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I'm flying to Geneva (Switzerland) in few days with EasyJet with my wife. I have provided both our passport details for advance passenger information. But keep on getting emails from EasyJet to add these API documents before travelling. Is this normal? I would have thought they would check this before sending me the reminder emails.
A budget airline has to cut costs somewhere, and EasyJet cuts its IT budget (hey, better than skimping on plane maintenance, right?). As a result, its website and back-end systems tend to be somewhat buggy. I've noticed similar quirks before when I used EasyJet, so I'd say don't worry about it, and just bring the documents when you check in.
I think you're referring to APIS - Advance Passenger Information System. The documents themselves are called 'API' (Advance Passenger Information) documents, so it's not a bug. Technically, filling this in is only compulsory when you're flying to the US, so when you're flying with EasyJet within Europe you shouldn't worry. At the time you check-in, they can update your personal information in case it already hasn't been logged into their system.
I wouldn't stress about these emails, or the advanced notification at all. The emails are usually a way of organizing information about the passengers, but in my opinion, are rarely used for actual travel, or immigration. You ALWAYS have to provide original documents at the time of check-in. It is at this time that the authenticity is checked and boarding is permitted. I fly British Airways often, and am inundated with API emails, even though they have all my information...At the time of check-in (and in case of LHR, at the time of boarding too), passports are checked foremost, even before the actual boarding pass.
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I am a moderator on an SMP server. We have a Bukkit plugin called WorldGuard that we use to set protected plots and disable PvP in certain areas. Can WorldGuard be used to do the same thing in the End?
Whilst I never made regions in The End myself, The End works much in the same way as any other world. There's no reason why it can't work that way.
People used to make all sorts on my servers version of The End and we had it set up so people would have to get their items when they were at The End (rather than walk in with them). As such, you should be able to use WorldGuard for regions.
I hope this helps, please do let me know if it doesn't work.
Yes, it should work. If you want to protect the entire End, I would simply go out beyond the edges of the land. If you really don't want people to build anywhere, disable building with a flag.


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Is it possible to support multiple processes without support for virtual memory? I would like to know more about it if so.
You can run a multi-process operating system even with no hardware support (no MMU), with all pointers representing a physical address. You do however lose several key features usually provided through the MMU:
There are unix-like operating systems that work on systems with no MMU.
¹ In modern unices, this is usually done lazily (copy-on-write), which again relies on the MMU raising an exception when it can't find a physical page.
It is certainly possible with some constraints like memory protection which would be an issue as already stated. For example µClinux http://www.uclinux.org/ supports multiple processes without implementing virtual memory. Note that some CPUs like at least the Analog Devices Blackfin do provide a MPU (Memory Protection Unit) http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bfin:mpu . This allows virtual memory less operating systems to still allow memory to be partitioned.
This depends on how you define process vs threads in terms of memory.
One of the functions of virtual memory is partitioning. While it is possible to run multiple processes without any partitioning, this would be more like running multiple threads than processes - sharing the same address space.


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I'm designing the wires for an event page, with a phased approach. Phase 1 only includes registration and information, prior to the speakers being announced etc. In past years they have used a twitter hashtag conversation box (such as shown below). I feel like its not completely necessary to use in phase 1.
The hashtag conversation box from twitter aggregates tweets using a twitter hashtag and allows you to embed it onto a website
I don't feel it is necessary because it doesn't add a lot to the website. First and foremost the website is not conversational, it is informational; so adding the element just feels like it doesn't have a lot of purpose, once the event is running, the purpose makes sense, but prior to it, I don't feel like it adds all that much.
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Andrew Grove (September 2, 1936—March 21, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author, known as former president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Intel Corporation.
- Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
- In: Computer Decisions Vol. 16 (1984). p. 126
- Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
- Andy Grove, December 1994; cited in: Albert Yu (1998) Creating the digital future. p. 93 : After the Pentium Processor flaw in December 1994
- Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
- Isaacson, Walter (1997-12-29). "TIME: Man Of The Year". Time.
- Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.
- Grove (1999) cited in: George M. Dupuy, David H. Dupuy (2004) Career preparation: a transition guide for students. p. 4
- A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
- Attributed to Andy Grove in: Ciarán Parker (2006) The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business. p. 70
- Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
- Attributed to Andrew S. Grove in: William J. Baumol et al (2007) Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth. p. 228
- Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
- Michael Kanellos (2005-05-18). Andy Grove coins his own law. CNET. Retrieved on 2012-08-13.
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A. S. Grove (1983/1995). High Output Management. Random House. ISBN 0-679-76288-4.
- You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is — Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events.
- 1995, p. 229; As cited in: Cristina Chaminade, Bino Catasús (2007) Intellectual Capital Revisited: Paradoxes in the Knowledge Intensive Organization.. p. 94
- You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
- 1995, p. 229; As cited in: Jay W. Rojews (2004) International Perspectives on Workforce Education and Development. p. xi
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- And try not to get too depressed in the part of the journey, because there's a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can't motivate your staff to extraordinary measures. So you have to keep your own spirits up even though you well understand that you don't know what you're doing.
- Cited in: "Andy Grove Tells The Truth About What Great Leaders Do." bobsutton.typepad.com/my weblog. by Bob Sutton, March 11, 2007.
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- The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.
- The personal computer... went to individuals first before it went to corporations... The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers.


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Have you seen the new promotional image of Gina Gershon as Donatella Versace in the upcoming Lifetime movie, House of Versace? The resemblance is uncanny! I actually had to do a double take as Gina looks EXACTLY like the iconic Italian designer.
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Those pursed lips! That hair! Yes, I too had to do a double take on both the real and fake Donatella Versace here as they both look so similar! Gina Gershon is set to play Donatella in the upcoming Lifetime movie, House of Versace. I wonder how she's going to pull off Donatella's thick Italian accent in the movie, too?
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While there have been a dozen or so actresses who have portrayed Marilyn Monroe on film, Michelle Williams was by far the best. The resemblance is just uncanny! Michelle played the iconic blonde in My Week With Marilyn in 2011.
