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The Administrative Management Council is the organization through which NYU administrators – management and professional personnel – participate in University governance. Founded 40 years ago, the AMC now consists of over 200 elected representatives and alternate representatives, who advocate on behalf of all administrators on key topics such as salaries, benefits, human resources policies, and professional development. The AMC brings administrators together for professional and social networking, and organizes several community service projects duringthe year.
Attend an AMC General Meeting: All administrators are invited to our monthly meetings, with AMC updates and presentations by university leadership on major initiatives. Our spring meeting schedule is online.
Join an AMC committee or group: The AMC's committees are open to all administrators.
The AMC profiled two NYU administrators, selected completely at random. Meet Ronni and Matthew!
RONNI BAERKAHN joined NYU in September 2011 and is the Program Manager of the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Ronni hails from Long Island, NY and attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA where she earned her B.S. in Marketing. Prior to joining NYU, Ronni worked at Northeastern University's College of Business Administration where she managed customized executive education programs, graduate certificate programs, and an entrepreneurship program for women recently released from incarceration.
In her current role, she manages various aspects of the Reynolds Program. Much of her time is focused on the Changemaker Challenge (CmC), a social venture business plan competition for NYU undergraduate students. She also helps to administer the Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century Speakers Series, a series that presents prominent social entrepreneurs and leaders from across the spectrum of public and professional sectors who share their insights as cutting-edge changemakers, and the R.E.A.L Workshop Series, a new series offered in response to the demand for greater access to social entrepreneurial related content designed to support social entrepreneurs and changemakers through practical skills and knowledge bases critical to success in the field.
Ronni enjoys working for a program with such a robust social mission and finds it rewarding to support students who are dedicated to making impactful, positive change within their communities.
In her spare time, Ronni likes to travel, play tennis and experiment with gluten-free cooking. Her favorite neighborhood lunch spot is Siggy's Good Food, located on Elizabeth Street just above Houston. Ronni is looking forward to spending time with friends and family during the holidays.
MATTHEW GEE is the Associate Director of Information Technology at the Stern School of Business. Matt landed at the Stern School after travelling the world as a military "brat." Born in Sacramento, CA, Matt's father served with the U.S. Air Force, so he has lived all over, as far away as Guam.
Matt has spent half of his life at Stern. He began as a student, moved on to part-time employee and then became a full-time employee in 1986. Matt has maximized his time at NYU by earning his B.S. from Stern in Information Systems and his M.P.S in Professional Studies in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch. Matt has covered every area in Stern IT including desktop support, PC lab management, IT helpdesk, and has transitioned to newer areas such as Web Admin, Video Conferencing and digital signage.
Matt truly enjoys all aspects of working at NYU. "I love working with the constantly changing student population and the continuing changes in the field of technology. I particularly enjoy working with my colleagues, faculty and staff to help improve procedures around the school. And," says Matt, "I have seen NYU grow in buildings, in population, and in popularity!"
In his free time, Matt loves seeing movies and, no surprise, playing with all kinds of tech gadgets.
The story does not end there. According to Matt, NYU is and always will be, his second family. He met his wife while at Stern, and they have two children, a boy and a girl, ages 13 and 15. "If they can make it to NYU, our kids will come here too!"
What is professional development? Well, in a nutshell, professional development is anything that prepares you to better perform in your professional roles. Kind of vague, right? That's because professional development comes in several forms - formal, informal, incidental, group, individual, etc. - and from various sources - on the job, HR, professional studies, etc. While most professional development activities are consciously sought, there remain many moments when you're participating in such activities and don't even know it!
There are those rare occasions where professional development "just happens." Perhaps you found yourself in a business situation unfamiliar to you, one of those "sink or swim" moments. Maybe it was that presentation you were asked to make to the University Leadership Team. It could have been that time your boss was out of town for a week, leaving you in charge of the team. Sure, you experienced a lot of sweat and maybe some tears but you made it through. And now that you think about it, you actually learned a thing or two that will help you out next time.
This example of growth through "trial by fire" is a great, albeit dramatic way to illustrate incidental professional development. Less grandiose "teachable moments" are far more common and can carry the same lasting results. Then there's "casual growth," the small things you do for yourself.
Let's say you've been in your professional role for the past handful of years. With NYU's diverse and dynamic environment, the chances are great that a lot has changed in those years, be it the business culture, the technology we use, or even your office location. Yet somehow, you always have managed to keep yourself current. Maybe you squeeze in a quick professional blog reading during lunch, or perhaps you ask one of your kids to help you with an Excel spreadsheet formula just to add a little kick to that monthly report.
Such casual and informal professional development is fine, but you can't rely on luck, circumstances, or your kids to hone and expand your professional competencies. Ideally, you want to plan and structure your professional development activities.
Ok. You get it. You're "doing" professional development even if you didn't know it. So why would you want to put effort into it? Incidental growth is all well and fine but if you're like me, you know of a few definite areas within your professional repertoire that could use improvement or expansion. To meet those goals requires a plan, and following that plan takes effort. Beyond the obvious answer as to why - I have gained a new/an increase in skill X - there are several fringe benefits to structured professional development. Here are just a few of the beneficial side effects:
Engaging in professional development - taking the time and effort to add value to "Brand You" - sends a strong and positive message to those around you, your boss and colleagues alike. Not only does professional development make you better at your role, it can make you feel better, too!
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Head coach Jon Bishop has announced that Jamal Akakpo has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at the University of Saint Mary. Akakpo will join the Spires as a junior next season.
Akakpo, a 5'11 combo guard, is a transfer from Truman College where he played this past season averaging 14.5 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 steals per game as a sophomore.
"I'm very happy to get a player like Jamal. Guys like him in our basketball program help sustain the success we have had," Bishop said. "He's the type of guard that can really thrive here because of our style of play."
Akakpo joins a Saint Mary basketball program that captured the 2013 KCAC regular season championship while posting back-to-back 20-plus win seasons (25 wins in 2012 and 22 wins in 2013). The Spires have qualified for the NAIA D-II National Tournament two years in a row making the trip to Branson in 2012 and 2103.
Originally from Chicago, Akakpo graduated from perennial power Von Steuben High School before beginning his collegiate career.
While at Truman, he flourished in his sophomore season both on and off the court. He made 66 three-point shots, handed out 110 assists, and scored 20 points or more in eight different games.
"Jamal is a player that can play both guard positions even at his size," praised Bishop. "Having the ability to be effective both passing and scoring the ball is a big plus for our team when he is out on the court. Maybe the best part of his game is that he has a terrific knack of scoring in crunch time and that is something coaches just can't teach."
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WEIRTON - Two people, one of them from Chicago, were arrested Thursday during a drug raid on the Marland Heights section of Weirton.
