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This is acrylic inks on water colour paper approx 30cm square.
Our British heritage of coal mining was destroyed during the 1980s. This painting is a tribute to all miners and their proud tradition – particularly those from the North East of England.
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Transhipment of tuna in Mauritius and analysis of the Mauritian purse-seine fishery, 1994-1997.
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Hotel Amigo Zocalo, Mexico City
Situated in the heart of Mexico City, Hotel Amigo Zocalo is within walking distance of Palacio Nacional, Metropolitan Cathedral, and Zocalo. Also nearby are Plaza de la Constitucion and Templo Mayor.
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Anyone have any experience or seen or even heard of these from friends or anyone who used it as their decking material. I know its super new but when we went to the store to choose a Trex color, they had this on display and DH fell in love with it. Looks like real wood, but its all PVC. Anyone used this or knows anyone who got a deck built with it? Im very curious to know about any firsthand issues etc
I am interested to hear any information on Zuri, too. We just had a huge tree take out our entire red cedar deck during a major storm, and now we are going to replace the deck from the ground up. (Luckily our house proper was spared.) We live on the edge of the woods, and although I loved the look of the cedar, I didn't like the maintenance and quite frankly we didn't do a very good job at keeping it maintained.
My husband wants to do everything uber low maintenance on the new deck (no staining or sealing!), where I have been leaning toward ipe decking with PVC railing. I think the composites look too plastic-y for our house/neighborhood.
Then I saw a Zuri deck display and thought maybe this would be a PVC deck that I could live with. I understand that it has only been manufactured for the past 2 years, so I am concerned about lack of track record with the product.
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Guitar vs Piano (8bit)
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- Date
- 03/26/2009
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- 4 min 15 sec
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- 4.31 / 5.00
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
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AWESOME i really like it in 8-bit man very enjoyable :P
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it sounds like doom with the drums in the backrounds
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Nice job dude. This is a pretty nice remix. I loved your 8-bit remixes, especially your still alive from portal 8-bit. And by the way, if you haven't, then you should try . and remix some techno/dance songs, like Cream, Sandstorm, and stuff like that. But anyway, I love your songs. Keep the work up! 100/100 10/10 5/5 2/2 1/1 ;D
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yet another song i adore by you keep up the good work man im usin this song in my animations to:D
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If I don't know the song?! Please :O
Has it not been done already? :/ I'm sure I've heard it somewhere.
If I get a total mental block I'll give it a shot. Can't be too hard :)
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White House Escape Cheats for iPhone - iPodHome / iPhone - iPod /
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National Chengchi University
Coordinates: 24°59′13.17″N 121°34′30.80″E / 24.9869917°N 121.5752222°E
|National Chengchi University
Seal of National Chengchi University
Other name
|National University of Governance
Former names
|1927, Central School of Party Affairs (中央黨務學校)
1944, Central School of Cadre (中央幹部學校)
Motto in English
|Harmony, Independence, Balance, and Preeminence[1]
|1927Nanjing (南京)in
Parent institution
|Ministry of Education (Republic of China)
Academic affiliation
|Edward H. Chow
|Chun-Chig Chang
Academic staff
Administrative staff
Other students
|1,625 (further education)[3]
|Taipei City, Republic of China
|Suburb, 1.038 km²
|Chinese and English
|Blue, Red, and White
|Chengda, Dangxiao
|Association of National Universities of Taiwan
National Chengchi University (Chinese: 國立政治大學; pinyin: Guólì Zhèngzhì Dàxué; literally: "National University for Governance") is a public university located in Taipei City, Republic of China. Colloquially, NCCU is known by the Chinese as "Zhèngdà" (政大). The school was founded by the Kuomintang-dominated Nationalist government of Nanjing in 1927 as an incubator for senior civil service in China. It has been considered one of the most important institutions of the Republic of China with Whampoa Military Academy, which is a prestigious incubator for commanders. Today, NCCU has been elected as the "Aim for the Top University Project" sponsored school of the Ministry of Education.
NCCU specializes in Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Management, Politics, and International Affairs programs. A great number of graduate students work in government departments.
Today, NCCU has established an education system for students from pre-school to higher education, including a kindergarten, an elementary school, a high school, 9 colleges, and several graduate institutes.
