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Hi was hoping you could help me out with the answer abut changing the footer set up. Thank you
Looks this is a very obsolete answer. But I answered there. Thanks
hi one more thing. my site is being developed at testipo.indemnitycorp.com.au
You will see the custom menu has borders around it. I am using mega menu, but only the header menu is megafied.
Is there a way to stop this border?
thanks for your heko
#megaMenu ul li.menu-item.ss-nav-menu-mega ul.sub-menu-1 > li.menu-item > a { border-bottom: none !important }
Thanks a lot
Hi i am getting this error trying to import old posts from my old option-tree framework blog:
Failed to import "Media": Invalid post type option-tree
Any ideas how to import the XML?
thank you
Theme doesn't have option-tree. Are you talking about theme options panel?
sorry to confuse. My old blog site, did have option-tree. When I try to import the posts into the gravity theme, via Import XML, i get the "Failed to import "Media": Invalid post type option-tree error.
Hope you activated Gravity theme instead of old one.
I don't have any guess, can you remove old theme entirely from themes section?
Hi. Is there a way to have a light header and menu instead of dark? Something that comes pre-built maybe and configurable.
Admin panel has an option to change that color.
hello themeton remember that you help me hide the carousel and show it when the jquery was loaded, is there any way I can do that with the whole index page?? so when people visit site doesnt show nothing until is completely loaded??? thanks in advance
Is your content broken when before they load finish?
I have no idea about it. Probably we need to use some plugin for this. Hope you like this, http://goo.gl/Jg3ge
I couldn't find a shortcode for vertical tabs http://themes.themeton.com/gravity/shortcodes/tab/
It is a page property of page builder element. http://d.pr/i/3l6o
I'm using now, but I want to change a carousel our client and post to slide 5 items/times. Can you help me?
You can use blog shortcode on column element. Please try it there
Yes, but I want to get it scroll automatic (marquee), how to do?
What is your site address? I need to know certainly what it the blog mean.
Typically carousel element initialing from 237-280 lines of "resources/js/scripts.js" file
It's my site: http://trisonlaw.com/web I want to get scroll automatic the logos and the "tt-post-carousel". Please help me! Thanks!
I found it! Thanks you so much!
Hi tis me again.
I am trying to put the custom menu in the top widget area. However, i do not want to have any underlines, and for the menu to be horizontal, not vertical.
Is there something I should be doing?
thanks for all your help
sorry to see www.testipo.indemnitycorp.com.au
.header-widget .widget ul li { padding:10px float:left; display:inline-block; *display:inline; /* for IE browsers */ border:none } .header-widget .widget ul { float:right }
hey thanks that worked a treat. But now my widget titles font seems to have changed to white… see www.testipo.indemnitycorp.com.au
this is fun!
#footer h3.widget-title { color: #000 }
I don't know there have another issues related that.
hey thanks. Loving your work more and more! But it is not just widget titles. The color of the title for my tt-tabs tab-vertical is still #ffffff. Any ideas to have this change back to #000 thanks ..
I think you had selected white color on tab element. But now you look selected black color there
Also I saw very little issue on your right top nav. You look made simple mistake on your custom css, http://d.pr/i/ptOC If you change/fix this your top menu looks little better
Im having problems with some image quality on blog post entries. Does Gravity Theme compress images when they are uploaded in some way?
For example, please see this image URL, it all looks pretty sharp. Take note of the logo: http://metalpotato.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Website-Design-Plymouth1-770x458.jpg
But then that same image being used in a blog post, doesn't appear so sharp. Again take particular note to the logo. http://metalpotato.com/website-design-company-plymouth/
Hope you can help me out?
Best, MetalPotato
Hi there, http://www.screenr.com/iN7H
Hi there,
So I followed your instructions, deleted the original image from the media section of wordpress, exported a new image from Photoshop using the 800px by 465px you recommended, reuploaded and I don't notice any diffence.
Also, it would seem that Wordpress, or this theme, is resizing the images I upload, because if I look at the Image URL of the new image I uploaded, it still quotes 770px by 465px, and its definitely a new image, I even re-named the image before uploading to make sure. The new image is called Web-Design-Plymouth-770×465.jpg, the old was called Website-Design-Plymouth1-770×458.jpg. It seems the site is also renaming the image, because none of the images I uploaded had the sizes in the filename.
Best MetalPotato
What is your media cropping sizes?
How did you add this post? It is a simple featured image or format image?
Looks you changed/deleted user that created for me
The image size I uploaded was 985px x 618px. Its a standard post with a featured image.
I've created you a new user, will email it to you now.
Thanks got an user
I just removed gallery image and leave with featured image. Now please check your image and i think it looks better now.
Is there a way to call one specific testimonial and display it using the shortcodes?
Looks don't have. Testimonial element for combination of posts. But why you can use simple column element with with quote tag text.
I just looked to try and add a column using a shortcode, (its in a portfolio item, not on a page with the pageviewer), and it only lets me select the number of columns I want to insert, not a quote.
Am I looking in the wrong place?
Hi, I would like to display a website in French but the date stamps on posts are in English (especially months). How can I change the time stamp con posts from English to French?
Thank you in advance for your help. Mat
Very first, is your site language French ?
This is a result of "date" (wp core) function. So if you want to show it on different format please just generate your custom one instead of it. This function exists on framework/inc_content.php (line 70).
T hanks a million
Add another set of columns to the footer, so we could say have one large footer box occupying 40% of the left, and 2 smaller boxes on the right each accounting for 30% of the space?
Answered on your another comment. Thanks
Is anyone else having problem with twitter widget? I'm unable to use it
Please just use any custom/advanced twitter plugin on your site.
I think wp.org has many advanced and quality plugins there.
Which one did you use on http://themes.themeton.com/gravity/ ??
This is one is a just twitter widget. But sometimes it doesn't work for a while. If it doesn't work there, you should use any custom twitter widget on your site.
Thanks man
I'll retype my comment from above, as the first part of it didn't add.
I was asking, is there anyway of adding a 5th footer layout to the theme admin options panel? I really just want three columns, but not all the same size.
Im after the first column to take up 40% of the footer, with the other two columns on the right taking up 30% of the space each. Is that possible? That or Im happy to follow your instructions on how to modify one of the current footer layouts?
Hi there,I don't know what you add those 3 columns. But here I have simple 6 column usage on another theme. And usage is similar this. http://www.screenr.com/LIsH
Also you can add there pure html code.
