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List of New Zealand bands, listed by their level of fame. This New Zealand musicians list includes both bands and solo artists. All famous New Zealand bands are included, as well as many New Zealand musicians of underground status. This list of New Zealand musical artists includes information like what genre the artist falls under, what albums they've put out and more. If you want to know more about these famous New Zealand bands you can click on their names to learn more about them. Bands from every genre are listed here, including rock, pop, hip-hop/rap, jazz, and more.
Use every item on this list for yours, from Ricki-Lee Coulter to Daniel Bedingfield.
If you're wondering, "What bands are from New Zealand?" or "What is a list of New Zealand bands?" then this list will answer your questions. (251 items)
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Ricki-Lee Coulter Synthpop, Pop music, Rock music
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Daniel Bedingfield Christian music, Pop music, Electronic music
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Flight of the Conchords Hip hop music, Alternative hip hop, New Wave
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The Mint Chicks Noise rock, No wave, Power pop
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Katchafire Reggae
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Hayley Westenra Pop music, Operatic pop, Classical music
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Anika Moa Pop music
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Shihad Rock music, Industrial rock, Heavy metal
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The Datsuns Rock music, Garage punk, Garage rock
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Tim Finn New Wave, Pop music, Alternative rock
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The Black Seeds Ska, Rock music, Reggae
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Chong-Nee Hip hop music, Popular music, Rhythm and blues
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Dei Hamo Hip hop music
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Moped Rock music, Reggae rock, Reggae
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Max Merritt Rock music, Rhythm and blues, Soul music
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Demoniac Black metal, Power metal, Heavy metal
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Dawn Raid All Stars Hip hop music
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Concord Dawn Drum and bass
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Nesian Mystik Hip hop music, Rhythm and blues
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The Rabble Pop punk, Punk rock, Hardcore punk
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Deceptikonz Hip hop music
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Dawn of Azazel Black metal, Blackened death metal, Death metal
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Dam Native Hip hop music
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Sisters Underground Hip hop music, Rhythm and blues
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Jenny Morris Pop music
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Bic Runga Popular music, Pop music, Traditional music
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Dragon Pop music, Rock music, Progressive rock
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Jon Toogood Rock music, Industrial rock
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Ladyhawke Synthpop, New Wave, Indie rock
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Dave Dobbyn Pop music, Rock music
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Savage Hip hop music, Rap music
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Scribe Hip hop music, Rap music
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Tulele Faletolu Christian music, Rhythm and blues, Soul music
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Split Enz New Wave, Pop music, Rock music
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Brooke Fraser Christian music, Pop music, Folk rock
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Straitjacket Fits Rock music, Alternative rock, Indie rock
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Boh Runga Rock music
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Birchville Cat Motel Dark ambient, Progressive metal, Drone music
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Nathan King Rock music
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Bailterspace Noise rock, Shoegazing
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Ben Lummis Pop music, Rhythm and blues
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Karl Kippenberger Rock music, Industrial rock
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The Chills Alternative rock, Dunedin Sound
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Olga Jackowska Rock music
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Rosita Vai Pop music, Rhythm and blues
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Robert Arnold Pop music, Dance music
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Phil Joel Contemporary Christian music


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There's been a big push to get more women on boards recently, so news that the number of female directors has risen by almost a quarter of a million in the last five years is a refreshing update.
Figures from Experian show that among 2.7 million businesses surveyed, there's been a 24% rise in female directors since 2007, compared with an increase of 15% among men. Smaller companies are leading the way in championing diversity, but larger companies are also improving. Half of the UK's smallest companies (3 to 10 workers) now have a female director. And in companies with more than 250 employees, 40% have at least one woman on the board – up from 33% in 2007.
But the research suggests that there has been little change in the types of profession where women hold a senior position. Hairdressing, primary education and social work have remained the industries with the biggest percentage of all-women boards.
'The picture is fairly static,' Experian's Max Firth said. 'Whilst there are undoubtedly many women who are breaking new ground and overcoming stereotypes…the industries with most female directors are pretty much the same as before the recession.'
But the real problem lies in the biggest companies, where the percentage of women in the top positions is much lower. Research from the High Pay Centre last week suggested that the number of non-executive women directors has increased, but those in senior management positions across Europe remained stubbornly low.
In the UK, the highly-publicised report by Lord Davies recommended that women make up 25% of FTSE 100 boardroom positions by 2015. We're still a long way off the mark (the latest figure stands at 17%), although some progress has been made. But the recent departures of Cynthia Carroll from Anglo American and Marjorie Scardino from Pearson now leaves only two women bosses in the FTSE 100 – Angela Ahrendts at Burberry and Alison Cooper at Imperial Tobacco. While smaller businesses are leading the way in bolstering the number of female directors, there's still a long way to go when it comes to female representation on the boards of the UK's biggest companies.
By Elizabeth Anderson Monday, 17 December 2012
Women directors still struggling to overcome hairdressing and social work stereotypes
The number of female directors has jumped by 240,000 over the past five years - but women are still sticking to the same professions, new research suggests.
There's been a big push to get more women on boards recently, so news that the number of female directors has risen by almost a quarter of a million in the last five years is a refreshing update.
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Evelyn Randall THOBURN
By Liz ARMSTRONG Monday, September 8, 2003 - Page A18
Great friend, neighbour, heart of a large and loving family. Born January 5, 1911, in Toronto. Died March 11 in Unionville, Ontario, of natural causes, aged 92.
Evelyn Marion RANDALL was the fourth youngest of eight children born in Toronto's Cabbagetown to Sophie and Ed RANDALL (an organizer with Canada's first printer's union.) All the RANDALLs loved learning (including a new word every day under the tutelage of their dad); they loved to laugh and loved music. Like many of her brothers and sisters, Evie played piano by ear.
Evelyn was married twice, the first time to Norman POLSON. In 1933, the young couple moved from Toronto to Peru where he worked as an engineer for an oil company. In the Spanish-speaking town of Talara, they had the first two of their three children, Barbara and Carolyn. There Evie became an accomplished horseback rider. She also became fluent in Spanish after amusing the locals by asking for "tiny balls" rather than "lemon tarts" in her first attempt at her second language.
Tragically, in 1940, Norman was killed in an oil-field explosion. After Norman's death, Evie was given 24 hours to depart for Toronto, without even time for goodbyes. Back in Canada, pregnant with their third child (Norman, Jr.), and with very little financial help from the company, Evie decided more assertiveness was necessary. After directing her horrified lawyer to tell the company to "stuff" its apparently rather stingy offer to wind up the case, the parties finally reached an agreement that paid Ev both a lump sum and an annuity that allowed her to move to the house that became her home of more than 60 years.
A few years later, neighbours across the street asked if they might come over and bring a friend. Evie and the new friend -- usually gregarious people -- were both somewhat speechless that evening, and more than a little unnerved. He conveniently forgot his pipe and, once back with a foot in the door, never left. In order to be democratic, however, Evie sat the three kids down, presented a slate of four potential candidates, then told them to vote for their next father. She also made it clear that they couldn't complain from then on. Soon after, Evelyn and Gordon THOBURN were married in the living room of their home. (Many a time, apparently, one or other of the kids was overheard to say, "Don't blame me, you voted for him!" Evie was quite the storyteller, and her son Norman noted recently that her "slate" of four may have included the milkman, mailman and the ice-man. Clearly, the odds favoured Gordon, and the tale no doubt grew taller with time.)
