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What is your method for practicing reading a Torah portion and thus memorizing the associated vowelizations and intonations? I'm looking for ideas for maximizing your effectiveness at performing a correct reading when actually confronted with a Torah scroll and for minimizing the total practice time necessary.
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My method has changed with time. I don't think that my current method is inherently better, it is just better now for my changed mind. I used to break up an aliya into roughly 1/4 column length segments and practice the whole segment with vowelizations and intonation marks, and then go ahead and try it on the Torah-like printed side. I would go back and forth over that segment until I was comfortable with it (but not necessarily perfect) and then move on to the next segment. When all segments were done, I would go back and try to perfect the aliya as whole.
Today, I just tackle one pasuk at time, perfect it, and then learn the next. Each time I perfect a new pasuk, I rehearse from the top of aliya again. If the Aliya is longer than average or has a convenient breaking point, I will divide it and not return to the top of the aliya, but the top of the segment, as I go through the process.
For example, I just read two aliyas today in Parshat Mikeitz, the 3rd and 4th, that I previously did not know. With the third, I always went back to the top at the end of each newly learned pasuk. With the forth, I broke it up into two portions. When I got to he point of "VaYar Yaakov", then from there forward I only went back to that pasuk as I learned the remaining verses.
I reached a degree of minimal proficiency° for these two aliyot on one Shabbat Afternoon. For me, that's what works today. There was a time I was more efficient, (and using my older method) but after going back to studying new Torah portions after not having taken on anything new for several years, I found that I just couldn't learn like I used to, both in pace and in method. Through experimentation, I know this is what works best for me at this time. - It may not do anything for anybody else.
Advantages I find to this method now: (1) Taking it a pasuk at a time allows me to quickly commit to memory that one segment. (2) Rehearsing from top as I go along keeps me from forgetting the first pasuk by the time I get to the last.
° Degree of proficiency: The first time through, I may know it on Torah side for that short while and while reading it slowly, and also while correcting myself but without looking back at the vowelizations and intonation marks -- making for a very choppy reading. If I put down the tikun and don't look at it again until the next day then something has been lost... and I need to relearn parts. Then there's the pressure element. I have found that just because I can read it perfectly at home, doesn't mean I won't botch it when I get up to do it in public. It takes me a great deal of rehearsing to be able to go up to the Torah and do it well. By the time I am satisfied with my degree of proficiency I will be able to visualize most of the words with the intonation in my head as I read it. I will also have a bunch of cues that come to mind just by seeing the first couple words of the pasuk (i.e. okay.. here's the one where the first occurrence is "et" and the second occurrence is "ait" or "Paroh and "Pharoh", etc.)
[EDIT BY AARON 12-20-2009] After some more thought (and some sleep) I decided to see if I can formulate and expand what I related above:
(I also do the hand motion thing Shalom mentioned, I don't know if it's a learning aid, or just a left over habit from watching my bar mitzvah teacher as he was trying to get me to understand the nuances of the intonations.)
It is entirely possible that my method is only suitable for myself, but I am happy to share, and if anyone else finds it useful, post about it.
P.S> I never understood Ba'alei Kriya, who are picking up the Chumash between aliyot. At times, when I have not had enough time to practice, I have tried that, and it just doesn't help me. Either I know it cold before I get to shul, or I just don't know it like I should and a last minute scan while hearing the gabbai make a Mishberach isn't going to help one iota. From what I have seen, this holds true for many but not all others... and you know you're likely in for a long leining if they holding the chumash.. particularly if they are holding up the start of the next aliya so they can finish their scan.
This might be obvious, but important to mention: when practicing, use the same names of G-d ("Ad-nai" and not "Hashem", etc.) as in the real reading. It's a legitimate use of the Name.
Some people are auditory learners, some people visual. Occasionally I try to visualize the (absent) cantillation marks onto the scroll I'm reading.
As with any learning experience, the more you involve yourself into it, the more likely it is to stick. When practicing, I read out loud, and occasionally add in hand motions too. (Note: those watching you do this might think you're crazy. Sorry.)
I've seen readers who, in between Aliyot, instead of looking at a printed Chumash, keep the Torah scroll open and read it with their eyes, while hearing the pronunciation in their heads. If you've already practiced a few times, this makes a great last-minute prep to prevent some of those I-knew-it-but-my-mind-blanked errors. Of course, you have to fend off overzealous Gabbaim (and/or Olim) who keep trying to cover the scroll. (Covering the scroll is a way of respecting it while not in use. But practicing with the scroll should be as legitimate a use as any.)
