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Although it was (opera) director Peter Sellars who actually suggested to Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952), that the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) would make a good subject for her music, the composer was already familiar with Weil's life and work, having read the latter's writings since she was young. The result is a striking, convincingly "through-composed", musically- and sonically-balanced oratorio, which Saariaho describes as a "Musical path in fifteen stations". Weil's short life was packed with commitment: to overcoming illness; to resisting prejudice against women; against racism; to the anarchist cause, and that of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War; to opposing the Nazis' grip on her French homeland; to the endurance of proletarian workers in the face of technology as represented by the production line. She effectively converted to Catholicism later in her life, which must be reflected in this structure… note the (usually 14) Stations of the Via Crucis/Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross/Way of Sorrows).
For the Passion De Simone is an intense, harrowing, concentrated yet ultimately uplifting work for soprano solo (Dawn Upshaw), narrator (text lovingly, intimately, spoken by Dominique Blanc – and melodiously), chorus (the Tapiola Chamber Choir), orchestra (the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and electronics. The conductor here is Esa-Pekka Salonen. Characteristics of the work are its extreme energy. Its variety. The color with which Saariaho infuses choral, solo and orchestral interplay… listen to the contrast between woodwinds, xylophone and voices in the middle of the Seventh Station [tr.7], for instance. And the superb marriage of purely musical impetus with the need to present the historical-social component of the work as totally digested. Good social science doesn't necessarily translate into good music.
In this case it does. La Passion De Simone now joins several other of Saariaho's works examining female protagonists whose love is consuming and, one is tempted to say, tragic. The sense of the personal is underlined by Upshaw's detached yet committed singing (which runs the gamut from tender to the stridency, for example, of the end of the Eleventh Station [tr.11]) and Blanc's very personal narrative passages. And by the immediacy of the chamber orchestra's presence. Premièred in 2006, this is a live recording from October 2012 in the Helsinki Music Centre.
Salonen moves La Passion De Simone forward at all times – not just at moments such as the huge crescendo at the end of the Sixth Station [tr.6]; but as a principle to pull out the sense of the many threads of Weil's life, work and beliefs, career, realization, progress, and maybe even resolution as the oratorio progresses, for that is an attribute of the form. Although the spoken and sung components of the work necessarily mean it's dramatic in essence and substance, it also has the distance and tone of an oratorio. At times one may be reminded of the "neutrality" which Stravinsky sought in Oedipus Rex: La Passion De Simone is in no way domestic, introverted or maudlin. Much of the music is slow, though it's exciting and beautiful music as much as it's deliberative.
The work has the same almost abstract preoccupations as the great Baroque Passions and is built on tension, on an awareness of unhappiness and the unusual circumstances of Weil's death (she refused treatment and food when diagnosed with tuberculosis) as well as Saariaho's fascination with the discrepancy, the gulf at times, between (Weil's) life and work, which are mirrored by contrasts between (her) interest in mathematics and political forces and spiritual achievements.
None of this is necessarily easy to express in music, even music with speech. Saariaho succeeds splendidly. In ways not dissimilar to those of Gubaidulina in her "St. John Passion", say. But La Passion De Simone is more personal. The fact that the sung and spoken elements are projected as both literal expositions of ideas and feelings as well as more reflective observations aids the impact of the work in terms of the way it has distilled its subject matter. Such a theme (of an individual as determined as she is subject to circumstance) is not new to Saariaho. It's worked through so successfully in no small part because of the way musical components blend… soloists, speaker, orchestra, choir, electronics. It's a format that also facilitates well Saariaho's interest in the essences of sound qua sound. The present production and recording support this admirably. And, given the many different aspects of Weil's life and preoccupations, the work requires a musical unity and wholeness that Salonen elicits almost without apparent effort in the concert performance(s) from which this recording is taken.
This SACD at nearly 70 minutes has superb sound in a rich and spacious acoustic, which aids the sense that we are empathizing with, rather than witnessing, Weil's concerns. The booklet that comes with the CD has a brief background to La Passion De Simone, details of the performers and – most usefully, perhaps – the full libretto by Amin Maalouf in French with English. A new work by Saariaho is a major event as her stature among contemporary composers continues to grow. If you're new to her work, this is an excellent place to start. It's a truly beautiful compelling and engaging very rounded work given a first class performance by musicians who are as technically brilliant in executing it as they are committed to Saariaho's aims. If she's familiar to you, you won't want to overlook this CD. Not least because the composer considers La Passion De Simone to be her most important work to date. It's a splendid testament to the state of contemporary music, and new music of this genre. Unhesitatingly recommended.
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As part of our celebration week for the 30th Anniversary of the Famicom system, we'll highlight some key retro reviews to highlight the best of what the 8-bit system had to offer. Today we have DuckTales, and don't forget to click the Famicom banner on the homepage to see our content for this special occasion.
Isn't it great when a licensed game turns out to be awesome? We are too often fooled into wasting money on sloppy attempts to bring our favourite characters into the video game world. After being burned countless times, usually during childhood when you don't know any better, you may begin to avoid licensed games altogether. Anyone that played DuckTales back in the NES days, however, knows that the risk can be worth taking. In fact, this game might be responsible for so many of us giving licensed games a chance, even after being let down by unworthy cash-ins so many times. DuckTales reminds us that it's possible to do it the right way.
Everyone knows that platformers were very popular back in 1989, thanks largely to Super Mario Bros. DuckTales jumped on the bandwagon with several features that were common in the era, such as an invincibility power up and a generous timer for each level. It also has several unique aspects to it, such as Uncle Scrooge's ability to bounce on his cane like a pogo stick. You can spend most of a level just bouncing away, landing on enemy heads to defeat them, or reaching high places that are untouchable with your normal jump. The jumping mechanics in this game really help to flesh out Uncle Scrooge as we know him – a wily old duck. No, he can't leap from rope to rope with ease or even run to jump farther. He's too old for that! What he can do is bounce on his cane and rain total destruction on anyone standing between him and his money. And who can't admire that?
Each level has a unique theme and feel to it. The amount of detail and thought the designers put into the stages is excellent. This is how it always should be. If you're going to feature the typical variety of video game environments, you should make it fun and interesting. DuckTales didn't take the lazy way out, instead making sure that each level had its own set of unique challenges. For instance, in the Himalayas stage, Scrooge will sink if you pogo into the snow. This forces you to spend most of the level walking normally, only resorting to bouncing on the cane when you have to. To contrast that, there's the Amazon stage, where you'll almost constantly be bouncing around, dodging enemies that are running at you and reaching higher vines to climb. Transylvania features mirrors that teleport you to different parts of the stage, and a tricky "illusion wall" that may have you feeling lost until you figure out where it is. This leads to Metroid-style exploration and retracing of steps. Fitting your playing style to the environment keeps the game fresh, and without a save feature, it's nice to stay interested while you're trying to beat the game in one sitting.
DuckTales is fairly short, but non-linear gameplay adds replay value into the mix. You can choose to tackle the stages in any order, and there are a couple different paths to take in almost every level. You can even unlock an alternate ending by discovering hidden treasures and collecting enough money by the end of the game. With three difficulty settings to choose from, it's plenty of fun to visit Duckberg more than once. The easiest setting is by no means a walk in the park, and still offers a nice challenge while giving the player a break from some of the trickier aspects. The most challenging setting sets the bar high, with more frequent enemies and a faster pace; no matter the difficulty, though, the boss battles are very easy. It's always just a matter of dodging an attack and bouncing on your enemy's head. You would think that Magica De Spell could whip up something more threatening than tossing a few lightning bolts at you, or that Flintheart Glomgold would have more tricks up his sleeve to prevent his worst enemy from becoming the richest duck in the world.
