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Earendil still glimmered bright above, though a pale yellow dawn lay upon the wood. Behind the topaz and gold horizon the sun prepared herself to rise, and the canopy smoked with mist in her faint heat. Released from centuries of darkness, buds were bursting into new growth, and already there was a shimmer of green. A blackbird sang. A song thrush answered - the bare promise that soon Eryn Lasgalen would have its full chorus of birds to greet the day.
Celeborn watched as Galadriel drifted aside from the revelry. Drowsy now, and contented, it went on without her. She had brought her harp to the feast, but did not play. Now she clutched it to her, shield-like, as she walked away from him. Her face was settled and Queenly, her smile serene, as of one well satisfied with a hard won victory. Only he noticed her bloodless grip on the singing wood and knew that she was afraid.
He too was afraid. No one who knew the history of the Eldar could fail to understand the power of words, and it would almost be better to remain thus - side by side, apart, like gentle ghosts, who do not raise their voices, but who never touch - than to speak and risk the pain and blame and hate that might come of it. Now he understood why, yestereve, she had been unable to face him. This morning, he was not sure he could face her.
So he hesitated a little, while the primrose light of a new day broke over him, and a breeze shook dew in arcs of radiance from the branches, and it seemed to him that he had never yet done anything truly brave, but that now he must.
At last, drawing in a great breath, he turned his back on his people's rejoicing and walked down the further side of Amon Lanc, and if his step was quick and light it was so, perhaps, because his breast was full of emptiness. He passed under the shadow of the trees, and on to where - in a place of rocks and fern - a spring welled and fell coldly over stone to meander over the forest floor, reflecting the sky in a runnel of liquid gold. In that quiet dell Galadriel sat, white and forlorn, with the harp in her lap. Her fingers were still on its strings, her voice silent.
Quietly, he came and sat beside her. For a while, she studied the bare slopes of the hill, and he the lightened depths of the wood, unspeaking. There was a frail peace to be found, just sitting together, close enough so that her sleeve touched his, the very edge of his dark green cloak fell over the skirts of her gown. A wood-pigeon called softly, and there came a peeping of sparrows. The water sang an endless, changeful tune. Then - it seemed a hard thing to do, yet inescapable, as if fated before time - he reached out and took her hand.
Galadriel laughed, sadly. "We have drunk the cup of parting," she said. "But when I offered it, I knew not that the dregs would be so bitter. Forgive me?"
Something twisted in him, like a knife. "You need not drain the cup," he urged, knowing the words were vain and foolish, but unable to keep them back. "Stay."
At that she turned to him, and leaned in, searching his face as she had done beneath Dol Guldur. In response, he tore down the walls about his mind, opened himself, and caught fear, regret - a yearning, which might once have been joyful, but was now merely torment inexpressible. "My Lord," she said, and looked away again, "I am minded of my cousin Aredhel, whose husband believed he possessed her. Who would not let her out of his sight. Who drove her away because he could not let her go."
Caught by the cruelty of this comparison, Celeborn saw, behind his eyes, the heavy, brooding darkness of Nan Elmoth, where Eol lived, kinsman of Elu Thingol, and therefore his own kin. Aredhel had fled from Gondolin as from a cage, and Eol had caught her - his wandering White Lady, the light in his darkness, the flame by which he warmed himself. Of course he wished to keep her safe. Of course he did not want to see her return to her airy prison, where she would sicken like a falcon with its wings strapped. Of course his fierce protective jealousy had made her hate him, so that she poisoned his son against him. So that at last both fled back into Turgon's snare, while Eol, following them, was caught in a doom from which he could only escape by death.
Celeborn thought of Eol, standing alone against the contempt of all Gondolin, his wife's face full of hatred, his son, Maeglin, closed and unmoving as stone, the Doom of the Kinslayers already working in him like slow venom. Knowing he was forbidden to leave, forbidden even to take his agony home to heal... No wonder Eol had snapped at last and tried to kill the cursed child, only to succeed in killing the woman he loved.
"I confess," Celeborn said, darkly, "that for the first time I understand my kinsman all too well. What business do the princesses of the Noldor have, marrying us, if they intend to desert us in the end?"
Galadriel made a small, strangled sound of protest and pulled her hand from his. "I do not desert you!" she cried, "Nothing prevents you from coming with me. It is you. You desert me!"
"I have learned this lesson at least from Eol," sullenly, Celeborn pursued her metaphor where she did not wish it to go, "I will not follow you into a trap from which there is no return."
"Valinor is no trap!"
"That is not what you said when first you came to Doriath," he said, seeing her hands tighten on the harp. The strings bowed and whispered under the pressure, and he thought it fitting that she should tear it apart, since he had made it for her. "'Too small', you said. You had learned everything there was to learn, and you were restless, dissatisfied, cramped. You came here to be free."
She sat very tall and straight, and there were tears in her eyes like stars. "Then let me be free! For now it is you who constrain me. Is Endor to be my dungeon, and you my gaoler?"
A storm of grief and shadow and fury broke over him. He had to get up, walk away. It drove him a few steps into the wood, and he felt lifted by it, helpless as a fallen leaf in the blast. But he would not give in. Mastering himself, he stopped, unclenched his fists, looked out - and behold! the sun shone on the roof of growing branches, on the buds of leaves, and the small white flowers of gnarled blackthorn. Light was dancing about his feet, and the stream shone now silver-blue as the clear, windy sky above.
In the beauty, anger left him. But the grief remained. Too deep to be touched by changes of mood or weather it lay in him like Mirror-mere, still, reflecting only snow and night.
He came back, sat down once more by her side, bent his head in sorrow. "Have I truly been Eol to your Aredhel?" he asked softly. "Have I clipped your wings, and held you back from your desires? Have I driven you away? I... It was not my intent."
Galadriel laughed again, and though the sound was bitter he sensed nothing from her mind but weariness. Her grip on the harp relaxed and she bent, placing it by her feet, unbroken. "No." Turning, she took his hands in hers, so that Nenya rested glittering in his palm. "You have given me all I asked, and more, taken too little for yourself, and grudged nothing. I spoke in the pain of parting, unjustly. You do not push me away. It is the Sea. Only that."
Withdrawing one hand he wrapped that arm around her. She stiffened at first, but slowly leaned in until their heads rested against each other, and their hair, silver and gold, gleamed together like the lights of Aman behind them. "Thranduil said a wise thing," he began, willing his body to remember every detail of this slight touch, so that none of it should ever be lost.
She snorted, unladylike, "Thranduil? Wise? Aye, about the sprouting of acorns and the hunting of harts in the wood."
And other matters of this world of ours, which those who entered it only to fall homesick for Valinor might not find important, Celeborn thought and felt again what gulfs separated them - how apart she had been from him even when they first wed. "Thranduil told me to think of the Sea-longing as though it were our equivalent of mortal death," he said. "A thing which cannot be fought, cannot be held back. Against such a force how could I possibly be your captor? How could I constrain you?"
Galadriel drew back so that she could look into his eyes. Do you not know? She touched his cheek with fingertips roughened from weaving - a small, wondering caress. "You are my captor because I love you." Rueful, and distantly warm was her smile, and she met his gaze without flinching. "When you summoned me to bring down Dol Guldur I was afraid. When I beheld you, after the Ring was destroyed, and the Age ended, I both feared and hoped that I would care for you no longer."
Her hand fell to her lap, pleated the glimmering white fabric of her dress while she watched it, rather than him. "Feared because - I would not lose this last thing, this marriage which has been my best and greatest deed in these lands. Yet I hoped - because it would make it easier for me to leave." Glancing up again, quick and shy as a linnet, her smile brightened. "My hope proved false, and my fear was assuaged. You are still beloved." Her fingers clenched tight, making a sunburst of long creases over her knees. "If you ask me to stay, I will stay.'
'Until love is no more," Celeborn said, heavily, knowing what that pledge would cost in the end, though he yearned to take it. "And hate replaces it, as Aredhel learned to loathe Eol." The pain inside brought out a spasm of laughter, "And then I will lose you anyway."
"Yes." She leaned once more against him, and already, although he held her in his arms, her spirit seemed immeasurably remote, gone beyond his recall. "I would prefer to leave while I may bear our love with me, into the undying lands. Knowing that it will be preserved, unstained, by the power of the Valar. How could I remain Galadriel, if I did not love you?'
