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Saturday, 08/06/2011
Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
Set 1: Possum, MomaThe Moma Dance > SampleSample in a Jar, LxLLimb By Limb, Ocelot, Poor Heart, On Your Way Down, Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother > Maze > Wilson > Fluffhead
Set 2: CDTChalk Dust Torture > Tweezer > CaspianPrince Caspian > Sand -> Tweezer > BOAFBirds of a Feather, Waste > Golden Age > Reba, AntelopeRun Like an Antelope[1]
Encore: SuzySuzy Greenberg > Sanity > TweepriseTweezer Reprise
[1] Lyric changed to "Mike-O Esquandolas."
· Heartbreaker tease in Wolfman's Brother
· Reba, Tweezer, Tweezer Reprise, Nellie Kane, Sand, Golden Age, and Blister in the Sun whistlings in Run Like an Antelope
· I Feel the Earth Move tease in Suzy Greenberg
Noteworthy Jams: Tweezer, Prince Caspian, Sand, Tweezer
Average Song Gap: 5.08
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Wolfman's contained Heartbreaker teases. The Antelope intro contained Reba whistling and Tweezer, Tweezer Reprise, Nellie Kane, Blister in the Sun, and Sand teases. The Antelope jam segment subsequently contained teases of Golden Age. Antelope's "Marco Esquandolas" lyric was changed to "Mike-O Esquandolas." Suzy contained an I Feel the Earth Move tease from Mike.
Official Photos
LivePhish Download
"Run Like An Antelope" Official Video
Phish.net Recap
Song Distribution:
4 A Picture of Nectar
3 The Story of the Ghost
2 Billy Breathes
2 Stash
2 Hoist
2 Lawn Boy
2 Junta
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 Joy
1 Farmhouse
1 Rift
1 The White Tape
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "2011 Late Summer Tour."
overplay aside, possum was a great opener. it featured a particularly long intro section, which led to a great release when the song proper started. as usual, the gorge crowd was bouncing all over the place immediately. treys solo was totally within the box (no curveballs like at blossom 11), but really solid. in the few shows that ive been to, it seems to usually take the band a few songs to get going, so to see them firing on all cylinders out of the gate was heartening. moma was a great follow-up to possum, featuring some major funk in the intro jam and a surprisingly energetic solo section from trey. after two songs, i wondered if the band was going to go out into left field early like they had the night before with bathtub gin and roggae.
but then came sample. i love this song. i love it so much, in fact, that i cover it regularly when i play gigs. but its one of the few songs that have fallen completely flat for me in 3.0. this version was no different (ed: the essex junction version recently piqued my interest, i have to admit). limb by limb was next, another song i havent really been terribly impressed with in the 21st century. here it sounded like trey was trying to do something different, playing around with atonality and such, but it didnt really work for me and i ended up feeling a bit like the first set might be a bit of a clunker after a great start. ocelet, though another solid version, didnt do much to convince me that this was going to be anything other than a standard rock and roll set. poor heart was a nice surprise, and pages playing made it a fun listen, but aside from the novelty of never having heard it live before, i was left hoping for something to break out of the box.
fortunately, on your way down did just that. not only was hearing the song at all a surprise, the entire band absolutely SLAYED the jam. it was a more-or-less standard blues affair, of course, but it was flawlessly played and even after a few listens is still one of my favorite parts of this show. the band seemed to build up so momentum during this song, because next up was a wolfmans that was rockier than usual, and featured (i think) a heartbreaker tease as well as a great segue into maze. much like how the 09 gorge disease finally sold me on that song, this maze made me a believer. trey does a great job here skating around a peak for a few minutes, building tension, before really ripping into it. this three-song run is easily the highlight of the first set, and maybe the highlight of the whole show, though thats not to say the second set was bad; this run of songs is just THAT GOOD.
the call for wilson next was a good one, but trey quickly botched the guitar part and the wind seemed to go out of the bands sails quickly. my first live wilson, but nothing to write home about. as trey dove into fluffhead next, i remember being surprised at how fast a tempo he set. as a result, i expected a lot more flubbage than we got. the composed section of the song was well-played, and there were a few more rock-star fireworks from trey during the outro jam. much like the first night, this opening set had a lot of great moments, a lot more solid moments, and a few legit jamming moments that seemed to belong in a second set. the boys clearly wanted to let loose like they had the night before, and as we went into setbreak, i was wondering if things would gel better in the second set, making a space for IT to happen like it had the night before.
chalkdust is a song ive always wanted to hear jammed out into space. the version on the live in brooklyn bonus disc is one of my favorite pieces of phish music ever. this hope means that every time i heard the opening of chalkdust, i know im almost certain to get disappointed by a rocking, but not spacey chalkdust. such was the case here. the second set opened with a perfectly serviceable but uninteresting chalkdust. everybody was jumping, though, and it felt like we just needed the right excuse to rage. fortunately, chalkdust segued perfectly into tweezer. this was a goddamn ROCK tweezer, but trey varied the soloing up enough that it never gets boring, and it stirred the audience up into a froth, but then the band moved with a pretty spacey transition into prince caspian. you could probably argue that this was an energy-killer, but the transition actually seemed fitting to me and the prince caspian, if anything, seemed too short. right when things seemed to be getting interesting, we jumped into sand.
which, ultimately, was fine. this was a great version of sand. one of the things that has made this song such a great jam this year is its move from a trey-rock vehicle to something more full-band-powered. after much of the show being trey-dominated, it was nice to see him step back a bit during sand and let the whole band construct something really interesting. the move back into tweezer at the end of sand, i think, broke everybodys minds. i had thought this was just a tease, but then fishman shifted the beat and suddenly we were back in tweezer. it seemed like they couldnt find anywhere to take the song after such a great transition, though, and just as quickly we were into birds of a feather. birds was a bit sloppy, but fast and so the sloppiness didnt seem like a technical disappointment, but just the sound of a band who was playing with so much energy that they were briefly sacrificing precision.
i can always handle on waste per tour. this ones a good listen. next was my first golden age, which was great because ive loved this cover ever since it was debuted. this version didnt really go anywhere interesting, but just hearing the song itself was great enough. i was expecting the set to wrap up around this point, so i was pretty surprised to hear the opening notes of reba. the NYE 95 reba is another one of my favorite phish moments, and after a nearly-flawless composed section here, the beginning movements of the jam were really similar to that version. just getting hear the spacey notes of the reba jam float out over the expanse of the gorge was one of the highlights of my entire run. the show could have ended here and id have been happy, but there was a lot more to go.
there was, of course, the antelope, which in addition to just being a great set-closing jam, featured in introduction that teased almost every song from the second set. the transition from the sand tease into antelope proper was one of those moments that just required a jumping, screaming fist-pump of joy. much of the crowd seemed to agree.
once again, i expected the show to end with the suzy greenberg encore, and when i heard the opening notes of sanity, i couldnt believe what i was hearing. it seemed a great cap to a night that had already had a lot of teases and all-around phish goofiness. i think there was a WHAT?! somewhere in there from fishman. things finally ended up with my second tweeprise at the gorge, putting the perfect exclamation point on the two night stand.
i remember thinking at the end of the show that i couldnt really imagine what else the band could do over the tahoe run to equal or top these two shows. i was afraid i might be bored, or disappointed, and that it was a weird sort of luck to see what must have been two of the better phish shows of 3.0 at the best venue in america. sure, each show had a few low points, but looked at together, they cover just about every thing you could want from phish: bluegrass, treys rock-star guitar, long space jams, fun teases, goofiness, plinko-style jamming, unexpected segues, etc., etc. what could tahoe do to top this run? well, i would find out in a few days
It was being professionally filmed, anyone know why or who by?
well played phish. though i didnt attend or hear uic yet i think everyone should get this show.
The first set is also pretty stellar. I absolutely love the On Your Way Down cover, and the Heartbreaker teases in Wolfman's are sick. I actually feel like I hear Heartbreaker teases all the time now (especially in the Sally from 8/19.) Maze>Wilson>Fluffhead to close the first set? Now that is awesome! What more can I say? I met 3 Phish virgins in the lot and accompanied them to both nights and basically showed them how to get down at a Phish show. Could not have asked for a more positive experience from my first shows at The Gorge. It absolutely rocked my face off, and I cannot wait to go back!
