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After spending the day looking at marinas on the north shore, I've decided NOT to bring my sailboat here for now.
We looked at Lake Pontchartrain Harbor Marina (not deep enough), Cypress Cove (no electricity), Colbert Cove (no electricity), Heron's Way ($6.50 ft & electricity), Prieto Marina (6 yr waiting list)and the Landing (slip too narrow).
We also went to Northshore Marine Services but I feel they are way out of line in pricing. $1,400 to unload, two coats of bottom paint and drop in the water and we are not allowed to work in their yard, everything done must be done by them . . .
I know things here are changing so I don't have a problem leaving mt sailboat in Monterey Bay and paying someone to care for it. I will keep looking so it's not a rush . . . just not satisfied with what the local marinas have to offer.
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on 12/26/2014 6:34:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Still the best I've come across. It's a keeper.
on 12/25/2014 11:24:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I have acne so don't use this to cover spots but just under eyes as a highlighter. It's a heavier consistency to others but really long wearing and does the job! A must have for a night out!
on 12/14/2014 10:40:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Tan, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I got this when I had really bad acne, and it was the ONLY thing that ever truly worked to cover it up. Didn't feel too heavy and didn't catch on dry skin, which I find most concealers do and end up making acne MORE apparent. I also use it for my dark undereyes, and it stays like a dream.
on 12/11/2014 7:58:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I really should be doing something else other than reviewing cosmetics but ... I want to say this is my HG concealer! I think I am one of those concealholics because I've owned quite a few:
1) Cle de peau concealer (Very cakey and dry...the worst one ever, and it's 95 bucks including tax in Canada!)
2) Benefit Boiing
3) Benefit Erase Paste
4) MAC mineralize concealer
5) Marc Jacobs re(marc)able concealer (creases like mad...)
6) YSL touché éclat (I KNOW this is not meant to be a concealer, but it works for me and it's a great product!)
7) Youngblood mineral concealer
8) Benefit Ooh la lift
9) NARS radiant creamy concealer (amazing stuff!)
This is the best one. It covers ridiculously well, CAN'T tell im wearing concealer at all, the color is perfect match. Like our own skin! And it lasts for hours. Nobody has to know you have dark undereye circles ;)
This is the cheapest concealer I have ever used, and I happened to like it the MOST! It just shows that $$$ doesn't mean better.
I used to hate MAC because I thought they were only known for having really heavy makeup..... nope! This is so lightweight AND full coverage
on 12/9/2014 11:40:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Very Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
Pro Longwear is my holy grail concealer. I've repurchased this numerous times and will continue to do so. It is ass full coverage as they come, but could also be applied lightly if your doing minimal makeup. Covers dark circles and also highlights very well. I dint really use this for covering problem areas as I prefer a thicker concealer for that. The one thing that kept me from giving 5 stars is the packaging. 1. I've dropped this on my carpet from maybe 3 ft and it smashed!!! 2. If you're not careful the pump let's out way more than you will need. So just be extra careful not to drop this and pump slowly and all is well. I feel like it's worth the $20. I would probably pay more if I had to for this.
on 12/9/2014 6:02:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Blue
This is my 'special occasion' concealer because:
1. It is high end and expensive.
2. It gives great coverage.
3. It lasts all day.
But is not my 'go-to' concealer because:
1. Can emphasize my pores (with some foundations)
2. High end (don't want to waste it)
3. It does crease on me.
I highly recommend this concealer, but make sure play around with it and find what application and foundation works with it to reduce the chances of it emphasizing your pores, and make sure you set it with powder so that it doesn't crease.
TIP- If you have issues with squirting to much out, hold the sides of the pump with your fingers to help reduce the amount of product squirting out when you use it. :)
Definitely will repurchase this concealer :)
on 12/8/2014 12:27:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Although this concealer is gorgeous on the skin, makes it look airbrushed and flawless, it is extremely irritating. After I began to use this concealer, I noticed my eyes were watering and burning every time I would wear makeup. At first I thought maybe my eyes were just getting irritated from the bristles of my brushes or my mascara wand, but for a few days I switched to a different concealer and the watering and burning completely stopped. So if you have sensitive eyes at all like me, I would definitely skip out on this concealer.
Similar to MAC foundations, the concealer definitely made my skin break out, only it was dry patches of skin instead of acne. I developed a dry patch on my cheek just under my eye where I had been applying the concealer that never existed until about 1 week after starting to use it. So if you have any skin sensitivities to MAC foundations this concealer may not work for you.
And the pump on it is horrible but I think that everyone in the reviews has already covered that.
With all that said, the concealer is still beautiful on the skin and I wish I could use it without so many problems.
on 11/28/2014 7:57:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Love using this under the eyes and for covering redness. It doesn't crease and provides excellent coverage. People tend to complain that the concealer is drying. I have dry under eyes so I apply an under eye cream 15 minutes before using this. It looks amazing after. It makes me look awake even after I stay up all night studying. My only complaint is that it dispenses way too much product. The price is quite reasonable for a high end concealer. I also use it to prime my eyes as well. Great stuff .
on 11/28/2014 9:13:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
This concealer definitely provides great coverage, especially for the under eye area. It doesn't crease and is very long wearing, just like it promises. It's also great for priming the lids and keeping the eyeshadow on place all day (and night) long. There are, however, a couple of things that really, really disturb me and that affect my overall impression of this concealer.
First, we have to talk about the packaging. I do like the idea of a concealer with a pump, it's both hygienic and convenient, but this pump actually sucks. Big time. One of the best things about this concealer is that a little really goes a long way - I only need a tiny amount to cover my dark under eye circles. But this is completely defeated by the pump as it's really hard to control the amount of product to dispense - it's nearly impossible to get out a small amount. Even if I try my best to be press super lightly and slowly, 80% of the time it ends up dispensing a full pump, which would be enough to cover the whole face with. I hate to waste product, it's so unnecessary. I know that you can "solve" the problem by dispense the product to another container, as someone suggested, but I don't think that I, as a customer, should have to do that. I mean, it can't be that hard for MAC to come up with a better pump. If this was the best concealer in the world I maybe would compromise on that, but not when there are better ones out there (NARS Radiant creamy concealer has just as good coverage but with a better packaging and texture).
Also, I don't know if it's that I have particularly dry skin under the eyes, but I find it really hard to work with this product. The texture is strange - sticky, like someone mentioned below - it's like it dries instantly on the skin and I really have to tug to blend the product out, which I don't like to do when it comes to the delicate area around the eyes (hello wrinkles). It doesn't help putting on eye cream before applying the concealer either, like I have been advised. Not many seem to have this problem, so it could be possible that I have an exceptionally dry under eye area, but I do want to say that I have never had this problem with any other concealer.
I will finish this one as it's quite pricey, but I'm not re-buying.
on 11/25/2014 9:13:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Wow, the way I love this concealer.
