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Beyonce continues her reign in a new teaser for her single 'Grown Woman.'
Rocking blond hair, red lips and a few different outfits, we see Queen Bey practicing her choreography. She also strikes some poses with carts full of Pepsi, likely from her commercial and print ads. She even rocks a Pepsi logo bracelet!
One of our favorite parts, though, is where Bey takes her newly lightened locks and puts them up into a Beyhive. 'Dreamgirls' flashbacks, anyone?


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Web Conferences Slash Costs, Expand ReachBy Baselinemag | Posted 2006-03-06 Print
Greg Simpson, vice president of online services for outplacement firm Drake Beam Morin, says Web conferencing saves the company $2.5 million per year on consultant salaries alone.Greg Simpson
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MANAGER'S PROFILE: In charge of remote services and technologies for the 500-employee outplacement consulting firm. The privately held company, known as DBM, provides training and services to 250,000 laid-off workers at more than 7,000 organizations annually.
HIS PROJECT: DBM held 4,000 Web seminars last year attended by 50,000 people, using Microsoft's Live Meeting service. The company offers a core curriculum of 25 coursessuch as interviewing and resumé-writing skillsand other sessions, such as how to use its JobScout search site.
MEETING MIGRATION: Before Simpson's team began dabbling with Web conferencing in 2001, all of DBM's sessions were held in person, at 230 offices worldwide (60 of which are in the U.S.). Now, about half of all client interactions are conducted via Live Meeting. DBM has found that many recently laid-off employees prefer the Web format, because it's more convenient and provides a level of anonymity. "This tool revolutionized our industry," Simpson says. "It's allowed us to meet our clients where and when they want to."
SAVING A BUNDLE: DBM has also shaved millions on travel and payroll expenses. Simpson estimates Web conferencing saves the firm $2.5 million per year in consultant salaries, because it's more efficient to have an instructor lead a virtual class with 15 participants than conduct a one-on-one meeting. "The cost-savings are phenomenal," he says.
NO VOICE-OVER-IP: The firm uses traditional teleconferencing services, provided by Sprint, along with its Live Meeting sessions. Why not use IP-based voice? Because, Simpson says, most DBM clients access meetings from home: "I can't guarantee that they'll have speakers and a microphone at their PC."
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1) MARTHA SILANO has won the Saturnalia Book Prize (along with a large cabbage) judged by Campbell McGrath for her book From the Office of the Immaculate Conception.
This is wonderful wonderful news! If you haven't read Marty's work, you should. She is an absolutely incredible poet. Her last book was Blue Positive
And that's her daughter on the cover. I cannot wait to read what this next book brings. Congratulations to Martha! Well deserved!
2) And if you haven't heard, JEANNINE HALL GAILEY's 2nd book (She Returns to the Floating World) has been selected for publication too by Kitsune Books & is scheduled for late 2011! And Jeannine has moved on and chosen her cover art, which is gorgeous and perfect for her collection. You can see it here.
Jeannine's first book is: Becoming the Villainess
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Milan is a city where fashion brands come to life as hotels and nightclubs—Armani, Bulgari, Moschino—and restaurants—Dsquared2, Just Cavalli, Trussardi, etc. It is a city where fashion brands also build museums to themselves. Just a month ago, Giorgio Armani opened Armani Silos. The building (designed by Armani himself) is all about selling Armani's craft, containing three floors of gallery space dedicated to the designer's famous soft tailoring. more
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I am fascinated by how brands are constantly creating innovative experiences to connect with target audiences. We find many great examples in sports, but I have been keeping my eye on the fashion game, specifically designer Rebecca Minkoff, a leader in casual luxury handbags, accessories and apparel who has become one of the savviest marketers around. more
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The partnership between Louis Vuitton and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama shows that the arts are every bit as exploitable as sport. It just takes creativity. more
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Over the last decade, upscale fashion brands found on New York City's Madison Avenue, Paris's Avenue Montaigne and London's Sloane Street have extended well beyond apparel and accessories into housewares, sheets and textiles, lighting and furniture. more
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As oil is the Middle East's natural resource, culture is Italy's. The country is home to more UNESCO World Heritage sites, museums and archeological sites than any other in the world. more
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Design of Olympic apparel has radically shifted from costume to fashion at the 2012 London Games. more
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My colleague Julie Kimball passed around the latest in a long line of cool Orange ideas that get us geeking out not only over the smart technology but also the smart use of sponsorship. more
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Although Audi was not the primary sponsor of either Art Basel Miami Beach or its sister event, Design Miami—roles that belong to UBS and HSBC Private Wealth respectively—it was the most ubiquitous.
Eschewing auto shows in favor of the Miami events for the unveiling of its 2010 A8, Audi of America spent north of $6 million but south of $10 million building out its presence.
The automaker, which has increased its marketing budget by 20 percent this year to seize share from its more distressed competitors in the luxury car segment, did not merely sponsor the Miami happenings. Instead, Audi took on the roles of cultural creator and arts curator. For example, in addition to providing the vehicles for the shuttle service for VIPs attending the events, Audi: more
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Media reports indicate that the IndyCar Series will announce its first title sponsor in eight years with a Thursday announcement that Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.'s Izod brand has purchased naming rights.
Much of the current commentary around the deal involves speculation of how much Izod is paying. The Indianapolis Star quoted the series' sales rep, Zac Brown of Just Marketing, as saying the "asking price" was $10 million a year to be allocated across IndyCar and its media partners.
Conventional wisdom says that no property is getting its asking price these days. And that $10 million starting point is down from where it was three years ago, when an exec for a company that had been pitched the series title at that time told me IndyCar was seeking $15 million a year for 10 years, not including TV ad buy commitments. more
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Remember the Golden Rule (for those academics reading, you may be more familiar with it as the "Ethic of Reciprocity")? Something to the effect of "do unto others as you'd have done unto you" (not sure if I got that exactly right, I'd be overstretching it to say I'm the most virtuous person), but I've always loved the zen utility of being able to answer every question or solve every problem with one simple tenet.
So what's the Golden Rule of sponsorship? If, as people, we're supposed to treat others how we want to be treated, what as sponsorship pros is the golden statute to employ? Now, I'm no Buddha and I don't claim to have the mystical, sage wisdom of the ages, however, I have seen a lot of sponsorship – good and bad – and while it may not be sexy, I think it comes down to this: enhance the consumer experience.
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From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who later received recognition for his blues playing, loved playing Dixieland and classic jazz. In settings ranging from a trio to a septet, Hodes inspires and interacts with some of the top trad jazz players of the mid-1940s, including trumpeters Max Kaminsky and (on one session) Wild Bill Davison; trombonists Ray Conniff, Sandy Williams, and Vic Dickenson; clarinetists Rod Cless, Edmond Hall, Mezz Mezzrow, Omer Simeon, and Albert Nicholas; the great soprano innovator Sidney Bechet; bassists Bob Haggart, Israel Crosby, Pops Foster, and Wellman Braud; and drummers Dodds, Danny Alvin, and Fred Moore, among others. The music overall is generally straightforward Dixieland with plenty of exciting ensembles and hot solos. A collector's item that (typically for Mosaic) was perfectly conceived.


