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Obama Inaugural Poem by Elizabeth Alexander
Posted 20 January 2009 - 01:39 PM
(Here it is, if you didn't get a chance to hear it this morning)
Posted 20 January 2009 - 02:25 PM
Ms. Alexander, 46, is the incoming chairwoman of the African-American studies department at Yale and the mother of two sons, 9 and 10. She writes often of race, gender and class, in both poetry and prose, nurtures young black poets through Cave Canem, a poetry workshop, and has been a friend of Mr. Obama for more than a decade.
Asked if she thought that the friendship played a role in her being picked for the inauguration, she said no. The Obamas have many friends and know other poets, she said.
Nice gesture to have a poet read at the inaugural.
In Japan, theyve been doing the poetry thing all along, and members of the imperial family compose their own.
Japan's imperial poetry reading ceremony, an annual tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, was held at the palace Thursday, with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko sitting quietly as court readers chanted poems evoking nature and the environment.
The solemn, pomp-filled ceremony, at which singers wearing tuxedos slowly chant poems in front of the royal family, was held at an austere palace hall and broadcast live on national television.
Posted 20 January 2009 - 03:49 PM
My favorite poetry of the day was at the end of Reverend Lowery's benediction, when he turned bluesman Big Bill Broonzy's lamentation
"If you was white, should be all right,
if you was brown, stick around,
but as you's black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back"
into the anticipation verging on celebration of
bracketing those lines with echoes from Christian scripture and then, by calling on the audience to "say amen," prompting us, as it were, to finish the poem with him.
"that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.
Posted 20 January 2009 - 04:29 PM
Her prosaic verse was a little too prosy, although I saw what she was getting at. (It didn't help that she followed the main event on the program, so a slight letdown was probably inevitable.)
Posted 20 January 2009 - 05:13 PM
Dirac, I hear your 'prosy' element, but for me that came more from her delivery than the actual text. Reading it aloud to myself, it feels quite different than hearing her speaking voice.
Posted 20 January 2009 - 06:40 PM
I thought Elizabeth Alexander's verbal delivery of her own work was terrible. Lowery would have given it a more dramatic read! Its measured, monotone recitation took much away from the redeeming qualities the poem, which I also thought was pretty bad, had, -- not the concepts in it, but how it was written. I agree with you, sandik, that reading it yourself gives the poem more clout, rhythm, and purpose than it achieved as performed this afternoon.
.....but for me that came more from her delivery than the actual text.
Posted 20 January 2009 - 07:44 PM
Posted 21 January 2009 - 01:29 AM
Good poets are not necessarily the best readers of their own works. Elizabeth Bishop's poems sound so plain and uninteresting in the recordings she made of them, but on the page... ["On the east steps, the Air Force Band in uniforms of Air Force blue is playing loud and hard..."]
Posted 21 January 2009 - 02:10 AM
I had never seen or heard of Elizabeth Alexander before and I beheld a woman of great dignity who read a serious and powerful poem which though stilted at times in content and dellivery I thought was most fitting and I was truly impressed. I hope a renewal is to take place in America and that people will remember Alexander's poem not in entirely in its words but in the statements and feelings it expressed.
Posted 21 January 2009 - 06:29 AM
Well, maybe one more thing should be on the agenda: Invite Aretha Franklin to sing some civic hymn or other so long as she promises to wear a fabulous hat! I loved that hat: a perfect, bold expression of the exuberant joy of a remarkable day.
Posted 21 January 2009 - 06:57 AM
I am also greatly impressed by this. there has been much comment about how helpful the Bush administration has been in matters of the transition, giving unprecedented security clearance and access to Obama appointees as they prepared for the new administration. I haven't watched Bush on tv much over the past 7 or so years, so I was actually shocked by how youthful and relaxed .... possiblyi, happy?! .... he appeared to be.
In what other country would an outgoing and incoming President be so friendly at the point of the exchange of roles.
I tend to agree with this. Anything that leaves the audience with the impression that "the arts" are "obligatory" and "good for you" really doesn't benefit anyone. Better for the Obamas to make one of their first White House events a serious (and nationally televised!) presentation of serious performing artists. Pablo Casals may no longer be with us but how about .... [ fill in the blank ] ?
I have very mixed feelings about attempts to incorporate art into civic ceremonies -- I appreciate the sentiment, but too often the art itself is pretty pedestrian, and in the end, just seems pasted on.
Posted 21 January 2009 - 07:40 AM
Anything that leaves the audience with the impression that "the arts" are "obligatory" and "good for you" really doesn't benefit anyone. Better for the Obamas to make one of their first White House events a serious (and nationally televised!) presentation of serious performing artists. Pablo Casals may no longer be with us but how about .... [ fill in the blank ] ?
Stimulus opportunity! Monthly Presidential performing arts broadcasts, inlcuding live HD simulcasts in movie theaters and school auditoriums, Hulu streams, and You Tube videos. Send a DVD with each Tax Refund check.