Her marvellous life of 92-plus years continued to unfold -- including a fourth child, Gord Jr., who arrived in 1944. Although there was a fair share of losses and tragedies, Evie always looked on the positive side -- even after losing her eyesight -- and admonished all around her to do the same. Her lifetime motto was: "Never be a perpetrator" -- never contribute to your own grief.
Surely it was a measure of her wonderful life that on the March morning just after Evie passed away suddenly in Unionville, Barbara hurried over to the Sunrise Assisted Living Centre to find all the staff gathered in the administrator's office crying together, and sharing a loving cup of one of Evie's favourite liqueurs in her honour. In the year since her move from her home of many years, Evie had captured a whole new set of hearts, with her repertoire of favourite piano tunes (including When I Grow Too Old to Dream), her even larger stock of bad jokes and, of course, her effervescent personality.
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Christians should always move forward with no looking back. We should not have any regrets, but instead always learn from our past mistakes then let them vanish away into the past. Have you ever held on to old mistakes, past failures, or old scenarios you wish you could change? Everyone tends to have something of the sort in their lives, but as Christians we should never dwell on them. Instead we should move forward in God's grace and forgiveness. Taking a look at certain scriptures will help any Christian understand better the no looking back command that Jesus gave to us all.
One of the most profound statements of Jesus concerning this topic is located in the book of Luke, "But Jesus said to him, 'No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.'" (9:62). Once we submit our lives to God we should never look back. This looking back is not just a one time ordeal, but rather a continuously command even within our walk with God. We will continue to make mistakes even after submitting our lives to the Lord, but these mistakes must be lessons learned, then forgotten and forgiven.
Another statement regarding past issues is found in the book of Matthew, "Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." (9:17). Christians can not submit to God then try and live the same old life they once did. Once we submit to God, then everything changes within and without. This concept also applies as our walk with God grow stronger and He leads us to greater heights. When He brings us up, we can't live the same way as before. When we grow into men and women of Christ, we can't continue in the babe ways of things, but instead move forward without looking back.
The book of Proverbs also emphasises this command of looking forward, "Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established." (4:25, 26). To walk forward one must look forward and always ponder which way they are going and watch for any hazardous obstacles that might hinder them. The same applies in the spiritual sense that our eyes must always look forward and ponder our path before us, so that we may not keep looking back and end up falling.
The Lord has called us all to Him and of course it's up to each individual to choose God or self, but if you choose God then don't look back. The road behind you will never go away if you are always looking back at the old life. It's like a person walking on a treadmill, you walk for great distances and are exhausted, but once you stop you realise you never moved anywhere. Always keep your eyes on the Lord for the Lord is your guide and He is always before you.


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Marty's GoldEnaires march down Aurora Street in Ironwood during the Upper Peninsula Firefighters Tournament dress parade in July 2012. The drum and bugle corps has a full summer schedule planned.
BESSEMER — Marty's Goldenaires began its 63rd performance season April 27 when it played at the Vietnam Veterans dinner in Hurley.
On May 25, they played in Woodruff, Wis ., during the town's 125th anniversary celebration.
The band's assistant director, Dustin Pitrone, said that new songs for this summer include "Zoot Suit Riot," by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, "Take On Me," by A-Ha, and an uptempo version of the "Dances with Wolves" theme he arranged.
Tom DeCarlo, of Ironwood, has been responsible for Marty's Goldenaires four national appearances over the past decade, to Nashville, Tenn ., Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Indianapolis, according to a news release, "following up with the legwork of 10 men."
The tentative summer schedule for the band includes:
—June 13, 5 p.m ., concert for the Michigan Municipal League's Education Summit, Bessemer.
—June 21, time to be determined, concert at Relay for Life, Massie Field, Bessemer.
—June 23, 1 p.m ., Musky Fest parade and concert, Hayward, Wis.
—June 29, 2 p.m ., Michigan State American Legion Convention, parade and concert, Sault Ste. Marie.
—June 30, 2 p.m ., concert, Munising.
—July 4, 11 a.m ., parade, Marenisco; 1 p.m ., parade, Wakefield; 7 p.m ., parade and performance before fireworks, Bessemer.
—July 5, 8 p.m ., concert, Ramsay.
—July 7, 1 p.m ., parade, Bruce Crossing.
—July 17, 1 p.m ., Two Harbors, Minn.
—Aug. 3, 1 p.m ., performance, Iron County Fair, Saxon, Wis.
—Aug. 4, noon, Flambeau-Rama, Park Falls, Wis.
—Aug. 8, 6:30 p.m ., concert, Gogebic County Fair, Ironwood.
—Aug. 24, noon, Marty's 30th annual town picnic fundraiser, Bluff Valley Park, Bessemer.
—Aug. 31, 4:30 p.m ., Festival Italiano, Hurley.
—Sept. 1, 1 p.m ., Laborfest, Ontonagon.
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It took three tries to finally get the event in the books but Medical Lake was able to preservere and will now be listed as the two-time defending champions at Clarkston's Seaport Invitational cross country race.
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MP's in India are rushed to hospital after a politician fires pepper spray in parliament.
12:09, UK, Thursday 13 February 2014
An Indian politician has fired pepper spray in parliament during a brawl over a controversial new bill to create a new state in the south of the country.
Television pictures showed a number of MPs rushing out teary-eyed, coughing and holding handkerchiefs to their faces on Thursday, moments after legislator Lagadapati Rajagopal fired the spray on fellow MPs, the parliamentary Speaker and the treasury benches.
Protests erupted after Home Affairs Minister Sushilkumar Shinde rose to table the Telangana bill, which aims to carve a new state out of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Protesters responded by smashing a glass table and uprooting microphones. There are also unconfirmed reports that one parliamentarian brandished a knife.
Three MPs were rushed to hospital for medical attention.
Mr Rajagopal, who is a politcian in Andhra Pradesh and a member of the ruling Congress party, said he used the spray in self-defence. He said he saw members of his party coming towards him to tackle him and that's when he sprayed them all.
When questioned by journalists he said he was unrepentant of his actions.
The bill, which was tabled by the Congress party, has been fiercely criticised by parliamentarians, including members of the ruling party itself.
Nevertheless, several politicians condemned the scenes in parliament on Thursday.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told reporters: "The incidents which took place in the house are a big blot on our democracy.
"Parliamentary democracy provides for dissent but does not provide for the kind of disruption and attempted violence which we saw today. I feel ashamed that such an incident has taken place."
Speaker Meera Kumar, who was rushed out of the house and was seen dazed by the spray, said: "I am too much in pain with what has happened. It has shamed us, our parliament is admired throughout the world, today it's a blot on us."
Security had been stepped up for the proceedings following suicide threats over the new bill.
