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It may not be a sports car but Tesla's Model S sedan isn't a Prius either.
Tesla showed off its new electric sedan over the weekend to The San Jose Mercurcy News and unveiled some of its features.
Beyond seating five adults comfortably and two built-in car seats, the sedan will get up to 300 miles between charges and it will feature a 17-inch "Tesla touch screen" on the dashboard.
"Our goal is to not only to revolutionize the vehicle, but the whole experience of driving a car and using a car on a daily basis," Ali Javidan, an engineering manager responsible for Tesla's prototype vehicles, told the paper. "We tried to make it as user-friendly and intuitive as possible."
The car will also be very tech heavy, with built in 3G connection -- possibly a 4G by release time in 2012 -- the ability to create music playlists or connect a smartphone or iPod directly to the in-dash display.
The car is expected to hit the market in the middle of next year with Tesla building about 6,000 models.
The car will sell for just under $50,000 and be eligible for federal tax credits.
Tesla Opens the Door on the Model S
Bay Area-based electric car maker reveals some more details on its upcoming car.
It may not be a sports car but Tesla's Model S sedan isn't a Prius either.


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The Twitterverse is aflame today over comments made by Norman Spinrad in his latest On Books column in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. I was sent the link by three different people who wanted my opinion on it. At first I was excited. Was it a very juicy column? Was it about meeeee? Sadly, no.
Instead, it's a meandering display of fundamental ignorance about what we call "world science fiction." The column was brought to my attention thanks to this line:
With the exception of the Japanese, I at least, am at a loss to point to any science fiction that I know of that has evolved independently in non-European languages or cultures disconnected therefrom.
Anyone who has read one of our lovely Haikasoru titles would stop there. Japanese SF certainly did not evolve independently of that well-loved European culture…the United States? (We'll see soon that Spinrad includes most of the planet in "Europe" for some reason.) I spent a few hours some time ago digging up a copy of an obscure van Vogt story from 1944, "The Harmonizer", as it is this story from which the titular character of our forthcoming The Stories of Ibis is named. Surely that doesn't spoil a sixty-six-year-old story, right? Also, author Hiroshi Yamamoto named a chapter of his book The Universe on My Hands after the Fredric Brown short story collection Space on my Hands. Japanese SF authors will often proudly wear their influences on their sleeves, and those influences include American science fiction writers of the Golden Age and New Wave, as well as manga, the space race, philosophy both Western and Eastern, etc.
Spinrad's claim is simply inaccurate, but what really upset people was this:
So, for now at least, and in the apparent absence of a significant body of science fiction written by born and bred Africans, this Caucasian American is probably the closest thing there is or has been to an African science fiction writer, with the exception of Octavia Butler. Who did write the same sort of thing, and did it well, and was Black to boot, but I use that politically incorrect word rather than "African American" because aside from her genetic heritage she was no more African than Mike Resnick.
Very silly. Forget the fact that the film District 9—directed by South African Neill Blomkamp—was recently nominated for an Academy award. (This is rather aside than one what thinks of the film or its depictions of Africans, specifically Nigerians.) There are African science fiction writers: Nnedi Okorafor comes immediately to mind. By definition, of course, any African SF writer would be better at being an African SF writer than non-African Mike Resnick, despite non-African Norman Spinrad crowning him as such.
The problem is that Spinrad is just making an appeal to ignorance. He's not familiar with the many writers of world SF, so he assumes they do not exist. For whatever reason, though he could be familiar with Japanese SF as some of it has been translated into English, he decided to ignore actually existing Japanese SF. He also utterly ignores Chinese SF, which has been a going concern since 1904 at least. China is also the home of Science Fiction World, the most widely read SF magazine on the planet.
