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Although there is a degree of variation between the tracks"Triality" draws on funk riffs and organ work to give a rootsy, 1970s feel, while "Washington Heights" has moments of very tender balladrythe bulk of the album is devoted to a certain kind of play. White concentrates primarily on melodies that interweave independent sax lines and Jamie Baum's alto flutea fascinating instrument that provides a sturdier timbre than the normal flute, while still giving an airy, honest sound.
Gary Wang and Jeff Hirshfield provide strong foundations on bass and drums respectively, but the thrust of the album is towards virtuosic soloing. Most often, the compositions settle into a hovering vamp over a simple progression, while one or more musicians invent a clouded yet compelling motif. Through it all, Wang and Hirshfield retain a responsibility to consistent, level playing.
While the horns bob and weave over the melodies, these compositions are rooted in a sense of playful exploration, all within the parameters of White's harmonic language. The textures on Sacred Machines never get too wild or chaotic, but instead hold fast to a modern-sounding variant on modal harmony. The highlighted members of the band seem quite simpatico in this, with pianist Roberta Piket laying down some lovely solos (her accelerated section of "Washington Heights") while also furnishing a chordal vocabulary drawing heavily on Herbie Hancock's 1960s modal explorations. Additionally, on "Aftermath," the one track not penned by White, Baum composes a melody replete with harmonic strangeness, using contrary motion and clustered intervals between the horns. With these shared sensibilities and strong playing by everyone, Sacred Machines showcases a strong band in top form.
Track Listing: Sacred Machines; Split Infinity; Triality; Washington Heights; Phobia; Wish; Aftermath.
Personnel: Glenn White: tenor sax; Roberta Piket: piano, Rhodes; Jamie Baum: flute, alto flute; Gary Wang: bass; Jeff Hirshfield: drums; Patrick Hay: guitar.
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Evolution Studios confirmed today the release date for its destruction-fueled racer MotoStorm: Apocalypse: April 12, 2011. The developer also revealed the final box art for both the US and European versions of the game in "case" you're a cover art comparison lover. See what I did there?
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Last time I started to look at the seemingly huge gap between the minds of humans and those of other animals, and how it was fashionable in some circles to deny its existence. Nobody squawked about that—much to my surprise—so I'm going to assume it's a real phenomenon from here on out. If people want to fight about it, fine. We can always do that later.
But why is there a gap? On most accounts of evolution, there shouldn't be. Our DNA is 99 percent—or 98 or 97, depending on who you read—the same as that of chimps and bonobos. Physically we're just as similar as the DNA would lead you to expect, a similarity so clear it was spotted long before Darwin or DNA were ever heard of. It's just our behavior that's different.
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Humans do different things. Animals don't. Pick any individual animal at random and ask what it's doing right now. You couldn't know, but without knowing you could give a laundry list of all the possible things it could be doing. Resting. Sleeping. Looking for food. Eating. Looking for a mate. Having sex. Fighting. Playing. That near enough exhausts things. And this isn't merely true for one or two species. It's true for every species.
Now pick any individual human at random and ask what he or she is doing right now. Could be anything. Could be composing a concerto. Could be distilling bathtub gin. Could be surveying property. Could be binding up a sprained ankle. The possibilities are endless. The difference between the number of different things people can do and the number of different things animals can do must be orders of magnitude in double figures. If it can be calculated at all. Because every day someone will come up with the Next New Thing.
Not only are we different from other animals. All other animals are the same in this. They're limitlessly diverse in appearance and might seem to be equally diverse in their habits. Some walk, some fly, some swim, some crawl; some hunt, some are hunted, some scavenge, some graze or browse. Some are social, some solitary. Some seek a mate with elaborate courtship dances, for others it's just chase and rape. But these are mere variations on the same old limited repertoire of resting, sleeping, looking for food etc. etc. Whether crawling or flying, they're engaged in one or other of that shortlist of possible activities. And all members of the same species will engage in them in the same way. If you're a member of a species that does courtship dances, then you will do a courtship dance before you mate whether you like it or not. But try to count the ways humans can court.
So it's like there are just two levels: us and the rest. On Level One everyone is restricted to the same very short list of things they can do. On Level Two everyone can do literally anything they can think of (note: that "think of" is a clue). That's the real difference between us and them, and it's huge. How could there be a difference so vast and so complete?
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OJJDP Affiliate Researcher Andrea Sedlak Receives Child Welfare Research Award
Andrea J. Sedlak, Ph.D., Vice President and Associate Director of Westat, and a long-term grantee with the OJJDP, received the 2011 A. Clayton Hughes Child Welfare Research Award. The Hughes award goes to a child welfare researcher whose work "exemplifies intellectual integrity and moral courage in transcending social and political barriers to promote best practice in child welfare."
Over the course of her career, Sedlak has authored a number of OJJDP bulletins and led some of OJJDP's prominent studies, including the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement and the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART). OJJDP celebrates Sedlak's contributions to the juvenile justice field and is honored to have her as a colleague.
DOJ Releases Proposed Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards for Public Comment
On February 3, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published the proposed, "National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape," in the Federal Register. These guidelines are based on draft sexual assault prevention standards issued by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission in 2009. The Attorney General has modified the Commission's proposed standards and issued this draft final rule that incorporates feedback received last year in response to the Department's call for comment. These proposed standards include guidelines for adult prisons/jails, lockups, juvenile facilities, and community confinement facilities. DOJ requests comments on the proposed final rule by April 4, 2011.
AAG Robinson and OJJDP Acting Administrator Slowikowski Discourage the Use of "Scared Straight" Programs
In an op-ed published January 31, 2011, in the Baltimore Sun, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Laurie O. Robinson and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Acting Administrator Jeff Slowikowski discuss how the use of scared straight programs to prevent delinquency is ineffective and can harm youth.
