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What's New
Secretary Spellings says history should be part of understanding President's Day; the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) seeks nominations of technical reviewers for Comprehensive Centers competition; Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) launches new Master of Arts in Community Arts degree; the seventh annual collection of Promising Partnership Practices is released; Reading is Fundamental (RIF) publishes new brochure highlighting programs; Falmouth Institute hosts NativeTech 2005; University of California Television (UCTV) creates "The Teacher's P.E.T.;" and Clean Sweep USA receives Toyota grant.
Innovations in the News
North Carolina high school receives Advanced Placement award, plus information on Advanced Placement, American history, leadership, magnet schools, and teacher quality.
Tutor.com: Virtual Relief for Homework Headaches
The school day has ended. Students across the country pull out their homework, but as many of them begin, they encounter some difficulty. The assignments are challenging, and the students do not understand the concepts required to complete them. Parents want to help, but most of them cannot remember the last time they had to multiply fractions, solve for "x," or write a complex thesis statement. Thousands of children and their families have found a solution to this problem with Tutor.com.
Tutor.com provides one-on-one learning and information services to people in the United States and internationally. Using Internet technology, Tutor.com links students and other information-seekers to professional librarians and subject-area experts.
Tutor.com is also an approved provider of supplemental educational services in 25 states across the country. "Supplemental educational services" under No Child Left Behind are free tutoring and other academic assistance available for low-income children who attend Title I schools that have been designated by the state as in need of improvement for two years or more. This tutoring may be offered in math, reading/language arts, and other core subjects, before or after school, on weekends, or in the summer.
Live Homework Help, the company's flagship and most popular program, was introduced to libraries in 2001. This service provides one-on-one assistance in math, science, social studies, and English to students in 4th through 12th grade, and is available seven days a week from 2:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. Eastern time. If students have questions about writing scientific hypotheses or solving geometry problems, they can log onto the Internet from their home or library computers, link to the Live Homework Help website via the Tutor.com homepage, and immediately connect with live tutors who can walk them through the process of finding answers.
Tutors with Live Homework Help are often certified teachers, retired teachers, professors, and graduate school students. In order to apply, potential tutors must submit three teaching or tutoring samples. Once hired, all tutors complete a rigorous training and certification program that includes technology education, training in online tutoring etiquette, mock tutoring sessions, and professional development seminars, similar to those for schoolteachers, to improve the tutors' instructional skills in the online environment. Many tutors specialize in honors-level or Advanced Placement courses. Every tutor also undergoes a full background check. As tutors continue with the program, they meet with mentors who assess their work at regular intervals. Mentors must have been with the program for at least one year, have high tutee ratings, and must be recommended by other senior tutors.
Although students who use Live Homework Help are primarily in the elementary through high school grade levels, college freshmen are allowed to log-in to the site as well. According to George Cigale, founder and CEO of Tutor.com, "Students need help during the after school hours even if during the day they're in a classroom with the best teacher in the world..." He notes the program is simple to use and that "kids don't need any [computer] training." Of course, students with low levels of literacy would need extra help and guidance with content from an adult.
To start a session, a student must enter his username and password, then select a subject and grade level. Once the student accesses the program, he is immediately connected to a tutor who has been selected for him based on his tutoring needs in an "Online Classroom." In this virtual classroom, the student and tutor can chat in an informal style akin to instant messaging. Their discussion and any work that they complete are posted on an interactive "whiteboard," which they both can view and modify. The student and tutor can access a number of computer drawing and mathematical tools, which makes graphs and diagrams easier for the pair to visualize and work on together. If a student needs help researching a report, the tutor can lead a session where the pair can co-browse the Internet.
Parents are encouraged to monitor their children's online activity and share their children's tutoring experience with teachers. Parents and students who wish to customize their one-on-one tutoring sessions may schedule specific times to work with the same tutor. Tutor.com provides a "Tutor Profile" webpage, which contains all tutors' educational histories, their schedules, listings of subjects that they are certified to tutor, and statements that explain their individual tutoring styles, interests, and reasons for tutoring. Previous tutees can rate the tutors with a maximum of five stars, and these ratings are also posted with each profile.
In many areas of the country there is no charge to use Live Homework Help, because the library covers the cost. Students need only an Internet-enabled computer and a library card, which they use to log-in to the site. There is a flat-rate fee to subscribe in other areas, while some parents may choose to hire tutors at hourly rates for private, online instruction in any of the Homework Help subjects. Students who use Tutor.com as a supplemental educational services provider may access the system through computers at school or an after school program.
The Virtual Reference Toolkit is another Tutor.com service. This program gives reference and search assistance to library patrons even if they are not at the library. Users can connect to the Virtual Reference Toolkit from any Internet-capable computer and can interact with a library aide or a member of the Tutor.com reference staff. This service enables libraries to extend the personalized services traditionally offered only at the physical reference desk, and can be particularly helpful if a student is doing a research paper or looking for primary source information. Both Live Homework Help and the Virtual Reference Toolkit are available in Spanish.
Tutor.com currently serves over 4,600 academic, public, military, and special libraries throughout the world. The program primarily works with libraries, but it also serves after school organizations and schools. Live Homework Help assisted nearly 270,000 students in 2004, and 94 percent reported in post-session surveys that they benefited from the service and would recommend it to a friend.
As mentioned previously, Tutor.com is an approved SES provider in 25 states. The U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) also funds a new initiative from the Michigan Community College Association (MICA), which is bringing the Virtual Reference Toolkit to 18 publicly funded colleges in the state.
Resources: Note: Tutor.com is one example of a tutorial, supplemental educational services program. The program does not have evidence of effectiveness from a rigorous evaluation and may not have the same benefits for all students.
