has clear water bordered by stretches of white-sand beaches, rocky cliffs, and hidden coves—and it's only a 90-minute flight from Paris. The bustling city of Nice, the legendary waterfront town of Cannes, and the once-sleepy village of St.-Tropez are the main attractions.

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Winter in Mayville Heights is busy and not just because of the holidays. Kathleen Paulson is hard at work organizing a benefit at the Stratton Theater to raise money for the library's popular Reading Buddies program. When a guest at the gala drops dead, Kathleen, along with her magical cats Owen and Hercules, becomes entangled in secrets and murder.
The victim is the ex-wife of town "entrepreneur" Burtis Chapman, but she hasn't lived in the area in years. And though everybody is denying knowledge of why Dayna Chapman was back in town, as Kathleen and her detective boyfriend, Marcus, begin nosing around, they discover more people are connected to the deceased than claimed to be. Now Marcus, Kathleen, and her uncanny cats have to unravel this midwinter tale before the case gets cold.
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Moscow bourse aims $500m in IPO
Stock exchange valued at up to $4.6 billion in planned flotation
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- An employee speaks on the phone at the office of the Moscow Exchange January 21, 2013. The Moscow Exchange, Russia's main venue for trading in stocks, bonds, foreign exchange and derivatives, on Monday announced its intention to float on its own platform through the sale of stock expected to be worth at least $500 million.
Moscow: Moscow's stock exchange will be valued at up to $4.6 billion in its planned stock market flotation, which will raise around $500 million for the company and selling shareholders, according to a price range published by the company on Monday.
The Moscow Exchange, Russia's main venue for trading in stocks, bonds, currencies and derivatives, is to float on its own platform in an attempt to revitalise Russia's capital markets and convince companies to list domestically rather than abroad.
Promoting Moscow's markets has been backed by the Kremlin in a bid to transform the Russian capital into a global financial centre. President Vladimir Putin recently called for upcoming privatisations of state assets to be held in Russia.
Analysts caution, however, that it will be difficult to break a trend for Russian companies to seek listings in London or New York, continued scepticism about shareholder rights in Russia and a slump in local share trading volumes.
The exchange, formed in 2011 through the merger of Moscow's two largest stock exchanges, MICEX and RTS, set an indicative price range for its initial public offering (IPO) of between 55 and 63 roubles, confirming a Reuters report on Friday.
That values it at between $4 billion and $4.6 billion based on a share count of 2.197 billion.
Around 60 per cent of the 15 billion roubles ($500 million) of proceeds will go to selling shareholders while around 40 per cent will go to the company, which is raising money to invest in IT and its clearing business.
The company may increase the size of the offering, if there is enough demand, by up to 5 billion roubles.
The company and shareholders selling through a MICEX subsidiary will be subject to a lock-up preventing them from selling any more shares for 180 days, the company said in a statement, without specifying any restrictions that previous RTS shareholders might have.
The exchange's largest shareholder is Russia's central bank, which will retain its 24.3 per cent stake.
Other shareholders are banks and brokers such as Sberbank with 10.3 per cent, Unicredit, VTB, Gazprombank, US private equity fund Cartesian Capital and the state-backed Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
The RTS' shareholders before the 2011 merger were large investment banks, according to an archived version of its website.
During the merger, five RTS shareholders — Renaissance Capital, Alfa Bank, Aton, Troika Dialog and Da Vinci Capital — agreed to sell a controlling stake to MICEX. The exchange declined to comment on the identity of other RTS shareholders.
The Moscow Exchange said that VTB Capital, acting as a manager in the offering, will have the right to acquire up to 13 per cent of the issued shares.
Dividends of no less than 30 per cent of consolidated net profit will be paid for 2012 and 40 per cent of profit will be spent on this year's dividend payout. Next year, half of the exchange's profit will go to paying dividends, it said.
Final pricing of the IPO is expected on February 15 and trading of the shares will start the same day under the symbol MOEX.
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After Appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Old KIDK Clip Goes Viral
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After an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" last week, a local news clip featuring some rogue weather graphics (watch above) went viral, becoming fodder on a slew of websites, as well as NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Although the video was uploaded to YouTube on August 29 of this year, the actual source of the video, from Idaho Falls CBS-affiliate KIDK, is two years old, according to KDSK, and features anchors who no longer even work at the station.
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You could always take the crosses off and put different pendants on (Micheal's craft store has awesome pendants pretty cheap) depending on the necklace. I mean, it's up to you. A few months ago when I was in a bad place in my life, one of my best friends at the time sent me a charm bracelet with beautiful charms made from gemstones. My only issue with it was there was a cross made of amethyst. I just took it off and rearranged the charms so it looked even, problem solved. Good thing about jewelry is it's customizable.
I've always found it interesting that about 70% of porn stars wear crosses.
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The Australian government recently issued a warning regarding several common household chemicals that can be used to make homemade explosives. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon noted that many everyday chemicals can be used in terrorist attacks, including those found in salons, pharmacies, dairies, mining, fireworks, pools and spas.
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MIDDLEBURY — An idea that started as a blog post last summer may become the newest field of study at Middlebury College.
Last summer, Amanda Warren and Ben Blackshear, students who currently head up the Middlebury College Organic Garden (MCOG), sat down to develop an unofficial program in Food and Agriculture Studies using courses already offered at the college. They posted the plan to their blog at middfood.com.
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MIDDLEBURY — Costello's Market took top culinary honors at Middlebury's Third Annual Winter Carnival and Chili Festival, an event that drew more than 3,000 people to Addison County's shire town, according to organizers.
The festival was held downtown with traffic blocked from Merchants Row and Main Street from the Middlebury Community House to the new rotary.
Founding father Benjamin Franklin — what a guy. He came up with a lot of neat ideas, including bifocals, the lightning rod and the stove that bears his name. In his spare time, he was an author, printer, politician, postmaster and scientist.
But every March, I wish ol' Ben had been flying his kite instead of brainstorming what I believe to be his most dubious contribution to society: Daylight Saving Time (DST) — setting the clock back one hour in the fall and forward one hour in the spring to maximize the availability of daylight.
