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Fallen Va. captain remembered as a key mentor
Each time a new reserve officer needed training, Waynesboro police liked to team the rookie up with Kevin Quick
By Larry O'Dell
Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Each time a new reserve officer needed training, Waynesboro police liked to team the rookie up with Kevin Quick. They knew Quick — pleasant, unflappable, reliable — would set the right example.
"People really gravitated to Kevin," Waynesboro police Sgt. Brian Edwards said.
Quick, 45, was found dead last week. Virginia State Police have not said how he died. Their investigation ranged from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where Quick lived to a wooded area a few miles northwest of Richmond, where his body was found Thursday — six days after he failed to show up to visit his girlfriend and their 4-month-old daughter. Four people face felony gang participation charges in the case, and two others have been charged with stealing Quick's sport utility vehicle.
"We think we've pretty much got the main players," state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Tuesday. Additional charges are expected against at least some of those already in custody, she added.
Friends say Quick's warm disposition and devotion to family endeared him to the police force and the community he served for 24 years.
"He had such a calm head," Edwards said. "You couldn't get him riled up."
Quick's disappearance prompted an outpouring of concern that turned to grief after his body was found. A reward fund that was established early in the search grew to more than $41,000, and a big crowed turned out for a candlelight vigil in Quick's memory Saturday night.
Rodney Soulsby II, who led the reward fundraising effort, said any money that is not doled out to tipsters likely will be placed into a trust fund for Quick's daughter — perhaps with the goal of sending her to the University of Virginia. Quick was an avid U.Va. sports fan and dedicated tailgater at Cavaliers football games, friends said.
The outpouring from the community has not been surprising to Quick's friends, including those who worked with him before he was laid off from his management job at the Invista synthetic fiber plant in Waynesboro a few months ago.
"I never once in 18 years heard him raise his voice or say anything bad about any other human being," longtime friend and co-worker Chris Harris said. "Everybody who ever met him would say the same thing. He was a guy I looked up to and thought, 'I'd be doing good if I could be more like him.'"
The only complaint he ever heard at work about Quick was that "he might have been too nice," Harris said.
"Sometimes when you're in management, you have to be tough on people," he said. "I think at times Kevin struggled with that."
Tabby Brydge, an administrative assistant at Invista, described Quick as one of her closest male friends. She recalled Quick, who was separated from his wife, sharing his regret that he might not ever become a father — and then his joy when he did.
"I said, 'This little girl is going to steal your heart like nobody else.' I just wish he had the opportunity to fulfill that dream. It's heartbreaking," she said.
The child's mother and Quick's girlfriend, Yadira Weaver, did not immediately return messages left at her office, and a home phone number could not be located.
Quick loved volunteering for the reserve police force, friends said. Edwards said Quick, a captain, was following in the footsteps of his father, Ronnie Quick, who was chief of the reserve force before retiring in 2012.
"They were both outgoing," Edwards said, but in different ways. Ronnie Quick, who was nicknamed "The Colonel," had a raspy but booming voice while his son was more soft-spoken.
When Quick wasn't working, Edwards said, he enjoyed waxing his 1999 Toyota 4-Runner and mowing his lawn.
"His truck stayed spotless," Soulsby said.
He said suspicions of foul play in Quick's disappearance were heightened when people saw photographs of the SUV after it was recovered by police. The tires were muddy.
"If he'd been driving it, it never would have been that way," Soulsby said. "He would have gone to the first car wash he could find."
Edwards said Quick also was devoted to his family, taking care of his mother after his father died last year.
"Kevin, being the eldest of three sons, kind of took over being the family patriarch," Edwards said. "He knew that was his role now."
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There is something very unusual about Nora Ephron's bio in the Playbill for her new play, "Lucky Guy," a piece about famed tabloid newspaperman Mike McAlary, which opened Monday night on Broadway and stars Tom Hanks. The little sketch of Ephron, stuck in the usual spot, starts out conventionally enough, listing her screenwriting credits (such as "This Is My Life," "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Michael"), her first Broadway play ("Imaginary Friends" in 2002) and her journalistic bona fides, including youthful years spent in the newsroom of the New York Post, back when a deliciously stewing scoop could be savored, and marinated in the barroom, all the way until the next morning when the suckers could finally catch up. The bio tells of best-sellers and a new collection of essays, "The Most of Nora Ephron," due out this fall.
But it makes no mention of one salient fact. Ephron died in June.
Her death came from complications from acute myeloid leukemia, a condition with which she had been diagnosed some six years earlier, although she had told almost no one. One possible explanation for the omission can be found in an essay Ephron's son Jacob Bernstein wrote for The New York Times Magazine last month, under the headline "How My Mother Planned to Outwork Death."
"The thing is," Bernstein wrote, "you really can't turn a fatal illness into a joke. It is almost the only disclosure that turns you into the victim rather than the hero of your story. For her, tragedy was a pit of cliches. So she stayed quiet."
Ephron did not stop working. As Bernstein points out, his mother spent that six years directing a film and writing two movies and two plays, including her homage to McAlary, who, surely not coincidentally, also did some of his best writing while battling cancer. Perhaps that was why Ephron was so attracted to his story, and why "Lucky Guy" is told with such sentimental affection for a profession that can be so much fun, people tend to forget to quit and go home.
Ephron could, of course, have been writing about Roger Ebert, the Sun-Times movie critic who died Thursday. Even as he was in his last days, Ebert wrote a note to readers, burying the lead in a way no self-respecting tabloid editor could possibly approve. With his characteristic policy of full disclosure, Ebert penned a note to his fans to say that his cancer had returned (in that way, he and Ephron could not be more different) and that he was taking a "leave of presence" (a term Ephron surely would have loved).
But even as he suggested (at the time, improbably) that he was going to cut back, Ebert unleashed a dizzying barrage of new projects and branding initiatives on a digital landscape that did not even exist when McAlary was churning out those columns about police corruption and coverups for the Post or the Daily News — depending on which was making him the most lucrative offer in an era when a city columnist with the right Rolodex of chatty cops could command a multiyear, million-dollar contract. The colorful, mostly Irish editors and writers who populated McAlary's retro, booze- and emotion-soaked world were often betting men. And at the moment when Ebert's note came out, if you were to bet on any writer with a real chance of outworking death, Ephron-style, Ebert surely would have been that writer.
