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- Traverse the Vallee Blanche to Italy and return on the Gondola
- Classic route to the top of Mont Blanc
- Gran Paradiso - the best preparation for climbing Mont Blanc
- Guide ratio 1:2 during the climb of Mont Blanc
If you are looking to climb Mont Blanc, this 1-week Alpine climbing holiday preparing and acclimatising on Italy's Gran Paradiso prior to the ascent, offers the best chance of summit success. After a rendezvous and briefing in Chamonix we drive through the Mont Blanc tunnel to Italy, where we have a session of skills training before making an ascent of Gran Paradiso (4061m), the only 4000 metre peak entirely within Italy's borders. The short approach hike to the Refugio Vittorio Emanuele, followed by the classic, easy snow climb to the summit of Gran Paradiso is a great introduction to Alpine climbing. Returning to Chamonix, we have a further day of acclimatisation and snow skills with an excursion from the top station of the Aiguille du Midi across the Vallee Blanche to Point Helbronner in Italy, returning on the scenic Gondola. We have allowed 3 days for the ascent of Mont Blanc, with 2 chances of making the summit via the 'Normal Route' from the Tete Rousse or Gouter huts. Our Mont Blanc trips are based at the extremely comfortable Yeti Lodge Chalets in Argentiere, close to Chamonix, offering all amenities including hot tubs, saunas and a great chef! Key to a successful Mont Blanc ascent are good acclimatisation and experienced, motivated guides. Our Mont Blanc package is fully inclusive of local transport and cable cars and all meals with the exception of lunches. This is a great value package, using a superb valley base and our expert guides will offer you every chance of getting to the summit on Mont Blanc.
Explore International. This is one of our Explore International holidays. Participants on these trips can book through KE or through one of our international partners. This helps us to gather together sufficient numbers of like-minded adventurers to get your holiday up and running quickly. Led by an English-speaking guide, the cosmopolitan nature of these groups can be an important part of the experience!
FREE EQUIPMENT HIRE on all Alps Climbing holidays when you book more than 2 weeks prior to departure!
Already booked on this holiday? Or looking to book on one of our departures in 2016? ALL clients benefit from FREE EQUIPMENT hire worth £100 - when booked in advance.
Climbing offer includes: Harness pack, ice-axe, crampons and helmet.
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Is this holiday for you?
This combination of Gran Paradiso and Mont Blanc provides a challenging week of Alpine climbing. Led by professional IFMGA guides using a 1:5 ratio on Gran Paradiso and a 1:2 ratio on Mont Blanc, this trip will provide the opportunity to practice roped glacier travel and guided climbing, using crampons and a single ice axe. The ascents of each of the peaks will be strenuous on account of the altitude and group members should not only have a high level of fitness but also be capable of completing long days in the mountains. The ascent of Gran Paradiso and the ascent of Mont Blanc via the Normal Route (Dome de Gouter) involve little in the way of technical difficulty. However, you can expect to encounter some easy scrambling on exposed ridges at altitude. Ropes, crampons and an ice axe will be used throughout the climb. Previous alpine mountaineering experience is not a pre-requisite and time permitting, full instruction in the various techniques required will be given by the guides prior to the ascents. Participants must have a good level of fitness and previous experience of walking with crampons is useful.
Brief ItineraryView in full
- Meet at the group's chalet in Argentiere in the Chamonix Valley.
- Drive through the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Walk to Vittorio Emanuele hut (2735m). Skills briefing.
- Climb Gran Paradiso (4061m). Descend to the valley and drive to Chamonix.
- Traverse of Vallee Blanche from the Aiguille de Midi to Helbronner. Return by Gondola.
- Cable car and train to Nid d'Aigle (2372m). Trek to Tete Rousse (3167m) or Gouter (3817m) refuge.
- Climb Mont Blanc by the Normal route. Return to the refuge for a second night.
- Contingency day for possible delays. Descend to Chamonix.
- Departure day
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Map & Itinerary
Map & Itinerary
The Route
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Holiday Itinerary
Meet at the group's chalet in Argentiere in the Chamonix Valley.
Rendezvous at the group's chalet in Argentiere (altitude 1240m.), just outside Chamonix. Here, you will be welcomed and made to feel at home. In the evening, we will have an informal chat about the week ahead. There will also be a chance for the guide to check out your clothing and gear and to decide if you will need to pick up any further items of equipment before setting out in the morning. KE Land Only package services begin with the evening meal, an excellent 3-course dinner.
Accommodation Chalet
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Drive through the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Walk to Vittorio Emanuele hut (2735m). Skills briefing.
After making final preperations and sorting out any equipment hire, we will drive through the Mont Blanc Tunnel to Italy and the Gran Paradiso National Park. A 2-3 hour walk through forests and over moorland takes us to the Vittorio Emmannuelle hut (2775m) situated at the foot of the Gran Paradiso, where we spend the night. After checking in, the guides will brief us on the technical skills required foir the climb. We can then relax and enjoy the scenery from the hut terrace.
Accommodation Mountain Hut / Refuge
Meals bd
Time 2 - 3 hours walking
Climb Gran Paradiso (4061m). Descend to the valley and drive to Chamonix.
From an early alpine start (around 3am) at the hut, we climb to the summit of Gran Paradiso (4061m), the highest peak lying entirely within Italy. The route is very varied, beginning as straightforward trail leading to the glacier where we put on our crampons. The final 100 metres is an exciting, exposed, but well protected scramble along the rocky summit ridge. The summit supports a 'Madonna' figure and is a fantastic viewpoint for the entire alps, particularly of the Mont Blanc Massif. The climb takes 4-5 hours and around 3 hours to descend back to the hut aiming to arrive early afternoon. After some refreshment we descend to the valley and drive back through the Mont Blanc tunnel to Chamonix. Continuing to Argentiere we re-check into our comfortable chalet and enjoy an excellent dinner.
Accommodation Chalet
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Time 8 - 9 hours walking
Traverse of Vallee Blanche from the Aiguille de Midi to Helbronner. Return by Gondola.
We take the early morning cable car from Chamonix up to the Aiguille du Midi (3842m), the highest cable car station in Europe. Exiting the station by the alpiniste's tunnel we emerge onto the ridge with a spectacular view down to the Chamonix Valley. Descending from the ridge into the Vallee Blanche itself we then traverse the glacier with lots of opportunity to practice our snow skills and receive valuable pointers from our guides. After approximately 4 hours we will reach the Helbronner Gondola Station on the Italian border (the highest border station in Europe). As well as offering the opportunity to further practice roped galcier walking, this excellent mountain walk also provides unbeatable acclimatisation. From Helbronner we return via the spectacularly scenic gondola ride to the Aguille du Midi and take the cable car back down to Chamonix. Overnight in Argentiere.
Accommodation Chalet
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Time 4 - 5 hours walking
Cable car and train to Nid d'Aigle (2372m). Trek to Tete Rousse (3167m) or Gouter (3817m) refuge.
Now that our training is over, we are ready for the ascent of Mont Blanc. The group will be joined by more guides (ratio 2 clients to 1 guide), in order to give us the best chance of success. We will climb Mont Blanc by the Normal Route, taking advantage of the uplift provided by the Mont Blanc Tramway which will take us to Mont Lachat (2115m). From here, we follow a rocky trail for approximately 3 hours to the Tete Rousse Refuge (3167m) where we will stay overnight or the guide may opt to continue a further 2 hours to the higher Gouter hut (3817m). Staying overnight at either of these huts is part of the experience of climbing Mont Blanc and the majority of the climbers staying here will be aiming for an ascent.
Accommodation Mountain Hut / Refuge
Meals bd
Time 3 - 5 hours walking
Climb Mont Blanc by the Normal route. Return to the refuge for a second night.