There was a neuroscience paper published a few years ago studying the mental capabilities of several London cab drivers, who have to have the whole city memorized. It would be really neat if someone did something like that with expert Torah readers.
I just wanted to add some other comments that relate to the learning of Torah reading but are not at all related the methodology points of my earlier answer.
First, if you don't yet understand how the main trope "sentences" work, it'll help if you learn those. If you're memorizing tropes one at a time (mercha... tifchah... etnachta... tevir...), you're doing a lot more work than if you recognize the first three as an etnachta clause sans munach. This is the difference between learning to read text a letter at a time (because you don't comprehend) and reading a word at a time (because you have some vocabulary).
That said, here is what I was taught, which works for me. For calibration, I lein about every six weeks, one aliyah (not the entire parsha), and fit the practice time into a fairly full schedule.
You will practice the early verses much more than the later ones. You may think this is a bug, but I consider it to be a feature. When you get up to lein, you're going to know the opening verses really well. When I make a mistake early on I can have trouble recovering; a bad start can make the whole aliyah rough. But you won't have that bad start because you know this part really well.
Note: for a longer aliyah, I break the text into logical chunks (such as at the breaks in the text). I'll do what I've described above for the first chunk, then set that aside and work on the second chunk. But, every now and then when I'm practicing from the left side, I go back to the beginning instead of just starting at the current chunk. There comes a point where you don't need to keep drilling the opening verses while you're working on later ones, but don't lose track of the whole.
I recommend doing the initial learning (following the steps above) in one session, which may take you a couple/few hours (for one aliyah). Then revisit it every day (or as close to that as you can manage); on those days, start by leining from the left side, note where you had problems or felt uncertain, and then do more-focused practice. If you're not sure if you noticed all your mistakes, lein it from the right side to refresh your memory. Always end a practice session by leining the entire passage from the left side.
@MonicaCellio's answer is great; I would just like to add my personal experience.
Now that I've been laining for a while, my process has changed, but back when I was learning everything for the first time, I would break the laining into chunks. I used half-column chunks, but you can do whatever size works for you. There is no better substitute than simple repetition. Like listening to a song until it gets stuck in your head. It would sometimes take dozens of times repeating the laining (always on the right-hand side!) until I would be able to do it flawlessly on the "Torah side". After every few times, check yourself on the left side and see how many times you get stuck and have to look over. Repeat.
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I would suggest drawing up a road map for learning the layning committing to a certain amount of time each day.
For example...if you can learn 30 minutes a day each day until the shabbos of your layning and at that rate it would take you 4 weeks then lay out a schedule of 30 minute days each day.
I have found that when I learn layning the most important thing is to practice every day so that the stuff that I have already know doesn't escape.
"Chumash side" is the side with the nekudos. "Torah side" is the side without.
I use what i call the "brute force" method, because i don't "chunk" it at all. What i do is:
When i say "repeat a couple times", it means "as much as needed, until you feel confident".
This is pretty much what i did for my bar mitzvah, and what i do every week learning the mincha leining.
I've known the trop and the associated patterns for years already (i first learned at age 6, just because), and have read over the whole parsha each week for a few years, so i'm familiar with a lot of the words, and once i have the beginning of the sentence fragment's trop, the rest is easy.
Besides dividing it in chunks, as mentioned in other answers, I also record myself after I'm mostly clear, to see if i made any silly OR tricky mistakes, including in the intonation or grammar.
Just learn 5 words a day at the end of the week you should of learned 30 words ! I studying right now I know it's hard just keep practicing


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You can try a converted psionics spellcasting system, more detail in a full thread here
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And here the main difference from this variant from another:
If you're looking for a Mana magic system, your first try may be the Unearthed Arcana spell points variant (the same one that you mentioned in your question).
The core problem with it is, ahem, wizard. With spell points variant he
If wizard could cast anything from his spellbook but had mana on par that of a bard, these problems could be circumvented. I don't say that is an ideal fix, though.
Note (just a nitpick): as written, magic items do not change bonus spell points for high spellcasting attribute.
The second variant you mention is not a complete spellcasting variant in any case - one still have to assign point cost to the actual spells - and is probably designed with creation of the new classes in mind.
You could also try to take Spell-to-power Erudite casting mechanic for wizards.


