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I always knew Walt Disney World as a magical vacation and thought it would be amazing to work there one day. When people say that Disney is where dreams come true, they aren't lying. I was ecstatic after receiving my acceptance for the Disney College Program. I was accepted as an Attractions Cast Member for the Spring Advantage 2014 program, meaning I would be in Florida from January to August instead of ending my program in May.
Many people asked me what was the purpose of taking off a semester of college to work at Disney World. I always answered by telling them it was a dream come true. It was a wonderful opportunity and I knew I would regret it if I turned the chance down.
Upon check-in day in January at the Vista Way apartment complex in Orlando, I found out my work location: Frontierland in Magic Kingdom. I later discovered I would be working at one of my favorite attractions, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
People think that I worked at a roller coaster for 6 ½ months, but it was much more than pushing buttons. The friendships I made with my fellow cast members and roommates, free park admission, and half a year of fun was only a part of my Disney College Program experience. The skills I learned from working at one of the busiest, most popular attractions in Walt Disney World will stay with me for the rest of my life and can be utilized in any career I pursue. Here are just a few of those skills:
- Communication: I interacted with thousands of guests per hour from all over the world. Many of these guests did not speak English and made me think of how to provide the same magic and helpfulness I would with an English-speaking guest. By using hand gestures and even high school Spanish, I provided memorable experiences for these guests. In addition, I worked with people from all different backgrounds and of all ages. Communication was necessary at my role because so many things were happening at once and you had to be able to communicate with other cast members as well as guests with what was going on.
- Working in a fast paced environment: When I say fast paced, I mean a rapid paced environment. Every roller coaster train had to be dispatched within 36 seconds. This means that the guests had to be double grouped in order to board the trains quickly, their lap bars had to be checked for safety, and the buttons had to be pushed at the right time. Everyone was constantly moving to become more efficient.
- Teamwork: This goes hand-in-hand with communication. The attraction could not operate unless everyone worked together. If one cast member was slacking, we had to help out to make sure the guests were having a wonderful experience.
- Patience: How can you have patience if you are working in a fast paced environment? Well, since not all guests speak English, you have to be patient enough to help them understand what is happening. Guests with disabilities also required patience, especially when boarding and exiting the train.
- Working long hours: Magic Kingdom is known for the long, late hours. Many days I would get off work at 2 or 3 in the morning. Even though I was tired and wanted to go to bed, I continued to smile because there were still guests in the park who were enjoying their time.
- Independence: This was the first time I was living on my own and providing for myself. Most importantly, I learned how to budget my money. I was responsible for arriving to the bus stop early to allow enough time to get to work. I also had to buy groceries and take time out of my life for laundry. It was definitely an adjustment from a college dorm and living at home.
Besides the skills and friendships, the most important part of the Disney College Program is the memories. I knew going into the program I wanted to have more than just pictures. I decided to become a Disney Vlogger and video-blogged my entire program on YouTube. It was a big commitment, but was definitely worth the hours of editing. It was always rewarding to have random guests of all ages visit me at work and recognize me from YouTube; I felt famous! Now that my program has ended, I love to rewatch the wonderful times I had in Disney and continue to relive the magic.
If you are interested in applying for the Disney College Program, here are some things you should know:
- You must be at least 18 years old and currently enrolled in a college or university to apply. This means you can be a graduating senior and apply for the semester after you graduate.
- Applications open in February for the Fall programs and in September for the Spring programs. You can apply for both the Walt Disney World Resort and/or the Disneyland Resort.
- Have an idea of which roles you would be interested in, knowing that anything with interest is fair game. For example, if you don't want to be working in Quick Service Food and Beverage for 4 months, indicate no interest.
- There is a web-based interview that you must pass before you are asked for a phone interview.
- Be confident in yourself and don't forget to smile!
The Disney College Program is a wonderful opportunity. The skills you learn help with any career whether you are going into the hospitality field, business, communications, or medical field. I definitely suggest this internship because what better way to learn, grow, and prepare yourself for the workplace than in the most magical place on earth, Walt Disney World!


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During 2014, Preston Ford in Maryland became the 72nd Ford Dealer in the Nation. Out of roughly 3,300 Ford Dealerships in the U.S., this marks the 4th time in 5-years that Preston Ford was able to rank in the Top 100. Previously, Preston Ford was able to finish 93rd in 2010, 89th in 2011, and 90th in 2013 in Ford sales. Sitting outside of a town with about 803 people, Preston Ford owes their success to their local buyers and to Ford buyers from over 18 states in December alone.
The Top 100 Sales drive has been running for the past 5 years and has brought much success for Preston Ford. David Wilson Jr. began the Mission Possible sales event where they set goals and objectives for the month of December for their store to achieve. These goals were to be #1 in the Region and a Top 10 Ford Dealer for the month of December. Each year the dealer has been able to achieve these goals and this year Preston Ford ended up as #1 in the Washington D.C. Region and 5th Ford Dealer in the U.S. for December 2014.
"The final month of the year is always the busiest time of year for us," says Dave Wilson Sr., President of Preston Automotive Group, "The showroom fills up and everyone is busy with two or three deals at once. You can feel the excitement and energy; I love this time of year." This past December, Preston Ford was able to sell 444 new Fords. Their marketing strategy included deep price discounts and a huge build-up of new Ford inventory. However it was the local community's support that helped them skyrocket December sales.
Top sellers during 2014 and December were the 2014 Ford F-150, 2014/2015 Ford Explorer, 2014/2015 Ford Fusion, and 2014/2015 Ford Escape. So what's next for Preston Ford? "2014 was our best finish yet and I think what is next is to continue with the largest Ford inventory on the East Coast, keeping our prices the lowest, and providing our customers with the best buying experience of any Dealership," says David Wilson Jr, Vice President of Preston Automotive Group.
The dealership plans to be just as successful in 2015. Ford Motor Company recently introduced new 2015 models that are expected to raise sales over the next year. The all-new 2015 Ford F-150 is currently at Preston Ford with more inventories on the way.


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Week 8 was another ridiculous one in College Football's first playoff season! There was another full batch of back & forth shootouts, there was a CRAZY top-five upset, and the top of the rankings reshuffled one more time.
The SEC West made college football history this week, becoming the first conference with four teams ranked in the top five in the country! The ACC's Florida State hung on to no. 2 after a thrilling (and controversial) 31-27 win over Notre Dame. Meanwhile, Mississippi State kept the top spot during its bye week while Ole Miss, Alabama and Auburn climbed into the top five. The Crimson Tide made the biggest statement, clobbering no. 21 Texas A&M 59-0! And the West Virginia Mountaineers helped clear the path by taking down no. 4 Baylor in one of the week's most exciting games. Out west, no. 20 Utah outlasted no. 29 Oregon State 29-23 in double overtime.
College football has a bumper crop of sleeper teams that continue to score in bunches. Still unranked, high-scoring the UNC Tarheels hung 48 points on Georgia Tech. Texas & Iowa State scored a combined 93 points in their game, with the Longhorns hanging on 48-43. Twelfth-ranked TCU went to town on no. 15 Oklahoma State by a surprising score of 42-9. And Marshall—finally in the top 25!—remained undefeated with a 45-13 pounding of Florida International.
As the second half of the College Football season begins, it's unclear how long the playoff picture will take to come into focus. Marcus Mariota will lead the still-rising 6-1 Oregon Ducks against a dangerous California team. West Virginia, now ranked at no. 22, will go to Oklahoma State and face a team looking to bounce back. A game to keep an eye on is third-ranked Ole Miss at newly-ranked no. 24 LSU.
