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Sarasota Ballet announces its 2009-10 season
Date: August 19, 2009
by: Heidi Kurpiela | A&E Editor
Iain Webb isn't letting dancer turnover and a poor economy halt Sarasota Ballet's momentum. Webb, the company's artistic director, is following up last year's high-profile buzz with another blockbuster season, ripe with collaborations, A-list choreographers, calculated risks and comfortable classics.
"I think," says Webb, "that this young company is really going to step up and make a statement. I think audiences will just fall in love."
Worried that he might have to scale back programming this year, Webb took a three-week vacation this summer to London, caught up with old friends and bounced ideas off colleagues. He told them he was afraid the economy would stifle Sarasota Ballet at a vital point in its growth — its third season under new tutelage.
"I was frustrated because I thought we'd have to take it down a notch," says Webb, a native of Yorkshire, England. "Suddenly, everyone was saying, 'What are you talking about? You're doing stuff in Sarasota that we want to see in England.'"
Impressed with Sarasota Ballet's success, in particular its reputation for performing revered British ballets, choreographers quickly rallied behind Webb and his wife, Margaret Barbieri — including Matthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon, two of England's most sought-after choreographers.
"The dancers have come back fully recharged with all these wonderful ballets before them," Webb says. "I couldn't have dreamt for a better, more exciting season."
Here's a quick look at what Webb and company have in store from October through April.
• Oct. 23 to Nov. 22: "Contact," a dance-musical collaboration with the Asolo Repertory Theatre. Created by director/choreographer Susan Stroman and John Weidman, "Contact" won a Tony Award in 2000 for Best Musical. The production will consist of seven Sarasota Ballet dancers, two Asolo actors and several Broadway dancers.
"It's going to be a tremendous start," Webb says. "I always like to start the season with guns blaring."
• Nov. 27 to Nov. 29: Peter Wright's classic production of "Giselle" will kick off the ballet's run at the Sarasota Opera House. Staged by Margaret Barbieri, who famously danced in more "Giselles" than anyone in the world, the show will include performances by Royal Ballet dancers and set and costume designs by Peter Farmer.
• Dec. 4 to Dec. 5: Robert de Warren's "The Nutcracker" will return to the Sarasota Opera House and involve all the children from the Sarasota Ballet School and Dance — The Next Generation.
"There were some mixed messages last year when we didn't do 'The Nutcracker,'" Webb says. "It's a tradition, and I think we'll always do it every couple years."
• Jan. 29 to Jan. 31: The year opens with a triple-bill program — Frederick Ashton's, "Rendezvous;" Scottish choreographer Peter Darrell's "Othello;" and Matthew Bourne's "Boutique," a modern incarnation of Massine's "La Boutique Fantasque," a vivid ballet inspired by the iconic 1960s fashion of London's Carnaby Street.
• Feb. 19 to Feb. 21: French choreographer Andre Prokovsky's work returns to Sarasota with the energetic "Vespri." Also on the ticket: Anna Pavlova's "The Dragonfly," and "I Napoletani," a brand-new number by Dominic Walsh, whose dance company joined the Sarasota Ballet last season on Walsh's haunting "The Trilogy: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
• April 2 to April 3: According to Webb, the company is ecstatic about the recent addition of Christopher Wheeldon's "There Where She Loved," which calls for two opera singers and a pianist, followed by Renato Paroni's "Rococo Variations" and last year's popular nautical folly, "Pineapple Poll."
Says Webb: "The dancers can't believe we're doing Wheeldon. When they got the news, they were almost jumping down the corridor with excitement."
• April 23 to April 25: The company will end its season with Balanchine's "Donizetti Variations," followed by the world premiere of a new ballet choreographed by principal dancers Kate Honea and Octavio Martin and Bourne's 1989 witty spoof, "The Infernal Galop."
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How little musicians earn online
You've heard about the struggling musician. It's a tough business. How tough is it though? David McCandless of Information is Beautiful, looks at how much musicians make from major online outlets. Bubbles are sized by how many sales or plays a song must get before someone makes US monthly minimum wage.
Sales vs. Plays
To place sales and plays together seems unfair, as it makes the bottom three look really bad. For instance, label revenue on last.fm is actually much lower than what the artist makes per play. I imagine the sales business model is pretty different from that of streaming too, so there should be some kind of division there.
Let's not forget that artists usually have songs playing through most or all of the revenue streams, so it's not all bust. I'm not saying the splits are fair (really not my area to judge), but still, I'm just saying.
Don't like the bubbles? Grab the data to give it a go yourself.
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Almost perfect.
But let's add a bubble to represent how many times an artist has to have a song played on the radio to make minimum wage.
i don't think there's enough screen space to make a bubble that's infinite in diameter.
One issue is the the 'scale' is not kept consistent. The graph switches from number of albums sold to number of tracks sold. This exaggerates the difference between non-online (per album) versus online (per track) outlets.
