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March 24, 2008 · 3 comments
Jazz Singing Today: A View from Europe (Part One)
My recent two-part essay on "The State of Jazz Vocals Today" received more comments, pro and con, than any other article published to date on the jazz.com site. We have several related pieces planned for the coming weeks which feature rebuttals or different perspectives on this subject.
Below is the first part of Thierry Quénum commentary on jazz singing. Quénum covers the jazz scene from his home base in Paris, and is a frequent contributor to these pages. Here he offers a distinctively European perspective on the vocal tradition and its current manifestations. For part two of this article, click here. T.G.
I'd like to add a European perspective to the essay Ted Gioia wrote on vocal jazz a couple of weeks ago, putting the emphasis on its European aspects and how jazz singers – whether American or European – are often viewed on the Old Continent.
The first thing to be taken into account is that European listeners – except in the UK – usually don't understand the words to the US standards. This helps explain why there were so few European jazz singers before the sixties. Before that time, the words of the standards were translated and sung by pop singers or entertainers, but in the jazz world these songs were mostly played by instrumentalists.
Interestingly enough, in France, "Autumn Leaves" – originally "Les Feuilles Mortes" – was and still is interpreted as a jazz tune with its English title by jazz musicians, and sung with its French title and words as a chanson by French pop singers. Except for a few exceptions like Cleo Laine in the UK or Rita Reys in the Netherlands, proper jazz singing started out in Europe in the post-Free period of the early seventies, when swinging, phrasing and singing words in whatever language meant less than before. The role models for new singers, such as Tiziana Ghiglioni in Italy, Urszula Dudziak in Poland, Tamia in Switzerland, or Annick Nozati in France were Jeanne Lee or Abbey Lincoln (as she appears in We Insist. Freedom Now Suite) rather than the vocal jazz tradition. In fact, some so-called jazz singers among this generation had very little connection with the older heritage, with its emphasis on popular standards.
The jazz vocal tradition began to be taken into greater account among European jazz singers when a generation of potential vocalists, who had studied English in high school and college and had loved international pop music sung in English, started to turn towards jazz for a more sophisticated approach to singing. The rise of jazz schools on the Old Continent obviously emphasized this tendency. This may explain why Scandinavia – more proficient than other European countries as far as speaking English and as far as jazz teaching jazz is concerned – has produced so many jazz singers over the last decade, from post free Sidsel Endresen to popish Alexandra Tolstoy, and why it was home to one of Europe's first leading exponents of vocal jazz: Norwegian singer Karin Krog.
But Europe's very short experience in traditional jazz singing more or less prevents the emergence of a large number of rooted vocalists, who could compete and emulate in singing standards and blues and achieve a really personal approach of phrasing and diction. The tradition of Ella and Billie, Sassy and Carmen, Dinah and Dianne still remains somewhat exotic on the soil of continental Europe. And the large European audience – for lack of understanding of the words – can't be very responsive to the sophistication of the singer's vocal art . . . in English, anyway. That's why, now that the great historical figures of vocal jazz are only accessible trough records and videos, the marketed image has become so important in promoting the new generation of singers, at least in Europe.
Let's start with the ladies. Female vocal jazz's big boom in Europe started more or less 10 years ago with the rise of Diana Krall, then Lisa Ekdahl and others, and reached a climax with Norah Jones, as far as sales and fame are concerned. These singers have tended to over-shadow the leading African-American singers on the scene, such as Dianne Reeves, Nnenna Freelon or Cassandra Wilson.
I have nothing against Norah Jones, nor against her success. I have something against her records being found in the jazz section of records shops, and against her being called a jazz singer, because she is not. And if she is, then Carole King is too, and Joni Mitchell, etc. If you distort the reality of a minority music like jazz (around 2% of the record market) and if you allow listeners – and above all young or new listeners – to mistake it for something else, then what of its identity? Meat and fish both contain a high proportion of protein. But who'd say that meat is fish or vice versa?
The only reason I can see for calling non-jazz singers jazz singers or for calling young beginning jazz singers "jazz divas" is that female vocal jazz sell much better than the average 2%. It stands out as a profitable market and is treated more as such than as art. The audience is therefore asked to respond to marketing rather than to aesthetic stimuli, and one of the strongest marketing stimulus is the codified image. Hence the necessary youth, the angelic faces, the sophisticated look… whereas Carmen McRae or Blossom Dearie, besides their vocal qualities, might rely on wit or humor rather than high couture and make-up to promote their art.
The result is a global loss of diversity for vocal jazz, and a global loss of role models for potential jazz singers. A few vocalists with basically similar qualities compete to sell their records to the same huge audience that's looking for a type of emotion that's controlled by marketing. Those who propose other type of emotions and stylistic approaches stay in the margins.
A good example is Dianne Reeves. She is not young, she's been performing for several decades, and she is widely acknowledged as the present day heiress of the long Ella/Sassy/Carmen/Betty lineage of top notch jazz singers. True, she has never sold as much as Diana Krall or Norah Jones. In spite of that, now that she starred in George Clooney's movie Good Night & Good Luck, her audience has increased considerably and her new listeners get to discover the full dimension of her real self, unchanged and unsweetened . . . and they seem to like it. Reeves doesn't indulge for them in the type of vintage vocal jazz that she played in Clooney's film. She did that onscreen because it was relevant to the period concerned, and because she also likes it. These new listeners then have to go all the way from the largely exposed vintage image that made them discover Reeves in the movie to the genuine art that she's been practicing and refining ever since she became a professional.
Black versus white should not be the issue here, of course. But since marketing is so focused on image and appearance, it inevitably becomes a factor. How could it be otherwise? This matter cuts both ways. Specifically in Europe, and particularly in France, a reverse phenomenon can be observed, but it touches more mature female singers, and still has to do with image and marketing. Dee Dee Bridgewater has built a very successful career, and has sustained - and even increased - her visibility with the passing years. Being African-American is no doubt part of her aura and her marketability. Of course, the more you come play on the continent, the better it is. If you live there and speak the local language with a lovely exotic accent, it's even better. Because of these non-musical aspects, and regardless of her universally recognized talent, Dee Dee Bridgewater became the jazz singer who is invited on popular TV shows, who sang when the Pope came to Paris, etc. But Bridgewater's pre-eminence didn't prevent Diana Krall, Madeleine Peyroux or Lisa Ekdahl to score high as far as records sales and concerts are concerned.
How have other older female jazz vocalists responded to this new generation of glamorous singers? Look at the recent record covers of elder lady singers, especially when they are on major labels: they often look like their own daughters after Photoshop has done its job on their pictures. Abbey Lincoln and Helen Merrill, among others, are good examples of that. So, if seasoned voices, that should be best advertised by their fame, their body of work, and years of word of mouth are considered by the marketing department at their labels as needing that much trimming of their image, what about the up-and-coming young lady singer? Of course, image is even more important with the younger singer; it sells her voice, and not the other way around.
When Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy and others fronted a band, more than half a century ago, it was primarily their great voices that made them into stars. The big band singers often had to compete or alternate with other male or female singers on the stand, and the best vocalist would often steal the show. But all this has changed. Nowadays, in vocal jazz, vocal quality is not the main focus (and sometimes neither is jazz). Why?
First the culture of the audience has changed: the jazz standards are not the popular songs that everybody whistles and remembers the words. So, who can judge the quality of a specific rendering by comparing it with another version in terms of emotional delivery or originality of phrasing?
Also, the status of the voice itself has declined. From the invention of the transistor radio to the launching of the mp3 player, singing for oneself or for others has dramatically decreased, in spite of persisting local traditions in various rural parts of the world, and in spite of the karaoke fad in various locales. If members of the audience never sing, it becomes harder for them to appreciate a vocalist – certainly they can't measure it by their own vocal abilities. Of course, they can refer to recordings or radio, but everything there has been so enhanced by studio technology, that this no longer provides a useful basis of comparison. As a result, jazz singing is evaluated by much of the audience on appearance, rather than by the inherent standards of this demanding art form.
Last but not least, the timbre of the voice is a fragile and personal emanation from the soul, but also from the body, a bit like your gait. And it so happens that the place and function of the body have changed in modern societies. People live and work less and less outdoors. They work more and more with the tips of their fingers on a computer keyboard, and less and less with their whole body in the fields, or over a truck engine, singing, swearing, hollering as they work… How many gaits can you identify as sailors', farmers', construction workers'… in the streets of modern cities? On the radio, how many present day voices can conjure up the strong personality and life experiences we hear in the singing of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day? How many listeners today would appreciate (or even put up with) that degree of personality and individuality in a singer?
