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Who We Are
The Management Team
Linda Robinson assumed the role of President for Pacific Wines and Spirits in 2005. Linda is responsible for the Canadian sales teams and their markets, while maintaining key accounts in Alberta. Lindas experience includes 15 years with Pacific Wines and Spirits, 16 years in the Alberta retail and wholesale wine, beer & spirit market as well as extensive management training with Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Linda holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Hotel and Food Administration from the University of Guelph. Linda became a minority shareholder of Pacific Wine & Spirits in 2009.
W.A. (Bill) BOWLEN
Chief Executive Officer / Owner
Bill Bowlen has over 36 years of domestic and international business experience. A visionary leader in the energy sector, he is the majority owner of Pacific Wines and Spirits, Bill oversees the financial functions and strategic direction of Pacific Wine & Spirits.
Chief Financial Officer
John has joined our team in July 2004. John brings over 18 years of finance and accounting experience to the team. His experience coupled with a strategic and pragmatic approach provides the abilities to fulfil and enhance the accounting and finance requirements of the company. John is an alumni of both the University of Alberta and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Vice President of Sales
Michelle Sharpe joined the company early 2011 bringing 14 years industry experience selling major global brands along with fine specialty products from all over the world. Michelle brings a passion for all things related to the sales, promotion, education and enjoyment of beverage alcohol industry as she honed her early skills with 14 years on the hospitality side of the business. A graduate of UBC, Michelle brings an analytical approach to the role in identifying unique and exceptional market opportunities. Through strategic planning Michelle will work alongside Linda Robinson to build market leadership for all our brands.
Alberta Sales Manager
Paulette returned to Pacific Wine & Spirits in January 2007 and is thrilled to work with the dynamic, powerhouse Alberta sales team. Paulette has over 20 years experience in direct sales and marketing. She has been involved in the wine industry for over 11 years, seven of which she spent with Pacific Wine & Spirits. Paulette plans to focus on the development and maintenance of key accounts as well as independent wine stores. She is a focused and energetic individual who is passionate about wine!
British Columbia Sales Manager
Maryann joined Pacific Wine & Spirits in 2012 after working in various capacities in the Ontario Liquor Market. Maryann has been a valued member of the British Columbia Sales Team for the past four years in the role of BC Liquor Store Specialist. As BC Sales Manager she directs sales and marketing efforts and a dynamic BC sales team.
Brand Manager, Fladgate Partnership
Cynthia joined our team in April 2008 and is responsible for on premise business development for British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Cynthia brings over 21 years of experience in selling, marketing and managing brands within both the government monopolies and privatized markets of the beverage alcohol industry. Her professional reputation, product knowledge and serious passion for wine is a great asset to our team. Cindy is now responsible for the brands of The Fladgate Partnership of Taylor's, Fonseca & Croft Ports.
British Columbia Operations Manager
Colleen joined the Pacific Wine and Spirits team in October 2013 and is very excited to be part of the team. She brings over 20 years of marketing experience including 10 years with the New Zealand Consulate General and Trade Commission representing food and wine exports in Canada. During that time, she gained valuable experience in the wine sector working with suppliers, media, festivals, liquor boards and organizing consumer and trade tastings. Colleen has her Level 2 WSET to complement her diploma in Marketing from BCIT.
The Management Support Team
Corporate Controller
Mr. Mario Dolanjski joined our company in June 2014 and has over 12 years accounting experience. Mario looks forward to learning and contributing to the Pacific Wine Team.
Executive Assistant and Office Manager
Veronica joined the company in September 2011 and is thrilled to be part of this dynamic group. Veronica is a strong team player with over 20 years office administration experience in both the public and private sectors. Veronica provides direct support to the CEO and Alberta Sales Manager with assistance to the entire AB team as well. She is bilingual in written and spoken Spanish.
Marketing & Sales Coordinator Western Canada
Tammy joins us with 10 years experience in the service industry. She possesses exceptional organizational and event planning skills. She is wine knowledgeable, familiar with all of our producers and understands the dynamic of the wholesale wine & spirits industry and the role of the Liquor Boards in Canada.
Alberta Purchasing Manager
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British Columbia Purchasing Manager
Darren Siddorn after spending 2 years in the Pacific Wine & Spirits Toronto office working closely with the LCBO, suppliers and customers, relocated to Edmonton in January 2010. Darren is responsible for providing support to the Alberta and British Columbia sales teams as well as the Alberta Purchasing Manager and Corporate Controller. Darren brings with him over 15 years of office and received his certification in Business Administration.


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The GDYO is the most advanced orchestral ensemble in the program. A full symphony orchestra, it is comprised of 108 string, woodwind, brass and percussion players who are high school seniors or younger. The GDYO is "one of Dallas' treasures" according to Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News. Directed by Maestro Richard Giangiulio, the GDYO performs four concerts annually at the Meyerson Symphony Center.
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Each December, the GDYO performs a "Holiday Magic" concert with the Children's Chorus and Youth Chorus of Greater Dallas. This opportunity allows musicians and audience members to experience great choral masterpieces such as Vivaldi's Gloria and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
Each season, famed international soloists such as violinist Maria Schleuning, cellist Nathaniel Rosen, hornist Gregory Hustis, baritone Donnie Ray Albert and pianist Alessio Bax perform with the GDYO. These artists enlighten and inspire GDYO musicians and audiences alike.
