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What the hell did Washington just do?
What the hell did Washington just do?
Hedged their bet in case RG3 doesn't work out!
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd - Voltaire
They traded their souls to get RG3 and then draft a 2nd teir QB? I just dont understand. Maybe they plan on hanging on to him just to shop him later, but WOW, talk about undermining the confidence of your new first round pick.
Facts: John Beck sucks. Rex Grossman sucks. Robert Griffin III has some injury concerns due to history and his style of play. Conclusion: they need a backup QB.
It tells Beck and Grossman that they better update their resumes, cuz they are out the door.
I don't understand people being offended by this move. Cousins is an ideal backup. You don't make the trade they made for RG3 unless they had some extreme confidence in him. Their QBs last year didn't even deserve roster spots. Few teams in history have been as desperate for an overall improvement at the QB position.
i think its a great move for them and didnt they do the same thing years ago with shuler and then frerotte?


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Grace's first day of Montessori preschool, 1997.
Last summer, my 19-year-old daughter was getting ready to move into her first apartment. I was excited for her to have the chance to live on her own and had been setting aside household items that I thought she could use. One day, after admiring the "steal" of a chair I had found at Goodwill, she asked me, "Aren't you sad that I won't live here anymore?"
"Well, honey," I said, "I always imagined that you would grow up and move out of the house. That was our goal all along for you to be an independent, self-sufficient person."
"I know," she said. "But I'm kind of sad that I won't be sleeping here anymore."
I reminded her that she had hardly slept at home at all since she started college last year. She lived in the dorm, four hours away from home and we often didn't hear from her for days.
"Yeah, but this is different. I just can't believe this won't be my home address anymore. Are you going to change the garage door code?"
A-ha! Then I figured it out. She was worried about cutting the cord from the house where she grew up. I had been concerning myself with making sure she was comfortable "out there" and she was worried she would no longer be welcome back at home.
It occurred to me that not much has changed between that day and the day sixteen years ago when we were preparing to send her to preschool here at the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. Back then we were so excited to help our "baby" pick out a new lunch box and indoor shoes but we had little idea what to do to help prepare her (or ourselves) emotionally for this new chapter. She sailed through preschool and is now working through nursing school just fine, but we have learned a lot since then. Today I am sharing some tips and advice gathered from teachers and parents here at MSGL to help you and your child prepare for the first days of preschool.
Talk about school - mindfully.
Talk with your child about preschool when he is in the mood. Maybe he will bring it up or you can start the conversation, just don't push too hard. If your child seems "done" with the conversation or is becoming anxious, let the topic drop until later. And be honest about your feelings when you do talk about school. Some children worry that their parents will be sad or lonely when they are gone. When you say, "I am going to miss being with you in the morning, but it makes me happy to know you will be enjoying yourself at school," it lets him know that you will miss him but you are confident that school is a good place for him to be.
Check out the new environment.
MSGL's Parent Work Day is Saturday, August 16th. This is a great time to get familiar with the school and classroom environments and to be part of the school community. Children are encouraged to help clean lockers, pull weeds, and load and unload wheelbarrows full of mulch right alongside their parents and new classmates. And, each family member's time counts towards your volunteer hours requirement.
You will have another opportunity to get familiar with the school when your child attends her New Student Orientation visit on Monday, August 18th. This is her first opportunity to see her teachers and classmates in her new classroom. She can put her indoor shoes in her locker, locate her cubby and extra clothes box, and see where the bathroom is. The whole family can attend the Parent Orientation later that evening and maybe your child can give a tour of her new classroom.
Make new friends.
You will receive a class list via email in August. Consider contacting a few families on the list to set up a playdate before school starts. Even if you can't get together with any other families, you and your child can look over the names on the list together. You may discover that one of his classmates lives on your street or maybe someone has the same name as a sibling or a friend.
Help her dress for success.
Our Montessori classrooms are prepared to encourage your child's independence and you can help by providing your child with shoes and clothing that she can put on and take off by herself. Belts, suspenders, and jumpsuits look smart but they can be difficult for your child to use successfully. Provide your child a choice of clothing that allows her complete independence in her self-care routines. And please remember that preschool is a time to jump in and explore. Paint, snack, sand, and dirt from the garden can stain your child's clothing, so please send her to school in clothes that can stand to get dirty.
Plan a morning routine.
Now is a good time to do a mental run-through of your morning routine. Consider how much time your child needs to wake up, get dressed, and eat breakfast. Allow time for packing lunches, finding coats and shoes, and getting on the bike or in the car. Then add a few extra minutes. Parents and children who are not in a rush tend to have much better experiences at drop-off. Some families even do a few "practice runs" in the summer to see if they can get to school and work on time.
Create a goodbye routine.
Discuss with your child how you each want to say goodbye at drop-off. Some families say, "After you put on your inside shoes and put away your lunch box, we will walk to the classroom and I will give you three hugs and two kisses before I go to work." Some children like to wave to dad out the window and some parents leave their children with specific plans for what they will do after school. "Sonia is picking you up today" or "we are going to the Farmer's Market on our bikes after school today." Children have so little control over their daily lives that they appreciate at least knowing what is happening and when.
And while we're talking about goodbyes, let's take just a moment to consider the specter of separation anxiety.
What if my child cries when I walk away?
Separating from your child that first time can be heart-breaking, but remember - it's only for a few moments. The majority of children who are sad when they separate from their parents are able to calm themselves and choose an activity within a few minutes. If you have gone through the goodbye routine and are finding it hard to turn around and walk away, ask your teacher for help. Sometimes parents say, "Please help me. I need to leave." That is the teacher's sign that she needs to hold your child's hand or pick her up so that you can walk away. Teachers don't want to step in before you are ready to go but they are happy to help when you ask them.
The best thing you can do for your child at drop-off is to be consistent and walk away when you say you will. Lingering tends to just prolong the heartache for the parent and the child. The first few times you drop your child off may be difficult, but trust that with consistent repetition you and your child will develop a peaceful good-bye routine.
Talk with the teachers.
Talk with your child's teachers about how the adjustment period is going. The teachers help dozens of children adjust to school every year but this may be your first time. They expect you will have questions and concerns. Email is a great way to communicate with your child's teachers and all of the contact information is available on the classroom web page at Msgl.org.
Help your child talk about his day.
If this is the first time your child has been away from home you will no doubt be very eager to know what he did all day. Unfortunately, preschoolers often say they "did nothing" or "just played." A lot of things happened between the time you dropped him off that morning and when you picked him up several hours later, but he might not yet be able to give a sequential list of his activities. Here are some ideas to help your child tell you about his day.
Take care of yourself!