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'Compulsive Viewing: The Films Of Guy Bourdin' showcases eleven unique fashion films, edited in 2002-2003 from never-before-seen, archival film recorded by the photographer Guy Bourdin. Exposing and exploring Bourdin's grasp of the moving image, this legacy of cinefilms is a stellar example of how a photographer's aesthetic can translates to fashion film.
Fashion Films
An utterly unique catalogue of fashion films created from footage captured by seminal photographer Guy Bourdin.
Recorded during shoots over Bourdin's thirty-five year career, these eleven films were created with original cinefilm released to SHOWstudio by the Bourdin estate as a motion image accompaniment to the major Guy Bourdin retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (17 April-17 August 2003) and its international tour.


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Astronomers using adaptive optics on the Gemini North and Keck telescopes have taken an image of a brown dwarf orbiting a nearby star similar to the Sun. The faint companion is separated from its parent star by less than the distance between the Sun and the planet Uranus and is the smallest separation brown dwarf companion seen with direct imaging.
The research team estimates the mass of the brown dwarf at 55 to 78 times the mass of planet Jupiter. The discovery raises puzzling questions about how the brown dwarf formed, and it adds to the surprising diversity of extrasolar planetary systems being found with cutting-edge observational techniques.
"This discovery implies that brown dwarf companions to average, Sun-like stars exist at a separation comparable to the distance between the Sun and the outer planets in our Solar System," said Michael Liu, the Beatrice Parrent fellow at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy. Liu is lead author of a paper presented today at a press conference in Washington, DC, at the 199th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Found with adaptive optics technology at the Gemini North and Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the brown dwarf is located in the constellation Sagitta (The Arrow) around a star commonly known as 15 Sge. The star, a G-star formally identified as HR 7672, is one to three billion years old, making it slightly younger than the Sun. It is located approximately 58 light-years from Earth.
"This companion is probably too massive to have formed the way we believe that planets do, namely from a circumstellar disk of gas and dust when the star was young," Liu added. "This finding suggests that a diversity of processes act to populate the outer regions of other solar systems. The parent star is very similar to our Sun, yet it has a brown dwarf companion whose mass is dozens of times the combined mass of all the planets in our solar system."
Co-authors on the paper presented today are Debra Fischer, James Graham, James Lloyd and Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley, and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, DC.
The brown dwarf orbits the star at an estimated distance of 14 Astronomical Units (AU), 14 times the distance between Earth and the Sun (1 AU = 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles). This makes it the closest substellar object yet seen by direct imaging around a main sequence (stable, hydrogen-burning) star. For comparison, Saturn orbits the Sun at 10 AU, with Uranus the next planet outward at 19 AU.
Astronomers believe that brown dwarfs are intermediate objects between planets and stars. Often described as 'failed stars', they are more massive than Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. However, they fall short of the minimum mass need to sustain nuclear fusion, estimated at 8 percent of the Sun's mass. After a modest initial outburst of higher temperatures at birth, brown dwarfs cool off and steadily grow fainter.
While many planets have been found around other stars by radial velocity studies (which search for the very weak wobbling of stars due to an unseen planet), the same studies find almost no brown dwarfs, a phenomenon known as the "brown dwarf desert." However, such work only probes the inner four AU around other stars. Very little is known about region outside of four AU, the domain of giant planets in our own solar system.
Hints of an interesting object around 15 Sge first arose in data gathered ten years ago from Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, CA. Marcy, Butler, and Fischer obtained high-precision radial velocity measurements of this star as part of their effort to find planets. While they did not find any planets, they did notice clues of a more massive, distant companion.
In the summer of 2001, Liu took high-resolution pictures of 15 Sge using the University of Hawaii's QUIRC camera and Hoku'pa'a adaptive optics (AO) system on the 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope. Second and third epoch imaging were obtained using the Keck AO system in August and December 2001.
Ground-based astronomical images normally are blurred due to the turbulence of the Earth's atmosphere. AO is an exciting technology that compensates for this effect in real time, correcting the blurring and making some images sharper than even those produced by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Liu noticed a very faint object next to 15 Sge, akin to distinguishing a firefly next to a bright searchlight. However, the object could have been a distant star in the background, merely appearing to be close to 15 Sge when projected on the sky. Over the course of six months, Liu and his collaborators monitored the star with Keck AO and NIRSPEC on the 10-meter Keck II telescope and found that the faint object moved on the sky along with the primary star, proving the two objects were physically associated. A spectrum of the companion indicated a very cool temperature, characteristic of brown dwarfs.
"Only by using adaptive optics to produce very sharp images could we have found this companion," Liu explains. "It is too faint and too close to its parent star to be seen otherwise."
Liu and his collaborators are continuing to search for such objects. "Now that we know brown dwarfs exist in the region of giant planet formation, we would like to understand how often these oddball pairings occur in the Universe, and what that can tell us about the alternate and divergent ways in which solar systems form around Sun-like stars," he says.
Full resolution images of the 15 Sge system and a conceptualization from artist Jon Lomberg are available at on the web at:
Gemini-North adaptive optics image of 15 Sge and its newly found companion (15 Sge B). The data were obtained in the near-infrared, at a wavelength of 2.2 microns. The image has been computer processed to subtract the light from the much brighter primary star in the vicinity of companion.
Keck adaptive optics image of 15 Sge and its companion, also obtained in the near-infrared. The arrow points to the companion, seen as a close point source. Orientation and size are the same as the above image.


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An important new link on our links page to a website that contains information on the use of herbal remedies 3/3/06
A number of new and helpful articles on our articles page.
Reversing diabetes is not only possible, it is likely if you are willing to put forth the effort. This website is about reversing diabetes. It's about honest information; not about rampant industry promoting disinformation. It is about reversing a monstrous degenerative disease syndrome that shouldn't even exist. Diabetes is a disease syndrome that is so common that all of us either have the disease or we know someone that does have it. It is a primary, if not the primary, economic support for a medical community whose policy level management has absolutely no interest in curing it. This one disease syndrome alone accounted for over 40% of the deaths in the US from all causes in 1995 (Based on data published by American Demographics). This disease syndrome currently constitutes one of our most effective restraints on population growth in the developed nations. At the beginning of the twentieth century, this disease syndrome was so rare that it was considered a medical curiosity.
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Today a diabetes epidemic of incredible proportions rages through the country. It directly affects over half the population and incapacitates almost twenty percent of us. Over ten percent us are completely dependent upon synthetic medication and live under constant medical supervision because of a crippling drug dependence.
