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You can skip the first set without regret, but if you fall in the middle of the TMBG/Ween/Phish fandom Venn diagram, Set II is pure uncut musical cocaine. This one's in line with later experiments like 5/7/94 II (the essential Bomb Factory Tweezerfest), though the breadth-to-depth ratio is at the high end here, so caveat emptor. It's an official release, but high-quality SBD recordings have circulated for 16 years and should still be readily available.
Saturday, 02/20/1993
Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, GA
Set 1: GolgiGolgi Apparatus, Foam, SlothThe Sloth, Possum > Weigh > ATRAll Things Reconsidered, DividedDivided Sky, HorseThe Horse[1] > SilentSilent in the Morning > Fluffhead, Cavern
Set 2: Wilson[2] > Reba > Tweezer -> Walk Away -> Tweezer > Glide > Mike'sMike's Song[3] -> MMGAMOIOMy Mind's Got a Mind of its Own[4] -> Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen -> Vibration of LifeThe Vibration of Life -> Kung -> HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove -> Have Mercy[4] -> WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove -> Rock and Roll All Nite Jam[5] -> WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, FEFYFast Enough for You > BBJBig Ball Jam > HYHUHold Your Head Up > Terrapin > HYHUHold Your Head Up -> HoodHarry Hood, TweepriseTweezer Reprise
Encore: Sleeping Monkey
[1] Trey on acoustic guitar.
[2] Simpsons signal.
[3] Minor lyric changes.
[4] Not played in its entirety.
[5] Chorus sung by Jay von Lehe.
· Iron Man tease in Wilson
· Theme from Woody Woodpecker tease in Reba
· Low Rider and Straight Out the Sewer jams in Tweezer
· Tweezer tease in Glide
· Tweezer, Wilson, Reba, The Lizards, and Stash teases in Mike's Song
· Entrance of the Gladiators and NO2 teases in I Am Hydrogen
· Hold Your Head Up tease in Terrapin
Noteworthy Jams: Divided Sky, Reba, Tweezer, Walk Away, Tweezer, Mike's Song, My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Mike's Song, I Am Hydrogen, The Vibration of Life, Kung, I Am Hydrogen, Weekapaug Groove, Have Mercy, Weekapaug Groove, Rock and Roll All Nite, Weekapaug Groove, Harry Hood
Average Song Gap: 27.31
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. This long version of Wilson included a Simpsons signal and, towards the end, a freakish jam that included an Iron Man tease from Mike. Reba included a tease of the theme from Woody Woodpecker. Tweezer had a Low Rider jam and Straight Out the Sewer quotes from Trey. Glide subsequently included Tweezer teases. Mike's Song featured minor lyric changes, three different Tweezer teases, two different Wilson teases, and other teases of Reba, Lizards, and Stash. During Hydrogen before the Vibration of Life, Mike teased Entrance of the Gladiators. After Kung, Mike quoted NO2. The Rock and Roll All Nite jam was for fan Jay von Lehe, dressed as Kiss' Gene Simmons, who the band brought on stage to sing the song's chorus. Terrapin featured band intros and lots of chatter from Fish, prompting a hurry-up HYHU tease from Page. Fish also performed a lengthy vacuum solo during this tune. The HYHU outro segued into Hood as Fish and Trey switched places. Neither Have Mercy (first since Halloween, 1986, or 669 shows) nor MMGAMOIO were played in their entirety. Walk Away was played for the first time since November 2, 1991 (159 shows). This show was released as part of the Phish At The Roxy box set.
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5 Rift
4 A Picture of Nectar
4 Junta
3 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 Stash
1 Lawn Boy
1 The White Tape
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This show was part of the "1993 Winter/Spring Tour."
You can skip the first set without regret, but if you fall in the middle of the TMBG/Ween/Phish fandom Venn diagram, Set II is pure uncut musical cocaine. This one's in line with later experiments like 5/7/94 II (the essential Bomb Factory Tweezerfest), though the breadth-to-depth ratio is at the high end here, so caveat emptor. It's an official release, but high-quality SBD recordings have circulated for 16 years and should still be readily available.
No review can do justice to this experience, but I'll try. It was my 22nd birthday, and the night of the first Phish.Net gathering, so the atmosphere for me was particularly giddy. But anyone there at the time would have been thrown by the relentless spontaneity.
The second set of this show is routinely listed among "must have"
recordings. There was magic in the air starting with the first set the previous night. But mere minutes into this set, it was clear that things were going a step higher. It is perhaps the most debated of Phish setlists, with so many overlays and reprises that any two fans probably list it differently. For its time, the twists and turns were religious. A cadre of diehards, front and center, scrambled with pens and scratched their heads trying to keep track of the setlist. One Matt Laurence ultimately gave a blank stare and tossed his paper into the air.
The show so stood out from others of its time that its popularity inflated its status for many years to follow. (The availability of high-quality soundboards furthered both the popularity and the status.) In retrospect, the improvisation was relatively tame, and the energy (as conveyed on tape) was higher at other shows of the same era.
Granted, many aspects of Phish shows (and life generally) are impossible to record. But the site of Fishman naked, or the band exploding a drumkit, are imaginable. For anyone who has seen Phish in recent years, the mystique of restless song shifts is probably more confounding than compelling. But for anyone who was there that night, or who saw shows or has heard tapes from that era, the flow is laudable. It wasn't the best Phish show ever, but itwas one of the best ones to experience - a beautiful buzz.
anyway, the first set here is very well-played, but it is nothing out of the ordinary for 1993. weigh and sloth are nice treats. foam is very sharp, and trey is right on in possum, fluff head, and the divided sky. the real fireworks start in the first set. this is a particularly strange version of wilson. after a some what disjointed/hard rock type jam they dive into reba. this is a really nice exploratory reba, but it is merely a precursor to the mayhem to come. this tweezer is not the longest in the world, but it sure does rock. fishman is really funky. it also includes a nifty little "straight from the sewer rap." this quick, focused jam quickly turns into walk away. after page belts out a killer walk away, they drive right back into tweezer. this is my favorite glide. they dip some major tweezer teases all over this one. then they cranked up the mother of all wild mike's songs. i love the tweezer bass line in the intro to this mike's. most of the phish songs teased in here are listed above, but they way they weave it all together is genious. finally, they give you a nice breathe of fresh air with a hydrogen>vibration>kung>hydrogen run. this finally builds up to a killer weekapaugh that dives through have mercy and rock and roll all night before dipping into fefy. this song usually doesnt do it for me, but it fits really well after all that mayham. the rest of this set is pretty standard fare. the hood is good, but compared to what they had already played in this set...
great show. if you don't have it or have not heard it, you have no idea how good phish really is.
Golgi, Foam and Sloth are well played. Possum is a wank fest and has a little feedback towards the end while the sound gets settled in. Weigh had great energy tonight, right into a well played ATR. Divided had some more feedback and a few tentative spots in the ending jam. Multiple thank you's followed. The Horse was ok with minimal feedback. Silent still has its troubles getting Fishman in on the right beat. Fluff was much better than the last one I heard, still a few spots here and there. Cavern makes for a good closer for a solid first set.