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English band the Vapors released a song in 1980 called "Turning Japanese," much to the chagrin of the current status quo. You see, in addition to being vaguely racist, "turning Japanese" is a slang phrase for masturbation, specifically referring to how one's eyes become screwed up and narrow at the climax of a particularly feverish hand shandy. Now this could easily be a coincidence in name, but listen to the lyrics (or read them, your choice):
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We're still not seeing the Japanese.
He mentions a cell, so this must mean he's in prison. Also, he seems to want an X-ray of her, for some reason. Or photos from her colonoscopy.
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Actually ...
We really wanted this one to be true, but the only thing this song has in common with spanking it in a darkened room is that it's about feelings of shame and loneliness. If you watch the end of that video linked above, the band finally tells us what it's really about:
Hint: Nothing Japanese.
"The Americans seemed to think it was written about that. That it was an English phrase about masturbation. It wasn't. The song was a love song about someone who had lost their girlfriend and was going slowly crazy -- turning Japanese is just all the cliches of our angst... turning into something you never expected to."
So no, the Vapors' song isn't about dick-whittling (masturbation/penis joke quota met). It's simply about a man who has taped hundreds of pictures of a woman he's obsessed with around his tiny room as he plots to see her insides, and whose emotions can apparently transform him into a Japanese man like the Incredible Hulk.
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Which didn't stop the Office of Revenue from trying to tax him anyway.
After setting up an artist's residency space and procuring two truckloads' worth of decommissioned banknotes from the mint, Buckley went about building this house brick by brick, each one made of 50,000 euros in shredded bills. Various coins were further attached throughout the building. All told, Buckley's new digs required $1.4 billion in trashed cash, or somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.8 billion.
Melvin Brennan via Billion Euro House
Melvin Brennan via Billion Euro House
And he never has to worry about running out of toilet paper.
The Billion Euro House is technically an installation, but Buckley lives in that sucker five days out of the week (he returns to his shed on the weekends). While his money house isn't the homiest home ever, he was happy to report that he didn't even need a blanket. "Whatever you say about the euro, it's a great insulator."


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In Mass Effect 2, it shows each character's current loyalty. How do you increase their loyalty, and what does increasing it do?
Character Loyalty is something specific to Mass Effect 2. Getting a character's loyalty involves completing their character-specific Loyalty Mission, after which the character becomes "Loyal", and one of their powers becomes available to Sheppard as a bonus talent. (Also unlocks a bonus outfit, I think?)
Depending on your actions, you can also lose a character's Loyalty -- for example, Tali and Legion can get into a fight, and if both are loyal to you, the one who's side you don't take will lose their loyalty to you.
More information can be found here: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Loyalty
Raven Dreamer's answer is good, but as to the other part of your question (what does increasing [loyalty] do?), there's one thing s/he missed...loyal characters are more likely to survive throughout the game...which, in turn, improves the odds of your own survival.
One more point;
have missions that it is possible to complete, but fail to get their loyalty. So be sure to save before you try those.


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Best Movies Off the Radar 2012
The Avengers. The Dark Knight Rises. Skyfall. There were plenty of highly-anticipated, critically acclaimed films that wowed moviegoers this year. But you know all about that stuff already, so we at RT decided to give some love to a few of the overlooked, underappreciated, and, in some cases, critically dismissed movies that made an impression on us. Read on for a rundown of lesser-known gems from 2012 that we think deserve another look.Back to Article


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Irma J. Spires, 55, of Frankford, Mo., went by ambulance to Hannibal Regional Hospital for treatment of moderate injuries suffered in a one-vehicle accident at 11:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, in rural Pike County, Mo.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Spires was driving a 1998 Jeep Wrangler on Route C one mile west of Pike County Road 1. The vehicle went off the south side of the road. She overcorrected, causing it to go off the north side of the road and overturn. Spires was wearing a seat belt.
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I can't disable showing drive's icons in Launcher bar. I have looked for that option both in CCSM (it used to be in Experimental tab) and in dconf-editor (desktop->unity) and it is missing.
How can I remove launcher drive icons?
(For Ubuntu 12.10 or above)
You are right that there used to be a setting in CCSM to configure the behaviour of mounts appearing in the launcher but that option has been removed in 12.10 at the moment. I can't confirm whether it will be added back again before it is released to the public. See bug report #1053704.
Currently, you only have two options: Either to show the mount drives on the launcher or to blacklist it from the launcher. You can't configure the setting depending on whether they are actually mounted or not.
So, if you want to remove it from the launcher, the only option you have is to blacklist it from the launcher.
Blacklisting it from the launcher is actually very simple. Right-click on the mount and select Unlock from Launcher.
