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Q. Are there health benefits to reducing or eliminating gluten from a diet – even if you don't have celiac disease?
Gluten-free foods are popping up everywhere and the gluten-free diet is being promoted for everything that ails you. In order to separate the "wheat from the chaff" let's look at the facts.
Celiac Disease
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. For those with celiac disease, gluten damages the lining of the small intestine causing a wide range of symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, gas, fatigue, migraines, depression, mouth ulcers, and bone and joint pain. Left untreated, the disease can lead to osteoporosis, anemia, infertility and even cancer. The only current treatment for celiac disease is a strict gluten-free diet for life.
Gluten Sensitivity
Recent research has revealed that some people may have non-celiac gluten sensitivity (GS). This condition can result in gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating, gas and diarrhea (which also can occur in celiac disease). However, GS does not lead to nutritional deficiencies or the development of other complications. The prevalence of GS is unknown and the only way to diagnosis it is by ruling out celiac disease and wheat allergy. If tests for these are negative, a trial gluten-free diet, along with a symptom diary, may help to determine whether GS is causing the symptoms. Like celiac disease, the treatment of GS is a strict gluten-free diet.
Wheat Allergy
For those with wheat allergy, consumption of wheat triggers the release of IgE antibodies from various cells in the body. This causes an allergic reaction, with symptoms that can include hives, tingling of the mouth, abdominal pain, vomiting or diarrhea and a drop in blood pressure and breathing difficulties, which can be life-threatening in some cases. It is essential to eliminate wheat but, with an allergy, the other gluten-containing grains, rye and barley, can be consumed (as long as there is no "may contain" warning about the presence of wheat). The good news is that many children will outgrow a wheat allergy.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
The gluten-free, casein- free (a protein found in milk) diet, also known as the "GFCF diet", has been advocated for those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Anecdotal reports from parents claim that the GFCF diet improves their child's communication skills, reduces or eliminates gastrointestinal symptoms and/or improves their overall well-being. However, there is limited scientific evidence supporting the use of the diet for ASD. A recent report in the medical journal Pediatrics recommended that further research needs to be conducted, as only one placebo-controlled study of the GFCF diet in 15 children with ASD has been published. This study did not find any differences in measures of severity of ASD symptoms, communication and social responsiveness in those on the diet.
Nevertheless, the Pediatrics report also indicated there is a possibility that a subgroup of individuals with ASD may respond to various dietary interventions, which is why well-designed studies over an extended period of time are essential to answer the questions. As the GFCF diet is complex and difficult to follow, especially since many children with ASD are picky eaters and have other food sensory issues, it is critical that families work with a registered dietitian to prevent nutritional inadequacies if they choose to put their child on the diet.
Weight Loss
A gluten-free diet has also been recommended by celebrities and others for weight loss. This is ironic because many processed gluten-free foods are higher in sugar, fat and calories. Healthy gluten-free whole-grains such as amaranth, buckwheat, millet, quinoa, sorghum, teff and brown rice can be part of a weight loss diet, but eating entirely gluten-free is not necessary, and can also be quite expensive.
Bottom Line
Individuals with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity need to follow a strict gluten-free diet for life. Whether the diet should be used for other conditions is controversial. Regardless of the health concerns, it is important to incorporate more nutritious gluten-free whole grains in the diet because many gluten-free packaged foods are made with refined flours and starches which are low in iron, B vitamins and fibre. Also it is essential to consult with a registered dietitian with expertise in the gluten-free diet to ensure that your diet is not only healthy, but safe. For more information see www.glutenfreediet.ca.
Shelley Case, RD, is an international celiac nutrition expert, consulting dietitian and author of Gluten-Free Diet: A Comprehensive Resource Guide. Shelley Case is on the advisory boards of the Canadian Celiac Association, the Celiac Disease Foundation and the Gluten-Free Intolerance Group. The editors at Allergic Living additionally highly recommend her book Gluten-Free Diet, a vital resource for those interested in celiac disease and living gluten-free.


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2006: Time to plan your company's escape from Microsoft
This is the year to plan your company's great escape. The window of opportunity to fly from Microsoft's proprietary cage is open wider than ever before.
Two facts lead me to this conclusion:
- Microsoft Corp. (MS) is releasing a slew of product updates, including a new client operating system and Office 12, this year. Generally, those products will be more complex and expensive than their predecessors.
- Escaping vendor lock-in is number one reason IT managers switch to Linux and open source software (OSS) and the primary barrier to Linux/OSS adoption, according to a new SearchOpenSource.com survey of almost 150 IT managers.
By my calculations, one plus two equals an opportunity to break free of Microsoft's proprietary applications and operating system.
Why is being locked in to MS a problem? The simple answer is that being tied to a proprietary app and operating system prevents companies from using products and platforms that could be the least costly and most effective for their organizations.
Lock-in has other ramifications. One is being tied to a vendor's upgrade schedule, which means having to wait for upgrades and being forced to upgrade when support for an older product is dropped. So, users may not be able to quickly adopt technologies that competitors are using. Lock-in marries your company to a vendor, and you're in trouble if that vendor falters financially or technologically, raises prices and so on.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not pushing a wholesale sacking of every Microsoft application. That may not be appropriate for every business. Sure, it worked just great for Ernie Ball, a major guitar products manufacturer, but every company is different.
But, if ever there was a right time to evaluate Linux and applications that run on Linux, it's 2006. Most IT shops will be testing new Microsoft products, so why not measure them against the alternatives?
Testing Linux apps is not hard to do. Linux runs well on older servers, and free evaluation downloads are available for Linux distributions and almost all apps that run on Linux. There's little to lose and much to gain in making a Linux-versus-Windows comparison.
I think this is the right time to compare Linux-based and Windows-based apps for another reason. Up until 2005, there were many gaps in the apps-for-Linux line-up. Those gaps are gone, according to my own observations, our survey and my recent conversations with Linux leaders like Red Hat's new CTO Brian Stevens.
Let's take a quick look at Microsoft's roster of new releases. SQLServer 5 came out in 2005 and is being widely tested by its constituency. In late 2006, we should see Windows Vista, the new client operating system formerly called Longhorn. The 2006 lineup also includes Office 12, Exchange 12, Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager 3.0, Compute Cluster Server 2003, Small Business Server 2003 R2 (release 2), and Storage Server R2.
That's a lot of apps, but there are comparable applications for Linux, both proprietary and open source, for each one. Trying to name them all will put me in flames, because I'll miss some IT pros' favorites. Here are a couple of examples:
- There are dozens of cluster server alternatives from such vendors as IBM Corp., Penguin Computing, Scali Inc., Oracle Corp. and many others.