Thanks sir.
Is there an easy way to make sure that all of the column service boxes on the home page are the same height? Although I've made sure the same number of characters appears in the descriptions, the boxes all line up in Chrome, but if I look at the same page in Firefox, the boxes are odd sizes.
Can we fix the height of the boxes manually?
.home .tt-cs-container { height:100px; overflow:hidden; }Of course you can change value of height there
Thank you!
How can I stop the responsiveness at say, 700px wide? So the site doesn't go any smaller than 700px?
@media (max-width:480px) { ... } from the file.
Or even better, rather than restricting the width to 700px, could I define the width of the home boxes for each responsive width-change of the site?
For example, this code but for the several different widths the site wrapper displays at as a browser width is changed?
.home .tt-cs-container {
Sure,As I described on previous comment, you should add this style on relevant style sections. Such as
@media (max-width:767px){ .home .tt-cs-container{height:120px;overflow:hidden;} ... } @media (min-width:768px) and (max-width:979px){ .home .tt-cs-container{height:140px;overflow:hidden;} ... }Also you can set specific size on different resolutions as I set 120 and 140 on this custom style
Worked perfectly. Thank you Themeton.
This is going to be one of the last questions I ask, as Im conscious that you have helped me an awful lot this last few weeks, and please know that I REALLY appreciate it!!
On Portfolio pages, the main 1170px image at the top, I don't want it to be set by the Wordpress Featured Image. I'd like to upload the image I want to use, copy it's URL, and paste that into a new box in the Portfolio Settings.
The reason for this is I want to use two different images for each portfolio item. I'd like to use one image for the portfolio previews in the carasel and portfolio pagebuilder, and a different image which will be 1170px on the full portfolio page.
I've created a new box in /framework/post-type/Portfolio.php using the following code:
'imageurl' => Array('type' => 'text', 'description' => __('Portfolio Image URL', 'themeton'), 'title' => __('Portfolio Image URL', 'themeton')),
Could you tell me what I'd change in the code in single-portfolio.php to use the image set in the next box I've created from the above code please?
<?php if (has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) { $lrg_img = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), 'full'); $image_width = 1170; $image_height = get_field("image_height")!="" ? get_field("image_height") : (intval(get_settings_value("portfolio_height"))*2); $url = aq_resize($lrg_img[0],$image_width,$image_height, true); $thumb = '

'; echo $thumb; } ?>
Thanks very much.
Hello,Have you updated the theme with latest version? Looks your send code different than latest updated files. But it is okay, please watch this and inject following code into your single-portfolio.php file. http://www.screenr.com/ByHH
if(isset(get_field("imageurl")) && get_field("imageurl") != "") $lrg_img[0] = get_field("imageurl");
Thanks a lot
Thank you.
Please don't worry about wasting your time with my last post (the one about single-portfolio.php and the two seperate images. I've decided to modify the single-portfolio.php template, and have removed the image code, and will now manually enter the second image directly into the post. I would have deleted my above message, but there doesn't seem to have an option to delete comments.


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This is not clear....
What do u hope to try using this linux machine................
I want to enable the port 110 for POP.Output of my "nmap localhost" command is:
I have disabled firewall.PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
631/tcp open ipp
953/tcp open rndc
3306/tcp open mysql
32772/tcp open sometimes-rpc7
This is not clear....
What do u hope to try using this linux machine................
There are two things you need to do in order to open a port: unblock it from the firewall and actually have an application open the port (in this case, the pop daemon I guess...) Is it running and pointing to port 110?
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Here's a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about troubleshooting an issue where attempting to upgrade a package in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) fails with error 04-0000180C:
Attempting to upgrade a package in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) fails with error 04-0000180C:
For System Center Configuration Manager (CfgMgr) clients, the VirtualApp.log will show entries similar to the following, exiting with error code 6156 (SWRC_PKG_NAMEDOESNOTMATCH):
This error indicates that there is a mismatch between the package name of the original package and that of the upgraded package. This results in the App-V client incorrectly determining that there is a duplicate GUID, since the package GUID in both manifests will be the same. To successfully upgrade a package, both of the following conditions must be true:
1. The package GUID must be the same (the Version tag and VERSIONGUID tag will change).
2. The package name must be exactly the same. This can be verified by opening the original and upgrade package's manifest XML in a text editor to compare the NAME and GUID tags.
The NAME tag is derived from the Package Name field on the General Properties tab of the package. The App-V Sequencer allows this field to be changed after sequencing a package but before saving the files. To avoid this error, do not edit this field.
In a second variation, the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Virtual Application Package Update Wizard allows for the Name: field to be changed on its General page. Editing the Name: or Version: fields of the New Package's values will result in the errors above.
To avoid the 04-0000180C and 6156 errors listed above, do not change the package name in either the App-V Sequencer or the ConfigMgr Virtual Application Package Update Wizard. If the package manifest file is correct, simply re-run the Virtual Application Package Update Wizard without changing any values. If the package name has been changed in the Sequencer, re-sequence the application and do not change this value.
For the most current version of this article please see the following:
2688524 : Troubleshooting 04-0000180C / 6156 Errors in Microsoft Application Virtualization
J.C. Hornbeck | System Center & Security Knowledge Engineer
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Many herbal tea blends are packed with the delightful taste of fruits and herbs, especially when mixed with other flavored loose teas. Rooibos teas add more fruit flavor as well as adding antioxidants to your cup. Plus, when mixing rooibos tea into an herbal tea blend, the resulting blended tea still remains caffeine free!
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How Do You Watch The Olympics?
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With all the talk about NBC's broadcast of the Olympics, G-Unit decided to express his opinion on the matter the best way he can — with an eloquently put together rant.
How do you watch the Olympics? Is NBC handling their coverage correctly? Should stations like 105.7 The Fan talk about events as they happen live?
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Deadlock occurring in RI stack when deleting a DVR recording while in playback
Hi all,
Here is the scenario: We record a program on DVR. We play it back. While the recording is playing, we attempt to delete it. Our application (the Buckeye guide) hangs at this point. The recording continues to play in the background and never deletes.
When the user attempts to delete the recording, the application performs the following two steps asynchronously:
1) Deletes the recording
2) Tunes to the previous channel
I have attached a thread dump of the two deadlocking threads. The deleting thread holds a lock on HNRecordingManagerImpl and appears to be waiting to acquire a lock on RecordingManagerInterface. The tuning thread appears to hold a lock on RecordingManagerInterface and is waiting to acquire a lock on HNRecordingManagerImpl. I say "appears" because it is obfuscated in the thread dump, and I only ascertained this by visually inspecting the stack code.