Do remember that blacklisting it from launcher means you will never see it again in the future even if you mount it unless you reset the settings.
You can also blacklist the mounts using
If you are using
If you want to use
Just use the UUID of your mount inside the square bracket and the single quote marks.
If you are not sure of the UUID of your mount, you can use this command:
It will display the partition number, their label (if any) with their UUID.
Now, if you want to reset the settings, run this command in a terminal:
Works with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(For Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04)
You will see blacklist with key ['UUID-Label']. Add your UUID and devices-Label in it.
To completely disable drive icons in the Launcher for all current drives and partitions, simply run the following command:
Note that this does not immediately remove any icons currently displayed in the Launcher; it simply prevents icons from appearing in the first place. Thus, any drive icons that appeared before executing this command will never re-appear once they are removed one time. Removal of an icon can be achieved, for example, by an unlock (via the icon's right-click menu) or restart of Ubuntu.
To re-enable drive icons, run the same command with a
This command has worked for me in both 12.04 and 14.04. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to prevent icons from appearing when I plug in external hard drives or flash drives via USB. Nonetheless, it does stop icons for my all of my primary hard drive's partitions from appearing.
I got the command from this answer to a similar question.


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hy I need to add a property to a model that can reference 4 different models:
class WorldObject(db.Model):
# type can only accept: text, image, profile, position
# this should be like a set property in relational database and not a string
type = db.StringProperty(required = True)
# ???: this can be a reference to Profile, Image, Position or Text model
# how to do it?
reference = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class = ???, required = True)
@Nick Johnson:
Here is how I've done with your help:
class WorldObject(db.Model):
# x, y: position in the world
x = db.IntegerProperty(required = True)
y = db.IntegerProperty(required = True)
# world: reference to the world containing it
world = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class = World)
# profile: is the owner of the object and is the only one who can make changes to it's world object property
owner = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class = Profile, required = False)
# history
updated = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add = True)
created = db.DateTimeProperty(required = True)
class ImageWO(WorldObject):
image = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class = Image, required = False)
class PositionWO(WorldObject):
position = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class = Position, required = False)
and the other classes are the same.. Now if I want to get all the world objects in an area how do I do? I have to do 1 request for every class that extends world_object?


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City EDS kick off their second half of the Barclays U21 Premier League season at home to Reading on 14 January.
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SportCity's Regional Athletics Stadium will host three of City's home games, while Hyde FC will be used for the visits of Bolton, Stoke and Newcastle.
The Blues finish off their Group 2 campaign on 22 April 2013 when they travel to Stoke hoping to be in contention for a place in the play-offs.
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I've just started using git, like right this second. I've been invited to use a project that contains som submodules and I've been given permission through my github account. When I cloned the repo, I'm getting some errors:
git submodule init
Submodule 'js/Common/enginelite' (firstname.lastname@example.com:clientName/EngineLite.git) registered for path 'js/Common/enginelite'
looks good so far...
git submodule update
Cloning into 'js/Common/enginelite'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
So my question is... Is there a way to pass credentials during this? Is there something I have to do locally or on github? Thanks!


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Is there a good shuttle service? Taxis? What should one expect to pay? Is it worth pre-arranging?
While Ivan's answer is the most economical option, I disagree that there's not a shuttle. For inexperienced travellers who may not speak the language, there ARE taxis from both airports as well.
There is also a shuttle/bus company called Manuel Tienda León. I used them. For 45-50 ARS, they'll take you to the city to just near Retiro (the main bus station and a metro station), and for 5 ARS extra, you can get dropped at your hostel/hotel.
To me this was the best deal after a crazy long flight from Europe with delays, versus having to negotiate with local buses and being unwilling to pay for taxis.
Even now, with my improved Spanish skills, I'd probably still go for the shuttle option if arriving on my own by plane. No need to pre-arrange though, they're right as you enter the terminal, and you don't have to wait more than 15 minutes for a shuttle.
In Buenos Aires there are 2 airports: Aeroparque (AEP) and Ezeiza (EZE). First one is smaller and closer to the city center.
If you arrive to AEP you have to take a "colectivo". It's a bus that goes from the airport to the center stopping when somebody pushes the stop button. Very easy :) When I was in Buenos Aires (2008), it cost 1$ (ARS, about 0'20 dolars). Also you can take a taxi for 20$ (ARS) if you arrive late or too early.