I have dealt with hyperpigmentation, discoloration, acne scars, active acne marks, redness, name it all and I've had it on my face at one point or another.
This concealer covers IT ALL. The amazing part about it is that it is so thin in consistency, you know those extremely thick, cakey concealers that just don't look like skin on your skin? Yeah, this is completely the opposite. It's thin but not watery thin, just the perfect consistency. As long as you work with it quickly (as it does set really quickly, and as soon as it sets Lord knows its not budging) it blends in very nicely and covers beautifully.
I don't like using this for my undereye area as it is a bit too full coverage and my under eye bags aren't that serious BUT I have used it before on lazy days when I don't wanna pull out another concealer and it does not crease, does not cake and again just sets perfectly.
It lasts all day, is waterproof, matches my skin perfectly (I use NC30), DOES NOT BREAK ME OUT !! !!!!! !!!, and it just complete Holy Grail material. I love this baby so much.
Try it. Seriously. Do it. You're missing out.
I hardly ever legitimately FINISH a product, but I've gone through 3 full tubes of this and already have 2 back-ups.
The biggest quirk I have with this is the packaging, like seriously for the life of me I can't get the last 1/8th (ish) of the product out, it doesn't pump, the pump can't be screwed open, like I don't know what I can do asides from put a hammer to it and conserve the rest in a little sample tub.
If anyone has any suggestions better than the hammer idea lol please message me and let me know. Thanks!
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Social media is not an end in and of itself. It's just one tool in the broad range of options you have available in your business toolkit that can help you accomplish your goals.
When I've talked to business partners about social media, many of you have told me that many of you are still unclear of its value proposition; that is, why you should use social media as opposed to the vast array of tools that you already have in your arsenal.
That's why we recently announced some new social media enablement resources for IBM Business Partners (see my previous post, Increase Your Social Savvy: Getting Started with Social Media). One of those is our new Social Sounbyte series on YouTube, which provides, short, actionable soundbytes on the value of social media, how you can leverage it for your business, and best practices for using it to accomplish those goals. The first video in the series, Why You're Company Should Have a Social Media Presence, seeks to answer the questions about business value that many of you have been asking. You can check it out below:
When you are ready to take the plunge into social media, it's a good practice to have a plan in place for how you want to use it to bring value to your business (although, it's certainly ok to let that plan evolve as you learn). One of the worst things you can do is start a full-fledged social media campaign, for example, just because it's the latest trend in marketing, without a clear understanding of what your goals are, or whether your intended audience is even using the social media channel that you've decided to build your campaign around. So here are some tips on how to make sure that you're extracting value from your social media program:
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Although this doesnt directly impact me, I have a real bone to pick with ALTA. Some of my friends had a Senior Mixed playoff match Sunday at 10, 45 miles away. They had a Mixed playoff match 60 miles from their Seniors Playoff Match. The captain of the Mixed team let the Regular Mixed opponent know that they could be a little late since they were playing the ALTA seniors match that morning and a great distance away. The 1s starting playing in the regular mixed match at 1, the 2s got to the courts at 1:25 and the captain of the home team said too bad, you are defaulted. The captains talked to the coordinators and it appears the coordinators were in agreement that they arrived past default time.
First of all, what a way to advance to the next round by making the other team drive all that way and then shoot them down, but more importantly, shame on ALTA for even putting teams in this scenario. 3 hours between different league playoff matches is not very well thought out. I understand that ALTA doesn't give a hoot about USTA playoffs, but their own, come on! You shouldn't have to revise your lineup because of ALTA scheduling.
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Artists' books have been around for centuries, but as digital technology has advanced so quickly recently, so have the ways in which artists produce works of art in, or based upon the book format. So what are artists doing with books these days? This presentation will look at some of the ways artists in the USA, Europe and further afield are approaching the book format now. Examples of artists' books will be discussed, from beautiful paper-based editions to more experimental video and online book works, and what the messages behind these books are.
Sarah Bodman is Senior Research Fellow for Artists' Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research, where she runs projects investigating and promoting contemporary book arts. She is also Programme Leader for MA Multi-disciplinary Printmaking at the Bower Ashton Campus. She is the editor of the Artist's Book Yearbook, a biennial reference publication on contemporary book arts, and the The Blue Notebook, a journal for artists' books, and writes a regular news column on artists' books for the journal Printmaking Today. Her own artists books include Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volumes I-IV, an ongoing series of books inspired by Richard Brautigan's novel The Abortion; Viola, the story of a serial killer baker; After Fallout; The Romantic Tradition Unleashed; Against Nature; Closure, a short story of the end of a love affair between a plane spotter and flower arranger (2009), How Do I Love Thee?, a collaboration with JP Willis which explores the lengths people will go to, to keep their loved ones close by (2009), and 2.43, made specially for Abigail Thomas' Micro Pages project.
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"It was a mistake to go along with the Congress in the 2011 Assembly elections," West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.
"Had we not tied up with the Congress we would have won 293 of the 294 seats in the Assembly," she said, while addressing an election rally at Amtala in the State's South Parganas district.
Ms. Banerjee whose party is contesting the ongoing panchayat elections on its own strength – the first major polls after the electoral alliance between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress ended in September 2012 — said that she was a member of the Congress in the past but left the party "out of shame."
"I had left the Congress… as the leaders were working as agents of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Had I not left it, the CPI(M) could never have been removed from power in the State," she said.
Stating that her party would have won the 2011 Assembly elections even without the Congress, Ms. Banerjee accused the Congress of colluding with the CPI(M) against the Trinamool in the ongoing panchayat polls.
In a scathing attack on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre, she criticised the regular increase in the prices of the petroleum products.
Ms. Banerjee dared the Centre to "unleash all the Central agencies against her," pointing out that whoever protested against the Centre had to face investigation by these agencies.
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Alfred C. Ivey Jr. is accused of forcibly raping a child who was in his care for years, according to Kentucky State Police. The allegations occurred between 1999 and 2004 when the girl was 9 to 14 years old.
An officer who grew up in Vine Grove and began his law-enforcement career in his hometown has been sworn in as its new police chief.
Kenny Mattingly was announced as the new chief during Monday's city council meeting in front of about 30 people. He was sworn in after the meeting by Mayor Blake Proffitt.
Radcliff Mayor J.J. Duvall hopes residents have their popcorn handy Saturday.
The city is hosting a free showing of "Night at the Museum" starring Ben Stiller, the latest installment in its movie night at the park series. Radcliff City Park North opens at 7 p.m. and the movie will start around 8:30 p.m., Duvall said.
Parking will be available near the front of the park, he said, and the city's new trolley will be in use.
Radcliff City Council's called meeting and work session were canceled Monday afternoon for lack of a quorum.
Only Barbara Baker and Edward Palmer were present. Mayor J.J. Duvall said the majority of the remaining four council members were out of town or tied up with prior commitments, but he thought enough were available to hold the meeting.