Wilson is spirited and starts the real foolishness of the night. Mike seems to miss a spot in the middle. Maybe this sets off the teases? The first three minutes of Reba are good, and then some rough parts, a reasonably well played middle, a rocking solo section and an inexplicable ending. Weird, at best. Tweezer is sloppy, but funky, and really starts the song sandwich out. Walk Away was well played. Glide was strange, but ok. Mike's is really sloppy, all the while making fun of Mike that it's his song. Blah, blah, blah...tease, tease, tease... Kung is well done! Trey is out of tune for Hydrogen. Weekapaug is another mess. Huge bust out with Have Mercy. FEFY was pretty well played after all that madness. The balls come out. Terrapin is long and its funny that Page teases HYHU to get him moving. Hood is pretty good, although Trey still seems to be out of tune, maybe because his guitar got cold while he was on drums? Tweeprise is expected as this circus comes to a close for the night.
Monkey is another mini bust out and has a few rusty spots in it. Otherwise, its a great way to send everyone home for the evening.
You can't stop the energy of this show, but having said that, it is a really sloppy second set. Some good moments, and some not so good to my ears. I was very tempted to give this three stars for all the screwing around. I'm sure if I was there, I would have nothing but fond memories.
That said, the stuff that works absolutely and totally *works*; I mean, this show would not have had its reputation for over 20 years if it didn't. The Tweezer is one of my personal favorites, with its weird Das EFX quotes (funny how much more organic it sounded here than a similar rap venture 11 years later...) and brilliant Low Rider/Walk Away jam; Glide is a legitimate treat, and so packed with energy; the Weekapaug itself is a great one, as Have Mercy is a treat no matter what the circumstances and the Rock & Roll All Night jam is hilarious; HYHU gives us one of the truly rare segues *into* Hood, which is indeed as lovely and superbly peaked as its reputation. Ultimately, the weak spots pale in comparison to how much fantastic music is in this second set, a strong contender for the best set they had played up to that point in time. The first set...well, maybe you'll play it more than I have.
So yes, hypothetical Phish fan that I made up at the start of this review, you may be put off by how different the jamming style is, or how many damn teases pop up in the set, or Reba showing up in the second set, or how they just *rip* through songs throughout the show. But you will also be drawn in by the sheer atomic energy of the playing throughout, by how well they tie in some of those segues (seriously, everything in that Tweezer is perfect), and the overall experience of the whole set from top to bottom. And hey - maybe you'll want to give '93 a deeper listen. That's worth listening to this show all by itself.
2/20/93 was 18 days after the release of Phish's Rift album, and some of the songs representing that LP in this show are now pretty rare in live performance. Weigh, All Things Reconsidered, The Horse, and Fast Enough for You don't get played often nowadays, or in the case of ATR, at all. The band is characteristically limber but not to the point of sacrificing the rigorous technical demands of the material that they were showcasing nightly during this exciting time in Phishtory. It would be hard to say that 2/20/93 contains any "big jams" in the mold of which we've become accustomed by 2015, but the amazing rollercoaster ride this show takes even the newest phan on just goes to show that Phish cannot be limited by the description "jamband," even if it does pretty accurately describe what I presume has been their modus operandi nearly ever since, if jamband means eclectically improvisation-oriented and willing to surrender to the flow.
Reba had debuted in a prototypical form on 10/1/89 if memory serves, and by this point was honed into the glorious, melodic, spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, to quote William Wordsworth from his Preface to Lyrical Ballads; the quote goes on,
"For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings; and, as by contemplating the relation of these general representatives to each other, we discover what is really important to men, so, by the repetition and continuance of this act, our feelings will be connected with important subjects, till at length, if we be originally possessed of much sensibility, such habits of mind will be produced, that, by obeying blindly and mechanically the impulses of those habits, we shall describe objects, and utter sentiments, of such a nature, and in such connexion with each other, that the understanding of the Reader must necessarily be in some degree enlightened, and his affections strengthened and purified."
Phish are certainly "possessed of more than usual organic sensibility," as evinced by their thematic, song-suite like series of segues that begins in 2/20/93 with Tweezer and doesn't stop until the conclusion of--or thirdly notated--Weekapaug Groove. I'm satisfied that the members of Phish have "though long and deeply," which may be why the site you're visiting now exists at all, to wit: Phish inspires contemplative and often rapturous, or transcendent, states in susceptible listeners, which we find ourselves encouraged to share a refraction of through the--apologies to Mr. Wordsworth--medium of mere words, which can only approximate the "continued influxes of feeling." Thankfully, Phish have never "obey(ed) blindly and mechanically the impulses of (their) habits," instead proving themselves always willing to experiment, even to strip or desconstruct themselves for the sake of the sacred journey whose frame-tale is life itself, and whose beginning, middle, and (this has yet to be seen) end were and will be virtue expressed through refinement of that spontaneous overflow using the tools available to all humans, namely wonder, fellowship, and eventually a Zenlike humor that hopefully serves to strengthen the wonder and fellowship even further (it's déjà vu all over again!)
If it seems I've riffed too much on the existential nature of this show, and if that seems silly for such a gleefully, tensely spun musical narrative as the seguefest in Set II, I plead no contest to any apparent pontification, and apologize if I've used your time in a way such that you feel it was wasted. A mutable hermeneutics lends itself well to my listening experience in this show, as a variety thereof always does with Phish, because their virtuosity begs involvement on the part of the listener(s), and in trying to get "inside" the music--as well as the living, breathing conduits of it that I feel I've gotten to know somewhat since 1998--I keep learning more about myself and how I appreciate/respond to art. God bless those who love Phish for any reason at all, whether it's because Phish makes good art, or because the person listening at the show or on recording can take pleasure in any aspect of the yes, sometimes silly spectacle that is inimitably known as Phish.
Set 2 is truly bizarre. It starts out strong: Wilson is infused with extra enthusiasm (Trey SCREAMS some of the lyrics), and there is a great sequence of psychedelic silliness before the BLAT BOOM. I like the transition into Reba, and the Reba solo is one of my favorites for the pliable interplay between band members. Tweezer -> Walk Away -> Tweezer is also quite memorable: while the transitions are good, more than anything it won't be easy to forget the atypical straight from the sewer rap. The ensuing Tweezer-infused Glide works well as one of those early-'90s woah, are they really... really? moments.
At this point in the show, it's clear that the band is in an especially playful mood... Still, it would be hard to predict what comes next. I must say that I really don't like the Mike's Song segue-fest. The Vibration Of Life / Kung / N2O mishmash is pretty cool (the audience sounds eerily silent during the STAND UP! segment). However, the majority of the Mike's Groove (up to FEFY) is a derailed train that the band mercilessly drives deep into the ground. Many of you will disagree with me or present reasons that this sequence is great despite the sloppiness (or perhaps FOR the sloppiness), which is fine. It just doesn't do it for me. To my ears, Mike and especially Page have a very hard time following Trey's sharp and discordant changes. I'm glad that the band got this out of their system early on.