The best thing you can do during these last few weeks of summer is to give you and your child the gift of a regular bedtime that allows enough sleep to wake up refreshed and ready for the big days ahead. Fill up with a good breakfast each morning and be extra patient with your child and especially with yourself. Parenting preschoolers, like college students, is hard work and there is no right way to do it. Follow your heart and follow your child, and in sixteen years, or so, you will be very proud of the people you have both become.
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What is Montessori?
Rather than explaining what Montessori is, I am offering an excerpt from an article that does a beautiful job of describing what Montessorians do. Maria Montessori's Decalogue is a set of 10 rules for adults working in a Montessori classroom. It is relevant to parents, grandparents, and caregivers of all types who strive to relate to children peacefully and respectfully in any environment.
I hope you will enjoy this expanded version of the Montessori Decalogue as written by The Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
The Montessori Decalogue
1. Never touch the child unless invited by him (in some way or another).
Unless there is a very strong reason to (like avoiding an accident, for example), one should never touch a child unless a child requests it. Picking up a child without the child's consent, even if in a playful manner, or grabbing her hand, pushing her, etc., should always be avoided. If children are engaged, looking at a book, working, playing, resting, the same principle applies. Children invite contact in many ways, and parents and adults in general, who work with children, know how to interpret the signs they send. It is important also to respect a child when she is angry and does not want to be touched or picked up.
2. Never speak ill of the child in his presence or absence.
Speaking ill of a child, or making negative comments about a child, either in the child's presence or absence, denotes lack of respect for the child. It also sets a frame of mind and denotes an attitude that is negative and conducive to confrontation—and not always open! Preconceived ideas often linger as negative thoughts and breed reactive behavior. If an adult falls into this trap, it is very easy for a lack of patience and negative attitudes to creep in and damage the relationship with the child.
3. Concentrate on strengthening and helping the development of what is good in the child, so that its presence may leave less and less space for what is negative.
If adults focus on negative behavior, children will feel inadequate. This will result in low self-esteem, and a self-fulfilling prophecy like behavioral patterns will take over. Negativity will become second nature. Instead, by focusing on what is positive, the child will feel safe and confident. Children are learning what is and is not acceptable behavior can and cannot be done, etc. They do not need punishments or rewards. Simply to be shown what is and is not acceptable, by adults that model appropriate behavior.
4. Be proactive in preparing the environment, take meticulous and constant care of it. Help the child establish constructive relations with it. Show the proper place where the means of development are kept and demonstrate their proper use.
If the child is presented with a prepared environment, there is little need for much more. Again, modeling appropriate behavior is essential. A child that is shown an orderly environment will likewise feel encouraged to keep it orderly. If a child has available manipulatives she can handle, play and work with, rather than things she cannot touch, she will feel at ease to explore the world around her. If objects are at reach, that the child may break or hurt herself with, she should be shown how to handle them, rather than told "don't touch!" A kitchen is a world full of wonder for a child! Cutting, cooking, stirring, pouring, etc., are all activities the child will want—and need!—to master in order to become independent. Include the child in as many activities as possible at home, from cleaning to cooking; there is enough to keep any child busy and engaged all day long.
5. Be ever ready to answer the call of the child who stands in need of you, and always listen and respond to the child who appeals to you.
There is nothing worse for a child than to feel insecure and ignored. Abandonment is a feeling no child should have to live with. "If a child asks for attention, then that child needs attention," stressed Montessorian Margaret Homfray. When people brush a child aside and say, "she just wants attention," that person is missing the point: a child only wants attention when she needs attention. Children who feel cared for and do not have to worry about being abandoned, even if for a short time, are far more likely to care for others and show concern for and trust others, than those who experience this sort of "cold shoulder" treatment. Also, "timeout" and "go to your room and stay there" approaches are also expressions of abandonment.
6. Respect the child who makes a mistake and can then or later correct it herself, but stop firmly and immediately any misuse of the environment and any action which endangers the child, its own development or that of others.
Avoid rushing to correct mistakes a child has committed. Children are learning to cope and function. They will persist and practice to their heart's content whatever skill they need to acquire, until they master it. If a child starts throwing things around and disrespecting the environment, by all means, stop her. Yet, explain why you had to stop her. Reason and listen to what the child may have to say. Maria Montessori said that "a child's first tantrums are the first ills of her soul." There is always a reason for everything. Try to bring the reason to light. Punishing, isolating the child, etc., will only feed her pain, and burry deep those reasons—she will learn to hide rather than communicate.
7. Respect the child who takes a rest or watches others working or ponders over what she herself has done or will do. Neither call her nor force her to other forms of activity.
A child that is idle is often not idle at all… Children need to be given space to find what it is they are interested in and want to do. Once they do, they pursue their interests with unrestrained passion and perseverance! A child that is observing other children or adults is also learning. If the child is resting, she is not being lazy and doing nothing just lying there—she is most probably processing information, observing, reflecting on something she did, or saw, or is planning on doing.
8. Help those who are in search of activity and cannot find it.
Be sensitive to the needs of the child including differentiating when apparent inactivity is inner activity, or in contrast, a child is simply lost. A child in search of activity and unable to find it is usually restless. If sitting or lying down, it can be noticed that she is not "engaged;" she is not resting, but simply lost and prostrated. There is a thin line that separates these two worlds. It is the adult's responsibility to observe carefully and find out the signs—often very different from child to child—that can reveal what the child is experiencing. Abandonment differs from rest and contemplation.
9. Be untiring in repeating presentations to the child who refused them earlier, in helping the child to acquire what is not yet her own and to overcome imperfections. Do this by animating the environment, with care, with purposive restraint and silence, with mild words and loving presence. Make your ready presence felt to the child who searches and hide from the child who has found.
A child may need to be shown the right way to do something, say a word, express her feelings or acquire any sort of new skill, many, many times. One should never grow tired of repeating it, such as reading the same bedtime story or singing the same jingle. Children seek perfection in all they do until they reach a level which meets their needs (not what the adult may think "perfect" is, or means.) To be always available but not intrusive is an art. When a child needs help, she will ask for it. When a skill has been acquired and the child no longer needs assistance, adults should respect the child's new acquired or reached level of independence.
10. Always treat the child with the best of good manners and offer her the best you have in yourself and at your disposal.
Children who are respected will learn to respect others. Giving the child the best one has to give helps the child learn that you are someone she can count on, and teaches her to also give others the best she has to give. It is important the way Montessori puts it, "the best you have in yourself," as if to say, always reach higher, but do not feel dismayed if you fall short, and "the best" that you can give is not the best you think or know you should give. If your best manners are not always what they should be—a common feeling parents harbor when children seem to be pushing their patience beyond the limits, do not lose heart. The way Dr. Montessori put it, is basically this: have realistic expectations towards the child, and yourself too. Give the best you have to give, but don't feel guilty if you fall short. Simply keep striving to improve and always do your best. If you commit a mistake, giving the child your best may well be recognizing it and apologizing. "Amy, Mommy got upset and shouted. That was not nice of me. I am sorry." Children also need to recognize mistakes, learn to apologize, and that parents are not always perfect.
