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Definición de solitude en inglés:
1 [mass noun] The state or situation of being alone: she savoured her few hours of freedom and solitude
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- It tells us that God is, in a sense, a community of persons, not a solitary living in solitude, alone and distant.
- As increasing numbers of people choose to live or work alone, solitude is often celebrated in 2001.
- As someone whose self reposes on a great slab of solitude, such a situation would drive me nuts.
loneliness, solitariness, remoteness, isolation, seclusion, retirement, withdrawal, purdah, privacy, privateness, peace, peace and quiet, desolation;
North American lonesomeness
rare sequestration, reclusion
2A lonely or uninhabited place: the battle to preserve beloved solitudes flared up all over the country
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- It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes & barrens & wilds.
- There are still, as on the first days of creation, rivers whose founts never run dry, green and watery solitudes, and limitless fields never yet turned by the ploughshare.
- In these eight chapters we are shown that Bristol and its hinterland existed as two solitudes - wary of one another and keeping each other at arm's length.
wilderness, undisturbed area, unspoilt area, rural area, wilds, backwoods, the back of beyond;
desert, emptiness, wasteland, no-man's-land;
in Australia the bush, the outback;
North American & Australian/New Zealand backcountry;
South African the backveld
informal the sticks, the middle of nowhere
North American informal the boondocks
archaic retirement
Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin solitudo, from solus 'alone'.
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Rigondeaux's Promoter Targets Agreement on Avalos
By Reynaldo Sanchez
Boris Arencibia, CEO at Caribe Promotions, who handle the career of WBO & WBA super bantamweight world champion Guillermo "The Jackal" Rigondeaux (14-0, 9 KO's), says his company is willing to satisfy the recent order that was issued by the World Boxing Organization, ordering the two-time Olympic gold medal winner to face mandatory WBO challenger Chris Avalos (24-2-0) 18 KO's. In addition, the American Avalos is ranked as #1 by the IBF and #5 in the WBA.
Arencibia has already made calls over to Top Rank and initiated discussions to reach an agreement. Because none of the other champions are willing to face Rigondeaux, the entire team believes Avalos is the best possible option at the moment.
"We have an enormous amount of respect for Chris Avalos. At the present Caribe Promotions and Top Rank are negotiating the terms of this bout. We have 30 days to reach an agreement and we are working hard to get it," Arencibia said.
"Caribe Promotions and all of Rigo's team have the best intentions to make this fight happen. We wish to make the best fights. We have even challenged other champions, such as [Leo] Santa Cruz in the past and we haven't heard anything from his camp. I don't want to think that they are unwilling to fight Rigondeaux due their fear of losing, but everything is indicating to us that they won't fight, at least for now, so Avalos is a good choice."
"Top Rank promotes Chris Avalos and since the WBO ordered the fight against Guillermo Rigondeaux, we have been making some calls to reach an agreement as soon as possible. This will be a good fight. Avalos is a great warrior and has earned his chance for a world title fight against "The Jackal" Rigondeaux."
Well if Univision is located in Miami, FL then maybe that would be a good site to sell this fight for Caribbe Promotions?? I don't feel that Top Rank wants Chris Avalos to face Rigo though . . . why…Comment by .:: JSFD26 ::. on 08-06-2014
[QUOTE=shadow-boxer;14830088]Still butt hurt that the winner gets no respect and still in his **** hole waiting for another bum to come along while the loser has moved along and now a feather champ, earning good money on the side? FYI,…Comment by shadow-boxer on 08-06-2014
[QUOTE=dinero fan;14829990]As much as I like avalos I got to go with rigo. Don't know why rigos team is negotiating with Arum after all the shyt he talked about rigo after he [B]whooped that hype job of phonito.[/B][/QUOTE] Still butt…Comment by dinero fan on 08-06-2014
As much as I like avalos I got to go with rigo. Don't know why rigos team is negotiating with Arum after all the shyt he talked about rigo after he whooped that hype job of phonito.Comment by Bardock on 08-06-2014
[QUOTE=Hougigo;14829375]Yea it's weird, because he doesn't have his tR minimum anymore and if it goes to pursebid, the minimum is only 200k for a title fight...Bob's only competing against Carribe[/QUOTE] Good I hope Arum doesn't give him chit, him and…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (35)


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Please see this page on my website:
You will see that the wording on the right gets cut off. The e-commerce plugin I have installed is wp e-commerce.
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Please use plain English - I am not very technical, but I do have very, very basic html knowledge.
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Wondering if anyone knows about a plugin to allow for variables in WP, and then to post to those variables remotely.
For instance, I would like to have a variable for "RELEASEDATE" and have someone fill in the variable as "November 21, 2012"
The sentence in the post/page would say: The release date for this manual is "RELEASEDATE". and it would actually display "The release date for this manual is November 21, 2012".
So I'd have a list of variables and as those variables are updated, they propagate throughout the site.
And... I'd like to have the ability to have those variables updated by a remote user, maybe someone that doesn't have regular editor/contributor rights to the site... someone that doesn't need to log in.
A few months ago I had toyed around with Google Spreadsheets being able to do something like this. I am able to display a specific spreadsheet cell, but am unable to have that cell be fed to my WP site. I have an example somewhere... I think it is bookmarked on my other computer. I'll edit later.
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I'm thinking this may be a chrome bug since it doesn't happen in any other browser but I'm not 100% sure. When I copy the raw code from a crayon snippet in Chrome and paste it into a file, it seems to copy some bad characters. It appears to be the spaces that get corrupted. When I copy perfectly valid code and save it to a PHP file and try to run it, I get an error message similar to the following:
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I have tried this with two different editors (PhpEd and Notepad++) and both have the same result.
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2. Paste it into an editor wrapped in <?php ?> tags.
3. Remove "App::uses('ExceptionRenderer', 'Error');" and " extends ExceptionRenderer" and save the php file.
4. Try to run the file on your local server and you'll get the error.
I did a little digging with Firefox and Firebug and I think it's related to the entities that are in the textarea. Should these be actual spaces instead of in the textarea?
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I have almost 25 pdf formatted psychiatry examination questions which each pdf includes 150 Questions with answers. All of them have to be convert to word format and they categorize per year and per topic. After than we may use above data to create a new question bank. TO DO LIST 1- Convert all of data to Word format 2-For each question, if they have, put the answer below of question, label its category and put the year ( answer sheet) 3-I need word file per year and per category. If you are interesting, I can send the link and we can go over from there.


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Winners of the 2016 Fanfare competition have been announced.
The competition invites young people aged 11–18 from across the UK to compose their own fanfare, drawing on musical motifs from the Royal Opera House's ballet and opera repertory.
Winners have the opportunity to hear their fanfares recorded by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, before they are played to thousands of audience members attending a performance throughout the Season.
Last week the 11 winners came to the Royal Opera House to take part in workshops, working with composer Duncan Chapman and members of the Orchestra to arrange and perfect their fanfares.
This year's composer double-act Bronwyn Plowman and Eva Waters said listening to professional players performing their piece gave them new ideas.
'We listened to all the pieces and then started to mess around with them a bit,' said Bronwyn from Potton in Bedfordshire.