The references to the DuckTales universe are everywhere, and the game features cameos from all the stars of the show. For instance, Launchpad will appear at the checkpoint of each level to offer you a ride back to Duckberg. Other notable characters that make appearances are Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Webby Vanderquack, Mrs. Beakley, Magica De Spell, Gizmo Duck, and a slew of others. The greatest part about encountering them is that each retains what made them a unique part of the show; you can almost hear Webby's worried voice when she tells you Huey has been captured, or Magica's evil laugh that leaves her trembling with evil delight just before she disappears. Uncle Scrooge himself is the greatest example of this, and he maintains his distinct attitude and humour for all of the dialogue.
The graphics in DuckTales are excellent, bright and colourful, similar to other Capcom titles of the time. A true testament to this is that the game still looks good enough to be entirely playable hiccup-free over twenty years since its release. These aren't the most advanced graphics the NES is capable of, but they don't have to be; if the goal was to evoke the feeling of watching an episode of the TV show, Capcom succeeded. It's in 8-bit form, but it's the Duckberg we all know and love.
The music is wonderful, and each stage has its own track that subtly adds to the experience. The score of the Moon level is futuristic, the Amazon is upbeat and adventurous, and Transylvania is creepy and haunting. That of the Mines stage is fairly uninspired, but it's the exception in an excellent track list. All of this is beside the trademark theme song from the show that's played at the title screen – it's just as fun to hear in an NES game as it is from your TV.
If you need to scratch your NES nostalgia itch or you also loved DuckTales as a kid, this game is for you. The gameplay is unique and extremely fun, the presentation is excellent, and the characters you know and love are intact; non-linear exploration and an alternate ending will have you coming back for more. Uncle Scrooge is just as cranky and loveable now as he was twenty years ago, and this would be an instant buy should it ever come to the Virtual Console. The game is kept from a perfect score by its easy boss battles and relatively short length, but it's still one of the best examples of an excellent licensed game around.

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On 28-29 November we were delighted to welcome over 150 teachers from Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and China to our second Music Teacher Conference in Kuala Lumpur! It was an action-packed event, with two keynotes and 20 practical sessions for teachers to choose from, all delivered by experts from the music education world.
The first Keynote "Teacher as Leader" was delivered by ABRSM Chief Examiner, John Holmes. This encouraged teachers to reflect on aspects of leadership in their own working practice, which include: having influence, taking responsibility, empowering others, and inspiring people. The second Keynote "Musicians and Self-care" was presented by Music Therapist, Dr Indra V. Selvarajah. This presentation highlighted the need for teachers to look after their own physical, mental and artistic health, as well as being sympathetic to these issues among their own students. The second part of the keynote highlighted their wider value as music educators and their importance in society as a whole.
"The idea of this conference is to provide an annual end-of-year get together and refresher for music teachers. Given the isolated nature of our working practice, it is a great opportunity to spend time together, make new acquaintances, share ideas and collectively learn from one another. Most importantly, it is a chance to benefit from a whole range of insightful and interactive sessions, all designed to help expand your teaching toolkit and encourage you to reflect further on your practice." Ryan Lewis, ABRSM South & East Asia Regional Consultant.
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Jesse Boone is a self-proclaimed bad boy and doesn't march to the beat of anyone's drum but his own. Growing up in less than desirable circumstances has made him no stranger to the hard knock life but his determination to leave it behind is fervent. He sees an opportunity to snag a college football scholarship when he's transferred to East Franklin High School but Forbes Henderson has other plans. The player Jesse intends to replace doesn't plan on giving up his spot as starting quarterback so a rivalry is born. Jesse is determined to show his nemesis that he's not only going to take his position as first string quarterback, he's going to take his girl, too.
Claire Deveraux is perfection at its best. She's beautiful, intelligent, and unaware she just became Jesse Boone's conquest to settle a score with her boyfriend. Like her flawless performance as the perfect daughter and student, Claire's production of being the perfect girlfriend has everyone fooled, except Jesse Boone. She fears this tattooed bad boy will see her secret desire to explore his crude threats and promises of rocking her perfect world. If she decides to give in to one uninhibited moment with Jesse, will she learn too late that it was all an act of vengeance or will Jesse learn that the taste of first love is sweeter than that of revenge?
Nick Hawke wants his car fast and his girls faster. He blows through them quicker than his muscle car races down the drag strip in Collinsville and he wouldn't have it any other way. He's determined to avoid the devastation he has watched his father endure in the aftermath of his mother's abandonment. He believes there is no room in his life or his heart for a relationship lasting more than one night. He seeks happiness in things that won't let him down––fast cars, adrenaline highs, and one night stands. All of that changes when he unexpectedly runs into an old friend and is introduced to Payton Archer, the first girl he ever wanted for more than a night. There's only one catch––she's completely immune to him and his smooth talking ways.
Payton Archer is looking for love––the true, mad, deep kind. She's given up on finding it, at least until she leaves for college because she's certain that is where she'll find the ideal guy to fit into her perfect world. Her summer plans include nothing more than three uneventful months of fun but it turns out to be anything but ordinary when Payton meets Nick Hawke, one of Jesse's old Collinsville friends. She's shocked by her immediate and intense attraction for "Hawke" because nothing about him is on her checklist for the perfect love. Sure, he's hot and sexy but he comes from Collinsville and that is definitely not on her list of prerequisites. Everything about him makes Payton's heart speed. He's exciting and dangerous but his fast car and chance taking aren't what scares Payton the most. It's the way Nick Hawke makes her feel every time he looks at her. Can Payton find the courage to leave the safe, shallow end of love and risk going under completely?
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How many times have you stared at your computer screen, waiting for your Internet connection to catch up to where your fingers have told it to go? Most of us have experienced this frustration, which may explain why many users are now ditching their traditional modem-and-telephone connections and using high-speed "broadband" technology to do their cybersurfing.
Cable firms and local telephone companies are racing to offer this new broadband technology, which allows Internet users to ramp up to access speeds as much as 100 times faster than those available through a regular dial-up connection. Unfortunately, while the broadband revolution means that Internet access probably will wind up being faster for everyone, it could also wind up being more expensive instead of less.
Why? Major dial-up Internet service providers (ISPs), including America Online (AOL) and MindSpring Enterprises, have formed a coalition with several telecommunications firms and "consumer advocacy" groups to lobby government for new regulations that could stifle competition that would otherwise bring prices down.
The coalition, calling itself "OpenNet," complains that cable television companies have a big head start in the market for high-speed Internet access. This not only places cable firms ahead of the slower dial-up ISPs like AOL, it also opens the possibility that the firms might begin to compete for phone customers, since broadband cable lines can also carry phone signals.
Rather than meeting this challenge in the marketplace with new innovations and lower prices, the companies of OpenNet wish to convince federal, state, and local regulators to force cable television companies to "share" their broadband cables with other companies. They argue that a few cable firms will control all access to the Internet if government does not intervene in the market with so-called "open access" policies. However, the likely result of intervention will be higher costs for consumers and no significant increase in the number of Internet access options.
This is what typically happens when innovation opens new vistas for consumers. Some firms are always in a better position to take advantage of a new opportunity than others. But this should not prompt the government to disrupt the process by which the market fills consumer demand.
If the government does intervene with a policy of "open access," the urgent market incentive for ISPs—including new, upstart companies—to catch up with cable operators in the development of broadband capacity will be diminished. The incentive for cable operators to take advantage of their head start also will be lessened. And the competition over price that would have ensued—to the advantage of consumers—will be far weaker and produce far fewer options and advantages.