If you arrive to EZE you have to take bus number 86 that arrives to Plaza de Mayo in the city center. I don't remember the price, but it was.. cheap ;) A taxi from EZE may be really expensive due it's far from city center.
So, you don't need to pre-arrange, there is not any special "shuttle" that worth to pay for it and use taxi only if you arrive to AEP. I hope it helps!
If you are arriving from an international flight, you will probably land in Ezeiza (EZE). There you have two good options:
I personally do not advise you to take the bus as it can be a long and uncomfortable trip.


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I have seen this raised before a while back, but did not see any solutions. I have just purchased a NN3 Mk 2 and am using a Canon 400D with Sigma 10-20mm. all going well (I still need to learn how to remove Nadir!), but after a couple of weeks the upper arm is slipping down. I cannot tighten enough. Is there a fix for this. I have compared my washers etc. with user guide and all seems in place.
I would be grateful for some help here. I have tried a card washer for the other side of the arm and it works for a while. But surely there should be the correct washers etc. in the Kit?


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Everybody knows our valley is loaded with tireless leaders who give of themselves in support of our youth. Whether baseball or Cub Scouts and all points in between, these people spend their time guiding, coaching and modeling for our children. The lessons learned cannot be quantified but are absolutely invaluable in building our children into strong adults. Think for a minute about your activities as a child, and I bet many of those great coaches and leaders come to mind. These people deserve recognition and praise for their work.
People without active children in their lives may be surprised to learn that Wintersville is the home of a group of people and organizations that deserve recognition for their work with our youth. Basketball, flag football, cheering and soccer are the activities that I know about (there may be more). Players, coaches, officials and family. Victory, defeat, exhilaration and fatigue. Rules, penalties, frustration and perseverance. Individual skills, teamwork, frowns and smiles.
My list could fill a book - a microcosm of life presented for the positive development of our children.
They come early to open the doors and set up and stay late to clean up the mess. They juggle schedules and make last-minute adjustments for the game. They patiently deal with challenging children, and more importantly, parents. They pay for uniforms or shoes so every child can participate. They make sure that kids get to play equally without regard to skill level. They build kids' self-esteem by awarding stars for well demonstrated characteristics. They are a great asset to our community that should be recognized.
Please join me in saying, "Up, Up, Upwards - Great Job."
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Ashton's version of "La Valse"how does it compare to Balanchine and others?
Posted 12 July 2008 - 06:16 PM
Ashton's takes place in a vast, brilliantly lighted ballroom draped in white satin. Four red-clad footmen stand at the back holding candelabra. They never move. There are 3 lead couples and what seem to be about 20 or more additdional couples. All the women wear long multilayered, gauze tutus in shades of rose, grey, yellow, etc. The men wear tails from a period that seems to be the 1830s. At times, the movement parallels the music (volume, tempo, etc.) in an almost literal, step-for-note fashion. The patterns and lines are surprisingly formal and geometric, even when the dancers seem to be losing their battle to remain lyrical.
Is this ballet still performed by the Royal? Has anyone seen it on stage and in full? What do you think? And -- if you've seen both versions -- whose do you prefer, Ashton's or Balanchine's?
Posted 12 July 2008 - 06:57 PM
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Posted 13 July 2008 - 05:15 PM
kfw, I agree with you about the Balanchine. You've been able to see both a recent live performance and the older film. Is the Royal still dancing this much as they did when the film?
I would love to hear more thoughts about the Ashton version, especially from those who ahve also seen the Balanchine.
La Valse -- as distinct from Valses nobles et sentimentales -- is a piece which makes an impact by means of sudden, dramatic contrasts. It presents us with a conventional, formal, quite beautiful elements evoking an elegant ball, and then sets about destroying them, exploding suddenly and unpredictably into wildness, loudness, distortion, excess.
I've now been able to see three quite different choreographers addressing this music: Balanchine (which I first saw in the early 60s); Pascal Rioult's modern dance version, which I saw in several performances this season and last; and now this brief glimpse of Ashton.
I was very taken by the Pascal Rioult's modern dance version, Wien, which uses only "La Valse." Of the three, Rioult responds most directly to the unpredictability of the piece, the disintegrative elements in the waltz. Although his dancers perform, at times, their own version of courtly dances, they also explode into violence, collapse to the floor, select and reject their partners impulsively, even callously.