The list of potential command performers is long indeed. Although Renee Fleming is not a particular favorite of mine, she'd be a well-known and glamorous first choice to kick the series off. Nico Muhly and / or Matt Haimowitz live from Le Poisson Rouge would be fun ...
I remember a televised performance of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Heather Watts dancing something from Rubies in the East Room of the White House. (And I do hope I'm not mis-remembering!)
Posted 21 January 2009 - 10:30 AM
The peaceful transfer of power is momentous enough on its own, and simple dignity is the best expression of its grandeur.
How true. We forget how rare it is for power to be handed over peacefully in this way. At worst, the ex-President stands by with a grumpy look, but that's about as bad as it gets.
I didn't like the poem until after "noise and bramble, thorn and din," until it settled down into quiet anti-heroic images of people doing simple, real enough things. A nice antidote to the Reagan through Bush 2d years.
Good poets are not necessarily the best readers of their own works. Elizabeth Bishop's poems sound so plain and uninteresting in the recordings she made of them, but on the page...
The 'thorn and din' passage was awkward, I thought. It does improve after that. But this was a poem intended all along to be read aloud to a big crowd, so how it sounds is at least as important as how it reads.
It's true that many poets don't read their own poems very well. W.C. Williams springs to mind.
Posted 21 January 2009 - 10:43 AM
Posted 21 January 2009 - 11:06 AM
No, you are not misremembering. They performed the Rubies duet for President Carter. Patricia McBride was there, too, and danced the Act One [i]Harlequinade pas de deux with Baryshnikov; they had a coda and solos, too (the only video souvenir of that magical lullaby Balanchine choreographed for her in Act Two), and some local kids offered a few of the enchanting children's dances. I'm with you about La Fleming, but if she could help jump-start some kind of revival of the arts at the White House, more power to her.
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Does being fit or muscular help to stay in better shape as people age? I have to ask as intuition would say yes but there don't seem to be serious studies on the subject. Also, some athletes are said to end up with a bit of wear and tear early in life. There could be a point beyond which exercise and build could be detrimental.
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There are several aspects to aging, and depending on what you do will affect how you age. It's not as simple as "just be fit and you'll stay healthier". Apparently there is a book on the subject that will provide a much rounder picture than I can provide here.
Outside of these major quality of life and health concerns, proper diet and hydration affects your skin tone, fat content, blood sugar levels, etc. The sad truth is that there are no guarantees that will give you a high quality of life until you die. However, there are things you can do to increase your odds.
Depends on what you mean by "aging better". Aging has a lot of different aspects, for example the loss of health (e.g. increased cardiovascular risk), loss of physical fitness, and deterioration of physical appearance.
There is no question at all that exercise prevents age-related health problems, and there are countless studies on that subject. Here's a study showing that exercise reduces cardiovascular risk. The same is true for physical fitness: Obviously exercise helps you stay fit as you age, since that's the main purpose of exercise in the first place.
Perhaps you are more interested in the age-related effects on appearance, i.e. does exercise help us look young as we age? This is a more complex topic, since appearance is fairly hard to measure.
One part of it is wrinkles, and I would argue that staying muscular is definitely a great way to prevent body wrinkles, by keeping the skin tight. In addition, skin hydration is a big factor in preventing wrinkles and exercise keeps you and your skin hydrated by strengthening your heart and improving your blood circulation.
Another part is how "healthy" you appear in terms of your skin tone, which is also affected by cardiovascular strength (blood circulation) and as such definitely associated with exercise.
Yet other parts are your stress-resistance, energy levels and emotional stability (sort of your "behavioral appearance"), all of which may decrease with age, and all of which are significantly improved with physical exercise.
So there's no doubt that exercise slows almost every aspect of aging. Is exercise also associated with increased risk of injury? Yes, but injury is something you can control and prevent to some extent if you're smart, while the creeping effects of age-related decline are not (unless you exercise).
The "wear and tear" kind of injury is mostly associated with excessive exercise, such as running the length of one or two marathons every week of your life. It's entirely preventable by moving from low- or moderate-intensity exercise to high-intensity exercise of shorter duration. But that's a different topic.
This study/article from the Stanford School of Medicine looks at older runners over almost twenty years. It shows that:
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I need a PowerShell script which could perform the following:
- How to Back up and Content Database of a Web Application
- Restore a Content Database on a newly created Web Application
I need a PowerShell script which could perform the following:
If both web apps are in the same farm, the fastest and easiest way is to detach DB from app A and reattach DB from B.
This script should do the job (can't test by now, don't fire it blindly).
[Edit] and of course, backup the whole content database before
Using the SharePoint PowerShell console
See this MSDN article: Use Windows PowerShell to back up a Web application in SharePoint Server.
Use this command to restore a content DB:
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Kids ride free on Table Mountain Cableway this winter!
