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Container ships are still getting bigger. If there's an implosion, I'd say it's a rather soundless one at the moment.
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Readers, this is a very important post. Very much a "danger is opportunity" post from Clusterfuck Nation:
Scale Implosion
Though the public hasn't groked it yet, WalMart and its kindred malignant organisms have entered their own yeast-overgrowth death spiral. In a now permanently contracting economy the big box model fails spectacularly. Every element of economic reality is now poised to squash them. Diesel fuel prices are heading well north of $4 again. If they push toward $5 this year you can say goodbye to the "warehouse on wheels" distribution method. (The truckers, who are mostly independent contractors, can say hello to the re-po men come to take possession of their mortgaged rigs.) Global currency wars (competitive devaluations) are about to destroy trade relationships. Say goodbye to the 12,000 mile supply chain from Guangzhou to Hackensack. Say goodbye to the growth financing model in which it becomes necessary to open dozens of new stores every year to keep the credit revolving.
Then there is the matter of the American customers themselves. The WalMart shoppers are exactly the demographic that is getting squashed in the contraction of this phony-baloney corporate buccaneer parasite revolving credit crony capital economy. Unlike the Federal Reserve, WalMart shoppers can't print their own money, and they can't bundle their MasterCard and Visa debts into CDOs to be fobbed off on Scandinavian pension funds for quick profits. They have only one real choice: buy less stuff, especially the stuff of leisure, comfort, and convenience.
he potential for all sorts of economic hardship is obvious in this burgeoning dynamic. But the coming implosion of big box retail implies tremendous opportunities for young people to make a livelihood in the imperative rebuilding of local economies. At this stage it is probably discouraging for them, because all their life programming has conditioned them to be hostages of giant corporations and so to feel helpless. In a town like the old factory village I live in (population 2500) few of the few remaining young adults might venture to open a retail operation in one of the dozen-odd vacant storefronts on Main Street. The presence of K-Mart, Tractor Supply, and Radio Shack a quarter mile west in the strip mall would seem to mock their dim inklings that something is in the wind. But K-Mart will close over 200 boxes this year, and Radio Shack is committed to shutter around 500 stores. They could be gone in this town well before Santa Claus starts checking his lists. If they go down, opportunities will blossom. There will be no new chain store brands to replace the dying ones. That phase of our history is over.
What we're on the brink of is scale implosion. Everything gigantic in American life is about to get smaller or die. Everything that we do to support economic activities at gigantic scale is going to hamper our journey into the new reality. The campaign to sustain the unsustainable, which is the official policy of US leadership, will only produce deeper whirls of entropy. I hope young people recognize this and can marshal their enthusiasm to get to work. It's already happening in the local farming scene; now it needs to happen in a commercial economy that will support local agriculture.
I agree 100%.
I see this locally, where "the best and the brightest" of our college students are going into sustainable ag, permaculture, and DIY of all sorts. We oldsters -- speak for yourself, lambert -- need to connect to them. Because to support a culture of local risk-taking, two systems at scale that should not die are Social Security, and Medicare, which should become Medicare for All. We, knowing we are mortal, know this. Young people, believing them are not immortal, may not. We should unite, if we can figure out how.
Container ships are still getting bigger. If there's an implosion, I'd say it's a rather soundless one at the moment.
Sounds like diminishing returns, to me.
I think I'm just generally skeptical about this sort of thinking. Yes, WalMart and its kin are bound to meet the end of their string here, and sooner rather than later. Still, there's still lots of room for Le WalMart or Das WalMart or Walmartaru, etc. Plenty of nations out there who are just about as stupid as we are when it comes to letting big corporations buy their governments so they can move in.
So, much as I'd like to see many of them go the way of Blockbuster or IGA, I just don't see it happening anytime soon without some help.
And to tell you the truth, I kinda miss Borders. Now there's only one bookstore in this town, and that's nowhere near enough.
I'm glad i live in a place not utterly dominated by big box stores yet. We have some (a WalMart, Target, Kohls, and Best Buy as well as TJMaxx opened up in the last two years), but we also still have a downtown that's occupied and holdouts from the days when regional chains were more common.
Unfortunately, if most people can't afford WalMart's low prices, they're unlikely to be able to afford the start up retailer either. So i guess the trick is to find a way that invigorates local economies enough to sustain themselves, and of course a start would be to spend our money carefully. That means generally not at those big box stores. I assume that's awful difficult when you're really having a hard time making ends meet in the first place.
Diesel going too high will kill America's zombie economy, because trucking everything around the continent is the most short-sighted and stupid thing we could possibly have done. (And it severely accelerates the degradation of road surfaces.) Bigger container ships make sense because you won't use significantly more bunker fuel to push a bigger ship than a slightly smaller one. For the weight/volume of goods they carry, container ships are incredibly efficient. Like trains, minimal fuel moves a lot of stuff great distances. Even diesel-electrics are incredibly efficient when calculated in fuel/weight/mile; making them longer likely has a negligible effect on fuel efficiency.
Of course had we been smart, the long distance hauling of goods around the country would have always been done by rail, with trucks used to transport from rail head to final destination.
Sadly, I live in a city of 80,000-plus that has very few independent retailers. In fact, we have two WalMarts.
And no, we're not out in the middle of nowhere.
That thing about affordability is a problem. I think partly it can be solved by making people who can afford the alternatives aware of them. Beyond that, I'm not sure what the answer is. Some people spend their money inefficiently, but I don't think there's as much growth room there among the poor as some folks seem to.
Just curious - have you checked out the indoor farmer's market in the mall? I noticed when it was being built but I don't go to the mall very often - so I haven't seen it "open" yet.
Sadly, no. I'm in a kind of opposite schedule from most folks. Weekends are usually the busy time.
it seems to be a classic case of the parasites killing the host.
First it was the mega-malls. Now finally Bog Box outlets. Global trade is unsustainable. It's like one giant sheet of concrete road. One crack and it crumbles. But economies paved like cobblestones together made up of 1000's of small, niche industries such as Germany are doing well. If one fails, it doesn't blow out the next.
I would expect the big boxes to adapt to more expensive diesel by switching to more natural gas trucks (whether owned or contracted). A company named Clean Energy (backed by T. Boone Pickens) is developing a network of compressed nat.gas filling stations. Cummins, working with Westport Innovations, is putting out natual gas truck engines. And there are others going this way. High diesel prices only help them.
As Lex says, it also makes sense to use the railroads a lot more, As price pressure increases, I would expect the rail system to get more efficient, not just in tons moved per mile per gallon, but also in consolidating loads onto trains and then distributing loads from trains. They could also switch to compressed natual gas as a fuel.
Where I do see a possible opening for smaller retailers, is in a linkage with a big box scale wholesaler. Product identification (bar codes and the like), instantanious data communication for submitting orders, materials handling technology putting together orders, and efficient transportation with natual gas and hybrid delivery vehicles could allow small retailers to get wholesale goods at competitive prices. As it is now, the small retailers wholesale prices are above or so close to big box retail prices, that it is hard to compete. If the big box cannot significantly undercut the local retailers, there is no reason to open or keep open the box.
You could be right in the short term (and in the long run we are all dead...)
I can see two networks that might help the small retailer: You mention barcoding, so open source that; and open source credit. The cut the rentiers take from plastic is unconscionable. Don't know how to get there, though.
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However, I'm not sure you're right, at least universally. Going purely on anecdote, the tide of goods available on the shelves is slowly, slowly receding, at least for places on the periphery like ME or MI (and for all I know in "the heartland." At the Mall, the two "anchor tenants" are Sears and Macy's. The white goods are Sears are increasingly shoddy -- the little oil heater I bought three years ago had a handle I could pick it up with; this year's model had no handle and I had to screw the wheels on. So now, to move it, I have to find the unheated portion of the heater and push... That's pressure on margins. The next step is to close the store. Ditto Macy's, which actually has sales on already discounted goods.
So, while you point to ways that the supply chain can be made more efficient, I am saying that the supply chain will gradually be withdrawn from portions of the country -- perhaps even large portions. Leaving the optimistic scenario for young people in the post!
You mention barcoding, so open source that;
Done.. Next?
and open source credit.
Might be a little tougher, but a good idea. Do cards from credit unions count? Or are you referring to some aspect of the technology?
If it's the latter, then I suspect there's a way to make it work. How our government handles cryptography might be an example. Even though it guards the information, it assumes that how the cryptography works might fall into the hands of an enemy. What it tries to keep really secret is the keys it uses to encrypt information. Conceivably, the encryption schemes our government uses could be made open source, but as long as the keys are kept secret, the secrets they're protection are still secure.
It could be that way with credit transactions, too.
Or am I missing the point?
How soon we forget. Just because we may all hate Wal-Mart doesn't mean our parents and grandparents didn't hate the heel who ran the company store. I remember high prices, poor service, and outright contempt from local merchants. Even in the face of Wal Mart, their relationship to the community never changed, even as their businesses closed up. Thousands of loveless beady-eyed Ebeneezer Scrooge-like local chamber of commerce types who piped in Paul Harvey broadcasts over the pa system and knew when they had you over a barrel--charging five dollars for a needle and twenty dollars for thread. Don't you remember the type?
As for the kids, I'm thinking that as we produce less and less, our adaptation will be more like Cuba's, relying on jobs that can't be transported anywhere else. Just as Havana still has '55 Ford Fairlanes ingeniously held together with baling wire and chewing gum, I suspect the kids will be getting very good at shoe repair, refurbishing electric motors to nurse 1980s-era Maytags along, and Victory gardens everywhere. I see a lot of opportunities for small machinist shops doing one-offs. No money to buy new anything, domestic or imported, but resources shifted to maintaining what we already have. A lot of hungry young men. Given the right circumstances the powers that be might think them fit for cannon fodder.
There are a lot of crafty types, "makers," but their current interests and offerings seem to me whimsical. I hope they are able to adapt their hobbies to practical products and solutions that will be valuable to their neighbors during precipitously declining economic conditions.
I'm putting a lot of hope into the makers, though. Would be nice if the machines worked on silicose (wood) instead of petroleum....
Just because we may all hate Wal-Mart doesn't mean our parents and grandparents didn't hate the heel who ran the company store. I remember high prices, poor service, and outright contempt from local merchants.
My argument has less to do with the niceness of the folks who ran the independent stores, but with the concentration of power and wealth that stores like WalMart represent, and the utter lack of alternatives thanks to them killing off the local businesses. Independent store owners could be scrooges, especially when they could get away with it due to market conditions, but now we've replaced those individual scrooges with a few big ones, with little if any alternatives.
Independent retail businesses aren't a utopia, that's for certain. Retail is a tough business, with the margins typically low and worker satisfaction almost guaranteed to be low as well. Still, there are reasons to prefer them over the big boxes.
unemployed and underutlized knowledge workers in the US and possible solutions.
The first commenterr, Celsius 233, thinks Ian is saying that Americans need to go abroad for work (one option), and says it's sad that so many Americans feel they can't emigrate or don't want to.
But I think Ian is mostly musing that really smart entrepreneurs would do well to look at all the unemployed research scientitsts in the US, for one example, and begin start ups to develop and sell necessary medicines at fair prices. Workable? I don't know. Basic research is not cheap, nor it the testing required to get new drugs certified.
Anyway, Ian's post seems to fit with this post.
Speaking of WalMart strategies: Out in WI where I was visting, they're really, really pushing into groceries, trying to undercut on some prices, but mostly just saving busy parents one extra stop. Even when cutting out other purchases, people still need to eat.
WalMart expanded the store closest to my brother's, but all of the added space went to groceries. The other departments have been squeezed and the choices drastically narrowed, especially in clothing. And the quality seems markedly lower in several departments. (I'd noticed the same thing, but without the big grocery selection at a couple WalMart's near me in nothern NJ suboonia).
