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Robert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
90 months ago
Unfortunately, in the states, these 'certification courses' are typically scams. Their 'certifications' are NOT recognized by the industry and none can guarantee a job. I've been a CRA for 5 years now and have never met anyone who has successfully found employment as a CRA after they shell out thousands for the often unaccredited courses.
Getting a degree from an accredited university is a good idea (you can get student aid from the gov't, tuition reimbursement from your employer and the credits are transferable if you want to change your major), but I would say this would be better for someone who already has a job in research and wants to move up, instead of someone who is just looking for a job.
The best way to get your start is to take an entry level position. A BS is fine, especially if you emphasize your research experience. Look for CTA positions, data entry, etc. at your local universities, hospitals and research offices. Get a job there, then use tuition reimbursement from your employer to beef up your credentials. Have them pay for your Master's in Clinical Research and get certified through a legitimate professional organization like ACRP.
Also, don't be looking in just your area- the economy is coming back, but it's still not great yet. You will often have to make sacrifices.
Randy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
81 months ago
Amita ,JERSEY CITY,NJ in Jersey City, New Jersey said: hi I am just fresher and starting a new field in CRA. I have completed pharmacy in INDIA and did certification in CRA. Can any one help me to where should I step in this field. I am trying like more than 6 month but there is no response. I am getting response from agency which offer me training for 650$. They dont give promise to get a job. Do any one know this type of any agency which help or should I join? Thank u every one for posting.
Hi Amita,
I do not recommend getting any more training. You already have certification in India, you do not need any more training.
I think you are looking at the wrong job. In the USA, you cannot start in clinical research with a CRA position. It is required that you have several years of clinical trial experience before applying for your first CRA job. No education, training or certification will allow you to skip the required years of previous clinical trial work experience.
There are many training scams out there, many of them try to take advantage of foreigners looking for jobs. If I ever recommend any courses to foreigners looking for a job, it is English language training because impeccable written communication skills are absolutely necessary. For example, if you used some of the prose errors you made in your post in your cover letter, I would throw out your resume as soon as I encountered one of those language errors.
78 months ago
I am completing Assoc. Degree, Certificate I, Certificate II in May. I will continue to complete Data Management Cert. My background is Clerical data entry, Nursing assistant, Mental health, and I am registered with the state as a Medical Assistant. My life situation is keeping me from continuing to do BS or Masters in any field; which would be beneficial, but my life situation is not allowing me to continue with that path. I have no experience in clinical trials research outside of fieldwork for college. Does anyone have any suggestions?
narasi in Thiruvananthapuram, India
72 months ago
Dear all,
Swangirl89 in Baden, Germany
72 months ago
Manowar2002B in Odenspiel, Germany said: Your best bet is to do some type of certification course. I would say, that if you have a natural science degree, biology, etc., that you should be ok entering some type of clinical research (CRA for ex.) certification course. I am currently doing one in Germany. I am American, but studied here, and feel that starting out as a CRA may be better here in Europe. The Clinical Trial process runs more smoothly here. The FDA can be problematic. But finally, you want to find a certification cours that also involves an internship, which will ultimately get your foot in the door.
I'm in Stuttgart looking to don the same thing. I have a Bachelors in physiology. What is the certification course you have taken?
narasi in Thiruvananthapuram, India
72 months ago
Thank you for your reply. Is sas certification is useful to enter into clinical data management. If not which software companies are using. Generaly what are the major roles involved in clinical trials. What is growth of CDM when compare with CRA.
Sonya in Westfield, New Jersey
72 months ago
I found this on craigslist as CRA training in 12 months.
It's the American Scientific Research asrnj.com/
looks like a scam for sure. Glad I came across this forum.
Thanks guys -- I am unemployed for months now and I really hate this misleading ads to scam individuals who are serious in finding a job or a new career.
DC804 in New York, New York
66 months ago
SwissHam in Fulton, Ohio said: Hi Jay,
Hi Chris,
I am currently a hosptial based CRC- run all the trials within the hematology/oncology trials- both industry sponsored and PI initiated. I am looking to transitioning into industry and specifically looking into project management positions. Do you think this transition is possibl, without having industry CRA monitoring experience? I am also CCRA certified and have my Masters degree. Please let me know your thoughts!
Mather in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
66 months ago
Hi DC804,
Unless you have significant project management experience from a similar industry, a CRO will not hire anyone into a management role without CRA experience. My though is that if you are leading a group of CRAs, it's really best that you know what the job involves.
For example: How will you know what makes a good monitoring report without ever having to write one? The CRA role requires significant travel, in just the site assignment process, you have to know if it's even possible for a CRA that lives in Denver to get to Wichita via air for their normal workday. How will you handle your stressed-out overtraveled CRAs when you know nothing about what life is like being on the road four days a week? How will you know which vendors are out there and which ones offer the best service?
With your oncology experience, you are very much in demand- I'd try to get that first CRA role and then work on the PM transition.
Mandy in Singapore, Singapore
66 months ago
Hi, I am a foreign medical graduate with PhD in Biomedical Engineering. I have 1 year Clinical Experience in Infectious Diseases. I would like to go into clinical research but I don't want to do the bench work. I would like to work full time CRA position. Can you please give me some advice?
Mandy in Singapore, Singapore
66 months ago
Hi, I am a foreign medical graduate with PhD in Biomedical Engineering. I have 1 year Clinical Experience in Infectious Diseases. I would like to go into clinical research but I don't want to do the bench work. I would like to work full time CRA position. Can you please give me some advice?
tinys225@*****.*** in Plainfield, New Jersey
58 months ago
hi all..plz reply me to this question
PJ in Bronx, New York
58 months ago
Can you be more clear? What type of jobs are you interested in?
nam81 in White Plains, New York
57 months ago
Mather in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania said: Hi DC804,
@ Mather,
57 months ago
Hi Nam,
I would suggest that you concentrate your initial search on academic medical centers. Epidemiological and Molecular studies are not very common for the CROs, so academia seems like a better fit. I would suggest to begin your career in coordinating before you try to move onto CRA roles.
Basic Roles:
CRA (also called a monitor): a job that requires at least two years work experience in research (I.e., as a CRC, CTA, data management or regulatory/documentation specialist). No degree or training program will give you that work experience to become a competitive entry-level CRA applicant, so it's not a career for someone new to the industry. Monitors travel to the places where CRCs and PIs work to monitor their study conduct.
PM (also called CTM): a job that requires at least 5 years of CRA experience or other significant project management experience. They manage a group of CRAs, data managers and work with other department heads (biostatisticians, regulatory, and scientific teams). They manage budgets often in excess of $1 million and teams of over 10 employees.
I trust that you will do your own research for a more robust description of each role.
Just to point out, I noticed several grammatical issues in your post. Flawless English language skills are essential in clinical research because we have so much documentation and communication to do. Science skills/knowledge really come second to communication skills in this industry.
Carol in Pompano Beach, Florida
56 months ago
Hello Mather,
I am considering the posibility of doing some contract work. What are the Pros and Cons. Do some contract positions qualify for per diem?
Carol in Pompano Beach, Florida
56 months ago
When searching for contract work, is it preferable to go through a consulting agency or deal directly with the company.
