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The imagination is free from limitations, and animation is free to look like almost anything. Combine the two, and you form something like the state of mind that induced Chestnut Hill resident John Serpentelli to dedicate himself to the art form of animated filmmaking.
His films have been featured on HBO, Nickelodeon, PBS and at festivals from New York to Tokyo and been reviewed in The New York Times and Variety magazine. This summer he'll teach three animation classes for youths ages eight through 16 at Woodmere Art Museum.
Throughout his career, Serpentelli has taught and given lectures on the subject at institutions like Drexel University, Amherst College, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art and various art centers and schools. His independent films have won awards at festivals including The American Motion Picture Society, UNICA Festival (Warsaw), and the New York Expo of Short Film.
"In animation, anything is possible," said Serpentelli. "I think that is the reason that animation transcends age because adults still enjoy that freedom, that suspension of disbelief that they had as children."
At the Woodmere classes, kids will learn the basics of traditional hand-drawn animation by animating their name and transferring it to a collaborative film. Each student will receive a DVD of the work. No experience is required to succeed, according to the acclaimed animator.
"People would tell me kids won't have the patience," Serpentelli said about comments he received when he first started teaching animation to kids in the early 1990s. "But I have found children will focus on what they find interesting."
Serpentelli, 47, raised in Toms River, N.J., first came to Philadelphia after high school in 1983 to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He stayed for three years, then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied film studies and art history and developed a passion for animation.
His Penn education introduced him to various disciplines of fine arts. Woodblock printing stood out to him, but "I realized I was 200 years too late for that," he said.
Still, he figured animation and woodblock printing shared similar techniques. Each woodblock print in an edition of maybe 20 had to be the same, but Serpentelli's attempts at prints varied. Each one had a small difference. He realized that was much like creating an animated scene, where to make a character wave, an animator might have to draw a dozen almost identical images. That's when he first started to dive into animation.
Serpentelli completed his studies at Penn in 1988 and went on to graduate school at the University of the Arts, where he is now a professor. He earned his bachelor's degree in fine arts in art and film in 1991, followed by a master's degree in the art of teaching in 1993. He has been teaching art and animation to kids ever since.
His teaching career has served to supplement his artistic career. Serpentelli has directed more than 100 films. In 1997, his quit his day job as a middle school teacher after a Sesame Street producer viewed one of Serpentelli's films at a New York City festival.
The film moved the producer to the extent that he offered Serpentelli a commission to make a film. That's when he opened Animation Stewdio (it closed in 2001 due to a slumping economy) in Chestnut Hill with his brother Mike, and focused his energy on making films.
Serpentelli's animated films are almost like documentaries. They often explore a theme and give a voice to members of society whose voices are generally not heard. He made his first film in 1993, a situation buttressed by the fortuitous hand of coincidence.
At the time he had just finished his higher education, an almost nine-year process, and worked at a movie theater selling popcorn, aware that his kernel work failed to represent a real job within the film industry. He flirted with the idea of moving to California. He knew he loved kids and knew he loved animation. But how could he unite two of his passions? "If kids love watching it," he thought, "they'll probably love making it."
And so, in search for work, he called the now-defunct Philadelphia-based nonprofit agency, Prints in Progress. The group specialized in introducing kids to print-making. It turned out he called at the right time, as one of the group's employees had left only days before. They hired Serpentelli, and he received a grant to direct his first documentary-style animated film, "Some Girls in the Hood." It documented the stories of girls at the now-defunct Allegheny School for Girls in North Philadelphia, a school that catered to young girls who had committed weapons offenses.
After that Serpentelli continued to direct animated films. He's made commissioned films for HBO Family about smoking and Nickelodian Jr. about broccoli. His film "Animating Autism" won "Best Documentary" at the 2011 Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival.
"Animating Autism" depicts a group of autistic children as they learn how to animate. Before that, Serpentelli had worked with blind children and those suffering from conditions like Down syndrome.
His hope is that "Animating Autism" can become a traveling workshop. That means Serpentelli and the filmmakers would travel to various schools and work with autistic children to teach them with animation and to help the children express their creative energy, a technique doctors and teachers in the field claim is a therapeutic and productive way of working with children with autism and helping them feel more human.
He's also heading to HBO this summer to pitch an animated idea for a series about children's folklore tales from around the world.
"It gives them that freedom to be more honest," said Serpentelli, who also recently started to teach at Philadelphia University, about the people and kids he portrays in his films. "They are telling their stories, but they aren't being shown and judged."
Serpentelli's classes at Woodmere will take place: Wed-Fri, July 25-27, 3:30-5:30 p.m.; and Tuesdays, July 10-August 14, 6-8 p.m. For more information, visit www.woodmereartmuseum.org/childrenteenclasses.html. For more information about Serpentelli's films, visit www.serpentelli.com.


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TORONTO -- Right-hander Casey Janssen remains at least two weeks away from making his return to the Blue Jays' bullpen.
Janssen is expected to go on a rehab assignment during Toronto's upcoming road trip through Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but is going to need a significant amount of time to get ready.
Toronto's closer has yet to pitch this season and made only three appearances during the spring, so it's almost like he has to start over and gradually build up his strength and endurance.
"He's so far removed from Spring Training, he didn't have much of a Spring Training anyways," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "I don't see him back here in the next couple of weeks, to be honest with you."
Janssen's injury was originally described by the organization as soreness in his lower back/abdominal muscle. Gibbons clarified Friday that it's an oblique issue, and that type of injury always has the danger of lingering for an extended period.
That's one reason Janssen's recovery has taken longer than first anticipated. The Jays hoped he would be ready by the middle of April, but when he began a rehab assignment earlier in the month, the soreness had yet to go away and he was shut down after just one appearance.
"It wasn't like a setback, but there's still something there that's holding him back a little bit," Gibbons said. "Psychologically, he doesn't feel quite ready to cut loose because something is just nagging at him right there in his oblique."