- 1 Taiwan Campus
- 2 History
- 3 Colleges and departments
- 4 Libraries, exhibition space, and sports centers
- 5 Campus media
- 6 Cooperation agreements
- 7 Partners HealthCare System
- 8 International programs
- 9 Notable alumni
- 10 See also
- 11 References
- 12 External links
Taiwan Campus[edit]
NCCU is at the base of Chinan (指南) Mountain in the south of Taipei City. Apart from the Wenshan (文山) site, NCCU has established two branch campuses:
- The Public & Business Administration Education Center on Jing-hua Street (金華街) in Da'an District. (大安區)
- The Institute of International Relations on Wan-shou Road. (萬壽路)
The affiliated schools are:
- Preschool on Section 2, Chinan Road. (指南路)
- Experimental Elementary School on Section 3, Chinan Road. (指南路)
- The Affiliated High School on Chengda First Street. (政大一街)
One campus under construction:
- Chi-Nan Village (指南山莊), which is originally a campus of Ministry of Defense.
NCCU has been awarded the first prize in Taipei Urban Landscape Award for its campus planning by the city government of Taipei.[4]
- 1927, Central School of Party Affairs in Nanjing ("Party" refers to the Kuomintang)
- 1929, Central School of Political Affairs in Chongqing and later to Nanjing
- 1946, National Chengchi University (National University of Governance) in Nanjing
The school was established in 1927 in Nanjing as the Nationalist government's Central School of Party Affairs. In 1929, it was renamed to Central School of Political Affairs, after the "Northern Expedition" victory of the Nationalists in mainland China. In 1946, Central School of Political Affairs emerged with the Central School of Cadre in Chongqing, and the National Chengchi University (National University of Governance) was formally founded in Nanjing, signifying the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. When the Nationalist government lost control of mainland China in 1949, the university's activities were halted.
The university relocated to Taiwan in 1954 by the Executive Yuan to fill the gap of senior civil service and meet the growing demands of higher education in post-war Taiwan area. At the beginning, it enrolled graduates students exclusively, and later in 1955, it started to enroll undergraduate students. In 1960, the university awarded the first Doctor of Juridical Science degree in Taiwan under the Degree Conferral Law. In 1964, the school initiated the first Chinese MBA program.
Today, the school is one of the top universities in Republic of China, and it also has been elected as the "Aim for the Top University Project" sponsored school of the Ministry of Education. The college of business is a double accredited school by AACSB and EQUIS, and the college of international affairs is an APSIA member school.
Colleges and departments[edit]
NCCU has 9 colleges, 34 departments and 47 graduate institutes.
Libraries, exhibition space, and sports centers[edit]
There are 6 Libraries on the main campus and 1 library in the Center for Public and Business Affairs Education.
- Chiang Kai-shek Library, Main Library
- Social Science Information Canter and Sun Yat-sen Memorial Library
- College of Commerce Library
- College of Social Science Library
- College of Communication Library
- Institute of International Relation Library
- Center for Public and Business Affairs Education Library
Museum and Arts Center[edit]
- Museum of Ethnology
- NCCU Arts Center
- Exhibition of Future Planning at Main Research Center
Sports Centers[edit]
- Main Sports Center
- Swimming Center
- Tennis Court
- Track and Field Stadium
- Riverside Park
- Health Park
- Sports Park
Campus media[edit]
There is an academic press, a community radio station, and a local newspaper agency located in NCCU.
Cooperation agreements[edit]
NCCU has agreements with 378 academic institutions across 64 countries globally.[5]
Partners HealthCare System[edit]
In cooperation with Taipei City Hospital System and National Yang-Ming University, three institution formed a HealthCare system covers up medical education, healthcare, and management.
NCCU Health Building[edit]
- Ground Level: Taipei City Hospital ChengDà Clinic
- Second Level: NCCU healthcare center
- Third Level: NCCU consulting center
International programs[edit]
NCCU provides a series of international programs taught in English:
- International Master's Program of Business Administration (IMBA)
- International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IMAS)
- International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IDAS)
- International Master's Program in International Communication Studies (IMICS)
- International Master's Program in International Studies (IMPIS)
- International Master Program of Applied Economics and Social Development (IMES)
Notable alumni[edit]
NCCU faculty and alumni includes officials of international governmental organizations, representatives of National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, officials of State Council of the People's Republic of China, President of the Republic of China, Vice President of the Republic of China, president of Executive Yuan, legislators of Legislative Yuan and president and chief justice of Judicial Yuan.