Amazingly, KMart seems to now have higher quality in several of its departments! The exclamation point is because it had been on a steep downward slide, it had seemed to me. When Sears bought KMart, they made the one near me into something like Sears Lite, which did not do well at all. Sears also dropped Martha Stewart items and didn't provide anything similar. I can't even recall how long ago that was. But, in the past year --two-ish-- Sears turned the former KMart location back into a KMart; however, it took me a long time to even re-enter the store.
I've read articles that state China is now getting orders from US retailers for lower price point items and having trouble making profits unless they get the work done in lower labor cost countries.
The rush to the bottom is nearing its own bottom, one would think.


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We had a fun weekend. After we wrapped up VBS and put the church back together I headed for home. You can't imagine how just sitting in my quiet car was so relaxing! Ha! That evening, I asked Maddie if she wanted to go visit Ms. Charlsie with me. And she did.
Saturday morning, Tyler and Daisy were going on a float trip really early, so they spent the night with us. Friday night after supper, I explained to her the rule for spending the night with Mémère on a Friday night… "you must sleep in!" Of course, she wanted to know why, and I just told her that if she didn't sleep in she'd have to have coffee with Papa Dave in the morning. She said, "Yuck" to that.
As it turns out, she woke up about 6:30 and Dave kept her entertained until I got up at 7:00. We set off for our "day date" a few hours later. I told her earlier in the week that we may go to the library and she was so excited. About half-way through the drive there, she fell asleep (I think 6:30 must've hit her – it was only 10:15!) When I woke her up she was a little out of sorts, but then we walked in to the library together while I talked to her about having a quiet voice inside. She was SO good and loved it! It's a brand new facility and it's really amazing! We went to the puppet show that had just started and after about 15 minutes of that she whispered to me, "Let's go read books." So we headed downstairs to the children's department. We read several books and then she discovered the puzzles.
After the library we went to eat at McDonalds where she ate her WHOLE nugget Happy Meal – a first!
We finished the outing at Walmart – where else? I had promised her that she could pick out one color of nail polish… she asked for two, but I stuck to my guns. Of course, she picked the sparkliest pink she could find.
After Daisy and Tyler got home we all went to Chili's for supper. On our way back home the college was putting on a fireworks show, so we pulled over and let her out of her seat to watch. Her favorites are the pink ones… of course.
We had a GREAT day and she never gave me a moment of trouble. Only one (small) fit in a whole day for a three year old is just pretty good in my book.
I can't wait for our next "date".
PS. If my nephew (Dominic) happens to see these pics… I just bought a Shark Navigator Lift Away vacuum (per his recommendation and he is a vacuum genius). I LOVE it, Dom!! It's great!

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias testified on Tuesday that she can effect positive change in prison if jurors sentence her to a life term and spare her the death penalty for brutally killing her ex-boyfriend in Arizona five years ago.
Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed multiple times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. Arias told jurors she had previously considered suicide but now realized she could lead a productive life in prison.
"I didn't know that if I got life there are many things I can do to effect positive change and contribute in a meaningful way. In prison there are programs I can start and people I can help and programs that I can continue participating in," she told jurors.
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Jenny's Skillet-Baked Feta and Ricotta "Pie" Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009
Recipe: Skillet-Baked Feta and Ricotta "Pie"
How long does it take? 40 minutes (5 for prep, 35 in the oven)
Category: Vegetarian
Name: Jenny
Why is it a favorite meal? This is an easy, forgiving dish that is delicious and beautiful! The sweetness of the corn cuts the saltiness of the feta. Fabulous for weeknights, but can also be served to company: put it in the oven during cocktails and it needs no attention at all.
Skillet-Baked Feta and Ricotta "Pie"
Makes 4-6 generous servings. Can easily be halved.
3/4 pound feta cheese, preferably sheep's milk
1 pound ricotta cheese
4 eggs
2/3 cups corn, cut off the cob
1/4 cup flour
3/4 cup milk, or yogurt or sour cream mixed thinned with water
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 tablespoon of fresh dill (or other herb of choice)
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Put the ricotta in a large bowl, and crumble in about 3/4 of the feta (reserving the rest). Beat in the eggs, then add flour, milk, corn, dill, salt and pepper and mix together (go light on the salt, as the feta can be quite salty). The mixture should be well-combined but spotted with chunks of feta.
Pour into a buttered 10-inch cast-iron skillet and crumble the reserved feta over the top. Bake until golden, 35 or 40 minutes. Cut into wedges and serve with your favorite sides and garnishes.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) Bryon Allen hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with just over a minute remaining, then sank two free throws to seal George Mason's 63-59 victory over Virginia on Friday.
Allen's 3-pointer just beat the shot block buzzer and gave the Patriots a 60-57 advantage with 1:02 remaining. The junior's foul shots with 2.1 seconds left ended the Cavaliers' 14-game winning streak in season openers and gave George Mason its first win in the series in eight tries.
``I didn't have a good look at all, I just tried to put it up there,'' Allen said of his go-ahead basket. ``Honestly, I'm just trying to get it up. It felt good, and once it got halfway there, I knew it was going in.''
The Patriots escaped with the victory despite missing 10 of 17 foul shots in the second half. Virginia knocked down seven 3-pointers, but George Mason used full-court defensive pressure and forced the Cavaliers' depleted backcourt into several key turnovers down the stretch.
It was the George Mason's first win over an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent since defeating North Carolina during their run to the Final Four in 2006.
``You look at the turnovers, and 12 to not an alarming number. (But) we had a number of turnovers in a row, and I thought that some of those were costly,'' said Virginia coach Tony Bennett, who started three freshmen. ``To come into this setting, the first experience for these guys, it was a great atmosphere. You try to grow from it.''
Both teams were missing multiple players.
Virginia played without four guards: Teven Jones - who sat out while serving a suspension for violating team rules, Jontel Evans, Malcolm Brogdon and walk-on Justin Miller, who missed the game with injuries.
George Mason was without forward Eric Copes and guard Vaughn Gray, who were serving the first game of a 3-game suspension for student-athlete conduct violations.
The Patriots managed to overcome a scoreless drought of 6 minutes, 56 seconds midway through the first half to take a 28-25 lead at halftime. Poor shooting by the Cavaliers - 33 percent in the first half and 40 percent for the game - enabled the Patriots to hang around and eventually take the lead at the half on a 3-pointer at the buzzer by Marko Gujanicic.
``We thought it was going to be this kind of game, and I'm very proud of how our guys hung in there,'' George Mason coach Paul Hewitt said. ``It's a great win for us.''
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Read Matthew 18:10-14
Even the hairs of your head are all counted.
-Matthew 10:30 (NRSV)
My young son, Brindley, has autism, and one of the activities that soothes him is coloring. We often go to church with a cookie tray that holds his notebook and crayons to keep him happy and occupied during the service. Brindley presses hard and can use up a box of crayons in a week or less. He wears his crayons down to small pieces. Some are less than a half inch in size, but he cherishes them no matter how little or worn down they are.
One Sunday morning, Brindley dropped his crayons on the floor. Of course, he immediately started to pick up his precious possessions. He was very careful to make sure he had accounted for all the crayons -- every color, every size, no matter how small or worn. To my son, each crayon mattered just as much as any other.
Brindley's attention to every single crayon is like God's love for each of us. God cares for us as separate individuals and has made us all different for a reason. In God's eyes we are all equally important and have a place in God's plan. We are always sought out and valued, one by one.
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Prayer: Heavenly Creator, help us remember that you care for us even when we feel lost or insignificant. Thank you for loving us as we are. Amen.
Thought for the Day: No matter our size, shape, complexion, or age, each one of us matters to God.
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Great, but...
Kinect looks like a fantastic toy, but at £130 I can't see many people buying one. It needs to be at most £75 for people to take an interest, I reckon.
Microsoft has priced up the Xbox 360 Kinect bundle it's hoping will tempt console-less consumers when the motion control tech launches on 10 November. An Xbox 360 250GB bundled with a Kinect sensor and a Kinect Adventures game pack will set you back £300. Xbox 360 250GB It's $399 in the US, which is, give or take a pound or …
Kinect looks like a fantastic toy, but at £130 I can't see many people buying one. It needs to be at most £75 for people to take an interest, I reckon.
When for £10 more you can buy a Nintendo Wii with Wii Sports and Sports resort...
And then soft-mod it to install Homebrew channel and DVD playback for approximately zilch!
Fail on price. And fail on quality, from what I have read about it...
Project Natal sounded quite cool. Kinect sounds cack.
Nintendo Revolution also sounded cool. Wii sounds corny.
I reckon it will get renamed 'Kinell' when people see the price.
Personally I think we will be getting Move, like the look of Sorcery and of course KZ3.
I check all the gaming even though we have a PS3.
<---- Why not? Both MS and Sony hate them!
sorry but if my 360 blows up or gets a red ring its over il never go back to microsoft ever il stay where i should of stayed right at the start with sony im hoping to get me ps3 next year so i cant wait. sony be prepaired im going to join your network woooooo
Honestly, how MS think they can get away with charging £130 for the stand alone unit or upto £300 for the bundled unit I don't know. I've played Kinect - extensively - and its awful.
Its too fiddly, its not responsive enough and (so far at least) the games are at best an hour's worth of novelty value. Still, got two months left of testing so we'll see what rabbits MS pulls out of the hat.
I'm just glad I didn't pay for mine.
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You know you're on the come-up when music industry movers-and-shakers such as former Def Jam Creative Director Vashtie Kola are hailing you as a forerunner of the music revolution, or should I say evolution. Jade, 24, had better get used to it, because with the release of her EP It's My Heart, Cookie, she's part of a group of young performers set to pioneer the airwaves.
After a brief stint on Pharrell's Star Trak records, Jade teamed up with producer Precize of G.F.C , the force behind the mixtape's electro-Hip-Hop feel. With Jade penning the lyrics about a game-spittin' dude,the EP's stand-out track "Up and Out" showcases Jade's sweet and haunting voice riding the beat's highs and lows. Another track, the New-Wave influenced "Take the Hit" featuring underground rapper Theophilus London, proclaims her desire to open up to the wounds of love. Mellower, "Beautiful Problems" talks about appeasing your lover even when they aren't always right!
Besides being an indie-darling-in-training, Jade's visuals fit right in with our mantra here at M.I.S.S—sexy with a touch of street. Peep her promo video for a glimpse of her style game—everything is on-point, from the arty-glasses to her Violette T !
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NEW YORK (AP) — While Lorin Maazel isn't slowing down, his tempi are based on the performance of Verdi's "Don Carlo" he led to mark the 50th anniversary season of his Metropolitan Opera debut.
Now 82, the former music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic conducted an alternately elegant and disjointed opening of the revival Friday night.
The spectacle of the third act auto-da-fe was spacious, the trumpets grand. Confrontations were charged.
Other moments slowed to a crawl, such as Eboli's "O don fatale" and Elisabeth's "Tu che le vanita," sapping the drama. There were tentative entrances, with the singers having trouble adjusting to his pacing. But overall, it was a largely effective account of Verdi's longest work, which stretches over five acts and 4 1/2 hours.
Maazel has spanned several generations — his November 1962 Met debut in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" featured a cast that included Cesare Siepi in the title role. After that season, when he also conducted Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier,'" Maazel did not return to the Met until a revival of Wagner's "Die Walkuere" five years ago.
"Don Carlo," based on Friedrich Schiller's play, details the court of 16th century Spain. King Philip II, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, married the French Princess Elisabeth de Valois, who had been engaged to Philip's son, Carlo. There is tension between the crown and the church, and Philip's court is filled with rebellion and affairs.
Maazel was given a top cast, with Ramon Vargas in the title role, Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Rodrigo, Ferruccio Furlanetto as Philip II, Barbara Frittoli as Elisabeth, Anna Smirnova as Eboli and Eric Halfvarson as the Grand Inquisitor. Furlanetto, Smirnova and Halfvarson were holdovers from the production's first appearance at the Met in November 2010.