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"I come to music as a fan," says Pat Irwin '77. But his performing and recording history as a guitarist, saxophonist, and keyboardist with groups like the Raybeats and the B-52s (of "Love Shack" fame) means he long ago acquired plenty of fans of his own. He's also an accomplished composer of soundtracks for both film and television — his résumé includes scores forRocko's Modern Life and Class of 3000, among others — and a composition instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
"One of the first assignments I give is for students to create a demo reel that represents them as composers," says Irwin. One student's demo was "really beautiful, really memorable," says Irwin. That student turned out to be fellow Grinnellian Brian Cavanagh-Strong '09.
Cavanagh-Strong was known at Grinnell for his vocal performances and compositions and his debut musical,Travelers, which he wrote as a summer Mentored Advanced Project under the mentorship of John Rommereim, professor of music, and directed in fall 2008. After graduating, Cavanagh-Strong spent an extra year as the music department's Curd fellow, choral-conducting, and working on his second musical. Now in New York and trying to break into the music scene as a composer, he had just completed his first year in Tisch's graduate musical theatre writing program when his music caught Irwin's ear.
Irwin ended up hiring Cavanagh-Strong this summer to work as copyist on a score Irwin was composing for HBO's Bored to Death, a TV series now in its third season, about a struggling-writer-turned-private detective.
A sound-track composer's job is to create cue music that enhances scenes and cues action. "Pat is so good because he makes funny moments funnier," Cavanagh-Strong says. "The slam of the door or the snap of fingers can really be enhanced by the music."
Cavanagh-Strong's job is to make clean transcriptions of Irwin's score for studio musicians to play in recording sessions that create the sound track. In addition, Irwin often asks Cavanagh-Strong to "analyze chords and spread them across the top of the score in case we want to improvise something. It's something he can do much more quickly than I can," Irwin says.
Each Monday, Irwin and Cavanagh-Strong spend the day recording tracks with six to eight musicians. When Irwin makes changes to the score during these sessions, Cavanagh-Strong logs those as well.
Irwin calls the collaboration a "wonderful connection," that's renewed his own strong, positive feelings for Grinnell. His mentorship reflects his own mentors during his Watson fellowship in Paris after graduation. There, he worked with John Cage, one of the 20th century's most influential composers.
"We were playing very adventurous and experimental music," Irwin says, citing an instance of pinecones wired to microphones. "He influences me even to this day. He had total conviction and he cared about the smallest details. … He had utter faith in the musicality that you could find in the world around you."
Irwin's Parisian immersion in the lives of professional musicians inspired him to "get back to New York City and be in a rock-and-roll band," which he did — and between his years of professional performing and recording and classes at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music, he honed the skills that he now uses daily in his composing career.
The transition from Grinnell to the New York music scene has been "really challenging," says Cavanagh-Strong. "It's really competitive and not always pleasant." Working with Irwin, though, has encouraged him. "If being a writer and a musician in New York is like this, it makes me want to do this more. Pat sets an example for how to be in the business."
The recording sessions they run together have the potential to be stressful, but Irwin's outlook on work and life is contagious, Cavanagh-Strong says. "The environment is both productive and positive, which is all you could ask for," he says.


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Inside scoop: Podsednik isn't struggling against inside pitches like he did last season. He's gone from one of the worst against inside pitches to ranked in the top 30 in the majors.
Patience pays off: Podsednik has a top-20 first pitch seen percentage. That means he tries to get ahead of pitchers (batters hit almost 150 points higher on average when ahead in the count).
Whiff-less ball: Swinging strikes are a waste for hitters. They show a pitcher's dominance and a hitter's foolishness more than foul balls, which often prolong at-bats and called strikes. Podsednik is excellent at not whiffing. Of the 22 leadoff hitters in the majors with at least 200 at-bats this season, only two (Juan Pierre and Jacoby Ellsbury) have struck out less than Podsednik (29 K at leadoff). …
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Ok Magazine is reporting that the two female judges on American Idol, Kara DioGuardi and Paula Abdul are alledgedly at war with each other. And their tension is all stemming from the fact that they are both in danger of losing their jobs next season.
"The plan to add a fourth person backfired," an Idol insider told OK! about the troubles that have been mounting since Kara joined the cast at the beginning of this season. "Now the producers are left with a tough decision: Do they go back to the original three-judge format, or leave Kara there?"
Paula had previously taken a snipe at Kara when she talked to OK in January saying, "Kara and I get along great and have known each other for years, but we tried four judges before when we had celebrity guest judges sitting in, and it just doesn't work." Kara hit back in a statement: "Paula has a right to her opinions, but I was disappointed by her comments and hurt that she did not address them to me in person."


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A country world exists just a short drive across the James River Bridge from Newport News. Instead of pavement and strip malls, Isle of Wight County is still mostly forests and farmland.
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In the movie Chinatown, set in 1930s Los Angeles, Jack Nicholson's private-eye character Jake Gittes dug into the corrupt, incestuous secrets that surrounded the fight for water, the element that made the ambitious notion of a huge city growing out of the California desert a reality. While water may have enabled L.A.'s growth, liquor fueled the engine. During Hollywood's Golden Age, Los Angeles resembled a bibulous Chinatown, its social life seeming to float on rivers of gin and shimmering lakes of Martinis. At times, there was an atmosphere of one enormous party, with the Cocoanut Grove and Romanoff's packing them in at night, and the Cock 'n Bull on Sunset, the Brown Derby on Wilshire, and Chasen's and Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood serving drinks that left a permanent imprint on America's drinking history.
By the early 21st century, however, things had changed. While New York and San Francisco were rediscovering their liquid heritage, the mixological movie of Los Angeles was Titanic, the city's once-formidable cocktail scene a colossal catastrophe and its history of glamorous bars and style-setting drinks sinking in an ocean of Appletinis. "There's a great history here that everyone had forgotten," says Marleigh Riggins Miller, the L.A.-based keeper of the cocktail-oriented Sloshed! blog. "We had Romanoff's and Chasen's, Don the Beachcomber, and all the weird little tiki bars and cocktail lounges that are now gone or turned into crappy dive bars. L.A. isn't just glitz and glamour and things that are new; we have a great cocktail history that can rival New York and San Francisco."