The annual GDYO Concerto Competition cultivates solo performance. Dallas area professional musicians judge orchestra members. The winner receives an opportunity to solo with the GDYO during the March concert and is featured on the concert poster and other advertisements.
GDYO and DSO
The GDYO maintains close ties to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO). Assistant Conductor Karina Canellakis is a frequent guest. Andrew Litton, former Music Director and Conductor of the DSO, has been a guest conductor and current conductor, Jaap van Zweden has rehearsed with the ensemble. Members of the DSO and other local musicians serve as coaches for GDYO sectionals.
International Tours
Since 1994, the GDYO has had five highly successful European tours. In the summer of 2004, the GDYO traveled to Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. The GDYO traveled to China in 2007, Germany and the Czech Republic in 2012, and back to China in 2015. The ensemble expects to tour again in 2018.
Rehearsals and Requirements
GDYO rehearsals take place during the season on Sunday evenings at the Sammons Center for the Arts, from 5:00 to 8:30 pm. All GDYO musicians are expected to participate in their school music programs.
GDYO Music Director
Richard Giangiulio
Richard Giangiulio, Music Director and Conductor of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, is now in his thirty-fifth season with the GDYO. He began conducting GDYO in 1980.
Mr. Giangiulio holds music degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School of Music and the Paris Conservatory where he studied under Maurice Andre while on a Fulbright grant, and was awarded the first prize. In 1967, Mr. Giangiulio was a First Medal winner in the Geneva International Trumpet Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, and at summer festivals in Ansbach, Germany; Lucerne, Switzerland; and Lieksa, Finland. He served as Principal and Co-Principal trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for thirty- two years. From 1977-1982 Mr. Giangiulio was the assistant conductor for educational concerts with the Dallas Symphony, developing and conducting multi-age youth and park concerts.
Mr. Giangiulio was Music Director of the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving as well as the Allen Philharmonic. He has recorded seven albums with Crystal Records. He is the owner of the Trumcor mute company. Mr. Giangiulio has four children, 3 have been members of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra.
GDYO Sectional Coaches:
Violin: Maria Schleuning, Shu Lee
Viola: David Sywak, Ralph Fielding
Cello: Jeff Hood, Jolyon Pegis
Bass: Clifford Spohr
Flute: Ebonee Thomas
Oboe: Eric Barr
Clarinet: Paul Garner
Bassoon: Wilfred Roberts, Ted Soluri
Trumpet: Ryan Anthony, John Holt, Burt Truax
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Kevin Pietersen returned to form with an impressive 116 - his first hundred in any format for 18 months - as Surrey played out a thrilling Clydesdale Bank 40 tie with Sussex.
Pietersen, who is finishing the season by playing four games in a two-week loan spell at Surrey after he was left out of England's one-day squad, made 116 in front of a crowd of around 5,000 at Hove.
It was Pietersen's first domestic one-day hundred for seven years and he never looked in any trouble even though the Sussex attack contained three players with Test experience.
Surrey made 240 all out, with Sussex finishing on the same total for the loss of eight wickets.
There was also an unbeaten 101 from Alastair Cook as Essex eased to a seven-wicket victory over Yorkshire at Headingley Carnegie.
Yorkshire were guaranteed a home semi-final tie at Scarborough next Saturday regardless of the result and they have been drawn against Warwickshire, while Essex's win took them into the last four where they will face Somerset.
Cook's knock saw Essex past Yorkshire's 209 for eight with three wickets down and 3.3 overs left.
Peter Trego's career-best 147 and a blistering 90 not out from Jos Buttler saw Somerset to a 249-run thrashing of Glamorgan in their final Group A match at Taunton.
The home side's total of 368 for four after winning the toss was their highest ever 40-over score. Trego hit 19 fours and five sixes, while Buttler faced only 33 balls and smashed eight fours and seven sixes.
David Harrison shipped 100 runs from his eight overs.
Imran Tahir claimed 4-27 as Warwickshire held on to top spot in Group C with a seven-wicket victory over Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston, cementing their semi-final place.
Tahir and co kept Nottinghamshire to 192, a target comfortably overhauled by England duo Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell, who made 84 not out and 50 respectively.
Durham's Neil Killeen was denied victory in his final match before retirement as Kent defended a modest total of 144 to win at Emirates Durham ICG.
Killeen, bowing out after 16 years, took 3-24 as the visitors were bowled out in the final over of the first innings but their bowlers ensured they had plenty as they secured a 31-run win.
Owais Shah marked his final one-day appearance for Middlesex with an unbeaten half-century that helped steer them to a comfortable seven-wicket win over Derbyshire at Lord's.
Shah made 58 and Scott Newman added 90 as the hosts made light work of a 196-run chase.
A maiden half-century for Luke Procter carried Lancashire to an entertaining four-wicket win over Worcestershire at Liverpool.
Procter shared a crucial sixth-wicket partnership of 62 with debutant Jordan Clark as they chased down 259.
Alexei Kervezee made 111 in a losing cause.
James Franklin and Chris Taylor both hit centuries as Gloucestershire saw off Northamptonshire in an 82-run win at Wantage Road, but it was not enough to earn the visitors a last-four spot.
Harry Gurney claimed career-best figures of 5-24 as Leicestershire closed their campaign with a 14-run victory over Hampshire at Grace Road - their first win at home in the competition since the opening match of the season.
