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of National Biography (DNB) on CD-ROM. 1st ed. 1885-1901 +Supplements
Biographical dictionary of people of distinction in the British
Isles and its colonies 'from the earliest times' and who died before
December 31, 1985. The DNB is especially strong in its inclusion
of people in public life (politics and government, the law, the
church, the army, and the navy), but it also offers thorough coverage
of scholarship, literature, art and architecture, music, science
and medicine, education and philanthropy. It is searchable by names,
by word or combination of words and by phrases, as well as by occupation
and other fields. A new edition of this work is now available online as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Provides the whole content of all 30 volumes with: numerous plates
and maps; subject and keyword information for topical issues, extensive
articles on 193 countries covering political, social, educational
and media aspects; multimedia components including an audiotheque
of ca. 4,000 audio examples (speeches, music, videos, debates, spoken
literary texts, nature sounds, animationd, etc.) of 70 hours duration.
Reference to audio examples in the text by audio pictograms, 3D
globe with 2 million geographical entries, freely turnable and zoomable
easy and transparent navigation with comprehensive and flexible
search tools. This is a German language encyclopedia.
Judaica on CD-ROM
Complete text of 16-vol. 1972 Encyclopaedia Judaica, Yearbooks and
the Decennials (1982 & 1992). Contains updates to articles not
included in the printed works. Full-text searching,index browsing,
hyperlinks to related articles, and automatic cross-referencing.
Photographs, maps, charts, tables, slide shows, film and audioclips,
and Hebrew pronunciations.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Comprehensive resource. Articles from all continents, all periods
and cultures. World Wide Web version of the highly-regarded print
encyclopedia published in 1998. Articles cover, amongst others,
Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary,
continental and contemporary philosophy. Quarterly updates and additions.
Shakespeare in Quarto
The British Library has posted online 93 high-resolution copies of 21 of the earliest versions of Shakespeare's plays. The plays included were originally printed during the playwright's lifetime and include many lines and passages that are different from those found in the First Folio editions, which were not printed until after Shakespeare's death. Having the copies available online permits easy access to works that are believed to be closer to the original text of the plays. The Web site includes background information, images, sound clips, and tools to allow comparison of the earlier versions of the plays with the more common later versions, to see how the text has changed.
Woolf Resources
Anchor Bible
Dictionary on CD-ROM {Emmanuel only}
Includes all 6 volumes of the 1992 Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6,200
entries by nearly 1,000 international scholars. Contains the full
English texts of the King James Version and the New Revised Standard
Version of the Bible. Features: full-text searching; hyperlinks
to cross-references, abbreviations, and illustrations.
This concordance program can do simple searches in the New Revised
Standard Version to complex searches in the original biblical languages.
Includes classic translations, eg. the Septuagint, the Vulgate,
the Lutherbibel, and the King James Version , as well as modern
translations. It also covers the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books.
The Dead
Sea Scrolls on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
This is an ongoing, comprehensive archive of digitized images the
Dead Sea Scrolls material. Includes bibliographic information and
several indexes. Transcriptions, translations, and other reference
material are being added.
The Early
Church Fathers: Their Writings & Teachings on CD-ROM
This CD contains the writings of early Christian thinkers around
the period of the Council of Nicaea (325c.e.). Keyword, phrase,
and Boolean searching.
Hebrew &
Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HAL) on CD-ROM
This lexicon is widely recognized as being the standard modern dictionary for Biblical Hebrew. It combines scholarly thoroughness with easy accessibility. The CD-ROM edition of the dictionary contains all the information available in the print edition of HAL. Every 'see also' cross-reference to other articles in the dictionary is to be made into a hyperlink. Biblical references are also enabled to be hyperlinks to Biblical texts.
Old Testament
Abstracts on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
For the study of the Hebrew Bible. Journal articles, books, essays
and Festschriften. Archaeology, apocryphal literatures, biblical
theology, history, geography and linguistics. Search on specific
biblical passages. 1991 onwards.
and Theological Abstracts
Summaries of journal articles in religion and theology. About 440
publications. English abstracts of non-English language articles.
The Works
of John Wesley on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
The fourteen volume edition of Wesley's works, published 1829-1831.
King James Bible is included.
Anchor Bible
Dictionary on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
for Windows on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
The Dead
Sea Scrolls on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
of National Biography on CD-ROM
The Early
Church Fathers: Their Writings & Teachings on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
Judaica on CD-ROM
Hebrew & Aramaic Lexicon of the New Testament on CD-ROM
Old Testament
Abstracts on CD-ROM {Emmanuel
Religious & Theological Abstracts
Encyclopedia of Philosophy {Pratt and Emmanuel only}
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After months of false starts, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania took one of the first clear shots of the Republican presidential primary, slamming Mitt Romney on Thursday for defending the Massachusetts health-care law he signed as governor.
"I greatly respect Governor Romney and admire many of his personal and professional accomplishments, but his work to institute the precursor to national socialized medicine is not one of them," Mr. Santorum said in a statement.
Repeatedly referring to the law as "Romneycare," Mr. Santorum complained that the Massachusetts law, like the national law signed by President Barack Obama, "infringe(s) upon individual freedom and exponentially increase(s) the government's health care cost." And while this is not the first sniping of the campaign, it is one of the first direct shots one candidate has taken at another since the posturing began in earnest earlier this year.
Mr. Romney delivered a PowerPoint presentation in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Thursday in which he addressed what many consider his biggest liability – the Massachusetts health-care law. But instead of shying from reforms that conservatives have come to resent, the former governor pointedly defended the Massachusetts law, as well as his role in the process, all while savaging the president's law and outlining his goals for replacing it with what he argued would be less-intrusive reforms.
In his statement, the first from an actual candidate, Mr. Santorum argues that the Massachusetts reforms, which include a requirement similar to the national law that almost everyone secure insurance coverage, increases costs on the government and does nothing to slow inflation in the market.
"This is not a failure of execution, but a lack of foresight on Governor Romney's part to understand the implications of his policy proposals," he said. "We need leaders who believe in the American people again, not the power of government to solve our problems. Yes, the Governor had the right to implement Romney-Obamacare at the state-level, but that does not make it the right thing to do."


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Chrysaora fuscescens
Chrysaora fuscescens is a common free-floating scyphozoa that lives in the Pacific Ocean, and is commonly known as the Pacific Sea Nettle or West Coast Sea Nettle.
