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About Page Hospital
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Image: Red sandstone cliffs and lake
Audio: Background music continues throughout narration.
Image: Canyons
Audio - Narrator: "Amidst the magnificent contrast of red sandstone, cliffs and deep blue water, in a region known for its great national parks…"
Image: Glen Canyon Dam
Audio - Narrator: "…and adjacent to Glen Canyon Dam and…"
Image: Lake Powell
Audio - Narrator: "…scenic Lake Powell…"
Image: City of Page, Arizona
Audio - Narrator: "…lies the small city of Page, Arizona."
Image: Front view of Page Hospital
Audio - Narrator: "Serving the health care needs of this rural desert community is Page Hospital, a model health care facility celebrating its 50th year."
Image: Sundown in Page, Arizona; picturesque view of horizon
PAGE HOSPITAL Legacy of Healing 1958-2008 - logo
Banner Health © Page Hospital
Images: Sepia photos: Old Page Hospital –ground and aerial views; construction of Glen Canyon Dam; and skeletal framework of Glen Canyon Dam
Audio - Narrator: "Page Hospital was built in 1958 and grew up alongside the town, which was founded as a camp for construction workers who were building Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River."
Images: Contemporary Page community; exterior and interior views of Carl Hayden Visitor Center; Glen Canyon's lake, dam and mesas; exterior Antelope Canyon Tours building
Audio - Narrator: "Page has since grown to a population of 8,000 and with tourism as the driving economic force hosts four million visitors annually."
Images: Full shot of Page Hospital main entrance and various exterior views of building and adjacent desert area.
Audio - Narrator: "The 25-bed Page Hospital is managed by Banner Health -- one of the largest non-profit health care systems in the west. The hospital serves the community of Page as well as the nearby Navajo Indian reservation."
Images: Long shot of Navajo Indian Reservation; Page Hospital's botanical garden, fountain and landscaped grounds.
Audio - Narrator: "Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Page Hospital is its affiliation with the Planetree Alliance -- the first within the Banner Health system to do so."
Image: Sandy Haryasz speaks on-camera.
Text: Sandy Haryasz - CEO, Page Hospital
Audio: "We became a Planetree facility in the mid 1990s. Planetree is a national organization…"
Image: A nurse uses advanced technology to monitor a mature female patient's vitals, her temperature and pulse.
Audio: "…that really supports a holistic approach to how you care for patients. Part of Planetree is treating patients with respect and dignity, and really not giving lip service to that. It's easy to say I'm respectful of patients, but we really truly believe that here."
Images: Senior female patient works out on cardio step machine assisted by male physical therapist; Senior female patient uses leg press machine assisted by male physical therapist; Female therapist accompanies senior patient to healing ritual.
Audio: "The holistic approach to patient care extends beyond the physical and medical to the patients' spiritual and emotional well-being in order to promote healing."
Image: An elder Navajo Indian performs healing ritual on senior female patient.
Audio: "This compassion and sensitivity extends to every patient and aids in the recovery process."
Text: Elizabeth Faulk, MD
Medical Director, Page Hospital
Image: Elizabeth Faulk speaks
Audio: "The concept of Planetree really attracted me because it is a patient-centered care. It cares about the patient's experience, the staff's experience. Are we addressing their spiritual needs, their personal needs, their family's needs? And that was very attractive because coming from Boston and Chicago, where we take care of thousands upon thousands of patients in a very impersonal sometimes way, to have the personal connection with the patient was very appealing; and the fact that this hospital champions that was very attractive."
Images: Two female sitting across each other, conversing. Shots of Page Hospital's interior design [natural stone accents] -- skylights, patient reception area, curved corridors, artwork; exterior shots of simulated water fall and botanical garden.
Audio: "The Planetree model also extends into the design elements of the hospital, including the use of natural stone, softer colors, artwork that is reflective of the surrounding landscape and the blending of the interior with the natural outdoor environment."
Text: Sandy Haryasz
CEO, Page Hospital
Image: Sandy Haryasz speaks on-camera.
Audio: "We go to great lengths in architectural design to make sure that we really look at everything that the patient would be seeing or hearing or feeling…"
Images: Views of Page Hospital's outdoor and indoor facilities – backyard gardens, a patient's room, diagnostic room with scenic view.
Audio: "We look at the environment, bringing the outside in. A huge portion of the patients' healing is being able to see light. There's actually some statistical data that says, if a patient can see green, that they will heal faster."
Text: Rolli Truman
Admin. Svc. Mgr., Page Hospital – Banner Health ©
Image: Rolli Truman speaks.
Audio: "So much of our structure in our healing environment is from the remodeling that we've been able to do…"
Image: A view of Page Hospital gardens from the sunroom.
Audio: "…and we've always kept our patients and our employees in mind, and we've designed with healing as our ultimate goal -- healing by design. We've brought our gardens in. We've made the environment a comfortable and inviting place to be versus a sterile and cold place."
Images: Various interior shots of Page Hospital: circular nurses station, two staff members talk, the fully equipped emergency room.
Audio - Narrator: "The hospital's governing district board provides capital to modernize, expand and purchase new equipment and which allowed construction of a new 10,000-square foot emergency department that was built using Planetree design elements."
Text: Elizabeth Faulk, MD
Medical Director, Page Hospital
Image: Dr. Elizabeth Faulk, speaking.
Audio: "We get all sorts of cases here. It's not limited. Remember, folks just get just as sick here as they would any place else. We have everything from penetrating trauma, stab wounds, gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen."
Image: Two Page Hospital staff roll medical equipment along the corridor; hospital's helicopter lands on the helipad.
Audio: "We have geriatrics, older folks that need help, pediatrics, children, sometimes very ill babies, intensive care unit-bound patients, and we're lucky enough to have a helicopter service and pre-hospital personnel here in Page Fire that are excellent."
Image: Patient undergoing CT scan, male technician looking on; lab tech operates ultrasound device
Audio - Narrator: "The latest onsite medical equipment includes a CT scanner, an MRI, state-of-the-art ultrasound imaging devices and the use of teleradiography that provides fast communication with specialists in other facilities."
Images: Lab techs using contemporary medical equipment.
Audio - Narrator: "The staff and employees are integral to the success of Page Hospital. The smaller hospital environment requires them to work more independently and perform a wider range of duties than in other larger hospitals. Most importantly, they must have compassion and a strong commitment to patient-centered care."
Text: Rolli Truman
Admin. Svc. Mgr., Page Hospital
Image: Rolli Truman speaks.
Audio: "It's very important to us at Page Hospital that we hire people that have the right attitudes and exhibit the right behaviors. It's more important that they know customer service and have a good attitude than it is to necessarily have the skill sets. Those can be trained. We'd prefer to have the appropriate behaviors and then train for the technical aspects."
Text: Adam Boone, RN
Registered Nurse, Page Hospital
Image: Adam Boone speaks.
Audio: "The staff and the education I've got, in my orientation as a new hire here, has been as good as any education I've got including nursing school."
Text: Dana S. Levy, RN, BSN
Chief Nursing Officer, Page Hospital
Image: Dana S. Levy speaks.
Audio: "The nursing staff at Page Hospital is a very integrated staff…"
Images: Nursing staff involved in various duties at busy nurses' station.
Audio: "We have one primary inpatient department, the emergency department and also the OR. However, many nurses are cross-trained in the many different areas and can facilitate patient care in many of these care settings. We care for the entire patients. So, the same nurse that sees you in the emergency department today may be caring for you on the floor tomorrow, or maybe helping deliver your baby…"
Image: Dana S. Levy, on-camera, continues.
Audio: "That's something that is a commitment that we have to our patients who are ommunity here in Page that when you come to our facility, we're going to care for you, we're going to do everything that you need and we're going to do it well."
Text: Doyle Cantrell, RDMS, RVT, RDCS
Sonographer, Page Hospital
Image: Doyle Cantrell speaks.
Audio: "The staff at Page Hospital is a small staff, and it's a family atmosphere in which we all work together and get to know one another. And so you're working pretty much with not only your co-workers but your friends."
Text: Lisa Johnican, CRT
Respiratory Therapist, Page Hospital
Image: Lisa Johnican speaks on-camera.
Audio: "When I was here over the holidays without my family, I think three people invited me over their house even though I had to work. And two people brought me food. So it's just really like a big family. Everybody wants to take care of each other. So it's really nice."