There are few of us in America who are not affected directly or indirectly by diabetes. It has been known since the 1950's as Adult Onset Diabetes, Type II Diabetes, Insulin Resistant Diabetes, Hyperinsulinemia, or Insulin Resistant Hyperinsulinemia. It is known to the medical community by the symptoms that it produces. Some of these symptoms are: Atherosclerosis,Vascular disease, Diabetes type 2, Impotence, Kidney Failure, Heart disease, Liver Damage, Stroke, Obesity, Neuropathy, Retinopathy and Gangrene to name but just a few. We have separately discussed, each on its own page, the connection of each of these symptoms to the underlying endocrine disorder, Diabetes.
This disease has so many life threatening symptoms that it influenced an extensive reorganization of the medical disease classification system in 1949. This was the year the medical community defined many of these symptoms into the independent medical specialty diseases that has ravaged America for the last forty years. This reorganization was promoted ostensibly to focus medical activity more clearly on the underlying disease syndrome. However, in actual fact, it has resulted in the widespread compartmentalization of the medical community into numerous competing
medical specialty groups according to the presentation of the differing
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This compartmentalization has obscured both the cause of this disease and the incredible scope of the epidemic that it produces. However, none of these newly formed "medical compartments"are trained to deal with the underlying cause of this disease. They are trained to deal only with their proprietary symptom set. The existence of these numerous new alias' for this disease became a real problem for the scientists who had a genuine interest in understanding cause and effect. Their solution to this "problem of too many aliases" is illuminating. It can be found on our History page.
This compartmentalization
resulted in the establishment
of powerful economic disincentives to the promotion of a cure for the
as competing medical specialists simply vied for market share. As
this competition became managed by medical "authorities", the American
community rapidly became the wealthiest in the world. Clearly
the medical reorganization of 1949, which rapidly developed into a
major disaster for the
patient that we see today,
did indeed enormously benefit the medical community.
All Doctors now are trained to deal only with their proprietary symptom set according to the prescribed protocols. This is why and how the "cure" word disappeared from the medical vocabulary entirely. This also explains why it has become a federal crime to use the "cure" word in many circumstances where it would clearly apply; this in a country that loudly trumpets its belief in free speech. Try discussing the "cure" word with your doctor; you will find it to be an illuminating experience indeed.
As all focus on
curing anything became hopelessly lost, the orthodox medical community
prospered as never before in all of its history. Today America has
well below the norm even for western developed nations in the quality
quantity of medical care it dispenses. Here in the US, doctor caused
is the third leading cause of death from all causes. However, the
medical community still retains its lead as the wealthiest and most
medical community in the world.
As the endocrine disease itself, that
underlies and
causes so many of
symptoms, develops the human body strives to cope with a severely
damaged metabolism that, if not swiftly corrected, will kill it.
Details of this process is discussed on our webpage on hyperinsulinemia.
Subtle cause and effect relationships between insulin and glucose are
explored there. Early warning indicators often include elevated
elevated triglycerides, poor HDL/LDL ratio, high blood pressure,
insulin resistance and
problems. Some of these early warning indicators of disease are
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MRF Blog
A Man and His Daughter: A Chance to Make a Great Catch
He was not what you would expect to see at an NFL game. It wasn't the way he was dressed. After all, people put on the wackiest clothes for a game. He had on the team shirt, was dressed in the team colors. It was more the expression on his face—a look of deep concern, of worry.
Last weekend, the MRF held a Melanoma Awareness Day in partnership with the Jacksonville Jaguars in their match-up against the Cincinnati Bengals. We put out 50,000 stadium cups with the phrase, "Make a Great Catch! Spotting melanoma early can save a life!" We handed out sunscreen and gave out literature. With print ads in the game-day book, electronic ads on all the videos in the stadium, and promotions on radio, we blanketed the stadium with information on the importance of paying attention to your skin.
But it wasn't his own skin this man was worried about. The morning of the game, he had read an article in the Jacksonville paper about a young woman, Paula Heacox, who had volunteered with MRF. It was Paula's energy and inspiration that helped bring about the partnership with the Jaguars. She died at age 38, just a month before the big game.
This fan had read the article and came to the stadium looking for us. When he found us, he told us his story.
A couple of years ago this man's daughter decided to go to a tanning salon. It was her first trip and she didn't quite know what to expect. She set the timer, went into the booth and waited. Nothing happened. Oh, the lights came on and the timer ultimately shut the device off, but she didn't feel like she had been in the sun. She decided she hadn't done it right. So she did it again - another full round of radiation. A few hours later she discovered her mistake.
She was purple for days, in so much pain she couldn't walk, sit or lie down. Nothing was comfortable. To this day she cannot go into the sun without getting a skin reaction.
What motivated this father to seek us out, though, was something else. His daughter recently had a black spot show up on her thigh. It is dark, black, and growing. He told me, "She is covered by my insurance, but I can't get her to go to the doctor. What should I do?"
Was this spot caused by the tanning bed incident? No-one will ever know for sure. This man certainly believes that this is the case. Is his daughter's spot melanoma? Odds are it isn't. But it might be.
I told him that melanoma caught early is often cured by surgery, but if it is caught later the fight is much more difficult. In truth, his daughter's delay in getting care might prove deadly. I shared with him stories of others who have lost their battle at an early age - not to frighten, but to motivate. I told him to do whatever it takes to get his daughter to the doctor, to get the spot checked out.
I hope he will be successful. I hope his daughter is OK. I may never know how his and his daughter's story ends up. I gave him my contact information, but he didn't share his. Though he was one man in a crowd of 50,000 I will think about him for a long time and wonder. I will think about his daughter, about her tanning experience and the spot on her leg. She is 20 years old.
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What a fantasitc way to raise awareness about the dangers of melanoma. My best friend was 20 years-old when she was diagnosed with Melanoma. Luckily she caught it early! It's scary to think about skin cancer forming in so many young adults and teens. Keep up your wonderful work MRF!
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SoGo, Citadel, Open-Xchange
February 7, 2011
The Linux/FOSS world offers a wealth of excellent Linux-based groupware server choices, suitable for small shops to giant enterprises. Eric Geier rounds up six to get you started.
Groupware solutions can help your organization better collaborate and manage work life. They can give users email access and help them better manage and share their contacts, calendars, to-do lists, appointments, and other information. Access is typically provided via a web interface and clients on computers and mobile devices. In this roundup, we'll� discover Linux-based servers that can be an open source and economic alternative to big-name servers like Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes.
SOGo supports the basic groupware functions: task management, calendars, address books and emails. The server and all related components are released under the GNU GPL/LGPL v2 license. That means even the connectors for Outlook and Thunderbird are available for free, unlike most other groupware solutions. Mobile phones and devices are also well supported, either natively or via a free SOGo connector.
You can quickly setup a test server with their downloadable virtual appliances. Binary packages are available for several Linux distributions. You'll also find SOGo is well supported. They offer installation and configuration guides for the server and clients, a FAQ, and active mailing list.