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Winter is an exciting time in the Mother City, and with school holidays upon us packing in as much fun as possible into their free days is a challenge.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Chelsea Ingersoll's two-run homer in the fifth inning wasn't enough for the Charlotte softball team who dropped a 4-2 Atlantic 10 game to Temple, Friday afternoon at the Temple Softball Stadium.
Charlotte fell to 14-12 overall and 2-2 in the A-10. Temple (11-14) improved to 3-1 in conference play.
Despite Charlotte's eight hits to Temple's four, the Niners were unable to connect hits and left seven runners on base.
The 49ers' only runs came in the fifth inning when Ingersoll hit her third home run of the series, a two-run shot with two outs over the left field wall to cut Temple's advantage to 3-2.
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Firefighters say it was too late to save a Simpson County home by the time they arrived this morning.
The homeowners reminisced about their dream home, as they watched it burn to the ground.
An 80-year-old disabled woman, a fifteen-year-old special needs girl, and her mother all escaped the fire that became visible in the master bathroom of this house this morning.
The homeowner says he left for work around 6:30, and fifteen minutes later, he received a life-changing call from his wife.
Their house was in flames, but her elderly mother and daughter were safe.
"As the entry team was attempting to force the door fire lapped out of the front wall of the house to the rear of that entry team. At that moment we had to back out and call a defensive attack," says Franklin Fire Chief Mark Halcomb.
The house was fully engulfed in flames, and fire fighters were forced to fight the blaze from the outside.
"Indications are that the fire was far more advanced than the occupants realized. The fire presented itself in or about the bathroom to them, but all indications are that we had fire well established and rapidly growing above and beyond their point of view," Chief Halcomb says.
The homeowners say they built the nearly 6,000 square foot house nine years ago, and it quickly became their labor of love.
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BP's forecasts illustrate the extent to which the North American boom, first in shale gas production and now in shale oil, has redrawn the global energy map. However, the company doesn't expect the shale revolution to spread by 2030 on any great scale to Asia or Europe.
By SELINA WILLIAMS
LONDON -- Increasing output of shale oil in North America
will put pressure on OPEC to cut its own crude production,
resulting in a global oil supply buffer on a scale not seen
since oil prices were far lower more than 10 years ago, BP said
in its annual energy forecast released on Wednesday.
BP's forecasts illustrate the extent to which the North
American boom, first in shale gas production and now in shale
oil, has redrawn the global energy map.
However, the company doesn't expect the shale revolution to
spread by 2030 on any great scale to Asia or Europe, where conditions for
investment in unconventional oil and gas fall short of those in
North America, BP said.
In the US alone,
shale oil production is expected to grow around 5 million bpd
by 2030, said BP's chief economist Christof Ruehl.
This is likely to be offset by reductions in supply from the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which has
been pumping at historical highs in recent years to compensate
for output losses in Libya due to the civil war there and more
recently to compensate for Iranian sanctions, he added.
"This will generate spare capacity of around 6 million
barrels a day, and there's a faultline if there is higher shale
[production] then the consequences would be even stronger," he
OPEC spare oil production capacity last exceeded 6 million
bpd in February 2002, when the price of US crude benchmark West
Texas Intermediate averaged just under $21/bbl, according to
data from the International Energy Agency.
But the shale revolution will remain largely a North
American phenomenon, Mr. Ruehl said.
"No other country outside the US and Canada has yet
succeeded in combining these factors to support production
growth. While we expect other regions will adapt over time to
develop their resources, by 2030 we expect North America still
to dominate production of these resources," said Mr. Ruehl.
The growth in shale oil and gas production is expected to
remain concentrated in North America over the next two decades
thanks to favorable investment conditions, technological
advances, a competitive services industry and a nimble
financial sector able to fund the large numbers of drilling
rigs required, said Mr. Ruehl.
Growing production from unconventional sources of oil,
including tight oil, oil sands and biofuels, is expected to provide all
of the net growth in global oil supply to 2020, and over 70% of
growth to 2030, the BP report said.
Increasing production from new tight oil resources will
result in the US overtaking Saudi Arabia to become the world's
largest producer of liquids in 2013. By 2030, the US will be
99% self-sufficient in net energy, compared to 70% in 2005.
This comes as major emerging economies such as China and India will become increasingly
reliant on energy imports.
Elsewhere, although there are huge shale deposits outside
North America, development of unconventionals in Europe and Asia have moved much
slower due to greater regulation, government ownership of
mineral rights, environmental concerns and a lack of
infrastructure to drill and transport gas and oil.
OPEC will be under the most pressure to 2015 when spare
capacity is expected to reach the highest levels. The group
will also feel the heat from slowing demand growth due to high
prices and increasingly efficient transport technologies, the
report said.
OPEC's market share is expected to rebound somewhat after
Global energy demand is forecast to increase at an average
of 1.6% a year to 2030, driven mostly by non-OECD countries,
with China and India accounting for more than half
of the increase, BP said.
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Correct. Water pollution is not yet well-addressed by Companies as a possible negative return. Moreover Unconventional Oil & Gas is highly water-consuming extraction activity, therefore its cost is going to increase.