This is the sixth anniversary of Sunshine Week, a time to take stock of the public's right to know and to celebrate victories in making ours a more open and transparent government.
Saturday's Chili Festival in Middlebury drew a throng of about 3,500 people who enjoyed socializing on a closed Main Street while tasting more than 80 varieties of chili on a semi-raw, March day. It was, as coordinators of the event said, "an overwhelming success."
In two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case raising important First Amendment issues about public financing of political campaigns.
The case comes from Arizona. In the 1990s, many Arizona legislators faced civil and criminal charges involving campaign contributions from the gambling industry. In 1998, Arizona's voters passed a referendum establishing a "Clean Elections" program that provides public funding to candidates for state offices who voluntarily limit the amount of money they raise in private donations.
Barbara and Shawn Thompson-Snow used to think they could live out the American Dream.
With good jobs and college educations, in their early 50s they seemed set for a happy ending. Ahead of them stretched a few more years of full-time work — then the chance to cut back to part-time, to travel and enjoy life.
Five college loans later and with a second kid still in college, that now seems like a laughable fantasy. They might as well try flapping their arms and flying from their Lincoln home to the top of Mt. Abe.
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Brett, William Howard; librarian, Cleveland Public Library; born, Braceville, O., in 1846; son of Morgan Lewis and Jane Brokaw Brett; educated, public schools, Warren, O., studied Western Reserve College, Hudson, O., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; graduated from Hiram College, Hiram, O., degree A. M.; married, Cleveland, 1879, Alice L. Allen; issue, 6 children, 1 deceased; appointed to his present position in 1884; devoted to the cause of public libraries, and a student with a broad general knowledge; instrumental in forming the Ohio Library Ass'n, pres., 1895 and 1896; in 1897, pres. of the American Library Ass'n; chairman, in 1898, of the Trans-Mississippi Library Congress; since 1903, Dean of Western Reserve Library School, and originator of the Culminative Index; member Chamber of Commerce and the Rowfant Club.
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Chicago public school students will not return to the classroom on Monday, as the Chicago Teachers Union decided to take more time to mull over a contract proposal. Students will not return to class until Wednesday at the earliest, according to the union. The delegates could vote to end the strike as early as Tuesday, [...]
Chicago Teachers Strike to Last Couple More Days, as Union Mulls Over Tentative Agreement
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Sources: Tentative Agreement in Chicago Teachers Strike
|By: David Dayen Friday September 14, 2012 1:06 pm
The Chicago Tribune reports that a tentative deal has been reached in the teachers strike that would resume classes as early as Monday for 350,000 students. The union's House of Delegates will review the proposal at a meeting this afternoon and is likely to vote to end the five-day-old teachers strike on Sunday after final [...]
Chicago Teachers Strike Resolution Imminent as Emanuel Bends
|By: David Dayen Friday September 14, 2012 8:18 am
Everyone continues to expect a conclusion to the Chicago teachers strike today. "Number crunching" delayed an announcement last night, but CTU President Karen Lewis still scheduled a meeting with the union's House of Delegates at 2pm CT today, where they could give preliminary approval to any deal. But labor will rally at 12pm CT in [...]
Chicago Teachers Strike a Critical Moment in the Future of Public Education
|By: David Dayen Thursday September 13, 2012 11:42 am
The Chicago teachers strike could end by Monday, CTU President Karen Lewis now projects. It's hard to get a handle on where the concessions have been made. We know that raises would be restructured as per union policy and health insurance rates would remain the same, pending union participation in wellness programs. In addition, the [...]
Chicago Teachers Strike Could End Tomorrow
|By: David Dayen Thursday September 13, 2012 7:41 am
The Chicago Teachers Union strike could end as early as tomorrow. Both sides reported progress in yesterday's bargaining session, and hopes are high that today's session will complete whatever outstanding issues exist. Since strikes are technically confined to bargaining issues like pay and benefits, we only have the barest sketch of the emerging deal. The [...]
The Goal for CTU is Better Schools, Not Better Pay
|By: David Dayen Wednesday September 12, 2012 9:04 am
AFT President Randi Weingarten's op-ed for USA Today makes the overlooked point that Chicago teachers are striking, not necessarily for better pay as it has been claimed in most of the traditional media (complete with haughty stories about those lucky duckie rich teachers), but for better schools. The issues that teachers are fighting for go [...]
CTU Negotiating Position: Let's Fix Chicago Schools – Literally
|By: David Dayen Tuesday September 11, 2012 12:27 pm
Those politicians and observers asking for the striking Chicago Teachers Union and the city to get back to the bargaining table neglect the fact that they never left. Talks continue between the two sides. And according to this report, CTU has several points of contention. …while Chicago Board of Education officials have said the two [...]
Corporate-Led Education Reform Movement Ignores Solvable Problems to Carry Out Its Agenda
|By: David Dayen Tuesday September 11, 2012 9:06 am
One thing you never hear in the education debate, dominated by those persistently shrieking that schools "are in crisis," is an appeal to the actual data surrounding school performance. The statistics are pretty clear that American students have exceeded their performance over a 30-year period, and that's true if you control for various populations, both [...]
As Paul Ryan Lines Up Behind Rahm, the Scheme to Privatize Chicago Schools Becomes Clear
|By: David Dayen Tuesday September 11, 2012 6:17 am
Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has twisted the knife just a bit more in an attempt to draw out President Obama on the Chicago Teachers Union strike, now entering its second day. He told a fundraiser in Portland, OR yesterday that he endorsed the position in the strike of the former chief of staff of [...]
The Chicago Teachers Union Fight Is a National Fight
|By: David Dayen Monday September 10, 2012 2:09 pm
Dylan Matthews published a post today about how teacher strikes harm student achievement, reaching all the way to suggest that the future earning potential of students off from school today at the Chicago Public Schools will be impacted by a protracted strike. Let's set aside the fact that it seems a bit presumptuous to enter [...]
Romney Tries to Bait Obama Over Chicago Teachers Union Strike
|By: David Dayen Monday September 10, 2012 9:39 am
Mitt Romney is clearly trying to pick a fight over the Chicago Teachers Union strike, and force Barack Obama into making a statement on the issue that will wedge him between his base's beliefs and his policy preferences, which in this case stand at odds with one another. Here's Romney's short statement: I am disappointed [...]