The Big Day! We make an early start - approximately 1 a.m. from the Tete Rousse or a little later from the Gouter. From the Tete Rousse, we cross the Great Couloir and then a rocky scramble leads up to the Gouter Refuge (3817m). From here the remaining 1000 metres of ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc is entirely on snow. The climbing is never technical being mostly on a broad shoulder with an uphill slope mostly below 30 degrees. However, the final ridge becomes narrower and we can look down one side to Italy and the other into France as we make the final steps to the top. We are very high up now and the air is thin, so slow and steady is the way forward. The ascent can take from 5 to 8 hours depending on conditions and our starting point, and we aim to be on the summit soon after dawn, in position to enjoy some of the most spectacular views in the whole of Europe. We will make our descent via the same route and we should reach the hut by early or mid-afternoon (in time for a late lunch). We spend our second night at the hut.
Accommodation Mountain Hut / Refuge
Meals bd
Time 9 - 14 hours walking
Contingency day for possible delays. Descend to Chamonix.
If we have not summited the day before, we may make the attempt today if the conditions permit and in this case. after summiting, we will descend via the Normal Route all the way back to the valley. If we have summited on day 6, then we have a leisurely start and make an easy descent to the valley in good time for lunch. In the evening, we have the opportunity to reflect on the adventures of the week during the course of a celebratory dinner at the chalet.
Accommodation Chalet
Meals bd
Time 3 - 4 hours walking
Departure day
The KE Land Only package services end after breakfast.
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Holiday Information
Holiday Information
What's included
- Professional IFMGA qualified guides
- Local transport including cable car fees
- All accommodation as described
- Meals as detailed in the Meal Plan
What's not included
- Travel insurance
- Airport transfers
- Some meals as detailed in the Meal Plan
- Miscellaneous personal expenses - drinks souvenirs etc.
The food in Yeti Lodge and in the huts is varied and plentiful. Continental breakfasts and full 3-course evening meals are included everyday. Packed lunches can purchased from the chalet for €8 and hill food snacks are available fom the village shops or local supermarket. On some days, there is the possibility of buying a late lunch in the huts, if we arrive early enough.
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Joining Arrangements & Transfers
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Spending Money
The package price includes valley transport, cable cars and mountain railway tickets, all accommodation, meals (except lunches), and guiding. You will need to allow an amount for lunches or hill food snacks. Yeti Lodge offer an "honesty bar" for wine and drinks with your meals. In mountain refuges you will need to pay for drinks, including bottled water. €200 should be sufficient to cover all personal expenses. There are cash point facilities in Argentiere, close to the chalet. If you are intending to hire or purchase items of equipment, you should budget accordingly (credit cards can be useful in this respect).
Baggage Allowance
Group members will carry all of their personal equipment during the ascent and it is vitally important to keep the overall weight of your equipment to a minimum. Since you will not be required to carry either a sleeping bag or a camping mattress a 35/40 ltr rucksack is more than adequate and it should be possible to keep the weight of your pack to under 7kg/15lbs. Whilst overnighting in the refuges, you will leave your main luggage and travel clothes at the group's hotel/chalet.
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All KE clients will receive a FREE KE trek bag. These have been specially made to stand up to the rigours of adventure travel. Your KE bag will be posted to you when your trip is guaranteed to run or on receipt of your booking if the trip is already guaranteed. If you have travelled with us before and already have a KE trek bag you can select an alternative free gift in the booking process.
This holiday involves going to high altitude. During the course of your trip you will reach altitudes in excess of 3500 metres. This is not something that you should worry about; the human body is quite capable of adapting to a very wide range of altitudes, but it is important that we follow some simple rules in order to acclimatise successfully. Before coming on this holiday you should read the advice on trekking at high altitude on our website which can be viewed via the link below. You can also talk to one of our trekking experts if you have any concerns about altitude. www.keadventure.com/page/altitude.html
Equipment List
The following checklist should help you with your packing. As a general rule, you should always try to keep the weight of your equipment to a minimum.
You must bring the following items:
Mountain Boots (see notes below)
Gaiters (long or short)
Socks – walking socks are best (2/3 pairs)
Warm mountain trousers
Waterproof over trousers (with leg zips)
Trekking trousers (not cotton)
Shorts (for non-glacial travel)
Thermal Base Layer x 2 (one with long sleeves for glacier travel)
T-shirt or casual shirt
Fleece jacket or warm jumper
Waterproof jacket (with hood)
Extra warm layer/ duvet jacket – (primaloft or lightweight down)
Warm hat
Sunglasses – category 3/ 4.
Ski goggles (for snowy/windy conditions)
Thin gloves – leather or thermal
Warm and waterproof gloves/ski gloves
Climbing Rucksack – 35-45 litres (MAX) (no external frame)
Head torch and spare battery
Sun Protection (high factor for skin)
Lip salve – with sunscreen
Water bottle 2x 1 litre
Trekking poles x 2 (with baskets)
Small Wash kit
Plastic Bag to keep essentials dry
Sleeping bag liner/sheet sleeping bag (silk is lightest)
Basic First Aid Kit
Mountaineering equipment:
Crampons – MUST be fitted with anti-balling plates
Crampon bag
Ice Axe
Mountaineering harness
1 x screw gate karabiner
The following items are optional:
Thermal baselayer - leggings
Travel Clothes
Travel Shoes
Earplugs (particularly if you are not the one snoring!)
Hand sanitizer (water in huts can be limited)
Trek Bag (KE)
Small Padlock (for trek bag)
Equipment Notes
Mountaineering Boots: Recommended boots for this trip are comfortable, warm and stiff - to take a crampon securely/deal with cold conditions. Either a B3 or B2 boot will be suitable, but NOT a B1
Crampons: Modern strap on 12 point crampons are perfectly acceptable for this climbing trek and will fit any boot. All crampons MUST be fitted with anti-balling plates. 'Grivel' crampons - G12 with a strap system/or semi-strap/heel clip are excellent and they come fitted with anti-balling plates. Make sure they are compatible with your boots.
Equipment hire / rental: The following equipment can be hired from KE: Crampons (with anti-balling plates) and crampon bag; Climbing helmet; Harness (with karabiner); Ice-axe. This can be reserved either when you book your trip or closer to your departure but we advise booking hire equipment as soon as possible to ensure availability. Individual items can also be hired. We do not hire mountaineering boots, but there are several shops in Chamonix/Argentiere renting boots that are suitable for this trip.
Sleeping bags/extra shoes: These are NOT required as bedding and hut shoes/slippers are provided at mountain refuges. However, you must bring a sheet sleeping bag
Online advice
PHD Gear Advisor: PHD specialise in cold weather equipment, from the world's lightest right up to the most protective for Everest or the Poles. It's a large range. So to help you choose what you need to keep you warm, PHD have listed the gear that is appropriate for this expedition. >> Click here to go to the PHD Gear Advisor for Mont Blanc Ascent
Needle Sports: Needle Sports is the English Lake District's foremost specialist climbing shop supplying mountaineering, rock, ice, alpine and expedition equipment worldwide. Internationally recognised as among the very best of the UK's top technical climbing gear retailers. They have a good range of equipment appropriate for this trip and offer knowledgeable advice both on their website and in store. View >>http://www.needlesports.com/
Group Size and Holiday Status
For each holiday there is a minimum number of participants required to enable it to go ahead. Once the minimum number is reached, the trip status will change from 'Available' to 'Guaranteed to run'. You can check the trip status for each departure in 'Dates and Prices' table. Other than in exceptional circumstances, we will not cancel a trip once it has achieved this guaranteed to run status and so you are free to proceed with your international flight booking and other travel arrangements.
Passport & Visas
A passport with 6 months remaining validity at the end of your stay is generally required. The information that we provide is for UK passport holders. Please check the relevant embassy or consulate for other nationalities. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have the correct travel documents and visas for your holiday. Visa requirements and charges are subject to change without notice. If you are travelling outside the EU you should have at least 2 blank pages in your passport for each country that you visit.