Can somebody from CableLabs please confirm this, and if so provide guidance on how to resolve?
Yeah, I believe this issue was fixed as part of IT/OCAP_RI-586 (http://java.net/jira/browse/OCAP_RI-586).
Your thread dump shows:
at org/cablelabs/impl/media/player/AbstractPlayer/close()V(+7)
at org/cablelabs/impl/manager/recording/RecordingImpl/deleteRecordedServiceData(Z)V(+56)
at org/cablelabs/impl/manager/recording/RecordingImpl/delete()V(+137)
The RI trunk code no longer makes the player.close() call on the caller's thread (as of change 29729 on Feb 2nd). So you need a newer version of the RI with this fix (or patch in the referenced source changes referenced in the bug).
Thank you for the reply. It turns out we are still running 1.2.1 and we are going to capture this update in one of our upcoming releases.
Sounds good.
The trunk changesets that you should be able to apply are 29729 and 29851.
Let us know if you have any further issues/questions.
In org/cablelabs/impl/manager/recording/RecordedServiceImpl.equals(), I moved the synchronized block slightly down the code (past the first two if-statements) and the deadlock issue went away. There is some Comcast-added code below this. But this method does not modify any variables, it only reads them, so does it need to be synchronized? Is there a larger concurrency issue in the stack that needs to be addressed?


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Wannabe on top? I know Adam gave it a try for Vancouver's Next Gay Top Model, but the real wannabes take over our screens on CTV May 26th. Mark your calendars because Canada's Next Top Model is back for cycle 3!
I don't know about you but I LOVE the catfights almost as much as the catwalks. And the best part is NO TYRA! Seriously, I can't stand her. She's so over the top look at me and my guide to inner fierceness bull shit. More modeling, less TYRANT. Cannot wait for this new cycle to begin! And what makes it even more must-see TV? Mike Ruiz, woofy photographer and Canadian sandwich extraordinaire has been added to the panel of judges. Nigel Barker, you just got owned!
Today, the cast list got leaked. I think I'm going to root for Ebonie because her mamma can spell.
They've had various photo shoots, live events, and eliminations; it's now down to the final 9, and our very own Adam is one of the finalists! This is the 2nd Annual, Vancouver's Next Gay Top Model, and last year's winner- Aaron Ursacki- will be passing on his title (his tiara- let's call it what it is!) Thursday, April 2nd at the Grand Finale at Celebrities Night Club.
Now, for a moment, let's pretend I'm Tyra [insert dream music- fade to…]
Just google ANTM recaps and you'll get pages and pages of results. What makes our recap more unique? The quick answer… hopefully a lot of things. For starters, I know we all sit at home judging Miss Banks and her craziness and yell at those amateur models who don't know broken down doll. I mean it's Cycle 12 people. Research. Research. Research. So we're going to put our money where our mouth is and try to emulate some of the best photos with our spin on it. Obviously we don't have the locations, resources and money that BANKABLE & The CW have but we'll try our best. So here goes nothing.
During last week's episode, we saw the self-proclaimed Goddess of Fierce (who's been at it for apparently 2752.7 years) pluck 13 girls from obscurity to compete in this year's sham to find the next top model. IMHO the girls who end up losing have more legitimate modelling careers than the winners with exception to Danielle – Cycle 5. Overall it seems like an interesting crew filled with your token farm girls, token cause of the season (this year it's burn victims ya'll) and token bitches – HELLO SANDRA. Personally, I'm glad they're back in NYC for this season. I find It gives the show more credibility – not that it has much. So far my early front-runners are Allison (Bug Eyes), Fo (Freckles), Amiat (Big Fro) and Celia (Old Blond) which means they will all crash and burn.
Here are a couple of pics from our ANTM – Reliving your childhood photoshoot. Who did it better? Tyrant or Homorazzi?
PS: My fave line of the night was from Celia: "Tyra. This woman is amazing. She's an entity. She's a force. She's extraterrestrial" LMAO
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For the first quarter of 2013, it is predicted that entrepreneurs will already benefit from the Free Trade Agreements with Canada and Mexico and the Partnership agreement with the European Union.
Honduran entrepreneurs are awaiting and receiving advice on how best to profit from all three commercial agreements.
The Free Trade Agreement between Central America and Mexico, the bilateral agreement between Honduras and Canada and the partnership agreement with the countries that form part of the European Union entail the opening of markets totaling 900 million consumers. The most ambitious of the three is the one with the European Union, as it gives access to 739 million people, followed by Mexico with 114 million and Canada with 34 million potential consumers.
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Looking up to a Carly Fiorina-type doesn't help you if you have to quit your job because you can't afford child care.
Texas politicians have been telling us all along that they are passing onerous abortion restrictions out of concern for women's health. But today RNC Chair Reince Priebus said it was all about taxpayer funding of abortion, which doesn't exist in Texas. Hey, Reince? I'm confused.
Washington Monthly reports this morning that the RNC, which has provided coverage for abortion care for its employees for over 18 years and was suddenly "caught out" this week, is now proceeding to remove that coverage from its policy. But even so the RNC will still indirectly subsidize abortions, every time it writes a check to Cigna, thereby rejecting the reasoning of the Stupak amendment at a fundamental level.
Since "Save America's Insurance Companies" is hardly a winning rallying cry, conservative groups are calling on their reliable foe/political friend, abortion.
The Republican National Committee uses debunked "Born Alive" accusations in mailer. Will far-right social conservative anti-choice values be accepted by voters?


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Her Career's in the Toilet (but that's a good thing)
Dari Marder, Advertising and Communications '84, creates scandalous ads for Iconix
by Alexander Gelfand
In 1997, Dari Marder was trying to stir up interest in Candie's, the line of women's shoes and accessories owned by her boss, Neil Cole. Marder, now the chief marketing officer of Cole's Iconix Brand Group, Inc., which owns and licenses 26 brands ranging from London Fog to Rocawear, was doing a test shoot with a photographer and a model in a New York brownstone. She walked past a bathroom, and creative lightning struck: why not put the model on the toilet?