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Amy Clark of Ashoka on 2011 and What's to Come in the Year Ahead
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This is the 2st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. Amy Clark, the U.S. Fellow Selection leader at Ashoka [1], reflects on her prediction about the democratization of the social entrepreneurship movement, and discusses the emergence of a new demographic of changemakers, along with the role that empathy skills play in dictating success.
Dowser: One of the trends you predicted for 2011 [2] was the democratization of the social entrepreneurship movement, where all types of people — beyond entrepreneurs — would contribute to change. What is your assessment of how the movement has democratized this year?
Clark: The trend toward what I had called an "evolved democracy" is a deep one, and signals a truly historical shift that we are seeing play out everywhere from the political upheavals and reforms of 2011, to the emergence of citizen-scientists, citizen-journalists, and so on. The pace of change is picking up considerably and the role of social entrepreneurs and changemakers is more important now than ever, as old institutions and business models break apart and new approaches take root in their place. The actions of the social entrepreneur community are key to shepherding these changes in ways that anticipate and respond to the immediate and long-term health of society.
Ashoka's interest has always been in catalyzing leading social entrepreneurs who work with the fullest possible freedom, time investment, and creativity in order to isolate guiding insights and architect systemic change. Especially in the past five years or so, we have seen more clearly that the solutions Ashoka Fellows introduce almost always open pathways for many, many people to see themselves and their roles and skills in a new light - as changemakers. When changemakers see a problem in their family life, workplace, or field, they think: what's the best solution and how can I contribute to it? Looking down the road, I think the health of a society will be measured by the proportion of people who identify and act as changemakers at whatever scale the problem requires.
Can you give some examples of the different types of people and professionals that you've seen emerge as changemakers?
We always want to seek out and connect to new groups of changemakers who have not, for any number of reasons, crossed the formal social entrepreneur path. For example, I just got back from a farming and ranching gathering hosted by a group whose aim is to energize young farmers as small business people and also as changemakers – although they didn't use that language. In the U.S., there are few Ashoka Fellows in agriculture and historically few natural points of contact. And yet the culture of farming and ranching is inherently entrepreneurial. It's one of many examples of new corners of the movement that we have yet to fully engage in this country.
Also, a few social entrepreneurs in our 2011 Fellow class are brilliant at igniting "intrapreneur" talent - changemakers who work in existing institutions such as universities, companies, organizations, or government, and link into the big ideas of system-changing entrepreneurs and the demands and mandates of their institution. Social entrepreneurs partner with them and equip them with overarching ideas and many of the practical tools they need to guide change from within – to green supply chains, to organize parents, and so on. In essence, this strategy extends the reach and resources of the Fellows' team and offers new ways of unlocking and harnessing changemaker talent that is there already.
So, what does the role of the intrapreneur look like and how does it relate to accelerating change?
Intrapreneurs bring about an important and lasting culture change inside their institutions, so that team-based methods that value good ideas coming from anywhere begin to show results that can't be achieved through top–down approaches and traditional forms of management. The culture they create can withstand — and even thrive — in a world where the pace of change is increasing all the time. If I'm a corporate or government leader or school principal or university dean, this is a huge asset, and a reason to recruit changemakers and enable their success.
It also seems that the way organizations are operating now, that it's less about having one person leading change, and more about forming organizations where everyone is committed to the mission.
Entrepreneurs define new ways of operating to get things done, and we are seeing a shift in the way entrepreneurial organizations recruit and organize talent – and even in the language used to describe our working lives. Changemakers coalesce teams around meaningful "challenges," which is different from going to work every day because you do a "job." They also build skill sets that allow greater fluidity and co-creation of change across networks, not just within siloed institutions. In response, Ashoka launched its first "20-20 campaign [3]" in 2011 to source entrepreneurial talent – for Ashoka staff roles, and also more broadly for the sector and its networked aims. Talent is one of the top challenges for social entrepreneurs, and the degree to which Ashoka and partner organizations can attract, vet, and route talent to the highest-impact corners of the movement will make the critical difference.
Speaking of identifying talent and channeling it to the right parts of the movement, Ashoka has also been a champion of cultivating what it considers to be the core skill of empathy. Can you discuss how you have seen empathy shape the sector?
We kicked off our empathy work [4] in the United States formally in 2011 – a key area of work for us in this country and globally. In looking at the 3,000 social entrepreneurs in Ashoka's community, we saw that empathy was a common denominator, a core skill across the community. For us, empathy is not just the ability to feel what someone else is feeling, but to act on that understanding with conviction and creativity, to problem-solve effectively while holding self-interest and the interest of others in a healthy and productive tension. It is therefore a foundational skill for social entrepreneurs and changemakers, whether you're engaged in education or health or reforming markets.
In the US, we're cultivating empathy through three main approaches. First, we're building a community of leading social entrepreneurs whose innovations we can learn from and share. This includes finding emerging social entrepreneurs in this area. Second, we want to align with thought leaders and influencers in education who see the paradigm shift in learning and want to partner with Ashoka and Ashoka Fellows to make it happen. And finally, because the early childhood years offer a key developmental moment, we are working with schools – especially elementary schools – that are already ahead of the curve in pioneering the focus on this skill. They already ensure that empathy is modeled by teachers and parents and that children have opportunities inside and outside the classroom to practice this skill and prepare for a life of work that is very different from past centuries.
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During 30 Days 4 Change students have the freedom to create their own "Impact Campaign" to include funding, awareness and fulfilling needs that address topics surrounding issues of homelessness, poverty, education, hunger, and housing. Giving students these opportunities brings awareness and understanding to the next generation of socially responsible individuals with the capacity to shape and improve our future communities.
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Professor Paul Tam graduated from the Medical School of The University of Hong Kong in 1976. He received his training and spent his early career years in the Department of Surgery of the University until 1986. He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool from 1986 to 1990, and Reader and Director of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 1996. He has been Chair of Paediatric Surgery at The University of Hong Kong since 1996.
