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Style # 219119
Wild up your athletic wear with this super comfy bebe tank, featuring printed panels and a moisture-wicking, high-performance fabric that dries 10 times faster than cotton.
- 77% nylon, 23% spandex
- Center back to hem: 11" (28 cm)
- BE-FIT fabric
- Bra shelf
- Machine wash according to care label
- Made in USA with imported materials
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Printed Strappy Tank is rated out of 5 by 3.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tascia from bebe sport LOVE I absolutely love this top! Wonderful for skating practices on the ice. The bright colors on a black background makes the logo stand out --- the logo is even embedded in the fabric and won't wear off with exercise!
Date published: 2014-03-03
Rated 4 out of 5 by ANALI from Sexy different I have the leopard design one & own this bebe logo printed top one as well. The leopard I got in a small. For some reason the leopard fabric is softer and more stretchy. This fabric on this one is somewhat stiff and the small size felt uncomfortable to me because it doesn't stretch as much, guess because of the stiffness. I ended up getting the medium but is a little big on me but still looks nice on. I'll be wearing it with the bebe logo printed capris. They look so cute together. I thought it was going to be too much print to wear both pieces together but it looks nice, uplifting because of the colors, and sexy because of the black and the way the top is designed. Just wish the fabric was softer, but I guess that would make it last longer.
Date published: 2014-02-15
Rated 5 out of 5 by Shayna from very cute and sexy workout top IM SURPRISE THIS TOP STILL HERE, I BOUGHT THIS TOP IN XS, FITS PERFECT, IT HAS SHELF BRA AND GIVING UR BUST GOOD SUPPORTING, THE BACK IS SUPER CUTE, VERY DIFFERENT, I DO INTENSE WORKOUT AND CARDIO IN THIS TOP...BEBE PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THIS STYLE IN DIFFERENT COLOR PLEASE....i WILL BUY EVERY OF THEM...IM 5'5 AND 105LBS, DD
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Shalena has owned her own business for the past six years, doing nails out of her home. She is currently an assistant coach for the Monticello High School Cheerleaders going into her third year of coaching.
Married to Chaz Black, their roots run deep in San Juan County. This active, busy, young mother of three is adding Real Estate to her list of accomplishments and says, "I have always had a passion for real estate and I'm excited to be working with everyone at Countywide Realty".
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April 10. 2013 5:49PM
St. Margaret's of Scotland Church in Conway to dedicate Korean War Memorial
CONWAY - St. Margaret of Scotland Church will dedicate a memorial to Korean War veterans at a Saturday prayer service at 4 p.m. on June 1.
The memorial is a specially constructed case containing a Bronze Star, Korean War Medal and United Nations Korean Service Medal given by the family of a Korean War veteran.
All veterans and the public are welcome.
In addition to remembering Korean War veterans, veterans who served will be remembered. Veterans groups are welcome to participate formally in the event.
The Korean War was a conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. An armistice agreement was signed on July 27, 1953.
Casualties in the war were heavy and U.S. losses were placed at more than 54,000 dead and 103,000 wounded, while Chinese and Korean casualties were considerably higher.
"We are honored to include this remembrance among our memorials at St. Margaret's" said the Rev. Jeffrey Monroe, parish rector. "The Korean War is sometimes overlooked but as recent events show, the area remains in conflict. We can never forget the sacrifice our veterans made in that war, and all others, for our freedom."
The church is located at 85 Pleasant St. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe (capt., USMM) is rector, and the Rev. Harry E. Wellsman (USA-Ret.) is deacon.
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Hurricane Isaac continued to push gas prices higher Thursday after the storm forced a shutdown of refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast, NBC News reported.
The price spike is expected to last through the Labor Day weekend. Nationally, prices climbed two cents a gallon to $3.82, a record for this time of year, according to the American Automobile Association.
The increases come on top of a five-cent jump Wednesday, a day after Isaac slammed into Louisiana and stopped 93 percent of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. The price has been on the rise since July 2 when a national average was $3.33, thanks to oil sanctions against Iran and a refinery explosion in Venezuela.
But relief might be in sight as oil and gas companies gradually restart their Gulf operations. Isaac has spared many of the region's refineries and oil rigs that were hard-hit by Katrina in 2005, which disrupted production for months.
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Fixing a Faulty Thermostat: A Replication and re-Analysis of "The Public as Thermostat" Employing a Fixed-effects Model
In a 1995 AJPS article, Christopher Wlezien advanced the notion that the public acts in an Eastonian manner as a thermostat for shaping policy preferences. I assert Wleziens use of a GLS-ARMA approach may be a true mis-specification problem. I propose the use of a fixed-effects model. Using both the older version of MICROCRUNCH and the newer version of RATS, I test Wleziens models and his hypotheses. The results in MICROCRUNCH are somewhat different from the original, whilst the results from RATS suggest that the findings of Wlezien are not nearly as significant as assumed.
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How the Wii is creaming the competition
Business 2.0 Magazine tells the inside story of how Nintendo outfoxed Sony and Microsoft and got itself back in the game.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- A year ago it looked like game over for Nintendo's storied console business. The Kyoto-based gamemaker--whose Nintendo Entertainment System ushered in the modern age of videogames--was bleeding market share to newer, more powerful systems from Sony and Microsoft.
Even as the videogame business grew into a $30 billion global industry, Nintendo saw its U.S. hardware sales shrink to almost half of what they had been nearly 20 years earlier.
Today, as anybody within shouting distance of a teenager knows, Nintendo is the comeback kid of the gaming world. Instead of joining Sony (Charts) and Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) in the arms race to pack their consoles with ever-higher-performance graphics chips (to better attract sophisticated gamers), Nintendo built the Wii--a cuddly, low-priced, motion-controlled machine that broke the market wide open by appealing to everyone from grade-schoolers to grandmas.
Unorthodox? Maybe. Effective? You bet.
The Wii is a pop culture smash of such dimensions that Nintendo still can't make consoles fast enough. Even so, it's outselling Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360--at least since January. (The Xbox had blowout pre-Christmas sales.) And while its competitors lose money on every console they build, expecting to make it back selling high-margin games, the Wii was designed to sell for a profit from the get-go.
Nintendo's turnaround began five years ago, when the company's top strategists, including CEO Satoru Iwata and legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, zeroed in on two troubling trends: As young consumers started careers and families, they gradually cut back on game time. And as consoles became more powerful, making games for them got more expensive.
Studios thus became more conservative, putting out more editions of Madden NFL and fewer new, inventive games that might actually grow the market.
Iwata and Miyamoto eventually concluded that to gain ground, Nintendo would have to do something about the game controllers, whose basic design had hardly changed since the first NES paddles. Changing how the controllers interacted with the consoles would mean changing how engineers designed a system's electronics and casing and eventually the games themselves.
The first product to test the new strategy was not the Wii but the DS handheld game system, released in 2004. To appeal to a broader audience, Nintendo abandoned the kid-friendly Game Boy name it had given its other popular handhelds, while building in Wi-Fi networking, voice recognition, and two screens (See correction below).
The idea was not to load the DS with technology but to help draw in new gamers by offering options other than the old button-based controls. Some DS games would work through the tap of a pen and simple voice commands.
The $150 gadget got off to a tepid start. Until gamers tried it, they tended to be wary. "People thought it was weird," says Perrin Kaplan, vice president for marketing at Nintendo of America. "It took about two years for people to warm up to it."
But warm up they did, largely thanks to Miyamoto. The creator of Nintendo's blockbuster franchises--Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda-- offered up Nintendogs, a Tamagotchi-like simulation in which players use every feature of the DS to nurture virtual puppies. The game struck a chord with female gamers in particular, says John Taylor, an analyst at Arcadia Research.
During the first holiday season after Nintendogs hit the market, Nintendo sold 5.6 million DS units--a standout performance that was nearly twice its total for the rest of the year.
Soon after Nintendogs, the company released Brain Age, a game designed for more mature players in which they solve a series of puzzles by filling in answers or speaking phrases aloud. "That further bolstered the market by attracting older boomers and even senior citizens," Taylor says. The DS surge encouraged Nintendo executives, who saw their strategy to grow the market taking shape.