A similar scenario unfolded when Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, designed to "level the playing field" in telephone service by forcing established telephone companies to make their network facilities available to competing firms. Here in Michigan, instead of facilitating competition, "open access" policy stifled it. In 1998, despite all the advertising heard from new companies, the big local telephone companies Ameritech and GTE-Michigan still earned 96 percent of all local service revenues.
By all measures, the market for Internet access is dynamic and competitive. Consumers wishing to access the Internet can, in many localities, purchase this service from a wide range of suppliers, with each supplier offering a different technology with distinct advantages and disadvantages. For these reasons, politicians and regulators should reject specious claims about "leveling the playing field" and refrain from passing any "open access" legislation.
Policy makers should instead end the system by which cable companies gain monopoly franchise agreements in local areas. Since the 1960s, local governments have granted cable operators monopoly status, stifling what would otherwise be a competitive market between cable operators. This—not the cable operators' broadband capability—is the real inequity lawmakers should address.
Michigan lawmakers can lead the way to better Internet access, better cable television service—and lower costs for both—by refusing to force cable operators to make their cables available to their competitors while simultaneously ending the practice of granting cable companies the privilege of operating local monopolies. This would truly level a playing field that has for too long stifled competition at added cost to consumers.
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text: Users who accessed some stories on the Reuters website Sunday were redirected to a message from hackers criticizing the news agency's coverage of Syria.The attack was carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a hacker group that's publicly supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government and which has targeted various media organizations in the past, including IDG."Stop publishing fake reports and false articles about Syria! UK government is supporting the terrorists in Syria to destroy it. Stop spreading its propaganda," the rogue message seen by some Reuters.com visitors read.According to a security researcher named Frederic Jacobs, SEA did not actually hack into Reuters' website, but injected the redirect code into it through a New York-based advertising network called Taboola."It is still unclear how Taboola was compromised but given SEA's track record, phishing would be my first guess," Jacobs said Sunday in a blog post.The value of compromising Taboola is actually greater for SEA than compromising Reuters, because according to the ad network's site, it delivers its recommendations to 350 million unique visitors each month and has partnerships with high-profile media sites including Time.com, USA Today, the New York Times, BBC, TMZ, The Hollywood Reporter, Politico.com, Examiner and others.Any of Taboola's clients could have been attacked in a similar way to Reuters, Jacobs said.Taboola acknowledged being the source of the compromise and said that SEA hacked one of its widgets used on Reuters.com.The security breach lasted from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. EDT Sunday with no suspicious activity being detected after that time, Adam Singolda, Taboola's CEO, said in a blog post."While we use 2-step authentication, our initial investigation shows the attack was enabled through a phishing mechanism," Singolda said. "We immediately changed all access passwords, and will continue to investigate this over the next 24 hours."SEA's preferred method of attack is spear phishing -- a targeted form of phishing. When the group doesn't succeed at compromising an employee from its targeted organization it goes after that organization's partners and various service providers.In August 2013 SEA used spear phishing to compromise a reseller account at Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar and IT services company. The attack allowed the hacker group to alter the DNS (Domain Name System) records for several domain names including nytimes.com, sharethis.com, huffingtonpost.co.uk, twitter.co.uk and twimg.com and temporarily redirect those websites to a server under its control.In February the group gained access to the administration panel of a San Francisco-based company called MarkMonitor that manages domain names on behalf of large enterprises. This allowed them to change the WHOIS information for facebook.com, changing the domain's contact address to Damascus, Syria.In April, SEA managed to redirect users trying to access the RSA Conference website to a defacement page. The attack was carried out through Lucky Orange, a real-time Web analytics provider used by the RSA Conference website."If you're using 3rd party analytics or advertising networks, your website's security relies on the weakest of those since any of them is able to take over your website (and potentially steal your user's data or trick them into installing malware)," Jacobs said. "Websites like Reuters use more than 30 of these services and thus expose a considerable attack surface."


text: Jim has been reviewing films since 2003 for outlets such as ScreenAnarchy (formerly TwitchFilm, both as Featured Critic), ImagineDat, and KTRS 550 AM. He co-founded ZekeFilm in 2011. He is Director of the St. Louis Film Critics Association, and works as video editor and Art Director for professional film and video productions. He also co-hosts the long-running comedy podcast, The Wonder Show. He is a life-long St. Louisian living with his wife and four children. He loves Star Wars, Queen, and the band Daniel Amos.


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I hope everyone has a great time.
I hope everyone has a great time.
It is that time of the year again, when Pastafarians can dress in official pirate regalia and Spread the Word without fear of religious persecution. And while some may be wearing these costumes for other reasons, I have to believe that some day they too will be Touched by His Noodly Appendage.
Please send me your Halloween Evangelism photos and I'll post them here. As always, pirate girls are encouraged to send in their photos. For academic reasons. Or maybe some sort of equal opportunity thing, I don't know.
Below are some photos from this year and some of my favorites from previous years. Keep them coming.
Pumpkin art is one of my favorite forms of evangelism. Here are some great pieces:
More to come. Send me your photos!
Greetings from Rev. Benito (Spain) on the International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
FSM bless you!


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Introduction to Fedora for Ubuntu users
Although looking familiar, Fedora does some things differently from Ubuntu. This page tries to explain the major differences to Ubuntu in day-to-day use and to introduce former Ubuntu users to the Fedora tools.
The root account
The biggest difference for users coming from Ubuntu to Fedora is that the
root account is the account for the system admin. This account is disabled in Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, you perform actions that require
root privileges using sudo, while in Fedora, sudo is not the default method of gaining administrative permissions. In Fedora,
root access can be gained with
su will ask for your
root password, not your regular user password. The
root password is the password you entered while installing, not the password you entered when creating a user account after your first boot.
After you logged in successfully as
root, you have administrative rights ending when you close the terminal or log out with
Package Management
Fedora uses different tools for package management than Ubuntu. Here is a quick overview how to accomplish common tasks in Fedora:
|Ubuntu command
|Fedora command
|apt-get update
|dnf check-update
|You don't need to do this as dnf updates its cache automatically before performing transactions
|apt-get upgrade
|dnf upgrade
|apt-get dist-upgrade
|dnf system-upgrade
|Distro upgrades with dnf are possible as of Fedora 22+, refer to DNF system upgrade for more information
|apt-get install
|dnf install
|apt-get remove
|dnf remove
|apt-get purge
|apt-cache search
|dnf search
Updating software
If you want to maintain your system updated, the PackageKit update applet will help you. It will notify you about updated packages and security updates. Its settings can be changed at System > Preferences > Software Updates. If you want to update your system manually, open the GNOME Software application or run
dnf upgrade
Installing / Removing software
If you want to install or remove software, open the GNOME Software application. To install or uninstall packages, hit their Install or Remove boxes.
For installing packages on the command line, simply type:
dnf install package1 package2 package3
For removing packages:
dnf remove package2
dnf shell
The dnf shell functionality is not yet available. It is a future consideration. dnf must be executed by a user with root privileges. You must use one line per command. Each command requires a confirmation, which may be given on the same line or when dnf prompts for the y/n response.
In dnf-shell's place, you would execute individual dnf commands as
dnf update dnf -y install firefox emesene # -y means yes. Proceed as confirmed action, dnf remove pidgin # dnf will ask you to confirm y/n
If you want to add and remove packages at the same time, or trigger mass transactions, like updating your system, then installing
firefox and
emesene, and then removing
pidgin, you can use the dnf shell.
