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IEC 61010-1 Third Edition
3rd Edition Risk Assessment: What you need to know
The 3rd Edition of IEC 61010-1, Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use – Part 1: General requirements, and thus, all national versions of this standard, introduced a new element that was not included in previous editions, the Risk Assessment. Since the release of the 3rd Edition, there have been varying interpretations regarding if and when a Risk Assessment is a requirement or merely an option. The disagreements have occurred between different Certification Bodies, between test houses and manufacturers, and even within specific discrete entities.
Given this previous uncertainty and the possibility of inconsistently imposed requirements, MET Laboratories performed an in-depth review of the requirements of the standard. The goal of this review was to develop a defined position regarding 61010-1 3rd Edition Risk Assessment requirements, to better meet our customers' expectations of consistent interpretations across all of our Safety Laboratories.
To that end, MET Laboratories has determined that products or systems that have any of the following features will be required to have a Risk Assessment performed:
- When human interaction with the equipment is required;
- For equipment with displays, indicators, controls or terminals;
- For equipment with moving parts that exceed limits set in Clauses 7.3.4 and 7.3.5, and;
- For equipment with an energy protection level below 5J.
MET Laboratories anticipates that most 61010-1 3rd Edition projects will at least meet either or both of the first two items, and thus Risk Assessments will need to be performed and submitted with the project. To assist with this endeavor, Risk Assessment guidance is provided on the following pages, and additional assistance may be obtained by contacting your MET Labs representative.
- 1. Risk analysis
Risk analysis is the process to identify hazards and to estimate the risks based on the use of available information.
- 2. Risk evaluation
Each risk analysis requires a plan to evaluate the estimated severity and likelihood of a risk, and to judge the acceptability of the resulting risk level.
- 3. Risk reduction
If the initial risk level is not acceptable, steps shall be taken to reduce the risk. The process of risk analysis and risk evaluation shall then be repeated, including checking that no new risks have been introduced.
In graphical form, from Annex J:
The Risk Evaluation step involves some sort of calculation, based on the severity of harm from an event (J.1 below) and the likelihood of the event occurring (J.2 below), that determines whether a risk is acceptable to the manufacturer.
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One World Trade Center may symbolize not victory over terror but miserable commutes.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns both the skyscraper and the transportation links between the two states, has neglected its bridges, tunnels, trains and bus terminal to rebuild Downtown.
Rebuilding the World Trade Center was always going to be hard. But then-Gov. George Pataki (the NY and NJ governors control the Port Authority) made it a lot worse —and far more expensive.
With $20 billion pouring in from Washington, plus insurance, why not indulge starchitects dreaming of abstract-art skyscrapers and a "soaring" PATH-train hub? Someone else would pay — $1.3 billion for 1 WTC, $2 billion for the PATH station.
In 2006, the pols admitted they needed a redesign — but they never were honest about the cash.
Pataki & Co. (mostly him) burdened the Port Authority for decades. The agency took over 1WTC from developer Larry Silverstein, who also got PA financial help to build other towers at the site.
Today, 1 WTC will cost $3.9 billion. The PATH station has soared to $3.7 billion. And we can't get back the federal money that pols spent on a sports museum and on the Bank of America and Goldman Sachs towers.
That's how the Port Authority got caught on the hook for $7.7 billion (after money from other sources) for WTC rebuilding.
And it's borrowed all that. In 2002, it owed $9.5 billion. Now, it owes $19 billion. And it won't even start repaying some of those bonds until 2039.
It will be at least another decade before anyone knows whether the towers will repay their investments. The signs aren't promising.
The complex will have high operating costs. In 2000, the last year of the old WTC's operations, costs were $203.9 million ($272.8 million in today's dollars). Without any buildings yet open for business, operating costs — not rebuilding costs — were $106.3 million last year. When the buildings are complete, it'll be roughly $500 million a year.
To cover those bills, the agency would have to lease all the available office space in the two towers being built for at least $80 per square foot, nearly twice today's rates.
The old WTC was profitable when Wall Street was growing. Today, Wall Street is contracting. Conde Nast, the tenant signed for one-third of the 1WTC space, is cost-cutting. The nearby World Financial Center is losing tenants to Midtown.
And tech firms — the ones that, if we're lucky, will be the city's new big growth industry — are happy with older, cheaper space. Their clients aren't like the folks bankers call "muppets," impressed by fancy views.
But the muppets are folk who use New York and New Jersey transportation. And the Port Authority can't offer them much.
Last year, the PA hiked tolls for the second time in three years. And now tolls are set to rise every year for the foreseeable future.
But the Port Authority can still barely keep up with maintenance on its Depression-era bridges and tunnels. Of the $25.1 billion that the PA has spent on capital investment since 2002, about $9.4 billion, or 38 percent, has gone toward WTC redevelopment. And WTC debt will leave less for future investment.
The agency ought to be spending on core projects.
Manhattan needs a new bus terminal; backups at the PA bus terminal force commuters to wait needlessly in long lines on a daily basis.
LaGuardia is desperate for the "state of the art" terminal that the PA has long promised, so that waiting travelers have a place to sit. JFK needs a faster ride to Midtown.
At Penn Station, NJ Transit and Amtrak travelers face delays. Two years after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie canceled plans for it, New York and New Jersey still need another rail line.
Christie and New York's Gov. Cuomo can do something. They can appoint to the authority's board people who aren't afraid to speak up, especially when the politicians won't like what they hear.
Instead, Christie has appointed his former chief of staff, now a pharmaceutical-industry lobbyist. Cuomo has named the La Prensa and El Diario publisher.
Both governors also should disavow "regional programs" — pork —that have nothing to do with bi-state transit. Last year, such programs consumed $153 million, including $60 million on debt payments. It would have been enough to pay for a new bus terminal.
Last month, the Port Authority announced it might take over the Atlantic City airport — miles from the bi-state border. It's another bailout for the casinos.
When New Yorkers and New Jerseyans look for someone to blame, politicians point to "the Port Authority."
The governors should point at their predecessors — and in the mirror.
Adapted from the forthcoming
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I just got back from vacation in Costa Rica, which was absolutely awesome, but my mind never completely escaped Christmas. It didn't help that even the resort was all decked out in Christmas decorations. (You should have heard my squeals of delight when I saw lighted reindeer surrounding the pools….EEEEEE!)
