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What an incredible run by the Madonna baseball team.
The Blue Dons captured their second West Virginia Class A state championship in three years Sunday at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston with a 5-4 victory over East Hardy in eight innings.
The win proves a lot of things, not the least of which what can happen when a group of athletes play as a team and accept their roles.
Every member of a team has a role and they are all different.
Not everyone can be Magic or Bird or Michael or Kobe or LeBron or Mr. Clutch.
Role players are really important in every team.
Just ask the Lakers how important Michael Cooper and Norm Nixon were in the glory days.
The same goes with Steve Kerr or John Paxson with the Bulls.
Changes were made in the Madonna baseball lineup and, after some adjustment, the Blue Dons figured it out and won their last 10 games in a row and 12 of the last 13.
That doesn't happen if guys pout and whine and hang their heads.
Four sophomores (Will Bowser, Ross Comis, Luca Fuscardo and Nick Ossman) and a freshman (Kaleb Baire) started in Saturday's semifinal win over Charleston Catholic and Sunday's title contest.
That left five seniors (Nick Battista, Chris Duerr, Logan Linder, Connor Mogan and Daniel Pietranton) in the 10-man rotation.
That means the old guys had to count on the young guys.
If you cannot trust your teammates, regardless the age, you don't win.
It's not that you can't win - you don't win.
It wasn't an easy transition, but it happened, and once all the players figured everything out, game on.
Madonna won its last 10 games to finish 25-9.
The Blue Dons were 15-9 after a 9-2 start.
I am guessing during that 6-7 stretch, not too many people envisioned a trip to the Power Park.
But, it happened.
And, everyone played a part in it.
You have read in this column over and over again it is about what we do for others, and not about ourselves.
That happened Saturday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
West Liberty-Salem High School junior Meghan Vogel won the Division III 1600 in a personal-best time of 4:58.31, taking the race over with 300 meters to go to beat the favorite.
Her shining moment, though, came in the 3200.
Admittedly, I was not there. I was in the press room writing my story on Steubenville Catholic Central's Doug Maslowski and Monica Rigaud. It was a busy day and I had to get things done pronto.
I read a tweet from Times-Leader sports editor Seth Staskey:
"The state 1600 champion from WL Salem just helped an injured 3200 m runner to the finish line. Awesome sportsmanship."
A short time later, another one:
"I was honestly getting misty-eyed as I watched Megan Vogel of WL Salem help that runner across the finish line. It was SportsCenter esque."
After reading multiple accounts, here's what happened.
Vogel was dead last in the 3200. Not far in front of her was Arlington High School sophomore Arden McMath, who had the slowest qualifying time of the 15 competitors.
Heading down the home stretch, McMath fell and could not get up. She tried again, and still could not get up.
Instead of running by her, Vogel stopped, helped McMath up, put her arm around her and helped her to the finish line.
As the crowd at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium stood and the applause grew with each step by both athletes, Vogel allowed McMath to cross the line before her.
"Helping her cross the finish line was a lot more satisfying than winning the state championship," Vogel told Dave Long of the Springfield News-Sun.
"What a selfless act," Arlington head coach Paul Hunter told Long. "She could have just gone around Arden. But she chose to help. I've never seen that at a state meet. That's real sportsmanship."
Rules say a runner is disqualified for aiding another runner.
That did not happen in this instance - and for good reason.
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him," Luke 33:10
A little bit of luck always has to go into all that hard work.
But, as Jack Nicklaus has said quite often, "the harder I worked, the luckier I got."
In their respective state track and field championships, Oak Glen's Ethan Delekta and Madonna's Taylor Pavan stood atop the podium in West Virginia in the discus, and River's Cassidy McCullough (300 hurdles) and St. Clairsville's Alyssa Robinson (shot put) did the same in Ohio.
Standing one step down on the podium was Buckeye Local's Jordan Piergallini in the 100 and Maslowski in the 110 hurdles.
As graduates, it was Delekta's and Piergallini's last chance at gold.
For Pavan, McCullough, Robinson and Maslowski, as well as thousands of others on both sides of the river, the hard work must only increase in order to repeat as state champs, or climb that one big step to the top or make it to the finals, or make it there at all.
In the 100 hurdles, where McCullough took fifth, one spot behind the sophomore Rigaud, six of the nine finalists return next year, the same in the 300 hurdles and the boys 110 hurdles.
In track, as well as other individual sports, what you put in, you get out.
Hard work does not guarantee success or a state championship, but it sure does make obtaining one a lot easier.
During an afternoon of covering track, you see tears of joy, tears of sadness, heartbreak, overwhelming joy, sportsmanship and, sometimes, kids who look like they really didn't want to be there.
Two high school educators were killed and eight athletes injured in a small Nebraska town Friday when a van carrying the eight collided with a pickup. The driver of the pickup, 70-year-old Albert Sherbeck, was also killed.
The Broken Bow High School basketball team was on its way back from a camp. Thirty-eight year old assistant coach Zane Harvey and 24-year-old head coach Anthony Blum were killed on impact.
Not only do all members of this tragedy need our prayers, it is another reminder that we are never guaranteed tomorrow.
(Mathison, a Weirton resident, is the sports editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and can be contacted at email@example.com and can be followed on Twitter at @MathisonMike)


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David Amodio, an associate professor in NYU's Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, was named the 2012 recipient of the F. J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Prize on Understanding the Human Mind.
The prize, sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation, provides the recipient with $25,000 in research funds. It is given biennially to an early-career psychologist engaged in research that seeks to understand the human mind from a primarily psychophysiological perspective.
Amodio's research examines the psychological mechanisms of social behavior and self-regulation, drawing ideas and methods from experimental social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Much of his work has address the process through which social biases, such as prejudices and stereotypes, are expressed in behavior and the neurocognitive mechanisms through which such biases may be regulated. This work has helped to elucidate the role of the brain social prejudices and self-regulation. He has recently extended his research on self-regulation to address issues in health and economic domains.
Amodio has previously won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which identify outstanding scientists and engineers who will broadly advance science and the missions important to federal agencies, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award—the most prestigious award given to junior faculty by NSF.
The F. J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Prize is funded by a bequest from Frank Joseph McGuigan (1924-1998), an experimental psychologist known for his work in psychophysiology, cognition and stress.
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Nut consumption and body weight.
Frequent nut consumption is associated with lower rates of coronary artery disease (CAD). Also, nut-rich diets improve the serum lipid profile of participants in dietary intervention trials. However, nuts are fatty foods, and in theory their regular consumption may lead to body weight gain. Because obesity is a major public health problem and a risk factor for CAD, clinicians and policy makers ponder several questions. Will hypercholesterolemic patients advised to consume nuts gain weight? Is recommending increased nut consumption to the general population for CAD prevention sound public health advice? Epidemiologic studies indicate an inverse association between frequency of nut consumption and body mass index. In well-controlled nut-feeding trials, no changes in body weight were observed. Some studies on free-living subjects in which no constraints on body weight are imposed show a nonsignificant tendency to lower weight while subjects are on the nut diets. In another line of evidence, preliminary data indicate that subjects on nut-rich diets excrete more fat in stools. Further research is needed to study the effects of nut consumption on energy balance and body weight. In the meantime, the available cumulative data do not indicate that free-living people on self-selected diets including nuts frequently have a higher body mass index or a tendency to gain weight.
Impact of Peanuts and Tree Nuts on Body Weight and Healthy Weight Loss in Adults.
