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NEW YORK Syracuse-Georgetown. Before a raucous crowd at Madison Square Garden. With a berth in the final Big East Conference Tournament championship game at stake.
Does it get any better than this?
Its what everybody wanted to see, SU senior James Southerland said. Ive got goose bumps just thinking about it.
The Orange and Hoyas will do battle for the 13th time in the Big East tournament, with Georgetown holding a tenuous 7-6 edge. But this one figures to be a little more special than the previous ones.
Knowing its probably the last one here makes it so important, SU senior Brandon Triche said. Theyve beaten us twice, so its our chance to get even. On this stage, with so much at stake, I couldnt think of a better team to get us motivated.
The teams have actually played just four times in the semifinals, with SU holding a 3-1 advantage. The last time was in 2006, a 58-57 Orange victory, en route to the championship.
SU coach Jim Boeheim said the fact that this could be his clubs final Big East appearance makes it significant.
No matter where or when, it generates a lot of interest, Boeheim said. This season, it has more meaning for us because they handled us pretty easily both times.
Southerland, a New York City native, said he grew up watching the two teams battle at MSG.
It was always exciting, and so many games came right down to the wire, he said. One of the reasons I decided to come to Syracuse was the opportunity to play Georgetown.
SU sophomore Michael Carter-Williams, who has been part of the rivalry for just two seasons, said playing Georgetown makes it easier for the Orange to play their third game in three days.
Theres no reason for anybody to be tired, or lacking motivation, Carter-Williams said. Certain teams get your attention. Georgetown is one of them for us.
When he was sitting out a six-game suspension earlier this season, Southerland wondered whether hed ever get an opportunity to play on one of college basketballs biggest stages again.
Given a second chance, the SU senior forward has taken Madison Square Garden by storm the past few days with a 3-point barrage.
Southerland has gone 12-for-15 from behind the arc against Seton Hall and Pittsburgh, scoring 20 points in both wins. He made six threes in each game, and his 6-for-6 performance Thursday set a Big East tournament record for 3-pointers without a miss.
Im not really thinking about anything but getting a good look, and a good release, he said. I wasnt aware I was 6-for-6, but I knew I was hitting pretty much everything.
Southerlands teammates see how focused and determined he is since returning from the suspension over eligibility issues. And they see his eyes light up every time he pulls up for a shot.
Hes just on fire. Theres no other way to describe it, point guard Michael Carter-Williams said. When hes shooting like that, you figure hes not going to miss.
The 12 3-pointers for SU against Pittsburgh were the most allowed by the Panthers this season. And Southerlands six threes were the most ever allowed by Pitt in the tournament. ... .SU advanced to the semifinals for the 22nd time in 34 Big East seasons. The Orange has won five titles. Georgetown made the semifinals for the 21st time, and has won seven times. ... .The Hoyas are now 15-1 as the No. 1 seed in the tournament. The only loss was in the 2010 final to West Virginia.
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With all the Branson revolutionary-ing, Lady Edith altar-jilting and Bates jail-rotting, it was easy to forget that Lady Sybil was, you know, about to give birth.
And she does in this episode. But in a huge surprise, she doesn't make it -- dead at 24 after giving birth to a girl.
Yes, we still have something in our eye.
Watching Tom Branson and Cora hover over Sybil, weeping, crying for her to make it and don't leave them was perhaps the most emotional moment of the whole series so far.
Sigh, how did this happen?
We start this (most heartbreaking ever) episode with the good Dr. Clarkson attending to Sybil in bed. Seems like she has been in pain, but Clarkson reassures the fam that everything is normal.
Early labor pains, he says, as Cora reminds him that Lord Grantham "isn't a fan of medical detail." Because it's just his youngest daughter giving birth. Who wants to know all the details, right?
We also learn that while Clarkson has been helping (he has been the family doc forever, after all), a certain Sir Philip Tapsell is coming as well. Did the aristocratic set always send for a knighted obstetrician when a family member was about to pump out a child?
I have a feeling that the answer is yes, but immediately Cora and Robert butt heads (slightly) about which doctor to use. Cora wants Clarkson, saying that Tapsell "doesn't know us." But you guys have money, so he knows you! Robert reminds his wife that Clarkson once misdiagnosed Matthew (because he should have seen that a miracle made Matthew walk again) and misread Lavinia's illness signs (because the Spanish Flu was easy to recognize and treat).
This isn't going to go well, even though they agree to have both docs on call. Still, Sybil seems to be getting better even though she "doesn't recommend" pregnancy to Mary, which is sad because Mary clearly is trying to get pregnant (Matthew is worried about their lack of Downton-heir baby, too. He even talks to Dr. Tapsell later about it, in what could be the most awkward chat about fertility ever).
Dr. Tapsell arrives for dinner and -- shock -- he's pretty awful: stuffy and prone to bragging about helping some sort of Duchess give birth to three boys. He reassures everyone that Sybil is beautiful and will be fine. Right.
Even while tending to Sybil, he finds time to talk to Lord Grantham about how much he hates Clarkson being there. One more doctor in the room would be no good! He has helped rich folks give birth for years!