Owen Davies, who had caught the sleeper train from Land's End the night before, agreed saying, 'You get so used to computer sounds. It's so useful to be able to actually hear your music, especially by professional musicians who know their instruments so well.'
The winning fanfares were chosen from 129 entries, and selected by a panel of musicians and staff members from a range of departments across the Royal Opera House, including Music Director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano.
Kit McCarthy from Fife had entered the competition twice before so was thrilled when he found out his third attempt had been victorious. 'The first piece I did was nice, but I just don't think it was interesting enough', he said. 'Then my second was shortlisted because it was a little more unusual – so this year I decided my entry had to be really ear-catching!'
The fanfares will be recorded by Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in June. Audiences in Covent Garden will hear the first fanfare before the Season opening performance of Norma on 12 September 2016.
For Tammas Slater from Guiseley in West Yorkshire, the prospect of his fanfare being played to thousands of audience members a year is thrilling.
'I'm very excited that it's going to be heard,' he said. 'I want my music to be heard or there would be no point in my writing it!'
'I hope there's a little bit of everything in my fanfare, so I don't mind what production it's played before. I'm not picky!'
For the full list of winners, and to hear the original entries, visit our Fanfare pages.]]>
This year's Fanfare Competition for 11 to 18-year-olds is now open.
The unique competition gives young people the chance to create their very own sound for the Royal Opera House. Winning fanfares will be heard by thousands of audience members as they are called to take their seats for performances during the upcoming 2016/17 Season.
The winners will join Music Director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House to record their compositions.
'It was an experience I just cannot explain in words, to hear my composition played by the orchestra,' says Kethaki, a previous Fanfare Competition winner.
To assist entrants with composing their fanfares, we've created a series of online resources. These resources offer guidelines on how to approach composition and sample motifs to inspire budding composers.
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Violetta's Act I aria 'Ah fors'è lui' is her first solo number in La traviata. So far, we have only seen her as she chooses to present herself: alluring host to her party guests, coquettish courtesan to her young admirer Alfredo. It is only after the guests have left that we see a more thoughtful and vulnerable Violetta, as she considers her response to Alfredo's ardent declaration of love. Verdi employs traditional 19th-century Italian operatic structure in the aria: opening recitative; slow first section; transitional recitative and closing fast section (cabaletta). A master of the form, he uses this structure to offer a profound insight into his heroine's conflicted emotions.
In the brooding opening recitative, Violetta meditates in falling phrases on how strange it feels at last to be loved. String tremolos illustrate her agitation as she ponders how she should respond. Her vocal line blossoms into an expansive, coloratura-adorned phrase as she rejoices in finally experiencing true love; and then, more pensively, she asks herself how she can possibly resist Alfredo and the affection he offers. Delicate woodwind arpeggios lead into the aria, as she meditates further.
'Ah, fors'è lui' opens in F minor, capturing Violetta's melancholy as she recalls her past loneliness. The simple, lyrical vocal style shows that she is far from being the frivolous courtesan she at first appeared. As Violetta recalls Alfredo's concern about the illness that has until recently kept her confined, the pace quickens, and a long crescendo leads us into F major. Accompanied by delicate clarinet arpeggios, sustained horn chords and pizzicato (pinched or plucked) strings, she raptly repeats, in words and melody, Alfredo's avowal of love. The section ends in an ecstatic melisma, and we are left in no doubt that Violetta is falling in love.
However, Violetta's profession as a courtesan has not encouraged her to trust men, and this new emotion frightens her. Exclaiming 'follia!' (madness), she abandons her contemplative mood. In the ensuing recitative, tremolo strings and dramatic shifts in pitch register her fear of yielding to Alfredo. She determines to continue her hedonistic lifestyle, repeating with ever more flamboyant coloratura the word 'gioir' (to enjoy), and launches impetuously into the aria's cabaletta, 'Sempre libera' (forever free).
This is one of Verdi's most dazzling showpieces for soprano: a frenetic A flat major waltz, whose orchestration of high woodwind and rapidly pulsing strings harks back to the act's earlier party music. Violetta's vocal style, all coloratura, trills and flamboyant high notes, contrasts sharply with her earlier lyric tenderness. The music's manic quality not only depicts Violetta's frivolous and hedonistic world, but also suggests her encroaching illness: Verdi poignantly evokes the consumptive's swings between exhaustion and exuberant hyperactivity.
Verdi ends the cabaletta's first verse with an astonishing theatrical device. Suddenly, we hear Alfredo offstage repeating his earlier declaration of love – whether serenading Violetta from the street, or just as a voice from within Violetta's mind, is left for us to decide. His ardent song briefly silences Violetta; but she remains determined to banish romantic thoughts. She follows Alfredo's final phrase with ever more vehement coloratura statements of 'gioir!', and a second verse of her aria – it is identical to the first, but after that brief interlude of tenderness seems even more manic.
Alfredo and his music will not be banished for good, though, and at the aria's close we hear him again, rapid fragments of his music pitted against Violetta's ever more agitated coloratura. Violetta wins out in the aria's closing bars; but as we shall see, it is Alfredo and his love that will triumph eventually – with consequences both ecstatic and tragic.
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Her voice, distant and unseen, comes out of nothing. Roxana sings offstage, a sweet, high, held note that slides yearningly down an unfamiliar, exotic scale. From its first siren call, Roxana's Song, from Act II of Karol Szymanowski's opera Król Roger, intoxicates with its beauty.
Roxana's Song is probably the opera's best-known music. In the same year the full score was published, in 1926, the publishers released a stand-alone version of the Song for soprano and orchestra. A few years later Szymanowski's close friend, the violinist Paweł Kochański, released a new version for violin and piano. In this and in a variety of other orchestrations the Song exists in numerous recordings.
It is not just the beauty of Roxana's Song that has made it so attractive for performers and audiences. It is one of the opera's several set pieces, sections that structurally stand apart from the opera's through-composed flow – the other in Act II is the orgiastic Shepherd's Dance that follows Roxana's Song. The Song is the shortest of these set pieces, only four minutes in length. And it is also probably the simplest – a hushed lullaby, with an exquisite stillness that differentiates it from the predominant opulence of the opera's scoring.
Each of the three acts of Król Roger centres around a conflict between the King and the Shepherd, a mysterious prophet who has come among Roger's people. Each conflict is preceded by an interjection from Roger's queen, Roxana. In the first act – the 'Byzantine' – her voice sounds amid the people's cries for the Shepherd's execution, as she begs the king to listen first to the Shepherd's message. In the second – the 'Oriental' – she pleads for clemency once again in her Song, but now her voice comes from afar, as she heralds the arrival of the Shepherd and his Bacchic following. The Song's uninhibited sensuality presages the events of the final act – the 'Hellenic' – when she will leave Roger to follow the Shepherd.
Roxana's Song interrupts Roger and his advisor Edrisi as they talk of the Shepherd; Roger fears the 'strange fire that burns in his eyes'. Distant tambourines are heard 'by the gates of the slumbering city – he is here'. They and the orchestra fall silent, listening. Roxana's voice soars out of the darkness in a wordless melisma. The downward scale that follows her long held note is constructed out of minor 3rds and semitones, true to the act's 'Oriental' (Arabic-Persian) colour. Her melisma continues into a second section, a small fragment that rises and falls, graced with a tiny, fleeting ornament, with imitating woodwind instruments that entwine with her voice.