Because of all this, average listeners in western society today have to make some effort to go towards the vocal jazz tradition, except when it's validated by vintage fame. In a technically homogenized world, where playback, editing and lip-synching reign, jazz is one of the last musical styles to maintain an element of chance, to preserve the unpredictability of improvisation. Just the opposite of pop singing! Just the opposite of life in our computer-controlled age!
Italian movie director Federico Fellini's phrase about cinema applies perfectly to art in general, hence to jazz, hence to jazz singing. He said that the difference between cinema and TV is that in the former the screen is bigger than you. Jazz – with its 100 some years of age – is bigger than all of us. And vocal jazz, with its refined approach to the voice, is bigger than our voices. And it's exhilarating – unless you don't like to have something larger than you to look up to and admire.
END OF PART ONE: This blog posting was written by Thierry Quénum. For part two of this article, click here.
Frank Hoffman, M.D.
// Mar 25, 2008 at 04:32 PM
Finally, a place to read about a love of mine, contemporary jazz vocalists. This and the previous two part article are much appreciated. Not only have they enhanced my understanding of the current music scene, but helped to put it in perspective (I am 65 and relate much more to the contemporary singers than the older classical jazz singers) what is out there. I am looking for ways to discover new talent and seem drawn more to European vocalists than American and these articles have provided new names to explore. Also appreciated would be some further expansion on who is recording these days, both male(I have found very very few worth listening to) and female abroad but not yet in the USA, and where to look for their material. Caecelie Norby is an example and in my opinion, one of the best to be found anywhere. Again, my thanks...
tara and tyra
// Apr 28, 2008 at 02:21 PM
thank you for the info.
Angela Elliott
// Jul 03, 2008 at 07:48 AM
A Fascinating read. I was looking for tips on jazz singing and found this. Wow! However, it doesn't touch on the reason I was searching for items on jazz singing in the first place. I've had a variety of singing lessons, from classical to so-called jazz, but nothing has helped me from the barrage of criticism I receive each time I sing. It is apparent that it's not because I can't sing. I can. I'm told I have good pitching etc... It's that for jazz I am told I should not sing so much as speak the words, oh and don't use vibrato. Well there is a school of thought in the UK that jazz singers shouldn't deliver as if they are singing at all, and anyone that does 'sing' in the fullest sense of the word is not a jazz singer. But I am so confused. I listen to the greats of jazz and they are all obviously singing... they are not 'speaking'. Anyway, thanks for putting another spin on this. Lot's more to think about!


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Back to mums - What's so great about them?
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BP Plc has got the go ahead from the federal government to pressure test the latest containment system that it has installed on the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.
The drilling giant is in the process of fixing a leak that it identified in a "choke line" connected to the new 75-ton containment cap. Once the leak is plugged, the well integrity test will be undertaken.
Cautious government
The government had directed BP to delay the test by 24 hours to make sure that the company "got it right."
National Incident Commander Thad Allen, head of the federal oil-spill response team, said that the federal government has been very cautious while taking the monumental decision.
If the results of the BP's well test, which will be assessed every six hours, are positive, the new cap will be able to capture lion's share of the 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil that is spewing into the sea everyday.
The government has first taken an ok from a panel of scientists and industry experts on whether the well could endure the massive pressure of oil and gas hastening from the reservoir deep below the seabed and then given a nod to BP to undertake the test.
An analysis of the seismic data from the area reveals that no crater would be created even if pressure inside the well rises phenomenally.
Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, termed the review as "a series of steps" that were being taken "in order to ensure that what we're doing is being done out of an abundance of caution to do no harm."
Test postponed
The test, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed and now will begin later on Wednesday. The pressure inside the well during the tests, which may last up to 48 hours, is expected to reach as much as 9,000 pounds per square inch.
If the results of the BP's well test, which will be assessed every six hours, are positive, the new cap will be able to capture lion's share of the 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil that is spewing into the sea everyday.
In case the test fails, BP will resort to siphoning oil from well pipe on the sea floor to collection containers on the surface.
Sealing the well with the cap has signified a monumental achievement in a nearly three-month environmental and economic crisis that is being pegged as the worst in the United States history.
The leak began April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon rig drilling the well exploded.
BP had lost half of its market value due to the incident; however the share price has staged a rally, driven by the optimism that the company will be able to stem the rot.
The stock fell nearly 2 percent Wednesday to close at $36.18.


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Reino Nori #34
Even with his passing in 1988, his exploits will exist in the perpetuity of memory and the record book on a scale with a Babe Ruth and Jim Thorpe.
The legacy of "The Phantom Finn"-the nickname used by local newspapers in his day-will always stand the test of time. Nori was the only athlete in Northern llinois history to earn 17 varsity letters in five sports. He was the first Huskie product to perform in the National Football League and the Chicago Tribune's famed College All-Star Game at Soldier Field.
As the story goes, Detroit Lions head coach George "Potsy" Clark traveled to DeKalb in 1936 to see Nori for himself. The two met on the Glidden Field cinder track. "Son," asked Clark, "do you want to play professional football?"
Nori joined the NFL as a free agent, playing for the Lions (1936), Brooklyn Dodgers (1937), and Chicago Bears (1938). "I like Nori's aggressive spirit," Clark noted at the time. "He runs the team well, is greased lightning in the open field and he throws a soft, accurate pass." His final days playing,football were spent at Camp Grant during World War II (1942-43).
A charter member of the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1978, Nori won Northern Illinois monograms in basketball (1932-33,1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36), football (1932, 1933, 1934, 1935), baseball (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936), track (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936), and wrestling (1932-33).
Nori was the school's first Little 19 Conference Player of the Year in football (1935). He won First-Team All-Little 19 honors in both football and basketball. He captained the NIU football, basketball, and track squads. He starred as a halfback on the gridiron, a forward in basketball, a third baseman in baseball, a sprinter and long jumper in track, and a 135-145-pound entry in wrestling.
"Nori was a :09.8 sprinter. He was built," said Northern Illinois Hall of Famer Tego Larsen who lettered in football during 1936-38. "It was speed. It was confidence. It was determination. Reino believed in himself. He had everything. He was always a threat inside or outside."
In a track dual meet against the University of Chicago, Nori tied for first place in the long jump with a fellow gridder named Jay Berwanger, the first recipient of the Heisman Trophy. On the hardwood, Nori performed on the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame 1933-34 quintet that scrimmaged Kansas and Pittsburgh in the National Association of Basketball Coaches convention exhibitions at Atlanta, GA.
In football, Nori still holds the school record for the longest run from scrimmage-a 99-yard touchdown vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater on November 17, 1934. The Northern Illinois legend still ranks No. 4 in career touchdowns (31 in 1932-35), No. 7 in single-season scoring (101 points in 1935), No. 5 in career scoring (204), and No. 8 in season TDs (15 in 1935). As a senior, he ranked second in the nation in scoring.
A three-sport star (football, basketball, and track) at DeKalb High School, Nori died at Kishwaukee Community Hospital on October 8, 1988, at age 75.
LeShon Johnson #42
LeShon-A-Mania was real. There was no more ballyhooed Northern Illinois University performer in The First Century. Reino Nori. Larry Brink. George Bork. Mark Kellar. John Spilis. Guys, take a backseat. LeShon Johnson was the standard-bearer around here and new NIU Athletics Hall of Famer (2003).
The "Cowboy" exploded onto the national scene. The biggest thing to hit DeKalb since supermodel Cindy Crawford. Or as prominent New York Times columnist Ira Berkow acknowledged, LeShon "in most cases has been a one-man show."
Prior to 1993, no Huskie football player had ever made major-college First-Team All-America. No. 42 made Northern Illinois history-making unanimous First-Team All-America that season. Eleven-fold with such marquee names as Florida State's Charlie Ward, San Diego State's Marshall Faulk, UCLA's J. J. Stokes, Notre Dame's Aaron Taylor, etc. Johnson was only the sixth player in the state of Illinois to make unanimous First-Team All-America. The other five? Red Grange, Dick Butkus, Jim Grabowski, David Williams, and Moe Gardner of Illinois.
More elite company? LeShon finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy race as a senior. The sleek, six-foot, 205-pounder received five first-place votes, 51 second-place, and 59 third-place votes in the Downtown Athletic Club balloting. He was also named UPI National Back of the Year. Top three Doak Walker National Runningback Award finalist. Football News Offensive Player of the Year finalist. Big West Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year.
"LeShon for Heisman" T-shirts-priced at $12.95 apiece-became collector's items on campus. A full video crew-including ESPN "College Game Day" anchor Chris Fowler- spent a full day on campus. Stuff like this didn't happen every day in DeKalb.