Mather in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
55 months ago
Hi TJ,
2 years experience is all you need to get a job. No additional training is required - in fact I caution you about it because many people have created scam companies to get money, especially from immigrants. Of course, more work experience is always better. Extra education is not really valued at your stage in your career.
Your biggest obstacle will be visa requirements. With unemployment so high in the US, there are many equally qualified applicants who don't need all the extra burdens of visa sponsorship so finding a job tends to be very difficult. It is not an easy life.
Meg in San Antonio, Texas
51 months ago
Howdy! I have an MS in Biology and about 2 years experience as Research Assistant. I would like to know the following,
1. Does anyone think companies will offer a CRA position for a fresher like me in this field? I only have experience in wet labs but nothing so far on the clinical side.Will any recommendations be helpful for the same?
2. Do I need to be a CRA in order to be eligible to get CRA certification from ACRP?
3. If not, then will having a certification enhance my prospects of landing an entry level CRA position?
Looking forward to hearing your valuable insights on this topic!
Mather in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
51 months ago
1. Anything's possible- but New CRAs typically need clinical research experience working on trials with human subjects in some capacity. The CRA job is not a position for people new to clinical research.
2. Yes, you must have two years of full time work experience to qualify to sit for any certification exam.
maripa in Boston, Massachusetts
50 months ago
Mather, I am a bit lost and would really appreciate your advise. I have Master Degree in Biotechnology and have been employed by the academic research institution in the capacity of PM for the last 5 years. Recently, I have been wanting to make a move to the pharma industry. I have sent hundreds of resumes and applied for PM (or project lead) positions with no luck. I was then told by a recruiter that my experience in the hospital (site) setting would not be enough and I would have to become a CRA first, I would then need to in that position for 2 years and can them move up the ladder. Well, little did I know that I would be getting an offer for a Sr CRA position. I am torn now...do I go for it or do i keep looking for a PM position. I have people whispering in both ears-some say that if I take a step down, it will take me a while to come back up; others say that in order to go up, I have to come down first. what gives? I am so lost I do not know what to do.. And by the way, this job offer was through a connection and I have not gotten any other offers at all...not even an interview.
loriefrance in Saint-contest, Quebec
50 months ago
Maripa in Boston, Massachusetts said: Mather, I am a bit lost and would really appreciate your advise. I have Master Degree in Biotechnology and have been employed by the academic research institution in the capacity of PM for the last 5 years. Recently, I have been wanting to make a move to the pharma industry. I have sent hundreds of resumes and applied for PM (or project lead) positions with no luck. I was then told by a recruiter that my experience in the hospital (site) setting would not be enough and I would have to become a CRA first, I would then need to in that position for 2 years and can them move up the ladder. Well, little did I know that I would be getting an offer for a Sr CRA position. I am torn now...do I go for it or do i keep looking for a PM position. I have people whispering in both ears-some say that if I take a step down, it will take me a while to come back up; others say that in order to go up, I have to come down first. what gives? I am so lost I do not know what to do.. And by the way, this job offer was through a connection and I have not gotten any other offers at all...not even an interview.
Hi Maripa,
I am in France now and I am preparing to move to canada ( especially in Montreal ). I have a master's degree in public health and 4 years expeience as a CRC and Lead CRA in academic enviroement. I am currently regestred in a CRP certificate with CRA-School in montreal for online course.
I am waiting for your comments.
Kind regards,
SAE4ME in Atlanta, Georgia
43 months ago
I'm really interested in seeing this thread return to the original topic: What are the opportunities for CRAs with 10-15 years experience, besides LM/PM?
The reason is, I still haven't figured out where I can go next after being a CRA this long. I've monitored in the field ~ 10 years, including working on a few projects as a LeadCRA. I've actually been doing exclusive in-house tasks the last year, including managing resourcing, running sponsor calls, & mentoring field CRAs. I'm fairly comfortable with this role; & I'm hoping to apply for & hopefully obtain a Clinical Team Lead position the next time one opens internally.
The problem is; I really can't see myself going thru the established steps, which would include Line Manager/PM, then hopefully Director.
The thing I like most is being a knowledge base of sorts: attending meetings, doing presentations, & speaking to large groups. My ultimate dream job is a consulting job with McKinsey, BCG, or Bain, however I haven't been able to make any progress at all. I've networked extremely hard & I do have some contacts at one of the big firms; they've given me lots of advice however not having an MBA from a top-tier school seems to hold me back from the entry-level positions. Also I have a masters' degree but it seems that most expert-level associate positions that draw people like me from industry are filled by people with PhDs from top-tier technical programs which I don't have. I've looked into MBA programs however these only seem worthy if they come from a top-tier school, which isn't really feasible for me now.
In short; I really don't feel the CRO world is a fit for me long-term, here at 10 years into the field. I certainly want to be out before it turns into 20 years & I'm an Associate Director if I'm lucky. Has anyone else been able to parlay their CRA/CRO experience into another business field?
adam4651 in Holly Springs, North Carolina
23 months ago
Hello all,
I am a Clinical Research major at Campbell University almost done with my bachelors in the field. I really have a plethora of interest when it comes to clinical research but mainly in Clinical Trail Management and Regulatory Affairs. My question is, I have no idea where to start and what type of company to start out at. my school sets me up with an internship in the spring and I have no idea where I want to do mine at because I don't know which company will benefit me in the long run. Any advice?
Thank you!
aish in Denver, Colorado
23 months ago
HI all,
SDV-er in Chicago, Illinois
23 months ago
Hi Aish,
Start applying to every college, hospital, SMO and doctor's office that does research. There are plenty of great employers looking for a CRC like yourself. In the USA, your employer provides or pays for all your training. You never have to take a course to get a job when you're already experienced. You may consider taking the ACRP test to become a CCRC, but only do that when you have a job and your employer pays for you to take the test.
aish in Denver, Colorado
23 months ago
thanks for your guidance.but am on H4 status.will I be able to attend interview?
Mahendra in Elmhurst, New York
5 days ago
HI Dear All,
Mahendra in Elmhurst, New York
5 days ago
Hi Mather,
HI Dear All,
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Anne-Sophie Mutter Begins Residency with New York Philharmonic 11/14
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins the New York Philharmonic in the 2010-11 season as The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence. In this role she will perform three concerts with the Orchestra, conducted by Alan Gilbert, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Michael Francis (in his Philharmonic debut); two chamber concerts - with violist Yuri Bashmet and cellist Lynn Harrell in the first - and double bass player Roman Patkoló and Philharmonic musicians in the second; and a recital with her long-time collaborator, pianist Lambert Orkis. Ms. Mutter's programs will reflect a mix of eras, offering established violin repertoire alongside new works.
While Ms. Mutter has established an award-winning career performing historically important pieces for the violin, she is a passionate advocate of new music, and numerous composers have written works for her. Her Philharmonic residency will include Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, in addition to World Premieres by Wolfgang Rihm and Sebastian Currier, a U.S. Premiere by Krzysztof Penderecki, and a New York Premiere by Sofia Gubaidulina.