Nuts (ground and tree) are rich sources of multiple nutrients and their consumption is associated with health benefits, including reduced cardiovascular disease risk. This has prompted recommendations to increase their consumption. However, they are also high in fat (albeit largely unsaturated) and are energy dense. The associations between these properties, positive energy balance, and body weight raise questions about such recommendations. This issue is addressed through a review of the literature pertaining to the association between nut consumption and energy balance. Epidemiological studies document an inverse association between the frequency of nut consumption and BMI. Clinical trials reveal little or no weight change with inclusion of various types of nuts in the diet over 16 mo. Mechanistic studies indicate this is largely attributable to the high satiety property of nuts, leading to compensatory responses that account for 6575% of the energy they provide. Limited data suggest chronic consumption is associated with elevated resting energy expenditure resulting in dissipation of another portion of the energy they provide. Additionally, due to poor bioaccessibility, there is limited efficiency of energy absorption from nuts. Collectively, these mechanisms offset much of the energy provided by nuts. The few trials contrasting weight loss through regimens that include or exclude nuts indicate improved compliance and greater weight loss when nuts are permitted. This consistent literature suggests nuts may be included in the diet, in moderation, to enhance palatability and nutrient quality without posing a threat for weight gain.
Nuts and coronary heart disease: an epidemiological perspective.
The epidemiological evidence for the cardio-protective effect of nut consumption is presented and reviewed. Four large prospective epidemiological studies of primary prevention of coronary heart disease are reviewed and discussed (Adventist Health Study, Iowa Women's Health Study, Nurses' Health Study and the Physicians' Health Study). Other studies of nuts and coronary heart disease risk are addressed. The combined evidence for a cardio-protective effect from nut consumption is summarized and presented graphically. The risk of coronary heart disease is 37 % lower for those consuming nuts more than four times per week compared to those who never or seldom consume nuts, with an average reduction of 8·3 % for each weekly serving of nuts. The evidence for a causal relationship between nut consumption and reduced risk of coronary heart disease is outlined using Hill's criteria for causality and is found to support a causal cardio-protective relationship.
A Systematic Review of the Effects of Nuts on Blood Lipid Profiles in Humans.
The inverse association of nut consumption and risk markers of coronary heart disease (lipids) has sparked the interest of the scientific and lay community. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review to investigate the effects of nuts on the lipid profile. Medline and Web of Science databases were searched from the start of the database to August 2004 and supplemented by cross-checking reference lists of relevant publications. Human intervention trials with the objective of investigating independent effects of nuts on lipid concentrations were included. From the literature search, 415 publications were screened and 23 studies were included. These papers received a rating based upon the methodology as it appeared in the publication. No formal statistical analysis was performed due to the large differences in study designs of the dietary intervention trials. The results of 3 almond (50100 g/d), 2 peanut (3568 g/d), 1 pecan nut (72 g/d), and 4 walnut (4084 g/d) studies showed decreases in total cholesterol between 2 and 16% and LDL cholesterol between 2 and 19% compared with subjects consuming control diets. Consumption of macadamia nuts (50100 g/d) produced less convincing results. In conclusion, consumption of 50100 g (1.53.5 servings) of nuts 5 times/wk as part of a heart-healthy diet with total fat content (high in mono- and/or polyunsaturated fatty acids) of 35% of energy may significantly decrease total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in normo- and hyperlipidemic individuals.
The Role of Tree Nuts and Peanuts in the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Multiple Potential Mechanisms.
Epidemiologic and clinical trial evidence has demonstrated consistent benefits of nut and peanut consumption on coronary heart disease (CHD) risk and associated risk factors. The epidemiologic studies have reported various endpoints, including fatal CHD, total CHD death, total CHD, and nonfatal myocardial infarct. A pooled analysis of 4 U.S. epidemiologic studies showed that subjects in the highest intake group for nut consumption had an 35% reduced risk of CHD incidence. The reduction in total CHD death was due primarily to a decrease in sudden cardiac death. Clinical studies have evaluated the effects of many different nuts and peanuts on lipids, lipoproteins, and various CHD risk factors, including oxidation, inflammation, and vascular reactivity. Evidence from these studies consistently shows a beneficial effect on these CHD risk factors. The LDL cholesterol-lowering response of nut and peanut studies is greater than expected on the basis of blood cholesterol-lowering equations that are derived from changes in the fatty acid profile of the diet. Thus, in addition to a favorable fatty acid profile, nuts and peanuts contain other bioactive compounds that explain their multiple cardiovascular benefits. Other macronutrients include plant protein and fiber; micronutrients including potassium, calcium, magnesium, and tocopherols; and phytochemicals such as phytosterols, phenolic compounds, resveratrol, and arginine. Nuts and peanuts are food sources that are a composite of numerous cardioprotective nutrients and if routinely incorporated in a healthy diet, population risk of CHD would therefore be expected to decrease markedly.
Nut consumption, vegetarian diets, ischemic heart disease risk, and all-cause mortality: evidence from epidemiologic studies.
Perhaps one of the most unexpected and novel findings in nutritional epidemiology in the past 5 y has been that nut consumption seems to protect against ischemic heart disease (IHD). Frequency and quantity of nut consumption have been documented to be higher in vegetarian than in nonvegetarian populations. Nuts also constitute an important part of other plant-based diets, such as Mediterranean and Asian diets. In a large, prospective epidemiologic study of Seventh-day Adventists in California, we found that frequency of nut consumption had a substantial and highly significant inverse association with risk of myocardial infarction and death from IHD. The Iowa Women's Health Study also documented an association between nut consumption and decreased risk of IHD. The protective effect of nuts on IHD has been found in men and women and in the elderly. Importantly, nuts have similar associations in both vegetarians and nonvegetarians. The protective effect of nut consumption on IHD is not offset by increased mortality from other causes. Moreover, frequency of nut consumption has been found to be inversely related to all-cause mortality in several population groups such as whites, blacks, and the elderly. Thus, nut consumption may not only offer protection against IHD, but also increase longevity.
Improved Diet Quality with Peanut Consumption.
Objective: To evaluate the diet quality of free-living men, women, and children choosing peanuts and peanut products.
Design: Using data reported in the Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals and Diet and Health Knowledge Survey (CSFII/DHKS) from 19941996, food codes were used to sort respondents by use or nonuse of peanuts.
Subjects: A nationally representative sample of 4,751 men, 4,572 women, and 4,939 children (boys and girls, 219 yrs) who completed 2-day intake records.
Measures of Outcome: The two-sample t test was used to analyze differences between peanut users and nonusers for energy, nutrient intakes, Health Eating Index (HEI) scores, and body mass index (BMI).
Results: Peanut users (24% of CSFII/DHKS) had higher intakes (p < 0.001) of protein, total fat, polyunsaturated fat (PUFA), monounsaturated fat, (MUFA) (p < 0.01), fiber, vitamin A, vitamin E, folate, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and iron. Percent of energy from saturated fat was not significantly different for men, women or girls and was slightly lower (p < 0.01) for boys. Dietary cholesterol of peanut users was lower for all population groups; this decrease was significant for both men (p < 0.01) and children (p < 0.001). The HEI was calculated as a measure of overall nutrient profile of the diets and was significantly greater for peanut users (men 61.4, women, 65.1, children 66.8) compared to nonusers (men 59.9, women 64.1, children 64.7) for men (p = 0.0074) and children (p < 0.001). Energy intake was significantly higher in all population groups of peanut users (p < 0.001; boys: p < 0.01); however mean BMI for peanut users was lower for all gender/age categories (women: p < 0.05; children: p < 0.001).