In the end, not Ebert, nor Ephron nor McAlary were so lucky. But then that depends on how you define luck. As vividly depicted by Hanks — one of those rare actors who can manifest boyish charm and a pall of existential sadness at precisely the same moment — McAlary had a great time living out the truism, and truth, that everything can be copy. He reached his peak at a very good time: back before Rudy Giuliani had cleaned up New York, back before the economics of the news business were upended by the digital revolution, back when money was still sloshing around a hypercompetitive multipublication landscape. It is, of course, a different world now. Just a couple of weeks ago, Time Out Chicago announced plans to abandon its print edition and cut its staff.
Just a couple of days before he died, Ebert was in brand-expansion mode, keeping on keeping on. But then Ebert, a lucky guy, also was a world unto himself.
McAlary also knew no such world of contraction. Sure, the dysfunctional elements of the 1980s and '90s tabloid universe are acknowledged in this play — which was directed by George C. Wolfe and also features a raft of character actors like Peter Gerety, Courtney Vance and Christopher McDonald. Along with his driving ambition fueled by envy, McAlary was also a boozer who would get behind the wheel. But Ephron, clearly, had no heart for some expose of sexism, selfishness and mercurial reportage. Maura Tierney, who plays McAlary's wife, Alice, has scenes where she justly complains of being left alone, parked in the burbs with the kids while McAlary prowls the Midtown streets, and gets drunk at Elaine's, all in a perpetual search of ideas for columns. McAlary could be a smug jerk and a lousy spouse. But Tierney's moving and exceedingly complicated performance also makes clear that she knows who she married and that her workaholic, never-say-die husband could not live any other way.
Tierney, surely not coincidentally, is a cancer survivor herself.
"Lucky Guy" is at the Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th St., New York, 212-239-6200, telecharge.com.

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OpenSync and KDE Cooperate on Unified Data Syncing
The OpenSync and KDE teams have joined forces to create a unified
With KDE making use of the desktop-independent OpenSync project, a unified
At the end of August leading members of the OpenSync and KDE projects met for a
The combination of OpenSync and the new KitchenSync frontend will replace
The first official stable 1.0 release of OpenSync is planned for the beginning
Does anyone knows
where does the kitchensync name come from?
By patcito at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Does anyone knows
probably a developer joke.
By rinse at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Does anyone knows
ans what is a kitchensync? (excuse my french)
Re: Does anyone knows
It's a corruption of "kitchen sink" as in the English saying "everything but the kitchen sink".
By Paul Eggleton at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Does anyone knows
k thanx, and for those that are as clueless as me in english and still didn't get what is a kitchen sink, here it is http://images.google.com/images?q=kitchen%20sink :)
Re: Does anyone knows
Wo! I didn't expect that link to show hot chicks in sinks.
fetishes these days...
By Vlad Blanton at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Does anyone knows
It was an old joke/phrase about ppl packing. You packed everything except the kitchen sink. That is, you have far more than you need.
But in this case, KitchenSync is simply a play on words of Kitchen Sink. It has nothing to do with the phrase. I would guess that it was the only thing that they could think of that contained a K and Sync (apparently, synk was either taken, meant something in a different language, or was just not like).
By a.c. at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Does anyone knows
The joke does apply to KDE, and I think that the name is intended to play up to this. As in:
"KDE includes everything, including the KitchenSync"
I think it was convceived shortly after 3.0, when there were cries that KDE was bloated & before the Kwhatever naming scheme became accepted.
By another ac at Sat, 2005/11/12 - 6:00am
Yeah i like this !!!! go kde dev's go !!!
By ch at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
KitchenSync kills kitchensync
So the long-anticipated, but stalled, kitchensync project has finally been killed. And replaced by KitchenSync, the OpenSync frontend?
Is this the correct reading, i.e. has all the underlying kitchensync architecture been demolished?
By ac at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: KitchenSync kills kitchensync
There is no code from the old KitchenSync or its underlying libraries used in the new solution. OpenSync is based on the same design concepts that our old code was, but it's actively maintained and developed, more stable, and it's desktop-independent. So we decided to not duplicate efforts but go with a unified solution.
By Cornelius Schumacher at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: KitchenSync kills kitchensync
Excellent decision Cornelius, thanks for all the work!
By MandrakeUser at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Great work
I read about this earlier on the OpenSync website - well done to all involved.
Lately I've been working on an OpenSync plugin for syncing with Opie, and I have to say I'm very impressed with the design - simple and yet still quite flexible. It's also not tied to any particular major library (other than glib) so it can be adopted across the entire open source spectrum. OpenSync has got to be the best way forward for universal syncing.
By Paul Eggleton at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
"KPilot is planned to be replaced once all functionality is available with the new framework in an equivalent way."
Reminds me of the editor that is just kept for BiDi...
By gerd at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
speaking of which
that's cool we're gonna get it in KDE4 and by the way, when does 3.5 comes out? it's been a little while since beta2, getting impatientttt hereeee :)
Re: speaking of which
By cm at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: speaking of which
Better yet, get off your butt, run the beta, and report bugs if you find them!
I've been running it since it came out. GREAT work devs! Way to go!
By Chipper at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: speaking of which
according to the release plan the RC was released yesterday, but afaik it wasn't. Is there any specific problem with the Beta that has to be fixed or is it just a normal delay / nothing special?
By christoph at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
The 1.0 release..
Will I be able to sync korganizer with my WinCE phone with the 1.0 release, or do I have to wait for KDE4 until that is implemented? I really prefer Kontact/Korganizer over Evolution, but for now I'm stuck with the latter due to the syncing support..
By bsander at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: The 1.0 release..
We plan to release a GUI for KDE 3.5 slightly after KDE 3.5 gets released. You definately don't have to wait for KDE4.
By zecke at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: The 1.0 release..
Yes, but I was talking about this:
"The first official stable 1.0 release of OpenSync is planned for the beginning of 2006. The KDE based frontend will be released in parallel to OpenSync 1.0. This release will contain support for syncing Palm Pilots, SyncML, Evolution, Kontact, files and IrMC capable devices like mobile phones."
Which doesn't mention WinCE (though earlier in the article it was mentioned). So I was wondering if the WinCE plugin is going to be available with that release or with a later release, and if so, when?
Thanks :)
By bsander at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: The 1.0 release..
As far as I know, MultiSync (the codebase on which OpenSync is based) already supports WinCE (via the SynCE library). So when OpenSync comes out, it will most certainly support WinCE. Given that the KDE part will only be a frontend, then it should be able to seamlessly support WinCE as well.
This is an excellent decision. Supporting all these devices is difficult and duplicated efforts are a waste of already-thin resources. The status of KDE tools for WinCE devices has always been sub-par, and this could finally solve the situation. Great move!