- Linux-friendly alternatives to Microsoft SQLServer 5.0 database include MySQL (OSS), Pervasive PostgreSQL (OSS); Ingres (OS); Oracle (proprietary); and Sybase (proprietary).
As for other applications, there are many. Since Linux started grabbing market share from Unix, the majority of Unix application vendors have ported their apps to Linux.
Even the mighty Microsoft desktop suite, Office, and Windows client operating system have Linux foes. Try out OpenOffice.org 2.0 (OSS) or Xandros office suites and Red Hat Fedora or SuSE desktop platforms. I know that users are fearful about losing MS Office files and file sharing, but the Linux alternatives have leaped the file-sharing hurdle.
While recent advances in Linux business desktop products put them on par with Microsoft's new offerings, they are both less complex and costly. They're also more modular, so you don't have to buy or use/install/administer more features than you need.
Not having to buy more than you need? That's a strange concept for Microsoft shops. Why not ponder that idea each time you reboot your Windows desktop or server? That's a lot of pondering time, time you could spend planning an IT life free of lock-in.


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Putting People First
American businessman Harvey Firestone once said, "It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."
I am proud to say that this is one of the founding principles on which Forever was built. For 40 years you have taken this idea and brought it to life by helping others around the world realize and live their dreams.
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Many of my best memories are of you receiving your Chairman's Bonus checks, cheering each other on, speaking vibrantly about your business and ultimately, having fun together. When I learned that some of you have been unable to attend our events in the past due to visa restrictions, I was incredibly disappointed.
I challenged the Executives at Forever to find a solution. I didn't want to hear again that any of you would be losing out on an experience that you worked so hard to earn. We needed to find a way to help fix this and ensure that all of you who work toward these opportunities are rewarded with something special. There's nothing more heartbreaking than qualifying for an exciting trip and hearing the news that you cannot attend due to circumstances that are out of your control.
Thus, the idea of the Pattaya Beach Retreat was born.
The passionate leaders and Executive team of Forever decided that we would add a third global event to our calendar this year, for all qualifiers of Global Rally 2018 in Dallas and Eagle Manager's Retreat 2018 in Phoenix, who are unable to attend due to visa restrictions. As you can imagine, organizing and planning two global events for thousands of FBOs is already an ambitious undertaking. Despite the work, the investment and the quick planning that it will take, we are very passionate about doing what we can to give you the experience you deserve.
Thank you for all that you do and know that we appreciate you. I know this will make you all stronger FBOs and I know that your businesses will continue to flourish, allowing you to continue to help develop others. Continue working hard every day and we will continue to focus on ensuring your hard work is always rewarded.
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Morelia traveled to Houston and secured a 1-0 semifinal victory against the Dynamo in a spirited battle Thursday night to secure a spot in the SuperLiga final.
Morelia had several opportunities to get out to an early lead, but forward Miguel Sabah failed to convert any of the chances. In the 14th minute, after a Brian Mullan turnover, the ball quickly found Sabah just inside the penalty spot, but his effort went over the bar.
Four minutes from the half, a deflection found its way to Sabah again near the spot as he calmly cut the ball back to beat his defender. However, his effort on goal was saved well by Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall to keep Morelia off the board.
Houston's best chance in the first half came in injury time. Andrew Hainault picked off a pass and quickly fed Brian Mullan on the wing. Mullan's cross was on target, and forward Cam Weaver beat two Morelia defenders to the ball, but his header deflected off the post as the half ended 0-0.
Sabah made up for the early misses out of the gate in the second half. In the 47th minute, Rafael Márquez Lugo chipped the ball over the Dynamo defense and into the path of an onrushing Sabah, who calmly chipped the ball over Hall. Defender Bobby Boswell made a valiant run to try to clear the chip, but he could not catch up to the ball, and Morelia took a 1-0 lead.
To jumpstart Houston's offense, with Brian Ching already in the game as a halftime sub, head coach Dominic Kinnear brought on Richard Mulrooney and Geoff Cameron in hopes of netting the equalizer. Cameron was making his first appearance since April 24, when he ruptured his right PCL against the Chicago Fire and was initially ruled out for the season, then for four months.
The game turned slightly sour in the 77th minute when Mulrooney was clearing the ball near the sideline and was checked into the turf by Jaime Lozano, clearly retaliation for what Lozano felt was a foul by Eddie Robinson. Dynamo defender Mike Chabala took offense to the cheap shot and a shoving match ensued, and both Lozano and Chabala were shown yellow cards.
Houston had several dangerous chances late off of corner kicks and set pieces and was unlucky not to be awarded two penalties late. On one corner kick, Brian Ching was put in a headlock, but the official did not call a foul.
Then, late in the match, Cameron slipped the ball into Ching behind the Morelia defense. The forward, however, was dragged down by Adrian Aldrete, who received his second yellow and was sent off for a foul just outside the penalty box.
Houston's best chance came in the game's final seconds. Ching connected with Lovel Palmer near the top of the box, but Palmer's left-footed shot was deflected inches wide. One last corner kick was caught by Morelia's Federico Vilar as time ran out.
With the win, Morelia now go on to face the New England Revolution in the SuperLiga final at Gillette Stadium. Houston returns to MLS play on Sunday, when the Dynamo travel to Western Conference foe Seattle.
Monarcas Morelia vs. Houston Dynamo
SuperLiga semifinals
August 5, 2010 -- Robertson Stadium
Scoring Summary:
MOR -- Miguel Sabah 2 (Rafael Marquez Lugo 1) 47
Monarcas Morelia -- Federico Vilar, Luis Silva, Mauricio Romero, Enrique Perez, Adrian Aldrete, Aldo Ramirez (Elias Hernandez 46), Hugo Droguett, Luis Noriega, Jaime Lozano (Miguel Sansores 86), Rafael Marquez Lugo (Adrian Garcia 87), Miguel Sabah (Luis Gabriel Rey 59).
Substitutes Not Used: Jose Cruzalta, Rodolfo Vilchis, Jesus Urbina.
Houston Dynamo -- Tally Hall, Andrew Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Ryan Cochrane (Eddie Robinson 46), Mike Chabala, Brian Mullan (Geoff Cameron 71), Lovel Palmer, Anthony Obodai (Richard Mulrooney 71), Corey Ashe, Cam Weaver (Brian Ching 46), Dominic Oduro.
