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A Venn diagram is a useful thing. While it would take half a page of print to explain the – until now – tenuous connection between the dancers Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson (she American, he British), in diagrammatic form it's the work of a moment. Draw a circle and mark it 'New York City Ballet'. Draw another labelled 'The Royal Ballet'. In the lozenge where they intersect, write 'Christopher Wheeldon'.
The two star dancers have followed distinctly different paths, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and only once, briefly, have their trajectories crossed in a joint performance, and that was a decade ago. But they have a common denominator in the choreographer they both know as Chris, for whom each of these dancers has been a major inspiration. Edward, as many readers will know, was Wheeldon's first casting choice for jealous king Leontes in his adaptation of The Winter's Tale. He was also the model for his White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to mention only the most recent roles. For her part, Wendy retired from New York City Ballet last year after 30 years with the company, the latter half of which saw her feature in almost every piece of work Wheeldon set his hand to in New York. So when someone said 'you two should do something together', neither dancer had to think twice about it. For not only did they share a history as Wheeldon muses, but each also wanted something of what the other appeared to offer.
Edward says he has always admired Wendy, 'not just for how she looks on stage, but for her quietly focused approach to everything. It might be to do with being American, but she has that quality more than most and that's how I want to be' Wendy, meanwhile, is ready for a new direction, post-City Ballet. 'If I see an open window with something interesting on the other side, metaphorically, I'm going to grab it,' she says. 'Ed has done a load of dramatic roles and I haven't, but I have a desire to do that. Somebody once told me "If you want something, find someone who has it and hang around them". I like to think if I spend enough quality time with Ed, it'll open that part of me up.'
The spur to their coming together was Edward's trip to New York with The Metamorphosis, Arthur Pita's dance-theatre adaptation of the Kafka story in which Edward plays the travelling salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Wendy went along to see the show, loved it and afterwards Ed introduced her to the choreographer. 'They got on really well so I said "Why don't we ask Arthur to be the first person to make something for our show?"'
The three met again last August around the time of Wendy's visit to the Linbury Studio Theatre with her touring programme Restless Creature. This time the meeting with Arthur Pita got down to business in a dance studio. Wendy hadn't known what to expect, 'but Ed said "Trust me on this" and I'm glad I did. Just this little play-around session we had, which lasted a few hours, was exactly what I was looking for – a new approach.
'Arthur's not a ballet choreographer, but I'm really happy about that. This felt more like being in an improv acting class and it was an answer to a prayer. I don't know if I'd have been ready for this a few years ago, but now the soil is very fertile.'
Both Wendy and Edward are wary of giving too much away, but Edward is prepared to divulge that Arthur Pita's segment of the programme 'will be a story about two people. In the workshop, we basically just got to know each other again, discovering how each other moved... Arthur is working with the idea of the tango, a formal confrontation between two people, and we're playing around with some music and lyrics that suggest Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. Whether or not that will be the final music, that's the kind of relationship these two people have.'
The evening will ultimately comprise three duets and two solos. A single designer – Jean-Marc Puissant – will give a unified look to the programme 'and there will be a soundscape that links everything', according to Ed, although he's not naming names. Both of the dancers are clear about what they don't want the evening to be. 'We've seen a lot of those shows where you each do your thing and then everyone claps, and then you have a little pause or a video clip before the next number. There's nothing wrong with that but we want this to be different. So we're going for an hour straight through, with one costume to which we can add or subtract things as we go. A lot of modern dance can end up looking a bit similar. I want this to be specifically about us two and where we are now in our dancing lives.'
Physically as well as culturally, Wendy and Ed make an intriguing match. Both are notably long limbed, whippet-lean and hyper-flexible, qualities that choreographers have been happy to exploit over the years. In addition, Wendy, by her own admission, has 'a crooked back, I have scoliosis. That limits a certain range of motion, but it enhances other shapes I can make well. I have a lot of asymmetry and it's something not every choreographer understands how to work with. In fact, it hasn't been a handicap at all, but my doctors are always amazed – they can't believe that I do what I do. But I've dealt with it since I was 12 years old and luckily I had some very good treatment at a young age, so I learned how to support my spine and work with it. The older I get, the more I have to think about it, because it tends to solidify with age. So I have to keep it as malleable and free as possible and I'm on a quest to keep it as juicy as I can.'
As Edward sees it, Wendy is 'kind of fascinating to look at, but you don't ever think "her back looks a bit wonky." You get drawn in. It is truly amazing the ability she has to draw you in and stop time, almost. She still has this magnificence; it's nothing flashy, more a kind of stillness about her, a focused simplicity.'
All being well, that mature artistry will be magnified to the power of two in their coming collaboration, given Edward's long experience as a partner as well as a soloist. 'I think the trust level will be really deep and special because of that, Wendy concludes. 'We're both experienced, we've both been around the block – we know what we want, we know what's meaningful to us. And the chemistry is what I really want to show – in lots of different choreographic forms.'