The increasing crop of formidable one-loss teams is creating a logjam at the top of college football. This should make things very interesting when the time comes to pick four…will the SEC maintain its hold on the top of the polls? Tweet us @BracketHead using the hashtag #FanCrazy and sound off with your predictions. You can also send fan photos to us, make bold predictions, and post photos to our Facebook wall. And don't forget to check in and follow us for a chance to win fun prizes!
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Have recently seen a consultant who suggested I have a vaccination against the HIB bacteria (which coincidentally comes combined with the added bonus(?!) of the meningitis vaccine) as I seem to be very susceptible to HIB. Has anyone else had this and, if so, did it work/did you have a reaction to it and are there any suggestions for alternative treatment, please.
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This is a rush transcript from "MediaBuzz," January 10, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: On the Buzz Meter this Sunday, actor Sean Penn secretly interviews El Chapo, the notorious drug kingpin and mass murderer for Rolling Stone, asking such questions as isn't it true that drugs destroy humanity?
EL CHAPO: Well, it's a reality that drugs destroy. Unfortunately as I said, where I grew up, there was no other way and still isn't.
KURTZ: Why would Sean Penn sit down with a fugitive from justice and the magazine give him veto power over the article?
The Republican race turns into a brawl as Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz and the others start swinging away, and the media can't get enough.
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If Senator Rubio would just show up for work every once in a while, he's only got one job.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When it comes to Chris Christie, he got into politics as a supporter of gun control. That's why he ran.
JEB BUSH, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Because if Donald Trump wins the nomination, and he might, Hillary Clinton will beat him like a drum, just tear him up. It will be ugly to watch.
MARK HALPERIN, MSNBC: What we've seen since New Year's is an explosion of attacks not just between Rubio and Christie, but among almost all the top candidates sniping one way or another at each other.
KURTZ: But is the coverage rewarding these attacks?
Donald Trump keeps pounding Bill Clinton over his sex scandals and says he's worried that Ted Cruz is a Canadian.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN: Do you believe Senator Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen?
DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't know, to be honest.
How do you run against the Democrats whoever it may be and you have this hanging over your head?
BLITZER: He says he's a natural-born citizen because his mother is a U.S. citizen, and as a result he's a natural-born citizen.
TRUMP: Well, I hope he's right.
KURTZ: President Obama wipes away tears in announcing new gun control measures and tries to sell his decision with Anderson Cooper.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: What can you say to somebody tonight to convince them that you don't want to take away everybody's guns that you're not coming for their guns?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: First of all, Anderson, I think it's useful to keep in mind I have been president for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.
KURTZ: But with some pundits ripping him for unilaterally changing the law, much of the media openly sympathetic to the President's move. I am Howard Kurtz, and this is "MediaBuzz."
When Marco Rubio declared that Chris Christie is President Obama's favorite Republican Governor among other criticisms, Christie told the Washington Post I don't just think Marco Rubio is going to be able to slime his way to the White House. That pretty much captures the tone of the GOP race, which took a strange turn when Donald Trump started talking about the well-known fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS: Senator Ted Cruz, you have now raised the issue of his birth. He was born in Alberta, Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. Why do you raise that now?
TRUMP: I didn't raise it. The Washington Post raised it, because the worst thing that could happen is he gets sued by the Democrats and he's not allowed to run.
KURTZ: The Texas Senator says he's a naturalized U.S. citizen, because he was born to an American mother. Most legal experts agree. And he tweet Trump with a funny video of the Fonz jumping the shark but reporters kept pressing him.
SEN. TED CRUZ, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And one of the things the media loves to do is gaze at their navels for hours on end by a tweet from Donald Trump or from me or from anybody else. Who cares with all respect? Our good friends of the media are playing into the Democrats' play book. How about we talk about the real challenges facing this country?
KURTZ: Joining us now to analyze the coverage of this no holds barred campaign, Mercedes Schlapp, a political commentator and strategist and veteran of the Bush White House. Betsy Woodruff, a correspondent for the Daily Beast and Michael Tomasky, Editor of the Democracy Journal and a special correspondent for the Daily Beast. All right, so Trump says he's not pushing the Cruz/Canadian birth issue, he's just responding to questions posed from the Washington Post. Is that right?
MERCEDES SCHLAPP, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, I think it's a little twisted, I believe it's another classic Trump act, which is let me bring this up. Yes, I was asked by the Washington Post, but he has been able to carry on and feed this to the media, and the media in response has decided they're going to spend about five or six days talking about the fact of whether Ted Cruz, he was born in Canada, yes and whether he's a natural born citizen and qualifies.
KURTZ: Why are the media doing that?
SCHLAPP: Again, it partly -- we know two facts here. The conservative media for example, they are all in agree this is ridiculous, why are we even covering this. Mainstream media, they like Trump they like the fact let's bring up the doubt in the minds of the voters.
KURTZ: Cruz is in a strange position of trying to brush this off, and producing a copy of hi mother's Delaware birth certificate. No one questioned whether she was an American.
BETSY WOODRUFF, DAILY BEAST: This is where I would take issue, was Breitbart and conservative sites that tons of conservatives read are really driving this narrative.
SCHLAPP: They're concerned the fact...
WOODRUFF: Right, but they're covering -- Breitbart is covering it like a serious news story, while on the other hand our side, the Washington Post other outlets are saying why are we even looking at this.
SCHLAPP: In defense of...
WOODRUFF: Breitbart has been both ways. They had a long article yesterday, very in depth, very much like a look at the documents.
SCHLAPP: Proving the fact he is a natural-born citizen.
KURTZ: Let me jump in here, Michael Tomasky, what does it say about Donald Trump's ability to dictate the media agenda that we have spent a week on this, and it seems to bubble up.
MICHAEL TOMASKY, DEMOCRACY JOURNAL EDITOR: It says what we've known since June, if he opens his mouth, he says it in a way that politicians, Presidential candidates in particular never do, right? He says it in a bombastic way, a somewhat demagogic way.
KURTZ: And he says no I am just trying to help Ted Cruz. I just want him to take care of this legal business.
TOMASKY: We know he's being coy about that. He does drive the agenda.
Every four days, there is a four day Trump mania thing.
KURTZ: Let's go through the harsh rhetoric, now slamming each other as we get closer to Iowa and then New Hampshire, are the media rewarding them with lots of ink and lots of airtime.
SCHLAPP: Absolutely, but it's because it's fascinating to watch the mud wrestling. I think that's been the most fascinating part to watch right now.
KURTZ: Every campaign heats up, but is the media guilty of elevating insults over issues?
WOODRUFF: I think perhaps what the media is guilty of is focusing on Trump to nearly the total exclusion of other candidates, unless they use the terms slimy to describe each other. The bar seems out of whack.
KURTZ: So you're saying the other candidates have to engage in more outrageous rhetoric in order to break through the Trump force field?
WOODRUFF: Without a doubt, because the bar of what makes something outrageous is so high.
KURTZ: We all know the media thrive on conflict -- which journalists are disappointed when Ted Cruz deflects these questions, and they keep asking him again, but aren't you outraged by this? And Cruz has been disciplined in not playing that game.
TOMASKY: Cruz has been disciplined. He has his strategy. Yes, every campaign gets heated, and the media always over-focus on these attacks, but this is a little different because of Trump's presence because he has ratcheted up the insult level, and he's made it a confusing situation.
