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Blog 1According to the oft-quipped maxim, the place
to go for endearingly (or embarrassingly) honest truths is to those
naive enough actually to tell them. I suspect, though far be it for
me to make assumptions, that it may have been with this sentiment
in mind that Sarah Crabtree asked me to keep this blog about the
new Opera Holland Park Young Artists' Scheme; amongst a cast of
operatic children (all in our twenties and early thirties) I am, at
23, very definitely the baby of the group. I will, therefore,
solemnly swear to attempt to uphold her faith in my unfailing
honesty, and to try to give a sufficiently truthful (whilst,
obviously, tactful...) account of the proceedings in the Young
Artists' rehearsal room.
I think the time has come to introduce myself
to you legions of adoring fans (ahem...) - my name's Maud Millar
and I'm going to be playing Nella. As I have said, I am very much a
baby, not only in operatic terms, but also in terms of blogging. In
the spirit of youthful honesty, then, I'll confess that this is my
first attempt at this particular kind of literary venture, so you
may have to bear with me as I find my bloggers' feet...
The scheme is really a clever one. The basic
premise is that the OHP crew have, for the first time, double-cast
their production of Gianni Schicchi; one cast of seasoned
professionals and one of fledgling singers beginning their operatic
careers. The young artists are fully rehearsed, with our own
associate MD (Matthew Waldron) and Director (Oliver Platt) and, as
well as serving as a cover cast for the main show, we will also
take to the stage for one night, and one night only; the "Young
Artists'" matinee on the 14th July. One of the real
treats for us babies is that Alan Opie has been booked to sing the
eponymous Schicchi in both casts, so we youngsters will also get
the chance to tread the boards with him.
I suppose it falls to me to do a kind of
virtual cast meet-and-greet... As I've said, Alan Opie is our
Schicchi, although we have been having the wonderful Charles
Johnston, his cover, join us in our rehearsals-
he's playing Marco in the real thing, so it's doubly kind of him to
give up more of his spare time to chivvy us along. To introduce the
Young Artists, however; Schicchi's daughter, Lauretta, is played by
Christina Petrou, her lover (and Buoso Donati's nephew) Rinuccio by
Adam Tunnicliffe. As Zita, the aged matriarch of the family, we
have Laura Woods, the even older Simone is played by Timothy
Dickinson, his henpecked son Marco by Laurence Meikle, Marco's
grasping wife La Ciesca by Chloe Hinton, and old drunk Betto (a man
so drink-sodden and dishevelled as to be "of indiscriminate age")
by Aidan Smith. That leaves Buoso's other nephew, the useless
Gherardo, played by Leonel Pinheiro, and his young and rather
spoilt (trophy?) wife Nella - which, as I've said, is where I come
in. There are also hilarious cameos from Nathan Morrison as a very
short-sighted Doctor Spinellocio, Timothy Connor as the Notary, and
Ian Beadle and Alistair Sutherland respectively as Guccio and
Pinellino, his two 'testes' (hee hee). It must also be mentioned
that we all owe a deep debt of gratitude to Christine Collins, the
woman who has made all of this possible through her sponsorship of
the project and, once more, I can only hope that we do credit to
her generosity by producing a really spectacular show.
In thinking about the first entry for this
blog, I kept coming back to the idea of us as "young" artists, and
musing to myself on the tensions that our relative youth creates.
Gianni Schicchi is a masterfully chosen show for a Young
Artists' Scheme, being not only both short and funny (two major
pulls in any opera), but also being a true ensemble show, allowing
all of the Young Artists almost exactly equal chances to shine, and
forcing us to really pull together to create a cast. It is not,
however, a show about the young. You may have noted in my pitiful
character descriptions the alarmingly regular appearance of the
words "aged" and "old"- the show's focus is, with the exception of
Lauretta and Rinuccio, on a family whose youths have long passed
them by. For most operatic casts, this is (with all due respect),
somewhat of a godsend. It is a sad truth that in opera, one is
almost always older than the part they play; both Susanna and the
Countess, for example, are listed as being nineteen years of age-
but what nineteen-year-old soprano would ever be let loose on a
stage with a role like that? No, Schicchi is one of the
rare operatic works where the ages of the singers can actually
converge with those of the characters.
Not so in our production; in fact, Adam and
Christina, our Rinuccio and Lauretta, are the only two characters
in this opera who are playing parts younger than their actual ages
- the rest of us are donning hunched backs and grey moustaches
(mine's particularly fetching) in the hope of aging up a bit. I
mean, fortunately for me, I look absolutely ancient, so it's really
no stretch, but not everyone's as lucky. In this, our first week of
production rehearsals, we've mainly been getting to grips with some
fairly complex blocking, but I think the effect of this is going to
begin to show really interestingly in the inter-character
relationships over the next few weeks. More on this after our
projected stagger-through tomorrow...
Until then, yours in great anticipation,
Out of the mouths of babes and
children...Blog 2Evening all!
This second installation of my Young Artists' blog comes to you
fresh from two momentous events; the first being our first full run
and the second, far more important, being our first cast
post-rehearsal drinks/bonding session. The run was, in itself, an
occasion of great excitement, mainly because we managed to get all
the way through without stopping- which, after four and half days
of rehearsal, is pretty damned impressive (even though I do say so
myself). As with every first run of a production, there were
inevitably things that needed tightening up, but the feeling of
being secure enough in the music and blocking to do the whole thing
without hesitation was hugely heartening for us as a cast and means
that we can look forward to a couple of really intense weeks of
character work and detailing - which are, with an opera like
Schicchi, the things that really make the show.
The two Schicchi casts are rehearsing
almost concurrently within the same building (St. Gabriel's in
Pimlico), the 'main' cast two weeks ahead but otherwise inhabiting
the same space in the same time periods. Their show is rehearsing
in the larger, and significantly more lovely, hall upstairs, while
we are in one of the, shall we say, cosier rooms in the
basement. Being based in the foundations of the building, we have
the added advantage of an extra cast member in a large cast-iron
pole running smack down the middle of our 'set' - we call him
George. The rehearsal set-up is rather convenient, as it means we
can go upstairs when we're not called to brush up on the blocking
of the main show so that in the unlikely event that we're called
upon in our roles as covers (ohgodohgod the terror), we will have
some vague idea of their positions. It also leads to a wry
upstairs/downstairs feel, with we babies as the "help" in the
bowels of the building, toiling in service to the gentry above. As
I said yesterday, Charlie, our cover Schicci, is also playing Marco
'upstairs', so he feeds us tidbits from the main rehearsal room,
and word on the street is that the big boys didn't manage a full,
score-free run after their first week; a piece of gossip which led
to just a tiny bit of (admittedly rather unattractively sweaty and
breathless) post-show preening in our swelteringly hot basement
this afternoon...