Citadel provides users with the usual groupware features. Additionally, it gives you bulletin boards, mailing lists, instant messaging, and a wiki. The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL3) and seems to be well maintained and updated regularly. Users can access the services with the web-based interface (named WebCit) or via supported clients, such as KOrganizer, Evolution, Outlook, and Mozilla Thunderbird and Sunbird.
Citadel boasts that they offer a turnkey solution that installs quickly and easily. It can be installed with their Easy Install solution, available as a Debian or Ubuntu package, or downloaded as a VMware appliance. They also offer great support via a forum, FAQ, administrator manual, and other documentation.
Open-Xchange, started back in 2000, offers a Community Edition, which is the same as the premium editions but doesn't come with official support. Plus the OXtender for Outlook and Mac OS X can only be purchased in combination with a maintenance contract. However, users can still receive access via the web or on mobile phones with encrypted push and sync support. Along with the basic groupware features, Open-Xchange offers document management and sharing, and social networking functionality.
The Open-Xchange backend is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL2), while the frontend is released under the Creative Commons Share Alike, Non Commercial, Attribution license.
Open-Xchange provides installation instructions for several Linux distributions, an administration manual, and user manual. Even more documentation is available for customization, programming, and other advanced tasks. For troubleshooting, they also have a forum, knowledge-base, and FAQ.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 180 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a webdsigner and a fashion photographer. I run the website http://www.norwegianfashion.no and I am now working on a new project: Storelocator.
Storelocator is the site you go to, to discover where your favourite label is soled (in stores near you).
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Here are two links of logos which has a nice look and feel:
Notice how many of the logos has separated symbol and text.
The logo will be used on a website which uses light colours and has a modern and fresh look and feel.
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Keywords for the logo: Contemporary, Professional, High Fashion
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On June 27th a facebook page by the name of "Beauty of Myanmar" posted the following:"Amazing Race in Myanmar namely "PADAUNG". Have you been seen to them?"Source
If they show ONE PICTURE of Aung San Suu Kyi I will be very happy <3
Anthony Boundain's CNN series went to Myanmar for its first season which just finished airing and was filmed a few months ago; and he mentioned that all foreign tourist travel is limited to a triangular area in the center of the country, so the Padaung that's near Yangon, is most likely the location that TAR would have gone to as between those two locations.Again, I realize we haven't confirmed this as part of a leg, but it does help refine the potential locations that might have been visited.
Oh where, oh whereHas my WRP gone?Oh where, oh where could they be?With the budget cut shortAnd season cut longOh where, oh where could they be?
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In 1907, the China Manufacturing Company, Pembroke Mills, and the Webster Manufacturing Company joined to form Suncook Mills. The Suncook Mills Collection spans the transition from cotton mills established in the mid-nineteenth century to the manufacture of rayon and synthetic fabrics, such as Flightex, a century later. Records of women workers include fragmentary payroll records from 1864 to 1904 at the China, Pembroke, and Webster Cotton Mills, as well as later payrolls from 1915 to 1943 at Suncook Mills. Women also appear in this collection as clerical workers, labor union officials, and stockholders. The employee relations materials include a 1913 list of employees who had worked at Suncook for 25 years or more. About half of these veterans were women. A letter addressing grievances from Suncook's Treasurer, J. Linzer Weld, to Horace A. Riviere of the Textile Workers Union of America, dated August 1, 1941, sheds interesting light on the historical development of the gender designation of specific jobs and compensation rates in the textile industry.
Mr. Giroux was formerly a hand twister who was making only a few dollars a week. Nearly two years ago his overseer made a deal with him to go on steady work at a room-girl's pay and to help out in several jobs at this pay. When a rigger has been out and he has taken over the whole job, he has got rigger's pay but when he has only helped a rigger catch-up, he has got room girl pay, and when he has gone on as a battery hand or helps sweep, he still gets room-girl pay.


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SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 (UPI) -- Rangers in California's Yosemite Park say they rarely punish people who stray off trails, a transgression that led three deaths this week.
Yosemite officials concluded issuing citations each time one of the park's 4 million visitors wanders from a designated path would do little to deter them, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
"Yosemite and the national parks are inherently wild places," Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said. "We do all we can do to educate visitors through the Web, our newsletters and public signs -- but ultimately people need to make their own decisions."
On Tuesday three hikers were swept over Vernal Fall as dozens of other visitors watched in horror.
The three, Ramina Badal, 21, Ninos Yacoub, 27, and Hormiz David, 22, had gone around a metal guardrail upstream of the waterfall to stand in knee-high water.
Badal slipped, setting off a chain reaction that pulled all three over the 317-foot-high waterfall.
The bodies had not been recovered.
They apparently missed or ignored warning signs featuring a stick figure tumbling over the edge of the waterfall as well as a widely available booklet advising visitors "never to swim or wade upstream of a waterfall, even if the water appears shallow or calm," the Chronicle said.


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Clearest View Yet of Massive Star Cluster
A new image processing technique has yielded the clearest view yet of an extraordinary star cluster located about 169,000 light years from Earth. The new technique, called photometric reconstruction, was applied to a photograph of the star cluster Rl36 that was obtained with the Planetary Camera onboard the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals that there are at least 47 stars located within an area 1.6 light years across in Rl36. (One light year is approximately 5.8 trillion miles long.) In contrast, the Sun is about 4 light years from the nearest known star, Proxima Centauri.
Clearest View Yet of Massive Star Cluster
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center


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TIMOTHY S. DAUBERT, PLAINTIFF,v.LINDSAY UNIFED SCHOOL DISTRICT, DEFENDANT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Gary S. Austin United States Magistrate Judge
Parties to this litigation shall take note of the following requirements: In litigating this action, the parties must comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local Rules of the United States District Court, Eastern District of California ("Local Rules"). This order highlights specific rules of which the parties should take particular note. Failure to comply with the Local Rules, federal rules or a court order, including this order, will be grounds for dismissal, entry of default or other appropriate sanctions. See Local Rule 11-110; F.R.Civ.P. 41(b).
1. Documents intended to be filed with the Court must be mailed to the Clerk of the Court. See Local Rule 5-134(a). All documents improperly mailed to a judge's chambers will be stricken from the record.*fn1 A document requesting a Court order must be styled as a motion. See F.R.Civ.P. 7.
2. Each document submitted for filing must include the original signature of the filing party or parties. Local Rule 7-131; F.R.Civ.P. 11(a). All documents submitted without the required signature(s) will be stricken. Each separate document must be separately stapled. See Local Rule 7-130. If a document is stapled behind another document, it will not be filed and will not be entered on this Court's docket.
3. All documents filed with the Court must be submitted with an additional legible conformed copy for the Court's use. See Local Rule 5-133(d)(2). A document submitted without an extra copy for the Court's use will be stricken. If the filing party wishes the Court to return a file-stamped copy, he or she must include an additional copy for that purpose (i.e., submit an original and two copies, one for the Court's use and one to be returned). The Court cannot provide copy or mailing service for a party, even for an indigent plaintiff proceeding in forma pauperis. Therefore, if the filing party wishes a file-stamped copy returned, the party must also provide an envelope with adequate postage pre-paid. Copies of documents from the Court file may be obtained at the cost of 50 cents per page.
