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Ten Characteristics of Chinese Corruption
"Characteristics and Development Trend Research on Chinese Senior Officials' Corruption" carried out by Chinese National Conditions Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Tsinghua University, studied senior official corruption above vice-ministerial level over the past 20 years (1978-2002), discussing its roots as well as the ten principal characteristics of corruption in China.
Corruption in China became increasingly serious during the early period of its social transition, resulting in severe economic losses and huge challenges to China's government institution, as well as gradually becoming a socially widespread.
Recently, "Characteristics and Development Trend Research on Chinese Senior Officials' Corruption" carried out by Chinese National Conditions Research Center of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS) and
Tsinghua University
, studied senior official corruption above vice-ministerial level over the past 20 years (1978-2002), discussing its roots as well as the ten principal characteristics of corruption in China.
1. Variance in numbers punished in the 1990s and the 1980s
In the period 1987-1992, the number of officials under investigation at provincial and ministerial level reached 110, amongst which 79 were investigated in the period 1990-1992. However, the number of severe corruption cases, and officials who were given disciplinary measures by the Party, increased by a considerable margin, especially those sentenced. Among 64 senior official corruption cases in the database, 31 cases were submitted to the judicial authorities and given judgments, of which only five were sentenced before 1992 and 26 sentenced after 1992.
With regard to the amount of money involved, cases in the 1990s were much higher than those of the 1980s. Before 1992, there had been no embezzlement or bribery case with money reaching 100,000 yuan (US$12,081.7). While after 1992, among 37 cases in the statistical data, there were 27 cases exceeding 100,000 yuan, amongst which 12 cases accounted for over 1 million yuan (US$120,816.84) and four cases accounted for more than 10 million yuan (US$1,208,167.99). Five cases after 2000 were all above 1 million yuan.
2. High incidence of corruption (late 1980s - early 1990s)
Among 54 cases clearly dated, 43 cases began in the period 1988-1995. In the meantime, the Circular of the Supreme People��s Court and Supreme People��s Procuratorate, released in 1989, declared the central government's determination to severely punish corrupt officials. There was still a high incidence of corruption during this time and it meant that the effective goal of reducing corruption was not entirely successful.
3. Ministerial and commission corruption severe (1980s); coastal areas high incidence (1990s)
Before 1992, severe corruption cases in ministries and commissions accounted for the greatest number, decreasing in the early 1990s but conspicuously increasing by the middle of the decade.
Further research shows the difference between corruption behavior in ministries and commissions in the two periods. Before 1992, corruption mainly occurred in the self-management systems of the ministries and commissions. Corrupt officials usually entered economic fields through government engagement in trade and sought to profit by taking advantage of their rights of examination and approval. After 1992, a new corruption characteristic appeared where senior officials colluded with local enterprises, seeking to profit by taking advantage of their position and power. The former mainly consisted of unit corruption while the latter was mostly individual.
With regard to the range of corruption, once China implemented its policy of reform and opening up, the incidence of corruption in coastal areas was little higher than that of inland areas, while money involved in coastal area cases was obviously much higher than that of inland.
4. Gang cases increase
In 1989, the bribery case of Luo Yunguang, vice minister of railways, shocked the whole nation, owing to the group of people concerned, as well as the high-level position it involved. After that, China's prosecuting agencies, at all levels, successively probed a number of new group and gang corruption cases, including many officials above ministerial and provincial level, such as the embezzlement and corruption cases of Wang Baosen (former
vice mayor) and Chen Xitong (former Beijing mayor) exposed by the "Wuxi Xinxing Co. illegal fund raising case" and the bribery case of Wu Wenying and Xu Penghang, two top leaders in charge of textile industry, exposed by the ��Kangsai case��. The Xiamen Yuanhua smuggling case involved a greater number of people with two officials at provincial level.
Local group corruption cases have been more problematic. The latest case in Shenyang, northeast China's
Province, involves one official at vice provincial level, four at vice department level, 11 at division level, seven at county division level. They got over 200 million yuan (US$24 million) through illegal practices.
Group corruption cases usually resulted from corruption of the first-in-command. Once the first-in-command was corrupt, the group tended to follow that behavior.
5. Corruption latency in the 1990s
The average period of case latency probed in the period 1980-1992 was about 1.43-1.44 years. This meant that most corruption cases were exposed almost immediately. However after 1992, the latent period of corruption kept increasing with the average latent period of cases in 1998-2002 reaching 6.31 years.
The time span of the cases -- from exposure to official announcement of punishment -- was shown in the average disposal time of 17 cases (before 1992) to be 0.41 years, amongst which 11 had judgment passed within a year, while in 43 cases which had been punished since 1992, the average disposal time was 1.88 years with five cases sentenced that same year while the longest took four years.
The research also found that among 17 cases before 1992, corrupt officials were in the same positions when they were exposed as the time they started the corrupt activities. While in 37 cases after 1992, 22 officials were promoted after the first incidence of corruption, clearly indicating a problem in the Chinese official selection system.
6. Corruption exposed through inter-related information
The official statistical data shows corruption cases were discovered through the help of informant reports. But senior official cases were mainly exposed by other case investigation. Among the 39 researchable cases, 19 cases were exposed by other case involvement, accounting for 80.6 percent, and 5 cases exposed by informant reports, while one case was discovered through confession, with the remaining case detected by suspicion. This shows that supervision of senior officials was weak, either by the Party or by the public. Especially for those cases found at the end of the 1990s, many insiders knew but nobody reported them, resulting in severe social consequence and effect. On the other hand, thorough investigations eventually became a deterrent for the corrupt officials.
7. Taking bribes
Bribery has become the main accusation of corruption against China's senior officials. Among the eight cases occurring during 1980-1988, there were three cases involving bribery, where the value was small, of which, one involved Western-style clothes, a recorder and daily items, while the other two cases involved separate bribes of 20,000 yuan (US$2,410) and 12,000 yuan (US$1,446). Among the nine cases occurring during 1989-1992, four cases involved bribery, accounting for 44.4 percent, with an average bribe of about 20,000 yuan (US$2410). While among the 47 cases occurring after 1993, 37 cases were evident acts of bribery, accounting for 78.7 percent. Also, there were six people involved in corruption, accounting for 12.8 percent, with three people involved in embezzlement, accounting for 6.4 percent. Another two people admitted possessing huge property without reasonable resources, accounting for 4.3 percent. Other crimes included misconduct, establishing a secret treasury, and squandering public money.
