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Rainer Schmidt, violin
Veronika Hagen, viola
Clemens Hagen, cello
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String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
The concert is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Join us for more Beethoven! This concert can be purchased as part of a 3-concert, 4-concert or 6-concert package.
The Hagen Quartet series is partially supported by an endowment gift from Joan L. and Dr. Julius H. Jacobson, II and by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
Y Beethoven? This is Why Beethoven, according to six young 92Y guest artists.
Report on Hagen Quartet's debut at Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, Sep 24, 2011. Program included Schubert's String Quintet with cellist Ralph Kirshbaum and quartets by Haydn and Brahms. Voiceover is in Norwegian but interviews with Hagen violinist Rainer Schmidt and Mr. Kirschbaum are in English. Mr. Schmidt's comments include:
We understand each other very well. I think we have a very good relationship, each one of us with the other one, so we're usually having a very good time together, and not much strife at all. That's number one, and the second is that we always enjoy the music, discovering something new in the music, so for us it always stays fresh and never becomes stale. This job, we always love what we are doing, so that's certainly important.
Hagen Quartet performing Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 18, No 3: IV. Presto, from its latest recording, released this past June on Myrios Classics
Hagen Quartet at 2000 Salzurg "Mozartwoche," performing Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 135: II. Vivace
Hagen Quartet at 2000 Salzurg "Mozartwoche," performing Ravel's String Quartet in F major: II. Assez vif: tres rythmé
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"All Beethoven, All the Time, in a String Quartet Survey"—A rave review of the Hagen Quartet's first concert in its Beethoven cycle at 92Y by James R. Oestreich in The New York Times, Nov 8, 2013. Here is an excerpt:
It is hard to know what to admire most in the quartet's playing. It is almost impeccable, despite the many risks being taken: tempos nudged ahead, dynamics pushed, pauses extended to the breaking point. The focus and unanimity are astounding.
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"North American Live Choice"—Hagen Quartet's cycle at 92Y named one of Top 20 Live Events in North America for November, 11/13. Here is an excerpt:
Austria's Hagen Quartet has been playing Beethoven's 16 string quartets throughout much of its 32-year history, and now it's demonstrating the fruits of that accumulated experience.
Interview with Rainer Schmidt—A Q&A between 92Y and the Hagen Quartet's second violinist. Here's an excerpt:
200 years after their genesis, Beethoven's quartets still hold tons of exciting questions for us. And over time we certainly have changed the way how to approach them—which question comes first …
"Beyond words and stereotypes"—An interview with the Hagen Quartet members by Helmut Mauró (translation by Eriksen Translations Inc.) for Germany's largest national subscription daily newspaper, 8/14/13. Here is an excerpt:
Veronika Hagen: We explore the character and the emotional world of each piece. In our concert cycle, we do not follow the order in which they were created; we follow other criteria. We may play a concert consisting of nothing but Beethoven's F major quartets, which come from all the periods of his work.
"The playing is insightful, probing, masterly."
"It's been a long time since Beethoven sounded so outrageously fresh—a monumental achievement."
"The music comes alive fully, with orative power, like Laurence Olivier doing Shakespeare. Every particle is given due consideration for a whole that is ravishing. Ravishing."
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Program included String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1 (Nov 7); String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (Nov 10). An excerpt from the review:
Now that the Alban Berg Quartet is no more, the Hagen, along with the Takács, are the supreme performers of Beethoven. There is a high-born, almost patrician quality to their music-making, which has sometimes been mistaken for emotional detachment. But there was nothing detached about their performances of the first two Razumovsky quartets, which got this latest cycle off to such a bracing start. It was thrilling playing; so thrilling they may even have surprised themselves.
Program included String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 (Nov 10); String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (Nov 10). An excerpt from the review:
The Hagen's approach also says something about their development. For years, theirs has been the very model of a well-engineered, central European sound. Increasingly, though, the Hagens have become greater risk takers, too. There's a more impulsive quality to their playing, epitomised by the almost freewheeling style of first violinist Lukas Hagen…. It also showed an openness to new styles in quartet playing, which promises anything but a stock cycle when the Hagens return in April.
Program included Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 (Nov 7); Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, "Serioso" (Nov 9); Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 74, "Harp" (Nov 9). An excerpt from the review:
It was a marvelous evening of music-making marked by scrupulous attention to phrasing, texture and balance. And something else kept ears wide open: the performances surprised through the players' elastic sense of line and fierce intensity.
Program included Beethoven's Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, "Serioso" (Nov 9); plus Haydn's Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 2 "The Joke"; Mozart's Quartet in D major, K. 575. An excerpt from the review:
Even in this rather hard-edged music [from Beethoven's "Serioso" Quartet], it was evident that the four players—consisting of siblings Lukas Hagen, first violin; Veronika Hagen, viola; and Clemens Hagen, cello; with Rainer Schmidt, second violin—had achieved a rare combination of matched and blended tone with transparent, persuasive voicing. Their sound was not big and room-filling but seductive, enticing the listener to lean closer and savor every detail of the music.
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With this set of six concerts at 92nd Street Y, the Hagen Quartet continues a practice set in motion by the renowned Budapest Quartet 75 years ago. In 1938 92Y invited its audiences to New York City's first-ever hearing of all 16 Beethoven string quartets played in a cycle. It would also be the Budapest's first-ever performance of the entire set. "If you are a musician," read the Y's 1938 advertisement, "you will appreciate the importance of this announcement—if not, just ask any real musician and you will be convinced." In 2013 92Y presents the Hagen Quartet's six Beethoven concerts—its first-ever in New York City—with undiminished enthusiasm and appreciation for "the importance of this announcement."
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When the 22-year-old Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 from Bonn, intending to study composition with Joseph Haydn, he arrived as a good professional violinist, violist and organist—and a knock-out pianist. His virtuosity at the piano keyboard opened doors in Vienna society, and he found his way into the circles of Vienna's social and musical elite. His engaging, if rough-edged, personality and his love of social interaction made him a popular guest—especially when he dazzled the assembled company with his pianism. That Beethoven and Haydn failed to develop a good working relationship mattered little in the long run. Beethoven was ready to prove himself as a composer without significant further instruction; he took full advantage of all that Vienna offered, creating a life for himself as an independent professional.
