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Originally posted on Fox Sports Arizona | Last updated 2/27/13
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. After Brandon McCarthy took a line drive to the head last Sept. 5, his wife, Amanda, thought his career was over. She admitted as much Wednesday at Salt River Fields. That thought, though, never crossed McCarthy's mind, and he couldn't recall if his wife had ever brought it up to him. "She might have, and I feel like I probably told her to shut up," McCarthy joked. "It really wasnt something I was going to hear from anybody else." McCarthy returned to the mound Wednesday for the first time since that line drive struck his head, causing an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture that required emergency surgery. In his unofficial D-backs debut, McCarthy pitched two innings and gave up a run on three hits and four strikeouts. In the first inning, he struck out Reds hitters Joey Votto, Billy Hamilton and Ryan Ludwick. But the results were not the story Wednesday. It was just 175 days ago McCarthy was on the mound for the Athletics, facing Angels shortstop Erick Aybar when the comeback line drive knocked him to the ground. He was rushed that night to California Pacific Medical Campus in San Francisco for surgery. McCarthy spent the next six days in the hospital, getting discharged Sept. 11, and spent more time than usual away from his training regime. That he is back already seems incredible, but as anticipated a return as it was, McCarthy downplays the whole thing. "I'm glad this one's out of the way so I don't have to hear about it anymore," McCarthy said. "I want it to be a footnote at best. That's just it. It's something that happened, remember when, something that was scarier for fans and my family than anyone else." Amanda McCarthy wasn't shy about sharing those feelings Wednesday, saying she was certainly more nervous than her husband as she watched from the seats behind home plate. "I'm not a very nervous person in general when he pitches, but obviously this was a unique situation," Amanda McCarthy said. "When that one came back straight and went into center, I thought he was going to hit the deck, because I did. But he looks good, and I know that he knew what he was doing and he wouldn't get out there if he felt uncomfortable." The hit to which she referred was no screaming line drive, rather a single over McCarthy's head in the first inning, but the sentiment remains the same. Everyone, including team officials, wondered if McCarthy had a mental hurdle to clear in getting back on the mound. "We watched the first time when he was throwing live, just kind of watching to see if he was flinching or anything," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said after his team lost to the Reds 14-6 on Wednesday. "We never saw any of that." The D-backs also felt confident enough that McCarthy was issue-free to sign him to a two-year, 16 million deal this offseason but not before doing their homework. McCarthy had been cleared by concussion specialists in Pittsburgh a month earlier, which was probably later than he would have liked. McCarthy said Wednesday he wanted to return for the A's postseason run. His body may not have been ready to pitch again, but his mind was. Many members of the media have tried to coax a story of struggle and perseverance out of McCarthy this spring, but perhaps in another attempt to downplay the ordeal, he insists his comeback is not the amazing feat it might seem. "I've really been trying to focus outside of it, trying to treat this like I gave up a game-winning home run or something," McCarthy said. "It's an event that sucked, but I can't do anything to fix it. ... If it's on the front of your mind then you're worrying about it, you're letting it kind of take over." McCarthy accepts that he'll always be remembered for the incident and even makes light of it. The profile picture currently featured on his Twitter page shows him lying on the mound stunned from the hit and a reference to the movie Titanic. What McCarthy won't accept is dealing with the incident every time he takes the mound. He says felt no added nervousness or fear Wednesday and didn't expect to, perhaps because he moved on from the whole thing as quickly as possible. McCarthy seemed most comfortable after the start talking about pitching. He was happy with his command and rhythm. He felt good about his game face. He's further along than he expected this early in spring. And he has to be elated to turn the page even further on his injury. "If I was going to retire, then I was going to retire and I could be scared of the ball, I could do whatever," McCarthy said. "If I was going to come back and everything was going to be normal then there was no thinking about it, no dwelling on it. "For me, it cant get really more behind it than it is." NOTES Outfielder Gerardo Parra was a late scratch from Wednesday's game due to what Gibson described as minor arm soreness, which shouldn't keep him out of the lineup again. Adam Eaton replaced him in the lineup. ... Miguel Montero returned to the lineup Wednesday after missing two straight games due to a swollen thumb.
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July 2: Calcutta boy Arjun Atwal has a phone call from a neighbour to thank for his showing at the AT&T National golf tournament in Pennsylvania, where he shared the lead with two others after yesterdays first round.
Not a neighbour in the Bengal capital, where the 37-year-old lived for years and learnt his golf, but one in Isleworth, Florida. A man who goes by the name of Tiger Woods and who used his clout with the tournament sponsors to earn Atwal the right to play the event, a limited field tourney with a $6 million purse.
Woods and Atwal have known each other well for years they have regularly practised together at Isleworth since the Indian moved into the neighbourhood in 2005.
They get along very well. Their discussions are generally based on their game the grass on the course, their putting
. The understanding has grown over the years, Atwals father Bindi told The Telegraph from Orlando.
The two golfer friends had been discussing schedules two weeks ago at the US Open when Woods asked why Atwal was not playing in the AT&T. Atwal, who has won 10 times around the world and played in more than 100 PGA Tour events, said he did not have the status to get in.
Woods pressed him and asked if he had written a letter to the tournament asking for an exemption an arrangement under which the title sponsor of a PGA Tour event can allow a few players into the tournament.
When Atwal said No, Woods said he would try to get him in the tournament if one of the players with an exemption decided not to play.
And then he called me last week and told me I was in, Atwal said.
On Thursday, the Indian outshone his more famous practice-round partner, shooting a four-under-par 66 to tie for the lead at Aronimink Golf Club. Woods, the defending champion, struggled with his putting and finished at three-over-par 73, tied for 81st in the 120-player field.
Arjun did call yesterday, Bindi said. He has been hitting the ball very well; Hes got his swing back and thats encouraging.
Atwal, the first Indian golfer to win a European Tour Order of Merit event, said he was surprised at his showing in Pennsylvania after his poor form last week in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he had hit the ball really bad and finished tied for 64th.
I didnt know what to expect, said Atwal, who had injured his shoulders earlier this year. But it was a bit of a surprise.
Atwal said he no longer engaged in the futility of trying to compare his game to Woodss, and that the American had helped him out whenever he asked.
If I have any questions about the short game or whatever it is, Atwal said, hes always been there.
Bindi said it was the American champions down-to-earth nature that struck him the most, and recalled meeting Woods over lunch during this years US Open.
I invited Tiger to come to India. He promptly turned towards Arjun and said, Ask him. Arjun promptly quipped that in that case, his popularity back home would be threatened and we all shared a good laugh.
On Thursday, Atwal holed a key 15-footer on the last hole, a stroke that would probably have clipped Woods for a few dollars in a practice round, assuming the two play for money.
Asked if they play for anything, Atwal demurred. No comment, he said, smiling. All I can say is I owe him a little bit right now.