Among 37 cases that occurred in the 1990s, eight bribery cases accounted for the sum of more than 1 million yuan (US$120,482), of which three cases accounted for more than 5 million yuan (US$602,410); seven cases claimed 0.5-1 million yuan (US$60,241-120,482); eight cases claimed 100,000-500,000 yuan (US$12,048-60,241), 10 cases claimed less than 100,000 yuan (US$12,048), but no one case claimed less than 10,000 yuan (US$1,205).
Research also found that there was only one case where corrupt officials took bribes from more than 10 individuals among the 24 statistical cases. Of the remainder 23 cases, the average number of bribers per case was 3.0, while six cases had one briber only. Taking bribes from few bribers indicates that most corrupt officials were careful to take bribes by decreasing the risk.
Executive interference was the main motive for offering bribes among the 24 recorded cases, which includes getting construction projects, funding, loans, promotion and interfering with law enforcement.
8. Families
Throughout the investigation, it was found that the spouse (usually the wife) and the child played an important role in senior officials�� acts of corruption. There were few cases where officials were unaware of bribery taking place within their family. Sometimes, family greed fostered an official's corruption and speeded up the steps for acquiring the illicit gains. Officials didn't always take bribes by themselves, but often used family companies to have their ill-gotten gains "washed" clean. Among 17 cases occurring before 1992, three were found to have family members involved, while amongst 37 cases occurring after 1992, 19 were shown to have family members playing an important role.
9. The "Love Affair"
If having a "love affair" outside marriage in China was a serious social crime in the 1980s, it was much less a problem by the 1990s. Many people thought that having a ��love affair�� was simply a matter for your private life and not likely to have anything to do with matters such as public corruption. However, cases have shown that having a "love affair" often coincided with the first steps of corruption. In incomplete statistics, among 64 senior official corruption cases, 14 officials were involved in a "love affair", which was considered a conservative number by the research team.
10. 59-year-old phenomenon
The existence of corruption taking place in the last official year of work life, 59, has been largely dismissed by the research report. Seventeen corrupt governors at ministerial or provincial posts were younger than 53, accounting for 53.1 percent, thus problematizing the initial assumptions.
In further research it was found that there were 12 cases where officials over 57 years of age were corrupt between 1987-1994, of which 6 cases happened between 1992-1993, accounting for 50 percent. Maintaining that the "59-year-old" phenomenon existed, research indicates that the period 1992-1993 was its height. Thereafter, the Chinese government was quick to promote young cadres, subsequently reducing the appearance of the phenomenon. (China.org.cn)
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As mentioned yesterday, Android L Developer Preview was about to be released, and this is now done with images for Nexus 5 "Hammerhead" and Nexus 7 "razor" available right now. However, if you don't have either of these devices, or you'd rather not install a beta version on the phone you use everyday, you can still give a try in the SDK emulator.
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- Install Android Studio IDE in Ubuntu, and Create a new Project or open an existing project (Android Studio Version is now 0.61)
- Click on Tools->Android->SDK Manager in the top menu, and select the Android L (API 20, L Preview) packages as shown below, and click on "Install xx Packages" button.
Accept the license as required, and click Install. This step can take countless hours…
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Newborn kittens begin their lives in vulnerable and powerless states, without even the senses of hearing and vision. Although the little ones cannot see and hear, however, their smelling abilities are indeed already intact. They can find their mothers' nipples using their noses as trusty guides, instinctively, according to the Rutgers University Extension. Where nursing is concerned, mother cats and their youngsters do not waste any precious time. Feeding usually commences around 30 minutes post-birth.
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Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D. Cal.), long involved in the struggle for Soviet Jewry, met last week in the Soviet Union with Mrs. I do Milgrom, mother of Anatoly Shcharansky–the Soviet Jew who has been in prison and held incommunicado for more than a year, according to a report by his office here.
Waxman and two other members of a congressional delegation who are in the Soviet Union to discuss arms limitation negotiations also met with a leading Soviet Jewish activist, Vladimir Slepak and more than a dozen of Slepak's fellow refuseniks. Waxman and Reps. M. Robert Carr (D. Mich.) and Patricia Schroeder (D. Colo.) insisted on making contact with Jewish activists–though the official congressional committee schedule did not make provisions for such talks.
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As far as the rest of your post, Canelo curse? Pure bull$h1t! The Williams/Ortiz/Cotto angle is crap. You don't get credit for coulda, woulda, shoulda. Williams,I'll give ya,tragic. Cotto, of course they were willing, big money. Ortiz? A welterwight for 2 fights and you wanna claim him as a credible challenger? And of course he never fought any of them anyway. Using GBP own logic for challengers, Josito Lopes upset Ortiz (the guy they wanted to fight), there its credible for Canelo to defend the 154lb belt vs a career 140lb fringe contender, but when Trout upset Cotto, the same logic doesn't apply and they want no part of Trout, and Mexican fans like you give him a pass, once again pizzing all over what the great Mexican boxers of the past have done. By the way, JMM totally agrees with me.
There's nothing you or anyone else can do to convince me that team Canelo couldn't have found a more credible challenger for Canelo than a career 140 lb fringe contender.
I could see giving Canelo a pass or two, but 6 world title fights and not one credible challenger yet
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-My point was/is that the Mexican boxing fans should be demanding that Canelo fight a credible challenger -- No argument here, both fan and foe agree it's time for Canelo to step up. Trust me, there is nothing more I would like than to see Trout v. Canelo. So that when Canelo KO's Trout the critics will be silenced.
-Everytime a Mexican boxing fan (like yourself) makes excuses for Canelos pathetic opposition you are pizzing all over what these men have accomplished. -- Canelo too was in line to fight 3 tough fights in Williams, Ortiz and Cotto. These guys were/are a threat and dangerous. Also, Not one of the Mexican legends you outlined became World Champions at age 21 - let's take a step back and see the whole picture. Canelo's entire career is ahead of him, this kid is not going away.
-As far as the rest of your post, Canelo curse? Pure bull$h1t! The Williams/Ortiz/Cotto angle is crap. You don't get credit for coulda, woulda, shoulda. -- Canelo's curse was not dubbed by me, but I completely disagree with your statement of "you dont get credit for coulda, woulda, shoulda" for the simple fact that it was not Canelo's fault. William = Tragedy, Oritz = Broken Jaw and Cotto = Lost. You still got to give the kid credit for trying to "step up" and continue the "proud Mexican boxing culture" in facing these guys. Sure, they are no Mayweather or Pacquio, but they are still legit fighters.
