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Fred and George Weasley's departure from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry took place sometime after the Easter Holidays in 1996, after rebelling against Dolores Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad for most of the year.[1]
Background information
Events leading up to their departure
- Joining Dumbledore's Army with a number of other students.
- Selling Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products that they had perfected to Hogwarts students.
- Shoving Graham Montague into the Vanishing Cabinet after he tried to dock a large amount of House points from them.
- Setting off their entire stock of Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs all through Hogwarts.
- Placing a Portable Swamp in the hallway near Professor Umbridge's office.
- Umbridge: "You two are about to learn what happens to wrong-doers in my school."
- Fred: "You know what? I don't think we are. George, I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?"
- George: "Definitely."
- — The twins departing Hogwarts[src]
The twins placed their Portable Swamp in the hallway near Professor Umbridge's office so that Harry Potter could use Umbridge's fireplace to speak to Sirius Black via Floo Network. When Harry was finished speaking to them, Filch came into Umbridge's office, happily saying that he had permission to whip wrongdoers. He did not see Harry, as Harry had his Invisibility cloak on.[1]
Fred and George Summoned their broomsticks from Umbridge's office, and flew out of Hogwarts, after advertising their shop.[1]
Along with Peeves, many other students attempted to become "Troublemakers-in-Chief". Lee Jordan had been setting Nifflers into Umbridge's office, students often dropped Dungbombs and Stink Pellets, and many students who had bought Skiving Snackboxes put use to them while in Umbridge's classes.[1]
After leaving Hogwarts, Fred and George Weasley went on to become incredibly successful businessmen, opening Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley. However, Fred was tragically killed in the Battle of Hogwarts less than two years later while battling Pius Thicknesse alongside his brother, Percy Weasley.
Behind the scenes
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, since Harry's attempt to use Umbridge's fireplace to connect to 12 Grimmauld Place to speak to Sirius and Lupin has been omitted, Fred and George fly away from Hogwarts after having released their Whiz-bangs. The Portable Swamp is omitted also.[2]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7


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Oh, to be by the side of the ocean waves every day. To wake to the sweet smell of salty water. To hear the calling sirens of the crashing waves. Were it possible, this is where I would be. It matters not what shore I roam, as long as the water is near. As long as I can gaze upon the ever changing roll of the seas, my heart and soul are at rest. Alas, it is but a short respite that I take at water's edge to restore my soul before returning to the barren lands of where I reside.
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I'm certainly no expert at troubleshooting these devices. But, I do have some info and suggestions that may help.
Firstly, FingerWorks is no longer in operation. Do not expect any support from the company. They are closed, indefinitely.
Next, I suggest that you try the device on at least one other computer. There have been times where users have found trouble on one machine but not on another. Often it is unexplained at first, but this helps to narrow things down a bit.
Also, on the same machine, try using different USB ports/hubs. If you are using an extension USB hub right now, temporarily remove that from the loop. The FingerWorks products all take a certain amount of current from the USB port, and sometimes the hubs are not capable of supplying adequate current. This can result in a device that works sometimes, and sometimes not... simply by virtue of the fact that the current supplied is marginally adequate.
So, hopefully you'll get some results.


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Technology Leader Celebrates with "Sunset Strip Block Party"-An Unprecedented
Event at the Key Club, Roxy and Viper Room on the World Famous Sunset Strip
Exclusive Performances By Linkin Park, Common, The Crystal Method,
Cut Chemist, Z-Trip, MC Supernatural and More
MILPITAS AND LOS ANGELES, CA, Oct. 26, 2007 - SanDisk®Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the leader in flash memory, today announced the availability of its 8GB1 microSDHC™ and M2 flash memory cards to retail outlets worldwide. Compatible with the new breed of mobile phones with card slots, the 8GB SanDisk microSDHC and M2 cards are ideal for the growing number of consumers who make their mobile phone-with its built-in music player, digital camera and video player/recorder-the centerpiece of their digital lifestyle.
SanDisk's ongoing 'slot education' program is aimed at raising awareness both of the presence of a card slot in the majority of today's new mobile handsets and of the benefits available to those who use it. With a high capacity memory card in this slot, consumers can 'Wake Up Their Phone' and turn their handset into the ultimate lifestyle accessory, including the ability to store more than 2,000 digital songs, or more than 5,000 high-resolution pictures, or up to 5 hours of high-quality MPEG 4 video.2
Once digital content is stored on a high capacity SanDisk card, consumers can share their world with others, through simple uploading of content onto social networking sites-such as You Tube, MySpace and Facebook-allowing friends and acquaintances to share the experiences they have captured on the card. Content can be transferred through the mobile phone or through synching the card with a PC.
In celebration of the launch, SanDisk has teamed up with festival and event producers Guerilla Union (Rock the Bells, Paid Dues) for the "Sunset Strip Block Party," an unprecedented event incorporating exclusive headline performances from world-famous artists on the world famous Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, Calif. The massive fete is scheduled for Friday, October 26, and will take place throughout three of the Sunset Strip's most legendary nightclubs-The Key Club, The Roxy Theater and the Viper Room-making it the first event of its kind to use all three venues in unison. The event is the official kickoff for the SanDisk "Wake up your Phone" education campaign that will be continued throughout 2008.
Performances from Linkin Park, Common, The Crystal Method, Cut Chemist (visual performance) and Z-Trip will come together to celebrate this historic event. Staying true to the campaign and the night's 'slot education' theme, SanDisk is encouraging the invited guests to capture the event on their mobile phones.
In addition to the microSDHC and M2 card, SanDisk also offers a broad range of both embedded and removable storage solutions for mobile handset manufacturers and mobile network operators. These include iNAND™ and mDOC™ embedded flash drives; microSD™, miniSD™ removable flash cards; and SIM and MegaSIM™ cards.