By giacomo at Fri, 2005/11/11 - 6:00am
Yeah ;)
Yeah and Finally we have a solid syncing framework to use ;)
By zecke at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Syncing with other users
Friends. Here is my situation. We use linux at home, each person has an account.
I know that this is feasible with a groupware solution, but this seems overkill
Many thanks in advance!
By MandrakeUser at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Syncing with other users
You can share data by sharing files:
For the appointments you can do it similary, i.e. export to iCalendar and add the calendar file via Settings->Sidebar->Show Resource View as "Calendar in Local File".
If you also want to access you data from remote locations then all you need is an account on an IMAP server. There's no need for a fullfledged groupware server.
For more information: kdepim-users at kde.org.
By Ingo Klöcker at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Syncing with other users
Thanks a lot Ingo! I'll take a look tonight.
In principle it looks like this solution would imply having duplicate entries, when the same contact is entered by two users (say me and my wife). Unless
By MandrakeUser at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Syncing with other users
Just a guess, but can't you just add a shared contacts resource that's readable and writable for all your users?
By Andre Somers at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Thanks guys, how about WinCE.
First, thanks for the good work. Syncing data is getting more important every day.
For Palm devices there is a lot of excellent software, but not so for WindowsCE/Windows Mobile based devices. Where I live (The Netherlands) those are by far the most used PDA's, and honestly, my Palm can't beat the features of even a modest Ipaq.
Decent "ActiveSync" support would make OpenSync/Kitchensync the new standard overnight.
By CAPSLOCK2000 at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Thanks guys, how about WinCE.
waht is active sync ? some windows "standart" :-) ?
By ch at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: Thanks guys, how about WinCE.
Dont worry. Support for windows ce devices is definitely on the roadmap. There already exists a synce plugin. its in the subversion repository if you would like to try it. i just didnt release it with 0.18 since i dont know if it is stable enough already.
But the author of the synce tools is already working on a replacement called midasync which will make the synchronization of windows ce device a lot better.
By Armin Bauer at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
always amazed at...
...the amount of geekiness in KDE. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but my girlfriend, mum, or friends are not so fond of it. What am I talking about here? On OpenSync website, there are a couple of screenies presenting KitchenSync; one of them is 'select plugin' dialogue, and it has an entry that says 'plugin to synchronize files on the local filesystem'. Oh, yeah, gimme some more... This nice definition could really use a substitution, something like 'sync files on your computer' perhaps? And the next one is even worse... Only the palm syncing makes a comprehensible entry. Work on this lads, and make KDE even better :)
By Petar at Thu, 2005/11/10 - 6:00am
Re: always amazed at...
A pda is a computer as well though.
By ac at Fri, 2005/11/11 - 6:00am
Re: always amazed at...
Nope. A PDA for normal people is an electronic agenda on steroids.
By Davide Ferrari at Fri, 2005/11/11 - 6:00am
Very cool!
This is one of the last things I miss from the windows world. My mobile phone contains my "life"...okay, maybe not quite, but I do use the calendar and addressbook quite a bit - loosing that info would be quite annoying.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I look forward to using this :)
By Joergen Ramskov at Fri, 2005/11/11 - 6:00am
Desktop Sync
Much more I want sync Kontact adressbook laptop <--> desktop <--> homedesktop.
By Syncar at Fri, 2005/11/11 - 6:00am
default config?
Hmm, do I overlook something? I see no default config files for kresource or kio_pim?!
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Sat, 2005/11/12 - 6:00am
speaking of syncing.
Is there some standard way to sync several kmail/kontact installs? I run kde on three different machines, and I would like my mail folders, addressbook and whatnot all in sync.
By namor at Sat, 2005/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: speaking of syncing.
check out KitchenSync, it already does that between KDE installs
By giacomo at Mon, 2005/11/14 - 6:00am
Re: speaking of syncing.
The address book and calendar, to-do list, etc, can all be stored on an IMAP server. Configure kmail->Misc->Groupware->Enable IMAP resource functionality, then adding a "Kolab server" address book resource will give you shared contacts without the hassle of syncing.
By Yrrebnarg at Mon, 2005/11/14 - 6:00am
Syncing bookmarks, notes and passwords
In addition to calendar and address book I would like to synchronize also konqueror's bookmarks, kwallet's passwords, kopete's contact list and knotes. Will Kitchensync do that or is there a better way?
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•Randolph H. Deer Prize for Outstanding and Continued Work in Art: William E. Whited and Nicholas R. Bitting
The Deer Prize is made possible by a gift from Randolph H. Deer. The prize is set up to reward and encourage art majors for exceptional work during their freshman and sophomore years. The recipients are selected by the Art Department faculty based on their achievements in the art department. The prize will be awarded in two installments: half before the junior year, and renewable before the senior year.
•Walter L. Fertig Prize in English: Jacob M. Rump
The Walter L. Fertig Prize in English is given to a member of the senior class who, in the judgment of the English Department, has accomplished distinguished work in his study of English and American literature.
•Walter L. Fertig Prize in Freshman Writing: Collin K. Rudnik (1st), Lincoln E. Smith (2nd), Wesley R. Barnes (3rd), and Aaron J. Spolarich (3rd)
The Fertig Prize in Freshman Writing is given annually to three members of the freshman class for distinguished pieces of expository or creative writing nominated by the members of the faculty and judged by the English department. It is named in honor of Walter L. Fertig, long-time Milligan Professor of English Literature and chairman of the English Department.
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The Harrison Essay Award is made each year from a fund established in 1944 by Mrs. Nancy E. Harrison in memory of her husband, Class of 1895. It is awarded to the students who submit the best essays in the field of American studies.
•Robert S. Edwards Award in Creative Writing: Darin T. Graber
The Robert S. Edwards Award is given to one who demonstrates the greatest skill and originality in creative writing in a course offered by the English Department.
•Hockenberry Summer Internship: Aaron J. Nicely
Given to a student in the junior class who has demonstrated excellence in fiction writing and outstanding dedication to his craft.
•Kudlaty Senior Spanish Award: Nicholas A. Myers
The Kudlaty Award was established to honor and extend Professor Jack Kudlaty's life-long commitment to teaching and scholarship in Spanish language and literature and is given to the outstanding Spanish major at Wabash.
•Robert A. King German Prize: John Branecki and Darin T. Graber
The Robert King Prize is given to student of the graduating class who has an exceptionally fine record in German and who will continue his education after graduation from Wabash. The prize was established to honor the memory of Professor King, who as a teacher and registrar served the College from 1891 to 1919.