-Cotto, of course they were willing, big money -- wow, you don't think Cotto is a great and dangerous fighter? Really? Dude is arguably a HOF.
-Ortiz? A welterwight for 2 fights and you wanna claim him as a credible challenger -- doesn't take away from the fact that he is fast and has power, that combo = danger. I would even venture to say that if, and it's a huge if, Ortiz wasn't such a teddy bear he would be more dangerous than pillow-fisted Trout.
-Using GBP own logic for challengers -- 100% agree with you. But it's not Canelo's fault for not landing the big fights. It's GBP for not making those fights. I can't knock on Canelo for not "facing high level" opposition when he tried before, but it didn't happen.
My biggest issue with your post is saying that you don't understand how Mexican fans can follow Canelo, that he is a coward and ducks. I am arguing, and hopefully I just outlined why that is untrue. Canelo was in line to take on tough fights. This shows that he does in reality, want the challenge. Not having a title defense in 6 bouts is horrible, really is, let's face it though that is Gangster Don Jose Saluiman and the wrenched WBC.
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Some thoughts/disagreements: do me a favor, when Canelo/Trout threads start pull for the fight and don't make excuses for Canelo
None of my boxing heroes were champions at 21, but I'm still old school and believe that as a champion fight a champions resume or give up the belt. I know belts shouldn't matter but they give fighters prestige and earning power and its not fair deserving contenders get shut out of that prestige and earning power because Canelo is still "developing"
I still think a defence vs a ww/jww Ortiz is a bytch move for a 154lb contender and you're trying to put a feather in Canelos cap for it? A defense vs a jww J Lopes is even more of a bytch move
I never said Mexican boxing fans shouldn't follow Canelo, I said that they should'nt defend his reluctance to fight credible challengers and I never said Canelo was a coward, a ducker yes but I never called him a coward. As far as I'm concerned the only credible challenger ever had a real intentions of fighting was Williams.
I'm still puzzled as to why GBP will let Abner Mares fight any contender at his weight but won't let Canelo fight even one. Perhaps they see something in Mares they don't see in Canelo
6 title fights and not one credible challenger yet. You can put blame on GBP and the vile scum at the WBC and there's certainly some truth in that, but at some point the tail don't wag the dog. If I was Canelo, I would be screaming at Shaefer and Oscar to get me Trout on May4
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I think most of the Mexican champions mentioned by Boxing Bob became titlists when there were only two belts, maybe three. That is, they probably had to earn it by fighting top tier opponents. It took more time.
I'm too lazy to confirm this, but Canelo became a champion at 21 by beating Matthew Hatton for a vacated green belt. Since then he has not faced a top 5 JMW. This is not how a champion should represent the sport.
I realize why GBP is coddling his career, but this type of crap damages boxing's credibility. It's short-sighted and plain greedy on the part of promoters to perpetuate this business model. It's a symptom of a lack of vision in today's boxing leaders. They cannot see that mandating truly compelling match ups amongst the best fighters creates a platform for a consistent product, a larger fan base, and therefore bigger revenues in the long run.
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what legal issues???? all charges. dropped dude! its funny but if there were time Trout & team could sue the crap outa EL PASO PD!..., not good promo excuse GBOY
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In the wake of Mike Michaud's announcement last week that he is gay...pretty much nothing has changed in the Maine Governor's race. Michaud holds a narrow 38/36 lead over Paul LePage that's little different from the narrow 39/35 lead he had over LePage when we last polled the state in August. Michaud has a 51% favorability rating, that's little different from his 53% favorability rating on the last poll. And 71% of voters in the state say they don't care one way or another about Michaud's sexuality with those who say it does make a difference pretty closely split between saying it makes them more likely to support Michaud (12%) or less likely to (15%).
The overall big story in the Maine Governor's race continues to be the progressive split that could let Paul LePage eke out reelection despite being one of the most unpopular Governors in the country. Only 41% of voters approve of the job LePage is doing to 54% who disapprove, making him the 8th most unpopular Governor we've polled on.
Those numbers would have him doomed for reelection in a two way race and LePage trails Michaud 53/39 and Cutler 49/38 in head to head contests. But Cutler's 15% support in a three way contest, pulled almost entirely from people who voted for Barack Obama last year and dislike LePage, is enough to still keep the contest as a toss up despite the incumbent's unpopularity.
Besides the progressive split there is one other good piece of news for Paul LePage in this poll. Barack Obama now has an upside down approval rating in the state at 46/49. Obama was unpopular in Maine in 2010 too, and that helped create the climate where LePage was able to be elected in the first place.
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How did you first get into cycling?
My background is in soccer. I thought I would be a professional soccer player. I made it to the semi-professional ranks and it didn't work out. That was in 2001. I started running for fitness and health and then in 2006 my brother talking me into running a marathon. So I ran the marathon thinking that I would go do a triathlon next. So I went to the bike shop and bought a bike. The guys invited me on a group ride and then I never made it to the swimming.
What advice would you give to young girls today with dreams of racing like you someday?
My advice would be to give it time. It doesn't happen overnight. There are those anomalies that do come through pretty fast, and that do get to the top very fast. But that is not normal. Don't rush it. Don't try to fit into a weight or a certain size – just because some people are good climbers doesn't mean you have to be skinny – so give it time.
In a largely male-dominated sport, how important is it for you to feel feminine on the bike?
I grew up with two older brothers, so I am a tomboy. But these girls, and the other teams I have been on, they are my sisters. They have opened me up to be a little more feminine – I still don't wear makeup – but doing little things like painting my nails that I do now, they bring it out of me.
If you could describe fi'zi:k in one word what would it be?
What is your favorite feature about the new R3B Donna shoes?
The new micro adjusting Boa closure.
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Research Topics
Margo McKenna Benoit
Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA
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- Cancer of the nasal cavity in the pediatric populationMargo McKenna Benoit
Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Pediatrics 121:e141-5. 2008..The purpose of this work was to investigate the clinical manifestations and diagnostic range of malignant entities presenting as a nasal mass in the pediatric population...
- Image guidance systems for minimally invasive sinus and skull base surgery in childrenMargo McKenna Benoit
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Otolaryngology, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 73:1452-7. 2009..The aim of this study is to evaluate the use of image guidance systems to facilitate an endoscopic minimally invasive approach to sinonasal and skull base surgery in a pediatric population...
