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PROJECT STATUSOctober 2009
The park is now open!
Two citizens appealed the City's design and development decisions to the Hearing Examiner. The mission of the City's Hearing Examiner is to conduct fair and impartial administrative hearings where jurisdiction has been granted to review actions of various City departments. The Office of the Hearing Examiner is separate and independent from all other City departments and the Hearing Examiner's decision is usually the City's final decision.
The Hearing Examiner ruled in favor of the Parks Department on Monday, Oct. 31, clearing the way for Parks to move forward with improvements to Occidental Square. However, the appellants exercised their rights and filed an appeal of the Hearing Examiners ruling to King County Superior Court. The case was heard by the King County Superior Court in June 2006. The court handed down its verbal ruling on November 9, 2006.
The Court remanded the Parks Department issued Determination of Non-significance (DNS) back to Parks for further analysis of any potential impact that the parks design and renovation project might have on the long term health of the 43 London Plain trees which remain in the renovated park.
Additionally, the Court remanded back to the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods (DON) the Certificate of Authorization grant to Parks which allowed the park renovation be undertaken. The Court directed DON to review the approval of Parks request to demolish the 1970s glass and steel shelter structure which was located in the SE corner of Occidental Square Park.
Judge Erlick ruled that Seattle Parks and Recreation must make changes to the project determination of non significance and provide an additional tree study. Parks complied with this and it was accepted by the court.
In the final design we considered, What can we do to transform Occidental Square into an active, vibrant, and neighborhood enhancing public space so enjoyable that it is sought out by the people who live in, work in, and visit Pioneer Square? The design integrates more than two years of community input, as well as recommendations from a Project for Public Spaces report completed during 2004.
The Board of Park Commissioners held a public hearing and recommended approval of the schematic to the Parks Superintendent at their meeting in late summer 2004. The Superintendent reviewed their recommendation and input from community meetings this past year and recommended proceeding.
The final schematic design PowerPoint presentatioin is available through the standard request for public information. The file is too large to post on this site.
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Using the managed metadata service with SharePoint 2010, is it possible to synchronize term sets across different farms (or to export an existing term set to CSV so it can be imported on another farm)?
Does http://termsetimporter.codeplex.com/ help you?
You can try http://metadataexportsps.codeplex.com/ also
Maybe you would find this helpful:
To be honest you could probably knock up a PowerShell script to extract a termset using the object model fairly quickly - but if this works then why reinvent the wheel.
We recently moved our term set from test to production simply by attaching the managed metadata database on our production site and moving it along with our content database.
The reason this approach was chosen was, that the users had already starting filling in content in the test environment. Be aware that any import/export solution like the one on codeplex will detach any existing term usage on the content database. For example if you use the taxonomy to tag up documents, the data will stay after migrating the content database, but if you just import the existing terms rather than move the taxonomy database, the items on the documents will be read-only since the lists/TaxonomyHiddenList wont be able to identify the "new" terms as they have completely different GUIDS than the original terms.
Note that this is only an issue if you move both content database and terms from one farm to another, not if you move it to a clean content database that doesnt use the terms yet!
Remember to point to existing taxonomy database when creating a new service application http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263299.aspx
Another possible approach (with source code) here: Exporting taxonomies from a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Term Store
Have a look at MatchPoint for SharePoint. It provides a TermImporter with various sources like Sql databases, Active Directory, SharePoint lists or any other custom source and it even keeps the managed metadata synchronized.
Yes, using 3rd party tools like Taxonomy Manager for SharePoint 2010:
You can try here: http://www.layer2.de/en/products/Pages/Taxonomy-Manager-SharePoint-2010.aspx
Thanks, Frank
Yes. You can use a SharePoint Add-In like ServiceAware Term Store Sync to do either manual or scheduled synchronization. There is support for both SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office365.
You can download a fully functional free 30-days trial from http://www.serviceaware.com/Product/Download
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June 15, 2012
A taste of the motherland in the Mother City: An Ethnic African Food Safari
Established as a tavern port to nourish sailors travelling between worlds, Cape Town was always destined to become a great culinary destination. Invariably, global cooking styles have become part of the local social fabric, but only recently have flavours from other parts of Africa been added to the "pot". Keith Bain discovers a few of the Mother City's Afropolitan dining scene highlights.
I am sitting on a low stool at a table hovering below my knees at the tiniest restaurant in Cape Town. There are no pretences that this is fine dining. There are no eating utensils or condiments, just a few wall hangings and an exotic, difficult-to-place soundtrack. From the moment you step inside Little Ethiopia (76 Shortmarket Street; +27 21 424 8254), you know that you are in for an alternative epicurean experience.
Here you will find Yeshi Mekonnen, an elegant woman with fine features, caramel skin, and eyes that shimmer like jewels. Her entrepreneurial streak is twinned with hands-on skill. Hard at work in her pint-sized kitchen, she produces spice-scented aromas that make the wait for her food part of the experience.
"I have a passion to cook," says the softly spoken Addis Ababa-born and -raised restaurateur. She learnt by culinary osmosis, absorbing all she knows from her mother, and her one-year-old eatery is a lifelong dream come true.
With its litany of exotic dishes, Yeshi's menu does not make it easy to pick a meal if you are discovering the cuisine for the first time. The crafting of flavours comes from blending chillies, herbs and spices to create berbere, which imbues the food with its distinctive flavour. Various stews (or wot) are made with either meat or vegetables.
Doro wot (chicken stew) is popular with first-timers, probably because it is the first item on the menu and simple enough to pronounce, while the lentil-based misir wot is a personal favourite of mine.
Beyond knowing what to do with your food once it arrives, there is little hope of trying to discern one dish from the other when ordering. A good idea is to tuck into the platter-style dishes: beyeaynetu is vegetarian, while mahberawi is a sampling of meat stews.
One of the great pleasures of Ethiopian dining is that you eat with your hands, tearing off pieces of injera, a sourdough flatbread traditionally made from a tiny grain called teff. Yeshi uses a rice flour substitute to similar effect, to produce something resembling a large spongy pancake prepared from fermented batter. Scoop up your wot using pieces of injera, and you have in your hand the start of a fortifying meal.
Not far from Yeshi's intimate, budget-priced eatery is upscale Addis in Cape (41 Church Street; +27 21 424 5722; www.addisincape.co.za), which is reached via a wooden stairway scented with incense. Spacious and visually innovative, it belongs to Senait Mekonnen, an impeccably stylish ex-pat with short cropped hair and the kind of gorgeous accent you expect to find in a James Bond movie. She set up her first restaurant in Dar es Salaam 15 years ago and it is now one of the most talked about restaurants in Tanzania.
Senait's repurposing of a colonial-era building into an African eatery is smart and refreshing, and it is filled with just enough suggestions of her native country, without becoming a cliché. Above the mesob tables and low chairs, a canopy of upside-down embroidered ceremonial umbrellas and metallic Coptic crosses are reminders of the central role religion plays in Senait's motherland.
Besides having created a beautiful space, Senait knows that it is the food that really matters, and the menu is hugely rewarding. To make the most of it, it is worth ordering a variety of dishes to turn the meal into an occasion for sharing. If the gentle burn of barbere is too much for you, opt for toned-down alicha, where the chilli is replaced with turmeric. Or choose from a number of palate-cooling side dishes, such as homemade cottage cheese (ayeb) or lentil salad (azifa).
Senait says that she still gets more foreign tourists than locals. However, the culinary adventurous among the locals would do well to explore the city's underbelly.
Choosing to do just that, I find myself in the bowels of the African Women's Craft Market on Long Street. I am hoping to discover the flavours of West Africa, but it takes a bit of puzzling through a maze of mask, batik and jewellery stalls before I find Bebe Rose Cuisine Africaine (Shop 62, Africa Women's Market, 112 Long Street; +27 73 368 3603), a rudimentary spot with a handful of tables and two tiny kitchens tucked at the back. There isn't even a sign.
As a strictly functional space, it is not pretty, but I have come to sample exotic flavours, not to learn about interior design. In one corner, a tiny television balances atop a fridge stocked with ginger beer. Al Jazeera newscasts play for those who come here to eat, and I picture the distances my fellow diners have travelled from their homes to start their lives afresh, the way Mama Rose did when she arrived here from Cameroon in 1995.
Just figuring my way through the menu is a learning experience. There is a version with pictures designed for tourists, but it is better to consult Rose directly. With her turquoise tights, high-heels, a doek around her head, and a warm smile, she is instinctively matriarchal and motherly. She tells me about ndolé, which is made with what she calls the "ultimate vegetable" – slightly bitter and spinach-like, it grows just about everywhere in Cameroon. Its leaves are cooked with a nut paste, sun-dried vegetables, chilli, and beef, lamb or fish to become a sort of signature stew. It is also her national dish.
Her menu is primarily Cameroonian, but features a few items from other parts of Africa, including Congolese pundu, made with cassava leaves and a spicy peanut sauce. West African food includes much that is fried and artery antagonising, but is designed to eliminate all traces of hunger. I'm served with fish alongside rice steeped in a potent sauce, which is fiery enough to make me break into a mild sweat, although the flavours are justifiable reward for the pili-pili bang. I walk out deeply satisfied.
