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LOS ANGELES – The second triple-double in sophomore setter Jonah Seif's young career was not enough to propel the eighth-ranked Gauchos over No. 5 USC on Thursday night, as the Gauchos fell just short in a 3-2 loss (20-25, 34-32, 23-25, 27-25, 15-9) at the Galen Center.
UC Santa Barbara (5-3, 4-3) nursed set leads of 1-0 and 2-1 over the evening, but a late run by USC (6-3, 5-3) to win the fourth set spilled over into the fifth, where the Trojans won 12 of the first 14 points en route to the victory.
Statistically, it was the best performance of the season so far for Seif, who had a season-high 48 assists, two service aces, career-best matching 12 digs, and season-high 10 blocks. The Thousand Oaks, Calif. native's only other career triple-double came on Jan. 25, 2013 against Pacific.
Senior opposite Evan Licht had a strong night on the right side, recording a team-high 18 kills and season-high 10 digs for his first double-double of the season. Three other Gauchos finished with double-digit kills, highlighted by junior outside hitter Austin Kingi's 13. Weston Nielsen chipped in 11 kills of his own, while sophomore middle blocker Ryan Hardy had 11 as well for the second-highest total of his career. With 10 total blocks, he recorded his first career double-double.
Junior middle blocker Jake Staahl led a UCSB front row that recorded its second-highest total block output of the season at 21.5. The Studio City, Calif. native set a new career mark with 11 block assists.
Hardy was at the heart of a strong opening stanza for the Gauchos, as the middle had five kills on just six swings while scooping four of the team's seven digs. He had two kills as part of a 6-2 run that gave UCSB its biggest lead of the set at 23-18.
The Gauchos led by as many as five early in the second, but USC chipped away and eventually tied the score at 23-all. Kingi, Nielsen, and Hardy all contributed kills in extra points, but a dump from USC setter Micah Christenson followed by a Lucas Yoder kill at 32-all clinched the marathon game.
Licht did his best work in the third frame, collecting five of the team's 13 kills, including the set clincher. The senior was at the service line for a 5-0 run that put the Gauchos up 7-6 after falling behind early. The two teams stayed close from there on out, with neither team opening a lead of more than three.
UCSB held a 24-21 lead in the fourth, but back-to-back Tanner Jansen kills followed by a Gauchos red card set the stage for the USC comeback.
Jansen, Yoder, and Andy Benesh each had 15 kills to lead the Trojans. Setter Micah Christenson finished with 60 assists.
The Gauchos are back in action this Saturday night, when they take on the third-ranked Pepperdine Waves at 7:00 p.m.


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EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, the buildup of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border and Russian shelling into Ukraine represent dangerous escalations of tensions by Moscow.
The White House says the two leaders agree that a Russian convoy that entered Ukraine without approval is yet another provocation by Moscow that violates Ukraine's sovereignty.
Obama and Merkel spoke Friday while Obama vacationed in the island resort of Martha's Vineyard.
Russia says the convoy that entered Ukraine on Friday is for humanitarian purposes, but Ukraine and the U.S. say the Russians failed to abide by conditions set by Ukraine and the International Red Cross.
Obama and Merkel agree that Russia must remove the convoy and withdraw from Ukrainian territory.

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Best sound in show????? didn't you hear any female voices played through this system???? they were too high and out of control, with some notes it felt like somebody was trying to pierce your inner ear.The system from "The voice that is " had a way better behaviour in this particular area and in some other areas to.
Best Sound in Show?
Did Koetsu USA's room have the best sound at the show? It's hard to tell. Since my goal was to cover every single room at Axpona without playing slam, bam, thank you ma'am, I intentionally skipped set-ups John intended to cover. Those included some of the big players: YG Acoustics/Krell, Acapella/Einstein, the huge Legacy speakers, Belles/Advanced, and Mark Waldrep's huge, powerful AIX surround set-up with its five Thiel CS3.7s, two Thiel subs, four or more Boulder amps, DH Labs cabling, and Oppo player. Unfortunately, I also skipped the Ayon Audio exhibit, which I thought John was covering because it shared a room with Legacy.