To more important issues, however, the cast
drinks were a roaring success. Charlie, as the grownup,
thoughtfully bought the first round for us impoverished students
and, sufficiently lubricated, talk turned to such enlightening
issues as hilarious cast marriage proposal stories (corner me after
the show and I'll regale you with them all at great length),
tattoos and the Gilmore Girls. From the ridiculous to the sublime,
however, I talked briefly yesterday about the age issue in our
casting, and some interesting thoughts on this particular topic
were also thrown up over a pint or two. From my perspective, I
think that my Nella can only be a young one, especially if I have
to go on as a cover; there's no way that the age difference won't
be glaringly obvious, not only in my youthful grace (ahem) but also
in my vocal capabilities, so I've decided to embrace that rather
than to fight it. I do have some backup from Puccini- in the
manuscript she is, at 34, the youngest of the cast, so my Nella is
shaping up to be a grown-up spoilt baby who hates not getting her
own way (a real stretch for a soprano...) and REALLY hates the
younger Lauretta encroaching on her turf as the little girl of the
family. We decided at the talk-through that she had probably come
from money, and married Gherardo in a bid to continue to live in
the style to which she was accustomed under daddy's roof. She
bosses Gherardo around, pouting and preening and being terribly
bored by anything that doesn't concern her directly, and the looks
she shoots at Lauretta are of pure venom. This was partly a
decision made in tandem with Chloe Hinton's La Ciesca, as the two
women can so often be almost interchangeable; singing roughly the
same lines, grasping for the same booty, bossing around their
Donati counterparts, but we wanted to differentiate them as women.
Chloe's Ciesca is, we think, the second wife of Marco, a woman who
has been upgraded (through shady means) from mistress to wife, and
is thoroughly disappointed with her lot in the feckless Marco, a
truly rubbish black-market trader to whom the Second World War (the
show is set in the forties) has not been kind. As a result of this,
she is perennially dismissive of her subservient husband, treating
him with a queenly disdain from the moment the pair make their
entrance. Nella could easily be a woman in the same mould, and
certainly she controls her husband, but she does it with the
pouting, saccharine manipulation of a woman who knows that her
husband worships her, merely smiling kittenishly and flicking her
fingers to send him scurrying to do her bidding.
Interestingly, Aidan Smith agrees with me on
the issue of playing to our youth - Betto, his character, is listed
as "of indiscriminate age", and most people play him as an elderly
sop, blind to most of the activity through his constant
inebriation. Aidan, however, has seen room for a new interpretation
in his lack of specific age, and thinks at this point in the
rehearsal process that his Betto may be only in his early thirties,
but prematurely aged through his lack of self-care. He sees his
Betto as a man ravaged by the cares of life, a man who lost a
beloved wife in the war and has let himself go completely as a
result, drinking away the Donati dowry he married and drowning his
sorrows at the bottom of a pint glass. The immediately clever
result of this is that he doesn't clash with Tim's hilarious
elderly Simone, a man who is clearly denoted as being seventy (so
no wiggle room there), who genuinely can't see, hear or smell as
well as the rest of the family and so lives in a world of sensory
numbness, always responding a beat or two behind the others. He is,
fortunately, a master of physical comedy, so pulls it off
completely- watch out for his hysterical candle-blowing out moment
(you'll know it when you see it). I genuinely still can't keep a
straight face when I look over, which is a bit of a hindrance
during what is probably the only moment of true Donati grief in the
entire piece. To return to Betto, however, his youth also allows
him real moments of lucidity when he rouses himself from his
drunken stupor, as well as creating a far more tangible connection
with the younger relations; he does enjoy a cheeky glance at the
ladies' posteriors, for example, and he is also the only family
member who manages to appreciate Rinuccio's youthfully impassioned
(and somewhat revolutionary) aria on the potential benefits to
Florence of the nouveau riche. As a non-Donati, he also has a
softness to him that the other men cannot muster, as well as being
possessed of rather spectacular eyesight and an impressive working
knowledge of Latin...
I know I've really only scratched the tip of
iceberg with these musings on a few characters, but more soon;
right now, I'm off to enjoy the beginning of our long Jubilee
weekend before we're back to dodging George on Tuesday morning.
Out of the mouths of babes and children...
Blog 3
Noun- A dead body, especially of a human being
Verb [theatrical slang]- spoil a piece of acting by
laughing uncontrollably
I think it would be safe to say that both
definitions of the word "corpse" were at play in the Young Artists'
rehearsal room the day that Buoso Donati came to play. Maybe it was
nervous laughter at the sheer array of the deeply tasteless
dead-body gags, or maybe it's just hilarious to spend a day kicking
and dropping a fully grown man dressed in a onesie, but this is a
show which really does test standards of professionalism to the
limits. Honestly, it's getting to the point now where it's
virtually impossible to look at another cast member on stage
without choking on your own laughter at the faces and voices that
are appearing at this detailing stage of the rehearsal process. As
everyone's characters have grown into the most spectacular of
charicatures, the comedic stakes have upped themselves to the point
where everyone is constantly looking for little way to out-funny
everyone else (while loving and appreciating their talent, of
course... healthy competition, healthy), which makes for some
disastrous attempts to turn bouts of illicit giggling into passable
sobs. For me, the absolute worst culprits are Tim "Simone"
Dickinson and Adam "Rinuccio" Tunnicliffe, whose rubber faces are
constantly contorting into some new and hilarious interpretation,
and who are both lethal to the art of the straight face. If either
of you are reading this blog; stop making me laugh. It's getting
Joking aside (literally), it's really
wonderful to have got to a point as a cast where we are relaxed
enough as a company to find one other genuinely funny. I think now
is the moment for a heartfelt apology to our long-suffering
Director, Ollie, who probably doesn't always find it as easy to see
the warm'n'fuzziness of a cast who are incapable of working for
minutes on end as they literally weep with laughter
(*cough*laurawoods*cough*) at one another's antics, but I really
hope that the fact that we find the show so funny is something that
will transmit in our performance, and that you all find it as funny
as we do. We promise not to corpse. Can't say as much for Buoso
Donati... (boom boom!).