In contrast with Bebe Rose's pared-down aesthetic, is the melange décor at Timbuktu Café (first floor, Pan-African Market, 76 Long Street; +27 21 426 4478), the alfresco café on the first floor of the nearby Pan-African Market. Draped with fabrics and crammed full of African artefacts and vintage collectibles, it is a mix between an antique bazaar and Bohemian lounge, not unlike stepping into a scene from Tintin. Flopping onto one of the ancient rug-covered sofas on the wooden balcony, I grab a book from the makeshift library, and drift into a reverie as scratchy jazz evokes a bygone era.
Having awakened my taste buds to the possibilities of flavoursome African dining, I confidently choose just the right wot to suit my mood. The grumble of Long Street's relentless traffic recedes into the background, and I know that I am truly at home.
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I am looking for interesting applications of the 1/4-pinched sphere theorem. The theorem says: A compact, simply connected riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature K satisfies $1/4 < K \leq$ 1 (possibly after multiplying the metric by a constant) is homeomorphic (recently extended to "diffeomorphic") to the sphere. I just wanted to know: is it just a beautiful theorem or can you use it in concrete situations to derive some conclusions difficult to see otherwise? I am interested in this just because I am curious, I do not have any specific purpose in mind.
The main theme of global Riemannian geometry is to derive topological conclusions from geometric assumptions. Sphere theorems provide various assumptions under which a manifold is (homeomorphic, diffeomorphic, or almost isometric) to a sphere.
The significance of sphere theorems is not in their applications or implications but in the beautiful mathematics they generated. Tools developed to prove various sphere theorems is a backbone of modern comparison geometry, and a great place to learn about it is the survey by Abresch and Meyer.
More recently Brendle-Schoen used Ricci flow to prove a definitive differentible sphere theorem; this and closely related work by Bohm-Wilking are (in my view) the most spectacular applications of Ricci flow beyond dimension three.
An application occurs in the study of asymptotic behavior of complete manifolds with certain curvature decay.
Let M be a n-dimensional complete non-compact manifold. Suppose that
then you may use Gauss equation and the differential sphere theorem to say that these sub-manifolds are diffeomorphic to the sphere.


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PULLMAN (AP) — The Apple Cup game on Friday may be Washington State quarterback Jeff Tuel's last appearance as a Cougar. Or it may not.
The NCAA has not decided whether it will grant Tuel an extra year of eligibility, and Tuel has not decided if he would return even if another year is offered.
It's been an emotional season for Tuel, who has been in and out of the starting lineup as coach Mike Leach has juggled him and sophomore Connor Halliday.
Tuel started last weekend's game against Arizona State, but was yanked in favor of Halliday when the Cougars didn't move the ball. They ended up losing 46-7.
Leach said Tuel will likely start Friday's game against archrival Washington.
Tuel acknowledged it's frustrating to be in and out of the lineup.
"I'd like to have some consistency at the position, but you've just got to go with it," Tuel said after the Arizona State game. "It's not our decision to make and you've got to try to make the most of it."
Leach has consistently praised Tuel for his toughness, his good attitude and his willingness to come back from injuries during his career.
"Most people would have quit," Leach said. "He's a tough guy. He's an example to everybody on the real commitment to playing football."
Tuel has had an embattled career since he was recruited out of Fresno by former coach Paul Wulff.
He was pressed into service as a starter his freshman year, joining Drew Bledsoe as the only true freshmen to start at quarterback for Washington State. He appeared in six games, throwing for 789 yards and six touchdowns before a knee injury ended his season.
His best season was his sophomore year, when he started all 12 games and threw for 2,780 yards with 18 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. He was an all-Pac-10 honorable mention.
With hopes high for the 2011 season, Tuel suffered a broken collarbone in the season opener against Idaho State and ended up appearing in just three games. He is seeking a medical redshirt for that season, but said he isn't sure he will come back if it is granted.
"I'm not going to make a decision just out of emotion or on the tail end of the season," Tuel said. "I want to make the best decision for myself, so just sit down and think about it and weigh all my options."
Leach's Air Raid offense is certainly attractive to quarterbacks. The Cougars have already set team records this season with 571 pass attempts and 330 completions.
The load has been split about evenly between Tuel and Halliday. Halliday has thrown for 1,878 yards, with 15 touchdowns and 13 interceptions this season. Tuel has thrown for 1,737 yards with eight touchdowns and six interceptions.
"They both have done some good things and both have a level of inconsistency," Leach said. "Some of that is probably my fault."
Neither quarterback has managed to cement the starting job.
"One gets hot, and then fades, and the other leapfrogs over them," said Leach, who added he tries to gauge which quarterback has the hottest hand when picking the starter.
Tuel also had to deal with watching one of his best friends, receiver Marquess Wilson, quit the team recently. Wilson contended he had suffered mental and physical abuse from the coaching staff, although he did not provide details.
Tuel stood by his friend, while remaining committed to the team.
"A friend is a friend," Tuel said. "I have the guy's back."
But at the same time, "we have football to play," Tuel said.
Even though the Cougars have no bowl game coming, they still play for pride, Tuel said.
"We're playing to win, guys," he said. "We're going to fight and scrap."
Despite the injuries and lineup shuffling, Tuel is climbing in the career statistics of Washington State quarterbacks. He ranks first in career completion percentage (.616), and fifth in completions, sixth in passing attempts and seventh in passing yards (5,519) and touchdowns (33).


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"Hold on tight mummy ! things are really getting worse..."
luv this...
Traffic jam has become one of the major problems in Bangladesh...
very real.. nice pic.
This shot sadly remember me about Auschwitz trains... Unfortunately this is a very sad reality. Many people still live and work in "developing" countries in conditions similar to Nazi camps. Only barbed wire and gas chambers are missing here. Maybe you think how a detention camp can exist without barbed wire? Barbed wire is just replaced with visa emigration policies and border control posts. The beautiful "civilized" world forget-ed about labor camps. Those are only in black and white pictures. But in our days more than 75% humans "enjoy" a life in black and white. Last month i traveled with a very nice train in Austria and there was more ticket checkers than passengers. The opulent western countries afford to waste huge amount of resources on luxury and the rest of world is struggling to survive. They don`t finish theirs black&white lives in gas-chambers but they die by common diseases like tuberculosis because they can`t afford to pay for a minimal healthcare. Maybe next time when you will enjoy to buy a fine quality T-shirt with 5$ from supermarket you may think about those people who work for miserable wages in Auschwitz-like factories in "developing" world....
Darling shot of pure innocence in the little one's eyes! Interesting photo.
Junaid bhai True but nice picture. But not horrible. Much better then Delhi, Mumbai or kolkata.
its really horible..
gr8 shot for people and life section
amazing capture.
congratulation vai..
congrats junaid bhai of JAGANAATH UNIVERSITY......
Great ....
child's eyes have so many stories to tell
awesome. thanx Junaid vai
Great expressions... Just look at the girl's face... Wow!
True innocence. Fantastic pic.
this picture has much drama ... tells a story!
Really nice picture, Junaid. The black and white totally reflect the candid eyes of this little kid. Great work, nice process, I totally love it!
Muitos Parabéns, Foto está Fantastica ...
Muy buena foto. Los trenes de Buenos Aires pueden servir de gran inspiración!!
A telling image ! Great execution.
love it the hands and the way she holds the train and the bag and the look in the eye of the boy. nice
This the real Bangladesh
Great Picture!
Nice to see this pic, I always keep my eyes in this Section on NG website and i was hoping that some day i will see our countries pics also. So that day is came true.
Congrats Mr. junaid.
Ovinondon Junaid!
অভিনন্দন , Junaid............
Bangladesh.............. :) আমার দেশ,......। :)
Nice pic!! Congratulation!!
Holding on for Life
excelente foto
awesome photography ..
awesome image junaid
Initially I thought that this was a photo of soldiers in khaki.
It must be the dilapidated carriage that makes it look like the commuters are off to battle the day.
তবে একটা জিনিসের জন্য খারাপ লাগতেসে। Photo of the day হিসেবে আমাদের বাংলাদেশের, আমাদের দেশের একজন ফটোগ্রাফারের ছবি নির্বাচিত হয়েছে; কিন্তু সেটা আমাদের দেশের একটি ঋণাত্মক প্রেক্ষাপটের উপর।
I call this one the "Traveling Munchkin".
Your waiting paid Junaid, really nice photo.
congratz from Bangladesh @junaid Ahmed !
@Khasrul Islam do u really think that it is better than delhi or kolkatta or mumbai dont even think about it for the given growth witnessed by these cities and the people migrating we are managing it in the best possible way and in no way dhaka or daka as u people say can be compared with bombay or delhi
@J S i thought that too may be because initially we saw the cloth and mistake it for soldiers.
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P&P Symposium 2010 - Parallel Programming with Design Patterns - Ade Miller
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Multi-core and HPC technologies are rapidly moving into the computing mainstream, allowing us to develop applications with improved performance, increased responsiveness, and reduced latency. The many established design patterns in this space can help developers and architects reuse proven approaches to solving many types of problems using parallelism. This talk covers many of the key patterns and gives examples of how they can be implemented using the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 libraries. This talk is aimed at experienced software developers who are relatively new to the parallel computing space but expect it to become more important to their work.