So, with Christmas inspiration even on a beach, I had an idea for December. I am going to attempt to do a 12 Days of Christmas (ornaments!) blog project…12 posts of handmade ornament DIY's. This is going to be tough, because these things can get really time consuming, but I'm going to try my very best. I am positive that I will not be able to manage these 12 days to be all in a row…but still, I will try to do them all before Dec 24th.
So…it's December 1st… the perfect day to start!
And today, I have something really simple: an ornament wrapped in braided trim. So easy to do, but such pretty results:
What you'll need:
- a styrofoam ball (I used a 3″ ball)
- a pretty trim. The candy swirled trim I used for my ornament turned out awesome. Here is one I found that looks similar to the one I used. But then again, a solid color, like gold or silver, would be incredibly elegant! (Okay…future blog post idea.) The amount you will need depends on the size of the ball and the size of the trim…for my ornament, I used 1/8″ trim and it took just under 10 yards to cover the ball.
- clear glue. My favorite craft glue is Beacon's 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue. It grabs quickly, and dries perfectly clear and permanent. (Just don't wipe your glued up fingertips across your jeans like my spacey self keeps doing, because when I say permanent, I mean nothing seems to be able to take this stuff out.)
- a couple of pretty beads for the top and bottom of the ornament.
- a couple of straight pins
- some ribbon for the hanger and embellishments
Add glue here and there as you go to secure the trim.
If you do not have a continuous piece of trim, no worries…just make sure the end is glued securely, and start with a new piece. It will be hard to see where the pieces start and end once the ball is covered entirely.
It took me a good 25 minutes to wrap this…when you get to the other end, be sure to use a generous amount of glue so that the trim will stay put:
And go until the whole thing is covered:
Honestly, it looks really cool just like it is now. Wouldn't a few of these grouped together make awesome bowl fillers?
But I wanted to make it into an ornament, so I cut a few pieces of coordinating ribbons into varying lengths, between about 3 to 4 inches each, angling the edges:
I also used an 8″ piece of ribbon for a hanger. Just thread a second bead onto a pin, and form a loop with your hanger ribbon right after the bead:
Then pin right through the centers of each of your pieces of ribbon:
Put some glue where your trim ended:
…and stick in your hanger.
A little dab of glue right under the bead doesn't hurt either:
All done!
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We snuck in (or casually moseyed in, actually) to CEDIA's main show floor, which is still being set up for tomorrow's opening, and we've learned a few things in advance of any announcements.
Sony's Motionflow wall which was in the process of being powered up had a 240Hz set like the 200Hz Bravia we saw at IFA (240Hz NTSC = 200Hz PAL), which indicates Sony is bringing some or all of its Euro IFA goods (including, hopefully, the super-thin ZX1) stateside. We also spied a Sharp X-Series Aquos all fired up in their booth (shown in the image above), which very well may be the WHDI wireless set announced in Asia a few months back, which indicates Sharp is pushing their thin LCDs even harder, and in larger sizes. We also learned that it must really suck to have to vacuum tradeshow floors after setup. Hit the gallery for more shots of the majors' booths.


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This article was originally published on page 1 of Sunday Independent on
December 09, 2007
December 09 2007 at 12:11PM
By Eleanor Momberg
A mother and son were murdered and three other people critically wounded in
a shooting in a home in Fourways, Johannesburg, early on Saturday.
The murder of the 52-year-old woman and her 26-year-old son came in a week
when police expressed concern about the increase in house robbery, business
robbery and truck hijackings in the six months from April to September this
Superintendent Eugene Opperman, the Gauteng police spokesperson, said an
unknown number of assailants, armed with handguns, had gained entry to the
Chartville home.
It was unclear whether they smashed a window before breaking the burglar
bars, or whether the window was left open.
"When they entered the house, the people started waking up and the
assailants opened fire," said Opperman.
The woman and her son, whose names are being withheld by police, were
killed, while another man and woman, both in their 30s, and a 19-year-old
man were critically wounded. The three wounded were hospitalised.
"The attackers fled without taking anything," said Opperman.
Releasing the crime statistics for the six-month period this week, the
police said house robbery had increased by 7 percent to 6 711, business
robbery by 29 3 percent to 4 438, and truck hijacking by 53 3 percent to
While most house robberies happened in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the
highest increase in this type of crime was recorded in the Free State.
Gauteng reported 3 568 house robberies during this time - 7 percent less
than the same time in 2006. The largest decrease in these crimes was in the
Northern Cape.
Business robberies increased by more than 190 percent in Limpopo and the
Free State. In contrast, Gauteng showed a 2,6 percent increase in armed
robberies at businesses and KwaZulu-Natal a 71 percent increase on the same
six months in 2006.
Murder, rape, indecent assault, attempted murder, assault with intent to do
grievous bodily harm and robbery with aggravating circumstances had,
however, shown a general decrease, said Dr Chris de Kock, the police's chief
According to the report, house robbers operated mainly in small groups,
usually struck at night and tended to hold up their victims with firearms.
In most cases, their first contact with their victims was in their homes
after they had gained forced entry.
They most often stole cellphones, money, DVD players, clothes, jewellery,
television sets and sound systems, followed by vehicles.
While people could expect to be attacked while walking or driving anywhere
in the world, house and business robberies were of particular concern, the
report said.
Besides armed robberies, more than 70 percent of hijackings also happened
either in front of, or at, a person's home.
De Kock said that, even if crime dropped by 50 percent, the perception of
high crime levels would remain.
Because most of the aggravated robberies occurred in suburbs in the middle
to higher socio-economic areas with older residents, the chances were
greater that at least once a week a well-known resident would fall victim to
house robbery or carjacking, which would be reported in the media.
The report noted that, when people think about business robberies, they
usually imagine large groups (10 to 14) of heavily armed men "attacking"
shopping centres and malls.
"Such incidents do, indeed, occur, but account for only a small proportion
of business robberies."
By far the largest number of business robberies affected small to medium
factories and conventional shops in central business districts and suburban
areas. Cash, cellphones, food, alcohol and cigarettes were the items most
Opperman said house robberies and shootings happened "very often" despite
the police's frequent warnings for people to lock their windows and doors,
not to let strangers into their homes and to use installed alarm systems.