Images: Picturesque views of Page City and amenities: the wide scope of recreational activities, community environment, educational and shopping opportunities.
Audio - Narrator: "For the hospital employees living in Page, the area offers much in natural beauty and recreation. Although the city itself is small, it provides fine schools, places of worship and an array of shopping and restaurants."
Image: Doyle Cantrell speaks.
Audio: "Well if you like outdoor activities, then Page is the place for you because you have a lake…"
Image: Boating on river; aerial view of Colorado River surrounding a mesa; hikers ascending mesa.
Audio: "…you have the Colorado River. You have tons of mesas – so hiking, quadding – this is the outdoor mecca for any of those types of things."
Text: Christa Reiter, RN
Registered Nurse, Page Hospital
Image: Christa Reiter speaks.
Audio: "Canyoneering, boating, backpacking…"
Image: Aerial view of River at base of mesa; hikers reach summit and taking pictures from atop the mesa.
Audio: "…makes me feel alive. I think I can bring that to work and share that with everyone I work with and my patients. I think it kind of overflows into my work."
Images: Banner Health Page Hospital name – embossed in stone – marks the main entrance to the hospital ground.
Audio - Narrator: "For the past 50 years, Page Hospital has responded to the local community's medical needs by adding more services and improving the quality of care."
Images: Page, Arizona with downtown reflecting typical southwest architecture and developing suburbia. Closing panoramic view of Page's unspoiled beauty surrounded by the Colorado River, canyon vistas, sandstone cliffs and mountain range.
Audio - Narrator: "As the community continues to grow, the outlook for Page Hospital remains bright with the future as wide-open as the surrounding desert landscape."
Text: Produced by: Echo Productions, L.L.C.
Written and Edited by: Brian Cass
Camera: Brian Cass
Assistant Camera: Matt Nelson
Narrated by: Mary Denmead
Special thanks to: Page Hospital Staff and Employees, Daisy and George Martin, Bo Thomas – City of Page, Powell Museum, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
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Published: November 8, 2002
A selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy opera, classical music and dance events this weekend in the Northeast.
''AIDA.'' The magnificent Dolora Zajick enters the cast as Amneris, and there is a new Ramfis: Matti Salminen. They join Michele Crider as Aida and Richard Margison as Radames, who are at their best when singing softly and sweetly. Marco Armiliato conducts an exciting, if unsubtle, orchestral performance. Stage pictures that rival anything in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian collection remain a big draw. Tonight at 8, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000. Remaining tickets: $100 to $195 (Paul Griffiths).
''CARMEN.'' Franco Zeffirelli's production of this Bizet shocker is an overstuffed dog-and-pony show (literally, with some donkeys as well), but what it has going for it is Denyce Graves, whose Carmen is sexy, powerful and even three-dimensional. Joining her in the cast are Richard Leech as Don José, Mary Mills as Micaëla, and Ludovic Tézier as Escamillo. Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000. Sold out, but returned tickets may be available at the box office (Allan Kozinn).
''LE NOZZE DI FIGARO.'' This great collaboration between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte has everything: comic scenes that demand clockwork pacing; spectacularly beautiful vocal writing (and magnificent orchestral music too, for that matter); a durable political undercurrent, thanks to the Beaumarchais play on which it is based; and, most crucially, some truly moving lessons about love, betrayal and forgiveness. John Copley's lovely production is back, and a new cast has taken over since this ''Figaro'' returned to the stage last month at the New York City Opera. Now George Cordes sings the title role, with Haewon Moon as Susanna, Leah Summers as Cherubino, Michael Chioldi as the Count, and Nicolle Foland as the Countess. Gary Thor Wedow conducts. Tomorrow night at 8, the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570. Tickets: $30 to $110 (Kozinn).
''IL PIRATA.'' It is indicative of the clout the soprano Renée Fleming has at the Metropolitan Opera that at her request the company mounted its first production of ''Il Pirata,'' a Bellini rarity. Ms. Fleming, who of late has been venturing into the bel canto repertory, may not be everyone's idea of a bel canto prima donna. But as Imogene, the Sicilian heroine of ''Il Pirata,'' who is forced to marry the hated rival of her former lover, Ms. Fleming gives a vocally courageous and dramatically affecting performance in a challenging role, singing with sumptuous floating pianissimos, quite agile coloratura and fearless top notes. Though the tenor Marcello Giordani is tested by the vocal filigree in the title role (''The Pirate,'' formerly Imogene's beloved Count Gualtiero), he brings throbbing Italianate vocal fervor to his singing. The baritone Richard Zeller is taking over the role of Ernesto from Dwayne Croft. Bruno Campanella conducts a stylish and pliant performance. But the new John Copley production is chintzy, dreary and timidly traditional. Tomorrow night at 8, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000. Remaining tickets: $100 to $195 (Anthony Tommasini).
''RIGOLETTO.'' Accompanying the unrelieved bleakness of Rhoda Levine's staging, which lets no one off the hook, is aural opulence from Willie Anthony Waters, the conductor, who is making his City Opera debut with this production. Mr. Waters's power draws musical response from the orchestra, the men's chorus -- who sing outstandingly -- and the cast. Luz del Alba Rubio is a girlish Gilda who happily holds out her high notes in true diva tradition; Raúl Hernández is a light, elegant Duke; and Louis Otey, the Rigoletto, while his voice shows some signs of strain in places, generally delivers a moving performance. Tonight at 8, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570. Tickets: $25 to $100 (Anne Midgette).
''LA TRAVIATA.'' A new cast of principals takes over in this City Opera production: Elena Kolganova is Violetta, with Benjamin Warschawski as Alfredo and Michael Corvino as Germont. Sandra Piques Eddy remains as the luscious and lively Flora. Ted Taylor conducts. Try to forgive the production. Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570. Tickets: $30 to $110 (Griffiths).
Classical Music
BARGEMUSIC. With its view of the Manhattan skyline and its live, intimate acoustics, this barge floating on the East River is one of the finest places in the city to hear chamber music. Mark Peskanov, a violinist, anchors the programs this weekend. He is joined tonight by Edward Arron, a cellist, and Doris Stevenson, a pianist, in Brahms's Piano Trio in C and reduced versions of two concertos: Bruch's First for violin and Haydn's D major for cello. Tomorrow and Sunday, Steven Beck, a pianist, joins Mr. Peskanov in six sonatas by Mozart (K. 301-6). Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 and Sunday at 4 p.m., Fulton Ferry Landing, under the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083. Tickets: $35, $20 for students (James R. Oestreich).

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Please recommend a good swaddling blanket for 5 month old
My son is almost 5 months old and sleeps so much better when he is swaddled. The Kiddomapotamus swaddle (size L) isn't working anymore. He easily breaks out of it and does not sleep at all when not swaddled. Can someone recommend a swaddle that is a bit stronger?
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I agree with ellblu, if you haven't already, think about a sleepsack. It will be a great way to transition your child out of the swaddle but will still keep him/her warm and snug. I find that DS is able to make the association that it's sleep time when I put it on him and settles quickly. My advice, stay away from polyester because it can cause overheating and dampness because the coating they put on them can't breathe as well as natural fabrics. Merino is best for babies because it breathes, can cool baby if he/she gets hot and warm if h/she is cold. I got mine from www.babysleepbags.com but I bet you could get them on Amazon too. Also, buy a sleep sack that will last for a long time. Some brands seem cheaper, but you have to buy a new one every few months and end up spending just as much $$$ as if you had bought a quality one fro the beginning. Hope that helps!posted 06/13/2010 by Lucy Wildman
The Woombie After we purchased the Woombie, he slept through the night the for the first time the first time we put him in it. I tried to put him down for the night w/out the Woombie a week ago and it was awful, he woke several times during the night."posted 05/08/2010 by shuntaelusk
I would recommend the Halo sleepsack. I read reviews from other moms at http://www.bestswaddleblanket.com and made the purchase. It's great that I can use the sleepsack option and not swaddle afterwards. My son also loves the sleepsack.posted 06/19/2012 by mrsswaddle
I forgot to mention- try switching to a sleep sack, which will still keep your baby covered and warm, but doesn't restrict movement.posted 05/12/2010 by ellblu
I would ask your Dr about this because my Dr was worried when our son was still being swaddled at almost 4 months, and told us that we should stop. at 5 months, the baby is old enough to roll around and should be free to move while sleeping. Babies this age are old enough to learn to fall asleep on their own, and should not be bound up anymore. Honestly, it only took our son maybe 3 days to get used to it. we were so worried about it and it really wasn't a big deal.posted 05/12/2010 by ellblu
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According to what Asus has shared so in terms of specs, the DR-900 will come with 2GB to 4GB of storage space built-in (expandable through SD cards), Wi-Fi and optional 3G connectivity. The device works in landscape mode, has a virtual keyboard, supports handwriting recognition, and can handle PDF, TXT and ePUB files. It will also have a headphone jack for improved text-to-speech and MP3 listening. The picture above also suggests some sort of integrated bookstore, but the company made no mention of a partnership or anything proprietary.
