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I created on publishing site. Now I want to add menu bar over there. But publishing site doesn't contain menu bar by default. How to add this into publishing site. I tried to add from v4.master page but failed. Could you please tell me the way to do it? I want to display following items in publishing site. Menu items in the following image are in vertical. But i want to convert them into horizontal or just like team site menu items. How to achieve?
Sorry Mihir I misread, you need to look at the MSDN real world branding post.
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I think, you are using Publishing site so using nightandday.master file as master page. which does not contain sharepoint menu by default. but yes, you can inject by customizing code like:
I have tried your same scenario in local machine, and i got solution. You may be editing existing AspMenu from nightandday.master reference master file.
But you need to add some code for Global menu:
After that you can make visible false to your current asp menu which is vertical if you dont need.
Hope it is useful to you. let me know if you still getting any issue.

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8 Insane Ways Parents Are Politically Brainwashing Children
It used to be that the only thing kids had to worry about were cooties, homework and closet-monsters, but those innocent days are over. There's a war, dammit. A culture war.
Soon the red states and the blue states are going to erupt into the kind of hot purple mess previously only experienced by Prince's bedmates and Grimus's toilet. Are your kids prepared for the onslaught? If not, here's a few ways to make sure junior ends up on the same side as Mom and Dad, no matter who you hate!
#8. Right Wing Kids' T-Shirts
It's time to show the country how upside down things have gotten: The Democrats control both the White House and Congress, a Latina woman (you know, those things that maids are?) just got appointed to the Supreme Court and the President wasn't even born in this country!
What better way to show your disapproval than with that last bastion of eloquent thought, infant and toddler right-wing T-shirts from Cafe Press! Not only are they a fantastic way to advertise your status as a Female Body Inspector, they're also a perfect medium for expressing your complex political opinions using only a sentence fragment.
Now, surely you'll change thousands of minds when people see your "NObama" T-shirt, but think of the impact it'll make when your four-year-old wears one! "God," those staunch liberal baby-eaters will think to themselves, "even toddlers hate Obama. This guy can't be good."
"Join Obama's Brownshirts? No thanks, comrade! I've got a shirt already. But I hope you're wearing a helmet 'cause I think it might blow your mind."
#7. Left Wing Kids' T-Shirts
Can you believe those Republican assholes who dress their kids in politically-themed T-shirts pushing their own conservative agenda? What a shameless exploitation of children! Plus, they're totally wrong! Well, clearly the only course of action is to fight fire with fire by putting your preschooler in a T-shirt with the real truth on it!
Skreened.com is your one-stop shop for expressing hatred of everything from Christians to Republicans (ha! Like they're different things!). Sure, there are your garden variety "I Heart Obama shirts," but why just support your side, when you can knock down theirs instead? Take, for example, this sweet little ensemble:
There's no more tasteful, respectful way to politely disagree with organized religion than to swaddle your child with an image of a beaver gnawing on a cross. But if that's a little on the tame side for you (and if it is, thanks for reading, Keith Olbermann!) have your fourth grader really stick it to the God fans while simultaneously making a cheap crack about the greatest American tragedy in recent memory:
It's guaranteed to incite tears of rage in any puritanical Bible-thumper, and tears of laughter from all your friends down at the vegan co-op!
#6. ConservativeKids.net
So, where is a conservative child to go online in their search for chasteness, purity and fiscal responsibility? ConservativeKids.net!
The right-wing website with all the "right" moves! Where you can learn about things like:
Immigration: "Democrats want to legalize these criminals because they want a new under-class of welfare recipients to vote for them."
Abortion: "...simply the killing of an unborn baby that is alive in its mother."
Liberals: "Liberals don't think people are capable of choosing their own lifestyle, so they pass laws that tell people what they can and can't eat and drink, where they can live, what they can listen to on the radio or watch on TV, what kinds of cars they will drive and how parents should raise their kids ."
"Oh wow the- Oh, sorry, Billy, the LIBERALS deem this unsuitable."
Your little one will have hours of fun learning about how the Left will kill poor people, erase civil rights and doom us all to a lifetime of eating socialist cabbage soup while wearing drab, shapeless uni-tards and standing in week-long lines for mismatched shoes.
After a single afternoon on ConservativeKids.net, your children will be armed with the talking points to argue with confidence about the need for closed borders, the abolishment of gay marriage and the evils of public healthcare!
Public health care.
Admittedly, they'll get their teeth punched in for it, because the other children would rather play foursquare than listen to conservative tirades, but that builds character! And really, how else will they prepare for a life-time of ostracization by the oppressive liberal media?
#5. PETA For Kids
It's easy enough to raise your own kids to be vegetarians: You buy the food, after all. If the only two options are Tofurkey or starve, well, kids'll probably choose the former eventually. But teaching them to endlessly harangue others with self-righteous diatribes about the evils of animal products is a mechanically separated chicken of a different blood-soaked feather.
Luckily, there's PetaKids.com, a website full of fun facts, like detailing the operation of leg hold traps, and how chickens can actually "mourn" their dead. Plus you can download some sweet (pun so intended) anti-honey IM Buddy icons!
"Buzzy the Bee says: Slavery is illegal, for all creatures!"
PetaKids.com will also put your children right up there on the Animal Rights frontlines (already on par with the likes of such advanced activists as "the College Sophomore who's simply exhausted every other option to get pussy") with downloadable "Activist missions," like the Chicken McNugget McCruelty Mission!
Or, KFC Cruelty, where... where this happens.
To complete said mission, all you have to do is embed a gory video of chickens being slaughtered on your MySpace page! Not only can you show the world what a sadistic fuck Ronald McDonald really is, but you can get free stickers, too!


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Sony: Vita was designed for a different world, but changes are afoot
The PlayStation Vita was designed for a market where smartphones, tablets and freemium games were not the driving force.
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Distributor Al Futtaim wants to help publishers cash in on the growing Middle East games market.
MCV India calls for dedicated regional video games trade body
The Indian games industry is one of the world's future powerhouses – and now is the time to form a trade body to support it.
XBLA title State of Decay matches the UK's ENTIRE physical market in one week
275,000 physical games were sold in the UK last week. Xbox Live title State of Decay sold 250,000 units in two days in the same week.
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CANTON - St. Clairsville had used the quarterback draw to its advantage all season.
However, with the Red Devils trailing Clarksville Clinton-Massie 39-28 early in the fourth quarter of the Division IV state championship game Friday here at Fawcett Stadium, the Belmont Countians took over possession of the ball at their own 19 after holding the Falcons on downs.
A 55-yard hookup between the senior tandem of quarterback Matt Kinnick and wideout Jerrid Marhefka and a 11-yard scamper by Kinnick set St. Clairsville up with a 1st-and-goal from the 3.
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Two straight draws by Kinnick pushed the pigskin to the 1, but the same play on third down was snuffed out by Clinton-Massie, resulting in a 2-yard loss and setting up a critical 4th-and-goal with 9:03 remaining.
When asked about the three straight quarterback draws, veteran St. Clairsville head coach Brett McLean quickly defended his team's play calling.
"That's our base play in our goalline package and, if you look back over the last three weeks, that play has scored six or seven touchdowns for us.
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St. Clairsville junior Jaylon Brown powers through a hole as he tries to break a Clinton-Massie tackler during Friday's Division?IV state title game.
"We have a lot of confidence in that set and what we do out of it," he continued. "But give them (Clinton-Massie) credit, they stood tall when they had to.
"We don't have any regrets in what we called or what we did. We did what we do."
After a St. Clairsville timeout, Kinnick's flip to Luke Smith out of the backfield was short of the target and skipped off the turf near the goalline.
"Our defense got a big stop on 3rd-and-goal from the 1," Clinton-Massie head coach Dan McSurley praised. "Then, we held them on fourth down. What a job by our defense."
The non-scoring drive looked even bigger after St. Clairsville sliced the deficit to 39-36 after a Kinnick-to-Marhefka TD strike and Kinnick's 2-point conversion pass to Jay Gossett with 2:36 on the clock.
An onside kick was recovered by the Falcons, who would eventually score again to salt away the triumph.