This week has been really wonderful in terms
of opportunities- we've had the lovely Paola come in for some fab
Italian coaching (I can now order a cappuccino like nobody's
business; the trick's in the double consonants), and we've had our
first session with Alan Opie as our Schicchi. While totally
different experiences, they shared the common ground of being both
educational and really interesting- and thankfully we managed to
hold it together long enough to reap the benefits of these
wonderful things that the OHP folk are throwing our way. The thing
that's really lovely about this scheme is that, while we are- on
one level- a cover cast, there is never any feeling from the powers
that be that we are anything other than a set of young artists with
every right to create and form our own show. This is wonderful for
everyone except, perhaps, for the very generous Alan Opie, who has
gallantly taken up the gauntlet of learning two sets of blocking,
and interacting with two completely different and very
sharply-drawn sets of colleagues, and is navigating the whole
process with great grace and panache. It's a real compliment to us
that OHP are taking the scheme so seriously and, whilst the
occasional bout of corpsing might give the impression that we are
taking it less seriously, I can assure you that it's not the case.
James, Sarah, if you're reading this, I give you my word that, when
push comes to shove, there will be no laughter! Oh no, we will be
so sombre and deadpan, in fact, that you might even be forgiven for
thinking that someone had died...
Until next time, may the funeral gags
Out of the mouths of babes and children...
Blog 4
Sunday in the Park with
SchicchiThis post comes to you direct from
the back row of the auditorium at OHP, where I'm taking the
opportunity to do some singbathing (n. to lie back and soak up the
glorious sounds of singers far better than yourself. Try it; it's
great for the complexion) at the first stage/orchestra rehearsal
for Schicchi. The experience really is rewarding- the difference
between this and the stage/piano rehearsals I've been watching is
palpable. We had our first Young Artists' S/P rehearsal on Friday,
and it was a little scary- the electric Clavinova piano is so
bright that it suffers none of the diffusion of acoustics so fatal
to voices in outdoor spaces, and it felt like a real challenge just
to be heard over it, especially at the lower end of the soprano
register. Maybe I'm kidding myself, and it's just the expertise of
the main cast that makes it sound so much easier, but the pellucid
sound of the orchestra seems to provide a far softer cushion for
the voices, which are carrying fantastically clearly over it. While
we're still miles behind, it does go some way towards reassuring me
that when we get up there in just under a month, we may just about
be able to handle the acoustics!
I think that watching these performances,
something which we are strongly encouraged to do, is also having a
huge effect on our understanding of the challenges. Most of the
Young Artists have worked on this stage in some way or other over
the past few years, and so are far more aware of the acoustic
pitfalls than me as the newbie. You see, I came to the project in
an unconventional way; I was working with a student company called
Shadwell when I was an undergraduate in Cambridge last year, and
the Shadwell team managed to persuade the OHP team to allow us to
have a matinee slot on the Yukka Lawn in the grounds of Holland
Park (where Fantastic Mr Fox has its home) to perform our Albert
Herring. James Clutton and Sarah Crabtree came to see it (truly
terrifying for us as a cast) and I think they must have seen the
startling similarities between the Miss Wordsworth I was playing in
that show and the Nella they were looking to cast in Schicchi,
because they asked me to come and sing for it.
For me, it was a huge honour and an
incredible instance of luck, and is an example of one of the great
things about this Young Artists' scheme in particular. Holland Park
haven't just taken "young" artists who they've "found" by watching
them already perform at a high level for other companies, but have
really made an effort to seek out genuine youngsters from amongst
their ex-chorus members and small, off-the-wall companies (like
Shadwell). This means that we are truly being given a unique
opportunity in starting our careers with a company which is taking
a risk on us. This will, hopefully, be a wonderfully mutually
beneficial experience as it creates Young Artists who flourish on
the OHP stage and will, again hopefully, become loyal regulars to
the company's cast list (if we're good...!) Holland Park have
already been wonderful in making us part of their team; I was taken
to the sumptuous Shoreditch House and the Royal Hospital at
Christmas as part of the Carol Singing Crew (for which we were
remunerated handsomely in the bar afterwards...) and represented
Team Young Artist at Sarah Crabtree's fundraiser for her marathon
run for breast cancer singing some Opera Pops (you know, the usual
Fledermaus, etc. High point of my career so far: one woman
overheard at the end saying "Ooh, I loved the acoustic guitar
player- and, actually, the operatic soprano wasn't bad either!"
Maud Millar, bringing opera to the masses, ladies and gentlemen.
Step aside, Katherine Jenkins). This was also the historic occasion
on which James Clutton dusted off his guitar to join me and jazz
pianist/this season's Don Alfonso Nicholas Garrett in a rendition
of the Aretha's classic "Natural Woman", so all in all it was an
evening for the history books. We haven't quite decided what the
name of our new jazz band will be (Starving in a Garrett? As The
Millar Told Her Tale? The James Clutton Experience? Oh, who am I
kidding- it's got to be the third), but it's always nice to know
that if opera falls through, the three of us have a whole different
musical route to explore… Expect our first album spring 2013.
Right, I'm going back to my singbathing-
until next time...
Out of the mouths of babes and
Blog 5
Wigging outYesterday we had our second full
stage/piano run of the show, and it did not rain. This in itself is
cause for jubilation (audience participation moment: insert some
kind of rain-and-jubilee-related pun here. Blogging is fun!), but
for me the high point of my afternoon was my wig. I have been, for
some years now, a bottle blonde (if you tell anyone it's not
natural, I'll kill you), a sartorial decision that has thrilled my
Aryan father's family and devastated my Irish mother's. For Gianni
Schicchi, however, I am not allowed to be blonde. My conversation
with Ron, our amazing wig dude (official title), went something
like this:
Me: So... am I going to have a wig then?
Ron: You'll have to.
Me: Why?
Ron: Well, you can't be blonde like... that.