Special ambulances were kept on standby and no visitors were allowed in the proceedings. Journalists had to go through a rigorous security check to enter parliament.
Protests were also staged outside parliament.
MPs are not frisked or checked when entering the parliament building. There are now calls for this to be changed.
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Sprint gets exclusive on the red HTC One, launching tomorrow alongside BOGO deal
When talking about the blue HTC One, the one that's rumored to be a Verizon exclusive, we usually mentioned the fact that red would have made a lot more sense for that carrier – after all, it is its brand color. But Verizon couldn't get the red HTC One, because Sprint had already made it an exclusive. And that's become official today.
Furthermore, the red HTC One will be available at Sprint as soon as tomorrow, which means that the Samsung Ativ S Neo won't be the only new device launching this Friday. The red HTC One is just a red HTC One, so absolutely nothing has changed in terms of specs – just the hue. The price is going to be the same too – $199.99.
To celebrate this launch (we assume), Sprint has also decided to run a BOGO promotion (which means buy one get one free). This starts tomorrow and will end on August 30. It's valid for all three colors of the HTC One – silver, black, and now red. It's simple: you pay for one device, but you actually get two. You'll need to sign a new two-year contract with the carrier for each handset, keep that in mind. Still, this is a nice offer. Or it would be, if Dell wouldn't be offering the One for Sprint for just $29.99.
That's just for new customers, granted, but even if you upgrade you'll only pay $99.99. That's effectively the same price as one HTC One would cost you if you took advantage of Sprint's BOGO offer, but you can get only one from Dell, whereas you have to get two from Sprint.
Of course, Dell doesn't yet have the red HTC One in stock, so if you absolutely must have that on day one of its availability, then off to Sprint you'll be by this time tomorrow.


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Planet Opera: Fairbanks, Alaska, Where Opera is a Force of Nature
Thursday, July 19, 2012
"The greatest sound I heard (apart from the Opera Fairbanks performance of La Bohéme) were the ebullient barks and yelps of perhaps 70 Alaskan Huskies," writes blogger Fred Plotkin from Fairbanks.
Nudity for Opera Buffs
Monday, July 16, 2012
Operatic Sounds of Silence
Sunday, July 15, 2012
"You probably think silence is not a significant part of opera but I believe that everything in our world and emotional lives has a place in opera, so silence can too," writes Operavore blogger Fred Plotkin.
Take Me Out to the Opera
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The All-Star Game is the baseball equivalent of an opera gala, writes blogger Fred Plotkin. "The greatest practitioners of their craft gather in one place and give audiences pleasure and excitement."
Spotlight: Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia Gets Its Moment
Friday, July 06, 2012
Rossini was often thought of as a bon vivant who could dash off music with facile ease and then devote more of his time to food, wine and sex. But he was also a serious composer, writes Fred Plotkin.
Remembering Evelyn Lear, Soprano with Magnetic Presence
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
The American soprano died on Sunday at age 86. "She was a first-rate musician, a magnetic presence on the stage, analytical and thoughtful in rehearsal and fearless in performance," remembers Fred Plotkin.
Planet Opera: In Brussels, Culture Takes an Adventurous Path
Thursday, June 28, 2012
To many, Brussels brings to mind quarreling constituents in a large bureaucracy. But the city has a compelling musical scene that does not reveal itself as insistently as other cities, writes blogger Fred Plotkin.
Dining With Caruso Near the Old Met
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Unsung Singers: Sandrine Piau Conjures a Spirit of Intimacy and Romance
Thursday, June 21, 2012
When Art is Noble and Beliefs May Not Be
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Can you appreciate a performer's music if his or her personal beliefs are deeply repugnant to you? That question comes up with growing frequency in the age of Facebook, writes Fred Plotkin.
What the Best Conductors and Critics Can Teach Us
Friday, June 15, 2012
The best conductors and critics have a great deal to teach us, writes Fred Plotkin, whether we are performers or lovers of opera and classical music.
The Blurry Line Between Opera and Musical Theater
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Planet Opera: Finding Summer Opera Off The Beaten Path
Thursday, June 07, 2012
With many opera houses soon shutting their doors for the summer, if they have not done so already, those of us who love the art form must look elsewhere. Here are about a dozen opportunities.
Gloriana: An Opera Fit for a Queen
Monday, June 04, 2012
Although no new music has been composed for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, taking place this week, an opera by Benjamin Britten deserves to be revived for the occasion, writes blogger Fred Plotkin.
Exit Music: Choosing Your Final Playlist
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Sooner or later, we all must say farewell. To blogger Fred Plotkin, the best operatic leave-taking is Wotan's farewell in Die Walküre. What would your exit music be?
When Verdi was Savaged by the Censors
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
A Bountiful Falstaff Gets Everything Right
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A new production of Verdi's Falstaff at London's Royal Opera House updates the setting to 1950s England in a way that is "fresh, vibrant and relevant" writes Fred Plotkin.
A Princely Encounter with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's death last week reminded blogger Fred Plotkin of "an indelible day in 1976, when my path crossed with the baritone in the most amusing way." Here's what happened.
Who Should Direct an Opera Production?
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Opera company directors often speak of a need for fresh theatrical values. But as Fred Plotkin writes, "'fresh values' only work if the director is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about opera."
Coughy Talk
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Classical concert-going is sometimes criticized as too formal and rigid. But blogger Fred Plotkin believes that more restraint is needed when it comes to one common audience affliction: uninhibited coughing.


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Redenhall, Norfolk
Historical Description
Redenhall, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Waveney, and on the Waveney Valley branch of the G.E.R., at the boundary with Suffolk, 1 ½ mile ENE of Harleston station. It contains the town of Harleston, which has a head post office. Acreage, 3392; population, 2003. The manors of Redenhall, Hawkers, Holbrook, and Coldham belong to the Holmes family, and that of Harleston belongs to the Winters and Francis families of Norwich. Gawdy Hall was the seat of the Gawdy family; passed to the Wogans, and is now a seat of the Holmes family. It is an ancient mansion in the Elizabethan style, partly moated, and situated in a well-timbered park. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Harleston, in the diocese of Norwich ; joint gross value, £815 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Norfolk, at the nomination of the Bishop of Norwich. The church was rebuilt by Thomas Brotherton, eldest son of Edward I. and Earl of Norfolk; was restored in 1858; has a fine tower, and contains monuments of the Gawdy family. See HARLESTON.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Old maps of Redenhall are available on the old-maps.co.uk site, and a current map is available on the Streetmap.co.uk site.
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.


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Theory of Supply & Demand for the Bonds Industry
Original post by David Ingram of Demand Media
Bonds are debt instruments used by corporations and government entities to raise capital from businesses, government entities, nonprofits and individual investors. Investors can choose to hold bonds to maturity, receiving regular interest payments and an eventual repayment of principal, or for quicker profits they can choose to buy and sell existing bonds on a secondary bond market. The secondary market is subject to the forces of supply and demand, like any open market. Supply and demand in the bond market is influenced by factors related to the performance of bond issuers and overall economic conditions.