The first night's Rock 'n Roll->Meatstick->Boogie on is essential Phish listening. Add one of the baddest bands in the world to a premier concert venue in the middle of nowhere and this is what you get. The bottom of the world dropped out. LISTEN. NOW.
The entire second set of the second night is one of the most well constructed sets of music in their career, and I'm not saying that because I have a serious Tweezer problem (although I do). Trey really digs in and raises some raucous ruckus during several peaks during Sand. This is the perfect placement for Birds. Really emotional peak during Waste that comes as close to rivaling the 12/11/97 version as I've ever heard. Cap it all off with an Antelope that teased most of the songs that preceded it...listening to it again, it still feels like too much to ask for.
If you're on the fence about going through the hassle of going to the Gorge, do yourself a favor and listen to these shows. They are very compelling evidence.


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Skype is entering into a partnership with Telkomsel to extend the Skype software beyond computers to a range of mobile handsets, so consumers can take their Skype conversations with them on the go.
This partnership will change the way Indonesian consumers connect with friends and family abroad, or even in a nearby city or next door – Always connected while on the move, and at great value.
We'll initially make Skype available on a range of 24 Telkomsel smartphones including Samsung, Blackberry, Nokia and LG handsets, with plans to extend support to a broader base of phones (including J2ME-enabled ones) in future.
Customers with a valid Telkomsel data package can enjoy the following Skype features on supported phones:
• Enjoy unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls globally without having additional charges against your credit balance
• Send and receive free instant messages to your friends, 1 to 1 or with a group.
• Call international landlines and mobiles at great value calling rates from Skype.
• Participate in conference calls.
• Have Skype "always on" and see your friends' online status at any time.
If you're in Indonesia and you're interested in learning more about Skype™ on Telkomsel devices, please visit m.skype.com.
6 thoughts on "We're partnering with Indonesia's leading mobile operator"
diannagara said 5 years ago
i hope skype online number will be availble for Indonesia…
diafexeg said 5 years ago
I wonder, if Telkom is the only provider for Blackberry phone capable Skype.
So far Skype has been great , but having Blackberry where you MUST pay for having skype, makes either change Messenger or just change the phone. Changing messenger is must more cheaper , but still – We all do have hopes that Skype will be soon available for all Blackberry phones. At least OS7…
nseika said 5 years ago
There's no print advertisement for this cooperation so far. I've only seen them in online news channel (who could just take any news to generate hits) and not in print or the more widely reaching billboard and TV spot which Indonesian carriers usually use to promote their products for serious.
Telkomsel also put additional cost for Skype-to-Skype communication that's supposed to be free as long as there's internet data plan.
And they had history of over charging with tricky data plan full of traps (but then, all Indonesian operators do so in midst of their price war).
Happy for Skype about the cooperation, but you should keep an eye and give inputs on how they run things, lest Skype got thrown into yet just another feature in the corner beyond any attention of users.
mike.tonkin5 said 5 years ago
I am a new user of Skype and I have been trying to find out "how to delete unwanted contacts"? It is impossible to get an answer – I have never come accross such a user unfriendly web site – I cannot make contact with anyone to give me an answer. I only got here by googling Skype Management!!! What is wrong with you guys??
eaglechief said 5 years ago
This website totally sucks, can't find a thing on it….the first version was so much easier to use. Whoever designed this should be fired.
aubergemediale said 5 years ago
I post this on the "Big Blog" because it's really really important for the future of Skype:
Who did that???
Please, roll it back, it's really really ugly and a reason to stop using the program, where as the old smileys were a reason to love the program!
Smileys are communication codes, it's a super bad idea to change them anyway – you are expressing something with them.
Why would you send a smiley to another person that is ugly? To make the other person think that you are ugly, or your smile is dumb?
Please undo that ridiculous change!
Best regards

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Let D be an ample R-divisor, is the round down [mD] very ample for any sufficiently divisible number m?
I think it's true. But I do not know how to arrange an argument.
Let D be an ample R-divisor, is the round down [mD] very ample for any sufficiently divisible number m?
I think it's true. But I do not know how to arrange an argument.
I am not sure if this is the shortest proof, but I think that it is a proof.
Let $A=$ very ample line bundle. After replacing D by a multiple, you may assume that $$C=D - K_X - (n+1) A$$ is ample where $n=\dim X$.
By Angehrn and Siu, we know that $$K_X+(n+1)A + \text{(ample line bundle)}$$ is very ample.
Now $$[mD] = K_X+ (n+1) A + C + [mD] - D$$
and you just need to make sure that $[mD]+C-D$ is ample if $m\gg 0$. This is easy to check by Diophantine approximation.
Edit 3: This is my 3rd attempt to give an elementary proof. It is essentially the same proof as in Edits 1 and 2, but with some corrections, and hopefully will be clearer. I hope you see that the idea is very simple and geometrically almost obvious. If it seems complicated, then the fault is in my exposition.
Set Up: Let $D_1, \ldots, D_k$ be ample divisors and $D := \sum_j r_jD_j$ for positive real numbers $r_1, \ldots, r_k$. Also, let $D_j = \sum_{i=1}^N a_{ji} C_i$, for irreducible divisors $C_i$ and integers $a_{ji}$. We want to show that $[mD]$ is very ample for large $m$.
In the proof we will use the following fact about finite sums of integral points in a lattice:
Lemma: Let $v_1, \ldots, v_k \in \mathbb{Z}^N$ such that $\mathbb{Z}$-span of $v_j$'s equals $\mathbb{Z}^N$. Let $P$ be the convex hull (over $\mathbb{R}$) of $\lbrace 0, v_1, \ldots, v_k \rbrace$. Then there exists a positive real number $c$ such that for all $n \geq 1$, if $v \in nP \cap \mathbb{Z}^N$ such that the (Euclidean) distance of $v$ from both the origin and the boundary of $nP$ is greater than $c$, then $v$ is in fact an non-negative integral linear combination of $v_1, \ldots, v_k$.
The above statement (actually a more precise formulation of it) is due to Khovanskii. The proof is very elementary and beautiful, and is in Proposition 2 of this article.
Here starts the proof:
Step 1: Without loss of generality we may assume that $\mathbb{Z}$-span of $D_j$'s equals the $\mathbb{Z}$-span of $C_i$'s. Indeed, it follows from Kleiman's criterion, and finite dimensionality of $N_1(X)$ that for every $m \gg 1$ and $\epsilon := (\epsilon_1, \ldots, \epsilon_N) \in \lbrace 1, 0, -1 \rbrace^N$, $D_{m,\epsilon} := mD_1 + \sum_{i=1}^N\epsilon_i C_i$ is ample. Choosing different values of $\epsilon$ and $m$ and adding $D_{m,\epsilon}$'s to the collection of $D_j$'s, we may ensure that $\mathbb{Z}$-span of $D_j$'s equals the $\mathbb{Z}$-span of $C_i$'s. Moreover, and this is essential, choosing $D_{m,\epsilon}$'s to be sufficiently close to the ray generated by $D_1$, we may ensure that $D$ still lies in the interior of the cone generated by $D_j$'s, i.e. $D = \sum_{j=1}^k r_jD_j$ with each $r_j$ being a positive real number.
Step 2: For each $j$, $1 \leq j \leq k$, let $v_j := (a_{j1}, \ldots, a_{jN}) \in \mathbb{R}^N$, i.e. $v_j$ is the "coordinate" vector of $D_j$ for each $j$ (and therefore $v_j \in \mathbb{Z}^N$ for each $j$). Adding some big multiples of $D_j$'s to the existing collection of $D_j$'s if necessary, we may assume that $v := \sum r_j v_j$ is in the interior of the convex hull $P$ of $0, v_1, \ldots, v_k$.