Beginning in 1798, when he began to write his first quartets, and continuing to the final months of his life, Beethoven repeatedly stretched the concept of "string quartet." Like his 32 piano sonatas, which similarly engaged his creative energies from early to late in life, Beethoven's 16 string quartets represent a road map of his growth as a musician. They lead the way in tracing his journey toward the deepest realms of the composer's art.
The concept "Early-Middle-Late Beethoven" arose as a scholarly categorization of his music in general and has come to designate three specific groupings of string quartets— those composed in 1798–1800, 1806–1810, and 1824–1826. The three periods of success are shadowed by Beethoven's growing deafness, which was already painfully evident to him in 1798, and which isolated him increasingly from the world.
1801: Early quartets. The success of Beethoven's first major publication for string ensemble, a set of three String Trios published in 1798, alerted Vienna's music lovers that the phenomenal pianist had emerged as an equally remarkable composer. Even as music connoisseurs were awakening to that fact, Beethoven was beginning work on the ne plus ultra of chamber music, the string quartet. In 1801Beethoven issued six String Quartets, published as Op. 18. These new quartets found immediate success and secured his reputation not only with the public, but also with Vienna's fine professional musicians. For the next 25 years, Beethoven was the most prominent musical force in the city.
In the wake of the Op. 18 Quartets, Beethoven composed piano sonatas, symphonies, the Violin Concerto, the Fourth Piano Concerto, and his opera Fidelio, any one of which would have secured his eminent position. In spite of his growing deafness, he possessed the exquisite inner hearing of a powerful musical mind, a faculty amply demonstrated as he fearlessly produced works that set him apart in conception, style and execution from all his contemporaries.
1806–1810: Middle quartets. The Vienna correspondent of the Leipzig Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, the most important music journal of its day, reported early in 1807 that "three new, very long, and difficult Beethoven quartets…are attracting the attention of all connoisseurs. They are profoundly thought through and admirably worked out, but not to be grasped by all." Indeed, Beethoven's new music proved bewildering to musicians and audiences. One violinist, the Italian Felix Radicati, asked the composer if he seriously considered the three Op. 59 quartets to be real music. Oh, said Beethoven, this music is "not for you, but for a later age." Undeterred by the puzzled reception accorded his string quartets, Beethoven published two further gems, Op. 74 and Op. 95, in 1809 and 1810.
1824–1826: Late quartets. After that, Beethoven left the genre alone for a full 12 years. In the summer of 1822, once again thinking in string quartet terms, he produced some sketches that he soon put aside—temporarily. A commission for string quartets offered him by an amateur cellist from St. Petersburg, Prince Nicholas Galitzin, then living in Vienna, got Beethoven's full attention. In 1825 he composed three quartets for Galitzin—published as Opp. 127, 130, and 132. Two more followed—the quartets of Op. 131 and Op. 135—and shortly before he died, Beethoven composed a new final movement for the Op. 130 quartet.
Beethoven was a trained violist and violinist; but by all accounts, he was a careless performer—lax in practice habits and apparently indifferent to playing accurately or in tune. His inner ears, however, remained acute for his entire lifetime, and he had a superior sense of how the four instruments of a string quartet could be challenged. If such a thing were possible, Beethoven might have played a string quartet as one instrument as well as he played a piano.
Already in the 18th century, the metaphor of string-quartet-as-conversation was widely known and accepted. No one knew better than Beethoven how to structure such a conversation, not merely as a polite agreement among voices (such as a simple canon or a fugue), or one person expressing an opinion and the others amiably following along (such as a melody with supporting accompaniment), but also as an exchange of ideas—exploratory, challenging and discursive. The voices might be heated, calm, elevated or hushed, but they are always vibrantly engaged. It was this vibrancy and engagement that increasingly characterized Beethoven's quartets, and he was by no means finished with the medium when he died, in March 1827, at age 57.
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After living in Vienna for the better part of a decade, Beethoven felt ready to take on chamber music's most demanding format, the string quartet. Even for a confident personality like Beethoven's, the thought of composing in the genre that had been defined by Austria's great practitioners of the art—Mozart and Haydn—must have given him some anxious moments. His many sketchbooks would suggest as much, filled as they are with voluminous evidence of his two-year struggle to conquer the form.
Through the course of more than two years, while securing his reputation as a highly regarded virtuoso pianist, and securing the confidence and support of important patrons of music, Beethoven worked assiduously at his self-imposed assignment. By the end of the year 1800 he was able to offer six carefully polished string quartets for publication, and in 1801 they appeared in two volumes with the imprint of T. Mollo et Comp., Vienna, Op. 18, and with a dedication to Prince Franz Josef Maximilian von Lobkowitz.
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Born Bonn, baptized December 17, 1770; died Vienna, March 26, 1827
String Quartet in G major, Op. 18, No. 2
Composed in 1798–1800, 22 minutes
The String Quartet in G major rests securely on the shoulders of Beethoven's predecessors, Mozart and Haydn. While he and Haydn had not gotten on well as student and teacher, Beethoven could not help but acknowledge the older composer's contributions to music. As for Mozart, Beethoven openly revered him and his work as models to be studied and emulated. As he diligently went about creating his own voice, Beethoven left clear traces in his first six string quartets of the origins of his structures.
Like the other five of the Op. 18 quartets, No. 2 cleaves to the four-movement form common to that era. Its gracious opening has earned for it an unusual nickname: the "Komplimentier-Quartett," a difficult to translate phrase that describes the bowing and scraping ceremony with which people in polite 18th-century society greeted each other. The swirling curve of the first violin's opening flourish, the elegant responses by the partners, the repetition of the violin's greeting—all of which, suggested a 19th-century writer, constituted "Compliments" in a musical form. Even without knowledge of that nickname, the listener cannot help but be amused by Beethoven's witty little two-measure phrases and the manner in which he develops them throughout the first movement.