But change comes quickly in L.A., and while the city's bars have been slow out of the starting gate, today there's a cocktail renaissance underway that could make the City of Angels one of the world's most exciting drinking cities. "We're making up for lost time," says John Coltharp, head bartender at Caña Rum Bar, which opened in March. Coltharp notes that the large restaurant corporations and chains that carry a lot of weight in Los Angeles had been waiting to see the success of creative bartending before pursuing it in L.A. With cocktail bars in New York and San Francisco taking off, the time is finally ripe to jump in. "We emulate things here, and we're pretty good at it," he says.
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The craft of the cocktail began to slide virtually everywhere in the 1960s and '70s, and in Los Angeles the change was particularly noticeable as the city's drinks devolved from a Hedy Lamarr-style glamour to the lipstick-smeared garishness of the city's contemporary celebutantes. Certainly, there were exceptions: In Silver Lake, the Tiki Ti, family-owned and staffed for three generations, has kept the tiki torches burning since the '60s; and while the craftsmanship may have slipped over the years, places such as Musso & Frank in Hollywood and the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel retain elements of an earlier era.
But things started to change around 2006, when bartenders such as Damian Windsor, Marcos Tello, Pablo Moix and Vincenzo Marianella began working with restaurants and bars like Providence, Comme Ça and The Edison. In 2007, Sasha Petraske, owner of the well-known New York bars Milk & Honey and Little Branch, partnered with bartender Eric Alperin to explore the L.A. market.
That same year Cedd Moses, a downtown L.A. nightlife pioneer, opened Seven Grand, the first in a series of downtown bars that have played a significant role in reinvigorating L.A.'s once-slumbering cocktail scene. Riggins Miller notes that by concentrating his bars downtown, which is undergoing its own revitalization, Moses was avoiding one of the challenges that has always faced L.A. bars: Southern California's legendary car culture, which is understandably incongruent with the consumption of alcohol. "There's now a walking and public-transportation culture downtown, so there are ways to get around that don't involve a car," she says.
Its engine now running, L.A's craft-cocktail scene went directly from first gear into overdrive, and today even those who inaugurated the movement confess they're losing track of all the new places. What is clear is that between the homegrown talent in local bars, and the incursions by New York bartenders such as Pegu Club's Audrey Saunders, who partnered with chef Mark Peel to open The Tar Pit in late 2009 (Saunders left the project in February), or Death + Company's Alex Day and David Kaplan, who relocated to Los Angeles earlier this year with the aim of opening their own establishment, Los Angeles is once again in the cocktail spotlight.
That's the Spirit
Though Los Angeles' craft-cocktail movement has exploded, it hasn't settled into an easily definable category. "Our cocktail scene is now as eclectic as our culinary scene," says Chuck Taggart, a cocktail aficionado who publishes The Gumbo Pages food-and-drink blog. "The cocktail culture is coming to reflect all the different tastes of our city. I like how our bars are exploring different areas; there's not an overriding L.A.-style cocktail."
Still, there are identifiable trends, such as the proliferation of bars that focus on a single spirit. At Seven Grand, for example, the drinks are all about whiskey. Its bookish, club-room décor replete with a hand-carved black-walnut bar and antique pool table is matched by more than 270 types of the spirit, including an extensive list of single malts ranging from Bruichladdich to Yamazaki. The cocktail menu is likewise whiskey-based and classically oriented, with drinks such as a Mamie Taylor and a Rye Fix, and an Old Fashioned with the option of using any of the bar's whiskies as the base spirit.
Coltharp oversaw the bar at Seven Grand before opening Caña Rum Bar with general manager Joel Black in the space that formerly housed The Doheny, another landmark bar in L.A.'s cocktail resurgence. He says having such an extensive selection of one type of spirit may seem limiting, but it actually affords greater opportunity to be creative and offer tasting flights and education programs. "You have many more paintbrushes in that situation; if you can serve an Old Fashioned with three different ryes, that's fantastic, but if you have six, seven or 10 different ryes, you can give a customer a different experience every time," he says.
Coltharp opened Caña with more than 100 types of rum and cane spirits, and the selection continues to grow. The drink menu covers the rum spectrum, with Cuban classics such as a Daiquiri and El Presidente; tiki standards, such as the Port au Prince and Three Dots and a Dash; and Brazilian touches, such as a Rabo de Galo, made with aged cachaça and the bitter liqueur Cynar.
This approach is also being taken at the newly opened Las Perlas, with its emphasis on tequila and mezcal, as well as at bars and restaurants that focus heavily, if not exclusively, on single styles of spirits, such as Malo and Rivera with tequila, Thirsty Crow with whiskey, and the Havana-style La Descarga with rum. "You couldn't have a bar that had 200 whiskies, 200 tequilas and 75 gins—you'd have to have a real ninja behind the bar to tell you everything about every bottle," Coltharp says. "This way you have something approachable, and you can give an experience that delves deep into a certain subject. It's like when you major in something at college; you can get your mini-bachelor's in rum after a few visits."
Mixing It Up
While many L.A. bars are all about exploring the depths of a single spirit, many of the city's bartenders are all about off-the-cuff creativity. In a small space at the back of Cole's French Dip is The Varnish, an intimate bar with a Prohibition-era vibe that opened in early 2009. There Alperin and a team of bartenders that includes Marcos Tello and Chris Bostick offer a spare menu that features mostly vintage and classically inspired drinks, such as a bourbon-based Talent Scout and a Casino, made with gin and maraschino liqueur. But in addition to the small list is an option of endless opportunity: the "Bartender's Choice," which encourages customers to let the bartenders show them a unique drinking experience. "We're doing Shakespeare cocktails—it's the same program night after night, and that's why it's really dialed in," Alperin says. "But the menu is just a launching pad; the bartender's choice opens up an avenue for everything else, and so many people go with it that we take it from there."