Authorities say Anthony Eugene Polk, 25, of Chicago and Tawnya Nicole Metheny, 28, of Lindberg Way were taken into custody Thursday at Metheny's apartment.
Polk, a fugitive from justice in Illinois, is being held without bond in the Northern Regional Jail pending extradition proceedings.
Metheny, charged with possession of a controlled substance and obstruction, allegedly had a "large quantity" of heroin in her possession at the time of her arrest. She's being held at the jail on $10,000 bail.
Weirton Police Chief Bruce Marshall said Friday the drugs were packaged, so he couldn't really say how much was seized or figure its street value.
"We received information, drug information, about the residence," he said. "We went up to investigate and the arrests were a result of that investigation."
Metheny had only recently returned from the Chicago area, he said, adding Polk "had just come into town" on the return trip.
The chief said Polk, booked on a parole violation, "has a violent history," though he didn't elaborate.
Marshall credited area law enforcment personnel for their efforts in planning and executing the raid, performed in conjunction with the Weirton-Brooke-Hancock drug task force and Steubenville police.
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STEUBENVILLE — EZCare says low patient volumes are forcing the company to close its walk-in medical offices in Weirton, Steubenville and East Liverpool....
The East Liverpool one might be open until the 24th but that cannot do anything for you. I had a friend stop in because he ripped off his fingernail and they didn't even have supplies to properly clean it...so you might as well close already if you cannot properly care for people.
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Does anyone know how to change the properties of a vertex to keep 3 places after the decimal place? My problem is when I go to draw a line and snap to a point, the properties of the line I am drawing are rounding to the nearest whole number instead of keeping the correct number of decimal places and the vertex positions arent staying where I need them to stay. Is there some way to fix this in some kind of settings or options menu. In the Editor Menu - Options, I have Display measurements using 3 decimal places but when I start drawing a line, it rounds to a whole number for each vertex so every vertex is just a little off of where it needs to be.
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Apologies for posting such a simple question to mathoverflow. I've have been stuck trying to solve this problem for some time and have posted this same query to math.stackexchange (but have received no useful feedback).
I am working on problem 2.31(d) in Boyd & Vandenberghe's book on "Convex Optimization" and the question asks me to prove that the interior of a dual cone $K'$ of a convex cone $K \subseteq R^n$ is equal to the set
\[ S = { y \mid y^\top x > 0 \text{ for all } x \in \text{cl}(K) \backslash {0} }. \]
Recall that the dual cone is the set $K' = \{ y \mid y^\top x \ge 0 \text{ for all } x \in \text{cl}(K) \backslash \{0\} \}$.
Now, for a point $z \in K'$, it is easy to show that if there exists $x \in \text{cl}(K) \backslash \{0\}$ such that $z^\top x = 0$, then $z$ must lie on the boundary of $K'$.
So now I need only show that if $z \in K'$ and $z^\top x > 0$ for all $x \in \text{cl}(K) \backslash \{0\}$, then $z$ lies in the interior of $K'$. Of course this means I need to find an $\epsilon > 0$ such that for all $z' \in D(z,\epsilon)$, we have $z'^\top x > 0$ for all $x \in \text{cl}(K) \backslash \{0\}$. It's here that I am stuck.
First of all, I don't know how to find such an $\epsilon$. But even if I did, I don't know how to show that for any $z' = z + \gamma u$ with $\gamma \in (0,\epsilon)$ and $\|u\| = 1$ that
\[ z'^\top x = (z + \gamma u)^\top x > 0. \]
I am able to use the Schwartz ineq to show that
\[ z^\top x - \gamma \|x\| \le z^\top x + \gamma u^\top x. \]
But I can't prove the critical piece, that
\[ 0 < z^\top x - \gamma \|x\|. \]
One difficulty here is that because $x$ ranges over the cone $K$, its norm can be arbitrarily large. Therefore it seems unlikely to find a single $\epsilon$ which bounds the differences of the inner products ($z^\top x$ and $z'^\top x$) for all of $x$ in $K$.
On the other hand, the statement that $S$ is the interior of $K'$ seems entirely reasonable so there should be a way to prove this. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am very interested to see what mathematical technologies I am missing.
Thanks, -Ted


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Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series Blu-ray Region Free for $52 + free shipping
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BG Hell, no thanks. All that destiny nonsense, bah.
They lost me with the two-year hiatus, and mid-half-season BS. Never again.
Also, shipping is only free to the UK. USA shipping is another £3+
Complaining about £3 or a bit more for shipping from another country? That's pretty cheap.
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Worked for me....won't arrive in time for Xmas but I'll wrap a picture of it and tell him it will be a bit late. :)
Worked for me just now. Hell of a deal.
Sounds like somebody is whiny today...
fraking amazing deal!
@rickbaron: worked for me now. thanks
"The promotional code cannot be applied to your purchase."
Same as eneref, the code won't work any more.
Went through the link above and it listed at £82 and the code didn't work.
Went through a different link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_172747067_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000500353
And it showed at £44 (also shows all the boxes for which this deal is valid), and the code worked just fine.
eneref's new link worked perfectly! Thanks!
Would make a good deal for any BG fan, but the die-hards (I'd say most fans of this show are) would probably prefer the US version, which has all the extras. So you'll get a thank you, but in the back of their mind they'd wish you'd gotten the US version instead. I myself have been holding off for the US version, which I haven't seen for less than $99.95. But hey, it's the thought that counts! :)
This is an awesome deal! Same edition is $100 on Amazon.com and the US version is $140. Can't beat $52 (total).
@ckeilah: Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the hiatus because of the SAG strike?
@rantng: I recently bought all of the seasons individually for ~$20 each, plus "The Plan" for another ~$10 on Amazon.com. I'm still pleased with my purchase. If I were looking for the boxed set, I would probably still look at the US version.
Price increased to Price: £64.75 including VAT, so order total was: £53.96, or roughly $70 now.
@rantng: What's missing from this boxed set that's in the US boxed set?
@alphasite: went through the reviews again, (in an idiotic move Amazon & Amazon UK both lumped the reviews for all the box sets together) and here is what I'm able to tell:
This box set does not include "The Plan" or The Face of the Enemy Webisodes, but does have extended episodes and the uncut version of Razor.
The US version (grey box 2010 version) does have "The Plan" and the webisodes.
Razor is only available as a standalone purchase & is not available in any of the sets.
There seems to be universal agreement that the 2004 releases are to be avoided as many extras are missing and the packaging is horrible.
I will admit that I've been tempted many times over the years to purchase this, but in an amazing test of my will (I usually lose these battles), I've been able to hold off for the US version. I could live with purchasing Razor separately, but the anal retentive in me hates that the webisodes aren't available anywhere else, but in the US version.
