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Page 11 of this report from the American Institute of Physics shows that condensed matter physics is by far the most common PhD dissertation topic in 2007 and 2008. Can anyone here explain why this would be so? Additionally, what are they studying. and what is application with this subject? On a related note, why are atomic and molecular physics so uncommon as a PhD dissertation topic? Personally, I think that atomic and molecular physics should be more popular, since atomic physics is closely associated with chemistry, making it more broadly applicable. Is this the case?
why people choose condense matter physics the most in 2007 and 2008 for their phd? And what are they studying and what is application in this subject? [closed]
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Condensed matter is a pretty large field in physics. Just as an example it includes the whole area of semiconductor physics, so any electronic device. From a more theoretical view it there are still a lot of open questions that are at the same time hard to solve and can have a wide area of applications. High temperature superconductivity is one of these examples. So that might explain the relatively large number.
I would not over-interpret this statistic too much, as there is a large overlap between the different fields. At pretty much every 'specialized' conference you will see that the boundaries are very soft. Depending on who you ask condensed matter, applied physics, materials science, surface physics and statistical physics all belong to a similar area of research.
And from an application viewpoint pretty much every area of physics is used somewhere. Quite a few people are trying to predict the stock market with thermodynamical models, plasma physics can be used to kill bacteria on your skin instead of antibiotics, and without relativity the GPS in your smartphone would not work. So I would not conclude that there are too few in a certain area, as there is no real criteria how estimate what 'too few' really means. Over a long time period interesting areas will attract more students (and funding) while other areas are not as attractive anymore. This is not static though, a major breakthrough can shift things around quite a bit. As an example before the high-Tc superconductors in 1986 that area was more or less declining and not got much attention and students at all.
Remarkably everyone has so far commented on the theory of condensed matter -- but the article specifies that only 32% of PhDs awarded were theoretical! (Unfortunately that's overall, so there is no indication of the breakdown for condensed matter. It probably doesn't deviate too strongly from the overall number though, I imagine.)
As much as I personally love CMT, I think the answer is more pragmatic than my interests... Condensed matter experiment groups tend to be quite large, because compared to the LHC, condensed matter experiments are small, and so it's reasonable to have a large faculty (and an army of students) working on a diverse set of scientifically exciting but also potentially practical physics. CME is thus well funded by military bodies, and government agencies (at least in the U.S). Many students come into grad school without having chosen a subfield. They often fall into a group that can promise a paid research position so they don't have to teach the entire length of their program.
Additionally, perhaps this is important: many of the experiment students that I know personally (the bulk of students in my department) did their undergraduate work at schools with large CME groups and got their start with some basic lab-work as undergrads -- sometimes because of a lab-work requirement for graduation. Getting them hooked young is key. ;)
Basically, condensed matter was big in 2007-8 because it's been big for a long time! It has the most money, and while a handful of students go into physics because they read "The Elegant Universe," it takes a long time to train a theorist of any stripe. You can start doing CME as a wide-eyed undergrad, fall in love, and pick up what you need along the way.
Condensed matter theory now encompasses quite a bit more than the traditional quantum liquids and solid state theory. In Cambridge the TCM group also does complexity stuff, quite a bit of biophysics and just outright biology; there are also people who work on foundations, but it's not really new. In addition, even in the "old" world there are new things: cold atoms are now making it possible to do some very nifty things and all those experiments need interpretation. Quantum optics is a growing field, and related is generic strong light-matter interactions (polariton physics).
I think it's telling that the only theoretical group in the physics department in Cambridge is TCM. High energy theory is very much blue-sky, no contact with experiment, and done in the maths department. Astrophysical theory is done in the astronomy department, and functions pretty much independently. As a rule, TCM does any theory which pertains to an actual experiment that someone is doing/has done. It's not fundamental, but mostly organisational.
Personally, I think this is simply a sign that we have done enough reductionist thinking to account for the majority of what the rest of science relies on, and now we have to reconstruct. Condensed matter honed these tools on solid state and quantum systems, but they have wider applicability. The name of the game is "simple approximations which are good enough", not exactitude.
From my view the reason is the main driving force of academic research: the potential to publish. From personal experience I can say that CMP results are so stretchable and fuzzy, that there is a lot of potential to do publishable research in high level journals without anyone being able to proof you wrong. I was shocked to learn that there are well-known experts who read the same publications but religiously believe in completely opposite conclusions. It's because most measurements in CMP are very indirect and open to interpretation (most of the time none can be draw but due to publish-or-perish people interpret nonetheless).
Did AIP count all PhDs done in industry? If not, that might skew the results. Quite likely most other physical areas produce more real world applications.


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5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists
If life loves to beat one lesson into our heads over and over again, it's this: If something is too good to be true, it almost always is. And it also works if something seems exactly good enough to be true.
Just ask these people, who thought their lives had changed forever, only to have their hopes dashed ...
#5. Casino Pays Out False Hope
Picture yourself sitting at a slot machine in Vegas. Maybe you're there on your honeymoon. Maybe you've saved for months for the trip, or maybe you're an addict with a serious gambling problem and no friends or family to stage an intervention. Maybe the Russian mob has given you one hour to come up with the 20 grand you owe them before they feed you to their wild boars. With your last spin, your screen bursts into flashing lights and congratulatory sirens. The dream of every gambler the world over just exploded in your face.
"Sweet positive reinforcement! It burns!"
If you were Chuck and Tisha Barry, your screen said you won $31,000. If you were Louise Chavez, it was $43 million. For Behar Merlaku, the number was an absurd $57 million. That's freaking lottery money!
Next step: sashay on over to the money counter to collect the dollars that you'll be rolling naked in for the next few decades.
You. You and 80 whole dollars.
The Heartbreaking Truth
Not so fast, Scrooge McRockefeller. All the flashing lights in the world don't add up to a payoff if the casino in charge claims the machine experienced a malfunction or a software glitch. After all, slot machines these days are just computers, and computers screw up all the time.
Just ask Chuck and Tisha Barry. When they went to collect their $31,000, the casino scoffed and said it was all one big, hilarious mistake. The Barrys walked away with nothing but the 80 cents they put into the machine and a deep regret for screaming "IN YOUR FACE, PEASANTS!" to all the other casino patrons.
"You can bet we'll be taking our 80 cents to a competing casino."
But that probably didn't sting as hard as the $43 million Louise Chavez didn't get to see because of her malfunctioning machine. Granted, she probably should have known something was amiss, since the penny slots only advertised a $251,000 top prize. Does a casino even have $43 million to give away? Still, you'd think that maybe at the very least she'd win the top prize they do give out. Nope. Eventually, the home assistant who only makes $12,000 a year was awarded the prize the casino bosses said she'd actually won: $6.60. So, yeah, the computer messed up some digits there.
Meanwhile, Swiss gambler Behar Merlaku took the time to take a picture of his $57 million winning screen when he hit it big at an Austrian casino. Once again, the casino claimed "software error," and, unfortunately, his own pictures might prove the case against him: They clearly show only four of the five fruit symbols required for a win. Plus, Austrian law is very clear that the most anyone could win at a casino was about $2.5 million.
So your 100-foot statue of yourself would only be gold plated.
But once more, the casino didn't offer even the $2.5 million, or some fraction of the prize the machine said he'd won (say, $57,000, or a thousandth of the announced winnings). They offered 100 bucks and a free meal. He turned it down, choosing to take it to court instead. We have a feeling it's not gonna happen, Behar.