In defense of McLean's decision, Kinnick ran for three touchdowns on similar plays last week in the semifinal win over defending state champion Creston Norwayne. He had also scored several times on those plays throughout the season.
Did McSurley think his Falcons were headed for a blowout victory when they jumped out 19-0 after one period?
"No, they just have too many great athletes. That No. 9 (Dan) Monteroso is going to Boston College and he is an outstanding athlete," McSurley offered. "No. 6 (Marhefka) really came up big for them today, and they ran the ball nice. They just had too many weapons for us to keep them out of the end zone.
"I think they were ranked sixth in the state all-time in scoring in a season. We knew they were going to score their points."
McLean said he had an idea during the week leading up to the game that the first team that got a two-score lead would have the advantage.
"I was proud of the way our kids battled back after we dug ourselves an early hole," McLean noted. "That's a tribute to their defense though because they put us in that situation, but we fought our way back into a competitive game.
"I thought whatever team got the early two-score lead would have the upperhand all night. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for us, they got that on us and we just couldn't claw all the way back."
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$a_n$ is a sequence where $a_1=0$ and $a_2=100$, and for $n \geq 2$: $$ a_{n+1}=a_n+\frac{a_n-1}{(n)^2-1} $$
I have a basic understanding of sequences. I wasn't sure how to deal with this recurrence relation since there is $n$ in the equation.
By using an excel sheet, I know the limit is 199. And I confirmed this with Wolfram Alpha, which showed that the "Recurrence equation solution" is: $f(x)=199-\frac{198}{x}$
My question: Is it possible to find the limit of this sequence or even the "recurrence equation solution" without using an excel sheet or Wolfram Alpha? If so, can you clearly explain how this is done?


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To the editor:Since the closing of the Hilltop Restaurant several years ago, our little city has been without a really classy place to have the Sunday meal. That void has finally been filled with the recent opening of June's Northland at Seventh and Pottawatomie streets.
The restaurant is spacious and tastefully decorated. The service is excellent and the food superb. And would you believe modestly priced. We no longer have to trek to Overland Park for Sunday brunch. Great work June.
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Saturday Night don't miss The Corey Hunt Band at Park Way Tavern. This is a great time to celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday and recover from Black Friday shopping! Corey Hunt is a local artist rising to his fame at this point in his life. He's a great supporter of Hospice and has done many Hospice benefits around Randolph County. He is currently residing in Nashville and playin all up and down the east coast! Don't miss this show!


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While camping with some friends in Anywhere National Forest, I found a deer tick on a friend. After removing it with tweezers, is there anything else I should do? Should we abandon our trip immediately or is staying a few more days in the wilderness before seeing a doctor safe?
You should keep the bite site clean (make sure you got the whole tick out, and didn't leave the head behind, still in the skin). This is to avoid infection. Then, watch the area to look for a rash.
The Lyme Disease rash generally (but not always) will have a bulls-eye pattern to it, with concentric circles of redness around the bite location. Some circles might not be full circles. Also, sometimes, there is no rash at all, but that is the general pattern to the rash.
I wouldn't cut the trip short just upon seeing the tick, but I would keep an eye on it. Not all ticks carry the disease, and if you removed the tick soon after it bit, it is less likely that you will be infected (assuming the tick has the disease).
Edited to add: for a clearer reference, here's the size of a typical nymph:
I contracted ehrlichiosis a couple years ago. I got a few dozen ticks during a hike and didn't notice for a few hours until I was home and in shorts after a shower. Here's what I learned:
Some important additional points about Lyme disease:
But those are both mainly for peace of mind; if it's a deer tick, always save it, clean the bite, and keep an eye on the area for a few weeks. But that's also true for any tick bites, generally.
Put on neosporin and keep an eye on it for a few days looking for an oddly shaped rash.
More info on Lime disease: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002296/
More info on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: http://oklahomapoison.org/general/tick.asp
More detailed tick first aid: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-tick-bites/FA00062
I would stay with the trip. I get ticks regularly, and it has never been serious.


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great deal! found it on amazon- with prime shipping its about 3$ cheaper http://www.amazon.com/Vendetta-Watchmen-Constantine-Triple-Feature-Blu-ray/dp/B00634MLIQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1353284934&sr=1-2&keywords=v+for+vendetta
@spaz22: It's only showing at $9.99 with prime shipping for me. Anything less has shipping added putting it at or above $10. How did you get it for $7 with prime shipping?
@thiney49: sorry, very poor choice of words on my part ( kid was fussing and I was in a hurry) . target with tax and shipping was $13.33 where amazon prime made the collection $9.99.
@spaz22: FYI: Target ships free if you use its "Target Red Card" to make the purchase.
What a coincidence. My TiVo decided to record this as a suggestion tonight. It's on BBC America. It's got commercials, and it has a huge bug in the corner, but at least they are showing it letterboxed.
Great find. My young brother's favorite.
got this a few weeks ago on amazon for $15.99, just returned it, got a gift card refund, then re-ordered this along with Alien Anthology (which with the 6 bucks of extra credit was only $14!) I love amazon! XD


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The Zone tournament came to an end Monday for the Pratt 86ers as they fell in a rematch against Larned. Upon completion of the oft-delayed double-elimination tournament, the Wellington Dukes advanced to the State tournament to be held next week in Pratt.
Even though they were ousted at the Zone tournament, the 86ers will also be a part of the State tournament field by virtue of their hosting the event at Smoky Ford Field beginning Wednesday July 31.
So with Pratt advancing regardless, only Larned was eliminated at the Wellington Zone tournament, as both Wellington and Pratt will advance to State. That fact caused many to wonder why a double-elimination tournament needed to be held at Wellington at all, with all the teams involved being forced to use a lot of pitching without very much really being on the line.
At any rate, in their "elimination" game on Monday, Pratt lost to Larned after having downed them on Sunday. That contest was also delayed by lightning, following the 86ers Sunday late-night two-hour-rain-delay adventure.
The deciding game of the tournament was to pit Larned against Wellington on Monday night, but it was kiboshed by the weather. When the teams finally met Tuesday night—in what was really the only meaningful game of the entire double-elimination tournament, the Dukes prevailed over the Larneds 8-7.
Up early 5-0 and still leading 8-3 in the 7th, the Dukes had to fend off a furious rally by Larned. Larned had the tying run on 3rd when the final out was recorded on a fly ball to left.
The Wellington American Legion Post 90 Dukes will be making their first appearance at the AA state tournament since the Legion baseball program was revived in Wellington in 2010.
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The Academy announced its first group of Oscar performers and presenters yesterday which, to me, feels early. But that was supposed to change the conversation, get people off the topic, at least for a minute, of #OscarsSoWhite. Read Full Intro
Hot Harry's dorky brother
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Hot Harry was in Jamaica this morning and raced Usain Bolt.It's a GIFT, ok?This is a GIFT. Please enjoy. Also, yesterday in the Bahamas, Harry had occasion to meet two Bahamian beauty queens. It's really too bad he couldn't stay longer. But look at him, all tender and sweet to young Anna Albury, the blind Youth Ambassador at the Youth Rally where Harry showed his Royal support. Full Story
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Sandra Bullock and Usain Bolt were both at Mr Chow last night for dinner. Some people tried to suggest that it was a date. Apparently all they did was pose for a photo together inside. Hilarious, right? Let us not speak of what happened last month at the Worlds. Let's hope that doesn't happen at the Olympics. Full Story
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AskMen.com has released its list of Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009. At the first position? Don Draper. Agree. AskMen explains it as follows: Don Draper may be a fictional character on AMC's Mad Men, but he's just as real as any other public personality you can think of. Full Story
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This is for Shani R who emailed about the lack of Jamaican representation on the site, specifically re: Usain Bolt's performance at the World Championships this week. True. It's his birthday today. And he is celebrating it in Berlin as the only sprinter in history to own both the Olympic and World 100m and 200m titles and world records. Full Story
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As a community we value Dr. Paulsen's input and opinion. Over the next month we will be evaluating SnowBall Music Festival with our first responders and medical professionals, public works, chamber board and elected officials and other key stakeholders to look at the successes and impact of the eventon our community. The Chamber is currently seeking feedback from our community; the online survey for feedback can be found at PlayWinterPark.com/SnowBall_Survey.html~Catherine Ross, Executive Director, Winter Park & Fraser Chamber
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I just use web checkin for my flight tomorrow. After that I should have printed my boarding pass. However, I realised that this is not possible. So what can I do now? I have already checked in, but no boarding pass. Is there any way to print that again at the airport? Or is it enough if I have my confirmation number? Or the boarding pass as a PDF?