Sorry, couldn't edit anymore. Scratch what I said about Razor being only available as a standalone & I meant to say I could live with purchasing "The Plan" separately. It's all just so confusing my mind was all twisted :-/
@rantng: Did you mean the 2009 release is to be avoided?
If the only things missing from this release are "The Plan" and "The Face of the Enemy" then I don't think it's too bad considering the price.
@alphasite: those are both on netflix anyways and only a few minutes long
@alphasite: Agreed, but now that the price is ~$72 US shipped, I'm more irked that I didn't jump on it when it was $52 shipped. :(
And now it's $104... I think I'll go cry now...
Not sure if everyone is aware, but Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome is available to watch on youtube from Machinima - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT79x4qM4FE&list=PLrFaRFw9s4G4OYkHPs0afqM_nT0jLvvPy
It's a 10-part web series prequel to Battlestar Galactica. SyFywill be airing it in February as a movie and releasing it on Blu-Ray & DVD on February 19, 2013.


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Three members of Carmi Taekwondo Center recently received black belts.
Keith Jackson, Jasmine Smith and Gia Berekashvili were each presented with a First Degree Black Belt on December 18, 2012 becoming the tenth, eleventh and twelfth to earn the rank at Carmi Taekwondo Center.
Jasmine is the daughter of Jeremy and Agnes Smith of Carmi, Gia is the son of George Berekashvili of Atlanta, GA and Valarie Berekashvili of Carmi. Keith and his wife Julie have a daughter and son and reside in Carmi.
All three have dedicated years to their Taekwondo training. Jasmine started training in September of 2009; Gia began in April of 2008 in the Pre-TKD class; Keith started his training in Carmi in July of 1986. In December 2011, over 20 years after his last test, Keith enrolled at Carmi Taekwondo Center. One year after returning to Taekwondo training Keith was ready to test for black belt.
The black belt testing requires each student to demonstrate forms, weapons drills, self-defense techniques, free sparring and board breaking techniques.
All three plan on pursuing higher levels of black belt and have the goal of becoming instructors in the future.
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An exhibition of photographs entitled City of Salt, by Nicholas Calcott, the 2011 Tierney Fellowship award recipient from the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University, will go on view May 31 at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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I should have been more specific: if there was a major ballet company touring, STG would present it, like they've presented ABT and the Bolshoi Ballet. Meany can't support the scenic requirements for the story ballets with which major companies tour. Cal Performances has presented Bolshoi, Mariinsky, and RDB at Zellerbach, and San Francisco Ballet performed a major story ballet there to end the last season they were banished from War Memorial for seismic upgrades. (I think it was "Swan Lake", the only program I didn't see that season.) STG also presented Lyon Opera Ballet. I'm sure I read at the time that they required a bigger venue than Meany, although I can't remember enough about the program to know whether this was scenery driven. (I only remember "Jardi Tancat".) I think they would have looked better on the Meany stage.
I wouldn't put either Eifman or Corella Ballet in the major category.
I see the distinction you're making here. If we're looking specifically at technical requirements, then the Paramount might edge out Meany (although Meany has a full fly loft -- I think they handled the scenic stuff for Eifman without trouble) but companies like ABT and the Bolshoi would really be better off at McCaw Hall (I remember worrying that people would fall off the stage into the orchestra pit during the Bolshoi's performance of the ballroom scene in R&J!) But McCaw isn't really available for that kind of touring rental, unless the timing works out absolutely perfectly, not to mention the implied competition with PNB. And that's when we get into the audience factor -- who goes where to see what.
But getting back to the topic (college presenters) Since I'm supposed to be working, I did some nosing around about who has what kind of facilities, and what they've got scheduled this year. Just looking at three university affiliated schools (Ohio State/Wexner Center, Krannert Center/U of Illinois, Cal Performances/UC Berkeley) there are some interesting differences in the way the market themselves as well as the kind of performances they present.
In no particular order...
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Tryon Festival Theatre
seats 979
40 x 35 stage
front curtain
Theyve got several theaters in one complex, including a 2,000 seat concert hall, but the Tryon seems to be the touring dance venue. They list dance as Movement - Bodies in Motion on their website, but they dont seem to sell a dance series, or a mixed-art series that includes dance (though they dont do that for theater either -- music is the only performing art sold in a series). Theyve got nine touring dance events on their schedule, one of which is three nights of the Moscow Festival Ballet (2 Swans and 1Beauty) They run all the performing arts venues for the school, and so list their student ensembles alongside professional touring groups.
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
Mershon Auditorium
seats nearly 2,500
60x40 stage
front curtain, orchestra pit, can convert to smaller, black box format
Lincoln Theater (outside rental)
seats 582
Theyve also got several theaters run through the Wexner Center aegis, as well as presenting in other venues. They only had two months worth of programming online today, so I cant get a sense of the whole year. They self-identify as a contemporary arts organization. For Sept/Oct they had two contemporary/modern groups, one at the Mershon and one at the Lincoln. If theyre selling series tickets, I couldnt find it mentioned on their website -- it seemed to be all about single tickets.
(tangentially, the Lincoln Theater is gobsmackingly beautiful -- go look at this link Lincoln Theater)
They seem to key some of their programming to larger, multi-event university projects -- this is an example:
Rachid Ouramdane, a superlative French choreographer and dancer of Algerian descent, has a special talent for giving voice to the lives of others while leaving audiences with a strong sense of his own particular artistic vision. This capacity is at the heart of World Fair. ..... This event is planned in conjunction with the opening of a year-long program titled A Conversation on Immigration that begins the Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society (COMPAS) initiative launched by Ohio States Center for Ethics and Human Values.
Cal Performances
Berkeley, CA
Zellerbach Hall
seats 2089
stage approx 42x44
Multiple venues, I couldnt get a handle on how many they use for dance. Zellerbach is the place theyve got big touring companies. Theyve got a huge schedule, compared to the other two presenters, and are a big player in the classical music community, which is reflected in their programming.
They do seem to have a big commitment to presenting touring ballet -- theyve had the Joffrey, Kirov, State Ballet of Georgia, Perm Ballet, Bolshoi, Farrell, and Danish companies in the last five years, along with Sylvie Guillem and Netherlands Dance Theater. Theyve also had regular performances by Ailey, Bausch, Cunningham and Morris.
and, just to compare, the venues in my home town
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts
Seattle, WA
Meany Theater
seats 1200
stage approx 70x50
orchestra pit, front curtain, trapped stage
Seattle Theater Group
Paramount Theater
seats 3,000
stage approx 85x47
orchestra pit, front curtain, trapped stage
Moore Theater
seats 1,400
stage approx 70x40
orchestra pit, front curtain
Seattle Center
McCaw Hall
seats 2,900
couldnt find stage dimensions
orchestra pit, front curtain, trapped stage
By now, I imagine most everyone has stopped reading, but I got interested in the topic and just kept compiling information...