Open the dnf shell (as
root) with:
dnf shell
Once inside the shell, you can type dnf commands directly, such as:
update install firefox emesene remove pidgin transaction run
You can use any valid dnf command in the dnf shell. To see what it will do, type
transaction list
To accept the changes, type
transaction run
For more information about the dnf shell, have a look at the dnf-shell manual page.
man dnf-shell
Searching software
You can search software in the graphical GNOME Software application by entering search terms in the search box or on the command line by typing
dnf search searchterm1 searchterm2
Getting the restricted stuff
If you are looking for the equivalent of the Ubuntu
restricted and
multiverse repositories, that include patented and closed-source technologies and programs, consider enabling the RPMFusion repository. free is the equivalent of
universe and contains potentially patent-encumbered software like
gstreamer-plugins-bad or the
VLC media player
, while nonfree includes non-free software like proprietary 3D graphics drivers.
These repositories can easily be enabled by typing (as
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
Using apt anyway
If you still like apt better than dnf, you can also use apt on Fedora. Install apt with the following command:
dnf install apt
Note that apt won't be able to access the RPMFusion repositories. After that, you can use apt-get as usual (don't forget to log in as
Life cycle
Unlike Ubuntu's 18 months, Fedora only offers 13 months of updates per release. That means that you have to upgrade to the latest Fedora at least every second release. Fedora also doesn't offer a LTS version. Regular Fedora releases happen every six months, but be sure that you're able to at least upgrade your system every 13 months. If you want to know when the next Fedora is going to be released, have a look at the Release Schedule.


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Applications & User Cases
Alicona measurement solutions enable the optimization of mold making through electrode savings of more than 10%, quality assurance of micro molds and molds in precision manufacturing, geometry measurement of both electrode and eroded mold, verification of surface finish throughout areal surface texture measurement, process optimization, e.g. optimized separation behavior, prevention of sink marks and joint lines, the numerical verification of geometric deviations of the colded part from the injection mould and much more.
"With our machining centers we help our customers to eliminate manual rework as both, the accuracy of the contour and surface quality of the cavity achieved is superior. At this level it is tough to measure the quality, though. With Alicona we have a partner who helps us to prove it."
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Today is the last day of a 3 ½ day conference I'm attending in Florida for work. It's been a great conference for the most part. I saw some good friends who I only see once or twice a year. I gleaned some tips and ideas that I will be able to implement back at the office to increase revenue and make my staff and me more productive and efficient. And I got to spend some time in the warm, sunny Florida weather, which has been a nice break from cold, rainy Oregon.
On that last note, I should have enjoyed just a bit more of that sun this afternoon instead of attending the final plenary session, but the topic looked interesting so I went. The topic was emotional intelligence. I thought I would come away with at least one or two tips on how to better deal with others, maybe something that would help in my role as a manager and program director. Alas, that was not to be.
This far too touchy-feely session was all quite odd. The "speaker" started by having us meditate for 7 minutes, during which time we were supposed to visualize ourselves next to a lake. Then he had us doing exercises to illustrate how we experience stress because of the fight or flight response of the amygdala of the brain because of the 99.9% of the human existence that involved running from tigers, followed by an exercise in which we were supposed to look into the eyes of another person for 2 minutes — twice — and I'm still not sure why.
In general, the "solution" to stress that he seemed to be offering — though he never came right out and said this — was to focus inwardly on our real self. He also suggested that we need to recognize the way things truly are.
I generally am not a very stressed-out person. Things don't rile me up too easily and I don't worry about all the things on my to-do list. I take one day at a time and one task at a time, and if no one is going to die as a result of my doing or not doing something, I don't let it stress me. My solution to the problem of stress has been this:
- I spend at least 15 minutes in prayer every morning, not focusing on me but on Jesus.
- I concern myself more with the needs of those around me than with myself.
- When I catch myself being "me" focused, I stop and ask God to refocus my thoughts onto Him.
I do agree with the second solution that this speaker suggested — that we recognize the way things truly are. And the way things truly are is that God is in control of the big picture, no matter what the little picture in front of me might suggest.
I thought of Peter who was able to walk on water, until he took his focus off Jesus. As long as we focus on the source of our strength, power, and peace, we will not sink into a sea of stress and worry.
I also thought of Daniel who was able to spend the night in the lions' den without a scratch because he trusted in God to protect him. As long as we trust in the One who cares for us, we will have no need to engage in fight or flight behavior in the face of lions.
So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:31-34 (NIV).
So where is your focus today? If you are feeling stressed and anxious, don't look within for strength and peace. Focus on Jesus who is the Prince of Peace and cares for you like no other.
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Linda . .you had me laughing at some of the things the speaker was having you do. I can just see your face! haha! I might've gotten stressed out trying to do what he was asking me to do. 🙂 Thank you and God bless you for sharing how you do deal with stress . .those things I can do, with Him!


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WASHINGTON — Major airlines, Amtrak and Greyhound are ramping up their travel waivers because of the uncertainty from the global coronavirus outbreak.The travel industry has taken a hit as many people heed warnings to not engage in unnecessary trips.
Here are the waivers these carriers are offering as of March 10. Be sure to click on the links for the fine print and other restrictions.
Alaska Airlines is charging no change or cancellation fees for travel through March 31, 2020. There will also be no fees for new tickets purchased between February 27 and March 31. A fare difference will apply.
American Airlines will waive change fees on flights booked between March 1 and March 31, 2020. Passengers can make a one-time change from their original departure date. The original travel date must be no later than January 30, 2021. The new flight must happen within one year of the original ticket issue date. Passengers will have to pay the difference if it's a more expensive flight.
Delta Air Lines is waiving change fees on all tickets purchased between March 1 and March 31, 2020, for flights through February 25, 2021. The ticket can be changed once and must be reissued no later than February 28, 2021. Rebooked travel must also begin no later than February 28. Although the change fee is waived, passengers must pay the difference if the new flight is more expensive.
Passengers can also cancel their flight and use the value toward a future flight.
Frontier Airlines is allowing a one-time change with no fees for tickets issued between March 10 and March 31, 2020. Again, the customer must pay the fare difference. For changed flights, travel must be completed by November 9, 2020.
Hawaiian Airlines will allow passengers who book between March 1 and March 31, 2020, a one-time change to a future flight with no fees. The change must be made no more than 24 hours prior to departure and passengers must pay the fare difference.
For those who bought their tickets before March 9 for flights occurring through April 30, 2020, the same rules as above apply. But, the new itinerary must begin no later than December 31, 2020.
JetBlue is waiving change and cancellation fees on new bookings made between March 6 and March 31, 2020. Travel must happen by September 8, 2020. Fare differences may apply,
Spirit says passengers can make a one-time change for free, but fare differences apply. The airline's website does not mention any specific dates, but says that passengers can receive a reservation credit for up to six months.
As a standard policy, Southwest Airlines does not have change or cancellation fees. As long as a passenger cancels a flight within 10 minutes of departure, funds from the original ticket can be used on a future flight up to one year from the original purchase date. Fare differences apply.
Any United Airlines flight booked between March 3 and March 31, 2020, can be changed for free over the next 12 months. If the rescheduled flight costs more, the customer must pay the difference. Here is the fine print.
For flights booked before and including March 2, with original travel dates of March 9 through April 30, United is waiving change fees. New tickets must be reissued no later than December 31, 2020, or 12 months from the original ticket date, whichever is earlier. Rebooked travel must begin within 12 months from the original ticket issue date.