SanDisk's 8GB microSDHC an M2 cards are now available in major retail outlets worldwide with suggested retail prices of $139.99 and $149.99 respectively. Visit www.sandisk.com or your local retailer for details.
About SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
1 1gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes
2 Approximations based on JPEG images on 5 MP camera with average file size of 1.5 megabytes (for pictures); 4 minute songs at 128 kbps MP3 (for songs) and 5 hours of MPEG 4 video (30 frames per second, 640x480, 3Mb/sec. for video). Actual numbers may vary.
SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. iNAND, mDOC and MegaSIM are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, and/or its subsidiaries. microSD, microSDHC and miniSD are trademarks. Memory Stick Micro M2 is a trademark of Sony Corporation. All brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including specifications, applications and customer acceptance that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: our products may not perform as expected and the other risks detailed from time-to-time under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
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Steve Jobs predicted that tablet computers would become so dominant that "PCs would become like trucks" - special-purpose industrial devices. Skeptics replied that tablets were only useful for consumption and not creation and therefore couldn't replace PCs, to which Jobs said:
We are just scratching the surface on the kinds of apps for the iPad…I think there are lots of kinds of content that can be created on the iPad. When I am going to write that 35-page analyst report, I am going to want my Bluetooth keyboard. That's 1 percent of the time. The software will get more powerful. I think your vision would have to be pretty short to think these can't grow into machines that can do more things, like editing video, graphic arts, productivity. You can imagine all of these content creation possibilities on these kind of things. Time takes care of lots of these things.
History supports Jobs' argument. In the past, new user interfaces led to new categories of creation applications. Back in the 70s and 80s, when computers had text-based interfaces, word processors and spreadsheets were invented. In the 80s and 90s, when computers had graphical interfaces, presentation and image editors proliferated. Jobs was simply predicting that historical patterns would repeat.
Today we are announcing that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $15M Series A investment in FiftyThree, a company whose goal is to build the essential suite of mobile tools for creativity. You might know FiftyThree as the company behind the iPad app Paper. Paper has been embraced by millions of everyday creators, and has won dozens of awards (including Apple's App of the Year). It is also one of the top grossing iPad productivity apps ever. But this is only the beginning of FiftyThree's ambitious plans.
The FiftyThree team spent their careers working on breakthrough computing projects, including lead roles on Office, Kinect, Sonos, and the Xbox. Particularly relevant was a project they led at Microsoft called Courier that has been widely praised as a visionary take on tablet computing (unfortunately, Courier was never brought to market).
FiftyThree didn't need to raise money, but decided that the opportunity was so large that it made sense to accelerate their efforts with additional capital and resources. They'll be expanding their engineering teams in New York and Seattle, and will broaden their offerings across software, services, and hardware.
I first met the founders in New York in 2011, and have since spent a lot of time with them. I'm convinced that they are one of the most innovative design and engineering teams in the world. In the past, they reimagined how we play games, view images, listen to music, create documents, and more. With FiftyThree, they are rethinking the very way we create and collaborate on ideas. I couldn't be more excited to be involved.
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Compromised Accounts, Stepping Stones
The list of account compromises over the past week is almost too long to list, and the numbers of verified or estimated compromised accounts has reached ridiculous numbers. With the media spotlight on these current companies' compromises, we'll likely get more details on the security weaknesses, outright failures, and more from the narcissistic vulnerability pimps taking credit for exposing those security problems.
Aside from the obvious of changing passwords, what can you and your organization do?
I won't prognosticate on the list of best practices that may have been violated in these compromises, but they will be reported following the long, detailed, and expensive investigations in coming weeks and months, because most of them will be well-known but for one reason or another not practiced. The media reporting and the company's public statements will cover those, and they will likely be worth a review for any significant points. We can let them tell the story, again.
Instead let's focus on some things that people may not know or understand that can actually improve your security around these incidents. We highlighted a couple of these practices in the 2011 Annual Security Report, and more recently in the Emerging Threats Briefing at Cisco Live 2012.
First, let's help our customers, users, and organizations. Given the opportunity, many people will take the simplest and easiest way. In the case of passwords, that means they will use their birthday, username, "password", "123456", and so on. We'll see these lists of bad passwords in coming weeks too. It's human nature, and too much work to try and remember all those passwords, right? Which leads to the second point of people that use the same password on multiple accounts (more on this shortly). As security practitioners, professionals,…we too often are setting up our users and organizations to fail. We have to do better, and here's how. Every security control must have technical controls that enforce and monitor that security control, or we have no idea if it is effective. In the case of passwords, that means creating policies, security controls, and technical controls that require a user to create a strong password and change it regularly. If we let a user create a password of "123456", they have done as should be expected, and we have failed. Even with the best account credentials, the accounts have to be monitored for suspicious activity with technical controls to alert security teams and users when, for example, a password is changed. For a good reference list see: FY 2011 Chief Information Officer Federal Information Security Management Act Reporting Metrics. Note the account activity items on the list: Locked out accounts, failed logins, dormant accounts, password aging…
There is little a security team can do to prevent users from using the same password on multiple sites, which they have no control or knowledge of, accept to educate their users on the risk and provide them with better security solutions. For passwords this means password management software. It's easy to use, auto-generates strong passwords, and stores them securely for the user. All the user has to remember is one strong password to access them all, and let the software do the rest. Just so there is no confusion, I am not referring to having your browser or a website remember your password, password management software is different. There are many reviews of these password management products available on the Internet, and Cisco released a blog post with more details on these products last year in our NCSAM Tips series. So pick one, use it, provide it to your users (some are open source and are obtained at no cost), and train your user on how to use it. If you need a little Fear, Urgency, and Doubt to convince them it's a good idea, read on….