What's New
From the U. S. Department of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings issued a statement saying that we have a responsibility to teach our children about the presidents and the history of the times they lived in as we celebrate President's Day. (Feb. 21)
The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) is seeking nominations of technical reviewers to evaluate applications for a Spring 2005 competition of 20 new regional Comprehensive Centers. For more information, please contact Enid Simmons at email@example.com. Applications may be sent to Ms. Simmons via email or at U.S. Department of Education, Room 3E309, 400 Maryland Avenue, NW 20202 by March 1, 2005. (Feb. 16)
From OII
The School Leadership Program grant competition is now open. The purpose of the grants are to assist high need local education agencies (LEAs) develop, enhance, and expand innovative programs to recruit, train, and mentor principals and vice principals. (Feb. 22)
Arts Education
This summer, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MD) will launch a new Master of Arts in Community Arts program. This degree will provide coursework and practical experience to visual artists who want to pursue a career in arts-based youth and community development. The degree is completed over two summers and one academic year. It includes a 10-month residency serving one or more community organizations and classes taught by MICA faculty. The application deadline for this summer's class is March 1, 2005. (Jan. 14)
Parental Involvement
The National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at Johns Hopkins University has released the seventh annual collection of Promising Partnership Practices featuring 85 school, family, and community partnership programs that help students achieve academic and life skills success. (Fall 2004)
A new brochure, published by Reading is Fundamental (RIF) and the U.S. Department of Education, highlights RIF programs across the country. The Parents as Teachers (PAT) Shared Beginnings program is just one of the projects featured in the publication. PAT helps teen parents learn about child development and how to use books to build healthy relationships with their children. RIF is an OII-funded program. (Feb. 15)
The Falmouth Institute will sponsor NativeTech 2005, a series of workshops on how tribal organizations can develop and maintain Information Technology infrastructures. NativeTech 2005 will run from May 16-18. To learn more or to register, call 1-800-992-4489. (Feb. 16)
University of California Television (UCTV) has launched "The Teacher's P.E.T." (Professional Education for Teachers) television program, a free resource that helps teachers keep informed about research developments in their subject areas, and assists them in providing resources to students and parents. The companion website aligns each program with California State Board of Education Content Standards and provides broadcast schedules. (Feb. 16)
The Florida Learning Alliance, a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant award winner, received a grant from Bank of America to enable approximately 25,000 students and teachers in rural Florida to access the SAS in School's web-based educational curriculum for the next two years. (Feb. 18)
Clean Sweep U.S.A., a project of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., has received a grant from the Toyota USA Foundation to support its web-based environmental science program about recycling, environmental issues, and effective waste management. The website, which correlates to national science standards, contains six activity links with animation, games, and resources for both teachers and students. The program also received funding from OII. [More-Keep America Beautiful] (Jan. 25)
Innovations in the News
Advanced Placement
East Chapel Hill High School (NC) was selected as one of 12 recipients of the national Siemens Award, which recognizes schools for their outstanding commitment to Advanced Placement courses. Newsweek recently cited the school as the 52nd best high school in the nation, boasting 16 AP courses. Last year 600 students enrolled in AP classes and took 1,112 AP exams. [More-The Daily Tar Heel] (Feb. 8)
American History
A new album of songs entitled Song of America, to be released in the spring of 2006, will detail how music is connected with our nation's heritage. The songs will focus on topics such as colonial times, the Revolutionary War, the expansion of the West, and World War II. Grammy-winner David Macius and Janet Reno, former U.S. Attorney General, will produce the album, which will be distributed to schools with an accompanying teacher's guide. [More-USA Today] (Feb. 14)
Sixty-nine different languages are spoken in the Ft. Wayne (IN) school district and education officials are concerned about students' achieving "cultural competency." Hana Stith, curator and founder of the African/African-American Historical Museum, says the museum can work with schools to teach about the accomplishments of minority groups during Black History Month and throughout the academic year. [More-The Journal Gazette] (Feb. 14)
With a $10 million Gates Foundation grant, New Leaders for New Schools will start a "national urban principal corps" in 2,000 urban schools over the next decade. New Leaders for New Schools is profiled in the OII book, Innovative Pathways to School Leadership. [More-USA Today] (Feb. 15)
Magnet Schools
The Philadelphia School District (PA) plans to expand its network of magnet schools. The plan calls for 9 new magnet schools, which are part of an overall agenda to create 28 smaller college-prep high schools throughout the city by 2008. Officials hope that the new schools will reduce enrollment in the district's poorly performing large high schools. [More-The Philadelphia Inquirer] (Feb. 10) [free registration]
Teacher Quality
In fall 2006, Florida will need 30,000 new teachers. Florida education officials are starting an alternative route to certification program that will use the state's community colleges to train thousands of new teachers. The "educator preparation institutes" will be housed also at Florida universities and private colleges. People with bachelor's degrees and teaching aspirations can go through a yearlong boot camp program designed to give them the skills they need. [More-St. Petersburg Times] (Feb. 16)
A new report by the Education Trust-West, California's Hidden Teacher Spending Gap, on salaries of teachers in California, outlines a salary gap within districts across the state. The report shows that teachers in poorer schools typically earn less than those in more affluent areas within a given district, the direct result of seniority hiring and budget policies. [More-San Francisco Chronicle] (Feb. 16)
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Area amateur radio operators will show off their emergency capabilities at the annual Field Day event from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at the Crow Wing County Fairgrounds in Brainerd.
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This annual event is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League, the national association for amateur radio.
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We went to see my relatives further up the coast. Again, bad timing! They day we showed up, there was a death in their extended family. We couldn't have planned a worse time to pop by but they still made time for us.
Rusty got to meet my cousin's dogs, we tried Pork Rolls and Disco Fries,hid out in the house from another heat wave and went to a high end Greek restaurant with my cousin to see another cousin. usually our Greek experiences are more of the deli sort or counter service. The food was great but the service was tops! The next day we hung out with my aunt and uncle. I guess with the mood of it all, we forgot to take pictures! So not like us...


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I like this idea a lot. I'm a hobbyist, and that's all I ever expect to be, but the idea of raising a few nucs to sell appeals to me. It would be nice to talk to folks who do that sort of work on a small scale.
I like this idea a lot. I'm a hobbyist, and that's all I ever expect to be, but the idea of raising a few nucs to sell appeals to me. It would be nice to talk to folks who do that sort of work on a small scale.
Would this be the exact type of thread needed in a Sideliner Forum??
I am brand new and just installed my first package, but am concentrating on selling nucs in the future to at least break even on beekeeping. I may also sell custom built hives if it makes sense to do so. Being labeled as a hobbyist or rec beek seems to conjure up images of a pricey hobby, so 'sideliner' is my status from here on out. Thumbs up for this forum.
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Starting over. >Back up to 9 hives! All cutouts and swarms.
Great idea. I took over the family sideline business eight years ago and am always looking for advice. The beekeeping literature available is mainly focused on hobby beekeepers or the science of bees. It is always helpful to get ideas of how to run a sideline business more effectively.
Resurrected! Let's see if we can garner some more interest.
it would be nice to compare and contrast how others juggle time between the day job and bees.
it would also be interesting to discuss things like how long it takes to recoup initial start up costs ect.
i suppose that these things can be brought up and discussed elsewhere on the forum, but sidelining does have its unique set of considerations and would easily lend itself to sub-forum of its own.
i guess i'm fine either way but if you decide to start one barry, please, no special rules!
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Lets just do it. Commercial doesn't do it for me most of time as this is what I'm doing. Running treatment free 10+ years, 8 frame setup. 27 hives last year, lost 4 to queen failure-starvation this past winter. I don't replace queens except when they are clearly failing.....sometimes I miss them : ). Run screen top and bottom all year. Doing varietal honey, Ross Rounds, gonna do whole comb frames this year to sell to restaurants for breakfast buffets. Sell direct to consumer, farmers market, plus a couple of boutique stores. Get a minimum of $8 lb, up to around $14 lb. Run operation with small trailer and couple of pickup trucks. I'm clearly not commercial : ) and a bit past a hobbiest ......maybe : ). Also do nucs and thinking about queens.
I see no real reason to have a dedicated "sideliner forum" The only reason to have special forums is to enforce special rules. At least on this site, I very seldom pay any attention to what forum an actual thread is on. I asked questions where they fit, and reply where and when I see fit. The only time I have had to even trouble with a particular forum is when "special rules" are used to limit discussion, which is what forums are all about. The I have never cared about joining an exclusive club either.
I have never felt ostrasized or shunned by the commercial forum members. As in all of life, your results will be dependent on the way you conduct yourself.