- Facial nerve hemangiomas: vascular tumors or malformations?Margo McKenna Benoit
Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 142:108-14. 2010..To reclassify facial nerve hemangiomas in the context of presently accepted vascular lesion nomenclature by examining histology and immunohistochemical markers...
- Primary and multisensory cortical activity is correlated with audiovisual perceptsMargo McKenna Benoit
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02114, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 31:526-38. 2010....


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dateSeptember 23, 2012
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categoryOpera Carolina News
Exclusive interview with Maestro James Meena about Tosca
As part of our coverage of our partners Opera Carolina's upcoming production of Puccini's Tosca, Opera Lively has interviewed maestro James Meena about the piece (we do touch a bit on other subjects at the end of the interview). This is our second talk with Maestro Meena - you can read his first interview with us [here]. The full announcement for Opera Carolina's show (including ticket information) can be found [here]. Navigation help for all our educational articles on Tosca filled with interesting facts can be found [here].
The shows are scheduled for October 13, 19, and 21 in Charlotte, NC. Opera Carolina productions are 90% locally-made and are always first class, so this is not to be missed! Support your local opera company; there is nothing like live opera.
Opera Lively - If you had to give advice to a young conductor doing Tosca for the first time, what you say? What is needed to successfully conduct Tosca?
James Meena – I have an assistant conductor for this production. I spent an hour and a half on the telephone with him the other day going through the entire score. Tosca is one of the most difficult operas to conduct, among all of them. Because of Puccini's demands, you have to be very precise but also very emotional. Puccini is very fastidious about tempo changes, meter changes; there are a number of entrances with strong beats and weak beats; often he writes the same passage in a different meter or a different way with just a little bit of change.
To me it's his greatest opera from the standpoint of his technical facility, his ability to bring out the dramatic sense of what is happening on stage. The orchestration is absolutely brilliant; as brilliant if not more so than in La Bohème. It's Puccini at the absolute height of his creative ability and his technical finesse as an opera composer.
For a young conductor it's a very difficult piece. You have to know everything. You have to have the entire opera so memorized that as you lead it it's almost second nature so that it doesn't feel complex. Verdi's Falstaff is the same way for many of the same reasons. So you have to make the difficult look easy (laughs) so that everyone has a sense of security, otherwise a piece like Tosca can absolutely fall apart.
And then there's always the question in Puccini of musical pace, not unlike Mozart: if it's a little too fast it doesn't feel right, if it's a little too slow it doesn't feel right. There are gradations of tempi in Tosca particularly that can make or break a performance. It's not a question of the artists singing it; you have to be musically very careful, observing the metronome markings of the speed of each piece, and his gradations between andante and allegro and presto and vivace and those sorts of things. It's very well calculated to get a lot of contrast to the music. From that standpoint it's challenging but it's a great challenge because the piece is so magnificent that all the hard work pays off whenever it all comes together.
OL - Benjamin Britten deemed the opera cheap and empty. I disagree, but how would you respond to this?
JM - With Britten, he also was not a fan of Verdi operas. The music personality of Benjamin Britten was so different than the musical personality of Verdi and Puccini; I can understand why he was critical and didn't have an affinity for those works. Britten was an excellent composer for the stage himself but his aesthetic is completely different. There are also famous quotes of Britten's regarding Verdi operas.
When he hears a Verdi opera that he doesn't like he assumes it's his fault, not Verdi's, so at least he recognizes in these composers the greatness of their works, even though his aesthetic was different.
OL - Let's talk a bit about Tosca's musical structure. It's been said that Tosca has brutal music. It is full of strong dissonances and twisting harmonies, signaling the wild emotions of the "good" characters and the villany of its antagonist. Another notable characteristic of this opera is Puccini's careful and meticulous musical scene-setting. Sometimes it feels like a movie score where he underlines the scenes with the music. Can you please comment on the above?
JM - From that standpoint it is the apex of his use of themes, in a way that is very similar to what Wagner does. He uses leitmotivs, for Scarpia and for Tosca, Cavaradossi, and Angelotti, and those musical themes permeate the entire opera and underscore the drama.
The piece of course is completely through-composed, so we don't have the standard arias and duets, with segments. It's a complete music drama; it's as close to music drama as Puccini ever gets, perhaps with the exception of La Fanciulla del West, which is also very much the same way: a through-composed music drama. You obviously still have the great arias like "Vissi d'Arte," "E Lucevan le Stelle," and Scarpia's two arias – you obviously still have those traditional musical structures but they are so deeply embedded in the dramatic composition that you don't feel that the drama ever stops.
That's why in our production we will be taking just a few stops for applause. There are only a few moments in Tosca where the music and the dramatic flow actually stop and the audience can applaud. Puccini wants you to become engrossed in the dramatic mise-en-scène, that you are completely in the drama that is unfolding.
OL - Yes, I agree. But if there is one criticism that I do agree with, it's the one saying that the third act is anti-climatic. Do you feel that the third act is a bit deflated when compared to first and second?
JM - You know, Giulio Ricordi was critical of the third act as well. Puccini was adamant that he wanted it to be compact, that he wanted it to move the drama along, didn't want to delay things. I think the first time I worked with Tosca I thought so as well, that the third act was anti-climatic, that it wasn't just as powerful anymore. But it's a different kind of dramatic statement.
Certainly it pales in comparison to the second act which is just tremendously dramatic, but there is an intimacy in the third act, first of all in the soliloquy that Cavaradossi has and then in the duet that Tosca and Cavaradossi have all through the execution. That is why it is intimate, because it is a congress between the two lovers. It's not big, expansive; it's a conversation between these two. It's being able to bring that intimacy out that makes the third act effective.
And then when they finally celebrate, if you will; when they seem triumphal, as an unaccompanied duet, it is a wonderful statement of their optimism and hope that they will actually be together and will live free from the oppression of the Roman government.
Like I said, I used to feel it is anti-climatic but now I don't, I feel it is magnificent. But it is different; there is no big bombshell, big explosive ending or a lot of big dramatic arias, and I know that's exactly what Puccini wanted.
OL - Now, regarding Opera Carolina's Tosca. How is it coming along?
JM - Well, we haven't started rehearsals yet (laughs), we start a week from yesterday, this coming Saturday. This is a physical production designed by Zach Brown for New York City Opera that we acquired from City Opera, that we are re-designing, not unlike what we did for Il Trovatore, only not as elaborate with the projections. We actually had to refurbish and repaint many of the backdrops. It's a very traditional and handsome production. We had some of our patrons who were very unhappy with the Butterfly production that we did with the Kaneko production because it wasn't very traditional.