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The problem is with water resources, it could be affected
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I need to remove the face of a fake drawer that is screwed from behind. Unfortunately, a kitchen sink is preventing me from using a screwdriver. There is approximatively 4cm of space. The screw head is a PZ2. Is there a tool can could help me remove this screw ?
For tight spots, they make Offset Screwdrivers.
They're manufactured by many different companies, with many different drive variations.
You can use a ratchet handle with a screwdriver bit attachment, like this:
If you have them a socket driver with the appropriate attachments is the best way, if not then you may have to improvise.
Using what you're likely to have in hand you can make a rig using a PZ2 bit and a locking pliers. You lock the pliers on the driver end of the bit, maneuver it into the gap, then use one hand to stabilize the bit and push it into the screw while you use the other to turn the bit using the pliers. Also, you can use a closed end of a combination wrench to turn the bit.
Right Angle Driver: (likely available at your local store from random manufacturers)
Here are a few solutions that are actually usable if you need to improvise. They are clearly not optimal, but it would certainly have helped me at the time I asked the question. I didn't own a multi tool back then. T he four solutions are based on Leatherman multi-tools (Sidekick and Rebar) in this specific case.
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Weinman is believed to have used Elsie Stevens, the wife of lawyer and poet Wallace Stevens, as a model. The coin's reverse depicts a fasces, symbolizing unity and strength, and an olive branch, signifying peace. By 1916, the dime, quarter, and half dollar designed by Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber had been struck for 25 years, and could be replaced by the Treasury, of which the Mint is a part, without Congressional authorization. Mint officials were under the misapprehension that the designs had to be changed, and held a competition among three sculptors, in which Barber, who had been in his position for 36 years, also took part. Weinman's designs for the dime and half dollar were selected.
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Eva Evdokimova
Posted 03 April 2009 - 01:08 PM
More details will no doubt follow.
Posted 03 April 2009 - 01:51 PM
German sources are reporting the sad news that Eva Evdokimova died in New York earlier today, aged only 59. She had been suffering from cancer.
More details will no doubt follow.
This saddens me greatly as I first got to know Evie and her mother quite closely over a two week period in 1968 at the Varna International Ballet Competition. This extraordinary shy and rather fey young girl was to become an outstanding technician and a wonderful Giselle and as La Sylphide. I ran into her and her mother all over Europe and loved the period that she spent with Festival Ballet in London where I saw her perform on many occasions. I am finding it difficult to believe she has passed from this life as I had heard many admiring remarks regarding her teaching in America where she settled after her sojourn in Europe. Evie danced with many famous partners and had a wide and successful repertoire. To me she never changed from that shy teenager I first met over 40 years ago. To sad and too soon to have think only of her in memories.
Posted 03 April 2009 - 03:06 PM
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Posted 04 April 2009 - 02:00 AM
German sources are reporting the sad news that Eva Evdokimova died in New York earlier today, aged only 59. She had been suffering from cancer.
More details will no doubt follow.
It is true that Eva Evdokimova passed away in New York in the morning of April 3. She was actually 60 years old. (Birthdate: December 1, 1948.)
As has already been said in these posts, Eva was a strikingly modest, gentle, sincere, thoughtful and generous person, in addition to being among the greatest ballerinas I have had the privilege to see perform.
It has often been said that others danced the role of the Sylphide but that Eva was the Sylphide. Like the sylph, she was playful, joyful, innocent, trusting, ethereal, and forgiving. I will never forget the image of her joyous clapping during a series of jetes--clapping out of childlike happiness and her pleasure at playing little jokes on James.
Her dancing was extraordinary--her interpretations were musical, intelligent, sensitive, and richly thought out. She told me that she adored developing a role, having time to mature in it, explore all of its possibilities and subtleties.
I was fortunate to have been able to study with Eva for seven years. Her demonstrations were in themselves a string of pearls: the beauty of her feet and legs as they worked through tendus and developpes at the barre, the delicacy and refinement of her epaulement, her extraordinary ballon, the pliancy and soft power of her sissones and other small jumps, even in her 50s. And then there was her commitment to a vision of ballet that was feminine, nuanced, refined, gracious, and well mannered. She was generous with her corrections, mild and soft-spoken in her manner, but she gave an uncompromising class. She had a will of steel and a voracious appetite for challenges and hard work, and her classes reflected the core of iron that underlay her elegant, mild, ladylike exterior.
She will be terribly, terribly missed by dancers, dancegoers, dance writers, and all the students who had the great good fortune to study with her and receive her coaching.
There are some clips of Eva in La Sylphide on YouTube. I urge readers who never got to see her dancing to watch these clips. They reveal a great deal about the person as well as the dancer.
Posted 04 April 2009 - 04:34 AM
Often in watching ballet, we can find resonance with a spiritual experience.
Great art can do this.
Spirituality exists not to simply bring comfort.
Spirituality provides the purpose for each step we have to take to build to our unified whole.