Regardless, after that massive disclaimer, I loved the sound in Hiram Toro's Koetsu USA room. When I entered, a show attendee was playing Brubeck's Classic "Take 5." "Wonderful," I wrote in my notes. Ideal slam, captivating colors the whole bit. I followed with one of my frequently referenced orchestral assaults, the beginning of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 on my R2D4 Channel Classics hybrid SACD conducted by Ivan Fischer. The sound was full, rich, vibrant, and incredibly powerful. Space around instruments was inviting without being gimmicky, and high volume cymbal crashes never hurt the ears. Yes, the sound was euphonic, and perhaps smoothed out a bit on top. But it was so deliciousequally so when I returned briefly on the last daythat I did not want to leave.
Dominating the room were two sets of speakers new to me. I heard the Rosso Fiorentino Volterra ($11,950/pair), a most attractive Italian 2-1/2way low floorstander designed by Francesco Rubenni (pictured). Boasting a range of 38 Hz100kHz with its optional "ultrasonic generator" (a Murata supertweeter), the Rosse speaker offers a 6 ohm nominal impedance and an 87dB sensitivity. The bottom 8" woofer is sealed, and the mid 6.5" woofer is vented. To be unveiled at the end of March at the Munich show is the larger Siena, which will boast a frequency response of 25Hz100kHz. I can't wait until it makes it to the USA.
Making this baby very happy was the Goldenote 75Wpc Demidoff Silver Plus Integrated amp with silver point to point wiring ($14,900, and apologies for any misspellings due to Hiram's handwriting); Goldenote Pamphili phono preamp ($3325), BlackNote CDP 300 CD player with tube ($4150), Montegiro Legno "High-End in Wood" turntable ($13,568), and all-important Koetsu Azule Platinum cartridge ($10,000). Note that this system sounded equally good on LP (Brubeck) and CD (Mahler), which says a lot for the tube CD player, integrated amp, and speakers.
Thank you, Jose. Even though my first love is classical vocals, I didn't play any of my favorite sopranos in this room. I also carry lower female voices, specifically Rosa Passos and Marta Gomez, but didn't get to them either. Had there been more than 24 hours in the day, I'm sure I would have indulged.While noting that strings, horns, and other instruments with high overtones did not sound out of control to these ears, I regret that I can neither confirm nor deny your experience. It would be interesting to learn if their were set-up changes between the time you visited and my first visit to the room. I didn't get there until Saturday.
This room got my vote for best sound in show. I did think the volume was, on the whole, set to high and occasionally, fortissimo passages and powerful transients came accross too loud. But, even in those instances, I never got the feeling anything was "out of control," which is another reason I was impressed with the system. The natural timbres and incredible extension were amazing. This system reproduced the piano in such a convincing, beautiful way I ended up spending more time in this room than any other.
I too thought this was one of the best sounding rooms of the show (Along with Puccini/Tidal and Mark Waldrep's setup). Unfortunately I did not hear any female vocals played through it but the vinyl of Harry Belafonte at Carnegie hall was absolutely breathtaking. (And I am not a vinyl guy). Obviously, being vinyl, there were limitations in the possible frequencies being reproduced. (Lows limited by groove size and angle of incidence and highs by the typical analog limitations that brought in the digital era about thirty years ago, and which reached maturity about fifteen years ago. But I digress.)Judging only on the material I heard there: Great, great sound!Congratulations!Gabe.
Last night (March 11), I sat in the sixth row orchestra center in SF's Davies Symphony Hall for MTT's performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2.The week before, I played a recording of a different orchestra performing the same music in this room and a number of others at Axpona. Of the rooms I visited - again, I skipped rooms John was covering - this is one of the few whose sound and timbre came closest to the live experience.
This room was on my short list for best of show. Though it got beaten out by the Advanced Transduction / Belles room, I felt they still surpassed all others in harmonic detail and texturing. Tones were lush and silky smooth.