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The Coast 96 Red boys team finished second in U16 Cup Division, which is the most difficult level of play offered. Coach Joel Banta's squad returned to Atlanta for the fourth consecutive year and posted three victories and one tie before dropping the championship match 4-2 in their group of twelve teams to NASA Elite from Atlanta. Along the way Coast 96 Red defeated the only two clubs ranked ahead of them in South Carolina and a top team from Georgia in Alianza Elite. This weekends results lifted the boys to the #38 position in the national poll and prepares them for their brutal R3PLE schedule that lies ahead. Coach Banta added "the boys took the next step in their journey to compete at the elite Southeast region level.
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DescriptionM 30-40 mm, F 32-41 mm. Tibiotarsal articulation reaches beyond snout tip. Fifth toe longer than third toe. Femoral glands in males small and indistinct. Frenal stripe very distinct and reaching the nostril. Ventrally often with a dark throat with a thin light median line. Dorsally often with a diamond-shaped marking (Glaw and Vences 2007).
Distribution and Habitat
Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Madagascar
Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special BehaviorsHabits: Juvenile and adult specimens are commonly encountered on the forest floor near streams. Males call during the day from the ground or from elevated positions up to 50 cm above the ground, such as tree holes (Glaw and Vences 2007). Breeds in brooks (Vences and Glaw 2008).
Calls: Rapid series of 12-48 short pulsed notes. Notes are shorter and call series faster than in M. opiparis (Glaw and Vences 2007).
Trends and ThreatsAbundant but decreasing. The main threat is habitat loss due to subsistence agriculture, logging, charcoal manufacture, invasion and spread of eucalyptus, grazing, and expanding human settlement. It does not tolerate heavy forest degradation. However, this species occurs within many protected areas (Vences and Glaw 2008).
Possible reasons for amphibian decline
General habitat alteration and lossHabitat modification from deforestation, or logging related activitiesIntensified agriculture or grazingUrbanizationSubtle changes to necessary specialized habitat
CommentsTaken with permission from Glaw and Vences (2007) and Vences and Glaw (2008).
Glaw, F., and Vences, M. (2007). Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Third Edition. Vences and Glaw Verlag, Köln.
Vences, M. and Glaw, F. (2008). Mantidactylus melanopleura. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 07 April 2009.
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Bangerman15 7 years ago#1
team ninja has been lagging it for so long on DOA5 because they have been working on Metroid: Other M for the wii??
I mean dang it's been so long... not even Final Fantasy games take 5 years for a new one to come out :(
not really, it would have been out already out by now if it had not been for the TECMO/ Itagaki dispute :/
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SpaceXoDDity 7 years ago#3
^ Actually, Itagaki stated once that "DOA4 was the series' limit" and he has created "the ultimate fighting game" ..
So I don't think the DOA series would've continued if Itagaki was still around. Well, maybe the Xtreme ones would. -_-"
^Itagaki says that he has created "the ultimate fighting game" since back in DOA 2. He is just a cocky person. Plus he was the first person to mention DOA 5 was in development. His departure def interupted the DOA 5 development.
Nizzidramaniiyt 7 years ago#5
yea he's just cocky. Tekken 6 is already better then DOA4 imo so they need to make a new and better game.
i hope they announce it quickly
sad_wolf776 7 years ago#6
I think Tekken 6 has nothing on DOA4. The critics agree.
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SpaceXoDDity 7 years ago#7
LOL tekken 6 hahahaha
Scissors61 7 years ago#8
DoA games are more fun, but Tekken gives a person more to play. Both are great and well made, and for what they set out to do, they do it well.
xOmniCloudx 7 years ago#9
I think Tekken 6 has nothing on DOA4. The critics agree.
Critics know nothing about a fighter on technical level and possibly never well. They play them veru casually. Most professional fighting game players regard the DOA series as the joke of Fighting games (more so the 3D games while MK is considered the joke for 2D). The fighting game scene casual and competitive scene worldwide agree DOA4 has nothing on any fighter really. Least of all Tekken 6. A DOA game finally made it to EVO yet barely anyone played it and was never seen at EVO again. I like DOA and MK but neither of them have come close to a lot of the other big name fighters.
LOL tekken 6 hahahaha
I know, it's funny thinking DOA4 has anything on most fighters with Tekken 6 being one of them. XD
This is GameFAQs. People here take great pride in ignoring common sense.
xOmniCloudx 7 years ago#10
DoA games are more fun
Can't agree, the fun doesn't last long with DOA. I have more fun with other fighters though when I do have fun with DOA it is time well spent.
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CLEMSON - The first thing Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich wanted to make clear is Chad Morris, for now, is still very much the Tigers' offensive coordinator.
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Asked by The Post and Courier if any other school has asked permission to speak with Morris, Radakovich said, "No. Not to me, not at this point in time."
Head coach Dabo Swinney said Sunday, before the entire coaching staff left for the week to recruit, he also had not heard from other schools interested in interviewing Morris for head coaching positions.
Morris' name was floated by CBS Sports as "a big player" in Wake Forest's search after Jim Grobe resigned Monday, but Wake has reportedly moved on to Ball State's Pete Lembo and Bowling Green's Dave Clawson.
Boise State and Wyoming are now the only other currently vacant FBS jobs, after the Broncos' Chris Petersen left for Washington to replace USC-bound Steve Sarkisian.