These are basic principles. What Montessori strives for is to protect the child from all sorts of negative influences that can create deviations in the child's spirit and psyche. To preserve the natural curiosity of the child, help her find her interests, protect her passion for learning, foster it and let it grow in a healthy way. In this way, the child can contribute her best to society. This is conducive to world peace, as Dr. Montessori envisioned it, and Montessorians believe is possible. It takes passion, it takes commitment, and it takes working together.
- Excerpted from Montessori: Committed People with a Passion for Children by the Mammolina Children's Home Montessori Kindergarten in Beijing, China.
Miss Emily tries out a science experiment during the Teachers' Silent Journey and Discovery.
Have you ever wished you could experience Montessori through a child's eyes? We would like to offer you the next best thing. Please join us on Monday, September 22nd from 6:00 - 7:30 pm on the MSGL campus for the Montessori Silent Journey and Discovery. This is your opportunity to see the classrooms as your children do and to use the same materials they use to develop their bodies, minds, and spirits.
The Montessori Silent Journey and Discovery will take you on two guided tours of the school, starting as an infant and progressing through the Toddler, Preprimary, Extended Day, and Elementary classes. The first tour is silent. Your tour group will spend 5 minutes in each room looking at - but not touching - the classroom environment and the various materials. After the first tour, your guide will once again take you to each of the classrooms, but this tour will be the Discovery portion when you can use the materials, ask questions of the guides and teachers, and take part in the teachers' presentations. We will wrap up the Montessori Silent Journey and Discovery by gathering together for refreshments and discussion afterwards.
Miss Stacie presents the Squaring Chains.
We are very excited to offer this new parent education event and we highly recommend it for all new families and anyone who would like a hands-on experience in our Montessori classrooms. This is also a nice tour for grandparents and caregivers. The teachers practiced the Silent Journey and Discovery in August and really enjoyed the experience. You can read about one parent's experience with a Montessori Silent Journey and Discovery on the I Heart Montessori blog.
Childcare is available for children ages 2 and older who are currently attending MSGL or familiar with MSGL. All of our teachers will be on hand for this special evening and we look forward to seeing you there, too!
Please register for this fun event and sign up for childcare in the office or by phone by this Friday, September 19th.
An MSGL preprimary student prepares carrots at home using a chopper and cutting board of her own.
Dozens of MSGL students are enjoying increased independence at home thanks to the "Bringing Montessori Home" parent development night held January 21, 2015. Thirty parents and grandparents attended the 1 ½ hour event that offered live demonstrations of Montessori-inspired activities children can do at home as well as hands-on activities, and an introduction to the Montessori philosophy.
Small groups of parents rotated through three different classrooms to observe and take part in presentations. Dena Saunders and Emily Frazier presented Care of Self and Care of the Environment. Getting dressed, caring for plants and pets, and cleaning up spills were some of the topics covered. Dena elicited "oohs and aahs" from one group when she demonstrated how to use masking tape to make a square on the floor so a child can easily sweep spills into a dust pan.
Angie Shamo and Machelle French demonstrated how to put together a few simple art activities on a shelf at home for when a child wants to work creatively and independently. The cutting strips, which consist of thin, sturdy paper strips on a tray with a pair of scissors, allow the child to practice cutting safely and successfully. Another suggestion was to offer just three colors of watercolor paints at a time - in the beginning - so a child can successfully create a painting without all of the colors mixing into brown. Families were also given the school's popular recipe for making play dough at home.
Many parents tried their hands at peeling and chopping carrots and peeling clementines in the food preparation class led by Anita Trent and Ana Ramirez. Each activity was arranged as it could be in the home, including child-sized tools. Hand-washing and serving etiquette were also discussed as these are important aspects of food preparation for young children. While one parent offered sliced carrots to the group, Anita said, "Imagine how it feels for your child to serve you just like you have always served your child."
After the presentations, many parents said they were excited to try these activities at home with their children. They also felt that some of the things their children were already doing at home, such as preparing a salad and feeding the fish, meshed nicely with the Montessori philosophy.
Each family received a selection of child-sized items to use at home.
Each family in attendance received a materials bag containing a child-sized vegetable peeler and chopper, a small pitcher, a dust pan set, cutting strips and scissors, child-sized sponge and towel, and a hook to hang the child's coat or book bag at a level where she can reach it. Families also received a custom-made photo book - created by the teachers - that reviews materials covered in the presentations as well as offering additional ideas and resources.
Materials bags and books are still available for purchase in the office for $10.
Thank you to everyone who attended! MSGL plans to offer "Bringing Montessori Home" again next year and will include new activities and take-home materials.
- Thanks to Jennifer Tyrrell for this guest post. Jennifer is a Montessori teacher who worked in the Spruce Toddler class at MSGL from 2003 - 2005.
One of the arguments I hear most often when I'm describing Montessori is that the open workspace—in particular the freedom to move around, to work where you do best for a specific task, and the ability to make a snack when you like—is not properly preparing children for the realities of life or the workforce: at some point they will have to learn to stay at their desk and do their work like everyone else. I think my husband's workplace shows the opposite to be true.
My husband Jeremiah took the family to visit his "office" in Cummins's COM building. Cummins is a well-known, large, international, Fortune 500 company that makes diesel engines, and they've recently built this COM building in their Columbus, Indiana, headquarters with a "collaborative workspace" design. They have converted several spaces in other buildings to this open style, as well. With this collaborative workspace, departments are located on the same floor, as much as possible. Though employees can work wherever they like on any floor, they are encouraged to work amongst their department's floor.
He showed us his locker (hook and cubby) with a couple drawers for his personal items and work laptop (each employee is given one as their primary work tool), and a thin cabinet for his coat and outerwear. Then we walked around a huge floor with areas that have a variety of tables, some standing height, some for chairs; other areas with couches and coffee tables; other more intimate areas with armchairs and footstools (Jeremy's favorite). A couple of kitchenettes with long counters and stools (snack tables) are located centrally with no walls enclosing them. There are cabinets (shelves) that divide some places and contain files and materials for everyone to access.
There are even treadmills with laptop spaces and hookups for those who need movement as they work (they are calibrated for walking, not running . . . we walk in the workplace :) There are walls to divide the elevators and small conference rooms (which can be used and reserved by any employee), but other than those areas, there are no rooms, no "offices", no cubicles, it is all shared space: managers working amongst underlings. It looks like, well . . . a grown-up Montessori classroom :)
They are doing this to encourage collaborative problem solving and to make the workday more pleasant so that Cummins continues to retain younger employees. Please share with anyone who questions the appropriateness of Montessori's open workspace. :)
You can read a news article about more of the company's redesigned workspaces see additional photos, here.