I was at this particular room in three different opportunities, in which the first two I had the same impression that you guys had(musical instrument sounded incredible good) but it wasn't until my last visit that all the previous magic had crashed (they were playing a female singer)and i walked out of the room filled with disappointment; now I know I shouldn't let my emotion take over and instead of walked out , I should have stayed and try to figurate it out what went wrong.


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Qualls returns to Astros to fortify bullpen
HOUSTON -- Chad Qualls is coming back to the Astros.
The relief pitcher, who was drafted and developed by the Astros and was a key piece of their bullpen during their playoff runs in 2004-05, signed a two-year deal, with a club option for the 2016 season, Saturday to return to Houston. The deal is worth a reported $6 million over the first two years, with a $3.5 million option.
HOUSTON -- Chad Qualls is coming back to the Astros.
The relief pitcher, who was drafted and developed by the Astros and was a key piece of their bullpen during their playoff runs in 2004-05, signed a two-year deal, with a club option for the 2016 season, Saturday to return to Houston. The deal is worth a reported $6 million over the first two years, with a $3.5 million option.
"It's good to be back," said Qualls, who secured the first multiyear deal of his career.
The 35-year-old right-hander spent last season with the Marlins and went 5-2 with a 2.61 ERA in 66 relief appearances. He induced 11 double-play balls, which tied for third among National League relievers, and he ranked fifth in the NL in ground-ball percentage (77.7 percent).
Qualls has made 50 or more appearances in nine consecutive seasons (2005-13) and since his debut in 2004, ranks second among all Major League relievers with 663 appearances. His signing bolsters a young bullpen that struggled to close out games last season.
Qualls returns to Houston, the organization that drafted him in the second round of the 2000 First-Year Player Draft. He made his debut in 2004 and made three appearances in the 2005 World Series, giving up a crucial grand slam to Paul Konerko in a Game 2 loss. He made 262 appearances with the Astros and was 23-12 with six saves and a 3.39 ERA.
Qualls thinks the Astros are headed in the right direction and wants to be a part of the upswing.
"I think once new ownership took over, they had to see what they had," Qualls said. "They wanted to see what kind of talent they have with their kids and who they wanted to build around. Once they realized their plan, they could go out and get a few guys and trend towards winning again.
"When I was there, the city was amazing with the way they supported the team. I would like to get that buzz around the city again. It's definitely going in the direction."
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said Qualls' role in the bullpen is yet to be determined. Houston relievers posted a league-high 4.90 ERA last season and blew 29 saves, which tied for the most in baseball in 2013.
"All the roles in our bullpen are up for grabs," Luhnow said. "It's really going to be up to [manager] Bo [Porter] and our staff to determine who gets what role. Everything is open right now. Chad's going to have an important role in our bullpen. He had a good year last [season] and his velocity ticked up. He's got a real good slider to go with a good fastball. He gets a lot of ground balls."
Qualls is ready to take any spot in the bullpen, but he'll be counted on to be a leader.
"Even going back to my Houston days, I can throw the seventh, eighth, ninth," he said. "When I was in Miami last year, it was the same situation. It was a team that didn't win many games and was rebuilding. I came in and all the guys in the bullpen gravitated towards me and I did my thing. Hopefully this year's bullpen here in Houston, I get to meet some of the guys and get to know them and help them whenever I can."
The reliever is the third acquisition by the Astros this week. They traded for Rockies center fielder Dexter Fowler on Tuesday and signed free-agent starter Scott Feldman to a three-year contract on Friday. Feldman will make $30 million over three years, meaning the Astros have added $20.35 million in payroll for next season between Fowler, Feldman and Qualls.
Luhnow would still like to add another reliever, as well as possibly a starting pitcher and another bat.
"We still feel like we need to at least get another pitcher of [Qualls'] caliber," Luhnow said. "We feel pretty good. We've had some conversations, but I can't tell you if anything is going to happen soon."