Step 3: For each $j$, $1 \leq j \leq k$, there exists a positive integer $m_j$ such that $mD_j$ is very ample for all $m \geq m_j$. Indeed, there is $l_j, n_j$ such that $n_jD_j$ is very ample and $mD_j$ is globally generated for all $m \geq l_j$. Setting $m_j := l_j + n_j$ does the job (due to Exercise II.7.5(d) of Hartshorne).
Step 4: There exists a positive integer $m_0$ such that $m_0(D_1 + \cdots +D_k) + \sum s_jD_j$ is very ample for all collections of non-negative integers $s_1, \ldots, s_k$. Indeed, set $m_0 := \max \lbrace m_1, \ldots, m_k \rbrace$ and apply the same exercise of Hartshorne.
Step 5: Let $v, v_1, \ldots, v_k$ and $P$ be as in Step 2. Let $c$ be the constant we get from applying Khovanskii's lemma to $v_1, \ldots, v_k$. Let $v_0 := m_0(v_1 + \cdots + v_k)$, where $m_0$ is as in Step 4. Since $v$ is in the interior of $P$, it follows that if $m$ is sufficiently large, then $[mv] - v_0$ is in the interior of $mP$ and the distance of $[mv] - v_0$ from the origin and the boundary of $mP$ is bigger than $c$. Therefore, Khovanskii's lemma implies that $[mv] - v_0 = \sum a_j v_j$ for non-negative integers $a_j$. Consequently, if $m$ is sufficiently large, then
$$[mD] = m_0(D_1 + \cdots + D_0) + \sum a_j D_j$$
for non-negative integers $a_1, \ldots, a_k$. Step 4 then tells that $[mD]$ is very ample.


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I was able to crawl a table (from an external SQL database) via SP 2010 and it works great. However, I wanted to have SP crawl multiple tables from that same database and it's not happening. For some reason, it only returns results from that 1 table. I've checked the ECT settings and they have CRUD permissions on all the tables. I don't know what to do.
Any ideas?


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Woman hit by car on county Road 22A
WINTERSVILLE -A woman was flown by medical helicopter to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sunday evening after she was struck by a car on county Road 22A, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.
A trooper reported Susan U. Caniff, 55, of 311 Woodview Lane, Wintersville, was crossing the county road at Malone Drive around 6:38 p.m. Sunday when she was struck by a car driven by James B. Truax, 68, of 137 Churchman Circle, Wintersville.
The accident remains under investigation, the patrol reported.
Oven gas line causes fire
STEUBENVILLE - A gas supply line on a stove cracked and caused a fire around 3 p.m. Sunday at 449 S. Seventh St., the City Fire Department reported.
The fire department reported a person was cooking at the stove at the time and used a fire extinguisher to knock down the flames.
Firefighters responded and disconnected the gas line at the meter. Only a kitchen cabinet was damaged, the fire department.
Loose flue causes house fire
STEUBENVILLE -A flue pipe came loose on the outside of a house at 913 Merryman Ave. around 8:34 a.m. Sunday causing a fire that burned from the outside in, the City Fire Department reported.
The fire department reported the fire came inside the walls and went up into the attic. Firefighters had to cut holes in the walls to make sure the fire was extinguished.
The fire department reported it had problems with frozen hydrants, so a tanker truck from Hillndale Volunteer Fire Department was called as a precaution. Mingo Junction Fire Department also provided assistance.
The American Red Cross Jefferson County Chapter provided the family with housing assistance.
Boil order issued for Wellsburg
WELLSBURG - A 48-hour boil order was issued at 4 a.m. today for all Wellsburg water customers and those in suburban areas, including Washington Pike and White Bell Circle.
The order was issued after crews were called to repair a line break at 12th and Charles streets at about noon Sunday. The break left the city without water until early today.
A corroded part in the line is believed to have been the cause, according to officials.
Council to meet in executive session
STEUBENVILLE - City Council's finance committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in executive session to discuss personnel.
A regular council meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers.
Council calls special meeting
WELLSBURG - Wellsburg Council will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall to consider cost estimates and financing for repairs and improvements to City Hall.
Buckeye Local board to meet Friday
DILLONVALE - The Buckeye Local school board will meet in special session at 8 a.m. Friday in the administrative office, 6899 state Route 150, to place an emergency levy on the May ballot, officials said.
Wayne financial report available
BLOOMINGDALE - The Wayne Township trustees' 2012 financial report is complete and available for viewing by calling Sue Campbell, fiscal officer, at (740) 944-1482, for an appointment.


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The Black Diamond Momentum SA Harness Package features everything you need to get started climbing in the gym or out at the crags. The Momentum SA Climbing Gear Package is a complete, convenient start-up kit for new climbers.
- Momentum SA harness
- ATC belay/rappel device in assorted colors
- RockLock Screwgate carabiner
- BD chalk bag in assorted colors
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The past few weeks have tested Deutsche Bank's chief executive officer (CEO) Josef Ackermann. He unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy to become chairman of the supervisory board and police raided the bank's Frankfurt offices and legal department. While headline grabbing, these glitches are not expected to diminish his legacy of transforming the one-time commercial bank into a global banking powerhouse and steering it through the market tumult of the last five years.
Historically, German corporate law shunned the idea of an American-style chief executive and an Anglo Saxon board where executives take responsibility for their own business lines. The preferred model was a Vorstand, a statutory managing board that promoted collective responsibility. Ackermann struck a compromise, although at the time it was considered groundbreaking. He became CEO, shrank the Vortsand and created a 12-man group executive committee, which he chaired. The new structure gave the Vorstand a strategy-making role, while the group executive committee, on which Vorstand members also sit, run the bank's day-to-day operations.
He also severed long-held industrial ties, raising $5.3bn in the process, including the sale of a €1.6bn stake in Munich Re. He eliminated 14,470 jobs (18% of the workforce) and cut costs by one-third by closing retail branches and outsourcing management of the bank's computer systems and real estate, and built out the bank's US business. The Bankers Trust $10bn acquisition in 1999 was key in this regard. Although the purchase was not done on his watch (Rolf Breuer was chairman at the time), it provided a launch pad for Ackermann's global investment banking ambitions.
"In the middle of the last decade, UBS was very profitable and it was the bank that Deutsche measured itself against, but then the financial crisis happened," says Becker. Deutsche Bank weathered the storm but did not escape unscathed. Ackermann often claims that the bank did not need a government injection of capital, but critics note that in fact the bank (along with others) received the equivalent of a back-door bailout from American taxpayers when the US government intervened to prevent the insurer American International Group from collapsing.
Moreover, the bank faces litigation in the US tied to residential mortgages and in Germany regarding the mis-selling of complex financial products to municipalities. Separately, Ackermann himself is also embroiled in legal wranglings involving a former client, the late Leo Kirsch, and in early November 2011 prosecutors raided the bank's offices looking for evidence of attempts to mislead the court.
Overall though, Ackermann has won plaudits for the way he has navigated the bank through extremely choppy waters over the past three years. Not everyone has been as happy. "The market capitalisation has more than halved since Ackermann and this has left a bitter taste in shareholder's mouths," says Michael Rohr, an analyst at Sylvia Quandt Research GmbH in Frankfurt, with the caveat: "This has more to do with market conditions. Ackermann has had a strategic vision to transition the bank into a more stable business and has done a very good job with its risk management."
Recent strategy involves a retreat from the investment banking business which contributes roughly 70% of the group's total pre-tax profit and a return to commercial banking, retail and private banking. Strategic acquisitions are also on the agenda, among them Deutsche Postbank and Sal Oppenheim, Germany's largest private bank. The bank is now expected to divest its asset management division— except for its profitable DWS retail franchise in Europe and Asia. A sale could raise $4.5bn which would improve the bank's capital position in light of impending regulation.
The strategy is widely regarded as being driven by CEO-in-waiting Anshu Jain who, together with Jürgen Fitschen, will run the bank starting next May. Even so, Ackermann was not supposed to take a back seat in 2012; but now it looks as if he will retire. He was likely caught out by German law, which holds that a chief executive of a listed company may not become its chairman without a two-year cooling-off period, unless 25% of shareholders endorse the move. In a fickle move of fate, Ackermann may not have received the support he anticipated and was put in an untenable position. Paul Achleitner, currently chief financial officer of insurer Allianz, is now mooted as the next chairman.