So maybe I am not a good example. because as I say, I pay little attention the the "forum", but pay lots of attention to the threads and contributors. For my, it is about the discussion, not about where it is posted. Also with the ispy feature (view latest posts) it is mute. The onnly other reason to have a dedicated forum is ease of finding a particular thread, but with search, even that is not very relevant.
I respect what naysayers have to say and I too search the forums but I would have to disagree. The search function does not always work for me and there is a lot of time wasted trying to sift through the myriad of responses, many of which get off topic. The threads on the Bee Forum cycle off the first page way too quickly. Half the time a post doesn't even get a response because it gets shuffled away so fast. If the site can have "An Alternative Pollinator" forum that last had a post a month ago why can't we have a Sideliner Forum that I am sure would get much more traffic.
Patiently waiting for Barry's response...
"Someday we will look back and realize someone was right...and conveniently forget we were the ones that were wrong."
Below is the description given for the current "Commercial" forum:
If you want Barry to add this forum, it will be probably easier to persuade him if we can agree on the forum guidelines. But if you don't feel guidelines are appropriate, then you might as well just use the existing Bee Forum. So here's my initial attempt at a forum header.Commercial Beekeeping/Pollination
Beekeeping from a commercial point of view. Focus is on income production and cost/time efficiencies, pros/cons of certain practices, and other subjects more of concern to those making their primary income from bees.
Sideliner Beekeeping/Pollination
Beekeeping from a part-time, income producing point of view. The Sideliner forum focus is on income production and cost/time efficiencies, pros/cons of certain practices, and other subjects more of concern to those making less than than their primary income from bees.
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I imagine that Barry might be more inclined if someone agreed to moderate the forum. I have no objections, but as I said before, for me it will make no difference. But for others there may be more value, as my eventual goal is to progress from sideliner to full commerical.
I am under the impression that we already have a "Sideliner" forum. Are not the majority of the particiipants there sideliners.
"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
Most definitions I've seen regard Sideliners as managing up to 300-400 hives. I think the number of hives is immaterial. The main point is that regardless of the number of hives the beekeeper is "attempting" to make an income at this crazy business we call beekeeping!
I agree with Sidetrack guidelines are probably important so the forum doesn't become a catchall. Worse case, it bombs and the forum gets deleted. But maybe I am ignorant to forum architecture.
I will throw my name in the hat as a moderator.
"Someday we will look back and realize someone was right...and conveniently forget we were the ones that were wrong."
"Someday we will look back and realize someone was right...and conveniently forget we were the ones that were wrong."
Interesting on definitions of sideliner. I do not want to manage my bees the way the commercial guys do and do not want to be that large. Not certain how many hives I will end up with at this point. For me commercial beeks are similar to big Ag production. I'm more incline to be a like the small family farm producer. The main draw of my honey and bees are that they are local. I make money, but not my living from bees. With 30 hives and climbing some this year, would I be considered a sideliner? I think a key definition would be make a profit but not a living if we are trying to define sideliner.


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EASTERN CAROLINA - U.S. Army officials announced Friday they have suspended new enrollments for tuition assistance programs, which help more than 200,000 soldiers continue their educations.
The decision comes as the military deals with the Defense Department's requirement to cut $46 billion from its budget by October, under the sequestration order that President Obama signed into effect on March 1.
According to a statement from the Army, "soldiers will no longer be permitted to submit new requests for Tuition Assistance through the GoArmyEd portal. Soldiers currently enrolled and participating in courses approved for tuition assistance are not affected and will be allowed to complete current course(s) enrollment." The suspension went into effect Friday.
Army officials said 201,000 soldiers are enrolled in continuing education programs, costing about $373 million each year. According to the Army, current enrollees who wish to take more classes at the end of a semester will be considered new enrollees, and will not be eligible for tuition assistance.
Soldiers, whose enrollments are suspended, "can continue to access their GI Bill benefits, if applicable (either the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) or the Post 9/11 GI Bill), or use another funding source (i.e. grants, scholarships, or Army National Guard Soldiers using state Tuition Assistance)," according to the Army.
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Malta's Election Watershed
Listeners to Rod Quinn's Saturday morning program may have heard John Doggett Williams previewing the recent election in Malta - here John reports on the final results and we can see his photos of the celebrations! You can also hear the original interview below.
Malta's Election watershed
The car horns began blaring even before the result was confirmed on Sunday morning, a win to the Maltese Labour Party, their first in 15 years.
It was a landslide victory for, Joseph Muscat, 39, a likely nine seat majority, the largest in the history of the 48 year old Republic. There was an 'It's Time' factor in the large swing against the incumbent Nationalist Party.
Despite presiding over an economy in relatively robust condition Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi, 59, entered his final months with a minority government after defections and scandal took their toll.
Streets were jammed with largely good humoured celebrations though many businesses closed for the next two days as a precaution against potentially over exuberant or frustrated crowd behaviour.
The celebratory cacophony was made up of all shades of car and truck horns, sirens and high pitched fireworks continued for the next 36 hours. The climax was an intense gathering of over 30,000 Labourites in Floriana.
The Maltese voting system is similar to the Australian Senate's. Candidates are elected once they fill a quota. In each electoral district preferential votes are counted and redistributed several times until the quotas are filled.
Prime Minister Muscat begins his five year term with an agenda of converting the Island's Oil fuelled power station to gas within two year's, tax breaks for working women over 35 and a pledge to hold a cross party constitutional convention before the 50th anniversary of Malta's independence in 2014.
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Out of a pool of 120 aspiring opera singers from across the country, eight were selected to compete at Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on November 3, 2015, our annual celebration of the next generation of opera stars selected from nationwide auditions for the COC Ensemble Studio—Canada's premier training program for young opera professionals. The competition features the young singers vying for cash prizes ranging in value from $1,500 to $5,000. We interviewed our eight young finalists to learn more—check out all of the interviews, linked by name as they become available, here (or here if on a mobile device).
Qualicum Beach, BC native, mezzo-soprano Lauren Eberwein studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and is a member of Opera Philadelphia's Emerging Artist Program. Her credits include Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress, The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Curtis Opera Theater), as well as Sorrel and Dodo in Double Exposure with Opera Philadelphia. She was a featured soloist with the Curtis Baroque Ensemble, and the Curtis and Maryland symphony orchestras. She also began her residency at The Marlboro Music Festival this summer. This season, she appears at Opera Philadelphia as Olivia in Cold Mountain and Clairon in Cappriccio, and makes her Carnegie Hall debut singing Handel's Israel in Egypt with the New York Choral Society.
I was born in London, Ontario, then swiftly moved to Calgary and was primarily raised there. However, my family moved a lot, so my geographic identity feels rather fluid. My poignant late adolescence and teen years were mostly spent near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, so I feel intensely connected to that part of the country.
My operatic saga of sorts began later than most. I didn't pursue intensive vocal studies until my late teens. When I was a child, my mum actively supported and nurtured my artistic inclinations, but my most concentrated childhood passion was actually playing hockey. I certainly fit the Canadian stereotype in that sense. So my musical beginnings had to compete with hockey practice and tournaments.