Professor Tam has contributed to advances in paediatric surgery especially in the areas of minimal invasive surgery, Hirschsprung's disease and hepatobiliary diseases such as biliary atresia. He also leads a large research team in genomics and stem cell biology. He has published over 300 articles in internationally refereed journals and 30 book chapters, and is ranked amongst the top 1% of most-cited scientists in Essential Science Indicators.
As Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Dean of Graduate School, Professor Tam steers research strategies and development of the University of Hong Kong. Professor Tam also heads the Knowledge Exchange Office and HKU's research development in Shenzhen and Zhejiang. He is member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) and member of the Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. He is listed one of 56 experts in the National Science and Technology Programmes Expert Database. Also, he serves on many international professional associations and was President of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons (2008-2009). He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have been rocked by the Mumbai Indians (MI) bowlers in their run-chase in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014. Bangalore are chasing a low target of 116, but have lost three quick wickets. They are at 24 for three after five overs. Lasith Malinga and Zaheer Khan did the damage with the ball. Mumbai had only posted a lowly total of 115 for nine.
Zaheer Khan began proceedings for Mumbai. Left-handed batsman Nic Maddinson got the first runs for Bangalore with a four over point as Zaheer had bowled one short and wide. Mumbai's low score changed their bowling strategy as Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga bowled the second and third overs. Malinga bowled a yorker and Maddinson got a thick edged onto his bat and the ball went for a four towards third-man.
But Malinga had his man next ball as he bowled another yorker and breached Maddinson's defense to bowl him for 12 runs. Zaheer was brought back in the fourth over. He angled one away from new batsman Virat Kohli and he edged it to Harbhajan at first slip. Kohli was out for a duck.
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'Tis the season to be jolly! Join your colleagues at the RBA's most popular event – the Holiday Cocktail Party – on Wednesday, December 17, 2014. The Party will be held in the Marble Hall at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The party features and open bar and heavy hors d'oeuvres.
Cost to attend is $50 per RBA member and first non-member guest. Additional non-member guests are $65 per person. The deadline for reservations is Friday, December 12th. No reservations will be accepted without payment. No refunds after December 12th. There is no firm billing for this event.
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Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been described as 'both recognizably traditional and joltingly contemporary' – acclaimed not just for its inventive use of classical ballet, but also for the wide variety of other dance genres and cultural references it incorporates. This striking conflation of styles – combined with Joby Talbot's shimmering score and Bob Crowley's extraordinary designs – draws the audience into the magical Wonderland of Lewis Carroll's novel, and brings to life the eclectic characters conjured in Carroll's writing.
Wheeldon introduces many set pieces into the traditional 19th-century ballet framework of Alice. One of the most anticipated must be the dance for the Caterpillar. Having been enticed away from her parents' afternoon tea party by the White Rabbit; Alice finds herself in a curious Wonderland full of magic potions and strange creatures. Desperate to find a way into an enchanted garden she has spied through a keyhole and to be reunited with the Knave of Hearts, she has asked a strange Cheshire Cat and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter for directions – but to no avail. Alone and lost, she has begun to lose hope…
Suddenly, there is a marked change in Talbot's score – a glimmer of wind chimes and the sound of North African drums – as Alice discovers the Caterpillar, perched on a mushroom. With the stage bathed in a hazy purple light, four female dancers enter in a style that contrasts with the all the different types of dancing we've seen so far. While they wear pointe shoes and bourrée on in a traditionally balletic fashion, the choreography for their upper bodies is sinuous and free, with isolations – where one part of the body appears to move independently – of the shoulders, arms and wrists that are more characteristic of South Asian dance.
As they continue their exotic movements in perfect synchrony – a trait that emulates the rippling segments of a caterpillar's body – the male Caterpillar begins to dance. Eric Underwood, who created the role, explains that when he performs the Caterpillar 'I like to think that my legs are doing ballet, my feet are doing ballet, [but] my upper body is just dancing'. While many of the steps he performs – such as developpés, pirouettes en attitude, chainés and arabesques – are recognizably from classical ballet, these are finished with an undulating torso that ripples from the base of the spine all the way to the top of the head, and isolations for the ribcage and arms.
As the dance goes on, Wheeldon's choreography includes several eye-catching moments that evoke the personality of this mysterious Caterpillar. These range from sections of breakdancing to punchy movements led by the heel of the hand that recall Bollywood dancing, and an image reminiscent of the lotus position performed by all five dancers with legs in a wide second position and rippling wrists.
Beguiled by this fantastical creature, Alice - who has been watching in awe - joins in with the dancing. At first poséing apprehensively after the Caterpillar, she becomes more confident and – having being presented with a piece of mushroom to eat – even tries out one of his ribcage isolations. After a fleeting section of pas de deux in which Alice's classical style and the Caterpillar's movements are momentarily fused – and just when we think this charming creature has shown us all of his moves – he comes back on for one last trick, bedecked in finery with his segments behind him in a long line of sparkling struts.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland runs 6 December 2014–16 January 2015. Tickets are currently sold out, but returns may become available and 67 day tickets are available for each performance.
The production will be broadcast live to cinemas around the world on 16 December 2014. Find your nearest cinema.
The production is sponsored by Van Cleef and Arpels and is given with generous philanthropic support from Celia Blakey and The Royal Opera House Endowment Fund. It is a co-production with The National Ballet of Canada.
Guess how many crystals are used on the Caterpillar's feet in The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for a chance to win a pair of Caterpillar pointe shoes worn by Leticia Stock.]]>
Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta has choreographed his first musical, a production of the Broadway classic Guys and Dolls.
Centring on a group of small-time gamblers in Prohibition-era New York City, Guys and Dolls was first seen on Broadway in 1950, winning five Tony Awards on its debut run, including Best Musical. There have since been numerous international revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.
The 2014 Chichester Festival Theatre production of Guys and Dolls will be the first musical to appear in the recently restored Festival Theatre.
'It was clear that [Carlos is] a man of great vision, great integrity and an amazing collaborator', says Guys and Dolls director Gordon Greenberg. 'So although this is really his first musical, he's made for musicals.'