Politics and diplomacy[edit]
- Chiu Chuang-huan (邱創煥), former President of Examination Yuan
- Christine Chow Ma (周美青), First Lady
- Chung Jung-chi (鍾榮吉), former Vice President of Legislative Yuan
- Chun-Tze Guo (郭俊次), Chairperson of China Peace Reunification
- Liao Feng-teh (廖風德), former Secretary-General of Kuomintang, also well-known local novelist
- Francisco Ou (歐鴻鍊), former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Hsu Hsin-liang (許信良), former Chairperson of Democratic Progressive Party
- Hsu Li-teh (徐立德), former Vice Premier
- Hsu Shui-teh (許水德), former Secretary-General of Kuomintang
- Hui-You Hsu (許惠祐), former Director of National Security Bureau
- James Soong (宋楚瑜), Chairperson of People First Party
- Jason Hu (胡志強), Mayor of Taichung City and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Jian-Ren Cheng (程建人), former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- John Kuan (關中), President of Examination Yuan
- Joseph Wu (吳釗燮), former Minister of Mainland Affairs Council
- Justin Huang, Magistrate of Pingtung County
- Justin Yifu Lin (林毅夫), Vice President of World Bank
- King Pu-tsung (金溥聰), Secretary-General of National Security Council
- Lee Huan (李煥), former Premier
- Liang-Wen Tsai (蔡良文), member of Examination Yuan
- Lin Cho-shui (林濁水), former legislator and Taiwan sovereignty movement theorist
- Lin Chuan (林全), former Minister of Finance
- Lin Join-sane (林中森), Chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation
- Li Yuan-tsu (李元簇), former Vice President
- Ovid Tzeng (曾志朗), former Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs
- Peter Huang (黃文雄), activist for democratization and human rights
- Su Chi (蘇起), former Minister of Mainland Affairs Council
- Timothy Yang (楊進添), former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Vanessa Shih (史亞平), Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), former Vice President
- Wang Ching-feng (王清峰), former Minister of Justice
- Wanng-Jing Yen (顏萬進), former Vice General-Secretary of Straits Exchange Foundation
- Wang Tuoh (王拓), former legislator and well-known writer
- Wei-Gang Pan (潘維剛), legislator
- Wei-Zheng Hu (胡為真), former Secretary-General of National Security Council
- Wu Se-hwa (吳思華), Minister of Education
- Xiao-Yue Zhang (張小月), delegate to United Kingdom
- Yi-Fu Lin (林義夫), delegate to World Trade Organization (WTO) and former Minister of Economic Affairs
- Yi-Zheng Lu (陸以正), former ambassador
- Zheng-Jie Lin (林正杰), former social movement activist
- Zhi-Reng Sheng (盛治仁), chairperson of the Committee of Cultural Development
- Bi-Zhap Lin (林碧炤), vice-president of National Chengchi University
- Deng-Xing Shan (單德興), researcher of European and American Department, Academia Sinica
- Feng-Mao Li (李豐楙), scholar of Taoism studies
- Hua-Yuan Hseuh (薛化元), scholar of Taiwanese history studies
- Jian-San Hong (馮建三), professor of journalism
- Jin-Ji Wu (吳靜吉), scholar of education and culture studies
- Kun-Xian Chiu (邱坤玄), vice-CEO of China Eurasia Foundation
- Liu Bih-rong (劉必榮), scholar of international relations and negotiations
- Li-Wen Tong (董立文), vice-director of research department at China Eurasia Foundation
- Qing-Qing Peng (彭欽清), scholar of Hakka studies
- Wei-De Chen (陳維德), scholar of Chinese calligraphy studies
- Xiao-Yan Peng (彭小妍), researcher of China Literature and Philosophy Department, Academia Sinica
- Ambrose King (金耀基), president of Hong Kong Chinese University
- Henry Hu(胡鴻烈), founder of Hong Kong Shue Yan University
- Zhe-Mao Tsai (蔡哲茂), researcher of Historical and Language Department, Academia Sinica
- Zhong-He Bao (包宗和), former President of National Taiwan University
- Zhong-Hua Gu (顧忠華), chairperson of Public Monitoring Alliance
- Zhong-Xiang Guang (管中祥), activist of media reform movement
- Zhi-Bing Fa (法治斌), scholar of constitutional studies
Artists and writers[edit]
- Louis Cha (查良鏞, 金庸), novelist
- Yu-Mei Li (李啟源), writer, poet and director
- Lin Hwai-min (林懷民), founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
- Zhong-Qi Duan (段鍾沂), founder of Rock Records
- Zhong-Tan Duan (段鍾潭), founder of Rock Records
- Qi-Yang Lin (林淇瀁), scholar
- Qi-Qing Shi (施寄青), writer
- Rong-Wem Wang (王榮文), founder of Yuan-Liou Publishing Company
- Rou-Quan Wu (吳若權), writer
- Eva Chen (陳怡樺), Founder and CEO of Trend Micro
- Feng-Nian Jiang (姜豐年), President of Sina Corp
- Ming-Cheng Lin (林明成), President of Huanan Bank
- Cheng-Jin Liang (梁成金), President of Sinkong Bank