That's exactly right. A better comparison would have to assume a basic number of tracks per record and interpret a record purchase as the purchase of a collection of tracks.
On the other hand, the comparison would still be misleading by implying that a consumer who opts for a digital download instead of a record will do so by downloading the full album.
Apparently I am not the only one who found some issue with this infographic. I put together a critique on my blog:
There are multiple data entry mistakes in this graphic, figure out where.
As Dave said, the scale's not consistent, which makes this graphic really misleading. Album =/= track =/= play
Normally, when I buy an album, I intend to play multiple tracks, and when I buy a track, I intend to play it multiple times. So, taking the two iTunes digital downloads and the Rhapsody. So, one album sale is approximately equal to 10 track sales on iTunes. One track sale on iTunes is in turn approximately equal to 69 plays on Rhapsody. Now, 69 plays may be a stretch for the average number of times that a track is played when its bought, but I know that I don't buy tracks only to play them once.
So, this chart definitely misleads more than it illuminates.
What about Zune Pass? I suppose ~ Raphsody
Rhapsody = 527,273 off by 38%
lastFM = 232,000 off by 85%
Spotify = 2,697,675 off by 41%
I don't feel sorry for them when I watch MTV Cribs
You should feel sorry for most of the people on MTV cribs because they don't own those houses or furniture or cars, they're on lease from their major label until they lose popularity in exchange for all their income. They don't own that stuff.
One these days, David McCandless will get bored of the number-as-circle trick. I hope.
bread and butter.
If I am understanding this correctly, each of the graphs represent the number of that type of sale is required to equal minimum wage. So if an artist is intelligent enough to use a mix of those methods (if not all of them) he should be bringing in a respectable amount. Who in their right mind would use only one method of selling his product?
The good news is that although these figures are staggeringly low and can be discouraging, there are so many other avenues for an artist to generate revenue.
I wrote an article on RadioPotato.com about how to increase a musicians' revenue streams at http://radiopotato.com/music/ell-out-without-selling-out/
There's no doubt that it's incredibly challenging to forge a sustainable career in music Musicians must outwork, out-talent, and embrace social media like nobody's business. The money will come.
Thanks for such an eye-opening article-
In my experience, as a musician you make most of your money touring.
This same kind of display would be pretty interesting for game development, especially looking at the indie game developer movement, which has taken off lately.
An interesting twist would be to look at the ratio of listens to sales. In other words how many times do people listen to your music, and then buy it (or not)? In the game and software biz at least you can have a free demo version of your game to give away, and then let people buy it if they want to play the rest.
i'm from philippines, and it's frustrating how outside-US cannot directly buy music from the ipod's itunes, or how spotify/pandora and others limit accessibility to certain regions of the world. probably, if they can open up to more countries like mine, we can help add more numbers to their needed hits.
just saying.
The reason that places like Spotify/Pandora have limits outside of US/Europe is that they're supported by advertisers associated with those regions. I've been thinking for a long time about trying to shift over some of my download prices for the sales that are direct from my site (through Linklok) so they are regionally based. So a download in Malaysia where the average income is under $5000 would be significantly cheaper than in the USA. It seems like iTunes should be doing this, but they're not.
That's because your region has the worst music piracy in the world.
Interesting graph to peruse as I sit here listening to music for free on Pandora. Then again, I have bought three albums off iTunes by artists I'd never heard of before Pandora suggested them for me. The trick is using methods that cost the listener nothing, and earn the artist very little money, to generate sales of the CDs that do generate the artist some money.
And, as someone else mentioned, touring. My husband was in a death metal band for a while, and although they had a good website, they only ever sold CDs at shows.
I think this is trying to show that if you like a musician, buy their music, don't just stream it otherwise they won't get any money.
Music artists get free advertising from the radio and spottify. In fact better than free as they get paid for it. Because it's on the internet the potential audience is massive. Billions could listen to the tracks.
This would increase the chances of their music being heard and used in films, TV commercials TV shows, all of which they get money for.
Also when they tour their fan base could be massive due to this exposure, with money coming from ticket sales, book sales, clothing and merchandise – all down to exposure on spottify
I don't feel sorry for them. If they are truly interested in music they would make it for free, for the love of it, for self expression. Not to swindle kids out of their pocket money
Right – just like if a mechanic really likes tinkering around with engines, they should fix your vehicle for free, and if a farmer really enjoys successfully cultivating crops, they should give you their produce as simple expression of their job satisfaction.
Think about it for more than five seconds, and perhaps you'll realise that in order to produce anything of artistic merit, a person needs to devote significant time and energy to their craft – the end result often representing the culmination of a lifetime's dedication, practice and experience.
But I guess, since you can't touch the music, or sit on the music or eat the music, it isn't really real, is it? And you're so, so special, that you should just be allowed to use it all for free, anyway. Because you're you.