Not only did Johnson lead the country in individual rushing and all-purpose yardage, No. 42 out rushed 65 of the nation's then 106 NCAA Division 1-A teams in 1993. With his 179.6-yards-per-game rushing average, No.42 outgained such postseason bowl entries as Alabama, California, Indiana, Miami(FL), Texas, and Utah.
Johnson gained a school and Big West-record 1,976 yards and 12 touchdowns on 327 carries. At the time, the "Cowboy" produced the fourth-best single-season in NCAA 1-A rushing history behind previous Heisman winners Barry Sanders of Oklahoma (2,628 yards in 1988), Marcus Allen of Southern Cal (2,342 in 1981), and Mike Rozier of Nebraska (2,148 in 1983).
The Haskell, OK, product completed his Northern Illinois days as the No. 4 all-time NCAA career rusher with a 150.6 ypg. Average behind Cornell's Ed Marinaro (174.6 ypg. in 1969-71), O.J. Simpson of Southern Cal (164.4 ypg. in 1967-68), and Herschel Walker of Georgia (159.4 ypg. in 1980-82). A third round pick of the Green Bay Packers in 1994, Johnson also played for the Arizona Cardinals before being sidelined in 1999 in his debut on the New York Giants with lymphoma. Johnson finished his pro career wth the XFL Chicago Enforcers (2001).
John Spilis #87
Back in 1968, you name the wide receiver and Northern Illinois University senior John Spilis ranked with any of them. Notre Dame's Jim Seymour. Florida State's Ron Sellers. SMU's Jerry Levias. Washington's Gene Washington. Oklahoma's Ed Hinton. Any of them.
Talent-wise, it was no problem. At 6-4, 217-pounds, No. 87 possessed great hands,an uncanny ability to catch passes in crowds similar to a basketball rebounder, and bigtime speed for his size. Playing was never a problem for John Spilis.
Instead, his personal dilemma was NCAA limbo. His senior season was the year before the Huskie football program moved to major status. So, at the time, Northern Illinois was playing as an independent with no conference statistics, no all-league teams, and no players of the week.
On top of all that, Spilis suffered a broken leg in his final college game and missed playing in the postseason American Bowl. Still, No. 87 caught two touchdown passes on the broken leg vs. 16th-ranked Ohio that November afternoon-the second ending his college career and setting the school's career TD reception mark (22) then held by Huskie Little All-Americas Al Eck and Hugh Rohrschneider.
Ironically, Spilis caught 46 passes for three consecutive seasons or 138 career receptions for 1,815 yards and 22 TDs (1966-68). The Thornridge High School product was even more dangerous on kickoff returns-going 90 yards vs. North Dakota State and then 97 on the opening play vs. Bowling Green State that led to a 7-6 Northern Illinois triumph in its first victory over a "major" in 1968.
"He's a definite pro prospect," said Huskie coach Howard Fletcher. "I can only quote the pro scouts that have talked to me and they rate Spilis as one of the best receivers in the country."
"Fletch" turned out to be a prophet on two counts-(1) Spilis became the highest Northern Illinois NFL selection in the 1969 draft (third round or 64th player chosen) by the Green Bay Packers and (2) would play for the legendary Otto Graham vs. the New York Jets in the College All-Star Game in Chicago.
In addition to the Packers, Spilis also played for the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears. He was inducted into the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame (1984) and named to the All-Time Huskie Stadium Team (1995), plus the All-Century Team (1999).
George Bork #11
One of the greatest and most recognizable names in the modern era of Northern Illinois football, Bork was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in August, 1999.
One of eight Divisional inductees- players and coaches from NCAA Division 1-AA, II, III, and NAIA institutions-the former Little All-America was the first Huskie to be enshrined and one of only 12 national inductees with Mid-American Conference connections.
You may have heard of the others-Doyt Perry from Bowling Green State, Don James from Kent State, Bob Babich, Sid Gillman, Woody Hayes, George Little, Ara Parseghian, and Bo Schembechler from Miami (OH), Frank Loria from Marshall, Merle Gulick and Mel Long from Toledo.
"This couldn't happen to a more deserving guy than George," said Northern Illinois Hall of Fame coach Howard Fletcher. "All the things he accomplished and all the publicity he generated for Northern Illinois, this is tremendous. Bork was the top quarterback I've ever had. George was the perfect guy for that system."
Mark Kellar #31
It was 1995-the public unveiling of the All-Time Huskie Stadium Team and the first meeting of the school's two major-college rushing kingpins, Kellar and tailback LeShon Johnson. They shook hands, hugged, and exchanged mutual respect. "Sure I know who you are," LeShon told Kellar. "You're No. 31. You led the country in rushing. I saw your picture in the media guide."
Not only was Kellar an impact player for coach Jerry Ippoliti and Northern Illinois during 1971-73, he certainly was in his rookie year in the World Football League with the Chicago Fire. Kellar led the WFL in scoring and rushing and scored five touchdowns in one game before breaking his leg in the 11th contest of the season. He is one of four players to have his NIU jersey retired.
The Next Five:
Stacey Robinson, QB (1988-90)
Bob Heimerdinger, QB (1948-51)
Dave Petzke, SE (1977-78)
Hugh Rohrschneider, E (1960-63)
Frank Lewandoski, LB (1976-79)
The All-Century Team Committee
Mike Korcek, chair
Bob Brigham, Fran Cahill, Pat Culpepper,
John Farney, Howard Fletcher,
Bob Heimerdinger, Jerry Ippoliti,
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Nutrition education is rubbing off on college student's More fruits and vegetables are n school cafeteria meals than ever before, and you don't need a gourmet kitchen and cooking utensils to make a good hot home cooked meal. Students don't have a lot of cash either local food pantry's work to keep the college student from going food insecure. Not to mention last winter made going out difficult in below zero icy temps, food pantries are opening up on college campuses nationwide.
The rising cost of college is causing students and parents to dig even deeper in already food insecure pockets Some fifty colleges now have food pantry's run by student volunteers. Sixty-percent of college students surveyed last year said at some point during the academic year they went without food. The key is getting the word out around campus and off-campus that the pantries are there.
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For quite some time now, Bill Goldberg has had interest in returning to WWE, but contract talks have always ended up breaking down. The former WWE and WCW World Heavyweight Champion appeared on the Ross Report on May 21, 2014, and told Jim Ross that he is still interested in heading back to the ring one day, and also who he would like to face.
Goldberg has confirmed that he recently had talks with WWE about a comeback, but they didn't end up going very far. He let Ross know that he has expressed his interest in returning to WWE and still would like to do just that.
It's been said numerous times in the past by Goldberg that he would like his family to see him wrestle live and he knows he's still able to compete at a high level.
Upon returning to WWE, if it ever were to happen, Goldberg talked with Ross about the possible return feuds he would like and other names he'd like to face.
Goldberg said that he'd love to step back into the ring with Triple H or Brock Lesnar. It was actually Lesnar who was Goldberg's last feud in WWE as they faced off in a match at "WrestleMania XX" back in 2004.
The big man also let Ross know that he would like to face off with Roman Reigns in WWE. Reigns is a young up-and-comer who is a part of The Shield, and both he and Goldberg use the Spear as a finishing move.
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Fixated on the words of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 64-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu insisted in an Oval Offce meeting with President Barack Obama March 3 that he considered Iran's nuclear program an "existential" threat to Israel. At a World Without Zionism conference in Tehran Oct. 26, 2005, Ahamadinejad dazzled Holocaust deniers with his infamous call to see "Israel wiped off the map." Preaching to the choir of anti-Semites, Ahmadinejad's empty rhetoric so rattled Netanyahu that he's been fixated on Iran's nuclear program ever since. Netanyahu practically had a stroke when the P5+1, including the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, signed an agreement in Geneva Nov. 24, 2013 to limit Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Ever since, Netanyahu has accused the P5+1 of selling out to Tehran.
Whatever Obama says or does to reassure Netanyahu, it falls on deaf ears. Whether or not Netanyahu actually believes his delusions is anyone's guess. What known for sure is that he opposes any deal with Iran that doesn't completely dismantle Iran's nuclear programs, whether they're for peaceful purposes or not. While Netayahu has many fans at the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], the major Israeli lobbying group, his message sounds like a broken record since Ahamdinejad shot off his mouth in 2005. "The Israeli people expect me to stand strong against criticism and pressure," Netanyahu told Obama, referring to White House pressure to make compromises in the latest round of Mideast peacemaking with half the Palestinians only in West Bank. U.S. and EU officials see better Israeli security with a comprehensive peace agreement.