- Xue-Reng Soong (宋學仁), Asian President of Goldman Sachs
- Ya-Jun Tang (唐雅君), President of Alexandre Gym Company
- Zhe-Xiong Tsai (蔡哲雄), President of Bank of Taiwan
- Xing-Xiong Wei (魏幸雄), President of China Airline
- Wen-Xing Wang (王文欣), President of MUJI in China
- Xing-Ming Yeh (葉新明), President of Land Bank of Taiwan
- Yan-Liang Ying (尹衍樑), President of Ruentex Group
See also[edit]
- NCCU College of Commerce
- NCCU College of Foreign Languages and Literature
- List of universities in Taiwan
- ^ a b "About NCCU" (in Chinese). National Chengchi University. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
- ^ a b "About NCCU" (in Chinese). Personnel Division, National Chengchi University. 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
- ^ a b c d e "2014 First Semester Student Statistics" (in Chinese). Academic Affairs Division, National Chengchi University. 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
- ^ "The Announcement of 12th Taipei Urban Landscape Award List" (in Chinese). Dept. of Urban Development, Taipei City Gov. 2014-11-19.
- ^ "Partner Universities of National Chengchi University". Office of International Cooperation, National Chengchi University.
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The invention relates to an automobile headlight comprising a light source, a reflector and a cover glass, wherein zones of the reflector giving rise to a concentration of the rays reflected on the cover glass are concealed, thus minimizing the heating of the glass, without substantially disturbing the luminous efficacy.
1. An automobile headlight comprising:
(a) a reflector having a rear central opening and a focus in front of that opening;
(b) a transparent cover closing the front of the reflector;
(c) a light source located in front of the reflector focus so that the rays from the light source which are reflected by the reflector tend to converge toward the cover, thereby heating the cover, and the headlight having a cut-off plane for providing a dipped beam; and
(d) the reflector having a region which does not reflect direct rays from the light source toward the cover, said region being adjacent to and radially outward of the rear central opening of the reflector, and said reflector region stopping short of preventing reflection of dipped beam rays from the reflector in the vicinity of the cut-off plane;
whereby the heating effect of the reflected rays on the cover is reduced.
2. An automobile headlight as defined in claim 1 wherein said reflector region has an arcuate shape at least partially surrounding the reflector opening.
3. An automobile headlight as defined in claim 1 wherein said reflector region is non-reflecting.
4. An automobile headlight as defined in claim 1 wherein said reflector region carries a black coating.
5. An automobile headlight as defined in claim 1 including a screen for preventing direct rays from the light source from reaching said reflector region.
6. An automobile headlight as defined in claim 5 wherein the screen is metallic and includes a portion extending externally of the reflector, for conducting heat, generated by the rays from the light source, to the exterior of the headlight.
The present invention relates to automobile headlights comprising a reflector mirror cooperating with at least one source of light and a cover glass ensuring the seal of the headlight and serving, in the majority of cases, to influence the luminous distribution of the beam reflected by the mirror.
It is to be understood that the term "headlight" as used here covers both the sealed beam units in which the cover glass is fixed at the front of the reflector and the more complex systems in which the reflector is housed in a casing (which may itself be a simple housing made in the bodywork of an automobile), the cover glass being mounted on this casing.
In the majority of automobile headlights, and in a manner which varies directly as a function of the light power emitted, certain zones of the cover glass are taken to relatively high temperatures which may reach 150� C. during normal operation. For a cover glass made of plastics material, such heating causes a softening and consequently deflections and deformations of certain parts of the glass. For a cover made of glass, such heating brings about the breakage of the glass if water is suddenly projected thereon.
It is an object of the invention to eliminate these drawbacks by providing means for reducing such a heating of the cover glass.