If he keeps playing the way he started, he will have plenty of cash to pay up.

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Kissinger On China
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser talks about his secret trips to China under President Nixon and his new book, On China, examining Chinese foreign policy.
Did the secret trips work?
Kissinger maintains that they were successful in terms of giving the U.S. negotiating leverage during the Cold War.
Within about six weeks of the first trip to China the Soviet Union's demeanor towards the United States changed totally, partly because they now wanted to isolate China and try to get into a position in which they had better access in Washington, and that put us into the situation where we could conduct foreign policy with two communist super policies in such a way that we were closer to each of them than to each other.
Was Kissinger too soft on China?
Kissinger has critics who say his negotiations with China legitimized a regime that killed tens of millions of its own people. Kissinger dismissed this notion, saying that it comes from people who have changed their tune with forty years of retrospect.
The general criticism made of the Nixon administration was that its foreign policy was too tough, not that it was too soft. Secondly the foreign policy of the Nixon administration was systematically to undermine the satellite orbit...There was not one dramatic speech saying 'tear down the wall' but there was no question that we were systematically seeking to weaken the Soviet position.
China needed to be brought into the international system if one was going to have progress towards peace, Kissinger said. He added that idea of adding a confrontation with China to a crisis in Vietnam is something that's easy to say in 2011, but it was not thoughtful policy then.
Should the U.S. fear China now?
Kissinger said China is developing economically in an extraordinary way, but also has enormous domestic problems.
We should certainly understand that China has the potential to aspire to the dominance of Asia. We also should attempt to bring about a situation in which this does not lead to another series of conflicts. But we should certainly be aware of the potential of China and understand that we are in a competitive situation.
It's a strange dilemma that China owns so much U.S. debt, Kissinger said. But the U.S. also holds a lot of power in the situation, he said, because if China tries to exploit their position of creditor they will lose the export markets from which their advantage arises.
K's Advice for elected officials
I basically believe that societies grow and become great not by their conflicts but by their reconciliations. And I'm hoping that at some point the leadership of both parties will agree not just on what concessions they need to make but what picture of America they want to support. Whether that takes another Presidential election or two, but at the end of the day that's what America needs to come to.
Does competition from China mean the U.S. middle class is doomed to shrink?
Kissinger said he hopes not, but we shouldn't blame everything on China either. He says there's a fundamental difference in the board game of the world now than there was at the end of WWII, or even at the end of the 20th century.
We have to learn which problems are caused by us and which problems are caused by others. If we blame everything on others then we think we can just sit back and let some kind of conflict take care of it. I think China is a problem but it isn't China alone. It is the rise of countries like India, Brazil, China, it's that the underrepresented countries are beginning to represent a greater market in the world.
He said the U.S. needs to re-industrialize, and the decline of our industrial base will potentially lead to a jobless recovery.
The real art of foreign policy
Kissinger says the real skill is to find the balance between equilibrium and justice and legitimacy. Power has a role and a sense of justice has a role, but one shouldn't go too far in either direction.
As a student of history, as someone who lived in a dictatorship and therefore has no desire to see a dictatorship anywhere, who lived in a dictatorship as a persecuted minority, my study of history tells me this: You can not have peace in the world without a certain equilibrium of power. Because if you don't have equilibrium then the ruthless and powerful can do whatever they want. Secondly, you cannot have equilibrium unless most people feel that the arrangements are just, because otherwise they have no interest in sustaining it.
The problem with performing the art of foreign policy, Kissinger said, is that no one feels that you're completely on their side. Kissinger claims he has spent his life trying to promote peace, even as he has been viciously attacked by the left and the right.


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British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.
With its compelling plot and beguiling central mystery, Kate Summerscale's 2008 historical memoir, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, was as thrilling to read as the latest novel from leading crime writers such as Ian Rankin or P.D. James.
Chronicling the infamous unsolved murder of 3-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House in rural Wiltshire in 1860, it propelled the 47-year-old former journalist into the best-seller lists and was later adapted by ITV into a one-off drama, starring Paddy Considine as the titular Scotland Yard Detective Inspector, described as "a real-life Sherlock Holmes".
"What I tried to do is to make sure all the facts were properly sourced and true but by choosing a particular shape you can give it a certain kind of momentum, pace or interpretation," says Summerscale. "The reason for doing that was that I like reading fiction and I like books that have that kind of narrative tension. But what drew me to the story in the first place was that I realised as I was researching it that it actually echoed and refigured the shape of so much of the fiction I enjoy. It was natural that I should give it that structure because part of what the story is about for me is how this real event fed into the beginnings of detective fiction and detective heroes."
Summerscale has adopted a similar approach for her latest book, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, which chronicles the sensational events that lead to the groundbreaking divorce of Isabella and Henry Robinson in June 1858, six months after the establishment of the new Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.
"It was a time when the establishment was trying to set out the rules for marriage and how you could or could not prove that somebody had mistreated you within a marriage," explains Summerscale. "It was the beginning of what we now think of as what the point of marriage is, what the limits of it are, and what abuses can occur within it that can lead to divorce.
"As a way of formulating these stories of marital discord and how they were filtered out to the public and interpreted, it was a kind of defining moment. There's also a direct route to how we now think about sexuality, monogamy and betrayal and how they were trying to set it out and define it then."
According to Summerscale, the sordid breakdown of Isabella and Henry's relationship resembles the plot of one of the literary melodramas of the day.
"What drew me to this story was that it seemed like some scenes from a slightly twisted Victorian novel," she says. "It slightly undermines your expectations as it surprises and startles you but it's also a very recognisable situation. The scene where Henry comes across his wife in her bedroom deliriously murmuring the names of other men and then he goes to her desk and reads her diary, which he ends up using against her, seemed like the really pivotal moment in a novel, as their world ended up being blown apart."
Frustrated by her loveless marriage, Isabella had sought solace in the pages of her journal, allowing her imagination to run away with her as she luridly lived out her infatuation with the debonaire Edward Lane. This diary was extensively quoted in court and salaciously reprinted in the newspapers. Summerscale admits that more than a century and a half later she, too, has violated Isabella's privacy.
"I was aware while I was writing the book that there is an ironic parallel between the kinds of intrusion I'm making and the very brutal appropriation of her story that her husband made when he read the diary and stole it," she says.
"In a way, I've also stolen her story and used it for my own ends, but I like to think my ends are less hostile than his. I also feel I have a responsibility to be fair to her. While the diary turned out to be the ruin of her, as her reputation was destroyed and she lost access to her children, it's her story we have now access to and not her husband's."
Having kept a diary as a teenager herself, Summerscale believes Isabella's would not have presented an accurate portrait of her true character. "They only show certain aspects of ourselves," she says. "Part of my responsibility to her was to remember that."