Families are drawn to Montessori schools for many different reasons. Sometimes parents are looking to continue in preschool the child-centered environment they have established at home. Others wish to see their children thrive in the our enriched classrooms. Still, other families choose Montessori preschools because they want their children to learn and socialize in a non-competitive environment. Whatever the reason parents choose Montessori, they often have many questions during their child's first year.
To help answer these questions, MSGL offers a 1 ½-hour Montessori Basics class each Fall and all new families are expected to attend. Preprimary teacher Kelly Sallee presented this year's class on September 25th to a packed house of over 40 parents and grandparents. Kelly focused her presentation on the Prepared Environment, the Sensitive Periods of a child's development, and the Role of the Teacher. If you were unable to attend this year's Basics, follow this link to read more about Kelly's presentation. Below are a few tips for new parents.
Kelly's Tips for New Montessori Parents
Do your best to control the environment, not the child. Organize the child's belongings to help him be independent and successful.
Don't worry if your child is unable to sit still or to focus for long periods. "Even when we feel they're not listening, they are learning."
What's in your child's cubby does not necessarily reflect their work because many activities have no "paper" component. Look at classroom photos and videos on SmugMug to see what the children are working on in class. Your child's teacher will also have this information available for you at parent/teacher conferences.
Give your child the gift of time. Try not to rush her through tasks. When a child is allowed to dress herself in the morning it may take longer but she will develop the skills necessary for independence.
Allow your child to work without interruption, when possible. Periods of uninterrupted work strengthen a child's ability to concentrate for longer periods of time.
Allow your child to complete tasks without correction. "I don't know any adults who walk around with their shoes on the wrong feet. They will figure it out with time."
Give your child the opportunity to be a third-year student. Our mixed-age classrooms allow children to move from being the youngest who look up to role models to being the role models themselves. "Children who are the youngest in their families need the third year to be the leader that they don't get to be at home."
What did your child do at preschool today? You can try asking, but often they will say they did nothing or they "played." The most common question I receive from parents is, "How can I know he is doing anything at school? He never tells me anything and his cubby has been empty for days."
Please believe me, your child is doing something. A lot of stuff, actually. But he may not remember "doing" anything at all that day. And his accomplishments often cannot be held in the hand or seen with the eye at pick-up time. If he could tell you, it might sound like this:
I concentrated today!
When someone asked to play with me, I said yes.
I looked at the caterpillars in the jar - for a very long time. Then my teacher read me a book about butterflies. Twice. Because I asked.
I sat next to a friend who was labeling the lifecycle of the frog. I handed her the labels and helped her match them. I got her a paper towel when her fingers were gluey.
When everyone was talking about bees I told them, "Bumblebees don't sting. Only honey bees sting. Bumblebees just bumble." Everyone agreed with me.
I looked at a real chicken egg and a real duck egg. I said the duck egg was bigger.
I used the very heavy tortilla press to make playdough tortillas. My friends helped and we laughed. None of us pinched our fingers.
I compromised about sitting in the comfy chair.
I served myself a snack, ate it politely alongside my friends, and cleaned up after myself.
I felt sad - just for a little bit - because I missed my mom.
I noticed that the lizard's food bowl was empty and cut some lettuce for him.
I waited for a turn on the orange bike.
I heard that a friend is going to Korea for the summer and I gave him a hug to say goodbye.
A preschooler's greatest and most important work often doesn't have any external product to show for it. Having and being a friend, acting out of kindness, demonstrating patience and self-control, taking care of oneself, feeling satisfied with a job well done - these things are all internalized. The children in our classrooms build their character and their understanding of the world every day, but they can't always verbalize it. They are doing so much challenging work! But they do not yet see their actions and successes as separate from themselves.
After a sunflower seed sprouts in the garden we might notice as the stem grows taller, but we cannot see the acts of photosynthesis and respiration and transpiration that take place every single day. The sunflower plant continues to do its work converting sunlight to sugars and sugars to fuel - the internal work of living - whether we take notice or not. Then, one day it blooms and we look at it and say, "Finally!"
Maria Montessori believed that the child reveals himself through his work, not through his outwardly visible successes and accomplishments. Every experience he has is internalized and becomes a part of his very being. She put it this way, "The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul."
Stories from their day and recorded work, like the blooms of a sunflower, are parts of the child we can see and they might be pleasing to us, but they are only the product of a monumental amount of internal work. So please don't worry when your child says she did nothing all day. Nothing to grown-ups can be everything in the life of a child.
Lots of peace, lots of love ~ Heather
When I look at Gracie's picture of her first day of school it almost brings a tear to my eyes I remember back when each of our 3 children went to their first day of school. Norma, She was excited ,we were excited for her, as with your 1st child you are so anxious to see & experience each new thing they do. Gordon, Well!!! he was the one that cried on the way to school. Heather, I cried on the way to school. Our last little one was now in school. We have been so blessed, we have seen 5 Grands head off for school & graduate even some off to college & graduate. On our 3rd time around with 2 Great Grands off to school this fall & 5 more sitting in the wings waiting for that big day. My,how did those yrs goes so fast?


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Festival of Trees at the Valley River Inn
Coming this week Tuesday, November 26th through Sunday, December 1st, 2013 Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon will once again host the Annual Festival of Trees Event. Cascade Health Foundation's and Pete Moore Hospice House Festival of Trees in Eugene is Lane County's premier holiday event. Scheduled over six days during Thanksgiving week, Festival transforms Eugene's Valley River Inn into a winter wonderland that attracts approximately 18,000 people every year. For many, the Festival has become a holiday tradition.
Join us for this wonderful fun-filled event to celebrate not only a wonderful cause but to kick off the Holiday Season. Come see the Dickens Village Gift shop upstairs in out McKenzie Ballroom. Tour the Candy Cane Forest in the Willamette Ballroom where you will see all the amazing festival decorated trees to be auctioned off. Santa will be in the lobby decorating ornaments to trim a tree that will be donated to hospice patients. Other special features will be the dancing tree, and the sky walk that is decorated in holiday wreaths and stockings. Tuesday night November 26th is the Preview Party from 7p.m.-9:30 p.m. this is a great event to get a first look at the trees from this year. It is an advanced registration event with the cost of $25 a person. The rest of the week will be open to the public with tickets available at Umpqua Bank $6 for adults, $4 for seniors (60 and over) and children $4 (under 12) strollers pay $3. The Schedule for the following days are Wednesday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday 10a.m. - 7p.m. Friday 9 a.m.- 2p.m. and Saturday 9a.m. – 5 p.m. The Starlight Celebration Gala will run 5:30-11p.m. The cost for this event is $150 a table and is a special event registration.