Every serious fan ought to listen to this show, if only because the first half of the second set is quite strong, and the Mike's Groove exemplifies a kind of outlandish abandon that is rare for this band. You might like it... apparently a lot of people do.
Again. Legendary but go old school and just get a bootleg of the second set. Save your money for food.


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T-Town taproom: Druid City Brewing Co. serves beer where it's made
Published: Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 5, 2013 at 7:08 p.m.
Tuscaloosa's only brewery has opened a taproom, where customers can buy beers to drink where the suds are brewed.
Druid City Brewing Co. taproom
Grand opening: July 11. Druid City Brewing will serve its typical selection as well as the Queen City Reserve, an India Pale Ale with a different profile from the Lamplighter India Pale Ale.
Hours: 4-8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2-8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Where: 607 14th St., across the street from Oz Music.
Druid City Brewing Co. plans a grand opening for its taproom on July 11, but the brewery's owners held a soft opening last weekend.
"We decided to do it quick and dirty on Saturday (June 29)," said Bo Hicks, co-owner of Druid City Brewing. "We had everything in line and we just wanted to kick the wheels and see how it worked."
On June 29, the taproom was open to a select group of friends of Hicks and co-owner Elliott Roberts. On June 30, the co-owners used the brewery's official Facebook and Twitter pages to invite followers to come by and visit the new taproom.
From their social media posts, Druid City Brewing had about 60 customers over the course of the day. Right now, the brewery has on tap Druid City Wheat, Druid City Pale Ale and Lamplighter India Pale Ale, which are all $5 per pint. The brewery also sells merchandise such as shirts, hats and pint glasses.
The taproom has a refrigerated beer container called a "kegerator" that Roberts built and a chalkboard menu made from peg board left from when the space was a banjo parlor. It also has a custom-made bar created by Elliott McPherson of the Tuscaloosa band the Dexateens.
"They set me free on it," McPherson said about the creation. "They gave me free rein to do whatever."
He said he chose to focus on using the Druid City Brewing logos on the bar because of the traditional, iconic feel it has in the area. Hicks and Roberts received permission from Gordo artist Glenn House to use the design he created for the Moon Winx Lodge.
"I think what they are doing with the way they are branding is perfect because people in Tuscaloosa love tradition," McPherson said. "People in Tuscaloosa love something that their parents have shared and that they can share with their children. I feel like what they are going for is that very thing. ... I think their beer is good, but I really think that the image is excellent."
A taproom is something the brewery co-owners have considered since opening in November 2012, but Hicks said they originally thought there wasn't enough space.
"Our present tasting room was just our office," Hicks said. "We kept having interest and people stopping by, so we decided that we could downgrade some of the present clutter we have to make our office our taproom."
Hicks said he didn't want the taproom to compete with retail locations that sell the brewery's beers. Instead, he hopes the taproom will give people the opportunity to learn more about where they can buy Druid City beers.
"That's one of the reason we have this big, gnarly map (on the wall). We're about to have all our retail partners marked on there, so people can find our beers out in Tuscaloosa because that's where we want to be," Hicks said. "We just want to use this as a way for people to get familiar with it or people from out of town to come by and visit."
For the July 11 grand opening, Druid City Brewing will serve its typical selection as well as the Queen City Reserve, an India Pale Ale with a different profile from the Lamplighter India Pale Ale.
The taproom is open from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Druid City Brewing is across the street from Oz Music at 607 14th St.
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Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Staged by: Elyse Borne
Lighting Designer: Ronald Bates
World Premiere: December 1, 1957—New York City Ballet City Center of Music
and Drama, New York, New York
San Francisco Ballet Premiere: April 10, 1976—Orpheum Theater, San Francisco, California
Sofiane Sylve and Anthony Spaulding in Balanchine's Agon (© Erik Tomasson)
George Balanchine's Agon is best known for two things: its nearly iconic pas de deux, often excerpted for galas and other ballet melting pots, and the mystery surrounding its name. In Greek, "agon" means contest or struggle, but there's little of either going on in this often playful ballet. What is going on is a series of duets, trios, and ensemble dances in which Balanchine explores nearly every possible configuration of a canon.
Agon is one of Balanchine's "black-and-white" ballets, called that because they're danced in simple practice clothes in a (mostly) neutral palette. Created in 1957 for New York City Ballet, Agon is startlingly contemporary. "It looks like it could have been choreographed yesterday," says Balanchine Trust stager Elyse Borne, who set Agon on San Francisco Ballet this year and in 2002, when it was last performed. "It must have been so nouveau to watch."
Agon is notable for much more than its enigmatic name. First, it generated excitement with its pairing of a black man (Arthur Mitchell) and white woman (Diana Adams) in the premiere's central pas de deux, at the time a radical move. Second, Agon is the last of three collaborations between Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky (although Balanchine often choreographed to existing music by Stravinsky). Third, the music for Agon marks Stravinsky's first use of the 12- tone system devised by Arnold Schoenberg, in which all 12 musical notes must be played before one can be repeated (thus it's not melodic). And fourth, Stravinsky based his composition on a book of 17th-century French court dances. Although you're not likely to spot anything that's recognizably a sarabande, galliard, or bransle (even if you knew what they were), those dances are marked in the score. And if the music has some basis in those old dances, then you can be sure Agon's choreography does too; Balanchine was a master at bringing music alive through movement.
Stravinsky's score for Agon—which Martin West, the Company's music director and principal conductor, calls "pure music" and "one of Stravinsky's cerebral pieces"—is complex and challenging. Balanchine responded in kind. The steps themselves aren't particularly difficult, compared to some of his works, but how he uses them musically is. "With Stravinsky, everybody says it's difficult counts," Borne says. "But in Agon, it's not just about knowing the counts, it's where to place them [choreographically] in the music." Steps and musical counts might be offset by a half beat or more. And then there are all those canons (unison movement that various dancers start at different times), sometimes set only one count apart rather than the traditional two or four.
As for the name, a likely explanation is this: in 1948, Lincoln Kirstein, New York City Ballet's general director, proposed that Balanchine and Stravinsky create the third part of what would be a Greek trilogy including Apollo (1928; originally Apollon Musagète) and Orpheus (1948). Stravinsky came up with the name Agon and started working on the score in 1953. Four years later he came back to it, minus the Greek trilogy idea. What emerged was an abstract ballet.
Rather than thinking of Agon as depicting a contest, regard it as what Borne calls it, "a serious ballet that doesn't take itself too seriously." The steps are "full of humor," she says. "It's a fun/serious abstract ballet, but it's a human-relationships one. Those pas de trois, the pas de deux—it's all about the relationships."
In trying to re-create what Balanchine intended, Borne digs into history. "Some of the best pearls of wisdom I find in the piano score from the rehearsals. The pianist would write things in, things that have gotten lost over the years. I love to find them," she says. "I get very excited when I see a video and it's one count off. I don't know how I can get so excited about one count, but I do, and I make it correct. Those are little things that audiences wouldn't notice, but it's part of preserving the legacy."