Substitutes Not Used: Brad Davis, Francisco Navas Cobo, Tyler Deric.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Brian Mullan (caution; Reckless Foul) 57
MOR -- Hugo Droguett (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 61
MOR -- Adrian Aldrete (caution; Reckless Foul) 66
MOR -- Jaime Lozano (caution; Reckless Foul) 78
HOU -- Mike Chabala (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 78
MOR -- Adrian Aldrete (ejection; Second Caution) 93+
HOU -- Corey Ashe (caution; Dissent) 96+
Referee: Walter Quesada (CRC)
Referee's Assistants: Osvaldo Luna (CRC); Marvin Ramirez (CRC)
4th official: Jair Marrufo
Attendance: 7,641
Weather: Cloudy-and-90-degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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BOSTON—Looking to once again propel itself into the final two weekends of the regular season with a Beanpot consolation win, the Harvard men's hockey team takes on Northeastern Monday at 4:30 p.m. at TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins.
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Standings: ECAC Hockey | Ivy League
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Live statistics and live audio will be available. Brendan Roche and Raafi Alidina will have the call on WHRB-FM 95.3 and WHRB.org.
Game On
• The Crimson (7-7-10) is unbeaten (3-0-4) in its last seven ECAC Hockey games but suffered a 3-1 loss to top‑ranked Boston University in last week's 60th Beanpot semifinals. The Huskies (11-13-3) fell to Boston College, 7-1. Last season, a 5-4 win against BU in the Beanpot consolation game was the first of eight Harvard wins in nine games, extending through the regular season and into the ECAC quarterfinals.
• Coming off a 2-2 tie against Rensselaer Friday, Harvard stands fourth in ECAC Hockey with four games remaining. The top four finishers earn a first-round by in the league tournament.
• Harvard has trailed during play in 21 games, but has rallied to win or tie 15 of those contests (5-6-10).
• The Crimson leads the NCAA in power-play efficiency at 29.9 percent (29 for 97). Harvard has scored at least one power-play goal in 20 of its 24 games and netted multiple power-play goals in eight games.
• Alex Killorn (Montreal, Que.) leads Harvard with 30 points and 15 goals. He ranks 13th nationally with 1.25 points per game and 10th with 0.62 goals per game. Linemate Marshall Everson (Edina, Minn.) has 24 points (9-15-24), including four goals and 10 assists in the last nine games.
• Harvard boasts two of the nation's highest-scoring defensemen. Danny Biega (Montreal, Que.) ranks third nationally among defensemen at 1.08 points per game (7-19-26). Patrick McNally (Glen Head, N.Y.) is tied for 13th among among defensemen and second among freshmen on the blue line with 0.79 points per game (4‑15‑19).
Last Time Out
Harvard tied Rensselaer, 2-2, Friday night at Bright Hockey Center, matching the NCAA record with its 10th tie of the season and setting a new ECAC mark with its eighth league tie. Brock Higgs scored an extra-attacker goal with 63 seconds left in regulation to rally Rensselaer after Luke Greiner (Faribault, Minn.) gave the Crimson a third-period lead.
Alex Fallstrom (Stockholm, Sweden) also scored for Harvard, erasing RPI's 1-0 lead in the first period. Raphael Girard (Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.) made 27 saves, while Rensselaer's Bryce Merriam logged 29, as the Crimson owned a 31‑29 shots advantage. CJ Lee notched a goal and an assist for the Engineers. In between Beanpot games, Harvard is nowv 5-2-2 under Ted Donato '91 and 8-2-2 in the last 11 years.
Repeat Performance?
The Crimson came into last season's Beanpot consolation game off a league tie (4-4 at home against Princeton). Harvard rallied to a 5-4 win against Boston University and went on two win three of its final four league games and sweep a first-round playoff series at Clarkson and win the first game of its ECAC quarterfinal set at Dartmouth.
On a Roll
Harvard's seven-game league unbeaten streak is its longest since the Frozen Four season of 1993-94, when the Crimson doubled that number with an 11-0-3 record over its final 14 ECAC games.
Crimson Calendar
Harvard is 22-3-2 in February home games under Ted Donato '91. The Crimson is 22-9-5 in post‑Beanpot ECAC games and 45-23-15 in all post-exam league games in Donato's seven‑plus seasons. (Harvard's first-semester exams took place in January until being moved to December in 2009.)
Point Men
The Crimson has taken at least one point from 14 of its 18 ECAC Hockey games. With a 3-1-5 record in league road games, Harvard has taken points from eight of nine away contests.
Big Stages
The attendance of 16,005 for the Beanpot semifinals was a season-high for Harvard. The Crimson skated before five-digit crowds in both of its games at North Dakota (11,500 Dec. 30 and 10,980 Dec. 31) and an ECAC regular-season-record 8,891 fans in its Frozen Fenway game against Union (Jan. 13). Three Harvard home games and two road games have been sold out.
Closing Time
The Crimson holds a 29-15 advantage against its opponents in third-period goals, including 11-2 over the last seven games. Harvard is 5-1‑3 when entering the third period leading or tied.
Comeback Crimson
Harvard has entered the final period trailing in 15 games but has rallied to win or tie in nine of those, including two of its last four league games.
Harvard has trailed 31 times during play this season and has come back to tie 25 times. The Crimson trailed twice each in its win against No. 18 Colgate (Nov. 12) and its ties against No. 19 Quinnipiac (Nov. 5), Dartmouth (Nov. 25), No. 18 North Dakota (Dec. 30), No. 14 Union (Jan. 6) and No. 9 Cornell (Jan. 21). Harvard scored seven goals over the final two periods to rally from a four‑goal deficit and defeat New Hampshire, 7-6 (Nov. 22), and erased four separate one‑goal deficits in a 4-4 tie at Massachusetts (Dec. 2). Harvard is 2-6-7 when trailing after two.
The Drawing Board
Friday's tie was Harvard's eighth in ECAC play, eclipsing the previous league record held by the 1991-92 Yale (11‑4‑7), 2003‑04 Dartmouth (10‑5-7) and 2010-11 Quinnipiac (6‑9-7) squads. Harvard has tied 10 games overall, breaking the previous program record of six set in 1991-92 and matched in 2008‑09. The draw matched the NCAA record first set by Minnesota State in 2002‑03. Colorado College matched that mark in 2008‑09, as did Western Michigan last season.
Time and a Half?
Eleven of Harvard's 24 games reached overtime, including 10 of the last 17. The Crimson has played 50 minutes, eight seconds of overtime.
Harvard has held seven of its last nine league opponents to two goals or fewer and and each of its last 12 foes overall to three goals or fewer.