Sybil starts giving birth during dinner and Clarkson immediately thinks something is wrong. She says that Sybil is "muddled," sort of unaware of her surroundings and confused. Tapsell dismisses his concerns as hogwash and country-doctor ignorance. Great move bringing this guy in, Robert.
Clarkson gets more specific, says the baby seems small and he would like to take her to the hospital to give birth via Caesarian section. Robert, in a ridiculous move, doesn't want to get Tom's opinion and completely trusts Tapsell, who says that Clarkson is just overreacting.
Cora makes the most sense here. She says she would have taken Sybil to the hospital an hour ago, but a screaming Sybil makes this argument moot. They all rush to her side.
While the viewer watches in worry, Mary sprints downstairs to say that Sybil has given birth to a girl that both baby and mother are fine.
This is where I began to feel like not all would be well: Sybil, still a bit delirious, rambles on to her mom about Tom perhaps taking a job as a mechanic in Liverpool. "He needs to move forward. Will you help me do battle for Tom and the baby if the time comes?" she asks Cora.
Cora: "There's no need to worry about that now. We'll talk about it tomorrow."
Uh-oh. Immediately, you get the sense that Sybil kind of felt like she wouldn't make it and that she was talking more about Tom in the future -- without her around.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, Sybil's experiencing pain -- major issues. Clarkson and Tapsell are still around, and join the family in her room, where she's screaming out in pain, holding her head in agony and appears to have trouble breathing.

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The Private Sector Mobilization for Family Health Project – Phase 2 (PRISM2) is part of the United States Agency for International Development's continuing initiative to build enduring public-private partnerships that would assure Filipinos the availability of and access to quality modern family planning (FP) and maternal and child health (MCH) products and services.
While a global decline in HIV incidence from 1999 to 2009 was reported by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the Philippines is one of seven countries where there was an observed increase of more than 25 percent for the same period. In the past five years, reported new cases have spiked among MSM and PWID.
In the Philippines, the Government's 2011 Family Health Survey showed that maternal mortality increased from 162 to 221 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2006 and 2011. The unmet need for effective family planning (FP) services was a major contributor to the increase in maternal mortality.
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The United States Agency for International Development's Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines, Inc. (CMSU) project supports the implementation of the MNCHN Strategy, the Government of the Philippines' strategy to achieve its 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce maternal and under-5 mortality.
The United States Agency for International Development's Communication for Health Advancement through Networking and Governance Enhancement (CHANGE) is a five-year project that addresses the need for strategic and sustainable communication interventions that will generate increased demand for FP/MNCHN and TB services in the Philippines, and ultimately, contribute to the reduction of maternal and child deaths, TB prevalence, and increase in contraceptive prevalence rate.
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A federal trial for tax-fraud suspect and former Potsdam orthodontist Glenn Richard Unger has been pushed back until at least June as the defendant and his attorney review court documents submitted as part of the governments case.
Dr. Unger, who maintained a practice in Potsdam during the 1980s and early 1990s, was indicted two months ago on allegations that he filed for more than $36 million in fraudulent income tax refunds from 2007 to 2011. Dr. Unger was arrested Dec. 29 in Ogdensburg following a traffic stop not far from a home he was renting on Route 37 in Lisbon. He is believed to be 62, despite conflicting birthdates provided to investigators.
Dr. Ungers trial had been set for March 4 in front of Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy. In a stipulation filed Jan. 31, Judge McAvoy granted a 120-day extension for the trial to begin, noting that the government has provided the defendant with over 4,000 pages of discovery, and that the additional time will allow federal public defender George E. Baird Jr. to review the documents and go over them with his client.
Government officials began compiling that case about three years ago. Dr. Unger has been identified by federal officials and the Southern Poverty Law Center as a leader in the antigovernment sovereign citizens movement who formerly hosted an online radio broadcast under the alias Dr. Sam Kennedy. The FBI has described the movement as a loose network of individuals who believe that federal, state, and local governments operate illegally, adopting tactics such as not paying their taxes and creating false license plates and drivers licenses.
Prosecutors said Dr. Unger came to FBI attention around April 2010, after the bureau began investigating letters sent to all 50 state governors that the FBI perceived as potential threats. A group calling itself Guardians of the Free Republics told the governors to quit within three days or face removal under its Restore America Plan.
In a January hearing, Dr. Unger told U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece that he has never classified myself as a sovereign citizen, but acknowledged involvement with the Restore America Plan and the letters to governors.
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Defense motions in the case must be filed by May 24, Judge McAvoy noted. His order also moves the venue from Binghamton to Albany. While documents do not set out the reason for that change, prosecutors allege Dr. Ungers fraudulent filings were made in Saratoga and Albany counties. Court records from the January hearing indicated Dr. Unger was being held in the Albany area, although federal officials would not confirm details about his detention.
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The developer of the Deerfield subdivision and the town of Pamelia have locked horns again, this time over setbacks of some of the duplexes the company is building.
The Pamelia Town Council decided Monday that it will not take ownership of a road planned at the development off Route 37 because the curb is too close to the 39 duplexes planned there. Instead, the town will force the developer to create a private homeowners association requiring duplex owners to pay annual dues to maintain Ash Street. Foundations have been poured for two of the duplexes.