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Orchestrated by: Arnold Schoenberg
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Staged by: Francia Russell
Costume Designer: Judanna Lynn
Lighting Designer: David K.H. Elliott
Music: Arnold Schoenberg's 1967 orchestration of Johannes Brahms' 1861 Piano Quartet No. 1
World Premiere: April 12, 1966, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, New
York, New York
San Francisco Ballet Premiere: August 16, 1985—Meadowbrook Festival; Rochester, Michigan
Four ballets in one—that's George Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. From a neoclassical opening that starts with a bang through Romantic and classical mini-ballets to a wild, Gypsy-style ending, this ballet offers a spectrum of gorgeous, exhilarating dancing.
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet premiered at New York City Ballet in 1966, which means it preceded (and perhaps served as inspiration for) the better-known Jewels (1967), also composed of discrete-but-related ballets, but in an evening-length format. Since then Brahms has been performed by only San Francisco Ballet (1985 and 1986), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Munich's Bayerischen Staatsoper, and Suzanne Farrell Ballet (portions). As lush as Brahms is, performing it takes a large company with depth in the top ranks; principal dancers appear in only one movement per performance.
Francia Russell, the former co-director of Pacific Northwest Ballet (with her husband, Kent Stowell), staged Brahms for SF Ballet in 1985 and again this season. "It's not one of the iconic works like Agon or Serenade," she says, "but it's one of the great works, I think. The variety in the four movements is really interesting; to me, that's one of the things that makes it great."
Staging Brahms, Russell says, is all about the "music, music, music." Beyond that, she says, "it's always a challenge to persuade dancers to be free. Wayne McGregor wants one kind of freedom, Balanchine wants another. The dancers need to learn from the person staging [a ballet] what kind of freedom, what kind of tension, what kind of approach. And in this case, all four movements are different."
The first movement, which Russell describes as rich in detail, begins with such intensity that it's as if the ballet were already in progress when the curtain rises. But the stage is empty until a solo woman "charges out and takes over the stage," Russell says. "The curtain rises, and then boom! There she is. She has to gobble up the stage. And then the four men join her—it's so dramatic. And it stays at a high pitch all the way through."
The second movement has, in Russell's opinion, "the most beautiful pas de deux." About the partnering she says, "I've never seen anything quite like it. Rapturous abandon." The third movement, with a principal couple backed by 15 women, seems to have been imported straight from imperial Russia. "It's classical ballet, beautiful patterns, exactly what you'd expect," Russell says. "Lines, lines, lines; the girls have to have beautiful arms and heads. It's Petipa, you know." And the fourth movement," she says, "is just a romp—it's so lusty and rhythmic and exciting."
The third movement, says Principal Dancer Frances Chung, is "very lush and slow. I have a little solo that picks up; it's to a march." Learning the role, she says, was "straightforward. But it's very 'classroom' movement, and you have to add the lush quality that the music embodies in it. Sometimes simple things are the hardest."
Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, as is typical for Balanchine, is named for its music, Arnold Schoenberg's 1967 orchestration of Johannes Brahms' 1861 Piano Quartet No. 1. The quartet, Music Director and Principal Conductor Martin West says, is "considered Brahms' fifth symphony. It's such a big piece; it has everything a symphony would have—the structure, the importance, the length."
In CD notes for The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, Vol. IV, conductor Robert Craft quotes Schoenberg on his reasons for orchestrating the Brahms: "I like the piece. It is seldom played. It is always played very badly, because, the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and you hear nothing from the strings [violin, viola, cello]. I wanted [for] once to hear everything, and this I achieved."
If Schoenberg got what he wanted, then so should Balanchine. "When I'm teaching the ballet, I'm trying to give the dancers what Balanchine would want," Russell says. But later, when she's watching it in performance, "I'm watching them," she says. "With Balanchine, it's the marriage of music and movement that always wrings your heart and inspires your mind."
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola
Composer: Philip Glass
Choreographer: Jerome Robbins
Staged by: Jean-Pierre Frohlich
Production Designer: Jerome Robbins and Ronald Bates
Costume Designer: Ben Benson
Lighting Designer: Ronald Bates
Music: Glass Piece #1 ("Rubric"), Glass Piece #2 ("Facades"), Glass Piece #3 ("Funeral" from Akhnaten)
World Premiere: May 12, 1983—New York City Ballet, New York State Theater,
New York, New York
San Francisco Ballet Premiere: February 5, 1998—War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California
San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' Glass Pieces (© Erik Tomasson)
Glass Pieces fills the stage, the mind, and the eye. Like the energetic pulse of a big city—a simile frequently used to describe this work—it sends hearts racing and blood surging. Set to a circuitous score by minimalist composer Philip Glass, this popular ballet by Jerome Robbins is anything but minimal.
Choreographed in 1983 for New York City Ballet and first performed by San Francisco Ballet in 1998, Glass Pieces might not exist were it not for a failed plan for Robbins to direct Glass' opera Akhnaten. According to Deborah Jowitt's book Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance, Robbins, preparing for the opera, asked Glass for some music for a ballet, " 'to get my feet wet,' in terms of dealing with Glass' style and musical structure." The composer complied, and Glass Pieces, sparked by Robbins' interest in postmodern dance, was born.
Attempts to categorize this ballet fail. "It changes," says Jean-Pierre Frohlich, a member of the advisory committee for the Robbins Rights Trust who has staged the work for San Francisco Ballet several times. (The Company last performed it in 2012.) "It's like three different pieces—I think the second one [a pas de deux backed by a never-ending assembly line of women] is timeless." A mix of ballet, modern, and jazz dance, Glass Pieces mesmerizes with its frenetic ensemble work, folk dance influences, contagious exuberance, and a heck of a lot of fast walking.
San Francisco Ballet in Robbins' Glass Pieces (© Erik Tomasson)
The image of urban urgency and isolation, reinforced by a grid-patterned backdrop reminiscent of city blocks, is most obvious in the ballet's first movement, but it tends to dominate our perception of the work. "There's a lot said about [the urban theme], but I think it's valid," Frohlich says. "The New York Times ran a picture of Grand Central Station at the holidays, and at the bottom it mentioned Glass Pieces. And if you go to Grand Central Station at rush hour and you look, they're all walking like that, zigzagging to different areas." The ballet's pedestrians, hell-bent on their destinations, don't see three couples that land in their midst to dance. "They don't even know they're there. Jerry [Robbins] used to call the couples aliens or space Martians," Frohlich says.
That sense of otherworldliness continues in the second movement pas de deux. The line of women chugging behind the couple, Ballet Master Betsy Erickson says, "is like life going by while this couple is having this beautiful, breath-filled moment. It's abstract, more than human, a super-beautiful human quality. It's like a machine contrasting with the superhuman."