"They are not using the security gates installed; they are not using the
alarms they paid to have put in; they might lock the security gate on the
front door, but then leave the back door open. People still open their doors
to strangers who come and ask to use the toilet or who say they have to fix
the phone. We have warned people countless times."
Opperman said it was "totally impossible" to have a policeman stationed at
each house, on each street corner or at each shop or mall at all times of
the day.
All South Africans, he said, should take their personal safety seriously and
should learn from those communities that were taking action and had shown
that crime levels could be brought down.
He attributed the reduction in house robberies in Gauteng to the police's
Operation Trio, which had been running since the first quarter of the year.
"There have been many arrests," he said.


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Ottawa's gluten-free pizza: Melodie visits Bella Vista Restaurant
Melodie Cardin (Twitter) has lived in the National Capital Region since 2000. A 2007 graduate of Carleton University's school of journalism, she's now the Manager of Communications for a small project assisting Canadian researchers to collaborate internationally. Melodie has also blogged at Losing It In Ottawa, and plays roller derby with the Rideau Valley Roller Girls.
I began suffering from migraines in my early twenties and discovered that gluten is a major trigger. I went more or less gluten-free in 2009 (I can still have the odd bit, but I try to avoid it as much as possible.)
Four years ago, it was hard to find gluten-free alternatives in Ottawa. Now, Ottawa has become almost a haven for celiacs and others who suffer from gluten sensitivity.
In particular, the options for pizza have really taken off; even chains like Pizza Pizza and Gabriel's offer gluten-free crust options, and plenty of the nicer, gourmet pizza places do also.
So for those poor souls out there who can't just eat "normal" pizza – who makes the best?
There are a few in Ottawa I'm partial to, and lots more I'm ready to try.
My starting place is Bella Vista Restaurant, and this is partly because Bella Vista is one of the few places that has had gluten-free for a long time. (Also partly because I was at a party in the South end, so it was convenient.) It's a bit off the beaten track for downtown folks like me, but it has a few things that set it apart.
Particularly, crust thickness. While many GF crusts are thin, (it's hard to get a thick crust to hold together) Bella Vista's is thick. I enjoy thin crust gourmet Italian-style pizzas very much, but I also enjoy a thick crust American-style pizza once in awhile, and this is what you'll find at Bella Vista. Nothing inventive particularly inventive on this menu – combination, Greek, Hawaiian. I ordered a combination. It comes nicely cooked with the right amount of cheese – I'm usually a fan of more cheese, but I don't like pizza that's too greasy. The crust is crispy on the bottom, soft inside. It is a little denser and has a slightly more crumbly texture than a regular version, but it's a very respectable facsimile. It's sort of like having pizza on a ciabatta.
The gluten-free version is a little more expensive than the regular, but you can still get a large for under $30.
I do not like cold pizza, but I do like it reheated, so I partly judge a pizza on how well the leftovers warm up. (I heat it in my toaster oven, or even in the large oven, rather than the microwave, which I find makes the crust too soft.) Bella Vista's is still good the next day although the slightly bizarre texture does become a bit more pronounced.
Bella Vista also gets points for doing take-out, delivery in the South end, and having a big eat-in restaurant that also offers gluten free pasta and lots of other options.
It's not fancy – but it is family-friendly. I should mention that although they are knowledgeable and have been catering to GF needs for a long time, their kitchen isn't dedicated.
Bella Vista: 7.5/10


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Monday, July 23, 2007
Boulez - Rituel In Memoriam Maderna
Bruno Maderna was a close friend of Pierre Boulez. In 1958 Boulez and Maderna were conductors of two of the three orchestras in the fraught premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen, the third orchestra was directed by the composer. My picture above, from the Stockhausen archive, was taken at a rehearsal for the premiere in Cologne. Left clicking on the image will enlarge it. Stockhausen is conducting orchestra 1 on the left, Maderna orchestra 2 in the centre, and Boulez orchestra 3 on the right. The photo at the foot of the article shows Boulez, Maderna and Stockhausen in Darmstadt in 1956, and, interestingly, was taken by Hans Keller. .
Maderna's relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra was established before Boulez's period as the orchestra's chief conductor, and was one of the many fruits of William Glock's period as BBC Controller of Music between 1959 and 1972. Maderna made his debut with the orchestra in 1959 when he gave the first public performance in Britain of Schoenberg's Op. 22 Songs, together with the symphonic extracts from Berg's Lulu and Stravinsky's Les Noces.
Maderna conducted the BBC Symphony in the notorious premiere of Luigi Nono's uncompromisingly left wing opera Intolleranza at the 1961 Venice Biennale. Protests included stink bombs thrown at the orchestra in the first act, and after the interval Maderna turned up the volume of the pre-recorded chorus parts to drown out the dissenters. In those pre-Classic FM days the BBC relayed the performance live from Venice.
In his invaluable autobiography Notes in Advance (OUP ISBN 0198161921) William Glock writes ~ Maderna himself was one of the most sympathetic human beings I have known, a man of great warmth and amplitude, always generous to other musicians without being blind to their failings. A familiar sight (at Dartington) was to see him with a bottle of wine under each arm and a hamper of food, which he would then cook and devour with friends with the gusto that marked everything he did. As a conductor he achieved authority and friendliness together, and would congratulate individual players on some felicitous phrases in their performance. But, though he was a leader of the avant-garde to whom many others such as Luigi Nono owed a great deal, he did not shut himself away from the music of the past, and more than once I played the Mozart Sonata for two pianos with him, and saw the way he revelled in it".
In 1970 Maderna premiered his Quadrivium with the BBC Symphony, a performance that prompted a perceptive critic to describe the work as - "a large piece, around half an hour long, full of exuberant, romantic, well-wined music, expertly constructed, beautifully scored." Maderna was a regular guest with the orchestra while Boulez was chief conductor, and it was during this period that I was fortunate to see Maderna conduct. I have already praised his Mahler Ninth here which I heard in the 1972 Proms, an interpretation which critic Dominic Gill described as - "both convincing and moving. In human, dramatic terms often very impressive...the final pages were absolutely right." Maderna was also a champion of Elisabeth Lutyens, and programmed her Music for Orchestra 1 with the BBC Symphony.