"The photographer said, 'Let's do it!'" recalls Marder, who liked the results so much that she pitched the idea to Jenny McCarthy. The finished ads, which showed the former Playboy centerfold and MTV host on the john, her underwear around her ankles and a pair of classic Candie's slides on her feet, appeared in magazines from YM to Spin. They were beautifully shot, extremely controversial—and highly effective. "It was a very provocative shot that made people uncomfortable," says Marder, who is tall, lean, and sophisticated—the epitome of a successful New York marketing executive. "You would not believe the letters we got—from the moms, of course. The girls loved it."
The buzz those ads generated helped revitalize the once-flagging brand, and consumers of a certain age still think of McCarthy when they hear the name Candie's. Marder reinforced the association by putting McCarthy back on the toilet in 2004, this time with singer Kelly Clarkson in a bathtub, wearing nothing but jewelry and her Candie's.
The McCarthy ads were not Marder's first brush with notoriety. Ever since she made Donna Rice the spokeswoman for Cole's No Excuses jeans in 1987— just after revelations of Rice's affair with Senator Gary Hart hit the tabloids, derailing the senator's presidential aspirations—Marder has created promotional campaigns that push both boundaries and buttons.
In the late 1980s, when acid-washed jeans were all the rage, Marder needed a way to distinguish Cole's version from the competition. Major media outlets were clamoring for interviews with Rice, including Playboy, where Marder previously worked as assistant to the fashion editor (a position attained through an FIT internship). She used her old contacts at the magazine to get the name of Rice's agent, and the resulting campaign, which included a TV spot with a sultry Rice saying, "I make no excuses; I only wear them," continues to be cited in marketing textbooks.
Marder found the tools she picked up at FIT were directly applicable to her work at Cole's. The first time she sat down to write a press release, she realized she knew what its components needed to be because she'd learned them in class. The provocative nature of her work is her own, though: a 2009 campaign for London Fog showed pregnant supermodel Gisele Bündchen naked in a half-open trench coat, her nipples barely concealed under a slender corporate logo. The ads were too racy to appear in China and Dubai, but they attracted plenty of attention in the United States—which was, after all, the point. "I don't want to be offensive," Marder says, "but I want to provoke, and create a conversation."
These days, that conversation often takes place online, with fans—and haters—voicing their opinions on blogs and social media sites. As a marketer, Marder is both attuned to digital media—she will, she says, spend hours reading "pages and pages" of online comments about the company's brands, and the celebrities who represent them—and determined to capitalize on its growing importance as a means of communicating with consumers. For example, Marder says she learned a lot about fans of tabloid fixture Britney Spears, who has been the somewhat controversial face of Candie's for the past two years, by reading their Twitter posts. In fact, Candie's spring 2011 campaign, featuring High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens, was inspired by the spontaneity and candor of Twitter.
Rather than presenting a formal, full-page shot of Hudgens in her Candie's gear, Marder opted for a fold-out ad with 15 photos, many annotated with Hudgens's off-the-cuff remarks. In one picture, Hudgens stands on the counter of a diner, making a goofy face for the camera. In another, she appears in front of a clothes rack full of the stylist's picks; the handwritten caption says, "I took this look home with me." The entire series, which will appear in Vogue, recalls the sense of intimacy and insider access that consumers get from a celebrity's Twitter feed or Facebook page.
As digital media, and social networking in particular, become more important, Marder sees them taking a more prominent role in marketing. "It's totally changed everything we do," she says. Marder makes sure her staff of marketing and public relations professionals saves materials from every campaign she oversees for possible distribution across social media. And she is eager to leverage the large online followings that many celebrities bring with them to the brands they represent.
Those fans can be useful in many contexts. Last November, for instance, Marder tapped Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin's daughter, and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, of MTV's reality show Jersey Shore, to star in an online video for The Candie's Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing teen pregnancy. (Palin, who had a son out of wedlock as a teenager, is a spokesperson for the group.) Both Palin and Sorrentino have legions of online followers, and the piece, which was both humorous and edgy—at one point, Sorrentino offers Palin, who promotes abstinence, a Trojan Magnum, "just in case"—immediately went viral. Thus far, it has registered nearly one billion views.
This spring, Marder hopes to have Spears introduce Hudgens to her ten million Facebook friends and Twitter followers as the new face of Candie's, even before the story breaks in more traditional media. There's nothing controversial in this move: Hudgens is as clean-cut a starlet as one might find. But as Marder is quick to point out, controversy is not an end unto itself, but only a tool for attracting attention. "Our whole job here is to drive to retail, and to have people buy our brands," she says. That goal is best served by using the right tools for the job, given the brand that she is working with and the demographic that she wants to reach.
And if toilets, half-naked pregnant women, and pumped-up Jersey guys just happen to be the right tools, then so be it.


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LAWRENCEVILLE -- Andy and Aimee Copeland will be the featured speakers at an annual fundraising luncheon of The Salvation Army of Gwinnett County on April 26.
It's the premier spring fundraising event for the organization, and will discuss programs that help the less fortunate throughout the county. The event will be at 3455 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville.
The Copelands will discuss how Aimee recovered from a zip line accident last year after she battled a flesh-eating bacteria, which led to the amputation of her left leg, right foot and both hands.
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One thing about the health care debate, it exposes many contradictions.
The House voted Wednesday to put a hold on the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act. That's the bit that would require Americans who can afford health insurance to have health insurance. President Obama, as U.S. News and World Report confirms, has said he would veto any effort to delay the individual mandate. But Obama had no problem this month unilaterally postponing the employer mandate until 2015. That's the part of the Affordable Care Act that requires employers who have more than 50 workers to provide health care. Obama's delay gives companies more time to reorganize their workforces to include fewer full-time employees and more part timers.
Another contradiction brought out in the world of politics is the Heritage Foundation's eager cheerleading of the demise of the individual mandate. "Obamacare is just falling apart—and the Obama Administration is in DENIAL!" read a tweet from Heritage on Wednesday. This is somewhat amusing, confusing or both given that Heritage is credited as the original champion of the mandate, because of a paper the foundation published in 1986 by Stuart Butler.
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People who settle here have left everything behind and are struggling to find ways to rebuild their lives. This man arrived at Mugunga in June with his wife and 5 children. He borrowed this sewing machine and started a tailoring business next to his tent. He's working hard, he says, but he doesn't earn enough to properly care for his family.
Georgette and Simba Robert Rwamaneno say the vouchers allow them to choose what they eat. They also like going to the local market, talking and bargaining with the merchants. The vouchers give them a new way to connect and interact with their new community.