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5. All filings must bear the file number assigned to the action, followed by the initials of the District Court Judge and the Magistrate Judge to whom the case is assigned. Where plaintiff simultaneously pursues more than one action, he or she must file separate original documents and the appropriate number of copies in each action to which the document pertains. Documents submitted listing more than one case number in the caption will be stricken.
6. The Court cannot serve as a repository for the parties' evidence. The parties may not file evidence with the Court until the course of litigation brings the evidence into question (for example, on a motion for summary judgment, at trial, or when requested by the Court). Evidence improperly submitted to the Court will be stricken and returned to the party.
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9. Due to the press of business, the Court cannot respond to individual requests for the status of cases. Any such requests will be denied. So long as the parties inform the Court of any address changes in compliance with Local Rule 83-183(b), the Court will notify the parties of any Court action taken in their case.
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If William Shakespeare's ascendancy over Western theatre has not extended to the opera stage—a fact explained by the want of Shakespeare-congenial librettists, the literary indifference of composers, and the difficulties involved in setting iambic pentameters to music—the Shakespeare canon has nonetheless established itself as one of the great inspirers of operas. This is clear from the 200-odd operas based on Shakespeare's plays, about half a dozen of which are among the rare monuments of operatic achievement. It is further demonstrated by an even more extended series of furtive references—moments of other operas that show signs of unmistakable Shakespearean family resemblance without any declared genealogical link to their source. Shakespeare's plays have thus given rise, side by side, to a "legitimate" operatic offspring and to an anonymous operatic dissemination, a recorded and an unrecorded history of Shakespeare on the opera stage.
Opera derived from Shakespeare
The necessity of accommodating the formal unruliness and many-faceted characters of Shakespeare's theatre to the succession of recitative and aria, elaborate scenery, and other conventions of opera makes adaptation of Shakespeare a hazardous business. Actor-manager David Garrick's opera version of The Tempest (1756) was accused of "castrating" Shakespeare's original play, while Lord Byron (in an 1818 letter to the poet Samuel Rogers) berated Gioacchino Rossini's librettist for "crucifying" Othello (1816).
Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen (1692) is usually dubbed the first Shakespearean opera. Its music, however, is confined to interludes within a curtailed A Midsummer Night's Dream. Only in Dido and Aeneas (1689) did Purcell have the chance to write music for a tragic heroine of mythical status. Purcell's only real opera, written for a cast of young girls, displays distinctly Shakespearean influences that can be safely ascribed to his librettist, the poet and playwright Nahum Tate, who was familiar with the canon. Tate consistently "improved" Shakespeare to suit new audience tastes, the most famous instance being the happy ending he appended to King Lear (Tate's King Lear of 1681—in which Cordelia not only lives but marries Edgar—was in fact the only version to be presented on the English stage for the next 150 years). For Dido and Aeneas, Tate actually followed Virgil quite faithfully, with the exception of the addition of two Macbeth-inspired witch scenes that both complicate the action and introduce a considerable measure of doubt about the role of destiny in Aeneas's decisions; Mercury here becomes a mere decoy sent by the witches to trick Aeneas with the overall purpose of hurting Dido. Yet this addition established a Shakespearean dimension that made this short opera appropriate for use as a "play within a play" in performances of Measure for Measure on the London stage in 1700. Indeed, such insertions of musical pieces in or after Shakespeare's plays were customary in the 18th century: George Frideric Handel's pastoral Acis and Galatea, for example, was performed at Drury Lane in 1724 as an afterpiece for The Tempest.
Opera seria and opera buffa
It is tantalizing, with regard to Shakespearean dramaturgy, to note that opera was born in Florence in 1600—about the time that Hamlet first voiced Shakespeare's views on acting. Shakespeare and the theorists of opera expressed similar concerns about language and performance. (See also Sidebar: Shakespeare on Theatre.) Opera prospered, and Venice started opening public opera houses in 1637; in 1642 Puritan London closed its theatres. Italian opera reached London only at the beginning of the 18th century, when it immediately became a fashion and divided the public. Shakespeare was called upon in this contest: the "rude mechanicals' " play from A Midsummer Night's Dream was turned into a caricature of Italian opera in Richard Leveridge's A Comick Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe (1716). Some 30 years later (1745), J.F. Lampe revived the book as a "mock opera," complete with rage aria and contrived happy ending.
More antagonistic still were the reactions to Italian opera written on Shakespearean librettos. Francesco Gasparini's Ambleto (Hamlet), having been played throughout Europe, was taken to London in 1712 by the celebrated castrato Nicolini but quickly disappeared from the scene. Francesco Maria Veracini's Rosalinda (1744)—As You Like It staged as a polite Italian pastoral and written for a cast of female and castrato sopranos—suffered the same fate. Gli equivoci, an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's only English disciple, Stephen Storace, presents a different case. Written on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte (much in the spirit of his—and Mozart's—The Marriage of Figaro) and auspiciously received in 1786 at the Vienna Burgtheater (now the Hofburgtheater) and throughout Germany, Gli equivoci, which is the only known setting of The Comedy of Errors, was considered too "Mozartian" and never made its way to London.
Others, such as J.C. Smith and the aforementioned David Garrick, both used and challenged the Italian opera fashion. While their opera on The Tempest, as well as The Fairies (1755), where the Prologue jokingly attributes authorship to a "Signor Shakespearelli," were poorly received, Garrick's Tempest book was successfully revived in 1777 with music by the remarkable Thomas Linley (1756–78). Throughout the 18th century, The Tempest, like A Midsummer Night's Dream, was never actually performed except as a musical entertainment.
After the turn of the century, composers of opera buffa (such as Antonio Salieri) and German singspiel (such as Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf) turned their eyes to Shakespeare's more farcical vein. In 1849 Otto Nicolai, having declared that only Mozart could do justice to Shakespeare, wrote a successful opera on Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor). Hermann Goetz's Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (1874; The Taming of the Shrew) made Kate fall in love with Petruchio almost at first sight—mutating Shakespeare's self-confident antiheroine into a hochdramatisch 19th-century hysteric.
Women from theatre to opera
The twilight of opera seria and the advent of Romantic opera are epitomized by the emergence of the prima donna and the female conquest of the formerly castrato-dominated soprano region. Shakespeare's female roles, because they were played by boys, were usually less developed than his male roles; with the notable exceptions of Rosalind (in As You Like It) and Cleopatra (in Antony and Cleopatra), Shakespeare's female roles were far less significant. But the 19th-century primacy of the soprano extends to many other Shakespearean female roles, turning them into major parts.