With the rise of social media, Isabella's experience is also very relevant today, she says. "When we write stuff on Facebook, Twitter or different blogs, it's so easy to cross that line between the private and the public and to forget who the audience is now and in the future. There's a sense that we haven't learnt the rules yet now that these boundaries have been broken down."
Just as Mr Whicher's investigations at Road Hill House inspired authors like Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, the pivotal role that her diary played in Henry and Isabella's lives would later be reflected in fiction.
"There was a real craze and fascination with diaries. Wilkie Collins used diaries in his fiction during the 1850s and in The Woman in White, which was published in 1862, two years after the Robinsons' divorce case. There's a scene featuring a diary being discovered by a man, who is the woman's enemy, while she was lying in bed with a fever."
After exploring the 19th century in both The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Summerscale is planning to tackle a different era in her next book. "I haven't started work on anything yet but the things I'm thinking of are not Victorian," she says.
"I do feel like it's a very rich period for me but it's probably not the only rich period, so I might write about another time."
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace (Bloomsbury $36.99) is out now.


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|3,250 sq. ft.
|Property type
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|7 nights
**Note: The home will actually sleep 17 or more. However, the WaterColor Homeowners Association has asked us to limit occupancy to 14. Moreover, based on personal experience, I think about 13 (including children) is the ideal maximum number of people anyway if you want a relaxing vacation.
**Only 25% deposit due at time of booking if more than 30 days in advance. Balance due 30 days before arrival.
**If the property is damaged, and the damage exceeds $100, the guest who books the reservation is liable for all amounts above $100.
Vacationing in WaterColor, Florida with a large family or multiple families? If you have five-star tastes, the hotel bill can mount quickly. So why pay for multiple hotel rooms at the Water Color Resort & Inn when you can stay in a luxurious WaterColor home for less than the cost of just one expensive hotel room?
These were the thoughts that ran through our minds as we vacationed in the WaterColor/Seaside area for several years with our small children. But once we discovered that we could rent a large multi-million dollar home in WaterColor with gourmet kitchens, fireplaces, multiple bedrooms, and other luxury amenities, we were hooked. We never booked another hotel room in the WaterColor area again.
Finally, in 2011, we decided to take the plunge and buy the vacation house of our dreams. We live in Louisville, Kentucky, but this truly is our home away from home. And rather than allow a property management company to rent our home to anyone who can afford the rates, we hope to attract guests who will treat our home with the same degree of care and respect that they exercise in their own homes.
Or are you looking for a luxurious experience in the WaterColor/Seaside area that you just can't find by renting a hotel room?
Our dream vacation house is located at 36 Spartina Circle, in the heart of the Camp WaterColor district. And when we aren't staying in our WaterColor dream house, we want you to enjoy it as much as we do. That's why we've decided to rent our home.
Our WaterColor home has 4 full bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in the "main house" plus a built-in twin day bed adjacent to the upstairs master. But we also have a "carriage house" that works as the perfect solution for in-laws, grandparents or your nanny. The carriage house is a private studio apartment with a queen size bed, full bathroom, kitchenette, washer & dryer, mounted 32 inch flat panel tv, and lounging area.
Three bedrooms in the "main house" are equipped with 32 inch mounted televisions, full bathrooms, and king (2) or queen (1) beds . Each of the three bedrooms comfortably sleeps two adults per room.
The fourth bedroom is a very large "bunk room" with 4 built-in, QUEEN sized beds, each is equipped with its own individually mounted television. (The pictures don't even come close to capturing how roomy these beds are.) We've found that the kids love to stay in the bunk room (which very comfortably sleeps 8 adults or even more kids) with the other kids when we have multiple families vacationing with us.
This beautiful WaterColor home is located in the Camp WaterColor district and is literally a stone's throw to Camp WaterColor and right across the street from Camp WaterColor's soccer field and fishing pond. If it takes you longer than 45 seconds to walk to Camp WaterColor, then you're moving at a relaxed vacation pace. It's that close.
Camp WaterColor has its owned heated pool, as well as tons of activities for the kids. But if you want to spend your time on Santa Rosa Beach, the WaterColor Beach Club, or WaterColor's Town Center, you are just a short bike ride away. (And four adult bikes are included in your rental!!) Plus, if you ask someone to point you to the back way to Seaside, you'll be able to enjoy all that Seaside has to offer as well.
As soon as you walk through the front door of our WaterColor home, you will feel a sense of calm and relaxation as cool undertones of sea blue and green surround you. The living room features beautiful white leather sofas where you can relax while watching the 65 inch HD flat screen television mounted above the fireplace.
Off the living room is a screened in porch (one of four porches) where you will find yourself making smores in the outdoor fireplace or simply enjoying a quiet WaterColor evening. With four porch areas, busy moms or dads can sneak away for private time to check e-mail, surf the internet or even read a book.
The gourmet kitchen, with its soaring ceiling, is a chef's delight. Top-of-the-line stainless steel appliances, gas stove-top and stand alone icemaker finish out the kitchen. Adjacent to the kitchen and the dining area is a 1/2 bath, a laundry room with full washer and dryer, and a large closet for storing extra luggage.
Our WaterColor home features plenty of bedrooms to accommodate large groups. The first of two master bedrooms is located on the first floor. It features a king bed and mounted 32 inch flat screen television. It has a private bath with dual top vanity and beautiful and a spacious stand-up shower with multiple shower heads and a custom stone floor that naturally massages tired feet.
Also located on the first floor is a guest bedroom with a queen size bed, its own attached handicap accessible shower and a 32 inch mounted flat screen television.
Upstairs you will find the second master suite that features a king bed, 32 inch mounted flat screen television, private bath with tub and shower, and its own private screened in porch. Just outside the second floor master is a built-in day bed, perfect for a single adult or a child.
The second floor bunk room has four QUEEN beds (three of which have individually mounted televisions), large closet, in-room sink for nightly freshening and a full bath across the hall. Without a doubt, this room comfortably sleeps 8 adults –and even more children.
Another screened in porch with a ping-pong table and a home office with desk and wireless printer round out the second floor.
A spiral staircase leads to a soaring third floor "tower room" that is perfect for evening sunsets or for a kids tv and gaming headquarters. Not many WaterColor homes have the third floor tower feature, but it is one of our favorite places to hang out with the kids. And if you're really trying to find places for guests to sleep, the tower room has two built-in padded sitting areas that double as futon-like beds.
Finally, the carriage house or nanny quarters has a private entrance, queen bed, full bathroom, kitchenette, breakfast nook, lounging area with a futon and a washer and dryer.
To summarize the available sleeping arrangements:
1st floor master: 2
1st floor guestroom: 2
2nd floor master: 2
2nd floor bunk room: 8
2nd floor day bed: 1
Carriage house: 2, plus potentially another on a futon
Tower room: 2 (although, in all fairness, I personally don't think I would sleep there!)