In March 1972 Boulez conducted Maderna's Aura in place of a new work of his own which was unfinished. In the autumn of that year Maderna was to have conducted a BBC Symphony concert including his Third Oboe Concerto, but he fell seriously ill and withdrew. In November 1972 Maderna died, and this tragedy provided the inspiration for Boulez to complete his unfinished commission.
Rituel in Memoriam Maderna is one of a series of musical memorials by Boulez, which include the Tombeau added to Pli selon pli for Prince zu Fürstemberg, ..explosante - fixe... for Stravinsky, and Messagesquisse for Paul Sacher. Rituel is scored for eight separate groups of instruments, including double percussion in one group. The clarity of structure and Eastern sounding percussion makes Rituel one of the most accessible of Boulez's compositions, and William Glock described it as "the majestic processional in memory of Bruno Maderna". The photo above shows Pierre Boulez at the BBC Maida Vale studios in 1969, before a rehearsal for the premiere of Pli selon pli with the BBC Symphony.
The premiere of the BBC commissioned Rituel in Memoriam Maderna was given by Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in April 1975. In November 1976 Boulez and the orchestra recorded the work for CBS in the Henry Wood Hall, London. The fine recording, produced by Paul Myers and Roy Emerson and engineered by Bob Auger, is still in the catalogue at mid-price. It still sounds wonderful, and is highly recommended both as a valuable document of Pierre Boulez the composer, and a moving tribute to Bruno Maderna the musician. The CD couplings of Eclat and Multiples were recorded with Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain at IRCAM in Paris.
Staying with Pierre Boulez, IRCAM and the Ensemble InterContemporain, Deutsche Grammophon has just re-released important recordings of three of his later works, Sur Incises (1996/1998), Messagesquisse (1976-1977) and Anthèmes (1997). The CD was recorded in Paris in 1999 with the composer conducting the Soloists of the Ensemble InterContemporain in the first two works. Wonderful music, wonderfully recorded, and in today's crazy music market it is retailing in the UK for just £6.99 ($13). Both this re-release and the CD of Rituel In Memoriam Maderna are musts, both for card carrying Boulez fans, and for any readers who haven't yet been fortunate enough to discover his special sound world.
For more Bruno Maderna resources follow this path,
Picture credits. Pictures 1 and 3 Stockhausen archive, picture 2 BBC. Nicholas Kenyon's excellent book The BBC Symphony Orchestra contains invaluable listings of the premieres given by that great orchestra. Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Report broken links, missing images and other errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
9 comments:
- Pliable said...
Both Bruno Maderna and Pierre Boulez have recorded Mahler's epic Ninth Symphony. I bought Boulez's account with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when it came out in 1998, but have rarely listened to it since as it had struck me as one work where Boulez's musical sang-froid doesn't really work, particularly in the vital last movement.
I dug it out of my 'reserve collection' while writing this post and re-auditioned it. It certainly doesn't have the power of Maderna's reading, but there is some wonderful music making there (and fine playing from the CSO), and I think, perhaps, my judgement was too harsh. I'll keep it out of the reserve collection for some further listening.
Now wouldn't it be interesting to hear Karlheinz Stockhausen's reading of Mahler's Ninth?
- 5:32 pm
- Pliable said...
Boulez's predilection for composing memorial pieces is also found in one of his heroes, Stravinsky.
Symphonies for Wind Instruments for Debussy, Variations for Aldous Huxley, Introitus for T.S. Eliot, Ode for Natalia Koussevitsky and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas immediately spring to mind, but I am sure readers will add more.
- 5:34 pm
- Garth Trinkl said...
On another matter, Karlheinz Stockhausen's cadenza for Haydn's violin concerto isn't half as grotesque as is Alfred Schnittke's famous cadenza for the Beethoven concerto...
Epitaphium "für das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Fürstenberg" (1959); Double Canon "Raoul Dufy in Memoriam" (1959); and Elegy for J. F. K. (1964) are other Stravinsky memorial examples; which, like the last two you cite, are also hexachordal 12 tone ... [Roger Sessions was perhaps America's leading composer of individualist, public elegies.]
Perhaps one could also ask if there are works by Gyorgy Kurtag which do not bare a memorial or other inscription.
(I recall hearing James Levine conduct Bruno Maderna's moving Quadrivium with (I believe) the Juilliard Orchestra, in March 1976. Though I don't recall it being explicitly a memorial performance, it indicated that the young, tremendously gifted James Levine was connected to the world-wide -- and not just American -- classical music world.)
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- Pliable said...
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- Henry Holland said...
Ah, one my favorite Paths of yours Pliable since I started to read OAOP two (three?) years ago.
I love Rituel in Memoriam Maderna, I listened to it on my iPod a few weeks ago. I wish that there was more than one official recording of it or I could find some live versions on my usual file theft sites.
I know Boulez is The Great Bogeyman of 20th Century music along with Schoenberg, and while I certainly don't like all of his pieces, there are some that are among my favorite pieces of music.
I went to a performance of Pli selon Pli at the Concertgebouw when I was in Amsterdam recently and despite the excellent performance by the ASKO Ensemble and Barbara Hannigan I wasn't impressed by the piece all that much; I hadn't heard it in a while.
I keep hoping that a performance of the amazing Repons will take place in the US so I can easily afford to travel to hear it but it's obviously very complicated to do in a live situation.
About 15 years ago (?) Mr. Boulez conducted the four Notations that he had then completed the orchestral versions for here in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic and it was one of the most stunning things I've ever heard in a concert hall. The Phil back then could just barely play the pieces (they'd have no problem now that Mr. Salonen has whipped them in to shape) but what stunning music. I've really wanted Mr. Boulez to come back and conduct here, anything will do, but he hasn't been here in at least a decade. I wonder if he and Mr. Salonen had a falling out? :-(
Great picture of the set-up for the Gruppen premiere and what handsome men Boulez and Stockhausen are in the bottom picture. There's apparently going to be a book about the gay aspect of the Darmstadt group appearing soon and while I will buy it instantly, I'm also afraid that the revelations in it will be used to browbeat that group, much like if you read some of the criticism of Britten in the 40's-70's, there's a barely disguised layer of homophobia to it. As if a lot of people needed the gay angle to denigrate the Darmstadt composers, any excuse along the lines of "they killed classical music" will do! :-)
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- Oliver said...