However, during junior high, my mum lost her lengthy battle with cancer and it forever changed the way I view passion and life. I later realized I had a talent, and felt my mum's support and inspiration beyond the grave. That shift and the support of my father pushed me to strive to make professional singing a reality, and it's been a dance from one inspiration to the next. I feel immensely privileged to have opportunities and support to pursue a career in the arts. My only regret is that my mum never got the chance to hear me sing opera.
I have many hobbies and interests beyond opera, from yoga to the occasional YouTube binge, but mostly spend my free time chasing my imagination. Through prose, poetry, philosophy, and most recently to astronomy: my new hobby. I'm sure it's just the beginning of a lifelong attempt to understand the universe and explore the cosmos. On my weekends off I try to go for day hikes through a local state park with my travel telescope. I'm also going through an intense late Beethoven phase, and find myself unable to stop listening to his late piano sonatas and quartets.
Learn more about Lauren at laureneberwein.com and follow her on Twitter at @LaurenEberwein
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit COCCentreStage.ca, call COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231 or visit the Four Seasons Centre Box Office (145 Queen St. W.).
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By Christopher Alden
A new Canadian opera, Pyramus and Thisbe by Barbara Monk Feldman, receives its world premiere today (appearing along with Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda). This modern triple bill not only features a striking new opera, but manages to cover almost the entire span of operatic history throughout its three parts. Director Christopher Alden expands on some of the historical and thematic ties between these pieces in his program notes.
During the past 400 or so years since it was first "invented" in Renaissance Italy, the operatic art form has always had an intriguingly schizophrenic nature. On one hand, it has always depended for its survival on the support of the rich and powerful patrons for whom a night at the opera is just as much a social as it is an esthetic experience. But on the other hand, with its magically alchemical mingling of words and music, opera has managed to penetrate into dark, mysterious and even painful realms of human experience, soothing its audience with sweet sounds while it tells its subversive stories.
The three musical tales which share the stage in tonight's "exotic and irrational entertainment" (as Dr. Samuel Johnson described it) span the entire history of opera, but share similar themes. Claudio Monteverdi's and Barbara Monk Feldman's pieces, all drawn from classical/mythological sources, address the spikily ambivalent nature of male/female relationships, the societal forces which conspire to throw roadblocks in the way of the deep human need to find spiritual and physical connection with another human being, and the eternal quest of us mortal beings to move beyond our ego fixations and find a richer and more organic relationship with existence.
Lamento d'Arianna, the only existing fragment from Monteverdi's second opera, became the composer's most celebrated and emulated piece in his day. Drawn from Ovid and other classical sources, the story tells of the Cretan princess, Ariadne, who falls in love with Theseus of Thebes, then helps him escape from the Labyrinth and kill her half-brother, the monstrous Minotaur. After this betrayal of her culture, Ariadne flees her homeland with Theseus, who rewards her by summarily dumping her on the first island they pass. He sails victoriously back to his kingdom as she laments her abandonment, alternating between extremes of sorrow, anger, fear, self-pity and desolation.
From a modern feminist perspective, Ariadne's predicament is the perfect metaphor of a woman's position in our patriarchal world. She trades her heritage, throne and power for a relationship with a powerful man. Worried that his people will not accept a foreign princess as their queen, he leaves her in the dust after she has given up everything for him, placing a higher value on his societal role than on hers. Ironically, audiences of Monteverdi's time might well have perceived Ariadne's story as teaching a moral lesson wherein a dangerously proud woman is justly punished for defying gender roles, betraying her father and choosing her own mate.
In Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, the "heroine" confronts the Christian patriarchy head on. Taken from an episode in Torquato Tasso's epic poem, Gerusalemme Liberata, the piece thrillingly enacts the encounter of the Christian crusader knight Tancredi by the walls of Jerusalem with a mysterious Saracen opponent. They fight and the unknown infidel warrior is mortally wounded. Dying, the stranger asks to be baptized and is ultimately recognized by the traumatized Tancredi as his beloved Clorinda. The knock-out-drag-out fight to the death on the marital battlefield in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has nothing on Monteverdi's terse depiction of male/female aggression. It is the definitive dramatization of the Battle of the Sexes, portraying men and women as two separate species, forever unknowable to each other, locked in an enmity as everlasting as that of Christians and Muslims endlessly fighting for possession of the holy city Jerusalem. Tasso's metaphorical joust functions on multiple levels, showing us in painstaking detail how each man kills the thing he loves. The Narrator tells us that "Three times the knight holds the woman/in his strong arms and as often/she escapes his tenacious embrace,/the embrace of a proud enemy and not of a lover." Yet there is something undeniably erotic about this sadomasochistic encounter between ambivalent lovers, suggesting that the flip side of the fearful mysteries and secrets which men and women (or people in general) hide from each other is actually an intense attraction to the mysteriously seductive Other. From a modern cultural perspective, it seems a shame that Tasso's gloriously fearless female Saracen Clorinda is not only put down by the male crusader Tancredi but, before dying, begs to be baptized so that she may convert to his faith (once again depicting the inevitable triumph of patriarchal Christianity). But who can deny the beauty of this denouement, which sings so exquisitely of forgiveness and transcendence?
Pyramus and Thisbe is all about transcendence, even going so far as to transcend a conventional narrative structure in order to work its subtle magic as a theatre piece built not on action but on contemplation, stillness, even silence. Barbara Monk Feldman was initially inspired to write the opera not so much by the Pyramus and Thisbe story (recounted by Ovid, then famously used by Shakespeare as the script mercilessly but mirthfully mangled by the mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream), but by Nicolas Poussin's painting depicting a pivotal moment in the tragic story.
The composer's libretto is a fascinating collage of fragments of disparate texts which does not attempt to recount Ovid's tale in a literal manner. The story concerns a pair of lovers separated by a wall which their fathers, mortal enemies, have constructed. The lovers, having found a chink in the wall, use it to communicate with each other, eventually devising a secret plan to meet by night. Thisbe is the first to arrive at the agreed-upon location, but is frightened away when she sees a lioness approach. Escaping, she drops her veil, which the lioness rips apart, leaving it torn and smeared in the blood from a recent kill. After the lioness departs, Pyramus arrives, sees the torn and bloody veil, and assumes that Thisbe has been murdered. Grief-stricken, he stabs himself only moments before Thisbe returns to find her dying lover. She then uses his bloody dagger to end her own life. This tale (which Shakespeare also used as the basis for the plot of Romeo and Juliet) is a classic reminder that "the course of true love never did run smooth." With its warring fathers, veritable Berlin Wall and climactic Liebestod, Ovid's story suggests that the true union of two souls is impossible in this imperfect world, achievable only after death.