His long, white hair draping over a dark costume, Hvorostovsky was dashing and his baritone thrilling. His "Dio, che nell'alma infondere" duet with Vargas won a huge ovation, topped only by the applause for his "O Carlo, ascolta" death scene.
Furlanetto was moving in his "Ella giammai m'amo!" and his confrontation with Halfvarson, who portrayed the angry, 90-year-old blind inquisitor. Furlanetto's hoarse reminder to Rodrigo "Guarda dal Grande Inquisitor!" was chilling.
Frittoli's Elisabeth grew from vulnerable girl to scorned royalty. Smirnova sang with far more energy and security than two seasons ago. Vargas' tenor was slightly lacking in heft for this role in a house as large as the Met, but he sang with color and import.
Nicholas Hytner's staging, which premiered at London's Royal Opera in 2008, is dark and brooding. Some of Bob Crowley's sets fall flat, such as a garden that looks as if made out of Legos. Using a five-act version sung in Italian, Hytner cuts about seven minutes involving the woodcutter's chorus at the start of the first-act Fontainebleau scene, music Verdi also trimmed before the 1867 Paris opening but was restored for John Dexter's 1979 Met production.
Hytner invented an unnecessary and intrusive spoken-word priest who rants at the prisoners in the third act, although his role is shorter than in the Covent Garden presentation.
There are six more performances through March 16, with the March 9 matinee broadcast on radio.


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LU confers 1,507 degrees at spring commencement
Lamar University conferred 1,507 degrees during commencement ceremonies on May 14.
Here are Lamar's spring 2011 graduates and their majors, listed according to their hometowns. The list is based on information provided by the office of the registrar.
BAYTOWN: Don Morgan Beck, Michael Coopersmith, Anne Bennett Dickens, Durrell Wayne Dickens, educational leadership.
BEAUMONT: Xiang Li, Xiongtao Yang, chemical engineering; Michael Wayne Barnes, Velina Haynes Johnson, Clifford Douglas Ozmun, educational leadership; Indra Pratap Singh Paikara, engineering.
BREMOND: Walter Lloyd Fenn, educational leadership.
BRIDGE CITY: Larry Leigh Haynes, educational leadership.
HOUSTON: Kenneth Ervin Cummings, educational leadership.
LAMPASAS: Randall Hoyer, educational leadership.
ORANGE: Bishar Sethna, educational leadership.
PORT NECHES: Niveen Yaseen, educational leadership.
PRINCETON, W.Va.: Tara Minnix-Harmon, audiology.
SCHERTZ: William Walker, educational leadership.
SOUR LAKE: Shannon James Holmes, educational leadership.
TULSA, Okla.: Lynne Frances Arric, educational leadership.
Master's Degrees:
ABILENE: Cody Williams, administration.
ALEDO: Kari Reed, teacher leadership.
ALEXANDRIA, La.: Jessica Nicole McCormick, community psychology.
ALLEN: Ashanta Bryant, Eon Sherwyn Meusa, administration.
ALVIN: Angela Lorraine Guillot, administration.
AMARILLO: Angie Branscum, Eric James Gomez, Tracey Michelle Morman, Micah Timmons, administration.
ANDHRA PRADESH, India: Srikanth Reddy Papa, engineering; Gautam Alla, Sirish Ameerichetty, Sampath Kumar Amudala, Drakshayani Battula, Karthik Reddy Bora, Sowmya Borra, Rohit Reddy Burgulapally, Anil Kumar Chennupati, Ravikanth Chikati, Satyanarayana Raju Dandu, Ramya Gudise, Ramprasad Kamisetty, Raveendra Babu Katta, Panduranga Rao Kavuri, Venkatesh Koduru, Tulasiram Meruga, Gurunath Kumar Murari, Kalyani Nandipati, Naveena Palakala, Srujana Chowdary Parupalli, Abhilash Anand Pathipak, Sindhuri Pentyala, Sahil Ravinder, Chandra Kanth-Reddy Seri, Mudasar Rasheed Shaik, Zoheb Syed, Akhil Vangala, Sreenivasa Kallempudi, engineering science.
ANGLETON: Reena Reese, administration.
ARGYLE: Mandi Christine Pels, Lisa Roden, administration.
ARLINGTON: Tiffany Flores, Jennifer Dannielle Myers, Ryan Michael Myers, administration; Stephanie Ilene St. John, Taleisha Monique Taylor, teacher leadership.
ARTHUR CITY: Julie Denise Brown, administration.
ATHENS: William Lee Compton, Natosha Lynn Spain, administration.
ATLANTA: Sasha Alee Posey, administration.
AUBREY: Consonya Elliott Owens, administration.
AUSTIN: Katherine Nicole Bowden, Johnmark Edwards, Nancy Ellen Goodhue, Amy Ruhl, Shauna-Patri Salustri, administration; Susan Ann Mannas, educational technology leadership; Michael David Sanchez-Navarro, teacher leadership.
BANGA, India: Harmandeep Singh Gill, engineering.
BANGKOK, Thailand: Thanakorn Siriaksorn, engineering.
BATSON: Joshua Orval Tousha, business administration; Gabrielle Elizabeth Chandler, music education.
BAYTOWN: Nancy Bonds, Kimberly Dawn Garcia, Kristen Gunderson, Jonathan Michael Vanommeren, administration; Alicia Sherrill Brooks, educational technology leadership; Rosetta Viola Adolphin, Mary Dixon Bethel, Melanie Jo Joseph, Karen Ruth Mills, Catherine Fininis Rangel, teacher leadership.
BEAUMONT: Rabia Adris Chaudhry, accounting; Jenny Phelan Angelo, Jennifer Lyons, Virginia Dale Manning, administration; Benjamin Birdsong Guseman, Katherine Krotzer, biology; Correy Jai Barnes, Carl Bo Beaudry, Ruston Alford Chandler, Sara Ishfaq, Sandeep Singh, business administration; Lavanya Rekha Badarla, Sravanthi Guddati, Suswetha Rao Jalgam, chemistry; Carl Martin Husband, Joseph Ingram, Jarrod Rossi, community psychology; Suman Rajbhandari, Narasimha Bharadwaj Srirangam, Susheel Aiswarya Venkata, computer science; Ida Lee Duplechin, counseling and development; Lauri Deneen Arnold, Susan Alice Haught, educational technology leadership; Sreekanth Reddy Anthireddy, Mukesh Badgujar, Cihan Cap, Chin-Feng Chang, Venkata Vishnu Raghuram Dronavajjala, Surya Durga Garimella, Rajan Ghimire, Adhitya Govardhanam, Ravi Kiran Gunnam, Nitesh Kosuri, Bunti Sanatkumar Mehta, Ranjan Mishra, Santosh Reddy Mogulla, Divya Movva, Nimish Dineshbhai Nasit, Ghanshyam Neupane, Ankur Kirit Patel, Pawan Pawan, Deepak Pendyala, Niraj Lal Rajbhandari, Revneet Paul Singh, Sthitapragna Swain, Naga Venkatraman Tangirala, Amrinder Singh Uppal, engineering; Wil-Johneen Vernice Ardoin, Arpit Kamleshkumar Shah, engineering management; Pushpa K C, Anupam Shital Nepal, engineering science; Stephanie Suzanne Armstrong, Jennifer Rachel Gonzales, English; Nazim Karimbhai Mahesaniya, environmental studies; Piyush Tiwari, kinesiology; Akm Islam, mathematics; Kerry Wayne Coleman, Gwyn Ramos, music; Lakeisha Dewyre Vallier-Scott, nursing administration; Lori Sourdellia Wenner, nursing education; Jeffrey Wayne Lewis, public administration; Lashalda Thomas Blake, Mary Louise Broussard, Joy Rachel Edwards, Lillie Cooper Walker, special education; Su Griffith, Tonya Marie Hanson, Kathryn Evans Marrero, Lauren Roche, speech language pathology.
BEDFORD: Angela Ranee Krajca, Brent Langham, administration.
BEEVILLE: Kasey Michelle Fitch, speech language pathology.
BELLVILLE: Nathan Smith, administration.
BENBROOK: Tracy Lualta Sticher, administration.
BEND: Christine Byrd, administration.
BILLINGS, Mont.: Erin Alyssa McDermott Dennis, nursing administration.
BRANDON, Miss.: Sarah Harris, speech language pathology.
BRAZORIA: Nicole Celeste Burns, speech language pathology.
BRENHAM: Toni Lenee Schwartz, administration.
BRIDGE CITY: Jamie Renee' Williams, administration.
BROOKSTON: Wesley Harden Brown, administration.
BROWNSVILLE: Roman Eduardo Martinez, administration.
BRYAN: Kristen Elaine Beesaw, Rachel Leigh Layton, administration; Marcela Hernandez Garcia, educational technology leadership; Brandy Housley Pheris, teacher leadership.
BULLARD: Tonya Suzanne Watson, administration.
BUNA: Holly Eva Kelley, Jason David Wilkins, administration.
BURKBURNETT: Gary John Waitman, administration.
BURLESON: Cheryl Louise Essex, Bethany Renee Harlow, Eva Maria McCarty, administration.
CAIRO, Egypt: Mostafa Mohamed Soliman, engineering.
CANYON: Christopher Barrow, administration.
CARRIZO SPRINGS: Beatrice Dominguez, educational technology leadership.
CARTHAGE: Ryan Alan Marion, administration.
CASTROVILLE: Rikki Dee Zinsmeyer, administration.
CEDAR HILL: Anthony Moore Jr., kinesiology; Amber Marie Swindle, teacher leadership.
CEDAR PARK: Terry Jacob Ellison, Kellidawn Brown Gililland, Christine Kay Hilbun, administration.
CELINA: Angela Michelle Bilyeu, Cleota Beth Epps, administration.
CHENNAI, India: Ashish Myneni, engineering.
CHHATTISGARH, India: Vibhor Mittal, engineering science.
CHINA SPRING: Thomas Dale Billeaud, administration.
CIBOLO: La Dena Patrice Spencer, administration; Michele Shelton, teacher leadership.
CLEBURNE: Heather White Brister, Darla Carol McNeely-Barnes, Amber Dawn White, administration.
COLLEGE STATION: Jennifer Ann Foreman, Charles Don Matzig, administration.
COMBES: Adolfo Martinez, administration.
COMBINE: Kathy Ann Allen, administration.
COMO: Dustin Wayne Carr, administration.
CONROE: Kary Lynn Freemyer, Judith Skelton, administration.
CONVERSE: Chanell Rodgers, administration.
COOPER: Katie Roasanne Wilson, teacher leadership.
COPPERAS COVE: Timothy Lynn Landrum, administration.
CORINTH: Courtney Diane Lopez, administration.
CORPUS CHRISTI: Brenda Medina, administration.
CORSICANA: John Paul Gillen, John Patrick Harvell, Shannon West, administration.
COVINGTON, Ind.: Chassidy Crowder, speech language pathology.
CROSBY: Anna Elizabeth Whiteley, administration; Kelli Dean Renfro, speech language pathology.
CROWLEY: Katherine Tuomey, administration.
CYPRESS: Valinda Lynn Edwards, Phillip Ellis, Kathy Ligon, Stephanie Marie Lyle, Tanya Meadows, Cathleen Hart Raffield, Debra Steenhard, John Clifton Taylor, administration; Patrick Sanchez, teacher leadership.
DALHART: Wade Keith Ritchey, administration.
DALLAS: Michael Benson, Christopher Nelson Cole, Laigha Tamika El Samarayi, Tracey Ann Etheredge, Christina Elizabeth Mitchell, Kimberly Deshone Modica Brown, Megan Elizabeth Morse, Mary Katherine Slocum, Kristen Toney, administration; Rina Beredo Almarez, educational technology leadership; Karen Roberson, teacher leadership.
DAYTON: Mary Beth Marceaux, Brandy Ward, administration; Steven Douglas Ames, educational technology leadership; Alisa Anne Miller, teacher leadership.
DEER PARK: Martha Ellen Sells, educational technology leadership; Susan Elaine Battle, teacher leadership.