Premiums and Discounts
An existing bond will pay the same interest rate for its entire life. Since interest rates offered on new bonds change on a regular basis, the secondary market is full of bonds offering different interest rates. A two-year-old bond on the market may carry a 10 percent rate, for example, while a six-month-old bond on the same market pays 12 percent. Demand for bonds paying less than the prevailing interest rate plummets, and sellers are forced to sell the bond for less than its face value, or "at a discount," to bring demand back up. Demand for bonds paying higher rates jumps up, allowing bondholders to sell the bonds for more than their face value.
Credit Ratings
Changes in credit ratings can influence the demand for different companies' bonds, due to the underlying risk factors associated with credit downgrades or upgrades. A changing credit rating alters the risk/reward tradeoff for bonds, having much the same effect as changes in prevailing interest rates. Companies with lower credit ratings experience less demand for their bonds, forcing them to pay higher interest rates to compensate for the additional risk. Bond issuers with high credit ratings can sell their bonds at lower-than-market rates due to the heightened sense of security that comes with the lower risk factor. Conservative investors or investors looking for a safe hedge against greater risks often favor safer bonds with lower yields.
Economic Conditions
Corporations influence the amount of supply in the bond market by taking on new growth initiatives financed by debt. In times of overall economic prosperity, companies tend to put more ambitious and fast-acting growth plans into action, resulting in a larger number of bonds flowing into the market from sources with varying credit scores. However, when the economy takes a turn for the worse, companies may hold off on growth strategies, focusing on retrenchment and survival until the economy recovers.
Government Needs
The needs of federal, state and local government entities influences the overall supply of bonds in the marketplace. When government entities invest in infrastructure projects such as new roads, bridges and canals, they are likely to issue bonds to finance the projects, relying on tax income or project-related income (like bridge tolls) to pay back to debt. When state and local governments experience financial difficulties, they are less likely to take on debt, putting infrastructure projects on hold until economic conditions turn around.
- FlatWorld Knowledge; Shifts in Supply and Demand for Bonds; Robert E. Wright, Vincenzo Quadrini
- Finance Scholar: Bonds Valuation and Interest Rates - Premium or Discount Bonds
About the Author
David Ingram has written for multiple publications since 2009, including "The Houston Chronicle" and online at Business.com. As a small-business owner, Ingram regularly confronts modern issues in management, marketing, finance and business law. He has earned a Bachelor of Arts in management from Walsh University.
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Churches Target
MTV Generation
With Jesus Ads
by Rachel Zoll
Associated Press Writer
May 19, 1998
Chattanooga, Tennessee (AP) -- Churches worried the MTV generation is rocking 'n rolling its way to Hell are seeking converts with new ads threatening that the party will end someday -- maybe sooner than later.
In a ripoff of the "Got Milk?" ad campaign, one TV spot features a bungee jumper realizing mid-dive that no one has secured his cord. As he lands with a thud, the announcer asks "Got Jesus?" and a church phone number splashes across the screen. [Groan!]
In another spot, a young man dons a tuxedo as an announcer says, "All dressed up for the most important day of your life." The camera pans back to reveal the man sitting in a coffin. It's Judgment Day, not prom day, the ad suggests.
Shane Harwell, marketing director for Impact Productions, the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based nonprofit company that develops and sells the ads, said the messages may be stark, but they're also effective.
"There was a very soft and tender side to Jesus, but Jesus also said, 'If your eye causes you to sin, rip it out and throw it to the ground,'" Harwell said Monday. "We believe the church needs to be gentle and be caring, but we believe there are some people who would not respond to that message."
The TV ads cost up to $20,000 to make and sell for about $800 for a package of three, Harwell said.
The Lee Highway Church of God in Chattanooga began airing the "Got Jesus?" and "All Dressed Up" ads last fall. Jerry Justice, associate pastor of the evangelical church, said it's hard to measure the impact, but many folks have told him they've seen the ads on MTV and The Weather Channel and liked them. The ads are bought on local station breaks of those national networks.
"The ads are pretty intense," Justice said. "We want people to know that Christians have fun, too, and we thought it would be thought-provoking." [What fun!]
The Word of Life Church in Wichita, Kansas, began broadcasting "All Dressed Up" and other TV ads four years ago. It also uses billboards and radio shows to reach young people. [Gotta do somethin'!]
Since the campaign started, the nondenominational church has grown from 150 to 800 congregants.
An ad featuring a drug addict shooting up and Jesus with a spike through his hand has been particularly effective, said Robert Rotola, pastor of The Word of Life. [What's the connection?]
Harwell said churches must resort to in-your-face tactics to reach a generation numb to violence. [Resort!?]
"How are you going to shock somebody who is into slam dancing or piercing their tongue?" he asked. "Some people complain about the ads, but then I look at what network TV is doing, and you have to laugh that people would even raise an eyebrow."
Priest Falls in Love
Catholic Clergy Protests
'Immoral' Soap Opera
May 22, 1998
Guadalajara, Mexico (Reuters) -- Mexico's second city of Guadalajara, where swearing at soccer matches is banned and mini-skirts are frowned upon, is up in arms over a new television soap opera about a priest falling in love.
"Tentaciones" (Temptations), the story of a young priest whose vows of celibacy are shaken when he falls in love with a homeless relative, is the latest controversial soap launched by upstart TV Azteca in its battle to wrest viewers from tame melodramas screened by traditional market leader Televisa.
But in straight-laced Guadalajara, Church authorities were not amused and exhorted the faithful to lobby Azteca to take "Tentaciones" off the air before it set a bad example.
"We think this soap opera is the last straw, because it is not fair to boost ratings by attacking the religious feelings of many Mexicans," Catholic viewers' spokeswoman Gloria Lozano told Reuters.
"The campaign against this soap opera is nationwide. It is not a question of overbearing moralizing. We want respect on TV for human rights and ethical values," she added.
Guadalajara has a reputation for conservatism. It has banned foul language at soccer matches and marketplaces, banned couples from getting overly amorous in public and issued edicts against public servants wearing mini-skirts.
Mexico is an overwhelmingly Catholic country, and has fought fierce civil wars to separate the state from a church that has been powerful since it backed the 16th-century Spanish conquest.
By law, priests may not wear religious garments or celebrate Mass in public places. Church weddings are not legally valid.
But Mexico in recent years has relaxed laws forbidding the church's involvement in politics, and priests have used their new freedom to protest government measures such as a campaigns to promote safe sex by encouraging condom use.
Azteca, privatized in 1993, recently recruited left-wing scriptwriters to broach taboo subjects and cover topics like corruption.
"Tentaciones" is just the latest in a series of what, by Mexican standards, racy Azteca soap operas with controversial and previously untouchable themes.
Lead actor Jose Antonio Llamas, playing the priest, begins every episode with the phrase: "Why can't it be possible to love a woman and God?"
Guadalajara is not sure it wants the issue raised.
"In the church of god's children (the Catholic church) things like this (love between a priest and a woman) can happen, because it is composed of sinners. The danger is that the case may become widespread," Guadalajara Archbishop Juan Sandoval Iniguez told journalists recently.