Ashton's version sticks quick tightly to the conventions of a well-bred ballroom. When the music calls for outbursts or wildness, his dancers do not collapse, attack or fall apart. They create drama by leaping higher or in unexpected directions, twisting a bit more, exagerrating their port de bras, mvoing faster and reaching outward more dramatically. At the end, all the dancers re-form into parallel lines facing the audience, as though trying desperately to reasssert order and convention. The women swing their arms and agitate their skirts. It's powerful and disturbing precisely because they seem to be unable to go further, as though wishing desparately for a return to order and restraint.
Or am I completely missing the point?????
Posted 14 July 2008 - 08:38 AM
Posted 14 July 2008 - 09:07 AM
I've seen the Ashton on video and the Balanchine live several times (with, I think, Rachel Rutherford as the principal woman) so this may be comparing apples to oranges, but I find Balanchine's treatment heavy-handed and overly literal, with its Death character and onstage costume change. It comes across to me as a 19C lesson about "morality." Ashton's version is more what I would have expected from Balanchine--it conveys the desperation and sense of "dancing on the edge of a volcano" with delicacy and refinement--and without resorting to characters and a plot.
I couldn't disagree more. Since Balanchine so seldom gave us "characters and a plot," as you say, when he did he had powerful reasons for doing so. I've also seen the Ashton only on video, but for me it was rather too delicate and refined --not much sense of danger or desperation at all. Balanchine's brilliant use of the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales as a prelude to the actual La Valse creates a whole world of decadent, heartless flirtation out of which the ballet's sinister happenings naturally follow. I wouldn't call La Valse one of Balanchine's greatest works, but it perfectly draws out and dramatizes the woozy, dangerous eroticism in Ravel's music.
Posted 14 July 2008 - 09:13 AM
the 50s look: the over-lighting and in-your-face color. Very MGM musical? Anyway, it's fun.
Almost, but the colour is more quiet, as in all the ladies' dresses. There aren't any bright reds, greens or even blues, but rather all these peach and canary (is that a colour?) and pastel colours. When there is something in the red family, it is always cerise, like banquettes at some French restaurants. And when all the couples are dancing together, it is such a strong masculine-feminine contrast, with much pulchritude on both sides, that even when they're just doing the simpler waltzes, it has a very subtle sexiness about it. The filming is strange-looking by now, because you have to really look hard to make out individual dancers. It's the only filmed ballet I've seen in which I would sometimes need to read 'with artists of the Royal Ballet' to really accept that these were real, live dancers; it's like film somehow transformed it into a literal dream, but there's the thrill at waking up and knowing that, of course, they are real dancers and there is some charm in the fact that they aren't listed and so those of us who don't know old RB casts don't know who any of them are. Another thing I experienced on watching it repeatedly is that, even though they are fine dancers, when some of them are technically imperfect, it doesn't matter, only adds to the atmosphere of ease and pleasure--like that wonderful unexpected sense of 'being at home' I've always experienced when in London (and never any other place I've been to that I wasn't living in.) So, for me, perhaps more only somewhat 'MGM musical', but more London--St. James Park, Claridge's, the Connaught, i.e., elements of kitsch but never brash.
Posted 14 July 2008 - 09:58 AM
Posted 14 July 2008 - 10:08 AM
I find Balanchine's treatment heavy-handed and overly literal, with its Death character and onstage costume change. It comes across to me as a 19C lesson about "morality." Ashton's version is more what I would have expected from Balanchine--it conveys the desperation and sense of "dancing on the edge of a volcano" with delicacy and refinement--and without resorting to characters and a plot.
Both of you put your finger on the most important differences. I to find both very fascinating and quite satisfying in their own way. If I had to choose, I'd go with Balanchine -- which I've just had the chance to revisit, on a recent Kirov video. The "plot" elements are far from heavy-handed or obvious in performance, though they can seem that way when described in words. There's an ambiguity, a mystery, about each figure. Although one may ask, "Who is he/she? or "What's his/her motivation?," it would never occur to me to think that there should be any answers to such questions.
I couldn't disagree more. Since Balanchine so seldom gave us "characters and a plot," as you say, when he did he had powerful reasons for doing so. I've also seen the Ashton only on video, but for me it was rather too delicate and refined --not much sense of danger or desperation at all.
At the end of the Balanchine, you can clearly see him setting up for the closing passage. 3 pairs of women appear from the wings downstage left. They wait. Most of us will, of course, know what they are waiting for -- one of the most famous exit passages in all ballet. But -- if you pretend to yourself that you DON'T know -- there's real suspence. Anything could happen (which is NOT the case in your typical story ballet). The exit of the ballerina, carried aloft by three men who you hardly noticed were there, is powerful precisely because it doesn't need an explication.