Conclusions: These results demonstrate improved diet quality of peanut users, indicated by the higher intake of the micronutrients vitamin A, vitamin E, folate, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and iron and dietary fiber, and by the lower intake of saturated fat and cholesterol. Despite a higher energy intake over a two-day period, peanut consumption was not associated with a higher BMI.
Effects of chronic peanut consumption on energy balance and hedonics.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of chronic peanut consumption on energy balance and hedonics.
DESIGN: Thirty-week, cross-over, intervention study. Participants were provided 2113±494 kJ/day (505±118 kcal/day) as peanuts for 8 weeks with no dietary guidance (free feeding¾FF), 3 weeks with instructions to add peanuts to their customary diet (addition¾ADD) and 8 weeks where peanuts replaced an equal amount of other fats in the diet (substitution¾SUB).
SUBJECTS: Fifteen, healthy, normal-weight (BMI of 23.3±1.8) adults, aged 33±9 y.
MEASUREMENTS: Dietary intake, appetitive indices, energy expenditure, body weight and hedonics.
RESULTS: During FF, peanut consumption elicited a strong compensatory dietary response (ie subjects compensated for 66% of the energy provided by the nuts) and body weight gain (1.0 kg) was significantly lower than predicted (3.6 kg; P<0.01). When customary dietary fat was replaced with the energy from peanuts, energy intake, as well as body weight, were maintained precisely. Participants were unaware that body weight was a research focus. Resting energy expenditure was increased by 11% after regular peanut consumption for 19 weeks (P<0.01). Chronic consumption of peanuts did not lead to a decline in pleasantness or hunger ratings for peanuts nor did it lead to any hedonic shift for selected snack foods with other taste qualities during any of the three treatments.
CONCLUSIONS: Despite being energy dense, peanuts have a high satiety value and chronic ingestion evokes strong dietary compensation and little change in energy balance.
Nuts, especially walnuts, have both antioxidant quantity and efficacy and exhibit significant potential health benefits.
Free and total (after basic hydrolysis) polyphenols in nine types of raw and roasted nuts and two types of peanut butter (54 commercial samples) were analyzed after methanol extraction by a single step Folin-Ciocalteu reagent using catechin as standard. Walnuts had the highest free and total polyphenols in both the combined raw and roasted samples. Total polyphenols in the nuts were significantly higher than free polyphenols. Roasting had little effect on either free or total polyphenols in nuts. Raw and roasted walnuts had the highest total polyphenols. The efficacy of raw and roasted nut antioxidants was assessed by measuring the ability of the free polyphenol nut extracts to inhibit the oxidation of lower density lipoproteins (LDL + VLDL). A nut polyphenol, catechin, was measured after binding of three nut extracts to lower density lipoproteins. Walnut polyphenols had the best efficacy among the nuts and also the highest lipoprotein-bound antioxidant activity. Based on USDA availability data, the per capita total polyphenols was 162 mg from nuts per day in 2008. This corresponds to 19% of the total polyphenols from fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, oils and spices in the US diet. Nuts provided 158 mg of polyphenols per day to the European Union diet. Nuts are high in polyphenol antioxidants which by binding to lipoproteins would inhibit oxidative processes that lead to atherosclerosis in vivo. In human supplementation studies nuts have been shown to improve the lipid profile, increase endothelial function and reduce inflammation, all without causing weight gain. These qualities make nuts a nutritious healthy snack and food additive.
Nut consumption, weight gain and obesity: Epidemiological evidence.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Short-term trials support that adding tree nuts or peanuts to usual diets does not induce weight gain. We reviewed the available epidemiological evidence on long-term nut consumption and body weight changes. We also report new results from the SUN ("Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra") cohort.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Published epidemiologic studies with ≥1-yr follow-up were located. Two published reports from large cohorts (SUN and Nurses Health Study-2) showed inverse associations between frequency of nut consumption and long-term weight changes. A beneficial effect of a Mediterranean diet supplemented with tree nuts on waist circumference was reported after 1-yr follow-up in the first 1224 high-risk participants in the PREDIMED ("PREvencion DIeta MEDiterranea") trial. After assessing 11,895 participants of the SUN cohort, a borderline significant (p value for trend = 0.09) inverse association between baseline nut consumption and average yearly weight gain (multivariate-adjusted means = 0.32 kg/yr (95% confidence interval: 0.22-0.42) and 0.24 (0.11-0.37) kg/yr for participants with no consumption and >4 servings/week, respectively) was found after a 6-yr follow-up.
CONCLUSIONS: Consumption of nuts was not associated with a higher risk of weight gain in long-term epidemiologic studies and clinical trials.
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In conclusion, consumption of 50100 g (1.53.5 servings) of nuts 5 times/wk as part of a heart-healthy diet with total fat content (high in mono- and/or polyunsaturated fatty acids) of 35% of energy may significantly decrease total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in normo- and hyperlipidemic individuals.
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New Adventures In Silk!
The launch of the Lost City Silks collection is a fantasy fulfilled. Until now, all of our embroideries were executed on robust cotton grounds, almost all of them greigh or a neutral white color. This was a deliberate choice because we wanted our fabrics to be exquisite but also hardy, practical and of consistently superior quality. Standardising a neutral, versatile ground seemed like a sensible decision. Lost City artisans had to be trained to adapt their techniques to the thick cottons we used. But the ground they most enjoy working on is silk- the choice of the nawabs and royal families of India. We love silk- its poetic sheen and infinite potential as a canvas for experimentation. However, we denied ourselves the fantasy of creating a silk line until we were good and ready. There are a lot of fabrics out there and we have no desire to regurgitate anything.
Joseff Hoffman, a force behind the Weiner Werstatte workshops in Vienna, inspired our silk collection.
We had been saving inspirations- little scraps of paper, pixelated jpegs, stories read and sights seen on our travels abroad, particularly in Europe and India, snatches of songs we couldn't forget. We began to catalog and discuss these preliminary ideas with the design and sampling team at Lost City Blue, our company in India. The unanimous feedback was to go for a no-holds-barred extravagant line, and for once give the artisans the embroidery equivalent of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde to work on.
Aftab Khan, one our master artisans, and an unlikely collaborator of Hoffman, executed our vision for the collection
Work on the collection started in the summer of 2005. The first challenge was to source ground fabric of the desired weight, width and color from a reliable source. After several failed attempts at identifying a supplier from the nearby silk center of Varanasi (the holy city of Benaras), we finally found a facility in Bangalore that wove several hundred yards to our specefication in the three colors we chose: a rich red, lustrous black and mughal gold. Next, over the course of six months and several 18 hour trans-Atlantic plane trips, train rides from New Delhi to Lucknow and back, in scorching Indian summer and frozen New York winter, we edited the several ideas we wanted to experiment with down to six or seven. We were aware that the American home furnishings market, even the top-end we catered to, was more conservative and risk-averse than Europe- afraid of color and reluctant to experiment. Emboldened by the commercial success of some of our trippier creations on cotton, we decided to listen to the feedback from our design team and not hold back.