Many of the major airlines do have self-service checkin machines at the airport. I know KLM, allows printing forgotten or failed prints.
If your airlines does not have these self service machines, and you are not yet at the airport, try going to a print or copyshop. Most airports these days have these shops, but sometimes they can have quite some waiting queues, which will be adding stress to your journey.
Depending on the airline you are traveling, you could choose to use a mobile device as an alternative boarding card. This only works if your boarding pass has a bar code they use to scan prior to boarding. What you need to do is make a pdf of your boarding pass and store it on your device. I always do this these days and this already saved me once.
A final option is to just approach the check in desk and ask a reprint. This is the least favorable solution, since the whole idea behind online check in is to minimize contact time at a manned checkin desk. Some airlines are then reluctant to help you in these request, some airlines (Ryanair comes to mind) have a hefty fee if you ask for a reprint. In the case of Ryanair this is 40 euros or even higher.
I fly Air Canada as my primary airline. It is worth checking in online even if you don't have a printer available. There are no negative consequences compared to not checking in at all. You can line up to see someone and hand off your baggage, and they'll "reprint" your boarding pass, or you can use the kiosks (I have never seen a lineup for AC kiosks, unlike United for example) and go through the checkin process again. You will retain your original checkin time should that become relevant for things like processing upgrades or deciding who loses their seat on an equipment change. (See my answer to "Benefits of checking in online when checking bags".)
You can reprint it at the airport, no problem. If no self-service station is available, the regular check-in desk personnel will reprint it for you.
Some airlines in some locations allow using "mobile" boarding pass through their smartphone app, if this is the case for your airline and airport - then you don't even need to reprint anything at all.
Don't know what airlines you're referring to....but visiting a manned check-in desk is definitely the preferred option for MOST passengers. (Note: ryanair is an exception - all other airlines will allow you to seek help from a customer service representative).
Flight bookings these days can be complicated, and it's always best to seek assistance from the airline staff. Self-service compliments the whole check-in process, but should never be a complete substitute for dealing with airline staff.
If you opted for a web check-in when you did your ticket purchasing, then you MUST come to the airport with a printed boarding pass of the web check-in. I am talking about coming with the actual paper print. I've just flew from Sofia to Tel Aviv yesterday and I had to pay a 35 Euros fee.
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As "Face detection" really a catchy word in Compact camera market, What do face detection perform in a digital camera? what more does this feature do in addition to auto focus system?
And why there is no face detection thing in DSLR world?
As "Face detection" really a catchy word in Compact camera market, What do face detection perform in a digital camera? what more does this feature do in addition to auto focus system?
The camera doesn't know what the most important parts of the image are, and therefore what you would like to have in focus. Traditionally autofocus systems have simply selected the closest object near the centre of the frame and focussed on that. This can easily fail in the presence of irrelevant foreground details.
Face detection makes the assumption that if the image contains people, you would probably like to have their faces in focus, so by detecting the location of faces the autofocus system can be more accurately instructed.
In order to for such a scheme to work you must have some way of reading the image data continuously and the ability to focus on an arbitrary point in the image. This essentially means you need live view and contrast detect AF for face recognition. This is one of the reasons the feature was slow coming to DSLRs, contrast detect is still slower than phase detect and is thus not the primary way of focussing with DSLRs. Another factor is that DSLR users tend extert slightly more control over the camera's operation and prefer to select AF points manually.
The really interesting development is that the Canon 1DX has a metering sensor which is high enough resolution to detect faces, so it can use face detection in conjunction with phase detect AF.
Apart from assisting focus, some cameras do not only have face detection but also try to detect the expression, like for auto shooting when people are smiling, instead of taking 10 images to get people to smile. You can even get a rotating tripod for e.g. Sony WX1 that allows you to put it in the middle of the table and have it rotate and snap pictures during a dinner party when people smile at it. It would also be handy for surveillance footage to snap pictures of faces while you are away. From personal experience I haven't used the face detection much on my WX1 save for in the beginning when showing off the camera - I use it mostly to record concerts, and I don't miss the feature on my DSLR.
DSLRs have face detection too, even the high-end models like Nikon D800.
I suggest you to do a simple Google search to learn more about face detection.
Face detection simply detects the face in the frame and then it set the autofocus and exposure settings to give priority to the face.


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Base Camp Anchorage is a hostel run by outdoor enthusiasts passionate about Alaska and its backcountry. We are the perfect base for travelers stopping to rest and explore Anchorage, or those preparing for an upcoming journey into the wilderness.
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I am writing a script that will block any bot that requests page(s) for example X times in the past 5 secs. I need to find the X here. Do you guys know some approx values I can use?
you might be better off using your firewall instead of relying on a php script, since after all the php script will only affect php page loads and not static files like images. Plus, having php log all connections and check for >800 from the same ip for every request is going to add some serious overhead to your server, maybe even more so than the requests themselves!
If you have a linux server you can use IPTables:
or you would setup fail2ban to block excessive GETs, you should be safe from blocking real users at a limit of 800/2sec
On Windows Server... well I don't think you can set connections/sec limits, but I think you can set bandwidth quotas in the QoS services which would effectively limit the bots. Or there are plenty of 3rd party tools that would let you accomplish this.
I've been thinking about this some more, and it seems the most efficient way to log each ip request and check previous hits would be to concatenate the ip address & current time as the filename and just append a single character, so you are just incrementing the filesize by 1 byte each request. Here is a test script I wrote that you can play around with to get the general idea:
Run this with $requests < $limits and you'll see everything is fine no matter how many times you refresh. Change $requests > $limits and you'll see it stops once the filesize reaches 401 bytes. Refresh again and you'll see now you are instantly banned!
Thanks for the great code. I have modified it in such a way that it will ban anything without a session for 1 whole hour if this trap is activated. I am calling this the Extreme Flood Trap. I know I will be banning even the good bots which leads me to my next question. Will serving the Searchbots with 403 for an hour have bad consequences for the site in the long run? Here is the code so far -
What do you think?? bad choice??


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Driving a massive river cleaning drive
Delhi depends on the Yamuna River for more than 60 percent of its water-related needs. The river is greatly significant for the economic and ecological needs of the region and its people. However, over the years huge amounts of chemicals, plastic and other non-biodegradable pollutants have disturbed the ecological balance of the river. More than half of the estimated 3.6 billion tonnes of sewage produced daily in Delhi flow into the Yamuna untreated. Numerous attempts to rectify this have not had much success.
River cleaning campaign
On March 16, 2010 at PuranaQila (Old Fort), New Delhi, thousands of people from Delhi, senior government officials, dignitaries and artists, pledged their support of an environmental project, 'MeriDilliMeri Yamuna' (My Delhi My Yamuna) launched by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of The Art of Living. The aim was this project was to mobilize the citizens of Delhi to clean the river.
Addressing the gathering, Sri Sri said, ''We have always used the water of holy rivers like Ganga and Yamuna to purify ourselves, but today we have reached a point where we have to purify this water. So we are waging a war against the pollution in the Yamuna. Millions have been spent on cleaning the Yamuna but nothing has happened. It's not only the government that can do it. We will have to come together. I invite industry, civil society, Delhi government and Government of India to take it as an emergency.''
The event started with 'Shankhnaad', where people blew conch shells along with Sri Sri, followed by a musical play by Ability Unlimited, depicting the current state of the Yamuna and the consequences of this, ending with a film about how other rivers have been cleaned up.
Cleaning the river bank
The following morning, on March 17, 2010, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar personally started the cleaning of the ITO ghat. The cleaning of the ghats went on for eight days and took place at a different venue every day, including the ghats at Wazirabad, Nizamuddin, KalindiKunj, Kudesiaghat, Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Yamuna Bazar and Okhla Dhobi ghat.