#4. Devastated Kid Stripped of His Prize
Fifteen-year-old Chicago native Herbert Pulgar was a survivor. When he was 4 years old, a candle set his shirt on fire and burned most of his stomach. If the first responding firefighters and police officers hadn't saved him, Pulgar would not have lived to see 5. For 10 years, Herb wanted to find a way to show how grateful he was for his local heroes. When he heard about the vehicle registration sticker design contest that Chicago holds every year, he designed a sticker honoring the men and women of Chicago's First Responders. And his design ended up winning!
It's not a bad design, either -- a group of outstretched, multicultural hands rising up from the Chicago skyline:
Needs more corrupt lawyers and catchy show tunes.
Along with bragging rights, Herbert was awarded a $1,000 savings bond, and his sticker was to be featured on the 1.3 million cars in Chicago.
The Heartbreaking Truth
Take a look at that picture up there. Do you see gang signs? Specifically, gang signs honoring the Maniac Latin Disciples? No? City Clerk Susana Mendoza did.
After enlisting hard-nosed gang sign analyzers to analyze the gestures, Mendoza decided that she couldn't, in good conscience, let the good people of Chicago drive around with a hint of gangbanging activity on their cars. So the runner up was selected:
We don't understand why superheroes would need glasses, hoses or handcuffs, but whatever.
This was after his art teacher came forward screaming that Herbie had modeled the hand gestures off of a design book, the same design book that all her students used, and presented the book to prove it. "See?" she said, "YOU'RE BATSHIT INSANE!" (Paraphrased.)
"Children can draw as many deformed hands as they want!"
But the decision was final. If you want to ruin your day, here's the heartbreaking video of the supposedly hardened child gangbanger crying uncontrollably when he hears the news:
Oh, and it gets better. Not only was Herbie's sticker given the heave-ho, but the kid was stripped of his bond as well. And we should also mention that Herbie was a special needs student getting his education at an alternative school, that while all of this was going down, his father was the subject of an FBI manhunt for crack distribution and that Herbie Jr. was using the contest as a way to make his mother proud. Nice job, guys.
#3. Hundreds of College Applicants Get the Rug Yanked from Under Them
When you're a teenager, there isn't anything more nerve-racking that waiting for your college acceptance letter, except maybe waiting for the results of a pregnancy test. If you're the type to qualify for a prestigious school and are waiting to see if you get in there or have to settle for one of those tech schools they advertise on cable late at night, pretty much your whole future is hanging in the balance.
"Well, yes, my life is over. But at least I can vicariously live through and destroy her future, too."
For students applying for early admission to Vassar College, for instance, the chance to get into one of the top 25 liberal arts schools in the country meant years of dedicated work. Keeping up with their grades, taking advanced courses and washing the cars of teachers who might write recommendations, all that stuff. Finally they filled out their early admission college applications. And then they waited.
"Don't worry, babe. Just a few more days and we'll know if I have to settle for you."
Only instead of waiting for a telegram boy like we used to get in the old days, these lucky teens waited for an email delivered straight to their computer boxes. One Tunisian student stayed up late with his parents waiting for the news. Another kid from Singapore set his alarm at 5 a.m. so he wouldn't be a second late for the verdict. Finally the message came. And all 122 students who checked their messages right away got in. They were soon to be Vassaritians!
The Heartbreaking Truth
While parents popped champagne bottles and drunkenly called their exes to boast about the superior genes of their spouses, Vassar officials shit a brick. Because of the 122 students who saw the "Congratulations! You're totally accepted!" email, only 46 were actually admitted. It turns out the computer put up a placeholder "test" email, and that letter happened to be posted on the day everyone signed in to check their admittance status. So beginning at around 5 in the evening, the system error messages started going out, which was especially cruel, since they ended with the word "PSYCH!" in bold comic sans font.
"Yeah, Steve, it's me. I'm calling in that sexual harassment settlement. Susan needs work."
And this wasn't even the first time kid nerds had been suckerpunched in the junk by their prospective colleges. In 2009, Cornell accidentally sent 25 rejected students a "Congratulations" letter. In 2011, the University of Delaware pulled the same shit with 61 previously rejected students. The University of Chapel Hill didn't even wait to accept or reject prospective students; they sent 2,700 applicants welcome letters before the admissions process was even finished.
"This is the place of your dreams? Well, you must be sleep-trespassing."
But no one, and we mean no one beats the gaffe UC San Diego pulled off in 2009. The school sent welcome letters to 28,000 students who didn't actually make the cut. Not only did they send the wrong letters, but these particular letters invited the kids and their families to tour the school on orientation day. By the time the mistake was fixed, hotel rooms and flights were already booked, $50 sweatshirts were already donned and 28,000 kids thought they weren't going to have to take the University of Phoenix route to a higher education.

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Cardinals stick with same roster for NLCS against LA
That roster, made official Friday morning, includes 12 pitchers and 13 position players. The Cardinals will utilize a four-man rotation, which will leave eight pitchers in the bullpen. Joe Kelly will start Game 1 of the NLCS on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. CT.
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PITCHERS: Kelly, Michael Wacha, Adam Wainwright, Lance Lynn, Shelby Miller, Trevor Rosenthal, Kevin Siegrist, Randy Choate, Carlos Martinez, John Axford, Edward Mujica, Seth Maness
POSITION PLAYERS: Yadier Molina, Tony Cruz, Matt Adams, Matt Carpenter, Pete Kozma, Daniel Descalso, Kolten Wong, David Freese, Matt Holliday, Carlos Beltran, Jon Jay, Shane Robinson, Adron Chambers
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Susan's Vegan Omelette (sort of)
6 comments:
- Happy Herbivore! said...
you are the reason i went to sticky fingers in DC... thank you thank you thank you
- March 30, 2008 at 12:15 AM
- SusanV said...
I'm blushing at your kind words! Your photos look great (love that first one), and you've reminded me that I really need to edit that recipe to say not to try to make a double batch all at once. You're not the first person to try that and wind up having to scramble the tofu. But I'm happy that your results were tasty.
- March 30, 2008 at 12:33 AM
- Vegyogini said...
What a clever way to make an "egg" muffin sandwich! I have a couple recipes using slabs of tofu for the egg, but I love the idea of using Susan's omelette.
- March 30, 2008 at 12:52 AM
- magpie said...
just dropping by to say that I've been reading your blog for a while and I love it! you do a great job :)
- March 30, 2008 at 1:16 AM
- woodenapples said...
I'm not sure how to get in touch with you. I wanted to let you know that I did a post about your blog today on mine. The Good Goods (thegoodgoods.wordpress.com) is a new blog where we review everything vegan. I hope you'll have a peek.
Also I wanted to let you know that I have a recipe for a chocolate cake similar to your lemon one. Inspired by 1950's Cake 'n Sauce.Let me know if you'd like it.
Thanks Amy
- March 30, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- Bronwen said...
I don't know if you've ever revisited this question of a more durable omelette, but if you have, I'd love to hear about it! I've been using an adapted form of that recipe for years now (used to wow my roommates with it back in university), but have yet to get it fail-proof. I'd say about one in three falls apart on me.
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MINGO JUNCTION - Two teams needing a win met Monday and two timely hits were the difference.