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A former high school basketball coach accused of sexual activity involving three juveniles has been sentenced to probation.
The Messenger-Inquirer reports that Terry Nofsinger received the sentence Thursday in Ohio Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty in August to a single count of unlawful transaction with a minor. Originally, Nofsinger had been charged with five counts of sodomy, nine counts of sexual abuse, 14 counts of unlawful transaction with a minor and one count of complicity.
The deal requires Nofsinger, who had coached basketball at Ohio County High School, to be on supervised parole for five years and get counseling. It also forbids him from working at schools in any capacity.


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The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies submitting one or more hate crime incidents for at least 1 month of the calendar year. The published data, therefore, do not necessarily represent reports from each participating agency for 12 months or 4 quarters.
Contact the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at email@example.com or by telephone at (304) 625-4995.


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STEUBENVILLE - City Council will meet in private session Thursday to discuss a projected $822,000 general fund year-end deficit that may see personnel reductions and changes to two city departments.
Council met in executive session for 95 minutes Tuesday night with City Manager Cathy Davison and Finance Director Alyssa Kerker prior to a scheduled sunshine meeting and decided to continue the budget review at 5 p.m. Thursday in a closed-door executive session.
"We will continue our discussions and continue to look at administration proposals in regards to our personnel and services provided to the community," announced Davison after the council meeting.
Davison said the city's finance office has projected the $822,000 deficit in the city's general fund, "as of Oct. 31. We are working very hard to reduce that deficit as we move forward."
The city manager is set to meet at 5 p.m. today with the parks and recreation board and the three council recreation committee members to discuss the recreation budget for 2013.
She also is scheduled to meet Thursday morning with the city board of health to discuss the city health department.
"We are looking at different ways we can collaborate with the county. We are looking at our health department. We have not yet held formal discussions with the Jefferson County Health Department. And a decision must be made by the city's board of health. I will be meeting with them Thursday," said Davison.
"We are also looking at our recreation department. We have had local conversations with the YMCA regarding the possibility of a managing agreement for the Belleview Pool and the Martin Luther King Recreation Center. The recreation board along with the council recreation committee and I met with officials from the YMCA. We lost $61,000 at the pool this year, and the MLK Center lost $236,109 last year. We are hoping for a response from the YMCA soon," Davison said.
Recreation Director Troy Kirkendall asked recreation board members at the October meeting to consider future projects, including the repair or dismantling of the Belleview Swimming Pool sliding board.
He estimated repairs for the slide could cost as much as $75,000.
Kirkendall reported in October the Belleview Pool has lost significant money during the past 10 years.
"Municipal pools don't make money unless they have all kinds of extra attractions. A pool is usually a service to the community. You usually don't make money on a pool. And I am asking the board to think about future plans for the pool," said Kirkendall.
The recreation director announced at the October meeting the Belleview Park field lights "are in bad shape."
"We had an initial estimate of $460,000 from Musco Lighting for the complete replacement of our lights with new poles and wiring. That is something we may want to look at doing in stages. And we may want to look for funding sources for the project," noted Kirkendall.
"We don't need to make a decision now but I would ask the board members to think about these issues for discussion at the November board meeting," stated Kirkendall.
"And we are looking at cost reductions in the municipal court. I have met with the judge and will meet with him again today," added Davison.
"The police and fire departments won't be touched," Davison added.
She added she met with the city's three employee unions Tuesday afternoon to discuss proposed changes in the city health care program, but the unions voted against her proposal for "greater employee contribution to the health care coverage and an increase in prescription coverage."
"We have major expenses in our health care costs. The city is self insured and this year we saw a few claims that resulted in a 16 percent increase over last year at this time," noted Davison.
"We are looking at the reduction of five to seven jobs. First we will look at reducing the jobs through attrition. We have a number of city employees with 20 years or more service. Because of the changes in the state pension plans some employees are considering their retirement options now as opposed to continue working. If we don't see enough employees retire, we will have to look at layoffs," said Davison.
"I am also asking for authorization to go with Ohio Rural Community Assistance Program for a study of our water rates and the possibility of restructuring those rates. There is a possibility the Ohio Water Development Authority could come in and change our rates if they determine we cannot make our debt service payments and not carry a deficit," Davison cited.
"And we are looking at changes in the water fund. We are looking at changing our collection process. We currently use Capital Recovery Systems but are considering a law firm collection agency that has the ability to take delinquent accounts to court in order to collect those accounts," said Davison.
She said the budget deficit can be blamed on several factors, including utility costs and cuts in Local Government Funding from the state.
"We have seen an increase in our utility costs. Our gas costs are higher this year even using the state purchasing program. Everything is more expensive and it is all compounded by the reduction in our local government funding. It is a problem every municipality is facing," stated Davison.
"And while the shale industry is having a positive effect countywide, we are not seeing the financial impact in the city. We do not share in the county's sales and usage tax. So while there are several new businesses opening in the city, the impact on our city income tax is minimal at this point," Davison said.
"Yes, we saw city voters approve the renewal of our operating levy last week. But those levy rates are based on real estate valuations from the 1960s. And because we are an aging community, we have a number of retirees who have qualified for the Homestead Exemption so they pay a reduced property tax. The financial issues we are facing are being felt by communities throughout the area," remarked Davison.
"We are facing hard times. Difficult decisions have to be made. Jefferson County is starting to prosper but the city isn't seeing the financial impact. Jefferson County has the third highest unemployment rate in the state. And looking at the unemployment rate on a county-by-county basis Jefferson County had a higher unemployment rate in September than each of our surrounding counties," Davison said.
In other matters Tuesday night, 6th Ward Councilman David Lalich introduced emergency legislation during the council sunshine meeting authorizing the city manager to proceed with emergency repairs to the lower University Boulevard sanitary sewer system.
Assistant Wastewater Superintendent Chuck Murphy told council two weeks ago the sewer line is in need of immediate repairs.
"We have a very bad section of approximately 1,200 feet of combined sewer pipe about 30 feet deep that runs from the Hampton Inn parking lot to the Seventh Street intersection with University and to the Inland Co. It is made out of block stone and brick and may be more than 100 years old," explained Murphy.
"We will be able to do the work repairing the combined sanitary and storm sewer underground without digging up the roadway. But we will also have to backfilll a void that has been created by the leaking sewer line. If that is not done there is the possibility of a sinkhole eventually developing in that area," Murphy advised council.
Lalich also introduced an ordinance authorizing the city manager to sign a contract with Plugsmart to review the city's utility bills in order to determine if savings can be found.
And Lalich proposed a resolution opposing a proposed bill now pending in the Ohio House of Representatives "that is aimed at creating uniformity measures for municipal income tax measures."
The Ohio Municipal League has opposed the bill.


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After years of saying 'what-if,' 'some-day,' and 'boy wouldn't that be nice,' Pentaho has adopted CSS3 in its Java Web application. It took a major release (Pentaho BI 4) with a commitment to refresh our UI to adopt a more modern look. What the Pentaho development team delivered is part Apple IOS and part Windows 7: rounded corners; transparency effects; gradients; drop-shadows; text-shadows; and inner glows; all created with CSS3 while gracefully degrading for less-capable browsers. This single decision to adopt CSS3 made it possible to implement this new look in weeks instead of months.
A big leap to CSS3
Personal desires aside, browser usage statistics and a bunch of other boring factors pushed our corporate decision to move to CSS3. Suffice it to say, the time was right for us; the benefits of transitioning to CSS3 vs. continuing with the way we'd done things in the past suggested a huge advantage.
With our traditional approach, accomplishing this updated look would have required manual slicing of images and painstaking back-and-forth with developers, designers, and managers. A typical skinning exercise went something like this:
read the full post on DZone: Put your HTML on a diet, Alpha gradients with RGBA, Dealing with the down-side, Is it time for you to switch to CSS3?
blog by: Nick Baker, Lead Programmer, Pentaho


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To the editor:
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary was truly a horrific tragedy. Since then, the media has been shouting about stricter gun laws and bans on certain weapons. However, I feel this is only a Band-Aid to the problem.
Guns did not kill these people. The young man pulling the trigger did. If someone wants to use a gun for something illegal or to go on a killing spree, one will find a way to obtain that gun. The bigger issue is getting the mental health services to the people behind these massacres.
I am not excusing this young man's behavior due to his mental illness. However, if he would have received the care he needed, would this even have occurred? We still have a stigma against those receiving mental health services. We think nothing of someone being treated for cancer and we even do huge pledge drives to generate money for cures. However, how freely can someone ask for support from the community at large if a loved one is struggling with schizophrenia or some other mental health problem? Pledge drives for cancer cures are relevant because so many people are dying as a result of this terrible disease. However, how many suicides occur every year as a result of untreated depression and bipolar disorder?