"It brings back something we were doing when we were living a normal life," said Georgette.
Charline Amumazo also likes the vouchers. She fled her village in the Masisi territory a year ago.
"When rebels killed my husband, I decided it was time to go," she said. In Mugunga with her mother and her 9 children, she has experienced both types of assistance provided by WFP to the camp residents. Food rations were good she said but she likes the freedom of choosing herself what she will cook for her big family.
"C'est bien, bien, bien,", she says in French of the vouchers as she asks a few of her children to show samples of the food she has purchased with the vouchers.
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The transfer of gold sodium thiomalate across the placenta has been documented. Gold deposits were detected in the liver and kidney of a 10-week fetus as well as the placenta following an elected abortion. No evidence of any fetal abnormality was noted. In another case, gold sodium thiomalate 100 mg was administered three days prior to delivery. Maternal and cord serum concentrations at delivery were 3.92 and 2.25 mcg/mL, respectively. At two and one-half weeks, the infant's gold serum concentration was 52 mcg/mL. No anomalies were noted in the infant. Administration of gold sodium thiomalate throughout pregnancy has been associated with major congenital anomalies (i.e. hypertelorism, cleft lip/palate, occipital encephalocele, major brain abnormalities) in one infant. Some animal studies have noted similar anomalies. Normal pregnancy outcomes have been reported in the literature, as well. Until more data are available, the safety of gold salts during pregnancy remains controversial.
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After Galileo's Dream in 2009, Kim Stanley Robinson's next novel is 2312, which will present the world three centuries from now. Robinson's writings have often been concerned with imagining a future that is not as pessimistic as most futures commonly depicted in the media or our collective (un)conscious: a future that can become all the more possible because representations of a better world would form part of our mental relationship with what could possibly come tomorrow.
2312 was originally planned to be published in the beginning of 2012 -- fittingly enough, February 3 (2.3.12) for the USA and March 2 (2/3/12) for the UK were aimed! But eventually, the publication date was pushed back to May 2012: May 3 for the UK, May 22 for the USA and basically the world. It is Robinson's first novel with Orbit Books, and is being published in hardcover.
The official description reads:
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer mankind's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system, on moons, planets, and in between. Humanity itself, augmented and modified, has changed. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force mankind to confront its past, its present, and its future.
The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.
2312 is a bold and brilliant vision of mankind's future and a compelling portrait of those individuals who will shape its events. It is a major new SF novel from one of the most important and gifted writers in the field.
'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson' New York Times
The NY Times quote is generic and is from Red Mars (I think).
The Fall 2011/Winter 2012 catalogue of Orbit Books included extensive coverage of that release:
With the front and back cover dedicated to 2312, it looks like it is considered a flagship item in their catalogue!
You can click for larger versions. I'm pretty sure the Borg are not featured in the novel.
Between 496 (amazon.co.uk), 592 (amazon.com) and 800 pages (Orbit catalogue), there is some confusion as to its final length.
Stan referred to 2312 in several recent interviews, most significantly in the Coode Street podcast which was released recently. After the down-to-earth Science in the Capital books, he seems to be eager to have some fun with science fiction concepts that he had not touched upon much previously. In Galileo's Dream, he touched upon extraterrestrial intelligence and time travel. In 2312, we can find some Robinson ideas explored in the latter parts of the Mars trilogy -- human expansion in the gas planets, terraforming of Venus, hollow asteroids, the Terminator city on Mercury -- but also some new territory: new technologies, groups of genetically modified humans, starships, artificial intelligence, the solar system as humanity's new playground... with the memory of a damaged ecosystem on Earth. 2312 sounds effervescent, all over the place, full of vitality!
Also, 2312 will be written with a similar structure to John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money, 1930-1936), which was adopted decades later by John Brunner in his landmark science fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar (1968): chapters focused on the 'main' characters alternating with newspaper clippings, radio show transcripts, fictional book excerpts, speeches, vignettes from other characters' lives... This 'collage technique' helps give a fuller view of the richness, complexity and contradictions of the world at hand. Robinson wrote an introduction to a recent edition of Stand on Zanzibar. In 2312, parts of these chapters will focus on narrating the history that has elapsed from our 2012 to 2312.
This is an exclusive excerpt of the book:
The sun is always just about to rise. Mercury rotates so slowly that you can walk fast enough over its rocky surface to stay ahead of the dawn; and so many people do. Many have made this a way of life. They walk roughly westward, staying always ahead of the stupendous day. Some of them hurry from location to location, pausing to look in cracks they earlier inoculated with bioleaching metallophytes, quickly scraping free any accumulated residues of gold or tungsten or uranium. But most of them are out there to catch glimpses of the sun.
2312 is just five months away!
The Los Angeles Review of Books recently featured a long column on Kim Stanley Robinson, "Pacific Overture", combining a very interesting interview by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay with Stan and a review by Mark Bould of the recent short story collection The Best Of Kim Stanley Robinson. The interview focuses on the Three Californias/Orange County trilogy (The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, Pacific Edge): how they were conceived and written, and how he views them twenty or more years later.
Some extracts:
Development all around it has been extensive, and a few years ago I went to the Orange Hill restaurant on the next hill over, and had a look around, and it was amazing to see all the mansions studding the surrounding hills and overlooking the coastal plain, still often very smoggy. It had a very Gold Coast look. [...] So in a way the landscapes of all three alternatives can still be seen. But The Gold Coast dominates. As with the books, it is the center of the triptych. It will take hundreds of years to restore that landscape to something decently livable. The Pacific Edge project is a long-term effort.
I would like to see more Californian utopian novels join Pacific Edge, Ecotopia, and the many real-world utopian efforts that were made in California in the nineteenth century. The potential exists, both locally and globally, for huge improvements in human life and our fit to the planet. They involve not just technologies but laws and economic systems; they need to go beyond capitalism and its disconnect from ecology, and that next step has to be imagined and envisioned repeatedly, no matter the literary and conceptual difficulties, to give us a better sense of how it might feel and how we might take the first steps.
What we built so fast is not a sustainable infrastructure or social structure, so it's going to have to be extensively rebuilt in the centuries to come. It may remain a kind of test tube for experimenting, and if so I hope my Three Californias helps a little in terms of cognitive mapping.
The review of The Best Of is also very insightful in Robinson's recurring themes and writing influences.