Sea nettles have a distinctive golden-brown bell with a reddish tint. The bell can grow to be larger than one meter (three feet) in diameter in the wild, though most are less than 50 cm across. The long, spiraling, white oral arms and the 24 undulating maroon tentacles may trail behind as far as 3.6 to 4.6m (12 to 15 feet). For humans, its sting is often irritating, but rarely dangerous.
Chrysaora fuscescens has proven to be very popular for display at public aquariums due to their bright colors and relatively easy maintenance. It is possible to establish polyps and culture Chrysaora in captivity. When provided appropriate aquarium conditions, the medusae do well under captive conditions.[1]
Distribution and habitat
Chrysaora fuscescens is commonly found along the coasts of California and Oregon, though some reside in the waters north to the Gulf of Alaska, west to the seas around Japan and south to the Baja Peninsula. The populations reach their peak during the late summer. In recent years, C. fuscescens has become overly abundant off the coast of Oregon, which is thought to be an indicator of climate change. However, others suspect that the population is increasing because of human influences to coastal regions, but little to no historical population data from which to compare current abundances exist.[1][2]
Feeding and Predators
In common with other cnidaria, Chrysaora fuscescens are carnivorous animals. They catch their prey by means of cnidocyst (or nematocyst) -laden tentacles that hang down in the water. The toxins in their nematocysts are effective against both their prey and humans, though it is typically nonlethal to the latter. Because C. fuscescens cannot chase after their prey, they must eat as they drift. By spreading out their tentacles like a large net, the sea nettle is able to catch food as it passes by. When prey brushes up against the tentacles, thousands of nematocysts are released, launching barbed stingers which release a paralyzing toxin into the quarry. The oral arms begin digestion as they transport the prey into the sea nettle's mouth.[3]
C. fuscescens feeds on a wide variety of zooplankton, crustaceans, salps, pelagic snails, small fish as well as their eggs and larvae, and other jellyfish. Due to their growing numbers, they seem to be reducing fish populations and have become nuisances to the fisherman of Oregon by clogging up fishing nets. Their dense swarms have also become problematic for scientific trawls and water intake.
Despite having a potent sting, Chrysaora fuscescens is prey to many marine birds and large fish.[1]
Body Systems
Chrysaora fuscescens swim using jet propulsion by squeezing their bell and pushing water behind them, allowing them to swim against currents, although most of the time they prefer to simply float. Sometimes they pick up hitchhikers, including small fish and crabs, which hide inside the sea nettle's bell and may feed on it.[4]
Although they cannot see distinct shapes or colors, C. fuscescens have rhopalia located around the rim of the bell to help detect changes in light.[3]
Chrysaora fuscescens is capable of both sexual reproduction in the medusa stage and asexual reproduction in the polyp stage. The life cycle of C. fuscescens begins when females catch sperm released by the males to fertilize the eggs she has produced and is holding in her mouth. These fertilized eggs remain attached to her oral arms, and there they grow into flat bean-shaped planula. Once they grow into flower-shaped polyps, they are released into the ocean where they attach themselves to a solid surface and undergo asexual reproduction. The polyp makes identical copies of itself this by means of budding, where the new polyp grows from its side. After the new polyp is fully formed, it too is released into the ocean and undergoes metamorphosis as it grows, developing a bell, arms, and tentacles until it is a fully formed medusa.[3]
The origin of the genus name Chrysaora lies in Greek mythology with Chrysaor, brother of Pegasus and son of Poseidon and Medusa. Translated, Chrysaor means "he who has a golden armament."[5]
- ^ a b c http://jellieszone.com/chrysaora.htm
- ^ http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?hOri=1&inhab=119
- ^ a b c http://sea.sheddaquarium.org/sea/fact_sheets.asp?id=78
- ^ http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?legacyid=119
- ^ http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/animalguide/tropicaldiver/pacificseanettle.aspx
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10 Quick Social Media Strategies for Beginners
Are you new to Social Media?
Then, you will find the information on this page very helpful. To start off the topic, let us find out what it is not…
Easy – This is not to discourage you but to tell you that it requires more than creating several profile pages, posting updates, and uploading photos. You have to comprehend and commit to it, so you can reap great rewards.
Millions of friends – Unless you want to beat Mark Zuckerberg, Lady Gaga, and other social authorities with thousands of followers or friends, you do not need to build a wide network. Instead, you have to make meaningful connections with people who share your passion or interest.
Social networking – It is not simply about being popular in Facebook, Google+, or Twitter. It involves engaging in activities that allow you to promote your beliefs, yourself, or your brand.
And then, there are…
Amazing social media facts
- Facebook has an estimated 845 million active users.
- There are approximately one million links shared on Facebook per twenty minutes.
- There are more than 465 million Twitter accounts.
- Google+ has around 90 million members.
- Pinterest has more than 10 million users and obtains a million visits each day.
Given these details, you are probably thinking of using it for marketing purposes.
That is a good idea. However, do not jump into it right away. What you should do is get the hang of it by applying…
Easy social media tips for new users
1. Create a page on several social networks
Go ahead and build Web presence by signing up in top websites like Twitter, Google+, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. You have to establish a blog too, so you can link your own site to your profile pages.
2. Keep your blog compatible to your profile pages
In connection with the first pointer, make sure that you can handle all your accounts if you become a member on many social networks. If you can, then feel free to incorporate it with social media buttons such "share", "like", and "follow".
By doing this, you can…
3. Make it easy for other users to spot you
When you practice the second strategy, you can direct the readers to your social profiles. And, who knows, they might just add you to their list (that is, if you are not a part of their network yet).
4. Create a fan page
Do you have an e-commerce site or an official company website? If you do, then take note of this tip. This way, you can attract users who are actually interested in your brand.
5. Add RSS feeds
By doing this, your readers can obtain updates whenever you have new content. Additionally, you can receive alerts from other users and websites.
6. Promote your profile page on other social network sites
Yes, this is possible. You can do this on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube.
7. Enhance your page
Do you know that several social media sites have customization features? Through this, you can tweak and personalize your profile page according to your preferences.
8. Interact and socialize
Write posts, share links, send messages, and comment on other members or bloggers' page. You can also join their groups, especially if you share their interests.
9. Start conversations
Apart from sharing posts or commenting on articles, you can form discussions on social network sites too. This is possible even if you do not have install forum software.
10. Update regularly
Would you want to connect with a person whom you only see occasionally? This concept is similar online. You will find it easier to connect with more users within your niche if you post blogs or messages frequently.
Again, these are only basic social media tips. Since you are a beginner, you do not have to hop into advanced strategies right away. Instead, get the hang of posting comments or embedding videos on your page.