Many frequent flyer miles were accumulated in bringing this collection to life
Sampling started in late 2006 right around the time our cotton-based collections were being shipped to various U.S showrooms and our artisans were itching to work on something new. We had been fans of the work done by Wiener Werkstatte Vienna workshops, and admired the philosophy of Joseff Hofmann, who opposed the mass-produced blandness of jewelry, fabric and furniture and instead promoted handcrafted excellence for the discerning few. Decades later, an unlikely collaborator- our master artisan, Aftab Khan, would breathtakingly execute some of Hofmann's ideas as embroidery. The resulting designs- Vienna and Camille are based on some of WW's early naturalistic textiles that are closer to art nouveau than their later more geometric work. Other influences included Ottoman robes (Cintamani), Mughal architecture (Mumtaz)- the tomb of Emperor Shah Jahan (who built the Taj Mahal), Toile de Jouy (Toile) and ancient gold leaf prints from India (Roghan).
Wajid Ali Shah, the last nawab of Avadh, was a patron of embroidery in Lucknow
By spring 2007 we had fifteen designs that could be put through the production process. Over the course of the next few months a few of them did not survive the final stages- washing and finishing. A couple seemed duplicative. In the end we decided to bring to market just 10 designs- every single one of them is stamped with the souls of Rashid, our manager, and Aftab, Haroon, Zeeshan, and Liaqat, our lead artisans, who we believe are the best in the world. In April 2008, we started shipping the display panels to our U.S. showrooms.
We have worked on hundreds of embroideries but none has inflamed our passions or imagination as the 10 designs that constitute the Lost City Silk Collection. We have poured our hearts into it. You be the judge of its beauty and craftsmanship.
A rough sketch for Vienna, inspired by an early Wiener Werstatte fabric
Vienna, above, fully embroidered by hand.
Camille, fully embroidered by hand, also based on a Weiner Werstatte fabric


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Kentucky is making the grade as it moves up in national education rankings. According to Education Commissioner, Gene Wilhoit, recent rankings place Kentucky as 8th in Math scores, and around 14th in English Language Profieciency.
These improvements are leaving many school officials wondering how a four-day school week, that four Kentucky school districts have already turned to, will effect these scores.
Webster County turned to the four-day school week in 2003 to help save money in their school district. While teachers and officials agree that the system has both its advantages and disadvantages, many are considering whether or not the four-day system is the best idea for Kentucky's testing scores.
"I think kids would really like a four day school system...I think that teachers sometimes feel overwhelmed at the amount of stuff we have to do and having that extra day off to get prepared for the kids would be wonderful", Monroe County teacher, Christie Biggerstaff says.
While Biggerstaff agrees that there are benefits to a four-day school week, she says that as a teacher, she isn't sure how it would help improve the statewide test scores.
"I worry...since its only a four day that we would not have enough time to get everything that we need to get in and we wouldn t have enough time to be with the kids and teach them all that we need to teach them", Biggerstaff says.
Kentucky's Education Commissioner, Gene Wilhoit, tends to agree. Wilhoit was once a social studies teacher himself and understands that the four-day system can have both its advantages and disadvantages.
"I don t think I would've liked it, I m a bit biased. We know that particular students that are struggling need constant interaction with the school environment...I worry a little bit about 4 days on and 3 days off...that sort of break", says Wilhoit.
Both Wilhoit and Biggerstaff agree that school officials need to look into the effect the shortened week can have on testing for students, before they make the decision to move to a four-day week.
"We bank alot on the CATS test and our school really reaps from that CATS test and there s so much that they have to learn that is on that test that it'd be hard to get everything in", Biggerstaff says.
Warren County is not considering a four-day system at this time, but Jackson County will begin its four-day school week on Monday, October 17th.
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Kindle Fire (1st Gen) Geek Squad Re-certified for $99 + free shipping
What do you think ? Is this 1st Gen perfectly usable?
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Geeksquad certified means squat. Lots of comments on BestBuy.com about folks buying "GeekSquad certified products that were DOA or still had the original owners' data and passwords on them.
As much as I dislike Best Buy and detest Geek Squad, that's a mighty tempting price.
If it's DOA they'll make it right, right? Right guys?
FWIW, I have a 1st gen kindle fire I got a while back from amazon recertified and the development community for the device is amazing, in some respects making it better than many other tablets.
Running Jellybean 4.2.1(CM10) on mine and it's great.
I got one of the original fires when they first came out and am still using it. It's great for watching amazon prime videos and just doing a little web browsing. I normally keep it on my nightstand, so I can watch a movie as I fall asleep.
Also, portzebie, where did you get the jelly bean for yours ? (Also, love the screen name, that takes me back to the old Don Martin MAD magazine days...)
@tjohnston23: Search for "liliputing kindle fire 4.2" and it'll be the first link. You'll have to follow a link to another article within that article to figure out what dev tools you need to get. I followed this article about 2 weeks ago successfully. After everything is backed up and installed, go to the app store and get "AppExtractor". It will let you recover individual apps/data from your backup.
Will the professional narraton with whisper sync for voice work like on the new ones for those of us with audible accounts?
For basic media consumption--reading websites, watching movies and youtube, playing mickey-mouse games, etc.--the first generation Fire is pretty good especially at a price like this. I don't know that I'd trust an in-house refurb operation though, that sounds like a scheme to get rid of junk they can't send back to Amazon.
My 75 year old mother had her 3rd 1st gen kindle fire go bad this week. They are now shipping her a gen 2. This model has a flaw in either the battery connection or the charging connection and so have the others. We've gone through all the stuff with tech amazon tech support and at 75 my mom does not abuse them. I can not image doing that with best buy. At only $50 off this is not worth it. Great product though.
Geek Squad "recertified"? Ha ha! Riiiiiight. I wouldn't trust anything they certified let alone recertified.
Not a bad price for a decent Android tablet though. I'm actually having a hard time not picking one up.
@tjohnston23: Wow, I think you are the first person to ever get my screen name, especially since I technically spell it wrong (it should be potrzebie).
The xda forum for the kindle fire is an awesome resource and it's where I dled the rom I currently use. Here is the thread for it:
One thing to be aware of though, as far as I know amazon prime videos are not something available on regular android, just the kindle fire software.
If you go back to the main forum you can find other useful information and tools as well as other roms, but I think that one is the best.
@portezbie: I flashed the same on my KF and it is great, a whole different device with Jellybean. For others interested, do a google search for jellybean kindle fire and there are numerous resources available.
personally ... just suck it up and spend the extra $50 and get the revamped Kindle Fire. Has improved and new features the original (1st gen) didn't have. I bought one for my niece and she loves it. (I have the Kindle Fire HD). I just see no point in having to deal with a possible DOA item or deal with Best Buy at all.
Also if your a student you can get a deal from Amazon on the new KFHD. And they have been doing sales on the revamped KF, I bought my nieces for only $129.
idk if this helps anyone but hope it does.
Flashing a Fire is doable, but tablet prices have come down so far you might as well get a different model if you want the real deal. A mere $200 gets you Google's flagship 7" tablet with a 3D friendly Tegra CPU and way better specs than even the Fire 2.0.
Awesome, cant use a BB gift card on the clearance site...I can't get rid of this stupid GC
@bogus: This is probably what I would do as well but to be fair that is still double the price.


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Alistair Macaulay's NY Times piece on the "perilous conditionof the Ashton legacy
Posted 22 June 2009 - 10:52 AM
And, though I haven't seen PNB, I have read many positive things about Boal's directorship of the company, a company which I also see repeatedly described and reviewed as "major." To me, "major" means it is a company of more than merely regional interest. (I live in a city with no such company.) In that context, I was disconcerted by his remark -- since Ashton is one of the greatest choreographers in the ballet tradition, arguably the one twentieth-century peer of Balanchine. (Of course, I don't expect Boal to have or to claim the deep familiarity with Ashton he has with Balanchine or Robbins, and I'm not particularly invested in whether or not PNB dances Ashton or should dance Ashton about which I can have no opinion.)