Indian Creek got those two timely base knocks and Toronto did not in a 3-1 Redskins win at Muth Field.
"This feels good," said Indian Creek coach Mike Cottis, whose 14-10 team hosts Cambridge today. "We were on a four-game skid and they were all on the road. It was like we were beating ourselves up.
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TURNING TWO — Toronto's Tyler Antinone turns a double play as Indian Creek's Tanner Wise watches the throw to first base during Monday's 3-1 Redskins win at Muth Field. Indian Creek snapped a four-game losing streak, while the Red Knights have lose three of their last four games.
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"It was nice to get home and play a solid game. The boys played solidly from start to finish."
Starters Jimmy Bolyog (Redskins) and Tyler Owens (Red Knights) both pitched gems.
"Jimmy threw strikes and kept them off-balance," said Cottis. "He did a fantastic job and we made plays.
"Tyler threw a great game for them, too."
The difference was two swings of the bat.
Toronto took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning when Billy Solomon led off with a single and eventually came around to score on Indian Creek's lone error.
Tanner Wise began the fourth inning by coaxing a full-count walk. Dustin Rath singled one out later.
Bolyog followed with a double to right that scored Wise.
Designated hitter Cole Yeater came to the dish and laced a two-RBI double to plate Rath and Bolyog.
"The difference today was our defense played and we got those timely hits," said Cottis. "We didn't hit the snot out of the ball today. But, we got the hits when it mattered."
For the Red Knights, who visit Bridgeport Wednesday, it is their third loss in the last four games.
"We got a good pitching performance, our fielding showed up behind him and, unfortunately, our bats didn't show up today," said Red Knights coach Brian Perkins.
Toronto had five singles, none in the same inning but for the seventh.
Austin Lucas began the inning with a single up the middle and, two outs later, Solomon singled for the second time. But, Bolyog induced a fly ball for the final out.
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"20 is a pretty full class we usually have anywhere from 16 to 24 students. We talk about safety in the home, what to do if your stopped by a police officer, cleaning your weapon, shooting stances, and we finish up with live firing at the range,"says Phil Kimbel, Instructor.
Kimbel says due to high demand they are offering significantly more classes than they have in the past 11 years.
"There seems to be a lot of uncertainty right now about whether the classes will continue, I think they will, but the public seems to have a lot of uncertainty right now, so I think that has caused the demand to go up,"says Kimbel.
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Bartram added that Obama's new gun proposal is not the answer.
"Even if they put a new law into effect the people who are law abiding citizens are the people who are going to follow the rules. The people who are going to do bad things with guns aren't going to follow those rules. If they want to get a gun they will still get them. It all comes back to guns don't kill people, people kill people,"says Bartram.
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Posted 02 July 2011 - 10:31 AM
It will be interesting to see if ABT can grow their school successfully, at least as a finishing school -- training dancers in their last year or two, rather than training them for 4-6 years like at SAB. The "finishing" schools need to provide opportunities for their graduates, or the program loses prestige and students. If they're serious about this route, then the current non-star company members are stuck between needing to make room for the former students and the stars that sell tickets, and it will be a decade before the stars could be replaced by home-grown stars. ABT is not the best place to grow; it's a great place to come in as a headliner.
NYCB is the engine that promotes from within by design, or at least since Balanchine was able to grow his own dancers from scratch. Until then, he assembled his crew from the Ballet Russe and ABT, and until the end, the men trained in Denmark. Francia Russell and Kent Stowell did the same at Pacific Northwest Ballet, for the most part: they brought in a number of dancers for the company from the outside, often from San Francisco Ballet, with many making it to the soloist and principal ranks, including Louise Nadeau, Olivier Wevers, Kaori Nakamura, Chalnessa Eames, Paul Gibson, Jeffrey Stanton, Kimberly Davey, Le Yin, Anne Derieux, Amy Rose, Batkhurel Bold, Stanko Milov, and Phil Otto, as well as some wonderfully trained dancers from Russia, who came to the US after the breakdown of the Soviet Union.
Looking at the roster at Pacific Northwest Ballet, now, for example, five of the Principals -- Chapman, Imler, Lallone, Porretta, and Postlewaite -- were finished at PNB school and rose through the ranks from apprentice -- and half the soloists did the same or were in PNB summer programs. Boal brought in a handful of his own dancers from NYCB (retired Miranda Weese, Seth Orza, Sarah Ricard Orza, Carla Korbes), but for the most part, he has been promoting up the ranks. Russell and Stowell would likely have done so sooner, but the two years in the hockey arena while the Opera House was closed for seismic repairs devastated the budget, and they didn't have it for salary and benefits. However, eight dancers left the roster a few weeks ago, including four Principals and one Soloist, and Boal said he'd replace all eight with apprentices (two Professional Division graduates who performed in big productions with the company this year) and corps members. We all expect a lot of promotions from within.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 11:05 AM
On top of that, ABTs stable of men were famous not only for their bravura technique but also their sublime partnering and partnerships. It's clear this portion is falling to the wayside with the repeated reports of Hammoudi and Simkin botching moves with their partners onstage, and even Hallberg sometimes appearing out of his depths with the tall girls. Get Marcelo to teach a damn class or something.
With Carlos Lopez gone, he has only 5 soloist men. Salstein is not really a leading man type. Simkin can't dance with the majority of the women in the company. Radetsky has danced a lot of leading male roles with the DNB, but Kevin seems loathe to give him the push that would allow him to become a more refined dancer (injuries? too old? Stella and Sascha killed his puppy back in the day? Who knows!?). Matthews has gotten increasingly better, and needs more time out onstage. Saviliev is probably getting too old to ever promote, but he (in the past) has been a reliable back up to throw onstage.
This leaves the guys in the corps. Personally I'd like to see Sean Stewart out there more. Tamm, Hoven, Hammoudi?
I actually don't think that hiring Rolando Sarabia would be a terrible idea. I like him, and while he is injury prone, he would certainly be fine for several years to shore up the roster. He's exciting, has a good story, and could actually make ABT a home as opposed to living on the fringes as a guest for the Met only.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 11:24 AM
This is an important point: dancers need to be nurtured and given appropriate opportunities. Look at the growth opportunities that Balanchine crafted at all levels, from little breakout solos to extended soloist roles, providing so many roles to grow his dancers. He was sure to build these in especially in his story ballets. They're ready made; AD's need to know how to use them.
I think Kevin has enough potential in the ranks to promote from within, but he needs to devote the energy to these guys, and not just chuck them aside.
Peter Boal once said that the problem he has with most full-lengths is that they give major roles to just a few dancers, and the full-length rep ABT's bread and butter. Even the new PNB "Giselle", which greatly extends roles like Bathilde and Wilfrid, and beefs up many others, has four Principal roles -- Giselle, Albrecht, Hilarion (major in this production), and Myrtha -- with the two demi-soloist Wilis and four character roles. That leaves "Peasant Pas de Deux", which in many companies is used to cast another set of senior soloists or principals, because there are no national dances or other solos in the ballet, and you can't leave dancers on the bench. To his great credit, Boal cast it with five couples (performed with 4.5) and all but one cast was made up of young corps dancers.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 11:38 AM
That said...