Now to the more important point about these account compromises: they are likely only the first step (i.e. stepping stones) of both more attacks and more serious compromises to come. Sure, the accounts are compromised and someone dropped them on a public page, but that is a beginning, not the end. What will likely happen next is that the criminal elements will quickly take these compromised account lists and attempt to use them to do their bidding: everything from sending spam messages, phishing, malicious codes and bots, to attempts to use the accounts to log into commercial or financial websites or even your enterprise as a trusted and possibly privileged user. How will you know? Failed login attempts, locked out accounts for repeated failures, dormant account login attempts, or attempted logins outside of normal operating hours would all be events worth noting and investigating. Maybe the user doesn't know their account has been compromised? The security teams that monitor account activity can take the lead and warn their users, and recommend they change their passwords. All account compromises don't get reported in the media and posted on dump sites. The security teams can capture the lists that get publicly posted and review them for accounts that belong to their organizations. This is probably not something most organizations would want their users doing, particularly from a business system or network. They also would probably not want their users to try the available online compromised account websites, regardless of the claims of those websites security measures. Equate that to doing a search on your social security number, probably not a good idea. Security teams do need to educate and remind their users on these things not to do.
Of course there has to be some sanity placed around these account security practices too. Security teams should not take broad strokes like organization-wide mandatory password resets because they have seen suspicious activity on a few accounts and this is where Incident Response comes in. Incident responders and investigators have to quickly Identify, Contain, Eradicate and Recover those systems. But, the first step in any Incident Response is to Prepare. Have a plan, document it, and practice it so that when an incident does occur, you and yours are ready. Unfortunately, there have been many of these mass account compromises at many large companies. But, the other side of that coin is that the collective experience from these incidents has resulted in well-refined and successful crisis management processes. Again, based on incident response practices; it's the same no matter where you fall in these incidents. Some have been more successful than others, which is why reviewing the details that come out around these latest compromises is worth reviewing and considering in your own Incident Response and Crisis Management plans as lessons learned. All without the pain of being directly involved in the incident.
In summary, it's the knowledge of the threat, knowledge of the best security practices, and how we can use those existing best security practices against a specific threat:
- Awareness
- Password management software
- Account activity monitoring
- Incident Response and Crisis Management
It's no comfort to those already directly impacted by these account compromise incidents, but we can all continue to learn from them, continue to improve our own security practices, and contribute to improving security across the Internet.
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Yes you are very correct..Almost 450000 numerous password had been stolen and exposed to public..Your 4 points of effective practices can be implemented to outcome this issue.
Thanks Mr. Jeff.


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After three days of competition, the Texas Tech men and Texas women claimed the crowns at the 2014 Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships. It is the Red Raiders first title since 2005 when they took the crown in Manhattan, Kansas. The Longhorn women completed the season sweep, claiming the outdoor and indoor titles for the first time since 2006.
Texas Tech compiled 160.5 total points to secure a 35.5-point victory over Texas. Oklahoma State came in third with 96 points. Baylor garnered fourth place after recording 93 points, while Oklahoma ended the championship in fifth (90 points). Kansas State claimed sixth, racking up 83 points. Kansas (67), TCU (51) and Iowa State (50.50) rounded out the men's standings.
For the women, placing second was Baylor with 113.50 points, 35.5-points behind Texas' 149. Texas Tech trailed in third (109.50), while Kansas finished with 100.50 total points to place fourth. K-State rounded out the top five with 93 points. Iowa State (83), Oklahoma State (54), TCU (45), West Virginia (40.50) and Oklahoma (28) completed the women's final team standings.
Texas Tech junior Kole Weldon earned high point honors on the men's side as he tallied second-place finishes in the hammer, shot put and discus. Weldon is the first Red Raider to take home the honor and his 24 total points are the most since Kansas' Sheldon Battle's 28 points in 2005.
On the women's side, Texas sprinter Morolake Akinosun came away with high point honors by winning the 100-meter, 200-meter and ran leadoff for the first-place 4x100m relay team. The impressive performance earned the sophomore 22.50 points. Akinosun is the first Longhorn to take home the trophy since Marshevet Hook took the title in 2005 and 2006.
Texas Tech's Bradley Adkins took the high jump title clearing 2.21m (7-03.00). The Red Raiders used the high jump to clear some room in the standings with Tech's Jacorian Duffield finishing second and Dayton Fisher tied for third. Texas Tech recorded 23.50 points in the event. It marks the first time in league history a team has taken the top-three spots in the event.
Kennedy Kithuka (Texas Tech) added another title to the resume on Sunday with a dominating performance in the 5,000m. Kithuka set a stadium record clocking a time of 13:54.46, finishing nearly 50 seconds ahead of second-place Shadrack Kipchirchir (Oklahoma State).
Longhorn sophomore Ryan Crouser set another Big 12 record on day three. Crouser, who set the record in the shot put on day two, tossed the discus 63.90m (209-08) on his first attempt to claim the title and record.
Baylor's Trayvon Bromell took home the gold in the 100m with a wind-aided time of 9.77. Although the times do not go down in the Big 12 record book, due to the wind, four runners finished under the championship record time of 10.03.
The Longhorn women sent 14 qualifiers to the finals in the 100 meters, 200, 400 and 400m hurdles and claimed victory in each of the events.
Texas' Shanay Briscoe won her fourth Big 12 outdoor high jump title in as many years and her third conference season sweep following a victory at the 2014 indoor meet (also 2011 and 2013). She became the first female high jumper to win four straight Big 12 outdoor titles.
Marielle Hall (Texas) won the 1,500 meters to set a new stadium record at 4:20.82. It is her fourth Big 12 title of the 2013-14 academic year.
The Longhorns most dominating performance of the day was the 400m. Texas' Courtney Okolo set a collegiate, Big 12 and stadium record posting an incredible time of 50.03. UT's Kendall Baisden and Brianna Nelson finished second and third, respectively.