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The hair, the makeup, the smile! Naomi Watts definitely resembles the late and beloved Princess Diana, doesn't she? We'll be seeing more of her in the upcoming film, Diana.
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Lindsay Lohan took her stab at it (with critics taking their stab at her in return), and now British actress Helena Bonham Carter will try her hand at playing Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming BBC biopic, which will debut on British television screens in late December.
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Why should/shouldn't I store my bread in the fridge/freezer/breadbox/plastic bag/etc?
Storing bread in the freezer you can store for several days and keep it soft.
To eat, remove from the freezer and put in the oven.
Bread in the freezer will stay edible for a long time. Freezing doesn't much affect the texture of the bread either. The downside is that you have to thaw or toast the bread before you can eat it.
Bread in the refrigerator will keep longer without going stale or moldy. The downside is that the texture of the bread changes when it is refrigerated. I notice it quite a bit, but my wife doesn't seem to.
Plastic is a good way to keep bread on the counter, but you want to make sure that it is completely cool before wrapping it. If the bread is still warm, the plastic will trap the escaping water vapor and the bread will get soggy.
Warm fresh bread should be allowed to (at least mostly) cool either on the counter or in an open bag. Once it is mostly cool, a paper bag is a good way to keep it if you need to put it in something. Any remaining water that is going to come out of the bread won't pool up on the bread's surface like it would while stored in a plastic bag.
For artisan bread, I usually wrap it in aluminum foil and keep it on the counter. I don't have any reason to believe that this is somehow better than other methods. It goes stale after a couple of days, but if it's not eaten by then we will toast it or make French toast for breakfast.
Bread goes stale in the fridge as you are storing it at the quickest stealing temperature. The moisture migrates in the starch from alpha to beta cells. You should never store bread in the fridge. Trust me I used to be a baker and it was one of the first things we learned at college in baking technology. The fridge will inhibit mould but pointless if it is stale. You can pop the bread in the oven for short while which will temporarily migrate the moisture back restoring freshness.
The best way to store bread I have found is in a good stone container that is keeps airtight. The stone container keeps the bread away from light and keeps the bread in normal temperature. It also keeps mold away very good, especially when washed every now and then with diluted lemon juice or vinegar.
The freezer is absolutely the best place to store bread you want to keep for more than a day or two (depending on the bread - baguettes keep fresh for only hours, multi-grain sourdough for much longer). Suck the air out of the bag so it doesn't get frosty, and slice before freezing if you want to use it by the slice. A few seconds in the microwave and the previously-frozen slice will be in very good shape. This won't work as well for something really crusty - the crust will lose it's crunch - but you really can't keep crusty bread long no matter what you do.
Don't keep bread in the refrigerator. It will go stale and get moldy quickly.
If you take the danish "rugbrød" (I think the closest english version is rye bread)...it gets really hard, dry and dull tasting if you put it in the fridge, though it'll be able to keep of the mold for a while longer.
I've always stored my bread in a dry, dark cupboard or drawer. I would assume that a bread box would accomplish the same thing. Bread stored this way has generally lasted me 2 weeks before mold even begins to start growing.
Another thing to keep in mind is to keep your bread stored in an airtight fashion. If you don't, you risk your bread drying out quicker.
My experience with keeping bread in the fridge results in faster molding, and dryer bread.
My favorite place to store bread is in my mouth/tummy :P
On a serious note: we've tried storing it in various places and each seemed to have enough downsides (coupled with how much we enjoy good, fresh bread) that we decided it was worthwhile to just buy and make it more frequently then it was to try to preserve it longer.
Best way to store bread, including baguettes, is in the freezer where it can keep for months. Reheat by placing straight into a hot oven from the freezer. The bread will crisp up and be just as if you had just baked it. Bread that has gone a little bit stale can be lightly moistened with water all the way round, then placed in a hot oven to crisp up. Never store in plastic if possible. A thick brown paper bag will keep it pretty fresh on the counter for a couple of days. If you don't get through a loaf that quickly, it's worth freezing half.
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The company I work for is currently in the planning stages of a MOSS to 2010 migration (we have a business critical environment with >500 users to port). With this in mind I was wondering what are some of the less known problems you have found or tricks you know for making this transition go easier?
What we've done in some cases is to put up a SharePoint 2010 site somewhere (separate from the actual new environment) and put up a survey or discussion board there.
Survey can be pretty much anything, but if you can figure a good survey that is related to MOSS or SP2010, maybe asking "what could be improved in the current environment", etc. Then you just sit and wait for the people to say certain unpleasant things of the current environment and try to turn those around how SP2010 will improve those. Another benefit of that is that people will use SP2010 to fill in that survey.
Regarding discussions, it can be again anything, but can be related to the survey, or some company event. Idea is just to get people into SP2010 and familiarize with it without even realizing it.
You can think of similar things with other SP2010 functionalities.
Had similar experience. My 5 cents:
Familiarity - make sure you have a plan to give users time to adjust to the new look, behaviour (eg. ribbon) and layout.
Plan training sessions to allow users to translate their existing skills from 2007 to 2010 (e.g. changing list views).
Use SharePoint 2010 functionality to keep the existing visual styles to help manage the changeover.
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BARNESVILLE - Experience "the Magic of Christmas" through Victorian eyes at the Victorian Mansion Museum's annual Christmas tours. This year the theatrical dolls of West Virginia artist Pete Ballard join the permanent acquisitions of the Mansion and are part of many of the holiday displays.
"Each doll is a work of art in itself, and we're delighted to have them," said board chair Emery Stewart III. Ballard donated 12 three-foot tall dolls in full costume and 30 busts in period dress to the Belmont County Historical Society.
Local decorators and BCHS board members volunteer time and materials to create the magic, and the tours are a Christmas tradition for many. The 2013 decor includes antique ribbon in the Inglenook, an 1898 crazy quilt in one of the bedrooms, 36 Victorian clocks, dried hydrangeas from the mansion plantings and a collection of 65 nutcrackers in the music room.
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Opulent ornaments and bountiful bows are characteristic of the "Magic of Christmas" decor at the Victorian Mansion Museum.