Legally, the council must have four voting members present to take action. Duvall said a special called meeting will be scheduled to enact property tax rates once schedules allow the council to do so.
Taylor County High School's marching band finished first among seven bands competing Saturday in the Governor's Gold Cup contest Saturday in Elizabethtown.
Judges' score sheets listed Taylor County first in six of eight categories evaluated. Its score of 70.05 finished in front of second-place Nelson County with a 67.9.
Marion County placed third, followed by Meade County and North Oldham. DuPont Manual and Campbellsville bands also competed at Doug Smith Memorial Stadium on the T.K. Stone Middle School campus.
It's not often Joe Allen gets a quiet moment during his work day at DLS Tire Center on North Dixie Avenue in Elizabethtown.
The whirring, chugging and clunking of power tools forms white noise in the background for the mechanic.
That's why he makes his own quiet moments.
Members of Central Hardin High School's band are living out their dreams on the field this year.
The band is preparing for the debut of its show, "In Your Dreams," at competition Sept. 15 at Apollo High School in Owensboro, after working through the summer with many new band members.
Along with new members, there are new features in their show this year, too. The show, which deals with dream-like states of mind, includes much more dance than ever before at the school, band director David Centers said.
Jeff Gaither is more accustomed to seeing his art placed on the front of an album, but on Saturday, it was under people's feet.
Gaither was one of 60 who signed up to create street art for the annual Via Colori festival, which rents out space for artists to create chalk art on the streets and sidewalks of downtown Elizabethtown. Via Colori is a fundraiser for the Advocacy and Support Center, a rape crisis center in Elizabethtown.
Kevin D. Tuttle, 40, of Elizabethtown died Friday after his vehicle left Battle Training Road and traveled down an embankment and struck a tree, authorities said Sunday.
Hardin County Chief Deputy Coroner Kenneth Spangenberger said a passerby noticed tire tracks Sunday morning that appeared to leave Ky. 434 and stopped to investigate. Tuttle was found outside his vehicle at the site approximately one mile west of Colesburg.
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Crean praises Burton, Bedford (Courtesy of Bedford Times Mail)
Aug. 15, 2014
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BEDFORD -- When Indiana University President Michael McRobbie realized he was too ill to honor his pledge to speak at Thursday's Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at the Lawrence County 4-H Expo Hall, he had no trouble recruiting a willing and worthy substitute.
"I love coming to Bedford," IU men's basketball coach Tom Crean proclaimed with enthusiasm. "Anytime you have a chance to go to a place the president feels is important, there's no debate about it.
"I love being here in Bedford. It's fun here, and I see some faces I recognize. And now I've finally met Richard Burton, the man I see on that billboard all the time."
Crean said liking Bedford and the Burton family is hardly an arduous task.
"I'd like to tell you we have the good fortune of having Ryan Burton in our program," Crean said, eliciting an appreciative roar from the audience. "We like his grade-point average, he always has a smile on his face, and he's got this demeanor about him.
"He has been fantastic for us. He first worked out with us in the spring when we were coming off a season we weren't that excited about. We had lost some people, but we went into the spring with tremendous enthusiasm.
"We knew we had an opportunity to build a better chemistry. We had a chance to get on the same page and have people respect each other's talents more."
Enter Ryan Burton, a Bedford native who shot .400 behind the arc during his two seasons at Bellarmine. Burton recently transferred to IU to attend the Kelley School of Business.
"Ryan came in and added enthusiasm and energy," Crean said. "At first we treated it like a trial basis. But after the first couple of days I knew there was no way we weren't keeping him.
"You have to trust your instincts, and it became pretty clear early on there was something there with Ryan. He's athletic and extremely smart. And I don't just mean Kelley School of Business smart. I mean really smart.
"He's got personality and presence. Even before he knew he was on the roster, he had been absorbed onto the team. He felt like he belonged, and we haven't looked back since."
Crean asked the audience to help make Burton an even greater contributor to the program.
"Give him some limestone to carry," he suggested. "Give him your grocery bags. We need to make him stronger." He noted that with Burton's age, background and personality the junior is well equipped to provide perspective for the younger Hoosiers on the roster.
"The players have gravitated toward Ryan," he said. "We'd like to get even more leadership from him."
The coach also congratulated Lawrence County officials and local business leaders for making their mark during the past couple of years.
"You went up to Indianapolis in 2013 and came home with the Community of the Year Award," he explained. "Well, we went up to Michigan in 2013 and came home with a Big Ten championship. It was a great year."
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Vancouver Whitecaps star Jay DeMerit believes the summer visits of clubs from Europe helps increase the profile of Major League Soccer.
Recently, the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Celtic – among others – have taken pre-season trips to North America to take on MLS clubs but not everybody is happy about the now annual activity.
Fans from the involved clubs feel that the 'friendly' matches interrupt their respective MLS seasons but DeMerit, who is set to take on Chelsea with the MLS All-Stars on Wednesday, is of the belief that the tours actually help the state of the game in the region.
"I think these games are important to put a spotlight on soccer in America. Nothing puts a spotlight on any bigger than the likes of a Chelsea or Manchester United, those teams that have come and do a lot of North American tours ever year," he told philly.com's The Goalkeeper.
"To have Chelsea here, and to have their names on the [roster] sheet that you walk out with that people know, it's something that's important. There's a certain way to grow soccer – and yes, it takes a while in the North American market, but I think they're doing a good job.
"Every year they are doing a better and better job at filling the stadiums and knowing the names on those sheets.
"That's not just including Chelsea, that's including the MLS players now. All these types of things are crucial for development in North America, and I think it's games like this that really help."
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Mary Lisbeth D'Amico | May 1, 2013 | Comments
Twitter's self-serve ad platform is now available to all U.S. users, rather than just on an invitation-only basis.
Twitter's self-serve ad platform is now available to all U.S. users, rather than just on an invitation-only basis. The social media platform has also added enhancements designed to help advertisers better analyze and manage their ad campaigns.
In an online statement, Twitter said it has widened reporting on user engagement with Promoted Tweets - the sponsored tweets that appear at the top of its news feed - to include not just paid media but also earned media, or those that are voluntarily retweeted or commented on by other Twitter users.
"This change gives marketers more complete insight into the impact Promoted Tweets have in driving engagement and exposure on Twitter," the company says.
Twitter also made changes in its ads center that it claims gives advertisers more detail on audience segments, allowing them to view their audience, for example, by device, location, gender, and interest.
Twitter has been slowly phasing in Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts over the past few years, and in March announced the availability of a self-serve ad platform to a limited number of companies by invitation only. For some marketers, the wider availability of Twitter's ad platform comes none too soon.
"People have been salivating for an ad platform on Twitter for quite a while. If they had launched this one or two years ago, it would have been rolling along by now," says Maciej Fita, SEO director at Brandignity, a Naples, Florida-based agency that helps small-to-medium-sized companies with digital marketing efforts.