He felt then that the world should end - the sky fall and the ground become a pit beneath him. How could life go on, now? But it did not happen, the birds sang, the water chuckled in its bed of leaves. His throat closed, and his eyes filled, trying - out of their mercy - to choke and blind him so that he did not have to say it, or watch as she heard. "I understand," he said. "You must go then.'
And Ennor went on, unperturbed, while Galadriel gave him a smile of gratitude and joy that trampled his bleeding fea into the dust. "But will you not come with me?" she urged, "I will not plead, but I will ask. Come with me, my husband. Do not leave me."
She saw the answer in his face, perhaps, for her smile faltered and her own eyes welled, silently, bereaved.
Unable to watch her weep, he took her face reverently between his hands, and kissed her, long and sweet. Her tears fell upon his mouth and mingled with his own. "I cannot." he said at last, drawing away, wishing that grief would slay him - so that he might indeed go with her in the only way that seemed possible. "For the call of the sea is like death. We cannot resist it when it comes, but we may not choose the time of it ourselves, cutting short the time we are given here to accomplish whatever task Iluvatar desires of us. I may not take my death into my own hands, not even to follow you."
She wiped her eyes, furiously, "You give too much credence to Thranduil's foolish analogy. It is false!"
"It may be," he said, knowing that he was too stubborn, too strong to fade from sorrow, and hating himself for it, "I cannot tell. I can only say that it seems true to me. My heart revolts from the West, as from the wilful taking of my own life. I wish it were not so. But it is."
They fell silent, and a wind tossed the treetops above them with a great sighing. After a long while Galadriel whispered, "Listen, do you not hear the roaring of the ocean?" But he dried his tears on the edge of his cloak and replied, brokenly, "No. I hear the many voices of the forests of Middle-earth."
Then he picked up the harp that had lain silent at her feet, and tuned it, and sang:
ínath arnediad sui revail i gelaidh
di-rynd luin Elbereth, ias elenath thiliar
dorthannem nedh ardh bain a lain
ú-aníron cuio ereb!
Ha thia i amar presta
fuin eth thindor dôr immen
a gwannen si galad nin
i adbannatha hi i ylf anim?
Navaer galad nin. Henion.
A Elbereth Gilthoniel, a tiro ellenin.
And so the choice was made, and the Battle of the Golden Wood, which had seemed a victory, became for them only the last mortal blow of a long defeat.
The End
Many thanks to the extremely clever people of the GWAITH I-PHETHDAIN, whose website can be found here: out of whose learned translations I have cobbled together this poem. And thanks to Bejai for checking and correcting those bits of it which are original.
Years without count, like the wings of trees,
Under blue vaults of Elbereth wherein stars glisten,
We have dwelled in a realm fair and free.
I don't want to live alone!
But the world is changing.
Darkness out of a shadowed land lies between us,
And lost now is my radiance.
Who will refill the cup for me?
Farewell, my light. I understand.
Oh Elbereth Star-kindler, watch over my star.
And many thanks to all my wonderful reviewers without whom this would certainly have been abandoned half way through. I hope it was worth the wait :)


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Review Roundup: THE OTHER PLACE Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
The Other Place opens tonight, January 10, 2013, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The Other Place stars Laurie Metcalf ("Roseanne," November), Daniel Stern ("The Wonder Years," Diner), Zoe Perry (Broadway debut), and John Schiappa (Assassins, Take Me Out). The new thriller by playwright Sharr White is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Other Desert Cities, Wicked, Love! Valour! Compassion!).
Metcalf plays Juliana Smithton, a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband (Daniel Stern) has filed for divorce, her daughter (Zoe Perry) has eloped with a much older man (John Schiappa), and her own health is in jeopardy. But in this brilliantly crafted work, nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface.
The creative team for the production includes Eugene Lee & Edward Pierce (scenic design), David Zinn (costume design), Justin Townsend (lighting design), Fitz Patton (original music, sound design), William Cusick (projection design), and David Caparelliotis (casting).
Let's see what the critics had to say...
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times: ...thanks to the superb performance of Laurie Metcalf as Juliana, the less we are sure of, the more we are engaged. Our perceptions of Juliana's journey through a life upended by trauma may continually shift, but one thing remains fixed: the intense, complicated humanity of Ms. Metcalf's performance...."The Other Place" is a cunningly constructed entertainment that discloses its nifty twists at intervals that keep us intrigued. In what is shaping up to be a lousy season for new plays on Broadway, perhaps this alone is worth a cheer or two.
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press: The play - so buffed and polished it now seems to squeak - is matched by a searing, brilliant performance by Laurie Metcalf, who is simply astonishing as she goes from snippy, bossy scientist to a broken, confused intruder wolfing down Chinese food on the floor. Director Joe Mantello keeps up a blistering pace - snippets of scenes dissolve into another, past and present collide. Speed is important to keep the audience guessing, but it leaves no room for a moment's error. Mantello proves as sharp as the narrator is unreliable.
Matt Windman, AM New York: "The Other Place" is essentially a stream of consciousness monologue padded with a few scenes and flashbacks to add a bit of substance and suspense. It feels derived from previous plays about smart women confronting illness, such as "Proof" and "Wit." With all due respect to Metcalf, who never leaves the stage and gives a brave and raw performance, "The Other Place" leaves much to be desired. 2 stars.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter: In the role of a brittle biophysicist, terrified, angered and ultimately humbled by her own illness, Metcalf has found a vehicle that allows her tremendous gifts to blaze fiercely...Joe Mantello's super-sleek production perfectly mirrors the complexities of Juliana's psychological state. The set, by Eugene Lee and Edward Pierce, is a stark tangle of what could be picture frames or windows. At times illuminated in patches, at others bathed in a soft glow or deep shadow, the enclosure provides a fractured view of everything and nothing. The central character's volatile moods are echoed in the meticulous shifts of Justin Townsend's lighting and Fitz Patton's music and sound. There's a precision to the staging that enhances the puzzle-like intrigue of White's play and safeguards it from slipping into the disease-of-the-week telefilm territory it could easily inhabit.
Elysa Gardner, USA Today: Juliana's seeming deterioration and her struggle to come to terms with it raise intriguing questions about our emotional and intellectual autonomy; and director Joe Mantello, who initially helmed the play off-Broadway last year, guides his fine cast with sensitivity and wit. Metcalf, who earned an Obie Award in that earlier production, gives a performance as impressive for its elegance as it is for its fearlessness. Even in Juliana's most lost, desperate moments, we're aware of her native mental agility and her fierce pride, which make her painful journey all the more poignant.
Erik Haagensen, Backstage: Once again guided faultlessly by director Joe Mantello, the production has been expertly expanded to fill the larger space without sacrificing intimacy or nuance. Laurie Metcalf returns to offer her galvanizing portrayal of Dr. Juliana Smithton, a dementia specialist suddenly faced with the condition herself, and Metcalf's shattering work has only gotten richer. Bold, unflinching, and ingeniously constructed, this is a show not to be missed.
Scott Brown, Vulture: Metcalf supplies the gravitation that holds it all together, even as her immense centrifugal energy is, simultaneously, working to fling it all apart. Her physical and spiritual transformation over the course of this brief, intense story is total. I greatly enjoyed The Other Place in its original Off Broadway incarnation, but I wondered if Joe Mantello's exquisite, bounded-in-a-nutshell production would scale up to Broadway. It does, I'm thrilled to report, and a great deal of the credit is due Metcalf herself, who's found several clever ways-near-subliminal physicalization, megaphonic emotional projection-to turn a delicate chamber performance into a great ringing cry from the darkness, suitable for an amphitheater.
Robert Kahn, NBC New York: Metcalf's Juliana is two different women: the first, a businesslike medical researcher-turned-pharmaceutical rep; the second, a disintegrating mother distancing herself from reality. Juliana's fear about her health manifests as anger and sarcasm, and is particularly potent in scenes like one where she bites the head off her doctor for not allowing her to smoke in her office ... which is inside a hospital. Anyone can get sick, but is it the truly brilliant people who have the most trouble when control over their bodies is wrenched away? Metcalf makes us feel her fear.
Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg: Laurie Metcalf's performance as Juliana in "The Other Place" has both sharpened and deepened since Sharr White's drama ran off-Broadway nearly two years ago. Given a second outing, now on Broadway under the wing of the Manhattan Theatre Club, the one-act drama still packs a formidable punch...but "The Other Place" has lost some power in the interregnum. The most easily identified reason is a significant casting change: Where Dennis Boutsikaris was sharp, even severe as Ian, Daniel Stern is warm-and-fuzzier, less of a foil to Juliana...Like "The Great God Pan" earlier this season, "The Other Place" is yet another ambitious play that's maddeningly unfinished.
Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News: The supporting cast is topnotch, including Daniel Stern as Juliana's beleaguered husband, Zoe Perry (Metcalf's real-life daughter), who plays a doctor and a bitter divorcee, and John Schiappa in a couple small roles. But it's really all about Juliana, a brittle individual who seems even tougher than she did during the first run. She's now caustic enough to come with a warning label. It's not a fluke, considering that Ian says to his wife: "You know, what surprises me almost more than anything else is how cruel this thing has made you." It's a harsh reality. And played by Metcalf, it hurts so good.
Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post: The play is less riveting than it is reasonably engaging. It's not entirely new, either, having premiered downtown two years ago. As for the "thriller" tag, let's just say the decorous Manhattan Theatre Club is behind this Broadway transfer, so don't expect fisticuffs.
Linda Winer, Newsday: Metcalf's Juliana begins tough and funny, oozing a sexuality that cannot be separated from her braininess. Against startling changes of sound and light designs, her body -- including those no-longer-confident legs -- shape-shifts as she is pummeled by delusions and a genuine life-altering trauma. Operating within a honeycomb of overlapping wooden frames, Metcalf transforms from moment to moment and back again, from sublime competence to a helplessness that is hard to watch. But dare you to take your eyes off her.
Robert Feldberg, Bergen Record: The play succeeds best as a showcase for Metcalf's acting skill. Perry, who also has a third role as a kind of interloper in the story, provides strong support. Stern, though, gives a lightweight effort as Juliana's put-upon husband.
Michael Musto, Village Voice: The Other Place might lack poetry--or Wit--but its emotional moments are potent. And Metcalf? Unforgettable. She even holds focus for the half hour before the play starts, sitting onstage in a chair, fiddling with a device, and trying to make sense of things. I could definitely do without this gimmick in general, but 30 minutes more of Metcalf is always a good thing.
Thom Geier, Entertainment Weekly: ulianna is a perfect fit for Laurie Metcalf, a Steppenwolf Theatre veteran best known for her Emmy-winning work on Roseanne. Still lithe in a slim black skirt and jacket with a black and white top (the costumes are by David Zinn), Metcalf radiates a brusque intelligence and mordant wit with occasional flashes of raw and childlike vulnerability. Hers is a mesmerizing performance


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Auditions for University Theatre and Film productions are held at the beginning and end of each semester. Specific audition information and requirements are posted on the NEW NEWS page and on the department Call-Board located across the hall from HGH 137.
Auditions are open to any SJSU student regardless of major. Students cast in University Theatre Productions earn credit in TA 117 (Practice in Acting or Directing).
Each University Theatre production also provides opportunities for students to work as member of the production crew (lighting, sound, costuming, make-up, stage hand, etc.) and earn credit in TA 191 (Production Activity).


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Gio flirts with perfect game, but 'pen can't hold lead
Southpaw flawless through five frames, but plans go awry after his exit
WASHINGTON -- Gio Gonzalez took a perfect game into the sixth inning on Sunday afternoon against the Cubs and made it out of the seventh with no runs on the board and a season-low pitch count of 86.
With the Nationals leading by one run, manager Davey Johnson elected to pinch-hit for Gonzalez. Once the lefty was out of the game, nothing went right for Washington.
The Cubs tied the score against Drew Storen in the eighth inning and pushed across the go-ahead tally in the ninth off Rafael Soriano, with the help of an unusual throwing error charged to catcher Kurt Suzuki. That gave Chicago a 2-1 victory in the rubber game of a three-game series in front of 38,788 at Nationals Park.
"It's just the way I manage," Johnson said of his decision. "You can chalk it up to me. You don't like it, chalk it up to me. It didn't work out."
The loss left the Nationals with two straight after a five-game winning streak and dropped them to 20-17 as they head out on a 10-game West Coast road trip that starts Monday at Dodger Stadium.
Ryan Zimmerman's first-inning RBI double provided the only scoring for Washington, which managed just five hits and went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position while stranding eight runners. Those struggles left the Nationals' pitching staff with little margin for error.
That was no problem for Gonzalez, who got a no-decision despite giving up only two singles, walking one and striking out six. It was the left-hander's first scoreless outing since his season debut on April 3 against the Marlins. Since giving up a leadoff home run in his last start at Pittsburgh and loading the bases with no outs, Gonzalez has allowed one run in 13 innings.
"I thought he pitched well," Suzuki said. "He was aggressive, threw a lot of strikes with his fastball, got his curveball working early on in the game, changeup middle parts of the game and at the end he had everything working, so it was a good outing by Gio."
But Johnson, looking to add runs and take advantage of a rested bullpen, removed Gonzalez for Chad Tracy to lead off the bottom of the seventh. Tracy struck out to start a 1-2-3 frame against Cubs reliever Kyuji Fujikawa.
"I don't question Davey's job," Gonzalez said. "He's a great manager. He knows what he's doing. It's one of those tough situations. You have to learn to roll with the punches."
Storen entered to start the eighth and gave up a leadoff single to Dioner Navarro, who had broken up Gonzalez's perfect game to start the sixth. With pinch-runner Travis Wood on third two outs later, Starlin Castro hit a game-tying single up the middle. After another single by Cody Ransom, Storen got Anthony Rizzo to ground out to end the threat.
"You've got to get the first guy out," Storen said. "That's the main thing. But you make the pitch, get the grounder you want and the ball hits three feet in front of the plate and gets through the middle -- it's just, hang with them."
Bryce Harper walked to lead off the bottom of the inning against James Russell but was stranded at first.
Alfonso Soriano and pinch-hitter Julio Borbon started the ninth with consecutive singles off Rafael Soriano. One out later, with Welington Castillo batting, the Cubs went for a double steal.
Suzuki caught the pitch, sprang out of his crouch and fired toward third, but his throw hit enough of Castillo's bat to veer off course and well wide of the base, into foul territory. Soriano scored the go-ahead run. The play was not deemed to be interference, because Castillo remained still in the batter's box.
"It's the first time I've done something like that, let alone saw it," Suzuki said. "It's just one of those things where a freak thing happened."
Castillo, a catcher himself, said Suzuki tried to get the interference call, but to no avail.
On his way into third, Soriano said he was surprised to see Suzuki's throw sail.
"Suzuki is a great catcher," Soriano said. "I said to myself, 'I want to go to third.' I was surprised when the ball hit the bat. It was a huge break for us."
Kevin Gregg retired the Nationals in order for the save, with Suzuki getting ejected by home-plate umpire John Tumpane after taking a called strike three for the second out.
The last two innings put a damper on what looked to be a special day for Gonzalez. He needed only eight pitches to retire the side in order in the first and made it through five perfect innings on 56 pitches.
Navarro started the sixth with a slow roller between third base and shortstop. Ian Desmond ranged to his right to make the stop but had no chance to throw out Navarro. After a nice ovation from the crowd, Gonzalez got two outs before walking Castro and giving up a single to Ransom. Cubs third-base coach David Bell decided to hold Navarro to load the bases, and Gonzalez got Rizzo in a 1-2 count before inducing a groundout to first base.
The Nationals had given Gonzalez a 1-0 lead in the first, when Denard Span dropped a leadoff single into left-center field off Cubs starter Scott Feldman and scored on Zimmerman's double off the right-field wall two batters later.
But the Nationals missed a chance to blow open the game early after loading the bases with two outs. Danny Espinosa flew out to left field to end the inning, and Washington eventually left six runners in scoring position on a day of missed opportunities.
"We can't get down on ourselves," Span said. "We won five in a row and lost two in a row -- that's still winning five out of seven. We'll be fine. We're just gonna move on. You give credit to Chicago. They came in and did what they had to do, but we've gotta move on and we have a big task at hand on the West Coast."