Robinson and Slowikowski comment on a study by Anthony Petrosino and researchers at the Campbell Collaboration, which analyzed results from nine scared straight programs and found that participants were up to 28 percent more likely to offend in the future. As a result of such evidence, the U.S. Department of Justice does not support scared straight-style programs, and instead focuses on programs that research has proven effective, such as mentoring programs, which use positive relationships to modify youth's behavior.
Robinson and Slowikowski write, "The fact that [scared straight] programs are still being touted as effective, despite stark evidence to the contrary, is troubling."
U.S. Department of Justice Holds Meeting With Defending Childhood Representatives
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a meeting of Defending Childhood representatives from communities across the country on January 25–27, 2011. The meeting brought together the initiative's eight demonstration sites for a series of lectures, peer-to-peer exchanges, and dialog with DOJ leadership on the issue of children's exposure to violence. Attorney General Eric Holder, Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, and DOJ officials discussed the initiative with representatives and their ongoing efforts in their communities.
"I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss our shared goalsand your front-line effortsto prevent, reduce, and combat childhood exposure to violence," said the Attorney General. "The issue of children's exposure to violence has been both a personal and professional concern for decades. As our nation's Attorney General, and as a parent of three young children, addressing this crisisand implementing bold, innovative, and collaborative solutionsis a top priority."
Attorney General Holder launched the Defending Childhood initiative in September 2010 to focus on addressing children's exposure to violence. A key component of the initiative is a multiyear demonstration program, which includes DOJ funding for eight demonstration sites to develop and implement multidisciplinary strategies for preventing, intervening in, treating, and responding to the problem of children's exposure to violence.
OJJDP Solicits Comments on Proposed FY 2011 Program Plan
OJJDP has published a notice of its Proposed Plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 in the January 12, 2011, Federal Register. The Proposed Plan describes discretionary program activities that OJJDP proposes to carry out during FY 2011. Taking into consideration comments received and its final FY 2011 appropriation, OJJDP will develop a Final Plan describing program activities that the Office intends to fund during FY 2011. The Final Plan will be published in the Federal Register. Comments on the Proposed Plan must be received by February 28, 2011, and may be submitted online or mailed to OJJDP. Online submission of comments is recommended.
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OJJDP will launch its new online, peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Juvenile Justice at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, which will be held March 15, 2011, in Ontario, Canada.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration for publication in the first two issues of the journal scheduled for release in 2011. Proposed articles may address a broad range of juvenile justice-related issues, such as delinquency prevention, intervention and treatment, and juvenile victimization. Readers are anticipated to include researchers, clinicians, practitioners, administrators, policy analysts, educators, and students.
To access instructions for authors and other relevant information, visit the journal's manuscript submission site. Questions may be e-mailed to the journal's managing editor.
Attorney General Holds Inaugural Meeting of Tribal Leadership Council
Attorney General Addresses National Indian Nations Conference
On December 911, 2010, DOJ sponsored the 12th National Indian Nations Conference in Palm Springs, CA. Attorney General Eric Holder was the keynote speaker.
"With the passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act, we are witnessing tangible progress toward a healthier, brighter future for Native Americans," said Attorney General Holder. "I want to reaffirm the Justice Department's commitmentand my own commitmentto building and sustaining healthy and safe native communities, to renewing our nation's enduring promise to American Indians and Alaska Natives, to respecting the sovereignty and self-determination of tribal governments, and to ensuring that the progress we have achieved in recent years is not derailed."
The conference was coordinated by the Tribal Law and Policy Institute under a grant from DOJ's Office for Victims of Crime. The conference brought together American Indian victims, victim advocates, and federal and state agency representatives to share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas for developing programs that serve the unique needs of crime victims in Indian country.
DOJ's Civil Rights Division Releases Antibullying Video
On December 9, 2010, DOJ's Civil Rights Division released a video that focuses on stopping bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, as well as other youth who do not conform to traditional expectations about gender roles or appearance. The video is part of the Division's "It Gets Better" project, in which LGBT adults and straight allies share experiences to show youth that life gets better after high school.
OJJDP Remembers Irving Spergel, Creator of the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang ModelIrving Spergel, pioneering expert on gang prevention and founder of OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model, passed away on December 3, 2010. Spergel's model has been adopted by more than 20 cities in the United States and has become a central component of OJJDP's and the Bureau of Justice Assistance's National Gang Center's work. "Dr. Spergel's pioneering research and early development of the Comprehensive Gang Model laid the groundwork for OJJDP's evolving response to youth gangs," said Jeff Slowikowski, Acting Administrator at OJJDP. "With his passing, OJJDP has lost a great friend and colleague."
Evidence-Based Practices Discussed at Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Symposium
At a symposium organized by the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University on December 3, 2010, Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson noted that OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders and the Standard Program Evaluation Protocol developed by Mark W. Lipsey, Ph.D., offer excellent guidance for the field in determining effective approaches for reducing and preventing juvenile crime. Leaders from state government and juvenile justice agencies as well as congressional staff participated in the event titled, "Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project: A Comprehensive Strategy for Evidence-Based Reform." The event served to facilitate discussion around the use of evidence-based practices in the operation of the juvenile justice systems. CJJR announced their pilot program, the Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project (partially funded by OJJDP), and requested application submissions.
OJP Science Advisory Board Established
Eighteen expertsscholars and practitioners in criminology, statistics, sociology, and juvenile justicewill serve on the Office of Justice Programs' new Science Advisory Board. Assistant Attorney General Laurie O. Robinson recommended the creation of the advisory board as a means of bridging the divide between research and practice in the criminal and juvenile justice fields. The board will provide an extra-agency review of and recommendations for OJP research, statistics, and grant programs, ensuring that the programs and activities are scientifically sound and pertinent to policymakers and practitioners. It will be chaired by Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., of The H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Blumstein is a previous winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and serves as the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College.