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WACO (January 16, 2013)--"26 Weeks to Preparedness," a guide compiled by nonprofit Mercury One Waco, hopes to equip local residents with the tools to confront a natural disaster.
The information campaign involves the basic FEMA guidelines for preparing a 72-hour kit for use in emergencies, and also gives families practical information through the social media site Facebook.
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I'm currently building a wordpress plugin with some of the functionality involving being able to broadacst some thing via social media... twitter and Facebook primarily. I used to be able to use http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php to allow someone to share something on their wall without me needing to supply an App ID, but it seems this is deprecated and no longer supported, so I suspect may well become unavailable at some point. As it is a wordpress plugin, I want the functionality to be absolutely plug and play, with no need for my plugins users to register an app in order to be able to use the plugin. Is there anyway I can get a logged in FB user to be able to post something to their wall for me without me using an app?
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The Facebook share button has been deprecated in favor of the like button, so they suggest that you use that instead. You can however still use share button, and i doubt it will go offline for a while.
The reference can be fount here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/ as well as an share extension implementation for Worpress here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/
Reference for the like button is here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ if you want to give that a go instead.
The answer above links to the share documentation which requires an AppID as noted in the comments. Here's the code I am using. I found something functional and modified it. Not sure how long they'll support this, but it works for me:
Hopefully its obvious, but that snippet is using jquery to bind click to an element. Hope it will help anyone else who ends up on this page searching for what I was looking for!


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Cornell University neurobiologist Thomas Seeley will deliver the keynote address, "Honeybee Democracy," as the speaker for this year's Jack and Carol Kramer Endowed Lectureship, part of the GREAT Day activities. The lecture series is endowed by SUNY Geneseo alumni Jack and Carol Kramer, both 1976 Geneseo graduates. His address begins at 1:45 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.
Seeley has done extensive work on the behavior of honeybees and believes they can teach humans much when it comes to collective wisdom. His scientific work focuses on the internal organization of honey bee colonies and has been summarized in three books. His work addresses the phenomenon of swarm intelligence and the solving of cognitive problems by a group of individuals who pool their knowledge and process it through social interactions. Seeley earned his doctorate at Harvard and taught at Yale before returning to his hometown of Ithaca, N.Y., to continue his scientific research at Cornell.
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I have a blog hosted on blogspot.com, and I'd like to back it up.
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There is NO way that I know to do a complete backup (defined as an off-line copy that you can restore from).
You can export your post and comments via Settings > Basic > Export Blog - and this will let you re-import those posts and comments into the same or another (Blogger) blog.
You can save your template via Design > Edit HTML > Download full template - and this will let you re-import the template as it was.
You can make an offine copy using something like HHTrack: This is useful if you need to show people you blog off-line - but you cannot restore from it. Also, there are some components (Google Maps for certain, I'm not sure aobut others) that the copy will have the links to, but not the component (meaning it won't work off-line).
I don't know any way to backup the contents/settings of your gadgets (your blog-template knows where the widgets go and what type they are, but does not appear to knwo what settings they have).
You can export your blog as an XML file.
i would use a python (or xyz) script and fetch the content via the API:
def PrintAllPosts(blogger_service, blog_id): feed = blogger_service.GetFeed('/feeds/' + blog_id + '/posts/default') print feed.title.text for entry in feed.entry: print "\t" + entry.title.text print "\t" + entry.content.text print "\t" + entry.updated.text print
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Mosaic company a good corporate citizen
The Mosaic Company, a fixture in the Polk County economy, has an outsized impact on communities from Florida's Gulf Coast to the Heartland. Its phosphate mining and fertilizer production facilities are the bedrock of local economies in Polk, Hardee, Manatee and Hillsborough counties and a planned 14,000-acre mine in DeSoto County will produce
$275 million in tax and severance revenue over the life of the mine. Mining impacts on the environment from Bone Valley to the coast and the permitting and legal challenges they entail often color people's perceptions of the company and its employees. But often unnoticed in coverage and discussions of Mosaic is the philanthropic role the company plays in our communities and around the world.
This week The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy awarded Mosaic its 2013 Excellence Award in Corporate Philanthropy for its Mosaic Villages Project, which works with farmers in Guatemala, India and eight African countries to improve crop yields. It's an impressive program and a deserved honor that prompted us to take stock of the charitable efforts that company has undertaken locally.
With thanks to Mosaic's Communications Manager Kaley Miller, who coordinates most of the giving to local non-profits, we'd like to share some of the company's recent grants, donations and partnerships. It is by no means a complete list, but we think it illustrates Mosaic's sincere record of corporate citizenship.
In Polk County, Mosaic recently provided the rock trail to Bok Tower Gardens as part of its new 1.5-mile preserve trail. The material, from phosphate mines, is rich in fossil material and will add to the experience at the beautiful new trail.
At the regional level, Mosaic has partnered with the American Red Cross regional chapter since 2008, supports the Charlotte, DeSoto and Sarasota county fairs and funds hunger relief programs in central and Southwest Florida with grants to the Florida Association of Food Banks and several of its member food banks. In 2012, the company awarded grants to the Harry Chapin Food Bank for a refrigerator truck and to DeSoto's County's All Faiths Food Bank for an expansion of its mobile food cupboard.
In Charlotte County, Mosaic last year awarded a grant to the Charlotte County Homeless Coalition for new kitchen equipment and renovations at its Kennesaw Street shelter and has been an annual donor since 2005. It awarded a grant to the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program for the Charlotte Harbor Water Atlas project, and provided funding for conferences and festivals. The Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center received a Mosaic 2012 grant for its Watershed Education Program as well as annual support for its youth education programs. The Charlotte County United Way has honored Mosaic as a "Top 10 Business Partner" since 2008.
In DeSoto, Mosaic partners with the DeSoto County Chamber of Commerce, Arcadia Rodeo, and DeSoto County Education Foundation and donated to the renovation of McSwain Park in downtown Arcadia. In Sarasota County, the company is a member of the county and North Port economic development councils and is a supporter of Vision North Port. The Mosaic Company Foundation supports the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast in Osprey and awarded a grant for the expansion of Robinson Preserve. A long-time Mote Marine Laboratory partner, Mosaic supports its snook enhancement and aquaculture program and awarded a grant last year for its Sea Trek Distance Learning program.
We commend Mosaic for its generosity and community-mindedness and encourage companies of all sizes and industries to follow their lead.
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Early release program needs major reform
Critics of Connecticut's new early prison release program have been calling for it to be suspended for violent criminals and those guilty of sexual crimes, such as pedophilia. We want to make certain the public is not being needlessly exposed to rapists, arsonists and animal abusers who have been released from Connecticut prisons long before they have served their time. The state's nonpartisan, independent Office of the Victim Advocate shares our view.