The board agreed to help developer Beacon Asset Managers, Jacksonville, Fla., solve the problem by allowing it to build the rest of the duplexes farther from the road to lengthen driveways. It voted to amend a rear setback provision for the 43-acre professional development district to do so, decreasing the space between property lines required behind the duplexes from 25 to 12 feet.
But even though the developer has complied with what the town asked, officials still refuse to take ownership of the road. They said they believe that the curb easement of 23� feet between the curb and garage at two duplexes now under construction isnt enough to park vehicles without encroaching on the road. If vehicles are parked too close to the road, highway employees could have a challenging time operating large snowplows, Town Supervisor Lawrence C. Longway said.
Nevertheless, the plan for Ash Street does not violate the towns setback requirements. The road includes a 50 foot right-of-way, 25 feet on each side of the centerline. An additional 11-foot easement between the road and duplexes provides space for electrical lines.
Annual dues for those who buy duplexes probably will be about $150 to $175 a year, said Robert L. Sipple Jr., the developers managing partner. He said a landscaping company will be hired to maintain the road and ponds and mow lawns on the property of duplex owners; residents who own single-family homes, who will live on roads to be owned by the town, will have to mow their own lawns.
Though he agreed with the town to create the homeowners association for the duplex road, Mr. Sipple said he would have preferred to negotiate an agreement for the town to take ownership of it, instead.
We plan to move these duplexes back 6 to 8 feet to provide space for parking, and weve violated no town laws, he said. My preference would be for the town to find a way to adopt the road, but I think Larry Longway is just nervous about it for some reason. Hes now indifferent about our plan, though, because the HOA, or homeowners association, will be responsible for the upkeep of the roads and open space. They wont have to pay to maintain the road.
But if we find out the HOA causes more trouble than it is worth, I hope the town will (reconsider) adopting the road, he said.
The Town Councils vote Monday stipulated that a homeowners association on Ash Street will pay for the maintenance of the road, the sewer drainage system connected to it, two artificial ponds near the area and lawn care for the property surrounding the duplexes.
The two foundations that have been built are too close to a public road, and thats why theyre going to make a homeowners association to own it, Mr. Longway said. Even if the houses are moved back, there could still be not enough space and cars could be parked in the right-of-way. When snowplows go by, snow could fly and hit cars.
The town will assume ownership and maintenance of three other roads at the subdivision that will link to 29 single-family homes planned there. Houses are being sold by Hunt Realty of Watertown, and are not available for lease.
General contractor Cunningham Excavation, Cazenovia, is expected to finish replacing flawed sewer lines at the subdivision this week. That four-week project, which cost the contractor about $150,000, was spurred after an engineer hired by the town found numerous dips in the sewer lines that could have become clogged with waste.
The town will not allow more families to move into unoccupied houses until the developer proves the sewer system has been repaired properly by Cunningham.
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Well I can only see the benifit for the end user (regular joe) in terms of removing the client server structure that is X, and building the system more modular.
Face it guys, X is probably holding us back....
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January 05, 2010, 08:25:54 AM »
thanks for the clarification TD
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Quote from: TangoDancer on January 05, 2010, 07:40:37 AM
Complete BS. Jive is the euro name for Jitterbug which came before traditional swing. ECS/WCS came from necessity as the music slowed; the predecessor can not be a dumbed down version of the successor.
TD, one thing I'm trying to sort out. Articles that I've read indicate that Lindy is the progenitor of all of the swing dances, and that it arose in the mid-1930s in New York. (In fact, I've seen the name of the man who is credited with inventing it, although I don't recall it now.) Jitterbug and some other styles developed from Lindy, and then Jive arose as a fusion of American and British styles during WWII. It's my understanding that ECS and WCS are both of post-war origins. Does all this line up with your knowledge?
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Thanks TD! I knew the heavy artillery will arrive!
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Quote from: cornutt on January 05, 2010, 04:09:19 PM
Quote from: TangoDancer on January 05, 2010, 07:40:37 AM
Complete BS. Jive is the euro name for Jitterbug which came before traditional swing. ECS/WCS came from necessity as the music slowed; the predecessor can not be a dumbed down version of the successor.
TD, one thing I'm trying to sort out. Articles that I've read indicate that Lindy is the progenitor of all of the swing dances, and that it arose in the mid-1930s in New York. (In fact, I've seen the name of the man who is credited with inventing it, although I don't recall it now.) Jitterbug and some other styles developed from Lindy, and then Jive arose as a fusion of American and British styles during WWII. It's my understanding that ECS and WCS are both of post-war origins. Does all this line up with your knowledge?
Yes, you are basically correct. The biggest thing here is that we have to keep in mind that names and styles, and when things came into prominence, blurs greatly as they are all very subjected to the areas/regions of their developments. Also, we should keep in mind that the name 'swing' is akin to the word 'doughnuts'. There is EC, WC, Lindy, Jitterbug/Jive, Savoy, CS, PS, and Push-Whip, and more, but they are all just swing, just as there is plain, glazed, jelly, cream, frosted, lemon, chocolate, holes, and more, but they are all just doughnuts.