Ms. Mutter, who has a 30-year history with the New York Philharmonic, will launch her residency with an all-Beethoven chamber recital on Sunday, November 14, 2010, at 3:00 p.m., with violist Yuri Bashmet and cellist Lynn Harrell. This will be followed by the first orchestral program of her residency, featuring Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 3 and 5 - which she will perform and conduct - along with Wolfgang Rhim's Lichtes Spiel, a World Premiere commissioned by The Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, Thursday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, November 19, at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 20, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, November 23, at 7:30 p.m. Michael Francis will make his New York Philharmonic conducting debut in the Rihm work.
"I've admired Anne-Sophie Mutter for many years," says Alan Gilbert. "The fact that she's going to be with us for so many concerts and that she is performing unusual and provocative repertoire along with other more known pieces is tremendously exciting. What I appreciate most is that she uses her status and her position in the music world to further repertoire and encourage people to take risks. When someone like Anne-Sophie Mutter plays a new piece, the audience is drawn in because they know her and they trust her - she uses her capacity, ability, and reputation to bring the audience along with her."
Said Ms. Mutter: "The opportunity for me to be Artist-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic is a dream come true, as this magnificent ensemble has always been one of my favorite orchestras. No matter what repertoire we play together, they are able to bring to it the most appropriate and unique stylistic qualities and with a deep passion for music-making."
Ms. Mutter's next concerts, as part of her residency with the New York Philharmonic, will take place March 31-April 2, 2011, featuring works by Prokofiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Tchaikovsky, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, paired with a chamber music recital on April 3, 2011, in works by Beethoven, a world premiere by Wolfgang Rihm, a U.S. premiere by Krzysztof Penderecki, and Mendelssohn.
Pre-Concert Talk
Author Fred Plotkin will introduce the November 14 program one hour before the performance in the Helen Hull Room. Arbie Orenstein, Professor of Music at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, will introduce the concerts on November 18-20 and 23. Pre-Concert Talks are $7.00; discounts available for multiple concerts, students, and groups. Attendance is limited to 90 people. Information: nyphil.org or (212) 875-5656
On the Music: The New York Philharmonic Podcast
Mark Travis, a producer for the WFMT Radio Network since 1999 and the producer of the 52-week-per-year nationally syndicated radio series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, is the producer of the podcast about the concerts on November 18-20 and 23. These award-winning previews of upcoming programs - through musical selections as well as interviews with guest artists, conductors, and Orchestra musicians - are available at nyphil.org/podcast or from iTunes.
National Radio Broadcast
Ms. Mutter's orchestral concert, featuring the Mozart violin concertos and the world premiere by Wolfgang Rihm, will be broadcast the week of November 29, 2010,* on The New York Philharmonic This Week, a radio concert series syndicated nationally to more than 300 stations by the WFMT Radio Network. The 52-week series, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin, is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Foundation, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation. The broadcast will be available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org. The program is broadcast locally in the New York metropolitan area on Classical 105.9 FM WQXR on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m.
*Check local listings for broadcast and program information.
Since her international debut at the Lucerne Festival in 1976, Anne-Sophie Mutter has appeared in all the major concert halls of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. She has had new works composed for her by Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold
Lutos?awski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, André Previn, and Wolfgang Rihm. She also devotes her time to numerous charity projects and supports the development of young, exceptionally talented musicians.
The 2010-11 season marks the 35th anniversary of Anne-Sophie Mutter's Lucerne Festival debut at the age of 13. In addition to her year-long residency with the New York Philharmonic, Ms. Mutter joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its inaugural Symphony Ball with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and performs Dutilleux's Sur le même accord and Gubaidulina's In tempus praesens with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano. A North American tour with Messrs. Bashmet and Harrell performing the Beethoven trios in San Francisco, Vancouver, Costa Mesa, and Mexico City is followed by a solo recital of Brahms's violin sonatas with her long-time recital partner, pianist Lambert Orkis at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Internationally, Ms. Mutter appears with the Kirov Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, and London Philharmonic and Kurt Masur. She tours Germany with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, and is slated for an extensive recital tour throughout Asia. In October 2010 her recording of the complete Brahms violin sonatas with her long-time recital partner Lambert Orkis, will be released in the United States on the Deutsche Grammophon label, adding to her discography of more than 60 recordings. Anne-Sophie Mutter made her New York Philharmonic debut in January 1980, performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, led by Zubin Mehta. On her most recent appearance, in February 2009, she played the same concerto, conducted by Kurt Masur.
In 2010 Ms. Mutter was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. In 2009 she was granted the European St. Ulrich's Prize and the Cristobal Gabaroon Award, and in the previous year she received the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize as well as the Leipzig Mendelssohn Prize. She is a bearer of the Grand Order of Merit of the German Federal Republic, French Order of the Legion of Honor, Bavarian Order of Merit, and Great Austrian Order of Merit.
Violist Yuri Bashmet appears throughout the world in the dual role of conductor and soloist.
As an internationally renowned violist, he has performed with all the major orchestras over the last 25 years, including the Berlin, Vienna, and Los Angeles philharmonics, Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw, the Boston, Chicago, and Montreal symphony orchestras. In the United
Kingdom he has performed with all the major London orchestras and made several appearances at the BBC Proms. He also travels frequently to Japan, the U.S., and Australia. Recent visits to the Far East included appearances as both soloist and conductor with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Bashmet has a particular collaboration with Anne-Sophie Mutter: he has appeared with her in her complete Mozart Violin Concerto project, joining her for the Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K.364, with ensembles such as the London and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras and Camerata Salzburg, and they have performed together throughout Europe. Other collaborators have included violinists Igor Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, and Gidon Kremer. Mr. Bashmet is also artistic director of the December Evenings festival in Moscow, principal conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of New Russia, and the founder/director of Moscow Soloists.
Among Yuri Bashmet's many CDs is a recording for Deutsche Grammophon of Sofia Gubaidulina's Concerto and Giya Kancheli's Styx, which won a Diapason d'Or award and a Grammy nomination. Other notable DG discs are Mozart's Sinfonia concertante with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Brahms's Piano Quartet No 1 with pianist Martha Argerich, violinist Gidon Kremer, and cellist Mischa Maisky. For Onyx, Mr. Bashmet and Moscow Soloists have embarked on a critically acclaimed series of recordings; chamber symphonies by Shostakovich, Sviridoc, and Vainberg; music by Stravinsky and Prokofiev (which received a Grammy Award); a disc of music by composers from the Far East; and a recital disc of Encores with pianist Mikhail Muntian.
Yuri Bashmet is an enthusiast of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, and has hosted his own political discussion show on Russian television. He plays a 1758 Testore viola (a similar model to the one Mozart played). He last performed with the New York Philharmonic on March 30, 2003, in an all-Shostakovich chamber concert with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, pianist Yefim Bronfman, and violinist Maxim Vengerov.
Cellist Lynn Harrell is a frequent guest of many leading orchestras including those of Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. In Europe he partners with the orchestras of London, Munich, and Berlin, and he has also toured extensively to Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East. In the summer of 1999 he was featured in a three-week "Lynn Harrell Cello Festival" with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He regularly collaborates with conductors such as James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, and David Zinman. In recent seasons Mr. Harrell has collaborated with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist André Previn; in January 2004 the trio appeared with the New York Philharmonic performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Kurt Masur on the podium. Mr. Harrell also appears frequently at summer music festivals, including those of Verbier, Aspen, Grand Tetons, and Amelia Island in South Carolina.