Once you are familiar with various functions and features, you can start integrating other methods – like search engine optimization. Then again, that is another matter.
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NEW DELHI: Techno-Guru Sam Pitroda, Magsaysay award winning social activist, Ms Aruna Roy, educationist, Mr A K Shiv Kumar, the economist and campaigner for 'right to food' Jean Dreze, AICC economic cell secretary Jairam Ramesh are among the 12 experts from various fields who have been appointed by the government as members of the National Advisory Committee headed by Ms Sonia Gandhi.
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"Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof." Inscription on the Liberty Bell
Justice Kennedy's testimony about gridlock harkens back to Obamacare case
Justice Kennedy made an interesting comment today when he testified to Congress regarding the Supreme Court's budget. Responding to a question about politically charged issues before the Court, Kennedy stated: We think an efficient, responsive legislation and executive branch in the political system will alleviate some of that pressure. We routinely decide cases involving federal statutes and we say, well, if this is wrong the Congress will fix it. But »
Michelle's Inferno
In her most recent column, Michelle Malkin finds herself in Obamacare hell. Her column is "Obamacare's 1095-A nightmare." Michelle first lost her private family health insurance last year as a result of Obamacare. Michelle told the story in her 2013 column "Obama lied, my health plan died." Founded on skein of lies, Obamacare is a well wrought engine of destruction. The ninth circle of Dante's hell was reserved for those »
King v. Burwell, the day after
The consensus following oral argument in King v. Burwell is that the votes of two Justices are in play. Based on the questioning, it seems clear that the four-judge liberal bloc will vote to affirm the decision that Obamacare subsidies may be granted to those using the federal exchange. Justices Scalia and Alito appear set to vote to reverse that decision. Justice Thomas did not ask questions — his usual »
Triumph of the leftist will
The Supreme Court held oral argument in King v Burwell yesterday. The Supreme Court has posted the transcript of the oral argument here. At issue in King is the legality of the IRS's provision of tax credits in Obamacare exchanges established by the federal government. As Professor Jonathan Adler writes in USA Today, the case "presents a straightforward case of statutory interpretation." As such, it's not a hard case; it's »
King v. Burwell: a discouraging mid-argument report [UPDATED] [WITH FINAL UPDATE]
Eric Citron at Scotusblog provides a mid-argument report on King v. Burwell, the vital Obamacare case being heard by the Supreme Court today. According to Citron, the petitioners, who argue that subsidies are not available on the federal exchange faced a troubling question from Justice Kennedy, on whose vote the case may very well turn. Kennedy, says Citron, "expressed deep concern with a system where the statute would potentially destroy »
Meet Rich Weinstein
The legality of the mechanics of Obamacare as implemented comes before the Supreme Court for oral argument this week in King v. Burwell. The issue is one of statutory construction about as difficult (i.e.., not) as the one that came before the Court in United Steelworkers of America v. Weber. The Court got it laughably wrong in Weber. The case is important as a demonstration of how easy it is »
Talk about working the refs. . .
Today's Washington Post features a front page story called "Faces of the subsidies case: For families relying on Affordable Care Act, court ruling could be devastating." Just above the headline, in a picture that runs nearly the full width of the front page, we see a picture of Erin Meredith — the poster woman for the story — with her adorable five-year old daughter. The picture and the headline will »
Battle station alert on the left
William Levin is a graduate of Yale Law School, former clerk on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and former special assistant in the Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel. He writes to comment on developments related to the Supreme Court's pending decision in King v. Burwell on the legality of Obamacare subsidies provided via exchanges established by the federal government. Bill assumes that the Supreme Court will get »
Obamacare Benchwarmers Working the Refs Again
The Wall Street Journal mentions this morning that our now-socialized health care sector is filing panicked Supreme Court briefs in the upcoming King v. Burwell case that emphasize not legal arguments but the disruption to their business model if Obamacare's state subsidies are struck down. In other words, they mostly submitted policy briefs to the Supreme Court—not legal briefs. I wonder if their lawyers gave them the appropriate policy wonk »
Barack Obama: Hand-washer-in-chief
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The Washington Post's dishonest attack on opponents of the Medicaid expansion
The Washington Post's editorial board accuses the Commonwealth of Virginia (specifically its Republican legislators) of once again engaging in "massive resistance." The editors write: Sixty years after Virginia waged a campaign of "massive resistance" against integrating its public schools, the state is once again insisting on a policy that targets its least advantaged citizens. Even as one Republican-led state after another moves to tap available federal funds for extending health »
Obama's "measured approach" to race
President Obama is taking a "measured approach" to issues of race, according to Steven Mufson of the Washington Post. Mufson is right only in this limited sense: Obama is measuring just how much money he can transfer from white Americans to black Americans. Income redistribution is the unifying theme of Obama's domestic agenda (the unifying theme of his overseas agenda is American retreat with major concessions to our enemies). Obamacare »
Stephanie Cutter: Gruber was an Obamacare architect
The question of whether Jonathan Gruber is an architect of Obamacare has, I think, been settled. But in case there's any doubt, a memo by Stephanie Cutter, President Obama's deputy campaign manager in 2012, should erase it. According to Patrick Hawley of the Daily Caller, the Cutter memo was prepared in advance of Obama's first debate with Mitt Romney. In relevant part, it states: So, what's the net impact of »
60 Minutes does Obamacare
60 Minutes turned its attention to Obamacare in a story reported by Lesley Stahl and produced by Rich Bonin this past Sunday. The segment promoted Steven Brill's new book on Obamacare. According to Stahl and Brill, Obamacare's great failure is its lack of price controls. Assuming price controls to be a great good — one of those great goods without a downside — the segment allocated no blame to Obama. »
Take Pity on the Pity Party
Don't miss Bill Voegeli in today's edition of The Weekly Standard on the "Liars' Remorse" of Democrats over the ongoing albatross of Obamacare, but you should also take in the second installment of Voegeli's conversation with Charles Kesler on The American Mind about how liberals understand "compassion," based on his book The Pity Party (about 12 minutes): »
Schadenfreude on the Charles
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Obamacare and the deterioration of private health insurance
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Definition of arc furnace in English:
arc furnace
A furnace that uses an electric arc as a heat source, especially for steelmaking.
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- Silicon dioxide (silica, the compound that forms quartz, glass, and beach sand) is melted with charcoal in an arc furnace to reduce it to elemental silicon.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Movie
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Movie Analysis: From the small page to the big screen.