Guys and Dolls follows Carlos's first full-length work for The Royal Ballet, Don Quixote, which had its premiere in October 2013. Carlos's fresh take on Marius Petipa's classic ballet will return to Covent Garden in November 2014, as part of The Royal Ballet's upcoming 2014/15 Season.
Guys and Dolls runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre 11 August–21 September 2014.
Don Quixote runs at the Royal Opera House 25 November 2014–22 January 2015. Tickets are still available.]]>
Ex nihilo/The Human Edge, two new works by Royal Ballet Choreographic Affiliate Mayuri Boonham, will have their world premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre on Tuesday 29 April.
Mayuri, who is trained in classical Indian Bharatanatyam dance, is Artistic Director of ATMA Dance and has created two new works for the Linbury: Ex nihilo, performed by seven ATMA dancers; and The Human Edge, performed by Royal Ballet First Soloist Yuhui Choe and Soloist Kenta Kura.
We caught up with Mayuri at the start of rehearsals to find out more:
What has inspired your forthcoming works?
Ex nihilo is inspired by the 'Hymn of Creation' – one of the oldest in a collection of sacred hymns in the ancient Rigveda. It considers moments long before the Big Bang and the creation of matter. The poetry of the hymn is marvellous and I was attracted to its abstract imagery and mysticism. The dance is an expression of some of the ideas contemplated by the Vedic sages.
The Human Edge takes its cue from the Hindu story of Sati, the first goddess who appeared at the mythological moment of creation as embodied energy. The choreography draws on the drama of Sati's life, and her self-annihilation, a metaphor for the life cycle of stars.
Royal Ballet Dancers Kenta Kura and Yuhui Choe in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson
Royal Ballet Dancer Kenta Kura in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson
Royal Ballet Dancers Kenta Kura and Yuhui Choe in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson
Bharatanatyam informs much of your choreography. Can you describe the style?
Bharatanatyam originated in the state of Tamil Nadu and is the oldest Indian classical dance style that evolved in the sacred environment of the temples of South India. It uses the body as a form of expressive geometry, like triangles flowing in three dimensions. It has a codified movement language, and a rich and extensive vocabulary - 28 single hand gestures, 24 double hand gestures, 4 neck movements, 8 movements of the eyes, and so on. It can be physically distinguished from other Indian classical dance forms by its specific deep bend of the knee, which pushes out to the sides; it is similar to a ballet plié but more geometrical, and is sustained during some movements of the dance.
What other styles of dance influence you?
I am influenced by both ballet and contemporary dance; both have helped open up my own style and given me tools and ideas to work with. Last year I saw Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares in Onegin and Edward Watson in The Metamorphosis, and I found the physicality of their performances breathtaking. However, I always go back to classical Bharatanatyam when I want to know how to express an idea. It is my touchstone.
The music you're using for the two new works isn't what you might expect Bharatanatyam to be performed to. Can you perform Bharatanatyam to non-traditional music?
Yes. Bharatanatyam is a living, evolving dance form and anything is possible depending on the choreographer's imagination. For Ex nihilo I am using an installation of sound recordings by Bill Fontana. They range from recordings that have captured sounds such as the birth of particles from inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, where scientists reproduce and measure the conditions that existed a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, to recordings from the desert in Abu Dhabi, and an old woman from New York reciting her own take on The Book of Genesis.
In contrast, the music for The Human Edge is composed by MIDIval Punditz, long-term collaborators of mine who specialize in synthesizing classical Indian instruments with electronica. Their music aims to brings emotion to the concluding part of the programme and a harmonizing influence after the abstraction of Ex nihilo.
You have previously worked with Fumi Kaneko, Yasmine Naghdi, Sander Blommaert and Nicol Edmonds. What is it like working with Royal Ballet dancers?
Royal Ballet dancers are highly disciplined and have an extraordinary physical ability that I can use to push the movement material I give them. It is very interesting to see how the physicality of non-Bharatanatyam trained dancers can help power the language in a different way. I think they have found the dance form a little alien, but it is amazing to see how they transform the movement into something completely new.
Yuhui and Kenta are consummate classical artists and it's exciting to be working with some of the best dancers in the world.
Ex nihilo/The Human Edge will be performed on 29 and 30 April 2014. Tickets are still available.
The bill is a co-production with The Royal Ballet Studio Programme.
The Royal Opera House's Paul Hamlyn Hall was recently filled with more than 500 primary school children from all over England. They came together in a culmination of the Royal Opera House's Learning and Participation project, Dance Dynamic - a training programme for teachers.
Over the prior eight weeks, 25 teachers from around the country attended INSET (In Service Training) days, brought their students to watch rehearsals at the Royal Opera House, received in-school visits from practitioners and led weekly creative dance sessions. This resulted in the teachers and their students creating completely original dance pieces, which premiered at Covent Garden.
Each of the performances was unique and inspired by a different subject, ranging from Greek mythology to space exploration, pirates and 'A day in the life of a Londoner'. The children displayed a fantastic amount of dedication, talent, creativity and clearly enjoyed the unique experience of performing at the Royal Opera House.
One of the teachers involved, Pauline from the Grange School in Daventry, said of the project:
The INSET days have been brilliant, and we now feel equipped choreograph creative dance. From the children's point of view, they have achieved so much: they have choreographed, rehearsed, worked on dance motifs, performed, created art work and descriptive writing. They have had the opportunity to see Wayne McGregor's new ballet Raven Girl and to visit London, a thrill in itself. Dance Dynamic workshop leader Liz Foster was so encouraging and supportive on her visit to us in school and the children thoroughly enjoyed our session. Friday's performance was the icing on the cake for us."
We recognize that teaching creative dance can be a challenge. Through the Dance Dynamic project we hope to give the teachers the tools and confidence to lead creative dance sessions with the children in their class, and have fun at the same time!
Find out more about future teacher training courses and events
Dance Dynamic is supported by MariaMarina FDN and the Material World Foundation.
This April, Royal Ballet dancers have the opportunity to showcase their choreographic skills by presenting new, developmental works as part of Draft Works.
The annual performances, staged since 2007, provide a platform for experimental choreography created around The Royal Ballet's busy schedule.
