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Release Date: Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Charleston, WV – The University of Charleston has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The honor roll is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
The Honor Roll recognizes six colleges and universities in the country as Presidential Awardees, 115 schools on the Distinction list (UC's category) and 621 schools as Honor Roll members. UC's selection was based on 5,098 hours of community service performed by 550 students between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.
"Congratulations to the University of Charleston and its students for their dedication to service and commitment to improving their local communities," said Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. "Our nation's students are a critical part of the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle the most persistent challenges we face. They have achieved impactful results and demonstrated the value of putting knowledge into practice to help renew America through service."
Dr. Ed Welch, president of the university, echoed that sentiment, saying, "We're very proud of the contributions of our students, faculty and staff to the economy and the life of the community, and consider it a vital part of the student experience at UC. We're one of only two schools in the state to receive the award 'with distinction.'"
Sarah Beakes, who coordinates and tracks community service projects for UC along with her duties as coordinator of the first-year experience, highlighted projects including the following when she submitted the school's application.
Students staged a "Boxathon" on the river lawn, in which they erected and decorated cardboard boxes and spent the night in them, to make a statement about the number of children who do not have homes. Sponsorship money raised went to "Scottie's Place," where homeless children can come to a camp in West Virginia.
The Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team taught 200 middle school students the Junior Achievement "It's My Business" program. The program included an explanation of entrepreneurship, and used hands-on activities and games to educate the students about filling a need, knowing their customer and product, and being creative and innovative. SIFE students also taught two third-grade classes at Kanawha City Elementary School the Junior Achievement's "Our City" program, designed to provide practical information about businesses, occupations, and the education required for particular occupations.
Accounting students assisted at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites, assisting those with low incomes to prepare tax returns and recover the earned income tax credit.
Students from the school of pharmacy hosted a health fair at Liberty Baptist Church in Charleston, taking blood pressures, counseling church members about diabetes and distributing information.
College students make a significant contribution to the volunteer sector; in 2009, 3.16 million students performed more than 300 million hours of service, according to the Volunteering in America study released by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Each year, the United States, through the Corporation for National and Community Service, invests more than $150 million in fostering a culture of service on college campuses through grants awarded by its programs; the education awards that AmeriCorps members receive at the conclusion of their term of service to pay for college; and through support of training, research, recognition, and other initiatives to spur college service.
Students at UC continue to contribute to the life of the Kanawha Valley in many ways. Since August, more than 325 students have completed 2,254 additional community service hours, in projects including Toys for Tots, the National Day of Service, the Day of Caring, Make a Difference Day, and the Salvation Army Angel Tree, as well as volunteering for the Union Mission and the Ronald McDonald House. Students are currently organizing and fundraising for "Up all Night," a project benefiting the American Cancer Society, and raising funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more five million Americans in service through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs, and leads President Obama's national call to service initiative, United We Serve. For more information, visit www.nationalservice.gov.
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I purchased this dress online & although the reviews weren't great I tried it anyway. The material is very heavy & the zipper is constantly getting stuck. Needless to say I returned this dress.
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Beautiful however...
The dress is beautiful however; the material is a little heavy. I initially ordered a size 2 which was waaaaaay to big for my 5'2 124 lb frame. I then ordered a size 0 which was too small in the bust area. Sad that I had to return this dress.
April 1, 2013
The product isn't as great as it looks
The material is too thick .There is a hip/side bulge resulting from the lining and the fabric.
The stretch is great. However, less thickness would have been better.
The fabric is unnecesarily heavy. My other stretch bebe clothings have fitted way better than this.
I am a size 6 like the model however, something really went wrong with this outfit
April 1, 2013
Not made for large busts
I am a small girl with a large bust. I am usually a 2 so I ordered a size 4 based on the previous review that said it fits larger in the bust. NO it doesn't! I could get it on and it was big in the waist but I could nt get it over my bust. As well the zipper bubbles. It is also made of a jersey type material. Although it will not fade it looks cheaper than I expected.
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I wore this to a business dinner and it was absolutely perfect. It is sweet, feminine and flirty without being overtly sexy. A must have for any career girl's closet! I'm 5'2", 120 lbs and the size 4 couldn't have fit any better.
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I ordered this online and plan on returning it. I'm 5'4
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Edgy-glam pyramid studs lead eyes right where you want them on this curve-hugging, crisscross-back knit dress. Make an entrance, and an exit, at any party when you pair it with sparkling duster earrings and patent platforms.
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I saw the dress in the stores & had to have it. I was in returning something I bought online & so glad I took the time to browse. The fabric is great quality & the studding on the dress is super flattering. I also love the detailing in the back. It's sexy but still classy. Pair it with some heels & your set! Definately recommend this one.Thanks Bebe!!!
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Cute but not for me
This is a cute dress, I tried it on in the store but didn't care for it, it was tight in the bust (I'm 36D) and it has one of those annoying side zippers which I can't stand, because I usually end up zipping my skin in it. The fabric has a shine to it which I really didn't like at all. The material is good quality and the length is good, it hits about 2 inches above the knee if you are short like me (5'4"). So for smaller chested women, this would be a good dress, unfortunately it didn't work for me.
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Bebe's Best Kept Secret
I purchased this dress for New Years Eve & wore it to the blue martini in miami & it was a hit! I received compliments all night. It fits true to size and is the perfect length. It's a gorgeous green and the details of the studding & design is on point. I'm 5'3, 115lbs, & the XS fits perfectly! Definitely a must have for any bebe lover!
January 25, 2013
Wore it to a party, got great complements, it's a sexy but still classy dress!
January 24, 2013
Great dress
I wore this dress for new years eve and I looked stunning. I was the center of attention for the night. I'm 4'11 wight 105 pounds, a xxs was perfect!
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Get this dress!
Wore this for a New Years Eve party and got so many compliments! My sister called me from NYC and said she needed to borrow it. You won't be disappointed! 5'1'' 28 inch waist, 40 inch hips, Size Small.
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Some good points in here but the reporting is pretty one-sided.
For instance: Why no mention of the fact that the while COVA was urging their supporters to contact Rep. Duran and ask her to vote against HB 1287 the Pendulum Foundation was making the exact same plea to their supporters to get Rep. Duran to change her vote?
Also, you point out COVA's lobbying efforts several times but I didn't see any mention of the fact that the Pendulum Foundation is a client of J. William Artist & Associates, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Colorado.
I freely admit my bias - a family member was killed by one of the men whose sentence would have been retroactively reduced under HB 1287 - but if you're going to claim objectivity in your reporting, you should at least make an effort to not let your bias color the story.


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1-The name must have connection to the sea, middle should be vintage but not old ladyish and must go with her sisters name Marina Gwendoline
2-Pearl Morwenna
The name must be less than 8 letters long, the middle should honor the grandparent [Margaret] and must not contain the letter A.Last edited by whirligig; May 6th, 2013 at 08:25 AM.