Stewart, who decorated several areas, extends his appreciation to these decorators giving their time and talents to make the Mansion Museum sparkle: Jeffrey VanHorn; Donna Hirauk, Kathy Gibeaut, Sue Milhorn and Cheryl Thompson, all members of the Flushing Garden Club; Carolyn Stephen; Becky Keylor; Kathy Moxie; Paula Doudna; Pauline Doudna; Addison Geiger; Tracy Geiger; Terri Wootoon, Debbie Gray, Thelma Monbarren, and Carolyn Dickson from the Hospice of Guernsey, Inc.; Mollie Calhoun, Susan McGary and Shayna, Mackenzie, Marrisa, Hallee and Edyn McGary; Nancy Gallagher; Melanie Bates; Pam Milburn; Barbara Hinkle; Susan McCracken; Susan Folmar; Sandra Lemmon; Bobbie Moore; Anita Rogers; the museum decorating committee; Judy Craig.
The mansion is located at 532 North Chestnut St. in Barnesville. It is open for tours Fridays from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. until Sunday, Dec. 22. Tours are available by appointment from Dec. 23 to Jan. 12. Admission fees are $5 for adults and $2 for children ages 6-18. Private tours for groups of 10 or more are available at a reduced rate by reservation only. For more information, call: (740) 423-2343, (740) 425-1112, (740) 425-2273 or (740) 484-4716.
Regular visitors will notice that the large tree in the ballroom has been scaled down this season. Stewart notes that this is to make room for dancing at the New Year's Eve Party, Dec. 31 from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., where a DJ will be spinning standard and popular tunes. There will be food, games and a champagne toast at midnight. Tickets are $25 per person and are available from board members or by calling the phone numbers listed above. Advance reservations are required by Dec. 23, and the event is "bring your own beverage."
Teas and private parties at the mansion are also popular this time of year. To book private events for 10 or more, contact Judy Craig at (740) 695-0766. To book weddings or showers, call Sherry McClellan at (740) 425-2343. For general information, visit www.barnesvilleohio.com/ belmontcountymuseum.


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Typo in the title: price is $84.99, not $64.99... significant difference, unfortunately.
@ewwallace1: It seems there is a $20 coupon you can click on the product's page.
Not that it really matters since it is waitlisted now
@sayruh62: oh, sheesh--guess I wasn't paying enough attention. Might've gone for the deal had I realized... Oh well, probably don't need it!


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Maybe I'm missing something, but if my salt and hashed/salted password are stored in the same place, how is salting any more secure than just hashing? Does this just rely on attackers not knowing how the salt is incorporated into the hash?
The resume of that other answer could be:
When you have a password hashed, it's hard (very hard) to find out what was the original password: you have to try all combinations, until you find the hash. That's brute-force.
Someone can speed up a bit this process, by pre-computing many passwords: he'll store all those passwords / hashes, and will try to find it when he needs.
Someone can also see that two hashes are the same, and then he'll know that both passwords are the same.
To avoid these weakness, you use salt: it's a not-secret value, unique to each login/password pair. That way, the 1st problem (pre-computed hashes) won't work anymore, because he should have generated those pre-computed tables (called rainbow tables) including the salt.
The 2nd problem is also addressed: since each login will have it's salt, even if the same password was used, the hash will be different, since (salt1 + password) is different from (salt2 + password).
And there is also some marginal benefit: the password ends up being longer, since it'll have the salt + password. Of course, it's not any help if you think that the salt isn't secret and the password will be brute-forced. The attacker will simply compute all the combinations appending the salt. But it's a benefit if you think that the salt, alone, has 8 characters (for example): then any pre-computed table with 8 or less characters is useless, because (salt + password) will be longer than 8 characters.
If the salt value is not secret and may be generated at random and stored with the password hash, a large salt value prevents precomputation attacks, including rainbow tables, by ensuring that each user's password is hashed uniquely. This means that two users with the same password will have different password hashes (assuming different salts are used). In order to succeed, an attacker needs to precompute tables for each possible salt value. The salt however must be large enough, otherwise an attacker can make a table for each salt value.
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Many of you will remember the "cloned sheep" us Brits helped bring into existence a few years ago. Now, guess who has the tech.
Iranian Doctors Say They Cloned a Sheep
What do you think about the future of cloning? I think only limitied countries should be allowed to experiment with it.News wrote:Iranian doctors have overseen the country's first animal cloning _ a lamb that died minutes after birth _ and plan future experiments in genetics and stem cell research, a member of the team said Wednesday.
British scientists made world headlines a decade ago with the cloned sheep Dolly. Since then, rapid progress in stem cell research and genetics have raised widespread debates about ethics and the boundaries of medicine.


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I have a rails app that I am trying to do a get request with co-ordinates in... I have a route in my routes.rb like this:
map.connect 'feeds/get/:location', :controller => "feeds", :action => "get"
I can send a string consisting of alphanumeric characters fine, but I need to send co-ordinates in a string in the URI as a get request:
So, I escaped the string like so, and append it to my URI.
however it looks like rails automatically unescapes the string before the controller and gives me this routing error in the log:
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/feeds/get/51.896834,0.878906.xml" with {:method=>:get}):
How do I stop rails escaping this string (with routes?) so that it can be read in the controller?
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Bart McLeay announced his candidacy for the 2014 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on the Otoe County Courthouse lawn in Nebraska City.
McLeay, who is running to fill the Senate seat left by retiring Sen. Mike Johanns, opened his campaign with the message that "freedom has worked."
"Since the beginning of time, there have been many different forms of government but most have failed humanity in one way or another.
America's system of governance, based on freedom, has not.
Freedom has worked," McLeay said.
"Freedom is the common denominator and core of who we are as a people.
Our economic structure -- when allowed to operate in a free market enterprise system -- has been a resounding success.
It is no accident the United States has become the strongest and most affluent nation in the world.
America has risen to this stature because free people bring prosperity to themselves and the nation.
Freedom has never failed us. To the contrary, freedom has worked.
Freedom also works in creating liberty.