Whelan / Watson: Other Stories will be in the Linbury Studio Theatre 9-12 July 2015. General booking opens 31 March.
This article was originally published in the Royal Opera House Magazine, received quarterly by the Friends of Covent Garden.]]>
The nominations for this year's Olivier Awards have been announced.
Joyce Di Donato, Juan Diego Flórez and Plácido Domingo have been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Opera alongside English Touring Opera.
Stefan Herheim's Royal Opera production of Les Vêpres Siciliennes and John Fulljames's ROH2 production of The Firework-Maker's Daughter (a co-production with The Opera Group and Opera North in association with the ROH and Watford Palace Theatre) have been nominated for Best New Opera production alongside ENO's Wozzeck.
The ROH's West End transfer of The Wind in the Willows has received two nominations - in the Best Entertainment and Family category and designer Nicky Gillibrand in the Best Costume Design.
A number of companies and artists who have recently performed at the ROH also feature:
Metamorphosis choreographer Arthur Pita (for his work with Ballet Black) and Clemmie Sveaas (for her performance in Cathy Marston's Witch-hunt) have been are nominated in the Outstanding Achievement in Dance category.
Designer Es Devlin is nominated for Best Set Design for Chimerica, while lighting designer Paule Constable has been nominated for her work on the National Theatre's The Light Princess.
Richard Eyre - whose production of La traviata returns to Covent Garden this Season - is nominated for his production of Ghosts in the Best Director category.
The ceremony will take place on 13 April at the Royal Opera House.
See the full list of Olivier Award 2014 nominations.
Highlights of The Olivier Awards will be broadcast by ITV at 10.15pm on 13 April. The ceremony itself will be live-streamed on a big screen in Covent Garden Piazza.]]>
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If you could turn any book into a ballet or opera, which would you choose?
Those of a literary bent may enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (16 March - 13 April) The Metamorphosis (16 - 23 March), Kafka Fragments (28 - 30 March), The Firework-Maker's Daughter (3 - 13 April) and Hansel and Gretel (8 - 11 May), and Raven Girl (24 May - 8 June).]]>
About ten years ago the American illusionist David Blaine performed an extreme endurance stunt in London – he starved himself for 44 days, suspended in a transparent box over the Southbank. As he entered the box he told the crowd why he was doing it: 'The feeling of wonder is amazing… I'm going to push myself as far as I can.'
Eighty years earlier, Franz Kafka published A Hunger Artist – a short story about a man who confines himself to a circus cage and starves himself to death. But when Kafka's hunger artist is asked why he has chosen such a performance, he unexpectedly replies: 'I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss about it and stuffed myself like you or anyone else.'
The more cynical of Blaine's audience speculated that his test of the limits of human endurance was actually an inauthentic spectacle. He is an illusionist, after all – perhaps his water was laced with vitamins, or his blanket steeped in salt for him to suck out. Hunger artists have always courted scepticism, and for Kafka's perhaps dying was the best way to demonstrate his sincerity.
Kafka's writing reminds us that the limitations of existence are commonplace, and he is the more engaging for being matter of fact about it. He treats the deaths of his fictional creations (many of them displaying aspects of his own personality) with far less reverence than fans treated Blaine's experiment.
Kafka himself had been losing weight when he conceived and wrote A Hunger Artist and he would die from tuberculosis a little over two years later. He was also in a relationship with a journalist called Milena Jesenská, to whom he vented emotions, imaginations, nightmares and ailments in almost daily letters. 'So the thought of death frightens you?' he wrote in one, 'One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark.' For Kafka, like his hunger artist, life was a brief window of futile searching: a yearning for higher understanding foiled at every turn by its impossibility.
When György Kurtág composed his Kafka Fragments song cycle (1985–7) he compiled the libretto from scraps of Kafka's writings collected over years; diaries, letters and aphorisms, variously cryptic, mundane, confessional and aphoristic. There are hints of haiku-like sense: 'Like a pathway in the autumn: hardly has it been swept clean, it is covered again with dry leaves.' There are reflections on the tedium of everyday life: 'Slept, woke, slept, woke, miserable life,' but there are also genuine-sounding confessions: 'I can't actually… tell a story, in fact I am almost unable even to speak'.
Kafka's writing is infused with this awareness of human limitation – from the protagonist in The Trial and his anxious pursuit of an explanation of the unspecified crime an inscrutable court has charged him with, to the frustration faced by the protagonist of The Castle who will never be admitted to the castle and yet cannot return home. In a letter to his friend Max Brod, Kafka wrote, 'Literature helps me to live, but wouldn't it be truer to say that it furthers this sort of life?'
Kurtág's song cycle offers a rare opportunity to read Kafka through the prism of music. We have a glimpse of this from Kafka himself, in a line from a letter to Milena included in the Fragments – 'None sing as purely as those in deepest Hell; it is their singing that we take for the singing of Angels.'
Kafka Fragments runs from 28 – 30 March 2013. Tickets are still available.