I believe the names that you are probably looking for are Shorty George Snowden and Frankie Manning. Frankie told me that the term jitterbug came from a beetle in Georgia. Apparently, the thing finds itself on its back a lot, and to right itself, it pops up in short rapid movements until it pops onto its feet. The southerners call it a jitterbug, and gave the name to the more bouncy style of swing that differed from the big band more swingy style. Even then, he said, people quickly began to refer to everything as jitterbug. It was very interesting to have known him.
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Re: Jive
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January 07, 2010, 06:56:05 PM »
Well. . . . . .No. . . .
The point of Swing dance is that essentially it should 'Swing' - that is follow the music closely and using syncopation to follow the stress in the music. West Coast Swing, Lindy, and 'Glasgow Jive' or 'double step Jive' are all musically driven.
ECS and Internatiuonal Jive, which are artificial constructs, make no attempt to follow the music and no attempt to syncopate, so can't be described as 'Swing'. However, the steps and timing of ECS and International Jive are essentially the same of those of Lindy and WCS, so its usually possible to force an ECS or Ballroom Jive dancer to dance to the music and hit the breaks - if they are leadable.
The Wikipedia article explains the situation quite well
And Sonny Watson
The Association's refined the Lindy/Jitterbug. They took out all the laborious parts such as the 8 count steps and made it more racially permissible for "white America," and used a Foxtrot basis for the dance, so you could shift from one to the other. This left the dance much easier to teach and master, but the real gut of swing was eliminated, making it spiritless compared with its older brothers.
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Quote from: albanaich on January 07, 2010, 06:56:05 PM
Well. . . . . .No. . . .
Wow, now this is ambitious, your telling me that you doubt firstly a man who has more experience in the ballroom and latin than you could gain in your lifetime, and secondly after this man explains that he has personally known Frankie Manning who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the lindy hop you still blatantly state that his information is completely false. You have some nerve mister...
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Re: Jive
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January 07, 2010, 08:14:02 PM »
indeed very interesting! Zac: how do you know that the person albanaich doubts has the experience you state?
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Re: Jive
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January 07, 2010, 08:24:55 PM »
Quote from: catsmeow on January 07, 2010, 08:14:02 PM
indeed very interesting! Zac: how do you know that the person albanaich doubts has the experience you state?
Because that is all he has been doing since he was allowed back onto the board...
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Re: Jive
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January 07, 2010, 09:13:57 PM »
Quote from: albanaich on January 07, 2010, 06:56:05 PM
ECS and Internatiuonal Jive, which are artificial constructs, make no attempt to follow the music and no attempt to syncopate, so can't be described as 'Swing'.
How do you figure? What makes ECS different from WCS in that respect?
The Wikipedia article explains the situation quite well
Ah yes, that authoritative source, Wikipedia. Some of it looks like stuff you'd write. In particular, there is a statement that ballroom dancers think that ECS derived from foxtrot. Anyone who knows anything at all about the two dances would realize how ignorant a statement that is, even if they were completely unaware of the actual history of the two dances. And that statement is not supported by the reference attached to it; the document referred to does not mention foxtrot at all. I'm going to challenge it.
And Sonny Watson
The Association's refined the Lindy/Jitterbug. They took out all the laborious parts such as the 8 count steps and made it more racially permissible for "white America," and used a Foxtrot basis for the dance, so you could shift from one to the other. This left the dance much easier to teach and master, but the real gut of swing was eliminated, making it spiritless compared with its older brothers.
I don't know; this sounds to me like pure elitism. Someone's trying to prove that he's too hip for the room. Yeah, everyone knows that white Americans can't dance. Or jump.
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Re: Jive
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January 08, 2010, 12:15:09 AM »
Maybe its time for a research fellow to enter and to ask him to shed some light on the history of the (modern) jive, no bias, no hidden motive;
(Oh and please don't use Wikipedia........ or Youtube to state a claim)
By: Don Herbison-Evans
M.A., D.Phil.(oxon), Dip. Dance Ed.
This dance originated with the Negroes in the South East of U.S.A., where it had an affinity with the war dances of the Seminole Indians in Florida. One reference suggests that the Negroes copied it from the Indians (Benton, 1963, 4/17). Another suggests that the Indians copied it from the Negroes, who brought the dance from Africa (Evans, 1975, 41). The latter is more likely, as the word "Jive" is probably derived from "Jev" meaning "to talk disparagingly" in the West African Wolof language (Sadie, 1980, 9/652). The word "Jive" also has a similar meaning in Negro slang : "misleading talk, exaggerations" (Wentworth, 1975, 293), although this could have been derived from a modification of the English word "jibe" (Burchfield, 1976,426). The word has several other slang meanings : "gaudy merchandise", "marijuana", and "sexual intercourse". It is unclear whether any of these meanings predated the use of the term for the dance, and hence which is a metaphor for which (Wentworth, 1975, 293).
In the 1880's, the dance was performed competitively amongst the Negroes in the South, and the prize was frequently a cake, so the dance became known as the Cake Walk (Compton, 1963, 4/17).