DENTON: Eric Thomas Hauser, Christopher Ice, administration.
DEPORT: Karen Francis, administration.
DeSOTO: Keith Hance, Kyndra Jenkins Johnson, administration; Beverly Michelle Green, Onita Lasean Pinckney, teacher leadership.
DICKINSON: Steven Mikel Stapleton, administration.
DONNA: Jessica Marie Carrizales, administration.
EAGLE PASS: Cristina Isabel Garcia, speech language pathology.
EDINBURG: Amelia Yokebet Cepeda, Sabrina Esperanza De La Rosa, Evangelina Guerra-Perez, Blanca Martinez, Nora Consuelo Smith, Cynthia Walls, administration.
EL CAMPO: Jerrell Alexander Barron, administration.
EL PASO: Julie Perez, educational technology leadership.
EMORY: Rachel Marie Traylor, administration.
ENNIS: Matthew Franklin Kitchens, educational technology leadership.
ETOILE: Lauren Rae Hooper, administration.
EULESS: Ashley Logan White, administration; Brushana Sue Cannedy, teacher leadership.
EVADALE: Heather Elizabeth Marley, special education.
FAIRFIELD: Michelle Ranae Jones, administration.
FARIDABAD, India: Manjul Kumar, engineering.
FLOWER MOUND: Noah William Swartz, Maritza Villa, educational technology leadership.
FORESTBURG: Jennifer Biffle Steadham, administration.
FORNEY: Kristin Danelle Clickner, Andrew Franklin Curtis, Ryan Lee Davis, Casee Calynn Logan, Todd Alan Purl, Sarah O'Bryan Schapansky, administration; Jeni Elizabeth Long, Lisa Kay Rogers, educational technology leadership.
FORT WORTH: Leslie Bailiff, Patricia Bednarski, Mary Elizabeth Craft, Jon Lyle Lackey, Angela Limon, Monte Dean McCaslin, Amanda Nicole Powers, Melissa Sue Reed, Ryan Steven Rothermel, Jennifer Ann Thomas, Allison Travis, administration; Aminah Geary, educational technology leadership; Cara Beth Fuhrmeister, teacher leadership.
FRANKSTON: Matthew Ryan Nally, administration.
FREEPORT: Maria Agustina Espinoza, administration; Francesca Evette Williams, counseling and development.
FRESNO: Lakenya Scott, administration; Ashanti Hall Grant, teacher leadership.
FRIENDSWOOD: Elizabeth Garcia, Rebecca Penny, administration; Candice Kaye Arthur, teacher leadership.
FRISCO: Daniel Wayne Barrentine, Ryan Howard Steele, Travis Yoder, administration; Matthew Jordan Macveigh, educational technology leadership.
GALVESTON: Sean Fairchild Davis, Cathy Diane Ledoux, administration; Gabriel Flores, teacher leadership.
GARDENA, Calif.: Roger Dreger, educational technology leadership.
GARLAND: Angela Oliver Gentz, Ximena Cabezas Hobbs, Kellie Mullis, Jacquelyn Lavern Murphy, Uchechi Amy Okafor, administration; Katherine Miller, educational technology leadership; Shannon Nicole Heuss, teacher leadership.
GEORGETOWN: Alicia Lyn Young, administration.
GONZALES, La.: Roshonda Flemmings Joseph, administration.
GRAHAM: Christopher Thomas Rasile, educational technology leadership.
GRANBURY: Margaret Antoniette Flores, Jade Tylan Jackson, administration; Kelley Diane Phillips, teacher leadership.
GRAND PRAIRIE: Jason Jack Rabinowitz, Dee Ann Skaggs, administration.
GRAPEVINE: Wendy Lorraine Larriba, administration; Vanessa Rae Gabel, teacher leadership.
GREENVILLE: Kara Ann Clark, administration.
GROVES: Ashlynn Ruth Ivy, English.
GUJARAT, India: Kirtibahen Joshi, Khyati Patel, Sagar Maheshkumar Rao, engineering; Nehalkumar Patel, Parthivkumar Prajapati, engineering science.
HALLETTSVILLE: Ashley Nicole Grahmann, administration.
HALLSVILLE: Leah Rosson, administration.
HAMSHIRE: Deanna Lynn Frisby, accounting.
HARLINGEN: George Espinoza, Kandra Marissa Turner, administration.
HARPER: Juliet Eden ODonnell-Guthrie, administration.
HAWKINS: Vanessa Lynn Griffin, administration.
HEATH: Ann Katherine Knostman, educational technology leadership.
HENDERSON: Kimberley Mackay Gunz, administration.
HILLSBORO: Lauren Michelle Spigener, administration.
HOBSON: Cathy Lavonne Stolle, teacher leadership.
HOLLAND, Mich.: Wendy Rachelle Bosma, Carrie Ruth Johnson, teacher leadership.
HONEY GROVE: Kevin Weaver, administration.
HOUSTON: Shakir Mustaque Ahmed, Marta Alvarez-Blanco, Clayton James Anderson, Mar Azcarraga, Natalie Deanna Barnes, Janet Basic, Jashika Bivens, Angela Eppers Cabaniss, Jennifer Emma Cable-Carter, Antoinette Mahoney Clark, Brandi Latrice Cooper, Chad Michael Crowson, Emily Jane Cunningham, Michael Donnelly, Virginia Flores, Rachel Joy Green, Joni Michelle Hawkes, Marion Ruth Hogan, Ashley Jhoy Lane, Valerie Ann Loper, Erin Terese Montague, Mariah Moon, Kristi Moss, Jessica Muhlstein, Chad Edward Ogden, Michael Frederick Ouellette, Sarah Renee Parker, Samuel Lowery Rasch, Annette Anastasia Roosa, Gilberto Sanchez, Kenneth Sanders, Scott Tucker, Boe Dennard Washington, Lisa Malinda Wooley, administration; Dakota Jamal Doman, Kris Leon Jenkins, Bobby Joshua, business administration; Belinda Ertel, Jennifer Beth Ertel, Danielle Marie Norris, Teneika Lashon Punch, Anthony Paul White, Phelecia Zilch, educational technology leadership; Alexandra Asiama, Reena Mishra, engineering; Abhishek Vasantkumar Jayswal, engineering science; Natividad Barrera, Tristan Jeneen Bragg, Kristy Eliseann Holder, Rachel Payne-Gill, Rochelle Yvette Roberson, Alexsia Latriece Shankle, Arshunda Demetra Washington, Jonne Marie Wilson, teacher leadership.
HUMBLE: Ginger Hamilton Burk, Lucille Dew, Candice Jackson, Jason Thomas Netardus, Jane Elizabeth Ocanas, Meredith Leigh Rosario, Tamara June Williams, administration; Angeles Mercedes Perez, educational technology leadership.
HUNTINGTON: James Eric Napier, administration.
HUTCHINS: Chameka Lusk, administration.
HYDERABAD, India: Lakshmi Narasimham Vedala, chemistry; Sandeep Chanumalla, Pavan Kumar Duriseti, Abishek Raman Das Gaddam, Chaitanya Suryaneni, engineering.
IRVING: Brooks Paul Baca, Alicia Wilkerson, administration.
JACKSONVILLE: Jodye Lynne Herring, administration.
JASPER: Crystal Denese Collins-Carter, counseling and development.
JUSTIN: Ruth Ann Beagle, administration.
KANAGAWA, Japan: Mayumi Ogino, kinesiology.
KATY: Cathrine Lembi Hart, John Paul Holt, Cotrina Ann Matthews, Douglas Gregory McRorey, Rebecca Lynette Mendez, Sean Owen Riley, Tiffany White, administration; Mo Ying Wong, educational technology leadership; Cheryl Ann Raschilla, teacher leadership.
KAUFMAN: Kara Blythe Holley, administration.
KELLER: Misty Amber Cheslock, administration; Bob Eikenberry, Joanaly Ramirez, educational technology leadership.
KEMAH: Timothy Johnson, Jamie Elizabeth Ogorman, administration.
KEMP: Kristine Shipp, administration.
KILGORE: Ronnie Lee Garvin, administration.
KINGWOOD: Gregory Scott Baldon, Carlos Jose Castillo, Ibukun Chaney-Aladejana, Ashley Johnson, Katie Lee Kimbro, Sheryl Jean Siwek, Supariwat Utakrit, Quinn Williams, administration; Emily Lemon Priesmeyer, educational technology leadership.
KOUNTZE: Nathan Andrew Willis, business administration.
KRUM: Nancy Elizabeth Shipley, administration.
KYLE: Deborah Carol Jacobson, Christina Elizabeth McNealy, Edward Christopher Peralta, administration.
LA MARQUE: Ricky Bean, Jennifer Ellyn Yovan, administration.
LA PORTE: Regina Haffert Felder, Wendy McGee, Courtney Morris, administration.
LA VERNIA: Kelley Suzanne McCann, administration.
LAFAYETTE, La.: Angela Claire Suitt, elementary education.
LAKE CHARLES, La.: Victoria Steward, administration; Lindsey Leigh Wallace, speech language pathology.
LAKE JACKSON: Michael Wayne Kremmer, administration; Lacy Handly Bailleaux, special education.
LAREDO: Laura Denise Collins, Maria Adriana Guerra, Andrea Lopez, Blasita Sarmiento, administration.
LEAGUE CITY: Ellen Wiggins Akers, Diana Jean Fairbairn, Laura Anne Glardon, Donna Renee Kash, Melissa Sanchez, Jane Shults, administration; Stephanie Nicole Higgins, educational technology leadership.
LEAKEY: Victoria Lynn Baldwin, administration.
LEANDER: Heath Alan Walz, administration.
LEWISVILLE: Martha Alicia Leal-Velez, educational technology leadership.
LIBERTY: Thomas Leslie Cooper, administration.
LINDALE: Tracie Denise Rand, Candace Nicole Widemon, administration; Terri Louise Greene, teacher leadership.
LITTLE ELM: Andrea Rene Ryan, administration; Kiran Lakhani Meghani, Lemilia Rochelle Williams, teacher leadership.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.: Jamil Troy Jackson, teacher leadership.
LIVE OAK: Duane Paul Chestnutt, administration.
LIVINGSTON: Brandi Fasulo, educational technology leadership.
LLANO: Michael Sanderson, administration.
LONGVIEW: Suzanne Shackelford, administration.
LOS FRESNOS: Judith Kathleen Morrison, teacher leadership.
LOUISVILLE, Colo.: Scott Farina, business administration.
LUBBOCK: Christopher Shane Anderson, Brenda Greenawalt Schaffer Prather, administration.
LUFKIN: Amber Kay Barnett, Thomas Martin Sheppard, administration.
LUMBERTON: Darwin Davis, administration; Steven Daniel Miller, Michael Smith, business administration; Dyni Griffith Brookshire, nursing administration; Gina Leticia Slaydon, teacher leadership.
MABANK: Dana Lynn Ellis, administration.
MAHARASHTRA, India: Anand Ratan Zanwar, engineering science.
MANSFIELD: Renee Carla Cox, administration.
MARSHALL: Amanda Clark, Beverly Renee Johnson, administration.
McALLEN: Gloria Starck Bearden, Kindra Michelle Garcia, Yesenia Lopez, Evangeline Quinones, administration; Jose Martin Alcala, educational technology leadership.
McGREGOR: James David Miller, administration.
McKINNEY: Russell Wayne Budai, Jamie Rae Coneway, Glenna Cromer, Brandy Dawn Ferrer, Jeremiah David Johnson, Andrew Gregory Vawter, Christopher Blake Yancey, administration; Stacie White, teacher leadership.
McQWEENEY: Peter Pitts, administration.
MESQUITE: Amy Beth Burnside, Vanessa Cummings, Loren Castillo Evangelista, Kamesha Smith, Robin Onema Stewart, Melissa Leann Wasden, administration; Gloria Yanetthe Pena, Arelthia Denise Phillips, educational technology leadership; Joni Ann Clark, teacher leadership.