Want to see your English teacher break out in hives? Mention the works of Tim Burton to him. This gifted filmmaker has a knack for taking literary classics and putting his own spin on them, pushing the phrase "based on the book by" far past its recommended limits. Nowhere can you see this in action more than Sleepy Hollow, a Gothic mystery mash-up loosely based on Washington Irving's short story. And when we say loosely, we mean barely. Burton strays so far from the original text, we hesitate to even call this puppy an adaptation. It's more like a vague homage.
And you know what that means. For all you Shmoopers who think you can get away with not reading the book by just popping in the DVD, well, think again. This movie's a one-way ticket to a big fat F on your next English test.
What's the Same
Oh, nothing. With the exception of the basic characters and situations, very little remains from Irving's short story. Sure, there's Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), a coward, who pines away for the comely Katrina van Tassel (Christina Ricci). There's the Headless Horseman who holds the village of Sleepy Hollow in his thrall, and there's a Brom Bones (Casper Van Dien) vying with Crane for Katrina's fair hand. We're on track so far. The most basic elements of the story are all there… right before Burton twists them into funny balloon animal shapes.
To be fair, Sleepy Hollow also captures something of the Gothic tone that Irving was going for when describes Sleepy Hollow as a slightly surreal place:
Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions; and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air. (1.4)
Burton has a great eye for that, filling the silver screen with creepy houses, elaborate costumes and an atmosphere so desaturated he might as well have filmed it in black and white. (Except for the copious beheadings, of course, when the red blood runs like a fire hose.) Nobody can do haunted like Tim Burton, and Crane's bewitched little town makes a perfect subject for him. One look at the trailer, and you'll see what we mean.
And finally, Burton hangs on to just a smidgen of the story's science vs. superstition theme. The author hints very strongly that there wasn't any Headless Horseman—that it was all just fearful stories told in the dead of night. Burton tosses that idea—the Horseman is all-too-real here—but Crane's status as a detective means that he uses science and knowledge to figure out how to stop the ghost. It's not pure Irving, but it at least gets within sniffing distance.
What's Different
Oh, everything. Sleepy Hollow changes so much from the book that it's not quite fair to call it an adaptation at all. It's more like Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, with a dollop of original Irving here and there just for flavor. While they character names are the same, who they are and the reality they live in is quite different: Ichabod Crane becomes a police inspector here, sent to Sleepy Hollow to solve a series of murders. Turns out, the Horseman's behind it all, but who or what is controlling the Horseman becomes the question of the day.
That's all well and fascinating, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Irving's masterpiece. In fact, it's almost the polar opposite of what Irving was going for. The story is all about the power of tall tales, and how we embrace fiction over the truth since fiction is usually more exciting. That means that one of the central figures of the story—the Headless Horseman—is, in all likelihood, a figment of the town's imagination.
But that won't do for ol' Timmy. Burton tosses all that out in favor of an actual Horseman causing actual mayhem, leaving the whole legend vs. fact theme languishing in book form. In the movie, Ichabod's use of science and forensic evidence feels like a band-aid, making a weak case for "science and understanding," even though there's a full-bore demon running around. Burton can't debate the power of tall tales when his tall tale is actually galloping around, cutting people's heads off.
That also does some damage to the book's other big idea: the love triangle between Ichabod, Katrina, and Brom Bones. In the story, uber-strong Brom Bones runs off Ichabod Crane in an early example of the jocks beating up the nerds. Irving makes a quiet point about America and populism here. We hates us the elites in this country and smart people like Ichabod definitely fall into that category.
But that won't do for Burton, who almost always sides with the persecuted outsider and wants to see them win (Edward Scissorhands, anyone?). Of course that means that poor, jerky Brom Bones winds up iced by the Headless Horseman without much fanfare, which handily clears the way for Ichabod to put the moves on Katrina. Again, it's not bad; but the change completely upends Irving's touching upon the fact that pointy-headed intellectuals always get the shaft.
So many of these deep, thematic changes crop up in Sleepy Hollow that it really can't be considered an adaptation. It's more a jazz-style riff using the basic elements of Irving's story to tell a completely new tall tale.
We even have a term for it: "Burtonesque." If you're watching a flick that's Burtonesque, chances are it's got a misunderstood outsider (Crane), finding his purpose in a community that doesn't understand him (the villagers), and there's usually a heaping helping of ghoulish and gothic imagery (the guy on the horse is missing his head) to boot. Sure, these elements were all there to begin with in Irving's work, which is probably why Burton decided to silver-screenify this little ditty in the first place. He took those elements, amped up their creepiness, and tossed out any parts of the original story that didn't feel sufficiently Burtonesque. The result is a good enough movie, but it's not going to help you ace any pop quizzes anytime soon.
Other Adaptations
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been tackled by filmmakers since, well, practically the beginning. In 1922, the late, great Will Rogers played Ichabod Crane in a silent version of the story called The Headless Horseman.
If you're looking for a more faithful adaptation, check out Bing Crosby's 1949 animated version, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Sure, it's animated, but at least they get the plot right.
Then, in 1980, a rather humorous take on the story came out as a T.V. movie starring a young Jeff Goldblum as Crane. We haven't seen it, but it was nominated for an Emmy, so it can't be too shabby.
Five years later, Shelley Duvall tackled the tale in her series Tall Tales and Legends. Her version of the story features the very gawky Ed Begley, Jr. as Ichabod, who opens the story with the most wonderful cowardly shrieks.
Sleepy Hollow came out in 1999 and overshadowed the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of the story, called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This flick featured Brent Carver as Ichabod, as well as a real ghost interrupting Brom Bones' prank.
So what do you think, Shmoopers: did Burton's take miss the mark by straying too far? Or did he accurately capture the spooky nature of the story? Shmoop amongst yourselves.


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By a 4-3 vote, the Jackson City Council has elected Councilman Charles Tillman president, replacing former President Tony Yarber, who received the other three votes.
Tillman, 80, accepted the nod Tuesday and made a plea for unity, one of new Mayor Chokwe Lumumba's
campaign themes.
After Tillman's remarks, Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. unanimously was elected vice president, just a day after he was sworn in for the first time as a new councilman.
Tillman served as vice president last year.


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edu - Educational institutions
Favorites - A menu option at the top of the screen that shows any websites that have been previously saved for you to return to on a different day, much like a traditional bookmark is used for books.
Go - A command in Explorer that sits on the top of the screen with other commands. In Go, Explorer keeps track of most sites that a user has visited during a session of using Explorer. This is not saved once you quit Explorer.
Homepage - Default setting, or the page that opens up when you start your Browser. A homepage can also be the entry point for people viewing information that is provided.