Further, Spinrad isn't necessarily a good judge of how writers tackle other cultures. He lauds Ian McDonald's Brasyl which for the first 200 pages was indeed a very strong novel. It devolved utterly into a series of silly fights and battles though, and at least some of the silliness can be laid right at McDonald's feet. He credits the Brazilian martial dance capoeira, for example, with a martial prowess it simply doesn't have. That's especially sad as there is a native Brazilian martial art which is one of the most formidable in the world: Brazilian jiu-jitsu. BJJ even has multicultural origins (based on Japanese Judo and Euro-American catch wrestling, perfected by a Scottish-Brazilian family: the famous Gracies), which is one of the themes of the book. Sounds like nitpicking, but much of Brasyl's climax does hang on the efficacy of capoeira and anyone familiar with Brazil's martial or street cultures knows that it just doesn't work outside of its own set of highly stylized competitions. McDonald stumbled in my view—the last 100 pages of Brasyl just felt like action-packed "fan service"—and Spinrad didn't notice the fall at all.
Of course, Spinrad has also managed to declare Latin America, thanks to Spanish and Portuguese, "not entirely culturally disconnected from the self-styled First World." Indeed, but Japan isn't so disconnected either. Indeed, nor are the science fiction writers of the Philippines and the Indian sub-continent, many of whom write in English as either their first language or as a close second. One cannot even appeal to the paucity of translations to defend ignorance of these SFnal traditions, as increasing amounts of SF in English from these countries has been becoming available thanks to the Internet and global publishing. Part of what makes the First World the First World is that it is nigh impossible to be culturally disconnected from it, after all.
In the end, it just feels as though Spinrad isn't making a cultural argument, but a racialist one. Japan was occupied by the US and the origins of modern Japanese SF are most often located by historians to that occupation and subsequent cultural exchange. (Even the pre-war Japanese SF, of which there was some, was heavily influenced by translations of Western SF and mystery stories.) Why insist that Latin America is essentially connected to the "First World", but that African and Asian countries—which include many Francophones and Anglophones thanks partially to colonialism—somehow are not. (And thus have no SF!) In Spinrad's essay, there appears to be an unexamined assumption that Africans and Asians are fundamentally different than Europeans—and "Europe" for mysterious reasons includes the peoples of the Americas. This is not even due to a dependence on the old framework of First/Second/Third World, as Spinrad acknowledges how problematic these terms are. Ultimately, Spinrad doesn't know much about world SF, and feels entitled to project his own vision on terra incognita, thus his insistence that white American midwesterner Mike Resnick is as close as the world has come to an "African science fiction writer."
As world SF becomes more popular, such attitudes will surely be corrected one way or another, but right now it is quite disappointing to see such a wrongheaded essay in the country's leading science fiction magazine.


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"Notes from Hollywood," a charming musical marriage of the Music Institute of Chicago and Dempster St. Pro Musica, lovingly paid tribute to Hollywood movie music of the 1940s and '50s Sunday, April 20 at 7 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall,1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston. And we, the spellbound audience were delighted to be invited.
Our host, Leonard Slatkin, raconteur extraordinaire, wore three hats: narrator, conductor, and pianist for this event. With ease, gossipy insider information and cherished memories, he honored the memory of his parents, violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, their friend, Frank Sinatra and the great film composers of the golden age of Hollywood.
With poise,wit and grace, Slatkin lead the Dempster St. Pro Musica (most also members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, who performed work by Erich Korngold, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein—the list goes on...
Vocalist Tom Heitman's velvet voice--performing Sinatra's groundbreaking album Close to You—was accompanied by string players using the original Hollywood Quartet orchestrations. Their rendition brought you back even if you weren't there the first time around. Talk about capturing an era!
Founded by Chicago Symphony Orchestra Assistant Principal Oboist Michael Henoch, Dempster St. Pro Musica is a chamber music organization established to bring concerts of high quality and interest to the diverse population of Evanston.