Freedom of speech, religion and of the press, the right to bear arms and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures by our government, are all guaranteed by the social contract we have made with each other and memorialized in the U.S. Constitution.
These are not rights of Republicans, Democrats or Indepedents. These are rights of all Americans and they are clearly worth fighting to preserve.
America has lost its way in recent days. Our Congress has forgotten our core beliefs and wandered from what has sustained us for more than two centuries.
Freedom has worked.
It is time to re-direct ourselves and march back toward freedom. We don't want a government that overtaxes us, engages in uncontrollable spending, over-regulates our businesses or attempts to influence our every move.
We don't want a government that targets its citizen groups who oppose them wiretaps journalists for reporting unfavorable facts about the government or performs secret surveillance of innocent citizens.
Washington may have drifted away from our principles as a country, but we can come back.
And that is because freedom works as a basis for governing, and it always has.
I studied accounting and have spent my entire career as a business lawyer. I understand the economic principles that drive business to expand and make our economy grow.
I have also spent nearly three decades fighting in courthouses just like this in Nebraska and elsewhere. I fought the federal government on behalf of landowners in western Nebraska when the government arbitrarily sought to take the land.
I successfully represented a nationally acclaimed non-profit group that supports wounded soldiers in a case in which their rights were infringed.
Page 2 of 2 - I represented our state as an assistant attorney general on behalf of our Republican River in southwest Nebraska in a suit pending in the United States Supreme Court.
I have fought and won in courthouses in Nebraska and elsewhere and I am now ready to take the fight to Washington.
Congress has a 10 percent approval rating and is in gridlock. Most people would run from that environment. I want to run to it, on your behalf.
I have spent my whole professional life resolving disputes. I thrive in those circumstances. I am trained to reach people with different points of view. That happens every time I have stood before a jury or a judge with a different perspective.
And I will listen to your views and take them with me to Washington.
I want to go back to Washington and remind government officials what Nebraskans have long:
Freedom works.
I will fight for freedom.
I will be a freedom fighter.
My name is Bart McLeay and I want to be your next U.S. Senator. Thank you for your support." he said.
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February 07, 2010
Cape Town Stadium Rugby Festival photo essay
The inaugural rugby match at the Cape Town Stadium was held on Saturday, as a test event for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The Vodacom Stormers beat a Boland invitational team 47-13, while the South African Legends 10s team beat the International Legends 27-5 in the curtain-raiser.
These photos from the event were taken by Aslam Levy.
Spectators arrive at the magnificent stadium
A total of 40 000 people arrived at the stadium for the historic event. A free shuttle service to the stadium from the Civic Centre gave spectators the option of not having to drive to the stadium.
Flat Stanley performing
South African Music Association award-winning band Flat Stanley entertained the crowd before kick-off.
The crowd really came to life during the match, and a Mexican wave circulated the stadium within the first few minutes of the match, before local fans began chanting "Here we go Stormers, here we go!"
New world-class signing Bryan Habana came on as a substitute during the latter stages of the match. He will have a far bigger role to play when the Stormers face the Lions in Johannesburg in their opening Super 14 game on Saturday, February 13.
The festival served as the second test event for the 2010 Fifa World Cup™, following the inaugural soccer match at the stadium on January 23.
Read more coverage of the Rugby Festival on www.capetown.travel:
An historic day for rugby in Cape Town
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"Death of an Adjunct" controversy
My post today will be uncharacteristically short. I merely wanted to link to this tragic story, and perhaps highlight the response of the Spiritan community at Duquesne. What do you think?
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Margaret Mary was well paid by adjunct standards.
the response of the Spiritan community at Duquesne.
Well, the Rev. walsh's response seems to be to cover his own ass.
How much were nuns paid for teaching in parochial schools for over a hundred years? (In many cases, nothing at all. In most cases, next to nothing. In a few cases, a little, but nothing resembling a living wage. They were not enrolled in Social Security, thanks to the bishops and pastors who feared governmental oversight, etc. Most of those nuns had no degrees, no teaching credentials, and little education other than summer courses. Etc. Many/most had two or more grades in a classroom, 40 to 50 children. Often more.)
When the bishops and pastors were no longer able to exploit nuns to staff the schools, they hired lay teachers. Those people were underqualified, underpaid, provided with few, if any, benefits, and fired at the whim of pastors and principals.
Why would anyone be surprised that college teachers are treated with the same contempt?
(No one forces anyone to work for the Church. If a person sticks around, taking the abuse, for more than a year or two, s/he bears some responsibility for enabling it.)
It isn't only teachers and "professors" who are abused financially by Catholic institutions. Ask a tradesperson if s/he likes installing windows, painting, doing carpentry, etc., etc., etc. for a parish or diocese. Was s/he paid on time? Was s/he paid at all? Etc.
I'm glad to learn that many individual Catholics were concerned about Vojtko, and it was clear from the original Post-Gazette story that some details were being elided (why she wasn't supported by Medicare/Medicaid, for example, if she wasn't); presumably, she was refusing some of the offered help.
But Duquesne's anti-union position and its claim to the NLRB that they should be exempt from labor laws and the majority vote of their own adjuncts <i>because they're a religious institution</i> is just revolting. Shame on them.
I think its a disgrace that an 83 year old woman is required to work at all. This is an indictment not only of Duquesne, her employer for the past 25 years, but of her employers the 40 years before that. All those years of work and no pension to show for it.
Imho, the whole adjunct system should be abolished. Teaching fellows are one thing, but harried and miserable adjuncts are another.
With the rise of MOOCs, there's no reason for a student to be expected to sit in a classroom listening to someone talk about something s/he knows/cares little/nothing about. Much better to take an online class from a real expert.
From yesterday's NYT:
Coursera and edX, the two largest providers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are inching closer to offering degree programs, although the courses so far carry no academic credit. Coursera is now offering courses from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, covering most of its MBA program's first year curriculum. And Edx is starting two "sequences," linked courses in a particular discipline. Both are from MIT: Foundations of Computer Science, a set of undergraduate courses that will begin this fall, and Supply Chain and Logistics Management, a set of graduate level courses that will begin in fall 2014.