•J. Harry Cotton Philosophy Prize: Jacob M. Rump
The J. Harry Cotton Prize is given to the student judged by the department to have done the best work in philosophy during the year.
•John N. Mills Prize in Religion: Wayne H. Lewis (1st), Joseph R. Seger (2nd)
The Mills Prize is awarded to three students who have done excellent work in religion courses, including courses in the Bible, in the Department of Religion.
•John N. Mills Fellowship in Religion: Terry J. Archambeault, Nicholas A. Myers, and John F. Rentsch
The John N. Mills Fellowship, to be used for graduate study, is awarded to a senior who has done excellent work in the Department of Religion.
•Baldwin Prize in Oratory: Bryce C. Chitwood (1st), David A. Pitcher (2nd), Trey W. Chinn (3rd)
The Baldwin Oratorical Contest is held each year and the prizes are awarded to three students who "compose and pronounce the best orations."
•James E. Bingham Award: Donald M. Tanney
Given to distinguished seniors who will enroll in an A.B.A.-accredited law school for the next academic year.
•David W. Peck Medal: David J. Pryzbylski
The David W. Peck Medal is awarded each year to a senior to recognize "promise or eminence in the law."
•Daniels Award in Philosophy of Law: Timothy C. Flowers
The Daniels Award is given to the student whose paper provides the most effective understanding and evaluation of the philosophical bases on which the Anglo American legal order is constructed. It was established in 1974 by Katherine D. Kane in memory of her father.
•Joseph O'Rourke, Jr. Award in Speech: David J. Pryzbylski
The O'Rourke, Jr. Prize was established by the family of long-time speech professor Joseph O'Rourke, Jr., the prize is awarded annually to the student with the best Senior Project in the Speech Department.
•William Nelson White Scholarship Award: Zachary P. Sundstrom
The White Scholarship Award is given to a senior selected by the college on the basis of scholarship, personal integrity, and an understanding of the professional requirements of the practice of law.
•Theater Performance Prize: Denis S. Farr
The Theater Prize is given to the student who, in the judgment of the theater department staff, has shown exceptional merit in his onstage production work. The criteria for the award include energy and commitment to high standards throughout the rehearsal process, artistic growth and excellence in performance.
•Kenneth W. Kloth Design & Technical Theater Award: Donald E. Claxon
The Kloth Award, presented to the Wabash student who, in the opinion of the Theater Department faculty and staff, has done outstanding work in the areas of scenic or costume design or technical theater.
•Erminie Leonardis Theater History Award: Christopher W. Mehl
The Leonardis Theater History Award is presented to a student who, in the estimation of the Theater Department faculty, has done outstanding work in the study of theater history, dramatic literature or criticism.
•Lewis Catuogno Piano Prize: Steven A. Zusack
The Louis Catuogno Prize in Piano, made possible by a gift from Mrs. Edward McLean in memory of her brother who was chairman of the Department of Piano at Texas Technological University at Lubbock, Texas, awarded to that student who, in the estimation of the chair of the Music Department at Wabash College, demonstrates ability and appreciation of piano as a medium of musical expression.
•R. Robert Mitchum Glee Club Leadership Award: Howard J. Bailey
The Mitchum Award is derived from the R. Robert Mitchum Glee Club Endowment. It was established by former glee club members in honor of the late director and is awarded to a member of the Glee Club who demonstrates outstanding leadership qualities.
•The Glee Club Senior Award: Howard J. Bailey
The Glee Club Senior Award is presented to a student who has made the most valuable contribution of effort and talent to the group.
The Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes Chapel is held every year at Wabash to honor students with awards and prizes for their outstanding work they have demonstrated throughout their college years.


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24 Hour Fitness, INC. Assistant General Manager l in Mountain View, California
FULL-TIME Full-time
LOCATION 550 Showers Drive Mountain View CA 94040
Who we are
At 24 Hour Fitness we are dedicated to our mission of creating a healthier, happier world. We are passionate about providing a fitness community that is accessible, affordable and welcoming to everyone. We're on the hunt for team members who are committed to being the best part of each other's day and who have a genuine desire to help our members achieve results they can feel proud of.
The sneakers you will fill
As an Assistant General Manager, you are the heart and soul of the member service functions within the club, functions that are integral to our core value of creating outstanding guest, member and team member experiences. You will create and nurture a diverse and member-centric team that is committed to our service promise of delivering a clean, friendly, and well-maintained club. You will report to and partner closely with the General Manager (GM) to lead club strategy and execute the Company initiatives that support our mission.
How you will spend your days
Driving attainment of department goals, including member acquisition and retention, retail sales, member satisfaction, and club cleanliness. You will coach your team to hit these targets through a member-centric lens, while providing guidance and continuous performance feedback.
Hiring, training, coaching, and inspiring a team of Service Experts and Kids Club Attendants whose focus is to ensure every guest and member feels welcome and celebrated.
Engaging and encouraging guests, answering questions about membership options, and inviting them to join your club community to help achieve their fitness goals.
Modeling and leading your team to execute our Service Promise of a clean, friendly, and well-maintained club. That promise extends to safety, working equipment, sparkling bathrooms, smiling team members, and every cranny in between.
Continuously inspecting club environment, including equipment, appearance, and general facility conditions, and correcting deficiencies quickly.
Leading front desk operations while curating a one-team mindset across departments to ensure a full-club effort in executing all operational standards and practices.
Managing retail goods, including inventory, promotions and merchandising.
Overseeing the Kids' Club and its team members to ensure an outstanding, safe, and compliant area for our members' children.
Execute back office procedures and systems, including member account and labor management, which support our member and team member functions.
Partnering with Area Group X Manager to manage a Group X Instructor schedule that maximizes our member experience.
What you bring
3-5 years' experience in retail/hospitality/operations industry
2-3 years' experience leading 3-10 employees, including demonstrated success in coaching and managing performance
Phenomenal communication and engagement skills, including relationship building and conflict resolution
Outstanding organizational and multi-tasking skills
Experience operating office equipment such as computers, calculators, and photocopiers.
Must be computer proficient with basic skills in Word and Excel
High School diploma or equivalent required, but we'd love to see a Bachelor's degree
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) certification required
California team members must be registered on the TrustLine Registry
Physical Requirements/Environment
Must be able to work in an environment with occasionally high noise levels. The sound of weights clinking, feet flying across treadmills, and the laughter of lives changing can get loud.
Must be able to effectively communicate with guests, members and team members.
Must be able to move frequently through all areas of the club. Your day includes continuous engagement and interaction with team members and club members.
Daily duties include moving weights, squatting, bending, reaching, spotting, remaining in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time, and moving for prolonged periods of time.