Netanyahu insists that Iran calls for Israel's destruction, despite the change of leadership that brought 65-yer-old moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to power Aug. 3, 2013. No matter what the change of leadership, Netanyahua acts like the hothead Ahmadinejad is still in office. "Iran calls openly for Israel's destruction, so I'm sure you'll all appreciate that Israel cannot permit such a state to have the ability to make atomic bombs to ache that goal," Netanyahu told Obama, repeating the same old news that he uses to power his conservative coalition. When Obama tells "Bibi" of his "absolute commitment" to Israel's security, it goes nowhere. Netanyahu can't get beyond Ahmandinejad's old incendiary rhetoric, no longer relevant with Iran's new leadership. Netanyahu continues to hint that Israel might take unilateral action against Iran's nuclear sites.
Since resuming peace talks in July 2013, the White House has tried to get Netanyahu to go along with some kind of final status agreement for an independent Palestinian State. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who represents 1.5 million Palestininas in the West Bank, has signaled recently some flexibility on the question of Palestinian refugees. Where Abbas continues to show stubbornness is on symbolic issues, like the declaring East Jerusalem the capital in a new state. Cobbling together a volatile coalition of liberals, moderates and conservatives, Netanyahu can't arbitrarily agree to hand East Jerusalem to Palestinians without killing his fragile coalition. "And I, as prime minister of Israel, will do whatever I must to defend the Jewish state," said Netanyahu, a sticking point with Abbas who's on record rejecting the idea of recognizing Israel as a "Jewish state."
Netanyahu has no problem of recognizing any state in the West Bank as the "Palestinian State," though there are many Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Obama warned Netanyahu about fallout from the EU if Israel doesn't compromise on an independent Palestinian state. While Iran's nuke issue and the Palestinian question are not linked, Netanyahu finds himself resisting U.S. pressure on both counts. Obama and Kerry have pressed Netanyahu to go back to the pre-1967 Six Day War borders, where Israeli gives back what's left of Israeli spoils in the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem. Netanyahu told Obama that giving back the Sinai Peninsula in 1979 and Gaza Strip in 2005 hasn't achieved peace with Palestinians. "It's my belief that ultimately it is still possible to create two states," said Obama, hoping he and Kerry could convince both sides to make a deal.
Obama's problem with Netanyahu stems from Israel's strong backing by American conservatives, who see too much compromise with Palestinians as not in U.S. interests. U.S. national security lies with a strong Israel, not compromised by concessions that harm both Israeli and U.S. interests. Handing over more territory to Palestinians doesn't help U.S. national security. Watching Palestinians dance in the streets, celebrating Bin Laden;s attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon speaks volumes about U.S. national security. Giving Palestinians too much leverage puts the U.S. and Israel into a bind. Acceding to Abbas's demands for East Jerusalem as a capital of a future state compromises Israeli and U.S. national security. Whether Israel and Palestinians make peace is anyone's guess. Netanyahu needs to let the P5+1 deal with Iran's nuclear threat.
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In this second volume of The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan pursues his investigation of human life, which he grounds in a distinctive intermingling of the biological and cognitive sciences and traditions of Jewish thought. The Atheism of Scriptureoffers up a paradox: its audacious thesis is that the Word or revealed scripture can be better understood without God. It must be decrypted or analyzed atheistically, that is, not as divine revelation, but in and of itself. The first part of the book addresses contemporary science. It puts the evolution of ideas about life and knowledge as conceived by today's biological and cognitive sciences into perspective and shows how the genealogy of ethics must be approached in a new way. The second part takes up this challenge by putting classical philosophy in dialogue with the Talmud and the Kabbalah to advance a non-dualistic anthropology of the body and the mind.
Author Biography
Henri Atlan is Professor Emeritus of Biophysics and Director of the Human Biology Research Center at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem and Director of Studies at the EHESS in Paris. His honorific titles include the French Legion of Honor, the French Order of Arts and Letters, and the French National Order of Merit.
Table of Contents
|Translator's Introduction
|p. xv
|p. xxi
|Zoön and Bios
|Living and Knowing: Social Images and Scholarly Discourses
|p. 3
|Differences and Continuity
|p. 11
|Toward a Genealogy of Ethics
|p. 17
|Pleasure and Pain: The First Level of Ethics
|p. 17
|The Myth of Adam's Fall and "True Knowledge of Good and Evil"
|p. 21
|The Concerns of Moral Philosophy
|p. 22
|From the First Level to the Second Level
|p. 30
|The Third Level: Theoretical Deduction or Argumentation Genealogy
|p. 32
|Modified States of Consciousness and the Sacred
|p. 36
|Argumentation Ethics and Underdetermination
|p. 39
|The Morality of Indignation
|p. 43
|A Schematic Representation
|p. 45
|The Subject and Time
|A Natural Subject in the Fourteenth Century?
|Hasdai Crescas on Determinism and Responsibility
|p. 49
|Return of the Subject or Final Death? A Third Term
|p. 49
|Hasdai Crescas, Determinism, and Freedom
|p. 54
|Determined but Responsible
|p. 63
|A Priori Responsibility and Factum Responsibility
|p. 66
|"Subject of" and "Subject to"
|p. 71
|Crescas and Spinoza: "God's Joy"
|p. 74
|Reality, Perfection, and "Glory"
|p. 78
|"By Reality and Perfection I Understand the Same Thing"
|p. 78
|Reality as Perfection and Perfection as a Model
|p. 78
|Wisdom and Perfection
|p. 87
|Toward Acquiescence and Joy: Provisional Morality and Habit
|p. 95
|Acquiescence and "Gloria"
|p. 99
|Human Dignity
|p. 103
|p. 105
|Gloria/Kavod in Scripture and in Spinoza
|p. 105
|Human Perfection according to Maimonides
|p. 108
|Revisiting Gloria/Kavod in the Sacred Books, according to Spinoza's Ethics
|p. 112
|The Third Kind of Knowledge
|p. 117
|p. 119
|The God of Persons and the From of the Human Body
|p. 125
|Who or What?
|p. 125
|The Form
|p. 127
|The Human Body, the Subject of the Rights of Man
|p. 134
|The Problems of Limits at the Start and End of Human Life
|p. 135
|The Pragmatism of Talmudic Law
|p. 138
|"I" Is the Tetragrammaton
|p. 141
|The God of the Philosophers, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
|p. 144
|The Unique Person and His or Her God
|p. 147
|The Voices of Prophecy Reflected on Themselves
|p. 152
|An Absolute Singular?
|p. 155
|What Am I?
|p. 156
|Idolatry Does Not Have to Be Pagan
|p. 162
|The Radical Monism of Body and Mind
|A Spinozist Perspective on Evolution and the Theory of Action: from Analytic Philosophy to Spinoza
|p. 167
|Immanent Causality and Temporal Evolution
|p. 167
|Spinoza's Physics and Spinoza's Animism
|p. 171
|The Synthetic Identity of Properties
|p. 176
|Synthetic Identity, Referential Opacity, and the Underdetermination of Theories
|p. 177
|Action and Perception: The Anomalous Monism of Donald Davidson
|p. 180
|Action and Perception in the Light of Spinoza's Monism
|p. 185
|The Analogy with Physical Magnitudes
|p. 188
|Functional Self-Organization
|p. 190
|Moral Judgment
|p. 193
|Some Astonishing Neurophysiological Findings
|p. 195
|Intentional Self-Organization: Toward a Physical Theory of Intentionality
|p. 197
|Intention as Ex Nihilio Creation?
|p. 197
|Self-Organization Is Not an Ex Nihilo Causa Sui
|p. 200
|Is a Physical Theory of Intentionality Possible?