Usually, if you're in a multi-candidate field, you know who to attack to shed their support and move it in your direction, but now that's totally confused.
SCHLAPP: The media has a big challenge. They have to cover multiple candidates. In the newsrooms, they're asking themselves, who do we cover?
There's only a limited window to give that time available.
KURTZ: Another way that Donald Trump has seized control of the media agenda, this began last week and continued to some extent, with his attacks on Bill Clinton. And talking about past sex scandals which have ignited a million cable news segments and web stories and everything else, so this morning on "Meet the Press," Chuck Todd asked whether Trump was willing to bring up Bill Clinton assist panel.
CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS: Is that a threat to her? Is that what you're essentially saying? You want me to go down that road?
TRUMP: I don't want to say it's a threat.
TODD: But it is a threat.
TRUMP: Of course, I can call it a nicer name, yeah. She was saying he has tendencies towards being sexist.
TODD: Talking about you?
TRUMP: About me. Wait a minute. She's married to an abuser, a woman who claimed rape, all sorts of things.
KURTZ: So that was a candid answer, yes, it's a threat.
SCHLAPP: America loves those types of answers. He is able to say if she attacks me, I will attack her, and its fair game. This is when you throw away the political rule book that we've all tried to follow for the past several Presidential cycles and the fact that -- you know, if he's feeling threatened, he's going to go after her and attack her.
KURTZ: Michael, you have written that Hillary Clinton has an Achilles heel on this subject, and I'll ask you to come back on that, but you also said Juanita Broderick who accused Bill Clinton of rape back in 1978, and Paula Jones who said he exposed himself in '91, and Kathleen Williams accused him of groping her in 1993 at the White House should be viewed by the media in a different category than Monica Lewinsky and Jennifer Flowers, explain.
TOMASKY: Well, it's pretty simple. With Monica Lewinsky and Jennifer Flowers, we know those things happened. Bill Clinton admitted them.
People watching Fox may have no doubt, but Bill Clinton says no. They say yes. There are some inconsistencies in their stories over the years.
TOMASKY: But we don't know the truth, and Bill Clinton certainly isn't going to change his story.
KURTZ: So you're saying it's important for journalists to make distinctions, for example, Ken Starr didn't bring any charges or pursue the allegations. He pursued them, but he didn't find any evidence in the case of Juanita Broderick, for example.
TOMASKY: Right. He didn't find any evidence in that case, and in another case he decided she wasn't a reliable witness.
KURTZ: Of course, Bill Clinton's past misconduct is fair game. He would be back in the White House if his wife wins, but is this again a case of Donald Trump acting as a media assignment editor?
WOODRUFF: To an extent, I think you can definitely argue that, but on the other hand Hillary Clinton said she's standing up for survivors of sexual assault, and anyone who says they were assaulted needs to be believed. She said that on the record. Now we have cases where people are saying we actually shouldn't believe these women? That gets back to how media holds Hillary to her own standard.
KURTZ: Is there any evidence that Hillary was involved in that effort?
SCHLAPP: It sounds like she was an enabler. Looking back in the history of it all, it was clear that whenever any of these women back in the day, again 20 years ago, would bring up their situation of rape or sexual assault, the Clinton machine was clear in jumping, trying to destroy them, attack them. I think Hillary was very disciplined to stay as far away from it as possible. We may not get a straight answer from her, and I think that's a question in the minds of the American voters as well.
KURTZ: Brief response to that.
TOMASKY: You know what I meant by the Achilles heel, she did say that thing about women should be believed. I think what she actually kind of meant was probably women should not be reflexively disbelieved.
KURTZ: Send me a tweet @HowardKurtz. You can also e-mail us email@example.com.
Ahead, when we come back, Rolling Stone has the Sean Penn interview of the notorious El Chapo while on the run from Mexican authorities. Is that journalism?
Also, Hillary Clinton speaking of her, does big sit-down interview on MSNBC, but was the show hardball or softball?
KURTZ: This is a fox buzz alert. Rolling Stone publishing Sean Penn's interview with global drug trafficker El Chapo while he was in hiding and giving the notorious mass murderer veto power over the article. It was a head-snapping moment when we found out about it. What do you think?
SCHLAPP: I think the veto power is kind of interesting. You have to ask yourself the question, it's a drug lord, and he can probably cut my head off, so maybe I do want to give him veto power? I think it works effectively for El Chapo.
WOODRUFF: On the other hand, it's crazy where a journalist feel like -- that's not how you do good journalism. I thought it was from a parody news site at first.
SCHLAPP: And that Sean Penn was the one doing the interview.
KURTZ: He functions as a journalist at times.
TOMASKY: It's really weird. He asked pretty journalistic questions from what I could see. He didn't ask him what your favorite food is. He asked some serious questions, but the media will chew over this one for a long time.
KURTZ: Does anyone think this is an effort on the part of El Chapo, now back in the custody of Mexican authorities, to soften his image a bit and explain himself? Is that the role of Rolling Stone?
SCHLAPP: I think he has a vision of El Chapo goes to Hollywood. That doesn't necessarily work when you're one of the fugitives. You really have to ask yourself a question, he's a smart businessman, and he's caused a lot of trauma and death in Mexico. So I think it's interesting to watch what he has done.
KURTZ: All right, we will talk more about this later in the program, but first Hillary Clinton doesn't do that many TV interviews. She was on CBS this morning. She sat down with Chris Matthews on Hardball. Let's take a look.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: I want to say something nice about you. You went out and acted like a champion for Democrats. You said, you know what, something good can come out of this for me, I can become a hero to people.
KURTZ: What they were talking about there, Betsy, is the period during and after the Monica Lewinsky scandal and how she handled herself, great in Chris Matthews' view and how she went on to become a successful candidate for the senate. What did you make of that interview because it seemed to me that Chris Matthew kept going out of the way to praise her guts?
WOODRUFF: What I thought was fascinating about the interview it barely made any news. She pretty much regurgitates her talking points. The only real standout moment, when we asked her a question she knew was coming -- and her answer was I am a progressive Democrat who wants to see things change. That's not even remotely an answer to the question.
KURTZ: What did you make of that whole question where he said I want to speak out now, and I am...
SCHLAPP: I felt like it was the President from now giving the interview to Hillary Clinton. I find it again, he really honed in on the fact of the gender card, that narrative of the first woman President. Again, it's one thing it plays well with the Democratic base, the women who are supporting her. I guess he's trying to softer her image as well, for the viewers, that's great, but I thought it was an incredibly boring interview.
KURTZ: One of the reasons that this really struck me is that back in 2008, Chris Matthews said the following about Hillary Clinton, the reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason why she may be a front-runner is that her husband messed around, and ten days later Matthews apologized for what he called a nasty remark, so this is kind of a make up call?
TOMASKY: You know in fairness, I would say I have seen in fox segments where Cruz or Trump is on, and they're not exactly given the third degree sometimes on this network.
SCHLAPP: That would have been to consider the cheerleading interview for Hillary Clinton.
KURTZ: I didn't expect an absolute inquisition from Chris Matthews, obviously he makes no secret of having liberal sympathies, but it seemed like a softball conversation.
TOMASKY: She's a tough interview. I have interviewed her. And by design, she doesn't do this very much. She doesn't need to.
SCHLAPP: But at least ask the tough questions, my goodness.
WOODRUFF: Asking how great it is being a champion for women is...