I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but do you, Pliable, or any other read of this blog, happen to know if a recording was made of Boulez's 2004 Bayreuth performances of Parsifal, and if so, whether there are plans to release it?
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- Pliable said...
Oliver, I have no knowledge of anyy plans for a commercial release of the 2004 Parsifal, but readers may have other information.
With Boulez's 1970 Bayreuth Parsifal still in the DG catalogue (and only released on CD in 1992) the release of a second version does seem unlikely.
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- Andrea said...
Thanks for the interesting post, just a small correction: Maderna died in November 1973, not 1972.
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- Tassilo said...
Pliable writes that he rarely listens to Boulez's DG recording of Mahler's 9th with the Chicago Symphony, giving as a reason that "Boulez's musical sang-froid doesn't really work" for this work. Personally I loathe that recording, but Boulez's DG recordings of the past quarter century are completely unrepresentative of his work in part because of the ghastly post-production that has been inflicted on them by DG's engineers. His live performances including performances that I've heard both in person and on records and his CBS recordings are all of a piece. A majority of the later DG recordings are a vastly different experience. I've had the opportunity to hear recordings of the broadcasts of Mahler's 2nd, 3rd, & 8th symphonies that immediately preceded the DG recording sessions for the same pieces, and the live performances are far more unbridled, far more distinctive, far more "Romantic," and even far better recorded than the DG recordings because they're simply digital recordings of digital broadcasts and not performances licked smooth and artificially polished to a high sheen in post production. Among the very most remarkable Boulez performances that have survived in recordings of live broadcasts are a 1974 recording of Mahler's 2nd with the BBC SO and a 1974 recording of the 8th with the NY Phil, which is a great soaring thing, but there are many terrific live performances of Mahler symphonies with Boulez floating around as downloads. Throw away your DG Mahler recordings with Boulez: they're not real Mahler and they're not real Boulez.
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chaanakya wrote:harbans wrote:The solution to the Chinese nitpicking along the border is simple. Very simple. Derecognize Chinese aggression of Tibet. Claim Kailash Mansarover. Start to reverse the damage done by previous leaders. That message needs to be got through to a potential leader like NM. Obviously while doing all that keep the powder dry.
fully agree. We need to take offensive into their camp.
And what if after these lame announcements by the Government of India, the Chinese intrude even more or worse, embark on a "limited" punitive strike to punish India for its indiscretions. What if then they occupy and keep a fairly large chunk of our territory, a la aksai chin ? Just like 1962 ? Escalating a situation when India does not have the fire power to even defend itself, leave aside "taking the offensive into their camp" would be laughable, if it was not so dangerous. Remember, Nehru in 1962 ? After paying no attention to building up our defenses for years, one fine day, he just woke up and "commanded" the Indian Army to "drive the Chinese out of our territory". The situation today is worse than Nehru's days. Nehru merely neglected to build up our armed forces. Since him, over the last 50 years, we have systematically run down and hollowed out our defenses, mainly due to our internal corruption, which has in last twenty years or so resulted in corrupting of the top brass of the Army too. Besides massive corruption in the Army's procurement process, total apathy and even antipathy among most in our political class to build up our armed forces, over reliance on Russia, over emphasis on "indeginising" of defense production, lack of coherent defense posture and policies, lack of an overall integrated foreign, domestic and defense vision, shamelessness to the extreme, all have contributed to our "hollowed out" defense forces. As if, hollowed out defense forces are not bad enough, there has been no political will to defend our borders. The will has totally collapsed. This is all recent HISTORY. Now let us talk about the present and the future. The present is worse than the recent history I outlined above and the future portends to be even worse. Does anybody see any hopeful signs ? I don't. So, for the sake of argument, even if I agree with you that the Indian government should "derecognize Chinese aggression of Tibet..........", do you see any prospects of the Indian government doing that right now or in the forseeable future ?
I read in a thread elsewhere that Shiv has made a comeback and is upset by this self criticism. "The Chinese blame us and the we Indians blame ourselves too", he said. Well, ok, let us not blame ourselves for the state of affairs. Let us blame all our ills on the Chinese, the Pakis and of course, let us whip our favorite whipping boy again, it is all the West's fault - with massive conspiracies hatched against India everyday in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, but mainly London and Washington. Yep, Americans and the Brits are so obsessed with checking the (long predicted and long awaited) "inevitable rise" of India as an "inevitable super power", an economic giant, a billion people, that they have totally neglected and even colluded with their Islamic enemies to spend all their time plotting against India in all sorts of convoluted ways. Yeah, I "totally believe" that. Now, have I proven myself worthy of receiving a "certificate" of being a "good, dharmic, civilizational Indian", who sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil about our Godly and perfect Dharmic country made up of all Godlike individuals about whom how can anyone even think that they can be corrupt and idiotic.


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It has been more than two years since anyone was executed in North Carolina. In the last few weeks, several legislative actions and court decisions have made it seem likely that executions will resume in the near future. What is really going on?
Medical Board
On May 1st, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued its decision in a lawsuit between the North Carolina Medical Board and the NC Department of Correction. The Medical Board, an agency responsible for licensing and regulation of doctors in North Carolina, had issued a policy stating that doctors cannot ethically participate in executions. The Department of Correction claimed that it was unable to find a doctor willing to assist with lethal injection, and that it was therefore unable to execute its inmates. The DOC sued, and the NCSC ruled that because the legislature has required physician participation in executions, it is not within the power of the Medical Board to sanction doctors for doing so.
Council of State
On May 13th, Wake County judge Donald Stephens issued a decision denying and dismissing the claims brought by several death row inmates against the Council of State, a body of elected officials responsible for, among other things, approving North Carolina's lethal injection protocol. The inmates had alleged that the Council did not follow proper administrative procedure in approving the protocol. Judge Stephens found that the inmates did not have standing to challenge the Council's decision, and that the Council's approval was not subject to further review by any court.
Lethal Injection
Judge Stephens also issued an order setting a hearing during the June 1 session of court for oral argument on the remaining 8th Amendment issues in the inmates' case. Both parties are expected to brief the impact of the US Supreme Court's decision in Baze v. Rees on the question of whether the North Carolina lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual.