The Metamorphosis runs from 16 - 23 March 2013. Returns may become available.
The winners of the 2012 National Dance Awards have been announced. The awards, which are now in their 13th year, celebrate the very best of dance and ballet in the UK.
Royal Ballet Principal Marianela Nuñez, who is currently dancing the role of Tatyana in Onegin, received the Grishko Award for Best Female Dancer at a ceremony in London.
Federico Bonelli and Marianela Nunez in rehearsals for Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. © ROH/The Ballet Bag 2012
Thiago Soares as Prince Siegfried and Marianela Nuñez as Odette in Swan Lake © Alice Pennefather 2012
Marianela Nuñez and The Royal Ballet in Diana and Actaeon. Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. © ROH/Johan Persson, 2012.
Arthur Pita was awarded the prize for Best Modern Choreography for The Metamorphosis, a dance-theatre work based on the Kafka novella of the same name. The production, which premiered in the Linbury Studio Theatre in 2011, returns in March.
Arthur Pita said:
I am thrilled to share this award with The Metamorphosis team of creatives, cast, crew and all at ROH. Thank you ! It really is a collaboration with all. I am equally thrilled that we will be reviving the work in March with Ed Watson returning to perform the role of Gregor Samsa, and to share this Kafka experience with the audience yet again.
The Royal Opera House's Associate Company Ballet Black, who will also be performing in the Linbury Studio in February, won in the category of Best Independent Company.
Cassa Pancho, Director of Ballet Black, said:
The entire company, from the dancers to the crew are thrilled to have won,' said . 'As an unfunded company, the support of the Royal Opera House has been invaluable to our continued success, and our annual performances at the Linbury are one of the highlights of our year.
The winners are selected by the 60 members of the Dance Section of the Critics' Circle following an extensive round of nominations and voting. This year, the Royal Ballet received a total of nine nominations, with nominees including Ed Watson, Yuhui Choe, Paul Kay, Beatrix Stix-Brunell and Dawid Trzensimiech.
Other winners include English National Ballet's Ksenia Ovsyanick and Zdenek Konvalina, who both won Outstanding Classical Performance awards; and hip hop stars Teneisha Bonner and Tommy Franzen, who took awards for Outstanding Modern Performance. Principal Character Artist of The Royal Ballet Gary Avis (who recently took part in a live Twitter Q&A for our website) was joint Master of Ceremonies, together with Kenneth Tharp, Chief Executive of The Place.
View the full list of winners.]]>
The Royal Ballet has received nine nominations in this year's National Dance Awards. The awards, which are now in their 13th year, are presented by the Critics' Circle – a collection of 50 professional dance writers and critics - and celebrate the very best of dance and ballet in the UK.
Chairman of the Dance Section, Graham Watts said:
"It has been a bumper year! Collectively they have put forward over 250 dancers, choreographers and companies for consideration and so the final shortlists are already very much the elite of 2012."
This year's nominees include Royal Ballet Principals Edward Watson, and Marianela Nuñez, First Soloist Yuhui Choe and Soloists Paul Kay, Beatrix Stix-Brunell and Dawid Trzensimiech. Former Royal Ballet Principal and now Director of English National Ballet Tamara Rojo is also nominated for her work at Covent Garden.
Choreographers recognized include Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon and Alastair Marriott, both nominated in the Best Classical Choreography category for Trespass, which formed part of Metamorphosis:Titian 2012. Our Associate Company Ballet Black are nominated in the same category for Storyville, as well as in the section for Best Independent Company.
Arthur Pita is shortlisted for Best Modern Choreography for The Metamorphosis, which premiered in the Linbury Studio Theatre in 2011. The production returns to the Royal Opera House in March 2013, with Edward Watson reprising his role as the unfortunate Gregor Samsa.
The winners of the National Dance Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Monday 28 January 2013. See the full list of nominees.]]>
Arthur Pita and ROH2 have won a South Bank Sky Arts Award in the Dance category for The Metamorphosis.
The work, based on the novella by Franz Kafka, premiered last year and was acclaimed by both critics and audiences, winning Edward Watson an Olivier award for his creation of the role of Gregor Samsa, a salesman who awakes one morning to find he has been transformed into a monstrous insect.
Other winners at this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards include the Royal Shakespeare Company for Matilda in the theatre category, Grayson Perry for his Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum in the visual art category, and film We Need to Talk About Kevin.
The Metamorphosis returns to the Linbury Studio theatre in 2013. Read an interview with Edward Watson about the work.
The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Tuesday 1 May at 9pm on Sky Arts 1 HD.]]>
Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson has won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for his role in Arthur Pita's The Metamorphosis. Monica Mason, Director of The Royal Ballet, also received a special award for her distinguished career in dance.
In her acceptance speech Monica described the dancers and staff of the Royal Ballet as "committed, passionate and crazy". Sadly, Edward Watson's speech was interrupted by a break in broadcasting due to a power cut in Covent Garden. The Metamorphosis will be revived at the Royal Opera House in March of next year.