Kansas' Jessica Maroszek broke a Big 12 record in the women's discus launching the disc 60.18m (197-05).
Up next for the Big 12 teams will be the NCAA Preliminary Rounds held May 29-31.
FINAL TEAM Standings
1. Texas Tech, 160.50 points
2. Texas, 125 points
3. Oklahoma State, 96 points
4. Baylor, 93 points
5. Oklahoma, 90 points
6. Kansas State, 83 points
7. Kansas, 67 points
8. TCU, 51 points
9. Iowa State, 50.50 points
1. Texas, 149 points
2. Baylor, 113.50, points
3. Texas Tech, 109.50 points
4. Kansas, 100.50 points
5. Kansas State, 93 points
6. Iowa State, 83 points
7. Oklahoma State, 54 points
8. TCU, 45 points
9. West Virginia, 40.50 points
10. Oklahoma, 30 points


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The foundations of the belly dance museum were in the early days of and even before internet. Things change, so time to keep up... Bellydance Museum © 1999 to 2019 : Origins of oriental dance, bellydancing and famous historic bellydancers
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Oriental dance costumes from the 1700's, 1800's and the 1900'sBelly dance has evolved in many different countries through different ways and little is preserved to give an idea how it was centuries ago. This collection has pieces as old as 1714, probably the earliest account on printed paper.
It's origins are found in the Middle Eastern every day life. Women and girls dancing between themselves in schools, in their homes at weddings (separated from the men) and other festivities. Orientalists who watched women of gypsy tribes dancing at public places, witnessed one of the roots of oriental dancing
The very first Oriental dancer the Egyptians have known was "Shooq". She's reached the climax of her career in 1871 and starting from Shooq many Egyptian Belly dancers have successfully followed her footsteps.
One of her successors was "Shafiqah Alqebtieah" whom later has become the Icon of the Oriental dance that remains in the Egyptian memory.
Series of legendary Belly dancers have emerged in Egypt such as:
Badia Masabni, Hekmet Fahmy, Beba Ez-eddin, belly dancer and Egyptian freedom fighter for the Arabic revolution, Amina Mohammed, Tahieah Karryoka, Samia Jamal, Hajar Hamdy, Naima Akif (updated), then came Najwa Fouad, Nahid Sabri, a lesser known oriental bellydance superstar, Suhair Zaki and Farida Fahmi, the queen of Egyptian beledi.Among all those names were a big number of belly dancers who played what you call "strange" role in the evolution of the Oriental dance in Egypt and they shared the same start which is escaping home in searching for gold...
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GHS lockdown threat suspect identified
Just an hour away from Newtown, a hauntingly familiar scene of heavily armed police in tactical gear, classroom doors barricaded with desks and sobbing students and parents clinging to each other, unfolded Thursday at Greenwich High School after authorities responded to a threat of a youth with a gun that sent the campus into a lockdown.
Gianfranco Romero, 19, of 168 N. Water St. in Byram, was charged with breach of peace by police, who did not recover a weapon at the Hillside Road campus.
Multiple sources characterized Romero as a known quantity to local law enforcement officers, who said witnesses told them the suspect intimated to two fellow GHS students that he had a firearm in his book bag and planned to use it to shoot people in another state.
No one was harmed during the lockdown, which many of the 2,800 students chronicled in real time via Twitter and text messages and caused major gridlock along East Putnam Avenue as concerned parents rushed to the school.
"My friend said she saw him get gun-pointed by five cops," Jennifer Gonzales, 16, a junior, told Greenwich Time.
A man who identified himself as a family friend said Romero was not in when a Greenwich Time reporter visited the multi-family residence on North Water Street.
Last November, Romero was arrested for third-degree assault and disorderly conduct stemming from a domestic dispute.
Romero, whom police described as "highly cooperative," is scheduled for arraignment April 19 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
First Selectman Peter Tesei, who also serves as the town's police commissioner, immediately called a meeting of the Board of Selectmen at Town Hall into recess upon learning of the lockdown.
"They received a report of a student who may have had a weapon that they brought to school," Tesei said. "Nothing materialized. Nonetheless, it was a very serious situation."
Tesei was whisked to the school, where the lockdown had been lifted just before noon and shaken students congregated outside the building's main entrance.
Educators credited Carlos Franco, a Greenwich cop assigned to GHS as its full-time school resource officer, as being instrumental in quickly identifying and helping to detain the suspect.
"To try to find the student who reported it that fast and then find several students who may have been involved in a building that size is spectacular," Schools Superintendent William McKersie said during a 12:45 p.m. news conference at the town's public safety headquarters.
Franco was off site when the initial 911 call came in at 10:43 a.m., but returned to the school immediately.
"The reality is that in any elite high school, and this is an elite school, we have got kids on the edge of doing things they shouldn't do and we are paying attention to that," McKersie said.
McKersie gave his staff high marks for securing the building, which is slated to get new locks on all classroom doors, privacy shades on windows and safety glass as part of a $1.4 million initiative by the school district to harden its facilities from potential threats.
Spawned by the Dec. 14 massacre at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School, the security initiative won funding approval earlier in the week from the Representative Town Meeting.
"If Newtown hadn't happened, you wouldn't panic the way we panicked," said Monique Miculcy, 50, holding back tears as she waited for her son, Kyle Miculcy, a freshman, to emerge from the school.
Parents were kept at bay while the school was in lockdown.
"When the school is in lockdown, it means that no one can get in," Tesei said.
Alex, the son of school board member Peter von Braun, and a 19-year-old senior, was in one of the classrooms when a police officer entered with his gun drawn.
"The girls were crying. Alex was fine," von Braun said. "Basically, the narration we got was it was wild. He wasn't scared. He thought whoever came in handled himself professionally. How much of that is teenage boy show and how much of that is real I don't know."