Dempster St. Pro Musica was established to present concerts in residence at SPACE (Society for the Preservation of Art and Culture in Evanston), one of the hottest live music venues in Evanston. Housed in a 100 year-old commercial building, SPACE shares the structure with a trendy restaurant, Union Pizzeria that Chicago Magazine describes as "the one everyone was waiting for." For more information, go to: SPACE website
Musicians performing with Dempster St. Pro Musica are associated with many other outstanding chamber music ensembles locally and nationally and often are members of the Chicago Symphony as well as other world-class orchestras.
This Fall, Dempster St. Pro Musica will perform with Ars Viva in a 5-concert series. For more information, visit the Dempster St. Pro Musica website
Leonard Slatkin serves as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, France. He previously served as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. and as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London.
Slatkin's more than 100 recordings have won seven Grammy awards and earned 64 nominations. He received the U.S.'s prestigious National Medal of Arts and France's Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Founder and director of the National Conducting Institute and the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, Slatkin continues to conduct and teach at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Juilliard School.
The Music Institute of Chicago believes that music has the power to sustain and nourish the human spirit; therefore, its mission is to provide the foundation for lifelong engagement with music. Founded in 1931, the Music Institute has grown to become one of the three largest and most respected community music schools in the nation.
Offering musical excellence built on the strength of its distinguished faculty, commitment to quality, and breadth of programs and services, the Music Institute is a member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. Each year, the Music Institute's teachers and arts therapists reach thousands of students and clients of all ages and levels of experience.
The Music Institute opened a new location this fall at Fourth Presbyterian Church's Gratz Center in downtown Chicago. Other Music Institute locations include Evanston, Winnetka, Lincolnshire, Lake Forest, and Downers Grove.
In addition, the Music Institute is proud of its longstanding partnership with the Chicago Public Schools through its Arts Link program.
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Outfielders in Draft have considerable potential
After Frazier and Meadows, scouts face challenge of having to project development
There is a prototype of what an outfielder should look like and every Draft season, scouts are on the lookout for amateur prospects who fit the mold.
It's a basic blueprint -- big, strong (think 6-foot-3, 210 pounds or so) -- with multiple tools and plenty of projection. The only problem is, of course, that the amateur baseball factory doesn't always churn them out looking like that and scouting staffs can only pick from what's available.
There is some serious talent among the outfielders available in next month's First-Year Player Draft, with perhaps as many as seven, from both high schools and colleges, who are candidates to go in the first round. Some are "what they should look like," but have a long way to go in their development or have some potential holes in their games. Others don't quite look the part but have some serious ability. Where and when these outfielders go on Draft day is still very much anyone's guess.
Any discussion of outfielders must begin in Georgia, where neighbors and friends Clint Frazier and Austin Meadows have been vying for top high school player honors. Frazier gets a slight edge, one spot ahead of Meadows in MLB.com's Draft Top 100 prospects list. But just because they are from the same area and play the same position doesn't mean they are cut from the same cloth.
"They are a little bit different," one scouting director said. "Frazier's a strong kid who's a little more like a college player. He's developed and has unbelievable strength for a high school kid. He has unbelievable bat speed and power for a kid who's really not that big. Meadows has outstanding projection to his game. They're both very good players and I'm confident both will go in top 10-12 picks."
The other outfielders among the top five -- and even the two beyond them -- hail from the college ranks and can be sorted into Meadows and Frazier-like categories. Fresno State's Aaron Judge and Stanford's Austin Wilson -- 6-foot-7 and 6-foot-5, respectively -- fit the mold, and there are definite tools there, though those tools come with some question marks.
"With Wilson and Judge, there's a lot more projection there," the scouting director said. "You've not had the unbelievable performances. You're banking on the tools there. Judge and Wilson will not be consensus players because you haven't had the performances you'd like to see."
Samford College's Phillip Ervin fits more into the Frazier profile, a 5-foot-9 player who has performed well this year, and doing so for much of the spring with a bad ankle. Scouts will have to look past the size stigma with him as well.