They wouldn't have to wait long to put it to a bigger test. Work had already begun on the console, code-named Revolution, that would become the Wii.
Nintendo's top strategists knew early on that they wanted to build a machine with a wireless, motion-sensitive controller. But equally important was the chip that would be the brains of the Wii console itself. The more powerful processors that Sony and Microsoft were using would make the screen action look better but would also guzzle more electricity.
What if Nintendo used a cheaper, lower-power chip instead? After all, the DS, with its efficient mobile processor, had already proven that you could create new gaming experiences without the fastest chips. A low-power chip also meant that the machine could be left on overnight to download new content.
It was settled: The design team made the risky decision to build the Wii around a chip similar to the one that powered the GameCube, an earlier Nintendo entry that posted disappointing sales. If the Wii succeeded, it wouldn't be on the strength of breathtaking graphics.
Next, engineers settled on a new approach for the Wii's looks. Just as the DS shunned the Game Boy name to appeal to a broader audience, the Wii would adopt a sleek white exterior instead of the toylike loud colors used on the GameCube. Even CEO Iwata got involved in the design process; at one point he handed engineers a stack of DVD jewel cases and told them the console should not be much bigger.
Why so small? To work with the motion-sensitive wireless controller Nintendo planned, Iwata reasoned, the console would have to sit directly beside the TV. Make it any larger and customers would hesitate to leave it there.
While the console team worked on the shell, Miyamoto and another team perfected the controller. He was determined that its design be as simple as possible--he insisted on several revisions that enlarged the "A" button to make its importance obvious.
When design work was done, players could arc the Wii remote to throw a football in Madden NFL 07, tilt it to steer off-road vehicles in Excite Truck, and swing it to play sports like Wii tennis and baseball. Market tests suggested that the product was everything its designers hoped: engaging enough that nongamers might give it a go, and simple enough that newbies could quickly get up to speed.
Finally it came time for Nintendo to market the Wii to the world. In addition to its standard TV campaigns targeting schoolkids, the company pumped 70 percent of its U.S. TV budget into programs aimed at 25-to 49-year-olds, says George Harrison, senior vice president for marketing at Nintendo of America.
He even put Wii ads into gray-haired publications like AARP and Reader's Digest. For Nintendo's core users, he took a novel, Web-based approach: "To reach the under-25 audience," he says, "we pushed our message through online and social-networking channels" including MySpace.
But Nintendo's most effective marketing trick was to give away its killer app, Wii Sports, with every $250 console. It was a calculated attempt to speed up the process that brought success to the DS. And because Nintendo makes about $50 in profit on every Wii sold, it can afford to give away a game.
To be sure, not everything has gone according to plan. Although Nintendo shipped more than 3 million Wiis in 2006, supply-and-demand problems have plagued the machine since its launch. Demand continues to outpace supply and may continue to do so until summer.
It's a problem many businesses wouldn't mind having, but it means that Nintendo might be leaving money on the table--something no company can afford to do for long, not even the newly revived Nintendo.
John Gaudiosi is a freelance journalist in Raleigh, N.C.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the DS handheld game system has two touchscreens.
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Dr. Pia Durkin, one of three finalists for New Bedford school superintendent, pledged to be a "champion" for the city's schools at her public interview Tuesday night.
NEW BEDFORD — Dr. Pia Durkin, one of three finalists for school superintendent, pledged to be a "champion" for the city's schools at her public interview Tuesday night and was not shy about telling the School Committee where she believes the district needs work.
"What I heard today was somewhat distressed," said Durkin of her visit to the city. "I heard cries for 'How do we do this?' as well as 'We feel we're working very hard but not achieving what we need,'" she said.
"It was affirmed for me again the need for leadership here at every level to deal with some "� things that have to be fixed very quickly," she said, also stressing the importance of creating a long-term seven-to-10-year plan.
Durkin said teachers are not receiving the kind of support they need from the central office and pointed to discrepancies in professional development opportunities for teachers in the high, middle and elementary schools.
"I think the low-hanging fruit is systems and procedures that need to be put in place to support teaching and learning," she said.
"She has very strong convictions and when you have a district like us you need to have someone who's very forthright," said Adam Vieira, the student representative on the School Committee. "In that respect she shined tonight."
Durkin, 60, is the outgoing superintendent of schools in Attleboro, where she has served since 2006. Under her leadership, the 6,000-student district has seen its test scores and graduation rates climb.
In May, the School Committee, which has clashed with Durkin — and within itself — offered her only a one-year extension of her contract, which provides for a base salary of $156,000, according to the Attleboro Patch.
"Any good superintendent is going to tell you that you need to be respected, not necessarily popular," said Durkin, who called the superintendency a "lonely" post and described taking refuge in classrooms — where she is reminded of the mission of her job — the morning after tough meetings.
Durkin said hiring principals — the new superintendent will have to replace three in New Bedford — is the most important decision of a superintendent. She also stressed the importance of placing teaching coaches in schools, describing her insistence the positions remain in Attleboro despite budget constraints.
The Attleboro district was also one of the first districts in the state to adopt standardized teacher evaluations, a system that was developed in partnership with the union, she said.
Durkin, who is married and lives in Cumberland, R.I., said her sense of urgency about improving children's education means that she is sometimes too quick with people and too impatient.
"I have learned that listening is equally important as being able to take a stance," she said. "Although some may not agree, at least they know they were heard."
Asked by School Committee member Larry Finnerty about how she would help foster agreement among different stakeholders in New Bedford, Durkin suggested holding a series of meetings across the city to help create shared goals for the educational system.
"'I'm not sure people have a common vision "� (and) people are not sure any superintendent is going to be able to fix that," Durkin said. "I defy that. A good superintendent can fix this and we can show the naysayers and the non-believers that this is a Gateway City that is absolutely on the rise.
"I like to think I'm a tough lady to say no to," she added.
Durkin is up against Dr. Stephen Zrike, a Chicago official who was interviewed Monday night, and Dr. Kriner Cash, former Memphis City Schools superintendent; the School Committee will interview him tonight. The School Committee will vote on a final pick in March.


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Greenies meet to improve climate predictions
Making fundamental research pay
Research and government groups will meet this week to discuss how they can better collaborate to improve the application of climate change research.
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is holding a conference today and tomorrow with the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF).
The meeting comes as NERC's seven-year Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate (COAPEC) programme draws to a close. The £5.5m research programme was set up to investigate how the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere affect the European climate. However, NERC says there is a gap between research programmes like this one and the application of their findings.
Better climate forecasts can reduce the risks from droughts, flood, heat waves, and weather-related disruption to transport. Key to producing these better forecasts is better communication between the various research and government groups involved. This should lead to new collaborations which in turn should spur on the research, NERC argues.
One of the goals of this week's meeting is to work out ways to use the results of research like COAPEC to improve the medium and long range weather and climate forecasts government and businesses need to prepare for bad weather. NERC says it is also a valuable opportunity for its scientists to demonstrate the value of fundamental research to government.
In related news, University College London is launching a new Masters degree course in Environmental Systems Engineering. The aim of the course is to produce graduates capable of developing sustainable solutions to complex environmental problems.
Course director Sarah Bell said: "Sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and we will provide students with the skills, knowledge and experience needed to meet this challenge now and into the future."
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Roseland-based ADP announced today its mobile apps, branded as ADP Mobile Solutions, have collectively been downloaded more than 1.5 million times.
The company announced its iOS application, an "integrated employee self service mobile solution," has seen more than one million downloads from Apple's App Store, as well as more than 450,000 downloads from Google's Play store.
The apps for Apple iOS and Google Android devices are available in 35 countries and more than 25 languages. It is consistently ranked in the top ten free business apps in both Apple®iTunes and Google Play, the company said in a statement.
The apps allow employees of ADP clients to access their HR information, view pay statements, input and track time and attendance, review benefits information, and more.