Volunteers worked round the clock to spread awareness about this campaign. They ran free breath-water-sound workshops for villagers, special workshops for children and gave talks to create awareness and encourage people to join in. Millions of Delhi citizens came together to support this project.
Partners in this initiative included UNESCO, Ability Unlimited, Delhi Jal Board, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Max Healthcare, Philips, The Times of India, Star News, State Bank of India, Bajaj Allianz and PVR Cinemas. The project is now a full-fledged Citizens' Action Plan.
Some of our activities
- Motivated 2150 children to participate in MDMY through special workshops
- Promoted environment care through talks to 1,300 people including farmers, parents, professionals (National Thermal Power Corporation), 200 village representatives
- Held customized workshops for 525 people from underprivileged sections, to encourage greater participation
Under the MeriDilliMeri Yamuna initiative, many other programs were launched such as the 'Health Walk' and the 'Clean Delhi Drive.'


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Now that we have SuperUser, the "not programming related" reason is no longer a valid reason to close a question - questions that are not programming related but are computer related should be moved instead. But because the option remains, people seem to feel justified in closing questions without moving them anyway sometimes.
As such, I suggest changing "not programming related" to "not computer related" - this will help reinforce the fact that questions not related to programming, but which are computer related, do have somewhere to go now. Alternately, "not programming related" should bring up a confirmation to suggest moving to superuser, serverfault, or meta if the question is appropriate for one of those.
Edit: If questions don't deserve to be migrated, they should be closed, sure - but not with "not programming related". Just thing: how do we close bad questions that are programming related? Use one of the other close reasons available, or edit the question to be better. And certainly leave a comment.
At the very least, if you use another close reason, the questioner might get a better idea of why their question was bad. If you just say "not programming related", they might never find out where their question should go, and might never know why their question was unacceptable.
Finally, from a philosophical perspective, anything computer related is theoretically on-topic somewhere in the SO family. Whether it's a good question is completely orthogonal to this - but since it's on topic, closing it for 'off topic' is false. Think: If the question was submitted to SU in the first place would you close it? If so, use that close reason.


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5 Jul 2012 4:41 PM #1
Ext JS 4.1.1 (GA) Now Available
We are pleased to announce today that Ext JS 4.1.1 (GA) is available for download! The product pages will be updated shortly with links to the respective GPL and Commercial downloads. If you cannot wait, you can grab them from here:
Commercial - http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.1-commercial.zip
GPL - http://cdn.sencha.com/ext-4.1.1-gpl.zip
We cannot thank everyone in the community enough for all their help! Thanks for all your efforts in testing the 2 pre-releases and reporting the problems you encountered. We wish we could have fixed every bug, but we believe we have fixed the most severe and widely impacting of the bunch.
Now that 4.1.1 has shipped, this forum will remain but should only be used for reference. Please use the regular forums for discussing released versions. If you have reported bugs in this forum, please either re-post in the Bugs forum or ask one of the moderators if they would move your thread for you. Not only does our support team continue that forum, but others in the community can often help find workarounds or patches.
For those with Support, we will be continuing to fix bugs on the 4.1.x release. The nightly builds will be available on the support portal.
Bugs Fixed
Charts (6)
- EXTJSIV-6275 - Line chart messed up after disabling and enabling lines though legend
- EXTJSIV-6323 - Charts don't render with either constrain, or both maximum and minimum
- EXTJSIV-6324 - Problem using minimum, maximum and majorTicksSteps together
- EXTJSIV-6359 - Chart should display integers on axis
- EXTJSIV-6583 - Chart redraw on store update fails in inactive card
- EXTJSIV-6585 - Rapid clicks on pie chart causes slices to shrink or disappear
- EXTJSIV-3932 - dom.style.setExpression not implemented in IE8
- EXTJSIV-5956 - Ext.extend does not handle constructor properly using 3-argument form
- EXTJSIV-6087 - Ext.data.TreeStore CRUD regression
- EXTJSIV-6452 - Container's private floatingItems collection should be floatingDescendants
- EXTJSIV-6453 - Container-owned floating items appear at wrong level in the ComponentQuery hierarchy
- EXTJSIV-6456 - ComponentQuery :last selector fails with a single item
- EXTJSIV-6484 - Ext.AbstractManager.onAvailable listener isn't removed properly
- EXTJSIV-6499 - Reusing id's for elements recently removed from the DOM would incorrectly reference old element
- EXTJSIV-6570 - Ext.Element getStyle can throw in IE6/7 reading font styles
- EXTJSIV-6612 - Observable.resumeEvents should tolerate being called when suspendCount is zero
- EXTJSIV-5253 - Ext.data.writer.Json no longer respects dateFormat
- EXTJSIV-5995 - Model field disappear when using idProperty
- EXTJSIV-6480 - loadData reading an Array uses the wrong field order to read the data items.
- EXTJSIV-6523 - data.Reader will not read data where a model is included
- EXTJSIV-6545 - Can't reload buffered store after filtering
- EXTJSIV-6627 - Model.copy passes its data into the new constructor as raw which gets converted.
- EXTJSIV-6524 - AbstractView should not cancel SPACE key event if target is an input element.
- EXTJSIV-5148 - Ext.selection.Model documentation bug
- EXTJSIV-6187 - Grouping and locking features do not work together
- EXTJSIV-6573 - AbstractComponent.render missing in the API docs
- EXTJSIV-6449 - Simple Tasks reminder window does not lay out when resized.
- EXTJSIV-6450 - Themes example's layout expands vertical slider's element to 100% width
- EXTJSIV-6462 - Chart rendering is broken by moving its ancestors in the DOM in IE
- EXTJSIV-6717 - Combination Examples - Feed Viewer: Getting error upon clicking on any feed in the preview panel when "Hide" option is selected in the preview drop down menu.
- EXTJSIV-6071 - The title of the MultiSelect is not displayed
- EXTJSIV-6085 - "Custom Layout " Alert message borderline is missing under "Radio Groups " in IE6
- EXTJSIV-6086 - labelWidth is ignored with labelAlign top
- EXTJSIV-6127 - TextField emptyText cannot be entered as the value
- EXTJSIV-6160 - Ext.form.field.Time does not initialize value correctly
- EXTJSIV-6227 - Adding a new field to a form layout fails on IE
- EXTJSIV-6311 - Time field clears value on blur.
- EXTJSIV-6371 - Fields with labelAlign top need to not make label its own row - causes too many problems
- EXTJSIV-6402 - DisplayField doesn't update size after a value change
- EXTJSIV-6416 - Calling setText on unrendered TextField does not work
- EXTJSIV-6445 - standardSubmit: true is broken for forms with params
- EXTJSIV-6478 - Ext.form.BasicForm fails to correctly read the response of a file upload
- EXTJSIV-6568 - HtmlEditor leaks memory on window unload in IE6/7
- EXTJSIV-6579 - HtmlEditor contents are cleared by initial Ext.example.msg
- EXTJSIV-6594 - enforceMaxLength with no maxLength in textfield allows only one char
- EXTJSIV-5343 - Lockable views do not handle drag between two sides well or dragging of or between group headers.
- EXTJSIV-6075 - Checkbox selection model's header checkbox not in sync if records are added/removed
- EXTJSIV-6242 - Grid row editor does not close when record being edited is removed
- EXTJSIV-6264 - Grid filter range menu iconCls conflicts with Panel iconCls - rename to itemIconCls
- EXTJSIV-6419 - Grid Filters JS error when click on any column header after filtering Date and swap columns
- EXTJSIV-6420 - Grid row heights aren't synced in locked grid on IE9 standards.