MIDFIELD: Jonathan Nguyen Trinh, administration.
MIDLOTHIAN: Aaron Michael Woods, administration.
MONT BELVIEU: Patrick Anthony Williams, engineering.
MOODY: Wendy Leigh Mahan, administration.
MOSSEL BAY, South Africa: Wynand Snyman, business administration.
MOUNT VERNON: Ceca Totty Patrick, administration.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn.: Monique Michelle Villarreal, administration.
MURPHY: Tedra Lee Ault, teacher leadership.
NACOGDOCHES: Chance Devlyn Mays, administration.
NEDERLAND: Elizabeth Mapy Hernandez, accounting and business administration (two degrees), Adam Westbrook, accounting; Tad Kellen Smith, applied criminology; Andrew Sauyen Bacdayan, business administration, Lee Ann Merrell, environmental studies; Cassie Kauffman, speech language pathology.
NEW BOSTON: Tracy Lynn Kruse, administration.
NEW BRAUNFELS: Sandra Ann Littlejohn, Jeffrey Edgar Stevens, administration; Laura Mcreavy Hearnsberger, educational technology leadership.
NEWTON: Kristin Loree Ipes, community psychology.
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS: Christopher Adams, administration.
ORANGE: Kym Celestine-Franklin, Amy Coppage, Charlotte Anne Duchamp, Meagan Ryanne Olds, Derek Bryan Peveto, administration; Jacqueline Fontenot, applied criminology; Brian Randal Slacum, business administration; Alisa Kelly Huckaby, counseling and development; Pamela Kay Comer, educational technology leadership; Carrie Elaine Oldbury, speech language pathology.
OVERTON: Stacey Michelle Thompson, educational technology leadership.
PALACIOS: Amy Pustka Kubecka, administration.
PASADENA: Sarita Allene Pennington, administration; Melba Santos Morales, educational technology leadership.
PEARLAND: Justin Markey Walker, Dustin Belle Winson, administration; Jamie Ballard, teacher leadership.
PERRYSBURGH, Ohio: Sarah Elizabeth Hamen, teacher leadership.
PETROLIA: David Jetton, administration.
PFLUGERVILLE: Richa Muhammad, educational technology leadership; Julie Marie Schwarz, teacher leadership.
PHARR: Sergio David Martinez, administration.
PLACENTIA, Calif.: Inderpreet Singh Sandhra, engineering.
PLANO: Chelsey Green, Sarah Elizabeth Joseph, Emily Kate Koder, Sandra Lee Vroman, administration; Andrea Marie Ayala, Cheryl Ann Lazarus, Jessica Karen Owens, teacher leadership.
PORT ARTHUR: Tina Thuy Thanh Tran, biology; Antonia Shari-Carmouche Reeder, Jared Marvin Williams, business administration; Abdel Salem, engineering management.
PORT LAVACA: Karen Bates, speech language pathology.
PORT NECHES: Chris Hannay, administration; Donna Graham, special education; Marci Marie Spencer, speech language pathology.
PORTALES, N.M.: Brian Dale Arnold, administration.
PORTER: James Brantley Anderson, administration; Ruth Ann Anderson, teacher leadership.
PRINCETON: Gregory Gibbs, Kathrine Kay Hawkins, administration.
PUNJAB, India: Varun Mukheja, Shish Pal, engineering.
PURDON: Kristine Montes, administration.
QUINLAN: Nicole La'Nae Hartig, teacher leadership.
QUITMAN: Angeleia Marie Everett, administration.
RED OAK: Jeremy Sullivan, administration.
REDWATER: Melissa Jo Goolsby, administration.
RICHARDSON: Marisol Castellon, Cristina Pinilla, administration; Sylvia Lorraine Newhouse, teacher leadership.
RICHMOND: Kevin Tuitt Byrd, Gary Michael Gazaway, Shelby Nilsen, Chontae Shirley, administration; Emily Eubanks Wisbrock, educational technology leadership; Samantha Jo Brown, teacher leadership.
RICHWOOD: Jennifer Leigh Nabors, administration.
RIO MEDINA: Katherine Madrid Bolanos, administration.
ROANOKE: Stacy Lyn Fanning, administration.
ROCKWALL: Janice Sharon Mellado, administration; Jennipher Denise Eisenstein, educational technology leadership.
ROSHARON: Crystal Nichole Mille, administration.
ROUND ROCK: Melanie Herbst, Krystal Ngoc-Thao Nguyen, Lori Ann Traynham, administration.
ROWLETT: Christopher Robert Anderson, Lutitia Featherston, Teri Lynn Jones, administration.
ROYSE CITY: Stacey Kluttz, Steve Morrow, administration.
SACHSE: Rodney Russell Beasley, Dianne Day Boone, Natasha Leigh Quinn, Sandra Marlain Somaiah, administration; Jessica Marie Branch, educational technology leadership; Cindy Anderson, Teri Rae Steeger, teacher leadership.
SAGINAW: Sophia Guerra Navarro, administration.
SAN ANGELO: Deborah Denise Gray, Bryan Allen Pauler, administration.
SAN ANTONIO: Jason Matthew Arp, Cheryl Denise Campos, Melissa Carrera, Veronica Ann Cuenca-Wilson, Carrie Colleen Foster, Patrick Loya Gonzales, John Fisk Gorner, Brent Harrison, Gayle Adair Hoy, Jennifer Marie Kam, Yvette Cipriano Lopez, Alfonso Rodriguez Menchaca, Leslie Sue Redding, Tracy Shamon, Allen Wayne Wilson, administration; Matthew Ryan Garrett, Laura Jo Lopez, Jaime Ravelo, Diane Pantoja Revilla, educational technology leadership; Christine Marie McDougal, industrial and organizational psychology; Tanya Gina De La Vega, Sarah Marie Erickson, Gina Gattavara-Peterson, Denise Lea Hastings, teacher leadership.
SAN BENITO: Toby Zick, administration; Angela Vasquez, speech language pathology.
SAN JUAN: Ofelia Gonzalez Pena, administration.
SAN MARCOS: Joe Wayne Merchant, administration.
SANTA FE: Donna Louise Lentz, administration.
SCHERTZ: Kelly Martinez Reifenberg, administration; Wendy Lee Christensen, educational technology leadership.
SCHULENBURG: Ernest Steve Collinsworth, administration.
SEABROOK: Emily Foster Deshazo, administration.
SEGUIN: Jennifer Lynn Cooper, Jane Elizabeth Dwyer Iams, administration; Irma Alvarado Rodriguez, educational technology leadership.
SILSBEE: Bennie Kadlecek III, applied criminology; Carla Marie Fikes, counseling and development.
SOUR LAKE: Joel Vincent Pace, business administration.
SPRING: Danis Kelly Boone, Kristi Michelle English, Tonika Canette Greenwood, Emily Jackson, Christopher David Kuempel, Amanda Jane Redmon, Melissa Telfer Steward, administration; Diana Sullivan, educational technology leadership; Katawna Michelle Smith, teacher leadership.
SPRING BRANCH: Dean Allen Hofer, Keitha Jane St. Clair, administration.
SPUR: Lenny Dean Morrow, administration.
SUGAR LAND: Jaclyn Vinessa Scales, administration; Betsy Annie Alexander, business administration; Patrick Brown, industrial and organizational psychology; Andrea Elyse Gonzalez, kinesiology; Nancy Noethiger Malone, teacher leadership.
SULPHUR, La.: Michelle Amma Broussard Duhon, administration; Mindy Fontenot Benoit, speech language pathology.
SUNSET: Kimberly Gaskins, educational technology leadership.
TAFT: Meagan Nicole Whitmire, administration.
TATUM: Allen Charles Koch, administration.
TEAGUE: Nicole Hullum, administration.
TEMPLE: Margaret Maloney, administration.
TEXARKANA: Jo Dee Lott, Amy Michele Norwood, administration.
TEXARKANA, Ark.: Robin Sabrina Call, Crystal Lacy Rogers, administration.
TEXAS CITY: Pamela Ann Chittenden, administration.
THE WOODLANDS: Holly Ann Berger, teacher leadership.
TIMPSON: Matthew Sloan Gregory, administration.
TOMBALL: Lindsey Elizabeth Collins, Bridget Irene Milligan, Keith Milligan, Alison Marielle Peters, Robyn Leah Thrower, Leslie Denise Wylie, administration.
TRINITY: Armon Monroe Hewitt, educational technology leadership.
TROY: Sharon Lynn Hawes, administration.
UNIVERSAL CITY: Janet Gail Tracy, administration.
UVALDE: Mayra Gabriela Guerra, administration; Megan Alyse Kunkel, teacher leadership.
VADODARA, India: Ketankumar Ganpatsinh Puwar, engineering.
VALLEY MILLS: Brandon Wesley Ely, Vinson Clay Pierce, administration.
VAN VLECK: Robert James Blackmon, Denise Kay Green-Grisham, administration.
VANCOUVER, Wash.: Renuka Ponniah, speech language pathology.
VICTORIA: Susan Michelle Holub, Abby Katherine Neumeyer, administration; Brenda Gail Obannion, teacher leadership.
VIDOR: Shannah Mackey, Heather Michelle Watson, administration; Rebecca Danielle Mason, counseling and development; Jennifer Anne Michaud, educational technology leadership; Jamie Hardin DeCorte, teacher leadership.
VILLAGE MILLS: Thomas Joseph Cobb, business administration.
WACO: Sandra Lee Barnett, Amanda Faith McLellan, Stephanie Regina Nicholson, Marcus Lamar Walker, administration; Meritte Chrisanne Threadgill, educational technology leadership.
WALLISVILLE: Brooke Ashley Franco, business administration.
WAXAHACHIE: Karen Marie James, educational technology leadership; Bethany Elaine Thomas, teacher leadership.
WEATHERFORD: Amanda Susan Traylor, administration.
WEBSTER: Thomas Stephen Hill, administration.
WELLS: Tracie Johnson, administration.
WESLACO: Karen Margaret Prager, administration.
WEST: Misty Michelle Gerik, Jana Pratka, administration.
WHARTON: Sherron Michelle Trotter, administration.
WHITNEY: Traci Joy Bellomy, administration.
WICHITA FALLS: Timothy Dale Jetton, Kelly Jo Strenski, administration.
WILLS POINT: Dane Eric Morgan, administration.
WIMBERLEY: Shad Rowden Scharlach, administration.
WOLFE CITY: Deanna Jayne Henslee, administration.
WOODVILLE: Christine Slaten, administration.
WOODWAY: Esther Boateng, administration; Sheri Diane Burns, teacher leadership.
WYLIE: Christopher Ryan Bailey, Travis Glenn Hiltbrunner, teacher leadership.
YOAKUM: Lauren Ann Dickinson, teacher leadership.
Bachelor's Degrees:
BAHIA BLANCA, Argentina: Ignacio Daniel Cirnigliaro, mechanical engineering.
BARTLETT: Becky Meschill Billington, applied arts and sciences.
BAY CITY: Shontay Spiller, nursing.
BAYTOWN: Stephen Camp, electrical engineering; Jerrina Bougouneau, exercise science and fitness management; Karla Villa, industrial engineering; Lauren Ann Griffin, interdisciplinary studies; Michael James Padgett, marketing; Christopher Laut, mechanical engineering; Ricardo Garcia, Ameasha Quen'Nett Hunter, Jose Magana, Chaldea Sia, nursing; Regina Lee Cunningham, psychology.
BEACH CITY: Cameron Shane Campbell, mechanical engineering.