Asus has gone with a minimal design that's "no thicker than a pencil" and features just a few buttons on the sides. They tout this as a slim e-ink device so the screen is probably only grayscale -- that and the fact that battery life is unusually long as the device can last for 10,000 page turns with wireless off. Unfortunately there's no news regarding pricing or release dates yet, but hopefully the company will share more in the coming weeks.


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Dec. 23, 2011
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Nvidia powers infotainment in cars few can afford
Let them drive British Leylands
GRAPHICS PROCESSORS from Nvidia will drive BMW and Tesla cars' infotainment systems but we didn't bother asking about availability dates because we can't afford either.
For the all-electric Tesla Motors Model S Sedan, which is yet to go on sale, the Green Goblin's technology will power infotainment, instrument-cluster systems and navigation. Infotainment and navigation we know, but what that middle one is we have no idea.
Nvidia SVP Dan Vivoli is ready to spread the joy. "The Model S is a modern marvel, a blend of beauty, performance and efficiency. Tegra's combination of graphics power and energy efficiency make it a perfect match for the Model S," he said, but then he can probably afford one.
The Tesla Model S Sedan infotainment and navigation system has a 17-inch high resolution touch sensitive display that integrates in-car climate control and navigation with live traffic, points of interest and weather. The all-digital instrument cluster thingy has a 12.3-inch LCD and has advanced 3D graphics providing data about the vehicle. Shame it can't also change a tyre, too.
Vivoli also speaks in glowing terms about his other customer, BMW. Whole new levels of the driving experience and whatnot. There is no mention of the Tegra for BMW, just GPUs, but Nvidia's technology will be used by the German car maker's Idrive system.
Idrive provides navigation and other information and will show terrain models rendered with the help of Nvidia technology. That Nvidia aided Idrive system will be featured in BMW's 7, 5, 3, Mini Cooper and sporty X series vehicles. Again there is no indication of when this Idrive system and the cars will go on sale but The INQURER suspects that tomorrow morning's Nvidia press conference might help. µ
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It's on for September Next Step contest submissions! Get to work, folks.
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It is likely that the London property market has nothing to fear in terms of its long-term outlook in light of the recent rioting, according to the chief executive of Quintain Estates.In an interim management statement released today (August 10th), Adrian Wyatt said he had a positive view of the future of the capital's property sector and noted that his company made sound progress in the first quarter of 2011."Over the past few days, we have seen social unrest in London and turmoil in the financial markets," he remarked."Of course, in the short term this adversely impacts on sentiment; however, I firmly believe over the long term London prospects remain robust."Quintain Estates provided updates on schemes including its Wembley City development - which will include 910,000 sq ft of London offices - as well as the Greenwich Peninsula, which features the Peninsula Central business district and some 3.5 million sq ft of commercial accommodation.It said it has now agreed heads of terms for around 10,500 sq ft of offices at Mitre Passage with a provider of serviced space at the latter project.Posted by David HudekNews provided by Adfero in collaboration with Mellersh & Harding. Please note that all copy belongs to (c)Adfero Ltd and does not reflect the views or opinions of Mellersh & Harding unless explicitly stated.
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The Toyota Highlander has gotten a makeover for the 2014 and the results are, well, a bit mixed, depending on your perspective.
The good news is that in the interior, there's more space, and this three-row SUV now seats eight, up from seven. Seating in the third row is a little tight, but not bad at all for kids.
And, Toyota says the cargo area behind that third row has grown by more than a third.
That's terrific, because if you are hauling six, seven or eight people, you're bound to be hauling some stuff, too, so might as well have room for it.
The exterior design is where we're not quite as thrilled.
In our admittedly very subjective opinion, the previous version of the Highlander looked much more SUV-ish, and less wagon-ish, which we loved.
With this restyling, the Highlander has a lower roof and lower overall stance, even though the body dimensions are virtually unchanged.
The good news about the lower roof is that it provides better aerodynamics, according to Toyota, which can aid fuel efficiency.
We likened the previous version to a nice, smaller sibling of the 4Runner.
For some reason, we glance at this one and see a few ghosts of the departed Chrysler Pacifica. Not a spitting image, mind you, just a vague resemblance.
The engine choices are unchanged, with a base 2.7-liter four-cylinder that makes 187 horsepower and a 3.5-liter V-6 that makes 270 horsepower.
Both are linked to a six-speed automatic transmission. Previously, the V-6 had a five speed.
Fuel economy is rated at 20 mpg city, 25 highway for the four-cylinder and 18 and 24 on the six-banger – pretty good numbers for a vehicle of this size.
The revised suspension gives a nice boost to driving dynamics.
In addition to the spaciousness of the interior, it also has great amenities, such as the Entune infotainment system and optional panoramic moonroof and second-row sunshades.
The Highlander really has a luxury feel to it.
The Highlander starts at around $30,000 and ranges to about $44,000.
For a roomy, nicely appointed family vehicle, the Highlander is a great choice.
2014 Toyota Highlander: Redesigned crossover has great space
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03 December 2011
Creation of a song [EMU Shortboard / Cubase combo]
The making of a song. Piano, bass guitar, drums and guitar. When I show this: "Whowww, you play the keyboard very well." Well now the secret gets revealed. This is how I record a piano sound! Haha In this video I show you how I came up with the sound for a new song. I was inspired by my new creative EMU shortboard. I felt like I wanted to create a piano song. After I got the basic sound the project kinda stalled. I still dug up the video's because I think it's fun to share.
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I am trying to set up Siri Proxy, and I come up to the steps:
rvmsudo rvm install 1.9.3
rvm use 1.9.3 --default
rvmsudo gem install eventmachine CFPropertyList httparty json uuidtools
But I can't do them due to these errors:
rvm: command not found
rvmsudo: command not found
I know this is due to Ruby Version Manager not being installed or properly set up. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and I only have SSH access.
This is what I've done beforehand to install and initialize Ruby:
sudo apt-get install nano ruby build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion
bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile


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ANALYSIS: Keystone XL is finally old news, at least as far as Shafik Hirani is concerned.
The beleaguered TransCanada Corp. (TRP-T) pipeline proposal is no longer the main topic of conversation when clients enter the downtown Calgary offices of Investors Group Financial Services. All anyone wants to talk about now is Encana Corp.'s (ECA-T) impending initial public offering of its royalty-paying PrairieSky spinoff.
"This IPO is all I've been hearing about lately," the director of IG's Calgary division told BNN on Sunday. "We've got 5 more days as the clock winds down to the May 29th [closing] date and the ticker 'PSK' will definitely be the one to watch."
In the largest IPO to hit the Canadian market since the start of the new millennium, Encana will be offering 52 million shares of PrairieSky at $28 apiece, valuing the new company at $3.64-billion. Canada's largest natural gas producer will be retaining 60%, leaving $1.456-billion available for public distribution via the IPO's underwriters; co-led and joint bookrun by TD Securities and CIBC. If demand exceeds the available shares being offered, the underwriters are allowed to sell an additional 7.8 million shares up to 30 days after the May 30 closing date, called an "over-allotment option", which would increase the total amount available for purchase to $1.67-billion.
Exercising the over-allotment seems virtually inevitable, with one trader telling BNN's Amber Kanwar demand as of last week was approaching $15-billion, or nine times the shares available
PrairieSky will not produce any oil or gas itself, or have any discernable expenses beyond basic payroll and administration. Rather, it will administer roughly 500,000 acres (about the size of New Jersey) of drillable land in southern Alberta. PrairieSky will allow other companies to handle all the actual "work" and in exchange, those companies will pay the royalties that are normally paid to the government directly to PrairieSky. The dividend is expected to be quite high, accounting for about 85% of free cash flow.