The contrasting slow movement, Adagio cantabile, opens elegantly with three-measure phrases. The first violin takes the lead in transforming the mood into a lively Allegro; the movement closes with a return to the gentle Adagio cantabile.
The third movement, although labeled "Scherzo," has somewhat of a minuet feel to it, as the tempo suggests three beats to a measure instead of one. Beethoven closes the Quartet with a fourth movement filled with élan and good humor.
© 2013 Sandra Hyslop
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Composed in 1798–1800, 22 minutes
Beethoven used the key of C minor for some of his strongest statements—the "Pathétique" Piano Sonata and the Fifth Symphony, to name two well-known examples—so it stands to reason that he would choose this C-minor quartet to stand in first place in his second volume of Op. 18 quartets, published in October 1801.
Although C minor can call up an aura of tragedy, the mood of this Quartet is more passionate than foreboding. The first movement Allegro ("ma non tanto," says Beethoven) has the first violin exploring the full extent of its range. The movement describes restless agitation through syncopated rhythmic figures in the inner voices. The C-minor turbulence of the Allegro movement is followed, not by a slow movement, but by a gentle Scherzo in C major. This turn of events leads to another surprise, a restless Minuet, which, Beethoven instructs, must be played even faster upon its return after the Trio. The final movement, Allegro, is cast in a clear rondo form. A coda forms after the third iteration of the main theme, and the voices charge headlong into a breathtaking Prestissimo conclusion.
© 2013 Sandra Hyslop
String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
Composed in 1825–26, 36 minutes
For the composer Robert Schumann, Beethoven's Op. 131 represented "the outermost limits that human art and imagination have yet reached," and he declared that "for [its] greatness, no words can be found." Schumann's words would seem like so much hyperbole were it not for the generations of musicians who have since then agreed with his assessment. Beethoven himself admitted that of all his 16 quartets this was his favorite.
Beethoven completed the composition on May 20, 1826, in Vienna, ten months before his death. It was published posthumously in Mainz on June 1827 by Schott's Sons, and received its first public performance in Vienna in 1835 by the Leopold Jansa Quartet. However, among the several private performances of the work before that time was a notable one on November 14, 1828. The mortally ill Franz Schubert had asked to hear this Quartet, which was performed at his bedside five days before his death. Schubert idolized Beethoven, and the violinist Karl Holz, one of Beethoven's close friends, reported of the occasion that "the King of Harmony had sent the King of Song a friendly bidding to the crossing."
Except for his severe illnesses, which ended his life at age 57, the most sorrowful moments of Beethoven's final years were occupied by his worries over his nephew Karl (1806–1858). Having failed in his heartfelt intentions to marry and have a family of his own, Beethoven fixated on young Karl; upon the death of his brother in 1815, Beethoven determined to rescue the nine-year-old child from Karl's mother, whom he considered unfit to raise the boy. Years of lawsuits and other public quarrels finally resulted in Beethoven's gaining legal custody. By then, all parties to the warfare were exhausted, most particularly Karl.
As a young man, in July 1826 Karl van Beethoven attempted suicide. The distraught Beethoven turned to his old friend Stephan von Breuning for advice. With von Breuning's assistance, Karl received a military commission, and as soon as he had recovered from his self-inflicted head wounds, he joined a unit commanded by the Lieutenant-Marshall Baron Joseph von Stutterheim. Thus it was that the newly completed C-sharp-minor String Quartet, which Beethoven had intended to dedicate to his friend Johann Nepomuk Wolfmayer, was published as Op. 131 with the composer's grateful dedication to von Stutterheim.
With the String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Beethoven leads us into a new world. This is a grand work in seven movements, which flow from one to the next, attacca. His transitions are subtle and seamless. Conceived as one, nearly continuous piece, the String Quartet, Op. 131, slips inexorably from one section to the next. The two outer movements, like two magnetic bookends, enclose and unite the five inner sections, sustaining the whole over 40 minutes of suspended time. As a guide to Beethoven's balanced pacing and structure, it is interesting to observe the approximate performance times of the movements:
I: 7 minutes
II: 3 minutes
III: 1 minute
IV: 14 minutes
V: 5½ minutes
VI: 2 minutes
VII: 7 minutes
The Quartet begins with an expansive Adagio—not a slow introduction, but a full slow movement—and with a fugue. Had anyone ever begun a string quartet with a fugue? And such a fugue: Beethoven assembled within it all the thematic material that he would use in the rest of the Quartet.
Fugues and fugal materials Beethoven had written aplenty, but opening his new String Quartet with this slow, plaintive fugue theme was ground-breaking. The Adagio tempo indication is modified by the alla breve sign, with which Beethoven confirms the music's natural forward motion. The half-step intervals of the serene fugue theme will reappear throughout the Quartet, providing one of its principal unifying elements.
At the conclusion of the first movement, on C sharp, Beethoven begins the second movement by moving swiftly and lightly a half step higher, to a D. The movement is a light, gentle scherzo, with occasional humorous outbursts.
The third movement lasts less than a minute and serves as a bridge, with dramatic cadences and a first violin flourish, to the Quartet's fourth movement and centerpiece, a theme and six variations. The theme, based on half steps, is the kernel of an increasingly elaborate set of variations. They culminate in what appears at first the seventh variation, but is, instead, a coda that leads through many mock endings before it finally finds its effortless conclusion.
The Presto movement is a wild Scherzo with two iterations of a Trio. The exceedingly quick interplay of voices is hair-raising for players and audience.
Instead of a lengthy slow movement, Beethoven creates a brief, poignantly sublime Adagio that acts as a connection to the final Allegro. The C-sharp minor Quartet closes with a seventh movement of great drama. The half-step motifs are now rapid, and alternately defiant and wistful. At the conclusion, the jagged themes and rhythms give way to a short Poco adagio, followed closely by emphatic closing chords. The fact that these are C-sharp major chords does not, in this case, indicate "happy ending," but more plausibly, triumph in the face of life's challenges.