The Android app was last updated in July, and carries a rating of four out of five stars with more than 650 user reviews. The iOS version was updated more recently, in October, but ranks at three out of five stars with more than 500 user reviews. It also has yet to adopt the massive design changes introduced into Apple's mobile operating system by the September launch of iOS 7.
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BOSTON — After the Bruins held an optional morning skate this morning at the TD Garden in preparation for their game with Montreal tonight, it was learned two of the Bruins' best players will be headed to the All-Star Game in Ottawa along with goaltender Tim Thomas.
The NHL announced that defenseman Zdeno Chara and forward Tyler Seguin would be among the 36 All-Stars available in the player draft prior to the midseason classic. Previously, Thomas was voted as a starter for the game by the fans.
Seguin leads the Bruins in goals and points with 17 and 38, respectively, in just his second NHL season. His plus-33 rating is the best in the NHL.
Chara has posted 7-18-25 totals while compiling a plus-27 rating for the Bruins.
The teams will be drafted January 26 with the game scheduled for ScotiaBank Place in Ottawa on January 29.


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US troubled by Iran's choice of its UN ambassador
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. objected Wednesday to Iran's anticipated selection of a former hostage-taker at the American Embassy in Tehran as its newest ambassador to the United Nations. But the Obama administration stopped short of saying it would refuse him a visa to enter the United States.
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf called the potential nomination of Hamid Aboutalebi "extremely troubling" and said the U.S. has raised its concerns with Tehran. Lawmakers in Congress who usually disagree on everything — ranging from liberal New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer and conservative Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz — have demanded that Aboutalebi be barred from living and working in the United States.
But Harf noted that except in limited cases, the U.S. is generally obligated to admit the chosen representatives of member states to U.N. headquarters in New York.
"We're taking a close look at the case now, and we've raised our serious concerns about this possible nomination with the government of Iran," Harf told reporters. She added: "But we do take our obligations as host nation for the United Nations very seriously."
Hamid Babaei, a spokesman for Iran's Mission to the United Nations, said Wednesday, "It has been a usual practice in the Iranian Foreign Ministry to formally announce and appoint ambassadors — to all foreign postings — once all the formalities are completed."
Aboutalebi was a member of a Muslim student group that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. He reportedly has insisted that his involvement in the group — Muslim Students Following the Imam's Line — was limited to translation and negotiation.
But lawmakers have derided Aboutalebi as a terrorist and a key conspirator in the hostage crisis, and warned that his nomination would escalate tensions in already delicate negotiations aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear program.
In a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, Schumer said Aboutalebi's association with the student group should make him ineligible for a visa or diplomatic immunity in the U.S.
"This man has no place in the diplomatic process," Schumer said in a separate statement. "Iran's attempt to appoint Mr. Aboutalebi is a slap in the face to the Americans that were abducted, and their families. It reveals a disdain for the diplomatic process and we should push back in kind."
Earlier this week, Cruz questioned the wisdom of negotiating with the Iranian government in light of what he called its "deliberately insulting and contemptuous" choice for U.N. ambassador. The nuclear negotiations are set to resume next week in Vienna.
Harf insisted the nuclear talks and the U.N. envoy were separate issues, even as she noted Washington's ongoing concerns with Iran on multiple fronts.
"On the nuclear issue, they have upheld their commitments," Harf said. "We hope they will continue to."
Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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SOURCE: Paragon Software Group
February 22, 2012 09:29 ET
Honored for His Commitment to the Channel, Building a Program With Unrivaled Partner Support, and Driving Explosive Growth to Paragon's Partner Community
Honored for His Commitment to the Channel, Building a Program With Unrivaled Partner Support, and Driving Explosive Growth to Paragon's Partner Community
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 22, 2012) - Backup and disaster recovery software developer Paragon Software Group (PSG) today announced that UBM Channel's CRN named Paragon's Daniel Eickhoff, director of channel sales at Paragon, as a 2012 Channel Chief. CRN's list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while promoting and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire technology industry.
Channel Chiefs were chosen by UBM Channel editorial staff on criteria including policy and program innovations made during the past year, the amount of revenue their company generates through partners, their willingness to speak out publicly on behalf of the channel, and the number of years they have dedicated to channel activities.
"The 2012 Channel Chiefs list recognizes vendor executives dedicated to driving channel programs in the IT marketplace," said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, UBM Channel. "Being named a Channel Chief is one of the most prestigious honors in the technology industry. This year's Channel Chiefs list offers tremendous insight into the who's who of the channel. Top channel executives consistently ensure that the channel's voice is heard when strategic decisions are being made and continually nurture mutually profitable relationships. We applaud the 2012 Channel Chiefs for their successful partner programs and strategies."
Eickhoff focuses on evangelizing the company's products by recruiting and training VAR partners, implementing best practices for channel success, and enabling partners to be successful with Paragon to grow their business. With over 10 years of channel experience and the ability to translate his partners' needs and the customers' requirements into a successful channel program, Eickhoff continues to build a strong reseller community.
"Receiving this award is a great honor, but much of the credit goes to everyone here at Paragon Software as well as our outstanding partners," said Eickhoff. "Paragon has always embraced the indirect sales model, and over the past three years we restructured our sales, marketing and support organizations entirely around the channel. By the end of last year, we achieved our goal of over 95 percent of our business going through the channel."
Paragon had another record year in 2011 thanks to signing 104 new VARs, the introduction of many new products, significant investments in strategic demand and lead generation to fuel the channel, and hiring several first-class channel managers to service our growing partner-base. "As a result, our existing partners were able to increase their Paragon revenue by an average of 25 percent, with many of our top partners growing by more than 50 percent," said Eickhoff.
Selected by CRN's editorial staff, the 2012 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and will be featured online at www.crn.com.
About UBM Channel: (www.ubmchannel.com)
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at www.ubmchannel.com.
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UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.
About Paragon Software Group
Paragon Software Group is an innovative software developer focused on two dynamic growth markets -- data storage and mobile productivity. The company's comprehensive product line for the data storage market addresses the needs of data security, storage and management for PCs, servers and networks. A second portfolio of products focuses on mobile productivity applications for handheld devices. Founded in 1994, Paragon Software has offices in the USA, Germany, Japan, Poland and Russia delivering its solutions to consumers, small business and enterprise clients worldwide through a network of Value Added Resellers, distributors and OEMs as well as online through the company website. Paragon Software provides technology to a host of world class companies and partners including Cisco, Dell, HP, WD, ASUS, Seagate, LG, Logitech, Buffalo, Iomega, Siemens, Lenovo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and more. For more information please visit the company website at www.paragon-software.com.
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'Twilight' Countdown: Fans sound off on 'Twilight'
We're here! Today's the day! By now, many of you have already crossed the finish line. Congrats!
But was it worth the wait? Some of you have already posted your reviews in the comments of previous "Twilight Countdown" posts. Others e-mailed their ideas directly to me.
In general, the consensus is that the movie gets the job done and many of you thought director Catherine Hardwicke and stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson delivered the goods. You're even planning second and third trips to the theater already. A minor complaint among the majority of you is the movie's special effects, which are of the low-budget variety. (However, nearly all of you qualified that, keeping in mind that Hardwicke was working with $40 million -- not a large sum by Hollywood movie standards.)
Of course, some of you were let down. With expectations so high, it's not surprising.
So what did I think? I should say I enjoyed reading "Twilight," a guilty pleasure with equal parts breathless romance and suspense. I read through the whole thing the day I started it. After two screenings of the film, however, I ultimately felt that the movie deviated from the book in ways that made the story better. Less of a "guilty" pleasure. True, as some have complained, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg stripped much of Edward and Bella's back-and-forth moments of dialog. But I thought having shots of Pattinson looking anguished and Stewart looking like she craved him worked a lot better than having Edward tell Bella repeatedly about how torn he is about their relationship and her pushing back. Kristen Stewart's Bella, too, comes off as stronger, her feelings more grounded albeit obsessive. In Hardwicke's version, Forks is a little more diverse, a little grittier, and the love story more real and less sweepingly and conventionally romantic.I give it an enthusiastic thumbs up.