We reccomend this event to all ages, there is something for everyone!
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During the Super Bowl, Volkswagen attempted to convince America that their cars no longer need to be dumped the second they go off warranty by showing all the German engineers who get their wings when those cars hit 100,000 miles. So, uh, where are the ladies?
Yes, Volkswagen experienced a minor backlash on the Internet after the ad last night because none of the winged, rainbow-pooping engineers in the ad are women. Mind you, there are a few women in the ad, but none of them seem to sprout wings. One of them even gets groped in an elevator. You sure you're in 2014, Volkswagen?
Here's what one leading female engineer told the Chicago Sun-Times:
"I was anticipating that I would really like [the ad], but I was just disappointed," said Stacey DelVecchio, president of the Society of Women Engineers, an international group headquartered in Chicago. "They could have promoted more diversity."
DelVecchio wasn't the only one who was disappointed.
Sad how there are no female German engineers. A country in crisis.
— Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) February 3, 2014
We all learned an important lesson from @Volkswagen's "Wings" commercial: women can't be engineers. http://t.co/7xpVQFGX0I
— Juston Payne (@justonpayne) February 3, 2014
So I guess in Germany there are no Women engineers? Or does the wingless female slapping the winged engineer count? #NotBuyingIt #volkswagen
— Theresa (@tacordon) February 3, 2014
#Volkswagen, women engineers exist and they exist for more than just to be sexually harassed.
— Kari Shoolbraid (@dotyourTs) February 3, 2014
Riiight...except for having ZERO women engineers. Complete fail. RT @ericheggie: Volkswagen winning the evening so far.
— Alison McQuade (@akmcquade) February 3, 2014
Dear Volkswagen: Women are engineers too. They are not just present to be objects of male engineer attraction.
— Mr. Arbit (@MrArbit) February 3, 2014
And getting slammed for lack of women engineers @Adweek: VOLKSWAGEN: Grade: A- http://t.co/nN1lsiDpQb pic.twitter.com/os4sox9WbN"
— Katy Bachman (@KatyontheHill) February 3, 2014
Noticed. #sexist ads RT @mattyglesias: "she doesn't get wings, apparently on account of being a lady." http://t.co/IhFrjy9sq0
— Lauren Dillon (@llcdillon) February 3, 2014
Well, now we know: Of all the hands that go into building a Volkswagen, none of them lack a Y chromosome.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Summer Camp in the Greenbelt
at High Rock Gate (in High Rock Park), Staten Island
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
It's not too late to register for camp this season at the Greenbelt.
Category: Kids
Weird, Wild & Wonderful
at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
The New York Botanical Garden invited members of the American Society of Botanical Artists to participate in a study of the eccentric, creating works of art based on unusual plants.
Category: Nature, Art
Garden Crew
at Mosholu Avenue and Broadway (in Van Cortlandt Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Get dirty helping out at the Compost Garden.
Category: Volunteer
Human Impacts Institute Tree Care Tuesdays
at Driggs Ave and Monitor Street, Brooklyn
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join Human Impacts Institute's successful Tree Care Tuesday program to help beautify NYC neighborhoods, create community relationships, promote green space, mitigate air pollution, and prevent stormwater runoff.
Category: Education, Nature, Kids, Volunteer
Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed
at Bronx Zoo (in Bronx Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
See more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs, including a 40-foot long tyrannosaurus rex, on this ride through the two-acre safari.
Category: Education, Nature, Kids
Bryant Park Yoga
at Upper Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Perfect your downward dog under the trees with YogaWorks instructors.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Summer Camp in the Greenbelt: Mini Camp
at Greenbelt Nature Center (in Blood Root Valley), Staten Island
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
It's not to late to register for camp this season at the Greenbelt.
Category: Kids
Mommy, Music & Me, Inc. Music Together
at 111th Street and 53rd Ave (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Come and enjoy music and movement activities for children. Suitable for babies and children up to 7 years old. Please bring a blanket or low chair.
Category: Concerts, Kids, Talks
Summer Sports Experience: Calvert Vaux Park/Dreier Offerman Park
at Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Bring your kids to the Summer Sports Experience! In the program, Parks staff teach kids through intensive sports clinics. On site registration IS REQUIRED for Brooklyn clinics.
Category: Kids, Sports, Summer Sports Experience
SummerStage Kids Presents: Puppetmobile
at Dr Martin Luther King Jr Park (in Martin Luther King Jr. Playground), Brooklyn
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
City Parks Foundation is excited to announce the return of its popular PuppetMobile production, Little Red's Hood.
Category: Kids, Theater
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When Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement complains to state liquor regulators about bars where fights, drunken patrons, and noise disrupt surrounding streets, it can take as long as a year of investigations and hearings before anything gets done.
State Rep. Tina Kotek and Sen. Jackie Dingfelder (both D-Portland) want that to change. Their measure, Senate Bill 1026, would let the Oregon Liquor Control Commission intervene earlier and begin placing alcohol-dispensing restrictions on those establishments before problems escalate.
The measure, which is scheduled for a Senate Commerce Committee hearing today, Feb. 10, would grant authority to the OLCC to intervene early by issuing warnings and restricting the sale of alcohol at venues that it determines have persistent alcohol-related problems.
"Even though one principal task of the OLCC is to make sure that enough alcohol gets sold so we have enough money for the state," Kotek says, "some people feel like that responsibility has superseded the right to a safe community."
Theresa Marchetti, the city Office of Neighborhood Involvement's liquor licensing specialist, supports the bill to deal with what she calls a minority of roughly 100 problem establishments in Portland. "Without the ability to bring them to the table," Marchetti says, "things can spin out of control very quickly. Persistent problems become serious. And that's what we've seen over and over again."
The OLCC says a complaint about a licenseholder now takes up to a year before a full investigation can conclude in a revocation. With the new early-intervention bill in place, the five-step process would remain, but the OLCC could slap on restrictions such as limiting how many drinks a patron can buy or requiring security.
Naturally, the state's 6,600-plus establishments licensed to sell liquor for consumption on site see it differently.
Oregon Restaurant Association spokesman Bill Perry says the OLCC already has about 70 different things it can do to restrict a license.
SB 1026 would give the OLCC too much power to begin shutting down establishments simply because of an unsubstantiated complaint, Perry says.
"If you give somebody an ability to start complaining about establishments, and you can close them down earlier because of those complaints," he says, "they will start using that to close them down."
The OLCC claims no specific bars are being targeted by the measure, which died in committee at the end of session in 2009, but has been resurrected for this month's abbreviated legislative session.