Fita, who said a few of his clients have tried out the platform in beta, welcomed the new analytics abilities but said that Twitter still had a long way to go in terms of offering a mature ad platform. "I don't think the conversion tracking is that good and maneuvering though the ad platform is somewhat confusing," he says, noting that it would take Twitter a while to approach the level of Google AdWords or Facebook in allowing companies to see precisely where conversions were coming from.
Twitter is not the only social media or content company scrambling to court advertisers by integrating promoted material and analytics into its site. Yahoo, for example, this week also announced the launch of Yahoo Stream Ads, performance-based native advertisements that are embedded in the personalized content stream on the new Yahoo home page. It also introduced Billboard, an ad positioned at the top of the Yahoo home page designed to "enhance the user experience with rich and immersive interactions," according to Yahoo. Finally, it also launched a new video ad buying method that blends its own topical video channels with distribution partners' video content, promising greater contextual relevance for advertisers.
Tumblr also this week announced plans for mobile advertisements in the form of sponsored posts, about a year after it began introducing ads on its Internet platform. The company said it is trialing sponsored posts in its mobile through the end of May, featuring ads from GE, Pepsi, Warner Bros., ABC Entertainment, and ABC Family.
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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'
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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'
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This was the first of three films made by Leigh with Laurence Olivier. Flora Robson starred as Elizabeth I with Leigh as Cynthia, a lady-in-waiting, and Olivier as Michael Ingolby. Embarking on an illicit affair during filming they became known in the studio as 'the lovers'. Leigh recalled: 'I don't think I have lived quite as intensely ever since. I don't remember sleeping, ever; only every precious moment that we spent together.' The screenplay was adapted by Clemence Dane from A.E.W. Mason's novel about the English defeat of the Spanish Armada. Directed by William K. Howard and produced by Erich Pommer, this was Leigh's first film under contract to Alexander Korda, marking the beginning of a long friendship.
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NGAUS Washington Report (Dec. 10, 2013) A morning snowstorm closed the federal government in Washington, D.C., today, but defense industry leaders and National Guard leaders visited NGAUS headquarters for the association's 17th Annual Industry Day where they heard a senator highlight the Guard's... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Dec. 3, 2013) The National Guard and the Army have come out of discussions with different views of the service's future. Both aim to save money in this time of required budget cuts, but the Guard plan would keep 30,000 more soldiers in the Army Guard than the Army plan.... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Dec. 3, 2013) More than 100 chief executive officers of defense and aerospace industries have urged Congress to end sequestration, which, they say, is harming the economy and national security, according to a CNN report online. "We urge you to do whatever it takes to end... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Nov. 26, 2013) The Senate is currently considering its fiscal 2014 version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Included in the debate still to come are several amendments, several of which are supported by NGAUS. Here is a handful of amendments considered priorities... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Nov. 26, 2013) The Defense Department is again asking Congress to allow it to use a tool that would help alleviate draconian budget cuts possible under sequestration: the base realignment and closure process, or BRAC. The latest call came from Frank Kendall, the... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Nov. 19, 2013) An amendment to the Senate defense authorization bill would limit the effects of sequestration in 2014 in exchange for lower defense spending growth for several more years. The amendment being considered by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Jeff Sessions,... Read more
The National Guard is America's first military organization and for 377 years the men and women of the National Guard have proven they can meet any challenge. Since the tragic events of 9/11, the National Guard has transformed from a strategic reserve into an operational force. As our military... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Nov. 12, 2013) The service chiefs were blunt last week when they appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, telling the lawmakers that continued cuts under sequestration would have a serious impact on the battlefield. Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff,... Read more
NGAUS Washington Report (Nov. 12, 2013) NGAUS asked its members last week through a Legislative Alert to urge members of the budget conference committee in Congress to take the high road and amend the 2011 Budget Control Act if necessary to achieve compromise on future government spending... Read more
A recent TIME Magazine article by Mark Thompson, "Reshaping the Army," argues that the United States Army is at a crossroads, struggling to find its role in an uncertain budgetary future. After over a decade of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, an Asian "pivot" that focuses primarily on increased... Read more


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Ex-CCDC president could see $170,000 fine
Like Acle, Graham has gone to great lengths to fight the allegations since the investigation began. The commission had to take her to court in October before she would turn over financial records that led to the investigation's findings.
That legal dispute revolved around whether the panel's request for checks also covered electronic wire transfers. A court ruled that it did, and Graham turned over the records.
At the time, the judge said Graham was making the panel "fight tooth and nail every step of the way" to get the financial information.
The ethics investigation focuses on Graham's relationship with Lennar, which was one of several developers involved with the CCDC in a 1,929-room Marriott hotel proposal at Ballpark Village, just east of Petco Park.
At issue is a Florida development business that Graham owned with her former husband. Their company partnered in 2002 with Related Cos. and Lennar on a Florida project that netted the couple's company more than $7 million before expenses and taxes. Graham never reported income from the venture — financial records show that she received $3,530,080 — on the economic-interest forms required of city officials.
Pfingst said she did not need to report the income because the development deal occurred years ago and the payments were delayed compensation stemming from the project's success.
Graham, whose annual salary was $248,000, served as the CCDC's president from December 2005 to July 2008. The quasi-independent, nonprofit agency shapes city redevelopment efforts downtown and has a $159.5 million budget.
Graham pleaded no contest in May to a misdemeanor charge of failing to disclose her financial interests. The case had to do with her connection to the Florida arm of Related, which won a $409 million urban-renewal project from the CCDC in 2007.
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"In heaven," she said, "I'm sure he heard the words he wanted to hear: 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'"
With such leaders as the Rev. Robert H. Schuller of Crystal Cathedral and Kenton Beshore of Mariners Church in Irvine, Smith was among the longest- serving Christian pastors in Orange County.
Smith was 17 and planning a medical career when he attended a summer church retreat in the San Bernardino Mountains. A speaker spurred him to do some heavy-duty introspection.
"I sat under a pine tree all afternoon and came to the conclusion that being a doctor would help people in the here and now, but becoming a pastor could help people in this life and afterward," he said in a 1997 interview.
He went on to attend Life Bible College and then served as a Pentecostal pastor in various communities.
Smith was a pastor in Corona when he was hired to lead Calvary Chapel, then housed on Church Street in Costa Mesa.
Sharon Fischer, who was on Calvary's board at the time with her husband, Hal, said the congregation, which started in a Costa Mesa trailer court, was about four years old.
Floyd Nelson, the founding pastor, recommended that the church consider Smith as his replacement, Fischer said.
Smith, she said, had an affinity for the New Testament's Romans. She recalled that he had gone to high school in Santa Ana, had been a surfer and had been ordained a Foursquare minister before serving in the non-denominational Corona church. He and his wife, Kay, were already parents to their four children when he started at Calvary.