KURTZ: How great is it? On that note, Betsy Woodruff, Mercedes Schlapp, Michael Tomasky, thanks very much.
Up next, we compare the coverage for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in our media microscope. You don't want to miss this.
KURTZ: The question does Donald Trump get more media coverage than Hillary Clinton. The answer is yes, by a lot, according to the new analytics company which found more than 5300 mentions for the Republican frontrunner in the top newspapers, networks, and websites for 4 days this week, compared to more than 3200 for Democratic frontrunner. Now, the GOP race obviously far more competitive, but the tone not that different, you see here a negative in red, positive in greens. Trumps coverage 60 percent negative, Hillary Clinton's coverage a bit better at 55 percent negative.
But now we're going to drill down only to the media in Iowa, not what we all see nationally. The first column for each candidate is four days in the beginning of December. The second column is four days this week.
Trump was utterly dominant a month ago in Iowa, 354 mentions, 4 times as much as the next guy Ted Cruz, but it's almost dropped in half to 173 mentions, as his rivals ramp up their campaigning before the caucuses.
Senator Cruz is hot, almost doubling his attention in Iowa from 74 to 137.
Marco Rubio tripling his presence in Iowa, 40 to 118, Ben Carson may be struggling nationally, but in Iowa he tripled his media mentions, but look at Jeb Bush, less than one-eighth of Trump's coverage.
It remains mostly in negative. Cruz, Rubio, Trump, less negative by 3 to 5 points, an 8-point improvement to Ben Carson and 17-point improvement for Bush. All the candidates starting to change their image as they get more exposure in Iowa.
Ahead on Media buzz, is it fair to scoff at Barack Obama's tearing in discussing gun control, and we'll grade CNN's town hall with the President.
And later, are the media feeding our addiction to all these websites, and apps and gadgets.
KURTZ: The footage has been constantly replayed, President Obama announcing expanded background checks and other measures, tearing up when he recalled the horror of the Newtown School massacre.
OBAMA: Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.
KURTZ: When the President joined with CNN's Anderson Cooper to defend his decision to bypass congress, he was questioned among others by Kimberly Corbin, who was raped by a man who broke in to her apartment.
KIMBERLY CORBIN: I have been unspeakably victimized once already and I refuse to let that happen again to myself or my kids. So why can't your administration see that these restrictions to make it harder for me to own a gun or harder for me take that where I need to be is actually making my kids and I less safe.
OBAMA: I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we have proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.
KURTZ: Joining us now to analyze the coverage of this emotional issue, here in Washington Gayle Trotter, a lawyer and political commentator who writes for the Daily Caller and Townhall.com, and in New York, Eboni Williams, also a lawyer, former CBS correspondent and Fox News Contributor.
Gayle, did CNN do a good job of providing pro-gun voices as well as Gabby Gifford's and other people support more gun control.
GAYLE TROTTER, DAILY CALLER: I have two journalistic criticisms of the CNN town hall. The first is CNN accepted the President's framing of the problem with San Bernardino massacre as being one of gun control or ineffective gun control instead of a problem of radical Islamic terrorism.
My second criticism is they gave the President a platform, nobody else on the platform with him that represents the other side. They did have good questions, but the President, as you know he's a basketball player, too he seemed to run out the clock filibustering the answers. Even though Cooper asked him good questions, Cooper just kind of laid back and let him finish, ramble on and didn't really go after the answers.
KURTZ: There were voices on the other side, and I thought CNN did a good job, particularly in the first half. A top NRA official said his group didn't participate, because CNN insisted on prescreened questions. Is that a problem?
EBONI WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I do think certainly CNN has a right to whatever -- I am sure they held the President accountable to that same standard. I think it's good that the NRA was invited, but played it smart that they didn't show up. I think Anderson did give it some push- back, so I did see some actual pushback.
KURTZ: Right, did President Obama and his supporters -- they say that expanded background checks, this is a modest proposal. Do you think the coverage has been sympathetic to that view?
TROTTER: Certainly. I think journalists unfairly criticized the President for getting emotional when they really should have challenged him on whether or not these executive actions would be effective at actually solving any of these mass shooting incidents, and more importantly about the issue of separation of powers. We know about President Obama's famous quote about using the pen and the phone when he can't get legislation through congress, and this is yet another example where President has taken no and just continued to steam roll over an issue that he cares about.
KURTZ: Right. I would note that CNN did a poll afterwards, 67 percent support President Obama on his gun changes, including a bare majority of Republicans. Eboni, have the media focused enough on the fact this is yet another Obama executive order, yet another incident of the President, using his unilateral authority in bypassing congress?
WILLIAMS: I think they focused too much on it. Is there anything in the proposals? I don't think so, but if there's anything that overreaches or is too brought, he's going to be sued and it will be struck down. They want something more like a registering, but Gayle will know this as well.
When you're talking about anytime -- the President was between a rock and hard place there. I think that's the right decision.
KURTZ: Let me pick up on a point Gayle made, with the President tearing up on that announcement, and some people who are critics of this, critics of the President, kind of mocked him. Let's take a look at a Fox show.
MICHAEL GUNZELMAN, RADIO HOST: Obama was clearly faking his crying.
TOM SHILLUE, FOX NEWS: There you go.
GUNZELMAN: He put pepper to his eye.
SHILLUE: A good actor. What if he turned on the waterworks for political effect, can you blame him?
JOANNE NOSUCHINSKY, FOX NEWS: I really don't think he did. I don't think -- it makes us look bad by saying that.
SHILLUE: Hold on. Come on now.
KURTZ: Eboni, do you think it makes commentators who are challenging whether the President was sincerely choking up, you think it makes us look bad?
WILLIAMS: It's just not my thing, Howard. Certainly, if the President was moved to emotion on that issue, only he knows the authenticity. I am going to take it at face value. I think it's a waste of time quite frankly to be sitting around and scrutinizing the authenticity of somebody's emotions.
People criticize where is his emotion on ISIS and other major things, but again I would say we don't know this man's heart, we don't know what moves him and why.
KURTZ: Just briefly, I mean criticize him on the bypassing congress, criticize his conception of guns, but I watched that live. It looked like a genuine moment.
TROTTER: I would, too, but he threw in the Chicago violence at the end.
It should all be concerning us, the women who are in dangerous neighborhoods who don't have and to because the federal government has made the cost of firearms so high, he should be having tears for them as well.
KURTZ: All right, you two stick around because ahead on "MediaBuzz," are the media really spending time obsessing on Marco Rubio's boots, seriously?
But first, Sean Penn interviewing drug kingpin El Chapo for Rolling stone, was the magazine complicit in trying to improve this notorious criminal's image?
KURTZ: This is a Fox buzz alert, Rolling Stone publishing an interview with El Chapo, the mass murdering drug kingpin just recaptured by Mexico, in an interview done by none other than Sean Penn. One of the questions from the actor, are you prone to violence? Do you try to avoid violence? Or do you use it as a last resort?
'EL CHAPO' GUZMAN: Look, all I do is defend myself, nothing more. Do I go looking for trouble, never.
KURTZ: Rolling Stone acknowledged that Penn and the magazine had made a deal with this criminal to submit the article to him beforehand for approval. And Eboni Williams, what do you make of Sean Penn meeting with this guy, at the time a fugitive from justice and is one of the world's most notorious criminals.
WILLIAMS: I think this is really desperate from Sean Penn. I really don't understand. You look at Sean Penn from outside of his film work, you see him constantly inserting himself in these news cycle stories. Valiant effort with Katrina, but this seems to have a different motivation, different flavor, and frankly I don't like it.