Magic Numbers
The Crimson is unbeaten when scoring four goals or more (5-0-2) and has lost just twice when allowing three goals or fewer (6-2-8).
Outside the Box
Harvard averages the fifth-fewest penalty minutes per game in the nation at 10.9.
Head-to-Head Tiebreakers
Harvard has won its season series against Colgate and Quinnipiac; tied its series against Dartmouth, Princeton and Rensselaer and lost its series against Cornell and Union. The Crimson leads Brown, Clarkson and Yale and trails St. Lawrence.
Survey Says ...
The Crimson has received votes in 13 of the 17 weeks of the USCHO.com national poll, including four points last week.
Pairing Up
Harvard and NU are tied for 29th in the PairWise Ranking. Harvard is 3-5-6 against its fellow teams under consideration for the NCAA tournament (Ratings Percentage Index of .500 or better).
Poll Positions
Harvard played seven ranked opponents in a stretch of eight games in December and January. The Crimson was 0-3‑4 against those seven ranked opponents and is 1-3-5 against ranked foes this season. Dating back to last season, Harvard is 3-5‑6 against its last 14 ranked opponents.
Power Outage
The Crimson has allowed its opponents only 87 power plays this season, the nation's lowest total and an average of just 3.63 per game. The only other team to allow its opponents fewer than 100 power plays is New Hampshire (89).
Power Surge
Dating back to 2010-11, Harvard has netted 32 power-play goals in its last 24 ECAC games. The Crimson has had three man-advantage goals in three of those games and two in nine others. The Jan. 13 shutout loss to Union ended a Harvard streak of 18 games with a power-play goal.
Special Forces
The last team to score on at least 30 percent of its power plays in a full season was Colorado College in 2002‑03 at 30.8. The last team to break 35 percent was the 1986-87 Harvard squad at 35.9. The NCAA record for power-play efficiency is 40.2 percent, recorded by Boston University in 1970-71.
59th Beanpot Revisited
Notes from Harvard's appearance in last season's Beanpot tournament, Feb. 7 and 14, 2011:
• Behind three second-period goals and 41 saves from Chris Rawlings, Northeastern skated to a 4-0 victory against Harvard in the semifinals. The Crimson registered a season high in shots, including 17 in the first period. Pier‑Olivier Michaud '11 led Harvard with seven shots on goal, while Rence Coassin (Hamden, Conn.) logged six.
• Danny Biega and Michael Del Mauro '11 scored in the final four minutes, three seconds of the third period to lift Harvard to a 5-4, comeback win against No. 15 Boston University in the consolation game. Harvard scored three goals—two off the stick of Alex Killorn—in 73 seconds to rally from a goal down in the second period. BU tied the score with two quick goals later in the period before taking a 4-3 lead in the third. Biega and Alex Fallstrom assisted on both Killorn goals, while Peter Starrett (Bellingham, Mass.) helped out on the final two scores. Ryan Carroll '11 made 45 saves and Ryan Grimshaw (Rochester, N.Y.) also scored. Alex Chiasson scored twice and Kieran Millan made 24 saves for BU.
• Boston College, which defeated BU, 3-2, in the semis, pulled out a 7-6, overtime win in the final.
Harvard has won 10 Beanpot titles, most recently in 1993. Other Crimson Beanpot notes:
• Ted Donato owns a 3-12 Beanpot record as Harvard head coach, and his teams have a 5-8‑1 record against Boston teams in non-Beanpot action. The Crimson fell to BU, 4-3, in overtime Jan. 14.
• Alex Killorn leads active Harvard players with four goals in six Beanpot games. Danny Biega also has three points, on a goal and two assists, in four games.
• The Crimson had lost to the eventual national champion in three straight Beanpots before last year, BC in 2008 and 2010 and BU in 2009.
• Since the first Beanpot in 1952, Boston schools have won nine national championships. Each time, the title-winning team, including Harvard in 1989, won the Beanpot earlier in the season.
• Harvard made its first appearance since 1998 in the Beanpot championship game in 2008, losing a thriller to BC, 6-5, in overtime. The Crimson trailed, 5-3, until Jon Pelle '08 and Mike Taylor '08 scored in the final nine minutes of the third period to send the game to an extra session. Taylor had two goals and an assist in the game. Doug Rogers '10 recorded a goal and two assists. Alex Biega '10 had two assists. Kyle Richter '10-11 made 27 saves. Nick Petrecki scored the winning goal for the Eagles at 7:07 of overtime. Petrecki had two goals, as did Brian Gibbons.
• The Crimson has met Northeastern in 12 of the last 13 tournaments. Harvard, which will not face BC for the second straight tournament, had played the Eagles in each of the last four Beanpots before last year.
• The Crimson narrowly missed trips to the Beanpot championship game in four of Ted Donato's first five years behind the bench. Harvard suffered a 2-1, double-overtime loss to Northeastern in the 2005 semifinal. BU held off a late Crimson charge (Harvard scored twice and held a 25-6 advantage in shots in the final period.) and added an empty-net goal for a 5-3 win in the 2006 semifinals. BC scored twice to rally and added an empty-netter in a 3-1 win against the Crimson in the 2007 first round. In 2009, Alex Biega's would-be tying goal against No. 1 BU crossed the goal line a moment after the final buzzer, sending Harvard to a 4-3 semifinal loss.
• The rivalries with BU, BC and Northeastern are Harvard's most-contested among non-conference opponents. Many of those games took place when all the schools were part of the 17-team ECAC. Harvard has met Boston University 145 times, Boston College 118 and Northeastern 97.
• The Crimson's nine-year championship appearance drought that ended in 2008 was the longest in school history. The current 18-year title drought is Harvard's longest.
• Ted Donato was 3-5 in Beanpot games as an undergrad, helping the team to the 1989 title.
• There are six Massachusetts natives, including three freshmen and two seniors, and nine total New England natives on the Crimson roster.
• Four current Crimson players have brothers who played in the Beanpot. Aaron Moore, brother of Colin Moore (Medfield, Mass.), played for Northeastern, while Danny Biega and Connor Riley (Lake Forest, Ill.) have brothers who played for Harvard. The first Beanpot for Max Everson (Edina, Minn.) is brother Marshall's third.
• 1955 Beanpot MVP Bill Cleary '56 was inducted into the Beanpot Hall of Fame in 1995. He holds Beanpot records for goals in a period (four), game (five[tie]) and tournament (seven); and points in a period (five), game (seven) and tournament (11). He went on to coach Harvard to four Beanpot titles.