Therefore, the house can sleep 17 guests comfortably, plus 2 more uncomfortably. But, in my experience, the optimal number rests around 13 guests.
Home Highlights:
- Parking for 3 cars
- 4 Adult Bikes
- TV's in every bedroom
- Charcoal grill
- Additional daybed on 2nd floor
- Gated outdoor area in between home and carriage house
- Ping Pong table
- Additional sleeping area in enclosed tower- 2 Bench beds
- DVD movie collection for rainy days
- We have some books and magazines but feel free to bring more!
WaterColor Neighborhood Highlights:
- Named the #1 family vacation destination in the U.S.
- A 499 acre coastal resort and residential community
- Ideal bike community perfect for family getaways
- Pristine sugar sand beaches
- 4 swimming pools
- Award-winning tennis facilities
- World Famous Beach Club
- Unparalleled beachside, poolside and lakeside dining
- Acres of parks, gardens and foot paths
- Nearby state parks and preserves
Located on Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast, WaterColor is a celebrated coastal resort and residential town that eases into its natural surroundings with a uniquely Southern simplicity and grace. It cultivates a true sense of place that is timeless, authentic and welcoming for everyone. Classic Southern homesteads stand beneath a clear blue sky, amid more than 499 acres of thoughtfully planned neighborhoods, parks and trails situated between the Gulf of Mexico and a natural 220-acre coastal dune lake. Featuring nearly 1,200 homes and homesites, as well as a 60-room boutique inn honored as the region's only AAA Four Diamond hotel, WaterColor offers a vibrant and colorful collection of the area's best amenities, activities and services.
Book this Florida beach rental for Spring Break now!!
Keywords: Home near Wood Fern Park , Camp Watercolor, Close to tennis courts, Close to Seaside, Close to beach, Close to Boathouse, Close to Town Center, Spring Break, 4th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, 30A Songwriters Festival
My name is Larry Jones and I live in Louisville, Kentucky, where I am the founding member of an 11 attorney law firm. I married my law school sweetheart, Allison, who now serves as a Kentucky Court of Appeals Judge.
After vacationing in the area with our small children for several years, we decided to buy our dream home in WaterColor.
We tried using a property management company for the first year, but it just didn't work out. Sure, the property management company rented it out for about 22 weeks in 2012, but we just weren't happy with the way the company treated us or our guests.
So we've decided to rent the house fewer weeks this year and select good quality guests who will not abuse the property.
With keyless entry codes, we can assign your unique code for your stay from the comfort of our own home in Kentucky. Nonetheless, we have a local manager who will be available in case of some unforeseen emergency.
Larry Jones purchased this house in 2011
The 30A area is such a special place for us. I can remember the first time I drove in to the WaterColor neighborhood. We came over the bridge by Western Lake and saw the sun glistening off both the ocean and the lake water. The beautiful white sand dunes are truly a work of nature. To this day, I still treasure that view as we visit our WaterColor home.
But beyond the initial view, I remember immediately noticing the pristine, finely manicured green grass at the WaterColor entrance. Adults and kids alike on bicycles everywhere! I felt like I was transformed back to what I envisioned the 1950's were like. Everyone seemed just so happy and relaxed. And that's how I feel every time we visit our vacation home.
The location of this property is superb. We are at the very beginning of Phase II. When we were renters, we once stayed in a property right near Town Center. But the Phase 1 houses just aren't as big, aren't as nice, and are overpriced.
After staying in Phase 1 for one season, we discovered the Camp WaterColor District. We were in love with it. You're still just minutes away from the beach and Town Center by bicycle. But you're closer to a pool than if you stay in Town Center. And you're closer to the Publix Grocery store. And you're actually much, much closer to Seaside if you ask someone to show you the 'cut-through' that is right off of Western Lake Drive.
So when it came time to buy, we chose the Camp District, but on the side closest to the beach and Town Center. We are right across the street from the Camp's lake, park, and soccer fields. And the pool is probably 45 seconds away on foot. I really don't think there is a better location. But perhaps I'm biased. :)
Loved the roominess of this house and the space was so efficiently utilized. The porches are so serene and peaceful
The watercolor resort is amazing for families of all sizes and all ages. There is something for everyone and this particular house was very well located. It is a short bike ride or drive to the beach and quick walk to one of the heated pools, playground, camp watercolor and large field.
The house is very nicely appointed with pretty much everything we needed. Lots of common area space to spend time with loved ones but also enough nooks where one can find some private quiet time as well.
As an owner, Larry is VERY responsive and helpful. He's a great owner who takes good care of the property and its renters.
We would definitely go back to this house again.
We loved this home and would definitely stay there again! We loved the decorating and design and location. There was plenty of room for all and we enjoyed cooking and eating dinners at home most nights.The kids enjoyed the bunk room and tower room and would ride bikes all around the towns. Washer and dryer were perfectly located and very useful. Grandparents liked staying in the garage apt and the house never felt crowded even with 13 people there. Very wonderful all around!
House was great and had plenty of room for our group. Beds were very comfortable and the location close to Camp Watercolor was great as well. The only reasons for not giving it 5 stars were the kitchen and living room layout weren't as good as some other houses we've stayed in within Watercolor, but that's nitpicking. We would definitely rent this house again.
The house was great - Located close to the pool & park. It was a short drive or bike ride away from the beach, town square, and grocery store. This particular street was off the main road therefore had very light car traffic; our kiddos felt safe riding their bikes around the block.
Plenty of room for 6 adults & 6 kids. The kids enjoyed the bunk room and patios so much. The adults felt like we were never on top of each other - as each couple had their own room and bathroom. Yet it felt cozy as we congregated in the dining or living room.
The owner was great to work with: Reliable and quick to resolve any minor issues that we had.
We will be vacationing at this house again.
This property was perfect for the 7 women, 70+ in age, who enjoyed a long weekend getaway. Friends since childhood, we found there was plenty of room for visiting, plus there were enough beds that we didn't have to share, which we prefer not to do. The owner was accommodating to our arrival & departure times. Some of the cookware needed to be updated, but we didn't need it so much, as we mostly dined out. A big plus was an ample supply of bath linens.
Located on northwest florida's gulf coast, watercolor is a celebrated coastal resort and residential town that eases into its natural surroundings with a uniquely southern simplicity and grace. It cultivates a true sense of place that is timeless, authentic and welcoming for everyone. Classic southern homesteads stand beneath a clear blue sky, amid more than 499 acres of thoughtfully planned neighborhoods, parks and trails situated between the Gulf of Mexico and a natural 220-acre coastal dune lake. Featuring nearly 1,200 homes and homesites, as well as a 60-room boutique inn honored as the region's only AAA four diamond hotel, Watercolor offers a vibrant and colorful collection of the area's best amenities, activities and services.