BEAUMONT: Emmanuel Amoabeng Jr., Cassie JaNae Johnson, Amy Rae Parker, Ryan Schiesler, Hassan Ul Haque, accounting; Shannda Bolton, Kellee Cannon, Suzanne Denise Carver, Akesa Duriso, Precious Marie Durousseau, April Elizabeth Jackson, Debra Ann Joseph, Sonya Celeste Lemell, Sandra Aileen Leonard, Jayme Susane Malone, Virginia Ivy Pate, applied arts and sciences; Ashley Drewett, Allison Christine Jones, biology; David Van Nguyen, chemical engineering; Marcus Christopher Doubt, Umair Ismail, Manuel Mendoza Jr., civil engineering; Lauren Kristian Cain-Williams, Meredith Sidney Cumpian, Amanda Elaine DeLaCruz, Joyce Ann Hilts, Laura Beth Jean, Stephen Junious Jr., Mark Stephen McDougald, Joyce Elaine Rhodman, Adria Clariss Semien, Robin Wildberger, communication; Donnell Lee Armentrout, Jakeisha Janee Foster, Sarah Saldana, Danae Marie Simmons, Shaila Arlette Straughter, communication disorders; Joshua Lee Davis, Bria Dionne Lynch, Stacey Elise Smith, criminal justice; Donald Dorn, William Henderson, Garret Lee LaBove, electrical engineering and mathematics (two degrees); Sarah Leanette Charles, English; Clifton Michael Franz, entrepreneurship, general business and management; Tonya Evett Baker, Natavia Bernard, Chelsea Falch, Rebecca Jeanine Fenter, Emily Garlock, Kelsey Brooke Powell, Ellen Rivers, Ana Maria Saldana Sanchez, Michelle Shannon, Nicquana Slaughter, Louann Marie Walker, Gynises Nicole Williams, family and consumer sciences; Benjamin Griggs, French; Devlin Antonio Vega, general business-industrial engineering; Amber Renee Alexander, Michael Fregia, Camille Sablan Hernandez, Diana Leigh Hindman, Demetricia Holloway, Byron Andrew Hughes, Dominic Johnson, Zachary Martin Patterson, general studies; Christopher Dale Leger, John Puckett, graphic design; Joyce Jepchirchir Cheruiyot, health; Peyton Blaine Arana, Topazio Barrera, history; Randall Taylor Riggs, human resource management; James Bienvenu, Ryan Douglas Morrell, industrial engineering; Micah Jarrod Richardson, industrial technology; Kimberly Denise Boyd, Kimberly Deone Carr, Caroline Cooper, Autumn Norris, interdisciplinary studies; Patrick Neel, kinesiology; Jae Catherine Byerly, Kurt Roberts, Kristen Leigh Still, management; Michael David O'Pry, management information systems; Roderick Sean Bellard, Quintin Coleman Jr., marketing and music (two degrees), Eric Salazar, Lauren Nicole Stewart, marketing; Joseph Lawrence Cantu, Aaron Merriam, Jason Lynn Yarbrough, mathematics; Erin Ammerman, Wesley Remington Hoffer, Roberto Molina, Alan Peterson, mechanical engineering; Mary Purington, music; Jed Andresio, Brittany Ballew, Patricia Ann Batiste, Carrie Brittney Bennett, Elise Marie Boynton, Courtney Brooks, Nikki Lea Martin, Matthew Mullenax, Tara Dionne Sallier Owens, Aida Sanchez, Suzanne Annette Thompson, Carley Williford, nursing; Umair Sarwar, political science; Kenyatta Hokulani Frazier, Jade Christine Paredez, Dan Jerahnil Opena Tabien, Crissa Taylor, Christavia Zaja Willridge, psychology; Rebekah Dee Maxwell, retail management; Taffy Rae Thomas, social work; Jennifer Nichole Henry, David Ryan Willis, sociology; Megan Barrett, theater.
BELTON: Jason Michael Law, applied arts and sciences.
BOGOTA, Colombia: Juan Carlos Cardona Gomez, industrial engineering.
BRACKETTVILLE: Heather Nicole Baggett, English.
BRAZORIA: Randall Caleb Lackey, industrial engineering.
BRIDGE CITY: Rachel Davis, accounting; Lawren Beth Comer, Sonja Cooper, applied arts and sciences; Lauren Ashley James, biology; Aimee Laine Sherrick, communication disorders; Jordan Louis Lemoine, general business; Sarah Celina Wester, general studies; Aaron James Davis, graphic design; Paul Lapeyrolerie Jr., Claude Christopher Tackett, industrial technology; Laura Clark, management information systems; Carly Michelle Wright, marketing; Andrew Havens, Mark Daniel Placette, mechanical engineering; Benjamin Joseph Garcia, Lou Randall Locke, Amy Lee Pelaez, Sarah Elizabeth Simmons, Shannon Leigh Young, nursing; Allison LeBlanc, sociology.
BROOKELAND: Shivani Patel, applied arts and sciences; Katherine Lea Willis, general studies.
BUNA: Marilys Mae O'Dell, accounting; Milton Earl Killen, Stacy Michelle Litton, applied arts and sciences; Alexandra Louise Clark, biology; Justin Ray Holt, criminal justice; Chelsea Manak, graphic design; Robert Cordel Davison, industrial engineering; Barry David Bond, industrial technology; Bethany Faye Riley, interdisciplinary studies; Desiree Robinson, management information systems; Kyle Wade Childress, marketing; Jana Lee Swearingen, nursing.
CALUMET CITY, Ill.: James Sandman, mechanical engineering.
CAMERON: Ja'Quia Antonique Drew, psychology.
CARROLLTON: Brittany Ross, exercise science and fitness management and psychology (two degrees).
CHANNELVIEW: Malcolm Turner Lockett, communication.
CHEEK: Tiffany Monique Larnette, nursing.
CHESTER: Daniel Wesley Woodrome, mechanical engineering.
CHINA: Jessica Marie Jordan, accounting; Joanna Morgan, communication; Megan Mary Shay, communication disorders.
CLEVELAND: Jason Ross McMillan, finance.
COLDSPRING: Casey Deon King, management.
COLMESNEIL: Michael Andre Butler, applied arts and sciences.
CORPUS CHRISTI: Carrie Mrazek, exercise science and fitness management.
CROSBY: Keegan Lowell Bratsch, Brian Keith Zotzky, civil engineering; Keith Alexander Lund, general business-industrial engineering.
DALLAS: Wendall Hoyt Rogers, applied arts and sciences; Britany Johnson, Fredrick Dewayne Williams, communication; Shawn Steven Suri, exercise science and fitness management; Kendall Megan Mahaffey, nursing.
DANBURY: Carrie Louise Kelm, communication disorders.
DAYTON: Jennifer Lynn Whittington, political science.
DELAVAN, Wis.: Kari Marie Busch, exercise science and fitness management.
DEWEYVILLE: Drake Gibson, communication; Kacie Sherree Calloway, nursing.
EDNA: Margo Michelle Marek, general studies.
EVADALE: Amanda Beth Ferguson, communication.
FANNETT: Christopher Cassel, Alan Kondo, chemical engineering; Briana Lynn Gattis, exercise science and fitness management and family and consumer sciences (two degrees); Jamie Salter, family and consumer sciences; Craig Allen Cormier, graphic design; Kirstey Martin, interdisciplinary studies.
FARMERS BRANCH: Juan Diego Victoria, nursing.
FORT WORTH: Daniel Douglas Lee, marketing; Joe Dewayne Dodd, nursing.
FREDERICK, Md.: Steven Francis Reidy, electrical engineering.
GALVESTON: Jaysen Trevino, chemical engineering; Reginald Andre Booker, electrical engineering.
GILMER: Holly Elizabeth Bingham, social work.
GROVES: Stephanie Kaye Provost, accounting; Jacob Bourgeois, Terry Echels Thibodeaux, applied arts and sciences; Joshua Paul Autery, biochemistry; Jason Myers Foreman, biology; Heather Noel Broussard, Raul Jibran Bryan, Joseph Michael Martin, chemical engineering; Lisa Rene Porter, civil engineering; Kyle Fontenot, communication; Emily Elizabeth Pacetti, communication disorders; Garry Thomas Tucker, criminal justice; Austin Wayne Prince, Trung Ngoc Vo, Alexander Ali Yousefian, electrical engineering; Lindsay Michelle Darcey, Chelsey Cecile Lopez, family and consumer sciences; Alyssa Neeb, general studies; Chad Everette Monk, history; Amanda Gail Jones, human resource management; Dreamie Monique Brittain, Kimberly Evans, Kayla Christine Michalk, interdisciplinary studies; Ross Allen Freeman, Justin Michael Lopez, Jason Andrew Morris, management information systems; Matthew Hendon, marketing; Cody Hollier, mechanical engineering; Kristy Rae Bodden, Jessica Jones, Garrett Benjamin Roy, Sandi Rae Scully, Leticha Dawn Snipes, nursing; Chelsy Broussard, Kyle Lee Haviland, studio art.
GUNTER: Joshua Dee Smith, electrical engineering.
HAMSHIRE: Maricela Guerrero, civil engineering; Spencer Wayne Cuniff, general studies; Richard Todd Wilkes, marketing; Bradley Joseph Whitehead, mechanical engineering; Heather Nicole De Bord, nursing; Elizabeth Lorraine Gressett, Joshua Ellis Gressett, studio art.
HANKAMER: Joshua Robert McKeown, industrial technology.
HARDIN: Jennifer Bell, interdisciplinary studies; Trad Allen Taylor, kinesiology; Eva Blanchard, social work.
HIGH ISLAND: April Hughes, interdisciplinary studies.
HIGHLANDS: Lawrence Joel Richardson, chemical engineering; Ashley Washington, social work.
HOUSTON: Afusat Adelagun, accounting; Tifani Corine Nero, advertising communications; Harry Lee Allen, Yunekia Davis, Leah Ann Francis, Harold John Hunt, applied arts and sciences; Shameca Katherine Baker, Heide Clarisa Granado, Shuntavia Louise Moore, biology; Patrick Duruewuru, Ashley Ann Freeman, Joseph Henry Jr., John Daniel Williamson, chemical engineering; David Earle Pierre, civil engineering; Jeresia Janay Bryant, Khrystene Nicole Coleman, Christopher Collier, Kristian Danielle Toliver, Spechiale Noveyea Wells, communication; Rita Sade Akindude, Jasmine Nichelle Cade, Lauren Janell Hicks, Lauren Renee Holmes, Eva Marie Nawara, Kerri Kavone Elyse Newman, Robyn Janate' Smith, communication disorders; Randie Donice Hanks, Morgan Camille Liggins, Domonique Rachael Moorehead, Dominique Thibodeaux, Jimmy Tyrone Winfrey, criminal justice; Tashare Tamil Lewis, Jessica Mayberry, Felicia Nkesi Wenah, exercise science and fitness management; Laketta Patrice Hampton, Marcella Mosquera-Palacios, Melissa Nicole Saenz, Leslie Monique Slaughter, family and consumer sciences; Le'Janae Michelle Fadairo, finance; Chrystal Palmer, Leslie Briana Robertson, general business; Deandre Dixon, general studies; Rashalyn Javette Carrier, Lanette Janay Charles, Christian James Lister, health; Jerrica Myosha Smith, human resource management; Ranell Deanne Lee, interdisciplinary studies; Porsha Evette Brown, management and marketing (two degrees), Deandre Jamal Hewitt, management; Herbert Edward Davis, management information systems and marketing (two degrees), Michael Eatmon, management information systems; Reagan Gear, Austin Brent Wolfe, Cameron Scott Wolfe, music; Joia Jahnee Bush, Deante Coleman, Andrianna De La Puente, Vankesha Ewae Godfrey, Tanisha Tamelia Grant, Tram Teresa Hoang, Catherine Manga, nursing; Ashley Denise Branch, Apryl De'Anita Winfrey, social work; Antoinnisha Domonique Johnson, sociology.
HUFFMAN: Jessica Danielle Anselmo, nursing.
HUMBLE: Brechel Marie Jarvis, communication disorders; Jamaal Rashaad Goodwin, Jamarkus Darnell Tolbert, criminal justice; Michael Dale Shubert, mechanical engineering.
HURST: Elizabeth Ann Squires, nursing.