© 2013 Sandra Hyslop
Praised for their unique, finely nuanced timbre and the engaging immediacy of their ensemble sound, the Hagen Quartet was founded in 1981 by four Hagen siblings: violinists Lukas and Angelika (whose chair has been filled by Rainer Schmidt since 1987), violist Veronika and cellist Clemens in Salzburg.
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Among other highlights of its 30th anniversary, in October 2011, the Hagen Quartet was recognized with the prestigious Echo Klassik Award for Ensemble of the Year, and in 2012, it was named Honorary Member of Vienna's Konzerthaus. The Quartet also released two acclaimed new recordings to celebrate its anniversary, both on Myrios Classics: a disc of string quartets by Beethoven, Mozart and Webern; and a pairing of Grieg's String Quartet in G minor with Brahms's Clarinet Quintet, featuring clarinetist Jörg Widmann. In June, Myrios will release an all-Beethoven disc representing the opposite ends of his quartet-composing career: Op. 18, Nos. 3 and 5 (1798-1800), and Op. 135 (1826).
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When crime victims speak about the effect violent crime has had on their lives you have to listen. On June 9th I moderated a crime victims roundtable during the 3rd Annual Restorative Justice Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina coordinated this year by Campbell University Law School. The roundtable called "Listening to Crime Victims: Their Journeys Toward Healing" was sponsored by the Journey of Hope: From Violence to Healing. The four victims of violence who told their stories were Bill Pelke, chair, Journey of Hope: From Violence to Healing (Alaska), Stephen Watt, Stephen Watt Ministries (Wyoming) , Bess Klassen-Landis, musician and teacher (Vermont), and Kim Book, executive director, Victims Voices Heard (Delaware). No matter how many crime victims panels I have moderated the stories are always riveting and often what I hear the victims say is new even when I am familiar with the stories. I learn something new as the victims move along in their lives---their own personal journeys.
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Jonathan Wienke
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April 23, 2005, 05:36:25 PM »
I use external HDs; CD/DVD is too capacity-challenged to be practical in many instances. I have an external USB enclosure with a drive dock so I can easily swap drives in and out of the enclosure. To add capacity, I simply buy an additional cheap IDE drive and a $12 dock tray to mount it in.
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Tim Gray
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April 24, 2005, 11:46:52 AM »
USB isn't the issue - I can easily remove the internal IDE drives and plug them into something else - firewire if that's what I want. The issue is what if IDE's aren't supported at some time in the future? Any technology solution will be obsolete someday but I'm happy to worry about that when the time comes. I'm not archiving for future generations - I'm only archiving for the period of time (next 20 - 25 years) when I'll give a dam if I loose the data. I tend to upgrade my hardware every 2 or 3 years - that should keep me current engough, as long as I updarade (if necessary) the archive technology at the same time.
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April 24, 2005, 06:43:00 PM »
As to the aliens...
Good thing
doesn't have a LL account otherwise he would probe you...
I'm not protecting against fire or theft since I keep them at home - #1 risk I'm managing is drive/media failure.
I've seen hard drives that have survived house fires. The electronics get fried, but it's possable for the platters to come out unscathed and the drive rebuilt. Of course you'll pay a couple grand to have the thing rebuilt from a service like
The issue is what if IDE's aren't supported at some time in the future? Any technology solution will be obsolete someday but I'm happy to worry about that when the time comes.
Luckfully IDE has been around for such a long time that I'm sure there will be a way to get the drive working one way or another for some time to come. It certainly could go obsolete, but it's not as likely to be as difficult to get going as an interface that hasn't been around as long would be.
Is there any substance to this claim or is it pure BS based on the fact that there will be no one around in 100 years to complain or complain to?
Probably BS. The question is, how did they test that if they did at all? Untill some third-party tests DVDs similar to how CD-R/RWs have been tested, DVD longevity is nothing but speculation.
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April 24, 2005, 11:19:05 PM »
I keep images on my primary desktop computer 300GB HD, and on a 300GB backup external HD, and burn to DVD. If I move the images off of HD's altogether, then I burn them to another (2nd) DVD as well.
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April 28, 2005, 08:44:36 PM »
My next HD purchase will be one of the new LaCie 1 TB units.
What, one of those big LaCie 1TB drives that are actually 4 low-quality Maxtor mechanisms in one box?
That use disk striping to increase the access speed (data is spread across all 4 disks) but at the same time quadrupling your risk of disk failure? (Loose one disk, loose them all).
One of those wouldn't be my choice of a backup medium.
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April 23, 2005, 12:13:39 PM »
My new 160GB external HD is a delight after using hundreds of CD's for image storage and never bothering to browse through to see what I might want to work on. My intent was to start with the external HD and then add a DVD writer for duplicate archiving. Now I'm wondering about just adding a second external HD duplicating the first instead of buying DVD writer.
My question regards the reliability of external HD's v. DVD's for long term archiving.
Thank you for any information.
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April 23, 2005, 12:45:07 PM »
I'll second Bob's advice -- I like HDs because they make it easy to move the data around really quickly
OTOH those aliens can be pretty resourceful.. best practice would probably be to make friends and let them keep a copy
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April 23, 2005, 06:49:22 PM »
So you keep a set of HDs in a separate physical location and rotate drives for fire safety?
(Used to that in the olden days when the only affordable way to back up was on video tape. A,B,C copies. Always one in the second locale.)
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April 24, 2005, 11:30:52 AM »
I will agree with Tim, save for one caveat: external USB drives are like any technological solution: you need to keep the solution holistic to protect against the future, and you need to evolve your backup mass storage as contemporary technology moves away from the techniques you are using today.
What does that mean?
From Part 1 Of a Backup Discussion On My Blog
USB is a wonderful thing -- but it is not guaranteed to be around forever. Even now, the move towards Firewire is gathering steam, and eventually, it is reasonable to say that something even beyond USB will overwhelm USB and eliminate it from the market.