Actor Says He Helped
Fake TV Shows
May 4, 1998
New York (AP) -- A struggling Los Angeles-based actor says he knows the talk shows are faking it. He's helped them do it several times.
New York native Tony West says producers for five daytime talk shows, including Jerry Springer, invited him to create and tell outlandish stories, The New York Post reported today.
West said the producers knew he was an actor before his appearances on shows hosted by Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Richard Bey, Sally Jessy Raphael and Maury Povich.
He said they paid him appearance fees -- ranging from $150 for Maury Povich to $500 for Springer -- and took care of his flights, accommodations and other expenses.
Last month, Rolling Stone magazine and the syndicated show "Extra" reported that many of Springer's fights are staged and guests are coached. His producers denied it, but Springer said some of the allegations were probably true.
"The Maury Povich Show would never put a guest on the air with the prior knowledge that the guest is either misrepresenting who they are or that their story is a fabrication," said spokesman Gary Rosen, adding that West signed a release indicating the story he told on the show was true.
A Ricki Lake spokesman said the same thing.
The Jerry Springer and Sally Jessy Raphael shows could not be reached for comment, the Post reported.
West acknowledged that he signed waivers before taping some of the shows.
"It was a disclaimer for them that they wouldn't be sued. It didn't say anything about the story being true," he said.
Amish Clergy Shrieks
Amish Arrested in
Gang Drug Bust
by Amy Worden
Associated Press Writer
June 23, 1998
Philadelphia (AP) -- Two Amish men have been accused of buying cocaine from a motorcycle gang called the Pagans and then distributing it to young members of the conservative religious sect.
"Bikes and buggies, it's a rather strange combination," Pennsylvania State Police Maj. Robert Werts said of Tuesday's indictment of Abner Stoltzfus, 24, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 23. The men are not related. [Yeah, right!]
Both men are members of the Old Order Amish, the most conservative Amish sect. The Amish eschew automobiles, electricity, computers, fancy clothes and most other modern conveniences. They use horse-driven buggies for transportation. There are about 20,000 Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, where the pair are from.
The indictment accuses the men of buying drugs from eight members of the Pagans between 1993 and 1997. The two would then distribute the cocaine to youth groups known as the Crickets, the Antiques, and the Pilgrims at dances.
At a press conference Tuesday, authorities painted a picture of the motorcycle gang world, characterized by drugs and reckless behavior, colliding with the serene, traditional lifestyle of the Pennsylvania Amish.
"As far as I know we have never charged any [Amish] with drug crimes," said assistant states attorney Joseph Dominguez.
John Pyfer, who is representing Abner Stoltzfus, said the Amish are not immune to the pressures of modern society.
"People think the Amish are sheltered from the outside world, but the temptations are there," he said. "My client's parents are extremely conservative -- horse and buggy the whole bit. They're having a hard time understanding this."
At the time of their indictment, the two men were participating in a "timeout" period in which young Amish men and women explore the outside world and decide whether to join the church. Both men intended to join, their lawyers said.
If convicted of the charges, the pair face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
© Copyright 1998 The Associated Press
Amish Drug Arrests
Reveal Secrets
by Peter Durantine
Associated Press Writer
June 27, 1998
Intercourse, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Across the rolling farmland, idyllic scenes play out one after another: a bearded man in a straw hat driving horses across a grassy field. A horse and buggy pulling a lad in black Rollerblades down a country lane. A woman, wearing long sleeves in the summer heat, hanging laundry on an outdoor line.
The peaceful southeastern Pennsylvania setting that has long charmed the outside world with its simple ways and innocence was shaken last week by a jarring truth little known beyond parts of Lancaster County: The Amish have a drug problem.
"People here have known that there has been a lot of drug problems with Amish youth, and with liquor, too," said Jack Meyer, a local businessman and member of the Brethren, a sect similar to the Amish.
Meyer, who offers tourists horse-and-buggy rides, and other observers say the Amish had until recently dealt with the problem quietly -- not as a group, but within individual families.
No more. News that two Amish men were charged with dealing cocaine in their communities -- and for a motorcycle gang called the Pagans, no less -- has the leaders of the county's 22,000 Old Order Amish, the most conservative Anabaptist sect, sadly acknowledging a struggle with drugs for at least a decade.
"I'm scared," said an 81-year-old local bishop, reading his Bible on a hot afternoon. "I'm really scared about what has happened."
Alcohol and marijuana had long troubled the community, but then several months ago people started hearing talk about Amish youths using harder drugs. The bishops sent a letter to all the churches, warning about the cocaine.
Abner Stoltzfus, 24, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, are not related, but their names are as common around here as shoofly pie. The federal indictment against them unveiled troubles that the Amish, typically portrayed as separate from the world and content that way, did not want known.
An Amish farmer who stood on a ladder picking cherries from a tree underscored this, asking a reporter if people were disappointed with them. "The big thing about Amish people," Meyer said, "is they want to set a good example."
Also charged were eight members of the Pagans, who sold the drugs to the two Stoltzfuses. The Amish men then distributed the drugs to members of youth groups known as the Crickets, the Antiques and the Pilgrims at hoedowns between 1993 and 1997.
State troopers in Lancaster, who patrol much of this area's Amish country, say the Pagans have always ridden on the same roads as the Amish, who rarely call on police.
Many Amish were willing to stop work on farms and in shops to talk about the arrests, but they flatly refused to give their names. That, too, reflects their desire to be left alone.
Some simply associated motorcycles with the problem.
"My neighbor has a motorcycle. I'll try to stay friends with him," said a 74-year-old retired farmer, driving his buggy up to the White Horse Machine Shop outside Intercourse. "Hope he'll do the same."
For the last few years, reporters have been quoting the Amish by name, contrary to the group's long-held religious rules. But after an article on Amish small businesses appeared in the March issue of Forbes magazine, many of the county's 84 bishops told parishioners to stop giving out names.
"It really created a stir in the community," said Louise Stoltzfus, a former member of the Old Order and author of "Traces of Wisdom: Amish Women and the Pursuit of Life's Simple Pleasures." "People in the community felt they shouldn't brag about making money."
The 45-year-old Stoltzfus, who is not related to the two men, believes substance abuse problems in the community are more than a decade old.
"When I was in my 20s, I knew of some Amish youth involved with drugs," she said. "When they say 10 years, they're saying the problem is growing."
Despite appearances that the modern world is rapidly closing in, the Amish, who run more than 1,000 small businesses in the county, have long been tied to the outside.
"There's a myth that these are innocent, barefoot peasants," said Donald Kraybill, author of "The Riddle of Amish Culture" and provost of Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. "People don't realize how much they interact with the outside world."
Much of the Amish aversion to technology is also a myth. True, they eschew electricity because wires would connect them to the outside, but they use gas-powered washing machines, refrigerators and other appliances. They don't own or drive automobiles, but they sometimes hire people to transport them around the county. They do patronize non-Amish banks and stores.