"He's not exactly the blueprint of what your first-rounder is supposed to look like," the scouting director said. "[He and Frazier] are both smaller guys who are very good players. They are not exactly the design, but what are we supposed to do? We're going to pass on Ervin because he's not 6-foot-4? I'm not."
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Because of the question marks around Judge and Wilson -- namely, will they hit enough to make the most of their considerable tools? -- teams might want to look a little further on the list for other options. Mississippi State's Hunter Renfroe has similar skills to Judge and Wilson and has performed well in the Southeastern Conference, one of the best in college baseball. That's why his name has been on the rise as the Draft approaches.
Another option could be Michael Lorenzen from Cal State-Fullerton. While Judge and Wilson profile as right fielders, there is no doubt Lorenzen can stay up the middle in center. While he's been a bit inconsistent with the bat, he has performed better of late for one of the better college teams in the country. The fact that he's thrown up to 98 mph as Fullerton's closer offers a nice backup plan if the outfield thing doesn't work out.
"If you're going to have Judge and Wilson, I think you'd have to have Lorenzen on that list," the scouting director said. "The tools, they can't be denied. He's got all five if he can hit enough for the power to come out. I'm going to take the center fielder over the right fielder. If he hits .230, then we'll just pitch him.
"If you asked me, I'd have Renfroe and Lorenzen in before Judge and Wilson. I think Renfroe goes in the top 16-17 picks. There's a question on Lorenzen's bat, but also with Judge and Wilson. If that's the case, why not take Lorenzen? If he doesn't hit, he'll pitch in the big leagues."
To find out what happens, tune in to all of the Draft coverage, starting on Thursday, June 6. It begins with the Draft Preview Show on MLB Network and MLB.com at 6 p.m. ET, followed by live Draft coverage at 7 p.m., with the top 73 picks being broadcast live on MLB Network and streamed on MLB.com. Rounds 2-40 will be streamed live on MLB.com on June 7-8. MLB.com's coverage will include the Top 100 Draft Prospects list; Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of every Draft-eligible player; and the Draft itself. You also can keep up to date at Draft Central and by following @MLBDraft on Twitter. Get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
All seven of these outfielders have the potential to hear their name called very early. And even those a little concerned with just how projectable some of the college outfielders are admit that the raw tools will get teams to take the risk.
"If you're right, you're going to be really right," the scouting director said.


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Just days after Camille Grammer revealed her estranged husband Kelsey Grammer was planning to tie the knot in January, 2011, TMZ is now confirming the story.
According to TMZ, Kelsey has formally asked a judge to grant the divorce decree asap! The legal process is apparently called "bifurcation." Kelsey is requesting his divorce be rushed and for the money issues aka division of assets to be dealt with later.
Under California law, divorces can become final 6 months after the petition is filed. Since Camille filed on July 1, 2010, Kelsey will be free to marry his mistress fiance Kayte Walsh on Saturday, January 1, that is if the judge grants his request for the bifurcation.
So how does Camille, star of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, feel about this? A friend of Camille's tells TMZ she "is not surprised but continues to be disappointed at Kelsey's immature and disrespectful behavior."
In other BH news, TMZ is also reporting that Lisa Vanderpump was involved in an attack on Christmas eve. It all started when Lisa, her husband Ken Todd, Los Angeles news reporter Robert Kovacik and some others were having dinner at the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge when a drunk man walked up to her table and began berating her.
Reporter Robert then stood up and asked the man to stop, which led to the man punching Robert and shoving Lisa's husband Ken to the floor. Robert reportedly received two dozen stitches for his busted lip from Dr. Paul Nassif, who also stars on the RHOBH. TMZ adds that Robert has since filed criminal charges against his assailant.