At first, I thought that the great image that accompanies the article (pictured here too) was some NASA photo of the Jupiter atmosphere... it turns out it's a painting! Storm No.2, by the awesome Ran Ortner!
In other news, the release date for the "Rexroth in the Sierra" collection, edited by Robinson, has been announced: April 10, 2012. The cover art is by Tom Killion, "Horse Creek Trail, Hoover Wilderness".
Two Kim Stanley Robinson stories were included in collections in October 2011.
The first is Verso Books' I'm With The Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet, a collection of stories from science fiction writers focusing on the impacts of climate change. Between David Mitchell and Paolo Bacigalupi, Robinson's contribution is "Sacred Space", an excerpt of Chapter 6 of Sixty Days And Counting (part of the Science In The Capital trilogy), where Frank and Charlie go on a hiking trip in the Sierra Nevada. The book says "the story here is adapted from the third novel", so there might be differences in the text.
The book features an introduction by Bill McKibben, notorious American environmentalist who has written extensively on climate change and sustainability.
Interestingly, the book mentions: "Royalties from the sale of I'm with the Bears will go to 350.org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere." 350.org was founded by McKibben. With the world Conference Of Parties on climate change negotiations in Durban approaching and with alarming warnings coming even from traditionally conservative institutions, that is very timely!
The second is Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion by PM Press, which had previously published the chapbook The Lucky Strike with the eponymous story and more in 2009. The collection includes Robinson's short story "The Lunatics", which is described as "a story of oppression and struggle deep in the bowels of the baleful Moon".
Thirdly, as a complement, the MIT's acclaimed Technology Review published a special science fiction issue "inspired by today's emerging technologies" with hard SF contributions from various SF authors like Ken McLeod or Cory Doctorow. The editor of the issue Stephen Cass had previously made a list of the kind of hard SF that inspired TR:SF, and included in it Robinson's Mars trilogy.
Kim Stanley Robinson will be appearing with Cecilia Holland to be interviewed with fellow SF writer Terry Bisson in San Francisco for a reading and a Q&A later today (!).
Details follow:
Saturday, November 12th
Kim Stanley Robinson & Cecilia Holland
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A from the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson. Booksigning and schmoozing follows in the lounge, and books will be for sale, courtesy of Borderlands Books
6:00PM – doors and cash bar open 7:00PM – event starts
Suggested $5-$10 donation at the door – benefits Variety Children's Charity of Northern California – to date, we've helped raise over $25,000 for the kids in our community!
The Variety Preview Room Theatre The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor — entrance between Quiznos and Citibank 582 Market Street @ 2nd and Montgomery San Francisco, CA 94104
Jonathan Strahan (editor of The Best Of Kim Stanley Robinson) and Gary K. Wolfe (professor and critic) conducted an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson during the last World SF Convention Renovation last August.
The interview is available from their Coode Street Podcast (direct download).
Robinson talks candidly about attending these annual Conventions, gives quite a bit of information on his next novel 2312, discusses writing his short stories, the themes he writes about, science fiction figures like Asimov and Wolfe (Gene, that is!), and writing in general. Well worth your time!
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On Saturday, September 22, I attended an outreach event for the Be a Bay Backer Fund at Bass Pro Shops, Arundel Mills. The Be a Bay Backer Fund was started as an aquarium exhibit and kiosk with the opening of the Bass Pro Shops store in Arundel Mills in about 2001. This was intended as a fundraiser for Bay Restoration with the Conservation Fund and the Chesapeake Challenge. Two of the original partners in the fund were Chesapeake Bay Foundation and National Fish and Wildlife Federation. I attended the event as a representative for DNR and MARI with MARI Partner, Tony Friedrich, Executive Director of CCA. Girl Scout Troop 205 (Howard County/Columbia) collected donations for the Be a Bay Backer Restoration Fund. The scouts presented the donation to Tony Frederick of the CCA. All the girls in the scout troop received a Bronze Award for this fundraising effort.


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PHOTO: Staceyann Chin Celebrates Valentine's Day with Daughter
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London clubs got seriously raided this weekend—in fact, nearly 6000 premises were hit by Operation Condor. Scroll on down to catch some crazy footage of the scene at 93 Feet East, see who took home this year's Drum&BassArena Awards, and find out what Fatboy Slim has got to say about Skrillex.
– The Drum&BassArena Awards were handed out last week. See who took home prizes for Best DJ, Best Producer, and plenty more. (full story)
– Over the weekend, London police raided 5,830 venues throughout the city as part of Operation Condor, an attempt to crack down on licensing laws. The arrests ranged from theft to drug charges to immigration breaches and beyond. Check out this crazy footage of one of the raids, at Brick Lane club 93 Feet East. (full story)
– Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter is featured in the upcoming film I Dream of Wires, a documentary on modular synthesizers. Check out part of his interview below. (full story)
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By 1985, Financo had completed over 140 transactions and had become the preeminent advisor to retail, apparel and other merchandising companies.
In 1985, Financo was acquired by Lehman Brothers, then a subsidiary of The American Express Company. Mr. Harrison became Chairman of the new Lehman Middle Market Group and assumed additional senior positions at Lehman that included Managing Director, Chairman of the Merchandising Group, and member of the Investment Bank Operating Committee.
In 1989, Mr. Harrison resolved that upholding his vision of an entrepreneurial culture required full independence. To accomplish this goal, he re-acquired the Financo name and re-established the firm in New York as an independent boutique investment banking firm. Since the re-acquisition, the firm has maintained its focus while expanding its range of services beyond traditional mergers and acquisitions to include private placements, restructuring, direct investments, consulting and other services related to the merchandising industry.


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The push to officially launch a clothing line to be sold has come since friends started introducing Pray as a fashion designer, which she said makes her laugh because she thinks of herself as a mom and music teacher who happens to like making clothes.
"I'm trying to get used to that [new label]. Every time I do a show people ask where they can buy the clothes and I have to say they're not for sale. Next time someone asks me, I want to say 'here,'" said Pray. "It's the thrill of seeing people wear your clothes and I don't have to be a famous designer, I just want someone to enjoy wearing something I made."
Her biggest support is her husband, Keith Pray, a well-known saxophonist in the region's jazz scene.
"I could say I wanted to be an alpaca farmer and he'd be all for it. He supports whatever I do but I'm sure if I started making money he'd like the idea a little more," said Pray. "He puts up with the piles of fabric everywhere and needles in our feet and the carpet."