'I've just started my draft work for this season,' explains First Artist Nathalie Harrison, 'This year is tricky as our schedule is packed, but we snatch rehearsals in lunch breaks and often rehearse late into our free nights. We surprise ourselves by what can be squeezed in!'
'At the moment, I'm just playing with short sketches and doodles. It takes a moment to switch from corps de ballet conformity to creativity, but it's liberating to be given the scope to make something. I'm really enjoying the accidental accomplishments that happen when you play with movement.'
Last year, Draft Works included a diverse range of dance, ranging from Kristen McNally's comical, cowboy-themed Lonesome Gun, to Valentino Zucchetti's neo-classical Brandenburg Divertissement.
'I got the inspiration for my own piece when observing crowds in the National Gallery,' continues Nathalie. 'I want to explore people's internalization when observing or reflecting on art. My piece is a short glance at both human interaction and lack of interaction, exploring concentration and contemplation.'
'The ideas in your head never appear immediately in the studio. It requires patience, but I'm quite impatient and so it is an excellent exercise for me. It also makes me realize the pure talent and professionalism of my colleagues.'
This year, Draft Works will feature work by Royal Ballet Affiliate Choreographers Alexander Whitley and Mayuri Boonham, Royal Ballet Choreographic Apprentice Robert Binet and Associate Artist Sarah Dowling as well as Royal Ballet Soloists Kenta Kura, Kristen McNally and Valentino Zucchetti, and First Artists Nathalie Harrison and Ludovic Ondiviela.
'I'm also dancing in Ludovic Ondievela's piece,' adds Nathalie. 'I love Ludo's work: he is an incredibly efficient choreographer with a very clear vision of his piece.'
[This article was corrected on 29/04/13 to change the year referred to from 2014 to 2013]
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Liam Scarlett has been appointed the first ever Royal Ballet Artist in Residence. The position will allow him to focus solely on his choreographic work. He will take up the position with immediate effect and make his last appearances with the Company as a dancer in the current run of Swan Lake.
Liam's latest work Viscera receives its UK premiere at the Royal Opera House this weekend as part of a Mixed programme also featuring Wayne McGregor's Infra and Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise. Previous works choreographed by Liam include Sweet Violets, Asphodel Meadows and Diana & Actaeon from Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 (a collaboration with Will Tuckett and Jonathan Watkins).
Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O'Hare said:
"This is a very exciting moment both for Liam and also for The Royal Ballet. We've seen Liam's choreographic talents develop since his time at the Royal Ballet School and subsequently as a member of the Company with Monica Mason's encouragement and I'm delighted that we're now able to offer him this opportunity to concentrate full time on his choreographic work."
Liam reacted to his appointment saying:
"It is such an honour to be made Artist in Residence. For the past 16 years The Royal Ballet School and The Royal Ballet have been my home and it is with immense pride that I accept this position. I have had a wonderful and fruitful dancing career and now look forward to this next venture continuing to develop and create new work for the world's top dancers in the most outstanding company in the world."
The Royal Ballet has been very lucky to receive generous support for new choreography, most recently through the New Ballet Works syndicate, launched in September to support three new works being created by Liam, Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon. Gifts received so far have raised over £450,000, which goes a very long way in enabling the extensive time and resources required when creating new choreography.
If you wish to find out more about the syndicate, please contact Deborah Lewis on +44(0) 207 212 9587 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.]]>
The choreographer behind some of the greatest ballets of the 20th century, Sir Kenneth MacMillan (1929-1992) is an illustrious figure in the world of dance.
Kenneth MacMillan was the first British choreographer to be produced entirely by the Sadler's Wells Ballet, now The Royal Ballet. His works remain at the heart of the repertory of The Royal Ballet and his full-length ballets Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling are danced by companies around the world.
Edward Watson as Crown Prince Rudolf and Iohna Loots as Princess Stephanie in Mayerling © ROH / Bill Cooper 2009
MacMillan discovered ballet in 1940, at the age of 11, when he was evacuated from his home-town, Great Yarmouth, to Retford, Nottinghamshire. Although he had already learnt tap and Scottish country dancing, taking part in entertainments for soldiers at American air force bases, it was ballet that became his passion. On his return to Great Yarmouth, he began lessons with dance teacher Phyllis Adams. MacMillan came from a poor background and could not afford classes so Adams, recognising his talent, taught him for free and encouraged his dance ambitions. For MacMillan, whose mother died when he was just 12, she became a hugely important figure in his life.
At the age of 15 MacMillan wrote to Ninette de Valois pretending to be his father "my son, who is nearly 15, wants to be a ballet dancer and many people think he is very talented" asking for an audition for the Sadler's Wells Ballet School (now the Royal Ballet School). MacMillan arrived late and De Valois had him join a Company class and dance alongside Margot Fonteyn and Beryl Grey. She was impressed by what she saw and he was awarded a scholarship. MacMillan was a founder member of Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet in 1946 and over the next ten years appeared with both the Sadler's Wells Companies, dancing the role of Florestan in The Sleeping Beauty during the company's first tour of America in 1949. A talented classical dancer, he also appeared in romantic roles such as the poet in Les Sylphides. His first created role was as The Great Admirer of Mademoiselle Piquant in John Cranko's ballet Children's Corner in 1948 and other created roles include Moondog in John Cranko's The Lady and The Fool and the title role in Margaret Dale's The Great Detective. Although he enjoyed great success as a dancer, MacMillan found himself becoming increasingly interested in choreography.
MacMillan created his first choreographic work, Somnambulism, a ballet set to jazz music by Stan Kenton but based on classical technique, for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's First Choreographic Evening in 1953. He prepared it in just a week, in a room at Sadler's Wells Theatre so cluttered with skips and wardrobe baskets that there was barely enough floor space to move. It was apparent to everyone present that here was a new and highly individual talent. In 1954 De Valois commissioned his first stage work for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Danses concertantes, which was very well received. By this time, MacMillan was suffering from increasingly crippling stage-fright and panic attacks, so De Valois offered him work as a choreographer and in time he became resident choreographer. He explained in an interview for BBC Omnibus:
"I stopped dancing when I was about 23 mainly because I had just terrible stage-fright and I hated performing. I turned to choreography as a release from dancing and I was lucky enough that the first thing I did everyone liked."