On April 7, 1994, Lynn Harrell performed at the Vatican with the Royal Philharmonic in a concert dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The audience for this historic event, which was the Vatican's first official commemoration of the Holocaust, included Pope John Paul II and the Chief Rabbi of Rome. That year Mr. Harrell also appeared live at the Grammy Awards with Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, performing an excerpt from their Grammy-nominated recording of the complete Beethoven String Trios (Angel/EMI).
Highlights of Mr. Harrell's extensive discography of more than 30 recordings include the complete Bach Cello Suites (London/Decca), the world-premiere recording of Victor Herbert's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by Marriner (London/Decca), the Walton Cello Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (EMI), and the Donald Erb Concerto with Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony (New World). Together with Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mr. Harrell was awarded two Grammy Awards - in 1981 for the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio, and in 1987 for the complete Beethoven Piano Trios (both Angel/EMI). Most recently, Mr. Harrell recorded Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2, and Prokofiev's Sinfonia concertante with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Gerard Schwarz conducting (Classico). Lynn Harrell last appeared with the New York Philharmonic in late September-early October 2006, performing Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1, led by Lorin Maazel.
Conductor Michael Francis came to prominence in January 2007 when he was asked, on 12 hours' notice, to replace an indisposed Valery Gergiev for the rehearsals and performance of Sofia Gubaidulina's Märchen-Poem and Pro et Contra with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) during the BBC Gubaidulina festival at the Barbican Centre. One month later he was asked, on two hours' notice, to fill in for composer/conductor John Adams in a performance of his own works with the LSO at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. In October 2008 Mr. Francis was a finalist in the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, were he conducted the LSO in a Since then, the LSO has continued to invite Mr. Francis to conduct rehearsals as an assistant to Gergiev, as well as to lead education concerts, composers' workshops, brass concerts, and string orchestra concerts, and he regularly conducts the LSO in the recording studio.
Among the orchestras he has conducted are the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre Philharmonie du Luxembourg, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, and Stuttgart's Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO), were he replaced André Previn for four concerts with Anne-Sophie Mutter. In April 2010 he worked with Ms. Mutter, conducting a series of concerts in Japan and Taiwan with the National Taipei Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. This season he appears with the Norrkoping Symfoniorkester in Sweden, and makes his debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Francis will conduct the Orchestre de Pau in March 2011, and in spring will join Ms. Mutter for a European tour, performing Sebastian Currier's Violin Concerto with the RSO Stuttgart. Mr. Francis has been a double bass player in the LSO since 2003. He graduated with a masters degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2000. This is his New York Philharmonic debut.
Repertoire for November 18-20 and 23
It is well known that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy of the harpsichord and piano, but it is less-frequently noted that he was also an accomplished violinist from a young age. When he was in the employ of the Archbishop Colloredo, he was not just conductor but also concertmaster of the Salzburg Court Orchestra, and it was when he held that post that he composed his five violin concertos. It was long believed that Mozart composed all five in close succession in 1775 at the age of 19, but recent research suggests that the Violin Concerto No. 1 actually dates from 1773. This might account for its relatively simple construction. The New York Philharmonic has programmed the Violin Concerto No. 1 only once before, in April 1962, with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Isaac Stern as soloist.
Perhaps the most popular of Mozart's five violin concertos, the Violin Concerto No. 3 offers some of the composer's most appealing melodies. The lively folk tune used in the finale, "The Strassburger," lends the concerto its occasional nickname ("Strassburg"), by which Mozart himself referred to it in a letter to his father, reporting on an evening when "at supper I played my Strassburger Concerto, which went like oil. Everyone praised my beautiful, pure tone." From the elegant invention of its outer movements to the sublime lyricism of the central Adagio, the concerto is a work of exquisite charm. The New York Philharmonic first played it on March 11, 1942, led by John Barbirolli, with Zino Francescatti as soloist. It was last performed in April 2006, with Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow as soloist, conducted by Bramwell Tovey.
The German composer Wolfgang Rihm is not only one of the world's most prominent composers but also one of the most prolific. His output to date comprises several hundred works, encompassing all genres - including works for the stage, orchestra, and chamber ensemble, as well as songs. Anne-Sophie Mutter premiered his Gesungene Zeit (Time Chant) in Zurich in 1992, with the Collegium Musicum under the director of Paul Sacher, and the New York Philharmonic performed the work with Ms. Mutter in January 2000, conducted by Kurt Masur. Of his new work for Ms. Mutter, Lichtes Spiel ("Light Game"), scored for orchestra, Mr. Rhim has said: "I wanted to write a transparent orchestral movement ... something light, but not 'light-weight.'" The work, which is receiving its world premiere in these performances, was commissioned by the The Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
The Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish, was the last and most compositionally sophisticated of Mozart's five violin concertos. The soloist enters the opening Allegro aperto movement with a few bars of unexpected adagio in a recitative style, a stroke that Sir Donald Francis Tovey called "one of the greatest surprises ever perpetrated in a concerto." The lyrical second movement is followed by a rondo finale, which alternates between markedly contrasting dance styles, passing suddenly from an elegant minuet into the lively, folk-inflected music that lends the work its nickname. The Philharmonic first performed the concerto in February 1904, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony (which merged with the New York Philharmonic in 1928 to form today's New York Philharmonic) with Jacques Thibaud as soloist. It was most recently performed in November 2008, with Julia Fischer as soloist, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
Credit Suisse is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic. Anne-Sophie Mutter is The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence. Michael Francis's appearance is made possible through the Daisy and Paul Soros Endowment Fund. These concerts are made possible, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Major support provided by the Francis Goelet Fund. Programs of the New York Philharmonic are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Single tickets for the chamber concert on November 14 start at $38. Single tickets for the concerts on November 18-20 and 23 start at $40. Tickets for Open Rehearsals are $18. Pre-Concert Talks are $7.00; discounts are available for multiple concerts, students, and groups (visit nyphil.org/preconcert for more information). All other tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office or the Alice Tully Hall Box Office at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 65th Street. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m. A limited number of $12.50 tickets for select concerts may be available through the Internet for students within 10 days of the performance, or in person the day of. Valid identification is required. To determine ticket availability, call the Philharmonic's Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. [Ticket prices subject to change.]
For press tickets, call Lanore Carr in the New York Philharmonic Communications Department at (212) 875-5714, or e-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more about Ms. Mutter's residency, go to nyphil.org/mutter
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Get an overview of this hotelWaterfront resort on Mission Bay near SeaWorld
Popular property highlights
Bayside resort
Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa is set among tropical gardens and close to sandy beaches on the shores of Mission Bay. This 18-acre resort is just 2 mi (3 km) from Sea World San Diego, with easy I-5 access.
Full-service marina
The resort features a nearby beach with marina, as well as the full-service Spa Brezza, a lagoon-style pool with spa tubs, and 5 tennis courts. Acqua offers al fresco dining and Mission Bay views.