Here's a sampling of how the rest of the fans who wrote to me felt:
For some, like 14-year-old Marie from Norcross, Ga., the anticipation was overwhelming. She attended the midnight screening, "the moment of my life," and said her "heart wanted to explode as the movie started, and I couldn't even breathe." Needless to say, she was pleased.
Bailey from Houston, Texas, credited Pattinson for bringing "depth to Edward that went beyond good looks and chivalry. He has the ability to say so much without saying anything at all." Props go also to Stewart, but where are the Cullens? "I wish we could have seen more of the Cullens! One of my favorite scenes in the movie was when Bella went home with Edward to meet his family."
Less enthusiastic was Darci in Iowa, who called the film a "mockery of the book I fell in love with!" "I think, perhaps, if the screenwriter would have been an obsessed fan (as I am), the movie would have been better. More like the book. You would have 'gotten' that Bella was selfless, brave, and more of a caretaker. You would have seen her as more of a mature intellectual."
Gaby was happy with a couple of reservations: "The one thing that really bothered me was Edward's reaction to Bella in the biology room; he isn't supposed to be so obvious about the smell thing and he acted repulsed by her. The other major thing that i noticed was that they never said they loved each other and i think that is pretty important."
Pac4eva15 said he -– "and every single one of his friends who saw it with him" -- hated it. "This movie is nothing compared to the book. I am an avid 18 year old fan who has read the Twilight series since the beginning and i am seriously disappointed. I sincerely regret waiting in line for 8 hours, hours which i won't be able to ever recover… The movie seems like another 'Epic Movie' only this time parodying 'Twilight.'" Ouch!
Twenty-one-year-old Alex took reviews that said Edward and Bella's love develops too quickly to task: "I actually really ended up liking the fact that Edward and Bella's relationship felt very rushed, and I'll tell you why. To me, their relationship in the film felt much more wild. Their love is a force of nature; it's chaotic and rushed and sudden and it doesn't make sense at all. That's what makes it so wonderful."
But Peggy said the movie missed the point: "Listen, I love the Twilight books. True, they are not great literary works, C+ at best, but what made the books so popular was the story itself. It brought you back to a time when you got your first kiss, the first time you fell in love and the feeling that you couldn't breathe or your day couldn't start until you saw that one person; the love of your life. The Twilight movie totally failed to capture the essence of the book."
Caroline and her group of pals both liked and disliked the movie. On the plus side: "Best PG-13 make-out scene EVER. (Major squealing!) The sexual tension! The chemistry! The conflict, the passion and the terror! All the characters were excellently developed. We loved Charlie, Jessica and Jacob. Also, the Cullens were perfectly cast. Many major scenes were done really well....The music was fantastic and well placed throughout the movie."
Not so good was: "The general tone of the movie didn't quite match the book. Translating the book to the movie cost us the romance. All the little conversations and scenes where they develop their feelings for each other and the sexual tension (i.e.: hand tracing in the meadow) were not evident on the big screen. The meadow, as written, scene was non existent. THE MEADOW SCENE!"
Brianne couldn't get over the dazzle –- and not in a good way: "It looked like someone just dumped a jar of glitter on him, not to mention it was hard to see his chest sparkle under all of the hair. He was meant to look as though he was made of marble. Marble is not hairy, my friends."
Robin from Woodland Park, Colo., liked it so much she's taking her kids to see the movie a second time. Her one quibble? "Some of the fast-moving scenes with Edward were a tiny bit cheesy (I suspect because of budget constraints for the first film). It did not affect how I felt about the film however."
LyRonda from West Virgina and her 13-year-old daughter were split -– Mom loved it, while her daughter was "frustrated when cast members did not say their lines the exact way they did in the book."
And the humans get some love from Lexy G. and her boyfriend, who both appreciated Bella's high school pals: "The supporting cast was great as well, especially Bella's human crew, which was 10 times cooler on screen than their literary counterparts."
Finally, someone pays respect to Bill Burke, who plays Bella's dad Charlie. Thank you Jessica from Atlanta for writing: "Surprise MVP: Charlie Swan and the other humans, who brought the light-heartedness and playfulness back into what could have been a full-on angst fest. Charlie's character, though barely present through the book, is brought to the forefront a little more in the movie, and his reactions and discomfort at learning how to deal with a teenage daughter are hilarious and ring true."
Jessica also takes issue with folks who say too much was changed from the book: "True fans will be pleased that much of the dialog and voice-over from Bella is verbatim or paraphrased from the book; yes, it's cheese-tastic, but that's a large part of the appeal. Where else can someone get away with saying 'And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…'?"
Tara from Hadley, Mass., misses "crucial one-line moments that could have been in the movie that would have helped develop the intensity of their relationship some more. Like when they are at the piano, that is when Bella finds out that Edward wrote her a lullaby. Him telling her and playing for her is pretty significant. It comes up a lot in their relationship throughout the series."
And then there's Nicole Marcks, who had a "Twilight"-themed wedding. She says: "It wasn't perfect, but it was so much dang fun. Moments of the uber-sincere performances edged on over-the-top, but honestly, with a crowd of 'tween-types squealing every time Robert Pattinson gave a smolder, it was hard to tell whether or not the environment was gilding the acting lily."
.... And with that, the Countdown signs off. But never fear, there will be plenty more "Twilight" coverage as news breaks. Keep the reviews coming in through the comments below. I'm always up for a healthy debate.
Catch up on past Countdown interviews: Robert Pattinson (Parts 1, 2 and 3), Kristen Stewart, author Stephenie Meyer, director Catherine Hardwicke (Parts 1 and 2), screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, Peter Facinelli, Edi Gathegi and Taylor Lautner.
-- Denise Martin
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CHICAGO, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Illinois Supreme Court Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow died following a short illness, her family said. She was 83.
McMorrow, the first woman to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court and its first female chief justice, died Saturday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
McMorrow served as chief justice from September 2002 to September 2005 and retired from Illinois' highest court in 2006.
"When I went to law school, women couldn't even dream of such a thing," McMorrow said in 2002 after she was voted into the court's highest position. "I hope this would forever indicate that there's nothing that limits women in any job or any profession."
McMorrow grew up on Chicago's Northwest Side and was one of three children, the Chicago Tribune reported.
She is survived by her daughter, Mary Ann McMorrow, and her sister, Frances.
"We will fondly remember Justice McMorrow and always cherish the privilege of having worked with her," Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride said in a statement. "Being the first woman on the court and to serve as chief justice, she was an inspiration to all women in the law in Illinois. But through her courage, perseverance, wisdom and character, she was a role model for all lawyers, regardless of gender."


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Sri Lanka's captain Mahela Jayawardene insists the World Twenty20 final against the West Indies on Sunday will not hinge on just Chris Gayle's flamboyant batting.cricket Updated: Oct 06, 2012 14:18 IST
Sri Lanka's captain Mahela Jayawardene insists the World Twenty20 final against the West Indies on Sunday will not hinge on just Chris Gayle's flamboyant batting.
The left-hander lifted the West Indies past Australia in Friday's semi-final with an unbeaten 75 off 41 balls, making him the danger man for Sri Lanka's title hopes.
But Jayawardene, aiming to break his team's losing sequence in three finals in major events, played down Gayle's importance in the match, saying his team never planned for just one individual.
"We have never gone after individuals," Jayawardene told a media conference on Saturday. "Gayle is just another player in a very good West Indies side. But we plan and analyse for a team, not individuals.
"The West Indies obviously had a ball with the bat against Australia. But its a new game on Sunday and everything will depend on how we execute our plans.
"Its a great challenge to have as a team."
Jayawardene scoffed at Gayle's remarks that the West Indies were going to ruin Sri Lanka's party by winning the title.
"I can't make out if the pressure is on us or him," the Sri Lankan captain said. "If he has said something like that, the pressure must be more on him. Let him deal with it."
Sri Lanka, looking for their first major title since the 1996 triumph in the 50-over World Cup, lost two successive finals of the same tournament in 2007 and 2011 and were also beaten in the World Twenty20 in 2009.