MacMillan began to create for The Royal Ballet what would become a huge body of work, and his early ground breaking one-act ballets include The Burrow (1958), The Invitation (1960) and The Rite of Spring (1962). Over the following years, he cemented his reputation as a choreographer of the first rank. From the oppressive setting of The Burrow, a work that reminded many of The Diaries of Anne Frank, to the graphic depiction of rape in The Invitation much of MacMillan's work focused on the theme of the outsider, the rebel and the downtrodden.
Jann Parry, author of the biography of Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan explains that MacMillan was the first choreographer to express the feelings and anxiety of the post-war generation:
"He was rebelling against the conventional idea that ballet was light entertainment… and using ballet to express things that are inexpressible in words."
In 1965, he created his first full-length ballet, Romeo and Juliet, on Royal Ballet Principals Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable. It is based on the Shakespeare tragedy and like Shakespeare's play the ballet is an earthy treatment of the story. MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet are recognisably two teenagers discovering love and sex for the first time. It includes wonderful dancing for the corps de ballet whether it's the two Montague and Capulet gangs street fighting or the stylised court dancing of the Capulet's ball. It received an unprecedented number of ovations at its first performance when the title roles were danced by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Find out more about the excitement surrounding the build-up to the premiere.
MacMillan created over forty ballets during his career, winning the respect and admiration of dancers worldwide. Lynn Seymour, on whom he created many leading roles, explained that, "he had the gift of revealing each individual's talents and had won their respect and belief in his work. To be in one of his ballets, even at the humblest level, was seen as a special bestowal of regard and made you one of a select, elite chosen few." Read more of Lynn Seymour's thoughts about MacMillan.
MacMillan worked extensively with The Royal Ballet until 1966. In 1963 Las Hermanas was commissioned by choreographer John Cranko for Stuttgart Ballet. MacMillan and Cranko had become friends and collaborators first at Sadler's Wells Ballet School and then at Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. When Cranko became Director of Stuttgart Ballet he invited MacMillan to create works for the company including one of his greatest ballets Song of the Earth in 1966. From 1966 MacMillan spent four years as Director of the Deutsch Oper Ballet in West Berlin creating Concerto for them during that period.
Kenneth MacMillan as The Great Admirer of Mademoiselle Piquant in Children's Corner © 1948 Royal Opera House/Roger Wood
Kenneth MacMillan, Beryl Grey and John Field in Ballet Imperial, 1950 © 1950 Royal Opera House/Roger Wood
MacMillan returned to London in 1970, to take up the post of Director of The Royal Ballet, which he held for seven years before retiring to focus on his choreography. He continued to work with The Royal Ballet becoming Principal Choreographer of The Royal Ballet as well as working as Associate Director of American Ballet Theatre (1984 – 1989) and Artistic Associate of the Houston Ballet (1989 – 1992). Later works created for The Royal Ballet include the one-act ballets Elite Syncopations (1974), The Valley of Shadows (1983), Different Drummer (1984), Winter Dreams (1991) and The Judas Tree (1992) and the three full-length ballets Manon (1974) and Mayerling (1978). MacMillan died unexpectedly on 29 October 1992 backstage at the Royal Opera House during a performance of his ballet Mayerling.
A choreographer who changed the nature of classical ballet, he has left a powerful legacy in the dance world. Watch this interview to find out more.
In Autumn 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth MacMillan's death, The Royal Ballet is performing three of his one act ballets: Concerto, Las Hermanas and Requiem. This triple bill runs from 17 November - 5 December. Mayerling runs from 19 April - 15 June 2013.]]>
The staging of a new ballet at The Royal Ballet involves a lengthy and creative collaboration between the choreographer, costume designer, lighting technician, stage manager and Director of the Company. This pooling of experience is one of the things that makes work generated by the Company so strong, and enables The Royal Ballet to push the boundaries of ballet as an art form.
As Wayne McGregor discussed in his recent BBC Hardtalk interview: "There is a hunger and an appetite amongst the dancers here at to engage with new work and to engage with living choreographers."
The 2012/13 Season offer dancers a number of opportunities to create new work. One instance of this is our annual Draft Works, which allows members of the Company to put themselves forward to choreograph parts of a mixed programme for the Linbury Studio Theatre.
There are new ballets also in store from three choreographers with proven credentials of creating new work: Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett. Collectively they have produced some of The Royal Ballet's greatest successes of recent years, including Infra, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Asphodel Meadows.
We have established a New Ballet Works Syndicate to support these choreographers and their productions; two for the main stage and one in the Linbury. Joining a syndicate is a very special way of discovering more about how a production comes together. In this case, each supporter will join us for a series of experiences that will bring the creation of new works to life.
For Wayne McGregor's new piece, for example, events will include a private orchestra rehearsal - offering a first chance to hear music by award-winning composer Gabriel Yared; invitations to stage rehearsals to see the work come together; and opportunities to meet the dancers and choreographers involved. If you would like to know more about being part of this season's syndicate, two supporters of Les Troyens recently wrote a piece for us about their experience of watching the production develop. It's an amazing way to take a front row seat at the development of a new work.
If you would like more information about syndicates, please contact Deborah Lewis: email@example.com, +44 (0)20 7212 9587.]]>
Youth Dance England is looking for talented choreographers aged 15 to 19 to take part in its Young Creatives competition.
Young choreographers can enter with work of any form of dance, from contemporary or jazz to ballet or hip hop.
The competition offers a unique experience to work with prestigious artists in world-class organizations. Winners will create pieces that will be performed at The Royal Opera House, get one-to-one mentoring from a professional choreographer and attend a weekend-long choreography workshop at The Royal Ballet School.
Young Creatives is being run by in partnership with the Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet School, Yorkshire Dance and professional choreographers.
The deadline for entry is 2 November 2012. Short-listed applicants will be invited to one of three selection days hosted by Yorkshire Dance in Leeds on 18 November, and the Royal Opera House on 26 and 27 November. Some of these applicants will be offered a place on the programme in January 2013.