Romero's Facebook profile page lists him as a member of GHS Class of 2013 who is studying "sexology" and lists his work as "dancing." He is friends with the Greenwich Mountain Lion, a profile created two years ago lampooning frequent sightings of the wild feline in town.
Police Chief James Heavey said Franco knew both the suspect and the person who reported the threat.
Students crouched behind furniture and used desks and filing cabinets to barricade classroom doors, which currently only lock from the outside.
"At first we thought it was a drill," said Jeffrey Vera, 16. "When I heard it was real, Newtown came up."
Jeffrey was walking toward East Putnam Avenue with fellow GHS junior Byron Abanto shortly after the lockdown was lifted.
"They had counselors in the rooms to see if anyone was shaken up," Byron said.
Lia Stambaugh, 15, a freshman, was in photography class when the lockdown went into effect.
"Our teacher just told us to keep working," she said.
Parents said that a robo call from the district told them not to come to the school, but instinct told them to ignore the directive.
"You can't keep parents away," said Carmen Belmont, who gave her daughter Allie, a junior, a big hug when she met her at the front of the school.
Michael Gianopoulos, 15, was in the bathroom when he heard teachers and students running in the hallway. As he left the bathroom, a teacher grabbed him and pulled him into a computer lab room where other students were and told them all to go to the back of the room as teachers locked doors. He said no one knew what was going on.
"We were hearing rumors of guns going off," Michael said outside the school. "A lot of people were a little bit freaked out and scared."
GHS Headmaster Christopher Winters made a school-wide announcement that officials had taken "control of the rumor" and discovered no weapons.
"We have the people who were suspected with us, so we are not in any danger," Winters told students. "This is a very emotional experience. We all suffered through this. It really makes us all think, but please know that the police response was immediate."
It's been four months since a heavily armed gunman smashed through the glass doors of Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children age 7 and under, as well as six female educators in the worst rampage of its kind in U.S. history.
Students and their parents couldn't help but draw parallels.
"Oh, the Sandy Hook effect," said von Braun, who commended the leadership of the schools. "The Board of Ed has handled this wonderfully."
The district is weighing the addition of a second full-time school resource police officer to complement one assigned to Greenwich High School.
The increase in manpower would cost $80,000 to $100,000 annually in salary and benefits, according to McKersie, who has said the second school resource officer would give police a presence in the three middle schools.
Additional training for teachers to identify threats and suspicious persons is in the works for the district, as well as revisiting entry procedures at each of its facilities.
"That is very important for the town of Greenwich to know that (this) is part of what it pays for," McKersie said. "It got a big outcome today. It pays for a top-flight headmaster. It pays for a top-flight dean of students. All were involved with this -- house administrators, counselors, psychologists. Because of the teamwork ... they knew likely who these kids were, how to get to them. They did it fast, and (this) is what Greenwich pays for and it got a big response today."
Staff writers Frank MacEachern, David Hennessey and Lisa Chamoff contributed to this story.
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I am tired of being in a meeting or brief which includes a prayer. I do not lower my head and I stand there frustrated as they beg the support and protection of God and end in Jeebus' name. This is all too often a feature of any command I report to, and I am getting sick of it.
Anyone else out there in the same boat?
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Brent, I don't know which branch you served in, but I served in the US Navy from 1954 thru 1974 and my dog tags always read Atheist. I had my first run in with an old navy chief that told me that I couldn't be an Atheist and I asked him if he believed in his Oath. And from there it went to the part of defending it against ALL enemies foreign and domestic. And to the part about freedom from or of religion. It took all of 5 minutes and they ran my tags through the machine and handed them to me and told me that I would never be issued another pair. Needless to say, I went on liberty and to the Seafarer (across from the USO on Broadway) in San Diego and had 3 new sets made just to insure that the originals would not disappear. I still have a set and one of my originals. The original had my blood type wrong. Found that out on being admitted to the Naval Hospital after a bad ding on my first tin can... The corpsman saw that I was an AB Negative and he became afraid to hook me up until they did a type for sure turned out to be A Positive... They gave me a new set of tags with Atheist on them without any question or static....
I was an Electronics Tech and one of the ones on the fast track for advancement. No one questioned my religion only my abilities and those were exemplary... Only had a problem one time with an E-5 who thought that his religion trumped my non belief, I won and he ended up in the brig for assult, battery, and harassment. Lost his crow and ended up being discharged as a troublemaker. That was back when the Navy was looking out for those who could do their jobs and shit canning those who were lazy or not cutting it. We never had prayers before or after anything. Church call was held on the fantail or the messdecks and those who felt they needed it could attend or not... I never did nor did I ever visit or need a chaplain..
I have no problem with anyone that wants to believe in what ever, as long as they do not try to push those superstitions on me. Religion should personal and private and shouldn't be a part of the military bearing.
Just this old Chief's 2 cents
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Today's guest post comes from our friend and Strong Towns advocate Joe Nickol. It can also be found at street-sense.org.
Community building in the United States is on the verge of something special. As we observe trends in economy, demographics, energy consumption and cultural prefernces, we see the outlines of a New American Frontier slowly emerge from the settling dust of the Great Recession. Recent observations about New Brainard, New Hope, and North Adams all describe places with the potential to be prototypes, (re)discovering the value that small and midsize cities can bring to our economies, quality of life, and natural environment. Acting like startup companies, these towns are on the forefront of innovation, of trial and error, and productivity. They are large enough to matter but small enough to be affected by change. Individually, their margins today may be small, but they are sustainable; and taken together, their market potential is enormous. We have come to call them Investment Ready Places.
Like small businesses and startups, communities pushing into this New Frontier exhibit specific entrepreneurial personality traits. In her post about New Hope, Jennifer Krouse outlines some critical ones:
"Openness, creativity, social capital and an experimental mindset are important assets. But mustering those assets is not enough; we have to deploy them."