Andrew Simon is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @HitTheCutoff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Enrollment in online schools in Ohio has passed 30,000, more than 12 times the number in 2000 when the first "virtual" school opened in the state.
Only Arizona had more students enrolled full time in online schools in 2010-11, according to an annual report by the Evergreen Education Group.
Online students attend classes online and do lessons by computer, often at home, typing in tests and papers to be reviewed by a teacher elsewhere.
Most Ohio students enrolled in virtual schools, about 90 percent, attend one of the seven statewide online schools. That's according to a story Sunday by The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer and the StateImpact Ohio collaboration among National Public Radio and Ohio public-radio stations WCPN, WKSU and WOSU.
Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com


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Kid-Friendly Summer Snacksby Dana Angelo White in Kid-Friendly, June 13, 2012
Keep kids fueled for fun with easy, pack-able snacks.
Beat the Heat
Whether on a road trip, a day at camp or playing at the beach, kids need fuel! Keep tummies from rumbling with these nutritious and delicious snacks.
Pinwheels (above)
Trail Mix
Pizza Wrap
Beat the Heat
Ice Pops
Banana Ice Cream
Peach Frozen Yogurt
Chocolate Covered Banana Pops
Milk Boxes
Frozen Grapes
Cheese Sticks
Fruit Leather
Tell Us: What's your favorite snack to pack for the kiddies?
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Staff Sergeant Herman A Bauer
Date and Place of Birth: 1918 East St. Louis, IL Date and Place of Death: July 12, 1944 Les Haut Vents, France Baseball Experience: Minor League Position: Catcher Rank: Staff Sergeant Military Unit: 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, US Army Area Served:European Theater of Operations
Herman Bauer, older brother of Yankees' star, Hank Bauer, was in line to be a great catcher with the Chicago White Sox before WWII.
Herman A. Bauer was one of nine children born to Austrian immigrant parents in East St. Louis, Illinois. His father, John, worked as a bartender after losing a leg in an aluminum mill accident and money was scarce in the Bauer household. After graduating from Central Catholic High School, Bauer played for the semi-pro East St. Louis A.C. Blue Jays and was signed by the Chicago White Sox during the summer of 1939. The White Sox sent the young catcher to the Grand Forks Chiefs of the Class D Northern League, where he batted an impressive .305 in 37 games as a rookie. Back with the Chiefs in 1940, Bauer was the club's starting catcher and clean-up hitter, helping them turnaround from a seventh place finish the previous year to a comfortable 64–48 record for first place and the Northern League championship. Bauer hit .294 for the year with 12 home runs and 86 RBIs, and was voted the league's most valuable player. "Herman Bauer 'iron man' catcher for the Grand Forks Chiefs," announced the Associated Press on December 11, 1940, "was named the loop's most valuable player in a poll conducted by the Northern League Baseball Writer's Association."
Bauer received the Linus "Skeets" Ebnet Trophy with a vote total that was double that of Don Turck of Crookston and Frank Danneker of Winnipeg, who tied for second).
"I was 12 years old when I first met Herm," recalled Grand Forks resident Bob Gilmour. "We lived only a few blocks from the ballpark. I had two older sisters and ballplayers would occasionally stop over. The Northern League was Class D at the time but the competition was anything but."[1]
In 1941, Bauer jumped to Class AA ball with the St. Paul Saints of the American Association, one level below the major leagues. Sharing the catching duties with Ed Fernandes and Norm Schlueter, Bauer played in 27 games and batted .269. "My father was a conductor for the Great Northern Railway," Gilmour recalled. "He took me to a game in St. Paul in 1941, when Herm was promoted to the Saints." Gilmour and his father were in the stands at Lexington Park shortly before the game began. "Suddenly, my dad said, 'Let's go down and see Hermie.' I said they wouldn't let us in the dugout but Dad was on his way and I trotted along after. Herm was amazed. His eyes were wide and [he] said, 'Hi, Bobby. Hello, Mr. Gilmour.' Our short conversation was broken up by Red Kress, manager of the Saints. He said, 'Who are these guys, Hermie? They gotta get out of here.' I never saw Herm again and all of his fans were convinced that the war deprived the Chicago White Sox of a great catcher and great person."[2]
In 1941, Bauer helped his younger brother Hank get a job in professional baseball. Hank Bauer had graduated from high school in 1940 and was repairing furnaces in a beerbottling plant back in East St. Louis. Herm—four years Hank's senior—got his brother a tryout with Grand Forks, and while Hank did not catch on with that team he was signed by the Oshkosh Giants of the Wisconsin State League where he began a career in professional baseball that would span three decades.[3]
Herm Bauer's promising baseball career was put on hold when he entered military service with the Army at the end of the 1941 season. On February 3, 1943, he married Margaret Hume in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and in September of the same year, Staff Sergeant Bauer arrived in England with the 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored "Spearhead" Division. The division was initially stationed at Warminster in southwest England, and during nine months of pre-invasion training they maneuvered extensively over Salisbury Plain, and engaged in practice-landing operations up and down the coast.
On June 24, 1944, the 3rd Armored Division and its Sherman tanks landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy, and first went into action amid the earthbound hedgerow countryside that led to Saint-Lô. German infantry, with machine guns and mortars, supported by artillery, were expertly concealed and lying in wait in the dense summer foliage, and Villiers-Fossard (16 miles south of Omaha Beach) was the site for the baptism of fire for Bauer and the 3rd Armored. Despite suffering serious losses, they were able to turn back a vicious counterattack, and the division later wrestled Pont-Hébert from its defenders and attacked Hill 91 at Les Haut Vents (five miles from Saint-Lô) on July 10. Despite further heavy counterattacks over the next few days and a continuous barrage of mortar and artillery fire, the area was held by the division, but on July 12, Staff Sergeant Bauer was mortally wounded and died later in the day. He is buried at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
Hank Bauer — who entered military service the same year as his brother and served with the Marines in the South Pacific as a combat platoon leader — named his first-born son Herman in 1956. Hank played with the New York Yankees from 1948 to 1959. He served as manager of the Kansas City Athletics in 1961 and 1962, the Baltimore Orioles from 1964 to 1968 (winning the World Series in 1966), and the Oakland Athletics in 1969.


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Mr. Obama never wanted to be an ordinary politician — there was a time when Mrs. Obama could barely use that noun to describe her husband — and his advisers resist the idea that he has succumbed to standard Washington practice. Some donors and aides give an "if only" laugh at the idea that the couple now follows political ritual more closely: this is a president who still has not had Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton to dinner but holds lunches to discuss moral philosophy with the fellow Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
"He thinks about destiny in human terms," Mr. Wiesel said in an interview.
Still, others say the Obamas have become more relaxed schmoozers, more at ease with the porous line between the political and social, more willing to reveal themselves. They have recently begun inviting more outsiders into their private living quarters, including Mr. Kushner, Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis at the "Lincoln" dinner. At a dinner in late November to thank top campaign fund-raisers, the first couple was like a bride and groom, bantering and traveling from table to table to accept congratulations and good wishes for the years ahead, making sly jokes that guests would not repeat for publication.
Even Mr. Obama's speech has changed a bit, close observers say. Though he still disdains Washington, he often sounds less like a disapproving outsider and more like a participant.


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How to Microwave Cornby Rupa Bhattacharya in How-to, August 17th, 2013
Now that there's corn at every farmers market, we're spending a lot of time husking it while wondering if there's a better way. Last year, a video came out addressing this predicament that immediately went viral, racking up, at last count, more than 7 million YouTube views. In it, an adorable gentleman claimed that if you steamed corn in the microwave and then shook it out of the husk, it would slide out well-cooked and completely clean of husk and silk. We had to see this technique in action for ourselves. Our conclusion? Microwaving corn on the cob works, and it's delicious. The corn comes out perfectly tender — with not a string of silk in sight.


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It was always accepted that somewhere in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the story of Viola Desmond would be told.
Desmond, a Nova Scotia salon owner, was arrested in 1946 for refusing to leave the main floor of a New Glasgow movie theatre, which was open only to whites. She was fined $20 plus $6 in court costs after being charged with fraud by the Nova Scotia government.
As a black woman, the theatre would only sell her a balcony seat. When she insisted on sitting in a more expensive, whites-only main-floor seat, the government argued she had essentially evaded paying an additional cent of tax on the higher-priced ticket.