I get paid $3100 for a course I teach as an adjunct . I'm not doing it for the money, but it makes me wonder a little why students have to pay $35,000 a year in tuition.
This topic hits close to the bone for me, and I don't want to start a rant here.
So let me offer this historic perspective, having worked as an adjunct since 1984:
The adjunctification of academia has fostered a two-tier professional system in which tenured professors have a union, benefits, high wages, and a pension ... and adjuncts have none of those things. Even where unionized--and many adjuncts are leery of unionization because union activity is easily punished by simply not renewing a contract--adjuncts who teach a full-time load do not approach the benefits/wage/pension package of tenured faculty. It's comfy for tenured professors to think that adjuncts are second-rate teachers and scholars, but that's a harder fiction to maintain as the number of adjuncts grow in proportion to tenured faculty, particularly in the liberal arts.
For those interested in understanding what it's like to have an advanced degree and earn less money and respect than unskilled workers in the service industry, and a study of the MOOC phenom (I actually like MOOCs as a means of professional development, and my employer does too because they don't have to spend any money on me!), here are some good places to start, and I'll try not to butt in again.
A study shows that adjunct teaching is not sub-par:
Dick Gordon (The Story, American Public Media) interviews a U-Pitt adjunct who offers a good overview of the state of non-tenured instructors.
"The Nation" on MOOCs.
The idea that adjuncts should be put into category other than that of those Gerelyn calls "real experts" does not hold up, as can be seen in what Jean posts above, as well as when one simply considers the fact that most people becoming adjuncts received the same sort of training as those who entered the tenure-based system way back when. It may be that adjuncts do wind up teaching courses that are only tangential to what they were trained in, but the same can be said for tenure track profs. (e.g., my brother the tenure-track classicist who teaches Chinese religion).
(Hi, Abe! Imho, a "real expert" is someone who is a real expert. S/he has the time and energy to keep up with the latest developments in her field. And an office. And heat and food. And s/he's not 83. Etc.)
"A study shows . . ."
The "study" was done by "David Figlio, the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern; Morton O. Schapiro, Northwestern's president (and a long-time scholar of higher education economics); and Kevin B. Soter, a management consultant."
None of those men are adjuncts.
The authors acknowledge that Northwestern is not a typical college. It has highly competitive admissions and more resources to hire faculty members (tenure-track or not) than is the case for many other colleges. However, they add that "our findings that the benefits of taking courses with non-tenure track faculty appear to be stronger for the relatively marginal students at Northwestern indicate that our findings may be relevant to a considerably wider range of institutions."
(The comments below the anti-MOOC article at The Nation are interesting, imho.)
I was kind of shocked to learn that full time faculty at colleges teach between 4 and 6 courses per year.
I discussed this matter for a short period this morning, with my Fordham University anthropology students, in a a Comparative Cultures class. We were scheduled, in any event, to discuss how death is managed,or was traditionally, in a number of Melanesian tribal societies. One theme here has been that, in death, obligations of various sorts are highlighted, and marked by gift exchanges and other rituals, between the kinship groups that are the building blocks of such small societies.
A strong finding, by anthropologists in this field, is that the rituals around death are crucial to restoring and perpetuating the important links between all the groups that interact, and constitute by their interaction the very fabric of society--that's a familiar phrase, isn't it, the fabric of society, even perhaps something of a cliche?
But it's useful, and the care and maintenance of that fabric does indeed seem to involve serious community investment in many societies. The death of any individual, anywhere, disrupts social functioning in that person's network of associates and kin, to use the driest sort of social scientese.
Ok, as an adjunct, I feel close to Margaret Mary, even though I did not in fact know her personally, and I think one can see that close feeling even more clearly, in Dan Kovalik's article. Dan Kovalik is one of Margaret Mary's people. He knew her, he tried to be helpful to her. He is also senior associate general counsel of the United Steelworkers union, which has recently and successfully organized Duquesne adjunct faculty, something that has been resisted fiercely by the university's administration.
Now, Rev. Walsh has objected to Dan's article, claiming that Kovalik is serving "an alternative agenda" in a "sadly exploitive" way. Rev. Walsh also wants us to know that he too knew Margaret Mary Votjko, and that he and other Spiritan priests knew her and visited with her regularly, and tried to be helpful.
So, I guess we're arguing, aren't we, about what this death really means. My personal view is simple. For forty years now, higher ed has more and more exploited an ever more adjunctified faculty, and I don't think that end-of-life pastoral attention, no matter how well-meaning or comforting, even begins to substitute for the thoroughgoing soul-searching that needs to be done about an exploitative labor system that violates the church's basic social teachings. In fact, I think that Rev. Walsh should be ashamed of himself, for so grossly ignoring the very obvious system of exploitation that so very obviously structured the death, in poverty, of a devoted Duquesne faculty member.
Now is the perfect time to discuss these things, not at all an "alternate agenda," and, "shameful"? Really? And, by the way, the person who, in this string, wrote that Margaret Mary Votjko was "well paid by adjunct standards," that person should also be ashamed. At the end of her quarter century of teaching she was limited, by the university, to teaching a couple of classes only, so that her annual income--annual income--was below $10,000.
But, it's ok, even good, by "adjunct standards"?
What kind of standards are to be set, and by whom, for the adjuncts who do most of the teaching in higher ed in the nations colleges and universities, including the "religiously" based institutions whose spokepeople so often claim the moral high ground?
Margaret Mary Votjko died, she died after long service in higher education, she died in hard circumstances, she died in poverty. Yes, we're going to use her death, that's our "agenda," to reveal intolerable and unsustainable forms of exploitation, and to fight against them. I think this is far from "shameful." We honor Margaret Mary by doing this work.
Alan Trevithick, adjunct, Fordham University, Westchester Community College, LaGuardia Community College, board member, New Faculty Majority.
Being long gone from academia, my attention and sympathy is now away from fast food workers being shafted to adjunct professors. Fast food workers at least get to eat on the job .. Catholic Universities , charge $35-$40 K a year tuition now, so I'm really glad to be long gone from them. .!!!!!!!