After Morris' first season in Clemson in 2011, he signed a two-year extension through 2017 making him the highest-paid assistant coach in college football at $1.3 million per year. There's not much more Clemson can offer to counter outside opportunities.
"I think Chad is very, very happy with his circumstance here," Radakovich said. "His next move, if there is one, would be to become a head coach."
As for raises and contract extensions, Radakovich wants to wait until after the bowl game to make determinations for second-year defensive coordinator Brent Venables and the other seven position coaches.
"It's been a good year. Any time you win 10 games as a member of the ACC, it's a great thing," Radakovich said. "We won seven within the conference, that's a huge positive. We've been in the top 10 nearly every week. Started off the year with a nationwide, eye-opening victory against Georgia. I mean, it's been a good year, and we want to make sure we can finish it out in good fashion as well."
Venables currently makes $800,000 annually in base and supplemental salary, and is under contract for the next three seasons. After more than a decade at Oklahoma, Venables inherited the No. 71 total defense in the country coming to Clemson in 2012; the Tigers are No. 21 this year.
"He's done a very, very good job," Radakovich said. "Obviously, recruiting has brought some very talented individuals here for him to work with, but Brent has done a great job, and really has the defense playing at a high level."
According to USA Today's 2012 figures, Clemson's on-field staff commanded the eighth-highest pool of salaries last year ($6.3 million), despite Swinney's own $2.05 million paycheck in 2012 ranking No. 39.
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The Park in question is Finsbury, the Park Theatre being near to Finsbury Park, and more to the point from my point of view, Finsbury Park tube station. I was there last night to see a friend perform at the Park Theatre, which she did very well.
That LIFE sign thing is just outside the smaller theatre space, where my friend was performing, at the top of the rest of the theatre. I do not know why it is there. Could it be that they hope that people will photo it, and then mention the Park Theatre on the internet?
I suppose the creator of this sign could also have been thinking of that old Blur tune. But that, I believe, concerns a different park.
So, daily-blog-read-for-me David Thompson linked to a posting at ArtBlog, about the rights and wrongs of arts subsidies. I read that posting, and read through the comments too, just as David Thompson did. I find myself wanting to comment. But, can I be bothered?
And then, in comment number 16, courtesy of the Maitre D of ArtBlog, Franklin Einspruch, I discover that I have commented, thus:
The greatest art seems to happen when high art and low art combine, in the form of something that is superficially entertaining and stirring and popular, and also as profound as profundity seekers might want it to be. Arts subsidies harm art by dividing it into less good entertainment art, paid for by punters, and less good high art, paid for with subsidies. Arts subsidies in Britain are now being cut somewhat. The result will be somewhat better art.
Which Franklin found in this Samizdata posting and copied into his comment thread. How about that?!
The two arts that best illustrate this opinion of mine are probably Elizabethan and post-Elizabethan theatre (i.e. Shakespeare and all that), and classical music in the days of its glory, from about the late 1700s until around 1900 (i.e. Mozart, Beethoven and all that).
Shakespeare's plays are now considered just about as profound as Art with a capital A can ever get, but at the time, his stuff was considered rather middle-brow. Too commercial, too appealing to the rabble. About half of Shakespeare's mere plays - the very word suggests something not to be taken truly seriously, doesn't it? - were nearly lost to us:
Of the 36 plays in the First Folio, 17 were printed in Shakespeare's lifetime in various good and bad quarto editions, one was printed after his death and 18 had not yet been printed at all. It is this fact that makes the First Folio so important; without it, 18 of Shakespeare's plays, including Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and The Tempest, might never have survived.
What will posterity, in its various and many successive iterations, consider to be the Great Art of our time? And how much of it will be lost, on account of it not now being considered artistic enough?
It's been a long day. It's been a long day partly because I spent a lot of it out and about, taking photos, of which the above is just one. But it was still a long day.
I hear a lot of complaints from my fellow Londoners, to the effect that the Shard is all very nice and tall and pointy and everything, but that it doesn't look finished. That weird top. It ought to be a smooth, single point. Instead, well, look at it. It looks like someone shot the original top off of it with a giant catapult.
But although this strange and "unfinished" top may make the Shard look less conventionally pretty, it does make that top very recognisable. You only need to see the very top of that weird top peaking out above something else nearer, and you know at once what you are looking at. And I more and more find myself believing, about architecture in London, recognisable trumps pretty. (I more and more feel this way about the entirety of the Walkie-Talkie.)
I am in the habit of denouncing the notion that science is a precondition for technology (and therefore needs to be paid for by the government). The tendency is for technological gadgetry to lead science, and often to correct science, by defying it and proving with its success that the relevant science needs to be redone.
But there is another even more direct way in which technology leads science. Here is yet another excerpt from Steven Johnson's The Invention of Air (pp. 73-77). Click on the illustration, which I found here and which is the illustration in the book at that point in the text, to get it properly visible:
The study of air itself had only begun to blossom as a science in the past century, with Robert Boyle's work on the compression and expansion of air in the late 1600s, and Black's more recent work on carbon dioxide. Before Boyle and Black, there was little reason to think there was anything to investigate: the world was filled with stuff – people, animals, planets, sprigs of mint – and then there was the nothingness between all the stuff. Why would you study nothingness when there was such a vast supply of stuff to explain? There wasn't a problem in the nothingness that needed explaining. A cycle of negative reinforcement arose: the lack of a clear problem kept the questions at bay, and the lack of questions left the problems as invisible as the air itself. As Priestley once wrote of Newton, "[he] had very little knowledge of air, so he had few doubts concerning it."