Satellite LCD TVs
Guest accommodations at Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa blend Mediterranean-inspired architecture and modern style. Rooms offer satellite LCD TVs and compact refrigerators.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The 18-acre Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa is situated in the Mission Bay Aquatic Park, within two miles of SeaWorld and Old Town San Diego.The resort features a nearby beach and a range of recreational facilities. Besides an outdoor lagoon-style swimming pool, three spa tubs, and a children's wading pool, guests can also enjoy five lighted tennis courts, and a basketball court. Boat and watercraft rentals are also available from the resort's full service marina (surcharge).
The resort includes nine treatment rooms and a fitness center. The spa also offers a retail boutique; a hair and nail salon; men's and women's locker rooms; an indoor/outdoor meditation and relaxation lounge; beachfront and al fresco services; and a private rooftop sundeck. Spa services include massages; facials; and nail, hand, and foot care. Children's services are available as well (surcharge). (Advanced reservations for services are recommended).
Children can make new friends at the kids' club (surcharge, open seasonally) where they'll enjoy organized activities designed especially for kids (ages 5 to 12). A restaurant, Acqua, offers al fresco dining, and adults can relax with a cocktail by the fire at The Olive bar. A seasonal poolside restaurant, 3 bars/lounges, and a coffeehouse are also on site. A business center is open 24 hours a day and complimentary wireless Internet access is available in public areas.
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 8
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Designated smoking areas
- Computer station
- Number of spa tubs - 3
- Luggage storage
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 357
- Picnic area
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Conference space size (meters) - 2415
- Number of meeting rooms - 15
- Tennis on site
- Year Built 1962
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Garden
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
- Wedding services
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Full-service spa
- Pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Marina on site
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 26000
- Conference center
- Outdoor tennis courts - 5
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 7
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Self parking (surcharge), RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Premium bedding
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Premium TV channels
- Microwave (on request)
- Free toiletries
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free weekday newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- MP3 docking station
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- Down comforter
Where to Eat
Acqua - a California Bistro - Overlooks Mission Bay. New American cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dining available on wrap-around patio. Wine cellar with more than 3,000 bottles from around the world.
The Olive - Extensive bar and martini menu and New American cuisine. Outdoor patio with fire pits.
Fresco's - Poolside dining, snacks, and cocktails. Open seasonally from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
A'roma - Coffeehouse serving Zoka® coffee.
Room Service - Available from early morning until late evening.
Nearby Things to Do
Located in Mission Bay Aquatic Park's 4,600-plus acres of beaches, coves, and islands, this 18-acre resort includes a nearby beach and dock, outdoor pool area, children's wading pool, and three spa tubs.
Five lighted tennis courts include a practice alley and tennis instructor. The resort also features a full-service spa and a well-equipped fitness room.
Mission Bay Aquatic Park and San Diego beaches feature numerous recreational opportunities including surfing, scuba diving, kayaking, boating, fishing, and personal watercraft. Mountain biking and horse riding are among additional options in the San Diego area.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Segway rental/tour on site
- Parasailing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Kayaking on site
- Motor boating on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Sailing on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Steam room in spa
- Thai massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Number of treatment rooms 9
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 16
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25.00 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 100 per accommodation, per stay
- 2 per room (up to 75.00 lb)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
- Resort fee: USD 30.00 per accommodation, per night
- Pool access
- Spa access
- Spa tub access
- Beach access
- Health club access
- Fitness center access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Business center/computer access
- Internet access
- Newspaper
- Phone calls
- In-room safe
- In-room coffee
- Concierge/valet service
- Housekeeping
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 8 and USD 17 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 38.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 100 per accommodation, per stay
- Late check-out fee: USD 75.00
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25.00 per night
Hotel Name
- Hilton Resort San Diego
- Hilton San Diego
- Hilton San Diego Resort
- San Diego Hilton
- San Diego Hilton Resort
- San Diego Resort Hilton
- Hilton Hotel San Diego
- Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel San Diego
- Hilton San Diego Hotel San Diego
- Hilton San Diego Resort And Spa
We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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These last few days, as I walked the familiar but
now eerie Manhattan streets my first question with each person
I meet is "have you lost someone?" Very few people
were looking for me or wanting to talk. All seemed
numbed by shock and sadness. I always had to take
the initiative and only in two cases was there strong
reluctance which of course I respected.After hearing some details about
their brother or in-law or friend or colleague at work,
...and sharing in their sorrow and helplessness, I tried to
sense their religious affiliation and attempt a prayer. A few
spoke a prayer from their own heart. Sometimes I concluded
offering them a blessing which was most readily and gratefully
received. All were so filled with deep gratitude as we
parted.New York is responding marvelously. On Wednesday night when I
was finishing up hours at the Bereavement Center on 29th
at 1st Ave,, and was speaking with a young German
reporter inside the main entrance door, which I was continually
opening for police, volunteers, etc, a wheelchair came in and
the quadriplegic man whose warped & twisted body called for
pity, tried to mumble his wish. After stooping down to
him and asking him to repeat his wish 4 times,
I understood that he wanted to give blood. After directing
him to the hospital next door, the policemen and reporter
were deeply impacted when I explained this to them. This
case is symbolic of all the NYers who are giving
all they have got to help those in need. I
suggested to the reporter that NY now be called the
big heart, and not just the big apple. There is
an extraordinary sense of family. Lord we thank you for
this great gift of love to your people.An almost unbearable
weight of sorrow hangs over many hearts. A 90 year
old father mourns his 60 year old son; a terminally
ill mother mourns her 27 year old fire fighter son
while a surviving uncle hastens to make the funeral arrangements.
Brothers and sisters are missing. One parish has lost 42
people, many of whom are young parents. 30 parents are
missing from one school. There is incredible hurt, but more
amazingly, among those with whom I have spoken, a mature
forgiveness and lack of will to revenge. Justice must be
served, but the people whom I met were not vengeful.
I have not heard a single direct victim speak in
terms of revenge. Rarely have I seen such an outburst
of love of Country combined with such capacity to absorb
an unspeakable blow. Anger may surface more as time goes
on. Some people were a little hostile to prayer. Most
were deeply grateful for having been approached and expressed that
in a prolonged and firm handshake and teary eyes. I
have prayed with Catholics, Orthodox, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Born-again, Jews, Muslims,
and even vague believers ... People spoke moving prayers for
God´s blessings and none for revenge. Let´s pray that universal
brotherhood will be advanced and not further damaged in the
aftermath.The prospect that many bodies will not be found will
also deprive many of the healing that comes from saying
goodbye. Let´s pray for them that they will find peace
in other ways.On the other hand, a young businessman, whom
I know, ran his companies from the 79th and on
some lower floors. Three of his brothers work with him.