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Bill Pierce is an excellent saxophonist who also works as an educator. He started off his career in Boston playing R&B with such stars as Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. However, he is essentially a hard bop player, as he showed during stints with James Williams (1979-1980 and 1984-1985) and a high-profile association with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1980-1982); with the latter he shared the front line with Wynton Marsalis and Bobby Watson. From 1986-1994, Pierce was a regular member of Tony Williams' quintet, somehow making himself heard over the leader's very loud drumming. He has led several of his own dates for Sunnyside.
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Superman, the movie that in all essentials created the superhero movie as a major force in blockbuster cinema and thereby did much to usher in the modern age of the tentpole movie, and its delayed 1981 sequel, the next major comic book figure to hit cinema screens was, of all insane choices, Swamp Thing, a remarkably obscure figure who'd premiered in a one-shot story in 1971, in DC's horror imprint line, created by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson. Though he got his own title at the end of the 1970s, it didn't last very long, and it wasn't until Alan Moore took over the character in 1983 - over a year after the movie premiered - that Swamp Thing gained anything resembling the popularity or importance of an superhero that actual people cared about.
Yet here he was, in all his mucky glory, in February, 1982. Apparently somebody got it in their head that this was a can't-miss prospect for a movie - and I don't understand that, either, for though the early Swamp Thing comics are not without their charms, it's no accident that Moore could only salvage the title by overhauling the goofy concept from the ground up - and then, somewhere a bit further down the line, maverick indie horror director Wes Craven managed to hitch his wagon to the Swamp Thing Express, in the hopes of proving to one and all that he could work within the confines of studio mandates and the star system, and make films that didn't threaten to undermine the basic rules of decency and comportment that undergird all human society (his first feature, The Last House on the Left, being arguably the most controversial film ever released at its 1972 debut, and his 1977 The Hills Have Eyes being the most generally foul-spirited cannibal movie then produced in the English language). A horror maven and a horror comic must have seemed like a match made in heaven; but Swamp Thing somehow managed to become far more of a boilerplate bayou-set action picture than a horror movie of any but the remotest stripe, and proved only that Craven is rather out of his element when you set him down to make an action picture and not a brutal, misanthropic gorefest.
How it begins: underneath some viciously impersonal credits, government operative Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is flown into the middle of absolutely nowhere whatsofuckingever, deep in the Louisiana swamps. She's here to protect the two doctors Holland - Alec (Ray Wise) and his sister Linda (Nanette Brown) - working on a major top-secret project that has brought them to the attention of Dr. Arcane (Louis Jourdan, as far from Letter from an Unknown Woman as any actor has ever fallen from any height), an evil scientist or patent thief or businessman or terrorist, or something; it's never clear what Arcane does, but he sure does it evilly. He hires out a paramilitary group to kill all their government protection except for Cable, take down the Hollands' lab, and steal their research. As it happens, though, Alec Holland has just found a plant extract that encouraged hyper-accelerated growth in plant life, and when he flees from the burning lab, covered in flames, either he or the surrounding swamp water is saturated with enough of that serum that the genial scientist returns from his watery grave as a massive hybrid of animal and plant life, superstrong and nearly indestructible - the Swamp Thing (Dick Durock).
In the hands of Moore, and subsequent writers, the Swamp Thing is essentially a nature god, an extension of all the plant life of the world given independent, conscious existence to defend "the Green", as it's called, from destruction by humans (also, in Moore's hands the series became a semi-encyclopedia of the weirdest corners of the established DC Universe, but that is neither here nor there). That is certainly the aspect of the character which the modern Swamp Thing fancier is likely to have in mind. Not the case in 1982! Then, he was just a kind of muddy human-plant monster who thumped around the bayou fighting evil and trying to cure himself. Even this version of the character is subtler and more interesting than the one that we find in the movie, who has nothing more exciting to do than punch out henchmen until the time comes to punch out the Big Bad.
The plot is effectively divided into two parts: the opening slightly-less-than-half, in which we get to meet the characters and get to like them a little bit, and the concluding slightly-more-than-half, which is just a big slugfest in the swamp. The plot peters off to just about nothing (we could successfully describe the entirety of the back half as "Swamp Thing and Alice fall in Beauty and the Beast style love while retrieving his research from Arcane", and not really lose too many important details in the process), and the characters, insofar as we have ever been invested in them, cease to have access to their personalities; they just become figures in an endless extension of the part in every James Bond film where Bond has to beat his way through marginally-characterised tertiary characters while looking for the enemy lair (the bland Live and Let Die was never far from my thoughts whilst watching Swamp Thing - a most unwelcome association).
As complaints go, "the characters aren't interesting" tends to be one that I find annoying more often than not; and yet it's at the center of what keeps Swamp Thing from being all that good a movie. The actors aren't up to much good on the whole, for a start: neither of Barbeau's primary talents serves her well in the role of a gruff but tenderhearted government sp00k (though, blessedly, she doesn't come across as too girly, as happens when somebody like Jessica Alba tries to play characters of this nature), and Jourdan, not unreasonably, only intermittently hides his boredom with the material, growing increasingly stiff and uninteresting as the script goes into more fantastical sci-fi reaches. Ray Wise, being the great character actor that he is, is utterly appealing as Holland, eager go-getter scientist who doesn't seem to realise how bizarre and esoteric his research is; but he's not in too much of the movie, and Durock's take on the Swamp Thing is only a little bit more engaging than your average early-'80s slasher villain played by a stuntman (and if we look at his career overall... why, guess what he spent most of his time doing!). Durock is, admittedly, not helped at all by a monster suit that reasonably copies the design of the comic's monster, but does not hide for any length of time the fact that it is, essentially, a vinyl suit, right down to the way the knees and elbows crease. It is, however, a much better effect than the truly embarrassing costume that represents Arcane's post-serum transformation, a bug-eyed wolf thing that would have been right on the edge in a medium-budget 1950s B-movie. And of course, Swamp Thing is but a low-budget 1982 B-movie; but even then, this was not the state-of-the-art, not by a long shot, and however much we're meant to believe in the Swamp Thing, it takes a much less judgmental viewer than eye to reach that state of belief.