This second melismatic fragment leads into the next section, the main body of the Song. Roxana sings a simple melody in a gentle lilting three-time, with hypnotic accompaniment from piano and strings. The music is now less obviously 'Oriental', but there is still something exotic and other-worldly in its trance-like stillness. She uses words for the first time in the Song – 'Banish King Roger's blood-stained dreams' – and the female chorus rises beneath her as the simple melody grows in intensity.
The verse returns two more times, each time following a different combination of the melismatic fragments and brief interjections from Roger and Edrisi, as they marvel at the beauty of her singing. There is an easy inevitability about the return of each verse, but also a deepening intensity as Roxana urges her husband to 'Be like a weary panther, gorged on blood'. After three verses, the second melisma returns, repeated again and again, rising higher and higher, louder and louder, violins and woodwinds writhing with Roxana's voice. Finally we realize that there is a dangerous energy behind the music's seductive beauty – a herald of the immolation to come in Act III.
Król Roger runs 1–19 May 2015. Tickets are still available.
The full performance of Król Roger can be viewed from Saturday 16 May 2015 on the ROH website, on YouTube and on the Opera Europa Digital Platform, a new website to be launched early May that will showcase live streams and a range of behind-the-scenes footage from 15 opera houses across Europe.
The production is generously supported by The Monument Trust, The Danish Research Foundation, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music Programme, The Taylor Family Foundation, Hamish and Sophie Forsyth, David Hancock, Michael Hartnall, Susan and John Singer and the Connoisseurs' Series.]]>
The winners of the 2015 Fanfare Competition have been announced.
The competition, now in its sixth year, invites young people aged 11–16 to compose and record their own short piece of music, with winning fanfares played to thousands of audience members attending a performance at the Royal Opera House.
This week the twelve winners took part in workshops, working with composer Duncan Chapman and members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House to arrange and perfect their fanfares.
'Before the workshops we were both very nervous, expecting all the other entrants to be experienced, serious musicians,' says Sam and Finlay from Kingswood School in Bath. 'But it's been a lot different to what we expected and actually just really fun.'
The winning entries have been selected by a panel from the Royal Opera House, including Music Director of The Royal Ballet Barry Wordsworth, composer Charlotte Bray and Music Director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano.
The compositions will be orchestrated and recorded by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in April, before being played to the Covent Garden audience for the first time at a Royal Ballet performance on 30 May.
'It's an incredible thing to conduct a group of professionals playing a piece of music that you came up with one day in a music lesson at school,' says Charlotte Wilson from Stoneygate School in Leicester. 'To think that my fanfare will not only be played by one of the biggest orchestras in the UK, but to thousands of people attending a performance at this amazing venue, is just insane!'
For the full list of winners and to listen to their original entry recordings, visit our Fanfare page.]]>
**UPDATE: Entries for this year's competition have now closed**
Entries are now open for this year's Fanfare competition. The competition, which is open to 11 to 16-year-olds across the UK, invites participants to create and record a short, attention-grabbing composition that will be played to audiences before performances to let them know that it's time to take their seat.
Participants simply submit a 30-second MP3 recording of their work, whether played on an instrument or using music software. The winning entrants will then be invited to the Royal Opera House where, over the course of four weeks, they will work with composer Duncan Chapman, orchestra members and Music Director Antonio Pappano. The students will learn how to develop and orchestrate their composition ahead of it being played and recorded by the Royal Opera House Orchestra.
'The winning participants come into the recording sessions to help me shape these pieces,' says Antonio Pappano. 'They change the tempo and orchestration, so that they are involved in actually creating the music, which is a fantastic and important experience.'
Their final work is used throughout the season to announce the start of performances.
Last year, a judging panel that included Antonio Pappano, Barry Wordsworth, Judith Weir and Duncan Chapman chose their ten favourite fanfares from over 300 entrants. Listen to the winning entries.
John Wiseman (aged 15) from Cockermouth School in Cumbria composed one of last season's winning fanfares.
'As well as introducing me to other young artists,' he says, 'the project has played a large role in improving my abilities to communicate ideas to professional musicians and young composers, and to refine my own music.'
Participants have until the 17 March 2014 to upload an MP3 recording of their work. You can find out full details about how to enter on our Fanfare page, and a link to a range of resources to help you create your own piece. Good luck!]]>
'Dio, che nell'alma infondere' is one of Verdi's most radiant duets, and one of his most dramatically potent. A thrilling hymn to friendship, it gleams beacon-like out of the sepulchral gloom of Act II part 1 of Verdi's political thriller Don Carlo.
Carlos has so far had a pretty rough time of it (and to be honest it's not going to get better). In Act I he sneaked away from his princely duties to catch a first glimpse of his betrothed, Elizabeth of Valois, in the forest of Fontainebleau. Luckily they fell instantly in love – or rather, very unluckily, as no sooner had they declared mutual adoration than news arrived that the treaty had changed and Elizabeth was instead to marry Carlos's father, King Philip II of Spain. Remembering her people and the desperate need for peace between the two kingdoms, Elizabeth consented, and Carlos despaired.
In Act II Carlos has returned to Spain to hide himself in the San Yuste monastery, where his grandfather Carlos V devoted his life to prayer after abdicating the throne. Alone in this dark and oppressively holy place, Carlos has been menaced by the offstage chanting of the monks (in brilliantly weird minor/major) and the stern pronouncements of a monk who bears a terrifying resemblance to Carlos V.
Rodrigo – Marquis of Posa and Carlos's only friend – rushes in, dispelling in a gust of rationalism all the ghosts of Carlos's inheritance. Brave, strong and true, Verdi's idealistic hero has absolute faith in the power and goodness of his friend. In some tightly detailed accompanied recitative he discovers the cause of Carlos's woe and instructs him to silence his heart in devotion to a worthy cause: to free the people of Flanders from the aggressive Spanish occupation. 'I will follow you, my brother', sings Carlos, quiet and sincere – and immediately a bell sounds announcing the approach of King Philip and his new queen. Carlos's heart jumps in a rising 5th – 'Elisabetta!' – but, steadfast, Posa intones over sober brass, 'Ask Heaven for the strength of the brave'.
And then we're into the show-stopping duet. 'God who kindles love and hope in our hearts', Carlos and Posa sing, bound fast together in intimate 3rds in lucid, open C major. A spare orchestral accompaniment beats a regular four-square rhythm out of which the voices spin triplets – breathing as one, a smooth legato after the anxious palpitations earlier in the act. A rapid key progression quickens us into the short middle section: a mirror image of the earlier part but now in the relative minor, as the friends solemnly swear to martial rhythms 'to live together and to die together'.
A return of the first section rounds off this first hearing, but the orchestra continues; the strings now regularize the triplets and Carlos and Posa's song becomes a grand processional for the new King and Queen. What is Verdi doing here? He reminds us of what's at stake for Carlos, and he shows Posa supporting Carlos as, trembling, he bows before the Queen. But perhaps he's also showing that the earthly grandeur of Philip II and his retinue is only a pallid shadow of the vibrancy of the friendship of the two men.