OL - Really? It was so beautiful!
JM - You know, some folks are just very traditional in their tastes. This is a very traditional Tosca, and that's strategic from our standpoint, because we did the Butterfly which is a new production, and of course we'll do the Magic Flute in January that is another new production by Kaneko and is not traditional, so for Tosca we wanted to be very true to the traditions of the piece and we wanted a cast with really excellent singers, which we have, and give people good traditional grand opera (laughs).
OL - OK. Let me change the topic a bit. I'm curious to know if Opera Carolina is planning something to celebrate the big centennial that are coming up in 2013: Britten's, and bicentennials for Verdi and Wagner. I know that the coming 12-13 season doesn't have operas by these three, so are you planning to do something else in your outreach and educational efforts to highlight these three composers?
JM - Yes, we are opening 13-14 with a new production of Aïda, and we have a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer for that calendar year as well. We haven't settled the rest of the schedule yet so I'm hoping that we can do something to celebrate Benjamin Britten. I know that we cannot afford to do Peter Grimes, which is what I wanted to do, so we are still trying to navigate through the finances of what we can do to celebrate Britten's centennial as well. We are instituting this year a gala concert at the end of the season, and we may put some of Britten's music on that gala concert in May of 2013, so yes, we are very aware of it and planning on it.
OL - So Peter Grimes is too expensive?
JM - Yes, it is extremely expensive, there are so many characters, there aren't any physical productions out, and we're doing three huge major operas so we just can't afford it, unfortunately.
OL - There's the question of the score as well, in terms of affordability. Can you comment a bit on the cost associated with scores, for rent or purchase, and the cost of critical editions and the such?
JM - It depends. If it's in the public domain we will buy them. Between the Opera Carolina library and my personal library we have just about everything that is in the public domain. The good example is the orchestra and piano parts for Nabucco; I own this one in my personal collection; I bought the critical edition and made all the corrections on our score as per the critical edition. The Aïda which I also personally own is the same way. For Tosca it's easier because Puccini was very, very clear, and the editions are very faithful to the autograph. This is again my personal property, the orchestral part. When we can buy them, it makes sense to buy and to invest in them, because we can use them again. It's better to have a library of our own, and we do.
OL - What are the typical costs involved?
JM - Well, to buy just a score for the piano of an opera in the public domain it's $35, but if you buy the score for all the instruments in the orchestra, it's more like $800. It's not cheap but it's not ridiculously expensive. But when we talk about a piece like Peter Grimes that is not in the public domain you are dealing with royalties and rentals, it will cost $2,000, maybe $3,000; then you have to pay royalties on top of that. The operas of Strauss are also still under copyright. These orchestral scores you have to pay $3,000 just to rent, you cannot buy them. Opera materials for Turandot you also have to rent, because the Puccini Foundation still gets money from the performances of it.
OL - OK, thank you Maestro Meena. I'll probably not be able to attend the opening night for Tosca but I'll be there for the Sunday matinee.
JM - Wonderful, and you'll be able to talk to the singers. It's a wonderful group of performers. I think you will be very pleased with this production.
OL - I look forward to it because your productions are always world-class.
JM - Thank you. I appreciate it.
From Opera Lively
Posted on September 23, 2012
To read the original article, click here.


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Will Millennials Have a Big Impact on the Election? Yes, No and Maybe
An estimated 46 million eligible voters in this year's election are between 18 and 29 years old – part of the Millennial generation. Will those young voters sway the election? What issues do young people feel are important? What role do they think government should play in their lives? KQED and three other public media organizations on the West Coast are exploring those questions in a series called "Voices of Young Voters." We fanned out to college campuses around the Bay Area to hear from those who are just coming of age politically.
Young voters should have the numbers to sway the election in November. In 2008, almost one out of every five voters were younger than 30, according to CNN exit polling; they supported then-Senator Barack Obama over Senator John McCain by a 2-to-1 margin.
But will millennials head to the polls in 2012? Will they have an impact on the election?
We put that question to college students around the Bay Area and received three answers: yes, no and maybe.
"A lot of kids are actually becoming more interested in politics and voting. A lot of people in my generation are starting to have a lot of issues with what's going on right now, so I feel like they would want to make a change so their generation can affect what happens to future generations" – Paul Ochoa, 19, a Sonoma State University Student from Los Angeles.
"Especially within the last eight years or so, I feel like young people have definitely become more interested in politics, registering to vote. We've had several events on campus regarding voting. I work at the library. We hand out voter registration forms and stuff like that and there's been a lot of people coming in who want to get involved and participate" – Georgina Coffey, 23, a Sonoma State University student from Benicia.
"I think if everybody bands together, we're absolutely a big force to reckon with. I think the only way we wouldn't be is if we just sat back and kind of let other people take control of our futures. And I think this is a really rambunctious generation and we're definitely loud and definitely have an opinion, so I think that people are very aware of what's going on. And people are very scared as well, so I definitely think that the voting for this generation will be very, very influential" Dalila Adofo, 19, a San Francisco State University student from East Palo Alto.
"A lot of people just shrug and turn away from politics and get involved later in their life which, I think they should get involved earlier. There's too many things going on in their lives. They have all these distractions, and honestly it's not that important. I mean I know a lot of people that just choose watching sports instead of getting active in their govenment and community" – Adrian Gould, 18, a Sonoma State University student from Thousand Oaks.
"Not really, because our generation doesn't really care. It's more about the past generations that actually do care, because the majority of them came here or have the idea like they want a better future. But this generation's more laid back. We don't really want to do anything. We want other people to deal with our problems" – Abraham Rosas, 19, a San Francisco State University student from Los Angeles.
"A lot of people of my age are not informed so they might not play as important a role as they should… because it will affect them and not the older generation. So they should play a more important role in this election" – Navia Mathew, 18, an Ohlone College student from Fremont.
"I think the ones that are politically active or have been looking through the issues will play a big role, but I know there's a lot that are really ignorant and they're not really looking into what's going on with government" – Timothy Magallanes, 21, a San Jose State University student from El Centro.
"It's not that we're lazy, it's that we're apathetic. I mean apathetic is different than not caring. It's just we feel like there's not a lot we can do. None of us really realize how much influence we can have over an election if we all turn out and vote" – Serena Organ, 18, a San Jose State University student from San Rafael.