Visa Europe
UK and USA passport holders do not require a visa.
Health & Vaccinations
You should contact your doctor or travel clinic to check whether you require any specific vaccinations. UK residents should obtain a free European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). This entitles you to state provided medical treatment, but is not a substitute for medical travel insurance which is still vital when travelling overseas.
Electricity Supply & Plug
We recommend you check if you require an adaptor for your electrical items at:
Know before you go
As a reputable tour operator, KE supports the British Foreign & Commonwealth Offices 'Know before you go' campaign to enable British citizens to prepare for their journeys overseas, and we recommend that all KE travellers take a look at the FCO Travel Advice for their chosen destination on the official FCO website: www.fco.gov.uk. North Americans can also check out the U.S. Department of State website: www.travel.state.gov for essential travel advice and tips.
KE treat the safety and security of all clients as the most important aspect of any trip we organise. We would not run any trip that we did not consider reasonably safe. Should the FCO advise against travel for any reason, we will contact everyone booked to travel to discuss the situation. We receive regular updates direct from the FCO and are in constant touch with our contacts on the ground. If you have any questions about government travel advice, please call our office.
Generally, the temperatures that we can expect to encounter during the day will be reasonably warm, in the range 18 – 28°C / 64 – 82°F. At night in Argentiere, we can expect the temperature to drop to 10 – 15°C / 50 – 60°F. The weather is usually stable at this time of year, but mountainous areas do generate their own weather systems and occasional rain and even stormy weather cannot be ruled out.
Srie Bleue Topographic Survey 1:25,000 IGN
The French survey's excellent detailed topographic map series. For full coverage of all possible routes on Mont Blanc, there are two sheets: Chamonix & Massif du Mont Blanc (sheet. 3630 OT) covers the north of the range and east from the summit. and St.-Gervais-Les-Bain & Mont du Mont Blanc (sheet. 3531 ET) covers the south and west. St-Gervais-Les-Bain & Mont Blanc covers the Normal Route.
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- Max group size: 8
- 6 days trekking and climbing
- Max. altitude - 4807 metres
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- 7 breakfasts and 7 dinners
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I seem to remember that the British Navy, and the US Navy maybe, used to give out a ration of alcohol to sailors each day. When did this practice stop, and why?
In the United States, alcohol rationing was stopped in 1862 by an act of Congress which also prohibited "distilled liquors" from being aboard a vessel, with an exception made for medical supplies. Then Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles issued a general order requiring captains to comply.
Two years later, Welles issued another general order requiring that all beer and wine and other non-distilled liquors be treated as the private stores of seamen, and required them to be stowed securely in private areas (Lockers, etc). He further specified that each sailor needed permission from their captain in order to bring it aboard.
In 1893 Article 1080 of the Navy Regulations permitted wardroom and steerage officers to form their own wine messes, that is a mess area for wine. No officers were required to be members of the wine mess.
Finally in 1914, Josephus Daniels, who was the Secretary of the Navy then, issued a general order prohibiting all consumption of alcoholic beverages on-board all Navy vessels.
One reason this practice was discontinued was there was no longer a need for the alcohol. Originally it was used to sweeten stale water that had grown algae in it after a long voyage, and modern storage methods precluded the need for this. Another reason it was discontinued in the US was changing attitudes about alcohol.
In the UK, the beverage issued was called grog, named either for how you'd feel when you drank it (groggy), or maybe more likely, named after the Admiral who instituted the practice of using Rum, "Old Groggy". The practice continued until 1970 among British sailors.

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MCB Program IV .Square Dance,Sonatine,Tarantella,Nightspot.
Posted 05 April 2008 - 08:13 PM
Posted 07 April 2008 - 09:24 AM
The change with the biggest impact was Rolando Sarabia in the central role. Patricia Delgado replaced Kronenberg's role as the character I think of as "the Siren." Mary Carmen Catoya and Daniel Baker replaced the excellent Katia Carranza and Jeremy Cox as the sidekick couple.
Every dancer in both casts danced wonderfully, and the ensemble made the many speedy shifts in movement style and energy-level and style quite effective. But the Sarabia/Delgado cast electrified (and made sense of) the story in a way the earlier cast had not. This makes a big difference when you're performing what is essentially a piece of "ballet theater."
Sarabia is a real star. He has the presence, stagecraft, strong technique, and machismo -- in other words, the weight -- to dominate the stage. He knows what it is to enter a room believing that he owns it -- and convincing you as well. He gave Carrie Manning a love interest to respond to. The beautiful and occasionally over-severe ice prince became warmer and more passionate. (Sarabia does seem to have this effect on all his women partners. Catoya and Seay were transformed in Jewels and Nutcracker, surrendering a bit emotionally and becoming stronger performers as a result.) The interactions between Manning and Sarabia became more complex. You could understand completely why Sarabia decided in the end to come home to Manning, and why Manning melted when she realized that was doing so.
Here's just one example of how Tharp uses ballet steps to advance the story. After his difficulties, the Sarabia character is on his way to learning the lesson of sticking to the woman who loves you. He begins a solo in which the bravura steps become signs of growing self-confidence, especially a series of pirouettes a la seconde that grow faster and more intense. His pirouettes completed, (and allowing time for a huge hand from the audience) Sarabia registers a self-satisfaction. "Hey, I'm back on form." Immediately afterwards, the Siren enters with her partner/pimp and is offered to him again. Sarabia things about it for a few seconds, smiles, and turns her down with a gentle wave of the hand. Those pirouettes helped make this possible.
Delgado's performance was a big surprise to me and quite an expansion of her range. It had an electricity and allure, a knowingness about sex and power, and an intensity that made Sarabia's fascination with her completely understandable. She made the most of basically unteresting choreography for the character and gave it an entirely new look. Some silly shoulder shrugs (put in by Tharp to suggest a that the character is a naughty girl) are both witty and genuinely enticing. You have to watch her, which was not the case witih Kronenberg, a dancer who in other kinds of roles is mesmerisisng.
Catoya and Daniel Baker were fast, charming, technically exciting on a new level for their parts. Every move had clarity and energy. It made me want to see more of them together. Catoya, is the fastest, most classical principal in the company. Here, she was a young kid. (Not unlike her remarkable, joyful Tarantella in an earlier performance.) Last season, Baker was picked by Tharp for a feature role in In the Upper Room. He's was an Apprentice at the time. Definitely a dancer to keep watching.
More on the various casts of Square Dance, Sonatine, and Tarantella later. Generally, however, my reaction to that portion of the program was
Posted 07 April 2008 - 12:12 PM
...the Sarabia/Delgado cast electrified (and made sense of) the story in a way the earlier cast had not. This makes a big difference when you're performing what is essentially a piece of "ballet theater."
Sarabia is a real star. He has the presence, stagecraft, strong technique, and machismo -- in other words, the weight -- to dominate the stage. He knows what it is to enter a room believing that he owns it -- and convincing you as well.
Grrr...why wasn't Sarabita cast for the Miami performances...?!?!
Posted 08 April 2008 - 11:26 AM
Villella pursues the strict old-line no-star NYCB policy. I wonder how Sarabia will eventually fit in. I have never had a chance to see him in an ensemble piece or in anything neoclassical -- Agon, for instance. He's also been absent or under-represented in several programs. At least one of these situations was an injury, perhaps more. I should add that his brother, soloist Daniel Sarabia, appeared in the second cast as well, dancing with greater freedom and intensity than I've noticed before.
Grrr...why wasn't Sarabita cast for the Miami performances...?!?!