"The preparations have been pretty good this time," said Jayawardene. "We are not thinking about what happened in the past. We were probably not good enough then.
"But we have the capacity to win and we will focus on that. We just need to relax and play good cricket."
Jayawardene emphatically rejected suggestions that Sri Lanka had deliberately ordered slow wickets for the tournament to suit their spin bowlers like Ajantha Mendis.
"This is an ICC (International Cricket Council) event and the ICC controls the pitch, not the Sri Lanka team or the Sri Lankan board," he said, and pointed to their semi-final against Pakistan.
"Why would we have prepared a turning pitch against Pakistan when they have some of the best spinners in the game like (Saeed) Ajmal, (Shahid) Afridi and (Mohammad) Hafeez."
Sri Lanka, restricted to 139-4 on a slow turner after electing to bat, hit back to keep Pakistan down to 123-7 in a thrilling semi-final on Thursday.
Jayawardene said Sunday's final will be the biggest cricket match to be staged in Sri Lanka where tickets to the 35,000-capacity Premadasa stadium sold out weeks ago.
"This is definitely the biggest game we have staged," he said. "Its been a great couple of weeks for the entire country.
"The expectations from our fans are the same as they were at the start of the tournament. They wanted us to reach the final even then. And we must now win it for them.
"But we have not gone ahead of ourselves since the tournament started. In the final it will all depend on how we play on Sunday. That's what T20 cricket is all about."
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On rumors that her pregnancy was fake: "I felt like I kind of had to protect my mother [Tina], because when people made up the silliest rumor about me not really being pregnant, she was there when I went through all of those things. And my sister [Solange]. They were very, very defensive. It's not personal to me, and it comes along with the job, but the lack of respect�"people will just go too far sometimes."
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Joseph Horowitz: Classical Music in America
Nikisch, later the premier concert conductor in Europe as
music director of the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus
orchestras, served as music director of the Boston Symphony
from 1889 to 1893, leading 388 performances (in an era innocent
of the guest conductor). This was too early for Nikisch to
have made any Boston recordings, but his 1913 Beethoven Fifth
with the Berlin Philharmonic - the earliest complete recording
of a complete symphony - tells us everything we need to know
about why Nikisch's Beethoven Fifth caused a cultural crisis
in Boston, splitting opinion between enraged "traditionalists"
for whom Nikisch's interpretive liberties were anathema, and
more open-minded, open-eared arbiters of musical taste. No
conductor has ever more eloquently conjured a special space
for the first movement oboe cadenza - neither the retard/diminuendo
nor the accelerando/crescendo Nikisch applies are to be found
in Beethoven's score.
Higginson, who invented, owned, and operated the Boston Symphony,
ultimately settled on a conductor more to his (and Boston's)
taste: Karl Muck. Stiffly erect and nervously alert, he radiated
authority and intensity. Though he insisted on proper rhythm
and fidelity to the score, he managed to maintain discipline
without straitjacketing the musicians. Like Nikisch's Berlin
recordings, Muck's Boston recordings suffer from primitive
studio conditions: the players were crammed into a pair of
igloo-like structures. The first-desk men sat on high stools
outside the igloos and played directly into horns of their
own. Nikisch's recordings (with a reduced orchestra) are about
spontaneity. Muck's are about precision. Though the orchestra's
configuration obviously created ensemble problems, and though
crudities of reproduction canceled the dynamic contrasts,
fine details, and smooth blends for which Muck was noted,
the excellence of the orchestra remains apparent.
Recorded 2nd October, 1917 in Camden, New Jersey
Matrix: B-20818-2
First issued on Victor 64744
The Philadelphia
Orchestra, as recreated by Stokowski, acquired a unique sonic
signature: a New World invention dispensing with Old World
tradition. The soft-edged attacks and majestic swells and
recessions, the smooth textures and lavish colors he adored
all derive from the Romantic organ - his own instrument before
he turned himself into a conductor. The tensile strength and
flowing cantabile of the "Philadelphia sound" were
partly a function of "free bowing." In every other
orchestra, the up and down bow strokes were uniform; in Stokowski's,
they were not. He reasoned that by having his players bow
individually and naturally, he could obtain a warmer, more
intense, more continuous sound. The Stokowski sound was not
for everyone. Nor was it for all music. Significantly, the
two composers Stokowski most recorded were the two composers
he most remade: Bach, in his own transcriptions, showcased
his orchestra's particular splendor, and so did the symphonic
Wagner as extrapolated by Stokowski . No singer ever surpassed
Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra in the sensuous lyricism
of excerpts from Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan, and
Parsifal, as recorded between 1927 and 1937.
Recorded 28th November, 1936 in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Matrices: CS-03116-1, 03117-1, 03118-1 and 03119-1
First issued on Victor 14728 and 14729 in album M-421
Symphony No. 5, movement two (6:26)
Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
Live recording, November 21 and 30, 1931, by Bell Telephone
(available via the Philadelphia Orchestra as part of the set
"The Philaldelphia Orchestra 1900-2000")
invited Bell Laboratories to make experimental recordings
at the Academy of Music. They are the truest documentation
of what Rachmaninoff described in 1929: "Philadelphia
has the finest orchestra I have ever heard at any time or
any place in my whole life. I don't know that I would be exaggerating
if I said that it is the finest orchestra the world has ever
heard." Stokowski's Beethoven's Fifth, captured in concert
by the Bell engineers in state-of-the-art sound, is the most
feline Beethoven on record. It races or glides on cat's paws,
a marvel of rippling musculature, of poised power and energy.
The most memorable movement is the least dramatic: the Andante,
taken as an Adagio, but with such flexibility of pulse and
with long phrases (contradicting Beethoven's markings) so
firm and shapely that it never sounds slow.
Pictures at an Exhibition (beginning with "Two
Polish Jews") (16:49)
Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Live broadcast, October 9, 1943
played a string instrument - the double bass - and the symphonic
sound he preferred was string-based: his Boston Symphony recordings
are beautifully sung. Like most conductors, he is best represented
in live performance. In this broadcast of the Mussorgsky/Ravel
Pictures - music Koussevitzky commissioned and premiered in
Paris - the sudden breadth of "The Great Gate of
Kiev" conveys the kind of electricity, galvanizing players
and listeners, that his admirers relished; the performance
ends on an unforgettably high plateau of elation.
La traviata Preludes to acts one and four (7:39)
Arturo Toscanini conducting the New York Philharmonic
RCA Victor, 1929
If Stokowski's
music-making identifiably began in an organ loft, Toscanini's
was grounded in opera and the human voice. In these rapt,
minutely detailed performances, the vocally conceived inflections
and phrase groupings are spellbinding. Smoothly diminishing
from forte to piano, the intervening short notes as rounded
and polished as the strong-beat quarters and halves, Toscanini's
cellos exhale the big tune in La traviata's
act one prelude; their singing is so articulate one can almost
hear each pregnant, preparatory intake of breath. Verdi asks
that the hushed beginning of act four be played "extremamente
piano." Toscanini's rendition, poised "on the breath,"
trembles with tenderness. This is the most incisive, least
sentimental Verdi imaginable.
Recorded 18th and *29th March, 1929 in Carnegie Hall, New York
Matrices: CVE-48936-3 and *489424
First issued on Victor 6994
Symphony No. 1, movement
Dmitri Mitropoulos conducting the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Columbia, 1940
With Stokowski's
Philadelphia Orchestra, Mitropoulos's Minneapolis Symphony
possessed the most distinctive sound of any twentieth century
American orchestra. The jagged outlines and ripping intensities
of his Minneapolis recordings document a condition of hyper-commitment.
No less than Mahler - his scoring and conducting - Mitropoulos
rejected the Romantic cathedral sonority: the warm blanket
of strings, the recessed winds and percussion favored by generic
conductors give way to shards of saturated melody and tone.
No wonder he excelled as a Mahler conductor, and also in Berg,
Webern, and Strauss's Elektra.