Other bars are elaborating on that theme, putting Southern California's fruits, herbs and vegetables into an increasing number of custom cocktails. One trailblazer of the market-fresh drink experience is London-trained Vincenzo Marianella, who has worked in Los Angeles since 2004. At Copa d'Oro in Santa Monica, Marianella has a cocktail menu that functions as much as an open-ended suggestion of possibilities as it does a list of drinks. While house drinks, such as the Abuela, with pisco and port, and the Don V, with tequila and walnut liqueur, are created in a classic-cocktail tradition, Copa d'Oro features a Market Menu that lists spirits along with seasonal produce; guests pick a base spirit and a fresh ingredient or two, and let the bartenders mix a drink using those flavors. At least 70 percent of Copa's drinks are selected from the Market Menu. "I came up with the idea because I was getting bored easily," Marianella says. "I wanted to keep it different, fresh and interesting for my bartenders, and this keeps the creativity very alive."
At the Library Bar at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, head bartender Matthew Biancaniello has dispensed with a drink menu altogether. "Everything is omakase," he says of the bar's approach, which is to use seasonal ingredients to create a tailored cocktail for each guest. "I'm able to change with the seasons and with what's available, and it gives the other bartenders a chance to create their own drinks—that way you're constantly growing and evolving."
Biancaniello visits farmers markets up to five times a week, selecting produce that may have a very brief season. At the peak of summer, the Library Bar may feature zebra heirloom tomatoes in a Mojito variation, or offer bourbon flavored with fresh black-mission figs. Biancaniello says the variety of available produce is simply astounding. "Where else can you buy three varieties of lavender?" he says, noting that one of the varieties is used to flavor honey for a mezcal drink, a second is muddled into cocktails and a third is used as garnish. "The diversity of what we have to work with is unbelievable. We have the luxury of this diversity, and that's influencing our style of drinks."
At the Latin-themed restaurant Rivera, bar manager Julian Cox likewise raids the kitchen for ingredients. The rye whiskey-based Blood Sugar Sex Magic is made with red bell pepper and fresh basil, and the tequila-based Barbacoa is fired by chipotles and fresh ginger syrup. The menu at Rivera also straddles the line between market-fresh and classics-driven, featuring vintage drinks such as a Vieux Carré alongside the cucumber-laced Rivera's Cup.
Cox says creating such a wide-ranging menu was prompted by the need for Rivera to stand out from the chain restaurants at the nearby L.A. Live complex. "We knew that at every bar you'd see the same drinks from the same spirits, so I said we'll carry smaller-batch spirits that people can't get anywhere else," he says. "There's such a following at Rivera that people come and say, 'Oh, they have food here?' Which makes me laugh, because it's a restaurant that's got a cocktail following."
Strength in Numbers
In such a massive, sprawling city, it's remarkable that anything resembling a close-knit cocktail community could develop, but in Los Angeles the network of bartenders and cocktail aficionados is notably tight. The first glimpse of this came in October 2007, when Alperin took a road trip to San Francisco with a group that included Moses, Tello and several other bartenders. "We laugh now and call it the trip that changed cocktail culture in Southern California," Alperin says. "That's when we all got married together and realized we wanted to do the same thing."
Several months later, in the back room of Bar Keeper, a well-stocked bar shop in the Silver Lake neighborhood, Tello launched The Sporting Life, a group of bartenders and enthusiasts, including Taggart, Riggins Miller and Imbibe columnist Ted Haigh, that meets regularly for educational events and cocktail competitions. Over the past two years local bartenders have also revitalized the local chapter of the U.S. Bartender's Guild, electing Tello as the group's president.
And thanks in part to events such as the Radio Room nights at The Edison—which feature visiting bartenders from Seattle, Portland, Boston and other cities—word about L.A.'s rapid mixological revival is quickly spreading. It's quite a change from only a few years ago, but local bartenders find it fitting. "This little monster that we helped build is now out of the box," Alperin says. "Nobody can stop it now."


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A large landslide occured on the North Cornwall coast on the afternoon of Friday 23 September 2011.
Richard Hocking and Brian O'Connell, engineers at Cornwall Council, filmed the event, which was a large rock slide/fall near Hell's Mouth on between Portreath and St Ives.
A landslide on this scale is unusual in the South West of England, and the opportunity to witness it extremely rare.
The rock slide/fall appears to have developed progressively from the foot of the cliff and taken out a significant section of cliff-top over about 20 seconds.
However, tension cracks had been noted in the cliff-top three days previously by council engineers.
Geologically the cliff consists of mudstones and sandstones of the Porthtowan Formation and slates/siltstones of the Mylor Slate Formation, both of Devonian age.
These rock materials are weathered and have variable strength.
There is a complex interrelationship of regional faulting and local jointing which allows the rock mass to divide into blocks which with time become unstable.
The rock material that failed, at least on the evidence of the video, appeared to be in a dry state.
On Monday 19 September a jogger had reported that a large crack had developed in the coastal path. Later that day Cornwall Council decided to divert the path, working with the landowners The National Trust.
Further surveys by Cornwall Council on Thursday 22 September 2011 observed that the failure had progressed and that large tension cracks were opening up.
On Friday 23 September 2011, reports of material falling from the cliff were noted throughout the day. The cliff collapsed by about 4.50 p.m.


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Posted by Editoress on 06/26/03
Mont Ste. Anne Preview Part 2
By Mike Badyk
This report made possible through the sponsorship of Rocky Mountain Bicycles
Photos of Downhill and Urban Downhill
The heat is still extreme but at least there is a good wind this afternoon. However, just sitting in the shade is enough to make you perspire, so I thought I might as well move a bit and check out the race courses.
The XC course is all but unchanged from the past 2 years. It loops back through the start/finish a couple of times and there a couple of cross over bridges out in the woods. Very few riders were out on the course. The word in the pits was that most had decided to do road rides this afternoon instead of spending time on the course.