MCB's corps, enhanced by coryphees and apprentices, is the best I've seen in 7 seasons. So is the sense of well-oiled ensemble. This paid off in Square Dance , a ballet in which the corps works extra hard, often duplicating the fast movements of the principals, or playing follow the leader a beat or two later. The corps was a real star here. Whoever is working with them knows how to pass on the Balanchine gift. They had speed, sharpness, precision, energy, and the ability to move about the complicated stage patterns fearlessly and accurately. Every one I saw seemed to be thrilled to be there.
I feel I ought to get their names on record: Leigh-Ann Esty, Sara Esty, Kyra Homeres, Ashley Knox, Jennifer Lauren, Zoe Zien, Daniel Baker, Neil Marshall (alternating with soloist Didier Bramaz), Michael Sean Breeden, Alexandre Dufaur, Stephen Satterfield, Marc Spielberger.
In the lead roles, the frequent partnership of Patricia Alberson and Jeremy Cox were on top of their game. Alberston led the other women like an big sister who knows how to do everything just a little bit better. Albertson strikes me as an intelligent dancer. She seems to know why she's doing what she's doing. She has speed, but I especially like the slow part of the pas de deux, with its elegance and wonderful arm movements and expressive Balanchine wrists.
Villella coached the dancers. In his curtain-raiser, he stressed the formality, courtliness, and what he called "baroque" that this ballet demands. Cox, especially, learned the lesson well. He danced his solo adagio -- the part danced to Corelli's Sarabande -- in an almost dreamlike fashion, completely absorbed in the movement of arms, bending of back, and dramatic lunges into th stage. It's a wonderful solo, and Cox brought depth and a kind of introspective grandeur to it.
My favorite cast for Sonatine was Deanna Seay and Didier Bramaz. I wouldn't have thought of Seay -- with her seriousness and intensity -- for a role like this. But she brought great warmth and maturity to it. She sailed serenely over and through the rivulets of sound in Ravel's piano score.
I saw three casts in Tarantella. Mary Carmen Catoya was as fast, precise, spritely, and technically pure as anyone could be, and Renato Penteado -- sporting a red bandana on his head and an appealing hint of a beard -- danced more freely and effortlessly than I've ever seen him. Jeanette Delgado joined Penteado the next night: big smile, big moves, big speed, and lots of joy Alex Wong, dancing with Tricia Albertson, seemed to be having the time of his life. There was perhaps little too much adolescent mugging, but he reminded me of the Italian street boy quality that Villella himself brought to it. I'd like to see what he does with this part in a couple of years.
Posted 10 April 2008 - 10:42 AM
Ms. Tharp has re-entered the ballet arena with some of her recent Broadway theatrics in tow.
Those of you who live in the big ballet capitals get the chance to compare your thoughts to those of major reviewers on an almost daily basis. In Florida this is very, very, very rare. So it was good to have Greskovic here.
Macaulay's piece focused at length on his quarrels with Tharp's use (or misuse) of the music, leaving relatively little space to discuss what he actually saw. Greskovic respects Tharp's "meticulous craft." He gets quickly to the heart of the problem with the score itself:
... [T]he evident craft of "Nightspot" doesn't carry the work from start to finish. Mr. Costello's score changes, but it rarely climaxes; it includes nothing like the punctuational pacing that gives Broadway shows their bite, accent, and impact. Ms. Tharp's cannily constructed intermediate flashes of dance highpoints and artful groupings aren't readily supported by the score, and the ballet's momentum can become diffuse.
Greskovic also had the chance to compare the two dancers playing the lead. To learn more about the excellent Rolando Sarabia and what Greskovic thought of his performance, please click below and read the entire review.
Posted 13 April 2008 - 03:26 PM
So: Square Dance. Last night's cast was Tricia Albertson and Jeremy Cox. I generally thought she was technically very good but, as I often feel about Louise Nadeau at PNB, I wish there was a bit more confidence there. She revealed some tiredness in her echappes and gargouillades at the end, but that's understandable with, as Leigh noted, those fast tempos, which I generally appreciated. Cox was also technically secure, but I like my Square Dance man to have a bit more gravitas (a tempo problem too?)--so I guess I'm disagreeing with Bart a bit there. There was some weirdness in the couple's transition from the 1st movement into the first pdd--the hand giving/taking/bowing didn't really make sense, and it should, at least gesturally; it looked arbitrary. The corps was pretty much always great, precise but also playful, as it should be--although one corps woman needs to tone down the extra-dance gesturing/flirting with the audience a bit--she looked demented sometimes, esp. when she was standing on the sidelines (the whole corps does lots of gesturing when they are standing still, which looked a bit strange at times). But yes, they seem excellently rehearsed. Being a Philadelphian, it's a real eye-opener, as I don't think PA Ballet's Balanchine is up to this level.
Tarentella: I missed the orchestra; the piano, way upstage, sounded far away. Not sure the lead woman (Delgado) always piqued on straight knees, but clearly she's a powerhouse--in line to do Don Q, no? I like the way she pulls into pirouettes, very powerful. (Still, it's hard to get Bouder out of my mind from last summer's performance at Saratoga.) And Penteado was certainly up to the task.
Sonatine was new to me, so I had nothing to compare it to. I thought Mary Carmen Catoya was pretty wonderful. Yet I couldn't help wishing that she and her partner, Alex Wong, were a bit more sophisticated in their approach, somehow--they lacked a certain maturity, esp. Wong, that the dance seemed to call for. Have to see it again, though, to be sure.
By the way, I spotted Acocella there. I wonder if she will write about MCB somewhere? (she just wrote in the NYker last week, so we know it'll be a long time before she writes there again).
I hope I can come for a longer visit next time!
Posted 17 April 2008 - 04:00 PM
Me too. Thanks, Ray, for adding your voice to the comments on MCB's new program.
I hope I can come for a longer visit next time!
Another excellent review is Susan Reiter's from DanceviewTimes, whose mostly positive about the Tharp piece while in no way considering it major Tharp.
"Nightspot" is both juicily entertaining and caustically honest about the nastier games people play in the pursuit of love. It's an extravagantly overripe eyeful, with plenty of unexpected twists and turns. The MCB dancers deliver vivid portrayals, plunging expansively into Tharp's demands. But what's missing is the sense of her taking classical dance into bold new territory, shaking it up and revealing it anew -- as she has done in her finest and most enduring works for ballet companies.
Posted 25 June 2008 - 05:36 PM
For example: Here's Leigh discussing the huge investment in this work --
Sometimes a white elephant is red. [... ]The company trumpeted a $1,000,000 grant to underwite a single ballet. [ ... ] What Miami City Ballet got for the money was unmemorable and inconsequential; a dance made not by the Tharp that choreographed shrewed commentaries on pop culture such as Deuce Coupe, but by the Tharp that decided to feather her nest by churning out pop culture instead.
And here's Leigh putting all that money and effort in perspective:
Looking at it in terms of comparison, I could not agree more.
Befitting its reputation, the company got a much higher return on its investment from Balanchine. Square Dance [...] Sonatine [ ... ] Tarentella [... ]
I also liked the way some of the Nightspot's story-telling absurdities are nailed. (I was much too indulgent about this, it seems to me now.)
After Guerra was seduced by Kronenberg, beaten up by Garcia-Rodriques and then rejected by Kronenberg, Manning forgave Gueerra and took him back. So what else is new? Carranza came out with a fan and a Tango generale ensued. Not that tangos usually involve fans, but this was less about anthropology and more about applause.
One more quote, which captures the conventionality of some of the choreography, something which puzzled me and which led me to assume (incorrectly) that some sort of gentle parody was intended.
Tharp's work for women on pointe is competent but surprisingly orthodox. Tharp has never really figured out ballet vocaulary for women; she's most comfortable choreographing for men. When women put on pointe shoes, Tharp heads to the classroom.