Desmond failed in her bid to fight the charge. She eventually left Nova Scotia for Montreal and then New York City, where she died in 1965 at the age of 50.
Barely publicized outside Nova Scotia, Desmond's case is considered one of the seminal racial-segregation stories of the 20th century. Desmond received a posthumous pardon for her crime in 2010. Although that could never erase the racism she faced, the pardon is nonetheless considered a victory by human rights activists.
That Desmond's story will be told in the CMHR is without doubt. However, to this point no one is exactly sure how it will be told. This is an important issue, for it is in the question of "how" that we will see the true nature and purpose of the museum.
This was the question at the heart of recent concerns about political manipulation of CMHR content by the board of trustees and perhaps by the federal government itself. The controversy was kicked off by a letter, written by a museum vice-president, in which it is noted the board of trustees had asked that more "positive, optimistic" Canadian stories be added to one gallery. Critics seized upon those words as evidence the board was manipulating content to be less critical.
Again, it was never clear exactly what that meant; the museum was always designed to feature more shocking or disturbing content in its lower-level galleries, with more uplifting content in the upper levels. So, while visitors may be bombarded with acts of inhumanity at lower levels, they would be inspired by stories of triumph and courage in the higher galleries. However, even with the details of the museum's design taken into account, we still have no firm definition of a "positive" and "negative" human rights story.
For example, is Viola Desmond a "positive" or a "critical" story of the Canadian human rights experience? Is her story relevant because she was a champion of black rights, because of the injustice against her, or because ultimately the government of Nova Scotia admitted that injustice?
The same conundrum arises with other prominent Canadian human rights stories. Is the museum going to document the pain and suffering inflicted on aboriginal people by the residential school system, or focus solely on the federal government's decision to formally apologize and offer compensation?
Too much emphasis on the redress, without documenting the underlying injustice, is a manipulation of content.
Moreover, is celebrating the activists who fought to bring attention to the residential school issue a "positive" story, and if so, is that a bad thing? Tough call.
Ottawa has vehemently denied any attempt to dull the edge of the content, but there is no question the Conservative government has expectations. In an interview at the Free Press News Café this fall, Heritage Minister James Moore discussed the simmering conflict between the museum and some in the Ukrainian community.
There have been allegations the museum will underplay the Holodomor, one of the world's least publicized and studied genocides, in favour of content on the Holocaust, the most publicized and studied atrocity in recorded history. The debate over content has been a long, nasty affair that remains, to this day, unresolved. Moore did not offer an opinion directly on the conflict, but he said the museum must not be divisive.
"The museum is not going to be, cannot be, a source of division for this country. Because taxpayers are not going to pump in $21 million a year if they see it as a perpetual source of division for the people of Winnipeg, the people of Manitoba and the people of Canada. It's not going to be tolerated."
Moore's assertion -- that controversy and divisiveness are separate commodities -- raises questions about whether the museum faces a no-win situation. The CMHR will, in many instances, deal with issues that are irreconcilable. These are the very definition of divisive issues, but the museum vision has always argued confronting these issues in a fair and balanced way furthers the cause of human rights.
No one has suggested a journey of that kind would be non-divisive; only that the journey itself was worth taking.
It has always been acknowledged that all the players involved in oversight of the museum -- management, board and the political masters -- would require a certain resolve to hold firm in the face of the anger and contempt that will flow from some of the content decisions.
If the absence of divisiveness is the only measure of success, then the CMHR is headed to a difficult future.


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Tom Ford Gossip
Tom Ford gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Where's Mrs Timberlake?
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Justin Timberlake was in Hollywood last night at the amfAR LA Inspiration Gala to honour Tom Ford. Ford dressed him for the last two albums and the tour. And he's also dressed his wife. But Mrs Timberlake wasn't there, adding to the speculation that she's pregnant. Or, you know how it is with JT. Full Story
Jennifer Lawrence & Nicholas Hoult: just in time
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Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are about to wrap up their press tour for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 which means we'll not be seeing them being cute and happy every day anymore. It's OK though. Because now we have Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult who are about to start promoting X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Full Story
Red Carpet Overreaching
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Hayden Panettiere wore Tom Ford to the Golden Globes. But, as we know now, that doesn't actually mean what you think it means. Click here for a refresher. Remember, she told E! that she'd been "begging" for the privilege…trailing off without specifying how she came to have the dress – which, let's be honest, isn't exactly one of his best designs, never one that he would handpick for presentation by one his regulars for a major event. Full Story
The Timberlakes & Tom Ford
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Justin Timberlake and his wife were in London last night for the Tom Ford presentation at fashion week. Click here to see the collection. Both Timberlakes were styled by Ford. And, where she's concerned, it shows. She looks amazing when someone else, someone who actually KNOWS, is dressing her. Full Story
Johnny and the scarves at Elton's party
Elton John threw a big party to celebrate husband David Furnish's 50th birthday last night in LA. Johnny Depp showed up. And can you believe it? I think he maybe only wore 2 scarves. Just 2 and not 5! Still, definitely 5 necklaces. And an assortment of rings. But no waist chains. Which is a bonus. Full Story
The Blue Ivy Carter has a rival
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Tom Ford and his partner Richard Bentley are proud fathers of Alexander John Buckley Ford. Alexander was born on September 23. Tom is 51, Richard 64. Finally, a proper rival for the Blue Ivy Carter. And maybe a possible future hookup. Who else but the Baby Ford could know the lifestyle of the B.I. Full Story
Pull back at the Met: Rihanna in Tom Ford
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Succeeding where Cameron Diaz couldn't...Rihanna doesn't get enough credit for how fashionably astute she is. You expect her to show up here with horns or vagina-riding a surfboard, some kind of crazy, and instead she lets Tom Ford do exactly what Tom Ford does best. Tom Ford owned the Oscars with a white cape for Gwyneth Paltrow. Full Story
BAFTA Best 90's velvet: Julianne Moore
Written by Duana I'm dating myself here, but the very first thing I thought when I saw this dress was a long, crushed-velvet dress I used to wear in high school. Anyone? They came in the richest, most 'muted' jewel tones – and we wore them and felt so glam. Full Story
Best Madonna accent: Tom Ford
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The men and Julianne
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Which portrait is the fairest?
The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue features skinny white girls on the front and actor/director portraits inside, all of them by Annie Leibovitz and much more interesting than the banality on the cover. Not to say that individually, those girls are delightful, but again, the lack of diversity was troubling, a reflection of that industry and also our own tastes. Full Story


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SHOPPERS and workers at Merry Hill raised more than £4,000 over the festive season for the centre's charity partner Save the Children.
A total of £4,291.03 was coined in during the Westfield mall's busiest shopping season of the year - which will go to the charity's No Child Born to Die campaign.
The money raised will help to save the lives of youngsters under five who are dying from preventable or treatable illnesses by providing more vaccines, antibiotics, nurses and midwives.
Shop staff and mall visitors took part in a host of fundraising activities to help pull in the cash - including a skate-off to mark National Christmas Jumper Day. Secret celebrity busking sessions were also staged and limited edition Christmas baubles sold in aid of the charity.
Workers at the centre's Matalan store also raised more than £600.
Kelly Reed, Merry Hill marketing manager, said: "It's great to have raised such a significant amount for a charity which provides support to children who need it the most.
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Transitioning Your Child with Special Needs to a New School
A mother shares her tips to help her son with special needs transition to a new school this fall.
A mother shares her tips to help her son with special needs transition to a new school this fall.
I strived for years to help my daughter form meaningful relationships—from her own twin brother to future romantic partners.
A mental health counselor and board-certified ADHD coach explains the correlation between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute offers psychotherapy resources for kids, teens, and adults in NYC. NYPSI is now offering a lecture series about raising children with behavioral issues.
Conduct disorder, a "disruptive behavior disorder," can seriously impair the way a child reacts to certain situations and people. We asked experts for advice on diagnosing and treating the disorder so kids can effectively improve their functioning in school and with peers.
Confident Kid Club offers social skills development for Pelham children in a group setting. The program is for kids who are anxious, shy, have low self-esteem, and other issues. Confident Kid Club also offers teacher workshops, private special education itinerant teacher work, and consultations for teachers and schools.