|p. 203
|Physical and Chemical Reductionism and Phenomenological Reduction
|p. 204
|Meaningless Complexity in the Information Sciences
|p. 205
|"Sophistication" as a Measurement of Meaningful Complexity
|p. 210
|Intentional Self-Organization
|p. 212
|The Origin of Goals and the Types of Self-Organization
|p. 212
|The Transformation of a Causal Sequence into a Procedure
|p. 214
|A Non-Intentional Model of Intentional Behavior
|p. 215
|Time Reversal
|p. 215
|A Satisfaction Function and Its Origin
|p. 216
|A Non-Intentional Model of Intentional Attitudes
|p. 218
|Consciousness-Memory and Unconscious Self-Organization
|p. 219
|Infinite Sophistication
|p. 220
|Provisional Conclusions
|p. 224
|Action and Perception
|p. 224
|The Underdetermination of Theories and Intersubjectivity
|p. 225
|Modeling the Models? The Transcendental Nature of Logic and Ethics
|p. 226
|Reason and Common Notions
|p. 227
|Time and Eternity
|Statistics and Temporality
|p. 231
|The Use and Misuse of Statistics and Probability: A Brief Review
|p. 231
|Misinterpretations in Medicine and Biology
|p. 232
|Correlation and Causation
|p. 236
|Retrospective and Prospective Studies
|p. 236
|Correlation (Strong or Weak) Does Not Mean Causality
|p. 238
|The Analysis of Variance and the Endless Debate about the Innate versus the Acquired
|p. 240
|Heritability Is Not a Measure of Genetic Influence
|p. 241
|The Hypothesis of Additivity
|p. 242
|Paradoxes of the Possible and Probabilities: Time versus Eternity
|p. 244
|The Monty Hall Problem, or Marilyn and the Goats
|p. 244
|Fermat's Strictures and Pascal's "Mistakes": Equal Odds When Throwing Dice
|p. 248
|Beliefs and Waters
|p. 254
|Memory of Ritual, Metaphor of Fertilization
|p. 257
|To Remember and Not Forget
|p. 257
|p. 260
|Past and Future: The Conversive Vav
|p. 261
|The Origins
|p. 263
|New Years, Memory, and Fertilization
|p. 267
|The Time of Ritual: Conceiving a Memory
|p. 269
|"The Vision and Riddle" … that "the Mouth Cannot Utter and the Ear Cannot Hear"
|p. 270
|Underground History or Carnival?
|p. 273
|The Letter of the Spirit
|The So-Called Chosen People …
|p. 279
|A False Start: The Antisemitic Question
|p. 279
|The Treason of Words and Their Improper Usage
|p. 282
|What Does the Bible Say?
|p. 285
|A Chosen People Like All the Others
|p. 287
|There Is Nothing Special about the Essence of the People of Israel
|p. 290
|Creating "Chosen Souls"
|p. 292
|Understanding Another Imaginary
|p. 294
|Where Is the Confusion?
|p. 297
|The Election of "the Smallest of Peoples"
|p. 298
|"Atheist" Theologies
|p. 300
|The Tribe and the Humanity in Each Individual
|p. 300
|A Tribal God in the Wilderness
|p. 302
|Telecommunications to the Planetary God
|p. 303
|Neither "Race" nor "Chosen People" …
|p. 305
|The Question of the State
|p. 306
|Maimonides then and Now
|p. 309
|Science and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century
|p. 309
|The Bodily Forms of God
|p. 310
|The Face or Category of "In Front Of"
|p. 312
|"The Eyes of YHWH"
|p. 313
|Generosity and Rigor
|p. 315
|Speculative Kabbalah and Modernity
|p. 317
|Seeing and Speaking
|p. 318
|Philosophy and Prophecy
|p. 320
|"Practical Faith"
|p. 323
|The Idolatry of History
|p. 327
|Levels of Meaning and the Atheism of Scripture
|p. 329
|The Crowns on the Letters
|p. 329
|The Meanings of a Bottle Found in the Ocean
|p. 331
|The "Garden" and Its Four Levels
|p. 335
|Peshat: The Literal, Plain, or Obvious Sense
|p. 337
|Remez: The Allusive Meaning
|p. 337
|Derash: The "Allegorical" Meaning
|p. 339
|The Hermeneutic Situation: Absence Postulated a Priori
|p. 341
|Sod: The Hidden or Esoteric Sense
|p. 341
|The White Space in the Text
|p. 344
|The Name and Its Interpretations
|p. 346
|Words of God and the Atheism of Scripture
|p. 348
|p. 353
|p. 355
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We currently have an active-active 2 node cluster running virtual machines. Every node has two disks, every disk is DRBD mirrored on the other node. Every node runs virtual machines out of his primary drbd device, and the pacemaker cluster will handle failover (if a node fails, the other becomes primary on both drbd devices and run all the VMs). This is colocated in a datacenter so our costs (beside hardware acquisition) are driven by how many rack units we occupy.
When you start out small this is a great solution, it fits in 2U of rack space (assume ethernet switch(es) is/are already there) and it's 100% redundant. But it's also a slightly difficult setup to manage and it suffers when I/O load goes too high (I guess that's just because of the low number of spindles).
I'm wondering what could be the best solution to scale above our hardware capacity while still being cost-effective and be as redundant as it's reasonable:
- go on by adding more two node clusters with internal storage, maybe with bigger hardware (eg. 2U servers with more disks)
- still use two nodes clusters but with external direct attached storage (stuff like 1U or 2U disk enclosures with SAS links) - see note below
- separate storage and VMs (eg. a pair of storage nodes, mirrored by DRBD, which export iSCSI and manage failover by moving the iSCSI target IP, coupled with two or more diskless nodes which run VMs out of the static iSCSI target IP) - this seems to be what others are doing?
- use something different from standard servers for the storage part (dedicated storage solutions on gigabit ethernet?)
- anything else altogether ?
The split storage/application servers seems the most flexible and reasonable solution to me, we could easily add more storage nodes when needed and still use the current application servers or do the other way around when we hit capacity limits.
What do you think are good / bad choices? Do you already have experience on this kind of stuff without bigger budgets (I tend to rule out fibre channel or 10000 euros storage appliances)?
EDIT: To be clear, the idea is that by leveraging modern (and free) software you could implement redundancy just by adding more "commodity" hardware. It's not going to be screamin' fast nor super high availability, but it will let our VM run even if a motherboard dies for as long as it takes to get a spare to the DC and replace the part.
EDIT: I removed the usb mention because it's really not going anywhere (and thanks for pointing that out in replies). I don't really know how I forgot about SAS enclosures. As an example from the Dell website, an MD1000 is 2U with SAS links. Two enclosures attached to two storage nodes via SAS and they could do redundancy and export iSCSI.


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The 2002 Dreamworks animated feature "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" arrived on Blu-Ray today. "Spirit" was only Dreamworks' sixth animated film,and was their only 2-D animated film to be nominated for a Best Feature Academy Award.
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The animation is without question the film highlight. Created using a combination of hand-drawn and computer animation, (a technique the animators dubbed "tradigital"), the film's vibrant colors pop. This new Blu-Ray shows off the animation as the creators intended, and the results are often exceptional. Unfortunately, the story is as rote as the visual design is inspired.
Spirit is a young mustang living in the American West in the 1800s. While wandering in the wilderness, Spirit is seized by the U.S. Calvary. Soon, the horse is befriending a member of the Lakota tribe and outwitting the soldiers, while also falling for a mare.
One noticeable aspect of the film is it forgoes the usual cast of celebrities in exchange for natural horse sounds, a technique that might have been more interesting if not for the endless narration by Matt Damon. The film's also hampered by several saccharine songs from Bryan Adams.
One of Dreamworks' more middling efforts,"Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" is a well-animated film for very young children and Bryan Adams completists. You can view images from "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" in the slideshow above. For the latest Blu-Ray news and reviews, subscribe to the Blu-Ray Examiner today.


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COMING UP: The Arizona women's basketball team (7-12, 3-6) faces Washington (13-5, 6-3) at 7 p.m. (PST) this Thursday, Jan. 26. Live audio of the game is available at www.arizonaathletics.com, as well as on KJLL 1330 AM in Tucson.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE WILDCATS: For the first time all season, the Wildcats had five players in double-digit scoring en route to their first road win, handing California its first loss at Haas Pavilion, an 80-76 defeat of the Bears Sunday. Arizona shot 44 percent from the field, 50 percent from three-point range and 76 percent from the free throw line on the game. California shot 49 percent from the field, but just 14 percent from beyond the arc and an alarming 35 percent from the charity stripe on the game. The Bears dominated the boards 48 to 34. Junior Joy Hollingsworth led all players with a season-high 23 points. She also added a team-high eight rebounds to go with six assists and four steals. Sophomore Ashley Whisonant added 15 points, while sophomore Jessica Arnold finished with a season-high 14 points. Senior Natalie Jones and freshman Kelsey Burns totaled 10 points apiece. Burns' total was a career high. Whisonant dished out a team-high seven assists.
Hollingsworth leads Arizona this season with 14.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. Whisonant adds 13.5 points per game, while Jones averages 13.2 points. As a team, the Wildcats are shooting 39 percent from the field, compared to the 47 percent of their opponents. They are also being out-rebounded 35.9 to 38.8.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION: Oregon point guard Kaela Chapdelaine scored a career-high 18 points to lift the Ducks to an 81-73 victory over Washington last Saturday at McArthur Court. Oregon shot 56 percent from the field, including 12-of-20 from downtown. Cameo Hicks led the Huskies with 16 points, while Andrea Plouffe and Jill Bell each had 13 points. Hicks hit a trey just before the buzzer to give Washington a 46-40 halftime lead. But the Huskies missed 12 of their first 13 shots in the second half and went on to shoot just 29 percent in the period as Oregon went on to the win.