I think it's very important - not to mention extremely necessary - for ABT to look within their own company and promote male dancers to principal status. From their soloists to members of the corp de ballet, ABT is peppered with strong, promising male dancers, who with training, can easily become principals in their own right. What the company needs to do is to nurture, guide, and most importantly, challenge their male dancers in roles that would push them harder into developing their techincal skills into even greater strength and refinement. That of course goes hand-to-hand at how those dancers are being trained and taught in the studio. Danil Simkin, for example, is a wonderful virtuoso but it's not surprising he's still a soloist. He has all the skills at being a principal dancer, but in many cases, he's still rough around the edges and his partnering skills can often get him in trouble...not to mention his ballerinas. He needs to be worked on - hard - in order to correct these problems. And the thing for me - IMO - that should have been corrected a long time ago. He's a star waiting to happen but ABT doesn't seem to be doing anything in order help him to achieve it, and if they are, they're not doing it strong enough.
Also ABT needs to make sure their dancers know they're being watched. That the promise of being eventually named Principal Dancer is actually within their reach. Sure invite guest artist but don't do it to such a degree in which your home team start believing they're being completely forgotten. I still cry when I think about Giuseppe Picone. He just didn't have all elements of being a Principal Dancer - he WAS - a Principal Dancer! But sadly for him - and by extention, we the audience - ABT kept him as a soloist. It got so bad that eventually Picone left. And that's another thing that ABT has a problem with - both males and females - they keep their truly promising dancers as soloist for far too long. In some cases the wait is understandable, but in other cases, some dancers slips through the company's fingers probably because the dancer has a sense of frustration at waiting, so they leave and go else where. And yeah, that does bring into question the skills of ABT's ballet masters. A great dancer is often taught by a great teacher...without that great teacher it's pretty hard to have a great dancer.
Currently ABT is in a period of transition. They are losing their strongest principal males - either to retirement or because those dancers have other interest. Not to mention Father Time is catching up to them. Whatever the case ABT has to start seriously thinking about where their new principal male dancers will be coming from. They can't solely rely on guest artists...and Gomes and Hallberg can't dance everything!
Posted 02 July 2011 - 11:43 AM
Posted 02 July 2011 - 11:51 AM
Did he do some lifts well? I saw a wonderful young dancer in the Goh Ballet "Nutcracker" last December. He did an amazing amount of tricky partnering with three different girls and women, most of it exemplary, but I'll bet most people remember a pretty awful splat in the Snow Queen/Snow King scene. (The poor woman was stunned for a few moments.)
Posted 02 July 2011 - 02:32 PM
Lets run up and down the roster:
Maxim Beloserkovsky: Nearly 40 and prone to repeated injuries. The company is pulling roles away from him. He is tied to his wife and partner, Irina Dvorovenko who is still in top form technically. He is not. Major problem and you can't retire or fire him without firing his wife, who they need.
Roberto Bolle: Not a kid, around 35 years old. Also belongs to two other major ballet companies and is a guest, touring attraction world-wide. Not a lot of time to give to ABT. Then there was that little incident last year when he canceled with an injury and then danced in Europe for big fees while recovering. Sir Rudolf Bing fired a couple of Italian star singers for pulling the same stunt in the 1950's - notably tenor Giuseppe di Stefano. Still I would rehire him and try to get more performances out of him for a few years. He is tall, a great partner and needed.
Jose Manuel Carreno: Retiring this year though he has danced better this season than he has in years. Frankly he looks like he has a year or two left in him of top quality dancing. He will be missed.
Angel Corella: Not what he was 10 years ago but the "Coppelia" I saw revealed most of the technique and all the charm intact. Obviously ABT didn't like it when Angel struck out on his own limiting his appearances with the company. Make it up with Angel, ABT - you are losing more than you are gaining.
Herman Cornejo: Truly great dancer limited by his height. ABT took too long in promoting him in leading roles. Now prone to injury - he seems to have a major injury every Spring season. Also tours with his brother-in-law Angel Corella's company taking him away from ABT for long periods of time.
Irina Dvorovenko: Love her or hate her she is a formidable technician and actress. But she is tied to her husband and he is frequently injured and not what he was. She danced very well this season. He didn't dance at all after the opening gala.
Marcelo Gomes: A backbone of the company and a star who gives everything to his ballerina and the audience.
David Hallberg: A beautiful artist and with Gomes holding the standard of the male contingent to a high level.
Paloma Herrera: Still a good, not a brilliant ballerina but stalled as an artist. Starting out as a teenage prodigy she hasn't developed into a great classical ballerina. Her technical level has been surpassed by Ananiashvili and Murphy during her ABT career. Best in modern repertory with good coaching - i.e. Zina in "Bright Stream" this season. Possibly she should have gone to NYCB.
Julie Kent: A lovely refined dramatically gifted eloquent ballerina but she is in her early forties and her dancing shows it. Beloved and will remain on the roster until she chooses to leave. However, she is not going to be carrying a big load in the future and that future is limited.
Gillian Murphy: Prima ballerina of the company and greatest technical virtuoso now that Ananiashvili has retired. It is bothersome that she is marrying Stiefel and will follow him for long periods to New Zealand. Major loss to the company which needs her full-time.
Veronika Part: A heartbreakingly frustrating and setback strewn long-delayed ascension to principal status. Alexei Ratmansky seems to like to work with her so now she has more support in the artistic administration. Her dancing can still be variable and her height and womanliness limit her roles but she is becoming a mainstay of the company.
Xiomara Reyes: I like Xiomara though I realize she is basically a soubrette with some strong acting and technical skills. She looks very young but isn't - she has been dancing for 20 years. She has had her share of injuries but danced a very good season this year and I look forward to her Aurora next Wednesday. I don't see her dancing with the company for more than five years.
Corey Stearns: Developing rapidly as a technician and a partner. His stage presence is wooden and bland though he cuts an attractive figure onstage. Lacks the partnering skills and stage presence of Gomes. I am not sure if he is being helped or hindered by all the major roles being thrown at him at once - ABT might have spread the wealth around a bit to Joe Philips, Sascha, Simkin, Hammoudi and others.
Ethan Stiefel: How is ABT going to retire Ethan? They are going to have to. He has been teaching recently and not been dancing anywhere else. He is taking over the New Zealand Ballet next year. He comes for the Spring season to dance roles he has danced for a decade with the company and withdraws because he is "unprepared". He knows the parts and productions and ballerinas very well. What is going on here? Not at all the dancer he was when he joined the company, the time is nigh for him to go. I would have retired Ethan this season and kept Jose on.
Diana Vishneva: An international superstar but one that ABT seems to have lost interest in. A member of the Mariinsky and guest ballerina all over the world, she doesn't have a lot of time for ABT beyond the Spring Met season. She danced only two roles with the company this season and stayed only a few weeks. Osipova seems to garner more attention and excitement these days. Very few projects have been mounted specifically for her - the "Dame aux Camellias" was brought in mainly to give something for Julie Kent to do at this point in her career. The Tatyana next season is a new role for her (also one of Julie's best roles).
Michele Wiles: Really only shone as a soloist and in the modern repertory seasons at City Center. Good in Balanchine and surprisingly strong in parts like Hagar in "Pillar of Fire". She really was stalled in the big classical roles.
And that's it folks. So really only Gomes, Part, Hallberg, Murphy, Dvorovenko, Herrera (with her limitations) and Reyes holding the season together. The rest are either immature (Stearns), prone to injury (Beloserkovsky, Cornejo) or ageing out (Stiefel, Kent) or spend most of their time elsewhere (Bolle, Corella and Vishneva).