The gist of the invention lies in the unexpected observation that the heating of the glass essentially comes from an excessive concentration of the beam returned by the reflector (comprising both the visible rays of a wave length of between 0.4 and 0.7μ and the infrared rays of a wave length higher than 0.7μ) at the glass level; at the points of concentration, the infrared rays of the beam provoke a local heating of the glass. On the basis of this observation, the gist of the invention resides in the fact that the reflector is modified with a view to eliminating the radiation coming from certain selected zones which produce the concentration, without diminishing the qualities of illumination of all the beam of the headlight.
The invention thus proposes a headlight characterised by the concealing or occultation of certain zones of its reflector corresponding to the zones of maximum heating of the glass.
The present invention finds a particularly satisfactory application in the case of heating provoked in the vicinity of the centre of the glass by a beam of the dipped beam type. In this case, a ring sector in the upper part of the rear of the reflector is concealed or occulted.
The invention will be more readily understood on reading the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a horizontal section through a sealed beam unit provided with a light source for dipped beam illumination, according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the reflector mirror of such a headlight;
FIG. 3 shows on a screen the illumination obtained by the zone of the mirror which contributes considerably to the heating of the glass;
FIG. 4a and 4b show the isothermal curves of two similar headlights, the first being in accordance with the prior art, the second modified according to the invention
FIG. 5 graphically shows the modalities of the modifications according to the invention, for a whole range of dipped beam headlights.
Referring now to the drawings, the headlight of FIG. 1 comprises, in manner known per se, a reflector R of focus F of which the rear is provided with a central opening O serving for the assembly of a lamp. For dipped beam illumination, a light source Sc is disposed in front of the focus F. The reflector R is closed by a cover glass G which serves both as seal for the system and for the lateral dispersion of the light flux issuing from Sc and returned by reflector R.
In manner known per se, the dipped beam returned by the reflector R is slightly convergent. On the other hand, cut-off means are provided so as to limit the dipped beam in the lower part of the two half-planes of cut which are projected (Dg and Dd) on a screen, as shown in FIG. 3. The cut-off means may for example be a screen (not shown) surrounding the light source filament Sc and of which the edges produce the limits of cut Dg and Dd.
A conventional automobile headlight of the above type shows a very considerable concentration of the light rays in a central zone A located slightly above the centre of its cover glass. The light rays comprise both the visible radiation and infrared radiation, and a prejudicial heating is produced thereby, which the invention aims at reducing.
The gist of the invention is to limit the concentration of rays at A without substantially disturbing the overall illumination given by the dipped beam.
To this end, according to the invention, the zone which contributes largely to the heating of point A, i.e. a small zone m extending in a ring around the opening O in the upper part of the rear of the reflector R is concealed. The zone m extends parallel to the edge of the opening O, surmounting at its two ends zones p and p' forming part of the same geometric ring.
FIG. 3 shows the projection of zones m, p, p' into M, P, P'.
The concealing of zone m may be effected by a series of means known per se; the reflecting coating may be eliminated or it may be rendered inoperative by being coated with black.
An equivalent solution resides in the occultation of the zone m with the aid of a screen C to avoid rays issuing from Sc striking zone m. Such a screen is advantageously made of metal to evacuate to outside the headlight the calorific energy of the intercepted rays.
In all cases, such a zone, according to the invention, does not participate in the formation of the beam.
This results in a reduced heating in zone A of the glass, but, due to the existence of the reflecting zones p and p' which project (cf. FIG. 3) immediately below the left-hand and right-hand limits of cut Dg and Dd, the dipped beam is not substantially changed for the user (it is known, in fact, and the standards specify this, that the quality of a dipped beam depends especially on a good illumination immediately below the cut).
FIGS. 4a and 4b illustrate the improvements obtained due to the present invention.
They both represent the rectangular cover glass of a dipped beam headlight comprising a parabolic mirror of horizontal diameter 150 mm and height 100 mm. It is provided with a colourless lamp of H4 type, supplied with a test voltage of 13.5 volts. In permanent operation, the ambient temperature being 20� C., the isothermal curves of the cover glass shown in the Figures are obtained.
In the case of FIG. 4a, the headlight has not been equipped according to the invention. Considerable heating is observed, with the hottest point at the centre, at 135� C.
FIG. 4b concerns the same headlight, provided according to the invention (zone m concealed). Very considerable changes in the isothermal curves are noted, the temperature of the hottest point at the centre dropping to 105� C.
The above results clearly illustrate the effectiveness of the invention.
The arrangement of the zone m generally depends on the parameters of the headlight and on the position of the cover glass G.