This year the Royal Opera House received five nominations for Olivier Awards, in addition to Monica Mason's special award.
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"I spent a lot of time studying movement in wildlife shows – looking at them up close, how they move and how they live and worked out a movement language that wasn't human at all". After 17 years spent dancing to critical and audience acclaim in The Royal Ballet, this must be the first time that Edward Watson has had the work of David Attenborough as a stimulus to his work, not to mention the first time dancing the role of a beetle.
Edward is dancing the role of travelling salesman Gregor Samsa in Arthur Pita's new ROH2 production – a contemporary dance theatre adaptation of Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis. Samsa wakes one morning to find that he has been transformed into an insect for a reason never discovered. The work explores how the character reacts to his transformation and how his family deal with events.
Kafka's novella carries undercurrents of dark comedy, as well as tragedy, something noted by Edward and the rest of the cast as they read through the book during the development stage; "It's absurd. It's funny, it's strange and sometimes it's moving. But there are lots of moments of humour in there where you laugh and go 'God, but that's so ridiculous'," enthuses Edward about a work famed for its depth under a claustrophobic and cold exterior. "When you read it, you realise every sentence can mean four different things. You start looking for reasons in everything"
Such claustrophobia is mirrored in the set design – a stark, white staging ("You'll see why" offers Edward mysteriously) which shows only two rooms of the Samsa household – the living room and Gregor's bedroom. The staging is in traverse, meaning that there's an opportunity for the audience to get close to the action on the far side of the stage as well as on the stage itself (booking details for these seats at the foot of the page).
In terms of differences from the original novella, Edward notes that the dance theatre adaptation is a relatively faithful one, "The biggest change is that Greta doesn't play the violin, she does ballet instead, that's her thing and I think it works really well". Pita's production features the debut of Royal Ballet School student Laura Day, currently in her Graduate year. Of Laura's role, Edward muses that as well as the obvious physical transformation of Gregor, "The work is more about her own metamorphosis, her change in growing up into adulthood". Pita's production is sure to provide a great opportunity for such a young talent.
Aside from The Metamorphosis, Edward is also rehearsing more traditional Royal Ballet works such as the triple bill of Asphodel Meadows, Enigma Variations and Gloria. The principal artist however, is celebrating the difference, "[The Metamorphosis] doesn't feel that different. It's only different in that the cast is from different backgrounds and disciplines. We're not all classically trained dancers. Laura and I are the only ones but learning about the way everyone else moves has been great. I've been very lucky that I've been able to start the season with this brand new work."]]>


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"This is not just a political struggle. It is destructive to God's plan."But he has shown signs of more openness too. Last year he criticised priests who refused to baptise children born out of wedlock saying this was a form of "rigorous and hypocritical neo-clericalism".Francis, taking on the leadership of a Church beset by scandal and signs of deep internal dysfunction, has drawn praise for his no-nonsense approach, and his modest style has sparked hopes for a badly needed image overhaul.Sergio Rubin, who co-wrote a book of interviews with Bergoglio entitled "The Jesuit", said he would "renovate the Roman Curia" -- the intrigue-filled Vatican bureaucracy -- and "breathe new life into the Church".Academic Jose Bento da Silva, an expert on Jesuits at Warwick Business School in Britain, added: "No other religious order knows how to manage a global community like the Jesuits."The Jesuits are strongly aligned with the Catholic Church's doctrine and famous for unsettling the hierarchy of the Church," he said.Among hot-button issues facing the new pope is the scourge of paedophile priests and cover-ups by their superiors and a longstanding money-laundering scandal at the Vatican bank, which exposed infighting among Benedict's closest allies.Born on December 17, 1936, Bergoglio had a brush with death as an adolescent when a severe bout of pneumonia led to an operation to remove part of his lung.The Vatican confirmed that he had had the operation but said it was not a handicap.Bergoglio attended the University of Buenos Aires, graduating with a masters degree in chemistry aged 22.But he changed tack by joining the Society of Jesus and beginning his studies for the priesthood.Bergoglio went on to attend the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel, where he earned a degree in philosophy, and later received a doctorate in theology in Freiburg, Germany.The new pontiff is an opera lover and a fan of literary giants such as Jorge Luis Borges and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as well as an ardent supporter of Buenos Aires football club San Lorenzo.He has also said he loves the tango and used to be a good dancer in his youth.He is an early riser -- waking at 4:30 am -- which cramped his social life in Argentina, as he is in bed by 9:00 pm, two hours before most Argentinians sit down for dinner.Becoming the first Jesuit pontiff has left some experts scratching their heads, since Jesuits are required to take a special vow of obedience to the pope.burs-gd/dt/lc

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On tonight's live "Big Brother 12" season finale Hayden beat Lane 4-3 and won the $500,000 prize. The episode began with Hayden and Lane facing off in part three of the final HoH competition. After six questions the game was tied and came down to a tiebreaker. Hayden answered the question closest to the correct number and was crowned the winner. He then chose Lane to join him in the Final 2, evicting Enzo from the game. With the final member of the jury in place the seven evicted houseguests questioned Hayden and Lane before casting their votes. In the end it was a close game with Rachel, Brendon and Britney voting for Lane and Kathy, Matt, Ragan and Enzo voting for Hayden. Four votes were enough to crown Hayden winner of "Big Brother 12". At the end of the episode it was also revealed that Britney was voted America's favorite player and was awarded $25,000.