Without characters we're invested in, the movie never builds up steam or momentum; it just devolves into one scene after another of watching a man in vinyl pants pushing around David Hess (a veteran of some of the more notorious splatter pictures of the day, who deserved better). Craven's direction isn't much help: the crawling feeling of dread that he managed to build in his early horror movies through long shots of his outdoor locations doesn't translate well to the PG action shenanigans that make up this movie. In fact, other than the inherent body horror jolt of seeing Holland resurrected as the Swamp Thing, little or nothing about the movie ever even considers playing in Craven's ordinary genre, much to its detriment. The simmering lack of momentum that made parts of The Hills Have Eyes pure nightmare fuel leaves the rather more kinetic Swamp Thing like an engine that won't turn over, no matter how many times it seems like it's about to. Instead, it just plods and putters forward, eventually stopping, but not because we've had any release; indeed, we never built up tension in the first place. (I will leave undiscussed Craven's hideously botched treatment of the self-consciously "funny" elements of the film, which may be parodistic or may just be terrible accidents; for example, the mind-boggling use of scene transitions including a reliance on cartoony wipe effects that would make the creators of Battlefield Earth feel ashamed).
I have made it out to sound worse than it is. The opening 30 minutes are playful, and just clunky enough that you can see how the filmmakers weren't sure that comic book narrative logic would match well to cinema. But there are a few well-written lines in among the uncomfortably functional dialogue - I am fascinated by the moment in which Cable thinks that Linda Holland is the Dr. Holland, an inversion of the common '50s and '60s trope where the manly hero is amazed to find that Dr. Soandso is a woman! Though there's also a weirdly retrogressive tinge to the moment that hurts it - and solely for its chutzpah, I have to give Craven and the movie props. This was an attempt to do something new, and the fact that it turns into a low-rent swamp adventure, The Dukes of Hazzard with a plant man... They didn't know what they were doing, basically. That's not much of an excuse, but at least Swamp Thing has a novelty value absent from the equally broken comic book adaptations of 20 years later.
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- The.Watcher said...
"it takes a much less judgmental viewer than EYE to reach that state of belief."
Haha, that pun was so unexpected and out of left field that it gave me a good laugh, I applaud you.
Alan Moore's run on the Swamp Thing did more than just elevate the titular character to a somewhat respectable level - it also introduced what is possibly my favorite comic book character bar-none - a certain vile and despicable Englishman who likes to dabble in magic: John Constantine. He would soon star in his own series titled "Hellblazer", which is still going strong some 250+ issues in with not a single reboot or re-start, pretty impressive when you look at DC's track record for constantly overhauling their properties. He was also the subject of a fairly underwhelming adaptation where he was turned into an American Keanu Reeves *shudder* and, apart from the name, there was really nothing tying the movie to its source material.


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|Winter Olympics preemption news
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|Jan 13 2010, 05:27 PM Post #1
|"Days of Our Lives" will be preempted nationally just once for the 2010 Winter Olympics, on Monday, February 15, 2010. Coverage that day will be from 1PM-5PM (live in ET/CT, tape delayed for MT/PT tome zones). For the rest of the weekdays, from Tuesday, February 16 through Friday, February 26, coverage on NBC will be from 3PM-5PM in all time zones. If "Days" airs between 3-5PM on your local affiliate, it will be airing at different times for these two weeks. Please check local listings for time changes in your area. This preemption will be the 282nd overall preemption in "Days" history. http://www.jason47.com
|Red Mist
|Jan 13 2010, 05:29 PM Post #2
Thanks Jason!
You know, I really hate sports.
|Jan 13 2010, 05:45 PM Post #3
|Thanks Jason!!
|Jan 13 2010, 05:47 PM Post #4
|Only one Olympic pre-emption? NICE.
|Jan 13 2010, 06:03 PM Post #5
|I expected this. The past few times the Winter Olympics have aired the show was preempted at least one day.
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|Jan 13 2010, 07:01 PM Post #6
|I was expecting more pre-emptions so I'm glad it's only one day. Thanks for the info, Jason.
|Miss Rhi
|Jan 13 2010, 07:06 PM Post #7
|I can except a preemption or two for the Olympics since they only happen every 2 years.
|Jan 13 2010, 08:00 PM Post #8
|THank you Jason.
|Jan 13 2010, 08:07 PM Post #9
|Only one pre-emption wow. That's surprising.
|Jan 14 2010, 02:14 PM Post #10
|I am glad that Days will only be off for one day during the Olympics. I was expecting more days.
|Jan 15 2010, 02:37 PM Post #11
|Out of curiosity, when does Days air for most members of this board? We get it at 1PM here in the New York area. So it will most likely air at 3pm here for those two weeks. I'm just wondering how many affiliates run the show between 3pm and 5pm to begin with, because I don't think that many do. During the 2008 Summer Olympics, Days got a huuuge ratings lift (.5 in one week I believe) just from following the Olympics. I'm hoping that the same will happen again, but that will depend on how many cities have to bump the show to a middle-of-the-night time slot.
|Jan 16 2010, 01:45 PM Post #12
|St. Louis affiliate runs it at 2:00 Central Time.
|Jan 16 2010, 01:46 PM Post #13
|Aw man, I guess I have to re-set my DVR. DAYS airs in LA @ 1pm.
|Jan 16 2010, 01:48 PM Post #14
|1pm central time in Milwaukee. During the Summer Olympics it aired here at 3pm central.
|Jan 16 2010, 06:22 PM Post #15
I'll never forget the 2-week preemption during the middle of the Island storyline or whatever. So annoying.