"Baby boomers like royalties as they are lower beta," Hirani said, referring to a metric that measures risk volatility versus the market. "Plus a 6-8% yield would be a high [dividend] yield and that is attractive considering prime is 3% and the alternative risk-free rate of GICs is 2.5%."
Rafi Tahmazian, senior portfolio manager at Canoe Financial, told BNN he believes part of the massive demand is from a "frenzy herd mentality," but added the deal was "priced fair relative to the quality of the asset base." PrairieSky's mineral rights come from Encana's history as a Crown corporation [read: government owned], based on the Latin "usque ad coelom et ad inferos" or "up to Heaven, and down to Hell". BNN's Andrew Bell perhaps translated that best when he told colleagues "even Satan has to pay royalties to PrairieSky."
"Go to the market and buy [PSK] stock as chances are this thing will trade well up on the opening," Tahmazian said. "[PSK going through $31 is not out there at all, [the] best way to play it is just to keep focused on the good yield funds and specifically yield energy funds."
Getting in on the ground floor of PrairieSky, however, will be no easy task for a typical retail investor.
"I must admit that will be very difficult," Hirani said. "The issue is already in a significantly overbought state as the demand is higher than I've ever seen. TD and CIBC have stated their allotments are fully subscribed [and] so have the smaller players. GMP is grasping [and] AltaCorp may have just a tiny offering left. Internally I see conversions between institutional leads to try and entice other dealers with remaining units to give up their allocations."
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Is 2013 Headed for a 1987 Crash?
Schaeffer's Investment Research
Although there are some similarities between these two years, there are also some major differences.
One common theme I keep hearing is that 2013 looks a lot like 1987 and is due for a 1987 style crash. Well, I don't agree -- and here's why.
First off, I do see
some cracks
and some more weakness (5% pullback or so) could definitely happen over the coming weeks. But I just don't see the big crash so many are expecting playing out.
The main reason this year is like 1987 is because we are up "a lot." Well, that is true, but this isn't as much of a match as most probably think.
As you can see below, as of August 5, this is one of the strongest years ever. Still, 1987 was up significantly more. In fact, the
(INDEXDJX:.DJI) was actually up nearly twice as much in 1987 as it was this year. Then, check out the returns for the rest of the year, after the big starts. Other than 1987, most are firmly higher.
The other big difference between 1987 and 2013 is what the masses are doing. You see, following the crowd can be a dangerous game and we have two drastically different "big" trades playing out.
Let's turn back the clock to the period ahead of the 1987 crash. Back then, "portfolio insurance" or dynamic hedging was the rage, whereby players had concluded they did not need to hedge or buy puts in advance of a market decline – they would instead buy their protection when and if the market weakened and would add to that protection on further weakness. Of course, the net result of the dynamic hedging mentality was an exacerbation of market weakness as everyone scrambled for protection at the same time – in other words, it was the
lack of a protection trade
that was the precursor to the crash of 1987.
Plus there was a huge bubble in
put premium, especially on the
(INDEXSP:.INX). It was believed that put selling was a form of minting money, as the market would keep rising for years to come. Of course, these put sales (which were essentially
bets that there would not be a crash
) wiped out many traders in the October decline and exacerbated the crash.
Compare that with today's "big trade" of
volatility to hedge against potential market losses. Now,
everyone is protected from a crash
, thus lowering the odds of it actually happening.
(INDEXCBOE:VIX) call options and the action in the VXX have simply been phenomenal the past few years. Not surprisingly, we've been greeted with a low volatility world for going on over two years now.
This doesn't look like it is about to change anytime soon, as just yesterday we saw over 1.1 million VIX call options trade – an all-time record!
That's my take on the whole "2013 is just like 1987" debate.
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With the help of over 2,000 singers from across the world, accomplished composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has broken the world record for the largest virtual choir ever assembled.
Early in 2010, Eric Whitacre asked people to submit YouTube videos of themselves singing a piece of specially created music via their computer webcams. Users have been singing, recording and submitting videos since September last year, and submissions for the project closed on New Year's Eve 2010.
Over the past four months, Eric and his team have combined these videos into an international virtual choir to create a spectacular example of how social networking and music can combine in this truly unique collaboration.
A project of this size needed an innovative idea behind it. Universal Music wanted an attractive destination for presenting the hundreds of submitted videos, but they also wanted a way of demonstrating the global perspective of the project.
The solution contained three main components: videos recorded and submitted on YouTube, Google Earth integration and Eric's website CMS (Wordpress). The approach was to develop an application that pulls the videos directly from YouTube and places them on an instance of Google Earth for users to view.
In a recent TED talk, Eric Whitacre revealed that his new work, "Sleep," comprises of 2,052 Virtual Choir videos from 58 countries. The United States and the UK provided a majority of the supplied videos, with Canada, Germany and Australia being the counties who supplied 3rd, 4th and 5th largest number of videos.
Damon Mangos, Creative Director at fuse8 London, added, "For us this was an ideal opportunity to utilise the power of the Google Earth API. We created a custom Wordpress plug-in that allows videos to be placed on Google Earth according to the contributor's location. The result is a simple yet powerful combination of YouTube content and Google Earth which demonstrates how far the Virtual Choir project is reaching across the globe. "
The world premiere of Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir is being held in New York on Thursday 7th April, with the video being uploaded to the Virtual Choir YouTube channel in the coming days.
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Program, Notes, and Artist Biographies for A Piper's Noël
December 13th, 2010
Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, Doug Milliken; recorder, shawm, bagpipes
Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz; slide trumpet, sackbut, recorder
Dylan Hostetter, counter tenor; N. Lincoln Hanks; tenor
Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Jinyoung Jang, bass
A Piper's Noël
Houston Early Music Society
December 13th, 2010
Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, Doug Milliken; recorder, shawm, bagpipes
Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz; slide trumpet, sackbut, recorder
Dylan Hostetter, counter tenor; N. Lincoln Hanks; tenor
Joel Nesvadba, baritone; Jinyoung Jang, bass
Nova stella apparita Anonymous (14th century Italian)
Canzone d'i Zampognari Traditional Sicilian (16th century)
La Stangetta Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445-c.1516)
Chant: "Quem vidistis, pastores?" Anonymous
Vidimus enim stellam eius in Oriente Anonymous (15th century)
Non desina Anonymous (15th century)
Chant: "Angelus ad pastores ait" Anonymous
Verbum caro factum est Anonymous (15th century)
Cum natus esset Jesus Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500-1533)
Vamos al portal Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
Angeles del zielo Anonymous (early 16th century)
Crions noel Alexander Agricola (c.1446-1506)
Comme femme desconfortée Agricola
Noel, noel, noel Antoine Busnois (c.1430-1492)
Mit desen nywen iare/ Rostiboli gioioso Anonymous (15th century)
La Spagna Anonymous
La Spagna Josquin Desprez (c. 1450-1521)
Nativitas unde gaudia/Nativitas tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo Antoine Brumel (c.1460-1512-13)
Noe, noe Brumel
Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich/ Dies est laetitiae Anonymous
Dies est laetitiae Adam von Fulda (c.1445-1505)
England and America
Now make we joy Anonymous English
Greensleeves on a Ground Anonymous English
The Babe of Bethlehem (The Southern Harmony) William Walker (1809-1875)
Praised for performing intricate fifteenth-century counterpoint "with the ease of jazz musicians improvising on a theme," Ciaramella brings to life medieval and early Renaissance music from historical events and manuscripts. Its members are united by the conviction that every composition conceals a rich story waiting to be unlocked through historical research and speculative performance. Founded on a core of winds—shawm, sackbut, recorder, organ, and voice—Ciaramella takes its name from the Italian shawm and from a fifteenth-century song about a beautiful girl whose clothes are full of holes. When she opens her mouth, she knocks men flat.
Directed by Adam and Rotem Gilbert, from the Early Music Program at USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, the ensemble performs at major festivals throughout the United States, Italy, and Germany. Performances have included the Cleveland Museum of Art, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute, the Lute Society of America, the American Musicological Society in Seattle, and on early music series in Cleveland, San Francisco, San Diego, Early Music in Columbus, Seattle's Early Music Guild, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the Early Music Society of the Islands in Victoria, BC. They gave their New York debut at Music Before 1800 and debuted at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany in 2007. Ciaramella has designed programs for the Da Camera Society music series "Chamber Music in Historic Sites" in Los Angeles, and for The Getty Museum in Los Angeles in coordination with specific exhibits.