In the third movement, folk motifs dominate in a complex rush of bodies on and off the stage—movement that "goes totally to the folk celebration, the harvest," says Erickson. In rehearsals, she calls out the names of various sections: Apples and Oranges, Coming Forward, Ins and Outs. "They're from Robbins," Erickson explains. "He would say things like, 'Gather the apples and oranges.' The women should look like they're gathering and harvesting." The complex rhythms defy counting. "The women are doing their movement in a six and the men do theirs in an eight," says Erickson. "That's what gets tough in the last section—the overlay of rhythms, of choreography in different sequences. It keeps gathering momentum. The dancers love it—they catch on the momentum, like horses chomping at the bit."
Commenting on the ballet's many layers, Erickson says, "Every time I come back to it I find something new, things I didn't realize were going on simultaneously or that connect with something else." A perennial audience pleaser, Glass Pieces' nonstop barrage of repetitive yet ever-changing images captivates viewers. What's most fascinating, Erickson says, is the "constant discovery."
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The best writing in daily papers usually comes from the columnists and the sportswriters, who have license to wax creative in ways that the hard-news reporters, and even the feature writers, do not.
Occasionally, editorial writers also get a chance to turn a phrase. Exhibit A for this morning comes from the Portland Oregonian, in an editorial on the recent acquisition of Chehalem Ridge Natural Area by the Metro regional government. While the piece is signed collectively by the Oregonian Editorial Board, it exhibits a tightness and grace that suggest a single writer.
It happens that this editorial endorses a TPL project. But cross my heart and hope to spit, I would have posted it even without a TPL mention, since is so attuned to what we are up to at LandNotes.
Some places are haunted by history and give off sad, solemn vibrations. But the Chehalem Ridge Natural Area, five miles south of Forest Grove, is eerie for almost the opposite reason.
This place echoes with premonitions of joy. Picnicking, hiking, camping? Nothing has been decided yet about how this natural area will be used, but on a sunny day, Oregonians lucky enough to be tramping around up here will be transfixed by the view.
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Few achievements, recorded in the minutes of a public meeting, last forever. Winds shift, majorities collapse and even a wise decision made by one group of politicians can — and often should — be revisited by the next group in another few years.
But the purchase of a park comes as close to being a timeless decision as public bodies ever make. Chehalem Ridge Natural Area will be recorded on the maps and memories of Portlanders for generations to come.
Read the full editorial here. And there is more about the project on TPL's website here and here.
If anyone knows the name of the scribe who actually penned the editorial, I hope they will let me know. "The purchase of a park comes as close to being a timeless decision as public bodies ever make." Boy, I wish I had written that.
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The women of Hollywood might have some slight advantages: There's genetics, of course. But they've also got access to the best fitness trainers in the world, and enough money and time to invest in those trainers. So sure, they've got a one up, but does that mean you should give up on the body of your dreams? The tight butt of a superstar? The svelte thighs of a pop star? The lean arms you see on the big screen? No. And even if you don't care about getting Aniston's body, it never hurts to learn some new tone-up tips, right?
To help you reach your fitness goals, we chatted with the trainers of the hottest bods in Hollywood. Our goal? To find out the exact exercises and general fitness tips they teach their A-list clients in order to get them toned and tight. These blockbuster moves will get you into shape, and who knows, maybe even an agent.
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Of course, pictures of the actual exercises would be nice but lets exercise our brains here as well people! I have heard of these exercises and I highly doubt that is the ONLY thing they swear by. These are very helpful and it's awesome that these trainers share these tips with us just to help us feel as beautiful as these starlets.
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Some of these exercised will be very useful! Although I won't find myself trying the pull-throughs at the gym in front of all the guys working out. They're a bit awkward in front of others...though they look great for core toning
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These sound hard!
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It would be nice to be able to afford a personal trainer and chef. Those women get paid to be in top shape.
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Really good article...I seriously wish I had an amazing personal trainer!
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great tips!
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Thanks for the tips. Great motivation to get moving!!
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The Eastern Steppes of Mongolia are some of the largest and last remaining temperate grasslands in the world. They are also home to the Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or zeer, which migrate annually in herds ranging from 35,000 to 80,000 between winter and calving grounds spread throughout the steppes. Although the Eastern Steppes are still relatively undisturbed, the overall geographic range of zeer has declined dramatically from 1.2 million km2 in 1950 to less than 400,000 km2 in the late 1990s. Gazelles have experienced a corresponding decline in population.
|Historic and present distribution of Mongolan gazelles
Peter Leimgruber and other researchers at the Conservation and Research Center used a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), derived from coarse-resolution satellite imagery to map relative primary productivity of steppes between April 1992 and December 1995. Although productivity varied during these years, winter and calving grounds had the highest NDVI scores during periods of use by the gazelles. In fact, gazelle movements to these areas followed shifts in primary productivity across the steppe. By mapping productivity "hotspots" used by gazelles during critical periods in their life cycle, researchers hope to identify which areas should be priorities for conservation.
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Paul Wilson Dorman, 50, a gay undocumented Irishman originally from Newtownards, Co. Down who is living in New Jersey with his long term civil partner, had a deportation order against him suspended by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last Thursday.
Dorman, who has been in a long-term relationship with John Paul Frederick, Jr., 48, since 1997, was flagged for deportation when he was waiting to meet his son, who is a minor, at the airport. A member of ground staff became suspicious of Dorman's immigration status and reported him to the authorities, Dorman's attorney told the Irish Voice.
On Thursday Holder sent Dorman's case back to the Immigration Appeals Court, asking it to carefully consider the possible grounds on which the Irishman might qualify for legal residency.
Dorman is legally married to a U.S. citizen through a 2009 civil union in New Jersey, but he still had his application for legal residency denied because the federal Defense of Marriage of Act (DOMA) defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, refusing to recognize same-sex marriage.
Had Dorman been heterosexual and married to a woman his application for a visa would have been granted. U.S. immigration law does not recognize same sex marriages with regards to granting immigration benefits.
For Dorman it all comes down to this -- does he have a legal spouse? It's a simple question with a surprising number of potential answers.
The answer is yes, if he was married in Connecticut for example. It is also yes if he had a civil union inNew Jersey or in any other state that permits gay unions. But then the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) kicks in.
"New Jersey law is very clear on this and says if you have a civil union in New Jersey you are considered to have a spouse," Dorman's attorney Nicholas J. Mundy told the Irish Voice.
"But DOMA is also very clear on this issue and it says that a spouse can only be someone of the opposite sex. That's the argument between opposing opinions that's being played out.
"Marriage has always been delegated to the states unless and until the federal government steps in and trumps it. That's what happened with DOMA."
Deportation of gay illegal Irishman stopped by Obama administration
Returning the case to the Board of Appeals, Holder asked the court to clarify whether or not -- absentDOMA -- Dorman's civil union qualifies him as a legal spouse under the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
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It's a happy ending for Moses, the 18-month-old shih tzu-Chihuahua mix that went missing Dec. 17.
The dog was found Friday on the porch of a home in Pleasant Valley Estates in Kresgeville and reunited with his owners, Sam Montalvo and his wife, Ileana.
The experience has taught the Montalvos about what a generous community they live in.