KURTZ: Gayle Trotter, let me read to you some phrases from the article, about 10,000 words, saying El-Chapo has an almost mythic reputation. He's a Robin Hood-like figure, providing much-needed services to the area, and I am drawing with the inconsistent perceptions.
TROTTER: Sean Penn should stick with acting, stay in Hollywood, because the Rolling Stone article with Sean Penn shows a complete moral inversion of journalism. Basically, Rolling Stone and Sean Penn are aiding and abetting a known felon with an international global conspiracy, a criminal syndicate.
KURTZ: How are they aiding and abetting?
TROTTER: Because they're allowing him to have a platform to get his message out. A lot of it is Mexican poverty is what drove El Chapo to go into the marijuana and poppy fields when he was a youth, but that doesn't explain why he's the head of a global drug syndicate. He should apologize to all the Americans whose sons and daughters have died in the heroin epidemic in the United States.
KURTZ: You know Eboni, sometimes journalists have to interview bad guys.
I don't think I would have had -- I might have had a problem with the writing if Sean Penn had gone to prison and talked to El Chapo if he's behind bars, but the fact that the Mexican authorities were conducting this huge effort to find this guy who had busted out of prison for the second time and Sean Penn meets at a secret location, that really made me uncomfortable.
WILLIAMS: Right. And I think it shows again his motives. I don't think it was anything that was journalistic, I think its offensive to actual journalists to lump Sean Penn into that category with them. You and Gayle have both talked about this Robin Hood-like figure, such glamorization, but certainly still looking at heinous charges, murder and tons of other capital offenses. In fact, frankly Rolling Stone coming out of the Virginia/UVA rape case, they have a credibility issue they're trying to rebuild. I don't think this does them any favors.
KURTZ: He was found guilty.
KURTZ: And I criticize this if it's done with a politician, but given this criminal veto power of the article. Rolling Stone said he doesn't exercise it, but it was submitted to him in advance for El-Chapo's approval.
TROTTER: Right. Rolling Stone should have never agreed to that. They already have a credibility issue because of the UVA story, so they shouldn't be denigrating their journalistic responsibility any further. If you read the article, Sean Penn really uses it as a platform for arguing against American drug policy. It's really an opinion piece, not an interview, journalistic episode.
KURTZ: Just briefly, Eboni, ironically some news organization is reporting this morning that this meeting helped Mexican authorities capture finally El Chapo, but what about he could have had clues that he could have given to law enforcement.
WILLIAMS: Absolutely, and also the ends don't justify the means to me. I think if indeed it helped law enforcement track this fugitive down, good for them, but I certainly don't want to give Sean Penn because I don't think that was any part of his intention around it. I think there were steps he could have taken to make this a different outcome.
KURTZ: All right. Great debate, Eboni Williams, Gayle Trotter, thanks very much for joining us this Sunday.
Ahead, the political writer whose nasty tweets about strategists at Jeb Bush's pack turned out to be too much for his bosses.
But first, some people are protesting how Google, and Apple and Microsoft have taken over our lives, and much of that is promoted by the press. Our digital download is next.
KURTZ: The Washington Post calls them digital dissenters, people who think we're too addicted to all these devices and screens, but Apple and Google and Microsoft have the rest of us convinced that they're vital to our existence. We're constantly distracted as we walk around with our eyes cast upon our devices, we're rarely fully present anywhere. Is that true?
Joins us now is Shana Glenzer, Technology Analyst and Executive here in Washington. So are you fully present for this? Do you have some texts that you need to return?
SHANA GLENZER, TECHNOLOGY EXPERT: I checked a few before I came on, so I should be set. But I definitely am distracted by my many devices, I three or four here.
KURTZ: What is this?
GLENZER: This is a Google glass. Have you ever seen it?
KURTZ: Yes, I actually have worn them. The new version came out.
KURTZ: How much did the media play a role? You have to upgrade your iPhone.
GLENZER: I think the media -- certainly, by the time I get home I write about new Google glass on two different sites and three different broadcasts, and I think that it's also the social pressure that you feel.
You log on to Facebook and you see all your friends talking about the latest iPhone or the latest new site that you need to be on, and that really has -- wow, I am getting left out.
KURTZ: The so-called digital dissenters do some of what they say about how dependent we've become, does that resonate with you?
GLENZER: It resonates with me because of one thing in particular, that is data. Every time you buy a new gadget, you're giving away a lot of data about yourself.
KURTZ: Don't we take our privacy for the convenience? We're complicit in all this.
GLENZER: It is a trade-off, but there's times when we don't even thinking about the information we're giving away. I think that's what the digital dissenters are ting to stress is that you're not even aware of how much you're giving and how much people are selling what your habits are online.
KURTZ: Right. But you kind of do this for a living. But I think there is some growing concern among folks that instead of listening to their kids read, they are texting to somebody, and they need to check twitter. There might be new stuff.
KURTZ: I go to lunch and I go at twitter, arguments I have never heard of it. And I am like, wait, I am out of it now.
GLENZER: You feel like you constantly need to be connected. An Apple watch tells you if you're getting notifications, if you're missing something on twitter and it's distracting.
GLENZER: Earlier today, we were playing around with it.
KURTZ: But here's our exit question. Does this backlash matter, by which I mean, are we now all captives of this hyper speed culture and it's not going to change?
GLENZER: I don't think that this will change any time soon. I don't think changing big companies involved in our lives will change. I thing what might change is that the way we get compensated for the data they're pulling from us. I don't think it's going to change anytime soon. In the meantime, I am going to look at Google glass.
KURTZ: We're all responsible for our media diets, Shana Glenzer, thanks very much. Good to see you.
Still to come, Newsweek apologizes for a writer trashing Ted Cruz. A political reporter gets in a vicious twitter war with Jeb Bush's people, and a kick in the pants for the media for focusing on Marco Rubio's boots.
KURTZ: Politico's top reporter in Florida has gotten into a really nasty twitter war with Jeb Bush's super pac. Murphy and his aide Paul Lindsay did a bang-up shot with a $50 million spent. He called ball Lindsay a desperate -- he said running a feckless effort in being given Paul Lindsay intellect butt hurt. Doesn't sound like a reporter treating a reporter fairly. He said he ate ought to get help. A Politico spokesman says these statements were inappropriate. Mark has deleted them and this immediate action speaks for itself.
Meanwhile, Newsweek's editor apologizing for this Nazi picture with the caption Ted Cruz has a strong ground game in Iowa. Wow, your top tweets.
How much coverage should the media give about Ted Cruz being born in Canada? It there is a question about his citizenship, it deserves scrutiny. Considering Cruz was actually born in another country, at least as much coverage as you gave to the Obama birthers. That was ridiculous.
Zero, hashtag Trump plays media like a drum. Perhaps the silliest episode of the 2016 campaign started with a New York Times tweet, Marco Rubio is rocking seriously fashionable black boots today in New Hampshire, which led a Cruz advisor to mock on twitter, a vote Marco Rubio is a vote for men's high heeled booty's, which led to a very prominent story in the Times which led to Vanity Fair wondering how much the boots cost, maybe $90, which led to New York magazine likening him to a heartthrob from One Direction which led to this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Senator Rubio is wearing a boot with a bit of a heel to it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my god. Look at that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're shag-a-licious.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rubio, it's 510. Does he really need the booties?