I personally feel that Rolando Sarabia might thrive were he given a regular company to work with, constant chiropractic and podiatric medical attention and if Kevin really worked with him to regain his full technique. Caring attention might give Sarabia a renaissance. Like a fixer-upper house, he could be acquired cheaply and remodeled into a showpiece. Sarabia also was supposedly good in the Tharp repertory in Houston or Miami during his short careers there and that kind of versatility is important for an ABT principal.
I like the opportunities being given to Hammoudi but he looks underprepared for some of his roles. More in depth coaching and rehearsal is needed for these corps guys to shine in soloist and principal parts.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 03:13 PM
I get the impression several people who did not need to retire or move elsewhere were pushed out unnecessarily, leaving the gaping hole bemoaned here. My review of interviews with Jose indicated to me that he was not ready to retire or leave. Maybe I am reading something into his expressions or words, but I was not convinced that he felt the burning desire to become a freelance dancer at this stage. Others have stated that Angel feels unwelcome and underused. Stiefel's excuses sound suspicious, as Faux Pas notes. If many are being pushed out when seemingly replacements are not readily available, broader questions arise. I am left to ask, "Is some grand strategy at play?"
Posted 02 July 2011 - 03:42 PM
This is an important point: dancers need to be nurtured and given appropriate opportunities. Look at the growth opportunities that Balanchine crafted at all levels, from little breakout solos to extended soloist roles, providing so many roles to grow his dancers. He was sure to build these in especially in his story ballets. They're ready made; AD's need to know how to use them.
I think Kevin has enough potential in the ranks to promote from within, but he needs to devote the energy to these guys, and not just chuck them aside.
Peter Boal once said that the problem he has with most full-lengths is that they give major roles to just a few dancers, and the full-length rep ABT's bread and butter. Even the new PNB "Giselle", which greatly extends roles like Bathilde and Wilfrid, and beefs up many others, has four Principal roles -- Giselle, Albrecht, Hilarion (major in this production), and Myrtha -- with the two demi-soloist Wilis and four character roles. That leaves "Peasant Pas de Deux", which in many companies is used to cast another set of senior soloists or principals, because there are no national dances or other solos in the ballet, and you can't leave dancers on the bench. To his great credit, Boal cast it with five couples (performed with 4.5) and all but one cast was made up of young corps dancers.
Totally agree Helene - you made the points I was going to. At NYCB a dancer can be on stage every night in rep doing real technique both in the corp & as a soloist. In ABT even if you've gotten a few shot at Peasant Pas it's a far reach from that to Albrecht.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 04:18 PM
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Posted 02 July 2011 - 04:48 PM
That's why I mentioned that the full-lengths are ABT's bread-and-butter. I don't think people would necessarily boycott if one of the names was home-grown and less than a star, but I do think McKenzie has to hire from the outside to sell tickets.
Posted 02 July 2011 - 06:28 PM
A friend of mine from England told me that Rojo/Acosta are considered a "hot" ticket as a couple.
I think partnerships can matter. For me - ABT this spring, I saw and loved Cojocaru's Giselle. I was not going to see her SB (not in my budget and I saw and loved it last year). The minute I knew Kobberg was in, I bought a ticket.
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6 Deleted Scenes That Totally Change Classic Movies
Most films are horrible for a very simple reason: They're made by a whole bunch of people trying to guide a complicated project through a shitload of chaotic steps. Even a great idea can wind up taking a journey every bit as transformational as the trip a salad takes through your digestive system.
Because it's such a long and winding road from script to screen, it's fascinating to go back and see what almost made it into the film. Here are some scenes that -- if they hadn't been left on the cutting room floor -- would have changed everything, for better or worse.
#6. The Bad Guys Kind of Had a Point in The Dark Knight Rises
Warner Bros. Pictures
In the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, Harvey Dent's death inspires the creation of the Dent Act, which crushes organized crime and allows Batman to retire. Sadly, all this hard work goes out the window when the revolutionary Bane attacks the city and incites anarchy. This leads to a harrowing sequence in which Dr. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow, puts a bunch of Gothamites "on trial" and sentences them to death by walking across the ice of Gotham Bay. It's clearly intended to be a powerful metaphor for what happens when the scum of society rises to power.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Or it's another goddamn global warming movie.
The Missing Scenes:
A minor detail that gets omitted from the final cut is the fact that the Dent Act was effective specifically because it took away civil liberties, like the right to an appeal. Those kangaroo courts the criminals set up were in fact meant to turn the tables, as explained in this omitted exchange between Scarecrow and Commissioner Gordon:
GORDON: No lawyer, no witnesses. What sort of due process is this?
CRANE: More than you gave Harvey's prisoners, Commissioner.
Warner Bros. Pictures
"I know your deepest fears: Fifth Amendment constitutional violations!"
Oh! So the film was deliberately drawing a parallel between Bane's court and the unethical Dent Act.
That's pretty significant, because up to this point in the series, it seemed like the Dark Knight saga was a spirited defense of authoritarian, anti-civil liberties policies. But this last installment was actually all about turning the previous films' themes on their heads. Bruce Wayne learned to embrace his fears, Alfred declared that the truth should make itself known, and although the previous movie taught us that we can ignore individual rights on the way to sentencing baddies, this deleted line proved that "Eh, maybe not."
Warner Bros. Pictures
Police without rules are evil. And police obsessed with rules are evil. Basically, fuck the police.
It has such a huge impact on the theme that you'd think they could have squeezed those two sentences in somewhere. Then again, why did they eliminate the five-word sentence that completely explained why everyone in Gotham will not die in the fallout of the nuclear explosion in the movie finale?
Yeah, the script handles that, too, with Miranda Tate describing the nuclear plot device as:
MIRANDA: No radiation, no fossil fuels ...
Warner Bros. Pictures
Yup. Another global warming movie.
No massive plot holes, no endless discussions on countless message boards. What a beautiful world we could've had with just five simple words.
#5. The Script of Prometheus Closes Key Plot Holes
20th Century Fox
Prometheus is full of beautifully shot effects and contains some amazing, almost classic horror sequences, all of which are tainted by the minor fact that the story didn't make any fucking sense whatsoever. Due to what appears to be a very confused production process, the film winds up being a series of weird/scary events that happen for no reason at all. For example, the entire "crew gets infected by monsters" plot that drives the film is triggered by David the android, and the film makes it look like he did it for the pure hell of it.
20th Century Fox
"Robots don't follow set programming like you humans do. We're wild cards!"
In the movie, David accompanies the human mission to an alien moon. Initially acting as the voyage's monitor, David even saves the lives of two crew members. However, as soon as they discover a strange black liquid, he immediately attempts to poison one of the scientists with it and spends the rest of the movie generally messing with them. It appears to be purely due to the fourth law of robotics: Any robot appearing in a sci-fi horror film will always move the story forward, even at the cost of human life or plot coherency.
The Missing Scenes:
In the original script, David spontaneously flipped his evil switch because that's what he was programmed to do by his creator and expedition sponsor Peter Weyland:
DAVID: I was given two operating protocols for this mission. I was to render you every assistance -- until you discovered what Vickers would call a "game-changing technology." (...) Under protocol two I was to make sure that you and Holloway never spoke to anyone about this place.