The Senate chamber of the North Carolina General Assembly voted this week to approve the Racial Justice Act, which would allow pre-trial defendants as well as death row inmates to challenge the decision to seek or impose the death penalty in their case if it was based on impermissible racial bias. The bill passed with an amendment which prohibited the Medical Board and other health care agencies from disciplining medical professionals involved in executions, removed the requirement that the Council of State approve the execution protocol, and mandated that executions cannot occur more than once every 30 days.
What Happens Now
There will be no appeal in the Medical Board litigation, but it is possible for the inmates to appeal Judge Stephens' decision in the Council of State matter; some of Stephens' findings were contrary to an earlier ruling by another judge. A specific date has not yet been set for the hearing on the 8th Amendment issues related to lethal injection. Finally, the House has yet to pass the Racial Justice Act, and if it does, any discrepancies between the House and Senate versions of the bill will need to be worked out.
It is hard to say exactly if or when executions will resume in North Carolina. Injunctions are still in place preventing the State from re-setting executions dates for the six residents of death row who were scheduled to be executed before the moratorium began.
What we do know is that our system of capital punishment remains imperfect. In the years we have been without executions, three innocent men were freed from death row, having served a combined 41 years and faced death for crimes they did not commit. Many of those who will face execution when the moratorium ends were convicted in an era when the standards for performance by defense counsel and fairness from prosecutors were far below what they are today. No one should be executed until all litigation is resolved and the known flaws with North Carolina's death penalty have been remedied.


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Officer backs DiPino
I have been a police officer for nearly three decades. The opinion I share is mine alone, although, it is shared by many of my peers who choose to remain silent.
I applaud Chief Bernadette DiPino's decision to hold a block party for residents who live in a neighborhood plagued by drug dealing and other associated crime. This barbecue is not intended for law breakers, but rather to bridge the gap between a neighborhood that often feels neglected and the police.
Many of the residents are elderly, live on meager incomes and feel like prisoners in their homes. This party may stimulate a sustained effort by the residents to reclaim their public spaces by replacing nefarious activity with more legitimate uses.
Community policing programs can be very costly. Community policing practiced as an agency-wide philosophy has little impact on fragile police budgets and provides long-term rewards.
I support Chief DiPino not because I have to or hope for some reward. I could choose to remain silent without reprisal. I support this effort because I truly believe that together we can make a difference.
It is a shame that media outlets choose to make the anonymous Neanderthal rantings on a police blog or negative comments from those with a personal ax to grind more the story than a neighborhood in desperate need of help and police officers willing to lend a hand. Chief DiPino's dare-to-be-different approach may be just what is needed.
Patrick Ledwith
Embarrassed by rabbi
In keeping with the season, just a comment on Tuesday's letter, "Agreement broken": I would like all of my non-Jewish friends and neighbors to know that the rabbi certainly does not speak for me and probably many of us who are Jewish, veterans or not. In fact, I am embarrassed by his organization's position that a wreath or any other acknowledgment of honorable service laid against a headstone of a once-fallen soldier is in some way offensive.
Rabbi, they all fought shoulder to shoulder and many died the same way. If I am buried in a veterans cemetery, I would welcome the honor of a wreath at Christmas time.
Matthew Snydman
Atheist students left out
I am a senior at Lakewood Ranch High School and I am concerned about, if not troubled by, the lack of atheist and agnostic representation at my school and the community at large. It seems that atheists such as myself are ostracized by the relatively conservative population in the Lakewood Ranch area and are frightened to speak openly about their beliefs, or lack thereof, for fear of hateful speech and rejection from their religious friends and peers.
My school already has several extracurricular activities for Christian students, such as Mustangs for Christ or the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Although students of all creeds are technically allowed to join these clubs, I feel that there should be a safe community where atheists and agnostics can come together to make new friends who have similar beliefs and to support each other if certain students are shunned by their family or peers for their beliefs.
The problem in creating such a club at school lies in finding a teacher as a sponsor, as the religious beliefs of teachers are considered private and some might be unwilling to come out as atheists or agnostics to fellow employees.
However, I believe that creating an extracurricular group for the minority of atheists and agnostics would help strengthen the bonds of the currently fragmented community and also work to dispel the myths that a lack of religion is inherently evil and wrong.
Briana Boese
Elves in the program
I was happy to read the comment in Tuesday's letters column that a writer thought that the Orioles' production of "Ice on the Diamond -- A Holiday Celebration" was a "great performance."
However, she went on to say that the "elves" in the show were not mentioned in our program.
In fact, they were, with photographs. The lead speaking part was played by Joe Gnoffo, a professional actor/musician who has been in feature films as well as many live stage productions. He toured with Miley Cyrus throughout Europe in 2012. Casey Peterson, who played the female "elf" in our presentation, was also in the program and has been seen recently in Disney's "Oz, the Great and Powerful," starring James Franco.
"Ice on the Diamond" was staged and produced by Jeb Rand of Rand Productions in Las Vegas and more than 2,000 people came out to see an ice show under the Sarasota stars! It was a terrific show and we look forward to presenting many more special events at beautiful Ed Smith Stadium.
David Rovine
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Give solar a chance
I read with interest a recent article in the Herald-Tribune that referred to the state of solar installations in Florida.
As a person quoted in the article points out, Florida lawmakers should be embarrassed to let big power companies lock out a market for solar power in the Sunshine State. It seems that these lawmakers are catering to large investor-owned utilities such as FPL, Duke Energy and Tampa Electric.
They apparently assert that Florida has too many clouds to make solar viable. Are you kidding me? We're the Sunshine State! How are the likes of Delaware, Vermont and Missouri able making it work?
The obvious answer is that the Republican-dominant Legislature and governor are beholden to large utility concerns that undoubtedly contribute large sums of money toward their re-election.
I hope that voters take note as to how their representatives in Tallahassee approach this issue in future legislation.
Steve Berry
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Club to celebrate anniversary this weekend
Horse people seem to "herd" together naturally, so it was no surprise when trail riders in the Cedar Springs/Sand Lake area began to get together in the 1950's for some fun.
Being interested in anything horsy, some of the people decided they wanted more than just trail riding and decided to provide horse shows, open to all, in addition to what the local 4-H program provided. In December of 1961 they decided to form a horseman's club and the Red Flannel Saddle Club was born.