Recorded 4th November, 1940 in Northrup Memorial Auditorium, Minneapolis
First issued on Columbia 11610 and 1161 1-D in album M-469
Piano Concerto No. 2, movement one (9:44)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano, with Leopold Stokowski conducting
the Philadelphia Orchestra
Victor, 1929
A throwback
to the nineteenth century, before performance specialists
took over, Rachmaninoff arrived in the United States highly
accomplished as a conductor, pianist, and composer. He essentially
quit conducting. His compositional output plummeted. He capitulated
to the American hierarchy: performance first. He transformed
himself into a touring solo artist, under contract to RCA
Victor. For RCA, he recorded his Second Piano Concerto with
a dream accompaniment from the orchestra he most admired.
Waltz in C-sharp minor (3:35)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
Victor, 1927
evergreen waltz, as recorded by Rachmaninoff for RCA, is an
act of sorcery. The insinuating inflections, the majestic
breadth of texture (Rachmaninoff adds notes in the left hand),
the veiled, will-o'-the-wisp velocity of the faster sections
create a demonic vignette undreamt of by the composer.
In this
most famous of all recordings of the Funeral March
Sonata, Rachmaninoff fixes on the galloping rhythm of the
opening theme (here played with rare clarity and precision).
When Chopin has the galloping theme return in sotto voce left-hand
octaves at the beginning of the development section, Rachmaninoff
renders them fortissimo: a Cyclopean eruption. Afterward,
the theme growls and rumbles, restless and insatiable, in
counterpoint with powers more benign. Still later, when Chopin
instructs fortissimo, Rachmaninoff is soft; he has relocated
the climax. The vicelike grip of this pianist's musical intelligence
partners romanticized freedom and passion.
Recorded 18th February, 1930 in Camden or New York
Matrices: BVE-59408-2 and 59409-2
First issued on Victor 1489 in album M-95
Havanaise (9:16)
Jascha Heifetz, violin, with John Barbirolli conducting the
London Symphony Orchestra (1937)
for decades in the United States as the "world's greatest
violinist," Heifetz was perceived to have elevated the
art of the violin to new and undreamt-of heights. In fact,
no vocalist, conductor, or pianist has ever crafted or sustained
such preternatural perfection of technique. Meticulously,
scrupulously, he weighted every deft turn of phrase. He could
swell his sound to a razored opulence, or trim it to a finespun,
flawless thread. His impassive countenance conveyed poise
complete and unfathomable. The most frequent observation about
Heifetz the musician, at all times, has been that his playing,
appearances notwithstanding, is "not cold." These
protests are of course significant. Heifetz was not remotely
a bland violinist. But Fritz Kreisler, whom Heifetz displaced,
projected more tenderness and warmth, Nathan Milstein a worldlier
Paganini Etude No. 2 (3:12)
Paganini Etude No. 5 (La chasse) (3:27)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano (1930)
for decades in the United States as the "world's greatest
pianist," Horowitz
exerted the fascination of a psychological and physical mechanism
strung so taut that it had to implode and yet did not. Notwithstanding
the panegyrics of his admirers, he typically sounded happiest
and most completely himself in lesser music: brains-in-the-fingers
cameos. Employing his clairvoyant aural imagination, his prankster's
sense of fun, he empties his full bag of tricks. Depth, decorum,
fidelity are unnecessary, even out of place; a superior sort
of pandering is the very raison d'etre.
Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 47 (Kreutzer), movement
one (Adagio sostenuto; Presto) (11:18)
Joseph Szigeti, violin, and Bela Bartok, piano
Live performance at the Library of Congress, April 13, 1940
was the Heifetz antipode. He lacked technical ease and disdained
sweet vibrato. His range of repertoire and expression was
unrivaled. His intimate relationship with his countryman Bela
Bartok was formative. From Bartok he acquired a roots-in-the-soil
sensibility and, in his playing, an earthy directness, wedding
naked feeling with naked tone. He memorably partnered the
composer in Stravinsky's Duo Concertante, premiered
Bloch's Violin Concerto, and championed Berg, Honegger, Martin,
Milhaud, Ravel, Roussel. His performances and recordings of
the sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms - as bona fide duos, with
such pianists as Bartok himself - made ever more pervasive
"violinistic" renderings seem sleek and featureless.
The example of Szigeti proved that a major American solo career
could coexist with important contemporary music; it illustrated
how close identification with leading creators could refresh
and enrich the performer's art.
Recorded 13th April, 1940 in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
First issued on Vanguard SRV-304 and 305
Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 47 (Kreutzer), movement
one (Adagio sostenuto; Presto) (10:12)
Adolf Busch, violin, and Rudolf Serkin, piano
Columbia, 1941
A prime
exemplar of the "German school," Busch was in every
sense not a virtuoso. His performances were fiercely pure,
denuded of superfluous detail. Fleeing Hitler, he moved to
the United States with his duo partner and son-in-law Rudolf
Serkin. After Busch died in 1952, Serkin established the most
formidable American solo career of any Germanic artist. Though
stylistically he resembled Busch, he was a more secure instrumentalist,
a tornado of speed, precision, and power in the big sonatas
and concertos of Beethoven and Brahms. That his tone was never
sensuous, that his physical agitation at the keyboard did
not preclude foot-stomping and other extraneous noises, that
he wore spectacles and looked professorial all contributed
to an impression of unvarnished integrity. He seemed an ethical
Recorded 12th December, 1941 in Liederkranz Hall, New York
Matrices: XCO 31974 through 31976
First issued on Columbia 71344-D and 71345-D in album M-496
Prelude to Die Meistersinger (9:35)
Glenn Gould, piano
Columbia/Sony, 1973
The most
original North American keyboard talent of his generation,
Gould possessed an ability to translate precise intention
into sound on a par with Heifetz. No other pianist exercised
such control of texture and articulation. Like Leopold Stokowski
- an equally original New World artist whom Gould revered
- he excelled in music he could re-imagine: not sonatas and
concertos for piano, but Bach and Wagner. More than any conductor,
he animates the contrapuntal bustle of the Meistersinger
Prelude. Gould's Wagner transcriptions are, needless to say,
unlike anyone else's. In particular, they are unlike those
of Liszt, who knew how to make a piano sound like an orchestra.
Gould makes no attempt to sound symphonic. Where the Meistersinger
polyphony grows densest, he cheerfully overdubs "extra
hands" - as Liszt, the virtuoso, would never dream of
doing. In short, he does not celebrate the polymorphous possibilities
of the piano as a Romantic sound medium. He values the piano
for its self-sufficiency: its subservience to his complete
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- who had studied or discussed his role with the librettist,
Boito; with Victor Maurel, who created Iago; with Toscanini,
who played in the premiere under Verdi's supervision - is
the complete Otello. So realistic is his choked and debilitated
projection of grief at the opera's close that his ability
actually to sing "Desdemona!" is nothing short of
miraculous. His Iago is the first and most complete in a line
of distinguished American Verdi baritones; unlike any of the
others, Lawrence Tibbett is a consummate singing actor. Here,
his swarthy baritone is prodigious in scale and yet totally
pliable. Rethberg's Desdemona is both opulent and strong.
No studio recordings of these three famous Verdians convey
the high voltage of this stage performance, not least because
(the broadcast's least-anticipated revelation) of the incandescence
of the Met's orchestra and its conductor. By the time James
Levine took over the 1970s, it was a pardonable assumption
that singers at the Met had forever suffered indifferent,
dull, or inept support. But this 1938 Met orchestra is an
Italian powderkeg. And it is Panizza who stylistically binds
the polyglot cast. Compared to Toscanini, who esteemed him,
he favors a broader play of tempo. But the velocity and precision,
the taut filaments of tone, the keen timbres, the clipped,
attenuated phrasings are all Toscanini trademarks. Like Toscanini,
Panizza will bolt suddenly to the end of a scorching musical
sentence; like Toscanini's, his musicians are lightning respondents.
And Panizza is a master of controlling the show while showcasing
his cast; calibrating Martinelli's titanic climaxes and magisterial
breadth of phrase, he achieves a unity. Encountering this
memento of times past is a humbling experience.