Change fees are waived on all existing and new reservations made before April 30, 2020, on Amtrak. Fare differences may apply. Amtrak says there are currently no travel restrictions.
Greyhound is offering a one-time change with no fee. Passengers who booked an Economy or Economy Extra fare between March 5 and March 17, 2020, for travel through March 31, 2020, can rebook between March 18 and December 31, 2020.
One more airline worth mentioning is Alitalia, Italy's flagship airline. Italy has just initiated tough, nationwide travel restrictions within the country in an effort to curb the dramatic spread of coronavirus.
Alitalia passengers with destinations in Italy who bought their flights before March 5 and are planning to fly through April 30, 2020, can rebook without a fee for departures no later than June 30. Or, they can change their destination with no penalty while keeping the same travel date.


text: Cloud computing is still in the testing and experimental space for many organizations, but its benefits are becoming clear to many. Cloud is rapidly shifting from a world of hype and possibilities to one of practical application, and CIOs that haven't already considered what cloud means for their business need to step up the pace.\n\nThat was the consensus of six panelists brought together by information exchange solutions specialist IntraLinks in a roundtable discussion Thursday morning at the Gabarron Foundation in New York City.\nSultan Khan, Global IT Strategy & Governance Practice Head, Tata Consultancy Services, shares his thoughts at the IntraLinks roundtable. From left: David Goodman, Fahim Siddiqui, Philip Jacob, Sultan Khan and Ari Lightman.The Promise of Cloud Computing\n"You think about technology waves, and every once in a while you get one that you know is meaningful, that actually changes the way companies spend their money and invest in solutions; it actually changes the way the tech industry itself is shaped, and cloud computing is one of those things clearly," said Ted Schadler, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research, who moderated the panel.\n\n"I got interested initially in cloud because of the pricing model: the fact that I could potentially buy capacity as I needed it and pay for it as OpEx instead of CapEx," he said. "That essentially lowers the bar for innovation because I can build something quickly and deploy it quickly. This is a hugely important phenomenon in cloud." \n\n"It was also a major driver of open source, where if I could get a server for free in Linux and deploy it, I could as a developer actually try something out," he said. "The cloud just took that and blew it out on steroids. There's probably not a single startup that comes through my office, and probably not through yours, that isn't deploying on cloud infrastructure. They might keep the customer database in their own data center, but all their storage and all their compute sits on Amazon or it sits on Rackspace or it sits out there somewhere in the cloud. That is a huge opportunity for innovation, for things that change the way companies work together. You see this now reflected in the investments of the major infrastructure providers. You also see it reflected in the growth of companies like Salesforce and Google. Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Government, that's a billion dollar business today."\n\nSchadler noted that Forrester's discussions with CIOs indicates that cloud computing is a top of mind consideration for most. And he said that most organizations are not looking to the cloud as a method of cost management, but for "extension"-the capability to take their business in new directions faster.\n\nSultan Khan, Global IT Strategy & Governance Practice Head at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), agreed.\n\n"What we're seeing is that every CIO is thinking, talking and doing something about cloud, clearly with a very reasonable degree of maturity," he said. "We recently conducted a survey with our clients and found that 10 percent or less of the cloud-based solutions are actually out in the public space. Today, close to 90 percent of the solutions sets are being developed within the internal cloud space. What is interesting is when you ask them about where they are going by 2015, a lot of them see that ratio being 30 percent or so in the public service space. There is a definite shift towards not only cloud, but also taking it from the inside to the outside."\n\nPractical Cloud ComputingPhilip Jacob, senior director of risk management at Axioma, a provider of optimization software and financial risk modeling software for the financial services industry, said his organization has turned to the cloud-and specifically Microsoft Azure-to provide the raw computational power for its services rather than build out new servers each time it takes on a new project.\n\n"It's allowing us to be able to plan much more effectively," he said. "We don't have tell our clients in advance, "here's the level of service we can offer you." We can tell them, "here's the potential," and then we can just buy on demand the services necessary to do whatever and however complex calculations they require."\n\nJacob noted that such a model allows Axioma to be much more efficient as well, because most of the demand for its risk management reporting only occurs for about eight hours a day. If the organization bought hardware to serve its needs, it would sit largely unused for 16 hours a day.\n\n"It's a way to only get the capacity when we need it, but also not to have to plan what could be very large potential acquisitions in advance," he said.\n\nDavid Goodman, chief technology officer of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an organization founded at the recommendation of Albert Einstein to rescue intellectuals and artists from the Nazis, said the cloud allows his organization to better allocate staff resources. Today, IRC provides humanitarian services to refugees around the globe. Goodman leads a staff of 26 based in New York and Nairobi, overseeing teams focused on infrastructure, application development and project management. He is also responsible for RescueNet, the organization's global intranet.\n\n"I have a lot of things I have to do," he said. "I've got all the problems of a global organization and very few of the resources. I have to make sure that my staff is working on the stuff that really needs doing and try to push out the rest of the stuff. Email is a great example. It's the most important thing we do, but I don't think we need to be top-level Exchange architects and administrators. Other people will do that perfectly well. Storage is another example. I don't really want to deal with storage anymore, so I give that to somebody else. That gives my staff an opportunity to focus on the things we have to be excellent at, which is delivering services to local field organizations. \n\nAri Lightman, director of the CIO Institute at Carnegie Mellon University noted that he sees the enablement of a mobile workforce as one of the most promising aspects of cloud computing. He pointed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, which now gives every new intern an iPad rather than deal with flip charts.\n\n"They know where they are and they know how to push information to them," Lightman said. "That makes them more productive and allows them to deliver better care."\n\nTCS's Khan agreed, adding, "When we think about mobile, it's a natural fit. What is your mobile strategy and how do you deliver mobile to your clients? So, cloud is a perfect fit as a means to deliver mobile solutions to your clients and the market and so forth. I think the key we find with that is that most organizations tend to start with mobile solutions and then realize they need to take a step back and ask what is our mobile strategy? What is it we're trying to achieve and then jump to a solution." \n\nCloud Computing ChallengesBut the cloud is not without its challenges, Goodman said.\n\n"The cloud is an interesting challenge," he explained. "We have issues with power, so the cloud is not quite the thing [for us that] it is for the rest of the developed world."\n\nHe also noted that unlike many organizations that see the capability to pay for services with OpEx rather than CapEx, in the non-profit world OpEx is more difficult. It's much less challenging to raise funds for a capital expenditure than increase ongoing costs, he explained.\n\nSocio-mobility is another problem, Lightman noted.\n\n"Bandwidth: it's a limitation," he said, especially when it comes to mobile. "When you get into the mobile architecture, you have different sorts of companies that come into play. Wireless carriers, regulators, content providers. Now we're seeing data throttling. If you have company-specific information that needs to get done on mobile, and you need to ensure that it gets to the right source, it becomes difficult when when you have data throttling."\n\nIRC's Goodman agreed, noting that Software-as-a-Service can sometimes make things harder, especially in the environments his team works in, because you can't manage performance in the same way.\n\n"SaaS has all the advantages that we know about in the cloud, but sometimes the big disadvantage, which for us can be a killer, is I can't put it behind my Riverbeds and optimize it," Goodman said.\n\nCloud SecurityIt should also come as no surprise that both the audience and a number of panelists saw security as a challenge for cloud computing.\n\n"In our experience, the number one challenge or concern that companies have about cloud is security," Khan said. "That's the biggest challenge and concern they raise."\n\nWhile Khan acknowledged that some concerns are justified-notably reluctance to put customer data in the cloud-he also noted that it's more an issue of confidence and change-management strategy. Business leaders in the organization need to be convinced that the new way of doing things is not going to put the organization at risk.\n\nFahim Siddiqui, chief product officer of IntraLinks, said it's all about building trust.\n\n"First and foremost, it starts with trust," he said. "There has to be a view that this is a trusted place to go work when you are virtually working within the context of an application. Trust is built through a combination of not just technology, but also application security, not just that but also people and process security. When you combine that, there's a certain posture you have, that this service is a place that I can trust with my information, and my information is protected in terms of visibility, access and auditability."\n\n"The choice of a cloud is not very different than the choice of an ERP application," Siddiqui added. "It's an enterprise architecture choice. What you have to really understand first and foremost is what are your points of extension? Why do you need the cloud? Do you need it for compute resources at the infrastructure level? Do you need it for certain specific resources, like storage? Or do you trust it for certain business-critical transactions which are out in the wild anyway, but today maybe they're being conducted on FedEx and e-mail, or in some cases people carrying physical copies outside your four walls. In each of those instances, you have to construct what are the appropriate weak points and what are the security ins and outs?"\n\nGoodman agreed, adding, "The real point is that when we talk to vendors about security, you know if they're serious about it. You do all the things you're supposed to do, you audit, but at the end of the day you can tell whether a company thinks security is a critically important thing or not."\n\nThor Olavsrud is a senior writer for CIO.com. Follow him @ThorOlavsrud.