- EXTJSIV-6421 - Locking grid headers misplaced after column hide
- EXTJSIV-6440 - BorderLayout: collapsed GridPanel on south looks inconsistent after expand
- EXTJSIV-6463 - Infinite grid alignment is skewed by presence of group headers
- EXTJSIV-6477 - Arrow keys become unresponsive when arrowing through records in a buffered grid
- EXTJSIV-6481 - Firefox 13 new default smooth scrolling leads to very slow grid scrolling
- EXTJSIV-6482 - Grid RowExpander is not reinserted after reconfigure
- EXTJSIV-6509 - Using getEditor on a grid column creates an orphaned component resulting in a memory leak
- EXTJSIV-6531 - Grid reconfigure fails with hideHeaders
- EXTJSIV-6546 - PagingScroller onCacheClear assumes view is rendered
- EXTJSIV-6584 - Cell editing in locked grid causes JS error
- EXTJSIV-6644 - CellSelectionModel selects the wrong cell in a locked grid
- EXTJSIV-6718 - Tab key causes error when cell editing with row selection model
- EXTJSIV-5131 - ShrinkWrap layouts can fail with constrained widths / heights
- EXTJSIV-6041 - In IE8/9 "strict" mode, Box layout's perpendicular overflow does not work
- EXTJSIV-6049 - Auto-width grid in vbox stretches to 10,000px
- EXTJSIV-6369 - Closing floated/collapsed panel in border layout causes JS error
- EXTJSIV-6528 - Ext.layout.container.BoxOverflow.Menu.destroy throws Exception
- EXTJSIV-6386 - Picking a date doesn't work when Date field inside Menu
- EXTJSIV-6348 - Drag-drop on invalid dropzone leaves no focus
- EXTJSIV-6510 - IE 6 nonsecure items warning when using Ext.History
- EXTJSIV-5149 - "mini" collapseMode in border layout doesn't seem to work
- EXTJSIV-6372 - Multiple issues with Panel.setBodyStyle
- EXTJSIV-6373 - Specifying Panel header config and closable: true causes error
- EXTJSIV-6448 - Left and right aligned headers in panel drag are not layed out properly
- EXTJSIV-6163 - SplitButton with arrowAlign bottom and Gray theme - CSS issue on mouse over
- EXTJSIV-6425 - Sass function theme-background-image throws exception without a return value and css doesn't compile
- EXTJSIV-6251 - Toolbar defaults override single item settings
- EXTJSIV-6451 - Form fields clone in overflow menu of toolbar do not sync the original field value
- EXTJSIV-5248 - Ext.data.TreeStore setting the root property in the proxy doesn't work
- EXTJSIV-6005 - Ext.data.TreeStore with Ext.data.proxy.Rest does not pass ids correctly
- EXTJSIV-6302 - NodeInterface qtip and qtitle not updated
- EXTJSIV-6417 - tree.selectPath(tree.getRootNode().getPath()) doesn't select
- EXTJSIV-6418 - Folder keeps displaying collapse button after all leaves are dragged away
- EXTJSIV-6443 - expandable: false has no effect in tree grid
- EXTJSIV-6473 - Spacebar not toggling checkbox state in TreePanel
- EXTJSIV-6554 - Tree view refresh event is fired before the render event
- EXTJSIV-6580 - Tree node parentId doesn't respect useNull
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- EXTJSIV-5889 - Dragging a header-constrained window below Viewport bottom scrolls the Viewport
- EXTJSIV-6033 - Ext.window.Window fire incorrect events when maximized/restored
- EXTJSIV-6234 - Constrained window in a border layout is displaying at wrong location.
- EXTJSIV-6297 - Constraining a window to a panel using the "constrain" config does not work when "autoShow" is true
- EXTJSIV-6397 - Form submit with waitMsg:'string' called from Window focuses the Window which hides any MessageBox
- EXTJSIV-6547 - Window is not closed on Esc
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5 Jul 2012 7:00 PM #2
However, encountered a small problem.
Ext version tested:
- Ext 4.1.1(GA)
- Chromium 18.0.1025.168 (Ubuntu 12.04)
- TreeStore - it will be two request parameters when it loading: node & id. id is superfluous, it may cause trouble to the service side.
5 Jul 2012 9:04 PM #3
Thanks for jumping in so quickly!
Please post bugs to the Bugs forum so that we can get them dealt with.Don Griffin
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5 Jul 2012 11:09 PM #4
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Nice! Will test this right away. What about CDN?
does not work...
does work, for 4.1.0 it was:
and for 4.0.7 it was
Someone having a hard time deciding which format is better???
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Any document describing API changes in 4.1.1? Seems for example, grid plugins now _must_ extend AbstractPlugin to be usable in Locking grid, since it calls 'clone' on them in injectLockable. For bw compat, this would've been better.
clonePlugins: function() { var me = this, plugins = me.plugins, plugin, i = 0, len; if (plugins) { len = plugins.length; for (; i < len; i++) { plugin = plugins[i]; if (typeof plugin.init === 'function' && plugin.clone) { plugins[i] = plugin.clone(); } } } }
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They need to be cloneable to fix the other problem you highlighted, so that bodge would not help.
In a lockable grid, there are two grids.
Now, all Features and Plugins arte cloned, so that each grid has a copy.
Before, you had to specify Features as
{ ftype: 'foo' }
Now, both Features and Plugins must extend their base classes so that the base constructor is called which stashes initialconfig, and so that they inherit the clone method to clone themselves using the initialConfig.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
Read the docs too: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/docs/
Scope: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.ph...642#post257642
6 Jul 2012 5:32 AM #7
6 Jul 2012 10:12 PM #8
Sorry for any confusion. I was simply stating that (as with all previous releases), the patch releases like 4.1.1 are, after a certain point, only available for support customers. With 4.0 we released 2 patch releases to the public (4.02a was the last) and others beyond that to support customers (up to 4.0.7).
Our formal policy can be found at http://www.sencha.com/products/releases. Even though that policy does not guarantee any patch releases outside of support customers, we have released several patch releases publicly. As with 4.1.1.
Since this forum is now read-only (at least until our next beta), please start a thread in the general discussion forum if you have further questions. In this case, please feel free to PM me to let me know of the new thread.Don Griffin
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6 Jul 2012 10:13 PM #9
In case my last message was unclear - 4.1.1 is a publicly available patch release.Don Griffin
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10 Jul 2012 10:28 PM #10
See http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...rsion-as-4.1.0
We will be refreshing the zips and CDN to fix the version problem and the naming.Don Griffin
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Each language has its own ideas of how to punctuate, e.g. space before question marks in French. How is German punctuation different from English?
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There are a lot of differences, one of the most common one could be how German handles
In English, there is no comma before that:
In German, the comma is required to give the sentence its structure:
The rule is actually really simple: in German, every relative clause is separated by a comma.
Not to forget: Punctuation in numbers! The usage of commata and dots is exactly reversed!
English standard:
German standard:
In English
In German
Notice the colon instead of a comma, and the capital at the start of the quote. There has to be a capital after every colon, if you quote use the first letter in the quote, which is
A list like
BTW: Canoo.net seems to be a very comprehensive resource for questions about grammar.
Composite words
In English, you create composite words by just writing one word after the other, with a space in between:
In German, you add them without a space:
It is possible, but poor style, to create very long words like this:
As you can see, it's possible, but rarely needed and hard to read. This is done relatively often in laws, which need to be very specific. For instance, german traffic laws are regulated in the
If words get otherwise hard to read, it's possible to add hyphens where needed:
It would be legal to write that without any hyphenation. Hyphenation, in general, has become more accepted in recent years, but should still be used sparingly.
Many people wrongly separate composite words with spaces, which is very common in ads or product names, supposedly because long composites are hard to read and hyphens don't look good enough. This is wrong and very poor style, because it causes the reader to pause within the words, and sometimes even distorts meaning: "Besuchen Sie ihren Peugeot Partner" is probably meant to mean "visit your Peugeot dealership", but actually says "visit your Peugeot car, which has the model name Partner" (there actually was a car called Peugeot Partner). Reading these sentences aloud with the different meanings causes different pronunciation, just like in english: "visit your Peugeot dealer" vs. "my car is called the Peugeot Dealer".
German: en-dash/Halbgeviertstrich with spaces on both sides of the dash:
English: em-dash/Geviertstrich without spaces
Quotations and quotation marks
I have often seen quotations in English include the comma that separates them from the rest of the sentence:
Apparently this is an American thing. It's wrong in German:
Also note the different quotation marks in German. You can forego them and use the English style if you want to, but it won't be correct. Microsoft Word should autocorrect quotation marks into the right ones.