Me: Why?
Ron: (bewildered at my utter stupidity) Italians ain't blonde like
Me: Janice [Watson] is. (touché, Millar...)
Ron: That's a different show (ah.) Anyway, she's meant to be an
actress, so she's allowed to be blonde.
[NB: I always knew I wasn't going to win that
argument. Ron is a legend in the business, regularly beginning
anecdotes with "As my dear friend Jessye Norman used to say..." or
"When I did Larry Olivier..." Who can argue with that?]
Now, I'm not getting hung up on the fact that
in the original libretto, Janice's character is a courtesan, nor am
I going to dwell on the fact made famous by Notting Hill, that the
word for "actress" is the same as the word for "prostitute" in
myriad languages, because the inevitable actress-prostitute-blonde
connection is only going to make me feel insecure about my hair
choices. What I will say is that my wig is an utterly glorious
red-brown mane, piled up on my head in artful forties glamour. The
effect of this in combination with my blue eyes, pale skin and
emerald green suit is sadly not, ladies and gentlemen, an
Italianate one. I think it's safe to say that I am the most
Irish-looking Italian woman you will ever meet in a mansion in
Florence (my mother is going to die of joy. I can already hear the
rapturous comparisons with Great Auntie Eithne in her forties
heyday). But, then again, I was the most Irish-looking Italian
student in my language school in Florence last year, and the
Italians didn't seem to mind. Maybe it was the
In a rather nifty segue back into my blonde
actressness, never fear, ladies and gentlemen, you will be seeing
my hair in all its natural (ahem) glory in the course of this
double bill, as I have also been cast in the vital, if silent, role
of Young Sylvia in Zanetto. Now, because Janice, who plays Real
Sylvia (not Old Sylvia), is conceded her blondeness on the
grounds of her actressness, I too am allowed to wear my normal hair
for this first-half appearance. There's literally nothing I can say
about my part that's not going to give away the brilliant coup de
theatre dreamt up by Martin Lloyd Evans for the show, but be
content in the knowledge that I have a gloriously befeathered
costume, and that I am relying very heavily on Janice Watson to be
mature enough not to make faces at me during my appearance, or I
fear there could be another, less favourable, account of my
corpsing appearing in print after the opening night. Which is on
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Vladimir Lukin
Vladimir Petrovich Lukin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Лукин) (born July 13, 1937) is Russian liberal political activist who served as Human Rights Commissioner of Russia from February 2004 to March 2014. He is the President of the Russian Paralympic Committee.[1]
Vladimir Lukin was raised by his relatives, as his parents had been repressed soon after his birth.
In 1990s, Lukin was one of the founders of the liberal-democratic Yabloko Party (the letter L in "Yabloko" came from his name). He previously served as the deputy chairman of the Russian Duma, chair of the Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee and as Ombudsman. He is a director on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), and is also a former Ambassador to the United States. He is considered a long-time specialist in U.S.-Soviet/Russian strategic arms control issues and is a member of Russia's Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, an independent association of national security experts.
On 18 February 2009, at President Medvedev's recommendation, the Russian Duma voted him another five-year term as human rights commissioner. This term expired in March 2014, and Lukin was replaced by Ella Pamfilova.
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Alas! A few drops of 2NE1 info in this dry spell. Blackjacks will be interested to know that US artists Snoop Dogg and Will.i.Am both have upcoming projects involving the foursome and details are just starting to fall from the music heavens. Perhaps we should do a raindance for more….
Snoop Dogg (er… Snoop Lion, now) has a concert in Seoul coming up in junction with the eccentric casual clothing brand Adidas Originals. Who better to perform alongside Snoop than fellow Originals endorsement models, 2NE1? No one, that's who.
The 19+ performance, titled Unite All Originals Live with Snoop Dogg, will take place on May 4 at the Olympic Park's Soccer Arena. If you're planning to be in Korea right around then, it wouldn't hurt to look up the ticket info on Interpark.
Black Eyed Peas member and independent producer Will.I.Am just released more details about his upcoming fourth solo album #willpower, including — you guessed it — one of the fabled WillNE1 collaboration singles. Other songs featured on the star-studded album will be the pre-released Britney and Bieber numbers, as well as tracks featuring Chris Brown, Skylar Grey, Miley Cyrus, apl.de.ap and more.
#willpower is scheduled for release on April 27.
BTW, word is that 2NE1′s Will.i.am-produced English debut album is still a thing. (!!!) The 'when' details are still a little fuzzy, but at least we know it's coming. Eeeeeventually.
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Argyll Hotel, is central to Glasgow city center and the hotel is central to the west end of Glasgow.The hotel is ideally located 1/2 mile west of Glasgow City Center just off of the M8. Within walking distance of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center, Glasgow University, and the Kelvingrove Art Galleries & Museum. An ideal base for visiting Glasgow City Center and West End.Directions to the HotelBy CarTravelling west on the M8. After Junction 16 - Enter fast lane. Exit Junction 18 - Charing Cross/Kelvingrove. Stay in right hand lane, go straight ahead to 2nd set of traffic lights. Turn right into Berkeley Street. Turn right into Elderslie Street then 1st left into Sauchiehall Street. The hotel is 3 blocks on the left.Bus link from Glasgow Airport to the Hotel747 Airlink picks up and drops off at stance 3 outside Glasgow Airport's terminal building. The 747 is operated by modern, easy access buses and connects with services throughout Glasgow. Travel to Glasgow city centre for less with a single journey costing about £2.90. Guest can also enjoy unlimited travel throughout Greater Glasgow with a First Day at a cost of £3.20.Bus InformationTo the City Centre from Sauchiehall Street No's 16, 18 or 42/42ATo the City Centre from Argyle Street No's 9 or 62To Queen Street Station No's 42/42ATo Central Station No's 9, 16, 18 or 62Trains and UndergroundThe Glasgow Underground is a convenient and quick way to get around the city. The nearest underground to the Argyll hotel is Kelvinhall. The nearest train staition is the Exhibition Centre, about 10 minutes walk from the hotel.Glasgow Airport - Flights to GlasgowGlasgow Airport is approximately 8 miles drive from the hotel.