Even in the medical field, physical health is given more of a priority than mental health. When seeing a typical physician for a standard illness, the nurse takes all the particulars and then the doctor or physician's assistant comes in and routinely spends a couple minutes with you, they may write a prescription or order blood work, and send you on your way, charging your insurance company between $65 and $90 for that few minutes of service. Then they move on to the next patient and possibly see 15 or more in an hour.
As a mental health provider I see my patients for 50 minutes and insurances pay me between $40 and $75 for that entire time. So we professionals who hold master's or doctorate degrees struggle to pay our staff and earn any income at all. We carry malpractice insurance as well and also are required to continue our education to maintain our licenses. I routinely work 50 or more hours a week to generate a personal income under $30,000 per year. How many doctors make less than $30,000 per year? There is a different priority.
When a young person reaches the age of 18, unless a parent can prove this person is harmful to him or herself or others, we cannot force them to receive treatment. Some inpatient facilities will not even accept a patient unless they have done physical harm to someone else. This is a travesty.
I do not feel we are going to make any inroads regarding violence unless we can give mental health problems the priority they deserve and allow us to serve them in the capacity that is needed.
Terry DeHamer, LISW, LICDC


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by Melissa Brunner
A list caught my eye today that seems to pit doing something you love versus doing something soley to earn a paycheck.
The list is a Yahoo! Education article on what they consider the five most useless degrees. To me, the list appears driven simply by professions that are either narrowing in number or are highly competetive. I'm also wondering whether my reaction to the list is tainted a bit by my farm-girl roots.
Of the five degrees on the list, three could be thought of as directly related to rural life - agriculture, horticulture and animal science. Agriculture and horticulture make the list because labor department statistics show the number of jobs in those fields is dwindling. While animal science jobs are projected to grow 13% by 2018, the article says those jobs are competitive to get and the degree is so specific that it's not easily translated to other fields. As a girl who grew up around farms, gardens and animals, it's just a bit to tough to swallow hearing that studying those areas is deemed unworthy.
The final two "useless" degrees on the list are fashion design and theater. Again, this isn't because the industries aren't growing, it's because theyr'e deemed competitive and to have unsteady incomes. For these areas, I'd think it goes back to that initial question of pursuing your passion versus just a paycheck.
As a parent, what advice would you give your child if they wanted to seek one of these "useless" degrees? I imagine the heart would tell you to let your child go after their dreams, but, then again, many times parents are footing that bill and would like some assurance that the investment in a college degree will pay off.
If you'd like to read the full article, here's the link - http://education.yahoo.net/articles/most_useless_degrees.htm?kid=1KWNU


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By ESTHER MCCOY
Food editor
Summer and fall are perfect times to try the many varieties of Ohio apples. This year, why not experiment with some specialty varieties?
Ohio produces around 40 different varieties, some Ohio originals, according to the Ohio State Extension, and the apple production in Ohio and part of West Virginia is thought to have been started around 1806 by John Chapman, nicknamed Johnny Appleseed.
He carried apple seeds in a small leather bag and planted them in good soil. He stressed using good seeds to ensure excellent apple production.
Each variety of apple possesses its own appearance, flavor and texture characteristics.
Apples should be free of bruises, decay and shriveled skin. The fruit should be ripe when picked to have good flavor, texture and storing ability. They should also be well colored. Check for a background color that is greenish-yellow to yellow.
To store, keep in the refrigerator at 32-35 degrees. Store in a perforated plastic bag. Check often for any signs of rotting and discard spoiling apples. Wash apples by rinsing in cool water just before eating or adding to a recipe.
Varieties of Ohio apples are many. Their categories and what they are used for are:
There is a common health saying that is not just folklore but something that research has proven to be true - "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Florida State University studies showed that women who ate apples every day had 14 percent lower total cholesterol and a 3 percent rise in HDL, the good cholesterol, after one year. Their C-reactive protein levels went down 32 percent as well.
The results were shocking because the women made no other changes to their health habits, Bahram Arjmandi, Phd, RD, said in the Woman's Day magazine.
What gives apples their super fruit power is the fiber which improves cholesterol and contains quercetin, a powerful antioxidant that may help fight inflammation.
With the appearance of apples in the fall comes apple pie, named America's top choice in many tests.
But eating pie can add a few pounds and inches to the waistline.
The author of "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength" writes if one is powerless to resist the dessert or pastry tray, that using the undominant hand - the left if you are a righty - can strengthen the willpower as it will take longer to eat the dessert.
Apples and nuts can be made into a healthy appetizer. Just use low fat cream cheese instead of the regular kind and serve this with wheat snack crackers. This recipe is from an Ideals Cookbook.
Apple Nut Log
8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon apple juice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1 cup peeled or unpeeled eating apples
1 cup chopped pecans
Combine cream cheese, apple juice and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Blend well until smooth. Pour lemon juice over chopped apples and make sure all slices are covered to keep the apples from getting brown. Add apples and 3/4 cup pecans to cheese mixture. Blend well. Shape into a 6-inch log and roll in remain remaining chopped nuts, adding more if needed to look attractive. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve with wheat snack crackers.
An apple cobbler is an easier way to make a dessert that tastes somewhat like apple pie. This is from Five-Star Recipe Collection, and the most time-consuming part is the peeling of the apples.
Apple Cobbler
6 cups peeled, sliced cooking apples, Granny Smith, Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious or Jonathan are suggested
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts, divided
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup half and half
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 egg beaten
Place sliced apple, 1 cup chopped walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon in a large bowl; toss gently to combine. Spread in a greased 11-by-7-inch baking dish. Set aside. Combine flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in a large bowl. Stir well. Combine half and half, melted butter and egg; stir well. Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients, stirring just until blended. Pour batter over apple mixture; sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until lightly browned. To serve, spoon into individual serving bowls and top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or just sprinkle with powdered sugar.
This recipe is from a very old Crisco Cookbook, a type of shortening for those who might not know. The cover is torn off, so I don't know the exact title of the cookbook. It is for a rolled cookie with an apple and apricot filling.
Fruit Filled Cookies
1/2 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 3/4 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk
Blend shortening, sugar, egg and vanilla. Add dry ingredients, which have been sifted together, alternately with milk to shortening and egg mixture. Roll to 1/4-inch thickness on a floured board or pastry cloth and cut with floured cookie cutter. Place rounded teaspoon of filling in center of round and cover with second cookie round. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet in at 375 degree oven for 10-12 minutes.
1/2 cup dried apricots
1 cup diced and pared apples
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoons lemon juice
Cook apricots and apples in water until tender. Add remaining ingredients, except lemon juice. Cook until thick. Add lemon juice and cool. Makes 4 dozen 2-inch cookies.
This recipe was in the 26th-annual Pillsbury Bake Off Cookbook. It combines apples, crushed cheese crackers and brown sugar. The filling is spread on Pillsbury crescent dinner rolls and folded over. They are then placed in ungreased muffin cups, brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with reserved cheese cracker crumbs.
Cheese and Apple Crescent Puffs
2 cups, 2 medium, peeled, chopped apples
3/4 cup crushed cheese snack crackers
3 tablespoons brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cans, 8 ounces each, Pillsbury refrigerated quick crescent rolls
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine first four ingredients, saving 1/4 cup crackers, and mix well. Separate dough into 16 triangles. Spoon a tablespoon apple mixture on the widest part of each triangle. Fold in corners over filling; roll to opposite point, sealing edges. Place point-side down in ungreased muffin cups. Brush with butter. Sprinkle with reserved cracker crumbs. Bake 18 to 21 minutes. Serve warm if desired.
Note: To reheat the puffs, wrap in foil; heat at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.
This is another Crisco Cookbook recipe. They make excellent lunch box treats as they can be held in the hand.
Lunch Box Turnovers
Pie crust:
3/4 cup shortening
2 1/4 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup very cold water
2 apples, or 1 1/4 cup chopped apples
1/4 cup sugar
Dash of cinnamon
2 teaspoons flour
1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 teaspoon shortening
Sift salt and flour together in a bowl. Take out 1/3 cup flour. Cut in shortening with two knives or a pastry blended into remaining flour until the pieces are the size of small peas.
Mix 1/4 cup water with the 1/3 cup flour and mix to make a paste. Add flour paste into the shortening-flour mixture.
Mix and shape dough into a ball. This can be refrigerated for an hour or used as is. Roll to 1/8-inch thick and cut out 4-inch squares. Divide dough into two parts.
Pare and slice apples and combine with other filling ingredients. Cook over low heat several minutes to make sure that it is thick enough not to run out of the crust. Cool and place filling on half of each square.
Fold pastry to form a triangle. Seal edges and flute with the fingers or a fork. Cut or prick small steam vents. Bake in 425 degree oven about 15 minutes.
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6 Historic Villains You Didn't Know Had Incredible Careers
#3. Aaron Burr
Remembered For: Shooting Alexander Hamilton.
Back in the day, politicians settled arguments like mid 90s gangsta rappers: If you got beef, you brought it to the street. This is exactly what happened with Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Despite insults so charmingly inoffensive by today's standards that they're practically terms of affection (the word "despicable" set it all off), Hamilton and Burr still went at it like a poncy Tupac and a foppish B.I.G. When shit went down (as shit is wont to do) Hamilton's shot missed, but Burr's was fatal.