The Amish turn to modern treatments for severe psychiatric problems, but it is unclear whether they use substance abuse programs. Kraybill said the Amish in Indiana experienced drug problems a few years ago and programs were set up by the state.
The bishops say they can only warn families about drugs -- and Amish parents say their children already know about such dangers. After the arrest of the Stoltzfus men, however, it seems other measures may be necessary.
"I think it really will have a sobering impact on them," Kraybill said. "Church leaders may become more active in urging parents to be on the lookout for this kind of thing and in urging parents to put more restrictions on their children."
© Copyright 1998 The Associated Press
Serves 60 Days
Minister Guilty of
Fondling Elderly Woman
May 15, 1998
Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Reuters) -- A 78-year-old former Methodist minister has been convicted of molesting a 98-year-old nursing home patient in South Dakota, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Earl Butz was found guilty Tuesday of a misdemeanor charge of sexual molestation and sentenced to a year in jail.
Under the terms of his sentencing, he will serve just 60 days in a county jail in return for making a $1,500 contribution to a local rape crisis center, undergoing counseling and being barred for five years from entering nursing homes and hospitals.
He was arrested in January after the victim notified her family and the medical staff of the Sioux Falls nursing home where she was residing that Butz had molested her, Deputy State's Attorney Tom Hensley said.
He Prays For His Victims
Bishop Admits
Molesting Boys, Quits
by Karen Testa
Associated Press Writer
June 3, 1998
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (AP) -- When Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Keith Symons came to the Palm Beach diocese, he proclaimed his motto was "with joyful trust," a phrase culled from the Bible.
On Tuesday, Symons resigned after admitting he molested five young boys in three Florida churches early in his 40-year career as a priest.
"I have prayed each day for these persons and their families," Symons said in a statement. "It is a memory with which we have lived far too long."
Symons, 65, left his post at the diocese Monday for evaluation and treatment at an undisclosed location, said Bishop Robert Lynch of the St. Petersburg diocese.
His resignation -- believed to be the first by a U.S. bishop for such conduct -- became effective Tuesday morning, Lynch said.
The allegations surfaced five weeks ago when a now-middle aged man told church officials Symons had sexually molested him while he was a teen-age parishioner.
Lynch refused to specify where or when the abuse occurred, but said there were at least five victims in three churches -- all boys, all parishioners and likely all altar boys. In at least one case, the abuse lasted several years.
Symons says he has not abused anyone in at least 25 years, Lynch said.
"I want to believe him," Lynch said. "But sometimes (pedophiles) are in such deep denial they don't remember what they did."
Lynch said treatment for Symons -- mandated and organized by the church -- can last up to a year.
After several years of the abuse, Symons consulted another priest who told him to abstain from alcohol and be chaste, Lynch said. He said he doesn't fault the spiritual adviser for not forcing Symons to seek help.
"Pedophilia wasn't even in the psychological manuals when this abuse happened," Lynch said. "The old theory was make a good confession and sin no more. We never realized it was a disease."
Elvis Credit Card Issued
by Cliff Walker
from wire reports
May 11, 1998
An Elvis Presley credit card was launched in Britain. The card can be used to purchase Elvis memorabilia at a discount.
Though he has been deified by some, and an Elvis shrine exists in India, Presley remains remains, and thus is unavailable for comment.
Fan Prays Under Water
for World Cup Victory
June 30, 1998
Bucharest (Reuters) -- A Romanian fan spends four hours a day with his head immersed in the bath praying to God to help Romania win the World Cup, his wife has told a Bucharest daily.
The newspaper, Evenimentul Zilei, said engineer Ioan Moldovan, 44, had been a model family man and worker until two weeks ago and has since told psychiatrists he was Romania's only "human amphibian."
Moldovan's wife Adriana said she believed the only solution was to cut off the water supply to the family home.
"Better to die of thirst and go unwashed than to continue seeing my husband every morning in the water and believing that Romania will win the championship," she said.
"I've come to hate soccer. I want my husband back the way he was."
Romania lost to Croatia in the second round on Tuesday.
Some Herbal Remedy
Claims Unproven
by Dr. Barry Reisberg
May 6, 1998
New York (AP) -- Gingko biloba is among the herbs receiving superstar status in the pantheon of natural remedies purported to combat aging.
The herb is widely touted in advertisements as a memory booster designed to increase mental sharpness and restore overall vigor, especially as you age.
These claims got an added burst of publicity after a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year reported that ginkgo improved the memory and social functioning of patients with dementia.
But will ginkgo biloba make you more mentally alert?
Unfortunately, there is little evidence that ginkgo will sharpen your mental abilities if you already are healthy or if you are experiencing normal complaints of memory loss associated with aging. There is some promising evidence that it may improve cognitive functions in elderly people with dementia, but even so this herb is not the proverbial fountain of youth.
Ginkgo is actually an ancient or ''fossil'' tree that first made its appearance more than 200 million years ago. The Chinese grew ginkgo in temple gardens and made tea from parts of the ginkgo for the treatment of asthma and bronchitis. Today, the hardy tree thrives everywhere, and its distinctive flat green, fan-shaped leaves can be seen along city streets worldwide.
The leaves are the source of the ginkgo sold as an herbal supplement. Ginkgo extract contains hundreds of chemicals, including flavonoids and terpenoids, and there isn't a lot known about these substances.
Interestingly, some of the terpenoid ginkgolides have not been found in any other living species. Some of these chemicals may have anti-oxidant properties, meaning that they quash the activity of damaging ''free-radicals'' produced in the normal course of cellular activity in the body. Some of the claims for ginkgo stem from the supposed anti-oxidant properties.
Ginkgo has long been used in Europe, especially Germany, as a blood thinner because the herb, like aspirin, makes the blood less likely to clot. The herb is sold as a treatment for a variety of circulatory and neurological problems, including dementia, in European countries.
Part of the problem in evaluating ginkgo's therapeutic effects is the lack of well-controlled clinical studies that rigorously assess the herb. Many of the European studies lack the proper controls and other standards needed to clearly evaluate this herb as a medicine.
Last fall, a study finally appeared in the American medical literature of comparatively high quality. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated the ability of a ginkgo extract widely used in Europe to alleviate the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and related forms of dementia. The results were very encouraging.
Among a group of patients with early to moderately severe dementia, most of whom suffered from Alzheimer's disease, a daily dose of 120 milligrams of ginkgo extract improved their social functioning and performance on a cognitive test for six months to one year, compared to a similar group of patients who received a placebo or dummy pill. However, the changes induced by ginkgo were rated as modest.
This study is a first step in evaluating the effects of ginkgo, but it is only a first step that involved only a few hundred patients. The true value of the herb will not be known until additional studies are completed.
There have been many preliminary studies with some substance or other over the years that have produced encouraging effects in Alzheimer's patients. However, most of these studies simply have not panned out over the long run.
Often, since caregivers are desperate to see a change in Alzheimer's patients, they report a substance is making a difference in how patients respond to the world. But, unfortunately, these reports frequently have no staying power.
It may yet turn out that ginkgo will have a place in the treatment of Alzheimer's patients, and patients with other forms of dementia, but we simply don't know the answer yet. As for the normal complaints of memory loss that accompany aging, there is little evidence that ginkgo will help.