As Philip leaves the bass line warps far from the friends' C major down into the F sharp major/minor of the chanting monks. They and the Carlos V simulacrum sing their dirge and Carlos begins again to slide into melancholic despair. He is supported once more by Posa, in a brilliant ensemble of classic Verdian bravura. The monks disappear and in unison Carlos and Posa reaffirm their pact as the melody of their song beings to rise out of the pit. 'Libertà!' they declare, Posa's baritone leaping up to join Carlos in the tenor pitch, before we dive into a glorious rendition of the melody in the full orchestra.]]>
The opera may be called Elektra but it's her father's name that dominates the score.
A rampaging, unison, fortissimo orchestral 'Aga-MEMMMM-non' opens Richard Strauss's 1909 opera. It's a monumental statement and a thrilling beginning to a work depicting a woman tormented by a single obsession: the revenge of her father's murder.
Listen to the opening played by the London Symphony Orchestra:
Elektra's mother Klytämnestra killed her husband (Elektra's father) Agamemnon on his return from the Trojan War. Elektra has longed for the death of Klytämnestra, and that of her accomplice and lover Ägisth, since then. Elektra buried the axe they used to murder her father and has stood watch over that patch of ground, waiting for the return of her exiled brother Orest so they can exact justice with the same weapon. Elektra thinks of nothing but Agamemnon; there is nothing else left.
The 'Agamemnon' motif is a musical monolith. In technical terms it's a minor triad (three-note chord), one of the most fundamental building blocks of tonal music. Following the immediately recognizable speech rhythm, two semiquavers shape a descending 4th before we rest blaringly on the minor third, the note that's most crucial to the character of the chord. It's an astonishingly basic musical idea – and one that has terrifying consequences for Elektra.
It could have been enough that Strauss has the 'Agamemnon' motif open the opera, and in such an unequivocal statement. But that he also makes the motif so simple means Elektra can never escape the spectre of her father. It's woven into everything, becoming her whole reality.
Naming and identity is crucial to Strauss's score, and to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto. Orest, when Elektra finally recognizes him, is adoringly greeted by his sister over and over again on a rising 4th, part of the three-note form of the 'Agamemnon' motif. The few statements of Elektra's name are also triadic. The name of Chrysothemis, Elektra's sister who refuses to help her sister carry out their revenge, is never spoken.
But Agamemnon's name lurks round every corner, and it's the orchestra's explicit statements that hit hardest: an obscene upbeat to Elektra's attempts to seduce Chrysothemis into helping her; a teasing, bubbling motif that torments Elektra as she digs desperately for the buried axe; when Elektra, with a horrified Orest, recalls her former beauty and how it has been sacrificed to her revenge.
Agamemnon even has his stamp on Strauss's other main motifs. The savage accent of Agamemnon's name – pah-pah-PAH – becomes the motif representing Orest's action, appearing with more and more insistency as we approach the opera's terrifying climax. You can also hear its influence on the mournful motif that signifies Elektra's relationship to her brother.
It all builds to one of the most thrilling endings in opera, where Strauss's sophisticated use of musical keys also plays an important part. A violent E flat minor chord sends the exhausted Elektra crashing to the ground, dead. Several brutal statements of the 'Agamemnon' motif, in C minor, are answered by implacable, very soft chords in E flat minor. Finally, Chrysothemis's plaintive cry for her brother, uttered twice, is answered by a vicious repeated statement of the motif of Orest's action, hammering down a horrifying C major ending. It's almost too much to bear – but that's what makes it great opera.
The Royal Opera's Elektra runs from 23 September - 12 October 2013. Tickets are still available.]]>
Three years ago, I read about the Fanfare Competition in a national newspaper. Budding composers were being encouraged to write orchestral fanfares for the Royal Opera House and the prize was for the winning entries to be recorded by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, under the directorship of Antonio Pappano. Not only that, but the winning fanfares were to be played during the performance intervals over the course of the following Season. I knew that our pupils would be excited by this amazing competition, but I was not fully prepared for their energy and their highly creative musical compositions.
We are a relatively small state middle school, with just under 250 pupils. I encouraged pupils to work in pairs, and the teaching staff also provided workshops in lunchtimes.
Over the past three years, we've submitted well over a hundred entries, with a few winners along the way. What followed for them was something that few young composers will have ever experienced, with our pupils accorded red carpet treatment from the moment they were chosen. Fantastically, winning doesn't seem to be the sole motivation for pupils entering. Last year we didn't manage a winning entry but this hasn't put the current students off - I have already had a lot asking me when we are going to start writing them again. A key aspect of education is to motivate and inspire pupils and this is something that Fanfare does brilliantly!
Music is positive in our school – we sing in class and assemblies, provide orchestra, clarinet group, recorder groups, theory classes and instrumental lessons and there are numerous chances for our pupils to perform. And, thanks to Fanfare, some of our pupils can say that their music has been played to thousands of people and that they have worked with an internationally acclaimed orchestra and conductor. How inspiring is that?
Free Teacher Twilight Sessions
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The Clore Studio, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, WC2E 9DD
Tuesday 27 November, 17.30 – 19.30
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Wednesday 28 November, 17.00 – 19.00
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Thursday 6 December, 17.00 – 19.00 followed by a free ticket to attend the Ensemble 360 concert afterwards.
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The Fanfare Competition is back for the new season, giving 11-16 year olds the chance to have their music played every night at the Royal Opera House to signal the start and intervals of performances.
After the competition closing date on Friday 4 March, 2013, up to ten fanfares will be selected and the winners invited to develop their initial idea with a professional composer. The fanfares will then be arranged and recorded by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under the baton of conductor Antonio Pappano. The winners will work closely with Antonio during the recording session so that it is played just as they imagined.
If you'd like to know how to encourage your pupils to enter, we've created a range of free resources for Fanfare, available to any teacher. They include videos, interactive whiteboard flipcharts as well as comprehensive schemes of work with links to the curriculum.
Here's a run down of what's on offer:
Videos on YouTube
The Fanfare Competition playlist on our YouTube channel is full of videos that can be shown in the classroom. These include videos of musicians from the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House playing excerpts of fanfares found in opera and ballet. You can also watch interviews with Antonio Pappano and composers Orlando Gough and Hannah Conway about ways of creating music.
Composers Notebook
The composer's notebook is a visual mind map, full of little sparks of inspiration for students starting work on creating their short snappy fanfare.
Interactive Whiteboard
We have developed a number of interactive whiteboard resources with Promethean Planet. These are free and can be used with SMARTboards or Promethean platforms. The three flipcharts, What is a Fanfare?, Composing a Fanfare and Fanfares: Their Musical Ingredients provide resources for a 30-minute music lesson.
Fanfare Curriculum Units
These units for both Key Stage 3 and 4 provide teachers with example schemes of work which link into the music curriculum, meaning they can get straight into working on the topic of fanfares with their students. These units were developed in collaboration with Chris Hiscock, General Adviser for Music Cambridgeshire County Council.