Internet - Network of millions of computers used to send information back and forth to one another. No one person or group decides what can and cannot be published on the internet. This means that virtually anyone can publish, and means that there are large number of sites that contain false and misleading information. It is important to check who takes credit for the site you are viewing.
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Online Databases - These are
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which are not available through Google or any other search
engine. The only way to see these articles online is to pay a
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Printing - Printing directly off the internet wastes paper because it is difficult to tell how long a document is. Internet printing will also include graphics and images you don't need. The more pictures, fancy fonts, and images, the slower the printing will be.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby Compassion and Forgiveness Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure him: "I'll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don't worry. Just trust me and I'll get somebody for you–" (9.11)
Nick has much compassion for Gatsby after he's gone, he seems heartbroken that his friend has been abandoned by everyone. For a man who was so generous and loyal, no one is loyal or kind to him in return (besides Nick, of course, and the owl-eyed man). This says something about Gatsby's relationships with everyone around him and the shallowness of the society he was in.
Quote #5
[Klipspringer's] tone made me suspicious.
"Of course you'll be there yourself." "Well, I'll certainly try. What I called up about is—"
"Wait a minute," I interrupted. "How about saying you'll come?"
"Well, the fact is—the truth of the matter is that I'm staying with some people up here in Greenwich, and they rather expect me to be with them to-morrow. In fact, there's a sort of picnic or something. Of course I'll do my very best to get away."
I ejaculated an unrestrained "Huh!" and he must have heard me, for he went on nervously: "What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it'd be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see, they're tennis shoes, and I'm sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F. –"
I didn't hear the rest of the name, because I hung up the receiver. (9.58-65)
The man who was staying in Gatsby's house, won't even show up to the funeral. Not only that, but he has the audacity to ask Nick to ship his shoes to him. Nick's compassion for Gatsby spurs him to hang up, and not a moment too soon.
Quote #6
We straggled down quickly through the rain to the cars. Owl-eyes spoke to me by the gate.
"I couldn't get to the house," he remarked.
"Neither could anybody else."
"Go on!" He started. "Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds."
He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in.
"The poor son-of-a-bitch," he said. (9.114-119)
The owl-eyed man is the only party-goer who comes through to say good-bye to his periodic host. He obviously feels some connection to Gatsby, otherwise he wouldn't have come to pay his last respects. His final comments show his compassion, albeit in somewhat abrasive form, for Gatsby's sparsely attended funeral.


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Yinka Shonibare at Modern of Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Yinka Shonibare deftly explores the complexities and contradictions of colonialism in his "Focus" show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
His own background is well-suited to the project; he's a Nigerian who grew up in Britain. He speaks English and Yoruba, and his father was a barrister while his great-great grandfather was an African chief. When he was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire, he opted to use the honorific professionally: It functions as both part of his identity as well as a self-conscious nod to the postcolonial world and its contradictions.
Shonibare's critique of imperialism is explicit in his work Scramble for Africa. It's a tableaux of 14 headless — thoughtless? — mannequins seated at an enormous dining table. The figures point and even pat one another on the back as they examine a map of Africa. The artist explains, "I wanted to represent these European leaders as mindless in their hunger for what the Belgian King Leopold II called 'a slice of this magnificent African cake.'"
To amplify the depiction of their confused and misguided acquisitiveness, the figures are swathed in batik fabric, broadly understood to be African in origin. But the material initially came from Indonesia, was enthusiastically peddled by merchants in Holland and subsequently gained worldwide popularity. It's not specifically African at all.
In La Méduse, Shonibare alludes to Théodore Géricault's famous painting The Raft of the Medusa. The latter occupies a prominent spot in the Louvre, a benchmark of French romanticism. It depicts the aftermath of a ship run aground while French subjects were en route to wrest Senegal from British rule. The effort resulted in starvation, dehydration, madness and even cannibalism.
Shonibare's work is a photograph of a model placed beneath a moody and thunderous sky and presents the historic incident as a misguided imperial venture that was foiled.
Through March 24 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth. Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays. $10, with discounts. 817-738-9215. themodern.org.
Southeast Asian objects at Crow Collection
"Peninsulas and Dragon Tails," at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, pulls together sculpture and objects from Southeast Asia, a region of shifting boundaries and sensibilities and even names, from French Indochina to North and South Vietnam to simply Vietnam, and from Burma to Myanmar and, in some quarters, back to Burma.
Viewers of this exhibition are reminded that devotees of the Buddha were practicing "the Path" even as British colonials fanned themselves on broad porches in Burma after effectively removing the country's last royal couple. Renunciation as a path to bliss wasn't a codified tidbit of scripture; it was a means of living deeply and mindfully amid changing cultural spheres.
Moreover, the postures of two 19th-century monks on display demonstrate — in fact, perhaps even incarnate — the Middle Way, the aforementioned mindful living. The two sculptures shown would typically flank a large, central Buddha image in a temple.
One, Sariputra, would sit to the right of the Buddha; his posture reflects the attitude of concentrating intently and the position of his hands is intended to ease the sorrow of all sentient beings. The other, Mogallana, would be positioned to the left of the Buddha, his hands clasped in a gesture of reverence. Both figures would assist in teaching the Buddha's message and become role models for the Sangha, the community of monks and nuns.
The exhibition includes a broad array of other items: bells, a figure of Vishnu and even a rain drum. Trammell S. Crow recalls crawling on the latter as a child and surveying the room amid sculpted frogs and elephants. We could all wish for such marvelous and joyous luck — or karma, as the case may be.
Through Feb. 24, 2014, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2010 Flora St., Dallas. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays through Sundays and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays. Free. 214-979.6430. crowcollection.com.
'Timeless Mexico' at Latino Cultural center
"Timeless Mexico," on display at the Latino Cultural Center, is a collection of more than 120 vintage postcards and hand-tinted photographs. At roughly the same time Eugène Atget was chronicling life in Paris, German-born Hugo Brehme arrived in Mexico and began masterfully photographing palm-laden beaches, markets and revolutionary soldiers, among many other things.
Brehme came to his adopted country in 1905 and eventually opened a photographic studio in Mexico City, where he enthusiastically explored the entrepreneurial possibilities of postcards and books with perforated edges that could be adapted to mailing.
However, it would be unjust to relegate the pieces to typical postcard status. Brehme was thoroughly schooled in the European artistic tradition and was especially fascinated by the romantic subject matter of nature and ancient ruins. He also had an instinct for capturing landscapes that are saturated with an oddly tilted sensibility.