"[Deploying] them" is the operative phrase. Our current finance, regulatory, and development regimes have calcified and must be shaken up to move once again toward a stronger, more prosperous state. Like all great startups, Investment Ready Places have the ability to redefine development philosophy and dismantle some of the dogmas that have precipitated failure in our cities. We can once again tap into a deeply-rooted town building culture that builds upon inherited patterns for creating dynamic, resilient, affinitive places.
Deploying the Traits
Our experience has shown how the traits Jennifer outlined get activated. For example, openness and capitalization can go hand-in-hand to deliver something extraordinary. In Pittsburgh's East Liberty, a partnership between an artist and a community development corporation yielded aplatform for talking about the future of the neighborhood, building social capital, and linking community needs (demand) with developers and service providers (supply). It was real-time market research.
Similarly, we have uncovered how a city evolves to become a place where creativity is pervasive across multiple industries, powering a robust economy. Beyond just policy or conventional economic development tax incentives to lure companies from one part of the country to another, Nashville has seen how the very body language of its development enabled not only the arts but also diversified spinoff industries. The traditional building patterns of a place like Nashville provide Investment Ready Places with a development module that can be readily adapted to localities.
The trait that is perhaps most misunderstood is experimentation. While trial and error have been the constant product of our collective entrepreneurial spirit it is too often confused with high-stakes gambling. Traditional town building teaches us how to foster tinkering without betting the entire farm. Development in the New Frontier will occur within a framework of inherited phylogenic smart patterns to build everything from door knobs to neighborhoods. Within this framework will be incessant experimenting, adopting of successes, and ruthlessly discarding of failures. Pursued within normal confines of affording each, individual experiments will be scaled such that, should they fail, they do so efficiently without blowing up the whole operation. Our problem today is not that we fail to experiment, but that we too frequently do so as indebted gamblers rather than the far more sage garage innovators. Ten garage innovators of urban development have been documented in the Everyday Squares work of Urban Design Associates.
A new set of Rules
Like human personality traits, town building traits are the product of both nature and nurture. The natural traits are derived from evolving building patterns and community traditions that have a beautiful wisdom to them, even if we don't understand fully why. Nurtured traits, on the other hand, are shaped more proactively. These come from the rules we set up as a society to deliver a specific outcome (with both positive and negative unintended consequences).
It's fair to say we love rules. Planners, in particular, want to point to something more or less objective to base decisions upon. Designers use rules, too, but more so as conventions or when we do code review. For the early explorers, many of the rules adopted were inherited from the "old world" but many new ones were formed with a new culture and context. The question we have the opportunity to answer in this frontier asks what set of rules yields the personality traits that we require in a more robust town building program? We see three basic rule sets forming:
- Robust settlements deal in multiples. They have spare parts in the event of the failure of one. When assumptions for growth and prosperity suddenly change or challenges strike one economic or physical dimension, resilient places have a plurality of fallback positions. This allows for the quickest processing of failures and capitalization on successes. A by-product of insurance redundancies is choice. Choice gives options to people and allows those choices to change as they move through life.
- Robust settlements pay close attention to size. They do this to minimize any one individual's ability to blow up the entire place and to limit indebtedness.
- Robust settlements have multiple design functions. Places built to last are composed of elements that can take on a number of functions that overlap, evolve, emerge, recede, and, in many cases, come as surprises. Similarly, functions must not be separated but mixed such that the function has a multiplier effect on the broader settlement and the broader settlement may compound the success of the function.
Taken together, these provide the necessary framework to form the traits of a startup city. They mimic those found in nature, build on our inherited town building traditions, and are the foundation for building Strong Towns.
This post was originally written as a guest post for our friends at StrongTowns.
Since it was launched in August of 2012, Investment Ready Places has been successful in helping communities assess their outlook. The checklist tool facilitates a critical look at which assets to build upon. Over fifty places have been identified and mapped. This is an open-source program that allows this New American Frontier self-identify with critical investment-ready criteria.
Going to this year's APA Conference in Chicago? Investment Ready Places will be discussed in a session on Sunday, April 14, 2013, from 2:30 to 3:45. StreetSense's Atul Sharma and Joe Nickolwill be joined by Scott Ford, the Executive Director of Community Investment in South Bend, Indiana, and Radhika Mohan, the Senior Program Manager of the Mayors' Institute on City Design to share stories from the New American Frontier.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Lock & Lock bentos: two for the 4th grader in my life
His lunches look much the same as always.
On the right: baby carrots, strawberries with elephant pick.
On the left: Trader Joe's cereal bar, granola bar, pretzels, grassy baran to separate, cheddar cheese hearts.
Packed in our tried and true "4 square" Lock & Lock box.
On another day...a very similar lunch...
Once again, in a Lock & Lock, he has:
- Wheat Thin crackers with cream cheese
- baby carrots
- the same cereal bar and granola bar, cut in half so they fit in the small box
- purple grapes and a clementine with leaf pick.
The one big shake-up that's occurred with Ethan's school lunches is that he is actually eating THE school lunch the cafeteria serves up 1-2 times a week. I used to be able to use the threat of cafeteria food to whip him into behaving/cleaning his room/etc., but now he's usually game for it (for eating from the cafeteria, not necessarily behaving or cleaning his room). Sigh (again).
Another new thing we are dealing with this year - his lunch time is at 10:30! Isn't that crazy? So he has lunch just two hours after school starting and then has five hours until he's home. He does get a snack in the afternoon, but it's definitely an odd adjustment for him.
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- The Mom Chef said... [Reply to comment]
I'm hooked on your site. The moment I see your facebook post, I head over. I promise not to become a stalker though. I made Dudette the sandwich sushi you showed us yesterday and had so much fun with it. I need some of those cutouts though. And picks. Eeek! You're turning me bento!