However, it is the downhill that is getting most of the attention. It is far different than what was been done here in the past. The biggest difference is that the course is short, only 1.4 km long. A very fast time is expected to be in the neighbourhood of 1 minute 30 seconds. The telling factor is that the gondola isn't use to access the run. Instead a chair lift that empties halfway up the hill. Racers then have to push their bikes up a really steep ski run for about 100m, followed by a bit of trail to the start. The start is well hidden in the trees.
I was able to talk to a couple of the downhillers who were out braving the heat. Very few pros were out. I was able to have a nice chat with Bas De Bever (Team Be-One). De Bever has raced here many times and has to be considered a circuit veteran. "The course is generally fine. It's a bit short perhaps, but what's missing is up above (open ski run and just a bit of technical section). The start is very different. Usually you have a couple of hundred metres before you reach technical trail, but here you just drop right in. Right now the lift is the problem. It's slow and the hike up to the start is tough in this heat."
The start is something else. From the gate, racers go down a short ramp and then immediately turn left into a drop followed by a huge ramp (See photo). Think about riding off of a small cliff and you get an idea of the acceleration. Just below the ramp are a couple of wicked berms, followed by another jump. Another jump off of yet one more ramp launches the racers onto a ski run. There are two more sections in the trees before there is a terrible amount of speed gain on an open ski run. This is just before the downhill merges with the 4 Cross course. New this year is a huge jump. Easily 8m high. There are two lines - one a little kicker on the jump face that robs speed. The other is a huge launch ramp that produces heaps of distance and hang time. (See photo). It will prove to be a crowd favourite.
While pros such as De Bever are more philosophical about things, there were some others who were less than complimentary about the new DH course. One of the rumours being circulated was that the shorter course was simply a matter of economics, that is, Gestev (the race organizers) were short of money and therefore decided to make a shorter course.
I spoke to Patrice Drouin, one of the Gestev founders, about this rumour. "Look, economics are always part of the decision making process. If economics were the only consideration then we would have stuck with the old course. It is well established and we would not have needed to do any work at all. Instead we decided to make something very different. We had a crew on the hill for almost a month to build all of these new structures. We moved an incredible amount of earth and rock. If anything it cost us much more than last year's downhill."
"The course is a first attempt at a "sprint style" downhill. We will fine tune it even more for next year. When we first built the other course people complained it was too long. Now some feel that it is too short. It is difficult to make everyone happy."
"There are some great advantages with this new course. The first is that public access is much better. People can walk up the course from the finish very easily. The second is that television access is greatly improved. Instead of 12 cameras, only 8 are required now. We expect to get the same excellent results with this shorter run."
As always, the best way to handle rumours is to go to the source. Thanks to Patrice for giving up some of his valuable time to talk to Canadian Cyclist. My suspicion is that there is going to be some very close racing, with fractions of seconds making the difference between victory and failure. One slight bobble or hesitation will make or break a rider.
Serious training starts tomorrow. We hope that the rain holds off until the evening.
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The Visual C++ compiler offers a number of features beyond those specified in either the ANSI C or ANSI C++ standards. These features are known collectively as Microsoft extensions to C and C++. These extensions are available when the /Ze option is specified, and not available when the /Za option is specified. See Microsoft Extensions to C and C++ for more information.
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Lindsay Lohan, who says she doesn't have enough money to pay for her court-ordered drug rehab, could get some help if she agrees to go cold turkey on meat and cheese, too.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has offered to pay $10,000 of Lohan's estimated $50,000 tab for three months at the Betty Ford Center if the wayward starley goes vegan for the rehab stint. The annimal loving group will go another $10,000 if Lohan stays a vegan for another year.
"Lindsay Lohan is the most visible example of a real addict, and if she can conquer her addiction to meat and cheese, absolutely anyone can," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said. "If she does, she'll not only save animals but save her own health, and she'll be an example to the millions of people who watch her every step."
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PETA made a similar offer to "Octomo" Nadya Suleman. She got $5,000 and a month's supply of vegan hot dogs just for putting a sign in her yard encouraging people to sterilize their pets.
Selected Reading: Los Angeles Times, Popeater, IMDb.


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Tweaking the design of his bizarre pump-action Oreo gun, Joerg Sprave has built a smaller version designed to take office warfare to the next level (if the next level is a long two-hour talk with human resources). Made only using stuff you'd find around the office—like cardboard, glue, staples, and rubber bands—the pump-gun is able to fire euro coins, US nickels, or M5 washers.
It's even got a 12-coin magazine so you don't have to waste time constantly reloading in the heat of battle, and the rounds are strong enough to pierce a cardboard box, or leave one heck of a bruise on your unfortunate target. The only catch? Who's willing to waste their pocket change for war when there are vending machines to be pillaged?


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o the many Candy 'houses' I have been to, the many 'gems and the many 'witches' I have come across in those houses, the many 'escapes' I have had, the many 'dreams' I have realised and the great 'wealth' that has been brought to my life by stepping into those 'houses'. It's better to have reached your dreams and then have them broken, than never having reached them at all. It's better to have passed the gates of Hell than to lay in bed all day dreaming of Heaven. It's better to have 'felt' what it really is like, than to have 'imagined' it all along..