• Joe Cavanagh '71 holds the record for career Beanpot points with 19 (7-12-19) and was a member of the first class inducted to the Beanpot Hall of Fame, alongside Bill Cleary, in 1995.
Power Players
Danny Biega has a league-high 12 ECAC power‑play points (1‑11‑12), leading four Harvard players ranked tied for sixth or better. Alex Killorn is tied for seventh nationally with eight power-play goals.
Close Calls
Only two of Harvard's games have been decided by more than two goals. Seventeen of the 24 games, including 17 of the last 20, have been tied in the third period. At a point in every third period but two, the score has been tied or the teams have been separated by one goal. The Crimson is 4-3‑10 in one-goal games and ties.
League Leaders
In ECAC Hockey play, Danny Biega leads league defensemen in points (7-12-19). Patrick McNally (3-9-12) is tied for fifth among freshmen, first among rookie defensemen, in scoring. Harvard's power play is operating at a league-high 29.2 percent (21 for 72) in ECAC play.
Marshall Plan
Marshall Everson registered two points each in four straight games in January and has six points (1-5-6) in the last four games. He has scored or assisted on 15 of Harvard's last 25 goals.
Hot Line
Luke Greiner has scored three goals in the last four games and four in the last six. Linemate Eric Kroshus (Calgary, Alta.) has registered two goals and four assists in the last six contests. Kroshus stole the puck and passed to Greiner for a goal Friday.
Rock-Solid in Relief
Raphael Girard came off the bench and stopped every shot he faced in two straight games before starting Friday. He made 26 saves in two periods at Quinnipiac and eight stops after entering the Beanpot semifinal in the second stanza. He played 80 minutes, 26 seconds consecutively without allowing goal before Rensselaer's first goal Friday.
The Century Mark
Alex Killorn has 93 points on 45 goals and 48 assists in 120 career games for the highest point total by a Crimson player since Jon Pelle graduated with 97 points (39-58-97). Harvard, which plays only 29 games per regular season, has not had a 100-point scorer since Tom Cavanagh '05 registered 117 (48-69-117). Harvard's last 50‑goal scorer was Tim Pettit '04. The last 50-assist Harvard men were classmates Alex Biega '10 and Doug Rogers '10 with 55 each.
The Other Century Mark
Daniel Moriarty (Bienfait, Sask.) played his 100th game for Harvard Friday. Colin Moore reached that milestone Feb. 3 at Quinnipiac, while Alex Killorn and Ryan Grimshaw did so earlier this season. With 90 games played so far, junior Danny Biega could reach 100 in the ECAC tournament.
The Bright Stuff
Harvard is 65-38-7 (.623) at Bright Hockey Center under Ted Donato and 287-131‑32 (.673) all-time at Bright, which opened in 1979‑80.
Series History
The Crimson holds the all-time series lead against Northeastern at 64-33-0 and is 22-18 against the Huskies in the Beanpot. The teams first met Dec. 4, 1940, a 7-4 NU win. Harvard won seven of the next nine meetings and later posted series win streaks of 10 games (1959-63) and 16 games (1967-76). The teams met for one ECAC title while Northeastern was a member of the conference, with the Huskies prevailing, 5-2, in the 1982 league title game.
Scouting the Huskies
It has been a streaky season for Northeastern, which started slowly at 1-7-2 but then went on a 7-0-1 run that included road wins at highly ranked Michigan, Notre Dame (twice) and Minnesota. A four-game losing streak followed, and then the Huskies won three straight before losing their last two. Their last game as a 3-2 loss at New Hampshire Friday.
Northeastern sports a very balanced offense, with five players within six points of scoring leader Ludwig Karlsson (9-15-24). Karlsson, a freshman, is tied for the team goal-scoring lead with Cody Ferriero and Braden Pimm. He shares the assists lead with Vinny Saponari. Chris Rawlings has a .918 save percentage and 2.66 goals-against average in 26 starts.


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Wenger calm despite Giroud blow
Arsene Wenger is not intending to sign a replacement for injured striker Olivier Giroud - with Besiktas match-winner Alexis Sanchez proving he is more than capable of leading the line for the Gunners.
Giroud underwent ankle surgery on Wednesday afternoon and could be sidelined until the new year, with Arsenal already linked to a number of targets to come in and take over from the 27-year-old.
But it was summer-recruit Sanchez who scored the only goal of a tense Champions League play-off as Wenger sealed a 17th consecutive season in the group stages of the competition despite having Mathieu Debuchy sent off in the second half.
The Chile international scored his first Arsenal goal on the stroke of half-time and Wenger was delighted with his overall performance.
"I bought him to play as a striker, not to only play on the flanks," the Frenchman said of Sanchez.
"He had a good game, not only on the technical side but on the fighting side.
"He was mobile and dangerous and showed he has great fighting spirit - qualities which will be important in the Premier League."
As well as Sanchez, Wenger also has Yaya Sanago, Joel Campbell and Lukas Podolski at his disposal, while Theo Walcott is another option in attack although he is also currently injured.
Wenger denied any interest in Nikola Zigic or Manchester United's Danny Welbeck and insisted he would not panic buy following the set-back with Grioud.
"You will ask me straight away who we will buy. I give you the answer - at the moment, no-one," he said.
"If you want to make everyone happy you buy all of these players but what is important is the performance on the football pitch. If you look at the players we had on the bench and those out injured, we have players. You cannot buy every time a player is injured.
"We are open for any position as long as we feel the player can strengthen the squad. Buy to buy? I don't see the purpose of that."
Arsenal will now go into Thursday's draw as a top seed and Wenger was pleased with how his players dealt with a tricky second leg against a spirited Besiktas side.
"Overall we produced a performance we wanted," he said.
"We were on the level requested tonight against a good team but we couldn't finish the game off.
It was nervous and very difficult in the final 10 minutes when we were down to 10 men.
"I wanted to qualify and we did it. You must give credit to Besiktas; they are a closed unit, well-organised, physically strong and technically very good.
"We kept (Demba) Ba quiet, he had one chacne with a header at the ened that would have killed us."
Besiktas coach Slaven Bilic, who watched from the stands as he served a touchline ban, refused to critise the referee for not awarding his side a penalty after Jack Wilshere appeared to foul Ramon Motta.
Instead the former West Ham defender focused on praising his side and aiming at a tilt at Europa League glory.
"They showed a little bit of extra quality in the box," he said.
"We are disappointed on one hand but also so proud. My team gave Arsenal 180 very open minutes.
"We didn't give up and in the last 10-15 minutes we were very exciting and they were on the ropes. Not many teams have done that to Arsenal on their home ground.