"Yeah-eah! I'm Vice President of the United States of Droppin' Bitches!"
Not Remembered For: Being the Vice President of the United States of America at the time.
Burr served in the New York State Assembly twice, as New York State Attorney General for two years and spent a term as a United States Senator. He took the unpopular view that women were (gasp!) intellectually equal to men, preached abolitionist ideals and once pawned his watch to buy food and medicine to save the lives of a friend's children.
When he shot Hamilton he was the sitting Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson which, due to the way the voting worked at the time, meant Burr had come second in the presidential race, actually tying Jefferson on electoral votes. And he fucking shot a dude! Can you imagine the fallout today if a sitting vice president shot somebody?!
Oh, right.
#2. Louis XVI
Remembered For: Negligence and Decadence.
As you probably learned in your high school history class (or from that guy in the Che Guevara T-shirt trying to sleep with your girlfriend at every party you've ever been to), the French Revolution was a huge turning point in history. Those poor peasants just couldn't take life under such a horrible, despotic monarch; and so they stormed the Bastille. They eventually beheaded the King and Queen, Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, who are still the popular representations of cruel excess and decadence to this day.
"Let them eat cake! A cake filled with my shit!"
Not Remembered For: Helping create America!
You Americans reading this: Do you like being an American? If not, then GIT OUT LIBERAL ELITIST. But if so, then you have Louis XVI to thank; he went against the advice of his closest advisors to support the colonies during the American Revolution.
Without the support of the French, it is unlikely the revolution would have succeeded, and you all would be sipping tea right now in a world where everything's spelled half-backwards. If you're thankful you don't live in a terrifying maelstrom of "theatres" and "centres," well, you owe it all to the French.
"Be honest, Pierre: Does this opulent cloak make my head look freakishly small?"
Although, to be fair, it wasn't necessarily an altruistic gesture on Louis's part: He really just wanted to stick it to his historical enemy, England, without pausing to really think about the precedent overthrowing a fellow king would set (hint: It's kind of a head-choppy precedent).
#1. Neville Chamberlain
Remembered For: Sucking up to Hitler.
Pictured: The right way to pose with Hitler: fear, discomfort, dead eyes.
Probably the most hilarious thing to come out of recent politics is the below clip of a clearly crazy right-wing commentator screaming that Obama as president would likely be "an appeaser" just like that filthy Neville Chamberlain was in World War II... until he was asked what specifically Chamberlain did, when he man had to admit he had no idea:
The point is, the association of Chamberlain with spineless foreign policy is so strong that it's quoted by people who don't remember elementary school history classes well enough to know who he was. All because during the rise of the Third Reich, Prime Minister Chamberlain was sent to meet with the most sinister, evil man in all of history. Instead of returning shaken from coming so close to the true depth of mankind's depravity and demanding all of Germany be razed, he came back and declared that, in exchange for giving Hitler small chunks of Europe, there would surely be "peace in our time."
That's right: He met Hitler and came out of it thinking that, if anything, the man should have more control.
Pictured: The wrong way to pose with Hitler: warm handshake, smiles, mustache kisses.
History would eventually prove Chamberlain to be "hilariously wrong" (or would have if there wasn't so much genocide involved), and his name is now invoked as a curse any time anyone ever suggests negotiating with an enemy rather than immediately bombing them off the map.
Not Remembered For: Everything Else He Did.
Before winning the Prime Minister position, Chamberlain was a successful MP, Postmaster General and Minister of Health. He was even Chancellor of the Exchequer twice (the second most important guy in British politics--like the American Vice President, except he does a bit more than just nod solemnly and give the occasional comforting neck-rub). He later passed the Factories Act, which improved the horrifying work conditions in factories and cut back on child labor. He was extremely popular and even made the cover of TIME in America.
Not like this later TIME cover.
If you're saying, "Sure, he was popular until he sold out to fucking Hitler!" you're wrong. After he made the deal in Munich his popularity shot up to 68 percent--20 points higher than what Barack Obama gets right now in the USA. Above all else, the people did not want to get into another freaking war.
That's one thing some historians are trying remind everyone about Chamberlain these days. Making the deal with Hitler looks bad now, because we know how the movie ends. Not so easy at the time, when Chamberlain was at the head of a country whose military was in no shape to fight, and the only ones who had offered to stand with him if he threw down against the Nazis were the freaking French. There were no good options on the table.
So instead, he came back home from making the deal with Hitler having bought a period of peace that he spent rapidly building the military that would eventually be strong enough to repel the Nazis. And by the way, the main reason they were able to mobilize so quickly was because of an earlier national program to modernize the nation's factories. A program put in place by... Neville Chamberlain.
The debate rages among historians (and will probably rage in the comments) but the guy probably deserves better than to have his name thrown around as the political equivalent of "pussy."
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Do we have examples of a contractible bounded open set $D\subseteq\mathbf{C}^n$ such that $Hol(D)$ (the group of biholomorphisms $f:D\rightarrow D$) acts transitively on $D$ but such that there exists no symmetry at a given point $x\in D$ (so at all points by homogeneity). By a symmetry at $x$ I mean an element $s\in Hol(D)$ such that in a small neighborhood of $x$ only $x$ is fixed and $s^2=1$.
There are some examples given by Pjateckiĭ-Šapiro in Classification of bounded homogeneous regions in n-dimensional complex space. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 141 1961 316–319. and On bounded homogeneous domains in an n-dimensional complex space. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 26 1962 107–124.
(I have a vague memory that the smallest examples are 4-dimensional, but might have misremembered.)
E.Cartan proved in 1936 that for dimension 1 and 2 bounded homogeneous spaces are symmetric. For dimension 3 he did not publish the proof considering it loo long in comparison to the interest of the result. This has now changed with P-Sapiro's example for dimension 4. So the proof for dimension 3 is presumably somewhere in E.Cartan's Nachlass, unpublished.


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The first major innovation came in 2001 with the successor to the Diablo: the Murciélago. It is almost superfluous to point out that this new model was also named after a famous, fierce fighting bull. The fact that this Spanish word actually means 'bat' only serves to augment the dark, almost nocturnal magnetism of this magnificent new car. Its power has also been boosted to 580 hp, and this obviously increases its speed, muscle and acceleration. What has been augmented above all is the sensation of the overall quality of the car, with a level of finishing touches that is even better than the already excellent results of the last Diablos. Sales have immediately gone well, and Lamborghini can count on selling each one it makes, as these cars are reserved by customers well in advance.
The Murciélago is not destined to be alone, but during the wait for its companion in the Sant'Agata model range, several variants have been studied. The first one - and indubitably the most spectacular - is a concept car, a 'Barchetta' version presented at the 2003 Detroit Auto Show. It is not simply a Murciélago without the roof, but is essentially a new car, with its beguiling treatment of the rear bonnet and lateral posts. For the time being, it is a concept model, but a modified version will go into production.
The other brand-new item is also being unveiled in 2003, but in this case at the Geneva Motor Show: the Gallardo. It is equipped with a 500-hp 50-valves V10 engine, permanent four-wheel drive and a top speed of well over 300 km/h. Automobili Lamborghini have decided to baptize their latest model with the name of a fighting bull's breed: the Gallardo (pron.: ga:yàrdo). Designed to redefine its segment as the best high performance sports car and driving behaviour that fits its driver in every situation. The Gallardo is the synthesis of a true sports car that can be used on an every day basis. While matching these two apparently conflicting objectives, the guideline for Lamborghini engineers has been to fulfil the necessary comfort requirements without any compromise in the performances expected of a true Lamborghini car. The choices for engine, transmission, space frame and body, suspensions, brakes and electronics are then all in line with such an objective. The result is a compact (length 4.3 m) 2-seater high performance car (maximum speed well over 300 km/h), that can be driven with pleasure both on race tracks and on long distance journeys on country and city roads.
On the occasion of the celebrations for its 40th anniversary, the House of the Raging Bull offers a special, limited edition series of its supercar Murciélago: the Murciélago 40th Anniversary Edition. A limited amount of 50 numbered cars in the exclusive Verde Artemis (jade green) colour is produced in 2003 and sold predominantly in Europe, the United States and Japan.
Presented as a concept car in 2003 in Detroit - where it generated significant interest among Italian supercar enthusiasts - the production version of the Murciélago Roadster makes its official debut at the Geneva Show 2004. The Murciélago Roadster version builds on the extreme and exclusive features of the Coupé thus confirming it as a real "icon" of the Lamborghini brand. In creating the Roadster, the designer Luc Donckerwolke did not restrict himself to "cutting off" the roof of the Coupé. He bestowed it with its own sensational appearance, making the Murciélago Roadster a truly unique model. A model which in series production has retained all the emotional impact of the initial concept itself.
The engine is obviously the Lamborghini 12 cylinder 60° V, with a displacement of 6192 cc, producing 580 hp (426 kW) at 7500 rpm and a maximum torque of 650 Nm at 5400 rpm. The engine features the Lamborghini L.I.E. electronic engine management system. The standard gearbox is a 6-speed manual, like the Coupé. As an optional feature, a 6-speed "e-Gear" automatic version is available. There is also Lamborghini permanent four-wheel drive on the Roadster, with a central viscous coupling and limited slip rear and front differentials (45% rear, 25% front).