It often consisted of two parts performed alternately : a solemn procession of couples, and an energetic display dance, all done in finest clothes. The associated music became known as Ragtime, possibly because the participants dressed up in their best "rags" or clothes, or possibly because the music was syncopated and "ragged" (Buckman, 1978, 160). The music and dances subsequently became popular amongst the Negroes in Chicago and New York (Javana, 1984, 34).
This exuberant dancing and music amongst the Negroes contrasted with the limited and dour dancing of the upper white classes of the U.S.A. and U.K. in the wake of Prince Albert's death in 1861 (Rust, 1969, 78). With the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, English speaking society perhaps felt more free to engage in more and energetic dancing, and a series of simple dances based on those of the Negroes become popular in white society e.g.: the Yankee Tangle, the the Mooche (Buckman, 1978, 167). Many had animal names, betraying perhaps a rural and pantomimic origin : Turkey Trot, Horse Trot, Eagle Rock, Crab Step, Buzzard Lope, Fish Walk, Camel Walk, Lame Duck, Bunny Hop, Kangaroo Hop, Grizzly Bear, and the Bunny Hug. The current Jive still has a Bunny Hug as one of the standard steps. The dances were all done to 4/4 Ragtime music, with stress on beats 2 and 4, and have syncopated rhythms. They all used the same elements: couples doing a walk, rock, swoop, bounce or sway. The closed position was considered by many to be indecent, and sometimes the lady wore "bumpers" to preclude body contact (Rust, 1969,83).
An interesting change occured around 1910, when the individual dances were brought together, and the dancers encouraged to do these in an arbitrary order. It made every male dancer into an instant choreographer. The change was described as a change of interest from steps to rhythm (Rust, 1969, 84). It coincided with the publication of Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1910, which rapidly became a worldwide hit.
As Ragtime evolved into Swing through the 1920's, new dances became popular. The (modern) Foxtrot was invented by Harry Fox for a stage show in New York in 1913 (Compton, 1963, 4/17). The Charleston was said to have originated in the Cape Verde Islands (Raffe, 1964, 60). It evolved into a round dance done by Negro dock workers in the port of Charleston (Rust, 1969, 89), and became popular in white society after inclusion in the stage show "Running Wild" in 1923 by James P. Johnson, which toured U.S.A. (Rust, 1969, 89). It subsequently became so popular worldwide that many sedate ballrooms put up notices saying simply "PCQ" , standing for "Please Charleston Quietly" (Rust, 1969, 89).
The Black Bottom became popular after inclusion in the stage show: George White's 'Scandals of 1926' (Sadie, 1980, 2/769). Various authors have said it originated in New York, or in Nashville, or in New Orleans, but it seems more likely that it originated in the a suburb of Detroit of the same name.
In 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened in Harlem in New York with the famous jazz band of Fletcher Henderson. The dancers there soon combined the Foxtrot, Charleston, Black Bottom, and the various animal steps to form a new dance to fit with the jazz music. This dance soon became known as the Lindy Hop (Sadie, 1980, 11/5), after Charles Lindbergh who made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight that year, because of the amount of time the dancers appeared to spend in the air (Javana, 1984, 34). In 1934, the dance at the Savoy in Harlem was described by Cab Calloway as "like the frenzy of jittering bugs", so it soon became known as the Jitterbug (Burchfield, 1976, II/425).
The current version called the Jive has basic steps composed of a fast syncopated chasse (side, close, side) to the left followed by another to the right (right then left for the lady) followed by a slower break back and replace forward. The hips are moved half a beat after each of the steps, and the weight is kept well forward with all steps being taken on the toes. In the chasses, by keeping the leading foot high on the ball of the foot, and the trailing foot fairly flat, an optical illusion is created called the "moonwalk", which gives dancer an attractive weightless appearance.
In its beginnings, in 1927, the dance became equated with youth (Javana, 1984, 34). Older adults disapproved of it and tried to ban it from dance halls by the rationalisation that because Jive was non-progressive, it disturbed the other dancers who were progressing anti-clockwise around the dance floor (Rust, 1969, 98).
The association between youth and this dance has continued through its subsequent metamorphoses as Swing , Boogie-Woogie , B-Bop ( Beach Bop ) , Rock & Roll , Twist , Disco , Hustle and Ceroc.
Young adults have always been inclined to feel alienated by insecurity from parental criticism, and by inadequacy from lacks in understanding and coordination. From time to time throughout history, they have obtained emotional satisfaction by identifying with peers in a cult of dancing. Of the various responses possible to alienation such as illness, crime, rebellion and cult, a dancing cult is the most benign (Rust, 1969. 170).
As always, dance is involved in the deepest emotional responses of our personalities, and hence with the foundations of society.
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Re: Jive
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January 08, 2010, 01:05:51 AM »
And from another authoritative source (again No Wiki);
History of Swing Dancing
By: Lori Heikkila
The history of swing dates back to the 1920's, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop.
On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing attracted most of the best dancers in the New York area. Stimulated by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy was largely Swinging Jazz.
One evening in 1927, following Lindbergh's flight to Paris, a local dance enthusiast named "Shorty George" Snowden was watching some of the dancing couples. A newspaper reporter asked him what dance they were doing, and it just so happened that there was a newspaper with an article about Lindbergh's flight sitting on the bench next to them. The title of the article read, "Lindy Hops The Atlantic," and George just sort of read that and said, "Lindy Hop" and the name stuck.