Art Night at Proctor's starts at 7 p.m. and features some dance performances in addition to the fashion show.
Proceeds from the show will go towards a scholarship for a high school class to create fashion designs for next year's show.
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Brian Roberts relinquishes 2.3% of his Comcast stock
Brian Roberts, chairman, CEO and president of Comcast Corp., recently sold $11.41 million in Comcast stock and donated another $1.38 million in the company's stock to the University of Pennsylvania, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal blog post.
In total, Roberts relinquished 2.3% of his stake in the company. It was his first stock sale since 2007 and according to a Comcast spokesperson was part of a personal financial plan, the report noted. The donation to the university went toward a $15 million pledge that he and his father, Comcast co-founder Ralph Roberts, made in 2006 to create a center for cancer treatment, the blog post said.
Brian Roberts sold 91,539 shares of Comcast's Class A common stock and 533,641 shares of Comcast Class A Special common stock, and donated 76,500 shares of the special common stock to the university. According to the report, he is left with 3.93 million shares of Comcast Class A common stock and 15.79 million shares of Comcast Class A Special common stock.
The report said he also owns more than 9.44 million shares of super-voting Class B common stock. (Source: Philadelphia Business Journal, Aug. 12, 2010.)
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What were the best comic books of the last year? Dan Nadel, founder of the PictureBox publishing house, lists his favourites ...
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The comics of most interest to me in the past year or so have been those that feel practically breathed out, yet are comprehensive in their sense of place. If these books were prose, they would be by Joseph Mitchell or Ian Frazier, writers who mix the rhythm of eloquent speech with an awareness of the worlds around them.
Sammy Harkham's latest comic book, "Crickets #3" (self-published), is drawn with an easy-going naturalism that combines cartoony figuration with realistic settings. "Crickets" contains a handful of stories, the best and longest of which, "Blood of the Virgin", tracks a young husband and father in Los Angeles in the early 1970s as he clumsily tries to make inroads in the lowest levels of an industry town. Harkham's thin, descriptive lines bring humanity and soul to a topic that could easily degenerate into a litany of LA and film references.
Tim Hensley's "Wally Gropius" (Fantagraphics Books) was maybe my favourite graphic novel of the year, and I'm still trying to figure out just what exactly it is. Drawn and written in the graphic idioms of throwaway 1960s comic books such as "Richie Rich" and "Archie", "Wally Gropius" (pictured) is about an angst-ridden, dumbfounded millionaire, looking for love in a lopsided modernist space fraught with emasculation, poverty, rock jingles and other things that make grown men cry.
Veering back towards the natural, there is Kevin Huizenga's masterful "Wild Kingdom" (Drawn & Quarterly). Between the covers of a faux field guide, mostly four panels per page, Huizenga deftly documents the small life forms inhabiting human spaces (pictured top). His cartoon avatar, Glenn Ganges, goes about his life performing his suburban tasks, as the critters and motions of nature occur around him. Huizenga avoids a linear plot. Instead he allows us to hover above his landscape and thrillingly feel both the particularities and the whole.
Way out in North America, in the countryside past the suburbs, near a forest near a lake, John Brodowski has planted his "Curio Cabinet" (Secret Acres). Each story in this collection maintains a perfectly reasonable veneer until, for example, an enormous dog paw descends from the heavens and slaps a man out of a car, or a menacing Loch Ness Monster is hailed by a hard-rocking Judas Priest. This is a book in which a doppelganger of the old "Friday the 13th" villain Jason Vorhees, he of the hockey mask, appears again and again, like a totem, achieving a weirdly peaceful mythos by the end. And yet it all seems so ordinary in Brodowski's methodical, carefully shaded panels, each unravelling just so, patiently waiting for us to give in to his logic. All of this is to say: I can't think of a better metaphysical horror comic in recent memory.
If you prefer your horror straight-up, there's Jacques Tardi's recently translated "It Was The War in the Trenches" (Fantagraphics). In a series of faintly connected vignettes, Tardi lays out the lot of a French soldier in the first world war in exacting detail. Lest you be lulled by Tardi's virtuosity, these drawings have a vicious spark to them. This matter-of-fact and sometimes grimly funny book, first published in France in 1994, digs a small and vital hole very deeply. It's Tardi's finest work of his four-decade long career.
Nearly as visceral, but to an entirely different effect, is a new, enormous collection of "Polly and Her Pals" (IDW), a great newspaper comic by Cliff Sterrett. What began in 1913 as a fairly typical domestic drama (harried father, wayward daughter) evolved into the only comic strip to incorporate Cubism, Futurism and the many other "isms" of the era before the second world war. Sterrett was a natural—a man who could scat the comics as easily as whistle them. By the early 1920s, he was pacing his mini-dramas like the frantic jazz of the time. The father attempting to surf becomes a hilarious jig as expressionist waves cut back and forth across the page; elsewhere, Ma and Pa accidentally switch eyeglasses, allowing for 11-panels of funhouse/cubist distortion.
Though they were contemporaries, it's hard to imagine more different cartoonists than Sterrett and Denys Wortman, whose work is collected in "Denys Wortman's New York" (Drawn & Quarterly), an aggregate portrait of the city in the 1930s and 40s by a man who could have been a Joseph Mitchell character himself. These single-page cartoons, first published in the New York World under the title "Metropolitan Movies", are gestural drawings that capture life across all classes and all moments: construction sites, department stores, Coney Island, the theatre; the fire escape. Nothing escaped Wortman's hand, but he didn't sacrifice the small detail for the big point.
Maybe that's what made this book, and all of the volumes above, so satisfying: each contains worlds that are finely, even painstakingly, described. The details are many and meaningful. They breathe nicely.
Dan Nadel is a writer and the founder of the visual culture publishing house PictureBox, based in New York. He is also the author of "Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969", and "Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980", both published by Harry N. Abrams.


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Winter Warmth: 15 Stylish and Cozy Throw Blankets We Love
It's January, the coldest and dreariest month of the year. To combat the chill, we've rounded up 15 of our favorite throw blankets that are sure to keep you warm and cozy -- and stylish! So, pour yourself a nice cup of tea, grab your favorite book, and check out our top picks.