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Your lucky number – which you can easily determine by your birth date – reveals a lot about you, says numerologist Gemma Franklin.
To find your lucky number, simply add up the digits in your birth date until they reach a number between 1 and 9, she explains. For example, Mick Jagger was born on 7/26/1943.
To figure his lucky number, add the digits 7+2+6+1+9+4+3, which total 32. Next add 3+2 – making his number 5.
Once you've figured out your own lucky number, check below to see what it tells you about your personality:
1: If this is your lucky number, you take the time to develop lasting relationships. You're a leader and sometimes exhaust yourself doing too much – but you have marvelous powers of recovery. You're most compatible with persons whose lucky number is 4 or 9.
2: You're at peace with yourself and happy. You're easily hurt and sensitive, and usually lucky when it comes to money. Your partner has to be romantic and affectionate. Compatible with numbers 7 and 9.
3: You're an idealist who feels that friendship and companionship can be more important than a sexual relationship. You take yourself too seriously, and as a result you can miss out on some of the fun in life. You have excellent intuition. Compatible numbers are 5 and 6.
4: Despite your cool exterior, you're really affectionate. You tend to be possessive and are apt to be a hoarder, but you have a habit of making unexpected generous gestures. Compatible numbers are 1 and 8.
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Thank you for joining me on this solemn occasion.
Before we begin, please don your ceremonial black shroud and dramatically lengthy weeping veil—lace handkerchiefs out, ladies!—as we commemorate the 12th anniversary of the death of gymnastics.
Goodbye, old friend.
The year was 2006, and an open-ended scoring system had broken out across the continent, engulfing community after community in death, famine, devastation, and a war that pitted brother against brother. Whole cities were ravaged by the idea of having to manage a difficulty score and an execution score (TWO NUMBERS MY BRAIN COULD NEVER), and orphan children wailed at the lack of perfect 10.000s, which had definitely been attainable right up until that moment.
Doomsday predictions that the elimination of the 10 would result in hyenas picking apart the desiccated remains of a once-regal sport proved—of course—entirely correct. Having been continuously perfect from 1950-2005, gymnastics was instantly ruined and the sport promptly canceled following the installation of known non-blonde Vanessa Ferrari as world champion, even after falling on beam and having kneecaps. That gentle doe gymnastics could never survive such a hellscape, and nothing good ever occurred again.
But how could such a thing have come to pass? Let us travel back to the year 2006 to find out.
Matt, Christine, and Mitch greet us with the news that meet-favorite Chellsie Memmel has withdrawn from the all-around final with a shoulder injury, so everything is already just terrible. Enjoy your podium of moldy leftovers. This is the worst year.
No one knows how Memmel's shoulder got injured. Do 50 more jams.
Memmel's absence means the status of favorite defaults to Vanessa Ferrari even though she excels at…[whispers, vomits]…tumbling. But this cannot be! The open code of points will be the death of us all! How is she not Khorkina!
Meanwhile, Matt and company inform us that MDHRIANDFKLWD BETH TWEDDLE LKSJDLKJSDLKSJFLKS because of neutral. Rule: Homerism is fine when British people do it and repulsive when Americans do it. Just deal. It mostly has to do with not being a dick about it.
We're reliably informed that as an old hag of 21, Beth's medal chances won't come around many more times, so she better take advantage of this one. She certainly won't still be competing in 2012 because by then she'll have long since been married off to the elder Mr. Quigley in order to preserve the line of descent and keep Brithbry House in the family name.
With the gymnasts lining up for introduction, we meet the #3 qualifier into the final, Jana Bieger.
Actually, let's not be so casual. Matt appropriately uses Bieger's full and official FIG name: "There's the…uh…gymnast from the USA…is that…is that Priess there?"
Christine is able tell us that this is, in fact, not Ashley Priess but a human gymnast by the name of Jana Bieger.
Doesn't ring a bell.
You'll come to see that a theme of this broadcast is how much the BBC trio is demoralized by the very idea of Jana Bieger. They're just like, "GET THIS OUT OF HERE."
Anyway, once Christine finishes pretending to enjoy looking at a child, she predicts that Lais Souza will medal even though Souza has already pulled out of the meet, which is the most 2006 Worlds thing ever to happen.
"I think she might surpri…"
"…annnnnd she's gone. Who's left?"
"Just Jana Bieger."
"………………which one is that…again?"
You've met her…so many times.
Souza will be replaced in the final by a little nobody named Elyse Hippity-Hopps or something, whom we'll never hear from again.
It's finally time for everyone to march out, so we get to play a fun new game called Who Here Has Been Indicted: Home Edition. I spot Debbie Van Horn!
Before the meet begins, a note about 2006: it was RIL bad.
Just…not good. There are lean years sometimes, and 2006 was one of them. Liukin and Memmel were hurt, China was all about the specialists, and Russia was a massive catastrophe in every way, which meant we were left with a couple Sturdy-Gurdys, a handful of random gorgeous heartbreakers, and some super top all-arounders like Izbasa and Tweddle, known for how very four-event they were, loving all the events equally. Can't wait to do all four pieces.
It was going to be a rough final regardless.
Significant four-event lover Oksana Chusovitina is also here, somehow managing to drag herself out of her four-person Willy-Wonka-Grandparents bed despite her disgusting age of 31. Time to die.
Chuso certainly won't make it much longer before the grim throes of death take her. But do not weep for her. She has lived a full life and seen many things. I mean, she has a child. So, female duty complete. You are now worthless. Sit on a stump and rot.
At this point, a parrot is casually murdered in the crowd, which means it's time to begin the warmup, I think. Pavlova is off being perfect on beam, so everything will go fine in the meet.
The warmup is almost instantly interrupted by a random fit of Beth Tourette's from the commentary crew. This will happen from time to time. Just get used to it. In the midst of an otherwise normal sentence, they'll be overcome by a need to go, "AHHH BETH GET IT QUEEN SQUAAAAAAKHHHHHH." Don't worry about it.
Mitch also wants us to look out for Krasniatskaya, who is not a living person. You mean Krasnianska, and also that's Daria Zgoba. Otherwise, nailed it.