Ovid's story is used as a jumping-off point to address the wider issue of coming to terms with existence. The first section, using a Faulkner text about a man collapsing the moment after he has been fatally shot, shows us Pyramus in the moment of his suicide, struggling with his own death-wish. The second section is taken from the opening poem of Dark Night of the Soul, a religious text by the 16th-century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross. It equates Thisbe's secret nocturnal journey to meet Pyramus with the journey of the soul to its blissful union with God, achieved through spiritual negation of worldly things. The rapturous atmosphere of this episode is tempered by Thisbe's awareness of worldly danger (the lioness). The pivotal moment in the opera occurs at the beginning of the third section, when Thisbe, in a text by the 20th-century German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers, says to Pyramus, "Don't sacrifice yourself, be yourself!" In doing so, she urges him to transcend the endless mortal cycles of desire, aggression and ego fixation which are exemplified in the stories of tormented human interactions, like those of Ariadne and Theseus and Tancredi and Clorinda. When, climactically, Pyramus responds with stanzas from Rilke's ecstatic Sonnets to Orpheus, he takes up Thisbe's challenge and steps outside the box of traditionally dogmatic patriarchal assumptions to embrace a wider connection to existence, moving beyond his fear of the unknown, the unconscious, and finally of death itself.
Pyramus and Thisbe premieres October 20, 2015 and runs until November 7, 2015. For more information click here.
To buy tickets, click here.
Phillip Addis as Pyramus and Krisztina Szabó as Thisbe in the Canadian Opera Company's world premiere production of Pyramus and Thisbe (with Lamento d'Arianna and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda), 2015. Photo: Gary Beechey
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A few years ago (ok, 20 years), Coffee Bean International chose to move from being a retail/wholesale roaster to purely wholesale. I believe the primary reason may have been that we didn't want to compete with our retail customers. As the lead roaster and coffee buyer at the time, this move made life a bit easier. We no longer needed to deal with the retail side… Read more »
Fast vs Slow Roasting
I want to start a dialogue surrounding fast vrs slow roasting and the effect on body and acidity in the cup, caused by the speed of the roast. Your opinions please would be great on the two below points. I have always felt slower roasts mute perception of acidity, therefore helping embellish body. Contrary to this, I have always felt faster roasts embellish acidity perception, muting the perception of body. Any thoughts on these two points below? Are these two statements correct? Read more »
Rwandan Appellations and the Road Home
OK, so it's really cool here and all, but I gotta tell you, it's a long time! Can't wait to get home and see the fam and get back into the grind. Lots of stories to tell you, and most of them will be the honest truth.
I think I'm gonna get a Big Mac soon as I see those arches!! Living on beans, rice, goat, beef, and chicken, prepared about two ways is getting to me. Read more »
Rain, Le Nez de Café and more Cupping
It's Nov 18, I think. Nice day today. It rained like crazy last night. Lighting and thunder, the whole works. Read more »
More Cupping in Rwanda and the King's Hut
Paul Songer has the process for this project mapped out really well. He also has an excellent awareness of statistical data. Seven primary coffee growing regions in Rwanda had been identified as potential appellations. Last year, the panel, with deep experience in this sort of cupping (descriptive cupping that is) narrowed this down to three by cupping each numerous times over the year and coming to the conclusion there are three three primary character differences. Read more »
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Stockholm Engagement Session from Alicia SwedenborgThese two are soooo adorable. And I mean adorable. As in, they met in high school (playing soccer), had their first date at The Olive Garden (their parents drove them) and are planning a destination affair in Maine that is sure to be as
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Dude...Charlie is a total Thound, first I thought he was just bold and grabbing women's crotches...but once I saw him stroking one off I knew.
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#1 Wed 04 Apr 07 3:06pm
Leftovers from England 2003, Jamie's Kitchen
I've been joining this forum for a while ( since last Dec), you may notice that I wasn't very active as I just couldn't found a right place to fit in.
After I clicked into Mrs D's forum I was amazed by the conversation, it's really warm & sincere. I read the very first post by accident (when Mrs D mentioned about Jamie's kitchen or school dinner) which remind me the time in Oxford, England, 4 years ago..... keep reading if you are interested in my leftovers.
#2 Wed 04 Apr 07 3:24pm
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Food & travel mean a lot to me.
4 years ago, Jamie's Kitchen was just released (every Thursday evening as I remember), that was also my low point in my final year in Architecture part 2. I remembered in the first term I had the lowest grade in the group, that was frustrating as I couldn't afford to repeat. Soon I was started chasing the Jamie's kitchen and impressed by the whole progress, from then I told myself 'the result doesn't matter, as long as you live full through the progress'. I disregarded all architects ( or attempt to copy their style) and turned to chefs for inspiration.
Since then I was obsessed with Jamie, Anthony Bourdain, Ferrain Adria, Gordon Ramsey & Heston Blumenthal.... not just the food recipes but the recipes of creating an enthusiastic life
#3 Wed 11 Apr 07 7:16pm
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Architecture of Passion.
While everyone saw some super star architects as their inspiration, Jamie became my idol since then. he was the 'subject' of my final year project... The Mobile Kitchen-'' Take a look at my project inspired by Jamie.
#4 Fri 13 Apr 07 5:34pm
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In search of Passion
After graduated from the university, I went back to HK to look for a job. It wasn't easy to find a good architectural firm in HK, 'good' means the variety of projects, most of them are residential & office buildings, seriously nothing ambitious. I eventually got a position in a UK firm, which is now one of the leading firms in retail architecture around the world. 2 years has passed since then, I enjoyed the work but still felt something not really right about myself... I wonder what I was really passionate about, which can make me pour my heart into it.
Must be something to do with food & travel.
#5 Sun 15 Apr 07 8:39am
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I fall in love with Thailand.
After I visited Thailand 5 years ago, I was attracted by its vibrancy... the coexistence of street vendors & restaurants. I felt inspired by the place, smell, taste & most importantly: an opportunity. Believe me, Thailand is now the most creative nation after japan in Asia, people are generally calm & happy, that can not be improved by the economy(like China), but their own culture. When I strolled through the night bazaar & weekend market, I felt the energy of ambition & courage, everyone was trying to be self-sustained with their talents, from hand painted t-shirt to scrap metal models.
I wanted to do the same & jump out from the office system.
I believe life can be more exciting....... if I can accept an uncertainty.
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In The Red Sculpture Album (#1-11) the artists themselves, Gilbert & George, are the work of art. The album derives directly from their performances, in which they gave a stilted rendition of the English music hall anthem "Underneath the Arches." The performance entitled Singing Sculpture is on view in Gallery 1.
Their art is rooted in paradox. The deliberately plain quality of their dress has anonymous clerical overtones, and in its leveling of individuality, contrasts sharply with the brilliant red of their faces and hands. Their positions, changing from image to image, create the impression of an impassive ritual or dance. Somehow, like Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, they contrive to be ludicrous and decorous at the same time. They are "living sculptures," making art by being art.
In their statements Gilbert & George have constantly emphasized dedication to their task, exclaiming in mock piety, "We would like to say to you, 'Art, how happy we are to be your sculptors. Oh, Art, please let us relax with you. To be with Art is all we ask.' "


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Well, both of my hives seem to building lots of comb, but I still learning how to move the bars while detecting any brace comb that needs to be cut first.
I pulled a large piece off this morning. ugh. And I totally know what Micheal Bush was talking about....crossed comb sucks! And it was because I hung the queen cage.
I am gonna have a bear of a time straightening it out and I could use some tips for working with very fresh (new) comb.