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16 CFR 260.5 - Carbon offsets.
(a) Given the complexities of carbon offsets, sellers should employ competent and reliable scientific and accounting methods to properly quantify claimed emission reductions and to ensure that they do not sell the same reduction more than one time.
(b) It is deceptive to misrepresent, directly or by implication, that a carbon offset represents emission reductions that have already occurred or will occur in the immediate future. To avoid deception, marketers should clearly and prominently disclose if the carbon offset represents emission reductions that will not occur for two years or longer.
(c) It is deceptive to claim, directly or by implication, that a carbon offset represents an emission reduction if the reduction, or the activity that caused the reduction, was required by law.
Example 1:
On its Web site, an online travel agency invites consumers to purchase offsets to "neutralize the carbon emissions from your flight." The proceeds from the offset sales fund future projects that will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions for two years. The claim likely conveys that the emission reductions either already have occurred or will occur in the near future. Therefore, the advertisement is deceptive. It would not be deceptive if the agency's Web site stated "Offset the carbon emissions from your flight by funding new projects that will begin reducing emissions in two years."
Example 2:
An offset provider claims that its product "will offset your own `dirty' driving habits." The offset is based on methane capture at a landfill facility. State law requires this facility to capture all methane emitted from the landfill. The claim is deceptive because the emission reduction would have occurred regardless of whether consumers purchased the offsets.
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"If Dylan's making the chips then I'm drinking the champagne" – a bold statement from front-man Johnny Borrell, especially as Razorlight only formed in 2002. Despite a reputation for similar self-proclamations and ego-boosting, they're actually not half bad – debut album 'Up All Night' reached number 3 in the UK album charts in 2004 and the group happened to play the biggest gig of all time, 2005's Live 8. WATCH RAZORLIGHT PERFORM AN EXCLUSIVE TRACK, 'HOSTAGE OF LOVE' (TAKEN FROM THE NEW ALBUM 'SLIPWAY FIRES' RELEASED OCTOBER 3 2008), IN THE MEDIA PLAYER SECTION BELOW...
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INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of the American Legion recently honored State Senator Lindel Hume (D-Princeton) with their Distinguished Public Service Award. The group, Indiana's largest veterans service organization, thanked Sen. Hume for his service to veterans through the 2013 legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly.
"I am very honored to be recognized by the American Legion for my legislative work on behalf of Indiana's veterans," Hume said. "When presented with an opportunity to help Hoosier servicemen and women, I want to make sure that we do everything we can, and I hope that on every level veterans will be treated with the respect and gratitude that they deserve."
Sen. Hume has been a leading advocate for veterans in the Indiana General Assembly. This year he authored Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 290 allowing medically-trained military personnel to be certified as emergency medical providers. The act gives the Indiana Emergency Medical Services Commission the ability to issue licenses to military service applicants who have prior training in medical service fields and who pass testing requirements. In addition, veterans who need to complete additional training would be issued temporary licenses by the commission.
Sen. Hume co-authored SEA 177, which assists veterans in attending college after completion of their service. The act makes veterans eligible for in-state tuition rates in undergraduate courses within 12 months after their honorable discharge. Veterans will be required to provide proof of their Indiana residency through voter registration and driver's license no later than one year after enrollment. Veterans who are unable to provide this information will be subject to tuition policies determined by the universities and will need to repay the in-state and out-of-state tuition difference. Veterans who enroll after the 12-month period or in graduate degree programs would also be subject to tuition policies.
SEA 564, co-authored by Sen. Hume, improves economic opportunities for veteran-owned small businesses (VOSB). The act allows VOSBs to participate in state purchases and receive a 15 percent price preference that is already available to small businesses in the state. The Indiana Department of Administration (IDOA) will be tasked with increasing contract opportunities for VOSBs in order to reach a state contract goal of three percent. The IDOA can also receive assistance from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation to compile a list of Indiana VOSBs, determine which purchases are consistent with the contract goal and simplify contract terms to increase VOSB opportunities.
The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. The nation's largest wartime veterans service organization is led by Boonville native James E. Koutz ,is committed to mentoring youth and sponsorship of wholesome programs in our communities, advocating patriotism and honor, promoting strong national security, and continued devotion to our fellow servicemembers and veterans.
Hume was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1974, and then elected to the State Senate in 1982. Hume serves as the Senate Democratic Whip and represents Senate District 48, which includes portions or all of Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Orange and Pike counties.
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Capt. Bobby Bowes of Piney Point has been selected as the Seventh District Optimist Club's 2013 Waterman of the Year.
The award recognizes a St. Mary's County waterman who has spent his life working the bays and rivers of the area. The club presents the award annually at the Blessing of the Fleet. This year's 17th annual presentation will be on Oct. 6.
Over the course of 40 years, Bowes has welcomed charter boat fishing as a part-time supplemental income to put his children through school, as a full-time job after retirement, as pastime enjoyment to entertain grandchildren and friends and as a means to give back to the community.
Bowes moved from Washington, D.C., to St. Mary's County with his parents and older brother in 1943 with the commissioning of the air station at Patuxent River. Most of his life has been spent in the waterfront areas of Tall Timbers and Piney Point.
In 1961, he married Patricia Usilton of Leonardtown at Holy Face Catholic Church in Great Mills. Seven years later, they bought an older waterfront home in Piney Point and raised a family of seven children. That family has given the couple 20 grandchildren and, thus far, three great grandchildren.
In 1972, he and a best friend began their charter fishing venture by purchasing a well-used Garner Gibson-built work boat to supplement their day-job incomes. More than 40 years later, they are both still active in charter fishing, each with their own boat, and the Gibson boat is long gone.
Bowe's first solely owned boat, a round stern, was purchased in 1973 from Delahay's in Compton. Four years later, he purchased his current boat, Audrey B, built locally by Herman Dixon of St. Patrick's Creek.
His professional career included employment as a civilian with the U.S. Navy as an engineer involved with testing airplane and helicopter flying characteristics. During this time, charter fishing was a weekend endeavor. He retired in 1988 and began dedicating more time to the boat operations.
His entire family, including the grandchildren, have helped with all the boat operations as mates, painters, scrubbers, fish cleaners and whatever needed to be done. Two of his sons, Capt. Mark Bowes and Capt. Matt Bowes, are charter licensed as well; they both inherited the passion for charter fishing, and they also transport passengers at the Blessing of the Fleet on their charter boats.
Over the years, Bowes has utilized the boats for charter fishing, underwater inspection diving, transporting work crews for SMECO to renovate power line towers, supporting recreational diving on the U-1105 submarine at Piney Point, cruising, logistics support, docking ships at Piney Point Petroleum Station and tidal studies for the U.S. Geological Survey Team and the Naval Research Laboratory. He also supported two salvage operations, refloating a survey team vessel that sank near Bonum Creek in Virginia and recovering an airplane abandoned with engine problems near White Point Beach.