Oh, I miss Mitch so much. His infectiously genuine joy at the sight of good gymnastics was not a common trait in gymnastics commentators.
So, it's still the warmup for some reason and Mitch and Christine are running out of topics to vamp about, yet we still know this world feed will end up showing 1100 more routines than NBC would ever. I also appreciate how they have not once attempted to tell us how difficult it will be for our stupid bird minds to comprehend numbers now that we're expected to count to 17 instead of 10.
Actual routines now! Krasniatskatayayakaskaya goes on beam and is too Ukrainian to function, performing a moving Gutsu tribute.
We now meet a small baby gerbil named Vanessa Ferrari rocking a sleeveless leo. At this point, she had not yet reached peak shoulder cutout (formal occasions only). I have a viscerally negative reaction to sleeveless leos in competition, but I'm trying to get away from that because they do seem way more comfortable. The normal competition leo is a preposterously impractical and stupid garment. "I want my butt basically hanging out but also long sleeves because brrrrrrrrrr only on the top."
"Well, here we go with a real hopeful." GET OUT DARIA ZGOBA.
Ferrari vaults a DTY, and it's fine, which means she's the winner. 2006. I'm mostly just enjoying the PA announcer subsequently shouting "Holy Dykes" at us from the background.
Ashley Priess is not Jana Bieger, you guys. In case you were still confused. See, they're both in the same shot. PROOF.
"Shot of the Americans…not communicating at this moment."
But then how will we know if they're best friends???? The only reason I watch this sport is to see who is best friends with each other and see if anyone overcame any childhood obstacles. What are scores?
And now it's Jana Bieger on vault.
The end.
Zhou Zhuoru is taking us on a trip back to China's hot pink years.
Also, Steliana Nistor has been strangled by a blue snake. RIP.
Speaking of RIP, me watching Nistor's DTY. This vault can be found in the code of points under Group 6: Abominations, Paseka category. Mitch and Christine let us know that it's rancid and should be credited as a tucked 1.5, while scoring -2.100. They're not wrong.
Matt says "Hollie Dykes" while looking at Anna Pavlova (check), which means it's time for Pavlova to go on beam. GET DEPRESSED LOLOLOLOLOL. She drops too early on her back dive to handstand, has a huge break on her L turn, and then falls on her Onodi because you will find no joy here.
Cross another contender off the list.
Sandra Izbasa is doing a bars routine, and the form is like if you got struck by lightning inside a tub of molasses, but also kind of fine? As in, COME OUT OF RETIREMENT AS A BARS SPECIALIST PLEASE. Today, this routine would have a 4.5 D, would probably break 12, and would be the #2-scoring bars routine in Romania.
Holy Dykes is up on beam now, and she's so extended and lovely that it forces Christine to use the word "supple" two separate times, which ruins everything. The problem with the word supple is that it seems like a combination of supper and nipple. Like a boob sitting on a tureen of mashed potatoes. Splounch.
Anyway, apparently Australia has "a very good selection process."
Up next on bars, we have Isabelle "this is a very interesting gymnast" Severino. It sure is. Her Gienger is awesome, and then she falls on a clear hip hecht to high bar like it's 1992. "I think they should get rid of it," says Christine of that skill.
IT IS DONE. Now, can we get Christine to kill some other skills forever? I have a list.
Daria Joura.
That's all.
And that salute was for BARS. It wasn't even for floor or for being installed as High Priestess of Atlantis. Just bars. Bless your life.
NBD but Pang Panpan did a perfect bars routine. Go about your day. Live your life. But it happened. And it scored lower than Ferrari's. Oh, remember back when you could miss vertical on a turn and they would give you a 9.000 execution score instead of a stabbing?
Ariella Käslin performs an Arabian on beam and it…OMG IT'S BETH YOU GUYS BETTTTTHHHHHHHHHHH. She vaults a 1.5 with a hop forward and WORLD VAULT CHAMPION BETH TWEDDLE.
Christine is now telling us how costly it is to fall in the women's all around final. So yeah, about that…
The second rotation opens with leader Holy Dykes on floor, where she does a sheep jump and one of her passes is a front tuck 1/1.
I would say it was a different time, but it wasn't. Come on, it was 2006. If you weren't doing five passes in your floor routine, then GO HOME.
Because when I think of memorable floor, I think of throwing in random double fulls for no reason. Such tumble. Much impress.
Laura Campos's leo is based on the idea of "What if you got kidnapped by a blood troll on Halloween night, but a leotard."
Also, Ashley Priess's 1.5 turn on bars is FANTASTIC. It would hold up even now. That's why Priess was supposed to be 2008 Bars Specialist That Never Happened (TM) before she went, "Yo, I'm done…" at the beginning of 2008 and everyone was like, "Gymnasts choosing to leave elite right before the Olympics because they're so broken and over it and discontent doesn't seem like something we should look into…"
Hong Su Jong's Amanar! Post-vault, Hong sits down to grab her knees in anguish like everything's fine. No one is sure whether it's an injury or just North Korea things.
One thing we know about Romania: "When they're floundering everywhere else, beam you can always rely on."
Anyway, Izbasa's beam is excellent, and it's time for Beth to go on bars.
"COME ON BETH!!!!!!!!" because of more neutral.
"Now, you understand why we are this way," says Britain.
Of course. Of course in a year where Tweddle legit could have medaled in the all-around, she hits the other three events and misses on bars.
"Well, she's in one piece."
Are we sure though?
Because I think maybe dead.
I must take this opportunity to introduce you to Pang Panpan's beautiful beam, where she inevitably falls on a Yang Bo. You knew. You just knew.
"That was just a jump. She shouldn't have come off on that."
It was a freakin' Yang Bo, Christine. Not a star jump.
Now let's see what the gang has to say about Jana Bieger on bars.
"This is very ragged work indeed."
"Ragged in the middle."
"For me, she's just too untidy."
"She's always got bent legs."
Safe from my perch in 2018, Bieger's form seems so typical and unremarkable in every way. I think nothing of it now because of…everyone at nationals, every year. It's sort of weird to hear it discussed like the blight of the world in retrospect, but that was A THING in 2005-2006.
Pang Panpan manspreading after falling on beam is all of us.
Hey, that blurry sleeveless dot I spy near beam is probably Chuso!
………and she falls on a wolf turn.
Wow, it's like everything that happens in gymnastics can be traced back to Chuso somehow. She's our Charlemagne.
"But that…that's a difficult spin down in the crouch position!"
"That looks incredibly difficult!"
Guys. Guys. Stop. I'm in tears.
Skip ahead to 2018 and every single Little Debbie D-Score in all of gymnastics does a double wolf turn on beam because it's the easiest D-rated dance element in the entire beam code.
Now, please explain to me what Käslin's split side 1/2 Shushunova-leg-accident even was.
Halfway through, we interrupt this broadcast with a moment of silence for the standings, which have Beth Tweddle in 13th and Vanessa Ferrari "in pole position."
Ha ha ha.
Like a car thing.
I definitely get it…?
In the rotation break, we get to enjoy Matt and Christine plow their way through the Seven Stages of Gymnastics Grief over Beth. They're currently at "Where would she have placed without a fall?" which comes right after denial and right before "It's not even about the medals, really." We know this stage well.
Meet in summary: "We've had a lot of mistakes."
Leading off the third rotation, Priess shows a pretty nice beam routine that Christine was ready to hate because of trashy American chicken nuggets with their potato form, but she actually kind of liked it in the end.
"She's rather more elegant than some of the other Americans as well."
We didn't know exactly how Ashley Priess's beam was going to turn into a subtle indictment of Jana Bieger, but we knew it would.