Anyway, I was hoping for a similar preemption this time because I wont have time to watch, LoL.
|Jan 16 2010, 11:30 PM Post #16
|Re: Some comments above. There will only be time slot switches if "Days" normally airs in your market between 3PM-5PM (which isn't many affiliates). "Days" will be airing at its regular time on most affiliates (NYC, LA, etc...) at 1PM. The Olympics will be aired from 3PM-5PM on weekdays, except for the one preemption day, 2/15 (1PM-5PM), when "Days" won't be on at all.
|Jan 16 2010, 11:45 PM Post #17
|Oh, thanks for the info! Glad to know that I dont have to change my DVR!
|Jan 17 2010, 01:11 PM Post #18
Thanks for commenting. That makes more sense. I re-read your first post, and it is was pretty clear. Not sure how that went over my head, lol. I hope Days gets yet another ratings boost during those weeks.
|Jan 17 2010, 01:42 PM Post #19
|I will. Well, I guess I'll have to record with SoapNet instead.
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|Jan 19 2010, 10:59 AM Post #20
|It airs at 3:00 pm Mountain time.
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The Art Forger is deeply detailed with information about the art world and artists' techniques, and makes for fascinating fiction based on a factual event. Please join us Tuesday, April 22 at 10:30 a.m. in the Nichols Library Lower Level Board Room to discuss it!
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Today you continue your trip to Lake Atitlan, set between 3 volcanoes, about 2.5 hours drive from Antigua. En route, you will stop to see the Mayan archeological site of Iximche. Upon arrival at your hotel on Lake Atitlan, you will have the balance of the day to relax around the lake and enjoy the spectacular surroundings.
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In the morning you will make a visit to the nearby town of Solola, where the traditional dress of the local Maya is probably the most colorful in all of Guatemala. After lunch, you will be picked up at your hotel dock for an afternoon boat tour to Santiago, a traditional town on the opposite side of Lake Atitlan. The Maya language of Tz'utujil is spoken in Santiago, and this is a place where the local people hold strongly to their beliefs and rituals. This village is also famous for its beautiful woven "huipiles" (women's blouses or tunics). After this excursion you return to your hotel.
Casa Palopo (B,L)
You have the morning free. In the afternoon you will continue your trip to Chichicastenango, home to one of the largest markets in Guatemala. Spending the night here allows you to see the market in the very early morning on Thursday, which is a pretty amazing experience. (If you prefer to do Chichicastenango as a day trip rather than with an overnight, we can also arrange that.)
Santo Tomas (B)
In the morning you will have the chance to explore this sprawling, colorful market at your leisure. In the afternoon you will transfer back to Guatemala City for your flight north to Flores from where you will be transferred to your hotel located on the shores of Lake Peten.
Las Lagunas Boutique Hotel (B,L)
Today you have a full day excursion out to the less visited Mayan sites of Yaxha, located on a hillside above the Yaxha lagoon, and Topoxte, a smaller site, located on a series of forested islands in Lake Peten. These sites offer a glimpse at some of the ruins near Tikal that undoubtedly played a large role in the Maya region yet are much less visited; the surrounding forest is home to a wide variety of wildlife.
Las Lagunas Boutique Hotel (B,L)
Today you have a full day, private excursion to the ruins of Tikal, one of the most impressive of Mayan achievements, containing hundreds of buildings, some towering over the jungle canopy. The site is also home to a wide variety of jungle wildlife, including monkeys, toucans and many other species. After your tour you will have the chance to explore the ruins on your own before returning to your hotel.
Las Lagunas Boutique Hotel (B,L)
You will be transferred in the morning back to Flores for your flight to Guatemala City where you can connect with your international flight home.


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Madagascar Floods, March 2012 - Situation and Damage
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Madagascar has been hit by its second killer storm of the season. Tropical Storm Irina caused 65 deaths, most of them residents of the Ifanadiana district in the southeast of the island, and affected more than 70,000 people in all. Most casualties have been caused by landslides and flooding, following heavy rainfall.
In February Tropical Storm Giovanna also hit the island, claiming the lives of 35 people, injuring 284 and leaving a further 250,000 people affected by its impact.
MapAction is deploying a team of volunteers at the request of the Madagascar Government's National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management, to boost the agency's own GIS capability which is working at full stretch responding to the two large-scale events, with more rains forecast.
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Ryan Reynolds & Sandra Bullock To Reteam?
"The Proposal" stars Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock are to cozy up onscreen again in a new action comedy.
The two stars will reteam for new movie "Most Wanted," according to Entertainment Weekly's EW.com.
The project from "The Proposal" screenwriter Peter Chiarelli was picked up by movie executives at Universal Pictures on Friday.
Bullock will play a criminal suspect and Reynolds her FBI agent escort in the film.
The news comes just a day after Reynolds' wife, Scarlett Johansson, shared a smooch with Bullock at the MTV Movie Awards, explaining the kiss the "Speed" star planted on her man in "The Proposal" seemed "so soft."
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Hardware news tagged Sparc
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Fujitsu and LSI Co-Develop 16-Core SPARC Processor for Supercomputers.
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Fujitsu and LSI Collaborate on SPARC64 IXfx Chip for HPC Applications
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Oracle: We Will Continue to Sell Systems with x86 Microprocessors.