20th Century Fox
"This was followed by protocol three, in which I was to devote all circuits to exposition."
And there you go. One of the most criticized parts of the movie actually had a perfectly rational explanation all along: David suddenly turned on his crewmates because they discovered "game-changing technology," like the ... uhm, alien fountain pen ink? Wait, how did he even know what that thing was supposed to be?
Actually, the black liquid was a big part of the original story as well:
DAVID: For eons, Earth's climate swung from hothouse to ice age. Explosions of life, then mass extinctions. But twelve thousand years ago the swings stopped. The Holocene Epoch began -- a period of anomalous tranquility. The rise of civilization began only then.
WATTS: And that change coincides with a visit by the Engineers. They didn't just change us. They changed our world.
20th Century Fox
This one's not a global warming movie. It's a climate change movie.
As it turns out, Peter Weyland only funded the expedition because he initially wanted terraforming technology (the black liquid, and those giant pyramids) after first trying and failing to terraform Mars, which is also covered in the script. He also needed a quick cure for the whole "dying of old age" problem. So when you get down to it, the original movie was less a philosophical tale about the origin and meaning of life and more one deranged billionaire's quest to live long enough to boink on Mars.
#4. Terminator 2 Originally Had a Massive Future Battle Scene
TriStar Pictures
Terminator 2 set the bar for future action blockbusters. The massively budgeted film broke ground in CGI effects (you can decide for yourself whether to thank them for that) and boasted several massive action and stunt set pieces that became instant classics. That's the thing about James Cameron -- he'll spend the equivalent of a small country's GDP getting the movie made, but that dude doesn't leave anything on the table.
But actually ... that's not true. Cameron's original ambitions were even bigger than what you saw on screen. Specifically, the few glimpses we get of the futuristic cyborg war were supposed to be part of a huge, epic sequence that apparently not even this production had the budget for.
TriStar Pictures
"First of all, we're going to need to nuke a large city to make it authentic."
The Missing Scenes:
Terminator 2 was supposed to open with a sequence depicting the human army destroying Skynet once and for all:
Aerial HKs tilt slowly, out of control, and crash to the ground. All the terminators stand frozen, unmoving, like a bunch of toy soldiers. (...) We hear a voice speaking over a radio headset. It is filled with awed emotion.
HEADSET VOICE (O.S.): ... The Colorado Division confirms that Skynet has been destroyed ... The war is over ... I repeat, Skynet has been destroyed.
This series of events is referred to only briefly in the first film, when the humans are on the verge of winning the war against Skynet and find the time machine. According to early versions of the script, the war finally ends in a worldwide human victory on August 11, 2029, thanks to the destruction of Skynet in the Colorado Rockies.
And the coolest thing about this lost sequence? We actually have detailed concept art of how it would have played out:
Maurice Huijs/TriStar Pictures
Maurice Huijs/TriStar Pictures
"Priority One: Back up the porn!"
The destruction of Skynet and the subsequent freezing of all Terminator models (stupid Windows 29) would also allow John Connor to reprogram one and send it back to protect his teenage self, and also to tell one of his soldiers to go back in time and fuck his mom.
Maurice Huijs/TriStar Pictures
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So I planted my hops three years ago and they've done well. I'm planning to move next year (within the same hardiness zone) and I want to take my hops with me. I'm sure whomever buys my house won't want the hops and I don't want to lose them. How do I collect the crown to take it with me? Can I take the whole crown, or do I need to clip rhizomes and start anew next year? Should I dig them up in the fall after the bines die off, or in the late winter, or some other time? How do I store them until planting time? If I can take the whole crown, can I store it or must it be transplanted immediately like transplanting a shrub? Can you offer any other advice on taking hop plants with me when I move?
I just waited until the winter and then dug up the entire rhizome for each plant (they were pretty big, it was a lot of digging). I separated the rhizome from the soil and put them in an open box in the new house's garage. It was cold in there, which I think is pretty key. I left them in my garage for around a month after the move because I didn't have time to plant them and hadn't made a space for it. My cat crapped on them while in the box too, but they started growing right there in the box I had them in-- lack of dirt and all. Like a potato that sprouts in the cupboard. That was 6 months ago. Planted them in the early spring and they're now flowering (see attached photo shot today).
Point being: they're pretty hardy plants. I think you can just dig the crown and go with the "relax, don't worry, have a homebrew" mantra.
Seeing how you have time I think you may want to think about burying a few feet of one bine. That will serve as growth for a good new rhizome. Then you dig it up and trim it into a few pieces for planting multiple plants after you move.
I don't remember all the details but a quick google search will help.
I think this might be easier than trying to dig up and save the entire crown.
There is a nice little self explanatory piece about this at FreshHops to check out.


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The response to the coming end of the company that makes Wonder Bread, Twinkies and other Hostess snacks has provided great amusement and clarity. For decades, nutritionists have scorned the beloved Twinkie as an example of all that's wrong with the American diet. The Twinkie has become the butt of news reports about the so-called obesity epidemic and the poster child of what the food police consider lethal snacks that pleasure the palate with empty calories.


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The 5 Most Epic Battles of Will That Would Not End
A battle between two evenly matched and determined opponents is the kind of stuff that makes history ... when somebody actually wins. But sometimes the opponents are too evenly matched, and the fight goes on, and on, and on, until everybody just wishes it would freaking end already. Kind of like that tennis match last year that lasted 11 hours.
So let's salute the athletes, politicians and warriors who kept up the fight long after a reasonable person would have said, "Fine, you win."
#5. The Real-Life Rocky vs. Apollo, But Bare-Knuckled and Drunker
Imagine a boxing match like the one in Rocky -- 15 rounds of two men beating the shit out of each other until they can barely stand. Now imagine two guys doing that five consecutive times without stopping. Oh, and one of them is drunk the entire time. That was the absolutely insane 1889 bout between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain.
Though formal championships didn't exist outside the world of hoop rolling in those days, John L. Sullivan was nationally recognized as the king of the boxing world. At a time when the sport was so raw they could have called it "murder-hits'' and nobody would have blinked, Sullivan was the best. And leave it to the Gilded Age to somehow translate his fame into a mustache so powerful it actually started over at the eyebrows:
We can't help thinking he means that literally. It's in his eyes.
As insanely masculine as Sullivan was, he was also insanely addicted to alcohol. So when a relatively young and fit family man named Jake Kilrain challenged Sullivan to an illegal match for a $20,000 purse, he did what any man with a mustache like that would do: he continued binge drinking. And this was while battling a host of ailments that, according to him, included typhoid fever, gastric fever, inflammation of the bowels, heart trouble, liver complaint, an "incipient paralysis," a "mysterious itch" and delusions of phantom rats. So, he was not in fighting shape is what we're saying.
Still, this is the guy who broke his arm in a fight and still managed to make it a draw.
The Standoff:
The Sullivan/Kilrain match lasted over two hours and 75 excruciating rounds. Oh, and the fight was outdoors, in July, in Mississippi.
They don't make stenches like that anymore.
It turns out Sullivan was too drunk or too brain damaged to feel pain, even after his face was split and his ear was ripped. The fourth round alone lasted over 15 minutes, and there were still 71 more to go. Thanks to the whiskey Sullivan was swilling in his corner, a 44th round punch caused him to vomit on the ring ... and he kept on fighting.