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Let's say I make a spaghetti-and-meatball supper, and I made the spaghetti an hour or so before the meal. What's the best way to keep it fresh and warm until we're ready to eat?
The technique that many restaurants will use is to prepare the pasta ahead of time and store it in or on ice water. The chilled pasta may be then submerged briefly in boiling water and served.
You don't want to keep it warm -- that will lead to it steaming itself and overcooking. You need to get it cold and reasonably dry as quickly as possible so that it will stop absorbing water for the hour that it is sitting around, then reheat it quickly at the last minute.
Undercook the pasta slightly -- by somewhere between two and one minutes -- so that it is not crunchy anymore, but is extremely chewy. Pull it out, saving the hot water, and plunge it into as large a quantity of ice water as you can collect. As soon as the pasta is cold, pull it out of that water, too.
The surface of the pasta will still be covered in wet starch, which will cause all the pieces to start sticking together as they sit. To avoid this, toss the pasta with a little oil (it doesn't matter what kind you use, because you're going to wash it off later), so that all the pieces are coated. You can keep the pasta out on the counter if you're going to use it soon,* and you may want to cover it. When you are ready to eat, bring that cooking water back to a boil, and drop the pasta in. It will take a bit more than the subtracted minute to finish cooking; it depends on how quickly you cooled it down, how thick it is, how much you dried it off, how cold it is when you drop it back into the water, ... as always, tasting it is the only way to tell if it's done.
If you do put it in the fridge, it should be reusable for at least a couple of days.
I'm not sure why you want to cook your pasta ahead of time, but if your idea is to shorten the last-minute step of getting the pasta fully cooked, you should look into pre-soaking the pasta, a totally
*Food-safety-minded people would say you need to refrigerate it if you're going to keep it for more than two hours.
I'd throw some olive oil or butter over it and keep it gently heated over a double boiler. Alton Brown might use an electric blanket instead.
Still, it's always best to make pasta just in time. Just keep the water hot and throw in at the end.
As Kyri says, make the pasta just in time (JIT). But if you can't, you should refresh the pasta either by placing it under running cold water (not ideal) or in a cold Bain Marie with olive oil or butter. Once cold and still loose, you can keep it in the fridge for a day or two.
To reheat, add olive oil or butter to a skillet and when that's hot, add the pasta. Stir until it's warm. Add warm 'salsa' to the pasta in the skillet and mix.
I'd have to agree that olive oil on the pasta after it's cooked keeps it unclumped. A lot of people might say to cook with the olive oil, but if you keep it in the colander and toss the oil it will keep for awhile. The best thing to do is make the sauce and meatballs first, cooking the pasta at the very end. With most sauces, if you let them simmer awhile, you'll get a nice flavor, so you can keep the sauce on low while finishing with the pasta
You can slightly undercook the pasta beforehand and before serving finish cooking by adding it to the sauce.


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News and Events Archives
Monday, January 12, 2009
(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- Bruce Boyer, controller and CFO for Columbia College, has been appointed to the Annual Meeting Program Committee of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers (CACUBO). CACUBO is a nonprofit association representing chief business officers at more than 700 institutions throughout the north central region of the United States. The association promotes sound principles and practices of educational business administration through both professional development programs and concerted actions in matters affecting the financial health of institutions of higher learning.
The primary objective of CACUBO is to plan, provide and encourage professional personal development for all levels of management in the business and financial areas of higher education. Boyer's contributions to the association will assist CACUBO in reaching its goals and objectives.
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The 8 Least-Threatening Comic Book Villains
Let' face it: all the really good ideas for comic book villains were taken by, oh, around 1942. The writers have just been scraping the sides of the jar since then.
As proof we offer these villains who, in real life, couldn't frighten a gazelle.
#8. The Penguin From Batman
Threat Issues:
The Penguin is a pudgy man dressed in evening wear who likes birds and has the power to disguise weapons as umbrellas. Obviously, liking birds isn't frightening or even illegal, unless it involved liking birds in a carnal way, which he doesn't. That leaves us with umbrellas.
So, here's a typical Penguin encounter with basic sports-stadium security:
Security: Sir, can I ask you to step aside?
Penguin: (pretends not to notice)
Security: Sir. In the top hat and monocle.
Penguin: Oh, my, dear fellow, are you talking to me?
Security: Yes, sir. Can I take a look at your umbrella?
Penguin: Oh, this? Why, it's just an ordinary umbrella. A fellow can bring an umbrella with him on an outing, can't he?
Security: The sky is completely clear and it's 90 degrees, sir.
Penguin: Well, yes, I know, this is just an old man's foible, you see, and-
Security: Sir.
Penguin: Yes?
Security: Sir, you're clearly the Penguin, and I-
Penguin: (shocked) How did you know?
Security: ... you're clearly the Penguin, and I can't let you bring an umbrella in here.
Penguin: Son of a bitch.
How To Make Him More Threatening:
We're not going to go the easy route and just replace "penguin" with "velociraptor." No, we want to stick to the creator' original vision as closely as possible. So let' go with another flightless bird, the turkey. Turkeys have those dangerous talons and can continue living with their heads cut off.
Oh, hey, there you go. The Headless Turkey. Picture that, this man-sized thing, standing there pointing a gun at you, with a ragged hole where its head was. You don't even know what the thing wants because it can't talk. It just stands there gesturing with the gun, while little spurts of blood jet softly from its open neck. OK, that' terrifying. Let' move on.
#7. The Riddler from Batman
Threat Issues:
The Riddler, like the average Batman villain, employs a gang and carries out crimes ranging from your ordinary bank robbery to rigging the city with bombs that explode according to some inexplicably convoluted theme. All he has going for him is the "riddling"-meaning that he seems to have some kind of psychological compulsion to leave behind clues at every crime that would get him caught, even if the cops turned the investigation over to a class of third-graders.
The only way he could be any more worthless as a crook would be if he teamed up with Billy from the Family Circus and they left a dotted line from the crime scene to their hideout.
How To Make Him More Threatening:
Well, the Riddler is a pretty established Batman villain, so it's too late to change his name. They could just take the other meaning of the word, though, and have him be renowned for riddling people with bullet holes. It's probably a tad more terrifying to expect someone to turn you into a human sieve than to expect someone to tell you they've taken the loot to a place that rhymes with "the bubandoned potomobile hactory."
#6. The Ventriloquist and Scarface from Batman
Threat Issues:
Arnold Wesker is a ventriloquist with what the DSM-IV classifies as dissociative identity disorder (DID)-formerly called multiple personality disorder (MPD). It's not villainous so much as sad, really. The real tragedy is that this character helps perpetuate the stereotype that those with DID/MPD are vicious serial killers, when in actuality, very few of us actually succeed in our murders, due to poor teamwork between personalities.
Wesker is a mild-mannered fellow who speaks mainly through his puppet and alter ego, Scarface. This is the 1920s gangster kind of Scarface, who wields a "gatt" and talks about "icing" the "broad" or "dame." Back when he was first introduced (1988) this might have been considered scary and contemporary, but now seems dated.
Scarface is vulnerable to pretty much everything when he's not on Wesker's hand--fire, cars, small children--and has been destroyed by nearly every means possible in the Batman animated cartoons, including a ventilation fan and several trains.
In case you're noticing a trend here... yeah, five of the eight villains are from Batman. There are actually a few good reasons for that: First, if you step to Batman, he' going to fucking end you. None of this dropping Lex Luther off in prison so he can escape for the sequel bullshit. Batman needed more villains because he killed more of them.
Also, while he may be awesome, the Caped Crusader is sort of a downer. He barely talks, lives in a cave, and dresses in black. DC Comics has always relied on a steady stream of eccentric villains to provide a splash of color to Gotham. Before they ran out of ideas that splash of color came in the form of the Joker, and after they ran out it came in the form of a fucking hand-puppet.