Rossini's Otello (1816), the first opera seria with a tragic ending, poises three tenors—Iago (the villain), Rodrigo (the rejected lover), and Otello (the interloper)—against a besieged Desdemona who outweighs them all—and her basso father, Brabantio, to boot. Following the 18th-century French "translation" of Othello by Jean-François Ducis, Rossini replaces the handkerchief, that shockingly intimate piece of female lingerie, with the more acceptable misdelivered, unaddressed letter of Italian comedy. The French poets Victor Hugo and Alfred de Vigny made endless fun of this "improvement," yet the painter Eugène Delacroix was so impressed by this reading that his paintings show Desdemona, not Othello, as the protagonist. Most of the action in the first acts is indeed forced into the mold of conventional opera seria. It contains bravura arias for all the soloists and dramatic grand finales that only distantly relate to the subtle progression of the Shakespearean narrative. Contrary to the stage version, which travels from Venice to Cyprus and involves lowlife characters such as prostitutes and gulls, the whole opera is set in magnificent palaces in Venice, staging mostly polite exchanges between members of a single noble class of individuals governed by acceptable passions. Yet in the final act of this seminal opera, Rossini introduced a quotation from Dante's Inferno, sung by a passing gondolier, which prompts Desdemona to sing an elaborate Willow Song that she accompanies on her harp, followed by a very moving prayer, leading on to the murder scene and a terse conclusion. Otello is the only Rossini opera to end in this manner, and the influence of this last act on 19th-century opera has proved enduring and far-reaching.
The passionate "Shakespearien" Hector Berlioz put the sopranos in the forefront in his last work, Béatrice et Bénédict (1862), based on the "merry war" subplot of Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare was a never-ending inspiration to Berlioz, notably in his Roméo et Juliette choral symphony (composed 1839). Romeo and Juliet has proved to be an all-time favourite for opera composers, prompting more than 20 versions. In adaptations by such composers as Nicola Antonio Zingarelli and Nicola Vaccai, the part of Romeo is sung by a mezzo-soprano, to the disapproval of Berlioz, who preferred, for this and other reasons, Daniel Steibelt's Roméo et Juliette (1793). I Capuleti, a vehicle for the famous Grisi sisters (Giuditta and Giulia), privileged female ensembles and conquered the public in the lovers' final duet by means of a timely awakening of Giulietta—an ending popularized by Garrick. Juliette is a sophisticated coloratura in Charles Gounod's 1867 opera (termed by Rossini "a duet in three parts: one before, one during, and one after"), overdeveloped, like the Ophelia of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet (1868), at the expense of male partners. Other examples of that tendency include Saverio Mercadante's Amleto (1822), where the part of Hamlet is sung by a woman, and a verismo opera renamed Giulietta e Romeo (1922) by Riccardo Zandonai.
Both Gounod's and Thomas's librettos were written by the successful team of Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who together and separately or with others authored the librettos of some of the most enduring French operas. The plot of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette is fairly faithful to the original, doing away with many secondary characters and expanding others (the page Stefano, for example, who is unnamed in Shakespeare's tragedy, has a memorable aria). The major departure from the original plot is once again the reawakening of Juliette just in time for a pathetic duet with Romeo before both die, begging God's forgiveness for their unchristian suicide.
The opera, which begins with the ball scene at the Capulets', overdramatizes several episodes, including the first appearance of Juliet, the revelation (by Tybalt rather than her nurse) of Romeo's identity to Juliet, and Juliet's fake death, which occurs just as her father has taken her arm to lead her to the chapel to marry Paris. In short, it possessed all the ingredients for success and was an immediate hit. It has remained in repertoire along with Faust, Gounod's other adaptation from a literary masterpiece.
In the early 1990s Thomas's Hamlet, after a long period of neglect, began once again to be performed by celebrated singers on prestigious stages and to be recorded. The opera poises Hamlet mostly against Gertrude, his mother, and his beloved Ophelia, but it also offers interesting insights into the political questions that troubled France at the time it was written, two years before the end of the Second Empire: Gertrude knows all about the murder of her former husband by Claudius (her current husband), and Hamlet rejects Ophelia only when he realizes that Polonius was an accomplice in the deed. In the "mousetrap" scene the seemingly mad Hamlet pulls the crown off Claudius's head, prompting a finale of epic proportion, as the Court comments on this act of lèse-majesté. In the final scene, at the graveyard, the ghost of Hamlet's father appears for a third time, visible to all this time, demanding action from Hamlet, who immediately kills King Claudius, thus restoring legitimacy to the throne and bringing stability to his tormented country. The opera ends to the sound of the people shouting "Vive Hamlet! Vive notre roi!"
In Das Liebesverbot (1836), Richard Wagner's only Shakespeare opera and the only extant setting of Measure for Measure, the Duke's role is entirely devolved to Isabella, who secretly loves the freethinker Lucio. The original performances were a complete failure, and the piece all but disappeared from the repertoire. Some performances in the mid-to-late 20th century, as well as recordings, however, have saved the work from utter oblivion and shed light on Wagner's formative years, when he was still attempting to write mainstream music.
As for the prominent role of the soprano in Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth (1847), it is due to Shakespeare himself: Verdi simply recognized that Lady Macbeth's soliloquies read exactly like opera solos. His instruction that she "should not sing at all" is echoed in Ernest Bloch's Macbeth (1910), where the orchestra plays the leading part, providing counterpoint, depth, and tragic irony that voices alone cannot convey. Like Thomas's Hamlet, Verdi's Macbeth reflects the political situation in the composer's homeland in more ways than one: the tyrannical authority of the usurpers is opposed by Scottish exiles clamouring for liberty. The chorus of the Profughi Scozzesi is an echo of "Va, pensiero," the famous chorus from Nabucco that became an anthem in the struggle for Italian unity—prompting Verdi's name to become an acronym for the motto "Vittorio Emmanuele, Re d'Italia."
Rossini's Otello was saved by the memory of Shakespeare's, as Stendhal put it. Twentieth-century adaptations swung in the opposite direction: in Mario Zafred's Amleto (1961) or Frank Martin's Der Sturm (1956), the parlando music encumbers Shakespeare's words; literal readings by Reynaldo Hahn (1935) and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1961) have resulted in two disproportionately lengthy versions of The Merchant of Venice.
Opera inspired by Shakespeare
The slower pace of operatic plots—the result of the singing of the dialogue and the interruption of the action by arias—imposes simplification. Composers therefore have been faced with the task of filling the gaps in most Shakespeare-based librettos. Their problem is that, as W.H. Auden pointed out, contrary to plays, operas cannot easily present characters who are "potentially good and bad." However, opera has other advantages: music speaks directly to the emotions, and its means are expanded by ensemble singing and the support of the orchestra. The simultaneous expression of different ideas and feelings thus made possible was first fully applied to Shakespearean opera in Verdi's Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893), composed when the operatic form had reached its full maturity, just before the musical revolutions of Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky.