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lemenn Posts: 89I cannot even spell my personal email correctly...
The correct one is email@example.com
As far as short wave is concerned I can just say that in France we have FM (Frequency Modulation) and this is around 100 MHz and AM (Amplitude Modulation) about Khz I believe (I need to check that).
Using the automatic memory system of the radio I can place into memory 10 stations on FM1 , then 10 stations on FM2, then only few stations 3 or 4 on AM with the C70 factory antenna
With the smaller antenna I can find the same stations on FM1, FM2 and AM with the same sound quality. -
carpexpert Posts: 1hmmm nice antenna...i have newly high quality performance volvo antenna mounted, that is match to my vehicle's system...thnx volvo for the finest quality of engineering.
rschleicher Posts: 79I've never had that problem with my 2007 - there must be a fairly significant bend to your antenna. Can't you just bend it the other way for a while to get it to straighten out? A replacement antenna shouldn't amount to much money, in any case. Thre is a set of posts on this forum talking about a "shortie" replacement antenna, for a little bit sleeker look. It would also probably solve the problem. (See the C70 Antenna thread.)
volvobuff Posts: 35I have not seen any retractable antennas, but there are third-party replacement antennas which are shorter in length and visually much less obtrusive; perhaps they would also be less likely to get snagged by the top. See http://townhall-talk.edmunds.com/direct/view/.f115c31
newc70owner Posts: 1Does anyone know if the antenna on a 2012 Volvo C70 is removable? The service tech said it was but when I tried to remove it before going through a car wash, just the rubber sheath turned a little. It never came loose and I could not get it off. I've had to leave it on during car washes, but it looks like it's starting to pull away from the base. I am concerned about damaging it. The owner guide is silent on the issue.
4mercoachrick Posts: 133A) We need to find you a place with hand washing or a no-touch spray.
2) Unless I was dreaming, I've removed the antennae stalk by unscrewing it, leaving a 2-3 inch 'stub' protruding from the fender. This was on the '08 and '11 model years. I'm not aware of a change for '12.
Seriously, none of our three C70 convertibles has seen the inside of a 'contact' car wash. Fortunately, we have plenty of 'no-touch' washes around and our 'car spa' uses humans with towels or hand-held brushes. The Entertainment Book coupon gets us a complete interior/exterior cleaning with wheel and tire dressing for $12. :shades:
We're under pretty severe watering restrictions because of our two-year drought. No washing at home except one morning a week. :surprise:


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Set against a backdrop of whining power saws and pounding hammers, scenic artists create self-contained worlds in which the Colorado Shakespeare Festival performances come to life. The painters wield brushes like magicians, transforming foam to stone, plain walls into gilded rooms, and new materials into antiques.
CU-Boulder's Program in Environmental Design is launching a new minor, to begin this fall, with three possible tracks: design, history and theory, and planning. The minor is open to students of all disciplines and provides a foundation in theory, history, and methodology employed in fields such as architecture, planning, landscape architecture and related design disciplines.
The lamps that some environmental design students are creating this semester aren't just pretty. They represent the students' abilities to design, digitally render and use high-tech equipment to produce attractive, functional and marketable pieces -- requirements in today's architecture field.
CU-Boulder environmental design students are helping an Indian reservation build energy-efficient housing. They're part of the Native American Sustainable Housing Initiative -- an academic and outreach program that is going strong and rececently was featured by South Dakota public television.
A group of 15 CU-Boulder environmental design students took their skills from studio to field this summer for a client-based construction project in New Mexico.
Diners at the Center for Community with an interest in fresh food and sustainability might swallow easier knowing that some of the ingredients they're savoring were grown by CU-Boulder students just yards away.
In class one recent Monday, a group of CU-Boulder undergraduates in environmental design met with a city of Boulder official to review their building plans, soon to be constructed by the students at the local Admiral Burke Park. That's when they learned of a hitch.
The student team can't build on certain parts of the grounds—those that aren't owned by the city, which is supporting the project.
Shane Baldauf, an architecture and environmental design major at CU-Boulder who is dedicated to "green" and affordable housing, has been awarded a prestigious Udall Scholarship.
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I asked home décor retailers what the most popular gifts are and here is the list. Happy shopping!
1. Candles of every shape, color and style are always a welcome gift that will be used and enjoyed.
2. Holiday motif place mats, napkins and tablecloths will be put to use immediately for holiday season entertaining.
3. Books, book and more books either by the favorite author or beautiful coffee-table type books used for display in the home.
4. Barware and wine serving accessories are always a hit.
5.Take a lovely glass bowl and fill with silver ball ornaments or fresh fruit when you present it.
6.How about a colorful candy dish already filled with delicious and beautifully wrapped chocolates? Everyone loves chocolates!
7. They'll swoon for a tortilla chip dish with salsa bowl; include chips and salsa in the gift box.
8.For party planners, try a punch bowl with glasses and include a favorite recipe for punch.
9.Bakers? Look for a cakebaking pan along with beautiful cake display dish/lid.
10. A decorative hot beverage carafe is classic and practical.
11. Give a true celebration with a champagne bottle holder, along witha bottle of champagne. (Add a bowl of strawberries, too.)
12. Know someone who loves to cook? Look for a pizza warming stone, with a gift card to the best pizza-to-go place.
13.Holiday ornament that uniquely depicts their favorite sport or hobby.
14. A single serve coffee maker for the newly empty-nested.
15. Get the latest version of the world atlas for the world traveler. And when prominently displayed in the home it's a great conversation starter.
16. Foodies? A framed menu from their favorite restaurant, especially treasured if it's from out-of-town.
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When poet Lewis MacAdams founded Friends of the Los Angeles River 25 years – imagining a lifelong art project to return the bedraggled waterway to greatness and greenness – to some he might have seemed out to lunch. Now we know he was ahead of his time. (I have the distinction of writing the first-ever article about FOLAR; it was for Los Angeles Downtown News.) Witness the new Piggyback Yard plan. MacAdams has enlisted three top architecture firms to create a plan that not only creates green space along the Los Angeles River, it also performs a crucial flood-control role. The idea, reported in the New York Times, "is that on a few days each year, the river would overflow into the yard. The rest of the year, the land would be a park." This flood-detention aspect is brilliantly essential to comprehensive revitalization, because flood-control was the reason for encasing the river in ugly, community-dividing concrete more than 50 years ago.


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Tom Konchalski has been evaluating high school basketball players for nearly forty years. In a business filled with fly-by-night operations, charlatans, non-athletes, and simpletons, he's the exception. Mr. Konchalski is a disciplined, compassionate, learned man of faith who keeps his eyes open and his ears to the ground.