No word yet on if Giggy's innocent eyes were forced to witness the attack. And finally, Kyle Richards, along with her family, spent the Christmas holiday visiting Aspen. Even more interesting, it seems Kyle is still BFFs with Faye Resnick despite the strong protest from her frenemy costar/morality police Camille. Kyle and Faye were photographed yesterday shopping in Aspen. Those photos are below –
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Louisiana Vital Records
This entry was originally written by Beth A. Stahr, CGRS and Sharon Sholars Brown for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The civil recording of births, marriages, and deaths did not begin in earnest until the early twentieth century. Although laws were passed in the late nineteenth century requiring that vital events be recorded, there was little compliance until later. Prior to that time it was the responsibility of the churches to maintain this data.
The Roman Catholic Church dominated Louisiana until the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In fact, it was the only church in Louisiana until that time. The Catholic churches throughout the state kept registers of christenings, marriages, and burials, and were the recorders of Louisiana's early vital records. For important published works relating to marriages, see Church Records below and the following:
- DeVille, Winston. The New Orleans French, 1720'1733: A Collection of Marriage Records Relating to the First Colonists of the Louisiana Province. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973.
- Forsyth, Alice D. Louisiana Marriages, 1784'1806. New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1977.
- , and Ghislaine Pleasonton. Louisiana Marriage Contracts: 1725'1758. New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1980.
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Natchitoches Church Marriages, 1818'1850. Translated Abstracts from Registers of St. François des Natchitoches, Louisiana. Vol. 6. Cane River Creole Series. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Mills Historical Press, 1985.
In the first part of the twentieth century many states, including Louisiana, began requiring civil registration of vital records. The earliest city in Louisiana to exact civil registrations was New Orleans in 1790; however, registrations were only randomly made until the twentieth century. It was not until 1914 that civil recording began statewide. As of 2003, the Louisiana State Archives holds Orleans Parish birth records over 100 years old, Orleans Parish marriage records over fifty years old, and statewide vital records over fifty years old. Researchers may visit the State Archives in Baton Rouge or order records by mail for a fee (presently $5).
Some parish health departments have alphabetical birth and death indexes for their areas. These are not, however, complete listings of all births and deaths of that parish. Copies of these vital records can be ordered from Vital Records Registry, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health, P.O. Box 60630, New Orleans, LA 70160. There are a few births (1790) and deaths (ca. 1803) recorded prior to 1914, but the majority of the records start in that year. One must either show proof of kinship as a direct descendant or provide proper authorization to obtain a copy of any of these records. As of July 1999, birth certificates are also available through the Parish Clerks of Court.
On Ancestry.com, the following Louisiana vital records databases are available to subscribers:
- New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790-1899
- Louisiana Marriages, 1718-1925
- New Orleans, Louisiana Marriage Records Index, 1831-1925
- Louisiana Marriages to 1850
- Louisiana Marriage Records, 1851-1900
- New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804-1949
- Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1900-1949
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- Louisiana, Births and Christenings, 1811-1830; 1854-1934
- Louisiana, Marriages, 1816-1906
- Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957
- Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956
- Louisiana, Orleans Parish Vital Records, 1910, 1960
External Links
- Louisiana Birth, Marriage, and Death Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Louisiana birth, marriage, and death records (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Includes links to FamilySearch vital record databases.
- Louisiana Marriages Search Engine - free Louisiana marriages search engine that has indexed marriages posted across the web.
- Louisiana Obituary and Death Notice Archive - free Louisiana obituary archive that has transcribed obits from across the state.
- Louisiana Library of Files - free Louisiana obituary and data files archive from across the state.
- Louisiana Vital Records - links to Louisiana vital record sources organized by county


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Would you like fries with that? Sports figures wait tables for Make-A-Wish
Thirty Colorado sports figures, including Denver Nuggets alumni Ervin Johnson and Walter Davis, and Shane O'Brien and Kyle Quincy of the Colorado Avalanche, will step up to the plate on Wednesday night — not to take a swing at a baseball, but to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado.
Ed McCaffrey, former wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, will emcee the Sporting Affair Celebrity Waiters Dinner that begins with a hosted cocktail hour and silent auction at 6 p.m. at Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale. Dinner, entertainment and a live auction follows.