So the question is: Where did the doubts come from? Why did the problem of air become visible at that specific point in time? Why were Priestley, Boyle, and Black able to see the question clearly enough to begin trying to answer it? There were 800 million human beings on the planet in 1770, every single one of them utterly dependent on air. Why Priestley, Boyle, and Black over everyone else?
One way to answer that question is through the lens of technological history. They were able to explore the problem because they had new tools. The air pumps designed by Otto von Guericke and Boyle (the latter in collaboration with his assistant, Robert Hooke, in the mid-1600s) were as essential to Priestley's lab in Leeds as the electrical machines had been to his Warrington investigations. It was almost impossible to do experiments without being able to move air around in a controlled manner, just as it was impossible to explore electricity without a reliable means of generating it.
In a way, the air pump had enabled the entire field of pneumatic chemistry in the seventeenth century by showing, indirectly, that there was something to study in the first place. If air was simply the empty space between things, what was there to investigate? But the air pump allowed you to remove all the air from a confined space, and thus create a vacuum, which behaved markedly differently from common air, even though air and absence of air were visually indistinguishable. Bells wouldn't ring in a vacuum, and candles were extinguished. Von Guericke discovered that a metal sphere composed of two parts would seal tightly shut if you evacuated the air between them. Thus the air pump not only helped justify the study of air itself, but also enabled one of the great spectacles of early Enlightenment science.
The following engraving shows the legendary demonstration of the Magdeburg Sphere, which von Guericke presented before Ferdinand III to much amazement: two eight-horse teams attempt – and, spectacularly, fail – to separate the two hemispheres that have been sealed together by the force of a vacuum.
When we think of technological advances powering scientific discovery, the image that conventionally comes to mind is a specifically visual one: tools that expand the range of our vision, that let us literally see the object of study with new clarity, or peer into new levels of the very distant, the very small. Think of the impact that the telescope had on early physics, or the microscope on bacteriology. But new ways of seeing are not always crucial to discovery. The air pump didn't allow you to see the vacuum, because of course there was nothing to see; but it did allow you to see it indirectly in the force that held the Magdeburg Sphere together despite all that horsepower. Priestley was two centuries too early to see the molecules bouncing off one another in his beer glasses. But he had another, equally important, technological breakthrough at his disposal: he could measure those molecules, or at least the gas they collectively formed. He had thermometers that could register changes in temperature (plus, crucially, a standard unit for describing those changes). And he had scales for measuring changes in weight that were a thousand times more accurate than the scales da Vinci built three centuries earlier.
This is a standard pattern in the history of science: when tools for measuring increase their precision by orders of magnitude, new paradigms often emerge, because the newfound accuracy reveals anomalies that had gone undetected. One of the crucial benefits of increasing the accuracy of scales is that it suddenly became possible to measure things that had almost no weight. Black's discovery of fixed air, and its perplexing mixture with common air, would have been impossible without the state-of-the-art scales he employed in his experiments. The whole inquiry had begun when Black heated a quantity of "magnesia alba," and discovered that it lost a minuscule amount of weight in the process - a difference that would have been imperceptible using older scales. The shift in weight suggested that something was escaping from the magnesia into the air. By then running comparable experiments, heating a wide array of substances, Black was able to accurately determine the weight of carbon dioxide, and consequently prove the existence of the gas. It weighs, therefore it is.
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Van photoed by me in Tottenham Court Road last September, just minutes before I photoed this old American car. I am becoming increasingly interested in photoing vehicles. It's not just taxis, and the vans don't even have to be white.
As you can perhaps tell, today, it is nearly tomorrow. I have been doing a lot less of that lately, but today I did.
It is already hours into tomorrow, so to speak, and I am tired, but with a daily posting run to keep going. Which means shoving up any old damn thing before I go to bed.
Here we go:
Once again, my trusty I Just Like It! directory has come to my rescue. Although, it does need replenishing somewhat.
This photo was taken nine years ago, almost to the day, on the South Bank, in the vicinity of the Wheel, where characters of this sort are constantly to be seen posing for photos and hoping for cash.
So, what were these particular two characters saying to each other? You decide, if you care. I doubt anyone will, but maybe someone will not only think of something but actually add a comment to that effect.
I think the tall guy in black is saying: How much for your shoes?
The German conductor Herbert von Karajan probably did more to popularise classical music after WW2 that any other single person. His LPs and then his CDs and DVDs sold in their millions. I have many Karajan CDs myself. So, the question of whether he was any sort of Nazi and if so what sort remains a hot topic.
Playwright Ronald Harwood, author of a play about Wilhelm Furtwängler, was recently interviewed on BBC4 TV. During this, Harwood mentioned, in contemptuous passing, that Karajan was obviously a Nazi. Furtwängler was interesting because it wasn't clear, hence that play. Karajan? Not interesting, because clearly he was. He hired a Jewish secretary after the war. What more do you need to know?