In an age of social media, where a seventeen year-old with a Twitter account can call himself a recruiting analyst, the 6'5″ Queens native still utilizes a typewriter for his HSBI Report and sends it via mail to more than two hundred college programs. Author John Feinstein '78 once wrote of the veteran scout that he was the "only honest man in the gym." Unfortunately, it's a fairly apt description of the AAU circuit on many summer nights.
Recently, I spoke with my mentor, consigliere, and friend about twelve players who have, at least, received interest from Duke in the classes of 2012, 2013, and 2014. Never prone to hyperbole, the McDonald's All-American voter graciously gave his candid assessments.
Rasheed Sulaimon: "He's a very good player. He's athletic and has good size. He has skill. He plays a team game and lets the game normally come to him. He's a guy who I think is going to be a good team player at Duke.[private] I think he'll be a good system player at Duke and Duke's system fits him quite well. He should become a very good player for them and I don't think he's going to be a player who will be a one or a two years and done for them. He's going to be around for three or four years. You need those kind of players because those are the types of players that Duke has had most success with. Defensively, he has the body, the strength, and the quickness to be a very good defensive player."
Amile Jefferson: "He's a young colt who's waiting for his body to blossom, but he has a really good feel for the game. Right now, he's probably more of a 4/3 and, obviously, he's going to have get stronger, but, in the ACC, it's not as if he's going to the Big Ten or the Big East, which is even more of a physical conference. In terms of style of play, if he were to go to Duke, that would be a good pick, but he's still got to get stronger in order to be able to play both sides of the court. He's a guy who has some perimeter skills..not an explosive athlete, but, when he starts to working to improve himself physically, his legs will get stronger. He will get quicker and he'll get more lift off the ground. He's a guy who has a good feel for the lane and the baseline. He's almost like an old-time player around the lane. He knows how to finish without going above the rim or jumping over people. He knows how to use his body to get between the defender and the ball. He knows how to shield the ball and reverse it. He has a really good feel for the game and he's a really good kid. He's also a good student."
Shabazz Muhammad: "Shabazz Muhammad is a guy who may be the best senior in the country right now. I don't think he has the potential to be a superstar. I think there are other people who may have a higher ceiling, such as guys like Jabari Parker, Nerlens Noel, and Julius Randle. Right now, he just plays so hard. He's high energy, but he has some holes in his game. For example, he never beats you going right. When Mater Dei, for example, beat them in the fifth place game at the City of Palms, Stanley Johnson did a really good job of defending him because he overplayed him to his left. He ended up with thirty anyhow, but most of those came in the second half after they were already down twenty. He's an extraterrestrial athlete and he has great work habits on the floor. He gives you great second effort. He's left-handed, which is an advantage. He can hit some threes off of the catch. He's got to work at getting the ball on the floor and being able to change direction. He's got to build up his right hand, but he's a terrific athlete. He's a guy that when he goes to college, I don't know if he's going to be ready to go to the NBA after one year because he does have these areas of his game that he needs to develop. He's a guy that you'd love to coach. He's a classic coaches' player because he plays so hard, especially for a guy like Coach Krzyzewski that sees in him the kind of effort that he was used to as a player and a coach for Army and in his earlier, lesser talented teams at Duke, where they just showed so much toughness and great effort. I think that was the attraction there."
Tony Parker: "Tony Parker is a good player. He's a really good kid. He has good hands. He has good skills. The key thing for him is conditioning. He's lost some weight and he's got to lose some more weight. He's actually in better shape now than he was over the summer, but he's got to lose even more weight and improve his conditioning. I don't think he'll ever be a star, but I think he'll be a very good, solid player and kid who's a good student and I think he probably sees himself as staying around a while and not leaving. He's a four or a five, depending on where he ends up. He can step out and hit a mid-range shot, but he's never going to be a perimeter scorer. God didn't give him that body to shoot jump-shots and play on the perimeter. That body has got to be used inside. What he's got to do is sculpt that body, change his body somewhat, and ultimately use it as a weapon."
Jabari Parker: "Now, he's a guy, who, since the end of his sophomore season, really did change his body type. He shed a lot of that baby fat. He's gotten quicker. He got a lot more lift off of the ground and he's also improved his perimeter skills. He's become a pretty good three-point shooter. The one thing that I haven't seen with him… and I'm looking forward to seeing more of him this summer.. is that I'm not sure if he has the disposition to dominate a game, although, maybe… when he was younger, he was looking to simply defer to his upperclassmen. He's got to become a little bit more assertive. In big games, he's got to learn to take over games, which I think is a learning process for him. That said, if you want to talk about guy that has athleticism, a good feel for the game, plays the game the right way, and has a really good skill set for his size, he certainly is one of the best players in the country, regardless of class. When I saw him at the Peach Jam, for example, he showed certain things, but I think a lot of it has to do with his personality. He wants to defer to the older players somewhat. He doesn't want to try to take over completely. He hasn't become a prolific scorer in the Chicago Public League just yet, but there are a lot of weapons on his Simeon team so I don't think you're going to see him average twenty-five or thirty points. He does, however, need to come up big for them in their biggest games. With his size, athleticism, and skill set, he's got to be even more of a factor for them. Right now, I don't know that he quite realizes how good he is and can be. Everybody says that he's a very humble, grounded kid, but he may not realize just how good he is."
Julius Randle: "I'll tell you what… he was spectacular down at the City of Palms. Against Riverside (Riverside Academy of Louisiana), I thought he was bothered by the size and I thought he tried to initiate too much of his offense, after he was bothered by the size of Riverside in the first half. In the second half, I think he played too much on the perimeter to try to counter them. Now, here is a guy that has a Wayman Tisdale body, he's left-handed, and he can shoot the ball. He's actually strong with his dribble. He can take the dribble through traffic. He has a tremendously high ceiling. He could be a great, great player. I really like him."
BeeJay Anya: "BeeJay Anya, as Coach Jones mentioned, is in so much better shape. He said that when he got cut from the USA basketball team that it really was a wakeup call to him. He took it to heart and became dedicated to improving himself physically. He trimmed down, lost weight, improved his conditioning, and just got in better overall shape. Right now, he's so much more active. He runs the floor more consistently. He can stay in the game for longer stretches. He has more range rebounding-wise. Before, his rebounding range was his arm length, which is considerable (astonishing 7'9″ wingspan), but now he can really go out of his area and grab some rebounds for his team. His offense has gotten better too, but I think he's just so strong. As you know, he's retained his strength and he knows how to use his body and you saw the difference. He's a man-child. He improves and he keeps on working. The thing that you notice about the DeMatha kids, you know, Morgan Wooten isn't the coach there, but one of his disciples is and they've retained the same work ethic. Also, it's the same character that you're finding with their kids. They have good kids. They have talented players, but, if they're not good kids, they're going to get them out of there.