These Fanfare resources and others can be found on the TES and teaching music websites.
We hope you find the resources useful – if you have any feedback on elements that you've used in the past do let us know.]]>


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(CNN)Here's a look into the life of musician and songwriter Bruce Springsteen.
Birth date: September 23, 1949
Birth date: September 23, 1949
Birth place: Freehold, New Jersey
Birth name: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
Father: Douglas Springsteen, a bus driver
Mother: Adele (Zerilli) Springsteen, a legal secretary
Marriages: Patti Scialfa (June 8, 1991-present); Julianne Phillips (May 13, 1985-March 1, 1989, divorce)
Children: with Patti Scialfa: Sam, January 5, 1994; Jessica, December 30, 1991; Evan, July 25, 1990
Education: Attended Ocean County Community College for one semester, 1967
Other Facts:
Known as "The Boss."
Known as "The Boss."
Has played with the E Street Band on and off since the early seventies.
Nominated for two Academy Awards, has won once.
Nominated for 46 Grammy Awards, has won 20 times.
Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, has won twice.
The cover of "Born in the U.S.A." was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
1965 - Springsteen became the lead guitarist in the band "The Castiles." He would later become the group's lead singer.
1965 - Springsteen became the lead guitarist in the band "The Castiles." He would later become the group's lead singer.
1969-1971 - Performs in the band "Child."
1972 - Signs a record deal with Columbia Records.
January 5, 1973 - Columbia Records releases Springsteen's debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." This album features musicians who would eventually become members of the E Street Band.
October 10, 1975 - Springsteen appears on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines at the same time, a rare honor previously only held by world leaders.
1988 - Springsteen tours with Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! benefit concerts. The concerts take place in the United States, England, France and various developing countries.
October 18, 1989 - Springsteen decides to take a break from playing with the E Street Band.
1994 - Wins an Academy Award for Original Song for "The Streets of Philadelphia."
March 15, 1999 - Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and officially reunites with the E Street Band.
January 18, 2009 - Springsteen performs Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" with Pete Seeger at Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
February 2, 2009 - Springsteen and the E Street Band play Super Bowl half-time show.
December 10, 2009 - Receives the Kennedy Center Honors.
November 2, 2012 - An NBC telethon, "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together," features Springsteen, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi and other musicians to help raise money for the victims of the storm.
August 25, 2015 - Springsteen celebrates the 40th anniversary of his mega hit "Born to Run."


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Eva Longoria and Tony Parker divorce rumors have dominated Tuesday's late sports news.
Is it fact or is it fiction? We'll make sure to keep you updated on what's going on.
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On a happier note, Chad Ochocinco has announced his engagement to Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada.
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- Eric Johnson—Jessica Simpson: Announced engagement
- Chad Ochocinco—Evelyn Lozada: Announced engagement
- Tony Parker—Eva Longoria: Rumored to be filing for divorce
Talk about balance. It could possibly be two couples heading towards marriage, while two other could be on the way out.
Funny, how things work.
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**ck off fergie
I think it's been a bad show by both managers for being so public about the whole thing. UTD and Lpool fans don't need any fuel being added to the fire as far as the rivalry between the fans are concerned. Those small few morons who cause trouble at games love this kind of thing and the managers openly bickering doesn't help.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Aug 24, 2007 23:59 Flag
Hate agreeing with a Man U fan, but I tend to agree with this view. If the letter did not give Heinze the right to leave, then technically this could be tapping up, but lets get realistic here, until the tribunal that was in doubt, and too be honest I think its fair there may still be outstanding questions, but they will never be answered as this won't be appealed. By the same token many times with the agents playing a lead role in starting negotiations, could be viewed as tapping up. Tevez for example, was all but sold by his agent, before his club of registration had agreed terms. Therefore I'd say SAF is on shaky ground going after anyone on tapping up charges this time round.
Fact is all have not looked good. Agents may have started this and given poor advice, but SAF and Rafa decided to let this play out in public. They'd been better off trying to do this quietly behind closed doors. Think that would have been better for the image of both clubs and the player. But milk is spilt and life must go on.
Doubt anyone really won. Heinze ends up at a large club, but moving abroad was not his first option. Man U loose a quality back up player, by all accounts they did not want to sell, and Liverpool did not pick up a strong back up player to strengthen their squad. Now if we can all get over it, the compitition is on the pitch, not in the office of the lawyers.
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A Yahoo! User Aug 25, 2007 14:21 Flag
All the evidence seems to point to Liverpool tapping him up.By evidence i can only go by the fact Liverpool/Heinze lost the tribunal.
But in all honesty,if there is a club in the prem or maybe lower that has not gone about a transfer or 12 the wrong way,i'll eat my wellies.
We should just let Fergie spit his dummy out and when he's calmed down,get on with taking the title.
Fuck off purple nose you arrogant twat dont threaten liverpool fc you shit house.
Im not avin a go at Man u its that scotch arrogant .unt
Fuck off purple nose you arrogant twat dont threaten liverpool fc you shit house.
Im not avin a go at Man u its that scotch arrogant .unt


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TEXAS FAITH: Can you have morality without the existence of God?
When President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty exactly 50 years ago, advocates called it the moral obligation of a wealthy nation. Johnson said he was doing it not because it was efficient or helpful or politically expedient (which, of course, it was for liberals), but because it was right. The idea of advancing public policy in moral terms is hardly new. The Civil Rights movement invoked a moral imperative in its quest of public policy. Social conservatives want a government that reflects values they consider fundamental and unchanging. The impetus of President Obama's health-care initiative and its various government precursors was, at least at some level, a moral one.
Robert Barron, a Catholic priest, notes in a column that one of the most common observations made by opponents of religion is that we don't need God in order to have a coherent and integral morality. After all, aren't there plenty of good, moral people who don't believe in God? But supporters of religion warn that without God, there's moral chaos.
Barron suggests removing God is tantamount to removing the ground for basic good, and once the basic good has been eliminated, all that is left is the self-legislating and self-creating will. Thus, he says, people of faith should be wary when atheists and agnostics blithely suggest that morality can endure apart from God.
So what is the relationship between morality and the existence of God? Can you have one without the other?
For all the talk by politicians and policy advocates about the morally in advancing various programs, good government typically means managing a competition between various secular interests in a way that benefits the common good. It's about reaching a consensus in the community. It's relative. But can morality ever be relative? And if not, doesn't that mean it requires, at its heart, something absolute — like God.
What is the relationship between morality and the existence of God? Can you have one without the other?
JOE CLIFFORD, Head of Staff and Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas
Plenty of moral people are not religious; and plenty of religious people are immoral. In either case, morality becomes suspect when we make ourselves and our own interests into false gods. Throughout history, in the name of God, wars have been waged, slavery has been condoned, segregation has been ordained, and women have been excluded from full participation in society—just to name a few immoral actions justified in the name of God. In each of these instances the false god of self-interest tainted the moral climate. Land and power and wealth and fear usurped the living God in justifying immoral actions.