Well, I for one needed to know a bit more than only that, so I did some googling and came across this by Peter Alward, former vice-president of EMI Classics:
I first met Karajan in 1976, and we remained friends up to his death. He was one of EMI's flagship artists in the late 70s and early 80s; most of his operatic work was for us, his symphonic work for Deutsche Grammophon. Yes, he cultivated the cult of the maestro - he was a shrewd businessman and recognised his market worth. He was not slow in coming forward and speaking his mind, but no conductor is a shrinking violet. I feel he was misunderstood. There was the glamorous image - the jet-set lifestyle - but this was all a defence. He was really very shy, a simple man with simple tastes. I vehemently oppose the theory that he was a Nazi. He was an opportunist. I'm Jewish, and if I believed otherwise, I wouldn't have spent a minute in his company.
Opportunist sounds about right to me. Karajan, like all conductors, needed power, over an orchestra. Needing this sort of power, he had to avoid antagonising whoever the politicians were, the ones with the more regular sort of power. But he did not care about politics for its own sake, merely as a means to the end of his music making.
Trouble is, you can surely say the same for a great many other servants of the Third Reich. I bet plenty of rocket, airplane, tank, bomb and ship designers were equally opportunistic, and equally free of any positive desire to be Nazis. But whoever happened to be Germany's politicians, these people would have served them. All they cared about was rockets, airplanes, tanks, bombs and ships. Classical music was not as important to the Nazi regime as armaments were, but it was quite important. Karajan did help.
The most interesting titbit I learned from this little burst of Karajan-googling was that apparently his second wife, Anita, whom he married in 1942, was burdened with a Jewish grandfather. But hKarajan wasn't merely "burdened" thus. He burdened himself. Wikipedia:
On 22 October 1942, at the height of the Second World War, Karajan married Anna Maria "Anita" Sauest, born Gütermann. She was the daughter of a well-known manufacturer of yarn for sewing machines. Having had a Jewish grandfather, she was considered a Vierteljüdin (one-quarter Jewish woman).
Just marrying a quarter-Jewess, before that was dodgy, is one thing. Being a celeb and marrying a famous heiress with a famously rich and half-Jewish dad, and doing all that in 1942, is something else again. That's more than just hiring an entirely Jewish secretary after the war.
When I read about such people and about such times, I don't feel inclined to condemn. I merely wonder how I might have behaved, or misbehaved, had I been confronted by such pressures and such temptations.
It's been a very bad last few days here at BMdotcom. First there was the domain name fiasco, and then last night and into this morning there was another interruption, caused by a power cut in a totally different part of London to me, which was in its turn caused by all that rain we had recently. And then the interruption was prolonged by the mishandling of this power cut by my rather creeky and out-of-date version of Expression Engine. The two events were unrelated. I think there's a Macbeth quote that deals with this kind of thing. One of those plays about a king for whom things are starting to go badly wrong. But rest assured that there is no sign that BMdotcom is about to be dethroned permanently.
So anyway, here is one of those photo-postings made quick and easy by my "I just like them!" directory.
I just like this, taken in 2007:
And I just like this, taken a month ago:
That second one was already edited and ready to post, with its new name, but I don't believe I ever got around to actually displaying it. If I did, well, take another look.
I do not promise more substantial stuff tomorrow, but I do hope for it.
Last month, on the 22nd (thank you my camera), a friend took me to see a show consisting, in the first half, of improvised comedy, and in the second half of pre-written sketch comedy. This was at a venue called the Proud Archivist (thank you me for photoing the sign saying that).
The core skill of the performers who were performing that night was improvisation, and it showed, part two being a rather severe disappointment after the often considerable excellence of part one. The sort of sketches they did in part two needed to be done with detached and unrealistic faithfulness to the text, Footlights/Monty Python style, almost like you are reading the lesson in church, not "realistically", as these performers tried to do. But all it sounded like was that they had forgotten the damn words. (I heard later that they included some improvisation in some of the sketches. That was when this dire effect was at its most severe, or so I presume.)
But best of all, which as far as I was concerned made the entire expedition totally worthwhile, was the extraordinary light outside, for a few fleeting minutes during the interval, outside being where I went during the interval.
Here are two of the photos I took from just outside the Proud Archivist, next to the canal, during that interval:
Okay, what was photoed there is nothing out of the ordinary, with the second picture just being a close-up selection from the bigger picture displayed in the first. But the light! Photography is light, and that is light! Or, it was. Do you at least get a hint of what it was like actually to have been there, then? Hope so.
A friend of mine has a young daughter who is a very promising ballerina. Young and very promising ballerinas tend to find themselves being guided from time to time by quite significant ballet persons, and I have urged my friend to pass on to any significant ballet persons he meets that they ought to do a ballet based on the antics of us digital photographers.
If any significant ballet persons ask what sort of thing that might involve, I suggest they be shown pictures like these, which I took between 2006 and 2007:
Click on any of those pictures and you'll see that what they're all about is the big bodily contortions that digital photographers do, mostly just to get their cameras at the right height. But, there is also the matter of the fun and games the people being photoed often get up to. They do lots of more self-conscious posing.
Quite a few of these pictures have been posted on the www by me before, mostly on this blog. But the idea of this posting is to gather together a biggish collection of such pictures, all in one place, for the ballet persons to say: "Wow! Yes! We'll do it! Pay the crazy blogger double whatever he asks to let us look through his entire photo archive!"
There's a whole other clutch of pictures showing digital photographers and their hands and fingers. They wave their fingers about, just to keep their fingers out of the pictures. Ballet people would like that too. In the absence of more pictures here, they could just walk over Westminster Bridge and watch the photographers doing it. Because, provided they are only using small cameras, the photographers do this all the time.