How To Make Him More Threatening:
There's three problems that need to be addressed: Addressing the negative portrayal of DID/MPD; updating Scarface's personality to be more relevant and threatening; and Scarface's vulnerability as an inanimate object.
First of all, one of these Scarfaces would do admirably:
The only solution to the other two problems is to drop the ventriloquism part entirely, so that Wesker is actually holding a live human Tony Montana on his hand. Take an already-psychotic Al Pacino and ram a huge hand up his rectum ... there will be no survivors.
#5. The Slug from Captain America
Threat Issues:
The Slug is a crime lord who is very, very fat. If you were waiting to find out what his power is, you can stop reading now, that's it. He can apparently kill people by suffocating them in the folds of his fat. But, you know what? You can drown someone in a bowl of water, too. Either way, it is pointlessly contrived and would require a lot of henchman power.
Helping to highlight his lack of scariness is his name. Above you can see a picture of The Slug and a pair of banana slugs. Which is scarier? Which one would someone have to pay you more money to touch? Assume The Slug is clothed for the purposes of this exercise.
Those banana slugs are maybe 4-inches long and already have a history of sending people scurrying to the corner in fear, whereas very fat people have a history of being pointed at and laughed at in sideshows. In a fairer pound-by-pound comparison, a giant banana slug of the same mass as The Slug-or a giant mass of writhing slugs the same volume as The Slug-would be exponentially more frightening than some guy who can't even reach his own neck, let alone yours.
How To Make Him More Threatening:
We've made it pretty clear that slugs themselves can be rather frightening with the right treatment. If The Slug had been bitten by a radioactive slug, had gotten into a teleporter mix up with a slug, or had been injected with some kind of supersoldier formula based on slug slime, he might have turned into some giant slug-like monstrosity with, say, poisonous slime or something.
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The Shulhan Aruch records the custom of placing one's hand over his eyes in Shema in order to increase concentration. What about someone who wears glasses? Must he move them or remove them?
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Yalkut Yosef 61:4
ואין צריך להסיר המשקפיים בעת שנותן ידיו על עיניו בקריאת שמע.
He holds you don't have to remove the glasses.
I don't believe it says anywhere that you have to put your hand over your eyes.
"(They) are accustomed to pace their hands over their face when reading the 1st pasuk so that one won't stare at anything else that will deter him from concentrating." (SA OC 61:5)
It isn't clear from the Shulchan Aruch whether it is 1 hand or both. Although the source for the custom (Brachos 13: 2nd to last sec.) implies both hands, the Mishna Berura brings in the name of the Ata"z that the custom is the right hand.
The custom has morphed into covering the eyes which allows for the original intent of the custom. There is no indication that I need to close my eyes under my hand. If that were true, there would be no need to cover the face in the first place.
Leaving glasses on does not interfere with that intent and there is no custom to specifically take them off.
If one is wearing glasses he does not need to take them off rather he can place his hand over them(Oz Nedabru 12:53)
The Dirshu Mishna Berura (סי' סא, note 5 in the first edition [=not the "expanded" edition]) cites שו"ת דברי יציב (Likutim סי' י"ב) that it's "obvious" (פשוט) that one who wears glasses can fulfill this halacha by covering his glasses with his hands, directly, as there is no issue of חציצה (IOW; there is no issue if something comes between one's hand and one's eyes), as the entire purpose of covering the eyes is so that one will not be distracted by goings-on around oneself.


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The classifying space of the nth symmetric group $S_n$ is well-known to be modeled by the space of subsets of $R^\infty$ of cardinality $n$. Various subgroups of $S_n$ have related models. For example, $B(S_i \times S_j)$ is modeled by subsets of $R^\infty$ of cardinality $i + j$ with $i$ points colored red and $j$ points colored blue. More fun: the wreath product $S_i \int S_j \subset S_{ij}$ has classifying space modeled by $ij$ points partitioned into $i$ sets of cardinality $j$ (but these sets are not "colored").
My question: is there a geometric model, preferably related to these, for classifying spaces of alternating groups? [Note: since any finite group is a subgroup of a symmetric group one wouldn't expect to find geometric models of arbitrary subgroups, but alternating groups seem special enough...]


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Paying Them Back
What should you do when mom and dad run out of money?
Thanks to medical and technological advances, people are living longer—but more of them are outliving their savings. That is prompting their children to transfer assets to their parents, say private bankers, trust attorneys and accountants.
The strategy is counterintuitive, and can invite huge tax bills and other financial hazards. Yet there are many different options available to adult children, ranging from paying bills and giving money directly to making intrafamily loans. There are even innovative "upward" trusts specially designed to transfer assets to the older generation.
Experts say adult children should use the strategies that best minimize their own taxes—as well as their parents'—while preserving a sense of independence for the previous generation.
Average life expectancies rose to 81.1 for women and 76.3 for men in 2011, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, from 76.6 for women and 68.8 for men in 1975.
That rise, along with the weak economy, mean "there is a larger cohort of older people who are financially at risk," says Edward Beckwith, a partner at Cleveland-based law firm BakerHostetler.
Some 52% of people 65 and older who live alone or with a spouse lack the necessary income to pay for basic needs like housing, food, transportation and health care, according to March 2012 data from Wider Opportunities for Women, a nonprofit organization in Washington that also advocates for seniors and families. The group says the problem has since grown worse and predicts the trend will continue.
A September 2012 Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Survey found that among 35- to 50-year-olds, 47% said they have "high concern" for caring for an aging parent, up from 32% in April 2010. The survey polled 1,000 investors with $250,000 or more in investible assets.
Other children are moving assets upward not because their parents are destitute, but as a way to help them share in their affluence, experts say.
Parental care has become a standard part of the first conversation clients have with their trust-and-estate advisers, says Matt Canner, a senior private-client adviser at Wilmington Trust. At UBS Wealth Management, elder-care planning comes up in more than half of the trust-and-estate conversations held with clients, up from about a quarter in 2008, says Erin Wilms, co-head of advanced planning at the private bank.
Here are the most popular ways to transfer wealth upward, along with their pros and cons:
Annual Gifts
The simplest and most straightforward way to shore up your parents' finances is to give them money outright.
You can make annual tax-exempt gifts of as much as $14,000 to any individual, up from $13,000 in 2012. Couples can pool their resources and make a joint gift per year of $28,000 to each of their parents.
This method is ideal when $56,000 a year per couple is sufficient, says Ms. Wilms of UBS. It also is a useful tool in situations where parents have trouble accepting intervention in their financial lives, since annual gifts allow the parents to retain a measure of independence.
Separately, there is the lifetime gift-tax exemption. This year, it is $5.25 million per person and twice that per married couple, up from $5.12 million per individual in 2012. The federal tax rate above the exemption is now 40%, up from 35% last year.
You can give your parents up to the lifetime limit without owing gift tax. The downside is that any portion of the lifetime exemption that is used isn't available for gifts to younger generations.
In addition, gifts could make your parents ineligible for certain government benefits, such as Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income, says Bernard Krooks, an elder-law attorney in New York. (Many low-income seniors can qualify for Medicaid as well as Medicare.)
Individuals can have no more than $2,000 in assets in their name to qualify for those programs. So if you give your mother $10,000, she will need to spend $8,000 of it before she applies for government aid.
Winnie Sun, a wealth manager in Irvine, Calif., says she has helped many of her clients with parental-care strategies. When her own father started having health problems a few years ago, she grew concerned he and her mother, who are 71 and 68 years old, respectively, might outlive their savings.
"It's a huge concern," says Ms. Sun, 39. "I think about it all the time." She and her husband now give her parents around $36,000 a year.
Pay Their Bills
If your parents need more help than annual gifts allow, you can take another tack: paying their medical bills directly.
Tax law allows you to pay qualified medical and educational bills on behalf of another person—without limits.
If you make payments directly to a medical provider, such as a hospital or a doctor for an out-of-network operation, they don't count as gifts and there isn't a limit on how much you can spend, says Richard Baum, a partner and accountant at Anchin, Block & Anchin in New York. If your mother's cancer treatment costs, say, $500,000, you don't have to worry about being taxed on your payment of the bill.