I wonder what the future is for Nightspot. With a pit orchestra and an onstage pop/rock band it would be expensive and complicated to tour with live music. On the other hand, the Costello score was probably composed with recording in mind, so using a dvd might be just as effective. And what about those Mizrahi costumes? To Leigh, they "look as if he lifted them from his workout line for Target stores (perhaps the one he did in 1987), then dipped them in a vat of red dye and a ttacked them with a Bedazzler"? Oh well, they'd probably pack well.
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I wonder what the future is for Nightspot.
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Is there anything interesting to say about the fact that $\hbar$, the angular momentum and the action have the same units or is it a pure coincidence?
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Let me try to answer using different words but with the same spirit as Qmechanic.
It is surely not a coincidence that $\hbar, S, \vec J$ have the same units. First of all, $\hbar$ is the quantum of the angular momentum or the quantum of the action, a universal constant that determines the strength of the quantum effects. So if you adopt one of these two definitions, you explain why $\hbar$ has the same units as either $S$ or $\vec J$ (only one of them) and reduce the question to the question why the angular momentum and the action have the same units.
It's not hard to see why the angular momentum and the action have the same units. Both may be written as $p\cdot x$, dimensionally speaking. The (orbital) angular momentum is defined as $\vec r \times P$; the commutator of $x,p$ is $xp-px=i\hbar$, which you may have included as well, has the units of position times momentum; and the action has the same units because the action has the same units as the Lagrangian times time $Lt$ which is the same as the units of the Hamiltonian times time $Ht$ and because $p\dot x$ appears in the difference/sum between $L$ and $-H$, in $L+H$, it's clear that $Lt$ has to have units of $px$, too.
Because the strength of quantum effects is determined by $\hbar$ that has the same units as the action $S$ or the angular momentum $\vec J$, it follows that both $S/\hbar$ and $\vec J/\hbar$ are dimensionless: they have no units.
Both of these facts have a robust and important explanation in the foundations of quantum mechanics. The action divided by the reduced Planck's constant is what appears in the exponent in Feynman's path integral, $$ {\mathcal A}_{i\to f} = \int {\mathcal D}\phi\cdot \exp(iS[\phi]/\hbar) $$ and the exponents have to be dimensionless, of course. From this Feynman approach, you could determine that the constant measuring the strength of quantum effects has the same units as the action.
Analogously, you may say a similar thing about the angular momentum. The reason is that the operators $J_x/\hbar$ and $J_y/\hbar$ have a commutator $$ [\frac{J_x}{\hbar}, \frac{J_y}{\hbar}] = i \frac{J_z}{\hbar}$$ equal simply to the last component of $\vec J/\hbar$, without any extra coefficients. So these three operators generate a flawless $SU(2)$ or $SO(3)$ "Lie algebra" in the unitless mathematical normalization. (Well, mathematicians would also include the $i$ into each generator so that there would be even no prefactor of $i$ on the right hand side.) For this reason, the eigenvalues of $J_z/\hbar$ are quantized: they are inevitably multiples of $\hbar/2$. We may say that $\hbar/2$ is the elementary quantum of the angular momentum. (The orbital angular momentum is a multiple of $\hbar$ without the factor of 1/2.)
Just with some knowledge of Noether's theorem that links conservation laws and symmetries, one could have been able to guess – before he learned the full quantum mechanics – that the angular momentum should be related to generators of rotations. Because angles of rotations are dimensionless, the generators have to be dimensionless as well which means that quantum mechanics must contain a constant whose units are the same as those of the angular momentum so that it is possible to construct a dimensionless $\vec J/\hbar$ out of them.
It is somewhat difficult to find a more "direct" relationship between the angular momentum and the action, despite their having the same units. In particular, the angular momentum is quantized, a multiple of $\hbar/2$ as I mentioned. On the contrary, the action $S$ is continuous. As the Feynman path integral shows, the action $S$ is actually only meaningful in quantum mechanics up to shifts by multiples of $2\pi\hbar$. Such shifts don't change the exponential. So the angular momentum only allows the integer (or half-integer) values; on the other hand, the action only cares about the fractional parts! So the action and the angular momentum are never really "the same thing" in any sense, despite their identical units. After all, the angular momentum is a pseudovector (a particular set of conserved quantities in rotationally symmetric theories) while the action is the ultimate spacetime scalar defining a theory and invariant under everything.
Although the answers so far to this questions are very interesting and informative, I think from an analytical point of view, your question is not quite sensible.
In a mathematical structure, one could argue that there are no "coincidences", everything is related through the fundamental basis. Now in practice, the answers expain why "$\hbar$", "angular momentum" and "the action $S$" are related. But if "mass $m$", "position $x$" and "momentum $p$" would have the same units, then there would also be an explaination for that, because these are parts of a physical theory, put into mathematical terms.
So if you ask "Is there anything interesting to say about the fact that ℏ, the angular momentum and the action have the same units or is it a pure coincidence?" (and you do), then the answer is "Yes.", optionally followed by an elaboration of the mathematical structure of the theory, a search for a common denominator.


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How to derive the formula for the volume of a sphere using geometry?
$V = (4/3) \pi r^3$
Edit: How did Archimedes calculate the volume of a sphere? Integration wouldn't have been there at his time.
How to derive the formula for the volume of a sphere using geometry?
Edit: How did Archimedes calculate the volume of a sphere? Integration wouldn't have been there at his time.
Consider a sphere of radius $r$, and a cone of radius $2r$ and height $2r$.
Slice the cone into circles a distance $x$ below the apex of the cone. The circle at distance $x$ has radius $x$, and hence area $\pi x^2$.
Place the sphere on a level surface, and slice it into circles a distance $x$ above the surface. The radius of such a circle is $\sqrt{x(2r-x)}$, and hence its area is $2\pi xr - \pi x^2$.
Note that the sum of the areas of these circles (one from the cone and one from the sphere) is $2\pi xr$. If you hang them one one side of a balance, a distance $2r$ from the fulcrum, then the total moment is $2r \times 2\pi xr = 4\pi r^2x$.
They can therefore be balanced by a circle of area $4\pi r^2$ (and hence of radius $2r$) a distance $x$ from the fulcrum. Taken together, all these circles make up a cylinder of radius $2r$ and height $2r$.
The preceding five paragraphs are summarized in this picture, where all of the red lines have the same length, and the two gray circles on the left of the fulcrum balance the one on the right.
You can consider all the mass of the cylinder to be concentrated at its center of mass, which is a distance $r$ from the fulcrum. By the leverage principle, the volume of the sphere plus the cone must be equal to the half the volume of the cylinder. The volume of the cylinder and cone are known to be
$$V_{{\rm cylinder}} = {\rm base} \times {\rm height} = 4\pi r^2 \times 2r = 8\pi r^3$$
$$V_{{\rm cone}} = \frac{1}{3} \times {\rm base} \times {\rm height} = \frac{1}{3} \times 4\pi r^2 \times 2r = \frac{8}{3}\pi r^3$$
We therefore have
$$V_{\rm sphere} + V_{\rm cone} = \frac{1}{2} V_{\rm cylinder}$$
and hence
$$V_{{\rm sphere}} = \frac{1}{2}V_{\rm cylinder} - V_{\rm cone} = 4\pi r^3 - \frac{8}{3}\pi r^3 = \frac{4}{3}\pi r^3$$
Archimedes was able to compare the volumes of semisphere cylinder and cone of radius $r$ and height $r$ by the Cavalieri principle. (cf. his tombstone)


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I'm new to D&D and would like to distribute treasure evenly in my dungeon for my level 1 PCs. I've read up briefly on the treasure packages but am still a little fuzzy on how they exactly work and what sort of treasure my PCs would be interested in.
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Let me start with two assumptions in answering your question. The party has 5 characters and they are 3rd level each. I am doing this deliberately to help you focus on the mechanics of the system and then take those mechanics back to your group.