Tickets are $150 each, $65 of which is tax deductible. Sponsorships begin at $2,500. For details, call Patti Forsythe, 303-750-9474.
Other sports figures scheduled to appear are Avalanche announcer Peter McNab; Omar Cummings, Kosuke Kimura and Wells Thompson of the Colorado Rapids; University of Denver hockey coach George Gwozdecky; professional triathlete Will Kelsay; and Gerry Signorelli of Kuryakan Racing.
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Have lots of pad eyes, hand holds, good reefing points and sun block!
Have fun.


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Barb Dixon has a thing for tests.
Having spent 14 years testing software as director of a company's software quality assurance, the 71-year-old retiree and resident of an adult lifestyle community in Freelton, Ont., says "test-taking is very close to my heart – it's something I love to do."
When the Canadian Association for Retired Persons (CARP) put out a call about a year ago for volunteers to participate in a trial for a new online brain test being developed by Cogniciti Inc. – a company owned by Baycrest Health Sciences and MaRS Discovery District whose mission is to bring "brain health solutions to people" – Dixon didn't hesitate to sign up.
She was one of 300 adults ages 50 to 79 who Cogniciti recruited to try out various versions of the test over the course of a year.
The online self-assessment tool, which launched May 26, is free and can be accessed by anyone at www.cogniciti.com. It's designed for people 50 to 79 who want to see whether their memory and attention capacities fall within a normal range for their age, education level and general state of health.
Though the test can't replace a doctor's clinical assessment, Angela Troyer, a Baycrest neuropsychologist and director of the centre's memory and aging program, along with Baycrest senior scientist Brian Levine created it to be a cognitive check-up, a first step for people concerned about changes to their memory or cognition.
Memory and attention can be affected by normal aging processes and by brain disease, explained Cogniciti president Michael Meagher. The test helps people determine if their cognitive functions are "normal" or if they indicate a problem –this could mean a neurological disease or something much more benign.
Troyer explained: "If somebody has a problem on this test, we don't know if it's a neurological disease. It could be, but it could also be because of things like depression, anxiety or medication side effects. Or maybe they didn't understand the instructions or got distracted."
Test-takers receive an overall score of their cognitive health, and can save their results if they want to track their performance over time. If someone scores poorly, he or she is encouraged to re-take the test after a week and if the score remains low, to follow up with a doctor.
Despite her confidence, Dixon said she found the test, which contains various cognitive activities and includes assessments for immediate and delayed memory, to be quite difficult.
"There was one part I found easy, because it played into the logic of a computer programmer, which I once was, but there was a part where we had to match different faces and names and that was quite challenging."
She scored within the normal range, which proved comforting, but was no real surprise.
"Prior to the test I hadn't had any worries. There's no Alzheimer's or dementia in my family. My sisters are in their 80s and are still sharp."
Dixon's husband, who is 72, refuses to take the test.
"He's that kind of person. He says, 'If I have something, I don't want to know.' And I think there's a big segment of the population who feels that way… I found that when I sent the test to friends."
But according to Troyer, "there's clearly an appetite for this kind of tool… A lot of people don't know if what they experience cognitively is normal aging or not."
Two weeks after its launch, about 30,000 users have taken it.
She said it took about three years to develop the test, which her team adapted from research and existing clinical tests, taking great care to account for individual variability.
"We spent a lot of time making sure the test wasn't too easy or to hard, to cover that whole span of what's normal."
She stressed that a low score does not necessarily signify dementia. Some causes of memory decline are treatable, such as thyroid disease, mental health issues or vitamin deficiency.
"It's not a diagnostic tool. We say, 'If you have an unusual score, get it checked [with a doctor].'"
For diseases that don't have a cure, such as Alzheimer's, early knowledge can be helpful.
"Identifying neurological problems early gives people time to make plans, to look at different options with a doctor. There are some interventions that can help people live with changes. Things people can be proactive about – these are best implemented early, while changes are still mild."