"We are very, very gutted because we were so close to going through - we are going to come out of this very positive and go in the Europa League.
"We are not there just to particpate, we want to do business there and go very far. If we continue to play like this or better, with a couple of more players.
"We can go far in the Europa League and fight for the Turkish Championship which is always a priority for our club."
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"We're cautiously optimistic," says Car Sousek, a farmer in Saunders County, Neb.
Farmers in the eastern half of the state are ready for planting to arrive as field conditions underneath are the best in years.
"Subsoil moisture is in good shape," says John Kaliff, a York County, Neb., farmer. "We had some nice rain last fall, a couple nice rains, that really soaked in and did the subsoil moisture great."
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Both farmers say while subsoil is good, they can't say the same thing for what's on top.
"The concern right now is the surface moisture," says Sousek. "The top four to six inches is extremely dry, but that can be remedied rather quickly with a good one inch rain."
Mother Nature didn't give Nebraska farmers much of a break the majority of winter.
"February might have been the driest on record in our little corner of the world here, which has caused some other problems for us as far as planting," says Sousek.
Twitter pictures from south-central Nebraska last weekend showed snowstorms creating minimal visibility, a reminder even though the calendar says April, winter isn't ready to give up just yet. Kaliff says the storm was more of a nuisance, as he didn't even receive an inch of moisture out of that system. If more rain doesn't come soon, he'll need some help.
"Then, worst case scenario start the pivots and keep it going, but we don't want to have to do that if we don't' have to," he explains. "We'd rather have a little help from Mother Nature to keep it going."
While the moisture has been void, rollercoaster temperatures have been pretty steady. Kaliff says soil temperatures hit 57 degrees last week, but after the latest cold front, dropped back down into the 30s. For Sousek, that's more of an issue than moisture right now.
"Our biggest concern is soil temperature," he says. "That's going to be a limiting factor. Last year, it was a completely different story. This year our soil temperatures aren't warming up."
The lack of moisture also left another problem, which is too much residue on top of the ground. That could also make getting the seed in the ground a little rough.
"We disced last fall when it was probably too wet, and thought we'd get enough snow to break it down," says Kaliff. "But those big boulders, they're not melting down like we thought they would. We're going out with a soil finisher and making them smaller, but there's still some chucks out there you don't like to see."
While seed decisions are still unmade for some farmers, for Kaliff, it's more than just price driving his decision to plant more soybeans than he ever has.
"We're trying to clean up some fields that have been hit hard with goss's wilt, because with the corn on corn we've built up the residue, and so we're trying to clean up some of those issues," he says.
Sousek is doing the opposite, opting for more corn acres this year.
"The only reason I'm doing that is because I'm trying to build up the residue, build up the soil a little bit, and I think I can do a better job of that with some corn on corn because of some conservation practices I've put into place," he says.
With field prep done, and temperatures looking up the rest of this week, the Kaliffs think these green machines will be out of the shed this weekend with planting 2014 under way.


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marzipano wrote:klausesser wrote:marzipano wrote:I just took 10 bracketed shots and processed HDR through both APG and PTGUI and got identical results from both with no obvious cut-off from APG (3.0.5) as below
The only thing is I'm not sure how you actually measure this cut-off at 1.0 described
I put them in Photomatix and checked the figures in there - but is that the same thing ?
Guess Matt just mistakes something when he views ths files.
best, Klaus
nevertheless a statement from Kolor might enlighten everybody . .
Thanks Klaus - I assume there should have been a attached to that
With Sherlock Holmes logic I can only see 2 possibilities. Either there is a difference in the way I am following the workflow (workflow E) in terms of all the settings used Or the use of Photomatix to measure this 1.0 cut-off in my examples is not showing this issue up properly (don't know what software Mattmerk is using for this)
marzipano wrote:Enable Fusion=yes
HDR Ghosts=yes
Edit colour anchor=HDR
Optimise by layers=no
colour level on update=no
optimize on anchor change=no
gkaefer wrote:in #30 matmerk wrote hes using "nuke"
mattmerk wrote:Well, first off, just loading the photomatix website, they are calling the picture of the eiffel tower HDRI. It isn't. Heres a quote from the site: "Photomatix Pro is an excellent tool for creating high dynamic range photographs." Stuart Gripman, Mac Life, issue # 17, 2008 That quote shows the misunderstanding of what HDRI even is and how the term has been polluted.
I looked at photomatix ages ago to see if it might help in my company's workflow. Then I realized it didn't actually output real (old school definition) HDRI. Then I walked away from it.
The problem is that people call these images like the one of the eiffel tower on the photomatix website HDRI. They are not. The guy who invented HDRI, Paul Debevec, did research in this area to accomplish photoreal CGI photogrammetry. Somewhere along the line, someone hijacked the term HDR and began applying it to tone mapped images. This happens all the time in the world of computer graphics. I started out doing 3D animation. Now when I say 3D people think I mean stereoscopic. Loose use of these technical terms is fine at the hobbyist level but engineers need definitions that are inflexible.
I'll talk to the VFX world and see if we can move everything we say over to Latin. Until then, it is just a burden we technical VFX folks have to bear.
I don't think it is a matter of me not understanding what is being discussed here. I am just using a very specific and the original definition of HDRI--images that contain photon energy representations of the real world. Most places in the real world have high dunamic range lighting. It isn't that the photos taken in the world are HDR, it is that the world is HDR. HDR photography is there to capture a photon energy map of the world to apply to a world one would build in a computer. THis is why you need values that go as high as into the hundreds of thousands or millions in the brightest parts of the HDR image for computer rendering of CG elements.
mattmerk wrote:And for the record, making this one small fix to APG, based on what everyone is saying here, no one would even notice the change. Only Klaus, suddenly seeing very different (and better) results in his 3D renders, and all the people in the VFX world to whom I would be promoting the software. I'm basically asking for a change that most of you wouldn't even notice but would open up APG to a new market to sell more units.
mattmerk wrote:Why you want to go over 1.0 is covered extensively in Debevec's papers published on the subject.
You could start here: http://www.pauldebevec.com/Research/HDR/
mattmerk wrote:Why you want to go over 1.0 is covered extensively in Debevec's papers published on the subject.
You could start here: http://www.pauldebevec.com/Research/HDR/
marzipano wrote:mattmerk wrote:Why you want to go over 1.0 is covered extensively in Debevec's papers published on the subject.