The plane hit very close to them, but all the
company employees were outside of the building that morning. He
plans a mass of thanksgiving. Let´s join in to thank
for all who were spared by God´s Providence, often through
heroic sacrifice. Lord we thank you for the rescue workers,
volunteers, and all who helped and prayed.Then there are those
who feel ´guilty´: for example a brother & sister from
out of town who argued their brother into taking a
job in the towers a month ago; managers who were
not there and who might have ordered their staff out
immediately as some did. They too need our prayers so
they may attain peace of heart for results far from
their intent and control.Many feel the call to come closer
to God, to take all we have less for granted,
to ´renew´ their connection with God and the Church, to
come back to the sacraments, Sunday Mass, reconciliation after many
years away, (yesterday a woman at an airport parking-lot toll-booth
was ready for confession and I gave her the absolution
right there - her colleague opened up another lane so
traffic was not held up) ... let´s pray that all
these desires be transformed into reality.We pray especially for all
those responsible for the security of all the innocent people
on this Earth. Lord guide our leaders in their decisions,
in response to this tragedy, to do justice, provide for
our safety and impede recurrence. We pray that the solemn
bonds of trust which sustain a free society will never
again be so brutally abused. Give us your strength to
transform our lives and the whole world.As someone who came
to live here two years ago, and having been exposed
in various Countries to the attitudes people often have toward
Americans or within the USA toward New Yorkers , these
days the American people and New Yorkers in particular have
shone in a greatness which I feel bound to share
with all peoples I meet. May God continue to bless
America. Fr. Eamon Kelly LC, NY, in tragic September 2001.


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Or maybe Uncle Irv was bending over to light the menorah and accidentally caught his hair on fire.
When families get together at the holidays, goofy things happen. If you caught one of those crazy moments on camera, we're inviting you to enter the picture in our Worst Winter Holiday Photo Contest.
This isn't a contest for bad photos. We're looking for photos that captured awkward, embarrassing or funny family moments at the holidays.
The winner will receive a visit from our staff photo expert, who will take a family portrait. We'll provide the winner with a free framed print of the family portrait, as well as a disc containing digital images from the photo shoot.
We plan to publish the winning photo on Christmas Eve. We'll also share other photo entries on our website that day.
We will accept photo entries today-midnight Nov. 25. You must be a resident of northeast Indiana to enter. Limit one entry per household. No altered photos please.
We'll post the top entries on our website, and then readers can go to www.news-sentinel.com Dec. 3 through 5 p.m. Dec. 14 to vote for the winner.
Here's how to enter:
•Email: Send your photos as high-resolution, JPG images to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name, daytime phone number and a brief description identifying the people in the photo, what is happening and when and where the photo was taken.
•Mail: Send to Worst Winter Holiday Photo Contest, The News-Sentinel, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802. Please include your name, daytime phone number, email address and a description identifying the people in the photo, what is happening in the picture and when and where it was taken. If you would like the photo returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
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Billionaire Clive Palmer has reportedly likened actions by parts of the Liberal National Party (LNP) in Queensland to those of the Nazis in the lead-up to World War II.
The broadside from the major LNP donor comes after the party suspended his membership on late Friday, following Mr Palmer's call for the sacking of two state ministers, allegations that the government cooked the books and after he referred to some of its members as crooks.
The Courier Mail says the latest attack is likely to inflame an already tense situation, with Gold Coast MP Alex Douglas calling for Premier Campbell Newman to intervene.
The entrepreneur has lodged legal action against Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney and the co-ordinator general over the rejection of his Waratah Coal project as a preferred tenderer for a multi billion-dollar development in central Queensland.
Mr Palmer accused Mr Seeney of bullying by ordering an audit of his mining operations.
He described the action as a misuse of power comparable to the disregard Nazis held for the courts in the lead-up to WWII.
"It was extraordinary to me that any government in Australia would use stormtrooper tactics to get at a person just because they have gone to court to get a decision," Mr Palmer told the newspaper.


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About Arabian Adventures
Since 1987, Arabian Adventures has been at the forefront of destination management, with its headquarters in Dubai and full-fledged operations in Abu Dhabi and Fujairah and professional associates throughout the Gulf. Arabian Adventures brings to destination management a uniquely creative and innovative approach. Clients' needs are met with meticulous attention to detail. Delivering a total holiday experience is the Arabian Adventures team of professional, multilingual staff, backed by their own air-conditioned, well-maintained fleet of luxury coaches, city buses, cars and specially-equipped four-wheel drive vehicles.
The wide variety of excursions offered by Arabian Adventures takes you on discovery routes of your choice. You can choose from enchanting dinner cruises down the Creek, to journeys of exploration on the vast stretches of sand, wadis and mountains. Special interest activities such as deep sea fishing, diving and golf are all catered for. For the first time we have also included reduced prices for families who wish to enjoy our tours whilst stopping over in Dubai. Check the special children's price column on the below Tour schedules table valid for all children aged 2 to 12 years.
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Mark Kashman (@mkashman) is a senior product manager on the SharePoint
marketing team.
Office 365 is growing rapidly and companies
are moving more of their social and collaboration needs to the cloud. Users are
uploading more documents to SkyDrive Pro, teams are building numerous team
sites to work with internal teams as well as with external customers and partners,
and companies are establishing their corporate intranet sites.
Based on feedback
and reports on how customers use the service, we've made the following
improvements to SharePoint Online:
Improved file
upload experience: increased file upload limit from 250MB to 2 GB and expanded support
for a broader range of file types.
Increased Site
collection and list lookup limits: increased site collection limit from 3,000 to
10,000 and list lookup threshold to 12 lookups.
Improved self-restoration: increasing
recycle bin retention duration and turning versioning on by default for new
SkyDrive Pro libraries.
These updates will
be rolling out live worldwide over the coming weeks without interruption. Let's
dive into the details.
Improved file upload
file upload limit to 2 GB
We just
significantly increased
the default SkyDrive Pro storage per user, from 7 GB to 25 GB, with the
ability to further increase to 50 GB or 100 GB. To complement this, we're also
increasing the per file upload limit, from 250 MB to 2 GB. Users will now be
able to upload and share larger files like CAD drawings, video files, larger
project documents and more-both to their personal SkyDrive Pro and to team site
document libraries. And it is possible to upload more than one file at a time
via drag and drop, the standard file upload dialog box or via SkyDrive
Pro Sync for Windows.
Uploading large files
into SkyDrive Pro (applicable to team site document libraries as well); files
were dragged and dropped from the desktop into the Web interface.
and .dll are now acceptable file types
Online now accepts a broader range of file types, specifically .exe and .dll. This
value is already an option for SharePoint on-premises admins who can add or
remove blocked file types from central administration via the Blocked File Types page. For SharePoint
Online, our telemetry shows that customers want to store these files in the
cloud along with their other content. This
change will eliminate a number of sync failures customers have seen due to
unsupported file types.
Review the SharePoint
Online blocked file type list.
Increased site collection and
list lookup limits
site collection limit to 10,000 site collections per tenant
Over the
next few weeks we will be increasing the number of site collections (groups of
websites organized into a hierarchy) each customer can create. Office 365 Enterprise
customers* can create up to 10,000 site collections from within their
SharePoint Online Admin center (If they want to create more than one site
collection at a time, they can do so using the SharePoint
Online Management Shell); the previous site collection limit was 3,000/tenant.
This increase will enable greater flexibility for how you govern and allocate
your SharePoint Online investment across your company.