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15 Chicks... PNW Ladies Ride 2013
Day One
With a late start as usual for me I loaded up and went north to grab my friend Leenpockets. We were both lucky to get out of work a day early! :D Not a cloud in the sky the sun was already heating things up.
My ride is a custom low rider 2011 DRZ 400 with most of my things stuffed in to a Giant Loop Great Basin. She has the DR 200 and also a GL Great Basin.
We avoided the cluster fk traffic in Sisters went west up in to the Cascades to find some dirt and shade under the pines!
Then some fast slab to Detroit for a gas and lunch stop. It was so hot by this time my big bag of trail mix had turned into a gooey chocolate mess, but I just dug in with both hands anyway! :dg
That was a pretty sweet spot up above the lake but like I said it was "SO HOT!" The riding gear came off and we hot footed it down by the boats and jumped in off the dock! The water felt great but with many more miles ahead we took off back into the woods. Wet clothes under riding gear makes for great air conditioning at high speed!
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There was a nice mix of twisty pavement and gravel roads in to the shady trees of the Mt Hood national Forest. Here is Leenpockets rolling in and executing a fine left corner.
At the Ollalie Lake junction we decided that it was still too hot and we would just have to take the 10 mile total detour in the opposite direction of our final destination for another swim.
I'm so glad we did because it was a fun little road to ride down there and we had it all to our self's! And off goes the riding gear and in to the water again!
The lovley Ollalie Lake with our states 2nd tallest mountain Mt Jefferson in the background.
Wow! What a cool place we get to call our back yard! After some more dirt we hit the pavement and found a long section of road where we had to constantly dodge the most deathly pot holes that I have ever seen. :eek1 Sorry did not get pix of them though because I got distracted by the pretty wild flowers growing off the sides.
Once we got to the next triple fork in the road we pulled out the Benchmark for some navi help and decided to slab it the rest of the way to our first nights camp. There is always time for photos sight seeing however!
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North off of the 35 past Cooper Spur we dropped elevation and stopped for a quick pic of the first farm entering the valley.
As we were closing in on camp I could not for the life of me remember how to get there. :hmmmmm While messing with my receptionless phone Leenpockets sees a pickup across the road with two waving girls :wave:wave and two bikes it and says "looks like they know where we're going, let's follow them!"
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So we got to MustangShelly's with our friends Scarlet and NatDesertCat leading the way. There we meet Nacho Claws who was working on her bike. And the rest of us all took a trip to the store for cold beverages and fresh food for the next few days. Our fine hostess had specially arranged for the dudes to haul a trailer filled up with our stuff and full coolers to camp! :clap Sweet! :clap Chairs and cold beer for everyone!!!:clap MotoFilcka and Isis rolled in from Portland that night too!
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Potato Scones
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Using a sharp knife cut the potatoes into even-sized pieces.
Half fill a medium sized saucepan with water and bring to the boil.
Add the potatoes and a little salt, cover and boil for about 10-15 minutes until they are tender.
Drain the potatoes into a colander over the sink and then tip them back into the saucepan.
Add nearly half the butter and mash the potatoes with a potato masher.
Add the flour and baking powder a bit at a time and work into the potatoes.
Add 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Sprinkle a little extra flour on to the table and tip the potato mixture on to it.
Using your hands shape it into round shape.
Put them in baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
Keep them in a clean folded tea towel and eat while they are just warm.
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Mushroom-Shrimp & Dill Salad
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|Cherry tomatoes
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|Green onions
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|Dairy sour cream
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Lemon juice
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Combine shrimp, mushrooms, tomatoes and onions in medium bowl.
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I actually had the idea the other day that since Colossus is 2 tracks they should do one side the crazy TX Giant/Iron Rattler way and the other half just the topper track restored to it's ORIGINAL layout. Could have the new design flip around and over the original layout.
Maybe I'll have to recommend this to Tim next time I see him although I'd imagine it's something they've thought of.


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If the final day of this Premier League season is half as dramatic as the last, then you can't afford to miss Sunday's Soccer Special.
There was a surreal two or three-minute period on that afternoon that I don't think I'll ever forget as the fates of the clubs at the bottom of the table were decided.
Right to the bitter end, it was impossible to say with any certainty who would survive.
In the studio we had the perfect overview of everything that was going on and I remember shouting at the monitors to the Birmingham players - who presumably thought they were safe - saying 'you've got to go forward, you've got to go forward!'