IPSWICH, S.D.: Jill Marie Young, applied arts and sciences.
JASPER: Denyse Laraine Howard, chemical engineering; Chance Wayne Henson, English; Mark Cannon Jr., marketing.
JAYESS, Miss.: Patricia Annette Chustz, biology.
KAMPALA, Uganda: Bob Denis Ahimbisibwe, Julius Kasule, general studies; Nabawanga Nanteza Kakembo, health.
KARACHI, Pakistan: Anita Hussain Habib, nursing.
KIRBYVILLE: Kaitlynn Pate, chemistry; Michael Craig Richardson, electrical engineering.
KOUNTZE: Heidi Odom, communication disorders; Nicholas Jay Peters, finance; Malishia Jean Winger, Erin Renee Wolcott, general studies; Joshua Barclay, mechanical engineering; Maria Etoile Grant, nursing.
LA PORTE: Robert Augusto Godinez, civil engineering; Jorge Luis Jimenez, electrical engineering; Laura Rodriguez, interdisciplinary studies; Reuben Anthony Hernandez, mechanical engineering.
LA VILLE AUX DAMES, France: Myriam Igoufe, political science.
LABELLE: Lauren Elizabeth Austin, interdisciplinary studies.
LAFAYETTE, La.: Jeantelle Marie Duhon, general studies.
LAKE JACKSON: Priscilla Nunez Bejarano, applied arts and sciences.
LEAGUE CITY: Chad Evan Davis, Pablo Salinas, general studies.
LIBERTY: Michelle Janice Lynn Cantu, general studies; Fletcher Ethan DuBose, Sarah Denise Whitehead, Travis Dayne Wilde, nursing.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.: Le Sean Wilburd, finance.
LIVINGSTON, La.: Ashley White, general studies.
LUFKIN: Kyle Daniel Meads, environmental science; Dorshia Lawilda Bennett, interdisciplinary studies.
LUMBERTON: Cory Stephen Cooper, accounting; Donna Gracedel Chance, applied arts and sciences; Lisa Stegall, biology; Wesley Thomas Smith, chemistry; Kallye Lynn Mitchell, criminal justice; Philip Wayne Stewart, economics; Richard Kevin Vandorn, electrical engineering; Kindell Harris, Toree Danielle Plaia, Kimberly Dale Thompson, family and consumer sciences; Lisa Elizabeth Laurie, finance; Chere Ann Craigen, French; Sunni Brannan, graphic design; Jonathan David Morgan, Codi Steiner, history; Jory Matthew Fondren, human resource management; Brandon Keith Rascoe, industrial technology; Kaitlin Hogg, Kara Michele Parker, interdisciplinary studies; Jessica Stanley Brown, management; Michael Clay Campbell, marketing; Tanya Gail Woods, nursing; Amanda Nichole Lilley, political science; Albert Elias Saldana, Sheila Speckter, psychology; Thomas Daniel Robinett, studio art.
MALDA, India: Kaustuv Sarkar, construction management.
MANILA, Philippines: Ronaldo Carlo Cruz, industrial technology.
MARRERO, La.: Trashanna Smith, communication.
MAURICEVILLE: Sarah Renee Thompson, accounting; Brandi Marie Daigle, Katie Holmes, nursing; Steven Peddy, political science.
MERTZON: Brianne Brock, applied arts and sciences.
MESQUITE: Holly Noel Bradford, health.
MIKHAILOVKA, Russia: Denis Alekseyevich Ermilov, general studies.
MIRAMICHI, Canada: Jeremy Craik, finance.
MISSOURI CITY: Adam Priesmeyer, finance; Gena Antoinette Martin, graphic design; Afoma Joy Nzeadibe, nursing.
MONROE, La.: Gregory Darnell Griffin, industrial technology.
MONT BELVIEU: Lynsey Jackson, general business; Barbara Delorse Ross, interdisciplinary studies; Claire Elizabeth Lanser, social work.
MONTERREY, Mexico: Omar Orlando Belmares, chemical engineering.
MONTGOMERY: Matthew Michael Morrison, mechanical engineering.
NACOGDOCHES: Tanisha Renee Jones, family and consumer sciences and retail management (two degrees); Alicia Meshell Shepard, general studies.
NEDERLAND: Geoffrey Marcus Boyd, Tommy Chance Chapman, accounting; Bryan Keith Meche, Beverly Luann Paris, Holly Walker, applied arts and sciences; Jordon Ray Stanley, biochemistry and forensic chemistry (two degrees); Corey Thomas Costello, biology; Halie Clark, communication disorders; Luis-Miguel Tamayo, electrical engineering; Ha Hong Nguyen, Justin Walker, exercise science and fitness management; Jessica Ann Dubose, family and consumer sciences; Joshua Lee Mecom, Paul Moberg Jr., finance, Kasey Marie Morgan, Meagan Nelson, general studies; Edgar Eduardo Rodriguez, graphic design; Zeke Mikhail Grimes, Jessica Marie Tullis, history; Brent James Thrasher, industrial engineering; Angela Trahan Breedlove, industrial technology; Dylan Fairley, Ryan Anthony Melancon, kinesiology; David Branham, Jason Thomas Galloway, Anthony Gengo Jr., management; Trisha Ann Redwine, Logan Anthony Theriot, marketing; Aaron Paul Aguillard, mechanical engineering; Brittany Kathleen Perry, music; Eric Wayne Leblanc, Michelle Andreana Marroquin, Sheila Thanh Ngo, Julia Tran, nursing; Mitchell Coffman, political science; Hannah Nicole Guidry, Jerome James Honza, psychology; Penny Jo Mullin, Spanish.
NEW IBERIA, La.: Darika Hill, general studies.
NEW ORLEANS, La.: Reginald Jackson, applied arts and sciences; Laura Kerr, studio art.
NEW WAVERLY: Lorraine Belinowski, general studies.
NEWTON: Leanne Dubose, applied arts and sciences; Michelle Nicole Land, psychology.
NORMANGEE: Phillip Hotzen II, civil engineering.
OPELOUSAS, La.: Janella Marie Keller, psychology.
ORANGE: Brittney Lyn Chandler, Adam Hristopoulos Craig, accounting; Debra Ann Broussard, Ericka Marie Killen, applied arts and sciences; Freddie Guyote Jr., biology, Adam Jaynes, biology and nursing (two degrees); Tyler Toups, chemical engineering; Minh-Nhat Phuoc Duong, chemistry; Evangeline Ann Burkart, civil engineering; Dylan Chandler Ball, Thaddeaus Wayne Green, Dylan Faith Moses-Bennett, communication; Alyssa Deramus, Danielle Graffagnino, Haley Parish, communication disorders; Clinton Jody Derouen, Blake Ashley McLendon, criminal justice; Alex Murphy, Brandon Scott St. John, electrical engineering; Drew Davidson, finance; Matthew Aaron Toohey, general business-industrial engineering; Christopher Anderson, Rebecca Badeaux, Elissa Evans, Filicia Jeanette Jerdee, Logan Wilson, general studies; Jason Eric Haile, health; James William Smylie, industrial technology; Maria Sousa Berlinger, interdisciplinary studies; Morgan Bradley James, Dusty Louis Stark, management; Jonathan Paul Broussard, management information systems; April Allen, Shontell Vice Hudnall, Jessica Darlene Hughes, Yolanda Yvette Johnson, Heather Coody Landers, Jared Scott Morgan, Rachel Christine Roy, Aaron Lee Whipkey, nursing.
ORANGEFIELD: Matthew William Robertson, criminal justice; Brett Joseph Ramsey, kinesiology; Jacquelyn Hope Gower, theater.
PASADENA: Matthew Beaudry, chemical engineering; Tiffany Diane Espinoza, dance; Ty Holder, kinesiology; Leslie Maza, theater.
PEARLAND: Ebony Omeghie Saliu, communication disorders.
PONDER: Kristina Alicia Garza, family and consumer sciences
PORT ACRES: Shannon Harper, general studies.
PORT ARTHUR: Lauren Michelle Anderson, Nisha Dayama, Shanil Saleem Meghani, Lien Nguyen, Vy Hoang Nguyen, Marisol Ceja Rocha, accounting; Jennifer Renee George, American Sign Language; Charneth Cherisse Ramdoo, biology; Christine Louise Felix, Amin Hendiani, chemistry; Abel Antonio Ortega, Arturo Tomas Ortega, communication; Ephraim Karl Hill, communication disorders; Quentilla Broxton, Joseph David Hautzenroeder, Axa Mahali Miller, criminal justice; Douglas Foots Jr., Phuong Uyen Nguyen, electrical engineering; Lorenzo Vicente Salinas, English; Ashley Lashell Langley, family and consumer sciences; Sara Rogers Torr, finance; Tamika Dawn Levy, Bryse Durrell Marcel, general business; Chloe Simone Jacobs, Marisol Quiroz, general studies; Kevin Nicholas Albright, industrial engineering; Heather Nicole Jones, Ryan Andrew Meyer, interdisciplinary studies; Dollisha Renee Broussard, Fred Clark Jones, management information systems; Christopher Cody Holmes, marketing; Laurie Elaine Commander, nursing; Irma Johnson, psychology; Yolanda Yvette Anderson, sociology; Laura Cantu, Spanish.
PORT GIBSON, Miss.: Tanya Lynn Patrick, nursing.
PORT NECHES: Melissa Ann Hill, Sarah Elizabeth Martin, Sarah Elizabeth May, accounting; Amie Nichole Sonnier, applied arts and sciences; Kenton Trevor Baize, Alana Michelle Hackbarth, biology; Carlo Angus, chemical engineering; Sarah Zelczak, communication; Samantha Gray Jakobeit, Andrew Allyn Losh, English; Matthew Sharp, exercise science and fitness management; Jessica Britni Moore, family and consumer sciences and marketing (two degrees), Leigh Anne Spencer, Ashley Katherine Wallace, family and consumer sciences; Andrew Jackson Daniels, finance; Tyler Joseph Noyola, Jessica Renee Redkey, Hazel Lee-Ann Reidy, general studies; Marquis Katon Horn, graphic design; Dustin Keith Hightower, history; Jeremy Joseph McCord, industrial technology; Leah Elizabeth Collazo, Whitney Dyan Elisar, Aaron Michael Lebouef, Lauren Elizabeth May, Rebekah Dawn Mobley, interdisciplinary studies; Tamara Foreman, management information systems; William Taylor McInnis, mechanical engineering; Stevi Brook Anderson, Shannon Renee Fox, Penny Armenda Garner, Jared Kent Martinez, Hunter Grant Oliver, Cassie Danay Warner, nursing; Timothy Bryce Romero, political science.
PORTER: Kathryn Michelle Ware, nursing.
RAYWOOD: Samantha Hardy, general studies.
RED ROCK, Okla.: Jenna Michelle Plumley, general studies.
RICHMOND: Vernon Rusher III, management information systems.
RISING STAR: Rebeca Anne Brewer, nursing.
RUNGSTED KYST, Denmark: Stine Koed Pedersen, exercise science and fitness management.
SABINE PASS: Stacie Lynn Williams, nursing.
SAN ANTONIO: Ray Michael Fuentes, applied arts and sciences; Ashley Marion Young, family and consumer sciences; Jasmin Guillen, nursing.
SAN MARCOS, Calif.: Michael Anthony Allen, general studies.
SANTIAGO, Chile: Enrique Ignacio Carrasco Alfaro, industrial engineering.
SEABROOK: Audra Michelle Phillips, general business.
SILSBEE: Teresa Louise Cooper, Shan Laron Gilder, applied arts and sciences; Kristen Rachelle Westbrooks, chemical engineering; Matthew Alan Walters, criminal justice; Hope Danielle Swearingen, English; Kelly Dinkle, general business; Sonja Nash, general studies; Tara Ruggles Johnson, interdisciplinary studies; Zachary Ian Dryden Skinner, kinesiology; Prissy Fuller Knighten, marketing; Nicholas Swango, mechanical engineering; Jessica Leighann McWilliams, Kimberly Gail Vickery, Heather Dawn Wiggins, nursing.