"When he came, we knew, hands down, that he was the pastor we wanted," Fischer said. "He taught the Bible from cover to cover. … He was not just a preacher or pastor, he was a pastor-teacher. He was exactly what we were looking for."
It was that Bible passion, she said, that helped spawn the Calvary Chapel movement. "It is what a lot of us who were raised in churches had never experienced before," Fischer said.
Two years after his hiring, the congregation moved to a building on Greenville Street at Sunflower Avenue in Santa Ana.
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Some Things Never Change
Today I noticed that a gentleman had visited my profile on a number of occasions. So I wrote him a quick note….and said "Hello. Just a note to say I like your profile. It resonated because I was married…..blah…blah….blah…so it has been slow going."
"Good Guy" responded by saying "We do have a lot in common. I'm not sure that we'd be compatible dating or as partners, but a new friend is always nice. Let me know."
So, I responded, with "What are you looking for?" (Keep in mind that I did not say anything to him that even hinted I was interested romantically. I had just told him that most folks on that particular site were looking for the next best thing between the sheets….and that I was looking for a whole lot more……and it is slow going."
"Good Guy" responded again saying "What am I looking for in terms of friends, or partners? The former: wide open. The latter, obviously a bit pickier and I don't think you and I would be a good match on that score."
I responded: "You certainly have a way with words. Based upon your emails I certainly agree with your assessment with one addition: I don't' think we'd be good friends. I'm picky too. Have a great day!"
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East Antarctica Is Pushing Around Its Softer-Mantled Western Half
April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
It's easy to know what to do when half-siblings are pushing each other around, but what do you do about half-continents?
A team of researchers, led by Ohio State University, have discovered that East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around. West Antarctica is losing weight in the form of billions of tons of ice per year, making its mantle rock softer. This rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica.
The team recorded GPS measurements that show West Antarctic bedrock is being pushed sideways at rates up to about twelve millimeters — about half an inch — per year. The researchers say that this movement is important for understanding current ice loss on the continent, and will help to predict future ice loss. They described their findings at the American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting this week in San Francisco.
Thinking in an Earth-sized scale, half an inch doesn't seem like that much. However, it is actually quite dramatic compared to other regions of the planet, according to Terry Wilson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State. Wilson leads POLENET, an international collaboration that has planted GPS and seismic sensors all over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Wilson's team wasn't surprised to detect the horizontal movement because they have been using GPS to observe vertical motion on the continent since the 1990s. However, they were surprised to find the bedrock moving towards regions of greatest ice loss.
"From computer models, we knew that the bedrock should rebound as the weight of ice on top of it goes away," Wilson said. "But the rock should spread out from the site where the ice used to be. Instead, we see movement toward places where there was the most ice loss."
Where the transition is most pronounced, the sideways movement runs perpendicular to the boundary between the two types of mantle, pointed out Stephanie Konfal, a research associate with POLENET. Konfal likened the mantle interface to a pot of honey.
"If you imagine that you have warm spots and cold spots in the honey, so that some of it is soft and some is hard," Konfal said, "and if you press down on the surface of the honey with a spoon, the honey will move away from the spoon, but the movement won't be uniform. The hard spots will push into the soft spots. And when you take the spoon away, the soft honey won't uniformly flow back up to fill the void, because the hard honey is still pushing on it."
In other words, West Antarctica's soft mantle was compressed by ice. Even though some ice has melted away, the mantle isn't filling back in uniformly because East Antarctica's harder mantle is pushing it sideways. According to Konfal, the crust is just along for the ride.
This finding has significant implications because scientists use these crustal motions to understand ice loss.
"We're witnessing expected movements being reversed, so we know we really need computer models that can take lateral changes in mantle properties into account," noted Konfal.
According to Wilson, such extreme differences in mantle properties are not seen anywhere else on the planet where glacial rebound is occurring.
"We figured Antarctica would be different," she said. "We just didn't know how different."


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Jessica Findley
Mozart Concerto for Bassoon, K. 191, Movement I
Jessica Findley, a native of Wichita, Kansas, is currently a junior pursuing a bachelor of music degree in bassoon under Dr. Eric Stomberg at the University of Kansas. She spent her first two years of college study at Bowling Green State University in Ohio studying with Drs. Nathaniel Zeisler and Maya Stone. Jessica is an enthusiastic chamber musician and she enjoys collaborating with a variety of unique instrumental combinations, including renaissance and contemporary ensembles. In 2011-12, she was selected as a finalist in the BGSU Chamber Music Competition and the BGSU Concerto Competition. More recently, Jessica was the winner of the KU Concerto Competition, performing the Mozart Concerto for Bassoon with the KU Symphony Orchestra in March of 2013. This year, she was also the first-prize winner of the collegiate bassoon division of the Midwest Double Reed Society Young Artist Competition. Jessica has performed with the Neue Eutiner Festspiele Oper Orchester in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany as well as the Perrysberg Symphony Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony Winds, and the Ottawa Symphony.
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Julian Hernandez
Weber Concertino
A native of El Paso, Texas, clarinetist Julian Hernandez began his musical studies at the age of nine, and went on to study with Dr. Richard Shanley, Dr. Vanguel Tangarov, and Mr. Alan Olson at Baylor University where he earned his undergraduate degree in music education. He is currently working on his Master's in Music Performance at the University of Michigan studying under Dan Gilbert. Recent engagements include performances with the Baylor Symphony, Waco Symphony, Mid-Texas Symphony, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Band. Julian is an alumni of the Brevard Music Center Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, Marrowstone Music Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar (NYSOS), and the 2012 edition of the Texas Music Festival. He is just as passionate about teaching as he is performing and is hoping to one day teach clarinet at the college level.
Third Place and Audience Favorite - 2013
Caity Piccini
Nielsen Concerto for Flute, Movement I
Caity Piccini is an accomplished prize-winning flutist who has performed with orchestras and given numerous solo and chamber recitals across the United States and abroad. Caity is currently pursuing her DMA at the University of Houston and studies with Houston Symphony Principal Flutist, Aralee Dorough. She received her Master's in Music Performance from NYU, studying with Keith Underwood, and holds a Bachelor of Music Performance from Temple University, where she studied with The Philadelphia Orchestra's Associate Principal Flute, David Cramer.
2013 Finalists
Caroline Cox
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Movement IV
Caroline Cox started her violin studies at the age of four. Caroline is a graduate of East Carolina University with a double major in violin and piano performance. She studied violin with Ara Gregorian and piano with Keiko Sekino. She has been selected to perform in the ECU Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival: Next Generation Series several times, during which she has had the opportunity to perform with Robert McDonald and Michael Kannen. Caroline won the ECU concerto competition during her freshman year. In her junior year, she won the Durham Symphony Orchestra and Raleigh Symphony Orchestra concerto competitions and as a result of this, performed the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor as soloist with both orchestras. In spring 2012, Caroline represented North Carolina in the Music Teachers National Association Competition in New York City where she was awarded first place in the Young Artist Collegiate String Division. Caroline is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Violin Performance at Mannes College of Music in New York City and studying with Lucie Robert.