Since ginkgo is a plant extract and is not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, the active ingredients of different brands of ginkgo may differ substantially.
|Dr. Barry Reisberg is professor of psychiatry at New
York University School of Medicine and clinical director of the Aging and
Dementia Research Center at NYU Medical Center.
Copyright 1998 The Associated Press


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College Hockey:Women's poll sees Minnesota unseat Wisconsin
With 10 first-place votes and a win over Wisconsin last weekend, Minnesota is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll.
Wisconsin drops to No. 2 this week.
Spots 3-7 remain Cornell, Boston College, Mercyhurst, North Dakota and Northeastern, respectively.
Minnesota-Duluth jumps one to No. 8, Bemidji State falls to ninth and Harvard remains No. 10.
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|Men's tennis opens 2013 at EWU
After making noise on the national scene in the fall for the second straight year, the Idaho men's tennis team will get its 2013 season started on Sunday when it visits Eastern Washington in Cheney, Wash., at 10:30 a.m.
The Vandals were represented in the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in November for the second consecutive season, as seniors Marius Cirstea and Abid Akbar won the ITA Mountain Regional doubles championship. The duo went 2-1 at the indoor championship, knocking off doubles teams from USC and Columbia.
Akbar and Cirstea are ranked No. 46 in the nation and No. 1 in the Mountain Region in doubles heading into 2013. Akbar is also ranked No. 7 in the region in singles.
The Vandals return most of their core from last spring, when the team went 14-14 overall and 3-2 in the Western Athletic Conference. After a sluggish start, the 2012 team won six straight matches to reach the WAC championship match before falling to Hawai'i.
The Vandals will be on the road for the majority of the spring, but host WAC matches against New Mexico State on Mar. 29, UTSA on April 19 and Denver on April 21. Idaho also hosts Sacramento State on April 7 and BYU on April 13 in non-conference action.


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A former pediatrician is on trial for waterboarding the daughter of his girlfriend in Georgetown, Del. A Jan. 27 report by FOX News reveals that Melvin Morse, 60, is being accused of waterboarding an 11-year-old girl by holding her face under a running faucet. Now the case is before a 12-person jury that is made up of eight women and four men.
Morse was arrested in 2012 and charged with child endangerment and assault after the young victim told investigators she was being waterboarded. Morse pleaded not guilty to those charges in the waterboarding daughter case.
Waterboarding is considered a form of torture and simulates a sense of drowning to those being held under water. A few years ago U.S. interrogators were criticized for using this type of technique while working those believed to be linked with middle east terrorists.
One would think Morse's female companion would be aware that he was waterboarding her daughter if he did. For whatever reason people choose cruel and inhumane forms of punishment often when it comes to children. If Melvin Morse is guilty of the charges, many hope he will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.


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Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Release Date: Aug 05, 2011
Genre: Drama
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I thought this film is going to be amazing and interesting. I have been fascinated by 27 Club for a long time, especially now that Amy Winehouse has passed away at 27 years old. Unfortunately, the film disappointed me because it was not good at all. The film was very unoriginal and i felt like i was watching a film that I have seen million times before. Kevin Zegers and Jason Ritter try really hard to make their characters believable and relatable but they hardly succeed and it is hard to watch their effort. Overall, I do not recommend seeing this film in the theaters because you will be bored and disappointed.
I did not like this film and I do not recommend seeing it in the theaters. The film was full of cliches and none of them really worked. The film felt really unoriginal and quite frankly boring and uninspired. I wanted to leave couple of times but I was hoping that the film will get better, unfortunately it never did, i was bored out of my mind. Nothing in this film was able to hold my interest and that is really sad. Kevin Zegers lacks charisma and I did not like him in this film, one can see that he tries hard but he never quite gets it. Overall, do not see this film.
This is a drama about the band Lost Soulz and it is directed by Scott D. Rosenbaum and starring Kevin Zegers, Jason Ritter and Taryn Manning. I did not like this film and I do not recommend seeing it in the theaters. The film was not interesting and it did not capture the essence of rock and roll. The conflicts between the characters are hard to care about because you do not believe the closeness between the two characters. The love triangle in the film is not believable either, basically the director failed to establish a connection between the audience an the characters. Overall, this film is not worth your money or your time.
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By Lisa
Copyright 2005 Lisa Kraus
PHILADELPHIA -- Usually
my hand is busy jotting notes when I'm watching a dance I plan to
review. Not so for Bambang Besur Suryono's performance, the final
segment of "Reinventing Tradition: New Dance in Indonesia," seen
February 7 at the Community Education Center. Like a force of nature,
Suryono exudes extreme focus and primal power, stilling my pen and
my mind.
In "Perjalanan Tubuh"
(Adventure of the Body), Besur is swathed in gold-brown batik cloths
which, instead of being wrapped sarong style, are layered as though
draped over a mountain. And, not unlike a mountain, he begins and
ends cross-legged and still, rooted with every nerve and fiber,
every cell present. We hear a deep raspy breathing before the light
is bright enough to see, then from within the heap of cloth, out
glide the gracefully arcing hands of the Javanese classical dancer.
A description of exactly
what Besur does is much less compelling than the effect it all has
which, mysteriously, is far more than the sum of its parts. He tips
and shifts, unfurling fingers passing through multiple mudras (hand
shapes, some with meanings). A loose waist-length mane gives him
the edge of a wild yogi. His voice, complex as any gamelan, resembles
a didgeridoo, resonating from way deep. Or it takes on the nasal
harmonics of Tibetan overtone singing. His extreme slowness is broken
once or twice by sharp cries. With arms flinging out he seems suddenly
overtaken by a bird vision. He channels other animals, and seemingly
gruff elders. We can't know the exact images that sweep through
Besur's consciousness. But the quality of his engagement with them
is never less than thunderously intense. Movements pass through
his body like slow-moving seaweed.
At one point Besur places
a delicate white-faced Javanese mask over his face, changing his
appearance without much altering the movement quality. He chimes
together small Tibetan cymbals. Besur struggles with unknown adversaries,
or unspecified difficulties. Brow furrowing, he leans into his effort.
By the end Besur's gone
through a process challenging to fully comprehend. But we can completely
understand the quality of his engagement and his extreme corporeal
embodiment. It leaves us wanting nothing more. It is revelatory,
all-too-rarely seen, and memorable enough that one need take no
Preceding Besur at the
center of the evening, forming a perfect bridge between its two
performances, is Sal Murgiyanto's lecture on new dance in Indonesia.