The Frankie Resto case is an example of how the new early-release system has failed to protect the public. Resto, who had been released under the new program, has been charged with the murder of Meriden store owner Ibrahim Ghazal on June 27. Resto had been serving a 75-month sentence for armed robbery and was released from prison in April, almost 200 days earlier than scheduled. Prison officials were forced to release him before a "sponsor" could be confirmed for him. Why? Because the new early-release credits shortened Resto's sentence so much that he qualified for "time served" before a sponsor could be arranged. Prison officials had to release him with little to no monitoring of his activities or whereabouts.
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LOTTERY SCAM Surveillance Photos Available
- Updated: 7/17/01 10:56:25 AM
- BSO Case Number: TM01-06-3659
- PIO Number: 01-7-33
- Date: 7/17/2001
- Time: 11:00am
- Place of Occurrence: Bank Atlantic, 5600 North University Drive, Tamarac
- Mirtha Enriquez, 3/14/56, 9675 NW 28th Street, Coral Springs
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Broward Sheriff's District 7 (Tamarac) detectives are trying to track down two scoundrels who used a "lottery" scam to steal $21,000 from a 45-year-old Coral Springs woman.
Mirtha Enriquez told investigators that she was shopping at the Home Depot store located at Copans Road and I-95 when a man who called himself Raphael approached her. He asked her directions to a lawyer's office and said that he had won the lottery. He told her that since he was an illegal alien he wasn't able to cash the ticket. Just then a second suspect appeared, pretending not to know the first. He said he would be happy to help and would call the lottery office to find out how much the ticket was worth. He returned a short time later and said it was valued at $190,000. After talking it over, Enriquez and the second suspect agreed to pay Raphael $42,000 for the ticket. They would each contribute $21,000 and split the earnings.
Enriquez drove to the Bank Atlantic, located at 5600 N. University Drive in Tamarac, and was followed by the men. She entered the bank with the second suspect, who later identified himself as Roglio, and withdrew $21,000 in cash. When she returned to the car, she handed the cash to Raphael, who placed it in an envelope and taped it shut. Shortly after, one of the men claimed he felt ill and asked Enriquez to go to a nearby drugstore to pick up some medicine. Before going into the store, she asked for the envelope and it was handed to her. She made the purchase; however, when she left the store the men were gone. She checked the envelope and realized that it was identical to the one that contained the money, but inside it she found pieces of plain paper – no cash.
The suspects were Hispanic males in their mid-30's. The first, who identified himself as Raphael, was 5'8" tall, 200 pounds, moustache, wearing black pants and a blue shirt. The second suspect, who identified himself as Rogelio, was 5'6" tall, 160 pounds, wearing tan pants and a green t-shirt.
Media note: The second suspect was caught on tape inside the bank with the victim. The surveillance video not being released, however, still photos are available on the BSO website at www.sheriff.org Anyone with information is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. P Fernandez – Dist 7 (PIO: Kirk Englehardt)
Posted At: 07/17/2001 12:00 AM
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Plutocracy in action: the FAA vs. National Parks
The jaw-dropping swiftness with which the Senate responded to this week's flight delays, which were predicted as a result of sequestration, provides a perfect example of plutocracy in action. When sequestration began to affect the quality of life for frequent travelers -- an affluent segment of our society -- the Senate did all it could to take the pain away. At The New Republic, Noam Scheiber takes the Senate Democrats to task for unfairly removing the burden of sequestration on just one part of the federal government:
Try to do something about senseless gun violence and youll see tumbleweeds blowing across the Senate floor. Try to make life a bit less stressful for the average business traveler and youll have no trouble finding backup. Since the sequester forced the FAA to furlough 10 percent of its air traffic controllers this week, leading to average flight delays of roughly an hour, pretty much every senator with a mileage-club departure lounge in her state (and even some without one) had rushed to undo the cuts.
He argues that democracy can't work when the powerful don't experience any of the suffering they have caused:
But theres an even more important principle at workwhich is that, once weve decided on spending cuts, the affluent must be made to understand that they lead to an increase in suffering. If theyre too insulated from the pain, theyll be too eager to support more cuts in the future. (And by too eager I mean an eagerness to cut more than is justified by any economic rationale. Im not suggesting that cuts per se are bad.) The logic here is similar to the moral logic of a military draft: The people who sit out the fighting shouldnt labor under the delusion that wars are relatively costless, or that the costs are far-removed from their daily lives. A democracy can only function if most of us have skin in the game.
Scheiber is right on the mark. The vast majority of our current elected representatives haven't served in the military, nor have most of their children (that fact led to the only good scene from Fahrenheit 9/11). Many of them don't send their children to public schools. It seems that one of the last places where our congresspeople do something "normal" is when they board a plane.Scheiber highlights the continued cuts to programs that don't serve primarily the affluent, such as Head Start and Meals on Wheels. I would add another to that list: the National Park system, which I believe is the single best manifestation of American democracy. As someone for whom the National Park system is a part of every summer, I have been following the various parks' announcements closely. Unfortunately, I had already planned our summer vacation before sequestration happened, and I'm hoping that Wyoming's parks will be open and serviced in the ways I remember them.But I worry especially for places like northwest Montana, whose summer tourism industry relies so heavily on the thousands of visitors to Glacier National Park -- one of the greatest places on earth. When Going-to-the-sun Road is closed, or its season shortened for a few weeks on each side, it can change a year in the black to a year in the red for middle-class small businesses in the region.In other words, when the federal government cuts budgets, it's not just government jobs that get cut. A business traveler in Washington, D.C., can wait a few hours at the airport and not lose his or her job. But restaurant owners in Kalispell or Jackson might not be able to wait a few weeks and keep theirs.At the beginning of sequestration, I wrote letters to my three elected congresspeople -- all Democrats -- asking about the effects on the National Parks. None of them wrote me back. I guess they do their hiking and camping -- if at all -- on private lands owned by their friends.
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The reason we [Congress] gave the 10% types tax cuts was that they could travel to and fro, enjoying the 10% life style.. So we owe it to them not to delay their takeoff for an hour. Nothing spoils a tax free trip like sitting on those plasic seats for an hour or so in an un-paid for, subsidized airport. .
The Chicago Tribune published an editorial today on the sequestration cuts to the FAA. Headline: "The stunt pilots misread their gauges."http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-faa-201304...
I thought that with the reduction in air traffic controllers, we should just ground all of the private jets and only clear commercial carriers. My husband said that would never happen.I would also like my legislators to support the national parks. Even though I'm on the other side of the country, I think places like Grand Teton NP are national treasures and I'm happy to support them with my tax dollars, even if I don't get to see those places again .