Nathan Varga
Bottesini Concerto No. 2, Movement I
Nathan Varga is a recent Master of Music graduate of Boston University, having studied with Benjamin Levy. In 2011 Nathan completed a Bachelor of Music in double bass performance at Baldwin Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio. Drawn to Boston by its vibrant and diverse music scene, Nathan has been privileged to perform with Cambridge Concentus Baroque, Marsh Chapel Collegium, Boston Philharmonic, Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Worcester Bach Consort, Cape Cod Symphony, Alea III New Music, and the Orchestra of Indian Hill. He has drawn great inspiration from leading orchestral bassists such as Henry Peyrebrune, Edwin Barker, Paul Ellison, Scott Dixon, Meredith Johnson, Todd Seeber, Sue Yelanjin, Deborah Dunham. Nathan is pursuing a career in orchestral double bass performance with special interest in baroque music and chamber music. In addition to the pursuit of musical performance Nathan enjoys listening to and discussing modern music of all genres.
Siyu Zhang
Pagnini Violin Concerto in D Major, Movement I
Siyu Zhang was born in Changchun, China in 1993 and began to played violin at age 5 and studied with Liu Yi. She gave performances in Harbin and Dalian which the cities of China. She has won the second prize of "Andrea Postacchini" in Italy International Violin Competition in 2009. She was accepted by the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School division with professor Wang Homg. During the school, she has received excellent grades and scholarships. She has also been invited by the famous TV Show "making progress every day" in Hunan. She has performed in master class for Hu Kun, Gerardo Ribeiro, Bill Van der Sloot, Miriam Fried, Wolfgang Jahn, Sergiu Schwartz and Guanter Pichler the first violin of the "Alban Berg" Quartet group
Siyu has been accepted the full scholarship by Meadowmount Summer Camp in 2010 and 2011. She has been accepted by manhattan School of Music as a full scholarship students 2012. Now she is a freshman and studying with Lucie Robert.
2012: Xiao Wang
Xiao Wang, 2012 Young Artist Competition Winner
Chinese violinist, Xiao Wang, started learning the violin at the age of five. His professional training began in the middle school attached to the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music at age ten with professor Wei-Dong Tong. He achieved his first honor at the age of eleven by winning the Sonata Competition in the Central Conservatory and also a semi-finalist of the 2002 International Young Tchaikovsky Competition. In his eight years at the Central Conservatory, he has been the concertmaster for the Chamber Orchestra and Young Artist symphony. He made his orchestra debut in China at the age of sixteen playing Sibelius Violin Concerto. After graduating High School in Beijing, Mr. Wang was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in 2005 where he attained his Artist Diploma with former Boston Symphony Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein. He has been the associate concertmaster for the Opera Orchestra in Curtis from 2007-09 and has worked with many renowned conductors such as Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Michael Stern, Christopher Eschenbach and Philippe Entremont. Also accompanying many famous musicians in such as Lean Fleisher, Gary Graffman, Lang Lang and Hilary Hann in Carnegie Hall.
As an active chamber musician, Mr. Wang's ensembles have been coached by members of the Emerson, Juilliard, Guanari, Takacs and Tokyo String Quartets. He has also collaborated with the American String Quartet and performed with the members many times. He has taken master classes for solo and chamber works with Claude and Pamela Frank, Peter Wiley, Midori and Cho Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt and David Geber. Mr. Wang has performed in the New York String Seminar of Orchestra, Meadowmount Music Festival and Great Wall Music Festival in Beijing.
Mr. Wang is currently a full scholarship student at the Manhattan School of Music studying with Professor Lucie Robert.
2011: Lachezar Kostov
Hailed for the "awesome purity of his playing", and described as a "prodigiously skilled protagomist" Bulgarian cellist Lachezar Kostov was the National Winner at the 2006 MTNA Young Artists Competition and has won numerous prizes including the Cello Award at the Kingsville Competition in 2005, first prize at the Hendersonville Chamber Music Competition, and the Grand Prix at the International Music and Earth Competition in Bulgaria. He has appeared as a guest soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Japan, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and Bulgaria. Having spent three consecutive summers at the Tanglewood Music Center, Mr. Kostov was a member of the resident ensemble "The New Fromm Players", collaborating with prominent American composers such as John Harbison, Ellen Zwilich and Harvey Solberger and participating in master classes with Yo Yo Ma and James Levine.
In the past two seasons Mr. Kostov performed series of concerts in Japan, including concerts as a soloist of the Philharmonic Orchestras of Hino and Tachikawa, as well as recitals in Tokyo's Sakura Hall and Oji Hall, where he performed with Japanese pianist Ai Shimizu. In May 2008, he performed a recital at Weill Hall, sponsored by the "Bulgarian Treasures" Foundation. In March 2009, Mr. Kostov made his official debut at Carnegie Hall's ZANKEL Hall performing rarely heard works for cello and piano by Zwilich, Roslavets, Kabalevsky and Saint-Saens. Both concert featured his long time friend and chamber music partner, pianist Viktor Valkov.
Lachezar Kostov started playing cello at the age of 5 and gave his first recital at 12. While still a student, he performed widely as a soloist of various Bulgarian orchestras and toured in Western Europe. At the age of 18, Mr. Kostov won the 1st and Special prizes at the National Music Talents Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria. He continued his studies at the State Academy of Music in Sofia, under the guidance of the famous Bulgarian pedagogue Bogomil Karakonov. Furthermore, he was an active participant at the Summer Academy in Semerring, Austria, where he studied with Hungarian cellist Csaba Onczay. During his time in Bulgaria Mr. Kostov often collaborated with prominent Bulgarian artists such as Vasko Vassilev and Angel Stankov, who had major influence over his playing. In 2003, Mr. Kostov spent several months in Munchen, where he studied privately with Russian cellist David Grigorian, whom Mr. Kostov claims as his most important cello teacher.
Lachezar Kostov is currently enrolled as a Doctor of Musical Arts student at Rice University, where he studies with Norman Fischer. He also holds diplomas from North Carolina School of the Arts and Yale School of music, where he was tutored by Zvi Plesser and Aldo Parisot. Mr. Kostov's first commercial CD will be released by NAXOS in 2010. He plays on a modern Italian cello, graciously given to him by the late Katsuo Shimizu estate.
2010: Shuaili Du, violin
Shuaili Du was born in 1989 in Xi'an, China. She began to play the violin at the age of five. In 2001 she entered the middle school affiliated to Xi'an conservatory of music.
During the 2002—2004, she won several the top prizes including the youth category of the Second Session of TOYAMA Asia Music Competition semi-finals in ShannXi province China and the first prize of the ShannXi province violin competition.