That will not happen today, or even in the next couple of years, but it is a fact that the past is littered with orphaned and obsoleted technologies. Consider 5.25" floppies -- do you ever see a computer sold today with one included? How rare are the drives? They were state of the art in the 1980's, and lots of data was archived upon them then. Now, if you need to access the data, you will have a lot of trouble finding a computer to access the files and import them into a contemporary form.
Further, consider two obsoleted hard drive technologies: MFM and RLL. If you have a RLL drive today, you simply CANNOT mount it in a modern computer. IDE passed them a long time ago. IDE is now evolving towards SATA and I predict in ten years, an IDE drive will be orphaned by whatever has takenm over the marketplace.
Obviously, images are longer lasting than any of that. You will want to see those photos you took at Sentinel Dome in Yosemite twenty years from now. Sentinel Dome will change and you will want to remember the picture you took of the tree that's now gone, for example. I use this because I took a "past and future" photo of the dead carcass of the Jeffrey pine tree that Ansel Adams made in the 60's. It is gone now and the photograph is irreplaceable: you cannot photograph what is not there.
The same thing will happen to USB. That is why there is a need to preserve a holistic solution. For example, I have an old IBM XT computer with a 10 MB harddrive that has one of the first ehternet cards in it. The XT also has two of the aforementioned 5.25 inch drives. I use it from time to time, perhaps twice a year, to export data through the ethernet card and onto CDR for a customer. I charge $10-$20 a disk, depending on if I have to also break out old software that can 'rescue' a damaged 5.25 floppy.
People could and should have spared themselves that cost and trouble by copying their info to 3.5" floppies when they overtook the older 5.25" inch ones in the late 80's and early 90's. Then, they should have moved that data onto CDR when it more or less overwhelmed the 3.25 floppy. Data preservation is an ongoing thing, and expect today's solution to need upkeep through updating tommorow.
And for those of you who do not, I have a Pentium 4 computer already stored away with a stash of software to save your data in ten years.
Gone are the days of preserving images via their negatives in inert sleeves.
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April 24, 2005, 12:23:29 PM »
Tim, read the part about MFM and RLL drives. Trust me, I make a nice living rescuing data for people. I also backup data for a 2 billion dollar business segment for a Fortune 100 company. You are very wise to keep your computers up to date, as well as using two drives. I just wish people were more careful about backups as you are...I hear a very sad (read: expensive) story at least once a week.
And oh, by the way, don't ever drop a drive. I'll almost guarantee you a DOA drive if you drop it from waist level, on or off.
By the way, the failure rate of hard drives is a well established and very well known number: it is precisely 100% with a six sigma of 0.00 percent. :p
Finally, something else to keep in mind is that new software tends to orphan file formats over time.
Obsolete File Formats
I got a bit of a shock last night while pulling the last bits of my digital image collection into a Photoshop Elements catalog. PS Elements lets you browse to a location on disk and pull in all the image files it finds, after which you organise them as appropriate. So, I dropped a load of images into a folder and pointed PS Elements at it. It didn't find any image files it understood. What? Why not? These were images from a PhotoCD I had made years ago, and the PS Elements organiser doesn't understand the PhotoCD file format, apparently. Fortunately, the editor itself does understand the format so a batch conversion soon dealt with the problem, but it seems the writing is on the wall for the PhotoCD file format.
The morale of this story? Don't write stuff to CDs and assume that as long as you have a working CD drive you'll be able to read the contents. Periodically check that the files on your archive CDs can still be read by your current software of choice. And even if they can, keep a copy in a different format just to make sure.
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April 25, 2005, 01:22:14 PM »
The majority of hard drive failures are mechanical in nature. A drive not spinning and correctly stored is safe from all but fire, flood and theft, which realistically are the genuine threats to archival drives.
Compared to tape, hard drives are rapidly becoming a replacement option. Tape drives are exhoribitantly expensive, as are the tapes themselves. I am lucky in that I got a decent tape drive from E-Bay cheap and recovered several dozen tapes from my company when they obsoloeted a drive technology. Problem is, even with 60GB tapes, it is hard to adequately back all of my photos up -- so I use the tapes for system recoveries and for data backups where the data are not alrwady committed to another archival schema -- in other words, stuff I am working on now.
Hard drives with mechanical failure can still be retrieved. There are companies that remove the platters (the internals of the hard drive where the data are actually stored) and mount them in working drives.
Don't try this at home, since you need a clean room to ensure success. And bring your Visa card -- it ain't cheap.
OnTrack -- one of many
If that fails, for example, with a fire, the drive platters can be mounted in a scanning electron microscope and restored. This is possible, mind you, but it is beyond the means of an average photographer and is almost exclusively the provenance of criminal computer forensics.
As for the lifespan of media, this is actually testable and there are procedures for it. Add to it, the data generated by the simulations match pretty well with real-world experience. This is a routine QA check for almost any major media manufacturer.
Description of NIST Testing Protocol
The bottom line is that the prudent photographer will never have anything to worry about, and those that are not will. IDE is less troublesome than SCSI, as pointed out above, but when the industry moves away from it and the equipment using it obsoletes, it will be time to move on and not count on a grandfathered solution.
The more I think about what Tim said about online storage the more I like it. Since I am about to have a couple servers colocated, I may have to put a couple 320's in one of them and do a simple offsite mirror.
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April 27, 2005, 11:49:15 PM »
Last time I checked, recording stuff on DVD was definitely the cheapest option. I've also been worried about eventual obsolescence of the IDE HD format. Oddly enough, over the past 11 years or so that I've been doing digital photography, I've had more hard drives fail than CD discs.
As an amateur I've no doubt got a different perspective than some of you. The best of my slides taken years ago were first scanned by Kodak. It wouldn't worry me if any of those became unreadable because I rescanned them all myself some time later when I got my first scanner and realised I could do a better job than Kodak had done.
When I subsequently upgraded my scanner to a 4000dpi unit, I rescanned them yet again. I'm currently transferring stuff on older CDs to DVDs and I would expect in just a few years from now when the high definition DVD format becomes an affordable reality, that I'll transfer the whole lot to that new format.