EDIT: I have added inline code formatting (`), which displays quotation marks correctly (at least for me).
You asked about the differences, so I'll attempt to only cover them, but comprehensively.
German surrounds every single subordinate clause with a pair of commas, as well as stuck together main clauses if there is no conjunction. If there is one, the comma ranges from optional to required. In English, it is usually omitted.
In English, you can separate parts at the beginning of a sentence with a comma like you just saw. In German, that is forbidden unless it is a complete infinitive or a subordinate clause.
Infinitive structures are surrounded by a pair of commas, which can only be omitted in the case of a short infinitive.
I'm not sure about this one in English, but in German following direct speech a comma is placed.
Generally speaking, all German commas are required for syntactical reasons, never because you breathe at that spot. You often will breathe in places where there are no commas, but of course there are also lots of places where commas and breathing points overlap.
Quotation marks
British English usually uses
American English uses the same shape, but usually double quotation marks
German, on the other hand, uses
Swiss German practice is different from German and Austrian practice. They use the French-style quotation marks, but the other way around
When dealing with long quotes, English will repeat quotation marks at the beginning of each paragraph. German will not.
Americans like to add any punctuation mark into the quotation marks. Germans will not, unless the punctuation can belong to the quote.
A dash in German is the en-dash –, surrounded by a pair of spaces. Apparently, English and American use the em-dash — with no space surrounding it.
The dash can also mean bis or gegen. If it means bis, the spaces are omitted.
That is, the three dots. They are used more or less like English, although English traditionally closed a sentence that ended with an ellipsis with another full stop. German does not.
A lot of Germans don't know when to add a space before the ellipsis and when not to. There is no space if and only if the word is cut off by the ellipsis (2nd example).
In the first example, a word beginning with weiter is cut off; it could be weitermachen, weitergehen or others. In the second example, the word is weiter but the sentence is left unfinished.
Other random differences
Ordinal numbers carry a trailing full stop. (5. Februar)
Most contractions in English require an apostrophe in a set position. German would only put the apostrophe between words (which would look weird in English, would'nt it? [sic!]), even if nothing is cut between the words (although this is seldom required in standard German; usually only in dialects).
Many contractions, especially those created by assimilating es and those created from preposition and article are entirely apostrophe-less:
Left out letters, even when no contraction is happening, get an apostrophe, unless they are a left out trailing shwa-e of a verb:
I hope I didn't miss any punctuation marks. If I didn't mention them, their usage is likely exactly as in English.
You can set a comma if you want to guard against confusion:
Regarding commas: When our primary school teacher started to teach use comma rules, she would say: "Put a comma everywhere you breathe or pause in your sentence". I still think this is a quite useful hint.
Also be aware that after the latest reform, there are loads of optional commas. So rather put too many commas into a sentence than too few. ;-)
Big exception is "und", where you almost never put a comma in front.
Edit: just re-read your question. If you're asking for general punctuation use, I think it's quite similar to English. No extra spaces. Some example sentences:
"Hallo!", rief Hugo, als er Lisa sah. "Du schon wieder?", antwortete sie. "Ach, Lisa", erwiderte Hugo, "sei doch nicht immer so unfreundlich."
Niemals würde ich mir die Haare blond färben lassen - es sei denn, jemand bietet mir viel Geld dafür -; aber andererseits sollte man auch niemals nie sagen...? (never: sagen... ?)
Man sieht also: nach diesem Ereignis hat sich die ganze Stadt verändert - nicht nur einzelne Bürger.
Ungefähr 20% der Ware ist Ausschuss, +/-5 Stück.
Am 20. September 2012 werde ich fünzig. (also: Am 20.09.2012 oder Am 20. 09. 2012).
Die Party beginnt um 15:00 Uhr. (never 15:00Uhr!)
German uses the Chevron style quotation marks:


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On levels that have Bobs in them, the Bobs frequently get stuck - jammed together in narrow hallways and such, blocking them. On levels such as The Rose (Marathon 1) where your mission is to keep as many from being killed as possible, it's kind of counterproductive to kill the Bobs to get them out of the way; but if they're blocking the door to an important comm terminal then sometimes there's no choice but to kill them.
Is there any way to 'prod' a Bob to move in the other direction without hurting or killing him?


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Swan Lake: which productions have you seen?
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2) Royal Ballet with Rowena Jackson and Philip Chatfield
3) Bolshoi with Plisetskaya and (not sure)
4) Royal Ballet again with Fonteyn and Blair and Beriosova Macleary. (I think this was essentially the same Leslie Hurry production that Blair later did for ABT). I guess it was basically Ashton with deValois input.
5) Kirov (Sergueyev production) - and I can't remember with whom - whoever and all who did it on the 1961 US tour.
6) Royal Ballet Carl Tom's production. This is the one that had the prologue (later cut), VR bringing the national dancers to the ball and the Ashton 4th act. (If I recall rightly, Makarova kept this for her production) There was a polonaise and a Mazurka choreographed by Nureyev
7)Beryl Grey's production for Festival Ballet (early 70s). I PROBABLY saw Evdokimova and ?. I guess I also saw Maina Gielgud do this while she was with the company. I don't remember much about it - it was that memorable - except that at the end, after Odette and Siegfried jump off the rocks, the swans formed a cross on stage. I have a feeling that the production debuted around Easter, and everyone was trying to figure out whether Grey had been carried away by religion.
8) POB's Nureyev production - the one in the box. I loathed it. I thought the POB danced it like civil servants: like marionettes. Having seen them many times in other things, perhaps they were told to be like that.
9) On film only: the Nureyev production for Vienna: the one where the swans run under the floor cloth at the end and Siegfried climbs a tree stump.... A friend once showed me the program from Vienna. There was an English translation of the libretto. In part it read: "Back at the ball there is a bevy of beautiful belles."
10) the Leslie Hurry/David Blair prod. for ABT
11) Makarova's production for ABT
12) Eric Bruhn's production for NBC
13) Peter Martin's production for the NYCB. No comment. My husband is taking a shower, so if I need to barf I can't.
14)Kevin McKenzie's production for ABT
I'm sure I've seen others somewhere along the line. Oh - the more recent Bolshoi production, of course. And the Boston Ballet/Kirov joint production. How could I forget?
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Posted 01 August 2004 - 12:08 PM
It has a prologue showing how Odette and all her ladies-in-waiting get changed into swans. The rest of the ballet is relatively traditional, but in the last act, Siegfried and Rothbart fight and Siegfried eventually rips one of Rothbart's HUGE wings off. This apparently kills him. Odette then comes in, no longer as a swan, but dressed as the princess she was before Rothbart put his spell on her.
And so they lived happily ever after...
I grew up on this version, which maybe explains why I never had any problems with the Bolshoi's "happy ending" production.
Posted 05 August 2004 - 06:45 PM
I love the fact that it is a straight forward production that paid due respect to Petipa and Ivanov while at the same time opening the ballet enough to add original choreography by Frederick Ashton and Rudolf Nureyev.
The sets and costumes by Leslie Hurry are beautiful and sumptuous and gave you a real sense medieval Germany.
Anthony Dowell dancing can be sum up in three words: regal, glamorous, elegant.
As for Natalia Makarova, she is as close to perfection as I have yet seen of the characterization of Odette/Odile. Phrasing, musicality, heartbreaking, its all there. They dancing the lakeside act pas de deux is one of the most hauntingly expressive performance of that extraoridinary pas de deux I ever seen.
And every Swan Lake production should have Ashton's choreography of the Neapolitan Dance. Joyous, inventive, creative and high-flying fun. Rosemary Taylor and Wayne Sleep are terrific.
The television direction wonderfully capture the stage production for the video audience. Close-up, wide angle, over head angle, editing, fantastic job.
From the best to the worst. The State Perm Ballet video production is in a word awful. First there is the noise. When the swans started dancing on point you can hear them coming a mile away. Clunk, clunk. The choreography with the exception of the standard set pieces are weak. The sets and costumes are chessy and cheap looking. The dancing was reliable at best. I understand that Aleksei Fadeyetchev is regarded as one of the best male dancers of his generation. You won't understand that base on this video. He's a wonderful partner, but he is to expessive with his mine dancing. Arms and head waving to much, he makes to big a production in declaring his love for Odette when touching his heart with his hands. Overall a terrible production.