Great ballet dancers know this and accept the experience of struggle to take part in a higher artistic expression.
Posted 04 April 2009 - 07:08 AM
If I may ask -- What, exactly, was Ms. Evdokimova's main company during her career? I remember her as a fine guest with Festival Ballet in the early 1980s -- that televised Sylphide with Schaufuss as James -- but I do not seem to recall that she had a permanent home troupe.
As others have described, I also found her to be an exceptionally frail ballerina which worked to her favor in Sylphide and Giselle. I remember her as lovely but somewhat ill-looking even in her youth. Then again, the great Taglioni was often described as being exceptionally frail...the trait of an ideal Sylphide.
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Posted 04 April 2009 - 08:52 AM
May she rest in peace.
If I may ask -- What, exactly, was Ms. Evdokimova's main company during her career? I remember her as a fine guest with Festival Ballet in the early 1980s -- that televised Sylphide with Schaufuss as James -- but I do not seem to recall that she had a permanent home troupe.
As others have described, I also found her to be an exceptionally frail ballerina which worked to her favor in Sylphide and Giselle. I remember her as lovely but somewhat ill-looking even in her youth. Then again, the great Taglioni was often described as being exceptionally frail...the trait of an ideal Sylphide.
She often looked exceptional pale and with dark circles under her eyes and was quite an introverted person dedicated to her art and when younger restricted by her mother in any social life. I very much like your bringing in in the descriptive analogy with Maria Taglioni who also travelled a great deal to dance with many companies.
I am taking the advantage of your questions to add a brief biography of Eva.
Eva Evdokimova was the first American to win an international ballet competition( Varna 1970) and the first American winner of the 2005 Ulanova Prize in Moscow for selfless dedication to the art of ballet.
Eva Evdokimova a US Citizen, was born in Switzerland on December 1, 1948 was of mixed American and Bulgarian parentage. Her mother worked for the U.N., and her father, a journalist, was a stateless refugee. Her early childhood was spent in Munich where she first studied ballet. She later come to London and studied at the Royal Ballet School. At the age of 17 she joined the Royal Danish Ballet (where she was a pupil of Vera Volkova to whom she gave great credit for her abilities) dancing in the corps de ballet then in 1969 she joined Berlin Ballet as a soloist and became a principal of that company with the title of Prima Ballerina during the period from 1973 - 1985. Despite her height, Rudolf Nureyev chose her to be his partner on many occasions for more than a decade. Over the years Eva acquired an enormous repertoire covering the Romantic and 19th century Russian classics and appeared in many 20th century classics. She appeared as a guest star with the Munich Ballet, both ABT and the National Ballet of Canada and many other companies. I remember an enthusiastic review by Jack Anderson in 1983, when she appeared in New York with Nureyev and the Boston Ballet as Kitri in Don Quixote. Eva retired from dancing in 1990 variously teaching and staging ballets thereafter. and was a judge at international ballet competitons.
Posted 04 April 2009 - 09:35 AM
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The romantic era / directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Joseph Wishy ; originally conceived, produced and directed for the stage by Joseph Wishy. U.S. : ABC Video Enterprises, c1980. (90 min.) : sd., col.
Taped during the eighth annual International Cervantino Festival (Cervantes International Festival) at the Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato, Mexico, in spring 1980.
Musical direction, George Crum ; set design, Ed Wittstein ; lighting, Ralph Holmes ; written by Faubion Bowers.
Narrator: Erik Bruhn.
Danced by Eva Evdokimova with Peter Schaufuss, Ghislaine Thesmar with Michel Denard, Carla Fracci with James Urbain, and Alicia Alonso with Jorge Esquivel.
Music played by the Orchestra Sinfonic de Xalapa, conducted by George Crum.
Dance contents: Défilé / music, Chopin ; introducing the eight dancers: Eva Evdokimova with Peter Schaufuss, Ghislaine Thesmar with Michel Denard, Carla Fracci with James Urbain, and Alicia Alonso with Jorge Esquivel -- Pas de deux from Esmeralda / reconstruction and choreography, John Gilpin ; music, Cesare Pugni ; danced by Evdokimova and Schaufuss -- Pas de deux from Natalie (La laitière suisse) / reconstruction and choreography, Pierre Lacotte ; music, Adalbert Gyrowetz and Michele Enrico Carafa ; danced by Thesmar and Denard -- Pas de deux from La péri / reconstruction and choreography, Loris Gai ; music, Friedrich Burgmüller ; danced by Fracci and Urbain -- Pas de deux from the 3rd act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable / reconstruction and choreography, Alberto Méndez ; danced by Alonso and Esquivel ; introduced by Joseph Wishy. Adagio from Act II of Giselle / choreography, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, arranged by Anton Dolin ; music, Adolphe Adam ; danced in sequence by Evdokimova and Schaufuss, Thesmar and Denard, Fracci and Urbain, and Alonso and Esquivel -- Pas de quatre / reconstruction and choreography, Anton Dolin ; music, Cesare Pugni ; danced by Alonso as Taglioni, Evdokimova as Grahn, Fracci as Cerrito, and Thesmar as Grisi ; introduced by Anton Dolin.