*Note: this
increase only applies to Office 365 Enterprise plans (including Education and
Government) – Office 365 Small Business and Midsize Business remain at a single
site collection and twenty site collections respectively.
lookup threshold increased to 12 relations
Customers use
SharePoint to create sophisticated business solutions that reflect the people,
processes and products of their business. These solutions often take
dependencies on information stored in disparate sets of data (or lists). The
sets of data are often managed by different people/groups. Thus, when you
combine lists' information in a smart way, you achieve critical mapping and preserve
the integrity of your data. To improve the usability of list lookups in
SharePoint Online, we're increasing the relationship threshold of list lookups
from 8 to 12 relations. This means you can now create more relational
dependencies, thus improving the depth and accuracy of your custom solution
Learn more about creating cross-list
Review the
list of all SharePoint
Online boundaries and limitations.
Improved self-restoration
software boundary and limit increases, we've been working on improving methods
for customers to self-restore their environments, so they can achieve effective
lifecycle management of content and more quickly recover from accidental
Bin has been increased to 90 days
To help customers recover previous versions or deleted
documents, we're increasing the time a file will remain in all available
recycle bins (at the site and the site collection level, including your
SkyDrive Pro). Previously, the recycle bin was emptied automatically every 30
days. Now customers will have 90 days to recover deleted documents, lists, list
items, sites, or even full site collections.
A user's SkyDrive Pro Recycle Bin accessed by
clicking the gear icon > Site contents
Review "Manage
the Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site collection," article on Office.com.
Review "Empty
the recycle bin or restore your files" for SkyDrive Pro article on
of Office documents "On" by default in new SkyDrive Pro libraries
Office 365
will enable versioning by default on newly created SkyDrive Pro libraries, with
10 versions being retained. Versioning helps with deletion errors and
overwriting scenarios. It empowers users to self-restore. It also supports
managed work streams of documents, in which you require declaration of minor or
major revisions with the ease of restoring a known previous version. You can
also programmatically version documents as a step in an approval workflow or
when a document is checked in after edits are completed.
can be enabled for existing SkyDrive Pro libraries and for team libraries and
lists, or turned off as required.
Review How
does versioning work in a list or library?
Learn how to
and configure versioning for a list or library
Learn how to
restore, or delete a previous version of a file or item
Internet Explorer 10 fix for "Open with Explorer
View" on Windows 7
We also want to highlight an
important related fix. Customers who use Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 and
have previously run into issues using the "Open with Explorer View" can now download a hotfix
from the Windows team (x86 & x64-based versions). Once the hotfix is in
place, you'll be able to successfully open a SharePoint Online document library
in Explorer just like any other desktop folder on your Windows device, and then
drag and drop files between your desktop and SharePoint Online.
There's a lot of growth in the
SharePoint Online stratosphere. We hope you take advantage of your Office in
the cloud-build solutions, upload business files, share and collaborate with
your peers-and discover the power of working better together.
— Mark
Kashman @mkashman
Q: Which Office 365 plans will get
these SharePoint Online improvements?
A: All above announcements apply to all Office 365
business plans – except the 10,000 site collection increase (only applicable to
Office 365 Enterprise plans (including Education and Government).
Specifically, these plans are: Office 365 Small Business (P1), Office 365
Small Business Premium (P2), Office 365 Midsize Business, Office 365 Enterprise
E1, E3 and E4, Office 365 Education A2, A3 and A4, and Office 365
government G1, G3, and G4.
Q. Does this announcement apply to Office
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Lets move forward and win the next game.
It was a loss to a strong rival. I look forward to the next game against the Bulls. It's likely to be an all-out war. I hope one of our guys channels his inner DD for the rematch.
I think while we all wanted this to last 82 games we're all happy its over. Is that possible?
I know the next L wontnsuck even near as much as this one. Lets make it another 9 games from now
Great, historic run though. Our Indiana Pacers are 9-1 to start the season. Ill tKe that all day everyday
This game sucked like no other.
On to the next.
Also, have to give a shout out to Cope. I want Cope getting Solo's minutes from here out until Danny returns (Who knows how long that'll be)
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
pfft I'm not happy it is over.
I'm not sure you can ever take too much out of a night where the Bulls are THAT hot on offense (that is a statistical anomaly) and the Pacers are THAT bad on defense (that is an even greater statistical anomaly).
Rather than isolate performances in a game where everything went out the window, I'll just speak to some trends:
1. Paul George has to learn that he can't just take quarters off. I mean, yeah, he'll have off quarters here and there. But even in the Pacers' 9-game win streak, we've seen plenty of games where Paul George didn't really opt to insert himself into the equation until the 3rd quarter. It's a thin line between teamwork/sharing the ball/establishing the low post game, and being aggressive on your own right. But I'd just like to see PG24 establishing himself earlier, and getting to the foul line more often than he is.
2. 10 games in, and it's clear that we're in for a wild ride with Lance Stephenson. I think it will be more good than bad, but when it's bad, it's BAD. I'll throw offense out the window -- that's just gonna be what it's gonna be. What I'd like to see from Lance is a more concerted effort to concentrate on defense. Simply put, Lance is falling asleep and making mistakes on defense far more often than anyone else in the lineup. And it's just that, a concentration issue. Not an ability issue. He really needs to work on understanding that it's not just about driving into the teeth of the defense and shooting threes...every step on the defensive end counts too.
3. What a turnaround it's been in a year's time. A year ago, I would have been deathly concerned for the confidence of Roy Hibbert in a game like this. Now, it looked like Hibbert was one of the few players playing with confidence in this game. What a rock to have! Hibbert's consistency is one reason the odd blowout or two will never alarm me.
4. This was a good moment to remind Vogel that the robotic lineup/minute calculations may work for 90% of teams, but he'll have to get creative with the other 10%. Some games, you just can't have Solomon Hill out there like Vogel did tonight. He's not ready. I don't see wholesale adjustments along the lines of what some folks suggested -- having Copeland take Hill's minutes. But I do think Vogel needs to approach every game as a different beast, and given how the Pacers have handled business in the first 9 games (and Vogel's track record before), I think he just defaults to his pre-determined rotations a bit too often and leans on some concepts that just aren't ideally tailored to specific matchups.
5. Luis Scola still needs someone who can consistently help him score in that 2nd unit, because he is going to have off nights. Asking him to be automatic from midrange every single night is unfair. This was a bad matchup from the start -- credit the Bulls, because Taj Gibson is freaking awesome, would love to have him in a Pacers uni. But this is where either Vogel needs to get creative with rotations, or someone like CJ Watson or Orlando Johnson (pending Danny Granger's return) really has to step up.
6. Honestly, if I'm Vogel, I burn most of this tape in terms of "teaching moments". But clips I do save? Body language. PG24 is whining at refs way too much this year. It's annoying, and he's losing out on calls because of it. Some bad moments between PG24 and Lance in particular in terms of pointing at each other, blaming etc. on defense. You can attribute a lot of this game to "one of those nights", which is fine, because Pacers will have that both GOOD and BAD over 82 games. But the Pacers allowed things to snowball, and did themselves no favor, in large part because their heads weren't where they needed to be. That's the kind of stuff Vogel can and should focus on coming out of this game. Now that we've seen what a nightmare scenario looks like, how do we recover from it the next time it starts to build?
This blowout was a huge statement game by the Bulls and ESPECIALLY by DRose. Frickin 6-8 from the 3pt line from DRose. The Bulls shot 50% from the field for the entire game......again, another statement from the Bulls.