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Recurrence for last day of the month and checking off a day late
I've got a task set up that's due "jeden letzten Tag um 20" - every last day of the month at 20:00. Now it was due yesterday - and I rescheduled it to today (that happened yesterday, using the tomorrow button) and checked it off today.
And on checking the task off it was rescheduled to the end of May. Which is not the last day of this month and left me a bit confused?
Could you advise what happened there?
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Hi Silvia,
- This was all done on iOS, or another location?
Nonetheless, this is how our syntax works actually. In case anyone is really behind, it skips all of them and moves to the next occurrence, which would be May. If your task is late, at this time at least, it's better to wait till the next one is done then complete it, or Mark it Due Today, then complete it.
Hi Brendon!
That was on iOS, yes.
I don't quite get it - the task is due the last day of the March. I rescheduled it to the first day of April and then marked it off.
Why wouldn't it be due the last day of April - wouldn't that be the next occurrence of "the last day of the month"?
Best wishes
Since you are already in April, then the next occurrence is May. It's a slight downside, but it provides overall better support for people, people who may be very behind. We will look into improving this in the future.
Hello Brendon!
And this behaviour is caused by rescheduling the task to the 1st of April, or by it being overdue into April?
Would the same thing happen if I let the task remain overdue - on 31.March - and check it off on the 1.April?
Would it then go to the last day of April or March?
Best wishes
It will always happen if it's overdue. It's not a perfect system in how we calculate the next occurrence, and hopefully we can find a better solution in the future.
The best solution for now would be to wait until both are done, March & April, then complete it. Or, right click on it and "Do It Today" though that will not complete Marches.
Hello Brendon,
I'd rather not have an overdue task in my today view for one month, if possible. I'll have to work around that for now - but I hope a better solution is possible soon.
Thanks and best wishes


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hyde 0.8.8
hyde is a static website generator
Version 0.8.8
A brand new hyde
This is the new version of hyde under active development. Hyde documentation is a work in progress.
Hyde starter kit by merlinrebrovic is a really nice way to get started with hyde.
Hyde layout for bootstrap by auzigog is also a good alternative if you like Twitter's bootstrap framework.
You can also take a look at Hyde Powered Websites for inspiration and reference.
To get the latest released version:
pip install hyde
For the current trunk:
pip install -e git://github.com/hyde/hyde.git#egg=hyde
Creating a new hyde site
The following command:
hyde -s ~/test_site create
will create a new hyde site using the test layout.
Generating the hyde site
cd ~/test_site hyde gen
Serving the website
cd ~/test_site hyde serve open http://localhost:8080
Publishing the website
cd ~/test_site hyde publish -p github
Hyde supports extensible publishers.
The hyde documentation is published to github pages using this command with the following configuration:
publisher: github: type: hyde.ext.publishers.dvcs.Git path: ../hyde.github.com url: email@example.com:hyde/hyde.github.com.git
Currently, the initial path must have clone of the repository already in place for this command to work.
Hyde also has a publisher that acts as a frontend to the awesome PyFS library (thanks to rfk). Here are a few configuration options for some PyFS backends:
publisher: zip: type: hyde.ext.publishers.pyfs.PyFS url: zip://~/deploy/hyde/docs.zip s3: type: hyde.ext.publishers.pyfs.PyFS url: s3://hyde/docs sftp: type: hyde.ext.publishers.pyfs.PyFS url: sftp:hydeuser:email@example.com
PyFS is not installed with hyde. In order to use the PyFS publisher, you need to install pyfs separately.
Any PyFS dependencies (Example: boto for S3 publishing) need to be installed separately as well.
pip install fs pip install boto
To get additional help on PyFS backends, you can run the following command once PyFS is installed:
fsls --listopeners
A brief list of features
- Evented Plugins: The Plugin hooks allow plugins to listen to events that occur during different times in the lifecycle and respond accordingly.
- Metadata: Hyde now supports hierarchical metadata. You can specify and override variables at the site, node or the page level and access them in the templates.
- Organization: The sorter, grouper and tagger plugins provide rich meta-data driven organizational capabilities to hyde sites.
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These Frequently Asked Questions have been designed to fill in the
blanks. If your question's not in the below list, contact us for more
Find out where and when to purchase tickets to the exhibition
This exhibition ran from Saturday 10 November 2012 -
Sunday 3 March 2013 and is now closed.
This exhibition was located on level 1 of the Gallery. You can
view and download a map of the Gallery here.
Online sales
Auckland Art Gallery is partnering with Eventfinda to offer
online ticket sales for Who Shot Rock &
Roll. Tickets go on sale at midnight on Thursday 27
September. Online ticket holders will receive priority entry on the
day of their visit.
If you have booked a concession ticket or a family pass, please
remember to bring the required ID with you on the day of your
On the day
You can buy a ticket on the day of your visit at the Gallery's
front desk.
Ticket prices for Who Shot Rock & Roll are as
Friends of the Gallery (Friends membership card required)
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Separate charges may apply for education groups - please see
Booking and delivery fees, where charged, are additional to the
admission price.
GST included.
If you book a concession ticket or a family pass, please
remember to bring the required ID with you on the day of your
There is no entry charge for children under the age of 12.
Student tickets are available to full-time students aged 13 or over
on presentation of a valid student ID.
A family pass provides entry to either two adults and one
concession-rate ticket (senior, Community Services Card holder,
student or child 13-18), or one adult and two concession-rate
Additional tickets may be purchased in combination with a family
pass to suit your group size.
A season pass offers an individual unlimited entry to the
exhibition during its season. Season passes are non-transferable
and not eligible for further discount. To receive your season pass,
please present your ticket and photo ID (for example, your drivers'
licence) at the Gallery's front desk. Your ticket will be redeemed
for a season pass, which must be presented along with your
corresponding photo ID on all subsequent visits.
If you've visited Who Shot Rock & Roll using a
single admission ticket and decide you would like to come back for
further visits, you can upgrade to a season pass. Simply present
proof of your original ticket purchase at the Gallery's front desk
and the cost of your single admission ticket will be deducted from
the season pass price.
Yes. Friends of the Gallery can buy tickets at the discounted
rate of $9. A Friends membership card must be presented when
entering the exhibition. To find out how to become a Friend of the
Gallery click here.
Yes. Bookings for school groups or for 10 or more people should
be made direct with Christine Wildman on 09 307 7728 or at email@example.com.