For example, Popocatépetl, State of Mexico shows a huge and surreal cactus in the foreground and a snow-capped, still active, volcano behind it. Mediating the territory between the two is a throng of wildflowers and a bucolic cathedral. It's a depiction of a beautiful but thoroughly eerie stroll through Central Mexico.
By the way, Brehme, who was internationally known by the 1920s, was far more successful than one competitor, a fellow German émigré, Guillermo (Wilhelm) Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo.
Through March 2 at the Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St., Dallas. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Free. 214-671-0045. dallasculture.org/latinoculturalcenter.


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Following more than two hours of discussion Tuesday afternoon, Marietta's City Council authorized a contract with General Restoration of Columbus for the first phase of renovations on the city's 98-year-old National Guard Armory building.
The initial phase includes installation of new windows and doors at a cost of $173,600.
"The windows and doors project has already been paid for with $225,500 that council put in place from the Gutberlet armory trust fund," city engineer Joe Tucker said during Tuesday's special council session.
"If we receive no grant money, we can still have the windows and doors done," he said in response to some council members' concerns that a reconfigured Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant might not be approved for the project.
That grant, obtained a couple of years ago through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was originally authorized for more than $400,000.
But after several extensions of the grant's deadline, city officials decided to request a modification of the grant, reducing the requested amount to $186,726 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development office in Columbus.
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Marietta City Council's streets and transportation committee meets at 4 p.m. today in the second floor conference room at 304 Putnam St. All council and committee meetings, except executive sessions, are open to the public.
City development director Andy Coleman said the energy efficiency grant would have to be re-scored by HUD.
He added that the city would not know whether the funding would be approved until after construction on the windows and doors phase is already under way.
But Tucker assured the council members that the appropriated Gutberlet monies would cover that portion of the project.
Council also approved, with some reservations, advertisement for bids on the second phase of the project that would include structural and roof repairs as well as the installation of an elevator.
"This would allow us to go out to advertise for bids for the second phase at a cost of $750, and it would help keep the armory project alive," said Councilman Harley Noland, D-at large and chairman of the lands, buildings and parks committee.
Noland urged his fellow councilmen to authorize the legislation.
Councilman Mike McCauley, D-2nd Ward, agreed.
"The only thing we're talking about with this legislation is the money to advertise for bids-we're not authorizing a contract," he said.
But Councilmen Denver Abicht, D-at large, and Steve Thomas, D-3rd Ward, expressed concerns that money from the city's annual Community Development Block Grant could be impacted if other grant monies failed to come through for the second phase of the project.
Both said CDBG monies should be used to improve city streets and not to restore the armory building.
"I'm a veteran and I'm not in favor of tearing the armory down, but streets are more important to people," Abicht said.
Thomas added that one of his constituents, also a veteran, has difficulty getting his wife to the hospital due to the deterioration of the street on which he lives.
Councilman Tom Vukovic, D-4th Ward, encouraged his fellow council members to support the legislation to advertise for bids.
"I think putting this out for bids is a good thing that will provide us information about the cost of the second phase," he said. "But I may not vote to enter into a contract if that will put city funds in jeopardy."
The measure passed 5-1, with Abicht casting the only dissenting vote.
Prior to the vote, Marietta resident Bill McElfresh suggested council take the armory issue to the public and present a long-range plan for operation of the facility.
"I would like to see our city officials go back to the citizens and say this is where we are and what it will cost," he said.
McElfresh noted that in 2003 the city's Development Advisory Board, of which he was a member, had listed the development of a viable business plan for the armory project among the city's top 10 priorities.


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Fionnan Sheahan: Kenny connects on trivia, not substance
Published 23/11/2012 | 05:00
ENDA Kenny revealed in recent days how he inadvertently signed a form as an eight-year-old to become a Franciscan monk.
The Taoiseach also disclosed yesterday how he frequently speaks with his Ukranian counterpart about the similarities between our musical cultures.
In contrast to his woeful performance in the Dail on live television on the Savita Halappanavar investigation, Mr Kenny has been at ease at other events. The first disclosure came two days ago at the official opening of the Merchants Quay homeless centre in Dublin, an admirable and impressive facility run in conjunction with the Franciscan Order.
And the second insight came at a high-brow lunch at the influential Brussels-based German thinktank, the Konrad Adeneuer Stiftung.
In both locations, Mr Kenny's affability came to the fore.
At home, his ability to connect with people often leaves a question mark over his political read on an issue as sensitive as the Halappanavar case.
He can relate to those at a centre for vulnerable people, some of whom have suffered from homelessness and addiction.
But his personal touch let him down on the issue of the death of Savita, as his response to the wider debate on the lack of clarity over abortion appeared to be conservative and failed to grasp the public mood.
He also floundered on the issue of the objections of Praveen Halapppanavar to the inquiry.
The Taoiseach goes down well on the European stage, although he does have a habit of turning on the schmaltz a little too heavily.
He knows how to deliver a pre-prepared speech with confidence and he largely breezed through questions put to him by Brussels-based EU Ambassadors.
Ahead of Ireland's EU Presidency, he'll have to brush up on some of the detail and read the briefing notes more carefully, but he largely has a broad grasp of the big issues. And some of his throw away comments, aimed at lightening the mood, were perhaps lost on his multi-national audience.
He notably spoke positively about the future of the EU and seeing the challenges as opportunities.
His interpersonal skills will also be useful when he is tasked with reaching consensus among countries with divergent views.
The Taoiseach, however, is in danger of contracting the same affliction as his predecessor – only turning it on when the TV cameras are off.
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Definition of Hanse in English:
1A medieval guild of merchants.
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- The Hanse merchants were a special case, and could have their own base in Lynn.
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"Widman's Violin Concerto will appeal to those who like Berg's. Tetzlaff's performance is outstanding... An impressive collection" ****
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"... In Christian Tetzlaff, Daniel harding and the Swedish RSO, Widman has found suitably uncompromising interpreters, and the recordings are as unvarnished and wide in perspective as the music itself demands."
Arnold Whittall - Gramophone magazine - August 2013
"...His playing [Tetzleff] is passionate and committed and, amongst several remarkable attributes, I would cite his intense, powerful tone in long, passionate high-lying phrases. This is a magnificent performance of a major work [Concerto] ... in all three works that make up the programme, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding's direction palys with the utmost virtuosity and conviction. These are live performances, but you would never know it. There is no applause and the performances are caught in superb sound in no way inferior to the standards we have come to expect from Ondine...."