Oh, the national parks will survive, but probably not in such a way that will make you want to visit them. For decades, a certain element in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has been agitating to commercialize Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. A grandiose plan to build an amusement park at the lakeshore's entrance was proposed. IIn an area of the country that is economically depressed even in good times, there are folks who are slavering over the idea of getting concessions to make dirt bike trails and big RV campsites lakeside. Now that the legislature is poised to declare wolves (and several other species) legitimate game for hunters, there'll be a special new draw. Throw a casino into the mix, and, hee yaw! you got yourself a destination that's going to make money for sure. But it won't be anyplace you'll want to visit.
Groups like the Sierra Club work to preserve the National Park system - I get action alerts from them that allow me to send my legislators messages on how I feel about relevant issues and bills, etc. A lot of other environmental organizations do the same.
Thank you for this thread. When I heard our federal legislators et al cryin' over delayed air flights, etc., I got out my little, itsy-bitsy violin and began playing "My heart bleeds for you, bleeds for you, bleeds for you..." And not a tear was shed!Either we ALL have skin in this game, or we solve the problem for ALL of us.No wimpin' out by our lawmakers.No, sirreee.
Negotiations in Washington:"Let's give Congress an alternative that's so dumb no one will take it.""We'll take it.""You got it. Ha ha ha.""Wait a minute. Our donors don't like part of it.""Neither do ours. OK, fix it.""Done!""Done. Now has anyone any idea what to do with that red line we drew in Syria?"An eager nation waits expectantly.
"At the beginning of sequestration, I wrote letters to my three elected congresspeople all Democrats asking about the effects on the National Parks. None of them wrote me back. I guess they do their hiking and camping if at all on private lands owned by their friends."Perhaps New York State members of Congress could go walking in Catskill Park, which is funded by NYState. No need to go to Montana.
He argues that democracy cant work when the powerful dont experience any of the suffering they have caused
Institute term limits so that many of these flabby and self-important politicians can go into the "real" world or at least the world where the impact of policies are most felt.Also, no offense to the lawyers and ivy league graduates on this blog, but diversify the representation so that it isn't just lawyers and well connected rich people who are able to access the levers of power.The house of representatives is supposed to represent "the people", the unwashed, unrefined people who used to be represented in the Catholic church (e.g. here comes everyone)
For anyone who doesn't the addresses of their members of Congress handy, here's the place to find them easily:http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
"Institute term limits so that many of these flabby and self-important politicians can go into the real world or at least the world where the impact of policies are most felt."You mean becoming lobbyists as they do already?
We have term limits in the Michigan Legislature. The power now rests in the hands of unelected aides de camp and bureaucrats. It's not a good idea.
Should the Catholic bishops make recommendations on issues such as this? To me it seems s o clear cut a case of injustice that perhaps they should speak up, either individually or as a group. I see that the new Archbishop of Canterbury is recommending that the English banks be broken up. Is that too specific a moral recommendation?I guess I'm asking this: how specific should our bishops' recommendations be? They came out strongly against segregation, and now they're speaking out on immigration. Should they take positions on some political matter that are *also* moral matters? Which ones? Where to draw the line(s)? Or should only individual bishops speak out for themselves, not the group? It seems to me that when the individual bishops have special expertise or knowledge that their opinions should be welcome. Same with other clergy persons.
For a long time, the Republican party platform looked like this: deficit cutting (so the donor class could be happy) combined with targeted give aways (agriculture being the largest, but others as well, so the working class in southern and mountain states could be happy). Then, deficit cutting took over in earnest, such that reps from states like Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Utah and South Dakota could or would no longer pull enough strings to protect THEM from the consequences of so-called deficit reduction. It must be a real shock to actually bear the policy consequences of the fire breathing crazies these states routinely send to Washington. I would say, the more consequences spread across the less than wealthy people who send these guys to Washington, the better. It's lack of consequences for insane political posturing and dishonesty about the federal subsidies all these states depend on, not absence of term limits, that has caused the current level of political dysfunction.
Ann Oliver, I would hold that the details of the sequester are too many and varied and too debatable for the bishops to take them one by one. But when they see an otherwise inert Congress bestir itself to hold the business traveler and the corporate jet owner harmless from a policy that is cutting into day care and seniors' meals on wheels, in addition to public national parks, the bishops certainly have examples to use while discussing the option for the poor if they wish to use them.And in reference to term limits, the once exemplary Florida Legislature had already begun to slip before we got term limits here. But the arrival of term limits has turned it into a laughable clown show of incompetence leavened by outright corruption. Some of the same old faces that were there when I used to up for the sessions are still there, reappearing now as senators, then as House members and then again as receptionists for lobbying firms since they theoretically are not allowed to lobby (tee-hee) during the interim years between races for various posts.
Barbara:What you say is true but there is more to it than that. The reality, not just in the US, but certainly in Canada is that there is insufficient dollars in the coffers to sustain the level of spending across the board that has historically occurred.The bottom line issue is that cutting is not popular and some constitutuent or other will feel the brunt of the burden. Where is the Solomon who will arise?As to Ann's point, ultimately the budget is a moral document insofar as it reflects our most important values. Thus, there needs to be sober reflection on our values. But this has to be done in truth. I have been to conferences in health care where the number being floated around the cost of health care by 2025 or something like that is that, at this rate, a full 70 percent of the total Ontario budget will be spent on health care. That is clearly unsustainable so the ministries are saying to all these services, you start thinking about how to reduce costs or we will. You can imagine the crisis this is causing among the bureaucrats and administrators because the guns are aimed at them (and it is only just that this occur). Yet it is these same bureaucrats and adminstrators who make decisions and asking them to commit administrative suicide is challenging to say the least.Secondly, the reality is also that there is massive waste and mismanagement in health, education, military, etc., etc. Everyone feeds at the trough so there needs to be some smart cutting and this needs to also begin with the aids, career bureacrats, etc. This can happen through attrition but many if not most of these positions are unnecessary and redundant.An aging populatation, increased burden on the public sector, are realities. Storm clouds are coming. We need to prepare and build our houses on solid rock or else the storms will destroy them.
Tom --I guess I was really just trying to ask: should the bishops speak out about moral principles affecting the middle class, and rich, for that matter? It seems to me that too adjust the sequester for the sake only of those who travel a lot (i.e., those with lots of money) is unfair to the not so well off, the middle middle class. I think it's time for the bishops to think about the shrinking of he middle class -- it is turning many people poor. Surely justice applies to them/us as well as to the poor. I fear, though, that the bishops are generally Republicans, and they, like so many Republicans, have not caught on to the gross injustices towards the middle class of the current American capitalist system. Those with jobs are working harder and producing more, but sharing in less of the rewards. That is unjust, and it's time for the clergy to speak out. No, not about specific solutions, but at least they should decry such injustice and remind those with excess funds that they *ought* to risk their funds and invest even though they don't like the risk involved. Otherwise they aren't entitled to profits.