PS: Hi all, how are ya? :) Feels good to be here again after almost a month and a half. Thanks for all the comments, emails, msgs in the last few months! Though I have not replied to your recent comments here in my blog, I read them all and I'm deeply touched by the Love right along. Do not for even a second think that just cos I'm not regular in blogs anymore, that you are all out of my mind. Infact you are all in my heart all the time. Sometimes I wonder where you all may be, what you must be doing now etc. I have been extremely busy at work and at home too - alot of new beginnings etc. Life goes on as usual. I'm happy, I hope you are too. Time and our lives don't wait for anyone, and I'm taking Life as it comes towards me. Sometimes I sit by the window as I gaze the twilight skies and think about all the times we've spent together here, and it makes me smile. Blogville was another Candy House I guess. I loved the Stay and I learnt alot from it all. I don't regret a single thing. The 'wealth' it has brought to me is just priceless. The knowledge, the wisdom, the endurance, the love...I came face to face with it all, and gained all of that through my blog experience. It's unbelievable, it's magical. However, though I'm writing occasionally right now, I'm afraid I don't know how long this is going to last either...somehow, the inclination to write is slowly fading away. Folks, I have no control of it. It's something that is happening naturally and something that I cannot manipulate. I have always depended on my Instincts, when it comes to making decisions. So let them guide me, like they always have. Depending on how I feel over the long haul, this blog may continue at a much slower pace or it may even cease to exist altogether. Either way let's hope the Love prevails. THANKS a bunch everyone I love ya all, God bless! Keep it real. X
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Two Fairfax County Public Schools employees -- including a middle school principal -- are accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the school district.
Authorities say the women may have cheated the school system out of more than $100,000.
Sonya Swansbrough, 46, principal of Poe Middle School Annandale, Va., and Bethany Speed, 38, an administrative employee at Jeb Stuart High School in Falls Church, were arrested and charged with embezzlement and money laundering Tuesday morning.
The women allegedly falsified timesheets for personal financial gain, beginning as early as May 2010, said Fairfax County Police.
Speed had previously worked for Swansbrough as a finance technician.
An investigation began after "internal processes brought these issues to light," wrote Assistant Superintendent Douglas Tyson in a message to Poe Middle School parents Tuesday.
Swansbrough has been temporarily relieved of her duties as the investigation continues, he said.
Swansbrough's 20-year-old son, Brenton Rusnak, is also facing charges. Authorities say he received stolen property in connection with the case.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to call police at 1-866-411-TIPS.


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Been found.
So my last post was nearly a year ago and it was about how well things have been going and feeling lost in my own world. Well aparently I did get lost because well its been a long time since I last posted anything. I have found myself and thought maybe its a good idea that I get back in the habit about posting on my poor neglected blog.
This month has been rather busy for us. I did my first show for the year last weekend down on Galveston's Strand (Galveston, TX), it was a nice day and we did really well. This weekend we have another show out in Angleton, TX at the Angleton Market Days, I always have a blast while out there so really looking forward to it. Also the next weekend we have a show with the League City Heritage Foundation at the Longhorn Museum (League City, TX) . So like I said very very very busy.
Along with all of the new shows we have gotten involved in I have start making new styles of dresses, mostly for a consignment shop that I have been with for nearly a year, the Cutie Patootie in Texas City, Tx. But these darn dresses are sooo darn cute that I have start to carry them with me to the shows too. My little Juleen has been such a good model that I really couldnt ask for better.
So to end my story for today, here is a few pictures of my new dresses and hope to see you at show


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You Down with UDID? Yeah, You Know Me...
September 13, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
The Internet is chock full of databases that map UDIDs to usernames, activities, location data, game scores, ad clicks as well as Facebook and other social media profiles. Even if you deleted an application from your phone the data can still persist in the Cloud...
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Building a Better Anonymous: Separating the Philosophical from the Practical
April 18, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Boiling it down to a simplistic statement, "Anonymous" - which means "unknown" - cannot at any time ever be considered a movement/group/collective that will never be used as a scapegoat for bad actors. Nor will it ever mean that bad actors will never get into the fold...
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Who Fights for the Users? Part II: FBI's AntiSec
March 15, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
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The FBI Can Haz Lulz Too...
March 15, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
Since Sabu's arrest a number of spurious lulz cannon tools have been interspersed in tweets, including the infamous LOIC, others containing added "call home" code, and some virused booty culminating in the latest release of "Anonymous OS" which is wrapped in trojans...
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The Jester Posts PGP Data File from Webkit Exploit Op
March 12, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The Jester posted a link to data exfiltrated during last week's Webkit exploit aimed at mobile device users who scanned the QR-code posted as an avatar on his Twitter account and then were cross-referenced with a database of targeted jihadi and Anonymous operatives...
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Don't Get Lulzed - Three Tips for Avoiding Headline Hysteria
March 12, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
What does the reported capture of the LulzSec hacking team leadership mean to the Internet? It means there will be a frenzy of jokes, outrage and sensationalism around this hacking group again. What does this reported capture mean to you in corporate security? Not a thing...
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Sabu: The Latter Day Joey Pardella - Oh There Will be Lulz!
March 11, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
As the press is now digging into his past and finding all the fidly bits about Sabu, they turned up a big one in the fact that Monsegur attended Stuyvesant High in NYC, which is the very same high school where they filmed the cult hacker hit "Hackers" back in 1995. Smirk...
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The Jester's QR-Code Pwns Targets with WebKit Exploit
March 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The operation was intended to snare unsuspecting targets previously aggregated in a database. Those who scanned the QR-Code were then cross-referenced with known targets, and those targets were subsequently pwned, having their address books, texts and emails exfiltrated...
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Symantec Confirms 2006 Norton AV Source Code Dump
March 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Symantec can confirm that the source code for 2006 versions of Norton Antivirus posted by Anonymous is authentic. The exposure of this code poses no increased risk to Norton or Symantec customers. This code is part of the original cache of code for 2006 versions of the products..."
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So Long and Thanks for All the Lulz...
March 07, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The Sabu fallout will damage Anonymous like a neutron bomb - it won't destroy the structures, but the radiation will kill everything around. Some ideas are just bad, and most of the bad ideas are cooked up by guys like Monsegur. It turns out that the lulz is ultimately on Sabu...
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Panda Security Suffers the Wrath of AntiSec
March 07, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The defacement also show tremendous amounts of sensitive corporate information including internal accounts, passwords, server and cloud configurations, access information to the antivirus lab's Teamviewer as well as alternate means of accessing their internals via "logmein"...