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"It's rare that a new work's performance overshadows the piece itself, but Christian Tetzlff's account of the violin concerto Jörg Widmann composed for him in 2007 is so astonishingly vivid and secure that Widmann's impressive work at least has to share the spotlight with its dedicatee. With its huge expressive range and chiselled melodic lines, the solo writing hardly pauses for breath for the whole 28 minutes. Tetzlaff makes every second matter; one is carries along on the bleak journey Widmann invents..."
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The odds may be against her but Hollie Cavanagh has proven that she has the talent to be the next American Idol. Can she rise above the rest as the final four compete for the prize? After less than stellar and sometimes brutal critique from the judges, the McKinney teen has taken the comments to heart and improved greatly over her previous performances.
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Jessica Sanchez has five standing ovations from the judges under her belt, but also one elimination from the voters. Hollie Cavanagh seems to be peaking at the right time, receiving rave reviews from the judges for her latest performances. Philip Philips has avoided the bottom three altogether but had some troublesome performances on the top five round. Joshua Ledet has had some stellar performances but has also been in the bottom three.
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Total Recall: Ben Stiller's Best Movies
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Music Studies Research
See some of the representative highlights of research activity by the staff at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music. Follow the link to the staff member's biography to find out more about their research outputs in recent years.
Geoffrey Coker
Geoffrey Coker's research focus is generalist and his interest is in Context and Function in Music. Present research projects include The Effects of the Introduction of Girl Choristers into Traditional English Cathedral Choirs, for which he has conducted extensive field research, and interviewed a number of those involved in the choirs, and Musical Activity on the Island of Guernsey during the German Occupation 1940–1945, for which his Guernsey background and family records of the period have provided a stimulus and as well as valuable source material. Creative output includes arrangements of Carols for use in churches during those church festivals for which there is a need for a greater selection of repertoire.
Geoffrey Coker (arr), Splendours of Nature and The Salutation, Aberdeen: fagus-music.com, 2011.
These arrangements are for the Advent season, and specifically to complement readings dealing with the fall of Adam, and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. These arrangements have been performed and broadcast by a number of New Zealand Cathedral choirs. Performances of these by the choir of the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul have also been released by Raven CDs.
Dr David Cosper
Dr David Cosper's research centers on theoretical intersections between music and literature, with particular focus on questions of narrativity in musical experience. He balances specialties in jazz of the 1960s, contemporary popular music, and twentieth-century performance practice in the Western concert tradition.
David Cosper, "Breaking (From) the Tradition: Postmodern narrativity in the music of Jaki Byard."Jazz Perspectives 6.1 (2013)
As a pianist and improviser, Jaki Byard seems to have had an unabridged, if unbound, history book of jazz styles at his fingertips. Rather than synthesising these in 'add-and-stir' fashion, Byard often strings together coherent stylistic gestures in delightfully unintuitive ways. His solo and small-group records of the 1960s and 1970s consistently demonstrate this proclivity for creative anachronism. Yet despite having performed with, recorded with, or taught many better-known jazz performers over an exceptionally long and productive career, Byard has been unfortunately (and in my opinion, unjustly) relegated to a marginal position in prevailing popular and academic jazz histories. In this context, I approach Byard as a kind of 'symptom bearer' whose failure to fit comfortably into received style-based historical narratives offers a unique opportunity to interrogate the critical apparatus behind them. In response, I suggest an alternative theoretical approach to Byard's stylistically transgressive performance-as-historiography based in contemporary narrative theory.
Dr Brian Diettrich
Dr Brian Diettrich's research profile in music focuses on ethnomusicology and the specific area of Pacific Island musics. His work has especially centered on the music cultures of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and since 2000, he has conducted over five years of ethnographic research in the FSM that has closely informed his scholarship and publications.
Brian Diettrich, Jane Moulin, and Michael Webb, Music in Pacific Island Cultures: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, edited by Bonnie Wade and Patricia Campbell, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
This co-authored book and audio CD is the 23nd in the acclaimed Global Music Series of ethnomusicology texts and provides new ethnographic studies of Pacific music through three cultural case studies (Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, and Chuuk). The book is the first single volume introduction about Pacific music, and Brian's contributions include new cultural and musical material never before published from this area of the Pacific, including the first audio publication and discussion of several Micronesian musical practices. The book presents an innovative approach to Pacific musical life through themes of cultural diversity, colonialism, spirituality, global flows, and representation.
Assoc Prof Greer Garden
Associate Professor Greer Garden's research focus is French music of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Her interests are the court ballet, connections between opera and cantata, and the music of Jean-Baptiste de Bousset (c.1662-1725), a prolific songwriter and composer of large scale sacred works.
Greer Garden (ed.), La Delivrance de Renaud: Ballet danced by Louis XIII in 1617, Turnhout, Brepols, 2010, XXI-293p.
This court spectacular was one of the most important politico-cultural events of its era, devised to entertain the fifteen-year-old King and his courtiers - and draw attention to the glory of the French monarchy. Greer Garden's edited book includes a facsimile of the ballet designer's illustrated account of the event, and a modern edition of the music. Thirteen studies on the sources, the court ballet genre, the origins of the story in Tasso, participants, music, dance, staging and costumes, and notes for a modern performance complete the book. As one of its authors, Greer Garden overturns received views on the ballet's political aims using new evidence from memoirs, discusses the likely influence of an earlier enactment of the story, and sums up the historical evidence on singing style. The other contributors are Charles T. Downey and Kate van Orden (USA), Georgie Durosoir and Anne Surgers (France), and Peter Walls (New Zealand). Marsden funding, awarded jointly to Peter Walls and Greer Garden, assisted the book's completion.
Greer Garden (ed.), J.-B. de Bousset: Les Motets, Versailles, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2011, XXX-82p.
This edition makes Bousset's two surviving sacred works accessible for the first time to performing groups of today. From the only source extant, a reduced score copied out in the early 1720s for the use of a choral society in the city of Lyons, Greer Garden reconstructs the full score of Bousset's Psalm 45 Deus noster refugium (God is our refuge), for soloists, chorus and orchestra. Showing Bousset's mastery of large-scale writing, this work has added interest for being the only one that survives from a 100-year tradition of sacred written works for the French Academies. The other work presented is Quae est ista, a small sacred work for soloist, violins and continuo composed to verses from the Song of Songs for Louis XIV's private chapel music.
Assoc Prof Robert Hoskins
Associate Professor Robert Hoskins is a specialist in late eighteenth-century English music and the series editor of the collections of works of Larry Pruden and Douglas Lilburn. Much of his work is focussed on establishing authoritative critical editions based on archival research.