With Tibbett,
Ponselle was the Met's other great American star of the twenties
and thirties. W. J. Henderson, who knew the Met from day one
and tirelessly documented its declining vocal standards, made
certain exceptions. Kirsten Flagstad was one. And, following
a period of skeptical resistance, he capitulated, too, to
Ponselle: "one of the most voluptuous dramatic soprano
voices that present-day operagoers have heard." In La
traviata, Ponselle's luscious soprano proves (more than
in the studio) a galvanizing vehicle for musical theater.
Under Panizza, the prelude to act four is (like Ponselle's
singing) finely drawn, boldly elongated, memorably impassioned;
a reading of this caliber today would stop the show.
The elemental
impact of Flagstad's soprano is of course imperfectly conveyed
on recordings. Still, the immensity of her portraiture registers
-- but so does a certain temperamental placidity. Her art
was untouched by the demonic. Rather, the serene amplitude
of her Isolde or Brunnhilde achieves a penetrating breadth.
Melchior is a different kind of artist. Vocally, he dwarfs
his successors much as Flagstad does hers. If his tenor lacks
the transporting timbre of Flagstad's soprano, it is tireless
and immense. Like Flatstad, Melchior is a singer of words;
more than Flagstad, he is a gifted vocal actor for whom words,
clearly pronounced, are a starting point for expressive coloration
and inflection. Bodanzky - once an assistant to Mahler in
Vienna, later recommended to Toscanini and the Met by Busoni
- is a mercurial Wagner conductor whose signature trait is
a winged intensity; he shuns Teutonic tonnage as surely as
Busoni or Toscanini did. James Gibbons Huneker once wrote,
"No living conductor has the fiery temperament of Bodanzky
save Arturo Toscanini." In the final scene of Siegfried,
Bodanzky's supercharged style attains a frenzy of exuberance
that clinches the ecstatic self-abnegation of the lovers.
Henry Finck, in 1893, called Siegfried "the grandest
role for tenors of the future" - an empty prophecy but
for Melchior's single prodigious example.
Has any
subsequent tenor matched Melchior's achievement in this famous
scene? Wagner's peerless musical/dramatic inspiration - the
dying Siegfried, pursuing his enthralled life narrative, describes
the awakening Brunnhilde as he is himself expiring -- is here
Fidelio -- Florestan's aria
Jon Vickers, tenor
The most
original North American operatic singer of recent decades
was the Canadian tenor Jon Vickers. In an era when other singers
worked to recapture the fleeting essence of styles Italian,
French, German, or Russian, Vickers eschewed every pretext
of stylistic authenticity; like the comparable New World originals
Stokowski and Gould, he was sui generis, one of a kind.
None of his signature roles sounded idiomatic as he sang them.
In fact, closer contact with a Giovanni Martinelli or Peter
Pears could only have diluted his Otello or Peter Grimes -
not because he was the greater artist, but because his artistry
was whole, and wholly iconoclastic. One foundation of Vickers's
singular vocal personality is obvious: unlike most other North
Americans of his generation, he had extensive experience singing
in his mother tongue. He could not otherwise have become a
peerless singer of words. A specialist in outcasts - Florestan,
Tristan, Siegmund, Parsifal were among his other roles - he
was himself an operatic pariah who disdained publicists and


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"They... limited the Holy One of Israel." Psalm 78:41
Suggested Further Reading: Daniel 3:13-28
He is not limited to means—to any means, much less to one of thy choosing. If he deliver thee not by calming the tempest, he has a better way in store; he will send from above and deliver thee; he will snatch thee out of the deep waters lest the floods overflow thee. What might Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego have said? Suppose they had got it into their heads that God would deliver them in some particular way. They did have some such idea, but they said, as if to prove that they trusted not really to their thought about the deliverance—"Nevertheless, be it known unto thee, O king, we will not worship thy gods, nor bow before the image which thou hast set up." They were prepared to let God have his will, even though he used no means of deliverance. But suppose, I say, they had conferred with flesh and blood, and Shadrach had said, "God will strike Nebuchadnezzar dead; just at the moment when the men are about to put us into the furnace the king will turn pale and die, and so we shall escape." O my friends, they would have trembled indeed when they went into the furnace if they had chosen their own means of deliverance, and the king had remained alive. But instead of this, they gave themselves up to God, even if he did not deliver them. And, though he did not prevent their going into the furnace, yet he kept them alive in it, so that not so much as the smell of fire had passed upon them. It shall be even so with you. Repose in God. When thou seest him not, believe him; when everything seems to contradict thy faith, still stagger not at the promise. If HE hath said it, he can find ways and means to do it.
For meditation: Our ways are not God's ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). Where our ways can multiply complications, his ways can humble us by their straightforward simplicity (Numbers 11:21-23,31; 2 Kings 5:10-14; Luke 9:12-17). How are you limiting God?
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I am preparing for the AP Vergil exam, and my teacher is worried because, well, I've been slacking a bit this year due to other AP and college level classes, whatever. I believe my weakest point is my vocabulary. I get to a word I don't know, and I get stuck and have a real problem moving beyond it.
So, if anyone has suggestions on lists of vocab I can look at and work on, they would be greatly appreciated. By the way, we're using Pharr's I-VI, and the X & XII companion. I'm good on the vocab that's in the fold-out section at the back of the Pharr (mostly the easy stuff from the last four years), but it's the slightly harder stuff that gets me.
By the way, I have a dictionary, so any lists don't have to have definitions with them, it might even be a plus if they didn't.
Thanks in advance!
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ICAC hears mining tenders put out against advice
A corruption inquiry has heard former Labor minister Ian Macdonald issued mining tenders against departmental advice.
The ICAC is investigating allegations Mr Macdonald's decisions on coal mining licences in the Bylong Valley area of the Upper Hunter Valley were designed to benefit former Labor minister Eddie Obeid.
In what has been described as "corruption not seen since the Rum Corps", it is alleged Mr Obeid and his associates stood to profit up to $100 million from the mining area.
The Obeids are accused of trying to hide their involvement through complex company structures.
Mr Macdonald is accused of restricting expressions of interest to smaller mining companies and re-opening them after the closing dates.
Departmental officer Brad Mullard told the ICAC when Mr Macdonald was mining minister in 2008, staff advised him that more exploration was needed before the Bylong Valley tender process began.
"We were arguing that to release the areas without the additional information would not result in an adequate return to the state and we needed the data to ensure there was an appropriate return," he said.
But Mr Mullard says the minister ignored the advice and instead asked for a proposal to purchase a rig to try to accelerate the process.
Yesterday, another senior staffer, Alan Coutts, said he was swiftly transferred out of the department after he objected to the mining licences.
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Georgia's peanut crop for 2011 can best be described as a mixed bag, with yields ranging from record-high levels all the way down to zero, says John Beasley, University of Georgia Extension peanut agronomist.
This year's Georgia Peanut Tour focused on the southwest corner of the state, not indicative of fields throughout the state's peanut belt, says Beasley.
"We're looking at an area that is heavily irrigated," he says. "Probably 90-plus percent of this crop is irrigated. In most years in Georgia, about 50 percent of our peanut acreage can be irrigated. This year, however, we feel it is less than that because more cotton acreage was put under irrigation."
At planting time this year, cotton prices were much more attractive than peanuts, so more growers put their irrigated land into cotton, says Beasley
"Things began changing as we got into the planting season. People were trying to plant early, and in June, conditions became excessively dry as growers continued planting. Then, farmers were trying to plant much later than they normally would."
Some areas of Georgia have been drier than others in 2011, says Beasley. "In the past three weeks, I've walked fields that will have zero yield potential. Some growers have planted seed and applied fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, but they will get no yield from their crop," he said during the last week of September.
"We've also walked some fields where farmers had crop insurance, and the yield potential was 100 to 300 pounds per acre. We're looking at yield potential versus the cost of digging those peanuts out of the ground so we can advise our growers."
Yield estimates from Sept. 12 NASS report showed Georgia yield potential at 3,400 pounds per acre. "That sounds pretty good since we set a record in 2009 of 3,560 pounds per acre and tied that record last year. But they're not factoring in the zeros or the abandoned crop. The average yield is a little deceptive because it is based on the crop that is harvested and weighed.