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I thought it was too late in the year for a split. I guess I was wrong cause the bees from my strongest hive swarmed today.
The girls went up 80ft to a limb in a gum tree. To retrieve the swarm I had to shoot out a 6 inch diameter limb.
I want to thank everyone on the forum for the information they share. This is my first year beekeeping I wouldn't have known what to do. This swarm was about the size of a basketball.


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Hello Wendy and welcome from Australia.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Hello Wendy and welcome from Australia.
Hi and welcome from Fort Myers, FL
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Wow! Such a warm welcome...Thanks, Ladies!
I did get January's blocks posted to an album called blocks in my albums, btw.
Hi Wendy...I am also in East Texas, close to Palestine. There's a nice quilt shop there called Sew What. Good luck with your quilts, it's a fantastic past time.
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Association of Friends
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The Gesellschaft der Freunde (Association of Friends) of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. has served the Kunstsammlung since 1968. The scope of the Association's activities are nowhere characterized with greater clarity than in its charter: its mission is to provide conceptual and material support to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and in particular to facilitate the expansion of the permanent collection. Over the years, the society has made it possible for the Kunstsammlung to acquire a number of otherwise unattainable works.
In order to do justice to the growing demands faced by the Kunstsammlung, whose activities are distributed now between three different addresses (the K20 Grabbeplatz, the K21 Ständehaus, and the Schmela Haus), the Association requires a constantly growing number of "friends" who are prepared to lend conceptual and material support to an institution which is today one of the most highly regarded museums of modern and contemporary art internationally.
Understandably, people living outside of Düsseldorf tend to identify primarily with the museums located in their own towns. Residents of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, however, should be mindful of the fact that the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is also "their" museum, which is to say: it is not a Düsseldorf museum per se, but instead a regional art institution – a "Staatsgalerie". There are any number of good reasons to become a member of the Association of Friends of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. A detailed information brochure is available by request from the secretariat of the Association.
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For centuries, elephants have captured our admiration and imaginations, and it's easy to see why. The planet's largest land animals can stand up to 10 feet tall and weigh up to 13,200 pounds. But they're not just about brawn.
With their complex brains, elephants are incredibly clever and sensitive: caring for their families and capable of remembering faraway places and old pals. In fact, when elephants spot friends, they often show affection by wrapping their trunks together or resting them on each other's foreheads.
Trunks come in handy for more than just greeting. (An elephant trunk has tens of thousands of muscles; the entire human body has fewer than 650). For instance, elephant babies suck their trunks for comfort, just as human babies suck their thumbs. Trunks are also handy for reaching high hanging food.
And chewing is no problem for these herbivores! Elephants have back teeth the size of small bricks and, of course, elongated incisor teeth called tusks. They use tusks to carry things, pull bark off trees, clear paths, dig for roots and water, fight enemies and impress other elephants. Unfortunately, it's those amazing tusks that put elephants' lives at risk. The desire for tusk ivory is the reason so many elephants have been slaughtered.
White Gold
From the days of ancient Egypt and Rome, elephant tusk ivory has been a valuable commodity. More recently, it's been used to make billiard balls, piano keys, and decorative ornaments. In order to get the ivory, elephants are killed and their tusks are sawed off. In 1979, there were an estimated 1.3 million elephants in Africa. By 2007 that number had dropped to between 472,000 and 690,000.
Today, in many parts of the world, ivory or "white gold" remains a symbol of wealth and status, especially in Asia. With the spending power of a growing middle class in countries such as China, the demand for illegal ivory is increasing. You can read about this problem-and what conservationists are doing to help-in the April 19 issue of TIME For Kids.
A Way You Can Help
Did you know these startling facts about ivory? Seven out of 10 people in China don't know it comes from a dead elephant? Forty percent of people in the United Kingdom don't think elephants need to be harmed to take their tusks. And the United States is still the second largest market in the world for elephant ivory.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare, or IFAW, is working with governments and communities to help stop this illegal trade in tusks-and to conserve these magnificent animals in the wild in Africa and Asia. Part of the effort involves education. If more people knew that every piece of ivory comes from a dead elephant, fewer people might want to buy ivory products. And less demand for ivory means more elephants will survive.
This is where you come in. Elephants communicate by grunting, whistling, snorting, bellowing, rumbling, trumpeting and stomping. Some of these sounds may travel 20 miles or more through the ground. Now's your chance to be heard around the world and help elephants!
What would you say to convince people not to buy ivory? How would you tell them that the desire for tusks leads to the killing of thousands of elephants? Tell us your idea in 100 words or less and send it to our mailbox firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll post a few ideas in the coming months.
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Are you looking to do more for the overall well-being of the planet? Encourage friends and family to take part in the CBD Green Wave, a global campaign to educate children and youth about biodiversity. Visit greenwave.cbd.int/en/about-greenwave.
Links to Lesson Plans, Activities, and IFAW's Site.
When an elephant looks in the mirror it knows that it's seeing itself. Most animals can't do that. These lesson plans and links can help you see an elephant hero the next time you look in the mirror!
For teachers: Elephants Never Forget Teaching Guide and Lessons, Elementary Edition
For students: "More Space, Please!" and "Ready to Write...About Elephants", student worksheet
For classroom viewing: "Elephants Never Forget" video (20 minutes)
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Crow Wing County receives Mark of Excellence Award
The Crow Wing County Public Health Immunization Program received the Mark of Excellence Award from the Minnesota Department of Health on July 29.
The award recognized Crow Wing County for meeting the standards set for influenza clinics located in outreach settings.
As part of the program, the Minnesota Department of Health provided training and site visits to assure that vaccines provided outside of regular clinic settings were handled and administered according to best practices.
Crow Wing County met or exceeded standards for storage, handling and transportation policies, and documentation practices.


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Governor Brian Schweitzer Announces 2009 Recipients of the Governor's Awards for Excellence in Performance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 21, 2009
Contact Sheryl Olson, (406)444-3307
(Helena) Governor Brian Schweitzer and Lt. Governor John Bohlinger announced the 2009 recipients of the Governor's Award for Excellence in Performance at a ceremony today at the Great Northern Hotel in Helena.
In its 20th year, the awards program is a way to publicly recognize outstanding state employees. "I am always honored to have this chance to recognize some of our finest state employees," said Governor Brian Schweitzer. "These awards encourage excellence and provide outstanding role models for others. Employees from 26 Montana communities are getting recognized today. Every one of these communities should be proud to have these workers in your town."
The 2009 award winners, listed by agency, are listed below. For a list of employees from each community and for the text of their award, go to Award Recipients by Location.