On the season, the Huskies are led by Hicks, who averages 15.0 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. As a team, Washington is shooting 40 percent from the field on the season, compared to the 43 percent of its opponents. The Huskies are out-rebounding their opponents 39.8 to 36.6.
SERIES SHORTS: Arizona trails the all-time series with Washington 15-27. In the last meeting between the two teams, on Dec. 31, 2005, Arizona fell 66-54 in Tucson. The Wildcats are 10-11 at home, 3-16 away and 2-0 at a neutral site vs. the Huskies.
INJURY UPDATE: Sophomore Ch?© Oh suffered a concussion at Stanford last Thursday and is day-to-day. Freshman Amina Njonkou re-aggravated her right foot at Stanford last Thursday and is day-to-day. Junior Linda Pace suffered a left knee injury against Washington State on Dec. 29 and is out for the rest of the season.
RANKING IN THE PAC-10: As a team, Arizona ranks in the bottom half of the conference in every statistical category but offensive rebounds (second), free throw percentage (fourth) and turnover margin (fifth).
Individually, several Wildcats rank in the Top 10 in various categories. Senior Natalie Jones is third in free throw percentage (.826), sixth in minutes per game (34.6) and seventh in steals (2.2). Junior Joy Hollingsworth is fifth in three-point field goal average (2.1), ninth in offensive rebounds (2.6), and 10th in scoring (14.6), rebounding (6.4) and minutes per game (33.0). Sophomore Ashley Whisonant is fifth in assists (3.7). Sophomore Ch?© Oh and freshman Whitney Fields are tied for second in offensive rebounds (2.8).
ROAD WOES: Arizona is 1-6 on the road this season. In fact, over the past six seasons, the Wildcats have had a winning record in Pac-10 road games only once (5-4 in 2003-04).
SHOOTING SORROWS LEAD TO LOSSES: In each of their 12 losses this season, the Wildcats have had a worse shooting percentage than their opponents. In fact, the three times Arizona has produced a better field goal percentage than its opponent (Furman, Lehigh, Chicago State), the team has also won the game. Three times (Loyola Marymount, Washington State, Oregon) the Wildcats have shot worse than the other team and still managed to win the game.
SHOOTING THE THREE OFTEN: Arizona has made 100 three-pointers this season, compared to the 93 of its opponents. However, the Wildcats have 73 more attempts than their counterparts, which accounts for the difference in percentage (36 percent compared to 30 percent).
HALFTIME SCORE INDICATIVE OF FINAL RESULT: In Arizona's 19 games this season, the halftime score has been indicative of the final result 15 times. The Wildcats are 2-10 when trailing at the intermission and 5-2 when leading. The only two games Arizona lost after leading at halftime were against Central Connecticut State and Utah.
HACK AWAY: The Wildcats are fouling quite a bit this season. In its 19 games, Arizona has committed more fouls than its opponent 13 times and the same number once. The Wildcats have fouled less than their opponent only five times, against Chicago State, Arizona State, Washington State, Oregon State and Oregon. Arizona has committed 20 or more fouls in nine games this season, six of which have been losses.
WILDCAT TRIFECTA: Senior Natalie Jones, junior Joy Hollingsworth and sophomore Ashley Whisonant lead the Wildcats this season. The trio account for 61 percent of the team's points. Hollingsworth and Whisonant have reached double-digit scoring in 16 of the 19 games, while Jones has 10 or more points in 15 games.
JONES STARTS 80TH STRAIGHT GAME: Senior Natalie Jones started her 80th consecutive game at USC on Jan. 8. On her career, the guard has started 88 total games.
LACK OF SIZE EXPOSED: With the death of 6-5 Shawntinice Polk and the medical redshirt of 6-2 Shannon Hobson, Arizona is left without much size inside. As a result, the Wildcats have been out-rebounded in 14 of their 19 games this season. In those 14 games, the Wildcats have managed just 33.3 rebounds to their opponents' 41.5 (-8.2).
CURRENT CATS ON UA CAREER LISTS: Senior Natalie Jones ranks sixth all-time at Arizona in free throw percentage (.767), three-point field goals attempted (342) and free throws made (26), seventh in three-point field goals made (99), ninth in games started (88) and minutes played (3,205), and 10th in minutes per game (27.9), free throws attempted (339) and personal fouls (290). She looks to become just the 14th Arizona player ever to score 1,000 or more points as she has 967 on her career.
PAC-10 ACTIVE CAREER LEADERS: Arizona boasts several of the Pac-10's active career statistical leaders. Senior Natalie Jones ranks second in assists (279), fourth in steals (166), fifth in scoring (967) and three-point field goals made (99), and seventh in rebounds (478). Junior Joy Hollingsworth ranks eighth in scoring (852).
GOING POLLING: Six of Arizona's 2005-06 opponents (Stanford, Maryland, UCLA, USC, Utah and Arizona State) were nationally ranked in the various preseason polls. Pac-10 power Stanford was ranked as high as No. 8, while Pac-10 teams USC and Arizona State were ranked in all four polls.
STACKED PAC: As a conference, the Pac-10 finished last season ranked as the third toughest conference in the nation after sending five teams to the NCAA Tournament. Finishing ahead of the Pac-10 were the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
TOUGH SCHEDULE: The Wildcats have a challenging schedule that includes 12 games against eight teams (Arizona State, Maryland, Oregon, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, USC, Utah and Wisconsin-Green Bay) that made it to the NCAA Tournament last year. Of those teams, six advanced to the second round, while Arizona State made it to the Sweet 16 and Stanford to the Elite Eight.
CATS PICKED TO FINISH SIXTH, SEVENTH IN PAC-10: Arizona was picked to finish sixth in the Pacific-10 Conference in the preseason coaches' poll. The Wildcats garnered 42 points, just one point behind fifth-place Oregon. In the media poll, Arizona was picked to finish seventh in the conference, receiving 59 votes.
WILDCATS ON THE RADIO: All of Arizona's games this season are broadcast on Tucson's Jolt, KJLL 1330 AM. Paul Johnson is in his 11th year as the Wildcats' play-by-play announcer.
UP NEXT: Arizona wraps up its four-game road swing with a 2 p.m. (PST) game at Washington State on Saturday, Jan. 28.


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Want to go from being a student to being a performer and have fun doing it? That's the promise Theater Works gives regarding its 10-week class in acting techniques taught by Jay Horne. The class runs from Mar. 19 through May 21, 10:30–11:30 a.m., at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, 8355 W. Peoria Ave., Peoria, Ariz.
Students will learn improvisation, memorization strategies and other phases of acting. They will also learn how to develop stage presence, how to work with a director, and how to analyze and break down a script. At the end of the 10-week class period, students will give a showcase performance for family and friends.
Instructor Horne has performed professionally in repertory and community theater and has directed more than 80 productions. His involvement with theater spans 40 years and includes all phases of technical theater, as well as acting, directing and teaching. He has received numerous state and local awards in New England, New York, Chicago and Arizona. He has been an adjudicator for the ariZoni Awards for Excellence and currently writes reviews for the Independent Newspapers and Sun Life Magazine of Peoria, Sun City West and Sun City.
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News Archive
- SHU Students Present Research at ASV
June 23, 2016
SHU graduate students Michael Beaury and Jesse Coutu present their research at the 35th Annual ASV meeting.
- Professor Opens Vietnam Photo Exhibit in NYC
June 21, 2016
Kenneth Hoffman, professor of communication opened his Vietnam Photo Exhibit at New York's Soho Gallery on June 8.
- G K Chesterton Conference in the News
June 20, 2016
"Chesterton & Eugenics:The Challenge of our Times" featured in Times of Malta, Vatican Radio, Catholic Register, et al.
- Brownson Speech and Debate Year in Review
June 16, 2016
College of Communication and the Arts Brownson Speech and Debate Team finished its year strong at national tournament.
- Teentech Inspires Young Women
June 15, 2016
College of Arts and Sciences partners with AAUW NJ to engage young women in opportunities available in the STEM fields.
- Dr. Yanzhong Huang Shares Expertise in Congressional Testimony
June 14, 2016
Dr. Yanzhong Huang Shares Expertise on Healthcare in China during Congressional Testimony
- Professor Matthew Hale in the News
June 13, 2016
Professor Matthew Hale featured in Newsday, the New York Post, Asbury Park Press, the Home News & Tribune and the Press of Atlantic City.
- Hall on the Hill To Feature College of Communication and the Arts
June 09, 2016
The thirteenth annual Hall on the Hill will take place in Washington, DC on Wednesday, June 15 from 5 – 7 p.m.