Theo Pinson: "Long, 6'5″ to 6'6," he played with CP3. He's very thin, but a skilled player. He's a young guy, who was 6'5″ to 6'6," who can handle the ball and shoot the ball with range. He looks like a fine prospect, but I want to see more of him.
Jahlil Okafor: "He's a big, strong post player inside. Because Thomas Hamilton tore his meniscus, there was more responsibility put on him. He's a terrific kid, very friendly, very smart. That's a good school. That's probably the best public high school in the Chicago system academically. He's a big, strong kid inside who doesn't try to be something he's not. He doesn't try to be a perimeter wannabe. He recognizes and utilizes his strengths. That's a valuable thing. He's not a 6'10" kid who wants to go outside, loft up threes, and show that he can dribble the ball or change direction with the ball. He knows what he is. He's a power player inside. Ben Franklin said that there are three things hard in life: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. I guess he's read Ben Franklin."
Wayne Selden: "First of all, when you look at him, he has a man's body. He's a sophomore, but he should be a junior. So, he's a reclassified kid. When he goes to college, there's not going to be any physical adjustment that he's going to have to make when he gets there, which is an advantage. Even when you look at the guys who go from college basketball to the pros, the guys who give you the most instant impact are those that have already prepared their bodies for the next level. The two kids who went straight from high school to the pros who had the most instant impact and who wound up earning Rookie of the Year in their respective years, 2003 and 2004, were Stoudamire and LeBron James. They entered the league with NBA bodies. Well, he's got a college body, right now. He's a strong, tough physical kid, who's also very nice kid. His skill level has really improved. When I first saw him, which was the summer before his freshman year, he was more like a 6'4″ power forward, but he has been able to develop his game and learned how to handle the ball, while keeping that physical mentality. They let him bring the ball up the court and sometimes play a little point guard, but he doesn't see the court like a point guard and he's certainly not a point guard. He can, however, handle the ball, get to the basket, and shoot threes. In terms of his shot selection, he can sometimes put up poor shots, but, overall, that's improved as well. He's a guy who has great physical ability and he's a guy who has elevated his skill level. The next thing is for him to further understand the game, but he'll probably end up as a big two guard or a big combination guard. Once again, he's a very nice kid. He's also a terrific prospect."
Stanley Johnson: " He's a good basketball player, but a terrific teammate. He plays in a program where there's a lot of players and there's a system. I don't know if he'll ever be a star, but he knows how to play the game and he plays both ends of the floor. He's their designated defender and he can defend multiple positions. He's the guy who defend Shabazz Muhammad very well in the City of Palms and he defended Isaiah Austin, I believe, for several stretches in their prior game against Grace Prep. He's a strong, physical kid, who's about 6'6," who's not a great athlete, but he knows how to use his strength and his shot discipline is very impressive. He takes shots that he knows he can hit. He'll take an occasional three. He's not going to create off of the dribble or anything like that, but he's also not going to try to. He generally lets the game come to him. He's a very good team player and system player. They play a lot of people. They're like the Noah's Ark of basketball programs. They've got two of everything, (laughs) but he stays on the floor most of the time because he offers them a lot on both ends. He can handle the ball, defend the opposition's best player, and just really seems like a good teammate and a terrific kid."
Noah Vonleh: "He's a big, 6'8″ kid with good skill. He can guard pretty well and he's also a versatile defender. He gets down in his stance pretty well. I think he wants to be a perimeter player. I think he needs to use his strength and size a little more than he tens to do right now. He seems very coachable. He's very athletic and has a good body. He has good skill for his size. Right now, he's not a small forward and I think he's got to realize that. His game has probably got to start a little more inside. He's got to get a little more developed. He's a guy that eventually with his size and, if he can develop his skill set, might become a three, but he's got to develop his game. He's another kid who should be a junior, but he'd, at least, be a young junior. He'll graduate at eighteen, whereas, before he would've graduated at seventeen. He's certainly one of the best players in that class."
Overall thoughts on the 2013 class: "Well, before, there were those three big three and there were the Harrison twins who are very close behind. Those twins will be very good. You like Andrew (Harrison) more, which is appropriate and fits in with today's Gospel (laughs). I think those three have more upside than anyone that was in this class. The seniors in this class…I'm just, well, I think that Shabazz and Kyle Anderson were probably the two best seniors in this class. They're very good players. Kyle, from the neck on up, is the best high school player in his class, but, from the neck on down, he just is not. Those three, however, can be really stars at the college level and they can be stars at the pro level. They have so much physical ability and they have skill."
On whether Jabari Parker and Julius Randle could play together: "Jabari can play with him. Randle is a four/five, with, for example, more perimeter skill than Nerlens. They could be interchangeable. The thing that I don't know is that, with the transcendent talents that they are, I don't know if any of them would want to share the spotlight, with the way kids think right now. That said, if two of them went to the same college and stayed for more than one year, that's a national championship team. If they stay together for one year, that still may be a national championship caliber team. Who knows?"
Best long-term potential of Parker, Randle, and Noel: "I couldn't say. I've seen Julius and Nerlens play four times this high school season and I just haven't seen Jabari play as often, but let's just say that they all have Brobdingnagian potential. The sky is the limit for each of them. They can be as good as they want to be. They can each be truly impact players not only at the next level, but on the level beyond that."[/private]


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I might need one coming April.
What kind of tablet do you have if you have one?
Was looking at the Google Nexus.
I might need one coming April.
What kind of tablet do you have if you have one?
Was looking at the Google Nexus.
Odell Beckham Jr. Is my husband. Get over it.
The google nexus is cool, but i like the slightly larger screens. I have a Asus Transformer Prime....it's pretty much "the jumpoff"......do kids say that anymore? Jumpoff?
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i am using an iPad 2. love it... does everything you want and at an affordable price
Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013 was a losing season, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Denver, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, New England
4-New York Giants!!!!!
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traditionally the Samsung Galaxy was the best ish out...but, the Asus was almost side by side comparable, yet cheaper.
both ran on the same android OS....however I got mine in April, so idk whats been out since then. My friend got the Nexus though and loves it.
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I thank everyone who thought of me and continued their own journey of applying Bible principles in a world that, coincidentally, has its own health issues, not unlike mine.
You know, the moment my cardiologist told me I needed immediate multiple bypass surgery due to five blocked arteries, I knew there was the slight chance of death looming over my operation. I also had to read and sign waivers acknowledging my understanding of the risks involved and agree to release the hospital and doctors of any culpability.
This made me think how this world also has several life-threatening blockages that is preventing society from leading a healthier lifestyle, especially in the eyes of God. These "blockages" come in the form of a world that consumes an unhealthy amount of violence and sexually explicit material while pursing a lifestyle of materialism which prevents a healthy flow of communication between nations, families and their Creator.