SOUR LAKE: Patrick Brandon Greer, biology; Brandon Eugene Robinson, chemical engineering; Clinton Kizziah, criminal justice; Natalie Eve Leger, general studies; Ashley Martinez, human resource management; Gary Michael Yentzen, industrial engineering; Megan Holly Robin, nursing; Matthew Eugene Minick, political science; Bethany Jane Aiena, psychology.
SPRING: Jeffrey Abt, Quentin Keith Luquette, general studies.
SPURGER: Melissa Dawn Jenkins, general studies; Katy Marie Petree, political science.
STAFFORD: John Michael Guarino, chemical engineering.
STARKS, La.: Debbie Smith Williams, general studies.
SUGAR LAND: Rochelle Nannette Emanuel, electrical engineering; Ashley Elizabeth Turner, finance; Sherin Mary Mathew, social work.
SULPHUR SPRINGS: Carley Nichole Stewart, theater.
SWEENY: Carla Bess, Jennifer Lea Mikel, nursing.
TAFT: Doris Christ Goodley-Ruben, applied arts and sciences.
TARKINGTON PRAIRIE: James Bamburg, graphic design.
TEHACHAPI, Calif.: Brett Charles Thomas, biology.
TEHRAN, Iran: Ali Hendiani, chemistry; Parvin Rajaabadi Shomalzadeh, nursing.
TERRELL: Jeremy Steven King, graphic design; Shauna De'Nae Neal, marketing.
TEXAS CITY: Jeraud Alvin Samuels, communication; Jessica Ann Winters, interdisciplinary studies.
THICKET: Christopher Taylor, finance.
TYLER: Undraya Michelle Henry, communication disorders; Michael Christian Paine, nursing.
VAN VLECK: Sadie Lynn Dykes, communication disorders.
VICTORIA: Jordan Elizabeth Traber, communication disorders; Joanna Jordan Genuardi, family and consumer sciences; Michael Scott Saddler, mechanical engineering.
VIDOR: Elizabeth Ann Gray, accounting; Ashley Loren Leger, Michael Shaw, applied arts and sciences; Jason Allen Fondrick, Brice William Sherrod, biology; Colin Blayne Franks, civil engineering; Carrie Nicole Campbell, communication disorders; Thomas Robert Horn, electrical engineering; Amanda Gayle Midkiff, English; Bruce Whitaker, exercise science and fitness management; Katie Elizabeth Beard, Brandi Brown, family and consumer sciences; Austin Bryant Greenway, Joseph Bradley Peevey, general studies; Brandon James Patton, graphic design; Samantha Leigh Reho, human resource management; Brittany Deleigh Bailey, Gabriella Eva Paterno, interdisciplinary studies; Justin Rhodes, marketing; John Colton Davis, mechanical engineering; Chelsea Elizabeth Beggs, Jessica Paige Lafleur, Stacy Lynn Wilhelm, nursing.
VILLAGE MILLS: Peggy Diane Mecom, applied arts and sciences; Kellie Nichole McKee, psychology.
WACO: Bridgette Michelle Brackens, general studies.
WALL: Rachel Jones, communication disorders.
WHITE CASTLE, La.: Megan Tiera Sumpton, communication.
WILLIS: Aaron Buchanan, general studies.
WINNIE: Rachel Denise Rutherford, chemical engineering; Russell Keith Barker, electrical engineering; Jeralyn Denise Johnson, family and consumer sciences; Christopher Abel McBride, graphic design.
WOODVILLE: Justin Kirkpatrick, chemical engineering; Aaron Leigh Hicks, general studies; Melissa Garess, interdisciplinary studies; Kari Wyche Bollich, nursing.
Associate Degrees in Nursing:
BEAUMONT: Aisha Meche' Davis, Shirley Lee Harrington, Kristopher Thomas Hillin, Stacy Rene Huff, Nicholas Wayne King, Christina Feleice Latiolais, Charity Limbrick, Lydia Priess, Jennifer Renee Saindon, Sharon Danielle Smith.
BRIDGE CITY: Lori Elaine Williamson.
BUNA: Cherry Leigh Courts, Ann Webb.
CARROLLTON: Sabu Mathew.
JASPER: Miesha Denise Rawls.
LIBERAL, Kan.: Merideth Abbott.
LUMBERTON: Judy Walton.
NEDERLAND: Tami Rene' Celaya, Daniel Luciano Villarreal.
NEWTON: Jasmine Dark.
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS: Ronnie Ann Greenwald.
ORANGE: Joel George Pohorence.
ORANGEFIELD: Patricia Marie Biri.
VIDOR: Kaylea Michelle Deason.
WOODVILLE: Shewana Spencer.


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Walter Reade Theater
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Susan Sarandon, left, as Sally and Burt Lancaster as Lou Pascal in Atlantic City, directed by Louis Malle (1980).
Cinematic retrospective of Louis Malle
Near-complete works of the French director to be shown
By JERRY TALLMER
Louis Armstrong said: If you have to ask, youll never know. He wasnt talking about that new squirt on the block, Miles Davis, he was talking about the whole thing called jazz.
With the first white-hot note a series of squeezed-out, throttled, high-pressure, steam-bursting trumpet notes of pain and purity behind the first frames of Elevator to the Gallows, you are already pointed the way through the ensuing 91 minutes of Louis Malles first, shockingly alive, full-length motion picture.
Wandering with you the whole night long through the streets of Paris to the sound of Miles, the devils own music is Jeanne Moreau, in search of a man, her lover, who unbeknownst to her is trapped in an ascenseur, an elevator, six or eight stories up in the apartment building where, as she wished, he has just murdered Moreaus husband.
She sees the lovers car drive away, and thinks hes two-timing her with the young chick Moreau has glimpsed on the front seat, but it wasnt Moreaus lover at the wheel of the car, it was the chicks tinhorn daredevil boyfriend who has stolen the snazzy vehicle
and these two teenagers will stumble idiotically into a double shooting that wipes out the first murder almost.
Those banshee notes of Miles the magician punctuate and drive the whole crackling irony. Miles and a pickup combo. Free-lancing.
Louis Malle was 24 when he wrote (with Roger Nimier) and directed this 1957 thriller, which, thanks to the restoration and reissue of Elevator by Bruce Goldsteins Rialto Pictures, on Friday, at the Walter Reade Theater, opens the Film Society of Lincoln Centers long-in-the-making 26-day near-complete retrospective of the cinema of Louis Malle. The same day, Elevator to the Gallows is making a theatrical re-release at Sunshine Cinemas for an indefinite run, a nation-wide release of the film will follow.
Miles Davis was 31 and happened to be on a club date in Paris in 1957. I was crazy about jazz, Malle has said of that moment and would prove his love of jazz again, a decade and a half after Elevator, with his 1971 Murmur of the Heart (Le soufflé au coeur), in which, in the bleak Dien Bien Phu year of 1954, a gawky 15-year-old Parisian kid named Laurent is nuts about Charlie Parker while we hear Bird and Bechet scatting around on the soundtrack.
The next year, 1955, Charlie Parker was dead and all over New York City, and everywhere else, for all I know, the two words BIRD LIVES sprouted in chalk, in paint, in charcoal, in ink, on surfaces wherever your eyes would fall. I myself first saw it, BIRD LIVES, where you go down into the subway at Sheridan Square.
Back to Paris and Ascenseur pour lechafaud:
The 24-year-old Malle, most of whose movie-making experience to that point was helping Jacques Cousteau shoot his underwater documentary The Silent World, wangled an introduction to a reluctant Miles Davis.
I managed to convince him [to put music to the work in hand, Malle would write in Malle on Malle], I showed him the film twice, only twice. We agreed on the parts where we felt music was needed. And we took advantage of the one night off he had from the club. We rented a sound studio in Paris on the Champs-Elysees, and started working, as musicians do, very slowly. We worked from something like 10 or 11 that night until 5 in the morning. In that one night, the whole score was recorded
Its one of the very few film scores which are completely improvised.
Jeanne Moreau doesnt do much in the movie except, as was once said of Laurette Taylor, she does everything. Does it just walking around. Does it just by having the camera Henri Dedaes camera stay on her face.
Before this, Moreau was already worshipped in the theater, but in films, as Malle noted, was only a B star. [P]eople used to say that although she was a great actress, and very sexy, she was simply not photogenic. Hah! See Les amants (The Lovers), by Malle the very next year, 1958. It was Elevator to the Gallows that had made her an A star and Louis Malle, on one try, an A director.
Part of the plot of Elevator is set in, of all environments, a motel. Malle couldnt find one in all of Paris. He had to take his actors and crew to Normandy, D-Day territory, to find the only motel in France.
In that motel we meet a couple of German tourists, man and wife, he an overbearing traveling salesman who quotes Goethe and reveals, not too far between the lines, everything Louis Malle, born 1932, would feel and think about Germans and, 30 years after Elevator, would put into the wrenching, autobiographial Au revoir les enfants, about the day the Germans came in 1944 and took three Jewish kids out of the Catholic school (Malles school) where theyd been sheltered.
Louis Malle was, above all, a humanist. Could even study with humane eyes the banality of evil, viz., Lacombe, Lucien (1974), an exploration of the life and times of a 17-year-old French misfit who goes to work for the Gestapo.
It is a long way from there to Pretty Baby (1978) and even farther to Atlantic City (1980), both of which made Susan Sarandon on object of any mans deep desire. And if there is anything more humane than 67-year-old Burt Lancasters quiet pride the morning after making love with a stunner half his age, I dont know what it is. It almost matches Lancasters line well, John Guares line You should have seen the ocean in those days.
I interviewed Louis Malle two or three times, here in New York, and we got talking of this and that. Once, a propos Pretty Baby and its nude 12-year-old Brooke Shields, we discussed voyeurism. Malle, who had spent many separate months over a number of years making a series of documentaries on India, said: You know, some of the people in India, when you point a camera at them, they think you are stealing their soul. He let that sink in, then added: Maybe I AM a voyeur.
I asked him how he could have ever, in real life, let Susan Sarandon go. He just looked at me. Maybe it wasnt he whod let go. Another time, on the subject of Au revoir les enfants, Malle, born and raised Catholic, said he rather thought there was a Jewish grand- or great-grandparent somewhere back along the line.
Things like the schoolboy opening passages of Murmur of the Heart have a way of getting under your skin. Its like being born again. Le souffle au coeur is famous for the daring, and tenderness, of its climax, lonely young guiding mama (Lea Massari) and sexually uptight teenage son (Benoit Ferreux) in bed together in a hotel room in the dark.
We go to movies, to plays, to better understand our own lives. What broke upon me, this time round, somewhat earlier in the films 110 minutes, was something that had floated past in any previous viewing over the years: just a quick shot of mother and son playing tennis together at the spa.
Suddenly I had a flashback, to a resort, not in France, but here in the Delaware Water Gap, where, at something like age 15 the age of the boy in the movie I am playing tennis with my own mother. In the next court are a fellow and girl who, when all of us are cooling out with towels in hand, come over and exclaim: Oh, what a lovely couple you two make! Are you on honeymoon?
No, I did not go to bed with my mother, nor want to. But obviously, my subconscious never forgot that instant. Murmur of the Heart Louis Malle brought it out.
Then theres this: Sometime in the 1980s or early 90s, the New York Post was going through one of its periodic death throes. Very late one desperate night, we of the staff are sitting around the City Room down on South Street, sweating blood, while our entire fate live or die is being decided by cold-blooded negotiators closeted for endless hours in a hotel room 60 blocks north.
Suddenly the phone on my desk starts ringing. I pick it up. It is Louis Malle, world-famous director of motion pictures. I was just worrying about you, he says. Are you all right?
Louis Malle was taken by cancer on November 23, 1995.
The series at the Walter Reade is subtitled Risks and Reinvention.
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