:Alicia Alonso, Carla Fracci, Ghislaine Thesmar, and Eva Evdokimova are shown in various pas de deux from the Romantic era of 19th-century ballet, and in Anton Dolin's Pas de quatre. Interspersed is a discussion by the four ballerinas on the romantic style, and comments by Anton Dolin about his version of the Pas de quatre.
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Posted 04 April 2009 - 11:37 AM
Evdokimova's Act II Giselle is one of my favorite ballet memories. With her long neck and sloping shoulders she had the ideal Romantic line, from head to pointe.
It would have made a lovely lithograph.
Posted 04 April 2009 - 11:53 AM
I, too, mourn her passing.
Posted 04 April 2009 - 03:44 PM
RG, beside The Romantic Ballet that you cite, Evdokimova can be seen rehearsing an extended excerpt from Act II of Giselle in the documentary Bujones Winning at Varna. Those seem to be the only two commercially-available (now or recently)films in the USA. The Festival Ballet Sylphide made the rounds on US television in the early 1980s (Nickelodeon, Bravo, etc.) but was not made available commercially. Neither were some Bournonville excerpts that were televised in Denmark in the late 1960s, when she was a corps member there and can be spotted in small clusters. I would venture a guess that at least one of the several Nureyev documentaries in existence shows Evdokimova in performance and/or speaking; I just can't pinpoint it now. Finally, I cannot imagine that West German television did not feature her in many telecasts during the 1970s/80s.
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A growing number of fastball pitchers are throwing at speeds reached by only a handful of hurlers a decade ago. Why the velocity revolution hit warp speed, and what it means for baseball.
As Major League Baseball prepares to open its season Sunday, high-octane pitching is dominating the game as never before. One day it's the Cincinnati Reds' Aroldis Chapman, the"Cuban Missile," firing 103-mile-per-hour fastballs out of the bullpen. The next, starters like the Washington Nationals' Stephen Strasburg and the Tampa Bay Rays' David Price are clocking triple digits deep into games when they should be tiring.
In the 2003 season, there was only one pitcher who threw at least 25 pitches 100 mph or faster (Billy Wagner). In 2012, there were seven, according to Baseball Info Solutions.
In 2003, there were only three pitchers who threw at least 700 pitches 95 mph or better. In 2012, there were 17. There were 20 pitchers a decade ago who threw at least 25% of their fastballs 96 mph or faster. Last year there were 62, including Carter Capps, the Seattle Mariners' 22-year-old right-hander, whose average fastball travels 98.3 mph, tying him with the Royals' Kelvin Herrera for the top spot in the game.
At the same time, just a decade after performance-enhancing drugs helped power an unprecedented boom in offense, hitters are spiraling into ineptitude. Last season the game's batters struck out 36,426 times, an 18.3% increase over 2003.
"It's pretty simple," said Rick Peterson, director of pitching development for the Baltimore Orioles, who sees a direct link between strikeouts and the increase in velocity. "The harder you throw, the less time the batter has to swing and the harder it is to make contact. Everybody can square up a slow-pitch softball. A 95-mile per hour fastball is a little different."
Nearly 20% of all plate appearances last season resulted in a strikeout. In 1968, just 15.8% of plate appearances resulted in strikeouts. And that was the so-called "year of the pitcher," when the dominance of the likes of Bob Gibson and Denny McLain caused baseball to lower the mound and begin experimenting with a designated hitter.
Baseball's speed revolution is an outgrowth of a series of radical—and sometimes surprising— shifts in the way both children and adults approach the game at every level.
This isn't just about bigger, stronger athletes. In terms of the stress placed on a human body part, nothing in sports compares with what the shoulder undergoes when a top pitcher throws a fastball. The joint can rotate at roughly 7,000 degrees per second. Since a full rotation equals 360 degrees, the arm would complete nearly 20 full rotations in a single second if it were physically able.
"That's about as fast as a human joint can move, so pitchers probably won't ever throw much faster than they do now," said Glenn Fleisig, a biomedical engineer at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama and one of the leading researchers in the science of pitching. "But now you're seeing more and more pitchers every year getting close to the ceiling, so the question becomes, why?"
Part of the flamethrowing trend is a function of simple economics. The best pitchers now command some of the game's highest salaries. Being merely average is worth $11.5 million a year ( Bronson Arroyo, 12-10, 3.74 earned-run average). As a result, the game's biggest and best young athletes are gravitating toward the pitching mound.
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Then there's technology. Twenty years ago, the actual speed of a pitch was information usually reserved for scouts with clunky radar guns. Now, with more accurate laser technology, that information is on the scoreboard in every stadium and noted pitch by pitch on nearly every telecast. A decent gun can be had for less than $200 and is about the size of a hair dryer. There are iPhone apps, too: Little League dads track how hard their 9-year-olds throw. Today's flamethrowers are the first generation to be raised in a baseball culture obsessed with velocity.