- 2016 "Many Are One" Alumni Awards Gala
June 09, 2016
Denver Nuggets Assistant General Manager and Alumnus Artūras Karnišovas among those to be honored at "Many Are One" Gala.
- Faculty Members Collaborate for Book
June 09, 2016
Two College of Education and Human Services faculty publish book for educators, advance research on parent involvement.
- Mapping Your Social Media Gameplan with Seton Hall
June 06, 2016
Earn a certificate in social media for professionals through our Saturday workshops.
- New Dean of the College of Education and Human Services
June 06, 2016
The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Maureen Gillette as the new Dean of the College of Education and Human Services, effective August 1, 2016.
- College of Arts and Sciences Recent Graduate Honors Seton Hall Family Legacy
June 03, 2016
Michael Bennett joined three previous generations in the ranks as a Seton Hall alumnus on May 16.
- Seminarians Embark on European Pilgrimage
May 30, 2016
Follow along with theology majors Luke Powers and Michael Wanta as they make their way through Europe this summer.


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Tyler Toffoli scored his first NHL goal Monday.
The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy to a three-year/$10.5 million contract extension.
Dallas has agreed to terms with Dan Hamhuis on a two-year contract.
Victor Hedman has signed an eight-year/$63 million contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The New York Islanders have signed Jason Chimera to a two-year contract.
Jake Allen has agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $17.4 million.
Minnesota has agreed to terms with Eric Staal on a three-year deal.
Troy Brouwer has signed a four-year contract with Calgary.
Kyle Okposo has inked a seven year/$42 million deal with the Buffalo Sabres.
Brian Campbell has signed a one-year deal with Chicago for $2 million.
The Boston Bruins have signed David Backes to a one-year contract.
Milan Lucic has officially signed with the Edmonton Oilers.


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Apple will be releasing the much-anticipated OS X Lion this month. In fact probably in the next week or so. Here are some things you need to know about Lion:
- Lion requires a Mac that's based on the Intel Core Duo processor. You can check via About this Mac in the Apple menu; electing "About This Mac." Under the Processor heading, look for Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon; those should all mean you're good to go for Lion.
- Lion will only be available via download from Apple's own App store. That means you have to have OS Snow Leopard in order to download Lion. Lion will cost $29.99.
- You have to be running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 in order to install Lion.
- You need to have at least 8 gigs free on your System drive.
- You need to have at least 2 gigs of RAM; more is better. I'd suggest upgrading to 4 if you can.
- You won't be able to run older software that's PowerPC based. So you need to find replacements for those apps. Yes, you've been able to run older apps like Quicken 2007 on Snow Leopard via Apple's Rosetta application, but Rosetta is going away.
Reasons to Upgrade to Lion include:
- Lion offers some interesting improvements to standard apps like Mail, as well as the ability to use more gestures, like swiping, on trackpads. You might want to watch this video; it explains a lot about why you want Lion. Lion offers a number of ways to work more efficiently and use your screen real estate effectively.
- Apple is touting 250 new features in Lion; there are a lot of new features, but some, like FaceTme, are a year or so old.
- Lion introduces Auto Save—the OS automatically saves files for you, and a new app called Versions let's you rollback to a previously saved state (Auto Save and Versions improve and replace Time Machine).
- AirDrop makes it very easy to transfer files wirelessly.
You might as well start cleaning your drives up now. Here are some suggestions about preparing to upgrade to Lion and some more on how to prepare your Mac of OS X Lion.
And if you buy a new Mac now, Apple will upgrade you to Lion at no additional cost.
You can find out what apps you have currently that are PowerPC native, and work on upgrading or replacing them via the Software panel of About This Mac. Universal apps are fine; it's the PowerPC ones that won't run.


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3 men charged with shooting at cops
SANTA ANA – Three men have been charged with attempted murder of two Anaheim policemen after authorities said the men fired several rounds into the officers' patrol car Friday morning, Orange County prosecutors announced Monday.
Juan Carlos Covarrubias, 19, Jordy Roman Martinez, 19, and Andrew Gomez Sanchez, 19, all of Anaheim, are also charged with shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and street terrorism, plus several penalty enhancements.
If convicted, they face a potential sentence of 45 years to life in prison. They are being held in lieu of $1 million bail pending arraignment Tuesday.
Prosecutors contend that that Martinez, Covarrubias and Sanchez blocked an unmarked patrol car from moving forward on Palm Street at Boysen Avenue in Anaheim about 3:30 a.m. Friday, before one of the men got out and started shooting.
The two officers managed to turn the patrol car around and drive away with the police emergency lights flashing, but the men – who officials say are gang members – continued to pursue and shoot, according to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
The policemen were not struck but two bullets lodged in the passenger side of the patrol car, according to the news release.
The three defendants were arrested after they attempted to flee on foot when the driver crashed their car when backup police officers arrived at the scene near Midway and Anaheim Boulevard, prosecutors said.
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Windows XP Problem--help!
I just installed GF, and I have a very up to date computer with Windows XP and Direct X9 installed.
With 16-bit graphics mode on, 3D acceleration off, I still notice problems with the game. The intro ran fine but when you get to the office, if you press F1 for the options screen, half the time all sound and music is gone for the remainder of the time GF is open.
I did analyze the computer and there were flags all over the place and missing files. I took a suggestion to put the game in Win95 compatibility mode, and though the game now runs fine, the cutscenes are extremely choppy and thusly unwatchable.
How does Win95 compatibility mode affect the game's performance? But besides that, what can I do to play this game on XP? Please respond--i'd appreciate it. You can email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com
I recently got a new computer w/ WinXP and haven't tried installing any older games on it yet. I'm curious to see what people have to say.
I have to disable Hyper Threading on my P4 3.0 GHz PC (1024 MB PC3200 ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, Windows XP Pro) in order for Grim to work properly. With HT enabled I had the same problems that batman55 described. With HT disabled the game seems to run flawlessly (no need for compatibility mode), although I've only played through year one so far on this PC.
EDIT: Oh, I am experiencing one strange problem. Whenever I launch GF (by clicking on "Play Grim Fandango"), instead of starting at the LA intro the game starts up at the last location I visited in my previous play session, except Manny's inventory is completely empty. I can load a saved game and continue playing without any problems, but there's no way to start a new game unless I uninstall/reinstall.
have u downgraded ur Direct X9 to Direct X6.1? cos gf has problems on anything greater than 6.1
btw could you make sure you read http://www.lucasforums.com/showthrea...threadid=29995 before you start posting about problems in the game, thanks.
How would one disable Hyper Threading? I'm pretty dumb about all the technical stuff, so a little help? thanks a lot.. i hope for a response!
actually i figured it out.. just press F2 at startup.. and the game seems to work! thanx all
Argh, I'm afraid I'm having problems with GF as well...any help will be greatly appreciated.
I'm running Windows XP, and I've satisfied all the technical requirements. I've also got DirectX 9.0, which may be the problem.
I've downloaded the patch, and when I troubleshoot, I get some exclamation marks telling me files are old or missing, and to reinstall DirectX. Even when I do, the exclamation marks don't go away.
My problem is that the game will freeze up for no apparent reason, or the sound and music will disappear.
I'm not very technically literate, so I can't "downgrade" DirectX, nor do I know how to disable my computer's Hyper Threading technology.
I'll be grateful for any advice.
If your computer is decent then turn 3d Acceleration on, there's barely a computer in existence today which cannot support it and it will greatly enhance your experience.
If that doesn't solve it, I did hear there might be a problem regarding DX9 and GF. Try reading through some older posts and/or the sticky in this forum to research it.
Thanks a lot. I did turn the 3d Accelerator on, which made the game last about 5 minutes longer before freezing.
The material about uninstalling DirectX 9 doesn't seem to apply to XP, I think? And it does appear very technical...
Looks like I won't be playing GF for a while.
In order to disable Hyper-Threading you first have to make sure your processor is HT Enabled. If you have a Pentium 4C (800 MHz FSB) clocked at either 3.2, 3.0, 2.8, 2.6, or 2.4 GHz then your processor is HT Enabled.
To disable it you need to access your motherboard's BIOS. To access your motherboard's BIOS you have to hold down a key on your keyboard as the system is first booting up (it's usually the delete key, but check the motherboard's manual to be sure). Once you're in the BIOS just follow the manual's instructions to disable HT. It's usually pretty simple. In one of the option screens you should find a setting labeled "Hyper-Threading" which is set to "enabled". Just switch the setting to "disabled" and you're set.
I would keep HT enabled when not playing Grim Fandango if I were you, as it does enhance the processor's performance.