I can't say if that number is too low, too high or right on target."
Some record yields
Beasley adds, however, that some peanut producers are eyeing record yields.
Mitchell May, Decatur County Extension coordinator in southwest Georgia's Decatur County, says his growers planted about 25,000 acres this year.
"Our peanuts are grown in a rotation with cotton and corn. I think yields will be very good this year, with approximately 70 percent of our crop irrigated.
"Based on what I've seen, some of our yields have been as high as 7,000 pounds per acre on irrigated and 4,500 pounds per acre on dryland. We have a good water resource in the Floridan aquifer, and if not for that, we'd be in bad shape," says May.
"This year, we'll have zero to record yields on peanuts, and the final average will depend on everything in the middle," says Beasley.
In addition to longer periods of dry weather since 1990, Georgia producers also have seen white mold, which loves hot weather, he says. It takes only a small amount of moisture to trigger the disease, he says.
"We've also had a pretty severe outbreak of lesser cornstalk borer. It feeds on developing pegs and pods, and is more severe in hot, dry conditions. In the last few weeks, we've had severe problems with spider mites. This insect pest can destroy entire fields in just a short period of time. We've also seen fall armyworms and beet armyworms."
In addition to dealing with a mix of insects and diseases, the herbicides growers usually use are less effective when it's hot and dry, he says, and some growers have spent extra money controlling weeds.
The biggest thing now, says Beasley, is making timely harvesting decisions.
"Last year, we harvested right at 1 million tons. This year, we could be down to 700,000 tons. The latest numbers are showing that about 8 percent is harvested compared to 12 percent last year and 6 percent for the five-year average.
"As far as the condition of the crop, the latest report is showing 20-plus percent of Georgia's peanut acreage in the very poor to poor range. On the other side of that range, about 40 percent is rated good to excellent."
Even with irrigation, some growers are running 10 days to two weeks behind schedule, says Beasley.
Looking at supply problems
On the marketing side, Stanley Fletcher, University of Georgia agricultural economist and research coordinator of the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness, said during the tour that the increased peanut use seen in recent years could be interrupted by supply problems in the coming months.
"In the last three or four years, we've been really moving up in peanut use," says Fletcher. "Peanuts are a bellwether of the economy because peanut butter use goes up during difficult financial times — it's a cheap source of protein. Since 2009, we've seen dramatic increases in peanut use which matches up with the economy."
Maintaining this increased use will be a challenge, he says. "I've heard people say that by the time the 2012 crop year comes around, we might not have peanuts out there because of quality issues last year and possibly issues with aflatoxin this year.
"I'll put most of the blame for this potential shortage on the manufacturers and a lot of the brokers. They did not look at the research, like that from the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness.
"They were still thinking of the quota days, that there would always be acreage out there. They did not have the same mentality of the corn, soybean and wheat guys, that when the prices bid up, they have to bid up too if they want to keep the acres," says Fletcher.
The manufacturers put the shellers in a bind this past year, he says, because none of the manufacturers were willing to commit to $600 to $700 contracts. "They didn't think it would happen, but we had a big acreage drop nationally. In Georgia, you have to go back to 1982 to see acreage so low. They didn't think they'd have to bid for those acres to get them planted. If they had, we wouldn't be seeing the acreage drop like this."
Some of the shellers, he says, tried to do something about the looming acreage drop. "But they could only go so far without the commitment of forward contracting, and that gets to become a cash-flow issue. I put most of this squarely in the laps of those who did not listen to the research and did not understand the data," says Fletcher.
Data from the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness comes from representative farms — 22 across the country from Virginia to Mexico. "And they have been pretty accurate of what is going on out there on the farm," he says.
It's has been more difficult to predict yields in the last few years, says Fletcher, because of improved varieties.
"Some are saying these new varieties, on average, might give you a 500-pound boost.
Our models right now are showing yields of about 3,100 or 3,140 pounds per acre, and this doesn't include the factor of added yield from the newer varieties," he says.


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The idea of emergency preparedness is a good one. Every family needs some kind of plan in the event of a kind of disaster that could disrupt the normal course of life. But where to start? Hopefully, these quick tips will do the trick to get you unstuck and on your way to being prepared.
Water storage. You don't have to live in "hurricane" country to get hurricane prepared. Disasters can hit anywhere, which means water could be in short supply. For flushing toilets and showers, line 30-45 gallon garbage cans with those large contractor plastic bags available at home improvement stores. Then, fill the garbage cans with water. Most people forget that three weeks without electricity means three weeks of no water if your provider has not attached a generator to pump water to houses.
Point person. Every family needs to identify a friend or relative who lives in another state to be their disaster point person, and then keep that person's phone number and contact information with them at all times. Instruct all of your family members to call this person to check in with their location and conditions. Long-distance phone service is often restored sooner than local service.
Important papers. Scan your family's important documents — birth certificates, passports, Social Security cards, insurance policies, property deeds, car titles, immunization records, pet medical records, school transcripts, business licenses, education degrees and tax returns. Now burn the files onto two CD's. Keep one in a safe place and have a trusted friend or relative in a different state (your point person) keep the other disk.
Emergency cash. You need to have some of your Contingency Fund in small denominations of cash — $1,000 is reasonable, but any amount is good — in a safe place outside of your bank, such as a fire-proof home safe or other similarly protected receptacle, known only to you and one other person. In the event of a natural disaster that cripples utilities and services, you'll want to have cash on hand.
Get a go bag. Every household needs a "go bag". This is a collection of items you may need in the event of a disaster that requires you and your family to be self-sufficient when all services are cut off. And because you may need to evacuate, your Go Bag needs to be packed in an easy-to-carry container such as a suitcase on wheels. Additionally, each family member needs to have a backpack that contains enough basic supplies to last for 72 hours — all packed and ready to go.
Trunk it. Store a sweat suit, sneakers and a pair of old socks in the trunk of the car next to the spare tire. If there's a flat tire, throw the sweats on over your good clothes, kick off your shoes and change to sneakers. Now you can change that tire without having to worry about getting dirty. Bonus: If the car simply breaks down, the sneakers will feel better on the way to the nearest service station.
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Arctic wolf
Key Facts
Common Name
Arctic wolf, polar wolf, white wolf
Scientific Name
Canis lupus arctos
White wolf of the North
Physical Description
Arctic wolves are smaller than grey wolves, They also have smaller ears and shorter muzzles to retain body heat.
Length: about 1-1.8m, including tail.
Weight: 45-70kg
The arctic wolf lives mainly on muskox, Arctic hares and caribou.
As the permafrost (permanently frozen ground) prevents the Arctic wolf from digging a den, they typically live in rocky outcrops or caves. Each year the mother wolf gives birth to two or three pups.
Arctic regions of North Amercia and Greenland.
What are the main threats?
Unlike other species of wolf, the Arctic wolf rarely comes into contact with human so does not face the threat of hunting or persecution. However, the greatest threat to the Arctic wolf is climate change. Extreme weather variations in recent years have made it difficult for populations of muskox and Arctic hares to find food, and this has caused a decline in numbers. In turn, this has reduced the traditional food supply of the Arctic wolf.
Industrial development also poses a threat to the wolf, as an increasing number of mines, roads and pipelines encroach on the wolf's territory, and interrupt its food supply.
What is WWF doing?
- WWF is working with its many partners - governments, business and communities across the Arctic to combat the threats facing the region and to preserve its rich biodiversity.
How you can help
- Don't contribute to global warming - make sure you do all you can to reduce your impact on the planet.
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BOSTON (AP) — A juror in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he probably would not have voted for the death penalty had he known that the families of some victims preferred a life sentence.
Kevin Fagan spoke to WBUR-FM (http://bit.ly/1V6XfIS ) on Monday, the same day a federal judge rejected a motion by The Boston Globe to publicly release the names of all jurors.
Fagan is believed to be the first juror to speak publicly using his name.
He didn't discuss deliberations but said he likely would have changed his vote in the penalty phase had he been aware of opposition to the death penalty by the...