On the occasion of the 2003 Motor Show in Frankfurt Lamborghini shows for the first time a race version of its highly acclaimed super sports car, the Lamborghini Murciélago. Named Murciélago R-GT, Lamborghini is developing the competition car jointly with race experts Reiter Engineering and mother company Audi's sports division, Audi Sport. The new Murciélago R-GT will offer Lamborghini clients a highly competitive car to participate in professional motorsport events on an international level. With the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT clients can compete in national and international race events such as the European FIA GT Championship or the American LeMans Series in the United States.
In July 2005 it is presented the Special Edition of the Gallardo, the Gallardo SE which is limited to 250 units and is characterized by a two-tone body paint, an even more sporty interior and technical improvement.
The House of the Raging Bull showed the first driveable prototype of the Lamborghini "Concept S" at the Monterey Concorso Italiano and at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in the USA in August 2005. The Lamborghini "Concept S" design study premiered at the previous' Geneva Motorshow as an extreme and spectacular expression of the Lamborghini brand. It was created at the Centro Stile Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese by Luc Donckerwolke, who drew inspiration from the classic single-seater racing cars of the past. The astonishing amount of public interest at the Geneva Motor Show prompted the decision to build a driveable prototype in order to further gauge potential customer demand.
Two years after the launch of the Coupé version of the Gallardo, Automobili Lamborghini presents the new Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2005. This latest addition brings the marque's range of supercars to four models. The Gallardo Spyder is not just an open-top version of the Coupé, but is a completely new model. It has an attractive new design and a unique system for opening and closing the fabric roof that utilises the engine compartment to store the folded roof. The Lamborghini Centro Stile and engineers from the Research and Development team have worked in close partnership to develop this new design and to bring these clean and sharp lines on the road. The new Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder is powered by the 90° V-engine familiar from the 2006model- year Lamborghini Gallardo and the Lamborghini Gallardo SE. It is a ten-cylinder unit with a displacement of 4,961 cc and a maximum output of 520 bhp (382 kW) at 8000 rpm. At more than 100 bhp per litre, its specific output is on a par with that of racing cars. The new six-speed gearbox has shorter ratios. More specifically, compared to the original version, first gear is 27% lower, second gear is 13%. Third, fourth and fifth gears are all 6% lower, while sixth gear is 3.5% lower. The six-speed gearbox operates with the latest double- and triple-cone synchromesh. The optimized gearshift linkage is user-friendly and permits precise, rapid gear shifts. The Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder can also be specified with 'e.gear', an electronically controlled, sequential gear shift.
As with every Lamborghini, the Gallardo Spyder adopts the stylistic principles of purity, athleticism and sharpness. The Spyder is not just an open-top version of the Coupé, it sets forth the tradition as seen with Murcielago Coupé and Roadster creating a self standing model.
January 2006: the House of the Raging Bull brings back a legendary name from the company's past with the breathtaking "Lamborghini Miura Concept".
The "Lamborghini Miura Concept" will be the first Lamborghini vehicle to be conjured from the talented pen of Walter de' Silva, Head of Lamborghini Design. de' Silva's other design responsibilities include serving as Head of Design of Audi Group. Automobili Lamborghini anxiously begins the New Year with the highly anticipated unveiling of the "Lamborghini Miura Concept," a modern interpretation of the Lamborghini Miura, currently celebrating its 40th Anniversary.
The new concept model, which as of now, is strictly a concept with no firm date set for its production launch, is the inspired creation of de' Silva, the world-famous Italian designer. He has redesigned every aspect of the car while remaining absolutely faithful to the original form. The new car retains the extraordinary purity of line characteristic of the original Miura: the designer's intervention has been defined by refining the contours and eliminating any superfluous detail in order to enhance the clean, simple lines and perfectly-balanced proportions of the original that so impassioned enthusiasts. The restyling of the lower part of the body takes the car's structural strength and aerodynamic performance to new heights, without disturbing the delicate aesthetic equilibrium.
With the world public debut of the Huracán LP 610-4 at the Geneva Motorshow 2014, a new era has begun for Automobili Lamborghini and the luxury super sports car segment: this brand- new Lamborghini not only represents the successor to the iconic Gallardo, but also redefine the benchmark for luxury super sports cars in this segment.


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I was reading the wonderful post of Trent Walton : UniTasking which contains a lot of useful thoughts and ideas, plus some good links to some neat OS X apps. (which I have started using right after I read the blog.)
But I noticed a funny notion. Many people talked very negatively about using multiple screens.
Onwards to Tom Cunningham's : Stay productive, he actually mentions using only 1 monitor as the first tip to increase productivity.
Is this a common belief ? And has anyone done any tests with this ?
I work at a software studio, and we have three screens as standard (Macbook 15" + two 21" screens) but due to the fact that I take my macbook with me every day, and set it up every morning, I can easily go an hour or two with only the main screen turned on.
So what are your beliefs on this ? Myth, fact or completely up to individual preferences ?


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Say you are caught out without a tent in mild temperature conditions, e.g. moorland/woods. What material would you look for to make a good shelter roof out of?
The same way that modern houses aren't made out of only one material (in most places), your shelter should be made up of different materials as well. Obviously this all depends on where you are and what is available. Primarily you'll need two types of materials. (I'll assume you're in a fairly standard deciduous forest):


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Question: I am talking about the proof given on pages 50-52 of Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof, Daniel S. Freed, Lisa C. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John W. Morgan, David R. Morrison, and Edward Witten (editors), Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians, Volume 1, AMS 1999 (on google books and in the usual internet sources).
The problem is easily described: In the middle of page 52, the authors say "and (188.8.131.52) gives that [...]". But I don't see how (22.214.171.124) gives the equation that follows.
Sidenotes: The proof was rather readable and well-written up to that point, so I assume the blindness is on my side. If anyone wishes to read the proof (or reprint the book ;) ), here are a few minor mistakes to watch out for:
On page 51, $\left[xy\right]$ should be $\left[x,y\right]$ in "while the second term $\frac12\left[xy\right]$ is antisymmetric".
On page 51, in the definition of the map $\left\lbrace x_1,...,x_{n+1}\right\rbrace$, all three terms on the right hand side should end with $x_{n+1}$ rather than $x_n$.
On page 52, in the first formula of this page, the commutators $\left[x\left[y,z\right]\right]$ and $\left[z\left[x,y\right]\right]$ should be $\left[x,\left[y,z\right]\right]$ and $\left[z,\left[x,y\right]\right]$ instead.
On page 52, in the middle of this page, "and the $\left\lbrace x_1,...,x_n\right\rbrace$ vanish" should probably be "and the $\left\lbrace x_1,...,x_{n+1}\right\rbrace$ vanish".
On page 52, in the middle of this page, "220.127.116.11" should be "(184.108.40.206)".


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Swan Lake, June 25-30, 2012
Posted 29 June 2012 - 09:22 AM
I actually rather like the sound of his less sensational suicide leap...which is the way I have seen it done in the (more distant) past. I have also seen more recent performances of Mckenzie's production in which both Hallberg and especially Gomez performed sensational suicide-leaps. Though I rather enjoyed them for their visceral excitement and the images they created (Hallberg plunged head down seemingly--Gomez flew up w. arched back before descending), I felt they sort of broke the emotional spell of the moment with showiness, esp. the latter.
I am not an anti-showiness fan by any means, but at this exact moment when the music and drama are at a climax it seems to me to border on a false note. Certainly, at the performances I attended, when people started applauding at that moment (esp strongly for Gomez' high-flying leap) I found it jarring. It also creates a bit of an unbalance with Odette's suicide (ballerinas don't -- and shouldn't -- leap to their death quite that way)...at a moment when the two should be united.
I'm not inclined to make a definitive judgment about this, but certainly I don't at all mind the sound of what I infer is Corella's subtler approach.
Posted 29 June 2012 - 12:06 PM
Posted 29 June 2012 - 01:42 PM
Forget reading my review about the bows. It's on youtube: https://www.youtube....player_embedded
wow, thank you for the link, its really great !
I loved how emotional were Xiomara and Paloma, I think they both were in tears, it was cute to see them hug on the side looking at him, very sweet.
and your report was full of lovely details, i sensed the emotions too, thanks !
Posted 29 June 2012 - 02:17 PM
Leigh Witchell, on Facebook, has posted a fine description of the evening -- with more emphasis on the curtain call than on the performance -- that did not make it into the New York Post. I'm not sure how to link to individual Facebook posts, but below is the link to Leigh's page. The post we are talking about was dated just an hour ago. His Post interview with Corella is also on Facebook.
"Short Takes. Swan Lake. ABT. June 28."
Posted 29 June 2012 - 02:23 PM
Not just people from the past -- where was Part?
I expected more people from the past to show up at Angel's farewell. Why wasn't Susan Jaffe there? We know she's in town because she played the Queen Mother on Wed evening. No Ferri. No Nina. No Vishneva.