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AntiSec Hackers Deface Panda Security's Website
March 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Just hours after key members of the Anonymous movement were arrested by law enforcement, the remaining minions have begun retaliatory hits against outspoken critics of the rogue hacktivist collective. The main website for security provider Panda Security was hacked and defaced...
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FBI Issues Press Release on Anonymous - LulzSec Arrests
March 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Four Principal Members of "Anonymous" and "LulzSec" charged with computer hacking and fifth member pleads guilty; "AntiSec" member also charged with stealing confidential information from approximately 860,000 clients and subscribers of Stratfor...
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Lulzer Sabu Turns in Top Anonymous Leadership
March 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Fox News reports that infamous LulzSec leader known as Sabu has been working with law enforcement for months to investigate key members of the anonymous movement, resulting in multiple arrests of key Anonymous conspirators...
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Anonymous Gets Pwned...
March 06, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The almighty "Anonymous" has always been that the group consists of a handful of seriously talented coders and a cast of thousands of morons, and so word that our "friends" at the RBN had scored on a trending thing by linking to malware really didn't surprise me at all...
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The hooting and catcalls began as soon as the Cabinet minister stood, wearing a blue and white flowered dress. It did not cease for the entire time she spoke before France's National Assembly. And the heckling came not from an unruly crowd, but from male legislators who later said they were merely showing their appreciation on a warm summer's day.
Cecile Duflot, the Housing minister, faltered very slightly, and then continued with her prepared remarks about an urban development project in Paris.
"Ladies and gentlemen, but mostly gentlemen, obviously," she said in a firm voice as hoots rang out. She completed the statement on her ministry and again sat down. None of the men in suits who preceded her got the same treatment from the deputies, and the reaction was extraordinary enough to draw television commentary and headlines for days afterward.
The same French Assembly on Tuesday takes up a new law on sexual harassment, more than two months after a court struck down the previous statute, saying it was too vague and failed to protect women. In the meantime, there has been nothing. All cases that were pending when the law was struck down May 4 were thrown out. And, without a law, there can be no new cases.
The government, keenly aware of the lack of protection since the May 4 court decision, has pressed for a quick vote. It has already passed the Senate. The two versions will ultimately have to be reconciled before a final vote next week.
"The more we delay the law's passage, the longer we delay … this incredible insecurity, this incredible lack of protection for victims of sexual harassment." said Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister for women's rights, who helped write the law. It takes 24 months for any judge to hear a sexual harassment complaint under the law, she said, so any cases brought even as soon as it is passed will take two years to see a courtroom.
Under the new proposal, sexual harassment will be a criminal offense, punishable by up to three years in prison. In the United States, it's a civil offense usually punishable by fines.
"Women will no longer be without protection, that's the most important thing," said Asma Guenifi, president of the feminist group Neither Prostitutes nor Doormats. But Guenifi said she had reservations about the replacement law, primarily its maximum punishment of three years in prison and the three escalating categories of harassment.
"My fear today is that this new law won't be clear enough, protective enough or global enough," Guenifi said. "Ideally there would be one law, one definition of sexual harassment. All victims should be able to find themselves in this law, without resorting to categories and levels. "
The new legislation will extend to cover offenses in universities, in the housing market and job interviews, and is intended to punish single acts of sexual blackmail as sexual harassment _ previously only covering repeated acts.
But in a culture where hissing at women on the street is considered a sign of approval and sexual banter is often a workplace norm, Guenifi said the law could be a hard sell for women under pressure to keep their jobs in a difficult economy. Especially coming from the same group of lawmakers who last week disrupted a normally routine presentation from government ministers.
Guenifi said the reaction to Duflot in the July 17 Assembly session was disappointing, but unsurprising.
"We knew that sexism and machismo touches all socioeconomic classes, but it's very sad because everyone can identify with it, saying, `Even there they don't respect women,'" she said.
Duflot _ who came under criticism after wearing jeans to her first Cabinet meeting this year _ said she was shocked at the reaction last week in the Assembly. The Assembly has 153 women out of 577 deputies.
"I worked in the building and construction sector, and I never saw that. It says something about certain deputies. It means something about certain deputies. I think about their wives. I think about all the men who aren't like that," Duflot said later in an interview with the French television network RTL. The Assembly is notoriously macho, despite increasing numbers of female deputies, but presentations by the Cabinet are usually respectful affairs.
One of the male deputies was unrepentant, denying the outburst was intended to be offensive: "We weren't booing or whistling at Cecile Duflot. We were admiring," Patrick Balkany, of the conservative opposition UMP, told the newspaper Figaro. "It's possible to look at a woman with interest without it being machismo."
Balkany suggested Duflot wore the boldly printed _ but otherwise chaste-looking _ dress "so that we wouldn't listen to what she has to say."
Another deputy, Jacques Myard, told L'Express that the hoots were a way of "paying homage to this woman's beauty."
A female UMP deputy was more perturbed by the outburst.
"It's a way of not taking women's voices into consideration, to deny your work or your role," Francoise de Panafieu, whose mother Helene Missoffe was a junior minister in the 1970s as well as an Assembly deputy. "Since my mother, the place of women in politics has not budged."
The new sexual harassment law, which was passed by the Senate last week, is supposed to address problems in France that many say have been going on for as long as women have been a big part of the workforce. It sets three levels of harassment, with the most serious punishable by three years in prison. Among the circumstances that merit the most severe punishment: if the harasser has authority over the victim, if the victim is younger than 15, or if multiple people carry out the harassment.
Guenifi listed acts that would draw the most lenient, one-year punishment, including repeated gestures, discourse, or other sexually suggestive actions intended to create a hostile or intimidating environment.
"All that, and one year of prison?" she asked. "It's scandalous, truly scandalous."
Vallaud-Belkacem acknowledged a vast disparity in sentencing for theft, which can draw a sentence of up to four years, and said the quick timetable meant that broader issues of justice might have to wait.