From a Christian standpoint, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount offers the most comprehensive discourse on morality. It presents a standard we could not conceive independent of God. The Beatitudes do not represent rational conclusions we would come to on our own. They present a standard of blessing that challenges the world's values. Jesus' call to love our enemies and bless those who persecute us does not resonate with the self-interest that drives our socio-economic realities. Jesus call to turn the other cheek when struck does not make sense in a world of pre-emptive war. His call to offer our shirt when someone takes our coat makes no sense in our litigious society. The Sermon on the Mount reveals that God's function in shaping our morals is to call us to a level of morality we could not conceive of on our own, a standard we would never set for ourselves.
By submitting to such a moral standard we discover true virtue and avoid the temptation to fashion false gods that serve our own interests under the guise of morality.
TIMOTHY HEINES, Pastor, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Richardson
I would hope that any moral system would have as its goal the full flourishing of the human person in community. From our tradition, that "full flourishing" means recognizing we are made in God's image and growing in grace to be more and more in his likeness. Furthermore, as Christians we believe that we have received a special revelation of what the human person fully alive and fully loving looks like—the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I would not formulate my response to the question of atheism in quite the same way as Fr. Barron. Too many people would interpret that to mean that there can be no moral atheists when, as Pope Francis has pointed out, there clearly are. There are men and women of good will who do not believe in God. That being said, I know that in a world with so many conflicting voices and so much noise, the scriptural reminder of being made in God's likeness and my own on-going encounter with the Risen Christ who reveals our human potential is sometimes the only thing that keeps me going. Furthermore, the act of faith—that basic disposition of humility and trust for something beyond us is a disposition that all humans need in order to live with one another. Without it, reconciliation and peace seem almost impossible. Christ taught me that, too.
CYNTHIA RIGBY, W.C. Brown Professor of Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
I think we care about morality because God exists, God is good, and we are made in God's image.
I do not think BELIEF in God necessarily has any bearing on our morality (although perhaps it should). It is, rather, the fact of God's existence, God's goodness, and our "good" creation that shapes a context in which we continuously make assessments about what is right, what is wrong, what should matter, and what should not.
Those who do the right thing BECAUSE they believe in God are missing out on one of God's best gifts: the freedom to receive and to give freely. As those made in God's image, we are free to assess and to act not because there is a rule it behooves us to follow, or because we will be rewarded or punished by a God who keeps tabs. We can share with the poor or work to get health care to everyone who needs it simply because (as President Johnson noted) we believe it is "the right thing to do." When others disagree with us, we can appeal to their sense of what is right and wrong not by invoking God's will or threatening them with divine judgment, but with making persuasive arguments for what is self-evidently beautiful and life-promoting.
Someone once said that "praying, when lying in the arms of one's lover, is blasphemy." I take this to mean, in part, that when one is acting rightly in direct relationship to another, there is no need to import God-talk as a kind of notarization. The loving is enough. The feeding of the hungry is enough. The clothing of the naked is enough. The visiting of the sick and imprisoned is enough. There is an immediate presence and participation we can experience, in the lives of one another, that IS both "morality" and a manifestation of God's existence (whether it is put in these terms or not).
The point is: where there is love and nourishment, where there is healing and fellowship, propositional claims about what is moral and where God is should fall by the wayside. They are not only redundant; they actually distract from the goodness and the God-ness of the expressions themselves.
DARRELL BOCK, Executive Director of Cultural Engagement, Howard G. Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies Dallas Theological Seminary
Biblically speaking, morality is rooted in a sense of right and wrong that is connected to a Creator God and man made in God's image. It is related to standards God has set and revealed within Scripture in things like the Ten Commandments and the call to love God and love one's neighbor. It means developing a sense of when we fail before God, of our need to live with humility, to seek community with a sense of our shared roots as made in God's image, and a sense of forgiveness because we have been forgiven through the conscious act of a loving God. It allows for the pursuit of holiness, the development of compassion, and a hope that people can be reconciled once they humble themselves before God in seeking their own forgiveness from him.
Once we lose that ground of being and accountability, a kind of "constructed" morality can exist but it becomes more fluid as it becomes a product strictly of social choices. When we decide what counts as moral as opposed to being accountable to God for morality, that morality shifts or becomes subject to the changing forces of what we value.
Moral stability only exists in this godless sphere when there is community consensus and that is hard to obtain, at least in some areas. It is like trying to drive on a highway with no lanes and no lights. In short, I think Barron is right. For all the freedom some people think a godless, secular world and morality give us, what it often results in is a kind of tribalism, where each group contends for its own interests. In saying this, I am not contending that religious movements are not at risk to forms of tribalism. Sin still exists in all of us. We all fall short and need God's grace. History is full of moral failure including among those who sense a moral responsibility before God. But a sense of accountability to God to which we sense an obligation to respond to can be a check against freedoms or choices that become destructive or even socially suicidal. It gives us all a working base around which to discuss moral choices versus each of us doing what is right in our own eyes (and what may in fact not be right or moral).
PHILIP JENKINS, Distinguished Professor of History, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
The opening story in your question gives the game away. Lyndon Johnson said that a massive campaign to raise up the poor was necessary because it was obviously right. That remark, and the philosophy underlying it, used a concept of "right" that was wholly derived from centuries of Christian (and Jewish) teaching in which the political class of his time had been raised, and to which the public would respond.
Our present discussions of morality are utterly shaped by that accumulated religious capital, those abundant stores of memories. That certainly includes all our human rights rhetoric. However divorced from religious language today, the concept is inseparable from religious concepts and thinkers. I refer for instance to the Jewish humanitarianism of Raphael Lemkin, who invented the concept of genocide.
It's quite possible that we can have a concept of morality separate from religious roots, but the experiment cannot be performed because we are so thoroughly formed by those roots.
Religion is the DNA of all rights-talk.
If we did ever free ourselves from that heritage, we would soon learn that philosophers may think one thing, but the state has its own overwhelmingly powerful needs, interests and demands. Left unchecked, they would have horrendous consequences.
DANIEL KANTER, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church of Dallas
I guess if we are to accept one definition of God, which presented here is the Judeo-Christian God, then the answer would be no. But dominance in one's perspective of who is to define god has rarely gotten us to the common good. God can have definitions that go beyond the common ones. If God is mystery beyond all naming then why can't morality be part of the human spirit's attempt to seek the truth of this mystery. If God is mutuality found only when we go beyond our own needs and desires to see others fully then why can't morality be in our human attempt to live in mutual and equitable ways?
The paradigm that God is presented with above limits our human agency in this conversation and denies the truth of much of the world to see God as having many names, not the least of which are named here as mystery and mutuality. With those names of God we can comfortably be agents of change with a moral grounding and the goal of lifting up all members of society to a place of health and wholeness.
AMY MARTIN, Director Emeritus of Earth Rhythms and Writer/editor Moonlady News Newsletter
Since one out of every four people has no religious affiliation, and many of them veer toward agnostic, if morality was dependent on the existence of God we'd be up to our necks in murder. Secular Europe would be inundated in crime, yet their incarceration rates are far lower than ours. Jails in the U.S. are chock full of Christians and others who pledge belief in God. Some even use religion to justify their deeds, such as Muslims who kill daughters that "shamed" them. White supremacists who murder ethnic people, and all the way back to the Nazis and before, were sure that a Christian God ordained their actions.