Ciaramella released its debut CD Sacred and Secular Music from Renaissance Germany for Naxos (2006) and Treasures of Burgundy for Yarlung Records (2009). Ciaramella is now proudly based in Los Angeles.
For more information on the group visit www.ciaramella.org
Adam Knight Gilbert, recorder and double reeds, one of the premiere international players of the Renaissance shawm and a founding member of Ciaramella, is currently assistant professor of musicology and director of the Early Music Program at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. The first graduate of the Early Music program at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, he performed as a member of New York's Ensemble for Early Music, the Waverly Consort and Piffaro. He has appeared with ensembles such as Calliope, ARTEK, New York Cornet and Sackbut Ensemble, The Whole Noyse, The Court Dance Company of New York, the Folger Consort, Concert Royal, The Bach Ensemble, Chatham Baroque, Newberry Consort, Canto (Colombia), La Caccia Alta (Belgium) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. Adam studied recorder at Rotterdams Conservatorium and was a recipient of the Fulbright and Belgian American Education Foundation Grants in Leuven, Belgium while researching his dissertation "Elaboration in Heinrich Isaac's Three-Voice Mass Sections and Untexted Compositions." He completed his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University in 2003, where he studied under Ross Duffin. Adam taught for two years as at Stanford University. He researches fifteenth-century songs and Masses, improvisation in music from 1400–1700, and musical symbolism. He received the 2008 Noah Greenberg Award for his work on 15th-century improvisation. Adam can be heard on Dorian, Naxos, Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Lyrichord and Yarlung labels.
Rotem Gilbert, recorder and double reeds is a native of Haifa, Israel and a founding member of Ciaramella. She is an assistant professor at the USC Thornton School of Music where she teaches Baroque and Renaissance performance practice courses and is an instructor of early music winds. As a member of Piffaro (1996-2007), she toured the United States, Europe and South America. Rotem has appeared with many American and European early music ensembles including Chatham Baroque, King's Noyse, Newberry Consort and Capilla Flamenca, and has been featured as a soloist for the Pittsburgh Opera (Corronatione di Poppea), the LA Opera (Britten's Noye's Fludde, Handel's Tamerlano, and the Play of Daniel), and Musica Angelica (Brandenburg #4). She recently made her debut at Disney hall with the LA Phil (Living Toys by Thomas Adès and The Flowering Tree with John Adams). After studies on recorder at Mannes College of Music in New York, she earned her solo diploma from the Scuola Civica di Musica of Milan where she studied with Pedro Memelsdorff. She earned her doctorate in Early Music performance practice at Case Western Reserve University. She has been a regular faculty member of early music workshops in San Diego, Seattle, Madison, Amherst, and Israel's Ayala and is currently the co-director of SFEMS Recorder Workshop. Rotem can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv, Passacaille, Musica Americana, Dorian, Naxos and Yarlung labels.
A professional singer and composer, N. Lincoln Hanks thrives in the outer regions of the music spectrum. His composition studies at Indiana University were with Don Freund, Frederick Fox, and Claude Baker, and he studied with John Harbison at the Aspen Music Festival. Lincoln has won the Contemporary Choral Composition Competition from The Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies and an ASCAP award, and he was recently honored as a finalist in the Lilly Fellows Program's Arlin G. Meyer Prize for his oratorio, Tegel Passion. Many distinguished performing artists and groups, including the pianist Paul Barnes, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Dale Warland Singers, have performed his music. Studying early music performance practice with Thomas Binkley and Paul Hillier at Indiana University's Early Music Institute, Lincoln was a cofounder of The Concord Ensemble, an a cappella group that won the Grand Prize in the Early Music America/Dorian Records Competition. He now directs Alchymey, a vocal ensemble based in Los Angeles. Lincoln is an Associate Professor of Music at Pepperdine University where he teaches composition and directs the Collegium Musicum.
Dylan Hostetter, born in Indianapolis and now a resident of San Francisco, started singing in the Anglican tradition of boys choirs at Christ Church Cathedral Indianapolis under the tutelage of Dr. Fredrick Burgomaster. He went on to study voice at the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, was a founding member of the Concorde ensemble, toured with Theatre of Voices, and later joined the Grammy award-winning ensemble Chanticleer, with whom he recorded and toured internationally for six years. A lover of all music, Dylan retired from Chanticleer recently to pursue a career as a composer/producer/arranger. He would like to thank his wonderful friends and family for their continued love and support.
Greg Ingles, slide trumpet and sackbut, is in demand as a free-lance sackbut player performing with such period instrument ensembles as Tafelmusik, the New York Collegium, Concerto Palatino, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Ensemble Rebel, Trinity Consort, the Orchestra of the Renaissance and American Bach Soloists. He is Music Director of Spiritus Collective, an ensemble devoted to rarely performed brass music of the 17th-Century. As a member of Piffaro, which performs throughout the U.S. and Europe, Greg has recorded for Dorian Recordings, and can also be heard on the Naxos label. Greg received his Bachelor of Music degree in trombone performance from Oberlin Conservatory and has recently completed his doctorate (DMA) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Doug Milliken, recorder and double reeds, received his B.A. and Master of Music History degrees from Youngstown State University. In addition to performing on recorders, shawms, bagpipes, and dulcians, Doug researches early double-reed design. He has performed with Piffaro and is a founding member of Ensemble Tètonbeau. He recently concluded ten years with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra playing bassoon and contrabassoon. In addition to teaching bassoon at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania during 2001 and 2002, he taught recorder at the Madison Early Music Festival in 2003 and 2004. He was a Doctoral student in Historical Musicology at Florida State University in Tallahassee where he directed several Early Music ensembles. Doug can be heard on the Naxos and Yarlung labels.
Joel Nesvadba is a versatile singer who finds his musical passions in both the medieval and the modern. Fully immersed in music since childhood- from his early days as a soloist in the world-renowned Texas Boys Choir to his recent performances with highly praised Early Music ensembles such as Ciaramella- he is now pursuing his Doctorate in Music Arts degree in Early Music at USC's Thornton School of Music. His flexibility as a singer and musician has led him to many opportunities in the studio as well as the stage. On the modern side of music, Joel has recorded numerous albums as a back-up singer and vocal arranger with prominent and up-and-coming rock/pop artists such as …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and Paul Banks & the Carousels. Currently, he is actively singing in the Los Angeles area.
Erik Schmalz, slide trumpet & sackbut, received degrees in trombone performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Two years after graduation, he was introduced to period instruments and early music. Since then, Erik has had the opportunity to perform on early trombone and slide trumpet with a wide range of the top ensembles in North America including Spiritus Collective, Ciaramella, The New York Collegium, Tafelmusik, Clarion Music Society, Piffaro, Early Music New York, Toronto Consort, Aston Magna, San Francisco Bach Choir, Blue Heron, Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble and Mercury Baroque. In addition, he has recorded with The New York Collegium, Early Music New York, Aston Magna, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Ciaramella. Erik is currently a freelance performer and private teacher residing in Collinsville, Connecticut.
Bass-baritone Jinyoung Jang was a Resident Artist with Los Angeles Opera Company where he has covered and performed numerous leading roles. He made his solo debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa Pekka Salonen, and gave a solo recital sponsored by Bakersfield Symphony. He has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and as bass soloist in Concordia University's anniversary concert. He has sung with Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Santa Monica Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, and the Antelope Valley Symphony. He was a member of Knoxville Opera Young Artist Program, and has appeared with the Nashville Opera and the Repertory Opera Company. Jinyoung earned a Bachelor's degree at Seoul National University, Artist Certificate at Southern Methodist University, Master's Degree at University of Tennessee and Advanced Studies Certificate at University of Southern California. He is currently music director at All Nations Church and adjunct faculty at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster. He has also sung as a member of the Concord Ensemble.
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"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night…."
With these words from Luke begin one of the richest scenes from the Christmas story: the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with rustic imagery evoking pastoral symbolism in music throughout the ages. The shepherds—the people of the world longing for the divine—announce the coming of the great shepherd of mankind. In paintings, they hold their ubiquitous bagpipes away from their mouth, a sign that they renounce carnal things for the coming of the divine. These lowly musical symbols of our frail human nature echo in music history, from simple Renaissance folk carols to great works of the baroque era.