The Astros traded Qualls to Arizona following the 2007 season, along with Chris Burke and Juan Gutierrez, for Jose Valverde. He now lives in Austin with his wife, Tara, and their two sons, aged 4 1/2 years and five months.
"I was there at the beginning of my career, and now I have family here in Austin and my wife is from Houston, so it feels pretty good family-wise as well," he said. "It's good to go somewhere you're wanted and you know well."
Qualls has pitched for eight different organizations in his career, including time with Houston (2004-07), Arizona (2008-10), Tampa Bay (2010), San Diego (2011), Philadelphia (2012), New York Yankees (2012), Pittsburgh (2012) and Miami (2013). In his 663 career appearances, Qualls has gone 45-37 with 51 saves and a 3.79 ERA.
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter.


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Yesterday I taught a lesson at church on family. I teach the children at church, and I love them. Even the sassy ones.
During my lesson I shared with the children that I firmly believe in families. I believe families ARE central to God's plan. We talked about the fact that each of our families look different. And that no matter what our family looks like, in a family is where we best learn how to follow the teachings of Christ (ahem, or the Dalai Lama or Confucius or Muhammad or the Golden Rule): love, patience, service, kindness, forgiveness, joy, how to face the hardships of life. The list could go on.
What I didn't share (because I respect that a good majority of people at my church don't take their kids to our primary to learn this, sadly) is that I strongly believe in families of ALL shapes, sizes, colors, orientations. One mom and one dad. Single parent. No kids. Many kids. Blended families. Adopted families. Foster families. Two moms. Two dads. Straight children. Gay children.
Have you ever noticed that you are more sensitive to things your family says than things your friends say? Snide comments from family members cut more than from friends and acquaintances. Family members know you from the moment of you or they join the family. You are connected from the beginning. They are those who know you inside and out. Or they don't and you really think they should by now. And it hurts doubly when they misinterpret you.
There is something more to family relationships. I believe that for this reason the family is the place where we can most intensely learn to love. To be kind. To have patience. To stand up for ourselves and to stand up for others. To forgive.
A family isn't important because it looks a certain way. A family is important because it may just be the most effective environment to raise humans in all their potential.
So I stand for, believe in, encourage families. All of them.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I Want My M(LB)TV
These are dark days for baseball fans in Canada. While any given sportscast in this country can find a way to cram in an extra 2000 hours per week of discussion Brian Burke - and seriously, Christ's return wouldn't get this much coverage - there's precious little out there for us fans of the finer things in life.
One of the more depressing moments we've had recently happened when we searched for "baseball" through our TV's program guide, and the answer came back starkly: "None". Groan.
Which is why we find some hope in the last paragraph of this article from the Sporting News on the launch of the MLB Network. The article suggests that maybe, possibly, if we all are good boys and girls and do our homework and floss and stop picking on our siblings and lay of the MILF porn, then maybe Rogers will bring the MLB Network to Canada. Says the article:
"There are no concrete plans yet to take MLB Network international, but (Tony Petitti, MLB Network's president and CEO) says Canada would be the first country into which the channel would expand. Rogers Communication (sic), Canada's largest cable distributor, happens to own the Toronto Blue Jays, and Petitti noted there have been discussions with Rogers about bringing MLB Network to Canada."
The launch of the MLB Network in Canada could go a long way towards offsetting our Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter. Just listening to folks talk about baseball (even those that talk absolute shite) is like a nice warm sweater and a cup of cocoa with extra marshmallows for our soul.
Of course, Rogers already holds a license in Canada for an all-baseball-all-the-time diginet, but they haven't moved on it, likely because they were waiting to follow MLB's lead on this. We're just hoping that they'll see fit to shelve their verions in favour of what will undoubtedly be a superior and readily available product from the U.S. (with bonus Canadian Content in the delightful form of Hazel Mae!)
Surely, if Rogers can include CBS College Sports TV in their channel lineup, they can find some room for the MLB Network.