The first and definitive attempt to challenge Rossini's work, Otello is the only Shakespeare opera that generates the same critical response as the original, including G.B. Shaw's quip that "instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera." Verdi's librettist, Arrigo Boito, a composer in his own right, took the opposite stance to Rossini's librettist and set the whole opera in Cyprus. He dropped altogether the confrontation between the lovers and Desdemona's father in the Doges' Palace, which had occupied so much of the earlier opera. Instead, he transposed Othello's tale of the wooing of Desdemona to an extended love duet, one of the most beautiful in the operatic canon. Jago (Iago), all trills and chromaticism, is epitomized by his "Credo"—a piece in line with the 19th century's fascination with Mephistophelian characters (Boito himself wrote an opera called Mefistofele)—which concludes with the nihilistic line "la morte è il nulla" ("death is nothingness"). It takes its cue from some of Iago's quizzical statements and "motiveless malignity" but definitely steps outside Elizabethan conceptions and presents a distinctly 19th-century air. The degradation of Otello's heroic stature, which was established in his terse entrance aria ("Esultate"), is depicted by his gradual appropriation of Jago's style and his distortion of Desdemona's lyrical phrases. In the tradition of Italian opera, Otello includes a "state scene" with a grand finale, in which stunned onlookers comment on the passions opposing the protagonists, but, like Rossini's final act, Verdi's reaches heights of simplicity and emotion unlike any opera that had gone before. Desdemona's Willow Song, followed by a Prayer, becomes a poignant lull before the stormy denouement. Otello, who has often been compared to Wagner's Tristan, dies on the interrupted word bacio ("kiss"), in a rapturous recall of the theme developed in the earlier love duet.
The plot of Verdi's Falstaff tightens The Merry Wives of Windsor while integrating elements from the Henry IV plays—such as Falstaff's well-known speech on honour—which give more depth to the main character. Verdi was thus able to develop in parallel the comedy involving Falstaff and his acolytes on one side and Mistress Quickly and her friends on the other, as well as the darker undertones of the scenes involving the jealous Ford, and the lyrical development of the love-interest of Fenton and Nannetta. The final fugue, "Tutto nel mondo è burla," is loosely based on the "Seven Ages of Man" speech from As You Like It ("all the world's a stage" becomes "all the world's a joke"). It celebrates against all evidence the victory of the "fat knight," who both invokes and provokes the liberating force of laughter. Like Otello, Falstaff moves imperceptibly from aria to duet or ensemble, unhampered by recitative, as if Shakespearean inspiration had helped the old master to free himself from the conventions on which he had thrived.
Credited with being the only successful setting of Shakespeare's words, Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) shares a nostalgia for Elizabethan England with two earlier, Falstaff-inspired works: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love (1929) and Gustav Holst's At the Boar's Head (1925). Both of these integrate "old English melodies," while Frederick Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet (1900–01) transposes the mythical "star-crossed lovers" into a supposedly more realistic context.
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the work of a mature opera composer who was able to devise the libretto himself, with the help of Peter Pears (who sang the part of Lysander), trimming the play without altering the text and making bold choices in the musical treatment of the characters. Opening in the woods with the fairies, in a musical atmosphere akin to that of Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges, Britten takes his audience without mediation into the world of the supernatural, where misrule and desire are given free rein. Britten's fascination with the alternation and occasional interaction between three groups of very different characters provides the key to the opera: the fairies seem to embody nostalgia, sung as they are by boys accompanied by harps and percussion, while the role of Oberon is devolved to a countertenor, Titania to a coloratura—perhaps a subtle reference to Mozart's Queen of the Night (in Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute]). It is interesting to note that the part of Oberon was written for Alfred Deller, the performer who played an essential part in the rediscovery of the countertenor tessitura and the popularization of the Elizabethan repertoire. Puck, the mediator between the three worlds of court, country, and supernatural and between the stage world and the audience, is a spoken role usually devolved to a teenager. The roles of the lovers, on the other hand, are characterized by an absence of arias or set pieces, making them hard to tell apart, following Shakespeare's deliberately confusing design but also in the spirit of the first acts of Mozart's Così fan tutte. Finally, the Mechanicals, whom Britten called the Rustics, provide the composer with a delightful opportunity for parody, underlined by the use of brass and bassoon. The opera ends with marriage and reconciliation at the court of Theseus and Hippolyta, but the musical climax is the love scene between Titania and Bottom, at the very heart of the piece. The gradual blending of two radically opposed musical styles into the most exquisitely lyrical language can be deciphered as a musical interpretation of Victor Hugo's Shakespeare-inspired theory that the sublime is often born of the grotesque.
Eminent recent European adaptations include Aribert Reimann's Lear (1978), based on an extraordinarily austere rendering of Shakespeare's hitherto unadapted play, and Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto (1984; A King Listens), a reflection on creation and the complex workings of memory that is based on The Tempest. The French composer Pascal Dusapin's Roméo et Juliette (1988) is a metatheatrical opera built around a rehearsal of Shakespeare's play. Wintermärchen (1999) by the Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans (born 1936) is an adaptation in German of The Winter's Tale, a kaleidoscopic work that develops the game of contrasts provided by the Shakespearean plot. One great originality of the new version of The Tempest by Thomas Adès (born 1971), first performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 2004, resides in its libretto by Meredith Oakes, a completely rewritten text following the original plot but allowing an English-speaking composer to benefit from the same distance as Continental musicians working with translations. Adès adopts an eminently lyrical and introspective approach, with a gentle Caliban who seems to be Prospero's doppelgänger. The opera, which in 2005 won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, is notable for the instrumental treatment of the part of Ariel, whose coloratura vocalizing contributes to create the supernatural atmosphere that underscores the whole piece.
More than 200 operas based on Shakespeare's plays have been written since 1945, but very few of them have remained in repertory. Coming a few years after Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate (1948; a lighthearted version of The Taming of the Shrew), Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957) was a landmark at the frontier between musical and opera that transposed the story of Romeo and Juliet to a mid-20th-century New York torn apart by rival gangs, but it circumvented many key elements of the Shakespearean original, most notably Juliet's suicide.
A tip of the hat to Shakespeare
It is doubtful that Claudio Monteverdi knew the work of Shakespeare, yet his last opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1643), is arguably closer to Antony and Cleopatra than are the settings of that work by Gian Francesco Malipiero (1938) or Samuel Barber (1966). The constant formal invention displayed by Monteverdi mirrors Shakespeare's fast succession of contrasting scenes: both pieces combine comic, tragic, ironic, and sentimental elements; both portray ambition and lust, shedding poetic light on the unbridled passions of a Roman leader, the repudiation of a virtuous empress (named Octavia in both pieces), and her replacement by a scheming courtesan; both include comic nurses—usually sung by male performers—belonging to the same tradition as the character in Romeo and Juliet.