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Latrine in the Women's Camp - BIb
On the wall, "Verhalte dich ruhig" (Behave yourself quiet). Gisella Pearl, an inmate in BIa described in her book the situation the prisoners faced. "There was one latrine for thirty to thirty-two thousand women and we were allowed to use it at only certain hours of the day. We stood in line to get in to this tiny building, knee deep in human excrement. As we all suffered from dysentery, we could rarely wait until our turn came and soiled our ragged clothes, which never came off our bodies, thus adding to the horror of our existence by the terrible smell which surrounded us like a cloud."*
What motivates men and women to treat their fellow humans in this fashion? Places so primitive, so bereft of human dignity, they are really nothing more than what we offer cattle, if that. At least we feed our cattle and protect them from disease. One answer is the SS saw the prisoners as less than human, dehumanized, even not human, merely insects. There was also a dehumanization of the SS accomplished by an insurmountable arrogance, one that supplies answers and disregards important questions, one that believes it has the answer to the riddle of existence. The prisoners were dehumanozed by brutality, and the SS by ideology.
* Perl, G. 1996. In Auschwitz 1270 To The Present, Dwork, D, and van Pelt, R. New York: WW Norton.


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Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the fourteenth Women's Basketball report for the 2009-10 season on Monday, February 22nd, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Senior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. She scored 31 points, had 18 rebounds and seven steals in the home win over Purchase. She eclipsed the 2,000 career point mark in the victory, becoming the first basketball player in Farmingdale State history to score 2,000 points. Blakney added 19 points and 11 boards in the game against Mount Saint Mary. She averaged 25.0 points, 14.5 rebounds and 5.5 steals in a 1-1 week for the Rams.
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Matthew Reed didn't feel ready for college right out of high school. But after five years of military service, he felt more prepared to pursue a college degree.
"Being in the military made me disciplined," said Reed. "I'm much better prepared and in a much better situation to be in college now."
Reed, from Broken Arrow, Okla., is a sophomore majoring in geology and anthropology. Because he is an Iraq veteran, his tuition is covered by the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill.
Reed was recruited in 2006 to serve in the Honor Guard in Arlington, Va., and Washington, D.C. As a member of the Honor Guard—the Army's ceremonial unit—he escorted visiting heads of state, participated in ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and served as a member of the firing party for military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 2009, Reed was deployed to Iraq. He left active duty the following year and enrolled at CU-Boulder in January 2011.
The proximity to the mountains initially drew him to Boulder, but it is the university's outstanding academic reputation and the friendly campus atmosphere that makes CU a good fit.
As a veteran who started college a few years later than most incoming freshmen, Reed occasionally feels a disconnect between him and the students who don't have military experience.
"I sometimes feel like Billy Madison in the classroom," joked Reed, referring to the comedy film in which a grown man returns to high school as a student.
Reed is president of the Geology Club and is a research assistant with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, working on a project studying marine sediments found off the coast of Greenland. He is also active with the Office of Veteran Services.
"Veterans at CU are independent and don't need someone to hold their hand," said Reed. "But the Office of Veteran Services provides a place to go when someone does need help."
A piece of advice Reed has for veteran students at CU-Boulder is to get involved on campus.
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It's not infrequently that someone attending a Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance gets the sense that they are in the midst of world cultural history unfolding in real time.
That said, to open a program and read that the first piece in the concert, Dvořák"s "Husitská Overture, Op. 67", was used as the close of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's first concert EVER on October 16, 1891 gave one goose bumps.
Dvořák was a favorite of the orchestra's founder, Theodore Thomas, and this piece shared that first program with Beethoven, Wagner and Tchaikovsky. The score was fully up to the historic mantle of music history it holds. This is triumphal music, with an opening by winds and horn. The music then moves through various colors, probably helping to warm the audience from their frigid commute to the concert hall. The rousing finale is as the first concert's program book stated, "…the close of the overture appears under the triumphant escort of trumpets and trombones."
Peruvian Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya then led the orchestra in Carlos Chávez' "Piano Concerto" with Roosevelt faculty member and Mexican native Jorge Federico Osorio as the soloist.
The word that comes to mind to describe the score and the soloist talent is muscular. The piano thunders the theme at the orchestra in each of the three movements, with the orchestra following suit to take the musical line, repeat it and seem to toss its rejoinder back at the soloist for another call for lead. Fingers flying, Osorio seemed to set the pace from Allegro agitato to lento and in between with the flawless CSO following the lead. The slower second movement did sound at times like a very good movie score, subdued for the action to be happening elsewhere.
The program noted that Chávez was inspired by pre-Columbian Indian culture and tried to integrate it into his music, but it was difficult to discern this influence in this piece. We did hear unusual pairings, particularly between harp and piano both playing in the lower registers and in a way where it was intriguingly difficult to discern the two distinct instruments.
The crown of this performance and how it was billed was the post-intermission "Pictures from an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky and orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. One hears the theme of the promenade that starts this homage to the composer's friend, artist Victor Hartmann, initiated by the CSO's renowned brass section as a regal procession.
There are 10 paintings that this symphony honors, varying from a salute to a gnome, to mimicking the shrieks of children at play in a park, to birds scampering ,and more. Every time the promenade theme returns we are reminded of the composer's devotion to his friend's work as if the musical line is saying, "Get ready to stop and take a long look at this next painting."
The program noted that Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's work came somewhat naturally to him as most of his own work similarly started as piano scores. What is most wonderful about this orchestration is the roving spotlight from alto saxophone to bassoons and English horn and so on. It certainly added to one's appreciation that every section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is flawless.
How wonderful to see Miguel Harth-Bedoya's youthful face look out at the audience as he first entered the hall as if he too was feeling the magic of performance history made in Symphony Hall so many times. His conducting was met with great enthusiasm by the audience.
Hopefully future concerts will allow Harth-Bedoya to bring us performances from the non-profit organization he founded, Caminos del Inka, which you can learn about in this YouTube clip below—
This season of concerts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues in Symphony Center at 220 South Michigan through June. For a schedule, visit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's calendar online or for ticket information call the CSO box office at 312 294 3000.
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