I tend to think that what would help the Ashton legacy most at this time would be for the Royal Ballet to invest more heavily in dancing his ballets on a regular basis and drawing on the experience of earlier Ashton interpreters who are still around (those who worked with him directly) to help rehearse and coach the ballets. (I assume they do the latter to some degree but don't really know.) Just a few years ago, I did see the Royal dance what I thought were fine performances of Symphonic Variations (with Cojocaru and Yoshida in the Fonteyn role) and A Month in the Country (with Bussell and a not very Ashtonesque but definitely very compelling Guillem in the Seymour role) and a pretty good performance of The Dream. But as noted above they seem to have been dancing Ashton less in recent seasons.
I'm headed to New York to see Sylvia for the first time next week as danced by ABT-- can't wait.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 11:05 AM
Posted 22 June 2009 - 11:15 AM
I agree. Balanchine (and Robbins) have one of the worlds great companies dedicated to performing their works. Other companies of varying size and strength may have Balanchine in and out of their repertories, depending on the AD, but for NYCB to be dancing the repertory year in, year out, is crucial, regardless of what you may think about Martins' stewardship of the company.
This to me is the key -- having a flagship company performing the works year in and year out. Balanchine and Robbins have an institutional home that will perform their works regularly and forever. Not so lucky for Ashton (the Royal) or Tudor (ABT). That's why I find Merce Cunningham's decision to disband his company so baffling. Without a Cunningham company to perform the works in perpetuity, how soon before the drift starts?
Posted 22 June 2009 - 11:17 AM
It would be wonderful if this turned out to be true. What do others think?
Unlike Balanchine, Ashton did not teach, which may have had some long term consequences. Alexander Grant has said that dancers do not have to be trained in an Ashton style properly coached, they can dance his ballets.
I am aware that sometimes the performances are so lame that the ballet is effectively wrecked, but I don't think we have reached that point yet with Ashton -- or Balanchine -- and am not inclined to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Reading Drew and Sandy in the light of dirac's comment, I began to think about how one MIGHT re-introduce Ashton into the current repertoire.
I think his [Peter Boal's] remark reflects that thoughtful care so that he doesn't take either the dancers or the audience "too far, too fast". Being on the modest side I think he is sticking with that which he knows best, and that which he is confident will move the company in the direction he has charted. He's simply not going to mess with stuff he isn't totally confident is within his sphere of knowledge.
If one wanted to bring the audience as much in touch as possible to the Ashton style, and assuming that coaches were obtainable who could do the best possible job, which Ashton ballets would you suggest for a company either in the first tier (Paris, New York, ABT) or in the second (U.S. regionals and smaller European companies)?
Drew has mentioned "The Dream," which seems like a brilliant choice given its relatively small scale (compared to Balanchine, anyway) and the spotlight it puts on the two leads. What else? Thinking of Helene's point about the need to please dancers, wouldn't the Isadora Duncan pieces to Brahms please almost any ballerina capable of dancing them, especially since they make a great impact in such a short time? Patineurs? Symphonic Variations? Even if one of the 3-acts were considered too big a risk, couldn't you present selectdions from Cinderella, Sylvia, or Ondine? I would think that dancers might love material like that. It would be a start, anyway.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 12:49 PM
When you think of where he was coming from, it was a company that had a resident and, while he was a student, living god, one who was not particularly kind to most dancers who went out of the temple for outside classes and coaching, and didn't welcome back dancers who left to dance the classics, as Ruthanna Boris described. Suzanne Farrell said something to the effect that Balanchine told her that he could teach her everything she needed to know, and she accepted that and never looked elsewhere. After Balanchine's death, there was a renewed religiosity in the company regarding his work, and from that environment, Boal left for Europe to do something that appealed to him, much as the contemporary rep he's brought to PNB seems to do. (I was surprised when he returned to NYCB; I thought he would stay in Europe for the rest of his career.)
Although I think it likely that, as Helene suggested, when Boal said he "didn't know" Ashton's work, he probably meant he was not terribly familiar with it or some such, I still consider the remark absolutely shocking. It reflects very, very badly on the state of ballet "culture" generally--something IS really wrong when the director of a major ballet company feels comfortable saying he does not "know" Ashton's work -- but I am afraid I don't think it reflects that well on Boal himself.
If Boal received an education in Ashton at NYCB, it was that Balanchine didn't think those ballets worth preserving in his company, or the Company would have programmed them.
I think this is it in nutshell: he's managing where his interests lie, while retaining the big full-lengths that bring in the money and that his long-term audience counts on (the Stowell "Swan Lake" and "Nutcracker", the Hynd "Sleeping Beauty").
The Ashton repertory is in retreat everywhere and adding it to repertory would only detract from Peter Boal's real interests -- City Ballet dance (Balanchine, Robbins) , Euro-dance (Forsythe) and downtown New York dance.
I actually see it as combination of having NYCB and putting in the roots quite early by giving ballets to a number of companies worldwide and by hiring ballet masters like Francia Russell to do the stagings. That happened for decades before Balanchine's death and the Trust was formed. In many ways, the Trust sounded like business-as-usual, while Ashton had been pushed out and neglected by the time he died, which I think is why the Ashton Trust has been so weak.
(By the by, I think it is not only the Balanchine Trust that deserves credit for the "life" of the Balanchine repertory or even the number of former Balanchine dancers directing other companies, but also the simple fact of NYCB dancing huge swathes of his repertory steadily over the years and periodically taking it on tour: I know many people have been disatisfied with some of their performances over the years, but in New York there is a lot of Balanchine and a lot of varied Balanchine on a steady basis; a very different picture from Ashton at the Royal Ballet. An old saying has it that you can't be more Catholic than the Pope--if the Royal doesn't keep Ashton alive, well, that's not much of an inspiration or guide to anyone else.)
One of the things leonid points out is the power struggle at Royal Ballet between the Ashtonians and Macmillan, and I think that one of things that was key in NYCB's success was Jerome Robbins, two things in particular: Robbins did not want to take over for Balanchine, and he was, essentially, running a company-within-a-company at NYCB. He got to encourage and promote "his" dancers, especially in Balanchine's last decade, he had ballet masters dedicated to his rep, Balanchine gave him first pick of dancers during festivals, Robbins' ballets were programmed regularly, and I've never read that when he wanted to create a ballet there, he was blocked. There was no need to overthrow Balanchine.
(It may also be, however, that he doesn't think, for his own reasons, that Ashton is right for his company but doesn't want to say so bluntly.)
I can't say whether he was being diplomatic in this case, but I don't think he says everything he thinks out loud, and I've guessed a number of times that he was being diplomatic in his answers. That doesn't make me trust him less, because while I'd like to know a lot of the "real" answers, he doesn't owe me an explanation, and in many cases, no matter what he were to answer, he would be causing the company unneeded grief.
He doesn't seem to "shade" his speech with an eye to how it might be preceived. I really like this about him. I trust him. He gives me the real scoop. At the same time he adroitly stays away from pronouncements that could cause him or his company grief or internal strife.