I wonder if one can get too worried about this issue. When in Italy, at the end of each day, I burned all my RAW images on CD, with my laptop. I then worried about the possibility of my laptop getting stolen and being left with just one copy of the images, or possibly both the laptop and CDs stolen, so I started burning 2 copies of the images. I'm now in the process of transferring all those images (about 45 CDs) to DVD, which effectively means I've already got 3 copies of each RAW images before I've even started processing them.
Tim Gray
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Reply #12 on:
April 24, 2005, 12:50:08 PM »
Maybe the issue isn't the life of the media/technology - it's the narrowness of our current bandwidth. I can imagine a not too distant future where I'll pay to "vault" my images and just upload to a remote commercial site.
Robert Spoecker
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April 24, 2005, 03:49:07 PM »
I'm glad I'm old enough not to have to worry about extremely long archiving. I'm backing my raw files on Tayo Yuden DVD's. The hype is that these are archival with an "expected" life of at least 100 yrs. under "reasonable" conditions. Is there any substance to this claim or is it pure BS based on the fact that there will be no one around in 100 years to complain or complain to? I really do like 10 cents per gig for a hassle free storage option and I've experienced no glitches so far. My converted working files go on hard disk (duplicate) for easier access, etc.
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April 24, 2005, 09:03:29 PM »
Using HDs as archival storage is simply not safe enough for me. IF the drive fails, 250 gbs worth of images are gone forever. HDs are good for fast retrieval. The archival storage thing is an unresolved problem, at least in an efficient and economical way.
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April 24, 2005, 10:20:55 PM »
I'm with didger. Images on two different HDs. And two CD backups (trying to get my d### DVD burner to work).
One set of CDs is about 40 miles from here. The second set is about 250 miles away.
Remember the JFK photos what were lost on 9/11? Stuff happens. Houses burn down. Angry "next ex-wives" can wreak havoc.
But for those who don't want to mess with DVDs, how about a 'buddy system'? Keep a HD at a friend's house and keep one of theirs at yours. Do downtime backups over the net.
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April 23, 2005, 12:37:01 PM »
My advice?
External HD for convenient backup.
DVD for safe storage far from your computer/house. Gives you the theft/fire/alien abduction protection that you don't achieve with a hard drive sitting on your desk.
Tim Gray
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April 24, 2005, 08:18:21 AM »
I switched to a pair of 250 gig Seagate USBs after I noticed some of my "archive" cds starting to deteriorate - even some commercial rescue software couldn't retrieve some of the files on some of the disks - I estimate I lost about 50 images over 85 cds. I use
to keep the drives in sync. I'm not protecting against fire or theft since I keep them at home - #1 risk I'm managing is drive/media failure.
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April 24, 2005, 02:40:39 PM »
Tim, that's too far a throw. Many a company is already doing stuff like that, and even are outsourcing "disaster recovery" systems such that they have software
data stored offsite.
Seeing those firms move into the consumer marketplace is not at all a far stretch, but until then, data backup strategies that folks can depend on now are prudent. Yours makes a lot of sense, but folks with piles of CDs and nothing else are almost guaranteed to be sorry. They and the folks who are not transcoding.
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April 24, 2005, 09:44:01 PM »
IF the drive fails, 250 gbs worth of images are gone forever
No matter how you archive, you're out on a limb if you don't make two copies. I do that for my hard drive material and DVD backup. That means I actually have 4 copies of every image, two hard drive backups for converted images and two raw DVD copies.
A bit OT, but incidentally, back when we had our big earthquake here some years ago, I had a big heavy clunky 1GB external drive (at that time about max size and worth about $2000) and it fell onto bare concrete from about head level and it kept right on working. How many times could you get away with that?
If a hardrive fails and the material is important enough, you can generally have most of the data recovered, but that takes a cleanroom facility and gets very expensive. Better to do dual backups.
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Ridgway native Melissa Quattrone, 24, competed for the crown in the annual Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant this past November.
The pageant was held at the Hyatt Regency at the Pittsburgh Aiport.
"Although I didn't place in the competition, I walked away with more confidence, 61 new friends and an experience that will last a lifetime.
"I was very happy to see Amber-Joi Watkins get crowned, she deserved it."
Watkins was a previous runner-up in the competition.
The reigning Miss Pa. Goes on to compete in the televised Miss USA on NBC in April.
The contestants compete in a series of events; personal interview, and evening gown and bathing suit competitions
"Miss Pennsylvania is a weekend-long event with three separate shows for each division for public viewing," Quattrone said. "Any young female who is a Pennsylvania resident can enter. After entering there is an interview process which is based on the individual, her accomplishments, life goals, and volunteerism. Each contestant is required to be sponsored and I was fortunate enough to have a boss who believes in my interests."
Quattrone put a lot of time and dedication into preparing for this pageant.
"My plan was to go into this pageant like I was going into Miss USA," Quattrone said. "Some of the things I did to prepare myself were keeping up with current events, working with a personal trainer, finding outfits, and I had my evening gown and bathing suit made. It is really important in this pageant to reflect yourself through choices of attire.
"I really am thankful for having my family and friends there to help me out during the months of preparation."
The Miss Pennsylvania USA marked the fifth beauty pageant Quattrone has competed in. She has been interested in beauty pageants since she was a little girl.
"Most of my pageants have been recent since I was focusing on my education," Quattrone said. "During college, I competed in Miss Cameo USA twice and won the title of Miss Cameo USA 2010. Last year I competed in Miss Butler County USA where I was second runner-up."
It all started for her when she was nominated as the Homecoming Queen at Ridgway Area High School.
"Because of this, I was further nominated as a PA State finalist for America's Homecoming Queen," Quattrone said. "This was my first pageant and after that I knew it was something I wanted to keep doing."
Quattrone entered the competition in November ready to win it.
"I was not nervous at all," Quattrone said. "I wanted this for so many years and I was not letting anything, especially nerves, get in my way."
At this time she is uncertain whether she will reenter the competition.
"My friends and family think I should, but for right now, I am focusing on the present," Quattrone said.
Quattrone lives in Butler but was born and raised in Ridgway.