Let's see Mr. Cruz without the heels.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Rubio campaign told Politico they were from Florsheim, perhaps the Duke.
RUBIO: Let me get this right. ISIS is cutting people's heads off, setting people on fire in cages. Saudi Arabia and Iran are on the verge of a war, the stock market is falling apart. But boy, are we getting a lot of coverage about a pair of boots. This is craziness.
KURTZ: This is craziness. This is how the media stomp over all other important stories. Mercedes, do you agree with that?
SCHLAPP: We need to light-hearten in all of this.
KURTZ: You love this story.
SCHLAPP: It's not that I love this story. But coming from Miami, which is where Marco Rubio is from, his shoes are more like the Miami Beach clubbing shoes I remember back in the day than what you connect with what would be the Republican conservative.
KURTZ: What do you prefer?
SCHLAPP: Wait a second. I prefer these nice muddy cowboy boots my husband wears all the time. That's what I think we've got to send over to Marco Rubio's campaign office.
KURTZ: I understand this is a lot of fun, but Politico actually ran a piece saying the other candidates are using this pressing issue as proving him effeminate.
SCHLAPP: Now they're taking the story a little way over the top. Come on.
He's a Dolphin fan. He talks about fantasy football all the time. We don't need to question Senator Marco Rubio's manhood.
KURTZ: All right, thanks. And we've already given this way too much air time. Time for me to stay that's it for this edition of "MediaBuzz," I am Howard Kurtz in Washington. Let's hear from you. And as every week, we're back here next Sunday, you know the time, 11:00 and 5:00 Eastern with the latest buzz.
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Miro Magloire
Artistic Director / Choreographer
Miro Magloire
Artistic Director / Choreographer
Lauded as "refreshingly original" by Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times, choreographer Miro Magloire is the founder and artistic director of New Chamber Ballet.
Magloire has created over 60 ballets in his signature style for his company, all distinguished by sweeping elegance, a striking theatricality, and bold musical choices. "It's heartening to see work so focused on the meeting of dance and music," Macaulay wrote in his Times review, "always you're aware of an intelligence at work that resists romantic cliché."
Known for his visionary collaborations with musicians - singers, violinists, pianists and large ensembles - Magloire has a special affinity for cutting-edge contemporary music, which has led him to work with many of today's leading composers.
Magloire, the subject of a 2008 full-page profile in the Sunday NY Times, recently received an O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation Grant. His works have been commissioned by Joyce/SoHo, Roulette, the Moving Sounds and Sonic Music Festivals in NYC, the Sarasota Opera, Grace Farms Connecticut, the Center for Faith and Work NYC, and the American Academy in Rome, Italy; and performed at the Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage, Ailey/Citigroup Theater, the Center for Performance Research, the Museum of Art and Design, and Bramante's Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, among other venues. He has collaborated with the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo, Ensemble Sospeso and, in addition, has created ballets for CelloPointe, Periapsis Music and Dance, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the State Academy of Dance in Cologne, Germany.
Born in Munich, Germany, Magloire started his career as a composer. At age 17 he won the "Forum of Young Composers Award" in North Rhine-Westphalia, and went on to study with Mauricio Kagel at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne, Germany.
After relocating to New York to study Modern Dance at the Ailey and Martha Graham Schools, where his teachers included Yung-Yung Tsuai and Kazuko Hirabayashi, and ballet with Wilhelm Burmann and Peff Modelski among others, he turned his attention to choreography and in 2004 founded New Chamber Ballet.
In 2017 he was one of 25 arts leaders nationally selected for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' (APAP) Leadership Fellows Program.
Read an interview with Miro Magloire about his creative process (April 2015)
Another interview, about new artistic trends at New Chamber Ballet (November 2017)
Read a New York Times profile of Magloire (June 2008)
A video interview about directing a company in NYC's crowded cultural scene (October 2017)
Sarah Atkins
Sarah Atkins
Sarah Atkins began her ballet training at State Ballet of Missouri under the artistic direction of Todd Bolender at the age of 9. She graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.F.A in Dance Performance and a Minor in Art History. Since moving to New York she has performed with the Eglevsky Ballet, Ballets with a Twist, Ballet Next, MOVE: the company, CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Morphoses for Luca Veggetti's Bacchae, and Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet. She is a member of Emery LeCrone Dance. This is Sarah's eighth season with New Chamber Ballet.
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, where she studied dance with Kathey Ward and Li Chou Cheng. She moved to New York City in 2000 to attend the Alvin Ailey School and Steps on Broadway. Currently, she trains with Willy Burmann and is also a member of ad hoc Ballet. She is a founding member of New Chamber Ballet.
Kristy Butler
Kristy Butler
Kristy Butler received her early dance training at Royal Academy of Ballet in Buffalo, NY. She went on to train at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and at Charlotte Ballet as an apprentice. She has attended NYSSSA, Boston Ballet, CPYB, Charlotte Ballet, and Gaga summer intensives. After spending one season in Charlotte Ballet II, Kristy was in the corps of San Francisco Ballet, where she performed in Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppelia, and Onegin. Kristy has danced internationally at Kunst am Spreeknie Festival and with the Romanian National Ballet. This is her second season with New Chamber Ballet.
photo: Arnaud Falchier
Traci Finch
Traci Finch
Traci Finch, originally from Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University with her BA in Dance. She currently dances with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet and CelloPointe. Recent projects have included guesting with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens and dancing in re-stagings of Merce Cunningham's Cross Currents, Inventions, Locale, and Fractions. She also has performed in Constantine Baecher's works in the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival and in Hudson, NY. This is her fifth season with New Chamber Ballet.
photo: Tom Caravaglia
Amber Neff
Amber Neff
Amber Neff began her training in New York at The Dance Design School, where she completed the RAD vocational examinations. She went on to train at the HARID Conservatory on full scholarship and later graduated from the the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theater. Amber has danced with Boston Ballet, Richmond Ballet, the Eglevsky Ballet, Intermezzo Dance Company, and Emery LeCrone DANCE, and is currently performing with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Claudia Schreier and Company. This is her sixth season as a member of New Chamber Ballet.
photo: Tom Caravaglia
Rachele Perla
Rachele Perla
Rachele Perla grew up in West Boylston, MA, and received her early dance training at the Boston Ballet School. Currently, Rachele is receiving her BFA in Dance at Fordham University/The Ailey School. She has had the opportunity to perform works by George Balanchine, Mikko Nissinen, Alvin Ailey, Adam Barruch, Amy Hall Garner, and Robert Hill.. This is her first season as a member of New Chamber Ballet.
photo: Tom Schaefer
Madeleine Williams
Madeleine Williams
Madeleine Williams trained in her native Australia at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. There she appeared in works by George Balanchine and Nacho Duato, before joining the academy's LINK Dance Company. Madeleine has performed around the world including China, France, and the Netherlands. She recently relocated to the U.S. This is her first season as a member of New Chamber Ballet.
photo: Tom Schaefer
Melody Fader
Melody Fader
Pianist Melody Fader enjoys a busy career in New York City as a chamber musician, vocal accompanist, freelance artist, and teacher. Miss Fader has performed there in venues that include Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Internationally, she has appeared in Germany, Belgium, England, Spain, Canada, Israel and at Italy's famed Spoleto Festival. In 2012, Miss Fader released an album of solo piano music by Frederic Chopin on Centaur Records, currently available for sale and download on iTunes and all other music sites. She is the founder and director of the Melody and Company chamber series, currently in its 3rd season, in which she also performs. She has performed solo piano roles for ballets at the Joyce Theater with Buglisi Dance Theater and the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and has toured as the Dance Theatre of Harlem's company pianist. Miss Fader has been a prizewinner at the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition and the Aspen Concerto Competition, leading to solo appearances as well as chamber music performances throughout the U.S. She is also on the piano faculty of the Greenwich House Music School in NYC. Miss Fader earned her Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and Master of Music in Collaborative piano at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Margo Garrett. This is her thirteenth season with New Chamber Ballet. For more information, visit her website at www.melodyfader.com.