I don't understand how it could be that she was still working at 83.
I don't understand how come she didn't get benefits from whatever work she did before starting at Duquesne (apparently she started at Duquesne around 58 years old).
I don't understand where her friends and family were during that time, or who formed her community.
We learn that she was 83, poor, and had worked as an adjunct at Duquesne for the previous 25 years. But what about the rest of her life?
I also don't understand how an instructor can be paid for instruction time only, as if they could just enter the classroom and have infused knowledge and instantaneous plans.
I don't understand how instructors can not get paid for grading. At Brown we hire undergraduate students to help grade and we pay them by the hour for that job. Isn't it illegal to pay someone by the hour and not pay them for their hours spent grading?
I am an adjunct professor at Duquesne. I breifly knew Mary Margaret. I understand the comments directed to her situation, but for us teachers, it is about much more. We voted to unionize, but the school fails to reconize our union. They are attempting to hide behind the religious instituion mask in order to avoid the National Labor Relations Board. Although, I believe there are other unions already on campus. This is about Duquesne's unwillingness, as well as hundreds of higher education instustions in this country, to pay adjuncts or at least provide us with a health care option. I needn't go into deatils or arguments about the struggles adjunts face--that information can be found with any simple google search. We hope the spotlight of the issue focuses on workers' rights at our University and Universities across the nation. As a Catholic instution that prides and markets itself on Spiritan values and helping humanity, the fact that Duquesne treat adjuncts unfairly is plain injustice. All we would like is the chance to have our union reconized, so we can fight for a decent pay and some health insurance (something even the graduate students recieve). Mary Margaret is just one story in this broad debate. I am saddened that her legacy is now reduced to this, but it is my hope that it opens up a broader, national discussion about how we proceed in the treatment of adjuncts both at Duquesne and elsewhere.
Margaret Mary Votjko was "well paid by adjunct standards," that person should also be ashamed.
Alan, bitter sarcasm doesn't translate apparently. My point was that Ms. Votjko was paid a very low wage ... and shameful as that is, many are paid even less, especially since course allocations have been cut in order for colleges to avoid paying health care.
Irene --
ONe of the reasons college is expensive now is because the increase in the number of administrators, and the top administrators are often highly paid by any standards. I recently checked out a couple of universities (I forget which ones) and one of them had THREE TIMES the number of administrators as teachers.
When you look at what coaches and other sports employees are paid, well, you see that universities are no longer about education.
According to a Huff Post article on compensation for public university presidents, some college president to be paid over a million a year. A former president of Penn State had compensation over $3,000,000.
"Three other public university chiefs made more than $1 million in 2011-12 at their respective institutions.
"Auburn University president Jay Gogue jumped up from No. 13 in last year's survey to second place this year, getting $2,542,865. E. Gordon Gee dropped from the top spotto third place, but still got nearly $2 million.
"Median presidential pay hit $441,392 in 2011-12, an increase of 4.7 percent from the previous academic year."
Public College President Salaries: Survey Reveals Graham Spanier Highest Paid In 2011-12
Besides salaries, presidents and some others often get other valuable perks, like free housing and cheap loans. See this article on ridiculous perks from Mother Jones:
10 Ridiculous Perks Given to College Presidents and Celebrity Profs | Mother Jones
Jean, please accept my genuine and heartfelt apology-I guess I was not seeing entirely straight. You're quite right, absolutely, and, again, I'm sorry to have been so dense. This story, I guess, has really unsettled me.
I was an adjunct for a few years as a young man. While it would be overstating it to claim that I didn't need the money at that time, still, I was also working as a consultant, and so the teaching wasn't my only source of income, nor my life's calling. Still, I found the teaching work to be enjoyable and fulfilling, and I've thought from time to time that, if/when I get to a stage in life in which my current work, family, ministry etc. are less demanding and time-consuming than they are now, it would be pleasant to pick up a couple of classes somewhere.
Having read this piece and these comments, I now think that people like me probably are part of the problem in the adjunct system. As a matter of social justice, I think it would be wrong of me to compete for classes with adjuncts for whom teaching is their chosen vocation. And in a way, that's too bad, because as I say, I enjoyed the work, and really, I wasn't a bad teacher.
Everyone reading and thinking about this issue needs to read the Thomas Frank piece to which Matthew Boudway pointed us in the topic adjacent to this one.
Jim, you were not part of the problem; I work with many fine folks who are retired or have day jobs in business or industry and who enjoy teaching a class or two in the evening. They may not NEED the money, but they understand those trying to carve out a living from it. Plus it's often those occasional adjuncts who can provide us full-time adjuncts with the network we need to get OUT of academia and into a job that pays.
No, the problem is that college policy-makers require students with bachelor's degrees to jump through two years of general education requirements (it keeps them in the system longer in order to siphon more money out of them). However, the college wants to make those two years of gen ed as profitable as possible, so it demands that those filling those positions have master's degrees (minimum, PhD preferred) and hires them only part time and pays them temp wages. The need for full-timers is clear, given the gen ed requirements, but hiring many adjuncts and paying them low wages and no benefits is much cheaper than hiring full-timers with a full benefits package.
Alan, no apologies necessary; I just wanted to clarify where I stood. I think it's wonderful that this issue is being discussed and that a variety of opinions are being aired.
I get paid $3100 for a course I teach as an adjunct . I'm not doing it for the money, but it makes me wonder a little why students have to pay $35,000 a year in tuition.
Irene, this brief article in the Atlantic suggests that most of it probably goes to financial aid - apparently, it's known as the high tuition / high aid model.
What I'd like to know is this: Let's say that
1) each student at XX University pays $12K per semester tuition,
2) each student takes an average of 4 courses per semester,
3) there are an average of 10 students per course, and
4) adjuncts are paid $3K per course.
This implies that
1) each student pays an average of $3K per course
2) each course of 10 students takes in $30K per course.
But each adjunct is paid only $3K per course. This implies that the university has $27K left over per course. Just where does this $27K per course go if it doesn't go to instruction?
Sounds like university administration is the most inept in the culture.