You could start here: http://www.pauldebevec.com/Research/HDR/
HDRView allows viewing of .hdr files but not .exr so it would seem
Anyway loading the same images I showed earlier which came from APG 3.0.5 in HDRview instead of Photomatix gives a clearer result
It would still seem to me that APG is producing OK results and there are some numbers on the top which are >1.0 (but I don't know whether they are showing the same thing !)
mattmerk wrote:And, as predicted, I was the dumb one here and am more than happy to be wrong.
mattmerk wrote:As for the discussion of IBL, I hope anyone interested gets lost in the amazing work of Paul Debevec who pioneered all this work.
mattmerk wrote:So, I have been talking to Alexandre who walked me through the proper procedure to get APG to do what I want. Here are my results:
Here I go:
1. Loaded two copies of the same 32 bit .hdr file from the CGCookie website with values well above 1 in the highlights.
2. Made sure I am using the latest version: (I am.)
3. Once the images are loaded, I opened the group settings.
a. Under Detection I uncheck "auto-color correction".
b. under Optimization I set the reset to "quick". I leave lens distortion correction to "enabled" with all those parameters set to "automatic".
c. In Panorama I set the projection to Planar (since I am just rerendering the spherical panorama that has already been assembled for this test). I've never messed with the default crop, so I will leave it at "Clamp to panorama content." Color correction by layer is "off" and I leave the Default color correction to "gamma" since there is no "none." Default regroup is left at my default, "By stack."
d. Render. Blending presets is set to HDR output. I have this time disabled blending and have deactivated fusion and HDR ghosts and cutting. Format is set to 32 bit EXR. Exported data is "Panorama."
4. Click "Detect."
5. Pano re-render looks good in the preview.
6. Load the rendered output to Nuke and...Success! Whites above 1.0.
It would seem that I have made poor assumptions about how the software was working and I think some of the default settings could be changed to make this work more easily, but yes, APG does appear to render Proper HDR under these conditions. And, as predicted, I was the dumb one here and am more than happy to be wrong.
Thanks everyone here for their feedback, especially Georg who really simplified the workflow to debug my improper approach.
As for the discussion of IBL, I hope anyone interested gets lost in the amazing work of Paul Debevec who pioneered all this work.
mattmerk wrote:And If you read his papers and understood them, why are we having a conversation about why HDRI in IBL should have values above 1?
mattmerk wrote:If you quit looking at the HDRI as simply an image but instead a spherical light source wrapped around your scene, representing all different brightness values shooting photons at your subject, you'll get why you want values above 1.
And you can of course color correct the HDRI in the app by increasing or decreasing the brightness overall or gamma correcting it to lift or lower the miss, or increase contrast in the map. It is just about where you are starting. In your HDRI you want the mid tones to match the mid tones of the scene into which you are dropping your CGI object.
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Take a look back at the early generations of video game consoles in part one of our three-part video series (click here for part two; click here for part three). Hosted by yours truly, this installment features insight from Kotaku's Stephen Totilo, IGN's Greg Miller, Sony's Scott Rohde, and Video Games New York's Giulio Graziani.
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Ted Williams burst onto the Fenway Park scene and immediately made an impact in 1939, setting several MLB and Red Sox rookie records. While the team finished second again, the future certainly looked bright with Williams' arrival and more talent was on the way. The ballpark also welcomed an Old-Timers' Game in honor of baseball's centennial, while Boston College's football team went 5-1 in their Fenway Park home games.
Record: 89-62, 2nd in American League
Manager: Joseph E. Cronin
Attendance: 573,070
In 1939, Ted Williams broke into the league with a bang. He made his Fenway Park debut on April 16, 1939 in the annual City Series game against the Braves and never looked back. More than 70 years later, "The Kid" still holds the Major League Baseball rookie records for RBIs (145) and walks (107), the American League rookie record for slugging percentage (.609), and Red Sox rookie records for extra-base hits (86) and runs scored (131).
Williams manned right field as a rookie and was seen as a bit of a character, often practicing his batting stance while playing the outfield. He would also playfully lift his cap up by the button on top, saluting the fans.
On May 9, the Red Sox made history by becoming the first club to travel by air, chartering airplanes to fly from St. Louis to Chicago.
With an 89-62 record, the Red Sox finished in second place again. The Red Sox had the highest team batting average in the AL but their team ERA was 4.56, only fifth best in the league.
Williams led the team in RBIs, with Cronin and Foxx also topping the century mark, and Foxx led the team with a .360 average. Lefty Grove went 15-4, while Jack Wilson, Fritz Ostermueller, and Joe Heving each won 11.
In 1939, a canvas curtain was designed and hung along the back of the third base grandstand seating section in order to shield all-star first baseman Jimmie Foxx from the sun's glare. Home plate had been oriented in 1912 to keep the sun out of the batter's eye, but posed challenges to fielders on the right side of the field as it set. Even though the façade behind home plate is dramatically higher today than it was during Fenway Park's first several decades (the fourth and fifth levels of the park would not be added until several decades later), those playing right field still have a difficult time with the glare from the setting sun at certain times of the day.
On July 12, 1939, the Veterans of Foreign Wars held an Old-Timers Game at Fenway Park as part of the Baseball Centennial, 1839-1939. The day featured a game between National League and American League Old-Timers. Boston Mayor Maurice Tobin and Boston Police Commissioner Joseph Timilty also played that day on a team called the Merry Go Rounders, whose roster also included Bill Carrigan's son and three sons of Smokey Joe Wood. On August 1, the Boston Park Department held a baseball field day that included fungo hitting, catcher's throw, and baserunning. The field day was an annual event at Fenway Park for many years.
|1939 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|June 7
|Medford High 3, Maynard High 0
|June 7
|Watertown High 7, Attleboro High 0
|June 8
|Lynn Classical 9, Somerville High 8 (10 Innings)
|June 8
|Norwood High 13, St. Clement 0
|June 9
|Watertown High 3, Medford High 1
|June 9
|Norwood High 5, Lynn Classical 3
|June 10
|Norwood High 7, Watertown High 2
|July 12
|National League Old-Timers 8, American League Old-Timers 4
|July 12
|Lowell Thomas's Nine of Old Men 8, Johnny Lane's Merry Go Rounders 2
|August 1
|Boston Park Department Baseball Field Day
On September 11, 1939, the Washington Redskins returned to Fenway Park to play in the annual College All-Star Game series. The third annual Boston game was sponsored by the local American Legion post and had featured the Boston Shamrocks the previous two years. During the rest of 1939, Boston College football dominated Fenway Park's calendar. Though the Eagles dropped their first Fenway game of the year to the Florida Gators, they roared back to take their next five at the ballpark, including a 14-0 upset of 10th-ranked Holy Cross before a crowd of more than 40,000 fans on December 2. Boston College also defeated Boston University, which went 1-2 at Fenway Park in 1939.