Must be able to access and operate Company computer system including preparing documents, entering data and email.
Travel and Availability
Must be able to travel by car and airplane up to 10% of the time, to join our outstanding training programs, member outreach, team meetings, and more.
Full-time, with flexible availability across week days, weekends, and holidays to best serve our member community
This job posting is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. The order in which duties and responsibilities are listed is not significant. See Job Description for further information about this job.
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Lamborghini's latest exotics borrow heavily from the aerodynamic designs of modern aviation. Makes sense for a group of enthusiasts in a rainbow of Lamborghinis to meet up with a team of pilots for the ultimate desert dogfight.
Photographer Mokhtar Chanine journeyed out to Rabigh Airport in Saudi Arabia to bring us these amazing images of Gallardos trading runway time with Cessnas as part of the first Rabigh Wings Aviation meet.
Sponsored by the Rabigh Wings Aviation Academy, the event was designed "in the spirit of matching g-forces in the air versus g-forces on the ground." A noble pursuit if there ever was one, even if the cars are only related to Audis.
To do this they let the planes and cars loose on a 1.5-mile runway where the cars were able to hit speeds approaching 200 mph in formation with a few of the low-flying aircraft. In terms of pure speed the limited runway distance gives a clear advantage to the planes. On the road course the Lamborghinis have the clear advantage, able to taxi at speeds not recommended for most aircraft.
A quick look at the photos reveals a large variety of the most recent Murcielagos and Gallardos, including an LP650-4, an SV, roadsters, and at least one Balboni Edition. On the plane side it's a collection of Pipers and Cessnas. Advantage Lamborghini, if only for the numerous color options.
Ultimately, the event was less a competition and more a place for car owners and pilots to come together to experience the beauty of speed. And aviator sunglasses. Everyone there loves aviators.
All photos copyright and courtesy of Mokhtar Chanine. View the full 705-image set on his website.


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She's dying: His drug could save her
Mary Jane Gentry is going to die, and the UVA Health Sciences Center, which has saved countless lives, has pulled away the experimental drug that might save her.
"It was a ray of hope," she says, "and then they stopped it."
When she was diagnosed 18 months ago with an aggressive case of "Lou Gehrig's disease," Gentry knew it was a death sentence. Doctors told her she had less than three years to live.
Desperate, Gentry– herself a nurse at UVA– agreed to participate in a novel drug study. After eight weeks, she was thrilled by a sign that the disease not only seemed to have slowed, but might actually be reversing. She could suddenly move her left hand, which had been useless for several months.
And her experience wasn't isolated: nearly half of the study patients reported noticeable improvements in their condition while none reported side effects.
So why did UVA halt the study?
Wrenching news
Mary Jane Gentry thought she'd put the finishing touches on her new life in the early 1990s. She'd gone back to school to become a registered nurse and had graduated from PVCC with honors. She'd worked her way up to become the clinical director of a dialysis unit at UVA Medical Center. But in the summer of 2003, Gentry, then 45, noticed some weakness in her legs.
"I'd gone to the beach with my daughter," she recalls, "and I noticed how hard it was going up steps."
She blamed an old knee injury, but when her strength didn't return, she made an appointment with her doctor. The exam raised a red flag.
"I couldn't lift my toes," she says.
As a nurse, Gentry knew that could be a sign of a serious problem. "I was thinking MS," she says, referring to multiple sclerosis.
At first, doctors assured her that the problem could be as simple as a pinched nerve. "They told me there was a one in 300,000 chance it was something serious," she says. But to put her mind at ease, they suggested additional exams.
In early August, she underwent a battery of tests, including extensive blood work, multiple MRIs, and finally a test to measure nerve signals. When she hadn't heard back from her doctors by Friday, August 8, 2003, she prepared to leave for a family vacation at Smith Mountain Lake near Roanoke.
"I figured I'd just get the results when I got home the next week," she says. No news, she hoped, was good news.
But an hour before she was to leave, the phone rang.
"The doctor said I needed to come in right away," says Gentry, weeping, "and I needed to bring someone with me."
A medical discovery
Gentry is suffering from ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Like MS, it's a degenerative neurological disease. But unlike MS, ALS always causes complete paralysis, and it doesn't go into remission. Two years after baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered his "luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech at Yankee Stadium, he died from the disease.
Gentry didn't know it when she received the devastating diagnosis, but for a decade a pioneering neurologist had been working to develop a treatment. The doctor was getting ready to launch the first phase of his study in humans, and he happened to be at UVA. The drug was an already developed but unused compound.
"It was just sitting on the shelf of a German drug company," recalls that neurologist, Dr. James Bennett. He believed the drug might help stop– and perhaps even reverse– the nerve cell damage that is characteristic of ALS.
Bennett says that autopsies of ALS patients have shown higher than normal nerve damage from "free radicals."
While free radicals may be best known for their role in aging (various "anti-oxidant" vitamins promise to halt their harmful effects), Bennett believes they play an even more insidious role in ALS.
If he could find a way to stop free radical damage, he thought that perhaps he could slow the disease's progression.
He knew about Mirapex, a drug that had been used to treat patients with Parkinson's disease. It is a "super anti-oxidant" that can absorb more varieties of free radicals than any over-the-counter drug. Even better, it specifically targets mitochondria, the cell structure from which free radicals are released.
But giving ALS patients doses high enough to get positive results would cause devastating side-effects: nausea, disorientation, and, eventually, psychosis.
The drug on the German shelf is pramipexole, the chemical mirror-image of Mirapex. Both have the ability to scavenge free radicals, but the reverse chemistry meant pramipexole might not have the same devastating side effects. He believed it could be useful in treating ALS.
But getting a drug from lab to patient is a complex process.
"I spent three years trying to convince the German company and its American counterpart to develop the drug," says Bennett. Despite the high profile of Lou Gehrig, ALS is an uncommon disease. About 30,000 people in the United States have it at any given time, and drug companies seem to consider it an "orphan disease." With so few potential users, the costs to develop a marketable drug might never pay off.
Finally, Bennett says, "I made the command decision to develop it on my own."
Through the regulatory thicket
Though the German company held the patent on the compound, Bennett audaciously filed a patent application with the UVA Patent Foundation based on the compound's use– for ALS treatment.
"They couldn't believe I'd patented their drug," he laughs, though he says the company never opposed the move.
He hired a Canadian laboratory to synthesize the drug, and in December 2000, he filed what's called an Investigative New Drug request with the FDA.
But it wasn't smooth sailing.