The only saving grace was Nina Ananiashvili. In fact she was the reason I brought the video. The first live production of Swan Lake I saw was Kevin McKenzie's new ABT's production starring Ananiashvili and Julio Bocca. I was so rapture by her performance I brought the tape, thinking I could have the beauty of her dancing capture on tape. Big mistake.
I like McKenzie production. Zach Brown's set and costumes are beautifully sumptuous. Some people have said overly beautiful. I like the prologue showing how Von Rothbart trick Odette and change her into a swan. But I can also see why some people have problems with the production. Why is it that American productions of Swan Lake always seem to cut the ballet by combining the four acts into just two acts. Do they think American audience are incapable at seating though four acts? When the swans are dancing in the second act of McKenzie production after the ballroom scene in front of a backdrop, it is so obivous they are dancing mainly so the sets can be change. And boy you can hear the stage crew changing them. But overall I love the production.
I also love the Kirov current production as well. They have authority written all over their production.
Posted 06 August 2004 - 04:20 AM
I guess what I like about it is: it is dance, dance, dance...there is very little mime or filler. The Jester, who can be so annoying in some productions, is here given just enough to do and the steps are quite brilliant esp. as danced by Adam Hendrickson or Daniel Ulbricht. Also the dance of the Would-Be-Brides is very lovely and gives nice little glimpses of several of the beautiful girls in the NYCB corps. The passage following the Black Swan PDD is very powerful...Rotbart keeps giving Siegfried opportunities to back off from Odile but the Prince persists, getting totally fed up with Rotbart and emphatically pledging his faith to Odile, with disastrous consequences. The entire final lakeside scene is quite moving and the lighting here is very good, and the addition of Black swans is visually striking.
The focus is strongly on Siegfried...really, it's his story. The ending, with Rotbart defeated but Odette doomed to remain a Swan because Siegfried has pledged himself both to her and to Odile, is the best ending of SWAN LAKE I have ever seen...and suits the music perfectly. There is no triumph, no redemption. Odette's leave-taking of her failed savior is truly poignant and we are left with the utterly dejected, miserable Siegfried to live on with the memory of his betrayal.
Posted 29 December 2007 - 09:18 PM
The first one I saw (only when I was little) was Graeme Murphy's contemporary take on the story of Odette and Siegfried. It is part of the Australian Ballet's repertoire, and they have toured to Britain, America, and Japan with it. The story is about a young girl who doubts the fidelity of her new husband and goes mad, finding peace only in a fantasy of swan-like maidens. The late and tragic re-capture of her husbands love leads to both their deaths.
I might note that the Australian Ballet is doing another performance season of this production next year (at different times around Australia) and if ur in Australia at the right time it is well worth seeing.
The 2nd production of swan lake that i have seen/danced is the Anne Wooliams production. I have both seen it on video and danced in it as a jester in the Australian Ballet School's production of the ballet. I thoroughly enjoy this version as it has a logical story that I think is easier to follow than other more 'traditional' productions. The choreography as well is just sublime-a really great use of the classical technique to express the emotions of the characters, especially the swans: Act 4 makes me cry every time!
The 3rd production I have seen is the Paris Opera Ballet's Nureyev version. I didn't enjoy this version as much because of the different roles characters like Rothbart and Siegfried play-to me Swan Lake is not about a complicated relationship between Rothbart and his apprentice but about the Swans and Siegfried's involvement with them that happens to include the evil and spiteful Rothbart. I don't think a romantic style story such as Swan Lake needs any type of complex deeper meanings and such-I think the deepness of good vs evil, light vs dark, and some good choreography can support a ballet with such a constant theme of true and desperate love. I just didn't enjoy this version because it had too much in it that the dancers had to portray-simple and strong I think is the way to go with a romantic storyline.
The 4th production doesn't fully count as I've only seen it on video, but I'm putting it here anyway-the Bolshoi production (I THINK it was the Bolshoi, it was with Zakharova and Roberto Bolle-correct me if im wrong someone). I liked it... I spose but the choreography annoyed me-again I think simple is the way to go rather than 50 different sequences in every variation and dance. As well at the points in the music where there was a massive crescendo and climax it was often only a single person dancing (e.g Act 4 where Siegfried's final entrance, and attempt to drown himself in the lake was just laughable-which it should NOT be!!). Other than that I think they got the story right-nice and simple again so that the dancers can focus on showing emotions rather than thoughts.
Overall I like both the Australian productions the best (the Murphy and Wooliams) because the stories are simple but powerful-and can be shown easily enough with some good choreography and brilliant music!
P.S Tchaikovsky's music is deserved of the highest praise-it puts me through so many emotions every time I listen to it. It's relaxing but energising, it simplifies but it is so complex-I LOVE SWAN LAKE MUSIC
Posted 30 December 2007 - 04:24 PM
The productions I've seen are:
ABT - Baryshnikov's version, MacKenzie's version and Blair's version
NYCB - Martin's version & Balanchine's version
POB - Nureyev's version
Royal Ballet - Hurry's version and Dowell's version
Bolshoi - Grigorovich's version
Maryinsky - Sergeyev's version
Adventures in Motion Pictures - Bourne's version
Posted 30 December 2007 - 04:53 PM
The La Scala dvd? Strangely, I rather liked the way the drowning effect was done in the end.
The 4th production doesn't fully count as I've only seen it on video, but I'm putting it here anyway-the Bolshoi production (I THINK it was the Bolshoi, it was with Zakharova and Roberto Bolle-correct me if im wrong someone).
I"ve seen a lot and forgotten the details of most.
Among live performances, I still have hazy black-and-white memories -- rather like scraps of old silent film -- from a Ballet Theater performance when I was a child in NYC in the early 50s, though this might have just been the 2 big pdd's.
Merle Park, with the Royal in NYC in the 60s or 70s, stays with me. As does Bessmertnova with the Bolshoi (also in NYC) from approximately the same time. For years I kept thinking that her name was "Bessemer," as in Bessemer converter.
Also: Makarova and Gregory in the Baryshnikov staging (both ABT in the 80s). The Balanchine Act II starting in the late 50s, danced by almost all the principals in NYCB through the course of different seasons, and to very different effect.
Most recently, Elena Kulagina in the Makarova version, performed by Perm State Ballet on US tour.
Posted 31 December 2007 - 02:19 AM
My next Swan Lake was Natalia Makarova's production for London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet). The opening night in Bradford was magical - Trinidad Sevillano and Patrick Armand were breath-taking together. This production used Sir Frederick Ashton's Pas de Quatre and Neapolitan (never bettered) and some of his Act 4. Makarova called him on stage for the curtain calls and the audience erupted.
Since then I saw Raisa Struchova's production for ENB, which I hated (especially the happy ending) and Derek Deane's conventional production for them.
Galina Samsova did a delightful, traditional production for Scottish Ballet. The set and costumes were by Jasper Conran and were stunning. My recollection is that it got mixed reviews because some reviewers felt that Scottish Ballet did not have enough dancers to mount a traditional Swan Lake.
When I first started following Northern Ballet Theatre they introduced a traditional production of Swan Lake by Andre Prokovsky. When Christopher Gable took over he commissioned a new production by an American choreographer (Denis Wayne?) that had all new choreography, including a roller-skating tutor for Seigfried. This was amended drastically over several seasons and became unmissable. This, for the reviewers, was the other side of the coin to Scottish Ballet's in that it used the Tchaikowsky score, the name and the story but not the conventional choreography - and how absolutely dare they!!!!! Damned if you do and damned if you don't!
Since then David Nixon has produced another new production for NBT, set on the East Coast of America in the 1920s, with an interesting love triangle and his own choreography. I love it and hope they bring it back soon!
I also very much enjoyed Australian Dance Theatre's take on Swan Lake - Birdbrain - when I saw it last year (if I wrote this tomorrow it would be two years ago!).