"I love it there," Quattrone said. "When my friends ask me where I grew up and what Ridgway is like I always explain it as Candyland compared to anywhere else. Everyone is nice, everything is homemade, and the area is beautiful.
Quattrone graduated from RAHS in 2005 and later graduated from Slippery Rock University in 2005 with a B.A. In Communications and a minor in Spanish.
She presently works as a technical recruiter for Pyramid Consulting Group.
"It is an IT Consulting/Placement firm," Quattrone said. "My focus is to place Information Technology professionals with major corporations in the Pittsburgh area. I started this position in August of 2009. My average day consists of sourcing qualified candidates that may be open to the job market and matching up their skills with the needs of our clients. Some of the clients we deal with are banks, investment firms, logistic and retail companies."
She is the daughter of Frank and Sandy Quattrone and granddaughter of Joe and Loretta Quattrone and the late Santo Dragone and Joann Dragone of Johnsonburg..
Quattrone returns to Ridgway as often as she can.
"I come back to Ridgway all of the time," Quattrone said. "I love to spend time with my family and friends."


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Revision as of 16:50, 29 May 2006Comic 34
Title: Beaver is proved right about tiny shoes
Date: December 17, 2004
Summary: The title says enough, honestly...
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Shoe Goblin
Onomatopoeias used: "APPEAR!", "TOUCH!", "STROKE.", "SHOE!"
"Fin" style: Turned "outside in"
Number of panels: 10
Panel 1
Beaver: "Hey look. It's a tiny thong."
Panel 2
Steve: "It fits!"
Beaver: "Careful Steve. No good ever came of wearing tiny thongs."
Panel 3
Steve crawls under a bed to grab the other shoe.
Panel 4
The Thong Goblin pops out of nowhere with an "APPEAR!".
Thong Goblin: "Stop!"
Steve looks alarmed.
Panel 5
The Thong Goblin "STROKE STROKE"s his thong.
Thong Goblin: "Beware! Touch not the other thong lest ye wish to recieve a thonging such as'll turn yer head inside out!"
Panel 6
Steve and the thong Goblin stare each other down.
Panel 7
Steve "TOUCH!"es the second thong.
Panel 8
Off-camera, a loud "THONG!" is heard and Beaver covers his eyes.
Panel 9
Steve reappears, head turned inside-out. Or, technically, outside-in.
Panel 10
Steve: "Hey, I think I just found the remote"
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For 60 years, Caspari has manufactured exquisitely designed and printed paper products, reproducing the works of prominent artists and museum collection motifs.
Since 1945, the company has worked with the same European printers and suppliers selected by its founder H. George Caspari.
Current owner, Douglas Stevens, and president, Lisa Milbank, "maintain Mr. Caspari's commitment to fine art and his philosophy of presenting a wide selection of designs…Caspari products are inspired by such museum collections as the Musée de l'Impression sur Étoffes, The National Gallery, and Williamsburg, as well as outstanding private collections and archives."
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A personal note from Roberta Scher, co-founder of KosherEye:
Prior to co-founding KosherEye, for almost 25 years, my retail store, Paper Parlour, was one of the leading party stores in the country, and along with many other paper goods lines, we were privileged to have been a retailer for Caspari. In my opinion the quality of the company, its products and its personnel are outstanding! The tableware designs are gorgeous, complementing any dining room setting.
We are all aware that most kosher consumers entertain more than others, due to the scarcity of restaurant choices. In addition, many Shabbos observant kosher consumers entertain weekly. For entertaining- particularly for special occasions and even at formal celebrations, I feel comfortable presenting a place setting of silver flatware, crystal goblets along with Caspari paperware. The sophisticated designs work well with most any theme. The plates are sturdy enough to carry away food from a buffet. The napkins are 3 ply, and do not shred or fade. And, one of my favorite products is the stunning placemats. These coordinating mats are useful, and decorative, and some reusable! If you are having a crowd, or just trying to save time, have no fear! Mix your Caspari dinner napkins and plates with Waterford crystal wine glasses, and your Gorham silver flatware. Don't forget the added touch of matching paper placemats, and of course the Caspari guest towels in the powder room.
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Ultrarunning is defined as running anything longer than a marathon (26.2 miles). But ultraruns are commonly 50- or 100-mile races, and are often run on trails and in mountainous terrain.
One hundred-milers don't require running that distance during training. The key is to get to the starting line fresh and injury free. Logging 50 or 60 miles a week in the six months before the race is enough. Try to include six or seven runs in excess of six hours and at least one 50-miler about two months before the race. Getting used to being on your feet for extended periods of time is important. Train wearing the equipment you plan to wear during the race, such as a fuel belt or pack that will hold water bottles and items such as nutrition bars
and blister remedies.
Only the most elite runner will run the entire course. A strong walker can rest muscle groups while losing little time. Many a walker has passed a struggling runner late in a race.
Runners should determine what food and drink works in training and then make sure that it will be at medical/supply checkpoints along the course.
Options should include water, sports drinks, energy bars, and energy gels.
cross-training using weights and
incorporating other activities, such as swimming or biking. The weight training can help maintain technique even during the late stages of a race when the miles and hours have affected pace, form, and resolve.
Even the most talented and well-conditioned runner can fall victim to the trail, the weather, and the distance. Understand that every race has elements that may be out of your control.
Most races allow pacer runners from about 50 miles on. The pacer provides company, encouragement, and protection from the often treacherous terrain through the long night.
Most average runners can meet the hundred mile challenge, given a determined commitment to develop an proper ultrarunning base, a willingness to maintain a positive attitude during training and competition, and the tenacity to endure the tough situations that always arise during a race.
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The Settlers' annual Herb and Perennials Plant Sale this Friday and Saturday will have a wide variety of herbs and plants. But you had better get to the Swinney Homestead early Friday if you want the best selection.
The sale usually attracts a large crowd, said Louise Larsen, a member who is helping to organize the sale. The historic Swinney home is located on West Jefferson Boulevard at the west edge of downtown beside Swinney Park.