Mmm Alex do you go to work for free, let alone the love of it ? I am recording sound engineer, revenue is so low that a apparently sound engineers are a luxury when making music. . Do the math an artist only gets 20% of his album and it never actually reverts back in ownership to him. It's like buying a house paying it off 4 times over and never owning it.
Alex. FU you entitled little jacka$$. Keep listening for free and tell yourself you deserve it so some poor artist can provide you with entertainment "for the love of it, for self expression."
I just expressed myself, so you can have that for free douchebag. When I take the time to write a song, record it and perform it, you can damned well pay. It's not swindling – it's providing a service.
Ha ha, thanks Sean, your comments did provide me with entertainment. I hope you put as much passion into your music. As for the other people's comments, I think they are well made and they make some good points, I agree that I would not work for the love of it. I think Simon on the 10 of June also makes a good point. Maybe it's not the music artists that have swindleled me of my cash over the years but more the "music industry", record companies, whose job is just to make money rather than make music. Like the film industry, they copy formats for success, churning out safe, bland, copies of previous winning formulas and don't take risks on new and different ideas but manufacture pop stars and songs and covers of old songs but with new young sexy singers. I don't feel bad that free music is affecting their pockets. Maybe Spottify will bring about a renaissance of live inventive bands?
I guess one of the debates would be whether any musicians are actually using Spotify or Last.fm to make a living or whether they are just using it as a promotion tool, in which case, any additional money would be a bonus.
If more people start signing up to Spotify and Last.fm you'd hope that this would also mean more money for the artists, but I'm not entirely sure how they work out the amount of revenue they will give.
Lady Gaga earned $167 from a million plays on Spotify, so the answer is, alas, no-one makes any money from being on Spotify.
I've never met a musician who doesn't do it for the love of it.
To paraphrase James "LCD Soundsystem" Murphy, I think we need to get rid of the mindset that musicians automatically should become millionaries and it's somehow their right to become so. I don't think musicians are more worth than plumbers, teachers etc, and I reckon a lot of musicians would be very happy to be able to make a decent living by touring and getting money through CDs / merchandise etc.
Simon, where in the name of all that is holy did you ever get the impression that musicians have a "mindset" that they are entitled to become millionaires?! I have spent my entire life around musicians, and never met one with that mindset.
A lot of musicians would indeed be very happy to make a decent living by working at their craft. I can guarantee you there are far more musicians living below, at or near the poverty line than there are plumbers or teachers doing the same.
If a song is loved by enough people, then musicians ARE worth more than a plumber or teacher, because they will touch many more people with their art. Why shouldn't they reap the rewards? If you were willing to pay as much for the enjoyment of a song as you were for a daily cup of coffee, more people WOULD be able to make a decent living out of making music for your enjoyment.
Furthermore, given the TRUE mindset of most musicians I know, I would be willing to bet more of it would make it back to the community in charitable donations and time than it would in the pockets of the same plumbers and teachers you cite.
It's interesting that you start by saying that you're not aware of the mindset that musicians should become rich, then you immediately after prove my point. Should you really be paid for how many people you "touch" with your art? That sounds absurd. Why is art of more value than the output of a teacher for example? I'd say that then a fantastic teacher who influence generations and generations of kids is more important than any musicians who has written a song that people like to smoke weed to or decide to put on a mixtape to a girl/boy they fancy. How about scientists who develop vaccines? Musicians' output look pretty bleak compared to them, but still a lot of those scientists do not earn nearly enough as many musicians who have found success. I'm just saying it's odd to look at a monetary reward as the given reward for touching lots of people with your art, surely the biggest part of the reward should be to do just that and not the financial gain.
I don't know any musicians making (decent) original music who earn as much as a plumber or teacher.
People don't seem to be twigging the point that with laptops, having spotify is effectively like having the CD or download – you find the track and press play (you don't have to wait until a song comes on like the radio). The problem for musicians is that Spotify is supposed to be a good tool for becoming known so people buy your music, but in fact it's replacing people buying music. The business model for Spotify was that people were supposed to sign up for the paid for service…but hardly anyone does so little to no revenue is generated. So music fans have a way of legally listening to music for free, on-tap. They then resent having to pay for something for their MP3 player so hop onto Google and find a torrent site where they can download it for free ("Why should I pay for a song just because I want to be away from my computer when I hear it??").
Thats not even including costs by the looks of it! So my band has easily invested $2000 on recording, mastering, duplication, etc… to make that money back on that we'd already have to sell 200 copies or so at $9 and then we've gotta sell like 800 CD's a month to get minimum wage!! Thats insane when you think about it.