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake makes perfect sense to me, using male swans - although beautiful, swans are such powerful birds that they have always struck me as being masculine. Although I am no expert, I think it is actually very conventionally structured. I've seen some terrific performances of this over the years by Adam Cooper, Will Kemp and, especially, Simon Cooper. For me, other casts have struggled to achieve their magic.
My favourite, conventional Swan Lake has got to be Sir Peter Wright's for Birmingham Royal Ballet. He has a real genius for mounting the big classics and this is no exception. It is handsomely dressed in black and silver and I have been fortunate to see some fabulous performances over the years. One that sticks in my mind is from three or four years ago with Ambra Vallo and Sergiu Pobereznic. They are both mature artists (Pobereznic has since retired) and their stage-craft was really telling. It was another unforgettable afternoon in Birmingham. The Dutch National Ballet, inter alia, also had/have this production and there is a recorded version of them doing it. BRB are touring this production extensively in the Spring of 2008 and I'm really looking forward to it.
Posted 01 January 2008 - 07:15 PM
In the opera house lobby, there was a considerable buzz -- usually a sign someone has cancelled. My heart sank; sure enough, Dowell was injured. What had everyone abuzz was the news that Nureyev had come in specially to dance this performance.
Whatever his faults, they were forgiven that afternoon. And she was absolutely glorious; I don't think I've ever seen such exquisite developes. Sometimes the audience is just 'with' the performers, no matter what, and this was one of those times. Great memory.
Posted 23 August 2008 - 01:43 PM
1) Margot Fonteyn with Michael Somes (1959)
2) Maya Plisetskaya with Nicolai Fadeyechev (1957)
3) Natalia Bessmertnova with Alexander Bogatyrev (1984)
4) Svetlana Zakharova with Roberto Bolle (2004)
5) Gillian Murphy with Angel Corella (2005)
6) Ulyana Lopatkina with Danila Korsuntsev (2006)
Of all these versions, Plisetskaya has by far the best on-stage acting ability, Zakharova has the best-danced Odile, and Lopatkina has the best-danced Odette.
Posted 18 May 2009 - 06:28 PM
Makhalina/Zelensky -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet
Bessmertnova/Bogatyrev -- Bolshoi Ballet
Fonteyn/Nureyev -- Vienna State Opera Ballet
Adventures in Motion Pictures
Mezentseva/Zaklinsky -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet
Makarova/Dowell -- Royal Ballet
Makarova/Nagy -- American Ballet Theatre (Blair's version)
Nordquist/Nordström -- Royal Swedish Ballet
Murphy/Corella -- American Ballet Theatre (McKenzie's version)
Hart/Schaufuss -- London Festival Ballet
Fonteyn/Somes Act II -- Royal Ballet
Letestu/Martinez -- Paris Opera Ballet (Nureyev's version)
Scherzer/Matz -- Staatsballett Berlin
Yevteyeva/Markovsky -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet
Lopatkina/Korsuntsev -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet
Zakharova/Bolle -- La Scala Ballet
Mikhalchenko/Vasyuchenko -- Bolshoi Ballet
Kolesnikova/Akulinin -- St Petersburg Ballet Theatre
Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe Of China
Nunez/Soares -- Royal Ballet
Semionov/Jermakov -- Zurich Ballet
Alexandrova/Skvortsov -- Bolshoi Ballet
And live:
Lorenzo/Hench -- Pennsylvania Ballet (Wheeldon's version)
Part/Gomes -- American Ballet Theatre (McKenzie's version)
Posted 18 May 2009 - 07:52 PM
Live SL's, I've seen...
-Alonso's for CNB-(with the pro of a very cute mime scene related to the whole wedding-to-be ordeal and the cons of the happy soviet era ending , which I stopped liking after seeing the original suicidal ending)
-McKenzie's for ABT. I didn't like this production, with that weird Prologue, the Alien-look/alike Rothbart and the Maypole thing... but...I liked the ending.
-Villella's for MCB-(Balanchine's). Still missing Odile on that one...!
On video I have...
-Nureyev/Fonteyn...(very surreal...from N's makeup to the ending...)
-Ulanova/Dudinskaya/Sergueev...(I can't help it... but I love it...Ulanova and Dudinskaya are unique, and the puffy tutus of the swans are lovely...plus it has a delicious vintage feeling...even with the truncated choreography)
-CCBM. Oh, this are my people... , and they did their best to put up a decent production, plus I love Hayna Gutierrez as O/O on it...
Posted 17 September 2010 - 04:05 PM
My first Swan Lake, I was two years old (my mother said it was ABT, but not certain) it was probably in Tokyo. I remember a very dark theater, and a very small greenish square with very small white dots/people dancing in it. (We were in a very high balcony, last row). I sat throught it all, and didn't cry.
Then Nureyev/Fonteyn Vienna film. (Don't remember much now, but I used to play the soundtrack over and over and dance to it.)
My next "SL" was the Ice Capades (probably 4-5yrs old), I had a tantrum and cried/shrieked because they spoofed my favorite music/ballet.(I remember a big egg moving out across the ice, and cracking open with a clownlike feather- shrouded figure emerging )
THE '70's
Mostly in Japan:
KIROV: (I don't remember much except that I liked ACT2, the sets/costumes of ACT3, not the ending, and especially my program with a "M.Baryshnikov" listed as Benno)
BOLSHOI: I do remember Plisetskaya, and always shall. Also liked the sets/costumes and choreography until ActIV.
ABT: Had tickets for Sleeping Beauty, showed up the wrong night, but with the strong persuasive abilities of my mother's friend was able to attend, seated on the aisle steps.
LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET: I remembered the prologue
And of course the performance, I rehearsed forever, but never got to dance in because we moved back to the US on short notice.
THE 80's - now:
BOSTON BALLET / Kirov with Nina Ananiashvili. I also remember Patrick Armand's Siegfried. I LOVED the sets and costumes. The choreography was traditional enough and impressive enough.
ABT (Blair) with Makarova/Nagy (also got the taped version), Makarova/Dowell, and Gregory (she still had best swan arms I've seen as Odette). I loved the staging of this, and the way the backdrop changes perspective of the castle's view from Act1 to Act2. And Act4 choreography/ending.
(Baryshnikov) with Susan Jaffe's debut, and then later casts including Van Hamel, Gudanov (sp?) etc.
(McKenzie) Kent, Murphy, Dvorovenko, Bocca, Corella, Gomes, Carreno. (How I miss Act4!)
Royal Ballet (Dowell choreography)- Agree about sets being disappointing, and costumes something I had to get used to. I didn't mind the choreography in Act4.
On TAPE/DVD:
London Festival Ballet (Makarova-choreography)
Royal Ballet (Makarova/Dowell)
Kirov (Lopatkina)
Bolshoi (Plisetskaya)
ABT (Murphy/Corella)
Also saw NYCB's on PBS. Ditto everyone's critique of that.
Still deciding which parts of which above performance I like best.
(But must mention Tereshkina's '07 Mariinsky Festival Odette on YT too as a favorite.)
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Why does the military provide the Head of State's honor guard? Why is the Head of State always accompanied by military personnel? Why don't the police escort the Head of State?
I do not know which country do you mean but I suppose that in most countries the head of state is guerded by special services, and not police, not the army. The ceremonial escort though may be by some special military units, but the actual protection do the special services.
The special services usually receive better training.
Piggybacking on what mgb said, it is necessary from a security standpoint that heads of state have a dedicated security force whose sole purpose is the protection of the head of state. Local police forces, or even national police forces, have conflicting agendas that can lower their focus. That said, the Secret Service (in the US) and their counterparts in other countries work with local security whenever the head of state travels.
Note that in the USA, the people responsible for the President's security are The Secret Service. They are not military.
They can be viewed as a kind of Federal-level police. They used to be under the Treasury Department (with the IRS and the folks who make our money), rather than the FBI or Justice Department. In 2003 they got moved into the new Department of Homeland Security (along with a mishmash of other domestic security-related agencies that weren't politically powerfull enough to prevent it).
In addition to the answers posted, a couple of common-sense answers come to mind. First, police aren't specifically trained for that job -- a head of state needs bodyguards, not law-enforcement officers. Second, police serve a city or other locality. A head of state would want one set of guards who traveled with them, rather than having a different set everyplace they went.


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