What's more, such payments don't count toward your lifetime gift-tax exemption.
Assisted-living care, for example, could cost up to $10,000 a month, far more than the gift-tax limits allow, says Bradley Frigon, an elder-law attorney in Englewood, Colo., and vice president of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
The strategy, which also applies to hospice and hospital stays, as well as nursing facilities with medical components, can help when annual gifts simply aren't enough.
If you provide more than half your parents' support, they might qualify as your dependents for tax purposes, says Doug Stives, an accounting professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey. Even if they don't, you still might be able to take a deduction on your own return for substantial medical bills you pay for them; check with your tax adviser.
Another benefit: Paying bills directly keeps wealth out of the parents' estates, Mr. Baum says. "The idea is to make sure that child does not create a pool of wealth that would be taxed in the parents' estate," he says. It's especially important in states that impose their own estate or inheritance taxes, and where the limits are often lower.
The option doesn't apply to amenities like private at-home care or a nonmedical assisted-living facility, Mr. Frigon says.
One potential pitfall: The bill-payer might expect to be reimbursed from the parents' assets upon their death, but if other siblings aren't aware of those plans, it could cause a family disagreement.
To avoid this, Mr. Frigon suggests family members craft a "family settlement agreement" that clearly details who will receive which assets.
Intrafamily Loans
Some advisers are loath for their clients to send too much money upward, since that could prevent them from minimizing their own estate taxes. Every dollar given away above the $14,000 annual limit counts against the estate-tax exemption.
That is why Edward Vergara, a tax and estate-planning lawyer in Greenwich, Conn., has urged some of his clients to make loans to their parents to satisfy their financial needs.
Family members can charge each other low minimum annual interest rates, known as the applicable federal rate, or AFR, on intrafamily loans. The rates, which are adjusted monthly, are currently 0.2% for loans of three years or less, 1% for loans of more than three but not more than nine years and 2.5% for loans longer than nine years—among the lowest rates ever.
This strategy can work for parents who prefer not to take gifts outright. And there is no need to worry that putting money into the parents' estate will increase their tax burden.
Suppose you lend your parents $1 million. After they die, you will be repaid in full from the estate, assuming the assets are available, and the debt will reduce its value. If they aren't, the loans usually tend to be classified as unsecured debts, so as the creditor, you would be at the bottom of the list to be repaid.
It is important to have the loans properly documented so the Internal Revenue Service doesn't "recharacterize" them as a gift and force you to pay gift taxes if the loans are above the annual exemption. Mr. Vergara recommends getting a lawyer to draft the loan document, which should state the principal amount, maturity date, the interest and how often it compounds.
If you don't charge your parents a "sufficient interest rate"—defined as at least the amount of the AFR for the term of the loan—the IRS will characterize the "missing" interest payments as a gift from the second generation to the first, and will also characterize the missing interest payments as income on the second generation's tax returns.
Upward Trusts
One estate-planning strategy that is been gaining popularity over the past few years is a trust created with the parents named as the beneficiaries, sometimes referred to as an "upward trust." The parents usually live off the income generated by the assets within the trust, without tapping the core assets.
Mr. Frigon says upward trusts were "virtually unheard of" five years ago but have since become routine. Mr. Krooks says he constructs close to 100 of them a year, up from 60 two years ago and 10 to 20 five years ago.
Such trusts are ideal for when the child wants to make a substantial gift and doesn't feel confident about the parents' ability to manage the money, Ms. Wilms says.
If the money is protected by a trustee, it is much harder for older people to be defrauded, "instead of a situation where you just said, 'Here's $100,000, spend it wisely,' and the next you thing you know they're buying aluminum siding," says Mr. Beckwith of BakerHostetler.
You can set up the trust during your lifetime, or you can engineer it to take effect upon your death. In the former example, an adult child might choose to set it up because it allows him to retain control of the trust and dictate the terms under which its assets might be used. You can establish limitations, such as specifying the money might only be used for certain expenses.
Trust attorneys and accountants can structure the trust to be as flexible or inflexible as the situation requires.
You also can decide who will pay the income tax on the assets within the trust.
In a "grantor trust," for example, the tax is paid by the person who sets up the trust, so it doesn't drain assets from the trust itself, says Alan Kufeld, a certified public accountant at Rothstein Kass's family-office group. Conversely, the elder generation could be required to pay the income tax.
Again, the trust could disqualify the parents from being eligible for government programs. If parents have the ability to take money from the trust, or if there is a mandatory distribution of income, that could render them ineligible depending on the state, Mr. Frigon says.
Mr. Baum of Anchin, Block & Anchin suggests structuring a "supplemental-needs trust," which is designed so the beneficiary wouldn't be ineligible for Medicaid or other forms of government assistance.
It can cost between $1,000 and $2,000 a year for maintenance after a $10,000 setup fee, though it is cheaper for smaller trusts. If a bank serves as the corporate trustee, it will typically charge between 1% to 2% of the trust's assets per year.
Make sure the trust is set up so that when the parent dies, the remainder of the assets flows to another beneficiary, such as your children or a sibling. "You don't want them to come back to your estate," says Mary Ann Sisco, senior vice president for wealth management at Northern Trust, NTRS -0.22 % as that could increase your tax liability.
You also should structure the trust so the remainder of the assets flow down only to one generation. Doing so will ensure you avoid having to pay a tax of 40% above the $5.25 million "generation skipping" exemption, Ms. Wilms says.
If you do choose to set up the trust when you are alive, earlier is better, advises Mr. Krooks. He has clients in their 40s and 50s who set up trusts for their parents in their 70s and 80s, but of course, it always is better late than never: One 75-year-old client recently came in to set up a trust for his mother.
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Bruce Hangen is director of orchestral activities at the Boston Conservatory. In this position, he serves as the Conservatory's principal orchestral conductor as well as director of both the orchestra and conducting programs. He conducts all four of the The Boston Conservatory Orchestra's annual concerts, in addition to opera and string orchestra productions, and he teaches conducting at the M.M. degree level to a select handful of international conducting majors.
The 2011–2012 season marks Hangen's 14th season as the music director of the , having been appointed in 1997. Associated with Indian Hill Music of Littleton, Massachusetts, this is the only professional orchestra serving central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire and complements 's parallel purpose of providing the finest in music education through its community music school. Comprised of greater Boston-area professional musicians, the Orchestra of Indian Hill performs a series of symphony and other concerts featuring renowned soloists.
Recently, Hangen completed his tenure as the Principal Pops Guest Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra (BPO). This position was created in May 2002 especially for Hangen, reflecting the strong musical relationship built between him and the BPO over two decades of regular guest conducting. He also has had the title of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO's) Germeshausen Family Youth Concerts Conductor's Chair. Other past positions include the artistic and general director of the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre (P.O.R.T.) of Portland, Maine in the summer. Having founded the company in July 1995, Hangen was the chief visionary force behind this opera company and its activity. P.O.R.T. presented an annual July festival of main-stage and other performances consisting of singing, directing and producing talent from the world's greatest opera stages. Hangen served as conductor for P.O.R.T.'s performances.
For 12 years (1984–1996), Hangen was music director of the Omaha (Nebraska) Symphony. Hangen's development of that orchestra included the expansion of its subscription classical, pops and chamber orchestra series. He initiated full-orchestra touring activity, major collaborations with other area institutions, and the instigation of an entirely new array of educational programs. Under his direction, the Omaha Symphony achieved recognition for its significantly expanded program offerings, including the nationally acclaimed West Meets West, a celebration of the Native American, conceived and conducted by Hangen. His influence extended far beyond the Midwest, too, in establishing a sister-orchestra relationship between the Omaha and Shizuoka, Japan.
During the two seasons of 1998 and 2000, Hangen was acting resident conductor of both the Utah and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras. Both positions included a wide variety of concert programs, ranging from subscription concerts to family, youth, pops, tour and outdoor summer series concerts.