So we implore the execs: Tony Viner, Rael Merson, or whoever has the capacity to make this happen, please please please please pretty please add the MLB Network this winter. We'll be forever grateful.
(Wow...that was kinda pathetic, wasn't it? But seriously, we could lower ourselves further to make this happen.)
9 comments:
- Ian H. said...
Well, on the plus side Tao, congrats on being named one of the 101 Reasons why Big League Stew in thankful!
- November 27, 2008 at 12:13 PM
- The Ack said...
Love the (title) reference. As I was purchasing the long-awaited opus "Chinese Democracy" on Sunday, I came to the realization that the 20 year old flunkie working the counter at HMV wasn't even born when Appetite for Destruction was released. That gets a big JFC from me.
(as you can see, I don't have anything baseball related to discuss. Should make for a terrific post on the weekend.)
- November 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM
- Colin said...
Hey, I'm 20 and I own both Appetite for Destruction and Brothers in Arms, so I got the reference.
- November 27, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Lloyd the Barber said...
I will mainline MLBtv 365 days a year. Excited.
- November 27, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- Torgen said...
How can the kids not get the reference? Dire Straits even used it as the first line of Money For Nothing. Unless the kids are Canadian and never got their MTV until there was no M left in it.
- November 27, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Brothers in Arms came out 23 years ago...You see what we're saying?
- November 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Colin said...
Well obviously I didn't buy it on the day it came out..or even the decade it came out, but I have owned it for some time now.
- November 27, 2008 at 6:52 PM
An entire generation is a bit harsh. Perhaps people born after 1995, but anyone born in the 80's who would have been a teenager during the 90's surely, without any question, knows Money For Nothing.
I love how people assume "the newer generations" aren't with it. Don't paint everyone with the same brush. I was born in 1983, and I've known MFN since I was 10, at least.
- November 28, 2008 at 10:49 AM
this has no meaning to a Shaw subscriber....years from getting mlbtv....especially with shaw having to go through Rogers for rights and apparently there being no baseball fans in Mr. Shaw's backyard.
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- Good to see Koren Robinson back on the field regardless of the jersey. I was always impressed with his actions and demeanor in Green Bay, and he seemed grateful for the opportunity the Packers had given him. Unlike Pacman Jones in his tenure with the Cowboys, a classless individual and a classless organization.
- Handshakes are often used to seal a business deal. In the case of the Packers' DBs, they are sealing the deal of taking the ball away from opponents. You didn't score, Chuck? Come on!
- Suzy Kolber is a wealth of information. I think I forgot what she just said. Keyshawn Johnson just pointed out Brady Quinn's guns. Weird.
- Grant: 33 carries for 90 yards. Not a good day for the line as there were no holes made, just huge piles of manflesh, but the offense controlled the time of possession to ensure the win. Grant only needed 6 more carries to get the Packers' record for carries in a game of 39 set by Terdell Middleton in 1979....Terdell? Really?
- Aaron Kampman 6 sacks, Jared Allen 2. Kampman is still the best end in the North, NFC, and the NFL.
- Gotta admit, I questioned McCarthy's QB sneak call. Why do this with a QB with a beat up arm? Truth is, it doesn't matter. Rodgers kept driving and stuck the ball over the line despite no push from the O-Line. He showed incredible toughness and grit to get the 6.
- The Vikings/Lions game set football back 20 years. Uggg-ly. These teams are really the J.V. squads of the NFL.
- Al Harris' spleen is nearly healed, and he may be ready for the Packers' game against the Titans. This is proof that Predators' bodies are capable of healing at a rate much faster than humans.
- Harrell, you are on notice. FEAR THE RANT!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Views from the Hillside.
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Did you know Terdell Middleton actually had over 1,000 yards rushing, 300 yards receiving and 12 TDs in 1978? He was good that year.ReplyDelete
Did you know the Suzy Kolber makes my knees buckle when she smiles?ReplyDelete
Terdell, hee, hee.