Standard XP rewards are basically setup to work on an 8-10 encounter basis. This means that within 8-10 encounters a typical party of 5 characters will go up 1 level. The treasure parcel system is a way to parallel this. Remember that encounters are NOT the number of rooms/areas explored or passed through they are the number of fights, traps, skill challenges or other events that require characters to worry about their health.
DMG 1 Page 126: During the course of gaining that level, expect a group of five characters to acquire four magic items ranging in level from one to four levels above the party level. In addition, they should find gold and other monetary treasure equal to the market price of two magic items of their level.
A 3rd level party would receive 4 magic items (levels 4, 5, 6, 7) and about 1350gp in monetary items. Looking at the parcel system as shown on page 126 of the DMG1 you will see this laid out in exactly that fashion. 10 parcels nice and neat. There is a guide on page 125 for adding or removing gp value and magic items based on actual party size. The PHB1 on page 223 has nice table of the gp vaule of magic item by level.
Now here is the trick. While this is a good guide of what to give out it is not a hard-set-in-stone law. You can combine, rearrange, add to or delete from this guide list to adjust for what makes sense for your campaign. You can give out 1 parcel per room or all at once or anything in between. Do what makes sense. Fighting 8 rooms of humanoids and 1 room with a dragon and all the treasure is in the dragons lair might just make sense.
As for how to pick magic item for characters I use three methods that overlap.
I have found that using the parcel list a basis and then tweaking it to fit the campaign really simplifies my game prep time. Using the 3 methods of magic item selection has given the party good balanced selection items that they can use and like to use.
NOTE: Be sure to rotate the highest level items in your parcels to be given out equally among the party characters.
This is based on the DMG's version of treasure packets:
You start by planning out your encounters. There are roughly ten encounters per level, and that's probably about how many you want to plan at a time.
The DMG gives you several pre-generated packets. These get divided between the ten encounters in any way you wish. You could give one packet per encounter, or you could allocate a few of them to the "boss" encounter, and have some encounters that don't give meaningful treasure. You can also set aside treasure packets as quest rewards.
Magic Item Selection
The DMG doesn't give much in the way of guidelines for picking the magic items to give to the party. The advice it gives is the most straight-forward way to do it: ask the players for a list of items that they'd consider interesting, and pick treasure from those lists (with the occasional odd-ball but potentially useful item of your choice mixed in).
An alternate way of distributing treasure is to simply give the players a "5th level magic item," and allow them to decide who gets the item and what it is. This has the advantage of allowing the players to assume a bit of the research, but does tend to take a bit of the excitement out of the game.
Finally, you can hand pick the items yourself. However, this requires intimate knowledge of how each class works, and what builds the players are going for.
Item Distribution
Generally speaking, there are fewer magic items per level than there are members of the party. And the value of the item varies considerably from the best to the worst. You have to be careful when assigning treasure that it can be distributed evenly... If the best item each level is always a ranger-specific item, the rest of the party will start to get weaker.
Missed Packets
Packets the party misses should be made up later on in the adventure. If they took a route where they missed an encounter that had treasure, it should be added to a subsequent encounter (lumped into a dragon's hoard, or added to the quest reward, for example). Most DMs will create a list of packets, and check them off as they are handed out. Each time the party levels up, they should have received ten treasure packets total.


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I think the white balance was slightly skewed (to cool) and the pano doesn't have the crispness I'm trying to get. It was shot with the D700 w/10.5 (DX I know) on a NN5 w/RD12 - what a sweet rotator (product plug).
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State Prostate Cancer Coalition Funds Cancer Center Research
New Hampshire group's gift will support research to distinguish effective from unnecessary treatments
Prostate Cancer and Bioimpedance
The grant will help fund a collaborative research project being conducted by Ryan Halter, PhD, of Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering and the Cancer Center. The project uses electrical bioimpedance to distinguish dangerous prostate cancers from those that pose little threat to a man's health. According to Dr. Halter, "Electrical bioimpedance measurements of tissue provide significant levels of contrast between benign and malignant pathologies due to the vastly different morphologies occurring between tissue types. Focal sensing or mapping of these properties can provide clinicians useful information regarding the extent and severity of diseases like cancer."
Being able to make such a distinction will enable doctors to focus treatment on patients who will benefit the most.
The Most Common Men's Cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among men, with approximately 30,000 men dying from the disease each year in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, more than 240,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011, and more than 33,000 American men will die of the disease. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which makes recommendations about the effectiveness of specific clinical preventive services for patients without related signs or symptoms, "lifetime risk of diagnosis" for prostate cancer is currently estimated at 15.9%, or approximately 1 in 6.
A Significant Gift for a Significant Problem
The donation is the first and largest research gift by any state prostate cancer coalition in the U.S., said Steve Ladew, president of the NH organization. The gift comprised 25% of NHPCC's assets. "Our mission is to help reduce the number of New Hampshire men dying of prostate cancer. A major problem is that the medical community is unable to differentiate between prostate cancers that will kill a man and cancers that will never harm him," said Ladew. "We hope our gift to this program will encourage others to also give."
"We strongly encourage other state prostate cancer coalitions to support research," said John Sias, founder and past president of the NHPCC. "The more we know about prostate cancer, the better testing and treatments we'll have. With so many men at risk—hundreds of thousands every year—the need cannot be overstated."
"Though the NHPCC calls themselves 'average guys just trying to make a difference,' I can't agree," said Mark Israel, MD, Director of Norris Cotton Cancer Center. "This group is uniquely strong in their commitment to men's health in New Hampshire and beyond. The coalition includes men from a broad range of backgrounds including research science, technology, business and the arts. That diversity of experience has informed their approach to prostate cancer from understanding the medical issues, to educating others, to fundraising. They are wholly committed to every patient having optimal, personalized treatment. Their gift of $5,000 has been directed to Ryan Halter, PhD, whose work in electrical bioimpedance promises important new understandings of how to best test for and treat prostate cancer. I very much appreciate NHPCC's partnership with us in seeking a cure for prostate cancer."
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29 May 2012 2:56 PM #1
Unanswered: populate a multiselect field using a web service
Hi all.
im doing a mobile app using sencha touch1 and i want to populate a multiselect field with my RESTFUL web service made by WCF.
here is my store
Ext.regStore('storeCPT', { model: 'compte', autoLoad: true, proxy: { type: 'scripttag', url: 'http://localhost:8732/cpts/cltID/1234', reader: { type: 'json', } } });
Ext.regModel('compte', { fields: ['compteID'] });
{ xtype: 'multiselectfield', id: 'cptnumb', label: 'Compte', store : 'storeCPT', displayField : "'compteID'", valueField : "'compteID'", name : "multiselect-picker", itemWidth : 400, itemType : "picker", },
can you hel pe please
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hi. thank you for your reply.
i tried as you say "compteID" but it still the same problem, it's load without displaying any thing.
im using this code to display the multiselectielf with picker as itemtype
Ext.ns("Ext.form.ux.touch"); Ext.form.ux.touch.MultiSelect = Ext.extend(Ext.form.Select, { columns: 2, itemWidth: 200, itemType: "list", multiSelect: true, showComponent: function() { var me = this, itemType = me.itemType, itemPanel; if (itemType === "picker") { me.getPicker().show(); } me.isActive = true; }, }); Ext.reg("multiselectfield", Ext.form.ux.touch.MultiSelect);
i don't know what kind of modification shall i do?
thank you
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try to changetype: 'scripttag', to type: 'ajax',it should work
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If your motivation for asking the question is "I would like to participate in a discussion about __", then you should not be asking here.
So here I am with a burning question that I'd like a broad range of opinions on but I think it'll violate this (quite sensible) policy.
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College Basketball's De Facto Top Dog: Duke
Does anyone want the No. 1 ranking in men's college basketball? No? OK, fine. So just give it to Duke.