Posted 29 June 2012 - 02:50 PM
Veronika danced one of the strongest SL she has danced at ABT, technically-speaking. She balanced (the first balance after Odette entrance was a marvel), and turned with a speed and security never seen before. Maybe the rehearsals for Le Corsaire are having some impact on her ? Her Odette was beautiful, liquid, musical, and really exquisite as usual. I could watch that gorgeous port-de-bras for ever. Her lines and never ending legs are to dye for.
I also agree with the comments about her open-mouth, very noticeable, and the somewhat awkward movements that happened here and there. The overall performance was not as dramatic as some of her shows before, but still was really marvelous. Even with these minor details, she is still my fav Odette.
I loved her Odile better this time than ever before, I think she kind of toned it down one notch, and it was right on, more remarkable was the incredible chemistry with Marcelo, this was something that I enjoyed very much, the communication between the two was so evil !
She went though her variation and coda without any problems.
The major issue with the performance was that Veronika was alone, she pretty much danced by herself. Stearns supported and lifted her, but that was pretty much it. Cory has beautiful lines, is elegant, handsome, but his technique continues to leave much to be desired, and his acting skills (at least on this character) even more so. His expression didn't change from beginning to end, and he looked confused, very flat, maybe that's the reason why veronica opened her mouth so much, lol. There was little or no emotion on his side, and obviously that brought the show down big time. This partnership have been tried a couple of times and it doesn't really work, so I really hope abt take note of that and give her the partner that she deserves for this ballet. In fact, I think that it would be better to give the chance to an up and coming talented dancer from the corps, like T. Foster, for example, who partnered her really well in the opening night pdd.
Wed was certainly one of the most spectacular SL that I have ever witnessed. I was truly moved, and very, very impressed by the major development of Gilliam artistry, her extensions and back flexibility (and I think that I haven't miss one of her SL in the last 8-9 yrs). Her performance was one of the most brutal displays of power and control that I have seen in a full-length ballet. The only thing she didn't do was flight over the stage, for god sake, those legs need to be insured asap!
The chemistry was Marcelo was electrifying, and they both looked to be having the time of their lives dancing together. Marcelo also took his technique to a brand new level, it was of those nights in which everything goes right, fireworks everywhere with crystal clean finish. They both surpassed themselves, and engaged the whole company; you could notice really that the stage was on fire.
Act II pdd was full of emotion, Gilliam really stunned me, I had chills since the very first moment, beautiful !! At the end, after the huge ovation, people wouldn't t let go, and she was brought back again to the stage, there were people standing, and screaming out of control brava, brava.
At this point, the picture was set and ready for a spectacular Act III, and they didn't disappoint. Her Odile was a bad, bad creature, seductive as they come, and the technique……HUH…fireworks included:
- ending of Odile/Sigfried pdd with Marcelo doing single-handed supported pirouettes on her (barely touching her waist), I think she delivered 4-5 of these, but more stunning is the center and the complete absence of any little, mini wobble, she seems to be hammered to the stage !
- Fouettes were opened with a quadruple, continued with several triples, and included 2 series of the flying-pirouettes (doubles executing port de bras !) She did this before, but last year and in opening night gala she did not, …wed they were back, the second time I think she did a triple and after the port-de-bras she raised arms in swan-like position. The audience was out of control, …she threw then 3 gorgeous balances at the end of the coda, and it was like an apotheosis, a few people standing again and screaming out loud !!!
I could go on this for ever, it was incredible. I was really glad that I decided to go last minute, this year I have been focused too much in the outside-stars…Bravisima Gilliam, she is clearly on her prime, no wonder she got that magnificent review of her Juliet from A.M in the ny times, maybe that fueled her as well !!!.....and Marcelo, what else can we say, he manages to always, always, give 150%, get the most out of his ballerina, he is certainly very, very unique.
Posted 29 June 2012 - 06:56 PM
Posted 29 June 2012 - 10:08 PM
Posted 29 June 2012 - 10:36 PM
Hallberg and Semionova were excellent tonight. All the little details that were missing in their performance earlier this week were present tonight, resulting in a spectacular performance. The romance, drama, and emotional connections were all there tonight. I thought that on Tuesday her phrasing was a little choppy, but tonight was much smoother, as one phrase flowed gorgeously into the next. Hallberg seemed to let loose and was much more comfortable in the portrayal of his relationship with Semionova. The only thing that stil need some work is Semionova's mime skills. It was a very memorable performance. The audience was packed on this oppressively muggy evening in New York City.
I'd like to concur - An absolutely stellar performance from both principals tonight.
David Hallberg was much more emotional than I have ever seen him, and Polina Semionova - just divine.
She played a very girlish Odette, scared, helpless and desperate, not a Swan Queen, but rather a Princess; and a very devilish Odile, a real snake that seduced Adam in the Garden of Eden, a true personification of pure evil. Her metamorphosis, emotional abandon, the rapport with Hallberg, the technical prowess - everything was electrifying and stunning.
And the last Act, truncated as it is, still broke my heart. Took me a while to regain my composure.
Thank you, ABT, for a glorious night of the Ballet Art of the highest level. It will never be forgotten!
Posted 30 June 2012 - 04:51 AM
To my eyes, Semionova peaked in Act II, whereas Hallberg only got better and better. As Waelsung commented, his dancing was more emotional, less cool, than it sometimes is, especially in his Act III variation. Throughout the evening, the contrast with Cory earlier in the week, both technically and dramatically, was striking. David can turn with complete fluidity -- no hopping at the end -- and stop exactly where he needs. I heard one single squeak from his shoes in the 'moody' section in Act I, in contrast with a dozen from Cory. I kept wishing that Veronika could once again be paired with someone more like this (preferably Marcelo, as David has trouble lifting her), so she would no longer have to carry the entire emotional weight of the show, as she did on Monday.
(As a sidenote on David: he seems to have slimmed down in the last year. In general he looks very good, though just one unfortunate side-effect of this, which I'll leave you to infer.)
I thought that Semionova's Act II dancing was beautiful, and technically superb -- probably the most 'flawless' Act II I've seen at ABT. I was very excited going into the second half, and apparently so was the audience. Nearly every time she came on stage from that point on, there was substantial applause: with Rothbart in Act III, with David at the beginning of the pdd, on the rocks in Act IV. People were ready to be wowed by her, and to a certain extent it didn't much matter what happened from there. In her big balance during the pdd's first movement, for instance, the applause began very early -- before the balance was even of notable length. To her great credit, it did go on for quite some time more. (I find applause during a balance to be unfortunate, and potentially counter-productive.) For her fouettes, she began with a long series of doubles, shifting to singles when the music changes, punctuated by an occasional double; she wobbled about 15-20 degrees several times and traveled about 8-10 feet. I love multiple fouettes, but I would much rather have a solid series of 32 singles, on the beat, and with minimal traveling, than something showier but more technically insecure. Again, though, the audience went wild, so much so that I fear many were distracted from the fast, perfect spins that David gave them next.
Still, there was much great dancing from Semionova during Act III, as others have described -- just much better dancing from Hallberg. His reached an emotional peak at the end of Act III and into Act IV, whereas I found her dancing in Act IV to seem rather calculated.
As a very small but representative example:
At the beginning of the reconciliation scene, Odette goes downstage left and turns away from Siegfried, with her arms spread. Siegfried comes behind her and, tentatively, takes her right (downstage) hand. Semionova, knowing that Hallberg would be taking her hand, deliberately lowered it and (though turned away) almost held it back to him. At this all-important moment, when Odette should be absorbed in broken-hearted renunciation, she instead seemed almost coy, waiting for Siegfried to try to make it up to her. This is a very small detail, but it captures much of what I saw in Act IV from her. Whereas David was absorbed in the emotion of his dancing, she seemed to know and be thinking about where she was going to put every part of her body at every moment. Obviously, this is just an impressionistic response, and difficult to substantiate fully, but it was indeed the impression that I got.
Hammoudi danced a better Rothbart than I've seen from him in the past, though with numerous mistakes (including a botched lift of Sarah Smith, which I'm fairly certain was in fact her fault -- she danced a rather messy Hungarian Princess). Given how much praise was being lavished on Semionova, I felt the audience could have spared him at least a bow, but alas no.
Luciana Paris jumped the gun and dove into the final pose of the cygnettes a beat early for some reason.
Melanie Hamrick danced a very nice big swan, with Simone Messmer along for the ride.
Maria Riccetto danced the third variation in the pas de trois -- which has long been my favorite piece for her -- but the conductor took it very fast, and so it was not nearly as perfectly lovely as it often is. The white swan pdd, on the other hand, was played gorgeously, deliciously slow, as we all savored every moment of Semionova and Hallberg's nearly perfect Act II.
Karen Uphoff and David Hallberg had some very nice banter going on with each successive princess during the national dances -- gave me something to divert my eyes from the generally very sloppy performances in this part of the evening. (Craig Salstein and Joseph Phillips were woefully mismatched, to the latter's detriment, in the Neapolitan dance. Phillips just couldn't keep up, though he did much better on Monday.)
On to Corsaire!
Posted 30 June 2012 - 05:13 AM
abatt's comment -- "All the little details that were missing in their performance earlier this week were present tonight" -- shows that Semionva (and Semionova-Halberge) are well on the way to fitting in perfectly.