After a lot of experimenting with all suggestions, the ONLY thing that gives both smooth cut scenes and avoids the loss of the sound is to disable hyperthreading on the P4. As described above, you have to get into the bios as the machine is booting to disable it, but it is not a big deal: you can just re-enable it the same way.
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Pittsburgh girls know and love fashion! They know what colors look good on them, what designer looks they covet, and where to shop. Pittsburgh girls are more than just Pens jerseys and Terrible Towels, they are fashionistas! Chelsey, a 28 year-old secretary from Natrona Heights gabs about her personal style and fashion!
What is one store could you spend thousands of dollars on clothes in?
What is your favorite Pittsburgh mall?
Ross Park
What color do you think you look best in?
What is one piece in your wardrobe you could never live without?
A solid white tank top
What is your favorite cut of jeans?
Skinny with a little stretch
What is your ideal winter coat?
Something that's not too bulky, got fur on the hood, and big buttons to hook, in a neutral color.
What is your favorite kind of dress?
Short summer sundresses are my favorite. I have a ton of them!
What is your favorite type of footwear?
Leather knee high boots with a tiny heel.
Money is no object, who is your favorite luxury fashion brand?
5 adjectives to describe your style and wardrobe?
Fun, colorful, coordinated, excessive, and comfortable.


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The Lee Thomas Trailhead accesses the the Dead Horse, Dead Cow, and Lakes Trail Systems, which is open to hikers, horseback riders, and mountain bike riders. Accommodations include a parking area adequate for trailer turnaround, toilets, signed trail directions, and horse corrals, feeders, and water troughs.
Activities offered include fishing, bird watching, wildlife viewing, wading, and photography.
Directions: From Paisley: Travel south west on Mill Street to the "Y" intersection and take a right on Forest Road 3315. Stay on Forest Road 3315 for 20 miles; Turn right on Forest Road 28, then " miles to jct. with 3411. Right on 3411, four miles to Lee Thomas. Trailhead is signed; entrance is on the south side of the road.
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Populous Unveils Futuristic Honeycomb-Shaped Leeds Arena
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- Populous Leeds ArenaInternationally-renowned stadium designers Populous just unveiled the sleek honeycombed façade of their new Leeds Arena! The studio was chosen last year to design the new multi-purpose arena, which is outfitted with a kaleidoscope of lights that will draw visitors from near and far once the sun sets. Populous, one of our favorite eco stadium designers, has also included an array of green building strategies culminating in an expansive green roof that will set a new standard for sustainably-built stadiums in the United Kingdom.1
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe Leeds Arena will be lit up at night with a kaleidoscope of colors that will draw crowds and tourists to the city center.2
- Populous Leeds ArenaLeeds chose Populous to design the multi-purpose arena, and area residents helped determine the elements that would go into the design of the facility.3
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe new Leeds Arena exterior is designed based on the voroni diagram and features a cellular pattern.4
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe stadium will include a number of green strategies including a green sedum room, rainwater collection and an energy-efficient air heat pump.5
- Populous Leeds ArenaAt night, the front of the building will change colors and patterns depending on the show or mood of the arena at the time6
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe arena will be utilized for various purposes including music concerts, theater shows, comedy events, basketball, boxing, wrestling, dancing shows, and ice skating.7
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe Leeds Arena will be arranged in a fan shape, which will offer better views for all ticket holders. It can seat up to 13,500 people.8
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe longest distance from the stage at the Leeds Arena is 68 meters as opposed to 95-110 meter at a standard arena.9
- Populous Leeds ArenaThe Leeds Arena will be able to host events that standard arenas can, but unlike traditional arenas, the design offers better views for spectators and seating can be rearranged or removed for different events.10
- Populous Leeds ArenaLeeds Arena will be located on Claypit Lane. Construction is expected to start by the end of 2010 and be completed by 2012.11


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CLEMSON - Outstanding graduate students were recognized at this spring's Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Achievement Award Ceremony. Graduate students Andrew Clark and Githin Alapatt received Harris Awards, two department-wide awards which have been given each year for the past 28 years in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the preceding year by a current Clemson graduate student in each of two areas: laboratory teaching and research.
Andrew Clarke received the Harris Award for the Outstanding Graduate Laboratory Teaching Assistant in 2011 based on evaluations by undergraduates enrolled in ECE laboratory courses and assessment by the faculty supervisors of the laboratories. Clarke completed the B.S. degree in electrical engineering at Clemson in 2010, and he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. EE degree with an emphasis in power systems under the direction of Prof. Makram. Student evaluations of his laboratory teaching are consistently enthusiastic, such as the comment by one student that Andrew "helped connect the theory in class to the actual realizations in the lab."
Githin Alapatt received the Harris Award for the Outstanding Graduate Researcher in 2011 based on the recommendation of a faculty member and evaluation by a committee of ECE faculty. Alapatt completed the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering at the Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2007, he received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson in 2010, and he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Clemson with an emphasis in photovoltaic electronics under the direction of Prof. Singh. Githin's record of research productivity and scholarship is outstanding. Since beginning his graduate studies at Clemson, he has authored four journal papers and eight conference papers which have been published or submitted for review.
Since their inception, the Harris Awards have been accompanied by a monetary stipend, which is provided by the generosity of Harris Corp. The department was fortunate to have Dennis Noffke of Harris Corp. in attendance at this year's awards ceremony to present the recipients with their awards. The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering appreciates the support and encouragement that Harris and its employees provide to our department and our students.
Also recognized at the awards ceremony were the following ECE graduate students who have received scholarships or fellowships in the past year:


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In good news for patients and families, the federal government recently took two important steps to increase transparency. These actions exemplify a changing health care culture that recognizes the need for openness.
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Adolphe d'Espie de La Hire
, better known as
Jean de La Hire
(1878-1956), was a prolific writer of popular adventure series and a pioneer of science fiction with
La Roue Fulgurante
[The Fiery Wheel] (1908)a proto-space opera. His
Le Corsaire Sous-Marin
[The Undersea Corsair] (1912-13), was inspired by Jules Verne;
Joe Rollon
(1919) developed his own take on H. G. Wells' Invisible Man. Alongside the
, La Hire created
Les Grandes Aventures d'un Boy Scout
(1926) in which boy scout Franc-Hardi visits underground realms and other planets.
The Nyctalope vs Lucifer
The Nyctalope on Mars
Enter the Nyctalope
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Welcome to Virtual GSMISTS
With the emergence of virtual Girl Scouting, Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore is committed to exploring cutting-edge technology and social networking platforms to connect to girls where they are at - online. Make sure you're connected with GSMISTS through our many social networks:
New GSMISTS Department Blogs! Check them out!
Get the latest updates and information straight from each department. Plus, get to know the GSMISTS team on a more personal level! You can read the blogs and even subscribe to updates via e-mail!


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Exciting lesson ideas, book lists, videos, classroom strategies, and reproducibles in a daily blog by mentor teachers
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Back to School, Parent and Teacher Communication, Teacher Tips and Strategies, Technology, Working with Families and the Community
In Chippewa Valley, and most of Michigan, the first day of school is the Tuesday after Labor Day. As we prepare for the arrival of the students, we also need to gear up to meet the parents. Below are some tips that may help you make a positive...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The other day I was at a restaurant. I only wanted an iced tea. That's it. I wasn't hungry for anything. The waitress brings me the iced tea and some chips and salsa for the table. Wouldn't you know, I ate half the basket of chips even though I...
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text: It's turkey time in Puerto Vallarta, and there is no excuse for missing a turkey Christmas this year, thanks to The Deli, offering a traditional turkey dinner to go. The dinner includes stuffing, cranberry relish, mashed potato, sweet potato, vegetables and gravy, all packed in a ready-to-heat container. Price is $150 pesos per person. Additionally, The Deli is offering pumpkin pie by the slice ($40 pesos) or whole ($200 pesos, good for 6-8. You must place the order by December 20 at 223-9523 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you fancy a sit-down dinner, Daiquiri Dick's will be offering turkey dinner on Christmas Day. Please call 222-0566 for information and reservations.


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Rumor: Droid Eris to sell at $99
Hey, remember the Droid Eris? You know, that phone that's launching the same day as the Droid, but isn't getting as much attention? We may have some news that will certainly grab your attention.
Gdgt has a source on good authority that knows the Droid Eris will be available with contract for $99, compared to the $199 price point of the Droid.
This actually makes a lot of sense. For one, the Eris will be a hard sell if it's offered at the same cost as its more popular Android cousin. Especially if it isn't rocking Eclair right from the get-go.
We want to hear from anyone who is planning on buying one of the two new Droid-series handsets. Would the $99/199 pricing make a difference on your decision? Which one are you going to go with?
via Gdgt