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Babies learn to walk after dozens of falls per day
Asian News International:
Infants learn new things and acquire new skills every day and researchers have suggested that the abilities that they demonstrate early on can shape the development of skills later in life, in childhood and beyond.
Babies learn to walk after thousands of steps and dozens of falls per day, according to a study.
In the study, Karen E. Adolph, Whitney G. Cole, Meghana Komati, Jessie S. Garciaguirre, Daryaneh Badaly, Jesse M. Lingeman, Gladys L. Y. Chan, and Rachel B. Sotsky, recorded 15- to 60-minute videos of spontaneous activity from infants.
They then coded the videos for the time infants spent walking and crawling, the number of crawling and walking steps infants took, and the number of falls infants experienced whether walking or crawling.
The researchers found that the infants moved a tremendous amount and that new walkers moved faster than crawlers but had a similar number of falls at first and fewer as they became more experienced. This suggests that infants are motivated to begin walking because they move faster without falling more and that they dramatically improve their walking skills through immense amounts of practice.
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June 16, 2007
Little Rock Air Force Base held a Flag Day and prayer ceremony Thursday afternoon at Heritage Park on base. Flag Day commemorates the first official U.S. flag authorized on June 14, 1777 by the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War. Base Chaplain (1st Lt.) John Weeks prays for all those who have served their country. He also took prayer requests from airmen and their families during the ceremony.
Ceremony, prayer service mark Flag Day
Pit bulls are out starting Sunday
Getting new passports taking 12 to 14 weeks
Interchange for Lonoke is not far off
Cabot beefs up water inspections
Campers get doused by the Challenger British Soccer Camp coaches at the end of a suspenseful story told by camp director Mark Shackleton (foreground).
Pros visit, host British Challenger Soccer Camp
Jacksonville whips Colts
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WASHINGTON – DFL Rep. Keith Ellison is praising President Obama for committing to spend billions on public works projects like roads, bridges and energy projects.
"This is the thing that is going to help power our economy into the future," Ellison said.
President Obama is expected to announce a plan tonight to "outbuild" other nations. Obama is expected to cast a message that shows that the investment is the best way to keep the nation competitive with the rest of the world.
"We have a big debate as to what's spending and what's investment," Ellison said. "I think when you have over $1 trillion in crumbling infrastructure then that's clearly got to be investment in maintaining it."
Ellison, who has called for higher taxes to help address the federal budget deficit said targeting the funding goes beyond building roads and bridges. He said a project that moves the power created from the windmills in western Minnesota to the population centers on the eastern side of the state is a good example.
But these projects could be met with a skeptical GOP majority in the U.S. House. All four GOP members of Minnesota's congressional delegation have called for spending cuts to curb the federal deficit not increase it.
For example, GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann's office released excerpts from her rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union. In the remarks, Bachmann criticized President Obama for federal spending on the health care law and the stimulus. She said the GOP would oppose efforts to spend more.
"Last November many of you went to the polls and voted out big-spending politicians and you put in their place men and women who have come to Washington with a commitment to follow the Constitution and cut the size of government. And I believe that we are in the early days of a history-making turn here in the House of Representatives…"


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The office scene has changed. The coveted cabins are no longer just the domains of men, but are increasingly being occupied by women who are smashing the glass ceiling on their way up and how! Debates about women executives and managers being as much or more effective as their male counterparts are pretty much dated.
However, let's not forget that in this ever-changing corporate culture, some things may never change. The bottom line remains not about talent but the gender of an employee and, more often than not, women have to invest twice as much time and energy to prove their competence in their domains.
If you feel you belong to this section of women, here are a few pointers that might just help if you get noticed for all the right reasons!
You don't need to mimic male colleagues by dressing up only in pastel shades and dull grays. However, you definitely need to appear 'decent', preferably with no plunging necklines or peeking decolletage.
Bonding is not what most women use cuss words for. Do not feel pressured to use a colorful language if that's not your natural self. Even if it is, at work, use the language that projects you as a refined professional and not as foul-mouthed. You do not have to use four-letter words just to sound cool.
Preeti Bose is manager -- training for a US-based MNC. The views expressed in this article are solely her own and not of her organisation.
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A drug addict who targets elderly people to burgle and rob has been warned by a judge he could be branded as being a serious public danger when he is jailed next month.
John Surtees is behind bars awaiting a long prison sentence for robbing a 65-year-old woman in Bradford on April 10.
He committed the crime after being released from a three and a half year jail sentence imposed in July 2010 for attempting to burgle sheltered accommodation for the elderly to feed his drug habit.
Surtees, who was brought to Bradford Crown Court yesterday in custody, pleaded guilty to robbing the pensioner of a laptop computer, her handbag, money and a kitchen knife, together valued at £530, in Woodroyd Road, East Bowling, Bradford. He knew he was going to prison for a long time, his solicitor advocate Ray Singh told the court.
Mr Singh said he was anxious to know his fate and did not want an adjournment for a probation service report. But Judge John Potter adjourned sentence until May 25 so Surtees can be assessed to see if he poses a significant risk of harm to the public.
He told Surtees, 30, of Stone Hall Road, Eccleshill, Bradford: "I believe a report should be prepared to assess whether or not you are a dangerous offender."
Judge Potter added: "You must prepare yourself to receive a significant custodial sentence."
Surtees' denial of an offence of aggravated burglary on the same day was acceptable to the Crown, prosecutor Nigel Hamilton told the court.
Mr Hamilton said Surtees was a three strikes house breaker, meaning he had at least three convictions for burgling people's home.
He was locked up in July 2010 for an attempted break-in at a sheltered accommodation complex for the elderly in Ashbourne Crescent, Queensbury.
Surtees, then living in Hillcrest Road, Queensbury, was seen by residents acting suspiciously outside the bungalows. Police found the door of one of the homes had been tampered with.
Surtees asked for nine other house burglaries, committed between November, 2007, and March, 2008, to be taken into account when he was sentenced.


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AICN Spoils 'The Xindi'By Michelle
September 10, 2003 - 1:10 PM
See Also: 'The Xindi' Episode Guide
"FutureGuy lied! Or was, at minimum, mistaken," revealed reviewer Hercules in his first Enterprise review since last season's "Regeneration."
Ain't It Cool News gave the episode two and a half stars, spoiling the revelations that the Xindi did not attack Earth out of fear that humans would destroy their planet 400 years hence. He also said that the episode ends on a cliffhanger note, with the line, "Finish the weapon quickly! Or I�ll destroy the Earth ship, whether this council approves or not!"