If corrective measures are not taken soon, these symptoms clogging up society will lead to the inevitable fate described at 1John 2:16-17: "Everything that belongs to the world — what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of — none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world. The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever." — Good News Translation.
According to the Bible, this world will "pass away" if it does not change its ways. Not unlike myself, drastic measures need to be taken to get to the heart of this problem and prevent individuals from "passing away." By means of God's servants, the world is constantly being warned of the risks involved for continuing in a spiritually detrimental course. Individuals can choose to heed the Bible's counsel or waive their right to make changes, thereby accepting the consequences.
As God told his wayward people in the past at Isaiah 65:12, "I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in." — English Standard Version.
Happily, this loving Physician does not want that fate for anyone. As He explained through His prophet Ezekiel at Ezekiel 33:11, "Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live." — Good News Translation.
Like any good physician, our heavenly Father is giving us the best advice on how to keep living and enjoy a healthier, more productive life. That is what my doctors are doing with me. But they cannot make me take their advice. I have to listen and obey. It's my choice. If I want to keep living, I have to make changes in my life, right?
As with my genetically defective arteries, the whole world has inherited imperfection from our first parents, according to Romans 5:12. So, there is no way this world could ever stay spiritually healthy without accepting a redeemer, which God has provided through His only-begotten Son.
But there's a powerful, invisible enemy — clever, demented, evil — bent on corrupting everyone and misleading them away from the only real source of eternal health and salvation. As Revelation 12:9 says Satan the Devil "leads the whole world astray." — New International Version.
Millions believe this fallen angel is the source of most of the "junk food" being digested by this world. Like my own fight against junk food that could clog my new arteries, Christians are encouraged to "oppose the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw close to God and he will draw close to you." — New World Translation.
Is this a prescription for a healthier lifestyle — avoiding what is literally and spiritually damaging and drawing closer to God? You decide. Like this world, I faced my own "last days" if I did not get professional help and make drastic changes to save my life. It reminded me of how the 23rd Psalm expressed it. I walked "through the valley of the shadow of death." — King James Version.
There is still a "shadow of death" hanging over me. It is also hanging over this world. Make the wrong choices, do the wrong things, keep digesting what is not good for you and the shadow of death will reveal the reality: Death. If what the Bible says is true, and I believe it is, death does not have to be the eternal fate of anyone who wishes to take life's water free, according to Revelation 22:17. It's our choice.
I am grateful to God to be alive today. I am grateful for my doctors. I am grateful to you readers who encourage me and give me added reason to make the changes needed for a happier, healthier life. Thank you all! I want to live! So if you see me in a fast-food restaurant, tap me and remind me of what I said.
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Graveside services will be in Delta Heights Memorial Gardens Cemetery beginning at 1 p.m. Tuesday, February 19, 2013, with Rev. Barry Dickerson officiating.
Mrs. Browning was born in Memphis, Tenn., on May 30, 1934, to John Miles Bennett and Ruby Celeste Stroupe Bennett. In June 1956, she married Donald E. "Jack" Browning in Greenville. She worked as an executive assistant at M&F Bank and retired after 20 years of service.
She is preceded in death by her parents, John Miles Bennett and Ruby Celeste Stroupe Bennett; husband, Donald E. "Jack" Browning; and brother, James Milton Bennett.
Mrs. Browning is survived by her son Don Browning of Orlando, Fla.; and daughter Chris Browning Morse of Columbia, SC.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — The role agricultural water plays in food safety was the theme of the fifth annual Center for Produce Safety's Produce Research Symposium June 24-25 and of the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Connections: Food Safety Highlights session that followed June 26.
Tom BurfieldJim Gorny (from left), PMA vice president of science and technology; Bob Whitaker, PMA chief science and technology officer; Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, executive director of the Center for Produce Safety; and Vic Smith, CEO of JV Smith Cos., Yuma, Ariz., chat prior to Fresh Connections: Food Safety Highlights June 26.About 300 participants heard summations of 20 research projects, which were then analyzed by 55 experts during the two-day CPS symposium, said Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, executive director of the Davis, Calif.-based partnership involving industry, government and the scientific and academic communities.
One session analyzed the issues of irrigation water and potential sources of contamination, pathogen survival and the impact of water delivery methods on water sampling protocols.
Another evaluated multiple disinfection methods to mitigate the risk of produce contamination by irrigation water.
The final session — Hot Topics in Food Safety — focused on varying methods for preventing food contamination.
All of the research studied during the seminars will be available on the Center for Produce Safety website, cps.ucdavis.edu.
Bob Whitaker, PMA's chief science and technology officer, and Jim Gorny, PMA's vice president of science and technology, gave their take on the research during the interactive Fresh Connections session, which PMA CEO Bryan Silbermann described as "a distillation for the common man — and woman — of what has been presented in the last two days."
The agricultural water aspect fell into four basic areas, Gorny said: Monitoring, including how and when to monitor; treatments that can be used to treat water when it's not of appropriate quality; application to harvest intervals, reflected in some work with bulb onions in Oregon; and quantitative microbial risk assessment.
Whitaker said he was amazed at the breadth of the work that was covered at the sessions.
"What I really liked this year was the way we reached throughout the entire supply chain," he said.
Gorny singled out an app in development based on one used in Michigan for recreational water that would send out a cell phone alert if water quality drops.
Whitaker warned attendees that they shouldn't assume that what researchers have found can always be applied to their operations.
"You have to validate that data," he said, and understand how it applies to your own situation.


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I'm afraid I don't understand why you are dropping out instead of dropping only this class. It seems that you should be close to finishing your degree and it seems extremely self-defeating to just stop going. I, along with everyone else, do offer you sympathy and a certain amount of understanding, but that seems like an extreme reaction to one boy in one class. Remember, people who succeed *in spite of* adverse situations are often highly respected.
Quote from: oogyda on April 10, 2013, 03:31:05 PMI'm afraid I don't understand why you are dropping out instead of dropping only this class. It seems that you should be close to finishing your degree and it seems extremely self-defeating to just stop going. I, along with everyone else, do offer you sympathy and a certain amount of understanding, but that seems like an extreme reaction to one boy in one class. Remember, people who succeed *in spite of* adverse situations are often highly respected. This is my reaction.
What you are doing doesn't make any sense.
WilyNily..I totally understand what you are saying...my own DD is not a classroom type. But she has almost finished, and as stressful as it is, it is one guy in one class. Drop the class. Yes, kids get it drilled into them about college these days because life experience no longer cuts it for a good job. If this was her first year, I'd say withdraw and take a break..but 4 years?? I hate to see anyone throw away all their hard work for one bump in the road (an annoying bump, but not insurmountable). We run into a lot of Joe's in our work experience. You either have to learn to deal with them or you will always be hiding under a rock. OP, I know you are burnt out (been there, as we all have) but one person in one class should not cause you to walk away from it all.