This summer marks 50 years of a non-profit organization that has one of the best show grounds in the Kent and surrounding counties.
The first show was held in 1962. Both Pleasure and speed events were on the show bill and they had a large turnout, which they continued to enjoy for the next two years, at their location on Egner Road.
In 1972 or 1973, the group was able to purchase the current property that the Red Flannel Saddle Club now owns and the club had a permanent home on Shaner Avenue, just south of Sand Lake.
Since then the club has continued to grow in membership and provide area horse people with an organization that supports our sport and passion, including several counties' 4-H horse programs, Michigan Interscholastic Horsemanship Association ( High School Equestrian Teams ), Speed and Pleasure series, and clinics. The club has long had an active history of community service and member support.
The club of horse lovers provide shows and opportunities for riders of all levels and disciplines: English, Western, contesting/speed, and this year dressage and hunter over fences, all showing being judged by top professional judges.
Open to the public, shows are free admission and those showing their horse pay very reasonable class fees. Shows offer daily high point awards and the two RFSC series in Pleasure and Speed award season-end prizes.
People remark on the quality of the grounds and the modern facilities with a great clubhouse and restrooms. All appreciate the opportunity to socialize with other horse people and to have fun with their families. The members work hard to provide a pleasant attractive, safe and constantly improving environment for guests, families and members.
The club will celebrate it's 50th year of serving it's members and the community on August 20 and 21 with the Pleasure Series show on Saturday and the Speed Series show on Sunday. Anniversary cakes will be shared with the riders and guests present during the shows. Friends of the RFSC and those who would like to get to know this club better are invited to come, enjoy the show and have a serving of cake.
For more info on the club or directions, visit www.redflannelsaddleclub.org.


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Investigators search for cause of Hammond man's death nearly 13 years later
Joseph David Hayden found dead April 13, 2000
Investigators are looking for clues in a death that happened nearly 13 years ago.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said it is looking for any information anyone might have regarding the unexplained death of 23-year-old Joseph David Hayden.
Hayden was reported missing on April 12, 2000, after he wasn't seen nor heard from by his mother the previous day about 5:50 p.m.
According to the news release from the Sheriff's Office, Hayden's truck, keys and all of his belongings were found and intact.
Hayden of Olivia Holton Road in Tangipahoa Parish was upset about a relationship, but it wasn't like him to leave without communicating, his family told investigators.
On April 13, 2000, Hayden's body was found near his home. The autopsy reports revealed that Hayden's death was unknown. Toxicology results turned up negative. His body didn't reveal any signs of a cause of death, investigators said.
The Sheriff's Office said it wants to help bring closure to the family and asks that anyone with information call Detective Mike Sticker at 985-902-2088.
Crimestoppers of Tangipahoa Parish, in partnership with the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office and the First Presbyterian Church of Hammond will be offering a community neighborhood watch training program and information session, which is free and open to the public.
The workshop will take place on April 25 in the Anderson Fellowship hall of the First Presbyterian Church at 411 W. Charles St. in Hammond at 6:30 p.m.
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How to Identify Your Baby's Disposition. Tips from the Baby Whisperer to get to know your baby and know what to expect.
|Kaitlyn is angelic to the core
When your baby is first born, he basically sleeps all the time. Once they start to wake up and become more alert (get over the physically draining process of being born), their true personalities start to show. Brayden started out really quite easy, then got harder until I finally started Babywise. Kaitlyn started out ridiculously easy, and stayed that way. I spent the first three months of her life paranoid that any day she would snap out of it and become a real terror. My husband told me to chill out and just enjoy it for what it was. I took that advise, and I am glad I did!
All babies have their own personalities. I have written a post on the importance of knowing who your child is as an individual (see Get To Know Your Child's Personality). In Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (affiliate link), Tracy Hogg says babies differ in the way they sleep, eat, respond to stimulation, and need to be soothed. She also says this personality emerges between days 3-5 and give you a good idea of who your baby is and will be.
I have found this to be true. With Brayden, things were overall hard because I was getting to know him and also getting to know how to take care of a baby. With Kaitlyn, I pretty much fell automatically into caring for a newborn mode (except for a comical moment when I was first dressing her; I waited for her to push her arm through like Brayden did, then I realized she had no idea what I was doing and lacked the physical ability and coordination to do that). One thing I realized, though, was that she was a very different person. Her likes and dislikes were very different from Brayden's. Here are some comparisons for illustrative purposes:
- Sleep: Kaitlyn needed more sleep than Brayden did. She had shorter waketimes and longer naps. She has always been that way. She was born knowing how to sleep easily; Brayden required much learning. This has continued into the older ages. She loves to sleep, Brayden hates it. I tell Kaitlyn it is nap time, and she quickly goes to her bed. She is excited. I tell Brayden it is naptime and half the time he tries to talk me out of a nap. I explain to him this is how life has always been for him; he takes a nap every day. The days he doesn't try to negotiate, he is visibly disappointed that naptime has once again entered his life.
- Eat: Brayden started out having some trouble nursing (I am sure a combination of me and him since I had no clue what I was doing). I called Kaitlyn a champion nurser. Brayden loved baby food and ate a TON of it. We never had trouble with him eating what he needed to. Kaitlyn hated baby food, tolerated it at best. She would take one bite and insist she was done. Both have turned out to be good eaters of normal food, though.
- Stimulation: Brayden has always hated to be naked. He still does. He has always disliked baths. As a baby, he screamed at bathtime. As he got older, he would enjoy himself in the tub once he was there, but he still does not look forward to baths. He gets upset because I insist he takes a bath. Kaitlyn doesn't mind being naked. She has always loved baths. At her current age, she gets upset because I don't let her take 5 baths a day and limit it to 1. I just can't win 🙂 Brayden was never afraid of the sound of power tools or the vacuum; Kaitlyn still cries at the sound of the vacuum. Brayden hated the sound of lots of people inside talking loudly. Kaitlyn loves it.
- Soothed: When Brayden was upset, he did not want to be held to calm down. He needed to really be alone. As a newborn, we would have to lay him on the bed and hold his arms down. He hated to be swaddled. Now at age 3, sometimes he does want to crawl in my lap and be soothed, but he often only requires you to address the problem quickly and he is on his way. If he is really upset, he will go sit himself somewhere alone "so he can calm down" in his words. Kaitlyn has always been instantly soothed by being held. She loved to be swaddled as a newborn. Physical contact is her thing. A hug and a kiss fixes all.