Money from touring is so much more accessible, but then its a struggle keeping us with expenses unless you get the rates you actually ask for!
to sell 12 thousand MP3s per month would be amazing. I have two labels that dont sell that amount per year all in. Gigs is where artists are making money and remember even when sales were good in 70s, 80s etc bands still toured, they still sold merchandise. Online sales is merely advertising tool. sad but true. worryingly though is the lack of royalty and income from no tradition radio, like the streaming. this should be looked at. If radio did not pay people they'd be in trouble but once its online people dont have a clue or dont care. its as bad as file sharing
That guy alex….
you weren't 'swindled'. You presumably made a rational decision to exchange money for a product.
We live in virtual global meritocracy. the models of distribution have changed rapidly, and intellectual property laws are as they are. you need to read more about those things before spouting absurd arguments.
Think about journalism for a minute, for instance. people can now set up a magazine or blog for virtually no cost, and this has put pressure on some revenue models of journalism. The question then becomes 'how do we ensure a high standard of journalism if full-time journalists don't get paid enough?'
The 'love' has nothing to do with it. We should all seek employment in something we find fulfilling. If we can't make a living from being musicians, we will have to relegate it to a hobby – but then we can never reach the level we might have reached if we could do it full time.
I was misled by the title "How little musicians earn online". I thought it was going to tell me how small people manage to make money from the intenet.
like any thing else,if your in it for the money……….you probably wont make any.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House's pick for CIA chief says the harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding is reprehensible and should not be used on terror suspects -- but he is refusing to call it a form of torture.
John Brennan says waterboarding should have never been legal and will never be used under his watch if he is confirmed as the Central Intelligence Agency director.
But he stopped short several times of calling it torture despite pointed questioning Thursday by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan.
Waterboarding simulates drowning, and critics call it a form of torture. It was used in at least three cases against terror suspects during the administration of President George W. Bush.
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What Is This Mystery Tupperware Gadget?
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Q: I bought a bag of mixed kitchen item to get the Tupperware measuring cups in it. Included with the measuring cups were these pieces that I am guessing go together. I have no idea if I am assembling it correctly or what it is used for.
Sent by Marie
Editor: Oooh it's our favorite kind of Good Question: A mystery gadget!
Unfortunately, we are completely stumped by this one. Readers, any clues?
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hmmm...kind of looks like a tool set for the parts of something. But it would be strange to sell such a thing separately from whatever it's supposed to go with. stumped.
Looks as if it is a stand to something.. I have a co-worker whose wife sells tupperware, I will ask!
It reminds me of something my mom used to make baby food long ago, but I think it's missing some parts?
It sort of looks like an incomplete cookie press... but honestly, I have no idea. I look forward to learning what it actually is!
I swear I remember this from my childhood. I'm emailing my mom.
My mom recognized it immediately as a 1970's henway.
... so what on earth is a henway?
What's a henway?
...wait for it...
about 4 pounds!
About two and a half pounds. :-)
beatcha by *puts fingers close* that much!
I still don't get it.
Listen, Stone, if you're not going to be helpful, go sit in the corner and have some Duck Soup.
I hate the phrase "LOL", but I did just that, Stone Maison!
This is the NICEST, FUNNIEST, BEST HUMORED post I have seen EVER!
*what's a henwey...hehehehe*
Looks like a matta booboo to me.
I'll bite: what's a matta booboo
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This doesn't look like the Tupperware they had when I was young. I'm thinking it is missing some parts. Love the orange though.
where can you buy a mixed bag of random kitchen stuff...sounds like fun. I love a good surprise:)
I suspect it's missing some pieces. It looks like it's supposed to create a flower. Probably a very odd serving tray set.
This looks EXACTLY like the piece that holds up a baby gym we have.
Try this one and zoom in, you can kind of see it:
It has ended up in my kitchen drawer thanks to my little guy. :)
Some guesses:
A plastic cake decor element that allows you to make your white frosted cake into a Bitig clock from Ikea. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90152758
A cake decor element you press into the bottom of a cake to give your cake orange clown feet.
A cake protector: You set the cylindrical part into the hole of a Bundt cake and the two arms protect it so that you can wrap it in cellophane.
A doughnut hole-punch.
When the two arms make ninety degrees, it can be used for water-divining.
Hmm. I think that's all I got.
Glad I'm not the only one who saw the stabilizer for a baby play mat. You unfold the "wings" and they create a footprint that holds an arch over the mat. Maybe we should post this over on Ohdeedoh to get some expert opinions. Not sure what it's doing with kitchen supplies, though.
"I'll bite: what's a matta booboo"
nothing Yogi!
I passed this query along to my sister-in-law who is a Tupperware dealer. Even SHE didn't know what it is!
i wonder if this fits somehow with any of the other pieces in the bag.
wouldn't it be funny if these had nothing to do with baking, and they made it into the bag by accident?
I agree - it's definitely to hold up the bar of a baby activity mat. Good luck finding a use for it in your kitchen, though. I'm thinking cookie cutter.