I'm not the OP, but I can give a general answer. The reality of this day & age is everyone is pretty much expected to go to college. Its talked about from when kids are a wee age, like back in first grade "someday when you go to college..." Its this huge cultural expectation. Its touted as the only way to be successful. Its the benchmark for many people to consider someone else smart, or datable, or worthy of being hired for even the most mindless of jobs. I mean look at this very thread "derail your entire life"? She's not derailing her entire life, shes dropping out of college. Trust me, her life won't fall of the skids and render her dead because of this one action! Calling her action, an action done to protect her emotional well being from daily crying jags as "extremely self-defeating"? Another reality is - formal eduction and/or classroom learning are not for everyone. So a lot of people end up trying to squish their round brains into square classrooms. And they become miserable. And despite being bright, and insightful, and hardworking, they end up feeling stupid and useless and unworthy. Not because they are those things, but because they are following a path that might work for most people, but that doesn't work for them.And when you are in that position. And paying for it - paying money, paying time, paying with your very soul as its sucked dry and bludgeoned to death - then something as inconsequential to others as annoying classmate, can become an intolerable hurdle.
WillyNilly, you seem to be projecting an awful lot and getting quite defensive about the idea that dropping out of college might not be the best thing. No one has said "No, you may not do this!!!!". Several people have said that the OP should carefully consider whether dropping out entirely is the right choice for her, or whether it's an overreaction. It might be a good choice, it might be a bad choice, but in any case, it's a choice that has consequences, and those consequences should be weighed.FWIW, I dropped out of college and have a very stable and well-paying career, but that was the right choice for me. It might not be the right choice for the OP.
I am pretty sure having "fails" on one's academic record can have a very negative affect on whether that person is able to get into a different school. That is why so many of us are cautioning the OP to actually withdraw instead of just quitting. Because if she wants to quit, then she should quit, but it is not true that she will always have the option of picking up where she left off. With x number of "fails" on her record, she may not have the GPA required to get into a school.


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On this last day of April and the beginning of a business week at the Capitol..some small business news…
Farmers represent an important piece to New York's economic puzzle, and Newsday has a terrific article describing the adverse impact they will face if a minimum wage hike comes to fruition.
Staying with farmers, the Federal Department of Labor is dropping plans to implement devastating new rules that would have slashed jobs.
Anticipating a positive outcome in the ongoing natural gas development debate, training programs are being created all across New York to help prepare for the tens of thousands of potential new jobs that would be created.


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Amid all the debate on taxes going on in Washington, one topic that keeps getting side-stepped is that of estate taxes (or, as the Republicans dubbed it back in 2000, "Death Taxes").
During that election year, they were used as part of a political ploy to get voters upset at the idea that their estate would be subject to higher taxes after they died, even though most Americans wouldn't even be affected by the tax.
Regardless, it served to bring everyone into the political conversation then and might do so again this year.
If our politicians do nothing (and it seems likely that they won't), on Jan. 1, 2013, our estate tax code will change and will affect many more Americans than it does today. Currently, the top estate tax bracket of 35 percent affects individuals whose estate totals $5 million or more ($10 million for a married couple). With the new tax code, this bracket would be applied to individuals whose estate totals $1 million ($2 million if married).
The result is that 10 times the number of individuals in America would qualify to be taxed at the higher bracket (2 percent of all estates under the current criteria, up from just 0.2 percent under the old). What's more, when the current laws expire, the top estate tax bracket will skyrocket to 55 percent.
The final tally of your estate includes your investments, savings, personal effects and real estate. Basically, everything you own will be counted. If it exceeds $1 million, your heirs will have to pay more taxes than before to receive your hard-earned assets.
Here in Lancaster County, this has the potential to be a large concern, especially for those farming families who tend to have a lot of their net worth tied up in valuable land. The change could end up forcing heirs to sell a portion of their inherited property just to pay the taxes.
While it looks like the tax increase is coming, there are options available to help offset them. They range from the simple to the very complex.
If you are sure you'll have all the money you need in retirement, you may start gifting to your loved ones today to lower their future inheritance and decrease their tax burden. Some people use special forms of charitable trusts to give not only to their heirs but also to their favorite charity at the same time.
These techniques have regulations and limits, and some expire at the end of this year. Time may not be on your side.
This all leads to the simple truth that estate planning can be for everyone. We never know what the future holds, and we certainly can't be sure of the changes coming out of Washington. It is far wiser to plan today than to put off until tomorrow, hoping things will be OK.


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Bonhams hold two major auctions each year of the very best of Modern British painting, sculpture and drawing. These carefully curated sales take place at our New Bond Street premises, London, in spring and autumn.
From Edwardian Art to the Neo-Romantics, The Bloomsbury Group, Post-War, Constructivists, The London School, Kitchen Sink, St Ives and Camden Town, we offer a wide range of artists and movements through these dedicated sales. The department is proud to hold a number of world auction records for works on paper by Henry Moore, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Paul Nash, William Roberts and John Craxton. We have also achieved the top prices at auction for artists such as Sheila Fell, Gillian Ayres, Winifred Nicholson, Tristram Hillier, Euan Uglow and John Minton among others.
Previously sold highlights include Henry Moore's marble Mother & Child which commanded £1,069,600 and Looking Toward Mornington Crescent Station by Frank Auerbach (£1,059,082).
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verb \ˈbēt\: to hit (something) repeatedly
: to hit (someone) repeatedly in order to cause pain or injury
: to hit (a drum) repeatedly in order to produce music or a signal
Full Definition of BEAT
Examples of BEAT
- He beat the dust out of the rug with a stick.
- She used a hammer to beat the metal into shape.
- She used a hammer to beat the nail into the wall.
- The dented metal was beaten flat.
- The waves were beating the shore.
- He beat at the door with his fists.
- The waves were beating on the shore.
- The rain beat on the roof.
- They beat him with clubs.
- a man accused of beating his wife
Origin of BEAT
Related to BEAT
- Synonyms
- bash, baste, bat, batter, belabor, belt, birch, bludgeon, buffet, bung up, club, curry, do, drub, fib [British], flog, hammer, hide, lace, lambaste (or lambast), lash, lather, lick, maul, mess (up), paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punch out, rough (up), slate, slog, switch, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, tromp, wallop, whale, whip, whop (or whap), whup, work over, beat up on, get the better of, knock for a loop
- Antonyms
- lose (to)
nounDefinition of BEAT
First Known Use of BEAT
adjective: very tired
Full Definition of BEAT
Examples of BEAT
- Let me sit down. I'm absolutely beat!