Award Recipients By Agency
Administration - Denise Adamson, Perry Donnafield, Chris Dubois, Audrey Hinman, Ira Miller, David Paton, Tiffany Reeves, Rennan Rieke, Bethany Stephenson, Linda Davis, Peggy Davis, and Lance Zanto
Agriculture - Lee Boyer, Debbie Music, Gene Schwantes, Kathy Seacat
Commerce - Bill Hoffmann, Gary Morehouse, Karyl Tobel
Commission of Political Practices - Kym Trujillo
Commissioner of Higher Education - Sarah Elkins and Bill Macgregor
Corrections - Mary Greene, Dan Kissner, Patrick Smith, Kelly Churchill, John Daugherty, Dewey Hallk, Ramya Hallimysore, Kenny Kyler, Mike Hausler, Mark Johnson, Leo La Salle, Kurt Lewis, John Monson III, Jason Nelson, Anita Pisarskim Sherri Row, Les Snovelle, Jon Straughn, Ted Ward, Darrell Wilcox
Environmental Quality - Bill Kirley, Jeff Blend, Greg Hallsten, Nancy Johnson, Craig Jones, Tom Ring
Fish, Wildlife and Parks - Ellen Bryson, Ryan Lott, Brad Tribby
Governor's Office - Mark Bruno, Shawn Graham, John Noble, Jayson O'Neill, Neil Squires
Justice - Vicki Taborsky., Lee Cornell, Kevin Klostermeier, Gary Seder, Ross Magnuson, Jeff Nedens. Lisa South
Labor and Industry - David Scrimm, Tim Lloyd, Keith Reimund, Mark Cadwallader, Frank Gonzalez, Jerry Keck, Tonya McCormack, Dore Schwinden, Mike Smith
Livestock - Bill Blankenship, Wayne Shipp
Military Affairs - Curt Aasved, Wayne Carlson, Kurt Holmlund, Justin Murray, Nick Newlon, June Rychalski
Montana Arts Council - Cindy Kittredge
Montana Historical Society - Glenda Bradshaw
Montana State Fund - Shari Huth
Montana State Library - Gerry Daumiller, Jeff Dobb, Steve Jeffery, Duane Lund, Tom Marino, Diane Papineau
Natural Resources and Conservation - Pam Smith
Office of Public Instruction - Chris Emerson
Public Health and Human Services - Mary Eve Kulawik, Kelly Moorse, Darla Tenter, Heather Beck, Stacy Campbell, Chris Hettinger, Linda Kjorstad, Lisa Murphy, Chauntel Lucier, Steve Allen, Susan Collis, Kathy Corrigan, Angela DeMars, Rosetta Duke, Sarah Elledge, Tami Flotre, Shana Hammer, Tammy Harmon, Lisa Hill, Susan Holm, Martha Kassel, Christi Lai, James Layton, Kathy Lockhart, Nola Luckey, Florence McIntosh, Tiffany Miller, Lisa Mleczewski, Donna Norris, Jenny Penttila, Melinda Retter, Shirley Roberts, Paula Standon, Kristen Vander-Meyden, Jill Vessar, Julie Woody, Deborah Lane, Debra Stipcich, Brittanny Black, Bridgette Guerin, Patti Duezabou, Cheryl Taylor Menard, Wanda Stout, Michelle Twiford
Public Service Commission - Gary Duncan, Jim Paine
Revenue - John Morrow, Cynthia Piearson, Jennifer Weigand
School for the Deaf and Blind - Carol Clayton-Bye, Jim Kelly, Dessica Wilson
Secretary of State's Office - Lisa Thompson
State Auditor's Office - Jill Sark, Helen Taffs, Patcharin Williams
Transportation - Christopher DeVerniero, Angie Gifford, Tracy Halubka, Pat Lane, Mike Murolo, Joan Scott, Jack Sides, Lorrin Wallace, Jack Walsh, David Warner, Joe Williams, Bob Morgan, Darrell Rosencranz, Ed Beaudette, Fred Bente, Celia Clearwood, Brent McCann, Maura Procter, Stefan Streeter, Don Vanica, Gary Berg, Beth Doran, John Huber, Mick Johnson, Martin Olson, Ed Toavs, George Wardell, Doug Wilmot, John Yeoman
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Looking at hte protocals, it does seem Chan has a wider spread in PCS
SS - 7.75 to 9.25
Transitions - 7.25 to 9
Performance 7 to 9
Choreography 8 to 9.25
Interpt - 8.25 to 9.
Overall they're still high, but it's interesting that some of the judges don't quite buy the "Patrick Chan has skating skills give him high PCS" kool aid. Still is he really 10 points better in PCS than Kozuka? I will grant them five, but 10 seems a bit excessive.
At least, this time Patrick was the clear winner. I do find his score to be a joke when you compare his program with Takahashi's program from 2008.
I think there was only one judge who gave Chan low PCS scores. (the first one)
PCS scores from other judges were kind of even.
I agree, Patrick was blah but so was everyone else. Even Florent with his bumps and grinds didn't get to me. It was Oda's to lose and he did. A clean program continues to elude Tomas. Takahiko was just so weariess. I hope Dai was skating with an injury because if not he just laid down 2 poor routines. No one exploded into greatness.
It seemed to me that all the boys had jump landing troubles. That's bad because the jump landings are a selling point.
There's a lot of work ahead of them if they intend to be competitive at Worlds. We have not seen others in the fierce battle: Joubert; Contesti; Brezina, Abbott.
The Quad won't win a competition but it is a staple in Men's competition. clean jump landings are a must too.
From all the japanese Dai out of podium, I would never have guessed it. Evangeline count me in for the goat party at Worlds.
well deserved win for Chan, I think this was his best skate of the season so far, but he could have won with less score for sure, he put his hands down (in axel?)and doubled his salcow, his toe was tight in landing, I dont get much of his own personality (thats subjective) in the choreo, I see the busy choreo jus and someone rushing through it to complete it, and by that he reached Takahashi's world record in Lp that was a great performance back then, I would think with this score the skate must have been great and inspiring if anything else. I m trying to be objective but after this score Oda could never have won even with the quad landed. I think Chan and not Dai is the new dominant figure, if he doesnt mess bad he wins. Ah well I wouldnt mind that if I enjoyed him more!
The rest needed to skate 150% perfect, I will never think Takahashi is overscored, his marks were fine and they get to earth if he is not that good, he messed and came last in fs..
Takahiko medaled at least, what a skater
from a dai fan, chan is amazing. looks like he covered the ice in 4 strokes. still want to see this program clean. he made me like phantom (or was that davis and white last season?).
i hope dai is ok. i'm worried about his health. just hope he skates a program he's happy with at worlds in japan.
Patrick really deserved this win but...THAT SCORE??? 87 (!!!!!!) for PCS for that program??? more than lambiel???? NO WAY!!
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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide is a great book about the most commonly used open-source servlet/JSP container. Tomcat is the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. Tomcat is really powerful and flexible, but you really need a good book to figure out how to integrate Tomcat with Apache, how to set load-balancers, clustering, etc on all of the major platforms, including Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X.This is where Tomcat: The Definitive Guide comes in. This really well written book makes it easy to follow for the developer as well as non-developer admin. The book starts with an introduction of Tomcat (v4.0) where you learn how to stop/start the server, learn about the directory structure, and learn to modify the start/stop scripts as well as the configuration settings. I really like the treatment given to security, realms and JAAS in the second chapter with more details in the sixth chapter. Most books of this type will leave out security and this book deals with it in the second chapter. Kudos to the authors for that.I also really like the chapter on performance tuning that deals with real-world applications. The chapter on integration with the Apache webserver is really well written. Most people that deploy Tomcat in production will want to put Apache webserver in front of Tomcat to serve up static content like html and images while letting Tomcat handle servlets and JSPs. Most of the documentation about this Apache httpd ? Tomcat integration on the Internet deals with v1.3 of Apache httpd. However, the book deals with Apache 2.0, which is another plus for the book.I can go on and on - If you are using Tomcat, planning on using Tomcat or just want to learn more about the server, this book will provide you with all of the information to help harness Tomcat's power and wealth of features. I would highly recommend this book as a companion to any servlet/JSP programming book.--Vinny Carpenter
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I have read Top Ten Tomcat Configuration Tips and love it,I am reading the book and hope to translate it from English into Chinese.