Morality resides in the thought process, how we reason and rationalize, how we debate and discern. In matters of policy, it's all about who gets to be the decider of what is moral and what is not. God has no dog in this hunt.
All humans do the mental dance of justification. That does not relegate us to a world of moral grey. As the yin-yang symbol of Taoism reveals, in darkness there is a spot of light, all light contains a spot of dark, and the line between them is Mobius thin. In other words, purity is an illusion. Let go of the illusion and the decision becomes clear. Is it compassionate? That is the bottom line of morality.
NITYANANDA CHANDRA DAS, Minister of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
Morality requires spiritual vision. For example if there is accident on the highway what should be cared for first? The passengers in the car or the car itself? Similarly one which spiritual vision will know what is of greater importance. The body, or the soul within the body. One who is in ignorance cannot see the soul and thus cannot make proper moral decisions.
"The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this. The endeavoring transcendentalists who are situated in self-realization can see all this clearly. But those whose minds are not developed and who are not situated in self-realization cannot see what is taking place, though they may try." -Bhagavad Gītā As It Is15.10-11
JIM DENISON, President, Denison Forum on Truth and Culture and Theologian-in-Residence, Texas Baptist Convention
Plato was convinced that a democracy could not last. The people would be swayed too easily by public speakers, he warned. And once citizens discovered they could vote based on their personal interests rather than the collective good, their democracy would begin to fail.
In his 1796 farewell address, President George Washington proclaimed to the nation: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. . . . Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." Two years later, John Adams claimed that "our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Clearly, irreligious people can be moral. My father experienced firsthand the carnage of World War II and never attended church again, but he was one of the most moral people I've ever known. However, he would readily admit that the values by which he lived were derived from a worldview grounded in Christian teaching and tradition.
Without an objective standard of ethics outside ourselves, how can we determine whether our actions are objectively moral? In 1944, C. S. Lewis warned that when a society rejects absolute truth standards for personal self-interest, its members become like the rest of the animals. He called this decline "the abolition of man."
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Celebrate Stamp's 75th by taking a trip back to the sixties.
The latest installment in our series of vintage contact sheets, featuring images from photography archives.
Today, Terence Stamp turned 75 years old. While the British actor now sports a wispy white mane that's reminiscent of cotton candy, there remains a sternness to his face that was evident even in his heyday — the sixties — when his dark locks, piercing eyes, and rugged bone structure turned him into an instant heartthrob. He romanced a slew of women who were notoriously gorgeous, including Julie Christie, Brigitte Bardot, and supermodel Jean "the Shrimp" Shrimpton. In the contact sheet above, photographer Terry O'Neill snapped the actor giving frame after frame of gaunt face alongside the wide-eyed, fresh-faced Shrimp in London, 1963. Click the image to enlarge, then zoom around to see whether the serious Stamp ever breaks into a smile. (Spoiler: He does, just once, and it's endearing.)


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Education and Post-Graduate Training
B.S. University of California at Irvine (1986)
Ph.D. Washington State University (1992)
Postdoc. University of California-Los Angeles (1992-96)
Research Interests
My laboratory studies Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal bacterium that causes Lyme disease. B. burgdorferi is the most common arthropod-borne infectious agent in the United States, with over 35,000 cases reported to the CDC in 2008. This number represented a 30% increase from the previous year, indicating that B. burgdorferi is a re-emerging infectious agent.
The goals of my research are to understand how B. burgdorferi causes disease and adapts to different niches it occupies by: (1) addressing the role of attachment, colonization and subsequent dissemination using newly developed genetic methodologies to inactivate genes involved in adherence of B. burgdorferi to host tissues; and (2) understanding how B. burgdorferi responds to oxidative stress via the function of the global regulatory protein BosR.
In regard to the first project, and in collaboration with Magnus Höök's group, we are studying how binding by B. burgdorferi to host structures impacts the infectious process. Our initial studies evaluated the role of the fibronectin binding protein of B. burgdorferi (BBK32) in borrelial pathogenesis. This work suggested that BBK32 is required for full virulence in the mouse animal model system of Lyme borreliosis. Subsequent studies have focused on the borrelial decorin binding protein adhesins, DbpBA. When the dbpBA genes are deleted from B. burgdorferi, the spirochetes are significantly attenuated in the mouse model of infection, indicating that the Dbp proteins are essential for maximum virulence of B. burgdorferi. We are currently addressing how additional B. burgdorferi proteins affect colonization, dissemination, and persistence, as well as how they alter the host immune response, to further elucidate the importance of these borrelial proteins in Lyme pathogenesis.
For the second project, the role of the BosR oxidative stress regulator is being addressed. The BosR protein is a homologue to the PerR regulator, a protein whose activity in other bacterial systems is associated with a response to oxidative stressors. Using both biochemical and genomic based approaches, we have identified several genes, including the lone superoxide dismutase encoded by B. burgdorferi, that are putatively regulated by BosR. We contend that B. burgdorferi responds to the redox status of its locale and uses this, in addition to pH and temperature, as a cue to modulate gene expression in order to adapt to its environment via BosR as well as other regulatory pathways. Along these lines, we have recently found that BosR interfaces with the Rrp2-RpoN-RpoS regulatory cascade to alter the expression of genes and the production of proteins involved in borrelial pathogenesis. As such, BosR is critical for both physiological and pathogenic properties of B. burgdorferi.
Research Laboratory Members
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Graduate Students
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- Diana Medina
- Katherine Biancardi
- Caleb Grimes
- Lauren Weise
Selected Publications
Shaw, D. K., Hyde, J. A., and J. T. Skare. 2012. The BB0646 protein demonstrates lipase and hemolytic activity associated with Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease. Mol Microbiol. 83(2):319-334.
Hyde, J.A., Weening, E.H., Chang, M.H., Trzeciakowski, J.P., Höök, M., Cirillo, J.D., and J. T. Skare. 2011. Bioluminescent imaging of Borrelia burgdorferi in vivo demonstrates that the fibronectin binding protein BBK32 is required for optimal infectivity. Mol Microbiol. 82(1): 99-113.
Wu, J., Weening, E. H., Faske, J., Höök, M. and J. T. Skare. 2011. Invasion of eukaryotic cells by Borrelia burgdorferi requires β₁ integrins and Src kinase activity. Infect Immun., 79(3): 1338-1348.
Hyde, J.A., Weening, E.H., and J. T. Skare. 2011. Genetic Transformation of Borrelia burgdorferi. Curr Protoc Microbiol. Unit 12C.4.1-17.
Gherardini, F.C., Boylan, J., Lawrence, K. and J.T. Skare. 2010. Metabolism and Physiology of Borrelia. In Borrelia: Molecular and Cellular Biology. Samuels, D.S. and Radolf, J.D. (eds). Norfolk: Caister Academic Press: 103-138.