In the mid 1930's, a bouncy six beat variant was named the Jitterbug by the band leader Cab Calloway when he introduced a tune in 1934 entitled "Jitterbug".
With the discovery of the Lindy Hop and the Jitterbug, the communities began dancing to the contemporary Jazz and Swing music as it was evolving at the time, with Benny Goodman leading the action. Dancers soon incorporated tap and jazz steps into their dancing.
In the mid 1930's, Herbert White, head bouncer in the New York City Savoy Ballroom, formed a Lindy Hop dance troupe called Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. One of the most important members of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers was Frankie Manning. The "Hoppers" were showcased in the following films: "A Day at the Races" (1937), "Hellzapoppin" (1941), "Sugar Hill Masquerade" (1942), and "Killer Diller" (1948). (
Do we remember TD's remark made earlier?)
In 1938, the Harvest Moon Ball included Lindy Hop and Jitterbug competition for the first time. It was captured on film and presented for everyone to see in the Paramount, Pathe, and Universal movie newsreels between 1938 and 1951.
In early 1938, Dean Collins arrived in Hollywood. He learned to dance the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy and Swing in New York City and spent a lot of time in Harlem and the Savoy Ballroom. Between 1941 and 1960, Collins danced in, or helped choreograph over 100 movies which provided at least a 30 second clip of some of the best California white dancers performing Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy and Swing.
In the late 1930's and through the 1940's, the terms Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing were used interchangeably by the news media to describe the same style of dancing taking place on the streets, in the night clubs, in contests, and in the movies.
By the end of 1936, the Lindy was sweeping the United States. As might be expected, the first reaction of most dancing teachers to the Lindy was a chilly negative. In 1936 Philip Nutl, president of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing, expressed the opinion that swing would not last beyond the winter. In 1938 Donald Grant, president of the Dance Teachers' Business Association, said that swing music "is a degenerated form of jazz, whose devotees are the unfortunate victims of economic instability." In 1942 members of the New York Society of Teachers of Dancing were told that the jitterbug (a direct descendent of the Lindy Hop), could no longer be ignored. Its "cavortings" could be refined to suit a crowded dance floor.
The dance schools such as The New York Society of Teachers and Arthur Murray, did not formally begin documenting or teaching the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing until the early 1940's. The ballroom dance community was more interested in teaching the foreign dances such as the Argentine Tango, Spanish Paso Doblé, Brazilian Samba, Puerto Rican Merengue, Cuban Mambo and Cha Cha, English Quickstep, Austrian Waltz, with an occasional American Fox-trot and Peabody.
In the early 1940's the Arthur Murray studios looked at what was being done on the dance floors in each city and directed their teachers to teach what was being danced in their respective cities. As a result, the Arthur Murray Studios taught different styles of undocumented Swing in each city.
In the early 1940's, Lauré Haile, as a swing dancer and competitor, documented what she saw being danced by the white community. At that time, Dean Collins was leading the action with Lenny Smith and Lou Southern in the night clubs and competitions in Southern California. Lauré Haile gave it the name of "Western Swing". She began teaching for Arthur Murray in 1945. Dean Collins taught Arthur Murray teachers in Hollywood and San Francisco in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
After the late 1940's, the soldiers and sailors returned from overseas and continued to dance in and around their military bases. Jitterbug was danced to Country-Western music in Country Western bars, and popularized in the 1980's.
As the music changed between the 1920's and 1990's, (Jazz, Swing, Bop, Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Disco, Country), the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing evolved across the U.S. with many regional styles. The late 1940's brought forth many dances that evolved from Rhythm & Blues music: the Houston Push and Dallas whip (Texas), the Imperial Swing (St. Louis), the D.C. Hand Dancing (Washington), and the Carolina Shag (Carolinas and Norfolk) were just a few.
In 1951 Lauré Haile first published her dance notes as a syllabus, which included Western Swing for the Santa Monica Arthur Murray Dance Studio. In the 50's she presented her syllabus in workshops across the U.S. for the Arthur Murray Studios. The original Lauré Haile Arthur Murray Western Swing Syllabus has been taught by Arthur Murray studios with only minor revisions for the past 44 years.
From the mid 1940's to today, the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing, were stripped down and distilled by the ballroom dance studio teachers in order to adapt what they were teaching to the less nimble-footed general public who paid for dance lessons. As a result, the ballroom dance studios bred and developed a ballroom East Coast Swing and ballroom West Coast Swing.
In the late 1950's, television brought "American Bandstand", "The Buddy Dean Show" and other programs to the teenage audiences. The teenagers were rocking with Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry leading the fray. In 1959, some of the California dance organizations, with Skippy Blair setting the pace, changed the name of Western Swing to West Coast Swing so it would not be confused with country and western dancing.
In the 1990's, dancers over 60 years of age still moving their Lindy Hoppin', Jitterbuggin', Swingin', and Shaggin' feet.