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In short, this book provides comprehensive instructions for almost anyone wanting to deploy the TOMCAT Server. This book is a good starting place for programmers or admins who expect to quickly understand basic concepts.Chapter-by-chapter the book presents new concepts accompanied by examples and descriptions for installing, configuring, and some debugging of the servlet engine. While the book tends to be Unix-centric, information for other Operating Environments is provided. Each successive chapter tends to expand on the previous chapter increasing the reader's knowledge along the way. It adequately serves as an introduction to Tomcat but it is also a good book to keep around as a technical administrative reference.The book provides specific information on Tomcat interfaces and components through a "user guide" type format. For example, information is presented for Tomcat's setup, configuration files, environment variables, servlets and JSP's, JDBC, SSL and much more. What this book is not is a programmer guide but is a good how-to for programmers wanting to administer the server. Examples are provided for using and running Tomcat as a stand-alone web server. In summary, this book is a success in explaining the relatively technical concepts of Tomcat and also provides very useful and relevant information about Tomcat features.
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Why a developper should read this book?I'm reading the book for administration purprose but as a developper I'm learning very exciting things anyway.To get an idea, the read this : http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/tomcat_tips.html
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Until I bought this book I had an agreement with Tomcat. Tomcat would serve my servlets like it was supposed to and I wouldn't try to pull any stunts. If I ran into something that wasn't working because of some setting or another in Tomcat, I avoided it. Now that I have this book, the agreement is off. This book is chock full of neat and useful tricks with some excellent examples. The book is very well written in true O'Reilly style (They even found a way to use the word "laconic" which I have never seen used in a computer book before). It illuminated various things I was unaware of, such as:How to run the web based Tomcat admin application Tomcat restart issues - this was especially interesting and gets to the heart of what java and tomcat really are.How to enable Tomcat's SSI servlet so that it will use your existing server-side includes. The book has lots of hints of the " I know how to do this in Apache httpd, but how do I do it in Tomcat ?" variety. This is in addition to an entire chapter devoted to connecting Tomcat to Apache httpd. The subject of a java web server will automatically bleed over into the subjects of Java and Unix and the book does a great job exposing the timid to Unix and Java concepts that help in understanding these technologies. For example, the book gives detailed instructions for setting up a chroot jail on a Unix type system. I read the chapter on security several times because it is really foundational. It gets at the excellent security abilities of Java and explains them better than I have seen them explained elsewhere. It also gives the basics of possible vulnerabilities of any web application. The stuff in this section applies broadly to any Servlet container, but has a lot of specifics for Tomcat. Obviously, most of the stuff in the book is available from the Java, Unix, or Tomcat documentation, but the book acts as a guide, pointing out key things in the documentation. The only limitation of the book that I could tell was that the authors are exclusively from a Unix background. This has the result of making the book slanted towards Linux/Unix. There are a couple of things that the authors show how to do on Unix but leave the impression that there is no way to do it on Windows. For example they say, "On Unix type operating systems, run netstat from the command line to see the open ports." You can do this on Windows as well. They also give a Unix shell script that organizes log files so that they look like Apache httpd log files. It would have been nice to offer one for windows as well or at least give a hint for how to do so. A lot of people use Tomcat on windows as a development environment and they should not be ignored. In summary, the book succeeds in both broad concepts that deal with running any java web server and in exposing the finer details of Tomcat in particular. Another reviewer asked if this was really "Vital Information for Tomcat Programmers and Administrators" as the subtitle says. I would say yes. You get details of programming Tomcat through the configuration files and crucial details for how Tomcat settings affects how your servlets behave. Perhaps they are asking about messing around with the source code of Tomcat? Then no, it is not about programming Tomcat in that sense. Reviewed by Tim McGuire
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well, I just perused the book yesterday at the book shop. The impression i got was that even though it claims that the book is for "Programmers", it looks more geared towards sys admins. Not sure if am right. Would you (authors) recommend this book for java "developers"? Does tomcat have apis that developers can use? / do we write web applications as we normally do? ( as per sun servlet / jsp spec). There were no sample java code snippets anywhere.If possible please tell us how a developer w'd benefit from this book.thanks!
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posted at 7:53 pm on May 24, 2011 by Allahpundit
Ah, now his "2008" gaffe from earlier today is starting to make more sense. Turns out … he really is brain-damaged.
No, I kid. I think he, like Frank Drebin, simply doesn't believe in silly ideas like having queens:
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But the president wasn't done speaking.
"The vitality –" the president said before the orchestra began…
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Thanks guys. I found that the weight of the blaster had caused the arms to sag down a little, so I positioned them higher again. This seems to be a drawback to using a foam mannequin. Everything else about it works great, just the weight of the gauntlets and the blaster are a little problem.
Here's where I'm at with the flamethrower. I think it's coming along nicely and will have only cost me about $5 when I'm done. There's a whole lot of guesswork going on here. I can give some details on how I'm making it if anyone is interested.
Nice work, Matty! Are you using wood for all the block shapes?
Big thanks to Necronaut for kindly sending me some of his leftover flamethrower bits. What a great guy. These resin pieces are making my life easier, and for that I am very thankful.
Here's where I'm at tonight. I think I almost have this thing done. I'm working off of what I can make out in reference photos, not trying to emulate any of the kit flamethrowers.
Looking good so far, dude!
Amazing work MattyMatt, its been fun seeing your build come together.
Looks sharp!
Awesome craftsmanship here! Making me want to turn ESB
I just read this entire thread, and am blown away by the epic scratch builds and mods put into this display. You should get out and troop it sometime, and show off all your hard work!
I didn't think it was possible to make my gauntlets look THAT **** good! Great job my man, keep up the great work and keep those pics coming!
This is an epic suit Matt, great job.
Going to start work on the holster I got from Kcr7pr. This is going to need a lot of smoothing and filling. A lot.
I would like to cut the knife pocket off, but because of the way these are molded it's impossible. You would end up with just a big whole in the front of the holster. Not a big deal, just would have been cool to cut it off.
Oh, sorry Matt, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
So I found an old pic of my helmet when I first started working on it. I'm not actually done yet, still need to install the calc board and the visor (just duct taped in). The rangefinder is just a big hunk of resin, but I tried to add some detail with led's and a hand shaped plexiglass lens. I'm also missing some details like the light green marks under the killstripes. This was all painted by eye, no templates or stencils. One of these days I'll fix some of the stuff that doesn't look quite right and finish it up.
It looks absolutely lovely.
helmet looks great! the detail is perfect!
Outstanding Matt!!