Groups who arrive without a prior
booking may be turned away from the
For online tickets, Eventfinda's standard terms and
conditions apply.
With the exception of the season pass, tickets are for admission
on a single day only. If you'd like to see Who Shot Rock &
Roll more than once, please purchase a season pass which
offers unlimited entry to the exhibition during the period 10
November 2012 - 3 March 2013.
Your ticket price contributes to the costs involved in bringing
an international exhibition of this calibre to New Zealand. Entry
to the Gallery's permanent collections remains free of charge.
No. Entry to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is free. All
other exhibitions, the Learning Centre and the E H McCormick
Research Library remain free of charge.
We estimate you'll need to allow 60-90 minutes to view Who
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Gallery's fortnightly enewsletter to receive information on
upcoming events.
Unless you are part of a booked group or visiting with a school,
Who Shot Rock & Roll is a self-guided exhibition.
Yes. Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955
- Present by author and curator Gail Buckland will be
available for purchase in the Gallery shop on the ground level and at the pop-up
shop outside the exhibition on level 1.
No. Photography is not permitted in the exhibition due to
copyright restrictions so please keep your camera or your
smartphone in your pocket. Click here to see the
Gallery's full photography policy.
Families with children of all ages are very welcome, however the
exhibition contains some adult themes and parental guidance is
Family passes are available for either two adults and one
concession-rate ticket, or one adult and two concessions - you can
find out more about them on the Tickets page. Admission is free for children
aged 12 and under.
Please note we don't allow any food or drink in the exhibition
and ask that you don't touch the artworks.
After viewing Who Shot Rock & Roll, extend your
visit with a trip to the Learning Centre or join a family
Who Shot Rock & Roll travels to New Zealand with
173 works from more than 100 photographers and many rare and
never-before-exhibited images.
The Auckland exhibition is the first time Who Shot Rock
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Keith Urban is one of the newest "American Idol" judges, having only been on the job two days so far, but he's already feeling right at home!
"Extra" host Mario Lopez caught up with the country crooner and his his wife -- some Emmy-nominated actress named Nicole Kidman -- on the red carpet at the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday.
"I'm loving it!" the Australian native exclaimed when asked about his new gig. "I did a season in Australia on 'The Voice' and I really loved it."
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Baked brie might seem like an expensive appetizer, but it's really not — if you can find a great deal on Brie (hint: Try Aldi), all it takes is a few nuts, dried fruit and puff pastry to put together this decadent dish. All in all, this will come together for less than $12, but it will serve a crowd.
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Despite my love of food now, I didn't really have much of an interest in making anything other than chocolate chip cookies and spaghetti until I was in college. After my sophomore year of college when I was living in my parents' condo in Arizona with a really nice kitchen and I realized that during my junior year, I wouldn't have that cushy meal plan anymore, I thought I should maybe have a couple of dishes under my belt. Lasagna was the first one I tried, although a disdain for ricotta lead to me to making it with cottage cheese.
So for the past eight-ish years, lasagna has been my thing. I've never made it any more complicated than I did during the first summer, always using cottage cheese, no-boil noodles, ground beef and jarred sauce. No one has ever complained.
But I have finally created a more refined version of lasagna. On top of that, this lasagna not only offers built-in portion control, but also makes dishing the lasagna out so much easier. Instead of trying to slop a square onto the plate (it's supposed to come out neatly? Mine certainly did not), just neatly scoop out one roll. And while, certainly, boiling the noodles and then rolling them up took longer than simply layering all the ingredients, it was not as difficult or time-consuming as I thought.
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Mini desserts are the way to go when you're on a budget for a holiday party. People just take one or two of them, satisfying their chocolate fix while keeping your wallet safe and sound. With the crushed candy canes on top — plentiful and cheap this time of year — it's festive and budget-friendly.
Pancit Bihon (Filipino Fried Rice Noodles)
Even though I love crabs, chicken, and Maryland sweet corn as much as the next girl, I also have a wonderfully diverse group of friends. So on Saturday, when I threw the question of what I should cook that day out to the general world of Facebook, it was really exciting when my Filipino neighbor offered up some suggestions.
Chicken and Butternut Squash (Alternate title: How I received my first chopping-related blister)
Apparently, I am horrible at following recipes.
I find a recipe (online most of the time) that sounds great. Then I go to make it and realize that I forgot to buy an ingredient or two or just don't feel like making it the way the recipe calls for. I suppose that means I just take recipes as inspiration and adapt them to fit my desires.
So this recipe that I'm about share with you that I'm blandly calling "Chicken and Butternut Squash" was inspired by this Butternut Squash Gratin recipe on Epicurious. The spirit is the same, but most of the ingredients — and the method — are different.
The great thing about this dish is that if you just cook up some rice, which we did, you have almost a one-dish meal (almost, I said. Almost).
However, I cut up a butternut squash for the first time (versus buying it pre-cut or roasting it first) and I actually got a blister on the bottom of the pointer finger from it. It's quite painful!
Chicken and Butternut Squash
1 whole chicken, cut into pieces (They sell it like this, you don't have to butcher it yourself)
1 butternut squash
1/3 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup walnuts
1 package sage, chopped (about 3 tablespoons)
2-3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup light cream
4 ounces goat cheese, sliced or crumbled
Your choice of dried herbs (basil, parsley, thyme, oregano, etc.)
Cut the butternut squash into chunks, doing your best not to get a blister. Alternatively, buy pre-cut squash, which is what I'll be doing from now on. Here's a smart way to peel and chop a squash, which I did not follow.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Place the squash around the edges of a large roasting pan. Arrange the chicken pieces in the middle of the pan and drizzle the whole thing with olive oil. Sprinkle on your choice of herbs — I used a delicious French herbs mixture that I was given as a gift, but any of your favorites will do — and add the cranberry and walnuts wherever there is room. Drizzle the cream over the mixture; it just adds a little richness to the final dish.
Put the pan in the oven and roast for 30 minutes, or until the squash is tender and the chicken's skin is crispy. Sprinkle the goat cheese and sage over the dish and return the pan to the oven for 5-10 minutes, or until the goat cheese is slightly melted. Serve immediately with rice or broccoli.
Grilled Bok Choy
Raise your hand if you've ever eaten Bok Choy.