But they didn't seem to understand the danger they were in and when the final whistles sounded they and Blackpool were relegated with 39 points apiece, while Wolves (40pts) and Wigan (42pts) escaped by the skin of their teeth.
So it's the sort of day when you can take nothing for granted - it's a thought that Manchester City would do well to remember as they go in search of their first title since 1968.
I'm absolutely certain the players will feel the pressure that comes with that weight of history. They've coped with the expectation pretty well so far, but this Sunday it is all or nothing - everything depends on that 90 minutes.
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They will be hugely motivated to get some sort of result for their own sake, but also for Mark Hughes - the former City manager who was so controversially replaced by Roberto Mancini.
As Richard Littlejohn might say, 'you couldn't make it up!'
City are an incredibly short price to win the title but I would say that Manchester United fans shouldn't lose all hope just yet; after all, it's not that long ago that Sunderland went to the Etihad in terrible form and came away with a 3-3 draw.
Personally, I don't see Manchester United slipping up; they don't tend to do 'tired' at this stage of the season.
I expect them to win at Sunderland, for sure. I think City will win, but I don't think it will be as easy as many people are predicting.
Meanwhile, the race for third remains as convoluted as ever.
It looked as though Tottenham (66 points) were in pole position after Arsenal (67 points) drew with Norwich, but Harry Redknapp's men couldn't beat Aston Villa away. Newcastle are only a further point behind in fifth, despite their loss to City.
The key factor here might be that Roy Hodgson will take charge of his final game for West Brom this weekend. The players and fans hold Roy in very high esteem.
Paul Merson said before last week's game at Bolton that the Baggies' players would be on their holidays, but that clearly was not the case and it won't be the case this weekend either when they play Arsenal at home.
The players will want to give Hodgson a big send-off - one big hurrah - and who better to do that against than a side of Arsenal's quality? So I think that is a massively hard game for the Gunners.
Spurs face a tough test as well, at home to Fulham. In most of the matches they seem to have the lions' share of possession but more recently - Bolton aside - they seem to be struggling to turn that into goals.
Fulham have enjoyed a terrific season - they've even started to win away from home. They'll be up for this London derby and with Martin Jol up against his former club, where he was a big favourite with many of the fans, there is again potential for an upset.
However, I think Spurs will squeeze past Fulham and that Arsenal may be held at West Brom. As for Newcastle, they've had a wonderful season but away to Everton may be a game too far. The Toffees are on a great run and have the added incentive of the chance to finish above Liverpool in the table.
Returning to Stoke - which, of course, is where Wigan secured their survival last season - they have not been in the best of form recently; it has been a very long season for them, what with their extensive European jaunts. They couldn't have been more unfortunate with the European draw that they had.
Bolton have got to do what Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea have all failed to do in the league and that's go to Stoke and win.
But maybe the form book will go out of the window on the last day? If Bolton can shore up that fragile defence, their need is so great (whereas Stoke don't have that need) that perhaps they can go there and win.
The one thing I will say about Owen Coyle is that he hasn't had money to spend that so many clubs around him have and he is trying to put down a foundation for the future by picking younger players.
If Bolton do survive this season, then the future could be bright.
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Either way, contact with extraterrestrials would be one of the most profound moments in human history, with deep spiritual implications. If a meeting ever occurs, one can't help feel jealous of the generation that lives through it. But then again, if we believe Hawking, maybe we should count ourselves lucky not to.
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August 20th, 2008 #1
Finally finished this stuff - (IDW and POW entry inside)
Little hesitant to put my stuff up here, but since I spent my holiday getting something more finished than my usual scribble I guess I might as well put it up here.
Also some shameless promotion for the IDW and POW activity here, because they need it
First off, a personal project I did for my portfolio. The goal I set myself was to come up with a believable follow-up of the Hummer or similar vehicles. Had lots of fun with it, learned tons while doing it as well. Usually I never render things out this far (because I have other projects going on and all).
For the record: I didn't use any 3d cad program for this illustration, nor for the side- and front-view. The process can be found in my sketchbook. Lesson number one I learned is that actually using a 3d program makes it way easier to come up with multiple views of the same object
Second, this was done for a previous Industrial Design of the Week topic: The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain (Ireland was included too actually). Took a shot at a more 'still life' approach.
And the last is four pages of comic done for the most recent round of the Panels of the Week activity. I read the topic fairly late, so I had to finish these in just over a week. Being an industrial designer from origine, anatomy is definately not my strongest point I'm afraid. Looking back at it, I want to change tons of stuff starting with the first panel Deadlines are a blessing I suppose, they keep me focussed.
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i love your IDW entries, especially the spear of lugh. The comic looks a little messy for my taste, but that could be a stylistic choice goodwork
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cool stuff, man!
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Finally a FF thread. Nice stuff Guido
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Joshua Graham reading the scripture
Scripture is a miscellaneous item in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts.
Scripture is a text considered by a religion to be sacred. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are of divine origin or otherwise supernaturally inspired.