You/Ethan don't find that the cream cheese makes the crackers soft in the time from when they're made to when they're eaten?
- October 12, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- Dina said... [Reply to comment]
It's hard to be creative when they are so fussy! Good job!!
- October 13, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- The Planet Pink said... [Reply to comment]
It just makes my heart so happy to see you blogging again friend. :-)
About the lunch time, #1 eats her snack at 10:45 and then they have lunch at 11:20. And then they don't eat again all afternoon. Um... no wonder she rarely gets her lunch totally eaten. And no wonder she's starved when she gets home. Grrr....
- October 13, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Kristianna said... [Reply to comment]
Would it make you feel better to know that it a very varied meal compared to what my picky eater will eat? :) Mine is only in half day morning Kinder, so he only needs a snack, and generally I'm giving him an apple or a yogurt stick. YAWN. My 4th grader, however, likes fun food, so I have an outlet, at least. ;)
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I'm sure this will come as a complete shock to those of you who've just found this blog for the first time ever, but if there's one thing I love more than a geeky game-themed wedding, it's a geeky game-themed wedding cake.
Submitted by Lee F. & made by Cake Freak. Pics by Whitney Lee Photography
A Scribblenauts wedding cake? Complete with cameos by Super Mario and Donatello from TMNT? BE STILL MY 90's-LOVING HEART.
And speaking of Mario, you just can't get more classic than the diminutive plumber with his Princess Bride Peach:
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Wuv. Twuu Wuv...
Or, if you want to go really old school, you could always have a Space Invaders groom's cake:
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It looks like those side invaders were made using the run-out, or flooding, technique, which is both time-consuming and extremely fragile. Color me impressed.
Not a wedding cake, but this is one of the best Angry Birds cakes I've seen in ages:
You can almost hear the high-pitched battle cries of the little blue birds, can't you? Echoing off the walls of your bathroom? It's ok, fellow addicts: you can admit it. (And you might as well, since that music is so loud you're not fooling anyone, John.)
And speaking of addiction... how about a World of Warcraft groom's cake?
Now *that* is using photo paper right. Bakers, take a note.
I've yet to play Katamari Damacy, the game where you roll a ball around that makes everything - including people and buildings and such - stick to it, but I do love this custom wedding topper:
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The bride and groom are stuck to the rolly ball! Ha! It doesn't hurt that the cake is seriously cute, too.
Ok, time to fess up to another of my addictions:
Just kidding.*
(*I'm not kidding.)
Yeah, you could say the cake was a lie.
Kind of like this awesome-beyond-words dummy cake...
Submitted by Noelle R. and made by Melissa
Which lifts up to reveal...
Now, ok, granted, we've seen better personality cores here on Sweets, but seriously, can you beat that presentation? I THINK NOT.
(For those of you completely lost right now, I have one word for you: PORTAL: GO PLAY IT.)
(Ok, that was four words. Whatever. I did it for science.)
I'm also seriously considering making a Portal dummy cake, just so I can hide things under it that I will dramatically reveal when we have company over, accompanied by a booming, "THE CAKE WAS A LIE, YOU FOOLS!!" because I guess now I'm channeling a little Cobra Commander, too. Huh.
Moving on.
It never fails to astound me just how difficult the seemingly-easy-to-replicate LEGO is to create in cake. Seriously. Bakers just can't seem to crack the code of straight edges and proportional pips*. Which is why I may have whisper-shouted, "YES! FINALLY!!" when I saw this cake:
Submitted by Rebecca K. and made by Roy's Bakery
(*"Proportional Pips" is the name of my Rockettes cover band. And don't tell me the Rockettes aren't actually a band, because that joke was awesome.)
And now I shall segue from a cake LEGO to a cake *made* of cake LEGO:
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I know: totally meta.
And I love the little guy on the side installing the polka dots.
I'd also like to point out that this, like many of our Sweets, was made by a hobby baker. So take heart, cake lovers! It CAN be done!
And finally, let's wrap up the geekiness with another classic character wedding cake:
Ok, so this is actually themed to a newer installment of Zelda called The Wind Waker, but still. Just look at the water ripples around the little fish on the cake board. LOOK AT THEM. And the teensy flowers! And the adorable Link & Zelda topper! Game on, people. GAME ON.
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Palin, 49, the 2008 Republican candidate for vice president, will be at the 2013 National Leadership Forum along with a list of other speakers. She will talk about leadership.
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Phil Cooke, a writer and speaker who has produced media programming in more than 40 countries.
Jon Gordon, an author and speaker.
AmyK Hutchens, a business strategist and speaker.
Dave Martin, the founder and president of Dave Martin International. He is an inspirational speaker and author.
John Maxwell, an internationally renowned leadership expert, coach and author.
John Ortberg, an author, speaker and pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church.
Nancy Ortberg, a teaching pastor, author and founding partner of Teamworx2.
Mark Sanborn, an author and president of Sanborn & Associates Inc., a leadership development idea studio.
Pat Williams, senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic.
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Maxwell will be the keynote speaker at a scholarship gala on Thursday night.
While the two-day event provides a great chance for attendants to network and for students to learn, it has another strong benefit as well, Carroll said. "It's also an opportunity for us to help raise significant dollars," he said.
Sponsorships finance the speakers and provide scholarships. All net proceeds from the event directly benefit the Southeastern University Scholarship Fund. More than 90 percent of the university's students receive financial aid, officials said. In 2011-12, more than $7 million was awarded to students.
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Recent isolated incidents of violence against whites by blacks, in which Trayvon Martin's name has been reportedly invoked as a justification, indicate that anger and frustration over the case within the African-American community are boiling over in rare instances.
- On Wednesday, 18-year-old Alton Hayes was charged with a hate crime for beating and robbing a white man in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Ill. He told police he was angry over the Trayvon case, in which neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who is part-white and part Hispanic, says he shot Trayvon in self-defense.