Thomas Arne: Love in a Village (1762). Auckland: Artaria Editions, 2011. 381 pages. ISBN 1-877369-98-5. ISMN M-67451-262-6.
This is the first full-score edition of a work that enjoyed huge success in the late 18th-century and which can be regarded as the first modern English comic opera. The edition, based on MS 342 in the Royal College of Music, London, includes an introductory essay, a transcription of the libretto, and a critical commentary of sources.
Editions of national importance under Robert Hoskins's editorship are:
Larry Pruden Collected Edition in 10 volumes. This is the first collected edition of the complete works of any New Zealand composer. For details www.promethean-editions.com
Douglas Lilburn: Complete Piano Music Edition in 10 volumes. This edition is the first scholarly and practical edition of Lilburn's completed piano works and is thus aimed at both scholars and musicians. For details www.promethean-editions.com
Assoc Prof Norman Meehan
Associate Professor Norman Meehan's research foci include New Zealand music in the jazz and pop idioms, and the composition and interpretive performance of music informed by poetic text.
Norman Meehan, Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Hannah Griffin, These Rough Notes, Wellington, Victoria University Press, 2012
Drawing its title from one of the last pages of Scott's journal, These Rough Notes is a collaboration between writer Bill Manhire, photographer Anne Noble, composer Norman Meehan and singer Hannah Griffin. 'Beneath the Ice' remembers the tragedies of Scott's polar expedition of 1912 and the crash of NZ901 into Mt Erebus in 1979. The 'Notebook Songs' capture the experiences of scientists and other contemporary visitors to the ice. This volume was listed as a 'Top 100' book by NZ Listener in 2012.
Norman Meehan, Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock, Wellington, Victoria University Press, 2010
The first critical biography of New Zealand's most famous jazz musician, this book explores Nock's early life in New Zealand, his rise to international prominence and his musical idiom and legacy. This book was listed as a 'Top 100' book by NZ Listener in 2010.
Norman Meehan, "Sounds Like Home: Trinity Roots and Jazz-Dub-Reggae in Wellington", in Tony Mitchell, Glenda Keam (eds.), Home, Land and Sea: Musical Landscapes in Aotearoa / New Zealand, Auckland, Pearson, 2011, pp. 134-144
This chapter explores the emergence of a distinctive local music scene in Wellington Aotearoa, and considers social and environmental factors that give rise to the unique musical expression found in this locale.
Dr Stephan ProckSenior Lecturer Stephan Prock is a composer and musicologist with a focus in film music studies. Though he composes in diverse mediums and genres, he has a particular interest in orchestral music and music for voice. In his recent music he has been exploring the technical and aesthetic possibilities of symmetrical structures governing both the local field (pitch) as well as the larger issue of form. His work on film music centres on issues of music and issues of gender and subjectivity in postwar Hollywood cinema.
Stradivariazioni, Promethean Editions, 2012, iv - 27 p.
I. Tema (Con Amici)
II. Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
III. Firebird
IV. Le Messie (The Messiah)
V. Red Diamond
VI. Alard (Epilogue)
Stradivariazioni was commissioned by Martin Riseley and Diedre Irons for their 2011 national tour of New Zealand with funding support from Chamber Music New Zealand. This work was chosen by Promethean Editions in the chamber music category to inaugurate Prometheans new University Edition, New Zealand Series. The composition itself is a theme and variations, with each variation cast in the form of a character piece. Instead of a single theme, three themes—or ciphers— are presented in the 'Tema (con amici)' (Theme (with friends)). A musical cipher translates letters of the alphabet into musical notes which are then represented as melodies (or harmonies). The B–A–C–H cipher (B-natural, A-natural, C-natural and B-flat in German usage) first used by Bach himself, is perhaps the most famous. The three ciphers in Stradivariazioni are derived from the surnames of those who inspired the piece: Diedre Irons, Martin Riseley and Antonio Stradivari. Throughout the work the ciphers are manipulated and appear in varying permutations. Though not always immediately recognisable, the assorted combinations of the ciphers provide a sense of coherence and intimate relationship between the five variations. This work represents a major consolidation and expansion of Prock's research into music and symmetry.
Dr Inge van Rij
Inge van Rij's research centres on nineteenth-century Western art music, approached from a range of historical and critical approaches and drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives to illuminate both the historical and contemporary significance of this repertoire. Within nineteenth-century studies, Inge's research has centred around two major projects, focussing on Brahms and Berlioz respectively.
Inge van Rij, Brahms's Song Collections, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Through an investigation of the implications of Brahms's publication of songs in what he described as 'song bouquets' (typically disregarded by performers and scholars alike), this book offers new ways of thinking about not only Brahms's Lieder, but also about fundamental issues such as the interconnectedness of the arts, and the relationships between work, performance, and reception. The book was funded by a Marsden Grant.
Inge van Rij, The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Examining Berlioz's constructions of otherness in both his writings and music, and drawing both on a distinctive New Zealand perspective as well as on new archival research conducted in France, this research explores the role of gender, technology, and exoticism in the formulation of Western art music's aesthetics of transcendence. In particular, the book examines the ways in which Berlioz situates orchestral performers and conductors within the developing discourse around the 'other worldliness' of composers' works.
Prof Donald Maurice
Bartok's Viola Concerto - The Remarkable Story of His Swansong by Donald Maurice. Oxford University Press, New York
The Leipzig Diary, Alfred Hill - edited by Donald Maurice. Wirripang, NSW
Georges ENESCO, "Sonata Op. 25 for piano and viola in the Romanian Folk Character. Transcribed by Donald Maurice for viola and piano. Enoch & Cie, Paris
Douglas Lilburn - Salutes to Seven Poets. Transcribed by Donald Maurice for viola and piano. Waiteata Music Press
New Zealand Piano Quartet - Beethoven Early Piano Quartets. Naxos
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Boris Pigovat - Requiem CD. Donald Maurice - viola. Atoll Records
Supersonic Award from Pizzicato Classical Music Magazine in Luxembourg
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Is Your Swim Or Bike Strength Hurting Your Run?
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In his home country of South Africa, McGee used to attend competitions in which a variety of athletes went up against each other in different events (core work, sprints, strength, etc.) to see who was the best all-around. He says the worst athletes were always the cyclists—"they were brilliant on the bike, but sucked at everything else."
Considering the constant closed-off position on the bike, cyclists tend to have poor hip flexor mobility that can lead to quad-dominant running and make a proper tall running posture difficult to maintain. Muscle imbalances, such as the upper calf being too big, can also limit speed and technique.
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