This property is literally a stone's throw from Camp Watercolor and just minutes from the tennis courts, the beach, the Watercolor Beach Club, Watercolor Town Center, the boathouse and Seaside. Also, a fresh water pond is directly across the street and provides many hours of relaxing fishing.
The kids can walk right across the street and be on the Camp Watercolor perfectly manicured soccer/field hockey/lacrosse field in about 15 seconds! It's that close.
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Summer Part I 2017
May 27 2017 - Jun 30 2017
Changeover Day: Saturday
7 night minimum stay
4th of July Week
Jul 1 2017 - Jul 8 2017
7 night minimum stay
Summer Part II 2017
Jul 9 2017 - Aug 19 2017
7 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
7 night minimum stay
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|AmenitFee (per WaterColor policy)
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The same mentality that associated suppressors with criminal activities in the 1930s is alive and well and working to make soft body armor unavailable for you today. So far, not at the Fed level. but you need to check your state's laws.
In a course I took with Ayoob, someone asked him about working as a bodyguard. He said "my mother didn't raise me to be a pincushion for other people" - which I think addresses your school's approach to an active shooter. Dumb, dumb, dumb.


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I had fun doing this and had the top done in 4 hours, very easy
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I had fun doing this and had the top done in 4 hours, very easy
It is really gorgeous, very graphic and such gorgeous colors
LOL!! For some reason I read, 1600+ squares.. And then I was thinking, how did she get that done in four hours??
Very pretty, Sandy. I think Margaret liked it too.
I just started one exactly the same yesterday.. Its even purple too.
Love this...a very nice trendy quilt! :)
Nice job
If you ever need a quick gift the 1600 is the easiest fastest one I have ever made
I like that, is it done the same as the fast jelly roll quilt except adding squares to each strip?


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Degrees granted: B.S. in Education, M.A. in Rehabilitation Psychology, M.S. in Rehabilitation Psychology, M.A. in Special Education, M.S. in Special Education, Ph.D. with a major in Rehabilitation Psychology, Ph.D. with a major in Special Education.
The Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education prepares personnel, through professional education, research, and service, for the education and/or rehabilitation of people of all ages with disabilities. Instruction and research emphasize educational and behavioral assessment and treatment of children, as well as counseling, assessment, case management, advocacy, and job placement with adults to facilitate improved personal, social, and vocational adjustment.
Targeted populations encompassed by the program include adults and children with physical disabilities, emotional disabilities, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, alcohol and other drug abuse, and persons involved with the criminal justice system.
Special education and rehabilitation psychology are intrinsically related, both in basic objectives and in professional education and research. The instructional program includes core study areas, practica, and research experiences relevant to the development of various professional roles.
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Investors Buy Less Volatile Shares, Ameritrade SaysInyoung Hwang
Individual investors bought shares of less volatile companies and took protective measures by hedging their holdings last month as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index reached a five-year high, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said.
"We're seeing a step back here," Steve Quirk, senior vice president of TD Ameritrade's trader group, said yesterday by telephone. "Some of our clients are saying, 'I've had some pretty nice appreciation in my portfolio. I'm going to wind it down a bit here.' We love to see that. That means they're being prudent in their judgment."
A gauge of investor sentiment compiled by the Omaha, Nebraska-based company showed bullishness among individual investors declined. The Investor Movement Index, a gauge that tracks sentiment by analyzing trading from a sample of the firm's six million retail client accounts, fell to 4.71 last month from 4.94 in December, based on a Feb. 4 statement from the online brokerage. That is still higher than the average since January 2010 of 4.56.
Investors poured money into equities last month as the S&P 500 capped its best January since 1997 after companies posted better-than-estimated profits and lawmakers reached a budget compromise. About $16.1 billion went into domestic equity mutual funds in the three weeks through Jan. 23, data from Investment Company Institute show. That's after investors pulled more than $600 billion from U.S. funds since 2007, Washington-based ICI data show.
Ameritrade's measure of investor sentiment has climbed 37 percent since the beginning of 2012. When the gauge hit a record of 5.56 in June 2011, the S&P 500 dropped as much as 19 percent from July through October.


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Acres of tulips stretching as far as the eye can see, windmills silhouetted against the sky, the very fields Vincent van Gogh himself once painted—these are just a few of the sights that await you in Holland and Belgium during tulip season.
On this unforgettable cruise through one of the most breathtaking regions of Western Europe, you'll explore bustling towns that were once ancient Roman settlements, hunt for unique treasures in medieval villages and marvel at the works of Dutch and Flemish masters, including Peter Paul Rubens and Vincent van Gogh.
Board your overnight flight to Europe (not included).
Arrive at Brussels Airport, where you will be transferred to the ship.
Brussels, the capital of Belgium, offers a treasure trove of historic architecture, along with a rich culinary tradition—chocolate!—and a vibrant culinary capital. After a panoramic tour of Brussels, you'll have two choices of excursions. Food lovers will be lured by the divine aromas drifting from delightful cafés and chocolate shops, as your destination is Planet Chocolate. A creative chocolatier will show you how cocoa beans are transformed into decadent chocolates, offering you samples in the process. If you prefer a sweet and aromatic treat of a different kind, visit Castle Groot-Bijgaarden, a magnificent Renaissance castle just outside Brussels. Open only one month in spring, the multicolored festival of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and roses attracts some 50,000 plant lovers annually, and you are among them. End your day with the Captain's Welcome Reception and Gala Dinner. Note: The Spring Show at Castle Groot-Bijgaarden is only offered for cruises that depart after March 26.
Experience Belgium's golden age with a walking tour of Antwerp's stunning Renaissance-era City Hall, Market Square and UNESCO-designated Cathedral of Our Lady, which houses four extraordinary works by Peter Paul Rubens. At the old riverside dock area, there is a 19th-century warehouse that has been transformed into a restaurant and brewery, where you can taste Pakhuis's unfiltered blond beer. Art lovers will want to participate in the panoramic city tour with a visit to the palatial home in the heart of the city where the native Rubens once lived and worked. An art expert will guide you through the studio where Rubens and his assistants worked—the master generally painted the figures himself but left the backgrounds to others.
The oldest city in the Netherlands, Maastricht—known as one of the most beautiful and romantic cities of Holland and loved for its convivial lifestyle and historic center, has long played a strategic role in European politics—most recently hosting the 1992 signing of the treaty that gave the European Union the euro. Choose to see the historic core of the city or visit a reminder of more recent history at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial.
Vincent van Gogh produced 195 paintings and numerous watercolors and sketches, including The Potato Eaters, in the two years he lived in Nuenen, and you can follow in his footsteps as you stroll through the town that provided inspiration. After lunch in a historic water mill, which was even painted by Van Gogh, visit picture-perfect Heusden, where you'll explore either by bike or on foot to see a working mill or learn how to make bread at the local bakery.