- On Saturday, a group of black people severely beat a white man in Mobile, Ala., with one participant reportedly claiming, "Now, that's justice for Trayvon." Mobile police say the attack was not motivated by the Trayvon case.
- On April 11, when a white man attempting to stop a black purse-snatcher in Gainesville, Fla., attracted a crowd, some people started shouting "Trayvon!" and three people in the crowd started stomping on the white man's hands. Earlier in the week, a white man in the town said he was beaten by several black men who shouted "Trayvon," but police said he was intoxicated and could not confirm his report.
The attacks put a sharper edge on recent polling data, which show that whites and blacks view the Trayvon case differently. Twice as many blacks and Hispanics as whites (73 percent versus 36 percent) say race played a major role in the shooting, according to a recent Monitor/TIPP poll.
Given the huge amount of media coverage in the Trayvon Martin case, the fact that only a handful of attacks with some kind of tangential tie to the Trayvon shooting have occurred suggests that Americans are overwhelmingly resorting to words to settle their differences.
Indeed, some commentators suggest the case has helped to bring simmering tensions out into the open.
"I've sat … tight-lipped as my white peers questioned the existence of racism in their post-racial American, white privileged minds," writes Rachel Hislop for the Daily Grind website. "But then a young black man named Trayvon Martin was killed and the dirty blanket was finally pulled off the taboo conversation of the very present demon that is race relations in America, and I've decided that I am tired of staying quiet. I am ready to have this conversation."
Yet some observers question whether the story really has anything to do with race. That narrative has become complicated as more is known about Mr. Zimmerman, who mentored black children and whose Peruvian mother has black ancestry.
Many black leaders as well as news directors at mainstream media organizations "don't see that you can't just stir [race] up when it's convenient and then turn it off when it's not," says Carol Swain, a law professor and race relations expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. "Once young people get worked up to where they're committing acts of violence, you can't turn it off like a switch."
Professor Swain does not spare the president from her comments. His statement that "If I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon" came off to many as a hearfelt and direct plea, but it immediately began polarizing whites and blacks along racial lines, she says. Since, some prominent blacks, including Bill Cosby, have said the case isn't at its core about race, but about gun laws.
"There should be some accountability," she adds. "The leaders who fanned the flames of racism should be out there directly denouncing the … attacks being taken in the name of Trayvon Martin."
To be sure, Mr. Obama is in a difficult spot. As the nation's first black president, he has several times been compelled to speak out on racial issues, only to be berated by conservatives for bringing issue to the light.
"It's not [Obama], it's us," write Andrew Romano and Allison Samuels in Newsweek. "Despite the powerful symbolism of Obama's election, blacks and whites are still living in two different worlds," a fact epitomized by differing reactions to the Trayvon Martin case.
Whether he has contributed to the polarized atmosphere or not, Obama – by his presence in the White House – is "pushing all of this racial misunderstanding out onto the political playing field, where it's amplified and distorted by the polarizing forces of partisanship."
Meanwhile, reports of Trayvon-related violence are now getting the attention of federal authorities. The beating in Mobile is now being investigated by the FBI, which will look for evidence of a hate crime. Police say the white man, Matthew Owens, was attacked after he wielded kitchen knives to chase away several youths from his sister's yard.


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State of the World 2012 German Launch
Event Date:May 15, 2012 - 10:00am
Location:Berlin and Hamburg
Worldwatch Senior Researcher Michael Renner will be in Germany to launch State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity. Along with meetings with various political and civil society groups, he will attend the following events organized by long-time Worldwatch partners Germanwatch and the Heinrich Böll Foundation:
Tuesday, May 15 - Berlin
- 10:00 am - Press conference at the federal government's press conference center, with German Minister for Education and Research Annette Schavan and leader of the Green Party parliamentary faction Renate Künast
- 7:00 pm - Launch at the Heinrich Boell Foundation with HBF leaders Ralf Fücks and Barbara Unmüßig, and chair of the board of Germanwatch, Klaus Milke
Wednesday, May 16 - Hamburg
- 6:30 pm - "Are We in Hamburg on the Way to a Green and Fair Economy?" at Handwerkskammer Hamburg, moderated by Klaus Milke
Learn more about Worldwatch's German partners, Germanwatch and Heinrich Böll Stiftung.


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Dejan Miladinovic
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Dejan Miladinovic is the Artistic Director of the National Theatre in Novi Sad in the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro. In addition, he has earned critical and popular acclaim directing productions throughout North America. He is a regular guest of the Atlanta Opera (Eugene Onegin, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Turandot, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Rondine, and Otello), Baltimore Opera (La Gioconda, Eugene Onegin), Dallas Opera (Aida, Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin and Der Fliegende Holländer), Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee (Fidelio, Il Trovatore, Der Fliegende Holländer, Tosca, Andrea Chenier, Aida, Elektra, Turandot, and Rigoletto), Opera Pacific (Il Trovatore, Carmen and Rigoletto), Michigan Opera (Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Turandot), Hawaii Opera (Eugene Onegin), and Opera Festival of New Jersey (L'Elisir d'Amore and Tosca). He has also directed productions for the Seattle Opera (Don Carlos in French) San Diego Opera (Aida), New York City Opera (Prince Igor), Austin Lyric Opera (Madama Butterfly).
Last season, he returned to North America to direct his production of Fidelio for the Vancouver Opera. This autumn, he will direct Madama Buttrerfly for the Florentine Opera.
Born into a family of artists, his father was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the National Opera in Belgrade and his mother was a leading mezzo-soprano. He is a graduate of the Academy for Theater in Belgrade and received the title of Master of Theatrical Arts from the same academy. He has also served as Artistic Director of the National Opera, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia and as Director of Opera at the University of Southern California and at Southern Methodist University.


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