2. Chain Lock Throw (available in 3 colors): $69
4. Knit Tassel Throw (available in 5 colors): $20
9. Favorite Throw (available in 10 colors): $29
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About the ENO
Edmond North High School is one of three high schools in Edmond, Oklahoma, located just north of Oklahoma City in America's Heartland. Founded in 1992, this school of over 2500 students boasts a thriving arts program with one-fourth of the student population involved in the performing arts. The Edmond Public Schools orchestra program was founded in 1978 by Ms. Diane Berger, and in nearly thirty years, the program has expanded to include over 800 students in grades 6 to 12. At Edmond North, one in twenty students is enrolled in orchestra.
In 2002, the Edmond North Orchestra (ENO) welcomed their current director, Mr. Peter Markes. Under his direction, they were invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic in 2012, and they have twice been selected by the Oklahoma Music Educators Association to perform at the 2012 and 2008 conferences as the high school honor orchestra. They have won ten consecutive State Sweepstakes Awards, six consecutive times with the Medal of Distinction, and have been recognized annually by the state for academic achievement. They have performed in the Chicago Symphony Center, the Dallas Meyerson Symphony Center, the Oklahoma Civic Center Music Hall, and most recently had a return performance in the world-famous Carnegie Hall where they were met with three standing ovations on the concert. The orchestra has twice performed for the Oklahoma Governor's Arts Award ceremony, the Oklahoma Music Educators Association Centennial banquet, and was also invited to perform as part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics ceremonies. In May of 2007, the orchestra received a Governor's Commendation from Oklahoma Governor, Brad Henry. The governor wrote, "Your academic excellence along with your musical abilities show the best of the Oklahoma spirit and stand as a testament to the great potential of our youth." The orchestra has performed world-premieres of numerous works including Elegy on Stella, a piece for voice and orchestra by Aaron Fryckland, Longa Nekriz, an Arabic concerto for oud and orchestra by Callen Clarke, and numerous other works by Clarke including Normandie, a romance for violin and orchestra, Boum, the Wedding Suite featuring the Sanctuary Overture, and most recently a double oud concerto, Concerto Medeterra: Owdan, movement four: Sunchaser. With its scheduled concert season and small chamber music events, the orchestra performs over fifteen times annually.
Currently, there are over 150 students in grades 9 through 12 enrolled in the 2013-14 ENO. In 2006, rising student retention rates finally allowed for two groups that could each progress at more appropriate levels, and the 2009-10 school year saw the addition of a third ensemble. During the spring, the Symphony Orchestra combines with members of the band to perform a full orchestra piece at the state festival competition. In addition to large ensemble opportunities, students also participate weekly in a chamber music program, and hold weekly sectionals with string teachers and professionals in the metro area. The orchestra also joins the rest of the performing arts department each year to present a full scale Broadway style musical, performed entirely by students. They have presented such productions as Oklahoma!, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Camelot, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, and Crazy for You. By graduation, an involved student will spend over 300 hours outside of class participating in orchestra!
The ENO has an active clinician and guest artist series. Each year the orchestra receives clinician visits from professors at the University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and Wichita State University. Additonally, the orchestra has received visiting university performances from the Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma State University, and Texas Tech University symphony orchestras. In addition to these strong university relationships, the orchestra has also hosted numerous guest presenters, including blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa, the Synergy Brass Quintet, Time for Three, Chicago Civic Orchestra conductor Cliff Colnot, violin virtuoso and pedagogue Dr. Brian Lewis, jazz violinist Christian Howes, composer Jeffrey Bishop, tenor vocalist Bruce Decker, Les Miserables soprano (Nat'l Tour as Cosette) Amanda Clark, and Oklahoma's Musical Ambassador and virtuoso fiddle player, Kyle Dillingham. In October of 2011, the ENO was pleased to welcome Barrage to the classroom and stage!
The ENO has an active parent booster group that sponsors numerous activities throughout the year, including annual summer music camp scholarships, weekly sectional coaching sessions for each of the five sections from all three orchestras, and private lesson scholarships. Holding monthly meetings, the boosters organize an annual basket auction, car washes, and golf scrambles that raise and spend over $15,000 each year for the orchestra. An orchestra student council sponsors social events and community volunteer opportunities. They also assist with the daily organizational operations of the orchestra. Without all of this support, the orchestra could not function at such a prestigious level. The ENO Boosters hold non-profit 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
The enrollment of the Edmond North High School Orchestra holds a 3.59 grade point average, a 26.1 ACT average, and consistently has National Merit finalists and numerous valedictorians. The ENO regularly has students accepted into the North Central Honor Orchestra with a school and state record of thirty-five accepted in 2012, the Oklahoma Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra with a school record of ten accepted in 2013, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, and the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras. Our students participate in the school football, wrestling, golf, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, swimming, tennis, soccer, track, and cross country programs. They hold officer's positions in the National Honor Society, Spanish club, Latin club, S.U.N. club, and creative writing club. In addition to orchestra, they are members of choir, band, drama, debate, and art departments; they are active in the student council, multi-cultural club, AFJROTC, journalism, film, and photography clubs, German and French clubs, Key club, environmental club, chess club, Mu Alpha Theta, the Pre-Engineering Academy, DECA Marketing Program, and Future Farmers of America.
Faculty and Staff
Mr. Peter Markes, orchestra director
Mr. Jeff Ketch, orchestra assistant
Phone: (405) 726-7216
Mrs. Toni Quinton, booster president
Phone: (405) 503-8603
In the Press
Edmond North High School orchestra is chosen to perform in Chicago by Steve Gust, Daily Oklahoman, April 18, 2012
Orchestras hit right notes at Memorial by Mark Schlachtenhaufen, Edmond Sun, April 19, 2012
Edmond North orchestra hitting its stride by Steve Gust, Daily Oklahoman, December 8, 2011
Edmond Boasts 25 National Merit Semifinalists, Edmond Sun, September 16, 2011
50 Directors Who Make a Difference, SBO Magazine, December 10, 2009
North's 'Wizard of Oz' near perfect by Clif Warren, Edmond Life & Leisure, March 3, 2009
Musician finds joy teaching, performing by Rick Rogers, Daily Oklahoman, October 19, 2008
Centennial stars to play with orchestra by Patty Miller, Edmond Sun, November 13, 2007
North Students Experience NYC by James Coburn, Edmond Sun, May 5, 2007
'Peter Pan' rivals any tour by Bob Smith, Edmond Sun, March 3, 2007
More than Melody by Caroline Humphrey, Edmond Outlook, March 2007


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