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Together, Terfel and his Susanna, Cecilia Bartoli, generated matchless excitement onstage. They lived every second of their roles, with the appearance of complete spontaneity, and audiences had every right to think that they might be in for a new golden era of productions specially built around the two stars. [Figaro at the Met, 1998]
Terfel's performance as Scarpia was astonishingly real: all of the character's perversion came through, but he also generated real heat onstage. [Tosca at the Met, 2010]
. . . clear yet unaffected diction . . . Terfel and the ever-attentive Malcolm Martineau demonstrate that it's sometimes desirable to have to strain to hear something. [The Vagabond]
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The directness of Terfel's communication hits you hard. It's as if he's saying "no,don't sit back thinking that is just another delightfully innocuous English song -- you must listen to this . . . this well-planned collection of music from across the border will surely enthral and enlighten a worldwide audience . . . One can't but admire such consummate control and artistry, such authority and presence . . . this is totally accomplished, totally satisfying music-making.
There is a touch of genius about this man . . . There is a breadth of phrase, variety of tone, alertness of rhythm, all the musical virtues are there . . . marvellously well guided by musicianship, intelligence and the genuine flash of inspiration . . . From the songs themselves I could not possibly wish anything more: hearing them performed like this I wouldn't swap them for half the German song repertoire or the whole of the French.
. . . it is not often that a young singer takes the songs of one's own youth and makes them new again. Bryn Terfel does just that in his rectial, "The Vagabond". Vaughan Williams's "Songs of Travel" are shown here quite clearly as having a place among the great song-cycles, with Butterworth's "A Shropshire Lad" not far behind, and Finzi's Shakespeare settings quite possibly the loveliest of all. Malcolm Martineau is the excellent accompanist.
Bryn Terfel sings with rugged beauty and brillant diction.
The program is truly a celebration, not just of Terfel's artistry, but of the power of the English language . . . to inspire such glorious musical results . . . what a joy Terfel is.
. . . there's something about this early cycle that never grows stale, its frequently heart-stopping melodic genius . . . always matched by a subtle harmonic resource and satisfying thematic integration. The great Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel has given us marvellously sympathetic readings of this enchanting repertoire.
Terfel's projection and dramatic detail of his Butterworth/Housman settings is exceptional.


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Blake getting meangirled at Chanel?
I'm not trying to diminish her accomplishment but it felt like they were doling out these CinemaCon "Star of Tomorrow" Awards like those snap-snap topless cards constantly distributed on the Strip. If you've been to Vegas, you know what I mean. What is that all about anyway?
Here's Blake Lively, in red and leggy, receiving her Star of Tomorrow Award last night along with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, the new Transformers girl. See what I mean? It's not like they were terribly discerning with their trophy distribution this year, were they?
Oh but wait, let me guess. I promise I haven't even checked…
Blake is wearing Marchesa. Right?
It has to be. Because it looks like something Michelle Kwan skated in but not during competition. Definitely exhibition styles.
She actually looked a lot better earlier in the day, except for the booties, in white, at the Warner Bros event to promote The Green Lantern. It was casual, it was elegant and effortless, it didn't scream of Trying like Marchesa so often does.
But why not Chanel? After all, Blake is the face of the Mademoiselle bag line.
Is Blake getting meangirled at Chanel?
According to the NY Daily News, some of the bitches at Chanel America are sniping that Blake's look is "off-brand". After all, for years Chanel has epitomised French French-ness. And along comes Blake with her beachy blondness and so much tits and ass…
I suppose from a pure brand perspective, I could see how they could have some trouble with it. The official party line however has been that Karl personally handpicked Blake – probably at the urging of Anna Wintour – which means that Blake is pretty much untouchable, no matter how crusty they happen to be at the US office.
(Every time I hear the phrase "US Office" I think of Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary, the movie.)
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