- <can we pick this up tomorrow, because I'm beat?>
Origin of BEAT
Related to BEAT
- Synonyms
- all in, aweary [archaic], weary, beaten, bleary, burned-out (or burnt-out), bushed, dead, done, done in, drained, exhausted, fatigued, jaded, knackered [British], limp, logy (also loggy), played out, pooped [slang], prostrate, spent, tapped out, tired, tuckered (out), washed-out, wearied, wiped out, worn, worn-out
- Antonyms
- unwearied
noun, often capitalizedbeat
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)In physics, the pulsation resulting from a combination of two waves of slightly different frequency. Beat frequency is the difference between the frequencies of the combining waves. When the interfering frequencies are in the audible range, the beats are heard as alternating soft and loud pulses. The human ear can detect beats with frequencies up to 10 hertz, or 10 beats per second. Piano tuners listen for beats when comparing the pitch of a tuning fork to that of a vibrating string; when no beats are heard, the fork and string are at the same frequency. Ultrasonic or inaudible frequencies can be superimposed to produce audible beats, allowing the detection of vocal sounds produced by bats or dolphins.
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This Saturday, May 25, The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company returns to the Rose Theater at Blue Lake with our production of Twelfth Night.
The Rose is patterned after Shakespeare's Globe in London, and is one of only a handful of authentic reconstructed Elizabethan playhouses in the world. For an original practices Shakespeare company like Pigeon Creek, performing in one of these spaces always feels like coming home. We work hard to recreate Shakespearean performance practices in spaces that were not originally designed for them, and adapting ours shows to multiple venues is one of the fun, but challenging things about being a touring company. The chance to perform Shakespeare in a space that so accurately reflects the spaces for which he was writing is a rare and wonderful experience.
Pigeon Creek's Twelfth Night cast features several actors with a history of working in reconstructed Renaissance playhouses, and several for whom this will be a new experience. Our cast also includes three of the four actors in the world who have worked onstage at the Globe in London, the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA and now the Rose in Blue Lake.
The chance to see a performance like this in a space like this doesn't come along often. We are thrilled to be able to share it with you!
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Yayy~!! Love speed scraps!!
Yayy~!! Love speed scraps!!
I added this to the GDS Calendar. If you click on the clock beside the event, you can set an email reminder!
I may have to pop on in! But only if you promise to give really super easy instructions....you know I can't make layouts to save my life!!! Must step outside my comfort zone occasionally!!!
:-(( I'm afraid I will be sleeping: 02.00 is a bit to late - or to early depends on how you look at it!
Dang...for some reason I thought it was tonight! LOL Got all excited!
Wish I could make this one, but I'll be very busy babysitting my grandkids all week. Have fun you guys. I might pop in and say hello.


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A Thing That Exists and Should Exist
this month, I was in Las Vegas for the annual International Lingerie Show,
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For those who don't know what blueberry hills is.
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Loyola University Maryland is now an official chapter of the National Association for Women MBAs (NAWMBA), a nonprofit dedicated to empowering female business professionals to propel more women into leadership positions in corporate America and to enhance the diversity of the nation's workforce through education, professional development, networking, and collaboration.
Mary Spooner, a current Emerging Leaders MBA student, helped found the Loyola chapter and Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, J.D., chair of the law and social responsibility department, will serve as the chapter's faculty sponsor.
"The fellow women in my cohort and I joined the organization in the fall to expand our networks and we thought establishing an official chapter would be a great way to enhance the value of our membership and opportunities for fellow students," said Spooner. "I'm excited about the support and resources offered through this organization and to bring that to fellow Loyola MBA women."
Spooner plans to promote participation among all MBA programs—including current students and alumni in the Executive MBA and MBA Fellows programs, Professional's MBA, and Emerging Leaders MBA—offered at Loyola.
Loyola's NAWMBA chapter will host a kickoff event on March 28, from 6 – 8 p.m. at the Timonium Graduate Center. The kickoff event will feature Karyl B. Leggio, Ph.D., dean of the Sellinger School, as the guest speaker, followed by a networking and cocktail reception.
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Rigoletto (Andrzej Dobber) comforts his daughter Gilda (Albina Shagimuratova) in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto." Zeljko Lucic has taken over the title role through March 30 | Dan Rest~Lyric Opera of Chicago photo
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Updated: April 23, 2013 1:19PM
Lyric Opera of Chicago is wrapping its regular 2012-13 subscription season with a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto."
There's no shame in that, given the crisply paced, generally gorgeously sung revival on opening night of the company's handsome production, first seen in 2005-06.
The presentation offers some impressive Lyric debuts including Polish baritone Andrzej Dobber who played the title role early in the opera's run, American conductor Evan Rogister in the pit and Australian-born Stephen Barlow directing the stage action.
Another Lyric newcomer, Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova, was utterly luminous as Rigoletto's innocent, teenage daughter Gilda.
"Rigoletto'' includes some of Verdi's most beloved tunes ranging from "La donna e mobile" — that mandatory showcase for high-flying tenors — to the Act III quartet, which serves as a focal point for the current Maggie Smith movie "Quartet."
But both as a drama and in terms of its music, "Rigoletto'' is much more than a collection of greatest hits.
Barlow kept the stage action moving in this production set in 16th century Italy while Rogister emphasized the powerful sweep of Verdi's score.
The result was a performance that unfolded with a sense of constant forward motion.
The opera's story line is propelled by Gilda's infatuation with the heartless Duke of Mantua (Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti).
But it's the loving relationship between the embittered jester, Rigoletto, and his cherished daughter that melts our hearts.
Rigoletto is something of a specialty for Dobber, a tall man whose jester seemed to carry the world's weight on his broad, misshapen shoulders.
(Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic took over singing the role on March 14 and will continue to March 30.)
Loathing his work at a debauched duke's court and desperately worried about the future of his beautiful and naive daughter, Rigoletto is a character who veers from snarling cynicism to wrenching filial love.
Dobber's strong, agile baritone took on chilling grit and grain as he accused the Duke's courtiers of kidnapping Gilda.
But in his duets with Rigoletto's daughter, Dobber had the warmth of a purehearted father justifiably terrified for his daughter's safety.
A young soprano whose career is taking her to the major American and European operas houses, Shagimuratova was a thrilling Gilda.
Her soprano is clear and pure, and in the dulcet aria "Caro nome," her phrases blossomed and melted away like gentle caresses.
She was every inch the innocent girl basking in the glow of her first real romance.
But later in a duet with Rigoletto, as she poured out the tale of her kidnapping and sexual encounter with the Duke, her voice took on a darker shading.
As Rigoletto vowed vengeance on the Duke, she stood her ground, with her urgent, forceful singing making a case that he forgo vengeance for forgiveness.
Slim and handsome, Filianoti cut a convincing figure as the sexually inexhaustible, creepily charming Duke.
He had difficulty with high notes early on, but his singing sounded more open and relaxed as the evening progressed.
Italian bass Andrea Silvestrelli, a Lyric favorite, brought a textured, sepulchral bass to the role of hired assassin, Sparafucile.