Known as Silver City, Schoonhoven has been a center of silversmithing since the 17th century, when craftsmen produced beautiful and useful pieces for wealthy merchants in neighboring cities. If you prefer exploring the Netherlands' engineering marvels in their long quest to hold back the sea, join a local as you discover 19 astonishingly well-preserved windmills, a UNESCO World Heritage-designated site. Should you wish, you'll even have a chance to climb inside one of these historic structures.
Gardeners will want to spend all day at the Keukenhof Gardens, one of the most impressive public gardens in the world with millions of tulips and other flowers—an extraordinary and limited sight in the spring. For authentic, insider encounters and discoveries, "Do as the Locals Do" while in Amsterdam, with a guided stroll through the historic canal district including a look inside the Museum Van Loon, a restored 17th-century canal house. Spend your last night on the ship enjoying the Captain's Farewell Reception and Gala Dinner. *Note: Lunch is not included with the full day at Keukenhof Gardens.
Disembark the ship and transfer to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for your flight home.
Length: 361 ft / Width: 37.5 ft / Voltage: 110/220 volts / Guests: 116 / Staff: 41
Suite: 4 (256 sq ft) / Staterooms: 54 (128 sq ft) / Rivers: Rhine River, Danube River
Understated elegance makes the intimate 116-passenger River Ambassador an ideal place to savor Europe's renowned scenery and centuries-old cultural heritage. An eclectic art collection adorns the walls, and every stateroom and suite is beautifully and uniquely decorated, making for a truly luxurious and one-of-a-kind ship.
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Lavishly appointed riverview suite (256 sq ft - 24 sq m) with a French balcony
Handcrafted Savoir® of England bed, built-in closet, hair dryer, safe, individual thermostat, flat-screen TV with infotainment center and satellite, and bottled water
Marble bathroom with L'Occitane en Provence bath and body products, plush towels, waffle bathrobes, and slippers
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Lavishly appointed riverview stateroom (128 sq ft - 12 sq m) with a French balcony
Handcrafted Savoir® of England bed, built-in closet, hair dryer, safe, individual thermostat, flat-screen TV with infotainment center and satellite, and bottled water
Marble bathroom with L'Occitane en Provence bath and body products, backlit magnifying mirror, cozy bathrobes, and slippers
Lavishly appointed riverview stateroom (128 sq ft - 12 sq m)
Handcrafted Savoir® of England bed, built-in closet, hair dryer, safe, individual thermostat, flat-screen TV with infotainment center and satellite, and bottled water
Marble bathroom with L'Occitane en Provence bath and body products, plush towels, cozy bathrobes, and slippers
Lavishly appointed riverview staterooms and suites have handcrafted Savoir® of England beds draped in high-thread count 100% Egyptian cotton sheets and European duvets, along with a menu of pillow options.
Our meticulously designed ships feature enticing public areas and luxurious amenities, including a lounge with full-service bar, well-equipped fitness center, restaurant, Serenity River Spa, and a Sun Deck where you can relax and take in the ever-changing views.
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While we just posted a tutorial on Understanding "build.settings" a few days ago, we'd like to update it and notify the developer community of a new feature in Corona: the ability to exclude certain files from your app builds!
Excluding Files
In the previous tutorial we discussed four primary sub-tables which can be included within the
build.settings file, covering orientation, iOS settings, Android settings, and plugins. Now, utilizing Daily Build #2364 or later, you can add another table called
excludeFiles which allows for selective exclusion of specific files or pattern-matched files on a global or per-platform basis.
Here's an example:
settings =
excludeFiles =
all = { "*secret.txt", "artwork/*" },
iphone = { "Icon-*dpi.png", "audio/*.ogg" },
android = { "Icon.png", "*@2x.png", "audio/*.m4a" }
Many apps won't need this feature, but more sophisticated apps can utilize it, resulting in a reduced app bundle size, especially if it uses larger device-specific media files like audio or video. You can even include a folder in your project to hold original artwork, promotional files, and other items that you use when developing your project, but don't want to include in the final product delivered to users.
excludeFiles table may contain three sub-tables:
all— exclude these files regardless of the platform.
iphone— exclude these files for iOS devices.
android— exclude these files for Android devices.
There's only one simple pattern matching option: an asterisk (
*) which is considered a "wildcard" that can be placed anywhere in the string. This asterisk matches anything including the slash (
/) that separates folders. For instance:
*.png would match every PNG file, even in folders.
Because the pattern matching can be too aggressive if used carelessly, it's imperative that you check your built app bundles and make sure that all intended files are included (and that all files intended for exclusion are actually excluded). You should also monitor the console carefully during the build process and watch for any alerts that may indicate an issue with the exclusion process.
In Summary
This feature is now available to all subscribers, and for future reference, the
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While the NHL and the players' association stay away from the negotiating table, discussions have taken place behind the scenes in an effort to restart talks as a lockout deadline looms.
From perfect to Pooh: The best and worst Bruins uniforms
From perfect to Pooh: The best and worst Bruins uniforms
Morning Skate: Former PC coach Army on Avs' rough year
Morning Skate: Former PC coach Army on Avs' rough year
Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I'm reading, while celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars being released today. Amazing that the power and influence of the best movie franchise in cinematic history are just as strong today as it was four decades ago. I still remember my first time seeing it as a very little kid with my parents at the dearly departed Starlight Drive-In in North Reading.
*Good guy and recently fired Colorado Avalanche assistant coach Tim Army talks about a rough past season with the Avs, and some of the difficulties they faced in a truly terrible season. The former Providence College head coach and good hockey man shouldn't have much trouble finding his next gig.
*A great move by the Arizona Coyotes, who have hired former Bruins forward Craig Cunningham as a pro scout after his awful medical situation last season that resulted in his leg getting amputated. Cunningham is a hard worker and a hockey lifer, and that's exactly the kind of traits that the best scouts have in huge amounts.
*The New Jersey Devils have fired a number of employees after a rough season, including a groundbreaking radio analyst.
*With the ultra-competitive demand for an edge in NHL player development, teams are beginning to look to Europe for more and more diamonds in the rough. The Bruins tried that with Joonas Kemppainen, but it didn't work out so well.
*One of the real big advantages of the Nashville Predators getting to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time is a national spotlight getting flashed on PK Subban, who shows off his personality in a rare ESPN interview of a hockey player featured on the network's magazine show.
*Ryan Johansen isn't done talking smack to Ryan Kesler after the Predators prevailed over the Ducks, and it's some delicious playoff hatred.
*Is the NHL ready to draft another goaltender with the last name DiPietro in the first round? Inquiring minds want to know, but I'd recommend the New York Islanders take a pass just in the name of avoiding a repeat of some bad history for them.