Have long-time Royal Ballet watchers seen the ABT version? If so, how does it compare to the original performances, and will what we're seeing maintain a lifeline? I saw "Sylvia" in London a few years ago, and loved the ballet, but I didn't have a clear sense of how it had changed, and wondered whether I was like something that was quite different from what the ballet was supposed to be. I didn't get to see the Royal Ballet in the 50's or 60's or even the early 70's, and I only saw late Dowell in the 80's from that legacy.
I tend to think that what would help the Ashton legacy most at this time would be for the Royal Ballet to invest more heavily in dancing his ballets on a regular basis and drawing on the experience of earlier Ashton interpreters who are still around (those who worked with him directly) to help rehearse and coach the ballets...I'm headed to New York to see Sylvia for the first time next week as danced by ABT-- can't wait.
Grant may be right, but he is also a controversial figure in Macaulay's article, and I would love to hear long-time Royal Ballet watchers weigh in on this.
Alexander Grant has said that dancers do not have to be trained in an "Ashton style" – properly coached, they can dance his ballets.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 01:05 PM
Here are twenty reasons for me, why Ashton is a significant choreographer and why his unique style is worth re-capturing for all time through performance:-
Façade, Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous, Symphonic Variations, Scene de Ballet, Cinderella, Illuminations, Daphnis and Chloe, Sylvia, Birthday Offering, La Fille mal Gardee, Le deux Pigeons, Marguerite and Armand, The Dream, Monotones 1, Monotones II, Enigma Variations, A Month in the Country, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora, Rhapsody.
I could have added a few more to this list of ballets less popular, which I personally enjoyed, but only when they had exemplary casts performing them.
Helene quite rightly says, "Ashton's works take discipline, modesty, and a certain amount of self-abnegation, as well as a commitment to a style of movement that is Volkova's legacy. " I would add that it requires serious even subtle artists to make Ashton ballets work and dancers have to absorb the style as Helene says, as well as mastering the sometime trick steps.
What makes Ashton a high-art choreographer is that only artists can be truly subtle and speak through choreography in such a way that its language is always resonating at a higher level to that of straight forward virtuosity. His choreography as well, demands of the viewer a different, more subtle reflective, appreciation mode, because for Ashton, ballet is an art and not an entertainment.
With Ashton you are not after all going to go hell for leather, as in a virtuoso variation but even at speed, Ashton's choreography keeps you in the mode of his emotional and psychological world where resolution, as in Symphonic Variations, grows organically out of truly slow opening movements. In this ballet, he takes you into a reflective world of feeling and symbolised relationships in a highly subtle way and then ends with a joyous, life giving, finale. The music has spoken, the dance has echoed and we have experienced a journey in an almost religious atmosphere. Ashton has taken precisely where he wanted to and this is what all great artists achieve.
Ashton's refined choreography does not belong to the past and he is of course not alone in this. When there are truly only a handful of masters in this genre of classical ballet, you wonder how this creative artist is becoming lost in the company to which no other choreographer has given so much.
I cannot agree with everything Mr Macaulay has said and I am sorry to see his quoting what after all sounds like gossip regarding that distinguished ballet artist Alexander Grant who has contributed more to ballet than any critic has.
He reports, " In 1997, at the Roehampton conference on revivals and reconstructions of ballet, the notator Michele Braban recounted how she had had to spend so long analyzing the differences among various filmed versions of "Fille" that she had finally been required, for sake of economy, simply to record the version currently being danced as the new standard text; this story became more distressing when it emerged that nobody had even given her a copy of Margaret Dale's definitive film of the original "Fille" production."
Ho Hum. This film is certainly important, but it was shot in a studio and adapted for the small screen with many shots focusing on one aspect of the stage (set) with the loss of other stage actions. So not so definitive after all.
Firstly I would say that the RB Company's and dancers mind set is not the same as it was in 1961 nor are the talents equal to the original cast which I witnessed. The last performance that I saw was a disgrace and that was not production changes it was performance. The corps had no sense of relationship to the work they were dancing and the principals were a long way from the interpretation of either Nadia Nerina or Ann Jenner in the role nor the right kind of period cheekiness of David Blair.
Michael Somes, whose strictness and overriding affection for the Ashton repertoire was legendary, finds Mr Macaulay commenting on another distinguished RB artist whose departure in my opinion led to a general decline in the company's performance of Ashton especially by the corps de ballet.
Drew hit the mark when he states, "I tend to think that what would help the Ashton legacy most at this time would be for the Royal Ballet to invest more heavily in dancing his ballets on a regular basis and drawing on the experience of earlier Ashton interpreters who are still around (those who worked with him directly) to help rehearse and coach the ballets." Only problem is, not everyone can coach or even wants to. One person who does coach is Dame Antoinette Sibley.
Mr Macaulay goes on to report, "When dancers of Ashton's 1952 "Sylvia" say that the 2004 version — reconstructed from a film of a 1963 rehearsal — and its latest revivals feature steps on the downbeat that should be on the upbeat, who will listen?"
Having seen the film in question, which if my memory serves me right was silent, the quality was so poor and the speed of the dancing was odd to say the very least and it showed Doreen Wells in the leading role.
I am not at all surprised that the revival was questioned. I saw the performances of this 1963 production with Doreen Wells in the lead and in the same production I saw Dame Margot Fonteyn as Silvia partnered by Atillio Labis who caused an absolute stir with his looks, partnering and technique. Roberto Bolle in 2004, created the same response, whilst partnering Darcey Bussell miscast as Sylvia.
On the first night of the 2004 revival, overheard in the interval in the Floral Hall between the sipping of champagne could be heard a cacophony of complaints among the older regular audiencel regarding errors of staging and the reproduction of the designs.
There are always problems reviving ballets and no one imagines any of the famous reconstructions of this last decade or so resembles their original productions. How can they, when dancing and production values were quite different to recent times and all the ranks of performers then, had reputedly outstanding personalities can we say the same today?
I concur with his last statement, "Must we, only 21 years after Ashton's death, settle for Third Quarto versions of ballets that once made him the toast on both sides of the Atlantic?"
Posted 22 June 2009 - 01:43 PM
This is my feeling too.I think this is it in nutshell: he's managing where his interests lie, while retaining the big full-lengths that bring in the money and that his long-term audience counts on (the Stowell "Swan Lake" and "Nutcracker", the Hynd "Sleeping Beauty").
The Ashton repertory is in retreat everywhere and adding it to repertory would only detract from Peter Boal's real interests -- City Ballet dance (Balanchine, Robbins) , Euro-dance (Forsythe) and downtown New York dance.
I agree that Boal is basically very diplomatic; OTOH, when I say that he does not "shade his speech", I mean that he doesn't say things simply for effect, to accomplish some unspoken objective, or for how it makes him look. He answers questions in a straight forward manner while maintaining his diplomatic style. If he wants to duck an answer, he says so. If he doesn't want to "go there", he just doesn't go there. I have found I can take him at his word. Hidden agendas, ulterior motives, or sophisicated complexity just don't seem to be part of his repertory.I can't say whether he was being diplomatic in this case, but I don't think he says everything he thinks out loud, and I've guessed a number of times that he is being diplomatic in his answers.
He doesn't seem to "shade" his speech with an eye to how it might be preceived.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 04:20 PM
Thanks to Members Nanarina and JMcN.
Does anyone else have their own recent (or not so recent) Ashton performance reports? It would be marvellous to read them in the context of this discussion. How IS Ashton doing in performance nowadays, as you see it.?
For the record, ABT is perfoming Sylvia at the Met from June 29 - July 4).