During 2005 and 2006, she was awarded full scholarship to the Canton International Summer Music Academy, China. In the first session of the CISMA, she won the second prize in the concerto competition and performed the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the orchestra there. In the same year, she also won the performance prize at the 8th National Competition in China. She has given numerous performances, including the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Xi'an conservatory orchestra, and she also was the concertmaster of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Xi'an conservatory of music.
In 2007, following her studies in Xi'an, she was awarded a full scholarship to study Professor Qian Zhou, head of string department at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. Two years later, she won the second prize of the Singapore national violin and piano completion, and performed the Dvorak violin concerto with the Singapore Festival Orchestra.
Du is currently playing on a 1781 J.B Guadagnini on loan by Mr and Mrs Rin Kei Mei.
2009: Yi-Chun Lin, violin
A native of Taipei, Taiwan, violinist Yi-Chun Lin is quickly becoming recognized as a rising young star. She has performed as soloist with the National Taiwan Symphony and won prizes on both violin and piano in international competitions.
Yi-Chun has given several recitals and has served as concertmaster in New York, Taiwan, and many music festivals worldwide such as the Casalmaggiore International Festival, Italy and the Texas Music Festival.
As the 2009 fi rst prize winner, as well as winner of the Audience Favorite award, of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition at the TMF, Ms. Lin will be invited to perform as soloist with the Akademisches Orchester Leipzig, Germany in the famed Gewandhaus under the baton of Maestro Horst Förster.
Ms. Lin is a student of Lucie Robert at the Manhattan School of Music, where she has just completed her bachelor's degree. She will continue her studies with Ms. Robert in New York as a full scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Ms. Du will perform Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) with the Texas Music Festival Orchestra under the direction of Stefan Sanderling on Saturday, June 26 at 7:30 PM at the Moores Opera House.
2008: Kristin King, clarinet
A native of Downers Grove, Illinois, Kristin King began playing the clarinet at age ten. In 2006, she received her Bachelor of Music Degree from Indiana University, where she was a student of Howard Klug. This spring, Kristin graduated from Northwestern University with her Master's Degree where she studied with Steve Cohen. While at Northwestern, Kristin frequently performed as principal clarinet in the Symphony Orchestra. She was a soloist with the Northwestern Chamber Orchestra performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in November 2007. This July, she will perform the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Northwestern Festival Orchestra.
Currently, Kristin is an active orchestral musician in the Chicago area. She has performed with the Illinois Philharmonic, the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Kristin was a member of the National Repertory Orchestra in 2007 and attended the Brevard Music Festival from 2005-2006.
As a chamber musician, Kristin is a founding member of the Frangipani Wind Quintet, with whom she attended the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2006. She is also a member of Chicago Clarinet Ensemble, and has performed with the International Chamber Artists in Chicago. In her free time, Kristin enjoys baking and playing squash at the local YMCA.
Kristin performed the Copland Clarinet concerto under the direction of Christoph Campestrini with the TMF Orchestra. Ms. King appeared in a sold-out concert with the Akademisches Orchester Leipzig at the famed Gewandhaus on October 20, 2009.
2007: Meredith Clark, harp
Meredith Clark begins her senior year at Oberlin Conservatory of Music this fall, where she is completing a harp performance degree under Yolanda Kondonassis. Ms. Clark has performed extensively, playing principal harp for the Oberlin Orchestra's tour of China in January of 2006 and at Carnegie Hall in January 2007 under the direction of Robert Spano. She continues to serve as principal harpist of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, as well as the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras at Oberlin. Meredith has also had the privilege to work with contemporary composers, such as the late Daniel Pinkham, performing his piece Vigils for solo harp, and OTHER PIECE. Currently, Meredith has commissioned Marcelle Pierson, a new composer who has had success with performances of her works at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to write a new piece for her. Meredith has been guest principal harpist of ensembles such as the Ballet Theatre of Toledo and the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra. She has also studied with Alice Chalifoux, a legend in the harp world. In addition to winning the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition at the Texas Music Festival this summer, Meredith has participated in the Corpus Christi International Competition, and was named a national semi-finalist in the American String Teacher's Association Solo Competition.
In addition to her performances with the TMF Symphony Orchestra, her first place win in the Mitchell Competition includes an invitation to perform with the Leipzig Akademisches Orkester in Leipzig's famed Gewandhaus.
The Texas Music Festival took place on June 22 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion with scores of young orchestral musicians demonstrating their skills. Meredith Clark, winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition, and Texas Music Festival director Alan Austin shared their perspectives of the festival with MyMusic Houston, a Web site for the local FOX television affiliate. The interview video has since been removed from the Fox Website.
2006: Amber Archibald, viola
Amber Archibald's first taste of being a musician came when she was selected to be a part of the 1990 World Children's Festival in Tokyo, Japan as a vocalist alongside celebrities such as Brooke Shields and Carl Lewis. A native of Houston, Texas, Amber knew she wanted to play the violin after hearing several symphony children's concerts. As a violinist, she has played many interesting concerts including the premiere of "AM Fugue" for violin and tape by Kristi McGarity at the University of Texas New Music Symposium. By age 23, she had played in over a dozen operas ranging from Monteverdi to Mozart. Other performances included being an electric violin soloist with the band "Marynka" at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX in 2003.
A first generation American of Dominican and Panamanian descent, Amber earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University on violin. It was not until 2004 that she found her true voice, the viola. As a violist, she has concertized at several venues across the Houston area such as Zilkha Hall, and at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Ms. Archibald has recently graduated with a Master of Music degree in viola from Rice University where she studied with Karen Ritscher. Amber has experienced many places throughout her musical journey. Her studies have taken her to an array of countries around the world including Austria, Germany, Portugal and many cities within the U.S.
In addition to her personal musical endeavors, Ms. Archibald enjoys teaching children. She was a violin instructor at the Indiana University Summer String Academy from 2000-2002 and in 2003, became one of the assistant orchestra directors of the program. She has also taught violin and viola in the Austin Chamber Music Society and the Rice University Preparatory Department. Ms. Archibald's teachers have included Joyce Durfee, Mika Hasler, and Mimi Zweig. Aside from music, Ms. Archibald enjoys a host of other activities. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, an avid video gamer, and a collector of 1980's cartoons. She also enjoys spending time with her family, and her Shetland Sheepdog, Jazz.
Amber is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Martha Katz. She was the 2006 winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition at the Immanuel & Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival. She performed with the TMF Orchestra at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and in the Moores Opera House in June 2006 under the direction of Giuliano Silveri. As a result of winning the Mitchell Young Artist Competition, she performed the Stamitz Viola Concerto with the Akademisches Orchestra Leipzig in the famed Gewandhaus in December 2006.