Wow, that's definitely for the baby mat...what a funny mishap! It looks like the arms rotate since the mat isn't a perfectly straight shape, and to collapse it I guess. I'd be surprised if it turned out to be anything else!
It's for the baby mat. We have it too, but ours is green plastic. I wonder where the other one ended up?? There is one on each side of the mat.


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President's Office of Education Outreach
The President's Office of Education Outreach supports the college in its commitment to cultural, artistic, and educational development through partnerships, programming, scholarships, and public service through music.
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Berklee City Music, led by Krystal Banfield, Ed.D., is the college's strategic initiative to engage musically talented urban students, grades 6 through 12, in a yearlong curricular music education program, offered at no cost to students or their families. To prepare students for entry, Berklee City Music facilitates an outreach initiative that starts at grade four. As they receive the finest contemporary music education available to young people, participants are poised for acceptance and scholarships to Berklee College of Music and other institutions of higher education. Berklee City Music is located on the third floor at 899 Boylston Street.
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The Office of Community Affairs and Campus Engagement, led by James McCoy, manages a variety of programs that engage the college with communities in the Boston area. The office works in partnership with public schools, community-based organizations, and municipal agencies to implement programs that enrich the college and include Berklee students, faculty, and staff in the development and empowerment of local neighborhoods. Partners include IBA; the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events; Sociedad Latina; Music and Youth Initiative; Boston Public Schools; Boys & Girls Clubs; Boston Parks and Recreation Department; Hyde Square Task Force; Museum of Fine Arts; Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay; Fenway Civic Association; Fenway Alliance; Fenway CDC; and many more. The Office of Community Affairs and Campus Engagement is located on the second floor at 899 Boylston Street.
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Laufer Film and MadWerkz R2 Studios Produce Socially Relevant Films
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Local Independent Production Companies Laufer Film and MadWerkz R2 Studios have entered the film festival circuit with films dealing with the socially relevant topics of genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Global Housing crisis. Both productions decided to forego traditional video in favor of the digital ultra high resolution RED⢠Camera – a first use of this technology for independent film in Northeastern Ohio.
Laufer Filmâs âThe Acorn Pennyâ, a visionary short film helmed by AFI graduate Tiffany Ann Laufer, takes a unique view about a young Congolese girl who is forced to live in an IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp due to the civil war in her native land. âWe felt strongly that this story should be brought to the forefront, but in a way to which western audiences could relate,â said Producer William C. Laufer. â5.4 million people have died in the DRC over the past decade. With the UN spending a billion dollars a year just in the Congo, we felt this was a story that needed to be told,â Laufer said.
To that end, Director / writer Tiffany Ann Laufer uses thirteen (13) year old actress Jada Young to tell the story of Kinshasa, a young girl who is at first seen as an ordinary American youth but whose different reality is gradually revealed and whose true situation becomes arrestingly apparent. Ms. Laufer uses four magical acorns, both real and computer generated, to lead and guide Kinshasa thru this world and her adventure. Tiffany Laufer said, âI am very much inspired by Guillermo Del Toroâs âPan's Labyrinthâ and finding that perfect balance in magical realism is very important in capturing your audienceâs imagination. We didnât want to focus on the war in the DRC, but on the dreams that still exist in the children who have survived the atrocities."
The film includes actual footage from Congolese refugee camps, which was provided by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees and also footage from the Cleveland Museum of Art collections archive. In contrast, âThe Bubbleâ is a complex story which deals with the intermixed lives of four strangers on the worst time in recent economic memory, September 2008. In the footsteps of films such as "Traffic and Crash," "The Bubble" tells the story of separate individuals, a young middle class housewife, an FBI special agent, and a young Bank Vice President, who are, on one day, forever tied together by one property, a home in main street America.
Written initially as a feature film, the film was quickly reformatted for a 4 day production to enable MadWerkz R2 to deliver a short for the upcoming festival circuit and the BET Television show âLens on Talentâ. âThe story is very dense, with several subplots, which made its compression into the short film format very challenging,â stated writer and director, Joddy Eric Matthews. âWe donât take sides, the film tries to show the point of view of everyone, from the people who lost everything to those who perpetrated the actions that led to the crisis.â Says Producer Alexander Rivera. Both films have been submitted to film festivals such as Sundance, Cleveland, Cannes, Toronto, Santa Barbara, AFI, Athens and Seattle and BETâs Lens On Talent.