"The chemical wasn't pure enough," says Bennett, so the Canadian company spent two years improving the formula. Eventually, it achieved 100 percent purity.
While Bennett was cutting through red tape, Gentry's condition was worsening– rapidly.
"It's terrifying," she says. "Every day, every week counts for me."
By September 2003, only a month after her diagnosis, she was using a cane. In October, she needed a walker, and by January 2004 her legs had weakened so significantly that she required a wheelchair. Once an avid swimmer and boater, she now lives at The Laurels, a nursing home near Route 29.
Bennett ramped up his efforts. He'd received FDA approval to begin testing, but federal law required him to secure permission from an Institutional Review Board, an ethics committee that approves any research conducted on humans.
"It's to avoid awful things like Tuskeegee," explains Bennett, referring to a notorious mid-20th century study in which doctors allowed African American men to die slowly from syphilis– even after penicillin was shown to cure the disease– in order to study the disease's progression.
The ethics committee at UVA that would oversee Bennett's work is called the Human Investigation Committee. It's a 22-member board composed of doctors, nurses, and non-medical community members appointed by the University. Members serve three-year terms.
Bennett says it took 11 months and three revisions for the Committee to approve his initial "protocol."
After two months– during which he tested "huge doses" on mice with no ill effects– Bennett was ready to give the drug to people.
What risk?
Gentry says the timing– and location– of the study seemed "magical."
"This study happened at this time for a reason," she recalls thinking after meeting Bennett at UVA and again after hearing him speak at an ALS Association meeting in Richmond.
Bennett's disclosure that as the drug's "inventor" he might profit from its eventual sale didn't dampen his research volunteers' enthusiasm– a friend of one even donated $40,000 to help Bennett fund the study. And they brushed off Bennett's warning that any new untested drug could carry serious risks.
"For a person with a terminal illness, risk is not the same as risk applied to a healthy person," explains 53-year-old Norfolk resident Bob Echols, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2003. "In a way, you're kind of beyond risk," says Echols. "If you have ALS, you're going to die, period."
While Gentry says she felt new hope for herself, Echols says the same wasn't true for him: when he was diagnosed with ALS, doctors also discovered he had a second fatal neurological disorder, "Cadasil," that would not likely be improved by the new drug.
Even so, he signed up.
"It made me feel I was doing something positive for a lot of other people I knew," he says.
ALS Association spokeswoman Sarah Stein helped recruit subjects for Bennett's study, but she had little hope that this drug would succeed where so many others had failed. "I lose 50 percent of my patients within a year after meeting them," she explains. "Watching their decline is heartbreaking."
The disease can strike at any age– and can affect any part of the body. The most common first symptom is weakness in an arm or leg, but some people suffer "bulbar" onset, in which they first lose the ability to speak and swallow. But no matter where it begins, the disease progresses relentlessly. Typically, within two years, it robs its victim of all physical function.
The final stage of the disease is a living nightmare.
"It's called 'locked in,'" says Stein. The patient can no longer walk, talk, eat, breathe, even blink their eyes. Cognitive function, however, is unaffected.
Some ALS sufferers– like famed physicist Stephen Hawking– choose to remain on a ventilator. Like Hawking, whose ALS has progressed unusually slowly, communication depends on high-tech gadgets– such as computer keyboards guided by eye movement.
Before they've deteriorated to that extent, most ALS patients tell their families when they want to be taken off life support. "They come to an agreement," says Stein. "'This is how far I'll go.'"
At that point, doctors administer a large dose of morphine to render the patient unconscious. Then the ventilator is turned off.
It's impossible to describe Gentry's horror at this fate. Just two years ago, she was hoisting beams and power tools to renovate her Western Albemarle home. Now she can't lift a fork.
"I just can't believe this is happening to me," she whispers.
Unexpected results
Gentry had been taking Bennett's drug for a month when she noticed something unusual.
"All of a sudden I could move my left hand," she says. Richmond resident Bev Nicola, who was diagnosed with ALS two years ago at age 63, also noticed some exciting changes after she began taking pramipexole.
"I could get up unaided, could walk upstairs, didn't have to use a walker," she says, using a voice synthesizer that translates typed text into sound. But her 10-year-old grandson was especially thrilled with one other change. "I could say a couple of words clearly," she says– something she had not been able to do since losing the ability to speak several months earlier.
Bennett hadn't expected to see results during Phase I of his study– in fact, the first phase of any drug trial is designed only to look for side effects.
In addition, he believed that a larger dose of the drug– perhaps three times the amount his subjects were taking– would be required before any results would be noted.
But after nearly half of his study volunteers offered what he calls "little positive anecdotes," he approached the Committee and asked for another eight weeks.
That, he says, is "when the sh** hit the fan."
Safety first?
In late November, UVA's Human Investigation Committee turned down Bennett's request for an extension.
"The committee had a lot of concerns about a lack of animal safety information," says chairwoman Dr. Karen Schwenzer, an anesthesiologist. "More extensive animal studies are usually done before the drug reaches people. It's absolutely usual practice."
Bennett says he and the Committee differed on study design.
The Committee had approved Bennett for a Phase I study, in which a drug is tested only for safety– not for any positive medical results he might observe.
A frustrated Bennett says the traditional drug study model "hasn't worked for ALS," and he had hoped to implement a "futility model" used during the early days of HIV/AIDS drug research. In such a model, researchers look simultaneously for side effects and medicinal effects. Bennett believes this allows for more rapid scientific advance.
Under the traditional model for which his study was approved, however, studying results is reserved for Phases II and III. Schwenzer explains that in those later phases, an investigational drug is tested against an existing treatment or a placebo in increasingly large groups of people. Once a drug has successfully completed Phase III testing and received FDA approval, it can be marketed.
The Committee, Schwenzer says, had no choice but to reject Bennett's request.
"Though it's very exciting to think that there's a drug out there that may help those with ALS," she says, "the paramount mission of the Committee is to protect the safety of the research volunteers."
Patients with a terminal illness are often "willing to try anything," she says. "They're vulnerable." And because of that, she says, "We want to make sure each study is done properly." Thinking long term, she explains, is crucial.
"Without adequate study design," says Schwenzer, "the future of the treatment of this disease won't be there. Good research design is what's going to help these people."
Gentry says she understands the need for solid science. As a nurse at UVA, she helped conduct several research studies. But what she doesn't understand is how the Committee can claim safety as an issue when no subjects showed signs of complications.
"Why not continue and monitor for safety?" she asks.
Like Echols, she says, safety and risk for the terminally ill are very different issues than for healthy people.