Posted 30 June 2012 - 06:06 AM
I agree that her Act III fouettees were not on a par with Murphy's or Bouder's, but that was a very small and, IMO, completely forgivable flaw. Hallberg was wonderful, but we knew he would be. His theatrical sense has grown remarkably since he started working with the Bolshoi and it has made a world of difference.
Hammoudi had great stage presence, I found him to be the most convincing purple Rothbart I've seen (after the master). Though he certainly did have some technical weaknesses. Hope he can overcome those.
Posted 30 June 2012 - 06:15 AM
Posted 30 June 2012 - 06:34 AM
Polina Semionova's power as an artist is as striking as it surprising. Semionova is not particularly beautiful, nor is she such a detailed actress, and she has a relatively awkward body in many respects. However, what Semionova puts forth is a remarkable intuition and intelligence as to how to best express the physicality of her body. Semionova possesses long arms and long legs and actually uses these aspects of her body not only for technical flair, but for shaping her characters of the two swans. Nothing more profoundly displayed this than the Act II pas de deux. I've always felt the slower the tempo the better in this pas, and Semionova and Hallberg indeed took the pas at a true adagio tempo. Semionova filled every phrase of music, including those three notes with the harp as the pas is about to start (when she unfurls her body into the iconic swan position). She took the entire length of those three counts to gaze at Siegfried before melting her arm down into the swan pose, whereas some ballerinas are in the swan pose by the two and end up just sitting there. During the pas de deux itself, Semionova would unfurl a leg slowly, lower a leg softly, and undulate an arm regally. The process of any step Semionova danced as Odette was realized in its entirety, whether that would be a penchee, an arabesque, a cambre, or a pirouette. Ultimately, this great physical expression formulated a quiet but palpable vulnerability in Semionova's Odette. This was an Odette who one did not even need any background information on: she made it very clear that her imprisonment in the spell was due to Rothbart's evil and was not at all due to any wrongdoing she did. This was ultimately an Odette who could do no wrong, and an Odette who trusts too much for her own good. Siegfried is this sudden, welcome presence in her life, and with that, Semionova's Odette truly thought that Siegfried could save her. Semionova would faintly smile at Hallberg, almost as if to ponder what could become of the two in the future if the spell were broken. And not only was it Hallberg who was pushing her to trust him, it was also the music. Semionova had this wonderful ability to make the music almost push her throughout the pas de deux to create the identity of this vulnerable, serene soul.
With different partners come different sides of an artist's character. While Semionova's Odile with Gomes last year was a world away from her Odette—seductive, vexing, fiery—her Odile this year resembled her Odette far more. Hallberg is certainly not as outwardly passionate as Gomes, and Semionova went along with Hallberg's subtle aura. Her Odile this time around had a softer and sweeter quality which evoked shades of her Odette while still being just evil enough to prove to the audience that she was only Odette in disguise. Semionova smiled, charmed, and dazzled, even if Semionova could have showcased more passion and temperament out of her Odile. Yet the luscious expression of her body paid dividends here once again. Semionova has some of the most beautiful swan arms that have an almost rippling water effect. And, in the instance in which she takes those slow bourees with the swan pors de bras toward Siegfried, her Odile evoked shades of her Odette. Semionova has those wonderful elastic extensions, and she is one of the few I've seen who maintains the height of her leg when she turns from the developee a la seconde to the arabesque penchee at the end of the pas. Her arabesque balance was held solidly for around six seconds before suffering a slight waver at the end. She had strong pirouettes in the variation and a wonderful closing fouette sequence of eight doubles followed by singles with a few doubles in a sequence. Semionova's lusciousness as a dancer suits this ballet to a tee. Semionova has very nearly the entire package in this ballet: inherent warmth as Odette, sly seduction as Odile, superb technical ability, and developing musicality and artistry. On top of that, I feel Semionova showcases real potential as an actress, but she is still relatively young and needs time to fine tune the moments when she is not dancing (i.e. the mime) and fully unleash her passion as a performer. And she is certainly well on her way with another exceptional performance from her in this ballet.
While Marcelo Gomes shapes his Siegfried around Siegfried as a person, David Hallberg explores the character as to how it represents his aura of royalty. Never will you a find a Siegfried with more noble line than Hallberg, and anyone would be hard-pressed to find a danseur with a more regal posture. Hallberg always maintains a wonderful neutral, straight back when he performs, but Hallberg also gives his torso this airy elegance and authority which prevents that wonderfully straight line of the back to ever appear rigid. And, of course, I haven't even mentioned Hallberg's lines, which have been talked about the world over. Hallberg has that wonderful, natural turn-out from the top of the hip, a beautiful straight line of the leg, and a wonderfully elongated, phenomenally shaped foot. Hallberg's presentation of the foot is particularly superb: there are other dancers who might have his arches, but none lengthen out the end of the foot and lengthen the toes as he curls them downward more so than Hallberg. In these technical respects, Hallberg is set up to be a vision of royalty onstage. Hallberg's Siegfried is a well-meaning but remote individual. He is also determined to get what he wants. I felt amongst Gomes, Corella, and Hallberg this week, it was Hallberg who gave the clearest sense of absolute dismay at the princesses in the third act. Hallberg gave Act IV real abandonment, and I have felt that Hallberg's move the Bolshoi has caused him to dance with greater soul and passion than ever before. And, technically, while Hallberg lacks that glorious natural jump of a Baryshnikov or of a Bujones, he has shown particular improvement in his pirouettes and a la seconde turns lately. However, this is not to suggest that Hallberg is perfect, or that this performance was exceptional in every respect. Particularly in the scene during Act I when Hallberg is left lost in a crowd when all the couples are pairing up, Hallberg did not evoke nearly the desperation of Gomes earlier in the week as to how dire his chances of meeting a woman seemed. Hallberg's passion toward Odile also proved a tad low-wattage for my taste. While blazing passion would perhaps not look right on a dancer of such elegance, Hallberg has to find that balance between nobility and passion that will bring his artistry to new heights. His regality is already second to none.
Purple Rothbart with Alexandre Hammoudi was a relative disaster. I had high hopes for Hammoudi, as he possesses a great "look." Hammoudi is a young, statuesque dancer with a broad torso and broad presence. And I do feel there is potential for him in this role, but yesterday evening he performed tight. Despite appearing to be quite a physically strong dancer, Hammoudi nearly botched the revolving press lift with one of the princesses. He held the girl up and almost had her too far back in the lift, forcing the girl to bend her one leg in to help steady the position. The exit to the lift was also very rough. Hammoudi struggled mightily with keeping up with the tempo and the entire end phrase of jumps was late. Also, the phrasing of the chaines on the diagonal was completely off, and he rather appeared to have given up at that point. Hammoudi struggled with the arabesque balance at the end and actually had to lower his leg back to sous-sus before he reached his leg back to arabesque (and from then held a decently sustained position). Now, despite this substandard performance Hammoudi does showcase potential in this role. He has a dark presence which if cultivated can really go somewhere in this role. He is not a lost cause of a dancer at all, and I could see that even with a heavily shaky outing last night. But Hammoudi has to deliver for himself onstage and without that will struggle to build ground in this company even if his talent is there.
Act I pas de trois featured Stella Abrera, Maria Riccetto, and Sascha Radetsky. Abrera proved herself the standout of the three. This is my third time seeing Abrera in the Act I pas de trois, and each time I thoroughly enjoy her performance. She is a lovely, dynamic dancer with a mature, spritely personality and wonderful entrechant sixes. Everyone has talked about how Abrera should be promoted to principal, and while I haven't seen enough of her to determine that for myself, I strongly feel that she should be tested in big principal roles (Odette/Odile, for one) and it's a true shame she has not. Maria Riccetto was also competent last night, if a tiny bit shaky with the diagonal of piquee turns at the end of her variation. Radetsky, on the other hand, was a relative disappointment. Technically, he was mostly fine (aside from a botched pirouette to come in Act III), if not as spectacular as Simkin or Cornejo would be in this pas de trois. But Radetsky gave the impression that he was fighting his body the entire time. His face was tense and he appeared visibly exhausted by the end of the pas de trois. With that, the rapport between the ballerinas and him was lost.
The swan corps de ballet have been quite consistent all week (I attended Wednesday eve and Thursday). The magic of the corps at ABT is simply never going to reach that of the Mariinsky or the Paris Opera, as at those companies you have the vast majority of dancers trained at the school since childhood. Conversely, at ABT you have a "melting pot" of dancers from different schools, different training backgrounds, etc. I've always felt as though ABT corps strive to get the timing of the steps as synchronized as possible so that the differences in the way the dancers are trained are not as evident, and by and large the corps this week has gotten the job done. The cygnets were a tad disappointing last night, as the ending arabesques down to the knee were off. The Act I waltz was a mess earlier in the week, but last night it seemed to me (if I'm recalling correctly) as though it were tighter and cleaner.
Posted 30 June 2012 - 11:54 AM
Also, thank you onxmyxtoes for posting the you tube link (also many thanks for the mute key so I could tune out that annoying twit yellowing Bravo incessantly - we get it, Bravo, now give it a rest!)
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