*Taylor Hall sounds pretty bitter about the whole "Edmonton Oilers getting into the playoff without him" thing, doesn't he?
*For something completely different: As mentioned above, it's a milestone birthday for the Star Wars franchise hitting 40 years old today. Boy, this Boston Globe movie review was right on the money back in 1977.


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thanks to anyone that answers this question but i am trying to get my steering box off of my steering column i know that this might sound like an easy answer but i have looked and looked and i haven't found any way so far to get the two apart. the reason why i am trying to do this is because the steering bolts snapped and the steering box is just hanging there so i am removed the flathead so i can get it rebuilt as soon as the cash comes around but i am trying to save all that i can from the front end because i don't want to spend the couple of grand to get a new front mustang 2 stub so i am removing all of the old steering and replacing it with new but i still cant figure out how to get the steering column off of the steering box thanks to anyones help if anyone wants pictures just let me know because i can get some thanks
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Campaign Take Back The Tech! registered more than 100 cases of gender violence through ICT
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 22 December 2011
The Take Back The Tech! campaign, run by APC WNSP, launched an interactive mapping platform which collected more than one hundred stories about gender violence online or through mobile phones. In this article by GenderIT.org, Sonia Randhawa outlines some of the tendencies that stand out when analizing the collected information.Full article at http://www.genderit.org/articles/mapping-intersection-technology-and-gender-based-violence


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Story Background
Daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis, Medea was the princess who fell in love with Jason when he arrived on his ship Argo seeking the Golden Fleece. Medea helped him defeat the fiery bulls and the men who arose when dragons' teeth seeds strewn in a field sprang up as armed soldiers. With her witchcraft she also put the dragon to sleep so that Jason could successfully steal the Golden Fleece. When Jason and Medea sailed away together to Jason's homeland, to slow the pursuit of her angry father Medea killed and dismembered her brother whose remains the followers stopped to gather in order to give Absyrtus a proper burial. Pelias, Jason's uncle who had usurped the throne of Thessaly from Jason's father Iolcus, was killed by his own daughters through a ruse perpetrated by Medea, thus necessitating her flight with Jason and their two sons to Corinth, where they had lived happily for some years, before Jason decided to abandon Medea in order to marry Creusa, daughter of King Creon. The opera opens at the time of the marriage festivities.
French Libretto for Médée
Darius had received a commission from the State to write a theatrical work. He wanted to write an opera about jealousy. In his mind, jealousy was the strongest emotion of love, and one that if it were expressed could lead to tragedy. Therefore, he chose Medea - a jealous woman of strong character, full of passion, who could not bear it that Jason, whom she still loved, had turned to another marriage. Her jealousy and pride were powerful enough to make her able to inflict upon her unfaithful Jason the worst possible punishment, by murdering their beloved sons. During the summer of 1938 while we were at l'Enclos, we discussed who might write such a libretto. His usual collaborators were on holiday, so Darius asked me to do it. I am not a writer, and shall never be - but I made the libretto. I began to read several versions of Medea - Seneca's and others. I drew upon his play and also upon those of Euripides and Comeille. I used a second woman character in order to have a victim, who would be a charming young girl, in order to have a variety of voices. I tried to do what I knew Darius liked–type and length of scenes and so forth. When I agreed to write the libretto, I vowed to make it all from other sources. One works like a dressmaker if one is not a poet. I took a little from everywhere ...
–Madeleine Milhaud
Who was Medea? Tigress? Victim? Why is she remembered? Many scholars believe that most of the characters of Greek legend were historic persons too, and the Greek habit of addressing universal issues that have occupied man from time immemorial make the tragedies of the Greek Golden Age as pertinent today as when they won prizes in the annual spring drama contests. The Euripides version of the Medea story is the oldest and most frequent reference source extant, although the libretto by Madame Madeleine Milhaud for Darius Milhaud's opera MtDtE also draws heavily on Seneca's play.
During Festival Medea, five interpretations of the Medea legend are presented through drama, film and opera, including as authors Euripides, Seneca, Robinson Jeffers, Ernest Ferlita and Darius and Madeleine Milhaud. Some events are common to all versions, while others may be unique to one setting, such as the use of voodoo ritual by the chorus in Perlita's BLACKMEDEA, reference to horses by Jeffers, and the deaths on-stage of Creon and Creusa in Milhaud's opera. Among each of these five named versions, there are differences in characters and to some extent in motivation, while there is commonality in the inclusion of principals Medea, Jason, the nurse and the children.
The issues addressed in the Medea story remain lively problems in today's world - relationships between men and women, the position of women in the society, the treatment of foreigners, citizenship rights, to name only a few. In all versions, the dilemma which is the focus of tension becomes insoluble and inevitably results in tragedy. The Medea of drama is not totally irrational, and the ultimate tragedy of Medea's act of infanticide contains a certain strange logic. We see a woman who has been abandoned by her husband, with as a consequence the loss of citizenship - a woman who has been banished and has nowhere to tum for refuge (due to past crimes committed in helping Jason succeed), and a person who has no present and no future, who also sees no future for her children. Medea knows that they will be killed by Creon's household to avenge his and Creusa's deaths, or else they will, like their mother, be scorned and abused as exiles. She reasons that the most effective way to achieve revenge and to make Jason as bereft as herself is to deny him his progeny. Thus the tragedy is not a mere horror story but one rich in complexity and meaning. In Euripides' play, Medea persuades Jason to influence Creusa to take the children, as a ruse for sending the poisoned gifts. In Madeleine Milhaud's libretto, the children have been taken away from Medea by Creon, which strengthens the motive for revenge against him, and it also strengthens the motive for killing them: since they are denied to her, Jason must also be parted from them. In Scene VIII of Milhaud's opera, Medea in fact can hardly bring herself to kill the children, but does so in order to complete the ruin of Jason. From the opening measure of the overture, Milhaud's music makes readily apparent that his opera presents the tragedy of Medea - a woman wracked by jealousy, love turned to hatred, and an obsession with vengeance. In the opera, as also by Euripides and the other authors, it is assumed that the audience already knows the story. Thus Madame Milhaud distills the essence of the ideas and emotions in her libretto, rather than indulging in story-telling. In Milhaud's musical setting, the result is a compact work of great strength in its musical power and dramatic effect.
Milhaud's opera holds to the Greek tradition of presenting only two or three characters in a given scene. The formal structure of choruses alternating with action scenes remains, and in addition the music imposes its own structure and logic. The treatment of the text is as if the characters are holding a musical conversation, and their differences are made clear through the shapes of vocal melodies as well as by rhythmic pacing. There are no set pieces, except three choral sections that have clearly defined beginning and end, the first and last in chordal style, the center one polyphonic, giving its own structure to the choral interludes. There are no melismas except those of Creusa in Scene III to describe her happiness, and in Scene VIII (providing overall structural balance) to show her trust and then her distress as the fiery poison takes effect. At the end of the opera, Jason has one brief melisma to express his grief upon learning of the children's deaths.