"So what if the drug kills me," she says, "the disease is going to anyway. If we can learn from the drug, then at least my life has some impact in its last few years."
UVA law school professor and ethicist Richard Bonnie says he believes members of the Committee are in a difficult situation.
"It's clear why Dr. Bennett is agonizing about this," says Bonnie, "and I'm sure that from an ethical standpoint, the Committee must be too."
However, the Committee, he says, is charged by the University with holding all human studies to the same set of standards.
"They have their job to do," he says, "and they're trying to do it."
Bev Nicola and her husband, Eli, aren't buying that explanation– especially since her condition has worsened since she stopped taking the drug in late November.
"She's gone backwards," says Eli.
Gentry believes that the Committee based its decision on something other than medicine.
"My gut feeling," says Gentry, citing recent class action suits against the drugs Vioxx and Celebrex, "is that because UVA is the patenting agent on this drug, they're afraid they'll be liable down the road."
Nicola also questions the Committee's decision and says it's hard to know what to think when the Committee hasn't specifically answered letters that she and Gentry have sent.
"I don't think it's science or medicine in the way," she says. "I have to think it's some kind of turf control."
Schwenzer denies that legal implications played any role in the decision.
But it is clear that fall-out from a drug-study-gone-wrong can be serious. The 2001 death of a healthy woman participating in a Johns Hopkins asthma study sent ripples through the scientific research community. Many of Johns Hopkins' studies were affected, says Bennett, and the death damaged that university's reputation.
The ALS Association's Stein doesn't comment on any legal component of the Committee's decision, but she sees serious ethical problems in halting a drug study after the people taking it have begun to believe it may help.
"These people are dying," exclaims Stein. "I want to know how the Committee can allow it to go to human trial and then say there wasn't enough animal testing."
She believes the drug was groundbreaking. "It protected the nerves from further damage," she insists, "and regrew neural pathways."
Schwenzer points out that there's another possibility for the improvements: the "placebo effect." In many studies, patients who simply believe they are receiving a valuable new drug show genuine signs of improvement. In some studies, Schwenzer says, the placebo effect can be found in 30 percent of subjects.
With her nursing background, Gentry says she's familiar with the placebo effect– and doesn't believe it affected Bennett's study.
"With this drug, we were never told it was going to do anything for us," she says. "In fact, Dr. Bennett told us, 'Don't expect anything." Plus, she says, "None of us knew about the other people's positive effects until the study was stopped. That can't be a mind issue, either."
Bev and Eli Nicola say it was simply too soon to know whether her improvements resulted from the placebo effect. Refusing to extend the study– and taking away their hope– was "inhumane," says Bev.
"I don't know if they really understand what's been done to people," says Eli. "It's almost criminal."
New hope
While Bennett's patients were writing letters to the Committee pleading that it reconsider, Bennett went looking for other ways to get the drug to his patients. His best bet: FDA approval for a "treatment use," known less formally as "compassionate use."
In situations where patients have serious or life-threatening conditions for which there is no effective treatment, the FDA can expedite approval for experimental drugs. Such use is not a drug study per se, though Bennett would be required to keep detailed records of any side effects. It's a system designed to provide patients who otherwise have no hope with another opportunity.
Gentry says she feels certain that Bennett won't rest until he's explored every option.
"He's from the old school, where patients come first," she says. "He's so caring, so compassionate."
Ethicist Bonnie says Bennett's decision to go to the FDA is "the right approach."
At press time, Bennett had received approval from the FDA to resume administering the drug to ALS patients. Now it's back before the Committee, which considered his request on Tuesday, February 22. If he gets approval, Bennett says he has enough money left from grants and the friend's $40,000 gift to fund treatment for six months. After that, he'll need more money.
"I hope he's successful," says Bonnie.
Schwenzer isn't making promises. "I can't predict what the Committee will decide," she explains. No final decision is likely for several weeks.
For the subjects of Bennett's study, there is little to do but wait.
"They have my life in their hands," says Gentry. "And I'm not the only one."
Two years ago, Mary Jane Gentry enjoyed swimming and boating. Now, she lives in a nursing home and requires round-the-clock care.
Bev Nicola named her voice synthesizer "Olga," proof that her sense of humor remains unscathed.
Bev and Eli Nicola were high school sweethearts. Nearly 50 years later, he cares for her as her condition deteriorates. "Without help from friends and our church," he says, "this disease would knock you flat."
"The paramount mission of the Committee is to protect the safety of the research volunteers," says Dr. Karen Schwenzer, chair of the Human Investigative Committee at UVA.
"This has been the most inspirational thing I've ever done," says Dr. James Bennett of his ALS drug study. "These are people who have shown me courage, resolve, patience that I didn't think was possible."
"If we can learn from the drug," says Gentry, "then at least my life has some impact in its last few years."


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For those of us who follow economic development in Connecticut, it seems odd to see the Rock Cats saga unfolding without Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The governor's apparatus kicks into gear every time a bakery considers expanding in Bozrah, and he's been especially active in the capital city, where he hopes to live and work for another four years.
Malloy has good reasons to remain silent. He's already under criticism from Republican challengers Tom Foley and John McKinney for what they call overreaching in state aid for private companies and projects. He's right and they're wrong in most of the examples, but the point is, he needs New Britain on Election Day and has nothing to gain by helping Hartford wrest the Double A baseball team from its happy home of two decades.
And for Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra, this is basically an economic bar mitzvah, where he steps up and finally becomes his own man. No way did he want Malloy anywhere near the pulpit of those city hall steps on June 4, when he unfurled the scroll of his very own, $60 million plan.
Well, don't believe what you don't see.
Sooner or later, the state simply must step in. And under Malloy, it will — perhaps quietly at first, and perhaps never as the main force, but the numerous tentacles of state development will not be quelled by the move of the Metro Hartford Rock Cats. So Segarra might think he's acting on his own but, in reality, he's forcing Malloy's hand. Here's why:
•The city is broke and needs state help. Hartford can bring the stadium plan's annual cost down from the widely reported $4.3 million a year of borrowing costs in various ways — including parking revenue (up to $500,000 a year); shared naming rights (easily $225,000 a year, maybe more); and, mostly, from the property taxes generated by the newly hot Downtown North district. But at least in the early years, the cost is likely to reach at least a couple of million dollars.
•This is a regional play, not a city ballpark. Most of the fans will come from outside of Hartford, just as today, when the vast majority of Rock Cats fans come from beyond New Britain. And the long-term economic benefits will accrue to the region, not the city, if the stadium plan achieves its only real goal of bringing vibrancy to the core city.