It has long been recognized that Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Shakespeare's The Tempest share many features: initiation, the supernatural, the power of music, the wise magician and his uncouth servant. Mozart, it seems, planned to write the music to a singspiel based on August Wilhelm von Schlegel's translation of The Tempest. The proposed book was actually set four times and, like most other German Tempest operas, resembles a sequel of Die Zauberflöte. It is also worth noting that Mozart's Così fan tutte was reworked into a French version (1863) of Love's Labour's Lost by Léo Delibes, although one might contend that it is closer to other Shakespearean comedies involving cross-dressing or a love-quartet, such as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night's Dream. Berlioz conceived Les Troyens (1863), he said, according to the "Shakespearean system." The only words by Shakespeare in the opera are in Didon and Enée's love duet, which uses the "On such a night" dialogue of Lorenzo and Jessica in Act V, scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice, but other traceable borrowings are the ghosts that persuade the hero to leave Carthage and the comic scene that precedes Enée's tempestuous confrontation with Didon. The latter scene provides the only moment of comic relief in this highly dramatic work. All in all, the opera's epic force derives as much from Shakespeare's histories as from the Aeneid.
Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (first performed 1874) is a literal setting of a play by Aleksandr Pushkin, itself modeled on Shakespeare's histories, to which the composer added the Macbeth-inspired hallucination scene. The opera navigates in Shakespearean style between epic and drama, between the tragedy of the Russian people and the guilt-harrowed Tsar Boris, between popular comedy and the fate of the realm. The character of the Innocent can be seen as a direct echo of the Fool and Poor Tom in King Lear, while the murdered tsarevitch and his living counterpart point to characters and situations in Richard III.
One might think that Mussorgsky's masterpiece is an unlikely beneficiary of Shakespearean inspiration. The point, however, is that, unlike most adapters who have been wary of being defeated by their model, Pushkin was not afraid of Shakespeare. And Mussorgsky was not afraid of Pushkin, whose lines are set mostly as they were written. Librettists have tended for various reasons to avoid direct contact with Shakespeare's text and have turned not to Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet but back to Shakespeare's sources, using Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum or Matteo Bandello's novella of the lovers of Verona. However, it seems to be of little doubt that, even in these two cases, not the venerable older authors but Shakespeare's masterpieces provided the original inspiration.
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text: From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of John Hearns Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:38 AM To: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] Manchester Guardian column on Cray and Windows HPC As a Guardian reader, I have been reading the Thursday Technology supplement for many years. On the train this morning, I opened it to find Jack Schofield has an article on Windows HPC and the Cray deskside supercomputer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/09/computing.microsoft Has Jack been reading the Beowulf list? --- >From the article: "For example, Faenov says Excel 2007 supports "transparent parallelism", so that an HPC machine can speed up everyday workflows in financial institutions where they have spreadsheets that take hours or even days to run. (Crazy, I know.)" No doubt, those models were used to do interesting things like calculate expected risk of default for the multiple tranches in various securitized debt obligations. I'm not sure that, philosopically, more speed is good in this area. It's one thing for a mathematical proof to be so big only a computer can do it (e.g. 4color map theorem), or when you want to run numerical models of weather or fluid dynamics. At least in those areas, there's a fair amount of work that goes into validation of the underlying numerics. Excel, on the other hand, is probably not the best tool in the world for hard core numerical analysis (what with *interesting* phenomena like the famous 850*77.1= 100000 bug, ... Yes it was fixed, but it's not like there's some rigorous verification of Excel's computations that's available for inspection)http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2007/Excel2007/Excel2007Bug.pdf has an explanation And, as it happens this particular HPC application space (long running spreadsheet calcs) does exist. Many years ago, my sister had a job at a bank where part of the task was running Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets on a PC that took hours to recalc on a PC/AT. I actually contemplated designing and building an ECL IBM PC emulator for this market, but then Intel came out with the 386, etc.. Much better system solution to solve it in silicon. Jim


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Florida TE visits Penn State
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida tight end Colin Thompson is transferring after two injury-filled seasons.
The 6-foot-4, 256-pound sophomore from Warminster, Pennsylvania, was one of the top tight end recruits in 2012. But he played in just three games over two years with the Gators, missing time with foot injuries.
Florida sports information director Steve McClain says "we granted permission for schools to contact Colin. The SEC approved a medical exemption for him in May, and we will share that information with the other institutions."
Thompson reportedly visited Penn State on Thursday.
Thompson is the second tight end to leave Florida since last season. Sophomore Kent Taylor transferred to Kansas in December.
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I came to Oshkosh this week with a simple story to tell: SolarWorld is helping to transform aviation through the development of electric aircraft, in partnership with PC-Aero. Until last night, I did not understand how serious – and how immediate – this transformation is.
I spent the early part of last evening at a reception in the heady company of descendants of true aviation legends who are carrying on their legacies: Erik Lindburgh, the grandson of Charles Lindburgh, the first man to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic in 1927, and Sergei Sikorsky, the son of the inventor of the world's first practical helicopter, Igor Sikorsky. Each of them continue to relentlessly promote aviation innovation, Erik by working with youth to promote electric flight, and Sikorsky, with his visionary leadership at Sikorsky Aircraft, which is developing an electric-powered helicopter called the Firefly.
Firefly: An an electric-powered helicopter
Sikorsky quoted French writer Jules Verne in his remarks last night as he pounded the theme of constant advancement in flight, "Anything that one man can imagine, other men can make." Sikorsky made a point to introduce Kevin Bredenbeck, the test pilot for Sikorsky's new X2 helicopter, which has just broken a series of records for speed, flying at more than 250 knots, and winning the industry's most coveted award, the Collier Prize for Significant Achievement in Aviation. Bredenbeck said the company is promoting the Sikorsky X2 development team as rock stars, to spark the interest of young people in studying aviation engineering and associated technologies.
Sergei Sikorsky speaking at AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh about the future of aviation
Innovation was the appetizer and innovation was also the main course last night. After the reception, the PC-Aero team and I piled into a golf-cart driven by Lindburgh to dinner, where I witnessed the birth of a new industry. Over burgers and brats, a groups of about 50 electric flight experts from around the globe, from Fortune 100 companies to small, scrappy innovators such as PC-Aero, met for the first time to form an international alliance of electric flight. They agreed that safety needs to be paramount: A tragedy could cripple this nascent industry in an instant. They also identified the need to address the regulatory issues that will help the industry move forward, and they agreed to promote electric flight through public education, advocacy, and networking.
SolarWorld's Amy Keiter (driver) and the PC-Aero team
The consortium, tentatively known as the Electric Aircraft Development Alliance (EADA), recognizes that its first hurdle is formidable and time-sensitive. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has significant funds for the development of batteries which are critical to the future success of the electric aircraft industry. But DOE's definition of electric vehicle does not currently include aircraft. That will be a heavy lift.
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Stonewall is located in Nash County, North Carolina certified as a historic location on Tuesday June 02, 1970. This location is a protected historic place because of historical significance relating to Domestic, more specifically a Single Dwelling. Stonewall was nominated by as a historic location by State Government based on Architecture/Engineering and its significance in Landscape Architecture, Architecture.
Stonewall InformationOther Name: Lewis House;Little Falls Plantation
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Historically Significant Years Associated With This Location: 1830
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