Laufer Film is an Independent Film production company based in Cleveland, Ohio and Los Angeles. Run by father and daughter team, William and Tiffany Ann Laufer, Laufer Film has produced the critically acclaimed feature film âChristmas at Maxwellâsâ, the cooking show âJourney to Your Plateâ with Food Network co-host Jack Hourigan and most recently âThe Acorn Pennyâ. Tiffanyâs work as cinematographer was also seen on BET in the film âWomenâs Workâ. For more information on Laufer Film, visit: http://www.lauferfilm.com. For more information on The Acorn Penny, visit: http://www.theacornpenny.com
MadWerkz R2 is one of the top animation, effects and design boutiques in the Midwest. Consisting of MadWerkz Films and The Render Ranch, MadWerkz R2 produces original content such as the short âThe Bubbleâ, the childrenâs animated show "Flight of The Fruit Flies" and the religious based DVD series âThe Covenantâ. MadWerkz R2 Studios is located in Cleveland and Chicago. For additional information on MadWerkz Studios, visit its website at http://www.madwerkz.com. For more info on âThe Bubbleâ, visit http://www.madwerkz.com/films/thebubble/index.html.
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The boring demands of being a good defensive team
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The Milwaukee Bucks have largely been a pretty good defensive team this season. And good defense is a practice in patience and boredom, more or less. That's probably what makes it so elusive. Being in the right places, rotating crisply and pushing ball handlers to places where they have fewer options – not many people get all that excited about any of those things.
Before yesterday's game, I talked with someone about how to get more people to basketball games. Bucks games specifically. Obviously, I'm a curious choice for that conversation, but I participated and gave my very best ideas. I asked about the loud music, the constant distractions and the never ending parade of entertainers that rush the court during every stoppage of play.
"Were those things people like to see?" I wondered.
I was told yes, those are things people want to see. It livens up the game, makes it fun. The overwhelming majority of people at basketball games really like all of the things that help distract them from watching players work hard to get themselves in the right place as often as they can on defense.
The only conclusion I can reach: Defense is what people want to be distracted from. No one is paying attention to your rotation or your footwork on the ball. So of course it's hard to find the discipline and motivation play it well over and over. That's not a Bucks specific problem, that's a basketball team problem known worldwide.
But the Bucks know if they're going to make any noise this season, they have to find consistency, not just from game to game, but from possession to possession on the defensive end.
"During the part of the game where they cut it to five, on one possession, we took five shortcuts," Scott Skiles said after Milwaukee's 108-93 victory over the Brooklyn Nets Wednesday night. "So as long as we don't, we're in pretty good shape."
Avoiding Shortcuts and Maintaining Consistency Throughout Your Workday. It sounds like a self help book for middle managers across the country. That's essentially what the Bucks are looking to do, what every team is looking to do. The way you or I might struggle to resist watching Dwyane Wade kick Ramon Sessions in the groin on Youtube, players from the Bucks and NBA players all over struggle to suppress the urge to gamble in a passing lane or over help to block a shot.
"You start itchin', you start itchin'," Ekpe Udoh said after the game about maintaining consistency. "You just gotta stay solid. It's gonna come. We still have room for improvement. We still have those moments where we have little lapses. We gotta keep getting better. It's an ongoing process through the whole season."
Fortunately for the Bucks, guys like Udoh and Larry Sanders have been able to cover a lot of errors this season with their shot-blocking. Don't get me wrong, in general, this has been a pretty solid defensive team. But the fewer errors those guys have to cover, the better this team will get on defense.
"We have pretty good rim protection of course on just normal breakdowns or where we get beat," Skiles said. "We just have to make sure that whether we get a lead or we're behind, we're playing the same way."
Once they get there, Milwaukee will be quite a pain defensively.
About the Author (Author Profile)Jeremy Schmidt writes the Milwaukee Bucks blog Bucksketball. He founded it in January of 2009 because he hated his job. It's like basketball, but with Bucks instead of basket. I know ... I'm sorry. He might come off as a bit negative, but I'm really not so bad. He just wants the Bucks to succeed, so he points out areas where they are coming up short. Someone has got to do it and he's ornery and opinionated enough to take on that task. He isn't sure if this should be in third person or not. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com if you must use e-mail.
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I've also wondered how to get more fans to the homes games and being a 23 year old season ticket holder the choice i came up with is – $1, $2, or just any kinda cheap beer night for certain week day games. Any sort of collaboration between Miller and BMO would be huge – in my opinion.
Yeah, it would be great to have a shuttle to Bucks games from the east side, say North Ave (Replay) or Brady St (Nomad). Drink specials for weekday games or ticket specials that include beers are two good ways to get more fans to come down.
I agree that good Defense isn't always super exciting to watch, but I think allowing easy buckets can keep people from watching almost as match as bad Offense.


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Food is good, It's a little hole in the wall place. Good selection of plates, Good size portions. 4 or 5 tables, usually a short line 5 -10 min wait. The service is standard - New York in a hurry, rush attitude. If I want something I just speak up and the guy makes it. It doesn't look super clean, but if it was gross I'd eat somewhere else. The food seams very healthy, lots of vegetables, looks fresh too. not greasy. If your expecting fancy or to be catered to go some place else. It's more of an in & out setup.