In Daria Joura salute news, it's still this.
But question: Why is this choreography so lame? You have Daria Joura to work with. She could definitely sell something that isn't a dumpy Romanian choo-choo corner wiggle. But alas no…
Ariella Käslin falls on a Yurchenko 1.5 despite being, you know, a vaulter. 2006. It's like everyone just forgot how to gymnastic.
Meanwhile, Severino is thrashing around on floor like an Adi Pop mixed tape because of "very elegant gymnast." I'm slightly confused by the theme of this routine. I'm not sure whether it's about feeding her body parts to a snake one-by-one, or whether she's the snake. Or both. Clarification please.
Pang Panpan follows her with a Jackson Pollock directly connected to 2.5 to front full. Her twisting is insanely quick, which fits with her overall routine concept of "don't step on the lava or the lava monster will get you. HIDE HIDE HIDE."
Yes, that is Pirates of the Caribbean you hear in the background of Hong Su Jong panicking her way through a bars routine, and yes, it was already tired then. So now, don't even think about it.
Updates: Christine has just started saying, "no" every time someone tries a spin, and the arena announcer pronounced Zhou Zhuoru as "Zoom Zoom."
Time for Bieger on beam. Beam is my preferred event for Bieger because even though there are the knees and feet, there's some style and compositional originality with the layout stepout to knee and the double front dismount. It's a fun routine. Christine barfs immediately, then talks about how determined Bieger is. Whoa, slow down with the love, Christine.
Chuso time. We must discuss how Matt keeps calling her Oksana Shoes-Up-A-Tina.
Oh. Not correct.
We must also discuss Chuso's actual tuck turn on floor, which is an entirely separate skill from the wolf turn and much more aesthetically pleasing when done in a tight tuck like that. It's worth way less than the wolf turn in the current code (the double tuck turn is a B, the double wolf turn is a D), but I think they should both be Cs. It's a way to wean people off the wolf.
Now, it's Ferrari's turn on beam and Matt ejects an actual moan at her planche mount. Egg, why can't you be more like Vanessa Ferrari?
So yes, Ferrari falls on her tuck full on beam, and we need to talk about it a lot.
Watching now, the fact that Ferrari falls on beam and still wins the meet barely registers as a thing. We're used to this now because we've lived through many years of deserved winners of meets having major mistakes. We've seen Simone iffy-iffy her way through AA competitions here and there and still win without controversy because of being so much better than everyone else, which has built up our tolerance to imperfect wins.
Winning with a fall does not feel like a MASSIVE AFFRONT TO THE NATURE OF GYMNASTICS anymore because the identity of what constitutes a good gymnastics meet has changed. Those of us who have lived much more of the open-code era than we ever did the 10.0 era have a fundamentally different attitude toward falls, where a fall is not the be-all, end-all of the routine. We've spent enough years seeing routines where difficulty and form outweigh falls in the final standings, and we have come to accept a logic in that. It's a more holistic approach, one that is less dependent on the performance of a single skill and rather rewards overall ability.
The major downside to that is the elimination of excitement. When results swing more toward overall ability and away from actually nailing the skills perfectly on the day, you're more likely to know what's going to happen before the meet begins. What's the point of even having the meet if you already know Simone's going to win the AA and the US is going to win the team final?
Back to the routines. I don't miss all the L turns, at all.
Matt apologizes to us that the world feed did not show Tweddle's beam. YOU MEAN BETH HIT BEAM AND THERE'S NO EVIDENCE? For shame.
Pang Panpan is leading the competition after three rotations, so obviously she's about to become world champion, no doubt about it. Nothing can go wrong now.
And I enjoy that they have just taken to calling her Peng Peng for some reason. FORESHADOWING.
Daniele Hypilto gets a negative E score on bars because of late pirouettes, "but she's got energy." Ouch. Next you're going to tell us she's a hard worker with a great personality.
Before every routine, Isabelle Severino always looks like she's on the verge of revealing her secret identity. IT WAS ME THE WHOLE TIME.
Oh, also Pang Panpan falls on a DTY because why not at this point. That's her second fall of the meet, and she still finishes 6th. Like I said, 2006. Side note: Please don't do that vault. You might as well just rip your kneecaps directly off. It would be more efficient.
Now, it's our first look at Kristina Pravdina on bars, who competes an…oh…oh god…oh…gah…no…I…oof. RUSSIA. WHY. Pravdina eyerolls two cast handstands at exactly horizontal, goes over on another handstand and brushes the mat, then tries a squat-on cover up— because whatever—and then just FMLs a 1/2 turn to grab the high bar in the middle of an elite bars routine.
"A very peculiar linkage."
I'll say.
Elfi's like "SO LITTLE TALENT."
That routine is actually history's worst disaster, and she still scores 13.275 for it somehow. I really want to see the A/B breakdown for that because WTF?
2006 = "This routine was so problematic that we might even have to give you an execution score in the…shudder…7s."
"A great piece of music this." To which Mitch replies, "I'm saying nothing."
Speaking of tremendous shade, it's time for Jana "HERE COMES ANOTHER THUNDERING TUMBLE" Bieger.
The passes are quite solid, especially that opening DLO.
OF COURSE Bieger is already on the five-pass train.
Meanwhile, the choreography is just a Ferris Wheel impression, and that's all there is to it. Jana and Beth look at each other and go, "Ferris Wheel?" "Ferris Wheel!"
Our commentary team has never hated anything more than this routine.
"If there were marks for great tumbling…" (there are, it's called the score) "…she'd certainly be winning, but of course you need a little finesse as well."
Matt: Not sure if she seems connected to the music…
Christine: [Actual cackle]
Mitch: A lot of people would agree with you there.
Oh, gym nerds, I love you so much. Never change.
Beth and Jana kind of make Vanessa Ferrari look like Vanessa Omelianchik, so we're going to pretend this is the best floor performance in gymnastics history. Ferrari's double double is above and beyond for 2006. She has the difficulty and the best landings and should have outscored the rest of the field (perhaps Izbasa excluded) by more than she did.
Izbasa gets to finish on vault with clearly the best DTY of the day, and she was the easily the strongest gymnast of the meet across the non-bars events, which was good enough for bronze.
"The Romanians on the whole have been disappointing, but I think [Izbasa] has looked strong." -Official Motto of Romania, 2006-2012.
Ferrari's floor earns the score she needs to win, but I guess we still have Ashley Priess left to go. Priess was vaguely in medal contention at this point, but in the famous words of Mitch Fenner, "Second pass, what have we got? PROBLEMS is what we've got." An under-rotated 2.5 directly connected to ground-ponytail and flop forward OOB takes Priess down to 10th in the final standings.
"How will she feel now? Will she want to leave, or will she want to continue?" – Matt bringing the HEAVY Priess foreshadowing.
So there we have it. Ferrari is the world all-around champion and it's fine. The end. 2006.
Christine is impressed that a not-so-famous country can mix it up with the Russians, Romanians, Chinese, [LONG PAUSE, SIGH] Americans.
Matt is skeptical about whether Ferrari can keep it up for years to come because she won too young. Yeah, she definitely won't.
Also you know that fun thing where Bruno Grandi wrenches you by the arm so that he can grab your little punim like you're actual infant?
I'm just surprised more gymnasts don't turned to a life of arson, growing up dealing with shit like that.
But really, Matt sums up the night by announcing that the silver medal goes to "Jaga Beaver."
And then Christine sums up the entirety of the British psyche by saying, "A great result for Beth, so disappointed."
The end.