Sometimes telling a lie is the polite thing to do, right? One mom whose son doesn't quite grasp the delicate art of social "glossing over" riffs on the theme—and hopes you'll remember her words when the time is right.
Night terrors, also referred to as Sleep Terrors Disorder or Pavor nocturnus, is an emotional sleep disorder characterized by episodes of fear, flailing, and screaming while asleep, and is often paired with sleepwalking.
Young children don't always understand what it means to have special needs. One mom shares how she explained her son's special needs to the young kids in his class, and how the children then brought tolerance to the classroom.
Forty percent or more of kids with ADHD also have significant oppositional behavior. These guidelines will help you manage your child's acting out—and help you remain calm in the tough moments.
On YouTube the most disturbing phenomenon is kids doing hurtful things to themselves and then sharing the videos. A study in the March 2011 issue of the "Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics" highlighted these often graphic videos of adolescents engaging in what we as clinicians call "self-injury" and kids call "cutting"—on camera.
Learn why pretend play is important to development and how you can help it come more naturally to your child with special needs.
Imaginative play may be elusive for the youngest autistic children, but it has an important place in your child's life.
Children with social and pragmatic deficits often have difficulty making friends and generally succeeding in social situations. Find out how to recognize a deficit in social language skills and how targeted help can be effective for your child.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene funds nine Family Resource Centers (FRCs) throughout New York City, which opened last fall and now offer a full menu of services to local families.
Information for parents on the early signs and characteristics of an autism spectrum disorder, plus advice on how and why you should act early.
Children on the autism spectrum need special kinds of surroundings, says interior designer Carolyn Feder. The registered interior designer owns Sensory Interior Design, a Dallas based design firm that specializes in organizing, arranging and designing residential (among other) spaces to fit the needs of special needs children.
Autism service dogs are providing families with much needed assistance, peace of mind, and a big doggy dose of unconditional love.
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PARIS BY NIGHT par Daniel NASSOY
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- Fecha de publicación dic. 12, 2012
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Born in 1958 in Metz (eastern France) Daniel who originally trained as an IT consultant, opened his eyes through photography. In 1992, he signed up to a 2 years training course at EFET (Paris), a professional photography school. Then he already knew that the rigid world of IT was not meant to be his future. In 1997, he abandoned his IT career, and trained himself in multimedia technologies, and photography. Since 2001, Daniel has been working as a freelance photographer and graphic artist. Daniel started his artist work with basic tools - some lights, a black backdrop - creating a night theatre where to explore the male body. In this fansasy game in which many models took part, the camera lens played the part of the miror that would reflect the participants' desires and dreams. His latest body of work, he uses both real iconic urban settings, or reinvented ones to create a fanstamagorical and poetical representation of the male body and the dreamed city reach.
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text: Richard and Sandra Gardner of Port Washington announce the engagement of their daughter, Traci Gardner, to Rick Gump.He is the son of Raymond and Teresa Gump of Kimbolton.The wedding is planned for July 17, 2004, at Brown Chapel, Muskingum College Campus, New Concord.The bride-elect is a 2001 graduate of Indian Valley High School and will graduate in May 2004 from Muskingum College, with a degree in history and adolescent and young adult integrated social studies. She is an employee of Indian Village Community Bank.Her fiance is a 1999 graduate of Buckeye Trail High School. He is an employee of Gump and Sons Excavating.


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Competed in the Marjorie Whitney Invitational as part of the Lions starting five and managed a Top-20 finish with scores of 83-83 -166. Also competed in the Saint Leo Invitational as an individual with scores of 81-77 – 158 good enough for 27th place. Low round of the fall season came in the final round of the Saint Leo Invitational with a 5-over par 77.
Personal Development Award Winner...Competed in 24 rounds…Posted a season-scoring average of 82.38…Shot a 36-hole tournament low of 156 (79-77) at the NIU Snowbird Intercollegiate...Fired a low-round score of 76 (09/19/10) at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate…Posted 20 birdies…Fifth in pars-per-round (8.75)…Third in fairways hit (.734).
Maloney competed in four of the Lions' 10 contests, boasting an 81.1 scoring average…Her best finish of the season came at the Flagler Fall Slam (75-82—157) where she finished 21st-of-93 competitors…Her first round 75 at the Slam (10/27/09) went down as a personal best…She also finished 15th at the Saint Leo Invitational (10/20/09)…In nine rounds, Maloney shot in the 70's on four different occasions.
Maloney had a very solid season for Saint Leo competing in all eight tournaments for the Lions…She finished the season with an 82.05 scoring average in 17 rounds of play…Her top performance of the 2009 season came at the NSU Shark Invitational (10/12/08) where she finished 21st out of 87 golfers…She also finished tied for 30th of 96 golfers at the Flagler Fall Slam (10/27/08)…Her top individual performance came in the second round of the Barry Bucs Invite where she shot a low 18-hole score of 75, tying her for the third best individual round in program history…Her best two-round performance came at the Flagler Fall Slam with a 162 (77-85) and her best three-round came at the Barry Bucs Invite with a 234 (80-75-79).
Lettered four years in high school…two-time team MVP…Led her team in scoring average three times…Won the Scholar Athlete award, Coach's award, Most Improved award and Most Dedicated award while in high school…Was a two-time Touchdown Club All-Star women's golfer…Her all-time best nine-hole match score was a 33 and her best 18-hole tournament score of 74…Named first team all-conference three times…Named first-team All Northeast Ohio…NOC League Player of the Year…Medalist League Player of the Year…Won Medalist League Championship…State Championship Qualifier.
Born June 6 in Hudson, OH…Business major...Hobbies include golfing, dancing (tap, jazz, hip-hop), traveling, cooking and volunteering…Her career goal is to find something she truly enjoys to do and excel at it…Believes her dedication and hard work are her best assets to the team…Names Tiger Woods as her favorite athlete…She chose Saint Leo because it is a great place to receive an education and work on her golf game all year round...Daughter of Patrick and Gloriane Maloney...Has one sister, Jessica.


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EPUB 3 update panel included Robert Kasher (Book Masters), Keith Fahlgren (Threepress Consulting Inc.), George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Bill Kasdorf (Apex Content Solutions)
EPUB 3 was just announced this morning by the IDPF. Â The final draft of standard being readied for release at BEA 2011. Â http://idpf.org/epub/30 – public release of standard here, ready for comment, looking for lots of comment/feedback from the international community. Â They have a great "human readable" document to give everyone an overview/introduction of what this is.
A few items of interest from the presentation are below. Â Lots more tweets at #toccon
Accessibility Issues – DAISY consortium have been an integral part of the development of EPUB 3. Accessibility features are woven throughout EPUB 3. Â Some key features: Â reading order will be well defined, ability to use navigation center to go to different areas of the book, page numbering that is aligned with the print counterpart, semantic structure will be enriched.
Metadata side of things – this standard is designed to be backwards compatible. Â New model is built on Dublin CORE and uses a tiny subset of RDFA 1.1. Â Not just books! Â This will work with other formats too – newspapers, magazines, etc.
Multimedia – now have a way to embed multimedia into EPUB. Â Also inheriting richer multimedia – MathML, SVG, allow more of the app like experience, etc.
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GeForce 6200 TurboCache: PCI Express Made Usefulby Derek Wilson on 12/15/2004 9:00 AM EST
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paulsiu - Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - linkI am not sure I like this product at the price point. If it was $50, then it would make sense, but as another poster pointed out, the older and faster 6200 with real memory is about $10 more.
The marketing is also deceptive. 6200 Turbo cache sounds like it would be faster than the 6200.
In addition, this so call innovative use of system memory sounds like nothing more than integrated video. OK, it's faster, but aren't you increasing cpu load.
The review also use an Athlon 64 4000+, I am doubtful that users who buy an A64 4000+ is going to skip on the video card.
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guarana - Thursday, January 27, 2005 - linkI was forced to go for a 6200TC 64MB (up to 256Mb) solution about a week ago. Had to upgrade my MoBo to a PCI-X version and had to get the cheapest card that i could find in the PCI-X flavour.