It's easy to understand why. In a data-crazed era when franchises demand their scouts and executives back up every strategy and draft pick with numbers, velocity stands alone as the only statistical characteristic that doesn't depend on the quality of the opponent—as do hitting and other pitching stats. That makes it the logical place to begin any evaluation, said John Mozeliak, general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.
"At a certain speed, you're able to get away with more mistakes," Mozeliak says.
Chris Holt, a former major-leaguer who now coaches prospects at Pro Bound USA, a Florida baseball academy, says young pitchers who can't hit 90 on the radar gun don't get a serious look. "Ninety-two is the new 88," he says. "The cutoff is 90, 91 minimum."
Well aware of this obsession with measurement and velocity, young pitchers and their coaches began about 15 years ago to approach the game with a singular goal: figuring out how to throw the ball as hard as they can.
"The main reason people are throwing hard is because they see the value of getting noticed throwing harder," said Ron Wolforth, whose Texas Baseball Ranch has become one of the top destinations for aspiring fireballers. Wolforth is one of the leaders of what is fast becoming a dominant school of pitching thought. He and his disciples, who are sprinkled throughout the baseball-talent hotbeds in the American South and West, stress a free and athletic-style throwing motion that harnesses the power of the entire body, but especially the legs and core muscles. It's based partly on what Dominican and Venezuelan pitchers have been practicing for years. ("You don't get off the 'island' throwing curveballs," the saying goes; Venezuelan Bruce Rondon, a Tigers prospect, throws 104.) The philosophy puts far less emphasis, especially at the beginning, on controlled mechanics and more on learning and practicing what Holt refers to as "throwing the heck out of the baseball."
Capps, the Seattle Mariners' rising star, is a prime example of this approach. He was a catcher until his freshman year at Mount Olive College in North Carolina. He had a decent arm but wasn't much of a hitter, and the team already had an All-American catcher. Head coach Carl Lancaster suggested he try to pitch.
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"The harder you throw, the cleaner it feels," Capps said during a recent interview from spring training. "It's actually less stress on the arm, because when I'm throwing my hardest, my legs are doing all the work and my upper body is coming right through."
Although pitchers last year spent 29.1% more days on the disabled list than they did in 2003, most orthopedists blame that on overwork, not rising velocity.
At laboratories at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, orthopedists and biomechanists place dozens of sensors on pitchers and have them throw in front of a series of infrared cameras that measure their motions and turn the windup into a three-dimensional computer graphic. Then they analyze the data to try to see if all the parts of the body are synchronizing, with each of the six separate actions of the motion flowing methodically from one into the next.
"It's a kinetic chain," Fleisig said. "You rotate the hips at the right time, and then the torso and then the shoulders and then the arm and elbow."
It follows that the stronger the links of the chain are, the faster the pitch, which has led to a sea change in the way pitchers train. Gone are the days when strength and conditioning meant visiting the weight room a few days a week with an assistant football coach.
"It's about being strong in the core, the glutes [rear end], the hips and the obliques, and that's what everyone is working on," said Stephen Fealy, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery and a pitching consultant to the Major League Baseball Players Association.
Consider Dylan Bundy, the Baltimore Orioles' 20-year-old, white-hot prospect. Bundy started lifting weights when he was 10, and he threw in the high 80s in middle school. He broke 90 as a freshman in high school and had hit 100 before graduation. To build up his legs, core, arm and hands, he and his brother and father would toss tires, dig holes and refill them, push wheelbarrows full of dirt, cut down trees with an ax and split wood. He also long-tossed up to 350 feet, and still does, all in pursuit of getting stronger and maximizing velocity.
"The velocity allows you to get away with some mess-ups," Bundy says. "Who knows? I may still have a few miles per hour left in the tank."
That will likely mean more bad news for opposing hitters. To be sure, velocity isn't the only cause for their mounting futility. A recent statistical analysis of velocity and effectiveness by Frangraphs.com suggested that increased velocity may explain as little as 25% of overall pitching success. Pitchers have become better at mixing speeds and locations, too.
Sabermetrics, the data-centric approach that prizes doubles and home runs over singles and stolen bases, hasn't done hitters any favors either. It encourages them to keep swinging for the fences, even with two strikes. And just as this generation of pitchers grew up hooked on velocity, hitters in their prime today came of age in the homer-happy steroid era. The game's prevailing economic model continues to deliver that message. Prince Fielder makes nearly $24 million a year for averaging 36 home runs and 33 doubles, even though he also strikes out 121 times over 162 games.
The problem for baseball over the long term is that the strikeout is the one offensive event that hardly ever sets into motion an unpredictable result. The batter generally mopes back to the dugout. Some fans find it boring, and some purists find it lame.