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One of the most irritating myths promulgated by the entertainment industry is the idea that copyright is an ethical imperative because it's bad to "steal other people's ideas". This is frequently combined with an illustrative story of plagiarism -- in other words, a situation in which someone fraudulently claims credit for someone else's work. Of course, this is nonsense. Plagiarism and copyright infringement are two completely different things. Although they sometimes occur together, there are many examples of either without the other. And if your eyes just glazed over -- no problem: Nina Paley has made it easy with her new Minute Meme for QuestionCopyright.org, called "Credit is Due".


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AUBURNDALE | The Spirit of the Buffalo Pow Wow festival will be held today through Sunday at International Market World, 1052 U.S. 92 W.
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David Brent is officially back.
BBC Films and Ricky Gervais are teaming up for a feature film that follows "The Office" boss in his new line of work. It's set to start production in early 2015, but there's no word yet as to whether it will be a theatrical release or made for TV movie.
Still, the plot sounds promising. "We find out what Brent is doing now and what's happened in the last 15 years since his redundancy from his beloved Wernham Hogg," BBC Films said in a statement. "He's a sales rep now, selling cleaning products up and down the country, but has never really given up on his dream of being a rock star."
Brent will be captured self-funding a music tour, not knowing the camera crew following him are there for a "Where Are They Now" feature.
Over the years, Gervais has reprised the role several times, mainly at charity gigs, where he performs in character. Brent also made an appearance in season 7 of the U.S. version of "The Office," where he interviewed for Michael Scott's (Steve Carell) branch office manager position. In 2013, Gervais launched a YouTube series called "Learn Guitar With David Brent."
Outside "The Office," Gervais' career has flourished. Earlier this year, he starred in "Muppet's Most Wanted" and released the second season of his acclaimed Netflix series "Derek," which recently earned him an Emmy nomination for his work on season one.
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"Money to Burn takes off like a rocket from page one and never slows down. Highly recommended." — Christopher Reich, author of Rules of Vengeance
In this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines, bestselling author James Grippando (Lying with Strangers, Intent to Kill, Born to Run) explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people who run them can occur in a matter of hours—even minutes. Fans of John Grisham's The Firm and the thrillers of Lisa Scottoline and Phillip Margolin are sure to love Money to Burn: a "perfectly mixed cocktail of dry wit, sophisticated voice, believable characters, [and] non-stop suspense" (Joseph Finder, author of Vanished and Paranoia).
Michael Cantella is a rising star at Saxton Silvers, Wall Street's premier investment bank, when his new wife, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Four years later—with a beautiful new wife and his career back on track—Michael checks his investment accounts online . . . and discovers he's been wiped out. All the money is gone. And there's an e-mail message: Just as planned. xo xo.
Michael's life as he knows it has been liquidated. Saxton Silvers is on the brink of bankruptcy and he's suspected of orchestrating its ruin. Framed, embroiled in corporate espionage, facing divorce—and much worse—he's desperate to clear his name as FBI agents and a psychotic assassin close in for the kill. All signs seem to suggest the unthinkable: Ivy is back from the dead . . . and a key player in Michael's deadly downfall. Or his only hope.
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Jason E. Lang, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, performs a computer-assisted total knee replacement. William G. Ward, Sr., MD, an orthopaedic surgeon who also performs joint replacements, narrates the procedure.
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Lang's areas of expertise include partial and total knee and hip replacement, minimally invasive joint replacements including uni-compartmental or partial knee replacement and anterior approach to total hip replacement, and revision surgery of the hips and knees.
The knee is the largest joint in the human body. It also is the strongest. The bottom ends of the femur or thigh bone and the top ends of the tibia or shin bone are covered with cartilage and cushioning, allowing for motion, support, and flexibility. Working properly, the knee joint slides smoothly.
A knee with congenital conditions, sports injuries, wear and tear and arthritis can cause tremendous pain, even lack of sleep and inability to walk. A total knee replacement is one means to replace that damaged joint by resurfacing the bone ends of the thigh and shin bone, capping them each with metal pieces and placing plastic in between to ensure support, flexibility and motion, without the pain.
Computer-assisted total knee replacement surgery allows the physician an additional measure of care by providing alignment of the knee joint with the bones and with the body, which will allow the joint to work better and last longer.
Total knee replacement surgery is for patients who have extreme knee pain and disabilities caused by congenital defects, trauma, osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. Either through trauma or degeneration, cartilage may have worn away where the patient's thigh and shin bones rub directly against each other. Total knee replacement patients have already tried the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone injections, physician therapy and possible less invasive surgeries to relieve their discomfort.
To prepare for total knee replacement surgery, in addition of medical history and physical exam, additional scanning may be needed such as bone scans or MRIs or CTs.
Numerous designs of knee joints are available and the design chosen by the patient and the physician will depend on the patient's age, weight, activity, health and condition. The patient may choose general anesthesia or a more localized version.
During total knee replacement surgery, the physician trims off about one third of an inch of the ends of the thigh bone and then cements a curved metal femoral component that covers the end of the thigh bone. About a third of an inch of the shin bone is trimmed away at the top and replaced with a flat and stemmed tibial plate that is cemented onto the top of the shin bone. The plate has a polyethylene cushion that allows for movement. Another piece replaces the patella or kneecap.
The metal pieces are typically titanium- or cobalt chromium-based alloys. These replacement joints have a 95% chance of lasting 10 to 20 years or more. Before and during surgery, the physician uses the computer to take measurements that guide the size, design and placement of the knee joint.
Just as important as the surgery is the process is rehabilitation, Lang said. As soon as possible, patients are encouraged to get up and walk. Physical therapy starts right away. Total knee replacement patients are cared for by physicians, physical therapists, nurses and staff who all have special training in joint replacement care. In addition to the high volume of hip and knee replacements, resurfacings, repairs and preservations, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center also does research and trains future surgeons.
In addition to Lang, the other orthopaedic surgeons who are part of the comprehensive joint program in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery include, Gary G. Poehling, John B. Hubbard, David F. Martin, John S. Shields, and Scott C. Wilson.
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This is more an afters-sales-question, then a presales-question! But I don't know where to ask instead! I've tried the contact form on the homepage, but didn't receive an answer!
I've purchased QCAD some time ago (march 2012, order No 095589)! And now I decided to wipe my notebook for installing Linux Mint instead of ubuntu, changing to KDE. After that, I wanted do install my favorite CAD programm QCAD again, and because of wiping my notebook I doesn't have any installation file (*.deb).
No problem, I thougth! I just download it from Ribbonsoft and go on!
But that doesn't work out well. I could not download anything, because the server from Ribbonsoft tells me:
Do I realy have to rebuy QCAD?????
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What is AIS ?
Auto Industry Sustainability is a non-for-profit project from Autoebid. It will be the first ever analysis and comparison tool which will give the green credentials of new ultra low carbon cars, so users will be able make the necessary rational decisions when it comes to purchasing a new ultra-low carbon cars.