Doori Na
Doori Na
Known for his sweet and "sumptuous" (New York Times) tone, American-born Doori Na took up violin at the age of four and began his studies with Li Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He quickly made his first performance with orchestra at age seven with the Peninsula Youth Symphony as the first prize winner of the concerto competition. Thereafter Mr. Na went on to win top prizes in The Sound of Music Festival, The Korea Times Youth Music Competition, the Chinese Music Teacher's Association, The Menuhin Dowling Young Artist Competition, The Junior Bach Festival, VOCE of the Music Teacher's Association of California, and The Pacific Musical Society. Receiving full scholarships to private high school Crossroads School of Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, he moved to Los Angeles to study with renowned violin teacher, Robert Lipsett, at The Colburn Music School. There he appeared as soloist with the Palisades Symphony, Brentwood Symphony, and Torrance Symphony.
Currently living in New York City, Mr. Na plays with numerous ensembles around the city. He has played with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with tours in the US, Japan, and Europe, performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Musikverein in Vienna. Other orchestras include American Symphony Orchestra at Bard College, American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House, and Riverside Symphony at the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. The music of our time has also been an integral part of Mr. Na's New York life. He is part of the New Music Project of Argento Chamber Ensemble performing the works of Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, and many more.
Chamber music has always been a big part of Mr. Na's growth as a musician. He has collaborated with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera and has toured with Itzhak Perlman at venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Other notable experiences include performing at the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach with the Bonhoeffer Trio and Les Amies trio.
Mr. Na attended the Juilliard School with the Dorothy Starling and Dorothy Delay scholarships and holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree, having studied under Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Donald Weilerstein. He was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and played on a Guadagnini and a Vuillaume violin from Juilliard's prestigious violin collection. He currently works at Juilliard as a teaching assistant to Catherine Cho and as a teacher for the Juilliard Pre-College orchestra. This is his sixth season with New Chamber Ballet.
Constantine Baecher
Resident Choreographer
Constantine Baecher
Resident Choreographer
Constantine Baecher is a dancer and choreographer who lives in New York, but divides his time between Europe and the US. He is the artistic advisor of Denmark's Copenhagen International Choreography Competition (CICC) and Cross Connection Ballet Company (CCBC), both of which he co-founded in 2007.
An active freelance choreographer, Constantine has created works for companies including New Chamber Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, Cross Connection Ballet, KUNST-STOFF San Francisco, MoveiUS (Washington DC), the Columbia Ballet Collaborative and the Lake Tahoe Dance Collective. As a dancer, Constantine performed with the Royal Danish Ballet from 2003-2011 and currently tours with the Carolyn Carlson Company based out of the National Theater of Chaillot in Paris. In 2013, along with former NCB dancer Christin Hanna he launched the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival and Summer Training Intensive.
In 2011 Constantine received the Albert Gaubier Award for his contribution to dance in Denmark, and was awarded an artist grant in 2012 by The Danish Arts Foundation.
Since 2006 he has choreographed eleven ballets for New Chamber Ballet, and was appointed resident choreographer in 2014.


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Koh Rong island lays appr. 20 km northwest of the city of Sihanoukville (Kampong Som). From Serendipity pier speedboats leaves each day to Koh Tui on Koh Rong and to Saracen Bay on Koh Rong Samloem at 8.30 and 11.00 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. The transfer is about 40 minutes and by far faster then in earlier days, when only slow boats made the passage. The boat agencies Koh Rong office and Koh Rong dive shop can be found in Serendipity Road nearby the lions circle (Serendipity map
). Also Monkey Republic in the same road sells tickets to Tui Beach. The return ticket costs 30 USD (retour). Retour is scheduled at 9.30 a.m., noon and 4.30 p.m.
There is a speedboat connection between Tui Beach and Saracen Bay on Samloem as well. It starts from Saracen Bay at 10.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m. from Tui Beach. The one way ticket costs 10 Dollar.
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The speedboats only service Tui Beach and Saracen Bay. The other beaches can only be reached by feet or by private longtail boats, what is individual and quite expensive. The trip to Sok San Village costs about 30 Dollars, to Palm Beach Resort 40 Dollars. Most bungalow resorts at other beaches offer own longtail boat transfers from and to Sihanoukville, which may last up to 3,5 hours.
From Tui Beach there is a jungle pathway to Sok San Beach, which takes about one hour to walk. Walking along Sok San Beach to the village, takes another two hours.
In Sihanoukville there are several options for spending one or more nights along Serendipity Road, hotels and a good number of cheap backpacker guesthouses and hostels. Good recommendable hotels near to the pier and beach are:
Sihanoukville can be reached from Phnom Penh or Siam Reap by bus, train or airplane. CambodiaAngkorAir offers daily flights for the short distance of 230 km from Phnom Penh, for which cars and busses need appr. 4,5 hours. Busses and Minibusses (mini vans) offer transport all day long in both directions and cost between 4 and 10 Dollars. If you like to book the ticket and seat in advance online, we recommend the modern mini busses of Giant Ibis (pick up from the hotel included). If you like to go more individual and flexibel, taxis will like to do the drive for about 40-60 Dollars. But they are also depending on the street and traffic situation along the crowded two lane highway.
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Phnom Penh and Siam Reap can be reached by plane from e.g. Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok with AirAsia.
To enter Cambodia, there is a need for a visa for tourists. This can be bought on arrival at the airports og Siam Reap or Phnom Penh or before traveling as an e-visa online. It is valid three months from admittance day and makes a 30 day visit possible (no reentry). It costs 20 USD. For getting the e-visa, please visit www.evisa.mfaic.gov.kh . The passport must be valid more than six months after end of visa validity. There is a need for one pass photo. In case of using visa on arrival, the visa formulars will be presented in the plane before arriving and should be filled out before arriving at the immigrations.
It is advisable to always get the newest information about visa regulations due to changes, esp. if you plan to enter Cambodia by land borders or by Mekong boats from Vietnam.
book your Sihanoukville and Koh Rong accommodation here
From December to March the weather is mostly sunny and warm. This is the best traveling time. In December and January the temperatures can fall down under 20 degrees Celsius by early morning, so a light jacket or long armed shirt can be good to have. In April and May it is very hot, temperatures may rise above 35 degrees. End of May the rainy season starts and normally lasts till mid of November. But this does not mean, that it rains without breaks. There maybe sunny and nice days or strong and heavy rain showers appear only in the afternoon hours. If the sun is hidden behind big clouds, the temperatures normaly are more comfortable.
Actual exchange rates
In Cambodia the official currency is the Riel, but everybody pays with US-Dollars. The fixed exchange rate is 4000 Riel for one Dollar.
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the bill please
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djumriab sua
lia sen haoy
koet luy
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More Or Less Making Sense Most Of The Time
More Or Less Making Sense Most Of The Time
11/21/2015 – Michigan 28, Penn State 16 – 9-2, 6-1 Big Ten
[Eric Upchurch]
I have seen things when Michigan plays Penn State. I have seen boggling things. Things I should not repeat but am about to anyway.