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1 Oct 2012 12:25 AM #1
[4.1.1] Controller's modules load problem
If in a controller I set the model and store configs then I get a file load error with a strange path: app/controller/Main.js/model/file.js .
Then I took a look in controllers method "onClassExtended" and seems that this line is the reason of load fail:
namespace = Ext.Loader.getPrefix(className) || match[1]; // = "AppNamespace.controller.Main" || "AppNamespace";
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1 Oct 2012 3:09 AM #3
there sth wrong here ?, is there sth else to do after app generation with Sencha Cmd 181 on MacOSX 10.6.8 (besides enabling Loader) so that not to receive that loading error. To reproduce it is very simple, just generate the app and then generate a model and then try to build that app.Github https://github.com/vadimpopa
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5 Oct 2012 8:58 PM #4
Vadimv, did you find any solution?
I encountered the same problem. I am not 100% sure but this may have to do something where you put your models and views declarations. If you define them inside Ext.application everything seems to work ok but if you define them in the controller then it fails like you said.
For example you have controller Car, and model Car. If you define models: ['Car'] inside controller Car then Loader tries to load /app/controller/Car.js/model/Car.js which naturally fails. But if you define models: ['Car'] inside Ext.application then it should work.
Where we should define models and views? I would like to declare them in corresponding controller, not in Ext.application.
5 Oct 2012 10:41 PM #5
If I want to define store in corresponding controller I have to use fully qualified name
requires: ['MyCarApp.stores.Car'], stores: ['MyCarApp.stores.Car']
I am using 4.1.1a and Sencha Cmd v220.127.116.11
7 Oct 2012 11:27 PM #6
devnullable@, yes I know about all these things, my temporary solution is to take the namespace from the match[1]. I remember that in previous versions I have hadn't such issues, was just specifying app's path in Loader and everything worked, but with the new Sencha Cmd sth is working differently, which I don't know what yet.Github https://github.com/vadimpopa
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8 Oct 2012 3:43 AM #7
getPrefix function has following code:
if (paths.hasOwnProperty(className)) return className; }
I don't know what is the purpose of the shown code and why it returns fully qualified path?
8 Oct 2012 6:15 AM #8
Yes, my conclusion to this issue is that until now we set Loader paths by ourself,everything worked ok, as was bootstrap introduced and new Sencha Cmd, this line of code from controller class :
namespace = Ext.Loader.getPrefix(className) || match[1];
namespace =match[1];
onClassExtended: function(cls, data, hooks) { var className = Ext.getClassName(cls), match = className.match(/^(.*)\.controller\./), namespace, onBeforeClassCreated, requires, modules, namespaceAndModule; if (match !== null) { namespace = Ext.Loader.getPrefix(className) || match[1]; onBeforeClassCreated = hooks.onBeforeCreated; requires = []; modules = ['model', 'view', 'store']; hooks.onBeforeCreated = function(cls, data) { var i, ln, module, items, j, subLn, item; for (i = 0,ln = modules.length; i < ln; i++) { module = modules[i]; namespaceAndModule = namespace + '.' + module + '.'; items = Ext.Array.from(data[module + 's']); for (j = 0,subLn = items.length; j < subLn; j++) {Github https://github.com/vadimpopa
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9 Oct 2012 7:54 PM #9
Ext version tested:
- Ext 4.1.1a and cmd v184.108.40.206
- Chrome 22.0.1229.79
- Safari 4
- Default
- When store is defined in controller's stores property Ext.Loader fails to load store's JavaScript file because of incorrect path. When controller is named BookingSearch and store is named Bookings, Loader tries to load store's JavaScript file as app/controller/BookingSearch.js/store/Bookings.js
- Use Sencha Cmd to make new application
- Create a new controller or use the Main controller created by default
- Create a new store to app/stores folder
- Add store to controller: stores: ['Bookings']
- Run sencha app refresh to update bootstrap.js
- Load index.html in browser
- Working application
- Ext.Loader fails to load store's JavaScript file because of incorrect path
Ext.define('MyApp.controller.BookingSearch', { extend: 'Ext.app.Controller', stores: ['Bookings'] });
Possible fix:
- Ext.Loader's getPrefix function has following
- Code:
if (paths.hasOwnProperty(className)) return className; }
- Because bootstrap.js has entry for MyApp.controller.BookingSearch this code returns controller's fully qualified path instead of prefix.
- I have commented out code above and let rest of the getPrefix function to do the job correctly
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Suppose you are playing a game with a Cylon leader. He is not infiltrating. The humans reach New Caprica. Is there now no mechanic by which a Cylon Leader can infiltrate? So the only way for a Cylon leader to infiltrate is for him to already have been infiltrating when we arrived?
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That is correct; there is no way for a Cylon leader to start infiltrating while on New Caprica. (See the Unofficial FAQ at BGG)
If a Cylon leader needs the humans to win and wants to be able to help them out on New Caprica, s/he needs to be infiltrating when they get there. Otherwise, s/he won't be able to use the Human actions, which is the main way to help the humans.


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