"They banned Vaseline, but the rules don't say nothin' about vomit."
By round 75, both men were sporting sunburn blisters on their backs, Sullivan's eye was swollen shut and neither man could hardly stand. Yet it was Kilrain's team that threw in the towel, not because Kilrain wanted to quit, but because his coach was pretty sure he'd die if he continued.
#4. The Ping-Pong Match That Resembled Trench Warfare
One thing common to every game is that there is always someone who finds a way to completely suck the fun out of it. These are the people who want to win by virtue of making the game boring. In multiplayer FPS games it's the "campers," and in Ping-Pong/table tennis, it's the "chiselers."
Unlike campers, though, you can't sneak behind them and deliver a merciful bullet to the head.
Chiselers play defensive only, keeping the back-and-forth going forever and ever, "chiseling" at the stamina and the mind of an opponent until one or the other breaks. It's sort of like Chinese water torture, but the droplets of water hitting your forehead are Ping-Pong balls, and the insanity you're experiencing is the game.
Table tennis champions Alex Ehrlich and Paneth Farcas were really, really good at chiseling. Want to guess what happened when the two played each other?
We do know that a civilization was formed during the match with a curious hatred of metronomes.
The Standoff:
A living Hell, that's what. At the 1936 World Games, Ehrlich and Farcas commenced to show the world exactly how mind-numbingly torturous table tennis could be.
This isn't a recent photo. This was taken straight after the match.
Twelve thousand hits. That's how many times the ball crossed the table before either one of them scored a point. After more than an hour and a half, an umpire had to be replaced because his neck literally stopped working. Ehrlich was playing a game so monotonous that he called out chess moves to a nearby table as he played. The committee in charge of the match finally asked if the players would consider making it a five-point game.
"One of the ladies has gone into labor. She claims she wasn't even pregnant at the start of the match."
But then Ehrlich suddenly altered his return of the ball, and Farcas' arm had grown too stiff to counter differently. After two hours, the first point was scored. After another quick point, Farcas went apeshit and ran screaming from the room. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Ping-Pong games are restricted to 10-minute matches to this day.
Ehrlich was later saved from the gas chamber in Auschwitz because of his Ping-Pong skills.
Of course, we now realize we compared the stalemate match to "trench warfare," but nothing compares to the real thing. Just look at ...
#3. The World War I Battle That Lasted 10 Months
They don't make wars like World War I any more. World War II gets all the movies and video games, but the world will never see that combination of massive scale and primitive tactics again. And thank God. It brings to mind images of hundreds of thousands of dudes in muddy ditches, gaining ground inches at a time across piles of corpses.
90 percent of war is looking into the camera stoically and writing groundbreaking poetry.
It may be that no one battle in the history of warfare embodies the "Well, we'll all just stand here until every single person is dead!" strategy like the Battle of Verdun. Two sides firing more than 100,000 artillery shells a day, every day, for most of a year.
The Standoff:
In 1916, the German invasion of France had bogged down into the kind of horrific stalemate that only trench warfare can give you. But the Germans knew what would get the invasion going again: taking out the strategically important city of Verdun, France. Sure, it was encircled by forts and about 300 big guns ("strategically important" cities don't tend to be left unguarded). But the Germans had a plan.
"We knock."
They knew Verdun was crucial to the French, so their theory was if they kept coming at it, the French would spend everything they had trying to defend it. The Germans didn't even really want the city -- they just wanted to turn it into a graveyard for as many French troops as possible. Normally in war, the best case scenario is a quick, decisive victory, but this was one time when they wanted a long, protracted, bloody standoff.
They fucking got it.
This is the pockmarked surface of what used to be a fucking massive fort.
The Germans brought 72 battalions and 1,400 guns. On February 21, the Germans began the attack with a strategy known as "let's shoot artillery shells at them until there are no more artillery shells left in the world." They opened the ceremonies by firing over one million shells at the French position.
But the French held through that attack. And through the next one. And the next. In March, the Germans tried to flank the French, launching another four million shells at the spot where they were dug in (they blew so many craters in one hill that after the war, the hill was measured 12 feet lower than before). The French held again. In the spring, the French counterattacked. The Germans held. Then the Germans counterattacked elsewhere. And so on.
"Don't worry! With all those shells there won't be room for bullets!"
The two sides pummeled each other for 10 freaking months, from February until December. Combined, they launched a mind-boggling 40 million artillery shells at each other while fighting over this tiny hunk of land. To this day, parts of the area still look like the surface of the moon -- they can't grow crops there because the soil is so infested with hunks of shells.
Sure makes for an exciting game of golf, though.
The Germans' plan worked, in a way -- the battle cost the French 163,000 men. The problem was the Germans lost 143,000 men in the process and, as you know, went on to lose the war. So it was all one big fucking waste.
But hey, at least they captured a massive pile of strategic rubble.


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I would like to know how stressful this work can be and where the stress could come from. How to avoid it? Does it really depend on the company you are working? Is there a way to know in advance if work in a particular company is stressful or not?
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It's more stressful than the work of a tenured professor but less stressful than the work of a postdoc.


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STEUBENVILLE - It was pretty simple for Richmond Post 740 coach Sam Davis.
"We ran into a buzzsaw," he said after Tuesday's 19-8 loss to Alliance at Vaccaro Field in the Region 7 American Legion Baseball Tournament. "We knew they were a good, solid team, but wow. They had them a day there and we weren't walking anybody.
"I asked Steve (Hawkins) how many hits they had by, I think, the fifth inning and he said, '20.'
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TWO-RUN BLAST — Austin Horan is greeted by Josh Pasek at home after Horan drove in Pasek with a two-run home run in the fifth inning of Tuesday's 19-8 loss to Alliance at Vaccaro Field.
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"We just don't give up that many runs. We were throwing strikes and they were hitting them. I thought T.K. (Tyler Krantz) and Sammy's (Orr) stuff was fine. They (Alliance) just had one of those days. It's baseball."
Alliance scored three in the first, eight in the second and three in the third.
"They were right on top of it all day," said Davis, whose team will play Thursday against the winner of today's contest between Toronto and Cadiz at a time and place to be determined in the double-elimination tournament.
"I think the play at the end of the game epitomized the day. We hit a shot down the (right field) line and the first baseman makes a diving catch. What are you going to do?"
Alliance finished with 21 hits and left seven men on base. Post 740 had one error and used five pitchers..
"They have a nice team. It wasn't our day and it was their's," said Davis. "The play at the end of the game epitomized the day. We hit a shot down the (first base) line and the guy makes a diving catch. What are you going to do?"
Austin Horan blasted a two-run homer in the sixth inning to left to score Josh Pasek, who had singled. Horan doubled one inning later to the base of the fence in left to score Pasek.
"I am really proud of our kids," said Davis. "They could have easily rolled over when it was 19-3. The kids kept battling back. We just wanted to prolong the game and see what happened because you never know.
"We're playing hard.
"We'll come back Thursday and see what happens."
Alliance 19, Richmond 8
Richmond 102 004 1 - 8 9 1
Alliance 383 140 x - 19 21 3
RICHMOND: Krantz (LP, 0K, 2BB), Orr (2, 0K, 0BB), Evans (3, 0K, 0BB), Shunk (4, 0K, 1BB), Woodward (5, 2K, 0B) and Mohn; Marcus 2S; Mohn S; Krantz S; Scott S; Pasek 2S; Allese S; Horan HR, D, 3RBI.