I have seen a free Hail Mary handed the opposition. I have seen a timeout just before an intentional safety. I have seen 27 runs for 27 yards. I have seen Michigan's slot receiver left alone, all alone. I have seen a slot receiver wonder if any of these 100,000 people can see him, especially the offensive coordinator. I have seen a slot receiver's constituent atoms disperse as he convinces himself he must not exist after all. Then I saw some more runs for one yard. Somewhere in there Dennis Norfleet dances in a loop for all time, because sure that makes as much sense as anything.
I have been baffled. I have been enraged. I have been morbidly entertained. I have been stupefied, watching Michigan play Penn State.
Things have been a bit frustrating the past few weeks, what with an avalanche of procedure penalties, offsides calls, and special teams mishaps. But when presented with a situation where they did not expect to and could not run the ball much, Michigan did not repeatedly bang their collective head into a brick wall.
Michigan's final drive featured five De'Veon Smith runs and one kneel-down. Five Jake Rudock attempts were sacks or scrambles. Once those are put in the appropriate bins, Michigan ran just 19 times to 43 passes.
Two years ago in that very stadium a complete wreck of an offensive line took on an equally stout Penn State defense. They didn't throw one wide receiver screen. Fitzgerald Toussaint ran 27 times for 27 yards. This year before garbage time time, De'Veon Smith had 8 carries; 6 went to Chesson and Peppers.
Michigan's going to be a good rushing offense. Probably great. But even though that's what Harbaugh wants to do, he adapted to the situation he was presented with. That's terrific.
Coaching can be divided into a few different categories. Development, recruiting, and tactics seem to cover the bases. While Michigan is still struggling with the near-total lack of the former under the previous regime, the latter was totally on point here. Can't say that about two years ago. Or a year ago. While Michigan remains a bit wobbly, a bit rickety, the things they are doing make sense.
Michigan played Penn State on the road and the only stupefying things that happened came from reliable sources like Big Ten referees and James Franklin trying to manage a game. Meanwhile Ohio State played Michigan State in the most stupefying game of the year. Now is the time to sit back and appreciate the fact that things more or less make sense.
It ain't perfect and it'll never be, but Michigan tries a bunch of things and takes what the opposition gives and if something isn't going great they stop doing it. The only time I've gotten really twitchy about tactics was against Indiana when Michigan ran play action on second and twenty that led to an interception. (I was mildly twitchy about Michigan's passivity on Indiana's go-ahead touchdown drive.)
In a world where Ohio State throws 16 times against Michigan State, where Tim Beckman is seen as a viable hire for a position more involved than vending machine*, where every coach in America seems to need a 14-year-old kid who plays Madden nonstop on the sideline, "more or less makes sense most of the time" is gold. Michigan's coaching staff has not punched itself in the face for four hours on any given Saturday, and in the cold light of dawn two days after a stupefying weekend of college football that warms the ol' cockles right up.
*[Not "vending machine technician." Vending machine.]
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Also a Butt TD solo clip.
Known Friends And Trusted Agents Of The Week
you're the man now, dog
#1 Amara Darboh changed the complexion of the game with an outstanding tip-toe catch along the sidelines at the end of the first half. He had six other catches and blocked for a bunch of wide receiver screens, as well.
#2 Chris Wormley was the most consistent and dangerous of Michigan's defensive linemen, racking up 1.5 sacks and another half TFL. Wormley and the rest of the DL gave up one big Saquon Barkley run (mostly on Willie Henry and the linebackers) and shut everything else down, leaving PSU relying on the tempestuous Christian Hackenberg to move the ball.
#3 Jake Rudock threw one ugly interception. When not doing that he completed two-thirds of his passes for 256 yards. 6.7 yards an attempt isn't electric but since a half-dozen or more of those were wide receiver screens that Michigan used in place of a running game that may understate things. Also, Penn State has had one of the best pass defenses in the country to date.
Honorable mention: Jake Butt and Jehu Chesson had 66 and 69 receiving yards, respectively, and along with Darboh have established Michigan's receiving corps as a very good one. Henry, Hurst, and Taco Charlton helped out immensely, minus the Henry cut. Jourdan Lewis remains Jourdan Lewis; his KO return also helped seal the game.
KFaTAotW Standings.
9: Jourdan Lewis (#1 UNLV, #1 Northwestern, #1 MSU), Jabrill Peppers(#2 BYU, #2 Northwestern, #2 MSU, #1 Minnesota)
8: Jake Rudock (#3 Northwestern, #1 Rutgers, #1 Indiana, #3 Penn State), Chris Wormley(#2 Utah, #1 Oregon State, #3 Rutgers, #2 Penn State)
5: Jake Butt(#1 Utah, #2 Rutgers)
4: Maurice Hurst (#2 Maryland, #2 Minnesota),
3: De'Veon Smith(#2 Oregon State, #3 BYU), Ryan Glasgow (#1 BYU), Desmond Morgan (#1 Maryland), Amara Darboh(#1 PSU)
2: Ty Isaac(#2 UNLV), Willie Henry(#3 Utah, #3 MSU), Jehu Chesson(#2 Indiana)
1: AJ Williams (#3 Oregon State), Channing Stribling(#3 UNLV), Blake O'Neill(#3 Maryland), Drake Johnson(#3 Minnesota), Delano Hill(#3 Indiana).
Who's Got It Better Than Us Of The Week
This week's best thing ever.
Jourdan Lewis rips off a 60-yard kickoff return after Penn State draws within five, setting up a short field that Michigan drives for a game-sealing TD. Better is that he called his shot with Harbaugh beforehand.
Honorable mention: Darboh's tip-toe catch. #Buttdown. Harbaugh strippin' rage. Any number of sacks and TFLs.
WGIBTUs Past.
Utah: Crazy #buttdown.
Oregon State: #tacopunts.
UNLV: Ty Isaac's 76 yard touchdown.
BYU: De'Veon Smith's illicit teleporter run.
Maryland: Jehu Chesson jet sweeps past you.
Northwestern: Chesson opening KO TD.
MSU: the bit where they won until they didn't.
Minnesota: form a f-ing wall.
Rutgers: Peppers as Denard.
Indiana: Delano Hill seals it with a PBU.
PSU: Jourdan Lewis breaks their back on a kickoff.
This week's worst thing ever.
Ohio State tests Michigan State's secondary twice. In a game of football. Against Michigan State. What are you even doing?
Honorable mention: Punt blocked. Any number of offsides or false start penalties. The touchdown Peppers allowed. Any number of infuriatingly bad calls. That fourth and ten conversion against great Lewis coverage.
PREVIOUS EDBs
Utah: circle route pick six.
Oregon State: Rudock fumbles after blitz bust.
UNLV: Rudock matches 2014 INT total in game 3.
BYU: BYU manages to get to triple digit yards in the last minutes of the game.
Maryland: Slog extended by deflected interception at Houma.
Northwestern: KLINSMANN OUT
MSU: Obvious.
Minnesota: The bit where the lost it until they didn't.
Rutgers: KO return given up.
Indiana: run run run run run run run run run run run run.
PSU: OSU's WHAT ARE THOOOOOOSE gameplan against MSU.
[After THE JUMP: defense back, Rudock maintaining.]
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Confidential by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman is the acclaimed book about Arnon Milchan, "The Life of the Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon."
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