Hercules said that on his screener copy, "Faith of the Heart" remained the theme song, though the music was more up-tempo. The title had not been changed to Star Trek: Enterprise.
T'Pol's eyebrows, he said, had been altered to look less human, and viewers get a glimpse of her topless.
Hercules praised the "brief Jedi roundtable-esque segments that bookend the episode" as well as a dream sequence of Tucker's described as "decidedly 'T2'-ish", but added, "the fun is far too fleeting...there�s little encouragement to be found in 'The Xindi' beyond a few nifty computer-generated extraterrestrials."
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The sun is shining, the birds are singing and fun outdoor activities are calling. Yep. It seems that spring is once again ready to distract us with her siren song. At one
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Apple iOS 5 Reviewby Vivek Gowri, Andrew Cunningham, Saumitra Bhagwat & Brian Klug on October 18, 2011 3:05 AM EST
Multitouch Updates
iOS 5 brings a pretty decent list of user experience changes with it. On the more minor side are things like being able to delete individual calls from the iPhone's recent calls list instead of clearing the entire list and now being able to make FaceTime calls without a SIM card inserted. A bigger one is being able to use your iDevice while it is plugged in and syncing to the computer - gone are the days of waiting 15 minutes for the backup to complete and the changes to reconcile before you could call or text someone.
The iPad has gotten a few more meaningful UX updates than the smaller devices. The integration of more gesture-based computing models is pretty evident throughout the entire OS, not just the multitouch gestures highlighted in the settings (iPad 2 only, sorry early adopters!) The multitouch ones use four or five fingers - swipe up to see the multitasking bar (read: task manager), swipe down again to get rid of it, swipe right or left to switch between various apps, pinch to return to the home screen. You can find swipe-based gestures in other places too: the mail app, for example. In portrait mode, swipe left to bring up the inbox sidebar. In Calendar, swipe left or right to change months. In the "Now Playing" part of the music app, swipe right or left on the album art to change songs. The gestures are all pretty well integrated and make it such that you can basically avoid touching the home button at all. A big benefit of avoiding the home button is switching between apps is now a much quicker affair, taking another step towards embracing productivity on the iPad.
Keyboard Updates
The iPad now has a new split keyboard option - pull the keyboard apart or swipe it upwards, and the entire thing splits in two. It's meant to be like a QWERTY thumb keyboard split for each hand, like a UMPC (if anyone else remembers those). It's useful for when you're standing up and have nothing to support the iPad on when you're trying to type. In addition, it's now possible to undock the standard QWERTY keyboard and move it up or down the screen. I've personally never been inclined to make use of the undocked keyboard, but I'm sure there is a use case in which it makes sense.
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steven75 - Monday, October 31, 2011 - linkFunny because many of here at this Exchange shop use iPhones with our work email just fine, calendar and all. In fact, it works quite nicely.
We have our choice of company phones and it's extremely rare for anyone to pick anything but an iPhone. I'm sure that would be different if it didn't play so nicely with Exchange. Reply
myxiplx - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkJust a note, my 3GS is far more responsive since installing IOS 5 than it's been for years. It's not just application launch times, popups, and notifications are a lot snappier, there's a definite reduction in the lag that's been creeping up over the last year. Reply
lurker22 - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkWow, I have found it lags a bit more than ios4 Reply
kmmatney - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkI'm still running iOS 4.0 (can't upgrade easily due to jailbreak for tethering) and its not all that bad once you disable Spotlight search. I'm hoping they have an untethered Jailbreak for iOS 5 soon, though. Reply
lurker22 - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkAnand,
Surprised you missed this large flaw. iPads will not receive iMessages sent to your cellular number, just iMessages sent to the email addresses setup in the iMessage account.
This is a huge flaw. What has already happened to me is people using their iPads have missed messages for many hours since they were addressed to the cell number and this then isn't devlivered to the iPads.
Why would apple miss this huge functionality gap? It means now I have to remember to send iMessages to email addresses to be sure the person will see it in a timely fashion. Reply
Aikouka - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkThat explains why I never saw any of the "iMessages" that a friend sent me the other day. I was wondering why they didn't show up when I poked around the Messaging app on my iPad. I assumed all you had to do was sign into the same iMessage account to share everything. Reply
Brian Klug - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkThat's all you have to do for things to work, however there's a catch that I mention - both devices have to be configured to have the same iMessage "Caller ID." This is why the default Caller ID is set to the iMessage "Apple ID" email account, and also the other catch is that your sender has to then be talking with that contact.
-Brian Reply
kylewat - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - linkThis simply is not true. It's ridiculously easy to have it sync with the iPad you just have to have the contact information in settings correct. ie Have your phone number in the settings. Reply
windywoo - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkIf Apple is just now implementing features that have been around on other phones why do their products always get such high scores in reviews? Why is it acceptable for Apple to trail in features while Android handsets will be marked down if there happens to be a flicker in the animations? Don't tell me it's because Apple does it so much better because that's subjective at best, and to my mind dishonest.
All the features implemented here fix major usability flaws in iOS that really contradict the general view that Apple's products are the easiest to use, but for some reason Apple has got a pass from reviewers like some favoured, hobbit haired child.
I would like to see fewer double standards. We are talking about a capitalist, profit driven corporation, I think they can stand to be handled a little less gently. Reply
lurker22 - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - linkHere's why
http://dinnerwithandroid.tumblr.com/post/115710967... Reply


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THE consequences of this weekend's games for both the Crows and Power couldn't be more contrasting.
If Port wins, they finish top, if the Crows lose, their season is dead.
Let's have a look at how the season should unfold for the finals contenders at the halfway mark of the year.
If the Power can knock off Sydney at the SCG on Saturday then they should finish the season on top of the ladder.
Lose and they could slip as low as fifth which means they will lose the double chance.
That would be a disaster. Sounds a bit dramatic doesn't it? But looking forward to the end of the season it looks like being extremely tight at the top of the ladder.
Port, Hawthorn, Geelong, Sydney and Fremantle are the five contenders for the all important top four spots. Remember, no one has won the flag from outside the top four since 1998.
This Saturday's clash will be billed as the AFLs game of the season with the winner being installed as the premiership favourite.
After Port battle the Swans they have five very winnable games with the Showdown in Round 15 in front of the Crows fans this time being the toughest of the lot.
The Power is currently two games plus percentage clear on top of the ladder but face a very tough finish to the year.