Ann - see my comment directly before yours - if your hypothetical university is the "high tuition / high aid model", then most of that $27K is actually going to student aid, i.e. the actual amount of incremental revenue coming for your ten student class is, in reality, a good deal less than $30K.
Thanks, Jim, but I'm not sure I understand that. It seems to be saying that the school takes $10. from the rich kid and give $5 to the poor one.
So, in my example, the rich kid would be giving half his tuition of $12K (i.e. $6K) to the poor one, and they would still average out to $6K for those two students, which would be 4 times what the adjunct is being paid. The school is still making money on the rich kid and probably paying administrators and coaches (and janitors) with the surplus. (Im assuming that there are about equal numbers of rich and poor kids.)
I just checked Harvard. 60% of Harvard College kids get need-based scholarships. The school has several billion in endowments, last I read including huge endoments for scholarships, and no doubt much of the cost of those poor kids need NOT be paid for by rich kids. That means that much, if not most, if not all of the rich kids' tuition is going to administrators and other non-teachers. Granted, Harvard has the biggest endowment of all universities, but most other schools also have endowment money to help with scholarships.
A couple of comments.
1) The Spiritans attempted to be charitable (in the best sense) within the confines of an unjust structure. They deserve a little credit for that, yes. But the broader question of how much the Spiritans themselves have benefited from, perpetuated themselves and unjust structure goes unaddressed. The reply from their community is dissembling.
2) The crisis in higher education is multifold, but its root is quite simple. We're offering a product that too few people value, too few people want. There's no shortage of demand for credentials. But does anyone want to spend the time with a scholar studying important questions deeply in a way that refines and challenges their thinking? Does anyone value scholarship and inquiry for its own sake? A few of us, but too few. The premise of MOOC's and the University of Wisconsin's scheme to give credit for 'life knowledge' is the same: speed up the credentialing assembly line. This serves a 'need' for educational consumers and the revenues makes universities quite happy, too. Everyone is complicit. Meanwhile, the 'costs' of higher education go up. Why? Decline of public funding, sure. But it's also true in private institutions. And, how much do salaries, benefits, utilities, library books, and lab expenses really cost? Not that much. What is expensive? Football. Basketball. The vast empire of student life distractions that are the real venue of competition among institutions of higher learning when they seek new customers. Very few prospective students are asking about faculty publications, measuring the quality of instruction, etc. The end result of all of this is unsurprising: faculty become an expense to minimize (adjuncts) instead of the core of the university community--which is what we should be. Do you want to be important on a university campus today, shape its direction and future? Become an assistant director of student life. If you want to teach French or literature or political theory, your future comes at about $2k-$3k per course in a best of all possible outcomes.
Anti-intellectualism sits at the heart of this whole problem. It has found a safe home on campuses across the United States. Visigoths at home amid the gothic architecture.
Steven, I agree with much of what you say, and I think college sports are, at best, a distraction from academic pursuits, and, at worst, attract the "Animal House" element who want to spend four years in college getting drunk and setting sofas afire after big rivalry games.
However, most sports programs are big revenue generators. For example: http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue
Scratch that last comment. I am clearly a dupe of the coach at the nearby Big 10 university who is always touting his team's revenue contributions to the school. Yes, athletics do provide several million dollars in student tuition. But coaches at most of the school listed are paid as much or more than all the tuition grants combined.


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Alina Cojocaru
Posted 16 September 2008 - 07:31 AM
Roberta Marquez replaces her in Swan Lake and Ondine, Leanne Benjamin in Manon, Marianela Nunez does her Nutcrackers with Kobborg, and there's no replacement yet shown for her her in Voluntaries or Theme and Variations.
Benjamin herself is replaced by Mara Galeazzi in the Manons she was originally scheduled for, with Edward Watson.
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She broke her neck awhile back (according to Kobborg's website), and has been injured off and on since. I am just glad she is still alive.
What does "broke her neck" mean exactly?
Posted 01 October 2008 - 03:16 AM
The seven bones in the neck are the cervical vertebrae. They support the head and connect it to the shoulders and body. A fracture, or break, in one of the cervical vertebrae is commonly called a broken neck.
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Evening Standard
However Cojocaru has dropped out of her first scheduled performance of Les Sylphides on May 4th - but she will do her later shows as scheduled, partnered by Johan Kobborg rather than Federico Bonelli.
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Posted 22 April 2009 - 02:49 PM
Ismene Brown interviews Cojocaru about her injury and the long road back, to coincide with her Giselle tonight:
Evening Standard
However Cojocaru has dropped out of her first scheduled performance of Les Sylphides on May 4th - but she will do her later shows as scheduled, partnered by Johan Kobborg rather than Federico Bonelli.
It was good to get the details kind of first hand of Miss Cojocaru's recovery which led to a return to the stage tonight where the Royal Opera House audience gave a standing ovation to her the like of which I
have not witnessed for many decades. What made the response extraordinary was that it was not a typical ballet audience but they were aware that they were watching something that has touched them deeply and the dancing by the two principles was more than laudable, it was illustrative of what force Romantic Ballet can have in the right hands. Here was no sham Romantic style, here was as good an evocation as one might hope to see. Older ballet connoisseurs were out in number and one found oneself saying hello to people not seen for some time. I will write more tomorrow when I have finished celebrating. I hope that you Jane and others will also give us your impressions.
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The only guide we have to dancing Giselle as a Romanic ballet, is La Sylphide and the Royal Danish Ballet repertoire tradition. With RDB at their best, they perform with a real dramatic expression and a continuous flow of movement that suggests flight. I suspect the other authentic aspect of their performances is their ability to impersonate characters of all types, set against the lively human activity of their characterful ballets.
On April 22, Alina Cojocaru returned to the public audience stage after many months away from performing, to assume the role of Giselle.
Partnered lovingly by Johann Kobborg, this extraordinary partnership expressed a rare refinement of style achieving a miracle of Romanticism in which every dramatic and choreographic moment was shaped by the correct emploi.