Swing Styles
Savoy Swing: a style of Swing popular in the New York Savoy Ballroom in the 30's and 40's originally danced to Swing music. The Savoy style of swing is a very fast, jumpy, casual-looking style of dancing
Lindy style is a smoother-looking dance.
West Coast Swing: a style of Swing emphasizing nimble feet popular in California night clubs in the 30's and 40's and voted the California State Dance in 1989.
Whip: a style of Swing popular in Houston, Texas, emphasizing moves spinning the follower between dance positions with a wave rhythm break.
Push: a style of swing popular in Dallas, Texas, emphasizing moves spinning the follower between dance positions with a rock rhythm break.
Supreme Swing: a style of Swing popular in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Imperial Swing: a style of Swing popular in St. Louis, Missouri.
Carolina Shag: a style of Swing popular in the Carolinas emphasizing the leader's nimble feet.
DC Hand Dancing: a Washington, DC synthesis of Lindy and Swing.
East Coast Swing: a 6 count style of Lindy popular in the ballroom dance school organizations.
Ballroom West Coast Swing: a style of swing popular in the ballroom dance school organizations and different from the style performed in the California night clubs and Swing dance clubs.
Country-Western Swing: a style of Jitterbug popularized during the 1980's and danced to Country and Western music.
Cajun Swing: a Louisiana Bayou style of Lindy danced to Cajun music.
Pony Swing: a Country Western style of Cajun Swing.
Jive: the International Style version of the dance is called Jive, and it is danced competitively in the US and all over the world.
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Re: Jive
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January 08, 2010, 06:26:50 AM »
Wow, I wonder if they are the longest posts on PDO
I had no idea there were that many swing/jive styles. I suppose your idea of a dance is dictated by where you see/do it. Thus, to me swing is ballroom swing but obviously every form has its own legitimacy.
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Re: Jive
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January 08, 2010, 06:21:40 PM »
Ballroom Jive and ECS are artificial constructs designed to simplify the dance and make is accessible to a wide audience unfamiliar with the demands of swing music.
The people who created ECS and Ballroom Jive openly admitted that.
At first, there was a great distaste among ballroom dance teachers for the swing, spurring the insulting term "jitterbug" for the dance (a racial slur). ECS incorporates much of the Latin technique popularized in dances such as the Cha-Cha (as preferred by the ballroom dancers) with various figures from Foxtrot while retaining the feel of swing. In ballroom competitions, the pure Latin technique preferred in the dancing of the ECS has caused many swing dancers in observation to feel that it is not a true representation of swing dancing
From around the mid 40's to present day, the Lindy Hop, Jitterbug Lindy, and Swing, were stripped down and diluted by ballroom teachers across the country in order to adapt what they were teaching to the less nimble (and musical) public who were paying for their instruction. As a result ballroom studios all over developed a basic East Coast and West Coast Swing.
East Swing - Wiki
If you care to research the Swing community (and there are numerous sites available on the internet) view of ECS and Ballroom Jive, you will find they are regarded as being something different and seperate from Swing.
The central difference between ECS and Ballroom and Swing is that is a constant 6 beat with no discernable anchor while true Swing has no constant pattern.
The whole point of 'Swing' dancing is to shorten or lengthen the pattern and anchors to suit the music. Pattens will be changed and improvised so the anchors are at 6, 8, 10 or even 12 beats to suit the music.
In contrast Ballroom Jive and ECS dancers will generally completely ignore the bresks and rhythms in a piece of music in order to follow the 6 beat pattern
The difficulty is (and this has been demonstrated before) that unless you are an experienced Swing dancer you will be unlikely to see what the dancers are trying to achieve, in a sense its much the same as a non-ballroom dancer being able to see the technique involved competion ballroom dancing.
There is nothing contentious about this. It's a view that is more or less universal in the Swing community, as the briefest search of any Swing sites on the internet will tell you.
Swing itself is a 'genre' or group of dances with the emphasis on musical interpretation rather than physcial technique. In outlook it shares a common viewpoint to that of Argentine Tango, which, like Swing, is a larger group of dances and not a single dance.
Ballroom Jive and ECS are as different in style from 'Swing' as Ballroom Tango is from the Argentine Tango. In reducing both dances to a rigid codified form the Balllroom community remove the essential purpose of both of Swing and Argentine Tango, whidh is to freely improvise steps which follow the music.
This example improvised, two swing dancers from different styles, paired at random and dancing to unknown music. Their skill as dancers (Ben Morris is the Bryan Watson of Swing) is in their ability to adapt and change their steps and patterns as the music is playing.
Check the moves at 2.38, and 2.55. It's unlikely Ben Morris was familiar with the music, he's a WCS dancer not a Lindy Hopper, but if you understand the musical structure its pretty easy to see the change coming - thinking what to do and getting your partner to understand is another problem, which is what makes Ben and a Swing genius.
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Re: Jive
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January 08, 2010, 11:51:40 PM »
Quote from: albanaich on January 08, 2010, 06:21:40 PM
If you care to research the Swing community (and there are numerous sites available on the internet) view of ECS and Ballroom Jive, you will find they are regarded as being something different and seperate from Swing.