They play Collingwood at the MCG in Round 19, Sydney at home in Round 20, Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium in Round 21 and Fremantle on their home deck "the house of pain" in Round 23.
If you include this week's game against the 'Bondi Billionaires' as well as the Showdown and the tough last four, that's six questionable games before the finals.
The way I see it Port only has to win three of those six games to finish on 18 wins which should secure the minor premiership.
With average luck with injuries I'm predicting they will. That will give it not only a double chance but also the potential of two home finals at 'The Portress' where they are currently undefeated and could potentially go straight into the grand final.
Sounds easy doesn't it? Win one of those six and finish fifth and lose in the first week and it's all over as well. It's a fine line.
The Crows on the other hand have their season on life support. They are now two wins plus percentage outside the eight.
Sunday's shocker against the Dockers has made this week's game against the Kangaroos a must-win.
Lose and the Crows won't play finals for the second straight year and that would be a big underachievement.
Adelaide looked tired for most of Sunday's game and only a couple of players would have received a pass mark.
Talk about inconsistent and frustrating. They were lucky not to be flogged. Some of the players were pathetic. It's simply not good enough.
Anyway, let's have a look at the other teams and try to predict the unpredictable and see how they might finish the season.
Hawthorn. Currently equal second and importantly with a healthy percentage to rival Port's. They have a good run until the last three rounds of the season which will decide its fate. Injuries and the Clarkson illness are their biggest issues.
Sydney. Their best could be the best of everyone but with Tippett and Buddy's goal kicking anything could happen even on grand final day.
Geelong. The Cats' form over the last two weeks has been very unusual. Luckily they have a very good run to the finals but any slip ups will cost them dearly. Write them off at your own peril.
Fremantle. They can pressure the opposition better than anyone as the Crows found out in the second half on the weekend. A dream draw coming up but a tough last month will dictate how high they finish. Inaccurate goal kicking is still an issue as it was on grand final day last year.
Outside of the five heavyweight contenders are Collingwood and North Melbourne who I believe will finish sixth and seventh.
Collingwood could be the sleeping giant. They have arguably the best run of everyone on the way home.
If Cloke can get his head right and Reid can get back to his best form then they might get on a roll with the top four not out of the question.
North, like Collingwood, has a great run home but no matter what happens between now and the finals I don't think they have the goal kickers or leadership to do anything in September.
Having said that, they have beaten Port, Sydney and Fremantle in the first 11 games.
Eighth spot is still up the grabs but whoever falls into the finals will just make up the numbers with Gold Coast, Essendon and to a lesser extent Adelaide a chance.
Gold Coast is the most likely to play in its first finals series but whatever happens in 2014, they will be a four-goal better side next year.
Essendon is playing like the weight of the world is on its shoulders but beat the Demons this week and they will probably be in the eight.
If they do finally get the all-clear from ASADA, they might go into top gear and make a late rush.
This Saturday is shaping as a make-or-break day for both SA clubs.
Can Port claim the scalp of another premiership contender to put alongside that of the Cats, the Dockers and the Hawks to become premiership favourites?
Can the Crows pull out a performance like they did against Collingwood against the Kangaroos to keep their faint finals hopes alive?
It's going to be a big Saturday.
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Lookie here – just as we were gearing up for a February 8th Micro Four Thirds-shaped announcement from Olympus, Amazon Japan's got a bit trigger happy on its new cameras page and uploaded some front and rear shots (reposted by 43 Rumors) of the rumoured Olympus OM-D.
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New plaque unveiled to commemorate unsung heroine of DNA
Contribution of Rosalind Franklin is recognised at The Eagle pub, 60 years on
A plaque was unveiled in the Eagle pub last Thursday on the sixtieth anniversary of Francis Crick and James Watson's announcement of their discovery of the structure of DNA. It commemorates the contribution of scientist Rosalind Franklin on their research.
The plaque was officially unveiled beneath another for Crick and Watson by Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham. Rosalind Franklin studied natural sciences, specialising in chemistry, at the women's college and also taught there in the late 1940s.
Mr Stuart Laing, Master of Corpus Christi which owns the site where The Eagle is built, was also in attendance, having given the permission for the plaque's installation.
This commemoration of Franklin's contribution was the idea of Newnham Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Dr Emma Mawdsley, together with local resident Norman Sanders who is an alumnus of Trinity Hall. He organised the making of the plaque with two friends who are school design technology teachers.
Asked how she came up with the idea, Mawdsley said: "I was sitting in here with a beer one day looking at the plaque and thought, "What about Rosalind? Initially I thought I would do something cheeky like having a plaque made and stuck up on the wall with blu-tack and wait to see how long before anyone noticed".
The choice of The Eagle pub, she said, was based on the establishment's strong association with the discovery DNA structure (Crick and Watson's declaration to bemused drinkers that they had discovered "the secret of life" is a local legend). It is a "nice site to remind people" of her contribution, Mawdsley noted at the plaque's unveiling.
Rosalind Franklin's impact on Crick and Watson's discovery has long since gone unrecognised. The biophysicist had been working on the same project as Crick and Watson at King's College London, and produced x-ray crystallography photos which clearly depicted the DNA molecule's double-helix structure. Without her knowledge, a colleague Maurice Wilkins passed on one of these x-ray photographs – known as Photo 51 – to Watson, beating the King's College, London group to the solution.
Franklin died from ovarian cancer five years later at just 37 before the significance of Crick and Watson's discovery was realised. It is widely felt that that her contribution to their breakthrough was never properly credited.
The plaque joins a number of other recently instituted testaments to Franklin's work in Cambridge including a post-graduate hall at Newnham College and a lecture theatre in the Genome Centre.
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Enfield Southgate MP David Burrowes will welcome members of the public to discuss their views on a multi-million pound cycling programme.
Scepticism has arisen from members of the public after Enfield Borough Council won a share of the £100million 'mini Holland' scheme.
Mr Burrowes, along with Costas Georgiou, chairman of Green Lanes Business Association (GLBA) will be speaking at the meeting this evening in St Monica's Church in Stonard Road, Palmers Green from 8pm.
Initial plans, which resulted in the successful bid, will see cycle lanes run through Enfield Town centre and Palmers Green high street. The GLBA created this poster which has gone up in Palmers Green.
The meeting is being hosted to gauge the opinion in the Palmers Green area of the new plans.
Enfield Borough Council has stated that consultation will take place for residents and businesses but this will not happen until after the local elections on May 22.