We aim to make AIS an important tool for any car lover. The car industry will be changing over the next decade and we aim to help make this transition as smooth as possible. Some of the changes will come from the auto industry, from government and manufacturers.
AIS will help to create a database to facilitate the new car buyer of the future. No longer will a car be chosen purely on the basis of how fast it is or what new gismos are on it – the future will require us to know more about where the car came from, the complete breakdown of its carbon footprint at every step of manufacturing. So we can make an informed decision and have confidence in the manufacturers production methods.
We believe this information will become very important in years to come – and new green car buyers should be able find out the level of sustainability with regards to their future green car.
Pioneering company Telsa, who are at the forefront of the green technologies will be one of the first companies we will approach. We will look to contact the supply chain departments of Telsa to get a full breakdown of their carbon footprint during the production process of the full range of products.
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My Life-Long bucket list:
From the seventies (ages 1-9):
1. Marry Mac Davis.
2. Rescue abused animals from circuses and take care of them on my big farm.
3. Never, ever have to clean my room again.
**Progress Note** I didn't get any of these things crossed off my bucket list. I know you were hoping for the marriage thing to work out between Mac and I, but I just couldn't play the long distance relationship game so I had to let him go. It's just too much and I don't want to talk about it anymore. Moving on…..
From the 80's (ages 10-19):
Get a new pair of killer acid washed jeans by Guess.
Meet Charles Schulz and ask him to draw Snoopy for me.
Look totally outrageous in a side ponytail.
Have a good friend that I would still know and love even when I get old. Really old – like, over forty.
Like, totally go to a rad art school and then land a cool job in Chicago.
**Progress Note** I never did master the side ponytail. Yep, not a photo to be found. Dodged that bullet. The friend thing worked out, though (homage to Beth)
From the 90's (ages 20-29):
Graduate from college and immediately get offered a six-figure salary doing work that I loved.
Get married and live happily ever after.
Live like it's 1999.
Lose those pesky 20 pounds. Get rid of those extra 60 pounds. Lose over 100 pounds.
**Progress Note** Skipping the nineties. Nothing to read here. The nineties sucked.
From 2000 to date:
Fall in love again.
Seriously. Lose the weight – and keep it off.
Work for the best employer on Earth.
Become a well-renowned artist.
Be content in my skin and in my life.
Learn to say, "No."
Appreciate myself for who I am and what I've yet to accomplish.
**Progress Note** I can't say that I've mastered 100% of these list items but I'm pretty darned close. Becoming a well renowned artist I've found, takes more than a few months. Go figure.
Everyone has a bucket list, or the equivalent of one. Things they want to accomplish. As I sit back and look at the things in my life that I so badly wanted to accomplish but didn't, I laugh at some (how many of you actually remember Mac Davis and why on earth did I have the hots for him so badly?) and I feel melancholy about others (did NOT attend a good art school; instead, followed a boy to his school of choice), but I'm reminded of where I would be had I taken different routes than the ones I did. One thing leads to another, which leads to something else, and so on.
One example: If I had gone to the art school of my choice, I never would have continued my relationship with my boyfriend, who'd later become my husband. Years later, if my husband hadn't divorced me I never would have become close friends with the woman who would introduce me to my future husband. Yes, hindsight is 20/20, but it has also provided me comfort in knowing that the decisions we make/made are for our greater good. Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Follow your heart.
Cliché? Maybe. True? I think so. When things appear at their worst – or even if you're just having a lousy day, take comfort in knowing that whatever mess you're in, in the long run it will add flavor to your life, you'll learn from it and it will make you a better person because of it.
I am still learning, but I haven't added much to my bucket list lately. I still struggle with the insecurities of being a new business owner and my body continues to remind me that physically, I'm not as strong as I was before surgery. But in all honesty, most days I'm excited enough to see where things might go from here. It's good to have goals but I'm living a less rigid life now that I've hit my forties. There is the possibility of tomorrow and what surprises it may bring because we truly never know what's right around the corner.
Not quite sure why I'm so nostalgic today, but there's my post to show for it.
On another note, I returned to yoga class yesterday. Sue, my instructor, was there with her loving presence and I felt like I'd never left. Well, emotionally it felt that way. Physically? I have got a LOT of catching up to do. Last year around this time I was doing 3 minute planks. Now? I couldn't hold for more than 5 seconds. But, at least I have a goal to work towards. Another goal for my bucket list: I've got it! Holding plank pose for 43 minutes by my 43rd birthday in February! Wait – hold the phone; how did that 4 get in there? I mean 3 minutes – not 43; that's just crazy talk.
How has your bucket list changed over the years? Do you remember what dreams you had when you were a kid? This is a great time to purge your soul, people! (and I'm not just saying that because I don't want to be the only one exposed here with my Mac Davis confession).


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Dinner Is a Date with the Doctor: 5 Asian Superfoods
Medicine doesn't always come in a pill. In fact, some of the most powerful medicines are delicious and can be found at your local supermarket or "farmacy." Healing foods have been used for centuries in Asia as part of the cuisine. In fact, in Asia, food and medicine are often the same thing.
Here are five superfoods that you may never have heard of but that can be found at most Asian markets and even places like Whole Foods. Try them. You might be surprised by their unique and extraordinary good taste. And they may help you lose weight, reverse diabetes, lower cholesterol and prevent cancer.


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Winning and losing with open source. Paranoid Android. And more.
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"Tracking the open source news wires, so you don't have to."
Winning and losing
Matt Asay stirred things up with his declaration that free software has lost and open source has won. Responding to Matt Asay, Glyn Moody argued that without free software, open source …


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Welcome to Episode 68! This week, download here, Geeks talk with Pete Larson (@Oblinkin), our resident shoe/form expert from Runblogger.com. Pete is a well accomplished runner (and a modest one at that) who also happens to be a scientist! This week's discussion revolved around the 'holy war' between barefoot/minimalist and 'heeled' shoe runners. Pete does a good job of explaining the minimalism "spectrum" as well as mention the similarities, and differences in running over the years – interestingly enough, that is part of the content of the book he is co-authoring scheduled to be released this summer. Oh, and check out some pictures of Pete's lab from a Runner's World photo shoot.
We are also playing with the idea of creating weekly fitness challenges for our listeners. These hopefully will be simply yet challenging fitness goals for all us to try to achieve as we all work towards our collective goal of fitness in 2012. Let us know what you think about this idea.
Until next time, leave feedback on iTunes, email questions and comments to feedback [at] GeeksInRunningShoes [dot] com or just 'like us' on facebook! Also follow us on Twitter, Jason (@guttocutwl) and Ray (@adeyemiking).


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I'm rather new at qcad - and am having huge problems getting qcad to hatch.
You can see what I'm trying to hatch here:
and here's the DXF:
I've divided all lines that cross the area I want to hatch (to draw insulation) and have confirmed they are all divided at the intersection. Yet the hatch tool still doesn't succeed
As you can see I could get qcad to hatch some places.
Any hints would be very much appreciated.
p.s. I'm running 18.104.22.168 on Linux.