Cojocaru looks the quintessential Giselle. Young, truly innocent a real simple peasant girl who convinces from the moment she stepped out of her mothers cottage. She is confused by the appearance of this stranger Albrecht and Kobborg realising this, gently and swiftly convinces her that she should not be afraid of him. The interplay that follows is both touching and romantic at a level that brings an expressive reality to their meeting. Here Kobborgs Albrecht gently leads Giselle to trust him and in the short time they are given, she haltingly begins to respond. Miss Cojocaru is sweetness personified, gentle, open and so subtly expressive in her naïve submission to his wooing. Where, when and how does a dancer become Giselle? In my lifetime not many dancers have assumed the miracle of the two portrayals of Giselle in this ballet and in the first act none seemed any more expressive than Cojocaru in what I feel was a truly Romantic reading of the role.
Kobborg and Cojocaru moved with exquisite lightness of their dances. He had recovered his best form with high flowing elevation and perfection in beats with an appropriate weight of execution that I expect few today can stylistically equal.
When her betrayal becomes apparent, Cojocaru reveals a whole physically internalised response and quickly becomes broken, lost, roaming the stage in utter despair. The atmosphere in the Opera House caused by this rapt audience was palpable.
In Act 2, their performances achieved great heights and the beauty of execution of steps, were a joy. Kobborg was remarkable in this act and it was one of those occasions when an audience suddenly realised they are watching something sensational. After his variation the audience, despite the music moving on, kept applauding and it was seven or eight bars before they subsided.
Giselle flowed and floated and so did Albrecht. Dancing was everything and the audience were lost in the magical performance that had unfolded before them. When the curtain came down the tumult was extraordinary. Flowers were thrown in hundreds Miss Cojocaru was presented with extravagant bouquets and the applause became almost deafening when stamping of feet (yes at the ROH) was added by hundreds of among the audience. The response went beyond audience warmth and extraordinarily the whole of the stalls as one stood to applaud, as did the rest of us. The tribute to her and Kobborg was complete.
Miss Cojocaru became Giselle, touching and naïve in character and I thought she now realised her interpretation with a newly assumed status of the powerful performer and projecting the drama so arrestingly while harmonising with the choreography at a very high level. Like all great interpreters, the eyes say so much in Giselle as well as body language and Miss Cojocaru was eloquent on both accounts. Were their moments when she seemed to falter after such a long time away from the stage? Not really. There were a few moments where completion of phrases were slightly faltering, indicating perhaps a lack of absolute stamina at present. In the interaction with her being handled by Albrecht, Hilarion and Berthe, some barely discernible caution was seemingly present.
Genesia Rosato played Berthe effectively enough but Thomas Whitehead as Hilarion did not. Sian Murphy as Bathilde played the role with rather too much disdain and too haughtily when giving the necklace to Giselle. This makes for nonsense of Giselles response to her in the mad scene, where she reacts to the lady who was so kind previously is now revealed as Albrechts fiancée. This Giselle showed it was too much, much to much for her thinking that both Bathilde and Albrecht have deceived her and killed her happiness.
The pas de six which I dislike, was brilliantly led by Yuhui Choe and Steven McRae the latter exhibiting true ballon, not so often seen on this stage.
Laura Morera danced Myrtha efficiently with no great elevation and for me little authority.
The orchestral performance of Adams/Minkuss characterful score was driven with authority by Boris Gruzin.
As regards Cojocaru, given the opportunity, I believe there is even more to come from her in this role.
Was it a great performance? It was for me!
Posted 25 April 2009 - 04:10 AM
Posted 25 April 2009 - 05:09 AM
Your post encouraged me to look again at their 2006 peformance, recorded on dvd. Last time I was deeply impressed by the detailing and the characterizations. You made it possible for me to look more closely at matters of style. An "extraordinary partnership" indeed.
Posted 25 April 2009 - 08:02 AM
Was it a great performance? It was for me!
It was for me too. And for many many others.
When reading enthusiastic comments, I often think to exaggeration, but, believe me, this is not the case: its more understatement.
After such a long waiting it seems a dream to have seen such a miracle twice in five days.
After her first show, on the 18th, Alina Cojocaru said she started rehearsing Giselle only on Monday: 5 days for a masterpiece. As Leonid wrote, in those top level performances, there were some minor falters (if they can be called that way after 5 days of rehearsing and 11 months without performances!) and she preserved herself a little bit in first act main solo, but the artistic level of the shows, the intensity, the spontaneity and the poetry, were extraordinary, close to perfection.
I remember Alina complaining after her recorded shows in 2006 that when we dance Giselle here (in London) it seems that the magic never comes out. Maybe just the tension caused by the cameras, but, even if those shows were beautiful, I knew she was right. Nevertheless I fully understood the complete sense of her words watching their Giselle in Madrid the past year and even more on Saturday and Wednesday: we all were transported in another world. The second act, especially, was just sublime.
Johan Kobborg was in fantastic form: a magnificent actor, as always the most perfect of partners and an absolutely brilliant dancer (his solo in the second act popped out on youtube few hours ago: watch it!).
What a joy to see again the splendid Cojocaru in full health and back on stage and what a joy to watch again that wonderful partnership: a rare and precious thing to preserve as the most valuable treasure.
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Issue Date:
December, 2010
The December issue of Budget & Tax News describes efforts by the board of trustees of the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund to end pension "spiking," which allows government workers to pad their future retirement incomes by receiving large pay hikes during the last years or even months of employment. The Chicago Tribune has estimated pension spiking has cost Illinois taxpayers $145 million over the past 10 years.
Also in this issue:
- A Florida gubernatorial candidate has proposed phasing out the state's corporate income tax, but some groups worry it could harm a scholarship program that benefits from business tax credits.
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has held up a proposed rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River over worries about soaring construction costs that could leave state taxpayers owing billions of dollars more than projected.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission and State of New Jersey have settled fraud charges the SEC levied against the state for misleading investors about the state's pension funding.
- Allowing private entities to serve as first responders to burglar alarm activations--almost all of which are false alarms--could save communities big money and free up police for high-priority calls.
- Two-thirds of the companies that have received $368 million in Texas state funds failed to deliver on their job-creation promises by the end of 2009, according to an independent study.
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