After a week in which the top three teams in the Associated Press poll lost, it looks like the fourth-ranked Blue Devils will take over the top spot for the third separate time this season Monday.
No one's flying a plane over campus to announce the news—Duke has been No. 1 for 20% of coach Mike Krzyzewski's (above) games there and unranked for 13%—but this No. 1 ranking is actually sort of unexpected. For one thing, Duke isn't even No. 1 in its own conference. With a 10-0 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Miami (Fla.) has a two-game lead and beat Duke by 27 points Jan. 23.
But if they are No. 1, Mason Plumlee (below) and the Blue Devils will have to defend their ranking right away: Rival North Carolina visits Durham on Wednesday.
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The 6 Stupidest Things Ever Done With Historic Treasures
You remember how sad you were when your favorite childhood toy accidentally went under the lawnmower? Even though we're all grown up now, cherished items from the past seem to carry a very special significance for us. That's why we find it so unthinkable that someone would take a priceless relic, thousands of years old, and use it as a napkin or something.
Of course, something being unthinkable hasn't ever stopped humanity from doing it.
#6. Stonehenge Used as Construction Material
Imagine you went to a buddy's house and saw the he had an old rusty car in the front yard, up on blocks. But then you notice that under one wheel, instead of cinder blocks, he's using the Lost Ark of the Covenant.
Also imagine it was Indie's car for dramatic irony
Well, a part of Stonehenge is missing, and what it got used for is no less ridiculous.
Debate has raged for centuries over what exactly Stonehenge was, with theories ranging from a religious temple to a bitchin' magic trick by Merlin and some giants.
We know what we're putting our money on.
Either way, archaeologists think it was erected between 3000 and 2500 BCE, making it one of the oldest man-made structures still in existence. It's definitely one of the most famous.
What most people don't realize is that the most important part of Stonehenge appears to be missing. Drawings of the site from just a few centuries ago show a stone altar (which by the way would confirm it was originally a temple) but it's sure not there now. Experts have been obsessed with finding it, as it may very well be the most important rock in the formation and would finally solve the mystery of the 'henge.
Now, archeologists think they have found it. Was it moved to some other religious site by cultists? Did a UFO come back to claim it?
No, it appears somebody a few centuries ago just dragged it away because they were short of rocks for their construction project. The altar has apparently been found, in two pieces, as part of a small bridge a few miles down the road.
What were they thinking?
Well, nobody really knows. There's not exactly a shortage of rocks in England.
For some reason, the English seem to just enjoy building mundane shit out of important historical artifacts, like they did with Hadrian's Wall. That's a 2,000 year-old wall across Northern England originally built by the Romans, the bricks of which now can now be seen in nearby houses and churches.
But some old brick wall is one thing; Stonehenge has stood unmolested for nearly 5000 years, and even in the 1600s people knew how important it was. It takes a lot of English balls to steal a huge rock from a mystical ancient site just because you can't be assed to cut a couple more stones for your little bridge.
"Ah, just grab one from over there."
#5. Mummies Used as Firewood
There are massive projects underway to try to find and preserve ancient Egyptian tombs and the remains inside them. The mummified bodies of people thousands of years old provide a wealth of information to researchers and an invaluable link to the past, one continually threatened by tourists and Brendan Fraser-esque treasure hunters.
"It's mummy-fightin' time, bia!" Was that a line from that movie? We've never seen it.
But despite the obsessive preservation process the mummified bodies were put through, there aren't many left today. Why?
Well, mostly because they were burned for firewood.
What were they thinking?
We typically think of mummies as dead Pharaohs, but just about anybody could buy a mummification option with their funeral plan back then. In fact, many would save up for their entire lives, foregoing less important things like, you know, food. Even those who couldn't afford it still faced the possibility of ending up as a mummy--the conditions in the desert are such that a dead body can become naturally mummified by the sand and dry heat. Ancient Egypt was a virtual mummypalooza. Was.
By the time they stopped making mummies in Egypt, they had literally millions of them. By the 1800s, people were tripping over mummies in the street. In fact, they had more mummies in Egypt than they had trees. So, when things started to get a bit chilly in the winter and they didn't have any wood to burn, someone looked at that pile of bone-dry corpses and had a bright idea.
"That dude looks totally flammable."
So, they were tossing mummies on the fire left and right, the family gathered around the crackling hearth, drinking some cocoa and watching flames lick through the eye holes of half a dozens grinning skulls.
This didn't seem like much of a tragedy when mummified remains were plentiful, but after a while they whittled down their supply to a minute number. Did this convince them to treat these cultural artifacts with a little more respect? Oh, hell no.
Not only did they continue using mummies as firewood, they ground them up into medicines, and sold their wrappings to Western paper companies who then made wrapping paper out of them (this stopped when the wrapping paper gave people cholera, and they died). For a while, locomotives in Egypt were fuelled not with coal, but with mummies. During the Victorian era they were even selling them to rich people in England who would have "unwrapping parties" which, unfortunately, were exactly what they sound like.
Worst. Bachelor Party. Ever.
#4. Medieval Choir Books Used as Lampshades
Once upon a time, paper was more expensive than a lot of precious metals. As a result there weren't nearly as many books around back in the day and of those, not many have survived. These precious artifacts suffer the ravages of time (as well as air and moisture) despite efforts to preserve them. Oh, and also we make some into cheesy souvenirs.
For instance, people who sang in choirs at church back in medieval times didn't each have their own book, they were too precious. The monks got around this by making a few huge books that everyone in the choir could see. This was incredibly time consuming work, from stretching and preparing the vellum (paper made from baby cow skin), to copying out the notes and lyrics by hand. The results were beautiful examples of medieval art. Today, museums spend years preparing special exhibitions of these masterpieces so that people can enjoy them.
As illustrated here
But let's say you are a regular dude who somehow gets his hands on one of these priceless books. What better way to preserve their splendor than by tearing out pages, cutting them up, and making lampshades out of them?
What were they thinking?
Well, they do make pretty cool lampshades.
This was the personal hobby of William Randolph Hearst, and many examples can be found at his "ranch house," Hearst Castle, in California.
Maybe it was just a combination of being rich and bored. It wasn't just choir books either--obviously wanting to throw a bit of variety into his interior design aesthetic based around desecrated historical artifacts, Hearst also made lamps out of ancient Xian dynasty Chinese vases, as well as original documents issued by the Catholic Church in the 1500s. We imagine he was barred from visiting most museums.


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Ever wanted to shave your head but didn't have the time nor the free hands?
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ALTUS, Okla. — An airman at Altus Air Force Base in southwestern Oklahoma has been formally charged with possession of bomb-making materials.
Online court records show that 26-year-old Timothy Francis Carey appeared in Jackson County District Court without an attorney on Thursday. Carey remains jailed on $75,000 bond in the case.
Court records show that Carey has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and that his next hearing is scheduled for Nov. 19.
Altus Police Chief Tim Murphy has said authorities began investigating Carey after witnesses said Carey had told them he had explosives and could use them. Murphy says no bombs were found, but materials for making a bomb were recovered.


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Broadband is no longer a luxury. It's an essential platform for new products, economic growth and job-creating opportunities and opening markets that allow businesses to start, grow and hire.
Mobile broadband is growing at an exponential rate and as demand increases, the benefits are more compelling by the day. That's why one of the top priorities of the FCC is to unleash more mobile spectrum through measures like voluntary incentive auctions, a proposal that the President has championed along with members of Congress from both sides of the aisle, and more efficient spectrum management policies.


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A Hollister man was found dead at 1 a.m. Tuesday and police are calling his death a homicide.
The 55-year-old victim was found inside a house on Morey Circle in Hollister, Hollister Police Captain Dave Westrick said.
John Neuer, 63, of San Jose, was also inside the residence when police arrived, Westrick said. Neuer was arrested and booked into the San Benito County Jail on murder charges.