It is a small worn book with a thin golden cross on the cover. It is the book read by Joshua Graham, Daniel and Waking Cloud in the Sorrows camp.
- It is given to the Courier if they follow a dialogue tree with Daniel.
- If not received directly from Daniel, it will be found in the footlocker near the southern passage at the end of Honest Hearts.
- Joshua Graham, Daniel and Waking Cloud can be seen reading it at times in the Sorrows camp.
- Because this scripture is of the New Canaanites, it is possible that it may contain the holy texts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (The Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price), which is where the New Canaanites get their beliefs. It can be noted however that the LDS Church in real life doesn't mark the Latin Cross on their scriptures due to the fact that the LDS Church doesn't revere it.


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SAN DIEGO - SAN DIEGO (AP) - A high-ranking investigator with the San Diego County public defender's office has been charged with hiding a witness to her son's domestic violence case.
The sheriff's office said Monday that Karen Cabrera was arrested last week and charged with witness tampering.
An arrest warrant details Cabrera's alleged involvement in the case filed against her son, who was charged in June with burning his girlfriend with a hair iron.
The girlfriend failed to appear at preliminary hearing in early September, and investigators say they later discovered that Cabrera sent her on a flight to Acapulco, Mexico.
The girlfriend appeared in Superior Court the next month, one week after Cabrera's son pleaded guilty.
Cabrera did not return a phone message left at her office Monday. Prosecutors and the public defender's office declined comment.
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Consider the following scenario in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or BizTalk Server 2009:
For example, you receive the following message from the adapter:
If there is a map defined for the XMLReceive pipeline, after this message passes through the XMLReceive pipeline, the map is applied to produce the following message:
In this example, the PortEndTime messaging property is not tracked for the fourth message. Additionally, the BAM table in the BAMPrimaryImport database contains the following four entries:
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Note The <OrderID> element is from the <MyMessage> schema, and the PortEndTime is from the Messaging Properties Schema. These values are defined in the tracking profile.
If there is no map for the XMLReceive pipeline, the PortEndTime messaging property is not tracked for the third and fourth message. Therefore, the BAM table in BAMPrimaryImport database resembles the following:
Note If there is no map for the XMLReceive pipeline, the message is tracked directly from the XMLReceive pipeline.
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Cumulative updated informationFor BizTalk Server 2009, the hotfix that resolves this issue is included in Cumulative Update 1 for BizTalk Server 2009.
For more information about how to obtain the cumulative update package, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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Hotfix informationA supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.
If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, submit a request to Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.
Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=supportNote The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.
PrerequisitesYou must have BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installed to apply this hotfix.
Restart requirementYou do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.
Hotfix replacement informationThis hotfix does not replace a previously released hotfix.
File informationThe English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.
Note Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix that contains these files may also contain additional files.
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To uninstall this hotfix, follow these steps:
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Jim Pawlak: HR, hiring managers taken to task
Judging by e-mails I receive, HR staff and hiring managers have quite a bit to learn about hiring.
Evelyn writes: "This is the second company I interviewed with where the hiring manager asked me for a copy of my résumé.This really comes off as unprepared and unprofessional."Raymond wrote, "The first thing the interviewer said was 'You're overqualified.'It was apparent that she hadn't even looked at my résumé before the interview.If she had, why bother to waste our time?"
Michael's interview was interrupted six times by phone calls and e-mail pings that "the interviewer responded to like one of Pavlov's dogs."Megan interviewed for an HR position; an HR interviewer couldn't tell her what the company's mission statement was.
Juanita went through three rounds of panel interviews for a manager's job, sent thank-you notes to panel members each time, placed a follow-up call based on the decision timeline provided by HR and never heard from the company.Pam was asked:"Do you plan on having children?"To her credit, she walked out of the interview.
There were 21 more e-mails like these that pointed out that while employers want applicants to "be prepared," interviewers are unprepared.What employers like these don't understand is that they'll never hire the best candidates, and that candidates encountering unprofessional practices will spread the word.
HR needs to teach hiringmanagers about interviewing.Managers need to know that interviewing is far more than asking questions.It's about asking the "right" questions.Depending on the candidate and the job, the "right" questions may change.HR should help managers prepare questions, and ensure that there's a common thread to questions so all candidates are evaluated on the same basis.HR should also advise managers about questions they can't ask.
The interviewing process starts with a discussion with HR about each applicant's résumé and any notes of conversations HR has had with the applicant before the interview. Hiring managers should make notes and read them and the candidate's résumé just before the interview.
HR should prepare managers to be interviewed by the candidates, too.Hiring managers must sell the candidate on coming to work for the organization.If they can't, they will lose the best candidates.When in interviewing mode, managers must scour the company website.Why?The great applicants did.That's where they get most of the information about the firm.That's where they're getting their questions.