ALLIANCE: Ince (WP, 1K, 2BB), Hufford (4, 0K, 0BB), Burchett (6, 3K, 1BB) and Bugara; Taylor 2S; Strata 3S; Bugara 3S, D; Blevins T; Cannon D, 2S; Thomas 3S; McConnell D; Hammerton S; Beech 2S.


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Leaders of the Brooke-Hancock Salvation Army said they know many people are tightening their belts in the face of the current economy. But they're hoping local residents will again find room to reach out to fellow citizens who are perhaps struggling even more than they.
Salvation Army Capt. Ed Long said the organization has seen a decrease in giving at the same time that need has increased greatly.
"Many of the people who have helped us now need help themselves," said Long, who heads the Brooke-Hancock Salvation Army with his wife, Capt. Goldie Long.
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SEEKING HELP — Ronnie Taylor of Wellsburg is among area volunteers aiding the Brooke-Hancock Salvation Army by serving as bell ringers at its kettles. The organization will be accepting donations at many local busineses and will be collecting toys for families in need at the Weirton Wal-Mart from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. -- Warren Scott
Long said in recent weeks the Salvation Army received a surge of support from local businesses.
"Of course that's going to go real quick because there's so much need," he said.
Long said about 150 Brooke County families and 225 Hancock County families received assistance at Thanksgiving. The number seeking Christmas assistance has remained about the same in Brooke County and risen to 300 in Hancock County, he said.
From donating food or toys to serving as bell ringers at one of the Salvation Army's famous red kettles, there are a number of ways people can help.
Long said a Salvation Army truck will be at the Weirton Wal-Mart from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday to accept donations of unwrapped toys for children. It's a new move, conducted with the store's cooperation, to encourage giving.
Angel trees bearing the wishes of local children in need also have been posted at many local churches and a number of businesses.
In Hancock County the trees can be found at Ted's Pharmacy, Wal-Mart, Kmart, both First Choice America Community Federal Credit Union locations and Hancock County Savings Bank.
Angel trees have been placed at the following Brooke County locations: Brooke County Public Library, Chambers Store in Bethany, Dollar General Market, Dollar General Store in Wellsburg, Mark's Carryout, Traubert's Pharmacy and Main Street, Progressive and WesBanco banks.
Those who "adopt" items from the trees are asked to turn in the gifts by Monday.
Long said many residents enjoy manning the kettles because it emphasizes the holiday's spirit of helping others. Bell-ringing need not be a solo effort as families and members of civic groups have gathered to collect donations for the cause.
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I wear a tallit katan at almost all times and I do, in fact, sleep in it. I spoke to a rabbi about whether I would actually ever make "al mitzvat tzitzit" and it seemed that the answer was no. Kitzur also informs me that one doesn't make the blessing when putting on the tallit katan after a shower, as far as I know. So, if I'm donning a tallit gadol every morning for Shacharit, will I ever actually make "al mitzvat tzitzit" on a daily basis?
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Not on a daily basis, but maybe on a weekly basis if you put a different tallit katan on for Shabbos. Also, summer's coming up and if you go to the beach or the pool you'll almost invariably have your tallit katan off long enough for there to be hesech hadaas, so when you put it back on you'll make a bracha on it.
I think some people might argue that in both these cases you can have intention to cover these situations when you make your bracha in the morning, therefore would not make a bracha, but personally I never have the presence of mind to think that far ahead.
at least sefaradim don't make this beracha, and i have yet to find a sidur with it. just because we say lehitatef everyday we also have intention on the talit catan, this is also part of the leshem ihud as rabenu iosef haim suggests


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America has its lowest birth rate since at least 1920 — family formation and workforce participation (which last year hit a 30-year low) have declined in tandem. But it has an energy surplus, and the government-produced overhang of housing inventory is shrinking. Such promising economic indicators, however, mask America's democratic decadence, as explained by the Hudson Institute's Christopher DeMuth (The Weekly Standard, Dec. 24):
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What paper(s) or theory(s) describe or prove that the elementary particles that we have determined today cannot be made up of smaller more fundamental particles?
One of the questions under investigation in the data being gathered at LHC is the search for compositeness of quarks and leptons. They gave limits for quark compositeness from the data of 2010.
So the answer is, it is an open question under investigation, though not popular with the theorists.
There is no such theory. We treat the elementary particles as elementary simply because we have never seen any evidence of them having a substructure.
I suppose someone might have published a paper claiming that they must be fundamental (after all, there are a lot of papers out there), but the vast majority of physicists do not take such claims seriously.
This answer, though somewhat dated, comes with the best credentials: "The question is still open experimentally, but theory and experiment are pointing more than ever before to the possibility that we have discovered the 'ultimate constituents'." — National Research Council (U.S.), Elementary-Particle Physics Panel (1998), Elementary-Particle Physics, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., p. 23.
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Suppose $F:C\to D$ is a left adjoint. Let $U:{\mathsf{Cat}}\to {\mathsf{Ab}}$ be the left adjoint to the fully faithful functor ${\mathsf{Ab}}\to {\mathsf{Cat}}$ that views an abelian group as a category with one-object. If $U(C)$ is isomorphic to $U(D)$, is $C$ isomorphic to $D$?
This question probably has something to do with the 2-categorial structure on ${\mathsf{Cat}}$ and ${\mathsf{Ab}}$ and whether $U$ preserves this structure. However I'm not too familiar with 2-category theory.


text: I have run Hans Dampf front and rear. Front is awesome, rear sticks like glue which I did not like. Yes, I said it has too much traction. I also destroyed the rear in less than 150 miles. No sidewall cuts or anything like that, just literally wore it out tore off knobs etc. Despite the fact that the tire looked beat to crap I did not notice ANY loss of traction. I really only took it off because I wanted something that moved around a little more. Went to a Specialized Captain in the rear which I like a lot. Good traction climbing and very predictable when getting loose going downhill.


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Is there any inexpensive, decent Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem? I've learned that the east side tends to be Arabic and the west Jewish. We are trying to stay in a Jewish neighborhood to learn the language and culture.
Any Jewish neighborhood is decent, and if you're non-Jewish then most of the Arabic neighborhoods are decent as well (for Jews it may be hazardous, especially if you're there on ideological grounds).
You're right about the West/East division (originated in the split of the city between Jordan and Israel between 1948 and 1967, Jordanians banished Jews from the city in 1948, so the Eastern part was "ethnically cleansed"). However nowadays there are also Jewish neighborhoods in the Eastern parts (Pisgat Zeev, Neve Yakov, Maale Adumim, just to name a few).
If you're not looking for a fancy/expensive place, then you shouldn't be looking at the neighborhoods in the city center (Rehavia, Mamilla, Moshava Germanit etc), most of the neighborhhods on the outskirts are relatively inexpensive (Ramot, Gilo, Kiryat Yovel, etc). Note the "relatively". Israel is pretty expensive in general, and lodging in the capital will cost you.
Note that many neighborhoods are "religious" (Jerusalem in general is very conservative, on both sides), and in some you won't be able to drive on Saturdays and holidays. Public transportation is off on Saturdays (which includes Friday afternoon) in the city.