The blend of humble symbolism and the regal status of the shawm and trumpets in Renaissance music wind ensembles kept an intimate place in the Christmas story. In this program, Ciaramella traces the ties between music of intense joy and the high sounds of shawms and brass, along with a classic fifteenth-century vocal ensemble. Our repertory spans from the birth of the Virgin and the annunciation to Epiphany and feasts bidding winter farewell.
To this day, Italian bagpipers (zampognari) descend from the hills in the weeks before Christmas, accompanied by the ciaramella, an Italian folk shawm. Corelli captured the sound of these pipes in the Piva of his Christmas Concerto. In his Messiah, Handel immortalized one of their hymns, the Canzone d'i Zampognari, in the aria "And he shall feed his flock" in a clear allusion to the trope of Christ as shepherd. More striking is his exaltation of the same humble melody in the unison climax of the Halleluiah Chorus with the words "The kingdom of the world, is become the kingdom of our Lord." The same bagpipe hymn is best known today in its nineteenth-century version, Tu scende dalle stelle (known in English as From Starry Skies Descending), and inspired Hector Berlioz's Harolde en Italie. The same folk duo of pipe and shawm survives in France and Brittany today. Ciaramella's version of these hymns adopts the duo of bagpipe and shawm playing in parallel thirds and simple harmonies.
Beyond the symbolism of the pipers, the annunciation scene played a profound role in musical performance and composition. The words sung by the Angels, "Glory to God on the Highest, Peace on earth and good will to all men," resound in the most sublime music of the Mass. Indeed, this moment marks the conceptual origins of antiphonal singing in the Catholic Church, and is heard daily in the Gloria of the Mass. In Nova stella apparita, from the 14th-century Florence laudario, the light of the star symbolizes the return of light and the promise of salvation. Such songs served an important role in making the Christmas story present through re-enactment. The singer adopts the role of those who follow the start toward Bethlehem. Although the manuscript preserves no rhythmic notation, the text and ornamental motives provide tantalizing hints about how the song sounded more than six hundred years ago.
Renaissance composers would have scratched their heads at our modern idea of intellectual property and would have had serious problems with our copyright laws. The art of composition ("putting together") implied using existing material. Altering an existing song was not only a sign of homage, it served as means for symbolism, and composers constantly relied on similitude between love songs and a religious subject. Gilles Binchois' Comme femme desconfortée, about the most sorrowful woman in the world became a favorite basis for motets in honor of the Virgin Mary. Adopting as cantus firmus such a song might seem incongruous at first. However, theologians and artists embraced the concept that sharing the inevitable sorrows of Mary would help the faithful find salvation.
Alexander Agricola composed several settings based on the Tenor from Binchois' song, including a duo that is probably close to contemporary improvisational practice, and a four-voice version with three voices made of short, intensely florid motives. Agricola ended his long career working for the Hapsburg Emperor Philip the Fair in Spain. Sadly, both he and his patron died of Typhoid fever in 1506.
The antiphonal sound of the angels still resounds in a favorite carol "Angels we have heard on high," in which the mountains echo their joyous refrain, "Gloria…" The English version of this carol follows the original traditional French words and music closely, with some minor variations. In the Spanish carol Angeles de zielo, the angels not only sing and dance, they "romp in the sky," in lively rhythms wedding Spanish text setting and a fascination with New World music. Its syncopated style contrasts markedly from Cristóbal de Morales' motet Cum natus esset Jesus. This five-part motet typifies the highest polyphonic style, and conceals a canon between Soprano and Tenor voices. As a particularly popular ensemble in Spanish churches, shawms may well have played just such music.
Another common theme of the Renaissance carol is the lulling of the baby Jesus in the manger as an allegory for the humble bringer of peace to humanity. The tradition of the praesepio, or crèche remains familiar today at Christmas time, but nowhere more than in Southern Italy, where it has inspired comic and tragic stories and plays. Perhaps the most international and sublime of all the manger carols is Verbum caro factum est, singing of the child in the manger as the word made flesh. Our arrangement blends four different settings. Three, from the Italian manuscript Panciatichi 27, seem to represent a fairly rough-hewn local contrapuntal that would not have passed muster with the great composers from the North. The most florid Italian setting survives in a manuscript in Cape Town, South Africa.
Perhaps the most famous textual association with Christmas lies in the words "Nova" and "Noe." The theme of rejuvenation appears in the earliest surviving laudi spirituali ("songs of spiritual praise"). Alexander Agricola's Crions noel must be a Christmas work, though only the opening words survive. Antoine Brumel's Noe, noe, noe contains a passage whose notes musicologists long believed should be altered to spiral down a half step, in what was referred to as "the secret chromatic art of the Netherlands." Although a tempting notion, it can no longer be supported as the main performance practice in this work, a fact noted with relief by performers on shawms, which don't sound their best in keys with more than a few flats or sharps. Brumel's motet Nativitas unde gaudia/Nativitas tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo sets a chant for the birth of the Blessed Virgin. Its archaic isorhythmic structure conceals the Tenor in augmented rhythms, gradually building excitement as its melody becomes increasingly faster and more recognizable.
For the Germans and Flemish, Christmas signaled the beginning of the end of the cold dark winter nights. The occasion was marked by extended celebration with such hymns as Dies est letitiae, often sung in the vernacular Der tag, der ist so freudenreich. The Flemish carol Mit desen nywen iare celebrates the circumcision of Christ, which falls on January 1st, as a sign of the covenant between God and man. The Flemish also feasted on Rostibolli ("Roast and boiled meat") and sang drinking songs with the typical refrain "for unto us a child is born." No Burgundian welcome would be complete without a healthy excess of food and drink to bid winter farewell.
The carol enjoyed great popularity in the British Isles throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Like many fifteenth-century carols, Now make we joy blends lilting rhythms with the parallel thirds and sixths of faburden, a typically English technique of improvised singing. Often Christmas words were added as contrafacta of popular melodies. The secular English song Greensleeves is based on the Romanesca, an Italian chord progression popular for dance and variations. Today this same song is sung at Christmas with the words What Child is This? Finally, in our own American tradition shape-note hymns, folk ballads like Captain Kidd became haunting hymns like Wondrous Love. Although I know of no other version of The Babe of Bethlehem, it is easy to imagine that someone played it sometime, somewhere, as a rousing jig.
Adam Knight Gilbert
Texts and Translations
Nova stella apparita
|Refrain: Nova stella apparita
|Refrain: A new star has appeared
|ne le parti d'Oriente
|in the Orient
|per mostrar tutta gente
|to show all people
|lo Salvator ch'è nato.
|the newborn Savior.
|Nova stella in parte d'Oriente
|A new star in the Orient
|èt apparita con grande splendore,
|has appeared with great brightness
|e lume per mostrare alla gente
|and shines to show people
|K'era nato Iesù lo Salvatore.
|that Jesus, the Savior, is born.
|Discese per nostro amore,
|He descended for our love,
|Vollesi humiliare,
|he wanted to humble himself,
|La nostra carne pigliare
|taking on human flesh
|Di quell ventre beato.
|from that blessed womb.
|Refrain: Nova stella apparita…
|Refrain: A new star has appeared…
|Li Magi si levaro per ubidire
|The Magi bestirred themselves to obey
|a la stella c'avean veduta;
|the star they had seen;
|in fra loro cominciaro a dire
|and each to the other began to speak
|la meraviglia ch'era diventuta:
|of the wonder that had occurred,
|"la prophetia è compiuta
|"Fulfilled is the prophecy
|la qual aspectavamo:
|we were expecting,
|che l'alto Dio sovrano
|that the sovereign high God
|homo fosse 'ventato."
|would become man."
|Refrain: Nova stella apparita…
|Refrain: A new star has appeared…
|Canzone di zampognari
|Song of the Bagpipers
|Quanno nascette Ninno a Betlemme,
era notte e pareva miezojuorno.
maje le stele, lustre e belle,
se vedèttero accussí, e 'a cchiù lucente,
jette a chiammá li Magge a ll'Uriente.
De pressa se scetajeno ll'aucielle.
cantanno de na forma tutta nova:
pe' nsi' 'argille, co' li strille,
e zompanno 'a ccá e 'a llá:
"E' nato! E' nato!"
"Decévano lo Dio che nce ha criato!"
Non c'erano nemice non pe' la terra:
la pecora pasceva
co' 'o lione, Co"o capretto,
se vedette 'o liupardo pazzeá
ll'urzo e 'o vetiello
eco' lo lupo, 'mpace 'o pecoriello.