On the courtesy front, there are three things to remember:
1. NOTHING should interrupt an interview — no calls, turn off the e-mail ping; no knocks on the door; no music.
2. Candidates understand that timelines slip.If you tell a candidate two weeks and you get a call, return it.
3. If you know the candidate isn't being considered, send a letter.
Richard sent an e-mail complaining about the fact that HR pitches unsolicited résumés.He maintains that HR could be missing "gold."Let's say a large company receives 300 unsolicited résumés each week and it takes someone three minutes to go through each résumé.That totals 15 hours each week; this translates to 37.5 percent of one person's time during the year looking for a little gold.Alternatively, the company can place an ad when the need arises, and spend less time sorting through many qualified candidates.
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I'm a technologist, mobile specialist, experienced software developer, author, public speaker & an SAP employee. My thoughts, ideas, rants, comments & most of the code you'll find here are my own. Feel free to use any of this, but be sure to identify the source.
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I was reading through the Cordova dev mailing list and noticed that one of the guys had an hi.im (Hi I'm – www.hi.im) URL in his signature. I took a look at the site and saw that it's a pretty cool way to define a simple landing page for yourself. Here's my profile:
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Now, when you login, you have a lot of options for what you include in your profile as shown in Figure 2. As I'm using this for my professional persona, there's only a few things I want to add to my profile. For personal use, the list of social networks for example includes all of the common social network options. If you're heavily into social media, you can pepper your profile with a ton of stuff.
Figure 2
Some of the options, such as some of the profile design settings are limited until you upgrade your account. For $20 per year you get more control over the page. It might be worth it, but I'm not ready yet – keep reading.
After I setup my account, I got a nice email from the person who created this site (I'm assuming) welcoming me to the system:
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So I easily added a contact me option to my profile then my linkedin profile. Next I wanted to add my twitter account (@johnwargo) but when I tried to add it, I got the following error:
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I've tried time and time again to setup this connection and I consistently get the same error. Doesn't matter what computer I do it from or what browser I use – it's the same thing every time.
Supposedly they're going to take a look at this shortly, but after weeks of the same error, I thought I'd try to see if they could help me through it. Well, I had an email from Jonathan, right? So I thought I'd let him know about the error. I replied to his email – no response. Next I followed them on twitter and let them know that I've been encountering errors – no response.
So, I was going to upgrade my account so I could put images and more stuff on my profile, but as I can't make it work and I can't them to respond to my inquiries, I guess I'm going to have to give up.
Postscript: I found a help link on the bottom of their home page (those links aren't shown when you login and it takes you automatically to your profile page). I've sent them two emails asking for help with no response. I've also emailed that Jonathan guy who emailed me when I setup my account - no response from my first and second emails. I know it's a free service, but they'd get my $20 if I could actually make this thing work.
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Apparently this site has either pissed somebody off or caught the attention of some bad people. Last night, I got hundreds of attacks against the admin area of the site. Looking at the intruder information, the attacks came from a wide range of IP addresses, so I wonder perhaps if some sort of botnet has been turned against the site.
Whoever is trying to hack in is trying admin user IDs beyond the normal 'admin' which is a change from the hacking attempts which have been attempted in the past. Normally, I'll see someone try to login hundreds of times using 'admin' as the user name and a variety of words or letter and/or number sequences to get in. This time, the hackers are trying to get in using variants of my name which is an interesting and clearly targeted approach.
Do people really setup their Joomla sites with admin as the user name and 123456 or 111111 as the admin password? Wow.
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If you've done a bit of Cordova development, one of the things that you probably noticed is that in many cases, when Cordova (PhoneGap) fails, it fails silently. This causes a lot of problems for developers because it's not easy to tell what's happened.
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When I read through the PhoneGap support forums, a common problem that occurs regularly is that people complain that the Cordova deviceready event doesn't fire. When I first started working with PhoneGap, my first forum post was about that particular issue. Embarrassing it was, but apparently I had a typo in the <script> tag which loaded the phonegap.js file, so the PhoneGap container simply didn't even fire the deviceready event. A quick change to my JavaScript code to include the correct name for the phonegap.js file (at the time they were labeling each version of the file with a version number like phonegap-1.0.js, and I'd simply added phonegap.js to my app). A simple typo, but caused problems none the less.
Anyway, when the Cordova or PhoneGap container encounters a JavaScript error, it simply aborts whatever it is doing and doesn't tell the user anything. Ugh. I can't tell you how much time I've wasted tracking down bugs caused by this simple error.
When I joined the mobile platform product management team at SAP, I mentioned this problem in a room full of developers and my colleague Istvan Nagy quickly provided me with the solution. If you add the following code to your web application's index.html file, when the application encounters a JavaScript error, it will call fire the window's onerror event and display the error information for the user.
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Take a look at the source of the email mesage below:
Notice once again that the click URL starts with paypal.com, but the site actually points to what looks like a restaurant web site. You can see the full URL below with the actual server name highlighted.
So, once again, just a few seconds of analysis and you can quickly tell that this email certainly did not come from PayPal.
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