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Oracle Still Interested in x86 Chips, Not Interested in Commodity Servers
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Oracle Plans to Speed Up Release of Next-Generation 28nm SPARC T5 Chip.
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Oracle Intends to Continue Building-In Special-Purpose Accelerators into Its Chips
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Oracle Launches New "Market Changing" SPARC T4 Microprocessors, Servers.
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Oracle Unveils New-Generation Business-Critical Hardware to Fight Intel Itanium, IBM Power
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Oracle Vows to Launch "SPARC Supercluster" with T4 Processors in Q4.
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Oracle Remains on Track to Launch SPARC T4-Bases Systems This Year
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Oracle Not Interested in Sun's "Low-Margin" x86 Servers.
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Oracle Phasing Out x86 Server Business
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Demand for Servers Continues to Improve Around the World.
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That's it—it's over. You're done with this.
There was a line in the sand and your team crossed it. You've been there through the worst times, but this is just a sick joke. It's like they're trying to lose just to spite you. Now you're scraping your scalp bloody and looking for the nearest way out. Not out of the stadium, mind you—out of this awful reality that is now your life.
Whoa there, pal. It's going to be okay. I know it doesn't feel like it, but things can always be worse. Don't believe me? Take a look at the following fans, who have been driven completely over the edge by their sports teams and have little to nothing to show for it.
This slideshow won't fix your problem, but it's always good to know you're not the craziest loon at the ballpark.


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With training camp 32 days away, roster battles begin while coaches evaluate all of the players and trim the roster.
This year, Kansas City's depth chart features a lot of talented players who are vying for a spot on the team as others are on the brink of being cut. Some notable players and fan favorites could be on the edge and may have a challenging time making the team.
In this slideshow, I will discuss the players who are on the roster bubble and what they can do to try and maintain a spot on the team.
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For Sunday night's concert (part of the Washington Early Music Festival, which runs through the end of the month), the ensemble looked at what lead violinist Elizabeth Field called the "tug of war" between Italian and French composers of the baroque. The French tended to be more restrained, with an emphasis on harmony rather than melody, and the Italians were more emotional and freewheeling.To drive the point home, the group contrasted a quintessentially French work, the Suite from "Thesee" (1675) by Jean-Baptiste Lully, with Arcangelo Corelli's Sonata in G Op. 3 No. 6. Lully's music can be hard for modern ears to warm up to; although beautifully made, it's formal to the point of chilliness. There's often a mincing, precious quality that's not to every taste. The Corelli, by contrast, was a vibrant and much earthier piece featuring superb playing by Field with the gifted violinist Allison Edberg, ensemble co-founder Stephanie Vial on cello, Joseph Gascho at the harpsichord and William Simms on theorbo.
Musicae personae: Elizabeth Field, violin, Allison Edberg Nyquist; viola/violin, & Stephanie Vial, cello
In a few words before beginning to play, violinist Elizabeth Field explained that, contrary to what might have otherwise been expected, the program would begin with Mozart's Divertimento (K.563); "We wanted to do the heavy lifting first." I could not agree more with her statement, "This is music for connoisseurs." And at the same time, this six-movement (or per Mozart – pezzi – pieces) is, under the bows of this trio, lucidly simple. Then there would be another piece of Mozart's incredible complexity expressed in the simplest terms, and one shakes one's inner head and says, "How did he do that?" The answer, of course, is another question:"How did they, the trio and Mozart, pull that off yet again?" From my seat I could read Field's score without my glasses (the Music House is as intimate as a double bed), and the brilliance of Mozart's writing and the facility of the trio's playing was almost more than I could keep up with. I would have been happy to listen to this composition through two or three more times at the one sitting, to catch the nuances.
The opening allegro begins with a unison passage worthy of Mozart's Musical Joke – jerking, scratching, rough; all of a sudden the three voices divide in sublime harmony, in this case precisely in tune. These three players, extremely historically informed, were playing gut-strung instruments set up in the style of the period. With only the slightest of tuning between movements, they maintained the highest level of perfect intonation.
The second movement, Adagio, prominently featured the sonorous viola playing of Allison Edberg Nyquist; her instrument, of normal length, is noticeably broad and produces in her hands a correspondingly broad sound.
In the Menuetto: Allegretto-Trio, the trio brought a deliberate attention to phrasing that was as beautiful as it was subtle.
The succeeding movements were similarly fine: vigorous, sprightly, subtle, precise! This piece by itself would have been enough for a concert. The only thing I can imagine better would have been a repeat of the whole piece. I am confident that had this been the concluding piece of the evening, it would have elicited a standing ovation, with whistles and foot-stomping!
Following an inspiring intermission at the dining room wine bar, Nyquist changed to violin for the rest of the evening. In Boccherini's Trio Per Due Violini et Basso (Op. 2/4; in D, 1760) the cello is allotted a part in a very high register, showing off the skill, in this case, of Stephanie Vial (in another case the movement could just as likely shown off the inadequacies of a lesser player). It was clear in this trio that basso was a purely relative concept to Boccherini.
Next followed the Adagio and Allegro from Joseph Haydn's Divertimento in B minor (Hob.V:3; 1750-66); the listed third movement, Tempo di Menuet, was omitted in favor of playing an additional movement from the succeeding piece. While Haydn never wrote a dud note in my opinion, it took some serious work by the trio to make this piece sparkle.
The Trio Concertant Pour Deux Violons et Basse (Op.18/4; D, c.1773-95) was programmed as only the first movement, Allegro moderato; the diminishment of the previous piece was made up by adding the Rondo allegretto here. Again, brilliant and tender playing by the trio.