George D --You seem to be blaming the bureaucrates and administrators for the current plight of the middle class. That makes you a dupe of the capitalists. But the main economic problem at the moment is the 7 TRILLION dollars in cash (at least that's the figure I remember) that the capitalists are NOT investing. They're sitting on it hoping it will hatch without their taking any risks. It seems to me that the small and medium sized and many large businesses do NOT have the cash to expand and hire more people. In other words, the producing businessmen are not the same subset as the capitalists who are momentarily extremely flush. The money of the captitalists quietly goes where -- to the Caymon Islands and Switzerland.The economic theorists need to figure out how to get the monied class to invest its cash in this sort of environment. And the rest of us need to start making the distinction between producing businessmen and money-flush capitalists. Sorry to sound like Karl Marx, but he did make a terribly great contribution to the science of economics -- he figured out how capitalism works, that capital is the engine of capitalism. The economists are all Marxists now in accepting that principle: money must be invested or complex economic systems cannot possibly work! I daresay that Keynes' early and explicit appreciation of that fact is what has earned him -- most unjustly -- the accusation of being anti-capitalism, even of being Communist-leaning. On the contrary, he was a capitalist through and through, but he understood that capital has to be put to work in bad times as well as good, so investing extra funds in a recession thus becomes a moral imperative as well as an economic one.


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Nutcracker choreographiesthinking of Ratmansky
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 06:12 PM
So is the Mariinsky Vainonen dvd a good one to purchase? I have heard the brand new Mariinsky version is a horrible production. What about the dancing?
I grew up on Nutcracker, like so many North American ballet fans I'm sure (I grew up in Edmonton in the 80s and ever since I was 4 I would go to see the local Alberta Ballet put on Nutcracker--a production which, at least back then, was very much a
As an adult, I find the ballet frustrating, as I think many ballet fans do. I come from the belief that the best versions of the ballet are the most traditional--although as a teenager I went through a stage where I was fascinated with all the darker, even "Freudian" modern versions of the ballet, which is probably seen at its most extreme in the Nureyev production. The belief seems to be that the music is so great, but the story completely lacking, and so many people try to go back to the original, very dark and strange, Hoffmann story. The problem is, the ballet is based on Alexandre Dumas fils' version which was popular in Russia at the time--which is a much more straightforward, children's take on the story.
Yes Tchaikovsky's music has some dark and scary undertones in Act I, but I still don't think they support attempts by Nureyev, Baryshnikov and the Soviets to make the story about something it's not. I like my Nutcracker to have a large cast of children, to have a Sugarplum Fairy and her Prince "Whooping Cough" *grin*, etc. I think this is why out of the major productions, Balanchine's is the dieal. Some balletomanes may think there are too many children, a first act which has too little dancing and a second act with too little story, and a plot that doesn't make "sense"--but to a child I think it makes perfect sense.
(One side note, I adore Tchaikovsky's music for the Grand Pas--I can never decide whether I prefer it or the Sleeping Beauty one. Yet many critics, to this day, have complained about it--wondering why it sounds so mournful in a fairly happy ballet, or others complaining that it's ALL just a series of descending notes... It does have a certain sadness to it, but I think I love that touch.)
I've always thought the original version was an attempt by Vsevolozhsky to replicate some of the success of Sleeping Beauty. In overall "formula" you can trace his scenario as an abridged version of Sleeping Beauty (abridged because it was comissioned to be performed with Tchaikovsky's one act opera Iolanthe opening the evening, even if I'm not sure how long they were performed together. Iolanthe, which is dark and moody actually, surprisingly, does make a nice contrast with Nutcracker). Droselmeyer, a "grotesque" role could be performed in some ways like Carabosse, you have a first act that tells most of the story, a second act (in this case a short *scene* and not full act) which fullfills the required "white ballet" component with the female corps performing elaborate patterns not as Naieds, or fairies, or swans, but as snowflakes, and a final act without much story that serves as a celebration with divertissement (including one for children with Mere Gignon, the way Sleeping Beauty has Hop O' My Thumb--both often dropped from productions), that ends with a Grand Pas de Deux,a final ensemble dance, and an apotheosis. Of course due to illness, Petipa didn't do the final choreography of Nutcracker, Ivanov did, but Petipa was the one who provided Tchaikovsky with his extremely detailed notes on how the music should be.
According to Wiley, the notation for Nutcracker is a mixed bag--I believe very little of the Battle of the Mice and Soldiers is notated (and I also believe it was originally performed with students recruited from the Russian military academy), and other parts are scattered. What we do have of Ivanov's production in various stagings is pretty stunning I think (elements of the Snow Flake dance which was so impressive in Russia that apparently much of the audience would move to the upper stalls just to see the intricate floor pattern, I believe originally they had *61* dancers), some of the divertissement (the Candy Canes dancing the mazurka is one--it's interesting that every production seems to change what sweet treat each country represents--as well as the original Waltz of the Flowers which involved a large central basket of flowers to be danced around), and of course the thrilling Grand Pas.
Anyway--out of the filmed versions, it's hard to find one that truly is the best. I don't like the movie (with Macauley Culkin) of Blanchine's production due to the narration and effects, and the earlier televised versions seem impossible to find, so I'm hoping we get a good broadcast of it this December.
Out of the other traditional productions on DVD, my favorite is the original 1980s Royal Ballet performance of Peter Wright's production (I like the changes he made for the current production, also filmed, much less--they seem to involve him trying once again to give the story "more coherence"). I do have issues with it--for a production that was created originally to be as close to Ivanov as possible, I don't get hy he added the backstory of the Nutcracker being Droselmeyer's nephew, at least that's the sense I get from it, he drops Mere Gignon, some of the kids are played by adults (Clara and the Prince are too old IMHO though not bad), and I think the Kingdom o Sweets set and costume designs are ugly--instead of the colours you get with Balanchine and in the photos we have of the original Russian set designs, they're all pastel pink and gold. But he did keep a lot of the original dancing, and on DVD it's danced very well. There's a great interview with Wright where he discusses this production, his later changes to the production and his productions for other countries, where he covers a lot of what he kept from Ivanov and what he didn't--it's too bad he couldn't do the full Snowflake scene, and didn't bother with other parts like the Waltz of the Flowers. The article is here in PDF: http://docs.google.c...gGV7jjdgg&pli=1
I know it's been discussed before, but I think it's a great read. So that would be my choice out of the DVDs available--but I'm very much a traditionalist, and aside from Swan Lake, Nutcracker is the one Russian ballet I wish someone would try to replicate with the original designs as much as possible even just as an experiment--it's no secret that the ballet got a very lukewarm reaction when it premiered, although it was steadily performed. (I remember either Vickharev or Lacotte spoke of trying to do a more faithful Nutcracker for a smaller Eastern European ballet company, but I can't find the quote or whether it ever was staged).