I must say its a lot better than the FX5200 card i used to have ... I am running it with only 256Mb of system RAM so its not running at optimal performance , but i can run UT2003 with everything set to HIGH and in a 1280x1024 rez :)
A few stutters when the game actually starts , but after about 10seconds , the game runs smooth and without any issues ... dont know the exact FPS though :)
I score about 12000 points on 3dMark2001 with stock clocks (yeah 3DM2001 old, but its all i could download over-night)
Will let you know what happens when i finally get another 256Mb in the damn thing. Reply
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - linkI don't like this... why would I want the one that costs over $100 when I can get the 6200 for $110-210 that has it's own dedicated memory and performs better. It's stupid to replace the current 6200 with this pile. It would be fine as a $50-75 card, or for use in a laptop, or a HTPC... but don't replace the current 6200 with this. Reply
icarus4586 - Friday, December 17, 2004 - linkI have a laptop with a 64MB Mobility Radeon 9600 (350MHz GPU, 466MHz DDR MHz 128bit RAM), and I can run Far Cry at 1280x800, high settings, Doom 3 1024x768 high settings, Halo 1024x768 high settings, Half-Life 2 1280x800 high settings, all at around 30fps.
This is, obviously, an AGP solution. I don't really know how it does it. I was very surprised at what it could pull off, especially the high resolutions, with only 64MB onboard.
What's going on? Reply
Rand - Friday, December 17, 2004 - linkHave you heard whether the limited PCI-E X16 bandwidth of the I915 is true for the I925/825XE chipsets also?
Also, I'm curious whether you've done any testing on the nForce 4 with only one DIMM so as to limit the system bandwidth and get some indication of how the GeForce6200TC scales in performance with greater/lesser system memory bandwidth available? Reply
Rand - Friday, December 17, 2004 - linkDerekWilson-
"As far as I understand Hypermemory, it is not capable of rendering directly to system memory."
In the past ATI has indicated all of the R300 derived cores are capable of writing directly to a texture in system memory.
At the very least HyperMemory implementation on the Radeon Express 200G chipset must be able to do so, as ATI supports implementations without any local RAM they have to be capable of rendering to system memory to operate.
The only difference I've noticed in the respective implementations thus far is that nVidia's Turbocache lowest local bus size if 32-bit, whereas ATI's implementation only supports as low as 64bit so the smallest local RAM they can use is 32MB. (Well, they can use no local RAM also, though that would obviously be considerably slower) Reply
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DerekWilson - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkAnd you can bet that NVIDIA's Intel chipset will have a nice, speedy, optimized for SLI and TurboCache PCIe implimentation as well. Reply
PrinceGaz - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkYeah, this does all seem to make some sort of sense now. But not much sense as I can't see why Intel would delibrately limit the bandwidth of the PCIe bus they were pushing so heavily. Unless the 925 chipset has a full bi-directional 4GB/s, and the 3 down/1 up is something they decided to impose on the cheaper 915 to differentiate it from the high-end 925.
I guess it's safe to assume nVidia implemented bi-directional 4GB/s in the nForce4, given that they were also working on graphics cards that would be dependent on PCIe bandwidth. And unless there was a good reason for VIA, ATI, and SiS not to do so; I would imagine the K8T890, RX480/RS480, and SiS756 will also be full 4GB/s both ways. Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkNVIDIA tells us its a limitation of 915. Looking back, they also heavily indicated that "some key chipsets" would support the same bandwidth as NVIDIA's own bridge solution at the 6 series launch. If you remember, their solution was really a 4GB total bandwidth solution (overclocked AGP 8x to "16x" giving half the PCIe bandwidth) ... Their diagrams all showed a 3 down 1 up memory flow. But they didn't explicitly name 915 at the time. Reply
PrinceGaz - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - link#28- see page 2 of the article, the text just above the diagram near the bottom of the page "Even on the 915 chipset from Intel, bandwith is limited across the PCI Express bus. Rather than a full 4GB/s up and 4GB/s down, Intel offers only 3GB/s up and 1GB/s down..."
#25- I'd also always assumed that all PCIe x16 sockets could support 4GB/s both ways, this is the first time I've heard otherwise. And it isn't even 4/1, it's 3/1 according to the info given.
Derek- is this limited PCIe x16 bandwidth common to all chipsets? Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkWe tested the 32MB 64-bit $99 version of the card that "supports" a 128MB framebuffer.
#31 is correct -- the maximum of 112 of 96 (or 192 for the 256 MB version) of system RAM is not staticly mapped. It's always avalable to the system under 2D operation. Under 3D, it's not likely that the entire framebuffer would be absolutely full at any given time anyway. Reply
Alphafox78 - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkdoesnt it dynamicly allocate the extra memory it needs? so this would just affect games then if it needed more, not regular apps that done need lots of video memory. Reply
rqle - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkso total cost of these card is the card price + (price of 128MB worth of DDR at the time)? Reply
Maverick2002 - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkI'm likewise confused. At the end of the review they say:
"There will also be a 64MB 64-bit TC part (supporting 256MB) available for $129 coming down the pipeline at some point, though we don't have that part in our labs just yet."
Didn't they just test this card??? Reply
KalTorak - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - link#25 - huh? (I have no idea what that term means in the context of PCIe, and I know PCIe pretty well...) Reply
KayKay - Thursday, December 16, 2004 - linkI think this is a good product, i think it could be a very good part for companies like dell, if they include it into their systems. cheaper than the x300se's they currently include, but better performance, and will appeal to that type of customer Reply
mczak - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link#24, from the description it sounds like for the radeon igp there is no problem with both using sideport and system memory simultaneously for directly rendering into (the interleaved mode exactly sounds like part of all buffers would be allocated in system memory, though maybe that's not what is meant). Reply
IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkWTF!! I never new Intel's 915 chipsets used 4/1GB implementation of PCI Express!! Even Anandtech's own article didn't say that they said 4/4. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkAs far as I understand Hypermemory, it is not capable of rendering directly to system memory.
Also, when Hypermemory needs to go to allocate system RAM for anything, there is a very noticeable performance hit.
We tested the 16MB/32-bit and the 32MB/64-bit
The 64MB version available is only 64-bit ... NVIDIA uses four 8M x 16 memory chips. Reply
Cybercat - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkBasically, this is saying that this generation $90 part is no better than last generation $90 part. That's sad. I was hoping the performance leap of this generation would be felt through all segments of the market. Reply
mczak - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link#12, IGP would indeed be interesting. In fact, TurboCache seems quite similar to ATI's Hypermemory/Sideport in their IGP. Reply
Cygni - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkIn other news, Nforce4 (2 months ago) and Xpress 200 (1 month ago) STLL arent on the market. Good lord. Talk about paper launches from ATI and Nvidia... Reply
ViRGE - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkOk, I have to admit I'm a bit confused here. Which cards did you exactly test, the 6200/16MB(32bit) and the 6200/32MB(64bit), or what? And what about the 6200/64MB, will it be a 64bit card, or a whole 128bit card? Reply
Cybercat - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkWhat does 2 ROP stand for? :P *blush* Reply
PrinceGaz - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link#15- I've got a Ti4200 but I'd never call it nVidia's best card. It is still the best card you can get in the bargain-bin price-range it is now sold at (other cards at a similar price are the FX5200 and Radeon 9200), though supplies of new Ti4200's are very limited these days.
#12- Thanks Derek for answering my question about higher resolutions. As only the front-buffer needs to be in the onboard memory (because it's absolutely critical the memory accessed to send the signal to the display must always be available without any unpredictable delay), that means even the 16MB 6200 can run at any resolution, even 2560x1600 in theory though performance would probably be terrible as everything else would need to be in system memory. Reply
housecat - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkAnother Nvidia innovation done right. Reply
MAValpha - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkI would expect the 6200 to blow the Ti4200 out of the water, because the FX5700/Ultra is considered comparable to the GF4Ti. By comparison, many places are pitting the 6200 against the higher-end FX5900, and it holds its own.
Even with the slower TurboCache, it should still be on par with a 4600, if not a little bit faster. Notice how the more powerful version beats an X300 across the board, a card derived from the 9600 series? Reply
DigitalDivine - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkhow about raw perfomance numbers pitting the 6200 with nvidia's best graphics card imo, the ti4200. Reply
plk21 - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkI like seing such an inexpensive part playing newer games, but I'd hardly call it real-world to pair a $75 video card with an Athlon64 4000+, which Newegg lists at $719 right now.