For an amusing seasonal finale, the trio returned to Haydn and his arrangement of the Welsh folk song "Nos Galen," with six verses of words "written for this work by Mrs. [Anne] Grant [presumably of Laggan, Scotland]." Audience participation was called for, with singing led by Nyquist. When you know the chorus is "Fa la la la la la la la la," you can easily identify the tune familiarly sung to "Deck the hall…." This charming and humanizing touch was a delicate easing of the audience back into a not always so well tuned world.
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At the University of North Carolina's Hill Hall on Thursday, February 6, 2014, the Vivaldi Project gave a thrilling reading of six 17th- and 18th-century works in a concert entitled "C.P.E. Bach and His Dramatic Predecessors" as part of the Mallarmé Chamber Players' HIP Festival. With guest conductor John Hsu, the small orchestra of twelve musicians gave a convincing argument for the sinfonia and concerto grosso in baroque and early classical music without the "elephant in the room" – J.S. Bach. (I note, however, that Bach's stature as we regard him today is more a result of the 19th-century Bach revival than a continuous stream of Bach adulation dating from his own lifetime.)
Hsu, who taught and conducted at Cornell University for fifty years before retiring to the Research Triangle area, ably conducted a fine group of musicians. Violinist and ensemble co-founder Elizabeth Field said in her pre-concert introduction that this music was never intended to be for anything other than a live event, and Hsu certainly brought this event to life. Simon Rattle noted that conductors only begin to attain musical competence around age 60; if that's true, we can surely delight in Hsu's competence and musical maturity.
From the very opening of the Corelli Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op.6, No. 8, the orchestra animated their gut strings and engaged and communicated with each other, anticipating the sundry tempo shifts with eye contact. In music that changes speed and mood more frequently than a Meat Loaf song, such communication is vital, and these musicians did so brilliantly. There were many fine musical moments at this concert; suspensions never sound as tangible as when they are played with baroque bows, and the slight ritardando before each final cadence was perfectly placed.
Especially noteworthy was the Pastorale finale of the Corelli Concerto Grosso; the pregnant pauses that ended the piece were ideal, bringing the perfect closure to his music. Hsu also brought a level of dynamic control to music in which loud and soft are often confusingly blurred. The first half of the program was also colored by a Handel Concerto Grosso in E minor, which features a delightful Polonaise dance for its third movement. Hsu, who conducted most of the concert seated, gave a dancing feel to each phrase of the music. His conducting frequently followed the phrase structure rather than a strict bar-by-bar meter; his cello and viol background becomes clear when he throws his arms to the ground to highlight a particularly drawn note.
Stephanie Vial showcased her baroque cello technique in the Vivaldi Concerto for Violoncello in G Major, RV 413. Her delicate solo passages and careful dynamic use brought out the baroque contrasts of Vivaldi's music, and her musical oppositions of the brisk sixteenth-note runs and the slower quarter-note figures would help to convince any Vivaldi naysayer of that composer's genius.
The highlight of the concert was its closing: two sinfonia by Bach's eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. W.F. Bach's Sinfonia in F Major, F. 67, featured some odd plays between meter and modality in its opening, and the orchestra was clearly having fun. This music, written between 1735 and 1740, presented some interesting oddities, at least to ears shaped by modern classical musical vocabulary; one example was the continuously accented leading tone that appeared in the second movement. C.P.E. Bach's Sinfonia in B Minor is part of a set of commissions from Baron Gottfried van Swieten in the 1770s, composed without any restrictions from the Baron; this freedom comes through in the music, which, though written in the traditional Berlin string symphony style, has some wonderful surprises. The push and pull of the dynamics, along with the staggered entries in strange sequences, sounded bright and lively.
This concert had wonderful, weird music; some, like the Concerti Grossi, played into our normal baroque expectations. But pushing the line toward W.F. and C.P.E. Bach highlights the oddities of mid-18th-century music, and how different our musical expectations have become through centuries of being inundated with sonata form and Viennese harmony. This is music from an era whensinfonia did not mean "symphony," with its Mahlerian overtones, and sonata could indicate any of three different practices (church, chamber, or theatrical sonatas). The Vivaldi Project and the HIP Festival have helped to reinsert our sense of wonder and surprise at music that will never sound old.
Chamber Music Wilmington continued its season at St. Paul's church, with a concert devoted entirely to music of Antonio Vivaldi. It was an evening of high-quality music making by The Vivaldi Project, whose members are much in demand in the early-music world and in fact perform a good deal of music besides Vivaldi.
The string instruments used strings made of gut, as in Vivaldi's time – as opposed to the steel strings now standard. This gives a different tone and character to the sound. The continuo section had a strong presence, being as much as half or more of the ensemble, which varied between a total of seven and eight. The stage picture, and the sound, were enhanced by the presence of an instrument probably unfamiliar to many modern audiences: the theorbo. This is a long-necked bass lute from the Renaissance whose strings stretch well beyond the working length of the player's arm. It added a deep and wonderfully lush resonance to the continuo.
The program began with the Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D minor, Op. 3/11, RV 565. This piece set the tone for the program. The playing had a rhythmic dynamism and lovingly shaped phrasing. Each player performed with apparent passion. What stood out in the phrasing was the beautiful tapering of the lines and at times the nuances of swelling within phrases. Soft sections had a particularly clear, attractive sound. The spiccato sections offered attractive timbral contrast.
The following Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 8/7, RV 242, featured energetically phrased solos by Elizabeth Fullard. It illustrates Vivaldi's remarkably prolific output, being the seventh full concerto in an opus which also includes the famous Four Seasons. It is subtitled Il piacere, and as the name suggests, offered the soloist improvisatory-style sections along with the notated virtuosity.
The third work, Concerto Ripieno in A Major, RV 158, was a concerto without soloists, a type extensively cultivated by Vivaldi. This attractive piece had an especially mellow, reflective second movement.