If D1 designates the distance from the focus F of the reflector to the centre of the cover glass (distance F-A, FIG. 1) and R1 the distance from the centre of zone m to the optical axis of the headlight, the diagram of FIG. 5 generally makes it possible to choose, for the different focal distances f of the reflector R, the distance R1 to be chosen as a function of distance D1. All the values are given in millimeters. With the curve of FIG. 1, the position of zone m is defined for all types of dipped beam headlights.
The determination of the graph of FIG. 5 is effected without difficulty by simple geometrical optical calculations (it is question of locating the zone of convergence A).
It will further be noted that the invention is applied to any type of headlight and that, in addition ot the theoretical approach described hereinabove, for determining the zone m, the man skilled in the art also has an equivalent rule of thumb approach at his disposal since it suffices for him to determine the hottest zone on the cover glass itself in order thereafter to conceal or occult the corresponding zone of the reflector.
The invention is not limited to the particular embodiment described (dipped beam headlight), but extends to all variants within its scope.
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If you were to try to come up with a singer who is ideally suited to modern times and modern tastes, you would have to work long and hard before you came up with anyone to match Dawn Upshaw. The American soprano, who makes her Covent Garden debut tonight in Leos Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, is versatility incarnate. She sings everything from early music to contemporary, Broadway to opera, Bach to Saariaho. And when you meet her, Upshaw is nothing like a stereotypical diva. She is that quintessential middle American ideal - a soccer mom.
Above all, Upshaw has one of the most instantly identifiable, direct sounds in the business. Her light, fresh soprano is a world away from the big, intense sound of a singer like Maria Callas. But, just as it is impossible not to recognise Callas in anything she does, so the same is true, in her own very different and varied repertoire, with Upshaw. Few singers today can communicate in the way that she can - one reason contemporary composers are so eager for her to perform their works.
"I do have a directness with an audience," Upshaw says. "There's a straightforward quality to my performing that has always been of great importance to me."
It has always been there, she says, ever since she was a girl growing up in Tennessee. "For the first 10 years of my life, I have this memory of things being very simple. When I sing Samuel Barber's piece Knoxville 1915 [a work she recorded on her first solo disc], it really means something to me. The family sitting out on blankets under the stars, talking quietly, is not foreign to me. It's part of my childhood. These are things that are from the south. We didn't have a fast-paced upbringing."
But it was a political upbringing too. Upshaw's parents, both white southerners, were deeply involved in the civil rights movement. And, like many of that generation, they were also passionate folk singers. On those relaxed evenings under the stars they would teach their daughters political songs by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and other icons of that era. Upshaw says those lessons inform her way of performing to this day.
"Those songs had great music and great words, but they were all about getting the message across. That was the priority, no question. In opera, there's this debate about whether it's words first or music first, but at that time in America, the music that came out of the civil rights movement was all about message. Words were very important there, right from the beginning. That's where I started from."
She started, indeed, as a folk singer. When Upshaw was not much more than five, the family began to take the message and the music around the Nashville area in which she grew up. "My parents were very involved in community politics. My father played guitar, and it was very important to them that we shared this message, with children in particular. We sang a lot in local schools. And, of course, this made a real impact on me."
What sort of songs did she sing back then? "Oh, Blowin' in the Wind, songs like What Did You Learn in School Today?, Pete Seeger stuff, Little Boxes, things like that." Does she still like it? "Yeah, I really do. I came back to it about seven or eight years ago. I began working with a guy named Bill Crofut, who had worked a little with Pete Seeger. We did some concerts together, in which I paired some folk music with the Luciano Berio folk songs. And I'm also a huge Joni Mitchell fan."
The legacy of those early years can be heard every time Upshaw performs, and in the huge variety of work she has recorded. Her song repertoire stretches from Purcell, through Sondheim, to newer generations; her opera repertoire from Mozart to Adams. A typical Upshaw recital will start with Schumann, continue with Ruth Crawford Seeger, move on to Ravel and end up with Vernon Duke or Leonard Bernstein.
That range and versatility means Upshaw has responded to the changing times in the record industry better than almost any other singer. Her bestselling performance of the third symphony of Henryk Gorecki, which she recorded with the London Sinfonietta in 1992, was a turning point in the classical CD market's embrace of new music. Her recent albums have included the music of Duke and of Rodgers and Hart.
And throughout it all there runs the mysterious essential thread of Upshaw's directness, her ability to capture and retain the attention of the listener through the timbre and expressiveness of her sound. It is a subject on which she is both characteristically honest and uncharacteristically defensive.