I can tell you don't have to perform scientific or social/economic research as part of your daily work, hence the wiki quotes...... again this is your opinion and I respect that, but don't belittle me when it comes to "research"....... mate!
So far it looks like you try to debunk every article written on this forum by ignoring others people knowledge and quoting articles that go without references..... Most of those views are based on a personal opinion, not on historical evidence.
At Wikipedia they have notice at the article mentioned stating that;
This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2009).
Research is done by verifying and cross referencing sources, that ultimately allows one to come to a conclusion based on evidence.... not on just quotes.
Last Edit: January 09, 2010, 12:13:35 AM by Vagabond
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Re: Jive
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January 08, 2010, 11:58:29 PM »
As an actively evolving dance form, and one that seems to have done so in multiple places at the same time, I suppose there are real differences in the perception of its history. on any such issue - where there may be multiple valid views, the key thing is, as V says, to keep an open mind and respect others likewise.
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The Carbon High Football team will most likely be discussing new strategies next season as they will be entering into a newly realigned football class structure. Carbon High will stay in 3A, which was split into 3A and 3AA, and will be joined by rival Emery High for football.
Big changes are on the way for Carbon High School athletics as the finalized realignment for the 2013-15 period was recently approved by the Utah High School Activities Association.
Carbon High School along with many other schools around the state anxiously awaited the final decision for realignment starting with the next school year. Last week, the UHSAA approved a new realignment that would see six classifications used only for football while other sports saw themselves with new and longtime opponents placed in their respective regions.
With the new changes in place for football, Carbon High will be competing in the new split 3A class which is now comprised of a 3A and 3AA. Carbon has been paired with five new teams in the 3A North including one familiar rival in the Emery High School Spartans.
Other teams paired with Carbon and Emery for football includes Grantsville, Judge Memorial, Morgan and Union. This is a change from Carbon's previous region opponents which saw the Dinos play teams including Payson, Juab, North Sanpete, Delta and Spanish Fork for the 2011-13 time period. Some changes for other teams saw Delta, Juab and North Sanpete move to the new 3A South division, while Delta was placed in the 3AA South and Spanish Fork was moved back up to 4A.
The news of the final realignment brought a sense of relief and happiness for Carbon High Football coach Jeff Blanc.
"I think we're very excited about the new (split) 3A realignment for football," said Blanc.
Blanc's team did not fare well from the previous realignment which was put into place in late 2010. The Dinos struggled in their two seasons in Region 12, going 0-10 in region games over two year period.
The first proposed realignment would have seen Carbon placed in a group with schools that would have required plenty of travel for games and may not have been the best fit for the school, Blanc said. At a UHSAA meeting held for school representatives to discuss their thoughts and concerns, Carbon High Principal Bruce Bean told the UHSAA that Carbon would best fit in a division where the travel would not be as extensive and that regional opponents including Emery and North Sanpete could be possible division schools.
Some of the issues that the UHSAA board had to include within their decision included limiting the travel some schools must face, preserving competitive regions, keeping rivalries alive and balancing out the number of schools in each region.
With the new changes in place, Bean said while it's not perfect, it is a good decision for Carbon High.
"Nothing's perfect, but we're about as happy as we can be," Bean said. "We've been moved around a lot with each realignment. We've been all over the place."
Bean said he was a proponent of using six classifications for not just football, but all sports. The earlier proposed realignment ideas would have seen Carbon High travel extensively up north. Now the longest ride facing the football team would be a game at Morgan High School.
Throughout the process Bean said he felt UHSAA did a good job listening to the concerns facing smaller schools including Carbon High.
"I thought they listened to some very common sense solutions during the discussion on realignment," Bean explained.
While one thought thrown around would have seen Carbon High dropping down to 2A in some sports, Blanc said that was never an idea discussed among coaches and representatives at the high school.
"I don't think we really had any consideration of looking to have the football team drop down to 2A," Blanc said.
Blanc said the new opponents in the 3A North region should provide a bit of excitement for the team as they get prepared over the next eight months.
"This is probably the best realignment choice for us. We've got the common rivalry with Emery High again, the region should be very competitive and travel wise it's not too bad," he explained.
The first tentative region game Carbon High could play may be against Emery High in mid-September, Blanc said.
For all sports other than football, the Dinos will still call Region 12 home. Carbon has been placed with three familiar schools including Juab, North Sanpete, Payson and newcomer to 3A, Richfield.
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The Matriculation Services outcomes-assessment process is documented and described below. For more details, view the rest of our department website.
Assessment results and progress are documented each semester in our Assessment Progress Reports with highlights each year in our Program Review.
Mission Statement:
The Office of Matriculation and Assessment Services strives to ensure that students achieve their educational objectives by collaboratively providing student-directed components of matriculation such as placement assessment, advising/counseling and prerequisites.
1. As a result of completing the new student orientation, students will understand the next steps toward registering for courses that meet their educational goals, programs and services available and their rights and responsibilities as students.
2. Students will understand the importance of Math and English or ESL course placement assessment.
These programs areas are on a regular cycle of review, during which
outcomes are updated and revised. For assessment details and timelines
see links for progress reports in right side column.
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|Placement Assessment at CCSF
|Placement Testing at Local High Schools
|GED Testing