Me being me, there is no category here for "dancing". So, "sculpture" will have to do, as in humans making sculptures of themselves.
And that's not to even mention the whole selfie thing, and the amazing human sculpture making that that can involve.
Said I to myself - said I, on the 10th of this month:
I need to get out less, and this weather is not helping.
Tomorrow, the weather will be helping very much:
This is perfect. My life today, in the last few days, and for the last few weeks, has been one mad social whirl after another, my contented solitude being having been violated seemingly every other evening and sometimes more often even than that, which is all fun and all that, but I find that an evening out puts a blight on creativity for the entire day, because what if I start something, want to finish it, but then don't have time to, because I have a social whirl to attend and to get ready for and to find my way to and to find out about finding my way to? Last night I whirled out to watch theatrical stuff in an unfamiliar and transportationally complicated part of town with a theatrical friend. Tonight, I face another social whirl, to meet Perry II. Every time I go out I take photos, but because of all this going out I have no time to show them to you people or not with the sort of insightful commentary that I want to attach to them without which what's the point? - They're just pictures.
So tomorrow (a day during which I have nothing else planned), I will stay in all day, and try (although I promise nothing) to do here a mammoth day of catch-up blogging, showing you a tiny fraction of the pictures I have been taking lately, all properly explained, and anything else I've been meaning to put here for some time that I decide to put here tomorrow, in not one, not two, but many postings.
We shall see.
Last night I went awandering along the river, as I so often do, and outside that excellent (even though it's fake) Globe Theatre, I saw all this:
As you can see, I concentrated on the guy with the very, very complicated camera. And I post pictures of him here, entirely recognisable ones, because, frankly, what he was doing was performing in public, just like the people he was filming or videoing or photoing or whatever it was that he was doing, "digital filming" being my preferred guess. He was smiling (1.3 - top row right). He was part of it. And there was a big crowd watching all this. He reminded me a bit of the guy who fronted this excellent TV show. But the funny thing is, because he was clearly enjoying himself so much, I can't tell if this guy is a Real Photographer, or an amateur much like me, who has merely hired a Real Camera.
The event, according to snatches of conversation that I happened to hear, was some kind of charity do. The queue contained many rich-looking couples dressed to the nines. And the camera man was busily immortalising everything.
What go me posting all these pictures, just like old times here, was partly the sheer pleasure involved in doing something really complicated with Glorious Godot, so fast and so solid (such a contrast with wade through sewage little Judas). And partly it was picture 3.3, middle row on the right. I love that pose, like he's crapping by the roadside when on a really awkward holiday in an awkward country, except that obviously he's not doing that. So, what is he doing? The fact that we cannot see his camera means it all needs explaining, and I thought, well, better put in another picture to show what he was actually doing, and then I couldn't choose, and then I thought … this will be easy with Godot and there you go.
I still have lots of catching up to do, so what shall I do tonight? I know I'll go to a Barbecue at Chateau Samizdata. Which they invited me to. I didn't just ring up and say I was coming round and would be using their barbecue.
I love learning about two-man teams, and in Paul Johnson's short, excellent biography of Mozart (see also this earlier bit) I have been learning more about just such a team, although a very temporary and unequal one:
In the meantime, Mozart had met his great partner, the Abate Lorenzo Da Ponte. The letter (May 7, 1783) in which he tells his father, "I have looked through at least a hundred libretti and more, but I have hardly found a single one with which I am satisfied," also says he has met the new fashionable poet in Vienna, Da Ponte, who "has promised ... to write a new libretto for me." The emperor had decided to abandon singspiel in 1783 and embrace Italian opera again, and he put Da Ponte in charge of the words. Da Ponte was a converted Jew, the son of a tanner, who had embraced Christianity in 1763. He had led a bohemian life, as a teacher, a priest, a lascivious escort of married women in the Venetian fashion, a friend of Casanova, expelled from Venice for sexual depravity, and thereafter making his living as a translator and writer in the theatrical world. He had an extraordinary gift for languages, rather like Mozart himself but on a much more comprehensive scale, and seemed to think multilingually.
Da Ponte wrote the librettos for three Mozart operas, The Marriage of Figaro (K. 492, presented May 1,1786), Don Giovanni (K. 527, October 29, 1787), and Cosi fan tutte (K. 588, January 26, 1790), and the collaboration between the two men must be accounted one of the most successful in the history of opera. By almost universal agreement, Figaro and Giovanni are Mozart's two best operas, though a small minority argues that Cosi contains the best music and superb staging and that a first-class production can make it the best evening's entertainment.
The two men worked successfuly together for two reasons. First, they both understood that creating an opera was collaboration and that composer and librettist both had to know when to give way; sometimes words must yield and sometimes notes. The truth is, of course, that Mozart was extremely adept at words as well as music, and often he took over as librettist, Da Ponte acquiescing. This raises the second point: Both men were good tempered, used to hard knocks, nasty words, and intense arguments. They had the admirable habit, essential to success in the theater, of drawing a firm line over a disagreement, once it was resolved, and moving on quickly to the next problem. Mozart's good nature was absolutely genuine and went to the root of his being. He was incapable of real malice or the desire to wound (the one exception was the archbishop, and there, too, hatred was expressed in words rather than deeds). Da Ponte was a much more flawed creature. He was a fearful liar, to begin with, and his various volumes of memories are not to be trusted at all. His subsequent career after he left Vienna and went to New York, becoming a trader, a bookseller, a bankrupt, a poet, and other things, shows that his commitment to the stage and to music - drama, particularly - was not total.