"I think it has a lot to do with my own talents, with my gifts, with what I was born with, the sound of my voice," she says. "I think this kind of straightforward singing comes more easily to some people. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, though. There are other things that I think I don't do particularly well."
But, as she then makes clear, there is also something that bothers her about this reputation for expressive directness. "I'd like to think that we're not talking about something that can be characterised as 'superficial' versus 'deep' here. I sometimes think that some people see me as a simple type of singer. I have a lighter voice, but I am not a simplistic or easygoing singer.
"Sometimes I wish that people's imaginations would get a little broader with me," she continues. "I sometimes can't get past directness and straightforwardness with some people. There's something about singing the part of an angel, or singing soubrette roles in opera, that categorises you and boxes you in, and I don't enjoy that very much when it happens."
I suggest to her that the desire to communicate, and the ability to do so, are very American characteristics, and very good ones. Unlike their European counterparts, I suggest, American singers are less likely to be imprisoned by tradition and to be affected by the need to place themselves in a historical context. At first she seems to bridle at that, but not for long.
"People have said this to me before, and I've read it. 'She's a very American singer.' And I say: Well, what else should I be? But of course it doesn't need to be a rebuke. Now that we're having this conversation, I can see that maybe that's what they're hitting on. And anyway, I'm really a midwesterner, a kind of straightforward, no-baloney person."
Unlike many of the current crop of outstanding American singers, Upshaw had little background in classical music until she went to college to study singing at the end of the 1970s. The first opera she ever heard - The Barber of Seville at the Lyric Opera, Chicago - made no impression. "It seemed frivolous to me. I thought, 'Nice music - but why am I here?'"
What sparked her then, and sparks her now, is new music. "I had this wonderful music teacher, who is now my father-in- law, David Nott. He was always wanting me to do a new piece, a premiere. I thought this was normal training, though of course it wasn't. Right back then, I was spending maybe 15% of my time on new pieces, meeting composers, and it has become a completely natural part of my life.
"I love the idea that nobody else has ever performed these pieces, and having to find out everything there is to be found in it. When I moved to New York I actually felt more at home with the new music than I did with the opera programme. It was much more demanding, and I enjoyed those demands. It kept me on my toes. It doesn't mean that Mozart doesn't keep me on my toes as well, but I think the new music helps me with my Mozart too."
As a result, Upshaw is the singer of choice for some of the most important and interesting contemporary composers. She doesn't like all of what she is offered, she stresses, but she can afford to choose. One of the key recent works for her has been John Adams's "nativity oratorio" El Nino, which she will perform in the overdue London premiere later this year.
"El Nino was the first original piece of his that I had done. He sent quite a bit of the music to me in advance and we worked closely together on that. I certainly don't mean I wrote any of it, but he had questions and I had questions and we switched a few notes around here and there."
More recently she has been working with the Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov. "We're going to do a new piece this summer: a chamber opera based on Lorca. It is difficult, quite exposed. It has some of the same difficulties that Mozart has for me, in that it requires a certain purity and ease of sound, which is hard to do successfully. But Osvaldo's heartbeat is there in every piece. His music moves me very much and has done ever since I did the very first song of his."
I t comes as a surprise, given the regularity of Upshaw's visits to Britain and her prominence as a recording artist, that tonight's Janacek will be her Covent Garden debut. Characteristically, she has chosen to make that debut not in one of her calling-card roles - like Susanna, Pamina or Anne Trulove - but in her first Janacek major stage role of any kind.
"I've always been drawn to Janacek. I feel a kind of kinship. His music is very detailed. It speaks quickly. It's to the point. It's very tender and very touching. I love the physicality of it. The whole idea of getting the message across through animals and relationships with people is full of subtlety. It's not an in-your-face opera. It's an in-your-heart opera.
"When I think of opera these days, I am interested in something I haven't done too much and where the role means something. I don't have a list of roles I want to sing or houses I long to sing in. I haven't repeated many things, either. I think there are only a handful of roles I would consider going back to. Life gets complicated too, you know. I have two children. So I've become very picky about what's going to take me away from home."
I once heard Upshaw singing the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute. There is a wonderful moment in the first act, when Papageno and Pamina are waiting, frightened, for the arrival of Sarastro, whom they regard as a fearsome tyrant. What shall we say when he comes, asks Papageno? "Die Wahrheit" - the truth - responds Pamina in one of the noblest moments in all opera. It felt like Upshaw poured a lifetime of understanding and meaning into those two words. Simple? I don't think so. It seemed the embodiment of a very special artist indeed.