Milhaud transforms orchestral material in building a balanced musical structure by, for example, the arpeggiated chords of the harp to accompany Creusa's "wedding" aria, which later returns re-orchestrated and altered dynamically to signify the ominous dread created for Creusa's death scene. Because the music is continuous, (although there are sectional endings that give a sense of pause), there are not set piece arias, or even breaks between scenes. There are, however, resolutions of sections and short pauses of silence between acts. The choices relating to density of spacing and instrumentation, degrees of dissonance, tessitura of voices and instruments, dynamic nuances and tempi all contribute to the dramatic cogency as well as to the overall lyricism of the opera. It is indeed complex, and requires repeated experience for intimate understanding of the elements that make it both powerful and moving. Darius Milhaud's MEDEAillustrates very well the statement made long ago that opera deepens and enhances through music the emotions of the drama and carries it beyond any other form of expression.
Synopsis Of The Opera Medea By Darius Milhaud
Act I
Scene I The Chorus and Creusa
The chorus sings of the wedding of Jason and Creusa, asking the gods to favor the marriage. They sing of the beauty of the bride and of the fortunate freeing of Jason from Medea. Then they invoke godly protection for the royal couple. Following the description by the tenors of the joyousness of the wedding festivities, Creusa enters and sings of her happiness, with the expectation of a placid married life. To end the scene, the chorus invokes Venus, goddess of love.
Scene II Medea and the Nurse
Medea is angry that Jason has abandoned her in a foreign country, especially after she has done so many deeds and committed so many crimes to help him. The nurse tries to placate her, but Medea declares that she still has all her courage, even though she has been deserted by Jason and banished from Corinth by Creon. She swears by heaven to invoke her own deities to help her seek revenge.
Scene III Medea and Creon
Creon enters, surprised that Medea has not already left Corinth. He demands that his guards keep Medea away from him. She attempts to beguile Creon by applauding his choice of Jason as a son-in-law. Stating that she is overcome by Creon's power and that he has nothing to fear from her, Medea begs him not to exile her. When he refuses to allow her to remain, she pleads that Jason is as guilty as she and asks that he be exiled with her. Medea's last request is to be allowed to tell her sons goodbye, a wish granted by Creon. The scene ends with the chorus singing that Creon fears Medea, and sympathizing with her for her sad fate.
Scene IV Jason and Medea
Jason sings of the turmoil agonizing his spirit and wonders if he has been too ungrateful to Medea. She stops him from leaving and asks how he can be so faithless after she has left her own country for him, has been so helpful and has saved his life so many times. Jason claims that he has persuaded Creon to exile rather than to execute Medea, but she counters that Jason simply wants her out of the way as a rival to Creusa. Medea begs Jason to go into exile with her, but he fears for their lives if he were to accompany her. When Medea calls him a coward, Jason says he does not worry about his own death, but wants a good life for the children. Medea accuses him of sacrificing her for their sake, and Jason agrees that they are more important to him than she is. He advises Medea to be less distraught and to accept her fate. When Jason leaves, Medea swears that she will seek a bloodthirsty revenge for having been spurned.
Scene V Chorus
The chorus declares that nothing is so violent as the fury of a scorned woman whose love has become mixed with hatred.
Scene VI Medea
Medea prepares her potion with which to permeate the golden robe and crown that she will give Creusa in order to cause her fiery death. Medea implores Hecate, her chief goddess, to help make the venom strong enough. Medea describes how she has loosened her hair and pierced her arm to enact the religious rituals used for funerals. When she is satisfied with her preparations, Medea asks the nurse to bring the children to her, so that they may take the gifts to Creusa. When they have left, the nurse sings of Creusa's untimely fate, then greets the children as they return, admonishing them to show their affection for their unhappy mother.
Scene VII Chorus and Creusa, Creusa with Creon, Creusa with Jason
The chorus moralizes that gold traps both mortals and gods, describes Creusa's delight with the golden gifts and announces her arrival. Creusa exults that Medea has renounced her anger, the evidence being the marvelous gifts. Men of the chorus warn Creusa that she is deceived, but she answers that there is nothing to fear, and that no one resents her now, since Jason's friends have also become hers. The fiery magic begins to take effect, but no one is willing to rescue Creusa for fear of becoming victimized by Medea themselves. Creon arrives and tries to rescue the dying Creusa, which leads to his instant death. He asks Jason to avenge them. After Creusa dies, Jason calls upon Zeus to punish Medea. The scene ends with a funereal dirge sung by the chorus.
Scene VIII The nurse and Medea, with the children
The nurse urges Medea to escape, but Medea replies that she wishes to complete her vengeance first, by killing the children. She calls them to her, but is so overcome by affection for them, that she can hardly bring herself to commit the act. She remembers her banishment without them, and sings that since they are lost to her, they must be parted also from Jason. Steeling herself, she slits their throats.
Scene IX Jason and Medea
Jason comes rushing on stage swearing vengeance on Medea for the deaths of Creusa and Creon. Medea appears, declaring that her ancestor the Sun will help her escape Jason's outrage. She shows Jason that she has killed the children to satisfy her rage over his having broken his marriage vows. As Jason grieves over the loss of his sons, Medea bids him farewell, reminding him that the tragedy has resulted from his infidelity.


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I hate you Bigz :D, you convince me of Core 2's pwnage with that awesome review, and now you tell me to wait ;(
Tyrou at XS has a Kentsfield in a D975XBX rev 304 (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=107092) ;)Big question is though, how sure are you all that the mobo is going to stay the same?
Quite possibly yesOriginally Posted by Fr4nk
Also I'd assume when kentsfield is out Core 2 Duo (dual core) will get a price drop ?
Originally Posted by Lazlow
Is it me, or does it seem that the evolution of PC technology is picking up?
I was incredibly surprised to see Otellini say what he did - it's almost like they want to trash Core 2 sales, hence why I felt there was a need for an OpEd. :)Originally Posted by will.
I am slightly supprised at the timing here though.... its like they are trying to reduce sales of conroe...
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Whats the bet that 2 months later they will announce another new thing and we'll be told to wait for that as well...
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I am slightly supprised at the timing here though.... its like they are trying to reduce sales of conroe...
I believe that the same Israel design team that created the Pentium M also extensively worked on Core2 ;)Originally Posted by kenco_uk
Maybe they re-hired the team that created the P3 to create the successor to the P4? :)
i doubt they are going to delay kentsfield. they made that announcement before the release of core 2 duo and i am 100% sure that intel knows the news would reduce the sale of core 2. now, if they arent 120% sure they can get kentsfield out to the market by the end of the year, why would they hurt their sale like that?Originally Posted by olly_lewis
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