It'd be interesting to see how these cards fare with a more realistic system for them to be paired with, i.e. a Sempron 2800+
sphinx - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkI think this is a good offering from NVIDIA. Passively cooled is a VERY good solution in my line of work. One less thing I have to worry about silencing. As I use my PC to make money, not for playing games. Although I like to play an occasional game from time to time don't get me wrong. I use my XBOX for gaming. When this card comes out I'll get one. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link#9, It'll only use 128Mb if a full 128 is needed at the same time -- which isn't usually the case, but we haven't done an indept study on this yet. Also, keep in mind that we still tested at the absolute highest quality settings with noAA/AF (excpet doom 3 even used 8x AF as well). We were not seeing slide show framerates. The FX5200 doesn't even support all the features of the FX5900, let alone the 6200TC. Nor does the FX5200 perform as well at equivalent settings.
IGP is something I talked to NVIDIA about. This solution really could be an Intel Extreme Graphics killer (in the integrated market). In fact, with the developments in the mareketplace, Intel may finally get up and start moving to create a graphics solution that actually works. There are other markets to look for TurboCache solutions to show up as well.
#11 ... The packaging issue is touchy. We'll see how vendors pull it off when it happens. The cards do run as if they has a full 128MB of ram, so that's very important to get across. We do feel that talking about the physical layout of the card and the method of support is important as well.
#8, 1600x1200x32 only requires that 7.5MB be stored locally. As was mentioned in the artile, only the FRONT buffer needs to be local to the graphics card. This means that the depth buffer, back buffer and other render surfaces can all be in system memory. I know it's kind of hard to believe, but this card can actually draw everything diectly into system RAM from the pixel pipes and ROPs. When the buffers are swapped to display the back buffer, what's in system memory is copied into graphics memory.
It really is very cool for a low performance budget part.
And we might see higher performance version of turbo cache in the future ... though NVIDIA isn't talking about them yet. It might be nice to have the possibility of an expanded framebuffer with more system RAM if the user wanted to enable that feature.
TurboCache is actually a performance enahancing feature. It's just that it's enhancing the performance of a card with either 16MB or 32MB of on board ram and either a 32 or 64 bit memory bus ... :-) Reply
DAPUNISHER - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link"NVIDIA has defined a strict set of packaging standards around which the GeForce 6200 with TurboCache supporting 128MB will be marketed. The boxes must have text, which indicates that a minimum of 512MB of system RAM is necessary for the full 128MB of graphics RAM support. It doesn't seem to require that a discloser of the actual amount of onboard RAM be displayed, which is not something that we support. It is understandable that board vendors are nervous about how this marketing will go over, no matter what wording or information is included on the package."
More bullsh!t deceptive advertising to bilk uninformed consumers out of their money. Reply
MAValpha - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link#7, I was thinking the same thing. This concept seems absolutely perfect for nForce5 IGP, should NVidia decide to go that route. And, once again, NVidia's approach to budget seems superior to ATI's, at least from an initial glance. A heavily-castrated 6200TC running off SHARED RAM STILL manages to outperform a full X300? Come on, ATI, get with it!
I gotta wonder, though: this solution seems unbelievably dependent on "proper implementation of the PCIe architecture." This means that the card can never be coupled with HSI for older systems, and transitional boards will have trouble running the card (Gigabyte's PT880 with converted PEG, for example- PT880 natively supports AGP). Does this mean that a budget card on a budget motherboard will suffer significantly? Reply
mindless1 - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkIMO, even (as low as) $79 is too expensive. Taking 128MB of system memory away on a system budgetized to include one of these, would typically be leaving 384MB, robbing the system of memory to pay nVidia et al. for a part without (much) memory.
I tend to disagree with the slant of the article too, that it's not necessarily a good thing to try pushing modern gaming eyecandy at expense of performance. What looks good isn't a crisp and anti-aliased slideshow, but a playable game. even someone just beginning at gaming can discern a lag when fragging it out.
We're only looking at current games now, the bar for performance needs will be raised but the cards are memory bandwidth limited due to the architecture. These might look like a good alternative for someone who went and paid $90 for an FX5200 from BestBuy last year but in a budget system it's going to be tough to justify ~ $80-100 when a few bucks more won't rob one of system memory or as much performance.
Even so, historically we've seen that initial price-points do fall, better to see modern support than a rehash of a FX5xxx. Reply
PrinceGaz - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linknVidia's marketing department must be really pleased with coming up with the name "TurboCache". It makes it sounds like its faster than a normal card without TurboCache, whereas in reality the opposite is true. Uninformed customers would probably choose a TurboCache version over a normal version, even if they were priced the same!
Derek- does the 16MB 6200 have limitations on what resolutions can be used in games? I know you wouldn't want to run it at 1600x1200x32 in Far Cry for instance, but in older games like Quake 3 it should be fast enough.
Thing is that the frame-buffer at 1600x1200x32 requires 7.3MB, so with double-buffering you're using up a total of 14.65MB leaving just 1.35MB for the Z-buffer and anything else it needs to keep in local memory, which might not be enough. I'm assuming the frame the card is currently displaying must be held in local memory, as well as the frame being worked on.
The situation is even worse with anti-aliasing as the frame-buffer size of the frame being worked on is multiplied in size by the level of AA. At 1280x960x32 with 4xAA, the single frame-buffer alone is 18.75MB meaning it won't fit in the 16MB 6200. It might not even manage 1024x768 with 4xAA as the two frame buffers would total 15MB (12MB for the one being worked on, 3MB for the one being displayed).
It will be interesting to know what the resolution limits for the 16MB (and 32MB) cards are, with and without anti-aliasing. Reply
Spacecomber - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkI may be way off base with this question, but would this sort of GPU lend it self well to some sort of integrated, onboard graphics solution? Even if it is isn't integrated directly into the main chipset (or chip for Nvidia), could it simply be soldered to the motherboard somewhere?
Somehow this seems to make more sense to me for what to do with this technology than use it on a dedicated video card, especially if the price point is not that much less than a regular 6200. Reply
bamacre - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkGreat review.
Wow, almost 50 fps on HL2 at 10x7, that is pretty good for a budget card.
I'd like to see MS, ATI, and Nvidia get more people into PC gaming, that would make for better and cheaper games for those of us who are already loving it. Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkActually, nForce 4 + AMD systems are looking better than Intel non-925xe based systems for TurboCache parts. We haven't looked at the 925xe yet though ... that could be interesting. But overhead hurts utilization alot on a serial bus, and having more than 6.4GB/s from memory might not be that useful.
The efficiency of getting bandwidth across the PCI Express bus will still be the main bottleneck in systems though. Chipsets need to impliment PCI Express properly and well. That's really the important part. The 915 chipset is an example of what not to do. Reply
jenand - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkTurbo cache and Hyper memory cards should do better on Intel based systems as they do not need to go via the HTT to det to the memory. So I agree with #3 show us som i925X(E) tests. I'm not expecting higher scores on the Intel systems however. Just a larger gain from this type of technology. Reply
manno - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkany chance we can see numbers for this thing on an intel system with higher bandwidth DDR2 memory? Maybe even overclocked DDR2? Reply
R3MF - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - link"The next thing that we're waiting to see is a working implementation of virtual memory for the graphics subsystem. The entire graphics industry has been chomping at the bit for that one for years now."
3DLabs VP10 GPU has a feature that allows system memory to be treated as virtual memory for the GPU, and it has been out 12 months or more. Reply
faboloso112 - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - linkim an ATI fanboi but good job nvidia!..your products keep on getting better and better!(though i dont plan on downgrading to any of these from my 9800pro...its still a great budget card). nvidia has certainly won in this generation of graphic card wars...lets see whats going to happen when the next gen line up comes out(though i doubt that'll be anytime soon). Reply


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As for the Mets, they head to Houston for three with the Astros. I do think it is interesting to see the gap between how the Mets and Yankees are currently perceived. Many have written off the Mets already, while the Yankees are considered a playoff team as a matter of course.
But the Mets are now 17-20, with upcoming games against Houston, Florida and Washington before next week's series at Yankee Stadium. And the Yankees are 20-15, with upcoming games against the Red Sox, Rays and Orioles. In other words, it wouldn't take much for the Mets to get to that Subway Series with a record right around the same as the Yankees. And simply put, the Marlins and Phillies aren't nearly as good as the Red Sox and Rays.
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