Before taking the Omaha Symphony music directorship, Hangen served for 10 seasons (1976–1986) as music director and conductor of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra; six years (1973–1979) as associate conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra; four years (1975–1979) as music director of the Arapahoe Chamber Orchestra in Denver; and six summer seasons (1966–1972) as assistant conductor of the Colorado Philharmonic (now the National Repertory Orchestra). During the 1972–1973 season alone, Hangen held three positions as assistant conductor of the Syracuse Symphony, conducting assistant of the Buffalo Philharmonic and faculty conductor at the Eastman School of Music.
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music with a major in conducting, Hangen was also a conducting fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for two summers, where his conducting teachers included Gunther Schuller, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Bruno Maderna and Joseph Silverstein. During his student days at the Eastman School, Hangen formed the Baroque Chamber Orchestra and co-founded Zeitgeist in Musik, a contemporary chamber ensemble.
Hangen maintains an active schedule of guest conducting. Recent appearances have included concerts with the Detroit and Dallas symphony orchestras, the Edmonton Symphony and the Florida Philharmonic, as well as the orchestras of St. Louis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Naples (Florida) and Houston. In earlier seasons, Hangen also conducted the orchestras of New York, Minnesota, Syracuse, Houston, Birmingham, New Orleans, San Antonio, New Jersey, Santa Barbara, New Mexico, Hartford and New Haven. His repeat engagements with the BPO and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestras alone totaled more than 200 performances since 1979. Hangen also has guest-conducted orchestras in Japan, Canada, Taiwan and New Zealand as well as opera companies in Chicago, Fargo and Tacoma.
Hangen remains strongly committed to education. At the collegiate level, Hangen has conducted the orchestras of The Boston Conservatory, the New England Conservatory (NEC), the Hartt School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Yale School of Music, the Shepherd School of Music as well as ensembles at the California Institute of the Arts. His successes have also included appearances as conductor of high school All-State Festival orchestras in New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Virginia, Nebraska, Minnesota and Massachusetts.
Hangen is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New England and in Omaha he received the ICAN Foundation's Browning Award for Career Excellence and Vision.
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we'll be tweaking the listing a bit over coming days and adding option to purchase without rotator. If you need RS-1 without rotator let me know through email (bill_at_nodalninja_dot_com) and we can set you up.
How many people leave a strap on their camera when they shoot panos? Your web page shows a camera with a strap on the RS-1.
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80% of the time I shoot spherical VR / 360x180s with a fish eye lens, but occasionally I come across a scene where I want to put a longer lens on and do a manual-gigapixel style shot. This is the sort of stuff I shoot - http://andy.bryant.name/pano
I'm currently using an Olympus OM-D E-M5 with a Samyang 7.5mm fisheye, and have also used Olympus 12mm, and 45mm lenses for more detailed panos.
My current system is NN3MkII + QR plate + nadir adaptor - which does the job, but to pack it down small in my bag I usually have to break down the upper rail from the lower rail - which takes extra time.
I'd like the ability to pack a smaller & lighter unit for VRs (including nadir coverage) with no assembly required (just attach the lens-mount for the Samyang 7.5mm), with the ability to occasionally add a short upper rail to mount the camera base-plate with say the 45mm for a manual gigapixel shoot.
I think I need the Nodal Ninja RS-1 + rotator mini + nadir adaptor + the upper rail & QR clamp in this picture
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Will this actually be smaller/lighter than the system I have?
Although actually I'm beginning to think that the NN3MkII is actually pretty close; and I've already got one of these ;-) so perhaps I should just stick with what I've got.
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After following GTD principles for several years, I now have the system well oiled. Unfortunately, I'm still overloaded--not at the inbox level, but at the project level. Too many things are flowing through my system and projects take more time than I have to complete in a reasonable amount of time. Other than "cut down projects" is there a structured way to think about how to avoid having more hours per week of projects than exist?
Besides cutting down projects (which you don't want) there are two other options I can think off to do more:
Are you applying the GTD "higher levels" to focus on what projects you should be doing? David Allen has a story in some audio presentation about a CEO who is overloaded and has a meeting to go to. He asks David for help deciding whether to go or not. David asks back, "at what level do you want to have that conversation?" and the CEO has his answer. At 20,000 feet, Areas of Focus, he should go to the meeting. At 30,000 feet, 1-3 year goals, its a waste of his time. And so on.
Are you applying 20, 30, 40, and 50 thousand foot thinking when you decide what projects to accept?
Apply the 80/20 principle. The day only has 24 hours, and you're a human being, not a machine. Your personal life is more important than your job. If something is TRULY important, do your best. Otherwise, delegate or let it die.
It's much better to do an amazing job at what really matters than to do a mediocre job at everything.
I know GTD advises people to start with a paper-based time tracking system and hopefully because you are a veteran you have graduated to a more timely and effective automated method. My personal experience with trying to cram more into a workweek than I thought was physically possible, was that I increased my efficiency and production when I implemented an online (and mobile) time management tool (http://www.tsheets.com).
First off, note that you cannot do more than you can do. So the problem is really one of picking what to do.
I recently incorporated some One Minute ToDo (1MTD) ideas in my GTD workflow and they've worked out very positively for me.
First, I split my projects in 2 groups: Pertinent in the next 10 days (relevant now), and not pertinent in the next 10 days (over the horizon). I hide the over the horizon projects into a subfolder that I don't have to worry about for 10 days, and in my weekly review I evaluate which projects to move between groups.
Then every morning I flag tasks for completion from my relevant now projects (and my Single Actions). I make sure I don't have more than 20 flagged tasks, or I unflag tasks I didn't do for a while since they're obviously not important enough.
I make sure I only have tasks with a due date if I won't leave work until those are done, otherwise they just need to be flagged.
Now you have a list of no more than 20 things that are the most important tasks of your entire system. Show only those tasks. Do them and no others. Works great for me so far.


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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaking at a conference in Spainin 2002:
In the church, priests are also sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower. In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than one percent of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information or to the statistical objectivity of the facts. Therefore, one comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the church.
Fr. Robert Oliver, recently appointed Vatican promoter of justice by Pope Benedict XVI -- a position whose responsibilities include prosecuting sexual-abuse cases -- speaking at a press conference today:
"I think that certainly those who continued to put before us that we need to confront this problem did a service," he said in response to a question on whether the role of an aggressive American media was, in hindsight, a blessing for the Church."They (the media) helped to keep the energy, if you will, to keep the movement going so that we would, honestly and with transparency, and with our strength, confront what is true."
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Only eleven years? Given how slowly the hierarchy tends to move, this seems like light-speed.
I find the Pope's quote from 2002 unbelievable! I can't believe that anyone in his or her right mind would not scream in response. Such a sense of entitlement, and an utter lack of awareness of the priest as an extra special authority figure violating more than trust! This is not anti Catholic thinking, but points to serious systemic problems.
Fr Oliver's quote makes me happy. Only, I would put his second sentence in the present tense since the movement towards transparency is still ongoing. But this is good.
Oliver is sensible and grounded in reality. Wonder what happens when he is in the presence of Egan ("We have nothing to apologize for") and the other bishops still in denial.
When I heard a similar response from the 'blind' parishioners as from the Pope above.. I told them that I worked 30 years in the Bell System with thousands of men without hearing of one case of their abuse of children. Then I worked with the Archdiocese for 10 years and met and worked with 25 creditably abusing priests. O... The Bell Sys. men worked in front and backyards, basements, bedrooms, schools and offices. O... And the Bell System had deeper pockets then the Church and the media made more fun of the Bell System than the Church.. Vatican please copy. Mark Ungeach's "but points to serious systemic problems.'' you betcha.
Ratzinger, like others at the Vatican, had seized on the 1% figure which came, I believe, from Phil Jenkins Pedophiles and Priests (2001). Jenkins point, which was based on data that has since been surpassed, was that only 1% of priests or fewer were true pedophiles, sexually involved with pre-pubescent children, and that the rest of the abusers were pederasts, involved with pubescent and post-pubescent males.An even deeper problem is the narcissism of the clergy, especially the higher clergy; everything is about them, as Mahony and Egan and Mller, the new head of the CDF, still think.