A standout piece followed. This was the Concerto for Viola D'amore in D minor, RV 394. Allison Edberg played the solo on the viola d'amore with sensitivity and beauty of tone, more than compensating for the somewhat restricted dynamic range of the instrument. Her sound in the largo was lustrous. An especially attractive feature of the piece was the passages in which the soloist was accompanied by a single instrument winding around it with its own independent line. Her cadenza, rather than brilliance, brought a meditative quality.
The following Concerto for Violoncello in G major, RV 413, featured the excellent Stephanie Vial as cello soloist. There was a good deal of virtuosic, energized writing here, and Ms. Vial played it with flair. A nice feature of the first movement was the shifting rhythmic patterns, something often lacking in Vivaldi. This movement also had passages with the soloist accompanied by a single violin, which was a lovely sound. The soloist's soft phrases were projected beautifully. This was the case in the second movement as well, which had the cello playing with just the continuo, and gave the soloist a showcase for expressive phrasing. The upbeat third movement, like the second, had unisons at the start, here lively as opposed to thoughtful.
The Concerto in C minor for Strings and continuo, RV 118, another ripieno concerto, closed the program with plenty of dynamic rhythms and sequences, as well as a nearly virtuoso passage for the continuo in the last movement.
Every member of this fine chamber-sized ensemble seemed to play with passion. Performing on original instruments contributes substantial beauties and the players are clearly masters of this challenging art. It might be added that the informative and relatively extensive program notes were, like the playing itself, in a passionate style which effectively advocated for the variety and excitement of the music. If the listener did not come away with the sense of uniqueness in each piece which the written descriptions intended to impart, the energy and expression of the performances brought forth a great deal. The audience in the nearly-filled church, attentive throughout, responded with heartfelt appreciation.
For the past six years or so, The Vivaldi Project has been on a mission: to explore not only the music of the early baroque period, but also the astonishingly rich musical language, with its own precise grammar of expression, that underlies that music. The intriguing idea has made the ensemble's concerts, as it showed Sunday at St. George's Episcopal Church in Arlington, into events that forge intriguing ties among composers of the time.
No sooner had the Corelli ended, a heart-stopping crack rang out: The neck of Simms's theorbo (a sort of lute with an extended neck and as many as 20 strings) had snapped. Simms was sidelined, but the group soldiered on with an early Vivaldi sonata and a fascinating trio sonata by Francois Couperin called "L'apothese de Corelli" — a French interpretation of the Italian style.
Amid baroque art, Vivaldi Project transports listener to Venice in its glory
Cecilia H. Porter, The Washington Post 2/22/11
Sunday's stunning concert at the National Gallery of Art was all about Venice and for
good reason. The Vivaldi Project ensemble saluted the new exhibition in the East
Building, "Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals," with music centered on a city that
blossomed in the Renaissance and baroque periods as a commercial crossroads that
lavished its wealth on arts of all kinds.
Covering music of the 17th and 18th centuries, the program Sunday featured works
shimmering with the colorful luminescence that Canaletto lent his brilliant panoramas of
Venice. With groups such as the Vivaldi Project, the tide is turning from approaching
early music in a careful, overly literal reading of the notes to electrifying improvisation
beyond the fanciful melodies already embedded in the scores. The group advances early
music performance practice by its finely drawn characterizations of each piece.
The musicians moved from the plaintive laments and playful fugues of a sinfonia by
Alessandro Stradella to a Handel trio sonata and one of Vivaldi's Suonate da Camera a
Tre, Op. 1, combining violinists Elizabeth Field and Allison Guest Edberg and cellist
Stephanie Vial with continuo support by Joseph Gascho on the harpsichord and William
Simms on the theorbo, an antique form of lute.
Pieces by Giovanni Legrenzi were marked by vigorous allegros and mellow adagios, and
the musicians reveled in the dance rhythms of a sonata da camera by Antonio Caldara.
Gascho raced through his witty parody of Handel's and Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard
styles. The final Vivaldi ended the concert in a storm of electrifying improvisation
impelled by a throbbing metrical pulse. Read Full Review
The Vivaldi Project Presented the Vivid Virtuosity of C.P.E. Bach String Writing
William Thomas Walker, The Classical Voice of North Carolina 9/15/10
The Vivaldi Project, a firstrate period instrument ensemble dedicated to presenting 17th
and 18thcentury string repertoire, opened its tour of Piedmont NC in Brendle Recital Hall
on the lovely campus of Wake Forest University. The ensemble on this occasion consisted
of three violinists each in the first and second violins, two violists, two cellists, a double
bass, and harpsichord. The conductor was John Hsu . . .
Stephanie Vial spoke from the stage giving brief, germane comments about the ensemble
Prussian Court, commissioned these works and told the composer he need make no allowances
for the skills of the orchestra. Bach took as his inspiration the string technical skills of the
soloist parts of Vivaldi's works and applied them to every player! . . .
"rapid scales, arpeggios, and multiple stops." Each string section played exactly together as one
player no matter how abrupt the change in dynamics or tempo. This group cannot be booked to
return to our concert venues too soon. Read Full Review
Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun 6/3/08
On Sunday evening, a sizable crowd welcomed the Vivaldi Project, a D.C.based, period
instrument ensemble, to the Baltimore Basilica for a concert presented by An die Musik and
the Basilica's Historic Trust. The tight ensemble delivered a program of baroque fare rich in
solo opportunities for founding concertmaster Elizabeth Field, a poised and stylish player.
The reverberant acoustics in the exquisitely renovated church obscured many a detail of the
refined counterpoint flowing through concertos by Vivaldi, Corelli and Scarlatti. But the
mushy sound could not defeat the buoyant spirit, expressive warmth and technical fluency of
the playing.
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