Guardavano le pecore lu pasture;
e l'angelo, sbrennente chiu de lu sule,
comparette, E le dicette:
'No ve spaventate, no!
contento e riso;
la terra e arrenventata paradise!'
Text by: St. Alfonso Maria de Liguori (16th c.)
|When the Baby was born in Bethlehem,
It was night and bright as day.
The stars in the heavens shone bright and beautiful,
And the brightest of them all went to call,
The wise men from the East.
Soon the birds began awake
Singing in an entirely new way
Even the crickets with their cricks
Jumping from here to there
"He is born! He is born!
The Lord that created us!"
There were no enemies but peace on Earth
Sin gave way to mercy
The lion lay with the lamb,
The wild leopard was seen
Lying with the calf,
And the wolf guarded the flock in peace.
Watching over the sinners in the pastures,
The angels, shining brighter than the sun
Surrounded them and said:
"Don't be afraid, no!
Be content and rejoice,
Paradise has arrived on Earth."
|Quem vidistis, pastores
|Quem vidistis, pastores, dicite,
annunciate nobis, in terris quis apparuit?
Natum vidimus et choros angelorum collaudan tes Dominum alleluia alleluia.
|Whom did you see, shepherds, tell us,
proclaim to us: who has appeared on the earth?
We saw the newborn Child and choirs of angels praising the Lord.
Angelus ad pastores ait
|Angelus ad pastores ait:
|The angel said to the shepherds:
|Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum:
|"I announce to you a great joy,
|quia natus est vobis hodie
|That today is born for you
|Salvator mundi,
|A savior of the world."
Verbum caro factum est
|Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria.
|The word is made flesh from the virgin Mary.
|In hoc anni circulo
|In this circle of years
|Vita datur seculo.
|Life is given to the world.
|Nato nobis parvulo
|Born to us is a little child
|De virgine Maria.
|From the virgin Mary.
|Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria.
|The word is made flesh from the virgin Mary.
|De semine Abrahe
|From the seed of Abraham
|Ex regali genere,
|Of royal family
|Oritur de sidere,
|He arises from the star
|De virgine Maria.
|Of the virgin Mary.
|Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria
|The word is made flesh from the virgin Mary.
|In presepe ponitur
|He is laid in a manger
|Et a brutis noscitur
|And welcomed by the animals,
|Matris velo regitur
|Guided under his mother's care
|A virgine Maria.
|By the virgin Mary.
|Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria.
|The word is made flesh from the virgin Mary.
|Ab angelis psalllitur,
|He is sung by angels,
|Gloria, pax dicitur
|Glory and peace are proclaimed,
|Pastoribus queritur,
|And he is sought by the shepherds
|Cum virgine Maria
|With the virgin Mary.
|Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria.
|The word is made flesh from the virgin Mary.
|Joseph nato fruitur,
|Joseph enjoys the newborn,
|Natus lacte pascitur
|Who is fed with milk,
|Plaudit, plorat, regitur
|He is applauded, wept for, guided
|A virgine maria.
|By the virgin Mary.
Angeles del zielo
|Angeles del zielo
|Angeles of heaven
|Mill fiestas hazen
|Make a thousand celebrations
|Buelan, saltan y baylan
|They tumble, they leap, and they dance
|Rompiendo el ayre
|Rending the air
|Tremolan las banderas,
|They wave banners
|Tocan instrumentos,
|They play instruments
|Cantan seraphines
|The seraphs sing
|Rompen el silencio;
|Rending the silence
|Celebran las pazes
|Celebrating the peace
|Que el amor ha hecho
|That love has made
|Entre Dios y el hombre
|Between God and man
|Por alto misterio.
|By high mystery
|Deste regozijo
|In rejoicing
|Mill fiestas hazen,
|They make a thousand celebrations
|Buelan, saltan y baylan
|They tumble, they leap, and they dance
|Rompiendo el ayre
|Rending the air
Mit desen nywen iare
|Mit desen nywen iare
Soe wordt ons openbare
Hoe dat een maget vruchtbare
Die werrelt heft verbliit
Geloeft moet syn dat kyndekyn
Geert moet syn dat meechdekyn
Nu end ewelic in alretiit
|With this New Year
It is revealed to us
How a fertile virgin
Has made the world joyous
Praised should be that little child
Honored should be that little virgin
Now and forever and ever
|Hoe wel was hoer te moede
Doe sy in vleysch ende bloede
Haer hertsen sach behoeder
Heer god der werrelt wyt
Geloeft moet syn dat kyndekyn…
|How well was her mood
That she in flesh and blood
Her heart saw protector
Lord of the wide world
Praised should be that little child…
|Doe acht dage waren geleden
Doe wart dat kynt besneden
Al nae der ioedscher zeden
Des hadden si groet leyt
Geloeft moet syn dat kyndekyn…
|Eight days ago
That child was circumcised
According to Jewish traditions
They were very right (to do so)
Praised should be that little child…
|Nu laet ons gode loven
ende ihesum synen soen
Dat hi ons wil verlienen
Syn hemelriick scoen
Geloeft moet syn dat kyndekyn…
|Now let us praise the Lord
and Jesus his son
He will give us
His beautiful kingdom of heaven.
Praised should be that little child…
Nativitas unde gaudia – Nativitas tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo (Brumel):
|Nativitas unde gaudia
nobis hodie confert annua.
Haec resonet camoenis aula
in laude tua Virgo Maria. Amen
|Your birth, from whence our joys spring,
today brings round our annual celebration.
Let this hall of the muses
resound to your praise, O Virgin Mary. Amen.
|Nativitas tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo,
gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo:
ex te enim ortus est Sol iustitiae,
Christus Deus noster:
qui solvens maledictionem,
debit benedictionem:
Et confundens mortem,
donavit nobis vitam sempiternam,
Cernere divinum lumen
gaudete fideles.
Sicut spina rosam,
genuit Iudaea Mariam.
Virgo Dei Genitrix virga est,
flos filius ejus.
|Your birth, Virgin Mother of God,
announced joy to the whole world:
from you was born the Sun of righteousness,
Christ our God:
who broke the curse
and gave us blessing:
and confounding death,
he gave us life everlasting.
Rejoice, O faithful people,
to behold the divine light.
As the thorn bears the rose,
so Judea bore Mary.
The Virgin Mother of God is the branch,
the flower is her Son.
|Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich
|Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich
Aller Kreature,
Denn Gottes Sohn vom Himmelreich
Über die Nature
Von einer Jungrau ist gebor'n,
Maria du bist ausserkor'n,
Dass du Mutter wärest.
Was geschah so wunderlich?
Gottes Sohn vom Himmelreich,
Der ist Mensch geboren.
|This day, that is so joyful,
For all creation,
Because God the son of Heaven
Over nature,
Is born from a maiden,
Maria, that you would be chosen
To be the mother.
What wonders have occurred?
God's Son from heaven,
That is born as man.
|Dies est laetitiae
|Dies est laetitiae in ortu regali
Nam processit hodie de ventre virginali
Puer admirabilis, totus delectabilis
In humanitate,
Qui inaestimabilis est et ineffabilis
In divinitate.
|This is the joyful day of the King's arising:
today he has come forth from the Virgin's womb, the miraculous child
in his humanity,
who is unfathomable and ineffable
in his divinity.
Now makë we joy
|Now makë we joy in this fest.
In quo Christus natus est.
A Patre unigenitus.
Through a maiden is come to us;
Sing we to him and say: Welcome!
Veni, Redemptor gencium.
Now makë we joy…
Agnoscat omne seculum.
A bright star three kings made come; so mighty a Lord is none as he.
A solis ortus cardine.
Now makë we joy…
|Now make we joy in this fest
in which Christ was born.
The only Son of the Father
Through a maiden is come to us.
Sing we to him and say: Welcome!
Come, Redeemer of the Gentiles.
Now make we joy…
Let every age and nation know
A bright star three kings made come. So mighty a Lord is none as he.
From the far point of the rising sun.