|1939 Non-Baseball Events At Fenway Park
|June 4
|War Memorial Service*
|September 11
|Washington Redskins 30, Eastern College All-Stars 27 (Football)
|October 7
|Boston University 19, Franklin & Marshall 7 (Football)
|October 12
|University of Florida 7, Boston College 0 (Football)
|October 14
|Western Reserve 19, Boston University 14 (Football)
|October 21
|Boston College 19, Temple 0 (Football)
|November 4
|Boston College 13, Auburn 7 (Football)
|November 11
|St. Anselm 39, Catholic University 13 (Football)
|November 25
|Boston College 38, Kansas State 7 (Football)
|December 2
|Boston College 14, Holy Cross 0 (Football)
*Started in the 1910s, a late May memorial service coinciding with the Memorial Day weekend was often held at Fenway Park through the mid-20th Century.


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Super-producer Cameron Mackintosh had hoped to fly to Minneapolis to oversee the U.S. opening of his retooled "Phantom of the Opera." He has fond memories of the Twin Cities from a 1999 spell when he came to launch "Martin Guerre" in North America. But Mackintosh, the London-based backer of such shows as "Les Misérables," "Mary Poppins," "Cats" and "Miss Saigon," had to be in Asia tending to other properties in his multibillion-dollar musical-theater empire.
In a rare interview, he spoke by phone with the Star Tribune about his passion for theater and his reasons for launching this new version of "Phantom" that opens Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre. It's a more modern take that retains the story, the music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and some scenic ideas of a show that first opened in London 1986, where it is still running. "Phantom" also has become the gold standard musical of Broadway, where it has been running for a record 25 years.
Q Your name has become synonymous with a certain era of blockbuster musicals.
A That was invented by the press. The fact is they turned out to be blockbusters and look like sure things only in hindsight. Nearly every one of those shows was considered to be a dangerous folly at first. It's the same with many of the great musicals. Nobody thought "West Side Story" or "Oklahoma" was a good idea. Similarly, "Cats" or "Les Miz" look like sure things only because they were successful.
Q Yes, there's "Martin Guerre," which had its North American premiere in Minneapolis in 1999 but didn't make it to New York.
A We're still working on it. We've got new lyrics. I understand why it didn't work. It wasn't constructed well enough.
Q Your shows did usher in the era of Broadway blockbusters with signature sets and props — the chandelier in "Phantom," the helicopter in "Miss Saigon," the barricades in "Les Miz."
A People tried in the '80s to say that my shows were big hits because of the scenery. That's absolute crap. Time has proven that the music and the librettos of these musicals work just as well in a classroom as they do on Broadway. That proves that it's nothing to do with the original staging.
Q You put out a new version of "Les Miz" that came to the Twin Cities last year. It has scaled-down barricades and uses technology more efficiently. Did you feel a similar impulse to update "Phantom"?
A It broke box office records right across America because it doesn't seem like yet another revival of a great war horse. We could've played two or four more weeks in every city.
Q How do you update a show like "Phantom"?
A I start, as I always do when I do the re-imaginings, with the designer. Seven years ago, I got together with the wonderful Maria Björnson. I said, what we've got is fantastic but it's hugely expensive. At some point, it's going to become too expensive to do. We're going to need to play that show for two weeks, not six or eight. What intrigued me and her was delving far more into the backstage world of the opera house. It's a departure from the Hal Prince trademark of the original black box. We started talking about moving it upside down and making it more contemporary. Sadly, she died.
Q But not her influence.
A Not at all. One day I saw a production of [the Michael Legrand musical] "Marguerite" in London. It was designed by someone named Paul Brown. He's operatic with a wonderful sense of drama. He's also Maria's protégé. I thought he would be someone who could help us rediscover "Phantom." He and I started working on this concept of enormous, massive walls that thunder around the stage and become many things. They represent the building. The whole show revolves around these walls. The scenes in the opera house are not dissimilar from the ones in the original. We've kept the costumes that Maria adapted. Having been a stage manager when I started off in the business, I'm intrigued by how a set can excite the audience. The staging of a new version is governed by the physical reality of what the set will be.
Q But what do you say to diehard fans who have images of Michael Crawford, the most famous Phantom, singed in their minds and want to see a version of that iconic production?
A The original creative team made a wonderful show, which attracts a new audience. Many of the people who come to see the show usually say they've never seen it before. So, it's not that the new version is better than the old one. It's just that it's different. What was extraordinary and original 25 years ago can no longer be. You want people to come see the show because it's still one of the greatest ever. I want to give audiences a new experience, not a piece of nostalgia. I want people who see the show to understand what the fuss was all about in the first place.


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You need to out think and out innovate the competition…
…and you may need to turn around the existing culture to do it.
Every day, you and your team are faced with countless issues, problems, concerns and opportunities – you've got to keep a lot of balls in the air, both for the hospital, and for your own career. It can be difficult to know what to focus on to attain those goals.
Lean Design, Six Sigma, Executive Dashboards – you know the jargon, you have even sent staff to be formally trained in these tools…so why are things still lagging?
No improvement tool will itself bring about sustained change – the tools must be used within an organization-wide culture of ownership that makes YOUR goals the goals of EVERY EMPLOYEE.
Established in 2001, Hospital Focus 5 exists to provide the framework, methodology and implementation of the foundational transformation needed for real long-term operational improvement. Your "experts", in many ways, are with you now – they are your current staff. The problem is that neither you nor they know how to organize and work together to tap into that expertise in a systematic, sustainable way. In addition, we bring our own operational, financial and organizational hospital experience to the table to provide the "seed corn" for idea development. Our process generates meaningful communication and idea flow from the "bottom up" from all employees, but within a structure that supports directed performance targets and goals from the "top down".
Our Focus 5 process puts into place the dynamics to ensure positive cultural transformation and its subsequent efficiency and effectiveness gains by getting your organization to prioritize around:
We work within your existing management structure to redefine the way your hospital does business in every department, every day. Results can be amazing when each and every staff member understands and has a stake in the goals of the organization and the department, how they interconnect, and how they are aligned to drive financial, clinical and marketplace success. As a hospital leader, you will oversee the cultural transformation that enables the board, hospital leadership, the medical staff and operational teams all to work together - to deliver results. You will put into place the foundation to get the fullest utilization out of the management tools that you have invested in over recent years.
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