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I am in town and took a nice walk this afternoon. It was getting close to dinner time and I spotted this place. I thought the food was great, the service was even better. I wish this place was closer to my house as I would come back. PS: The Turkish coffee was excellent!
Posted by JAY on 07/16/2013
I tried to order from the place and in the middle of ordering the man said "hurry up miss I'm very busy call back" and he hung up the phone. I think that was really RUDE of him. Will never order from this place again!
Posted by Anonymous on 10/01/2012
Heights Falafel is a great place to get food in brooklyn heights. Their food is flavorful and tastey and their prices are cheap. They are polite and I have not been disappointed yet with the food that I have ordered. Recommend trying it out. Whenever I am in the area it is my go-to place!
Posted by Owenbc on 12/28/2011
Heights falafel, aka falafely joes, is awesome. Best falafel anywhere I have ever dined. Can't beat the value either. I love falafely joes.
Posted by Matt on 11/07/2011
I don't know what the other reviewers are smoking, but I don't understand the uniformly positive reviews of this place. Yes, it's cheap. And yes they're generally friendly. As far as positives, that's about it. Now on to the areas that need improvement. The pita they serve is embarassing and borderline shameful. Considering Brooklyn Heights's southern limit is Atlantic Avenue, a street known for its Middle Eastern fare, it's puzzling as to why Heights Falafel uses pita bread worse than what you'd find in a grocery store in middle America. It's that flavorless, round kind that nearly always tastes stale. The least they could do is throw it on the grill for a second before filling it, but alas that's too much to ask. Beyond the pita, the rest of the food, like the neighborhood, is bland bland bland. If you're really hungry and just need to fill up cheaply it will do the trick, but otherwise I'd avoid it. Walk an extra block or two and you'll find far superior falafel/Middle Eastern fare.
Posted by Priscilla Polley on 01/22/2011
The food here is OK, but NEVER EVER order delivery. Our order took over and hour and a half and we are only 5 blocks away. In addition they only delivered half our order, and charged us for the whole thing. As soon as we realize that we were not given all the food we called them and they proceeded to call us liars and refused to send the rest of the order. Very sad because I liked the food.


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Our class schedule varies from year to year. In general, classes run from 4-5 days per week and may be full day or part of the day. There are no weekend classes!
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The current state of top-tier football in Florida veers from wonderful on Saturdays to odorous on Sundays.
On the bright side, the Hurricanes and Seminoles are steaming toward a battle of unbeatens on Nov. 2 in Tallahassee. On the other side, our three professional teams carried a surreally abysmal 21-game combined losing streak into NFL Week 8.
You read that right. Twenty-one.
Jacksonville accounts for 12, at a current 0-7 after losing its last five in 2012, with the streak extremely unlikely to end against the 49ers on Sunday in London. (That's how bad the Jaguars are. They've been deported!)
Tampa Bay added the 0-6 record it carried into Thursday night's game vs. the favored Panthers.
Billboards exhorting the firing of coach Greg Schiano have begun to sprout like weeds around Tampa-St. Petersburg.
Miami contributes the three-game losing streak it hauls as an underdog into New England on Sunday.
The state's NFL malaise isn't new. In the three teams' 19 shared seasons, all three have had a winning record the same year only three times and not since 2005.
All three have made the playoffs the same year only twice, last in 1999.
The state's combined postseason drought entering this year was 14 seasons, with the Dolphins last in the playoffs in 2008 and the Jaguars and Buccaneers both in '07.
The good news? Dolfans feeling downtrodden over Miami's three-game slump need only look north to the Jags and Bucs to feel like champions by comparison.
• Playoff likelihood entering Week 8, via the makenflplayoffs.com's computers: AFC — Chiefs 91.9 percent, Broncos 78.8, Colts 75.2, Bengals 68.3, Patriots 62.0 and Jets 38.2. (Dolphins stand eighth at 27.8.) NFC — Seahawks 85.3, Saints 83.4, 49ers 67.9, Cowboys 65.7, Packers 57.1 and Lions 45.2.
• Kansas City being the NFL's last unbeaten team should have the '72 Dolphins feeling even cockier than usual. Might as well pop the champagne now. The Chiefs' pedigree remains in doubt, with a so-so offense and opponents thus far with a combined 15-33 record. And KC's remaining schedule still includes the Broncos and Chargers twice each, plus the Colts.
• Chiefs' defense is for real, though, holding all seven opponents so far to 17 points or fewer. That's best such streak since 1977 Falcons did that in first nine games.
• Next year's game against. the Raiders in London will be the Dolphins' third regular-season game outside the United States. Others were against the Giants in London in 2007 and the Bills in Toronto in '08.
• Denver has scored 30-plus points in all seven games. Only the 2000 Rams and '07 Patriots have done that in the first eight games to start a season.