•The state, not the city, would see the immediate financial gains. The stadium would spin off an immediate benefit of $1.7 million a year in sales and use taxes, according to the city's consultant, Brailsford & Dunlavey — all of it heading to state coffers (tickets, luxury boxes and concessions, $600,000; hotel taxes, $500,000; taxes from new activity outside the stadium, $600,000). Likewise, the state would see any income taxes from higher personal or business earnings. At the very least, the city will bargain with the state for some of that bounty in exchange for paying for the stadium.
•The state is involved, anyway, by default. A little more than half of the city's $552 million annual operating budget comes from the state, and through the Malloy-controlled Capital Region Development Authority, the state calls the shots on virtually all of the highest-profile capital projects, including the XL Center and the convention center.
•Beyond parking fees and naming rights, non-state sources of stadium-related revenue will prove elusive for Segarra. The Rock Cats will rightly object to a special ticket tax and, anyway, that would probably need state approval. The team might also object if the city tries to line up its own corporate support, as officials have suggested might happen. Finally, the so-called "private investor" deals could be tied to the city-owned property around the stadium, but not the stadium itself — because there's no cash flow that they could capture.
The Hartford move makes all the sense in the world. Having the team in a parking lot next to New Britain High School, nowhere near anything, makes for a lovely and convenient night out for families but doesn't help the region very much at all. If we want Hartford to grow into the standing of low-second-tier cities — places like Milwaukee; Sacramento, Calif.; and Columbus, Ohio — then we need this stadium plan.
Much has been said about the 660 jobs that the stadium plan would create, directly and indirectly. We all know that despite rosy studies, stadiums often don't spur an economy as promised. But first of all, in a metro area with 600,000 jobs, the added positions are far less important than the possibility of attracting people to the city. And second, because the stadium is planned for a redevelopment zone, the figure of 660 jobs is not far-fetched.
So, in short, Segarra might be coming into his own in this Rock Cats deal with the Solomon family, but Hartford is basically a ward of the state.
Yes, the city has enough borrowing power to make this happen on its own, but it's like a teenager with a part-time job declaring that she's going to spend "her own money" on a car. She'll plunk down her last dollar on those wheels — and mom and dad will have to give her that much more spending money for college.
And what happens when the insurance bill comes due?
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August 9, 2018, the above-named defendant Melvin
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The ensemble specializes in the ingenious use of period instruments to produce 'ravishing sonorities and full-bodied textures' (Gramophone) with 'their powerful cohesion, warm sound, and their eloquent authority' (Diapason). The group has 'carved something of a niche for itself in imaginative and well-thought-out programming'; 'its work is the fruit of both scholarly research and charismatic musicianship, a combination that puts it at the forefront of period-instrument ensembles' (BBC Music Magazine). With a chronological remit spanning epochs from the Renaissance to the early classical, this 'idea-based' ensemble appears in many guises, from a Tudor–Restoration domestic-devotional vocal group, or an Elizabethan mixed-consort, to a baroque orchestra, and many other surprising — yet historical — combinations.
Charivari Agréable (trans. 'pleasant tumult', from Saint-Lambert's 1707 treatise on accompaniment) was formed at the University of Oxford in 1993, and within the year became a prize-winner of the International Early Music Network Competition, made its debut at the Wigmore Hall, and recorded the first of many subsequent live concerts for the BBC, including Radio 3's 'In tune', 'Music Restor'd', and 'The Early Music Show'. Charivari Agréable has since recorded for New York's WNYC, and many other European radio stations, including the European Broadcasting Union. Their discography of 21 discs have garnered such accolades as the Diapason d'Or, Gramophone Editor's Choice, International Record Review's 'Best CD of the Year', Classic FM's Christmas Choice, BBC Music Magazine's 'Outstanding CD', and MusicWeb International's 'Recording of the Year'.
Ever innovative, the ensemble is sought after for private functions, ranging from weddings to dinner parties and special events. They have the knack of designing imaginative and bespoke entertainment for a wide spectrum of clients, from the numerous institutions within Oxford University, college rectors/fellows' birthday parties, and corporate functions, to a variety of (academic and business) conferences; Charivari Agréable recently featured at a candlelit blacktie dinner for pop group Duran Duran!
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I just wanted to show my support for GAC as well.
I've never met him in person, but I live in his area of Ohio, so if he needs anything... let me know.
I just wanted to show my support for GAC as well.
I've never met him in person, but I live in his area of Ohio, so if he needs anything... let me know.
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
We are all thinking of you GAC, here's hoping things can only get better.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
So sorry to hear this, GAC. Hang in there! At least your family is safe, that's the most important thing. My prayers are with you.
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
GAC seems like a great guy. Tragic news, my thoughts and prayers are with you as well.
Oh my dear god. Words fail me, friend. Know you're in my thoughts.
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Hang in there GAC, material possessions can be replaced, at least everyone is ok.
Terrible news. I'm glad the family is safe.
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GAC, if you need anything sooner than later please ask. I'm glad you and yours are fine.
My God, this is awful. Thank God everyone made it out safely though. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, GAC. If there's anything I can do, let me know.
Sorry to hear it. But stuff can be replaced, people can't, so thank the Lord for that.
If someone close to the situation can let us all know how to help, please do.
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I was thinking about getting together a donation drive like we did for Sandy. I would be willing to once again collect through paypal or you could send checks and/or money orders.
I like TC's idea with gift cards also! We could do one or both. Everyone let me know what you think?!
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I'm sorry to hear of your loss GAC. It's tough to lose things like that, especially those things of sentimental value. I'm glad to hear your family is okay. That's what's important. You and your family are in my thoughts.
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GAC, I am so saddened by this. It makes me feel sick to imagine. You and your family will be in my prayers. Give them an extra hug tonight.
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Corndog Muffins
Note: I used cupcake liners, sprayed with Pam, which was a mistake. Use a good non-stick muffin pan instead.
You can serve these with a little yellow mustard or ketchup if you'd prefer. Enjoy!
Corndog Muffins
Makes 18 muffins
- 2 (8.5 ounce) packages cornbread mix
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 cup grated Cheddar cheese
- 9 hot dogs, cut in half
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease muffin tins.
2. Stir together the cornbread mix and the brown sugar in a large bowl. Whisk the eggs and milk in a small bowl until smooth. Fold the eggs and cheese into the dry mixture until moistened. Spoon mixture into muffin tins until 2/3 full. Add 1 hot dog half to each muffin.
3. Bake in a preheated oven 14 to 18 minutes, or until golden brown.