So they are different. They are different people, and even as newborns wanted things done differently. I had expected newborn life to be very similar, but they were totally different. Sure, they have their similarities, but they are very different people. They come with their own unique personalities.
Hogg has created a personality profile test for babies. This is one of the most interesting and beneficial things in this book. She says babies fall into one of five temperamental types: Angel, Textbook, Touchy, Spirited, and Grumpy.
A good friend of mine and I often wonder what our kids would be like without Babywise. We wonder what their personalities would be like without the influence of Babywise in their lives. Hogg says temperment is an influence, not a life sentence. I agree with that. There is a debate of nature vs. nurture in the phsycological world. I believe there is a bit of both from the perspective of how the world looks at it, but mostly nurture from the way I look at it. That is a whole post on its own. Just know that what you do does have an influence on the temperment of your child, for better or worse.
I took the quiz for each of my children (found on page 25). I took it twice for Brayden; once for him pre–Babywise, and once for him post-Babywise. Brayden pre–Babywise was a Touchy baby. Brayden after I started Babywise with him was a Textbook baby. He was a dramatic difference also. Here were his numbers.
- Angel baby: 1
- Textbook baby: 4
- Touchy Baby: 7
- Spirited Baby: 4
- Grumpy Baby: 3
Post Babywise
- Angel baby: 8
- Textbook baby: 12
- Touchy Baby: 0
- Spirited Baby: 0
- Grumpy Baby: 0
Dramatic difference.
Kaitlyn was an Angel baby. Here are her numbers:
- Angel baby: 17
- Textbook baby: 3
- Touchy Baby: 0
- Spirited Baby: 0
- Grumpy Baby: 0
I think Kaitlyn would be an angel baby with or without Babywise. Now for a summary of each temperament:
- Angel baby: Good as gold. Easy to read cues. Flexible and portable. Eats, sleeps, and plays easily and usually doesn't cry when she wakes up. Soothes herself easily and easily puts herself to sleep.
- Textbook baby: Predictable. Fairly easy to handle. Reaches milestones on schedule. Growth spurts on schedule. Can play alone for short periods from a young age. Smiles when smiled at. Has normal cranky periods, but easy to calm. Not hard to get him to sleep.
- Touch baby: Ultrasensitive. Noises bother him. Cries for no reason at times. Fussy after too much stimulation. Loves to suck. Can have difficulty going to sleep. A change in schedule can really throw them off. Love structure and predictability.
- Spirited Baby: Born knowing what she likes and doesn't like and makes it well-known. Vocal and aggressive. Screams when she wakes. Doesn't like dirty diapers. Body language is jerky. Needs swaddling. If she starts to cry without interruption, it leads to more crying until she is in a rage. Grabs toys from other babies when she gets the chance and has the ability.
- Grumpy Baby: Old soul. Seems to be mad at the world. Whimpers in the morning. Doesn't smile a lot. Fusses to go to sleep at night. Hates baths. Hates to be changed. Hate to be swaddled and let you know it.
While Brayden turned into a textbook baby while applying Babywise, I often see moments of his touchiness. He has those tendencies, but with Babywise principles he is able to be more accepting of things like being naked for baths. He doesn't love it, but he does it without a meltdown like he did as a newborn. He also learned to put himself to sleep easily and play on his own.
You can't apply blanket statements to people, and the same is true for babies. You can't treat two babies the same. They are individuals. That is a trick especially for second, third, etc. time parents. You try to apply the same tricks to the new baby you used in the past. It just most likely will not work that way. You have to adjust your approach. Your two kids are no more the same person than you and your spouse are the same person. Hogg suggests you treat your children with respect and common sense.
With empathy and understanding, you can make your child's life and your life easier. You can "help him build on his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses" (page 37). We all have weaknesses and strengths. We can all benefit from working on these items to become the best people we can be.
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- melissa said…
What a great post, Val. I loved using Baby Whisperer to type my babies too. Both of mine were textbook. It's funny, because before you even started posting on Baby Whisperer I would read your blog and think – Kaitlyn, now that is a total Angel baby. Its funny though, I'll bet if you ask non-BW people they would tell you both of your kids are Angel babies. I know my family thought both mine were. I explained that all BW kids sleep well!
August 1, 2008 7:04 AM
Plowmanators said…
Melissa,That is funny. I have always called Kaitlyn my little angel. My friend and I always wonder what our kids would be like without Babywise. I kind of think Kaitlyn would have been an angel either way. It makes me glad she didn't come first because if so I likely wouldn't have turned to BW.
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DWTS Nancy Grace's Dancing Special From Dance With Me Studios Part 2 (Full Video)
In case you missed Part 2 of Nancy Grace's "Dancing Special" last night on her show, here it is in full special thanks to Grinya's Entertainment.
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What do you think? I thought Part 2 was better than Part 1. I loved how they spotlighted the little dancers! They were so good. I loved how they included the full cast of this past season in it in some way, not just the dancers present at Dance With Me Studios with Nancy! I also loved Val playing his violin (and the retrospective with Mark Ballas) and the kiss on Nancy's cheek from Maks after they danced (they would have made a cool couple to watch last season like he and Kirstie). Great show!!
And again, if you missed Part 1, be sure to see it here.
Great shows!! I hope Nancy will continue to cover Dancing With The Stars in the future. I'd love to see more TV coverage of what goes on at Dance With Me Studio's as well. Fascinating!!


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Metra board member from Chicago resigns
Another member of the scandal-tarnished Metra board has resigned.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Friday that Larry Huggins would resign from the board. The mayor said he spoke with Huggins and they both agreed he would step down. Emanuel says Huggins' decision "will allow the agency to begin a new chapter." Huggins' departure comes a day after Metra board chairman Brad O'Halloran resigned.
Huggins says it is time for him "to step aside and allow Metra to move on."
The board has faced criticism in the wake of the $718,000 buyout of the commuter rail agency's former CEO Alex Clifford. Clifford claims he was pushed out for resisting pressure on hiring and salary issues from Illinois politicians, including House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Huggins is the fourth Metra board member to resign.