Skare, J.T., Carroll J.A., Yang, X.F., Samuels, D.S. and D.R. Akins. 2010. Gene Regulation, Transcriptomics, and Proteomics. In Borrelia: Molecular and Cellular Biology. Samuels, D.S. and Radolf, J.D. (eds). Norfolk: Caister Academic Press: 67-101
Hyde, J.A., Shaw, D.K., Smith, R., Trzeciakowski, J.P., and J. T. Skare. 2010. Characterization of a Conditional bosR Mutant in Borrelia burgdorferi. Infect. Immun. 78(1): 265-274.
Hyde, J.A., Shaw, D.K., Smith, R., Trzeciakowski, J.P., and J. T. Skare. 2009. The BosR regulatory protein of Borrelia burgdorferi interfaces with the RpoS regulatory pathway and modulates both the oxidative stress response and pathogenic properties of the Lyme disease spirochete. Mol Microbiol. 74(6): 1344-1355.
Prabhakaran, S., Liang, X., Skare, J. T., Potts, J. R. and M. Höök. 2009. A Novel Fibronectin Binding Motif in MSCRAMMs Targets F3 Modules. PLoS ONE 4(4): e5412.
Weening E. H., Parveen. N., Trzeciakowski, J. P., Leong, J. M., Höök, M., and J. T. Skare. 2008. Borrelia burgdorferi Lacking DbpBA Exhibit an Early Survival Defect During Experimental Infection. Infect. Immun. 76(12): 5694-5705.
Hyde, J. A., Trzeciakowski, J. P. and J. T. Skare. 2007. Borrelia burgdorferi alters its gene expression and antigenic profile in response to CO2 levels. J. Bacteriol. 189(2): 437-445.
Hyde, J. A., Seshu, J. and J. T. Skare. 2006. Transcriptional Profiling of Borrelia burgdorferi Containing a Unique bosR Allele Identifies a Putative Oxidative Stress Regulon. Microbiology 152(9): 2599-2609.
Seshu, J., M. Labandeira-Rey, M. D. Esteve-Gassent, M. Höök, and J. T. Skare. 2006. The Isolation and Characterization of Isogenic Mutants in Infectious Borrelia burgdorferi. NATO Meeting Proceedings, Advanced Research Workshop, IOS Press., F. C. Cabello et al. (Eds.), pp. 25-41.
Seshu, J., Esteve-Gassent, M. D., Labandeira-Rey, M., Kim, J. H., Trzeciakowski, J. P., Höök, M. and J. T. Skare. 2006. Inactivation of the Fibronectin Adhesin Gene bbk32 Significantly Attenuates the Infectivity Potential of Borrelia burgdorferi. Mol Microbiol. 59(5): 1591-1601.
Seshu, J., Boylan, J. A., Hyde, J. A., Swingle, K. L., Gherardini, F. C. and J. T. Skare. 2004. A Conservative Amino Acid Change Alters the Regulatory Activity of BosR, the Redox Regulator of Borrelia burgdorferi. Mol. Microbiol. 54(5): 1352-1363.
Seshu, J., Boylan, J., Gherardini, F. C. and J. T. Skare. 2004. Dissolved Oxygen Levels Alter Gene Expression and Antigen Profiles in Borrelia burgdorferi. Infect Immun . 72(3): 1580-1586.
Labandeira-Rey, M. Seshu J., and J. T. Skare. 2003. The Absence of Linear Plasmid 25 (lp25) or 28-1 (lp28-1) of Borrelia burgdorferi Dramatically Alters the Kinetics of Experimental Infection Via Distinct Mechanisms. Infect Immun . 71(8): 4608-4613.
Ojaimi, C., Brooks, C., Casjens, S., Rosa, P., Elias, A., Barbour, A., Jasinskas, A., Benach, J., Katona, L., Radolf, J., Caimano, M., Skare, J., Swingle, K., Akins, D., and I. Schwartz. 2003. Profiling Temperature-induced Changes in Borrelia burgdorferi Gene Expression using Whole Genome Arrays. Infect. Immun . 71(4): 1689-1705.
Ojaimi, C., Brooks, C., Akins, D., Casjens, S., Rosa, P., Elias, A., Barbour, A., Jasinskas, A., Benach, J., Katona, L., Radolf, J., Caimano, M., Skare, J., Swingle, K., Sims, S. and I. Schwartz. 2002. Borrelia burgdorferi Gene Expression Profiling with Membrane-Based Arrays. Methods Enzymol . 358: 165-177 .
McDowell, J.V., Sung, S. Y., Labandeira-Rey, M., Skare, J. T., and R. T. Marconi. 2001. Analysis of Mechanisms Associated with the Loss of Infectivity of Clonal Populations of Borrelia burgdorferi B31 MI. Infect. Immun . 69(6): 3670-3677.
Labandeira-Rey, M. and J. T. Skare. 2001. Decreased Infectivity in Borrelia burgdorferi strain B31 is Associated with the Loss of Either Linear Plasmid 25 or 28-1. Infect. Immun. 69(1): 446-455


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The BOC Telemark Ski Program
The BOC Telemark Program promotes the lifelong sport of telemark skiing and a passion for being outdoors in the winter. BOC Tele aims to improve students' telemark skiing ability, no matter their initial level, with a goal to make them proficient on-piste skiers able to translate their skills to the backcountry. We also encourage students to learn the mechanics of the telemark turn and the methodology to teach the sport to others. Students sign-up at an annual autumn info meeting.
Note: Gear fitting will take place in the BOC Tuesday, December 15, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Gear will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Wear ski socks (or thin, non-cotton socks), and pants with a cuff that will roll up to try on boots.
Resort Update: Due to the uncertainty of Saddleback opening for the 2015-16 season, our home mountain will be either Sugarloaf or Sunday River. Decision to come soon.
Program Highlights
- Use of BOC tele gear: K2 & RAMP telemark skis, Garmont, Scott, and Scarpa boots
- Six weeks of Saturday classes taught by Professional Ski Instructor of America (PSIA) certified instructors
- Opportunity to become PSIA telemark instructors
- Opportunities for backcountry day trips; learn ski tuning, maintenance, and repair
- Options for a week-long backcountry trip during Spring Break
2016 Telemark Classes (all Saturdays):
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- You're responsible for proper clothing — goggles, helmet, poles, etc. (we have a limited number of helmets and poles; if you have your own — same as alpine — you'll ski with those.)
- Trip meeting time: 6:00 AM at the Schwartz. Bus departs at 6:15 sharp, no waiting
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Of course the Bowdoin Polar Bear is a tele skier! Here's a video from a couple seasons ago on the final BOC tele class, when the group traditionally dresses up in costume to ski.
Bowdoin's Polar Bear Hits the Slopes from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.
From the BOC Telemark Archives
The BOC Tele program is entering its 15th season. Click on an image below to watch videos of BOC freeheelers in action from years past.
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10326 West Floriade Drive
Sun City, Arizona, 85351
Commute to Downtown Sun City
Most errands require a car.
About your score
10326 West Floriade Drive has a Walk Score of 29 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in Sun City.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 10326 West Floriade Drive.
Bus lines:
106 Peoria/Cactus
0.6 mi
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This location is in the city of Sun City, AZ. Sun City has an average Walk Score of 24 and has 37,499 residents.Learn More About Sun City