2005: Joanna Messer, flute
A native of Polo, Illinois, Joanna Messer is currently rotating principal flutist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She serves as substitute with the Madison Symphony (WI), the Kalamazoo Symphony (MI), and the New World Symphony (FL). Ms. Messer won First Prize in the New York Flute Club Young Artist Competition in 2003 and presented her New York debut recital at CAMI Hall as part of the NYFC's Recital Series. She also received Second Prize at the 2003 Julius Baker Masterclass. In 2002, she won the University of Chicago Concerto Competition and performed Mozart's Concerto in G Major with the Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Messer is also an avid chamber musician and has founded the Hara Quintet with colleagues from the Civic Orchestra.
Ms. Messer received her Master of Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, where she studied with Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza, and her Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude from Lawrence University in 2001, where she studied with Dr. Ernestine Whitman and Suzanne Jordheim. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lamda, the national music honor society, and an alumna of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity.
As winner of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition, Ms. Messer performed the first movement of the Nielsen Flute Concerto on June 24 and 25, 2005 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion with the TMF Orchestra under the direction of Horst Foerster. As part of her first prize, Maestro Foerster invited her to perform with the Leipzig Akademisches Orchestra in the Gewandhaus in May 2006.


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A Wal-Mart bribery scandal, a Federal Reserve meeting, Ben Bernanke holds a press conference, Lloyd Blankfein gives a rare interview, Spain gets a downgrade, the Netheralnds falters, and earnings, earnings, earnings.
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Here we've assembled some of those under-the-fold stories that caught the attention of a fair number of readers, but not on the scale of the major headlines of the day. Most of these stories involve signals or issues that could become major problems down the road. Click ahead to make sure you have them on your radar.
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If you had to pick a theme for the week, corporate malfeasance would be a good candidate.
The goings-on at Wal-Mart and News Corp have been providing plenty of fodder for business media. Wal-Mart is in the hotseat because of a New York Times expose alleging the systemic use of bribery by its Mexican subsidiary and a possible cover-up by folks at HQ. News Corp got another round of questioning about hacking accusations at some of its major media outlets.
Oddly enough, our readers didn't seem particularly excited about either.
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Gotlands Län Travel Guide: 282 reviews and 883 photos
Sweden is divided in 24 departments (län). Each department includes several municipalities (kommuner).
In this special case the department 'Gotlands län' is the same as 'Gotland', the commun. (There is only one commun and it´s name is Gotland).
Gotland is the biggest island east of Sweden. Its capital is Visby, an very old merchant city on the west coust of Gotland.
The wall around the central part of the Visby city was constructed 1250-1300. It is the best preserved city wall in northern Europe. It had 29 towers of which 27 still exists.
1995 Visby was listed as an UNESCO World heritage.
Gotland is a flat island with a special nature.
Gotland is a popular summer island. There are daily boats from Stockholm and Oxelösund and also connection with aeroplane (35 min from Stockholm).
On the west side you have stony beaches and on the east side there is sand beaches.
In summer Gotland is very suited for going around on bicycle, which you hire in the harbour when coming with the ferrie.
There are several camping grounds on Gotland. In Visby there are also a great number of 'bed and breakfast'.
Gotland is famous for all its stone churches from medevial time.
There is also a great number of sheeps and rabbits.
What make Gotland so special and what are there to look at. Here is my spontaneous list:
- Visby (The 'capital' on the island. Look at the old town, well protected inside the city walls.)
- Fårö (The island north of Gotland. Connection with ferry. Sand beaches on east side, fields with 'wandering' sand.
- Lummelunda (The caves at Lummelunda, north of Visby)
- Slite (Harbour on east side, village with great cement industry)
- Rauks (a rauk = a stone that has been left when sorrounding cliffs have eroded. Best looked at on north side)
- On east side several playas.
- Torsburgen (old 'fortress' made of stones on a natural hill) See page.
- Hoburgsgubben (The Stone man at Hoburg, a rauk at the south with a 'face')
- Medevial week in Visby in August(?)
- Saffron pancake (a speciality on Gotland)
- Look at all the churches on the island, very old, mostly made of stone and very beautiful.
- The Bunge Museum (a museum of older time, houses, furniture etc)
- Visby Fornsal (The old time museum in Visby, see the gold treasure)
- Erected stones with painting
- Erected stones in shape of ships
- The cafés. Inside the Visby city wall you have for instance the 'Rosa cafe' the most wellknown.
- Cheramic workshops (I think the best one is in Ethelhem, in the center of the island)
- Sheeps (you can buy fur coat and other sheep products, sometimes popular as carpets and as warm 'shoes')
- Look at the rabbits (a special type of hare called 'rabbit' even in Swedish)
I have added a travellog in my Gotland page (i.e. not this page which is 'Gotlands län') with black and white photos from 1979, I don´t think the motifs have changed.
- Pros:Beautiful island, distinct from the rest of Sweden
- Cons:In summer months just to many tourists in the city of Visby.
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Will New York, LA eat up Tim Tebow?
Tim Tebow is currently the hottest property in sports and he is fast becoming an up-and-comer in Hollywood as well.
The New York Jet is signed to the sports division of leading Hollywood agency CAA, but some fear the Tinseltown-type attention could jeopardize his game and wholesome Christian image.
The NFL sensation was even turned into a superhero "Super Tim" by Marvel Comics last year and has been romantically linked to the likes of Taylor Swift and "Glee" star Dianna Agron.
All-in-all, Tebow is now considered a "No. 1 get" for Manhattan and LA party planners, insiders told FOXNews.com.
But with that, he has become prey for the paparazzi, with the Jets reportedly trying to curb the attention.
"The Jets are trying to limit his endorsements and off the field commitments to ensure his focus remains on the field. If it becomes distracting, it could affect the team," an insider told FOXNews.com.
"There is definitely jealously among players if one starts earning too much money off-the-field, and after Tiger Woods, all sponsors and endorsers are increasingly skeptical," the source alleged.
But another source close to the athlete shot down the rumors as being "not true," and said the team wasn't trying to limit Tebow's endorsements or social presence.
Regardless, California-based publicist and sportswriter Angie Meyer said Tebow's image could be tainted by Tinseltown if he doesn't keep a relatively low profile.
"Athletes who mingle in Hollywood tend to lose both reliability and credibility from teammates, coaches and often times, fans," she said.
WHO'S TEBOWING?Even celebrities have ripped off Tim Tebow's signature move.
"If Tim Tebow wishes to remain a Christian role model, he must keep a far distance from Hollywood and celebrity . . . he should stay out of the tabloids completely," she added.
Lindsay McCormick, Comcast SportsNet Reporter, pointed out that the New York market is a completely different animal to Denver or even Florida, where Tebow started his career.
"It does come with a new set of temptations and challenges, but as long as Tebow keeps his priorities in the right order and focuses on bettering himself at the game of football he will keep the public's interest," McCormick said.
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