Based in Jakarta and Taipei, Murgiyanto holds a doctorate in Performance
Studies from New York University. (In the interest of disclosure,
I'll mention here having studied Javanese dance with Endang Murgiyanto,
his astonishingly accomplished wife.) As the founding director of
the yearly Indonesian Dance Festival held in Java, Murgiyanto is
uniquely positioned to offer commentary on the choreography of innovators
from all over the Archipelago. Video clips of dances from Java,
Sumatra and Bali reveal a widely varied body of work, especially
in its degree of departure from traditional Indonesian idioms. Several
works appear just slightly altered from the traditional forms, and
some more clearly cross-pollinated, like the young Balinese dancer
who creates a Loie Fuller-esque solo with an orb of white cloth
rippling outward in symmetrical flowing pathways. We're told by
Murgiyanto that the Balinese audience doesn't readily accept such
innovation completely disconnected from familiar form. With other
dances shown on video one can sense the spiritual roots of some
of the group forms, like the line dance performed seated, from Aceh,
making rhythmic use of rapid unison claps and slaps. The dancers
move like hoofers in a trance, using only their upper bodies.
Murgiyanto's commentary
ends by providing context for understanding Besur. We're told, for
example, that his mentor is the influential Sardono Kusomo. A celebrated
classical dancer, Kusomo mines deep investigations into the nature
of the body to make dances that reveal a state 'before beauty' or
before form.
Aryani Manring, who
opened the program, embodies fusion within herself. The child of
an American father and Javanese mother, Manring grew up in Jakarta,
graduated from Swarthmore College, and now lives in Philadelphia.
She offers us this information while speaking directly to the audience
at the beginning of her "Introduction," the in-progress seed of
what could grow into a lush and fascinating work. Her dance, modeled
on a lecture-demonstration, limns differences between Indonesian
and post-modern dance styles. "The floor is for feet, animals and
trash, but I like the floor," she says, rolling luxuriantly. She
talks about Javanese containment and how she, in contrast, loves
Manring's delivery is
unembellished and straightforward. The lecture tone slides into
an inner dialogue of two contrasting voices, in debate over her
intent. She shows the connection of a movement from one of her previous
dances to a Balinese move. "What I love is shimmering" she says,
demonstrating the Balinese hand action where with fingertips upright
and palms facing the audience, the fingers 'shimmer' in a light
tremble. It's as if the rest of the body is moving with such control
that the continuing energy has to exit in a tiny fluttering displacement
of the fingers. It's a way to show liveliness in the midst of quiet
perfection. In Manring's own version of this, there's a larger,
more circular tracing with arms held overhead, hands still facing
outward, body tipped way sideways.
What's refreshing here
is Manring's easy relationship to her cultural inheritance. She
is like a teenager looking at her parents' cultures, able to pick
and choose which aspects she wants to incorporate, and which rules
are too stuffy. Any of it could be good, she seems to imply, we
just have to use our discrimination and choose for ourselves.
Philadelphia's dance
scene has been brimming with intercultural performance. January
brought the "Dances of Our Ancestors" festival to Swarthmore College
and Temple University, with Ghanaian choreographers and performers
entering into dialogue with Philly-based African-American colleagues.
The just-closed DanceBoom series focused on dances coming out of
the African Diaspora, with work by Rennie Harris, St. Lucia-born
Tania Isaac, Kulu Mele and Kariamu and Co., among others. The US/Japan
Choreographers Exchange, hosted by Philadelphia Dance Projects and
Temple University just brought two young Japanese and three East
Coast dance artists to town to share a collaborative evening. On
the heels of all this came "Reinventing Tradition." This week-long
series of events, sponsored by the Asian Cultural Council in association
with Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe, Swarthmore,
and Dance Advance, was billed as a 'dance discursion,' with workshops,
lectures, discussions and performances revealing the richness of
new Indonesian dance mostly rooted in traditional practice. Noteworthy
was Javanese dance's extreme slowness, in itself revelatory for
many participants.
The elders in both "Reinventing
Tradition" and "Dances of Our Ancestors" pointed repeatedly to the
need to allow traditional dance to refresh itself by bringing in
influences from outside. In sharing divergent approaches during
studio sessions and in the cross-cultural dialogue they engendered,
these events have provided inspiration all around, accomplishing
just that.
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President Obama is traveling to Asia this week under the cloud of the Ukraine crisis, which threatens to put Asian allies on edge about U.S. security commitments and create yet another distraction from the administration's much-delayed "pivot" to the region.
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Tuesday was also big this week. Another 'We Ask America' poll came out with a slight adjustment to the question. They asked 1,235 likely GOP voters "if the Republican Primary Election for governor were held today – and you HAD to choose a candidate – for whom would you vote" to take the undecided factor out of the equation. The results had Rauner at 46.6% with Dillard, Brady and Rutherford respectively at 25.76, 18.9, and 8.88%. The reason why only Dillard has a chance is money. Although the Illinois Freedom PAC announced Tuesday that they were going to end their anti-Rauner television ad campaign, Dillard was expected to receive $400,000 in donations this week from unions that endorsed him to keep the air assault going. Brady's problem is simply lack of money to wage any type of television campaign.
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A few years back some friends and i were going to the Myrtle Beach Bike Week and got a condo from a realtor. When we got to the place (8 hour drive) there was a sign informing us that motorcycles were not allowed in the complex. Luckily,my Wife drove her Mustang and had to ferry us about 3/4 of a mile from the front gate to the apartment every time we left or came back.
My dad in HOA type situation had to return a golf practice thing to me as they were not allowed to put anything in their front yards...even temporarily.
The HOA at my parents house tried to give us flak until we provided them a bill for the service of mowing the retention pond that bordered our property for 7 years. It also might have been no one wanted to knock on the door because they had to walk past my hearse.(the cause of the problems) It is just maddening to me how up tight a few neighbors can get.
SelfDefense, the Constitution defines the powers of the Federal government so it does not restrict our freedoms, enumerates individual rights, and states that all other rights are reserved for the states or the people. HOA's are not governmental bodies. They are legal contractural entities. So you enter into a contract with them. As a lawyer friend of mine likes to remind me, you can't sign away your rights or freedoms in a contract. HOA's don't have the authority to restrict what you drive or park on a public road. Government does.
But many of the HOA's control PRIVATE roadways within their boundaries. If you didn't read the restrictions before you signed the deal, it's your fault. You wouldn't catch me dead living under those regimes.
No matter how you want to defend it, it's fits the very definition of descrimination. I won't add the one used most often in Sociology, but the one in Wikipedia is close enough. .....
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Apple has cut some staff working on its Final Cut video editing software suite, according to a report by a video industry insider.
"Apple laid off 40 of my old Final Cut team yesterday, lots of good people, despite high profits," said Pete Warden, a data-mining former Apple employee, in a tweet (http://twitter.com/petewarden/status/9014940274). He says that this is despite high profits, and that Apple "can be pretty evil."
While the cuts could represent the end of an upgrade development cycle, as the next version upgrade of Final Cut is likely in preparation even now, Warden's report reveals one key element that suggests more major losses, notes Distorted-Loop (http://distorted-loop.com/2010/02/19/final-cut-team-loses-key-figure-pri...).
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What's the general form for $x^y$? What's the specialized form for $x^1$ and $x^0$?
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As J.M. and Rahul Narain pointed out in comments, $x^1$ is often referred to as "linear" and $x^0$ as "constant." Commonly, though certainly not universally, $x^y$ is a/the "power" with $x$ as the base and $y$ as the exponent.
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