As for the Ashton: I do love his take on the music. But the restraint in the face of disintegration which the dancers exhibit at the end reminds me of one of those 19th-century novels of manners in which the Awful Truth about a character is revealed, with dreadful social consequences, when he does something like eating with the wrong fork. Ravel, I think, writing in response to the catastrophe of World War One, would have wanted more.
Posted 13 August 2009 - 08:12 AM
When I lived in London, The Ashton version I've seen many times at Covent Garden and it is delightful to watch, full of movement and color, and so musical. But Balanchine added the drama which was rare for him. Of course "Serenade" has a touch of it when the unknown dancer falls down, and "Prodigal Son" naturally is full of drama. But these are Balanchine's earlier works. In latter years his work became far less interesting, to me at least.
Posted 13 August 2009 - 12:48 PM
Having seen the Ashton only on film, I may be missing something, but I what I remember of it, the score was the only ominous element. I suspect that there'd be no dark tones if one watched it in silence.
Though both choreographers capture the mounting sense of abandon, desperation, and danger in the score, ...
Posted 14 August 2009 - 06:24 AM
Having seen the Ashton only on film, I may be missing something, but I what I remember of it, the score was the only ominous element. I suspect that there'd be no dark tones if one watched it in silence.
Hey, good point, and I've done that with the Ashton a whole lof ot times, as an experiment when I was really studying the ballet and working the piece at the piano. It's just like looking at a scene out of Proust, maybe the second volume, at Balbec, those big hotels by the sea in the old days, but combined with some more Parisian and English flavours too, because you wouldn't see dinner jackets at the ocean. A ballroom somewhere, yeah, maybe in London, close to St. James Park maybe, near all the gentleman's clubs? A friend and i were talking about that area recently.
Posted 14 August 2009 - 06:38 AM
as i searched for the credits of Ashton's VALSES NOBLES i am reminded that Ashton used the music twice, once as indicated above and below:
Valses nobles et sentimentales - Chor: Frederick Ashton (complete revision of his earlier Valentine's eve); mus: Maurice Ravel (Valses nobles et sentimentales); scen & cos: Sophie Fedorovitch. First perf: London, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Jan 10, 1947, Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet.
and previously as indicated in the VALSES N. credits as:
Valentine's eve - Chor: Frederick Ashton; mus: Maurice Ravel (Valses nobles et sentimentales); scen & cos: Sophie Fedorovitch. First perf: London, Duke of York's Theatre, Feb 4, 1935, Ballet Rambert
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Posted 14 August 2009 - 08:47 AM
As a teenager, I -- like you -- was fortunate to be able to get seats quite often in the first row of the balcony, and was grateful for the low (and subsidized) ticket price.
For those who grew up in the 40s and 50s, that was indeed STILL the look of glamour. Audiences a generation later must see this as more of a museum piece than we did. I agree about Moncion: this was a perfect role for him.
I can remember as a young ballet student at George Chaffee's studio, sitting in the first row in the balcony of City Center (and I could barely afford that) watching Tanny LeClerque and Franciscio Moncion dancing "Valse". Being new to New York City, I felt the 3 ladies in the opening with the long gloves, symbolized to me all the glamour and chic of Manhattan
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My team is using Selenium WebDriver and the QA team is having the developers add IDs to almost everything. Is that normal or is Selenium flexible enough that tests can be written with the markup that is provided without having to go back and add IDs? For example, if you have a list of similar items you would usually just use the same class for each item and not put a unique ID on each item in the list.
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It's not unusual. IDs tend to aid greatly in creating more stable UI tests, since class name changes or other refactoring is less likely to break tests. Also, dynamically populated lists tend to be high-maintenance in UI automation, and having predictable IDs can help with that. Using XPath is not only slow, as squeemish pointed out (and slowness itself can break tests if there are any timeouts, which leads those tests being fragile), but XPath also tends to be more vulnerable to UI changes, again increasing test maintenance.
Basically, your test engineers are probably finding that their test UI automation is fragile. This is a change from developers that can dramatically reduce test maintenance costs and, in turn, reduce the turn-around time on testing new builds. Fragility in UI tests is hard to manage, so other issues might also need to be resolved before you see the benefits of adding IDs.
We've found that developers have a tendency to change IDs willy-nilly. We can control it happening in our team, but when we merge with other teams' code, stuff breaks, xpaths change , and css breaks.
So now we've implemented our own css attribute - [data-automation] with its own ID. As long as this gets moved around with any elements, we can always find it and it's made our testing far more robust.