In 1974, he and his wife started carrying passengers to St. Clement's Island at the Seventh District Blessing of the Fleet. He has supported charity fundraisers by donating fishing trips to Little Flower School, Ducks Unlimited, Optimist Clubs and more.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 16, 2012) – With the start of the fall sports season on the horizon, the ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics held Media Day for men's and women's soccer and volleyball on Thursday, as members of the media met with the head coaches and players of the programs at Mellow Mushroom in Johnson City.
A luncheon, provided by Mellow Mushroom, was held in correlation with the event as all coaches and players in attendance talked about their upcoming seasons.
"Today's event is a great way to start off the year," said Associate Athletic Director for Communications Michael White. "I want to thank the media that attended as well as Mellow Mushroom for allowing us to hold our media day activities at their restaurant."
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By Gianmarco Segato, Adult Programs Manager
Bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") is an elusive term. It is most often used as a convenient, catch-all phrase
referring to the early 19th-century period in Italian opera dominated by Rossini, Bellini
and Donizetti. But it also denotes a singing style, the hallmarks of which are beauty
of tone, wide range, extreme flexibility and expressive utterance of text. For this spring's
Roberto Devereux, the COC has assembled an ace team of highly trained vocal athletes
who are ready to meet bel canto's extreme demands in Donizetti's great historical
drama about the last days of England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I (Elisabetta).
In that pivotal role, superstar soprano Sondra Radvanovsky makes her hotly
anticipated return to the COC after bringing down the house as Aida in 2010.
While her career has mainly been centred on core, late-Romantic Italian roles such as
Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Radvanovsky's exploration of earlier 19th-century bel canto
heroines like Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda (who together with Elisabetta make
up Donizetti's "Tudor Trilogy") is much more recent. The soprano's account of the
path that led her to bel canto is fascinating and frankly revealing. In 2002, a polyp
(caused by a botched childhood intubation) was removed from her vocal chords. "I had
to learn how to sing all over again. It opened up a whole new world for me, a world
I never thought or imagined musically I would be singing in." Radvanovksy credits
her voice coach Tony Manoli with steering her in this new direction.
Despite her many accomplishments as a Verdi singer, he was convinced she had the potential
to be even greater in the bel canto repertoire. Together, they re-worked her technique
post-surgery and in the process, she feels she became "a better singer. It was a
godsend. No one else heard it; [Manoli] was the only one." The ultimate affirmation
of this vocal transformation was her recent fall 2013 Metropolitan Opera Norma
(the summit of all bel canto roles) – "it was a huge success… HUGE!"
Radvanovsky notes that elsewhere in his Tudor Trilogy "Donizetti chose to highlight earlier stages of the Queens' lives whereas Elisabetta is at the end and she's worn down; she's a broken woman. She was a very strong Queen, as we know, but here she's angry a lot and it shows in the vocal writing Donizetti gave her. If you look at the length of the role, Elisabetta is the shortest, especially compared to Anna Bolena which is a marathon. In fact, Elisabetta doesn't appear in quite a bit of the opera but she has the key moments and by far the hardest music. In terms of vocal range, hers is the widest
with a great amount of dramatic coloratura that is just unrelenting."
Roberto Devereux's title role will be shared between two debuting artists, Italian-American tenor Leonardo Capalbo and Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti.
Leonardo Capalbo comes to Toronto fresh from his fall 2013 success as Roberto Devereux with Welsh National Opera where his performance was praised for its "power and elegance" (The Guardian). A tenor on the rise, since debuting in 2004 Capalbo has performed across the world for companies like the Welsh National Opera, Oper Leipzig, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Opéra de Lyon and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Capalbo sings Devereux on April 25, 29 and May 3.
Giuseppe Filianoti is a regular at Europe's leading opera houses, North American audiences will know him best for his riveting portrayal of the Emperor Tito in the recent Metropolitan Opera HD transmission of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. "From the start, Roberto knows there is no escaping the jealousy of the 63-year-old queen, wounded in her pride and in her love," says Filianoti. "[He] represents the typical romantic hero: young, attractive, ambitious, valorous and merciful in war but, unfortunately, in love with the wrong woman. He hopes until the end to be able to save himself from an unjust death sentence and to redeem the honour of his beloved Sara. Although his execution inevitably takes place, we at least get to hear his final appeal in one of the most beautiful arias Donizetti wrote for the tenor voice, "Come uno spirito angelico" ("Like an angelic spirit"). Filianoti sings Devereux on May 10, 15, 18 and 21.
The third member of this tragic love
triangle is Sara, Duchess of Nottingham sung
by COC favourite, Canadian mezzo-soprano
Allyson McHardy. "Sara is an opera singer's
dream," enthuses McHardy. "She lives a
tortured life married to someone she doesn't
really love [the Duke of Nottingham]. She
feels a certain allegiance to Elizabeth
and therefore, must hide her feelings for
Devereux. She fights through the entire
opera to save him and do the right thing
no matter what the consequences are for
her. This is beautifully laid out in Donizetti's
music: moments of torture, love, tenderness
and desperation." McHardy concurs with
the generally held opinion that Roberto
Devereux's success is largely due to
Salvatore Cammarano's superior
libretto with its strong command
of text and clear storyline.
"The characters are so real and
so complete. Their interactions
are intense, complex and so
wonderfully nuanced. It takes
English history and sets it on
The fourth player in the
drama is Sara's husband, the
Duke of Nottingham. In
general, bel canto opera does
not bestow the same gifts
on baritones that it does on
sopranos and tenors, however,
Nottingham is an exception to
this rule, blessed as he is with
one of the opera's great melodies,
"Forse in quel cor sensibile"
("Perhaps in that sensitive heart").
This isn't lost on Canadian star
baritone Russell Braun: "His
music is wonderful and the
character is very mature actually.
He's very ordinary at the
beginning but what happens to him as the
result of jealousy, and through the sense
of a loss of power is what makes the drama.
Because he's so human at the beginning
I feel his transformation is believable and
really shows what actually can happen
to each and every one of us in this
Roberto Devereux runs from April 25 to May 21 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. For tickets and more information, click here.
Photos: (top) Leonardo Capalbo as Roberto Devereux and Sondra Radvanovsky as Elisabetta; (middle) (far right) Sondra Radvanovsky; (bottom) Allyson McHardy as Sara and Russell Braun as Nottingham. All photos from the Canadian Opera Company's Roberto Devereux, 2014 by Michael Cooper.
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On April 3, 2014, the Canadian Opera Company invited veterans groups and their families to the BMO Financial Group Student Dress Rehearsal of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's Hercules. See what they had to say about this moving production and watch as they share their experiences with us.