Moreover, it is not clear that he recognized quality in opera. He thought the best composer he worked with was Vicente Martin y Soler, and he had the most fulsome praise for Antonio Salieri. The implication was that both were Mozart's superiors as musicians. Both were more successful commercially at the time, and their operas were performed more frequently than Mozart's - so were those of many other composers, at least eleven by my reckoning. But both were so inferior to Mozart by any conceivable artistic criteria as to cast doubt on Da Ponte's musical understanding. And it is a significant fact that his three Mozart operas are the only ones whose libretto he wrote that have remained in the repertoire or that anyone has heard of today.
Hence the inescapable conclusion is that Mozart was the dominant figure in the collaboration. Da Ponte understood or learned from Mozart the need to keep the drama moving by varying the musical encounters and groupings, by altering the rhythms of vocal speech, and by switching the moods. He may even have understood the great discovery in the writing of opera that we owe to Mozart - the way in which character can be created, transformed, altered, and emphasized by entirely musical means taking possession of the sense of words. But the magic touch is always provided by Mozart as music dramatist.
Goddaughter 2 is a student at the Royal College of Music, where a fellow student of hers is a certain Edward Jowle. This evening, GD2 and I both greatly enjoyed the Grosvenor Light Opera Company's production of Ruddigore, in which Edward performed the pivotal role of Sir Despard Murgatroyd. It was great, as was Edward in it. The duets Edward did with Dauntless (Jack Roberts) and later with Mad Margaret aka Lady Murgatroyd (Laura Burgoyne) were two of the evening's highlights. I already know Edward a bit, so I was never going to tell him afterwards that he had been anything other than terrific. But the thing is, he actually was terrific. It was a quite small stage and a quite small audience, but his total command of both were nevertheless very impressive.
I also thought that director Vicky Simon did a fine job. Not everyone in the caste sang like a present or future pro, the way Edward and Jack Roberts did, or as the lady who sang the part of Dame Hannah (Charlotte Collier) did. Not everyone seemed perfectly cast. But everyone did as well as you could imagine them doing, and every moment was entertaining and absorbing, wherever you looked.
I love Gilbert and Sullivan, but Ruddigore is one of the less famous ones and I was seeing it on a stage for the first time. Beyond sensing that a reasonably happy ending would eventually be contrived, I had little idea of what was going to happen until it did. But it is a very strange show, as well as very funny. And the contrived happy ending is indeed rather contrived. But, having been outshone for a century and more by the likes of The Mikado and The Gondoliers and The Yeomen of the Guard, perhaps Ruddigore is an opera whose time has come. Ancestral oil paintings are very old school. But when the people in them come to life and the stage is suddenly filled with zombies, you could be watching a stage musical written just a few months ago.
Sadly, tonight's performance was the last of the very short run that this production was getting. Unless, that is, you fancy a trip to Harrogate in early August, where it will apparently be given one more outing, competing for a prize with a dozen other G&S shows.
There will surely, however, be further opportunities to see and hear the likes of Jack Roberts and Edward Jowle in dramatic action. And although there is no point in me now recommending that you see this Ruddigore, when GLOC announces its G&S show for next year I will be recommending that, sight unseen.
One of my happier fancies here at this blog has been a category of photos called: I just like it! And I just like this:
The point being that the sort of things that I write about here, and investigate, and then photograph very purposefully and self-consciously, often begin just as things that I like. When I trawl through the photo-archives, I find things that I thought I only started noticing quite recently cropping up casually, years back.
So, what do I like about the above picture? It certainly isn't how well those leaves have come out. (Although in my opinion out-of-control light in a photo at least tells you that it was very sunny.) Do I think the RSC is GENIUS? Only a bit. No, I think what I like is the way that the advert is about as pompous as it is possible for an advert to be, yet life goes on right next to it and indifferent to it. Or maybe not. Maybe something else completely.
It's the top of one of those open top double-decker buses, by the way. And below that, the advert is for a show called Matilda.


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From June 2007 to September 2007, the number of job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments was 7.2 million, and the number of job losses from closing and contracting establishments was 7.5 million.
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transformation that will finally yield the results we have been
striving for since 2007, and that is focusing our full energies in
the food and distribution sector. Beatrice still has some
activities connected to technology, however this is not our main
focus, and our technology business will remain, but will focus
only on our existing enterprise customers for their technology
Beatrice will start the first quarter 2016 with the launching of
our gourmet popped corn, and will be marketed under the Beatrice
brand name. The Beatrice Snack Products division will
initially start off with Caramel Corn, Apple Cinnamon Corn,
Chocolate Corn, and Cheese Corn. This is quite momentous for us,
because it will allow us to start off with a simple, yet popular
food item...popped corn.
Our company will endeavor to launch new products in the coming
year, and will work to streamline what we offer to consumers and
retail outlets, and with our quality products, and renowned
company name, we can only succeed. We do have challenges ahead,
and this is the case with the food industry as a whole, but here
at Beatrice we are ready for the new challenge as we focus on the
year ahead. On behalf of all of us here at Beatrice, I want
to personally thank those that have supported our business in no
matter what products and services we were offering.
DeWitt P. Hoopes
President, CEO & CTO
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