"The circumstances around the death appear suspicious," Westrick said.
Police did not release the homicide victim's name and declined to release any further information on the investigation on Tuesday.
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Do you know why Team USA won't dip the flag at the Olympics?
What are your thoughts? Is there anyone that thinks we should dip our flag?
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Nope. Our flag stays up. Same reason POTUS -doesn't- shouldn't bow to foreign leaders. Don't need an excuse, don't need a reason.
Did not know that! Thanks for sharing it though.
@dcalotta: American Presidents do bow to foreign leaders, they have also kissed them on the lips, puked in their laps (my cat thinks that is a sign of endearment), and walked down the street holding hands. So dipping a flag as a mark of respect is not a big deal.
I've heard of this before, and am aware of its origins. As a patriotic American, kudos to us. However, since the Olympics are intended to be a respectful ceremony for all nations participating, it wouldn't bother me if we began dipping our flag again. As far as I'm concerned we're there solely to show-off our nation's athletic abilities, and should respect every nation doing the same. Politics and everything else should be put on hold to create a peaceful and fair environment for everyone.
I don't think any of the nations at the Olympics should feel obligated to dip their flag.
@atd15: Obligatory you love Hitler comment. And invocation of Godwin's Law.
And on a real note, I don't mean it, it's Friday and I'm just feeling silly.
I thought this rule dated from the post revolutionary period when other nations thought they could kick us and take what they wanted but it appears to be more recent...
From Wikipedia...
The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. This is sometimes misreported as a tradition that comes from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: American team flag bearer Ralph Rose did not follow this protocol and teammate Martin Sheridan is often, though apocryphally, stated as proclaiming that "this flag dips before no earthly king."[2] This tradition was codified as early as the 1911 U.S. Army drill regulations.[3]
@hobbitss: Wiki seems to have it wrong, or at least they're very internally conflicted about it all. The "modern Olympics" seem to have begun in 1896, although there were some very poorly organized and attended events for many years before that.
I gave up trying to keep track of who organized what when and where (I'm multi-tasking, not very successfully), but if you'd like to check it out this is where I started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Revival
Well, I learned something new today.
What are the oddsmakers' line on this one? That would intrigue me. Nice little history lesson BTW. Thanks!


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In a new article, now up on otn/java by yours truly, titled "Coding on Crete: An Interview with Java Specialist Heinz Kabutz," noted Java commentator and consultant Dr. Heinz Kabutz shares insights about the Java platform and talks about his exotic life working as a developer on the island of Crete. Kabutz is well known as the author of the Java Specialists' Newsletter which reaches some 70,000 developers worldwide.
In a previous 2007 interview, Kabutz lamented the large number of developers who do not engage in unit testing. He offered an update on this:
"The one place where unit testing is sorely lacking is with concurrent code. There are some tools that help find race conditions and deadlocks, but they typically find about a dozen faults per line of code. With such an amount of false positives, discovering a real problem is impossible.
Did you know that there is not a single—not even one—unit test for the Java Memory Model (JMM)? We have to just accept that it works on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) we are running on. The theory is that if we write our Java code according to the JMM, the code will run correctly on any certified JVM. Unfortunately, the certification does not test the JMM thoroughly. Apparently, there are some tests for the java.util.concurrent classes, and so they assume that if these work, then the JMM must also be correct for that JVM."
When asked about the greatest performance issues he remarked:
"The biggest performance issue today is still that we often cannot pinpoint the bottlenecks. Customers usually approach us with problems that they have not been able to solve, no matter how many man-months they've thrown at them. The most recent issue I looked at boiled down to a simple race condition. If two threads insert an entry into a shared HashMap at the same time, and the key's hash code points to the same entry in the table, then the HashMap can be corrupted and you might get two entries pointing to each other. This means that whenever you try to call contains() on the map, you risk getting an infinite loop."
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What a total lie. Barbara was the one who reported the abuse in the first place and was ignored. When the ball was dropped, they felt they had to cover their tracks and arrest her and give her a gag order. She did nothing but try to protect her child and lost her in the process. I am sorry to day thst this happens in Belmont County regularly. Before anything is said about Barb, check the facts.
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Are cards that are both Land and Creature affected by summoning sickness with regard to:
- Possibility to attack
- Activating special abilities with the TAP symbol?
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Are cards that are both Land and Creature affected by summoning sickness with regard to:
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Yes they are affected. No they cannot use any ability that requires {T} or {Q} as part of the cost (unless the land creature also has haste).
Dryad Arbor satisfies the criteria for being a creature. (or Charmille dryade in French)
Creatures cannot activate abilities that require {T} or {Q}.
Creatures cannot attack if you haven't controlled them since the start of their most recent turn.
Unless they have Haste, a Creature cannot attack or activate abilities that require {T} or {Q} in their cost.
Yes, they are affected. If you play a land and transform it, summoning sickness applies as if you cast a creature directly.
You can find a similar question in the MTG Salvation forum.
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Are there ways for a character to employ forced movement without using any powers, feats or items of the sort? By that I mean using exclusively skill and ability checks.
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The Bull Rush is the first thing that comes to mind when you ask this question. (I think Brian Ballsun-Stanton's comment is foreshadowing this), which requires a charge attack.
Beyond those, I can't find any untrained ways to move someone (IE powers, feats, etc.) short of Bankuei's reference to DMG1, p42 for improvised actions, the example of which includes a push type action.
"Page 42"
D&D4E's pg. 42 of the DMG has guidelines for stunts. The general gist is that as players come up with random stunts, the GM can assign a stat to attack with, a defense stat for it to go against, an amount of damage, and conditions.
"I roll a barrel down the stairs at the goblins" - could/should easily result in forced movement (down the stairs).
Of course, this depends on what objects/terrain is available, the monster(s) you're fighting, and the GM's ruling about each particular stunt you're doing.


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In the new Hobbit movie, the warg riding orcs attack in daylight, which according to Tolkien's books should not be possible. Any speculations how this might be explained anyway? In the Lord of the Rings movies there were the Uruk Hai who could travel in daylight (as in the books). But these orcs seemed to be of a different kind.
Those were Hunter Orcs:
Or maybe this breed, like the Uruk-hai, can indeed withstand the sunlight better
(Because this is 'non-canon' there seems to be very limited information)
You're thinking of Goblins and Trolls. Orcs and Uruk-Hai are able to move in daylight. It's not just one breed either. The whole race is this way. Goblins and Trolls can't survive in daylight hence why they lived underground and rarely venture out into the rest of the world without good reason.
In fellowship of the ring they twice mention that orcs can't move in sunlight. "Saruman is breeding an army in the caverns of isengaurd. An army that can move in sunlight". "By nightfall this hill will be swarming with orcs" (after the exit the mountain of moria). The new hobbit films don't offer an explanation but most of the movie there appears to be much cloud cover. This could serve as an explanation


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Nice article, Cain and Abel is really a nice tool...
cain & able is a legendary program that i used to take out Northern Territorys Governments (Australia) school network with ease. i love it like a child. as for running it 100.00mbps I Dont Think You Can... you would have to talk to the developers on that one.
I have never used Cain & Abel on more than 100mbps network, it works fine on 100mbps network, I have been using it for over 5 years on 100mbps network.


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I was recently playing Borderlands online and was given a really great Pearlescent Serpens Assault Rifle by someone who was much higher level (at the time). I'd not seen any Pearlescent guns before so was rather excited - I snatched it up and began systematically annihilating all of Pandora's wildlife.
It's a great gun, very powerful and quite accurate, which made me wonder if I'm unknowingly using a modded weapon. I looked up the Serpens rifles online and found that mine seems to be of above average awesomeness. In particular, it fires 3 rounds at once.
In any case, whether this particular weapon is modded or not, is there a way to tell which weapons are modded and which are not?