Making her Lyric debut, Nicole Piccolomini offered both a dusky mezzo-soprano and earthy dark-haired beauty as Maddalena, Sparafucile's sister and partner in crime.
As the wronged Count Monterone, American baritone Todd Thomas thundered with heaven-shaking rage.
"Rigoletto'' caps a Lyric season that also included a compelling production of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra."
The opera world is celebrating the bicentennial of Verdi's birth in 2013, and Lyric's decision to offer two Verdi productions was a fitting response for company with a devotion to Italian opera in its early decades that once prompted the nickname La Scala West.
Wynne Delacoma is a locally based freelance contributor.
Fans of Lyric Opera of Chicago can help support it through a local chapter.
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David prays for safety. (1-10) He complains of his enemies. (11-16) And calls upon God to support him. (17-28)
Verses 1-10 It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman. David in his afflictions, Christ in his sufferings, the church under persecution, and the Christian in the hour temptation, all beseech the Almighty to appear in their behalf, and to vindicate their cause. We are apt to justify uneasiness at the injuries men do us, by our never having given them cause to use us so ill; but this should make us easy, for then we may the more expect that God will plead our cause. David prayed to God to manifest himself in his trial. Let me have inward comfort under all outward troubles, to support my soul. If God, by his Spirit, witness to our spirits that he is our salvation, we need desire no more to make us happy. If God is our Friend, no matter who is our enemy. By the Spirit of prophecy, David foretells the just judgments of God that would come upon his enemies for their great wickedness. These are predictions, they look forward, and show the doom of the enemies of Christ and his kingdom. We must not desire or pray for the ruin of any enemies, except our lusts and the evil spirits that would compass our destruction. A traveller benighted in a bad road, is an expressive emblem of a sinner walking in the slippery and dangerous ways of temptation. But David having committed his cause to God, did not doubt of his own deliverance. The bones are the strongest parts of the body. The psalmist here proposes to serve and glorify God with all his strength. If such language may be applied to outward salvation, how much more will it apply to heavenly things in Christ Jesus!
Verses 11-16 Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ. David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictions. We ought to mourn for the sins of those who do not mourn for themselves. We shall not lose by the good offices we do to any, how ungrateful soever they may be. Let us learn to possess our souls in patience and meekness like David, or rather after Christ's example.
Verses 17-28 Though the people of God are, and study to be, quiet, yet it has been common for their enemies to devise deceitful matters against them. David prays, My soul is in danger, Lord, rescue it; it belongs to thee the Father of spirits, therefore claim thine own; it is thine, save it! Lord, be not far from me, as if I were a stranger. He who exalted the once suffering Redeemer, will appear for all his people: the roaring lion shall not destroy their souls, any more than he could that of Christ, their Surety. They trust their souls in his hands, they are one with him by faith, are precious in his sight, and shall be rescued from destruction, that they may give thanks in heaven.
Psalms 35:1-28 . The Psalmist invokes God's aid, contrasting the hypocrisy, cunning, and malice of his enemies with his integrity and generosity. The imprecations of the first part including a brief notice of their conduct, the fuller exposition of their hypocrisy and malice in the second, and the earnest prayer for deliverance from their scornful triumph in the last, are each closed ( Psalms 35:9 Psalms 35:10 Psalms 35:18 Psalms 35:27 Psalms 35:28 ) with promises of praise for the desired relief, in which his friends will unite. The historical occasion is probably 1 Samuel 24:1-22 .
1-3. God is invoked in the character of a warrior ( Exodus 15:3 , Deuteronomy 32:41 ).
3. fight against--literally, "devour my devourers."
stop the way against--literally, "shut up" (the way), to meet or oppose, &c.
I . . . thy salvation--who saves thee.
4. (Compare Psalms 9:17 ).
devise my hurt--purpose for evil to me.
5, 6. (Compare Psalms 1:4 )--a terrible fate; driven by wind on a slippery path in darkness, and hotly pursued by supernatural violence ( 2 Samuel 24:16 , Acts 12:23 ).
7, 8. net in a pit--or, "pit of their net"--or, "net-pit," as "holy hill" for "hill of holiness" ( Psalms 2:6 ); a figure from hunting ( Psalms 7:15 ). Their imprecations on impenitent rebels against God need no vindication; His justice and wrath are for such; His mercy for penitents. Compare Psalms 7:16 , 11:5 , on the peculiar fate of the wicked here noticed.
10. All my bones--every part.
him that spoileth him--(Compare Psalms 10:2 ).
11. False witnesses--literally, "Witnesses of injustice and cruelty" (compare Psalms 11:5 , 25:19 ).
12-14. Though they rendered evil for good, he showed a tender sympathy in their affliction.
spoiling--literally, "bereavement." The usual modes of showing grief are made, as figures, to express his sorrow.
13. prayer . . . bosom--may denote either the posture--the head bowed--(compare 1 Kings 18:42 )--or, that the prayer was in secret. Some think there is a reference to the result--the prayer would benefit him if not them.
14. behaved--literally, "went on"--denoting his habit.
heavily--or, "squalidly," his sorrowing occasioning neglect of his person. Altogether, his grief was that of one for a dearly loved relative.
15, 16. On the contrary, they rejoiced in his affliction. Halting, or, "lameness," as in Psalms 38:17 for any distress.
abjects--either as cripples (compare 2 Samuel 4:4 ), contemptible; or, degraded persons, such as had been beaten (compare Job 30:1-8 ).
I knew it not--either the persons, or, reasons of such conduct.
tear me, and ceased not--literally, "were not silent"--showing that the tearing meant slandering.
16. mockers--who were hired to make sport at feasts ( Proverbs 28:21 ).
17. darling--(Compare Psalms 22:20 Psalms 22:21 ).
18. (Compare Psalms 22:22 ).
19. enemies wrongfully--by false and slanderous imputations.
wink with the eye--an insulting gesture ( Proverbs 6:13 ).
without a cause--manifests more malice than having a wrong cause.
20. deceitful matters--or, "words of deceit."
quiet in the land--the pious lovers of peace.
21. On the gesture compare Psalms 22:7 ; and on the expressions of malicious triumph, compare Psalms 10:13 , 28:3 .
23, 24. (Compare Psalms 7:6 , 26:1 , 2 Thessalonians 1:6 ). God's righteous government is the hope of the pious and terror of the wicked.
25. swallowed him up--utterly destroyed him ( Psalms 21:9 , Lamentations 2:16 ).
26. clothed--covered wholly ( Job 8:22 ).
27. favour . . . cause--delight in it, as vindicated by Thee.
Let the Lord, &c.--Let Him be greatly praised for His care of the just.
28. In this praise of God's equitable government ( Psalms 5:8 ) the writer promises ever to engage.


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