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Wednesday, 29 October 2014, 12:16 pm | New Zealand Rugby League
Vodafone Warriors prop Suaia Matagi is poised to play his first test for the NZ Kiwis against his old team-mates, Toa Samoa, at Whangarei's Toll Stadium on Saturday. More >>
NZRL: Two debutants in Kiwis line-up
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 10:45 am | New Zealand Rugby League
Blockbusting forward Jason Taumalolo and teenage wing Dallin Watene-Zelezniak have been named for their NZ Kiwis debuts in the 2014 Four Nations opener against Australia at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium. More >>
Canterbury Bulls v Wai-Coa-Bay in national final
Friday, 17 October 2014, 5:31 pm | New Zealand Rugby League
After the dust has settled, Wai-Coa-Bay Stallions have emerged as opponents for Canterbury Bulls in tomorrow night's Pirtek NZRL National Premiership final. More >>
NZRL, DB Breweries drive "smarter choices" message
Friday, 17 October 2014, 2:50 pm | New Zealand Rugby League
In a new twist on an old theme, New Zealand Rugby League and DB Breweries have entered into a commercial sponsorship for the purpose of encouraging healthier drinking habits in the sporting community. More >>
Te Iwi Kiwi jersey captures Pacific roots
Friday, 17 October 2014, 2:42 pm | New Zealand Rugby League
When the NZ Kiwis run onto Whangarei's Toll Stadium for their Four Nations clash with Toa Samoa on November 1, they will pay homage to their own Pacific Island roots in the form of the Te Iwi Kiwi jersey. More >>


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Stunted growth: Lebanon's economy at the mercy of political stability
Head of Lebanon's Economic Committee Adnan Kassar reiterated Monday warnings that the economy is at the mercy of political bickering and instability.
"You need to understand the impact of your behavior on the economy," Kassar told politicians following a meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai. Kassar added that the Lebanese economy has the potential to improve, but that this can only be achieved in a secure climate of political stability.
"Lebanon's economy has not lost its ability to return to the levels of growth seen in the past few years, and has the potential to compensate for [the slow growth] of 2011 and 2012," Kassar said, adding that Lebanon has significant local funding sources that remain untapped because of instability. "Arab and foreign investors are looking to invest in Lebanon, and there are a lot of strategic projects waiting to be implemented," he added.
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Lafayette Crime Prevention And Safety Fair Is April 11
The 2015 Crime Prevention & Safety Fair Saturday, April 11th at The Horse Farm and is a free event for the entire family.
The 2015 Crime Prevention & Safety Fair Saturday, April 11th at The Horse Farm and is a free event for the entire family.
Angelina Jolie attended the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards with her kids, Shiloh and Zahara, and won the award for Favorite Villain.
Nick Jonas kicked off his hosting duties at the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards by performing a medley of "Chains" and "Jealous."
What you believe to be the better looking side of your face is probably not. If you always turn a certain way to take pictures, you may not be giving the world your 'good side'.
Can we put a price on happiness? Let's say we could. What if we could order happiness online or drive up to a store, go in and buy it...How much would you pay for it?
Boston weather man Pete Bouchard was live on the air talking about how Mars and Venus were going to be visible in the night sky, when he happen to mention something about Uranus.
Loreauville - native Earl Simon is a sailor aboard the New Orleans, a San Diego-based, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship.
Dr. Kevin believes that modern research proves that the possible benefit of fluoride in our drinking water does not outweigh the risk.
Sean Hayes and his husband Scott Icenogle shared a video of themselves lip-syncing to Iggy Azalea and Jennifer Hudson's "Trouble" and it is everything.
A controversial "Religious Liberty" bill signed into law by Indiana Governor Mike Pence on Thursday (March 26) has already attracted a number of high-profile critics.
In case you are like me and TOTALLY missed the story of why people are wearing yellow for Seth today, here it is.
Vermilionville is looking for an intern (paid) to help with a summer research project.


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David L. Smith on Banks, Gold and Guns
Posted January 10, 2013
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David L. Smith of GenevaBusinessInsider.blogspot.com joins us for our monthly discussion on economics, finance and politics.
This month we cover the fudging of the Basel III accords, the state of the Swiss central bank and other central banks around the world in 2013, the gun control debate in America and much more.
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