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By Nikita Gourski, Development Communications Officer
"We have art so that we might not perish from the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
"We have art so that we might not perish from the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There's an idea that opera is some
useless entertainment for rich people
and has no larger civic function,"
notes American director Peter Sellars.
"And for me it's really the opposite."
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and educated at Harvard University,
Sellars first captured the public's
attention with a 1981 production of
Handel's Orlando, which he set in
the milieu of the U.S. space program
on Cape Canaveral. Two years later
he was awarded the MacArthur
Fellowship, colloquially known as the
"Genius Grant." He was 25 years old.
Since then, Sellars, who in addition
to directing opera, theatre and film, is
a professor in UCLA's World Arts and
Culture Department, has fascinated
North American and European
audiences with his unorthodox
stagings. Some of his early efforts –
notably the trilogy of Mozart/
Da Ponte operas (Don Giovanni,
Così fan tutte, and Le nozze di Figaro)
which he set, respectively, in a New
York City ghetto, a seaside diner, and
Trump Tower – were viciously attacked
by certain operagoers and critics.
But the passage of time has
allowed for a more thoughtful, and
overwhelmingly positive, assessment
of his work to emerge. "That people
seemed eager to write off Sellars
as an enfant terrible attempting to
shoehorn opera into a pair of Nikes,"
wrote Adam Wasserman in Opera
News two years ago, "was likely the
result, I think, of his ideas hitting
uncomfortably close to home."
But if Sellars has sought to put
audiences in touch with the moral
tensions and social problems of their
day, it's because his overarching
ambition has been to rejuvenate
theatre as an arena for political
consciousness, to let opera speak
to our society with the same
invigorating immediacy as Greek
drama did for the ancient Athenians.
In the words of scholar Julian
Young, the tragic festival in ancient
Greece "was a sacred occasion on
which the community was gathered
into a clarifying affirmation of its
fundamental ethos – that which made
it the community it was." You did not,
in other words, attend the theatre
to escape the world, but to see it
more clearly; not to forget yourself,
but to discover your membership
in the political body; not to divert
your attention from problems, but to
participate in the search for answers.
With the new COC production
of Handel's Hercules, built in
collaboration with Lyric Opera of
Chicago, Sellars is as adventurous as
ever in pursuing that project. He sees
in Hercules an examination of what
we now call post-traumatic stress
disorder; in less medically precise
terms, the heartbreaking tangle of
problems faced by returning soldiers
and their families. He invites modern
reality into the opera house, not to
give the production a novel gloss,
but to release the universal elements
of Handel's work within a grid of
contemporary signs: battle fatigues;
Abu-Ghraib orange jumpsuits; flagdraped
coffins – and to emphasize
that the social and psychological toll
of warfare isn't a bygone relic but an
everyday reality.
"We're now beginning to talk about
this, because the situation in the
United States is that one out of three
homeless persons is a veteran,"
Sellars says. "You have people whose
lives have been so destroyed, whose
capacity to live a meaningful life
has been so devastated, who have
everything stacked against them, even
though they served [their country]."
Handel's opera is based largely on
Women of Trachis, a tragedy by
Sophocles who, in addition to being
a first-rate dramatist, was also a war
general. He brought a rare insight
to the emotionally intense – even
dangerous – landscape that soldiers
and their families had to navigate
after reuniting. More than 2,000
years later, in 1745, Handel tackled
the material with Hercules, an
oratorio-opera hybrid he, himself,
labeled a "musical drama."
In the opera, Hercules returns
triumphant after a prolonged
war in a foreign city, but his loving
wife Dejanira is caught off-guard by
her husband's relationship with a
mysterious prisoner of war, a princess
named Iole. Dejanira is soon plunged
into an intensely felt jealousy. And
though Hercules appears every bit
the proud and honourable hero, his
wartime experiences have left him
fundamentally displaced from his
past life, and equally unprepared
for what awaits in the civilian world.
"The god of battle quits the bloody
field," he sings, "And useless hang the
glitt'ring spear and shield," but the
deeds committed in combat, including
the likelihood of sexual infidelity,
persist as an unacknowledged
minefield between Hercules and his
wife. They fight bitterly, he retreats
into incommunicative silence, and
she grows suicidal. Before long, the
situation explodes.
"When everyone's back together again
[after a military deployment]," Sellars
explains, "there's a whole lot of things
that neither side knows about the
other, that have been covered up –
for positive reasons maybe – but that
end up becoming deadly fault lines.
"For Handel, as for Sophocles, it
was this image of the most powerful
person on earth, the strong man,
being unbelievably vulnerable. And,
in fact, being in denial about a lot of
the deepest points of vulnerability."
The genius of Handel is in finding
a musical language commensurate
to the psychological experience of
post-traumatic stress. In Hercules,
Handel uses da capo arias, which
have a cyclical structure whereby
the singer returns to a previous
section of music, following an A-B-A
pattern, as if haunted by a previously
recurring experience. (Translated
from Italian, da capo means, literally,
"from the head.")
Singing a da capo aria is a structural
analogue "of what it means to work
through your issues," Sellars says.
"You can't just say, 'okay, now you're
fine,' but, in fact, you have to go back
and work on it. And you have to dig
out all of this emotional stuff that has
been locked up and has been denied…
it's what's involved in these extreme
vocal melismas that Handel writes,
where a single word will have 150
notes. And that's because in one word
– for most people it's just a word –
for [a veteran] there's a roller coaster
of emotions; there is an entire set
of experiences that flash inside that
one word."
Alongside the personal excavation
undertaken in the arias, Handel
"places the huge choruses, where you
get the power of citizens, and you say,
'wait a minute, our whole society is
in danger!' You can't just pathologize
that person who just screamed in
pain in the last aria."
Though Sellars readily admits that
the subject matter is challenging,
he also emphasizes that "Handel
believed that the first way to go into
a difficult or dangerous place is with
a lot of beauty. So the music is just
ravishingly beautiful. It transmutes
the suffering into another place and
you don't run away from it, but you
go towards it." In this way, Handel's
opera succeeds both as a precise,
mimetically accurate diagnosis of
the experience, and as a vehicle
of the healing process itself.
Hercules runs until April 30 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, click here for tickets and more information.
Photos: (top) Alice Coote as Dejanira; (middle) (l-r) David Daniels as Lichas (in background), Richard Croft as Hyllus, Lucy Crowe as Iole and Kaleb Alexander as Soldier; (middle) Richard Croft and Lucy Crowe; (bottom) (at left) Alice Coote and Richard Croft. All production photos from the Canadian Opera Company's Hercules, 2014 by Michael Cooper. Photo of Peter Sellars by Ruth Walz.
Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001


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