Settlers members expect the sale to include several kinds of basil and sage, as well as herbs such as parsley, rosemary, thyme and oregano, Larsen said. They also will have perennials and geraniums.
A local grower raises the herbs for the sale, Larsen said.
"Last year, they were wonderful, so we are hoping they will be wonderful again," she said.
Settlers members also will offer plants ranging from flowers to shrubs and young trees dug up from their own gardens and from gardens around the Swinney Homestead.
"Those are the real treasures," Larsen said.
Sale hours will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.-noon Saturday.
Most plants will be displayed in the basement of the Swinney Homestead. Follow the signs to enter using the stairway at the back, northwest corner of the house. Because the plants will be indoors, the sale will go on rain or shine, said Larsen and Katie Bloom, Settlers president.
Proceeds from the plant sale helps the Settlers group maintain the Swinney house, which was built in 1844. The nonprofit group is dedicated to "preserving and teaching Victorian and Early American hand arts and history."
People attending the plant sale also will be able to enjoy some down-home hospitality on Friday:
•Free herbal tea, fruit punch and cookies will be served during an open house at the Swinney home.
•The Hearthstone Ensemble, a Settlers music group, will perform early Americana music.
•You can pick up goodies to take home at a bake sale in the house.
•The Settlers' Gift Shoppe, which features hand-made decorative items and other gifts, will be open for shopping.
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Does the Enzyme Monoamine Oxidase, Isoenzyme A (MAO-A) have an allosteric modulatory site? I ask because I would like to know if it is possible, in theory at least, for a positive allosteric modulator of MAO-A to be developed.
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Book DescriptionThinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has presented idealized models that have limited relevance to the hurly-burly of practical chess, or else provide little more than ad hoc suggestions. Here, experienced trainer Valeri Beim strikes a balance by explaining how to use intuition and logic together to solve tactical problems in a methodical way. He also offers advice on when it is best to calculate 'like a machine', and when it is better to rely on intuitive assessment.
Valeri Beim is a grandmaster who lives in Austria. He has won numerous tournaments and plays in the Austrian and German leagues. For many years he was the head trainer at the chess school in Odessa, and he was also the trainer of the Israeli Olympiad team.
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Guardian Small Business Award winner has been rocking the city for 85 years
When Agostino "Bimbo" Giuntoli first arrived in San Francisco from Italy in 1922, the 19-year-old found work as a janitor and then as a cook at the swanky Palace Hotel. He likely didn't think that, within 10 years, he'd be running one of the hottest Prohibition-era speakeasies in the city — where well-heeled guests came to drink, gamble, and watch a young Rita Hayworth dance in the chorus line. Even tougher to believe, most likely, would be the fact that his club is still in business, and run by his family, nearly 85 years later.
Bimbo's 365, named for its owner (whose nickname was born of a boss not knowing how to pronounce Italian) and its original address on Market Street, is one of a dwindling number of family-owned businesses in San Francisco — and at a time when other historic venues like Café du Nord are shuttering or getting a yuppified overhaul, Bimbo's seems (knock on wood) to be going strong.
"We work really hard, and we're very fortunate to be where we are," says Michael Cerchiai, who reopened the club as a live venue in 1988 after nearly two decades of it being available only as a rental for private parties. Soon after, Bimbo's served as a hub for the burgeoning swing revival of the '90s and the growing acid jazz scene. Erykah Badu played there on her first national tour, as did Fiona Apple; the last time George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars came through, Stevie Wonder showed up unannounced and sang too.
"We're a tight-knit Italian family, so it's a lot of tough love. We get things off our chest, and I think sometimes you can't do that when it's not a family-run business," says Cerchiai, who recalls going to shows with his siblings when they were small children — back when the club was black-tie only. "We had a Felix [tuxedo rental] down the street, so we'd get dressed up and check out the show, and that was a way to see our grandfather and our dad."
Michael's brother Gino, and their father, Graziano Cerchiai (Mr. Bimbo's 83-year-old son-in-law), are three of the seven staff members running the present-day Bimbo's — whose stage has most recently seen Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Flaming Lips, and the White Stripes, among others.
Says Cerchiai, "Having grown up here, loving music, it's just gratifying to see people coming out, enjoying a show, and having a good time."
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Sydney, Australia – April 27, 2010 - Ask any Supply Chain Manager and they'll quickly confirm that the modern food supply chain does not stay 'modern' for very long... New technologies are constantly being developed to help companies improve their competitive edge by reducing delivery times, shortening response times, improving efficiencies, and identifying problem areas – all with the goal of increasing profit margins for, not only themselves, but also their clients.
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The VSLC welcomes passionate and committed student leaders to pursue and raise awareness about positive social change by engaging their peers in service.
Our student leaders, volunteers, and service-learning students drive our programs, and you can be a part of that mission too. Below are some overarching categories of student involvement through the VSLC; read through them and see where you think you might fit in.
Volunteers/Service-Learning Students: Last year, 7,000 students participated in service while at ECU, totaling more than 100,000 hours of service! The VSLC is a great place to find programs, events, or other opportunities to engage in service. Potential volunteers are welcome to visit our office in Old Cafeteria Complex 1604—this is a great way to start getting involved!
Program Coordinators: Coordinators are responsible for running a specific service program, event, alternative break trip, etc. Their responsibilities include recruiting/training volunteers and working with their service site/community partner. They serve as the go-to people for connecting ECU students with specific service projects that run through the VSLC. Occasionally, when funds are available, these are paid leadership positions.
Interns: VSLC will periodically host interns and practicum students from a variety of academic programs around campus (including, but not limited to, counselor education, child development and family relations, higher education, sociology, and nutrition). Contact the VSLC staff to learn more about whether internship opportunities are currently available. Interns are typically not paid because they are receiving course credit for their work.
Professional Staff: The VSLC professional staff advises and provides oversight for all student-led programs. Students are guided by the VSLC professional staff and can seek help and advice whenever needed.
To learn more about leadership on ECU's campus, visit ecu.edu/leadership and the Center for Student Leadership and Engagement.