Posted 22 June 2009 - 06:58 PM
Mr Macaulay goes on to report, When dancers of Ashtons 1952 Sylvia say that the 2004 version reconstructed from a film of a 1963 rehearsal and its latest revivals feature steps on the downbeat that should be on the upbeat, who will listen?
Having seen the film in question, which if my memory serves me right was silent, the quality was so poor and the speed of the dancing was odd to say the very least and it showed Doreen Wells in the leading role.
From what Ive read, the reconstruction of Sylvia was done pretty liberally, with a lot of guesswork involved.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 07:30 PM
Re: Ashton style, it appears to me that Ashton is similar to Bournonville in two ways: the importance of the upper body (port de bras, épaulement, expressive face) and petit allegro. Few dancers today can do both competently, much less well.
There may be a small glimmer of hope in the fact that many Ashton ballets are filmed (even if the quality is not the best) and notated, considering that several Petipa ballets have recently been restored to coherence (somewhat). Of course they do not look the way they did in the 19C, but many cobwebs have been cleared from them, and when they are performed as living works of art, as the Bolshoi's "Le Corsaire" was this past week, they sparkle and enchant. We are now in a much better position to restore Ashton's ballets (although we may not be much longer) than we are to restore Petipa's works, and I hope we will not allow Ashton's works to be edited as heavily as Petipa's were over the years. Another bright spot may perhaps be found in the Royal Danish Ballet's continuous performances of Bournonville throughout the centuries, but if the Royal Ballet does not get its act together and take on such a role, audiences 100 years from now will not have the opportunity to appreciate Ashton the way Copenhagen has appreciated and preserved for us such treasures as La Sylphide, Napoli, &c.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 11:11 PM
I would not be surprised if such a statement [Boal's] came from Helgi Tomasson...
Helgi did have Symphonic Variations done for two years running at San Francisco--and Thais pas de deux and Monotones I and II. I have the sense his taste is fairly catholic.
Re: Ashton style, it appears to me that Ashton is similar to Bournonville in two ways: the importance of the upper body (port de bras, épaulement, expressive face) and petit allegro. Few dancers today can do both competently, much less well.
Yes--in a nutshell.
Posted 22 June 2009 - 11:45 PM
Posted 23 June 2009 - 03:17 AM
Wow! So, as dirac has suggested, perhaps it CAN be done.
To say that I am grateful to Sarasota Ballet for staging these ballets is a gross understatement. Stylistically, the company looked not mature but utterly awakened. I could have said Bend! More!, but it was evident that those and other appropriate words had already been spoken. The leading dancers have speed, charm, full-bodied immersion and multifaceted detail, and everyone shows a remarkable grasp of Ashtons multilayered musicality.
Thanks, Hans, for the following. You really have encapsulated (or skewered) the dominant aesthetic at Miami, and -- I gather -- at a couple of other places.
[ ... ] when you consider all the companies led by former NYCB dancers who only want to program Balanchine, watered-down Petipa, Robbins, or new choreography (regardless of quality) [ ... ]
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The fact that Peter Boal is not terribly familiar with Ashton's work does bother me, but it does not surprise me. I would not be surprised if such a statement came from Helgi Tomasson, Kent Stowell, Francia Russell, Edward Villella, or Peter Martins, either, because of what Helene mentioned in one of her posts: dancers at NYCB were/are not encouraged to educate themselves regarding ballet outside the world of Balanchine under the assumption that it is not worth watching. This is, of course, ridiculous, but the fact is that when you consider all the companies led by former NYCB dancers who only want to program Balanchine, watered-down Petipa, Robbins, or new choreography (regardless of quality) it is really not surprising that Ashton is unknown here, apart from ABT (which apparently performs only The Dream, Sylvia, and occasionally Les Patineurs) and the Joffrey Ballet, which does not have much of a visible presence outside Chicago.
Truer words were never written. Let's go over the roll call again: Former City Ballet dancers sit in positions of power in New York, Washington, DC, North Carolina (2), Miami, Chicago, Colorado, Arizona, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Whether out of ignorance or indifference, none of them will ever be committed to Ashton as anything more than a novelty. To borrow a term from Star Trek, Ashton is not part of their prime directive.
Given this state of affairs, I think it's unlikely in the extreme that the United States will spearhead an Ashton revival -- the center of gravity has moved too far toward St. Petersburg, New York for that to happen. It's tempting to think that little Sarasota Ballet will be able to preserve the Ashton works and style but I'm highly doubtful that they will be able to accomplish that any more than little New York Theatre Ballet will be able to preserve the Tudor works and style.
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If you make a delivery to a pizza place, should you get a tip?
I delivered some supplies to a pizza place and thought it would be funny to get a tip. (it was a long trip home)
Any other role reversals that you find interesting?
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Yeah! When my doctor cancelled an appointment I made within 24 hours, I expected them to pay me for missing the appointment since I would have had to pay them if I cancelled. This really happened (and as you might guess, they didn't pay). I think I quoted George Costanza more than a few times... something about the "delicate genius."
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@coondogg97: If I attempted that, they would shoot me in the face. Kill. me. DEAD.
My boss is working locally today, should I yell at him for not asking permission?
Speaking of the doctor, they will have you wait in the waiting room 20 or 30 minutes after your scheduled appointment, but if you're 5 minutes late they read you the riot act about delaying other patients. They even make me wait if I am late. Dude WTF? If you're making me sit there reading People magazine from 1985 regardless of what time I show at least give me a break if I'm 5 minutes late or get me in on time. The dentist is the same way, I picture them just hanging out back there because I can hear all the women assistants clucking and carrying on.
As for tipping, I always get confused about food places that you order your own stuff at the counter, but they bring you're food and will get you stuff from the kitchen if you need it. Places like Chipotle, Smash Burger, Pizza Hut, etc... do you tip those people?
Whenever I find a killer deal, I love stopping by a Men's Wearhouse or Joe Bank on the way home from work, because I'm usually better dressed than all the schmucks who work there (I wear a suit every day to work). I don't offer them advice on how they should dress, but someone probably should
@ryanwb: A full pizza hut restaurant has servers around here. Are you talking about some mall food court variety with which I'm not familiar? Or a combo restaurant?
@omnichad: I've been to a couple of these places. They mainly run the counter, but bring the food over. You take care of your own drinks and they have busboys. You don't have a dedicated server.
@ryanwb: That's an interesting dilemma about the tip situation. I usually tip the busboys rather than the person working the counter, since they do the most work. If they split tips, then all the better. Also, there's no need to dog on the old magazines at doctors offices, People had a good 1985.
As for the OP: I remember when I was in Philadelphia for a conference, I opened the door for a doorman. I stood there for 5 seconds with my hand out and we both laughed when he finally realized what I was doing.
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, authored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study's Cris Beam, and The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride, Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, were among those named by the New York Times Book Review as part of its "100 Notable Books of 2013" list.
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Charlotte baseball concludes its three-week, 13-game home stand with a four-game weekend series against the Siena Saints at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium. The series, the final weekend before Atlantic 10 Conference play commences, will begin Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. That start time is to accommodate the players and coaches for the noon doubleheader on Saturday. Sunday's start remains at noon.
Charlotte has dropped three in a row, and sits at 10-5 for the season. The 49ers started the season winning nine straight at home. The 49ers are 6-3 all-time against Siena, with all nine contests taking place in the Queen City. The last time Siena came down was 2006, making this the first stop for Siena at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium. The 49ers batted .251 as a team in the last five games, though they have allowed just a .202 average in that span.