I always assumed one reason Nutcracker has such a strange history in the Soviet era was partly due to it being based around Chrsitmas, with religion looked down by the Soviet regime particularly in its early stages. I've read many productions even weren't allowed to say it was set at Christmas--but it seems that Nutcracker has always had a history in Russia--pre and post revolution--of being performed all year round, not just at Christmas.
It does surprise me that the two major Soviet productions discussed here--Grigorovich's and Vainonen's used adults for many of the roles, since Soviet ballet often kept the children's dances in other classical ballets when Western countries stopped. Both of those productions are fascinating, and hjave parts I love, but are also frustrating. Grigorovich's also has that very strange dark, and semi abstract, design by Virsaladze that looks dated now, and out of step with the ballet. Virsaladze also designed Vainonen's but more traditionally (he seemed to often do that--designing many of the Kirov traditional ballets in a more realistic style and then designing Grigorovich's in a much more stylized way). You can find the Bolshoi production on DVD for very cheap though and I think both are worth watching.
I'm not sure about the availability of Nureyev's, or Baryhnikov's (which, with ABT, used to be shown on TV when I was growing up a *lot*--it confused me as a kid to no end that the story was so different). Both are interesting if you become a Nutrcarcker completist, but like I said are not favorites of mine.
Otherwise... I'm not sure what's out there.
One question I hope someone can answer. When N Sergeyev did all those Russian ballet stagings from the notations for the Royal Ballet (back in the 30s when it was the Sadler's Wells), Nutcracker was one of them. I have the feeling it was dropped by the time they became the Royal Ballet--I know when Nureyev staged his version for them, they hadn't done it for a while. But it looks like it was an extremely traditional version (Markova danced the Sugar Plum Fairy originally). I read somewhere it was one of tehe early ballet telecasts they did. Has it survived anywhere? Recently we've seen the abridged Sleeping beauty TV broadcast they did early on, I would love to see anything from their Nutcracker.
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 01:56 PM
theo, what did you think about the grown men punching or killing the babies when they came out of Mother Gigogne's skirts? That surprised me. I still don't understand what the point was. Everything else was okay as something different. I found it fascinating, but I don't think it should be someone's first Nutcracker. There were things I liked and things I didn't like. I really didn't like the men abusing the babies. It was the main thing I really did not understand. Why would they do that in the land of sweets? It made no sense. There was a dark element to this production but harming babies is way too dark for Nutcracker, in my opinion. Or did I misinterpret this? I wish someone knew what it meant and could explain it to me.
This is from the Wikipedia description of a typical "Punch and Judy" show:
As performed currently in the UK a typical show will start with the arrival of Mr. Punch followed by the introduction of Judy. They may well kiss and dance before Judy requests Mr. Punch to look after the baby. Punch will fail to carry this task out appropriately. It is rare for Punch to hit his baby these days, but he may well sit on it in a failed attempt to "babysit", or drop it, or even let it go through a sausage machine.
Here's the link to the full, very detailed article: http://en.wikipedia..../Punch_and_Judy[/size][/font]
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:10 PM
In 2001 he directed and designed the new surrealistic-grotesque Marinsky Theatre production of The Nutcracker which proved controversial (in it, the heroine Masha and the Nutcracker Prince, now married, are presumably killed by being turned into dolls atop a wedding cake at the end, with rats nibbling at the cake and rapidly approaching the top). The Mariinsky also produces the highly popular and more traditional 1934 Vasily Vainonen production of the ballet.
I guess it was meant to be just what you saw, Bart. At least one has a choice between versions to see,
Posted 13 December 2011 - 02:12 PM
Also, as someone recently pointed out in a thread about Petipa's Harlequinade, at one point in the scenario, Harlequin is thrown off a balcony and breaks into little pieces, eventually put back together by the Good Fairy. In other versions Harlequin is thrown into a bag & beaten up...that's Commedia dell'Arte for you!
The polichinelles who beat-up the crying babies in the Chemyakin-Simonov Nutcracker are following in the 'glorious' tradition (ahum).
Posted 13 December 2011 - 06:24 PM
The Diaghilev troupe's ballet Chout ("Buffon"), by Prokofiev & Massine, is similarly derived from commedia dell'arte (via a Russian fairy tale)...and similarly brutal. In Chout's case, the leading character kills and dismembers seven wives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chout
Also, as someone recently pointed out in a thread about Petipa's Harlequinade, at one point in the scenario, Harlequin is thrown off a balcony and breaks into little pieces, eventually put back together by the Good Fairy. In other versions Harlequin is thrown into a bag & beaten up...that's Commedia dell'Arte for you!
The polichinelles who beat-up the crying babies in the Chemyakin-Simonov Nutcracker are following in the 'glorious' tradition (ahum).
I guess so. Somehow it did not seem like Commedia dell'Arte or Punch and Judy. But I guess it is derived from all that. Overall I found the Chemyakin Nutcracker fun and interesting except for that part. I didn't mind Harlequin being pulled apart and thrown off a balcony in Harliquinade even though it surprised me, but somehow punching and killing babies is too weird for me! LOL And that is funny b/c I spent 13 years in public schools and can complain about kids worse than the average person, so you would think I would like seeing them get beat up! LOL But I don't.
Posted 15 December 2011 - 12:52 PM
theo, what did you think about the grown men punching or killing the babies when they came out of Mother Gigogne's skirts? That surprised me. I still don't understand what the point was. Everything else was okay as something different. I found it fascinating, but I don't think it should be someone's first Nutcracker. There were things I liked and things I didn't like. I really didn't like the men abusing the babies. It was the main thing I really did not understand. Why would they do that in the land of sweets? It made no sense. There was a dark element to this production but harming babies is way too dark for Nutcracker, in my opinion. Or did I misinterpret this? I wish someone knew what it meant and could explain it to me.
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Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:36 PM
But the film's strongest aspect has to be Kenneth Schermerhorn's interpretation of the score and the inspired playing of the National Philharmonic. There are dozens and dozens of recordings of the complete Nutcracker, but Schermerhorn's is in a class of its own. He captured the magic, darkness, fairy tale and romantic facets of Tchaikovsky's score in all their glory. The Grand PDD (or Pas de Trois in this version) has the perfect tempo and is performed with such romantic fervor and drama that I shed tears every time I hear it. Why this performance isn't on CD is baffling. My copy of the LP set wore out long ago. But I recently bought the LP set in mint condition which is the ultimate Christmas present!
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