What works for one, may not work for another person tho ..
I try and use ID's as much as possible.
I don't like using link text as this prevents you from running test in other languages, and link text can also be changed due to settings, e.g. different customers may have different terminology.
ID's are less likely to change than the CSS, so I find that ID's on as many items as possible is all-ways best. This requires the developers to make sure that everything has ID's so you will need buy in from you whole team. (But it good practice for everything that can be to have ID's anyway.)
Some items however will not be ID-able, if there are many instances of that item on the page. For these I have found that the best solution is to have a custom tag and have HTML5 custom attributes that can be targeted by X-Path. This way they very unlikely to be affected if the page layout changes.
+1 to support an answer by Ethel Evans. It is reliability of UI automation in the long term that unique IDs can help with.
One other point to add is that sometimes you may have semantic CSS classes with elements instead of IDs. For example, on this site, question element is enclosed into
while all the answers are within
Relying on semantic CSS class names may be a smart option as well if IDs are not available
Selenium2/WebDriver can find elements with ID, Name, by CSS, by XPath, by Link Text, by partial Link Text, or by Tag Name. You need to specify what element you want to interact with by identifying it with a findElementBy*
Some elements I work with don't have IDs, so I use the XPath when interacting. Caveat...XPath is the slowest identifier to use.
The only benefit I can see from having the developers manually inject unique id's into all significant web elements is:
When it comes down to it, if you aren't looking for what I describe in the previous 2 items, then using css Selectors, etc. will work just fine for most people, especially if you use browser plugins, such as FirePath, to auto-create selectors for you when you need them.


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Searching in a page has been added on to the Google (or whatever you use) search facility. Just tap the search field and enter your search term. Instead of launching the search, scroll down to the bottom of the suggested searches and there will be a section labeled "On This Page". Tapping "Find "_____"" will launch the in-page search feature.
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In the spirit of Talmud Bavli Chullin 139b.
The Talmud assumes that great future events are hinted to in the Torah. Well in that case... Mi Yodeya min HaTorah minayin (where is Mi Yodeya hinted at in the Torah)?
In the spirit of Talmud Bavli Chullin 139b.
The Talmud assumes that great future events are hinted to in the Torah. Well in that case... Mi Yodeya min HaTorah minayin (where is Mi Yodeya hinted at in the Torah)?
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The continuation of that gemara (Chullin 139c) notes that the hint to Mi Yodeya is in Devarim 21:1 which states:
because Mi Yodeya is characterized by the ability to hit people without being known.
God had Moshe gather an assembly of elders to receive spill-over prophecy and become adjuct prophets. Two men who weren't amongst the assembly received the prophecy where they were. When Moshe's assistant, Yehoshua heard about this, he suggested that his master incarcerate these two for their disrespect.
Mi Yodeya is hinted to in Sh'mos 10:8: "מי ומי ההלכים". The Ramban (ad loc.) writes that Pharaoh used this phrase as a reference to only the elite few "leaders, sages, and officers - men who were mentioned by name."
In a similar vein, the Ba'al HaTurim notes that the gematria of "מי ומי ההלכים" equals that of "כלב ובן נון", the great sages who knew how to respond to the rest of the spies, and who therefore survived the journey to the Land of Canaan (ad loc.; cf. B'midbar 14:30):
The gemara (T'murah 16a) asks: Kaleiv, in fact, was the son of Chetzron, so why was he called כלב בן יפונה? One talmudic manuscript (MS Sambatyon Or. 140) answers that the gematria of the root .י.פ.נ equals the gematria of מי יודע - Kaleiv was one of the elite few who knew the answers to the questions people sought (cf. Rashbam, B'midbar 13:30 "'And Kaleiv silenced the people': With his wisdom").
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If Mosheh was there, why were they asking each other? At that point, Mosheh was still judging everyone by himself (18:15-16). Why were they asking each other?
It must be a reference to a good website for asking questions about Jewish life and learning and getting crowd-sourced answers.


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Searching for themes for Chromium I found this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/6-google-chrome-ubuntu-themes-radiance-ambiance-elementary-dust-etc/
Can you guys point to some other Chrome/Chromium themes that fit popular themes?
Here are some themes I like, but could not find fitting Chromium themes for: Minty-Freshness Victory Hope The Equinox pack
Others are welcome as well. Share plenty!
(For some reason, the OMG U comment section in the link is off. I bet there were a bunch of comments on this one :) )