I really can't find too many bright spots in this game. This was just plain embarrassing.
I know...move on....just move on....but I hope that on Wednesday, the Pacers humiliate the Knicks on the defensive end. I don't want this to linger and affect the Team.
Last edited by CableKC; 11-17-2013 at 03:01 AM.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Lance couldn't get his game going all game long. He wasn't able to "flip that switch on" like he did a few games back when you could see when he went all X-Factor on us. PG24 wasn't able to get his shot in the basket...just like in the other game.
Just like how the Bulls remembered the previous game and took it to heart this game to show that they were still an Elite Team....I really hope that the Pacers really learn a lesson from this game. They have til March 21st and March 24th to show whether they learned something from this game or not.
Last edited by CableKC; 11-17-2013 at 03:32 AM.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
i was totally expecting a loss but this was just too much to handle. i hope this humiliation effects the team positively.
The only really significant thing to me is what the Bulls defense did to our offense. They did to us what we do to most teams, manhandle, stifle everything we were trying to do and take the will away from us.
Obviously if our defense in this game had been as good as it can be, then the game would have been different
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Great post. This game reminded me of the streak of losses at the end of last year. The only player during that 10-12 game stretch to show up every night and give his all was Hibbert. Even when Hibbert has an off night you can tell he's still pushing himself.
PG does not always give it his all on offense or defense and that's my only gripe with him. I hate to see a player just not give the effort they're capable of. If Paul wants this to be his team he needs to lead by example and that starts with effort. I said last year and I nothing has changed, this is Roy Hibbert's team in my mind.
Lance has had 2 games in a row where his mistakes outweighed his contributions but I don't consider that an effort issue.
It's just a loss though and we know we'll have more. NY isn't going to roll over for us and every playoff team is going to try to make a statement against us as long as we're at or near the top. I am so ready for Granger to come back, I hope he plays by next Sat.
I think they kind of rattled some of our young guys. There was a lesson here for Paul and Lance. The question is how they respond to it. Some of our wins have just been Paul or Lance taking over, but it didn't work against that defense. They will need to grow in terms of team play to handle that type of environment. Reminds me a bit of game 7 against Miami. The Bulls just came out and smacked us in the mouth and we didn't respond well. We lost all focus on what we were trying to accomplish. Lance was throwing up junk and Paul wasn't being patient. It didn't help that DRose was unconscious. I know he's good but not that good from 3.
Edit: Notice I didn't include Hibbert. Roy played a solid game and just didn't get enough help. He's been through enough ups and downs that the environment doesn't seem to affect him. Just a more mature player IMO.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
I'm not going to read too much into the loss. I thought the Pacers simply looked fatigued. This was their 4th back to back of the season. Last night was the 2nd night of only Chicago's 1st back to back. Plus the Bulls were saving face from the 1st game beat down the Pacers put on them. More likely than not, the Bulls won't shoot like that against Indiana for the rest season. I'm still convinced that the Pacers will beat the Bulls if they see them in the playoffs.
I'm not the type to make excuses or put blinders on...normally looking at the cup half-empty. But I do think that game last night was like the beat down we put on Miami last year. IOW, we are not that bad and I think the Bulls played the game of their season.
At the same time, the Pacers have to acknowledge that they have something to prove now and that will require more than just another regular season win against the Bulls. Even if the Pacers win the rest of the contests, the Bulls have proven themselves for the entire year with that statement win. It was too strong a statement. As a result, the Pacers will not be viewed as the better team until they beat the Bulls in the playoffs and we will not know that for months.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Some people say that a good offense can come and go because sometimes the shots do not fall, but good defense is there all the time.
Those people are wrong.
Our defense and our offense both disappeared last night, for long stretches.
I can't explain it, other than to guess that you cannot maintain the necessary focus every game.
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
It was the end of a back to back, on the road, against a very good team who just so happens to lie through their teeth when they say we're not a rival and we just beat them down bad. I saw this as a probable loss, but was hoping against it. PG hasn't looked as good lately and looks tired.
DRose shot nothing but 3s. That was odd to me.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
I'm not buying that PG hasn't looked good lately when he was on Superstar mode Friday night. If he wants to be a Superstar he has to stop having this on again/off again moods..if you can't score thr night, defend and facilitate through assists. We need to give Cope minutes btw
A lot of posters have commented on the fact that Lance and Paul couldn't "flip the switch" and get into the game, and I agree completely. I think a lot of tonight had to do with the fact that we haven't really played a team that could "take it to us" since we played the Bulls at BLF. Sure we played Brooklyn, and that was a highly competitive game, but that team is still figuring itself out with all the new additions. The Bulls know exactly who they are, and they knew how they needed to play if they wanted to beat us.
IOW, this isn't the Bucks or the Raptors. We can't try and decide to flip a switch, and think we will beat good teams. Paul has to quit looking for calls, because he won't get it against the other good to elite teams. Lance will learn that the driving lanes are a lot smaller, and the wide open 3s are less frequent against the good teams. He's cooled a bit offensively (which is fine) but he needs to maintain that high level of effort and attention on defense.
Other notes and takeaways:
tonight is a night where I want D West more involved earlier in the game.
No more Solomon hill against good teams. If you want to develop him then give him his 8 mins against the lottery teams. He literally provides nothing out there and we have capable vets sitting behind him.
Edit: As good as Scola had been, he struggles mightily against athletic 4s. Obviously Taj "the pacer killer" Gibson is a top 15 PF in the league. But Scola was just completely out played. Got to find a way to neutralize his deficiency against athletic 4s
We've gotta stop crying to the refs. We dispute every call it seems, and it only makes things worse as the game wears on. We are looking like the Hear out there, minus the flopping (Cept Lance lol)
All in all we are 9-1 and looking great against the teams we are supposed to beat. I bet we come out sharp and focused against NY.
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I'ts just a fact of sports life the better and more successful your team gets the more each loss hurts.
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
I think that Copeland did fairly poorly yesterday night when he got minutes....but I also feel that he was a victim of a poor rotation. In a small ball lineup where he is the "stretch 4", he has to be paired up with a defensive presense in the paint. He was paired up with Scola for the majority of his minutes.....not Mahinmi or Hibbert. As a result....I know that he's used as a stretch 4 and not known for his defense....but Gibson was able to abuse Copeland in the paint
I'm okay with him being used in certain situations....but having him not be on the floor with the right combination of Players, where he is on the floor with some 4 Man combination of Hibbert ( or Mahinmi ), PG24, GH or Lance.....is important. Having him on the floor with most of the 2nd unit where the defense is not focusing on someone that can kick it out to him won't work.
Also...what happened to Mahinmi with getting only 7 minutes in the game? Was he injured?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Last night was one of those "everything looks like a disaster while the game is going on" nights for me, followed by a "pick it up and move on" morning.
I will say that I knew we were in trouble when the first series of shots all came short with almost no lift, from Lance and Paul in particular.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Onward and upward!
Fluke offensive game from the Bulls. They won't shoot that well against us again.
It happens. We weren't going 82-0. We were at the end of a back-to-back yet again playing a rival in their place. Beat New York on Wednesday and begin a new winning streak.
Agree with all of this! To me it says things get better when a healthy Granger is back
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