Sophomore Brad Elwood (Indian Trail, N.C. / Piedmont HS) has hit safely in all 15 games for Charlotte this season and carried over the last game of 2012 to sport a career-long 16-game hit streak. He is batting .400 (8-for-20) in the last five games and leads the 49ers with a .297 (23-for-58) batting average. He is third with eight walks this season and has struck out only one time this season. If he starts all four games, redshirt senior shortstop Justin Roland (Salisbury, N.C. / East Rowan HS) will become the ninth player in team history to start 200 contests. He has played 198 games for Charlotte, starting 196. He has started the last 130 games that Charlotte has played, dating back to 2010. Barring injury or demotion, he will become the school's all-time leader in games started in mid-April, and should top the list of games played for a career at Charlotte in early May.
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WELLSBURG - Last year friends of Michelle Huffman put together a run-walk to help her and her husband, Alan, with costs involved in fighting her battle against cancer.
She lost that battle in July at the age of 35, but her husband and friends have decided to carry on her spirit of giving through a second walk this month to help someone else affected by the disease.
Rob Hilt, who organized last year's Run for Michelle, said proceeds for this year's event will go to the family of a local child who has cancer.
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IN IT TOGETHER — Volunteers with Michelle's Miles for Smiles, a walk held in honor of the late Michelle Huffman and for a local family affected by cancer as she was, gathered to make cupcakes sold at the Wellsburg Applefest to raise funds for the event. Among those taking part were, from left, front, Mackenzie Mechling, Melissa Swallie, Bethany Caldwell and Kimberly Reyer; middle: Rob Hilt, the event's coordinator; Britney Hervey, Holly Groch, Debbie Smith and Cathy Hervey; and back: Kathryn Young and Bill Smith.
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"We hope to make it an annual event," he said.
Dubbed Michelle's Miles for Smiles, the run-walk will take the same path as the Wendy's 5K Run held during the Wellsburg 4th of July, beginning at 2 p.m. Oct. 21
Registration will begin at noon. The cost is $20, with T-shirts provided to a limited number of participants. Applications may be obtained at the event's Facebook page, found at Michelle's Miles for Smiles, or at Spicy Gringo's, the Mexican restaurant on Commerce Street she operated with her husband.
Hilt said for children, there will be a free 100-yard dash, a cartoon artist, and games.
He and many others have been raising money for the event through a car wash held at Advance Auto Parts and cupcake sale held at the Wellsburg Applefest.
Hilt said sponsors are still sought and will be recognized on the T-shirts. For information, call Hilt at (740) 457-7720.
He said several area businesses are donating money, goods or services for the event, and Ron Michaux of First National Bank in Wellsburg is assisting in setting up an account for the charity event.
Hilt said last year's event raised nearly $5,000, a testament to the good will Michelle and Alan have built in the community.
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Hi Heinz
I appreciate your help, but I am a potential client, simply trying to establish if I can use my D300s, with an 18-200mm VRII on the NN5 with an RD16 rotator, or if I need anything else with it.
Hi Heinz
I appreciate your help, but I am a potential client, simply trying to establish if I can use my D300s, with an 18-200mm VRII on the NN5 with an RD16 rotator, or if I need anything else with it.
By sending you the settings for D300s for the lower rail and for the upper rail for your 18-200mm VRII, I stated that you can use it. With 18mm zoom you have to take a lot of pictures to set up a panorama. Most of us shot with fisheye lenses. That's why I gave the link to the fisheye lenses. You can shoot with 4, 6 or 8 shots to be ready with a fisheye for a single row.
A good addition would be to order the Nadir adaptor to have help with the nadir shot.
Btw: sorry now I checked what you ment : http://www.easypano.com/forum/displa...1&TopicID=4162
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Thank you for the help Heinz. I have ordered it and the Nadir adaptor as well.
Actually this factory irregulars sadden me, as I'm in EU where the cheapest NN5 set is 530$ plus shipping. That's $170 over the irregulars US price and 120$ over the regular one.
NN5+RD16 is 650$ here :'(
I understand what you are talking about. NN5 RD16 is sold for 469 € in NL.
But let me try to explain: I received my pre-ordered Pano Pole with some other accessories yesterday. Price: $482.06 in total. Included shipping costs in this price: $182.54 being on the way from 15.- 21Oktober. For $60 less it is on its way 4-6 weeks, when it is not stuck in customs. When it was deliver at my door, I had to pay nearly another 100€ for taxes and customs. And this price is without any profit for a reseller.
So we have to imagine that the all in price we pay to a reseller has to include shipping, customs, taxes, pre-payed money to have it in stock, the time he has to spend to take our calls "When do my parts arrive?", plus he tries to serve us just asking an extra special ring for NN3 or an extra lens ring. With extra orders. The moment they place an extra order for a $10 ring, the profit is gone the moment they sit at the PC to order it. For the rest they pay extra money to serve us.
Of course we can say he has chosen for this business himself. But that's not fair. They have to spend the same amount of time to order an extra ring for NN3 as well as an order for you with NN5 NN3 R1 pole. So we also have to pay for their service plus I suppose for a not so high profit with this gear.
When a customer tells me it is much cheaper in Istanbul, I tell him he has the choice to get it there. But in case something goes wrong, he has to take another flight to Istanbul to get service or deal with a reclamation.
Live yourself, but give others the chance to live as well. Otherwise once upon a time we have to take a rowing boat to US to get the Nodal Ninja Parts on our own.
So I am glad to find european resellers like Badders in UK, Vincen in France and Mauro in Italy. Following the forum you will recognize their engagement and knowledge. But I think, they like to have a nice meal at the end of a working day like you and me.
With best regards,
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I see where you're coming from. It can be quite frustrating. When I worked in Norway, I constantly had colleagues complain about online pricing in their own country than what could be found elsewhere, in particular, the US.
Heinz has a point, though. The customs, VAT, and handling comes at a cost. You could personally avoid some of this by doing the transaction yourself, but it becomes complicated even with reputable sellers.
I'm a voracious online shopper, but rarely have I needed to purchase outside the US. When I have, it has been a long and complicated process. I ordered some cycling stuff from Germany last year. I waited two months after the ship date, it never arrived. The tracking went dead when it hopped the plane. Fortunately, the vendor was reputable, and agreed to resend the merchandise.
The second package arrived two weeks later, and the first package arrived the very next day. I returned one of the packages, but it cost the vendor $30USD to send that second package. They said they had a 30% rate of reships with customers in the US.
Purchasing from Asia isn't as difficult, but it depends on so many factors, it's difficult for a single customer to keep track of.
Remember that much of the cost goes to VAT and overseas shipping. The rest may or may not be worth your while to take a chance.
In the mean time, they way this country is being run, we'll soon be paying taxes as high or higher than your own. Cheap taxes were nice while it lasted, but others have decided that my money will be better put to use increasing bureaucracy, mismanagement, and waste in our government.
For NN the closest distributor is in Austria and Italy.
Hey Nick,
When you will have images of the Ultimate to show us?
High, I'mnew around here and pretty new to the pano world...
I love panoramic pictures, i've already done one that i like but, as it's just a single image crop, it's not really detailed... So i want to buy a pano head... I was interested in buying a NN5 with an RD16 but as it's discontinued i decided to wait for the new model... Any idea when it will be available? It's supposed to be my christmas gift :)
And i don't see any prototype pictures with the link you posted...
Thanks in advance for your answer.
contact Vincen, you very good French distributor. There will be NN5's within 2 weeks or so:
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