• Broncos receivers Eric Decker, Demaryius Thomas and Wes Welker all are on pace for 1,000-yard seasons. Only five teams have had such a triple-1K, most recently Arizona in 2008.
• Former Hurricane Devin Hester of the Bears surpassed Deion Sanders with a 20th career return touchdown last week (including his 92-yard kickoff return in Super Bowl 41 in Miami). Still don't see that piece of history getting him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Pro Bowl fan voting is under way at NFL.com, with teams no longer broken down by AFC or NFC but headed to a televised "draft" captained by Sanders and Jerry Rice. The league keeps adding wrinkles in a thus-far failed effort to make fans care about its poor excuse for an all-star game.


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"Play your own games, Bradley. And let your sister finish her homework."
Bradley kicked at the banister railing at the top of the stairs and stomped off to his room, flung himself onto his bed. So unfair, he fumed. Bethany gets all the cool games. Bethany gets to have an iPhone 4 and all I get is a stupid iPod touch which doesn't even have a Retina Display or a three-axis solid-state gyroscope. Bradley had a tendency to memorize WWDC keynotes.
He kicked off his sneakers and stared at the wall, frustration turning acid in his mouth. If only his dad hadn't used Restrictions to disable purchases on his iPod. If only he hadn't gotten in trouble for buying that thousand-dollar "I Am Rich" app two years ago when Tony from across the street had dared him to. If only Doodle Jump were free. So many if-onlies.
Wait. Bradley sat up straight, his nine-year-old mind just clutching at the edge of an idea. A moment later he was down the hall, banging on Bethany's door.
"I already said no, Bradley. Go away."
"I'm scared."
There was a pause, then he heard his sister getting up and walking to the door. A moment later she was looking down at him. "What are you scared of, Bradley?"
"I'm scared that Mom and Dad are going to die someday."
She sighed and rolled her eyes, but she opened the door all the way. "Come sit down." He ran in and climbed onto her desk chair. His legs dangled.
"What brought this on?" she asked, sitting on the bed.
He glanced over her desk, noticing the open math book and the iPhone next to it, running what looked like PCalc. "I dunno. I was just thinking about stuff, and remember how Mr. Pauletti had that scuba diving accident last year and now Tony doesn't have a dad? I don't want that to happen to us."
His sister looked at the floor. Uh oh. I went too far. "Well, Mr. Pauletti wasn't being careful, remember? He antagonized that stingray. Everybody knows you're not supposed to antagonize stingrays. Dad taught us that at the aquarium, remember? So you don't have to worry about him."
"I guess." He looked over at Bethany's iPhone again. On TV the good guy always waits for just the right moment to grab the bad guy's gun and bend his arm behind his back. But how does he know when it's the right moment?
"And Mom is never going to let him go scuba diving anyway. Not now."
"But what if Mom dies?" He pulled the chair a little closer to the desk.
"Mom's not going to die."
"But she might, and then there won't be anyone to tell Dad that he shouldn't go scuba—"
"MOM'S NOT GOING TO DIE, OKAY?" Bethany was crying. When did she start crying? She buried her face in her sleeve.
Bradley pounced on the iPhone and fled the room, earbuds trailing behind him, barely noticing his sister's startled yelp. He made it back to his own room and locked the door just in time.
"BRADLEY! OPEN THIS DOOR!" She was still crying as she pounded.
Quickly he turned his attention to the purloined iPhone 4, taking only a moment to marvel for the dozenth time at the precision of its construction. Steve was right: it's just like an old Leica camera. Home key, App Store, Search. Come on… there it is. Write A Review.
His thumbs danced across the onscreen keyboard, paying no attention to spelling — there was AutoCorrect for that — or proper capitalization. This was his one chance. "Make it count," he said aloud as he typed out the exclamation point, the question mark, the second exclamation point, the second question mark, the third, the fourth, the fifth. No. That's too many. Backspace. Just right.
The hallway was quiet. Had she given up? He listened for a moment, then heard what he had feared: two pairs of footsteps coming up the stairs. Bethany's and… Mom's? Worse: Dad's. Oh no.
He had just enough time to add a postscript. But there was still something missing. Of course: a cute animal emoji. But which one?
The footsteps rounded the landing. They were almost at his door. No time to choose. All of them.
He heard the doorknob rattle, followed by a muffled swear. Then a scraping sound, which must have been his father feeling for the emergency key they kept on the molding above the door.
Octopus. Fish. The key sliding into the keyhole. Another fish. Whale. A soft click. Dolphin. Send.
It was done.
The door flew open. The rage was plain in his father's eyes. Shaking, Bradley handed over Bethany's iPhone. The door closed again. He was alone.
Whatever punishment was coming, it could never be as awful as the silence that preceded it.
But this time, he didn't mind. In a few days, Doodle Jump will be free.
And so will I.