That's not too many of you! This Asian vegetable is cheap, guys — we're talking maybe $1.50 a pound here. I like to saute it or add it to soups, but when the weather is nice, consider grilling it.
How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Puree
Making your own pumpkin puree is easy as pie (Bad pun, I know). If you can't find any canned pumpkin — and at this time of year, grocery stores are often cleared out of the stuff — just pick up a sugar pie pumpkin and roast your own.
Start with a 2- to 3- pound sugar pie pumpkin. Large carving pumpkins aren't suited for roasted and pureeing because the inside of it is stringy and unpalatable.
Start by preheating the oven to 400 degrees.
There is no reason it has to be organic. I just happened to be shopping at an organic food market the day I bought this little guy. Using a sharp knife, cut the pumpkin in half.
Scoop the seeds out of the pumpkin with a spoon, scraping all the stringy bits out, too. In a pumpkin of this size, there won't be a ton of seeds. However, if you want to put in the work for roasting them, I salute you. I did not do that.
Line a baking sheet with tin foil (or don't. It just makes for an easier clean-up). Drizzle just a smidgle (I just made that word up) of olive oil and put the pumpkin halves cut side down on the sheet.
Place in the preheated oven and roast for about 30 minutes, or until the skin of the pumpkin is tender when poked with a fork.
If you haven't noticed by now, this method is basically identical to roasting any other type of squash.
When it's done, the pumpkin will look like this.
ou'll notice, despite the not-so-impressive photograph, that the pumpkin's skin deepened to a red-orange color (there's no Photoshop trickery here! It was actually quite lovely.)
Scrape the flesh into the bowl of your food processor (this should be pretty easy, the flesh will just fall right out if it's cooked properly). Pulse for a few seconds, and you'll have pure pumpkin puree. Store in the refrigerator for a few days.
Zucchini Parmesan
While versions of this recipe using chicken and eggplant are staples in any Italian kitchen, using zucchini brings a fresh rendition to this delicious classic. If your backyard zucchini plant is still producing, this is a great way to use it up!
Pumpkin Turkey Chili // Breaking My Food Photography Obsession
I love food photography. I can browse Pinterest's food & drink section for hours, staring at all the beautiful photos of recipes, both sweet and savory.
However, I don't often love my food photos! Working at a food editor for a magazine, I often felt pressure to take beautiful photos to accompany my recipes; however, I never had any proper training, equipment or styling skills. It ended up being an obsession – but I am breaking through that obsession now (and because I've been rejected from Tastespotting and Foodgawker so much, I think it's definitely time).
So, don't mind if my food photos are more of the iPhone variety these days (although I still plan to use my DSLR when it's handy). Really, it's for my own well-being.
I'm officially calling this recipe "Pumpkin Turkey Chili," though some might article that it's a bastardization of the word "chili." If you say that – fine, it's a stew. Whatever you want to call it, it's chock-full of healthy things and really filling, to boot.
Creamy Mushroom Pasta with Truffle Oil topped with Short Ribs // The One Where Crouton Tries to Go Shopping
I often feel the need to add a disclaimer to my blog posts, stating "THIS PHOTO IS NOT STAGED. I PROMISE." Crouton gets herself into such weird little situations and poses that I could imagine someone thinking, "Please. This is a cat we're talking about. This is not for real."
That would only come from someone who hadn't actually met Crouton, but I digress.
Over the weekend, David had borrowed my debit card. When I was sitting on the bed, he tossed at me to return it (Not exactly the most responsible method of return, but again, that's digressing). It soared passed me onto the floor on my left.
In the 10 to 15 seconds between the card landing on the floor and me looking to my left, I couldn't tell you what happened. But, I looked down to see this:
I guess there's a chance that the debit card simply landed there. I prefer to think that it landed next to Crouton, and that she stealthily drew one paw out to slide it back to her. "I'll take this, thank you. I've been considering purchasing a new hair dryer to maintain my fluffy exterior. Or food. I need some more food."
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Ingredients2 c (minus 2 tbsp) cake flour
1 & 2/3 c bread flour
1 & 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 & 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 & 1/2 tsp coarse salt
2 & 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
1 & 1/4 c light brown sugar
1 c (plus 2 tbsp) granulated sugar
2 lrg eggs
2 tsp natural vanilla extract
1 & 1/4 lbs bittersweet chocolate pieces that are 60% cacao
Sea salt
Preparation1. Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
2. Using a mixer fitted with a paddle attachement, cream butter and sugars together until very light - about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla. Reduce speed to low, add dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds.
3. Drop chocolate pieces in without breaking them. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Dough may be used in batches and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours.
4. When ready to bake - preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or non-stick baking mat.
5. Scoop 6 - 3 & 1/3 oz mounds of dough (the size of agenerous golf balls) onto baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up. (makes for a more attractive cookie). Spinkle lightly with sea salt and bake until golden brown but still soft. 18-20 minutes.
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Underwater cleanups ahead
D.O.A. Fishing Lures based in Stuart announced it will have a free kids fishing clinic from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Aug. 10 in Stuart.
Attendance is limited so registration is required.
Attendees will learn how to rig and use D.O.A. Lures for fishing for popular targets, casting instruction, knot tying and more from D.O.A. Lures' founder Mark Nichols and local fishing guides. A lunch will be provided and there will be a goody bags for registrants.
To register and find out more about the location, call 772-287-5001.
Lionfish Safari this weekend
The Treasure Coast Lionfish Safari will take place Saturday and Sunday off the Treasure Coast. Participants will vie for a cash prizes for the most lionfish harvested as a team.
Entry fee is $80 per team through Thursday, $100 on Friday. The divers' meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Riverwalk Community Center, 600 N. Indian River Drive, Fort Pierce.
Based on entries of 50 teams, payouts will be $1,000 for most lionfish harvested, $500 for second and $150 for third. There also will be prizes for largest and smallest lionfish harvested.
For more information, visit www.treasurecoastlionfishsafari.com.
Underwater cleanup rescheduled
Capt. Don Voss of Marine Cleanup Initiative Inc., announced he has rescheduled the underwater cleanup of Fort Pierce Inlet for Aug. 10.