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As Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 leaves the Covent Garden stage, fans of the work of Christopher Wheeldon can console themselves with this clip of the choreographer rehearsing Polyphonia. Originally part of Royal Ballet Live, the video features Christopher rehearsing the piece with artists including Leanne Benjamin, Sarah Lamb and the recently promoted Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Alexander Campbell.
Polyphonia was created in 2001 for New York City Ballet. It was most recently performed by The Royal Ballet in a triple bill with Wayne McGregor's Carbon Life and Liam Scarlett's Sweet Violets.
The next chance to see work by Christopher on the ROH stage is the one-act ballet Fool's Paradise in November. Other works by Wheeldon coming up in the 2012/13 season include an as yet untitled new commission (22 February - 14 March, in a triple bill with new works by Alexei Ratmansky and George Balanchine's Apollo) and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (15 March - 13 April).


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I can't say I've ever been to a wedding where small stuffed bears were shot into the air like confetti, but then again, I've never attended a wedding in Japan. Tossing a bear seems to be all the rage at Japanese wedding receptions these days, and I guess there are enough people who can't summon the energy to actually pick up and throw a small stuffed animal to warrant the creation of a gadget that does it for them. Seizing the "opportunity," Japanese paint company Sunamiya has built a party cracker designed to shoot a mini teddy bear into the air. Not only that, but — and I couldn't make this up — every bear is equipped with a tiny parachute to ensure a soft landing. I'd usually end with a quip here, but there's no way I could top the image of a bride and groom in the middle of a cloud of small pink Teddy bears with parachutes, slowly descending all around them like the climax to a computer game called Ursine Air Assault: Wedding Crash.


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LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest design for Jay Luchs isn't Chanel or Hermes, it's Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF). A leading national retail expert who specializes in serving the high-end fashion houses as well as the entertainment industry, Mr. Luchs is joining NGKF's burgeoning retail division under Neal Golden to cater to the firm's significantly growing roster of national and international retail clients. A bicoastal advisor, he will work closely with Jeffrey D. Roseman, who has spearheaded the retail group in New York and grown it to its No. 1 position.
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Mr. Luchs has been involved with some of the most prominent leasing and sales deals in Los Angeles in the last decade, and represents runway royalty: LVMH brands Celine, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, as well as Lanvin, Missoni, Isabel Marant and Bottega Veneta, among others. Just prior to joining NGKF, he negotiated the $85 million sale of 319-323 North Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills to LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, representing both buyer and seller.Mr. Luchs resume of representing the who's who of international fashion kicked off when he spotted a vacant corner space on Rodeo Drive and Santa Monica Blvd in 2003. The former Tommy Hilfiger store sat empty for three years on L.A.'s most prominent shopping boulevard. He went after the listing and was hired to sublease the space on behalf of Tommy Hilfiger, and quickly leased it to Brooks Brothers. Mr. Luchs has since come to dominate retail leasing in L.A.'s most highly sought after areas, whether its Rodeo Drive, the Melrose Avenue corridor, Brentwood or Malibu. "That's how I got my start in representing fashion brands," he says now, looking back.
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I feel like romantic comedies are always about a woman who's trying to get hitched, and a guy who's resisting (except for, I guess, "Runaway Bride"). So I'm really excited for the new Lizzy Caplan movie, "Save the Date," where — gasp! — she plays a woman who turns down her boyfriend's proposal. Caplan was absolutely breathtaking in the pretty-much-straight-to-video "Bachelorette," and we're really excited to see her helm a film here. Plus, her boyfriend is played by Christina Hendricks' real life boo, who we hear is a pretty funny guy. [NYMag.com]
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A Palm Springs woman was ordered Friday to stand trial on felony charges of trying to cut off her husband's penis with heavy-duty scissors.
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Firefighters have contained a wildfire that burned 150 acres in the Southern California desert south of Palm Springs and destroyed one mobile home and an outbuilding.
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A federal judge Friday ordered a Desert Hot Springs man accused of planting pipe bombs near a former girlfriend's residence held without bail.
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Actor Jeremy London plead guilty Friday to a misdemeanor charge of getting into an unlawful fight in public.
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Attorneys agreed to start jury selection Tuesday for the trial of actor Jeremy London, who faces a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery for allegedly hitting his estranged wife and pulling her hair during an argument about their 5-year-old son in Palm Springs.
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Police say a sixth pipe bomb was found in a residential Palm Springs neighborhood Saturday.
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The FBI announced the arrest of the man they say has robbed at least ten banks in Orange, Riverside and Ventura Counties as the "Snowboarder Bandit."
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Authorities have linked a man known as the Snowboarder Bandit to a bank heist in Palm Springs.
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A bicyclist who collapsed and died on a Palm Springs trail during a scorching hot day was a 40-year-old Orange County man.
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Fake cigarette gang's 'large-scale operation'.
A MIDLAND man has been jailed for his part in a separate smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain operation which saw three million counterfeit cigarettes shipped into the region from Belgium.
Robert Stephen Orton, of Walford Drive, Solihull, was sentenced to ten months in prison at Birmingham Crown Court.
Orton, a father-of-one, had worked in the motor trade and, more recently, the music industry, prior to his arrest.
The 46-year-old's three accomplices, from Nottinghamshire, were also jailed. A confiscation confiscation
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HM Revenue & Customs said the gang hid their consignment of fake Regal Kingsize in sealed glass units as they shipped them into Britain.
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The consignment consisted of four large metal frames which each contained sheets of plate glass.
Hidden behind the glass were 'coffin' concealments which had been manufactured to hide the cigarettes.
The court heard Orton was responsible for organising the Coventry warehouse and he also paid and arranged for a forklift truck to shift the consignment.
Adrian Farley, Assistant Director of Criminal Investigation for HMRC, said: "This was a large scale smuggling operation designed to flood the West Midlands with cigarettes at 'bargain prices'.
"Far from being a 'bargain' though, they were in fact all counterfeit."
Nigel James Barton, 45, of Greythorne Drive, West Bridgford, and David Scott
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Locked up: Robert Stephen Orton and right, the glass containers.
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