Now make we joy…
The Babe of Bethlehem
|Ye nations all, on you I call, come hear this declaration,
|And don't refuse this glorious news of Jesus and salvation.
|To royal Jews came first the news of Christ the great Messiah,
|As was foretold by prophets old, Isaiah, Jeremiah.
|Hi parents poor in earthly store, to entertain the stranger
|They found no bed to lay his head, but in the ox's manger:
|No royal things, as used by kings, were seen by those that found him,
|But in the hay the stranger lay, with swaddling bands around him.
|On the same night a glorious light to shepherds there appeared,
|Bright angels came in shining flame, they saw and greatly feared
|The angels said, "Be not afraid, although we much alarm you,
|We do appear good news to bear, as now we will inform you.
|"The city's name is Bethlehem, in which God hath appointed,
|This glorious morn a Saviour's born, for him God hath anointed;
|By this you'll know, if you will go, to see this little stranger,
|His lovely charms in Mary's arms, both lying in a manger."
|When this was said, straightway was made a glorious sound from heaven
|Each flaming tongue an anthem sang, "To men a Saviour's given,
|In Jesus' name, the glorious theme, we elevate our voices,
|At Jesus' birth be peace on earth, meanwhile all heaven rejoices."


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Oct. 11, 2012
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
SEATTLE - The public-address announcer at Colorado announced Cassie Strickland as "a defensive specialist" before the Huskies' latest match last weekend.
"Yeah, I did notice it. I thought it was funny," the Huskies' powerful hitter and 2012 surprise said before a practice this week. "I was starting on the front line -- and it was `defensive specialist.'
"I was like, `Yeah, we'll see how that goes.'"
That PA guy and his Buffaloes learned what the rest of the Pac-12 are finding out this season.
Strickland can strike it.
Yes, the power-packed freshman for the second-ranked Huskies is 5 feet 8. She's heard that a time or 10 in her life. Volleyballers from Boulder to her native Huntington Beach, Calif. to top-ranked Penn State - which offered her a scholarship last year, to be a back-line libero - have assumed she is too short to be a big-time collegiate hitter. Too short to be anything other than a "defensive specialist."
But Jim McLaughlin saw something more.
Strickland is the latest innovation from UW's mastermind coach. She is the type of unearthed gem that can advance a perennial conference- and national-title contender like Washington into ... well, 15-0 and ranked No. 2 in the nation entering Friday's 7 p.m. match at Oregon State and its showdown at No. 5 Oregon Saturday at 7 p.m.
"She hasn't exceeded my expectations, because I believe there is more there - a lot more," McLaughlin said. "But she is the kid I thought she would be, in terms of her practicing really hard and her ability to develop a mental toughness. Her energy level is extremely high. She is not afraid."
Why should she be? For starters, Strickland's serves are like split-fingered fastballs. The dive at the feet of opponents stunned to see this 5-8 supposed "defensive specialist" zipping in strikes like Felix Hernandez.
"It is unique," McLaughlin said. "She has a very good arm and can hit with high velocity. The average at (this summer's) Olympic Games for men on a spin serve was 64 miles per hour. And Cass has hit some at 60. There are guys I've coached who've hit 58.
"She's just got a really good arm. That's what's unique about her."
Strickland's power has been evident since grade school when she played Pop Warner football. As a linebacker.
The average at the Olympic Games for men on a spin serve was 64 miles per hour. And Cass has hit some at 60. There are guys I've coached who've hit 58.
Yes, Strickland can strike more than volleyballs.
On the first day of UW's preseason practice in August, McLaughlin took the 18-year old and let her run with the hitters. Strickland played the outside hitter position to great acclaim in high school, with PrepVolleyball.com referring to her as "an undersized killing machine." But still, that height. The recruiting summary billed Strickland as a libero and concluded that if she embraced the position, she could be one of the best.
McLaughlin wasn't ready to make her embrace anything. "With that arm, I said, `I want to re-evaluate this.'"
He has had power at this height before. Stevie Mussie, at 5-9, was an All-Pac-10 outside hitter in 2007.
McLaughlin still thinks Strickland could someday be a libero for the United States' national team.
"But right now, she's a HITTER," the coach said.
At least since that first August practice day, anyway. Strickland was confusing setters such as Jenni Nogueras and Katy Beals because she was hitting while wearing a dark, libero jersey.
After that practice, McLaughlin asked Strickland to make a choice.
"You want to be a libero or an outside hitter? And that's the shirt you need to wear," the coach told the freshman.
Strickland replied: `OK, I want to hit!'"
She's hit everything. She crashed through one of McLaughlin's famed white boards with his renowned, statistics-based, player-tracking system on it while chasing down a ball during a recent practice. That bruised her foot and leg.
"Of course, Jim was silent. Everybody was silent after it," she said. "Usually people are like, `ha-ha,' because it was funny. But the crash was so loud.
"The first thing Jim said was, `Don't break the white board!'"
In another practice, she mistakenly punched an equipment cart instead of an errant ball, swelling her hand.
There's one other issue beyond those mishaps and misperceptions about her shorter stature that Strickland has had to overcome: She's been playing this season through a painfully strained abdomen muscle.
"Oh, that was hard," she said, putting in the past tense a pain she first felt as a high-school junior.
The pain intensified during the Huskies' four-set win Sept. 22 in their first Pac-12 road match, at Arizona. Ye with her torso taped and pain each time she raised her arm, Strickland had five kills on nine swings without an error.
"I just kind of dealt with it. I noticed I wasn't hitting as hard, because I couldn't extend all the way," she said.
She was scared when told it might be torn, or worse, a hernia. She felt down the day of the UCLA game, then felt better during warm-ups.
On a taut night at Alaska Airlines Arena Sept. 26, Strickland's key kill over UCLA's blockers saved a match point against the Huskies and forged a tie at 24. Washington went on to win the fourth set and eventually the wild match in five over the then-No. 4 Bruins.
"It was a lot of pain," she said. "And USC was a lot of pain."
Two nights later, Strickland's four kills, including a point off a Trojans block that capped a 6-0 run in the third and final set, helped UW's sweep of third-ranked USC.
Strickland has a brother Tyler seven years older. He was the one, a huge fan of former 49ers quarterback Steve Young, who got Cassie into football. Her sister Alicia is 11 years older. Arianna is 18 months older.
Their mother Nancy used to work for Lehman Brothers until the big financial services company collapsed during the deep recession. Cassie credits her father Filipo, a manager for the Ricoh office-products company, for being her driving athletic force. She says her dad instilled the value of excellence in his children - including the youngest daughter with whom he used to throw the football in the family's yard.
Football organizers told her, "Oh, the cheerleaders tryouts are over there." "I was like, `Uh, no. I want to play football.'"
Strickland didn't begin playing competitive volleyball until middle school. Before that, she went to try out for that Pop Warner team in Huntington Beach. Organizers there told her, "Oh, the cheerleaders tryouts are over there."
"I was like, `Uh, no. I want to play football,'" she said.
Besides Penn State, Texas also wanted her. Her choice came down to the Nittany Lions, Longhorns and Huskies. But she never visited Penn State or Texas. Those schools were too far away for her.
Besides, Texas also wanted her as a libero. Of course it did. Have you heard yet she is, after all, only 5-8?
USC and UCLA became interested in her, but only after she had committed to Washington.
She did that early, after two unofficial visits while as a sophomore at Edison High School visiting aunts and uncles that live in the Seattle area. Most are siblings of Strickland's father, the oldest of nine. They live in Renton, Tacoma and Auburn.
"It just felt right. The coaches are awesome. The atmosphere, I loved it," she says of UW.
"At first when I committed here I was saying, `It's not because my family is here.' But now that I am here I'm really grateful to have them really close."
Not only is she starting, she and top sophomore hitter Krista Vansant are the two Huskies McLaughlin rarely subs out in the current configuration.
"I am pretty short to play the front row. I was surprised. I didn't know I would have a chance to hit front row until I got here," she said. "Of course it's a dream I've had. But I was going to come and get whatever opportunity he was going to give me.
"When I do get to hit, everyone is kind of surprised. It's kind of funny - `What? You are so short!'"
Oh, about last Sunday in Boulder: After the funny introduction, she had six kills, second only to Vansant's 13. She hit .385. She had an ace on one of her darting serves to put UW in command 9-1 in the second set. She closed the 25-16 set win with a kill off Colorado's blockers, the last of her seven points.
So much for the Pop Warner linebacker being a presumed "defensive specialist."
"It's surreal. It's crazy," she says with a smile as sunny as her native So Cal. "I worked so hard ever since I got into high school.
"I just didn't think this much would happen to me, and I would have this much control of my dream."


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