Volunteer divers and assisting boaters are requested to meet at noon at the 12A Buoy Restaurant parking lot at the Black Pearl Boat Ramp, 22 Fisherman's Wharf, Fort Pierce.
Divers will collect as much discarded trash, fishing line and boating equipment during the slack tide that day. The cleanup event slated for the past weekend was canceled due to severe thunderstorms.
Before that event, there will be a cleanup of Sebastian Inlet to take place July 27. Divers and assisting boaters are asked to meet at 12:30 p.m. at the Sebastian Yacht Club Boat Ramp, 820 Indian River Drive, Sebastian.
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Unlike Java, C and similar languages, Perl cannot know at compile time if a function is going to exist when it is called. Well, actually Perl cannot even know which functions are going to be called in a given piece of code. Anyway this means that at run time it might happen that a none-existent function is called. In such cases normally Perl will die.
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There are plenty of people who would like to contribute to Open Source and especially to Perl, but don't know what and how to start. In this page I am going to collect some of my suggestions.
If you are interested, pick one of them and run with it. If you need further help how to get started with one of the tasks, ask me in the comment section.
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Fourmidable: a database for ant genomics
Author affiliations
1 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2 Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare, Merck Research Laboratories, 00040 Pomezia, Rome, Italy
3 Institut for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
4 Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:5 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-5Published: 6 January 2009
Fourmidable is an infrastructure to curate and share the emerging genetic, molecular, and functional genomic data and protocols for ants.
The Fourmidable assembly pipeline groups nucleotide sequences into clusters before independently assembling each cluster. Subsequently, assembled sequences are annotated via Interproscan and BLAST against general and insect-specific databases. Gene-specific information can be retrieved using gene identifiers, searching for similar sequences or browsing through inferred Gene Ontology annotations. The database will readily scale as ultra-high throughput sequence data and sequences from additional species become available.
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Tyrannical FTC Threatens Christian Church with Imprisonment for Selling Dietary Supplements
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Too terrorized by the FTC to speak out
NaturalNews has spoken to many companies targeted by the FTC. Nearly all
of them have been too terrorized by the FTC to be willing to go on the record
with an interview. Although they have all told me privately that they
believe they are being targeted by a criminally-operated FTC waging an
anti-health witch hunt, they are too afraid of winding up in prison to go on the
record with their views.
Is the FTC engaged in regulatory terrorism?
I believe these actions by the FTC can only rightly be called a form of
regulatory terrorism against the American People. In its quest to destroy
the nutritional supplements industry, the FTC is pulling out all the stops,
relying on instruments of
oppression and tyranny that have historically been used by the secret police
of the former Soviet Union, for example, or even Nazi Germany.
Will Bibles be banned next?
The Bible recommends numerous
medicinal herbs
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What happens if the FTC continues its campaign of regulatory terrorism against the dietary supplements industry?
Where might this all end up if the FTC campaign of regulatory terrorism isn't
What you can do right now to put a stop to this
The FTC is at war with the American People. It is waging a campaign of
destruction against herbal knowledge in America, attempting to erase the memory
of herbal wisdom from the minds of American consumers.
Where is the mainstream media on this story?
Have you noticed, by the way, how the mainstream media remains mysteriously
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Kiernan Shipka and Hailee Steinfeld channeling Peter Pan with their collars at Teen Vogue's Young Holywood party.
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Let us tell you: we've seen the future of Hollywood, and it's bright. Not to say that there aren't some promising young actresses in the older half of the "young Hollywood designation," but we sincerely think that there are a few 16 and unders who are poised to give even older actresses a run for their money. Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka and True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld are two of the most exciting young whippersnappers making their mark on movies and TV these days. Add to their jaw dropping acting chops the fact that both these young ladies are also budding fashion plates and what you have is a recipe for MTV Style to plant ourselves firmly in their corners, forever. Hailee is the face of Miu Miu and took a turn as a fashion correspondent for Teen Vogue at this year's New York Fashion Week. Kiernan is quickly becoming a red carpet favorite and showed off her formidable closet to Harper's Bazaar earlier this year. With a combined age of less that 30--Kiernan is 12, Hailee 14--these two young a-listers are undeniable. At Teen Vogue's Young Hollywood party, they embodied yet another of the traits that we love about them: while both are sophisticated and meticulous dressers, they always wear age appropriate, fun dresses, experimenting with trends and high fashion while still sticking firmly in the realm of (really fancy) kid-dom. On last night's red carpet, both girls wore Peter Pan collars, one of our favorite trends for fall. Kiernan went the traditional route, with a collared cocktail dress, while Hailee Steinfeld decided to switch up the trend in a detachable metal collar. Will we be able to decide who wore it better? See for yourself after the jump.


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7 weeks ago, I competed in a bouldering event. I fell from the top of the last boulder problem of the final round and landed directly on concrete on my left foot. I don't think I even touched the mats. The pain was so intense; I ended up lying downon the floor, drooling and crying. I have sprained the other ankle before, this was nothing like it. I knew this time it was bad, but I kept hoping otherwise. My diagnostic is still not complete but I have a broken heel, damaged ligaments and I need to get an MRI to understand why my foot won't move (it is stuck).
What this meant for my competition season is that I was going to miss all the major competitions. I missed regionals (eastern Canada), the Canadian national and I probably won't be able to compete in the World cup in Toronto in June. I don't want this to sound like I am whining, but it is just to put things in perspective. I am mentioning it because I had to grieve a little. I am lucky to have the people I coach competing so it gives me another sense of satisfaction.
For the last few years I have had this love-hate relationship with performance in general. I have always liked training and competitions but I have also felt tired from it at times, mainly because I feel like performance sometimes bring unbalanced behaviors. We focus so much on one thing that we miss out on so many other things. I like the perspective of Alain de Botton on success http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success.html
This injury has forced me to take time off. The first few weeks I felt so much pain that even doing chin-ups was out of the question. No running, no walking, no core training, no nothing. I don't recall being this still ever. I also told myself that since I was injured, it was a good time to take a full break and try to remain positive (even with the endorphins deficit). I have been pretty good about it (except some difficult times). It made me realize how much energy I put into exercising. All of the sudden I have more time for other things like friends, shows, reading, cooking. I am definitely learning a lot from this slower pace life.
But with all this said, I miss climbing, running and being outside so much…