I've never understood how people could overlook the obvious and go straight to conspiracy theories about how the media was/is engaged in a "planned campaign" to "discredit the church." The obvious being that people wanted to read about these crimes, statistically rare as they were, and wanted even more to read about the cover-ups that kept the crimes from coming to light for so long. They wanted as much information as they could get, because the total failure to provide that information was a big part of what produced the scandal in the first place. And the people who wanted that information most were, and are, faithful (or onetime faithful) Catholics. For most of us, interest in learning about the scandal wasn't fueled by a desire to discredit the Church, but by a desire to understand how the Church could have betrayed its own values so despicably. All that time wasted in finding someone else to blame for a still-festering and mainly self-inflicted wound.
I think that Grant put up that old quote not in order for us to be scandalized again, but to appreciate the change of perspective. It would have been even better if the two quotes had come from the same person, i.e., if the 2013 quote were from Pope Benedict, but I'll take what I can get. This is good.
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly"For most of us, interest in learning about the scandal wasnt fueled by a desire to discredit the Church, but by a desire to understand how the Church could have betrayed its own values so despicably."Well said. And I might add that the most of us, who are as you have described, are probably still here. However, I can't judge those who have left, especially if they have had person experience of sexual abuse.
Helen - well said by you, too.
They (the media) helped to keep the energy, if you will, to keep the movement going so that we would, honestly and with transparency, and with our strength, confront what is true.For any church official to say this is bracing. For an official of the Holy See to say it, strikes me as an event that might register on the Richter scale.
Well, I think a forthright apology from Ratzinger might be called for in order to find absolution. He made these statements knowing they were false, or at best a bit of legalistic parsing (that just 1 percent were actual pedophiles). It was self-protective propaganda at the expense of children, and their spiritual and physical welfare. Not that reporters need the gratification. (Though many may want it. And they deserve it.) It's mainly that if the pope wants credibility he needs to admit his own grievous errors in trying to downplay and cover up this terrible scandal, and criticizing those who he knew were doing the work of the gospel in reporting the truth and trying to protect children.
Forget about the fact the Pope spoke this fiction 11 years ago. His CDF successor Muller said this last week.:German archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Mller (the Vatican's doctrinal watchdogCDF ) sasys "targeted discrimination campaigns" against the church sometimes reminded him of a "pogrom sentiment." Pogrom statement draws fire in Germany.'Maybe it's a German thing.. 'the media are after us again'
Sigh...according to John Jay, about 4% of priests in their study abused minors. Last I knew, there was no firm data on the % of men generally who abuse minors. So when someone says loudly "priests are no more likely to abuse than other men" OR "priests are far more likely than other men to abuse," I say, "where's the data about men generally?" Some estimates say 1 in 10 men abuse minors, others say one in 5. But these are guesses. Does it seem likely that one in 5 men sexually abuse minors? Even one in 10? Also, if you look at the John Jay data, one troubling aspect is the tremendous disparity in abuse rates between dioceses. Are men more predatory in some places? Or is it more that some dioceses were known to be safe havens for abusers? Or does this simply reflect incomplete bishop compliance even while claiming to be transparent regarding abuse?And why is it thought to be comforting that priests are "no more likely than other men to sexually abuse minors"? Shouldn't people in leadership in the Church do at least a little better, at least where (to put it mildly,) a matter of professional boundaries is involved? And especially where those particular betrayals are so deeply hurtful? We're not talking "priests should be holier than the rest of us," but merely that "priests ought not rape and abuse children." A low bar, istm.
It is heartening to see Father Oliver's comment about the media's service to the church.
BTW, I agree that Fr. Oliver's comments are most welcome, and good for him, and the Vatican. But I also think it's important to note the huge impact of his predecessor, Msgr. Scicluna, who arguably did more than anyone in Rome over the last decade -- when it wasn't popular to do so -- to advocate on behalf of victims, and in recent years to speak out publicly. In my view Scicluna was a real groundbreaker, and prayers for Fr. Oliver who has big shoes to fill.
Obviosuly I must be stupid, but I do not see any irreconcilable contradiction between the two statements, especially allowing for the fact that one or the other may apply better to different places and different times.
They still don't get it. There are sexual deviants everywhere, the scandal is not in the abuse, but in the cover up. The reputation of the church is more important than the children. How many children would have been saved this horror if the Bishops had acted instead of hiding the problem.
The journey continues. I'm disinclined to jump on the Fr Oliver bandwagon. Just yet. He still adheres to the notion that it all went off the rails in 1965.That there was some sort of bulwark of virtue abandoned after the Fr Ratzinger generation is to keep eyes and ears closed to the thought that abuse of the vulnerable is a consequence of human sinfulness, not conciliar reform or even the so-called sexual revolution.What looks like a bell curve centered on '75 is just the truncation of a long history of exploitation that likely goes back centuries. If there was some way of interviewing the dead, then we'd have a truer measure. That said, let's all keep working and when Fr Oliver's successor is named, we can deliver the hoped-for kudos for a job well-done.
Todd Flowerday, a very wise caution about the Fr. Oliver bandwagon.I remember Oliver's name from reading about a June 2002 meeting of VOTF officers with Cardinal Law's aide, an auxiliary and canonist Robert Oliver. The event is recounted in the book, "Keep the Faith, Change the Church" by its founding president Dr. James Muller and journalist Charles Kenney. "But whatever arrogance was missing...was more than supplied by Father Oliver. He instructed us at some length about the imperative of our being subservient to the archbishop..."At one point, Father Oliver said that revelation is given to the hierarchy. Mary Scanlan objected. "I believe God reveals himself to all of us in different ways...(in family and work experiences)"Father Oliver said that wasn't the main source of the revelation. He said that God revealed primarily through the hierarchy and the hierarchy was in a position to translate revelation to lay people.""I (Muller) spoke about Vatican II and told them that we were faithful Catholics who wanted to help. (Mary said) "We're not a threat...we want to help." But once again their reaction indicated that they didn't want our help."VOTF officials found the tone upsetting, that they were being lectured to. When one told Oliver, the auxiliary and Law's aide of VOTF's plans to hold a mass at the end of the upcoming VOTF convention, there was total silence. The three clerics looked at each other and laughed. Then the auxiliary said in Latin: "Silentium assensum dat." As the VOTF officials left the meeting, Mary translated for the others what had been said: Silence gives assent. All were left with a sense of arrogance and condescension. "It was now crystal clear that the Boston hierarchy wanted us to go away."Now, maybe Oliver has gained wisdom in the interim, which should not be rejected even if late. I welcome the words, but await the actions that follow. Again, "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." (John Locke)
It sounds as if Oliver just might be one of those men who will say what he has to say in front of those who determine his future in order to ensure that said future is to his liking.As Todd said above, though: "That said, lets all keep working and when Fr Olivers successor is named, we can deliver the hoped-for kudos for a job well-done."


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spoiler:some of the things Revan's holocron taught Darth Bane, like how if the sith number more than two, there will eventually be infighting because the Dark Side invites strife and rivalry makes me think Revan had reason to engage in intrigues.
Another matter is when Revan actually made his holocron. Sure he most likely made it before being captured, but that isn't to say he couldn't have come back later and added some additional knowledge and wisdom.
For example: Though it is left unsaid in the Bane series, there is a window of opportunity Bane could have added something to his previously made holocron just before he died about certain knowledge he had obtained about "essence transfer". So it leads me to wonder further if the "impurity" in the core of Revan's holocron might be evidence of this. Like the impurity is a result of Revan having initially made the Holocron in the dark side, and then coming back later in the light side and adding to it before hiding it again. Probably believing that someone within *this* sith empire would track it down and not counting on it making an entirely new sith order, remaining forgotten until discovered many years in the future.
spoiler: [joke] so after hearing from Bastila that he was going to be a father he skipped town and "lost" himself in Nar Shadda, got himself a flop house, and started frequenting the pazzak dens and started dating a Twilek dancer. The reason nobody has found him is because he can mask his presence, that combined with being on the smuggler's moon (which is hard to focus one's self iirc) is why the crew could never find him again. [/joke]


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