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Only the most dedicated and passionate dare make Polish Vodka. With the most rigorously regulated vodka laws on the planet, there are no short cuts for quality or consistency. Every step of production must occur on Polish soil with locally-sourced raw ingredients. Belvedere uses Dankowskie Rye from the Mazovian plains of Poland and water from its own proprietary wells to create this luxury vodka. It's an integral part of what makes Belvedere proud to serve your palate.
The Origin
Belvedere Vodka hails from the small town of Zyrardów, in the Mazovian plains of central Poland, where it is crafted in a 100 year old distillery.
In 1993, Belvedere Vodka made its official launch, creating a new standard in vodka. Launched to both critical acclaim and commercial success, this luxury vodka was quickly followed.
Belvedere, which means "beautiful to see" is named after the Belweder Palace in Warsaw, home of the Polish President. An illustration of the palace appears on each and every bottle, reinforcing that Belvedere Vodka is both beautiful to see and taste.
Know the Difference
At Belvedere we do not go out of our way to make overt claims about our vodkas. We humbly and respectfully appreciate the votes of excellence from those who know the difference. Belvedere continues to be the recipient of many remarkable achievements making us the most awarded luxury vodka. This is seen in the endless praise from the likes of the Vodka Masters, the International Spirits Challenge, TheFiftyBest.com Vodka Awards and other respected industry voices. Thanks to those who most recently awarded Belvedere Vodka Producer of the Year at the 2015 International Spirits Challenge!
"Vodka Producer of the Year is a phenomenal achievement for Belvedere, confirming its unparalleled commitment to product quality and consistency. We are extremely honored to be the first vodka to receive this award, from one of the highest authorities in the drinks industry."
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Belvedere is as passionate about our impact on the world as we are about our vodka. Social responsibility, environmental and agricultural impact as well as responsible drinking are built into our culture. Belvedere prides itself on being recognized as a globally responsible, locally sensitive company.
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In partnership with its agricultural distilleries and the Biotechnological University of Lodz, Belvedere launched the Raw Spirit Program to promote sustainable growth of Dankowskie Rye, used in Belvedere Vodka. The initiative led to Belvedere's involvement with programs to seek out and protect the best raw materials, while working closely with authorities to ensure Polish vodka standards remain the world's highest and most exacting.
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Since its launch in 2011, contributions from the sale of (BELVEDERE)RED have provided funding for more than 6.5 million days of life-saving HIV/AIDS medicine. That's enough to support more than 12,500 HIV positive women with access to treatment during pregnancy and breast-feeding, thus helping to prevent transmission of the virus from mother to baby. 50% of Belvedere's profits from each (BELVEDERE)RED Special Edition bottle go directly to the Global Fund. A Special Edition, indeed.
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About the Book
Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life is the first-ever biography of the man whose books have sold an astounding 100 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors of all time.
Paulo Coelho's life begins with a complicated birth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. He was known as the "boy who was born dead" and who ultimately survived against all odds. Before he became internationally known as a worldwide bestselling author, Paulo lived many different lives. He flirted with suicide, was committed by his parents to insane asylums, suffered the brutality of electric shock therapy, dove into drugs, tried several varieties of sex, met the devil, spent time in prison, helped revolutionize Brazilian rock with musician Raul Seixas, and finally rediscovered his faith in 1986 as he walked the sacred Road to Santiago de Compostela, a medieval pilgrim's route between France and Spain.
Coelho would later describe this life-changing spiritual experience in his first book, The Pilgrimage. The following year, The Alchemist established his worldwide reputation. The novel has already achieved the status of a universally admired modern classic. Now, for the first time, discover the life story of one of the most widely read and adored authors of our time.
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"Fans of Coelho's work will eagerly tear through this attentive, satisfying biography." — Publishers Weekly
After reading this biography, it is easy to understand how and why these youthful experiences and his subsequent spiritual reawakening inform his fiction with the mystical depth that is his literary trademark. Readers will definitely want to see how his unfolding story continues to play out. — Booklist
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Robust Canada Jobs Report Leaves Some Puzzled
By Nirmala Menon
Another month, another barn burner employment report in Canada. But amid sluggish economic growth and external headwinds, the robust report has left some analysts puzzled.
"It behooves me why Canadian employers are heaping on so much job growth in an environment in which there is next to no economic growth," Scotiabank Economist Derek Holt said in the aftermath of Friday's report.
Even in the face of uncertainty over the U.S. fiscal cliff, Canadian employers ended 2012 with yet another hiring binge, adding 39,800 net new jobs in December, nearly eight times more than expected. It was the fourth outsized gain in five months and drove the nation's unemployment rate down to a four-year low of 7.1%.
"The Canadian labor market continued to defy gravity in December," David Tulk, chief Canada macro strategist at TD Securities said.
There was little to quibble about in the details, which were also pretty strong–hiring was all for full-time positions and primarily in the private sector.
Maybe we're in a job market "bubble," said Jimmy Jean, Montreal-based economic strategist at Desjardins Capital Markets. "Maybe at some point we're going to see a very sharp reversal. We never know, but this is something to be mindful off," he said.
It could also be that growth is being underestimated. But if that isn't the case, the strong employment figures suggest that productivity–already a long-standing issue in Canada and one that worries the Bank of Canada–is even worse than thought, which according to Mr. Jean, is "very, very worrying."
"When we see job growth as strong in an environment of weak growth, that is not a good picture in terms of productivity," he said. "Canada needs to invest more in machinery and extract more in output per worker and not add workers without adding to production." Otherwise, it's going to be even harder for Canadian exporters to compete when global recovery picks up, he warned.


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If anyone is bored or really wants a challenge. This was a suggestion I had a couple years ago:
The basic idea is to use multi-threading to make MKV playback better when streaming to the PS3 (i.e. on the main thread play MKV on the fly like now, but on a background thread remux the MKV to a M2TS (cache) - when the remux is complete - switch over to the cached source instead of remuxing on the fly - at this point rwd and ffwd would work (unlike with on the fly MKV playback). The huge challenge would be the switch over of playback. I don't know if you can ignore ffwd and rwd requests until the playback has switched over to being from the cache, but that would improve the experience.
PMS already does amazing things, but MKV is the most common format for archived HD content, yet anyone who has ever hit the RWD or FFWD button when playing it via PMS on the PS3 knows how crappy the experience is.


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Sen. Hagan has emergency eye surgery
Specific problem not disclosed
Published: Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 9:35 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 9:35 a.m.
RALEIGH (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has returned to North Carolina to have emergency surgery on her eye.
Spokeswoman Amber Moon said Hagan left Washington on Thursday night and had the surgery Friday. She is recuperating, but expects to be back on her regular schedule in several days.
Moon says Hagan has had the condition for a while and it has steadily gotten worse. She put off the surgery for as long as she could so she could keep working in the Senate, but the conditioned worsened. Moon would not specify the problem Hagan was having with her eye.
Hagan is a Democrat in a tough re-election fight against Republican North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis.
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