Another view: Gary Payton in the Fox booth for 10 minutes = excruciating dialogue and odd man-touching.ReplyDelete
Agreed, I was sure the colorman was going for his nipples. Good programming.ReplyDelete
Agreed, I was sure the colorman was going for his nipples. Good programming.ReplyDelete
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One critical element leads me to the conclusion that the United States will not go to war with Iran, nor allow Israel to do so. It is this: common sense.
It is true, of course, that common sense dictated against invading Iraq. But the very fact that we did invade Iraq, and that the Iraq war is almost universally considered a catastrophe, should add to the weight common sense carries this time.
Then there is the war in Afghanistan, which most Americans are now desperate to see end, especially after the recent massacre of innocent Afghan civilians. The polls show that Americans are sick and tired of both the Iraq war (which has thankfully ended... for us) and the Afghanistan war as well.
And then, on Monday, the New York Times reported on a classified Pentagon simulation exercise which concluded that an Israeli strike on Iran "would lead to a wider regional war, which would draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead." On the positive side, the Israeli attack would "set back the Iranian nuclear program by roughly a year." (Emphasis mine.)
It is inconceivable that the United States will get involved in a third Middle East war in a single decade.
That is why the New York Times front page story this weekend titled, "Hawks Steering Debate on How To Take on Iran" was so jarring. It seemed to accept war's inevitability.
(Worth noting. The Times likely changed the title from the original version "Pro-Israel Groups Differing Approaches on Iran" when it realized that most of the sources it cited were not so much "pro-Israel" as right-wing pro-war Republicans.)
In any case, according to the Times:
With Israeli leaders warning of an existential threat from Iran and openly discussing the possibility of attacking its nuclear facilities, pro-Israel groups on all sides have mobilized to make their views known to the Obama administration and to Congress. But it is the most hawkish voices, like the Emergency Committee's, that have dominated the debate, and, in the view of some critics, pushed the United States closer to taking military action against Iran and another war in the Middle East.
The evidence presented could hardly have been weaker. Here, in order, is a list of the luminaries that the Times cited for their conclusion that we are moving closer to war. (Note the absence of business leaders, like former Republican three-term Senator Judd Gregg — now a Wall Street analyst — who warned yesterday of the tremendous costs in blood and treasure of another war; this prediction is not surprising given that another war would cause oil prices to skyrocket and kill off economic recovery.)
- The far-right Emergency Committee for Israel and its vice-chair, the Christian right and GOP leader, Gary Bauer. The ECI's chair is William Kristol, a leading Republican;
- The House Majority Leader, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the GOP's #1 spokesperson in Congress and close ally of Binyamin Netanyahu;
- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a hawk in almost all conflict situations and a vehement adversary of President Obama;
- "The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC; the so-called 'neocons' from the George W. Bush administration who were strong proponents of the war in Iraq...";
- Sheldon Adelson, the "billionaire casino owner" who is a primary funder of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign;
- The Republican candidates for president; and
- Richard N. Perle, the leading neoconservative who famously started pushing for war with Iraq within 24 hours of the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Talk about your usual suspects.
Then, mid-story, the writers decided to conflate the Congressional supporters of Iran sanctions with those favoring military action, even though many backers of sanctions view them as alternatives to war. Lumping these legislators with William Kristol, Gary Bauer and Sheldon Adelson is ridiculous.
Besides, only one person is going to make the decision about war, and that is President Obama — who has repeatedly said that, for him, war is a last resort. That is certainly the case given that the military is so strongly opposed to it. Retired General (and former CENTCOM commander) Anthony Zinni puts it like this: "If you like Iraq and Afghanistan, you'll love Iran."
As for Congress, even the most hawkish will not likely jeopardize the lives of their constituents in uniform who are already deployed in the Middle East and whose lives would be endangered by a U.S. or Israeli attack. That became obvious when, after announcing at AIPAC that he would immediately introduce a resolution authorizing war, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) subsequently pulled back, understanding that his war resolution would not sail through the Senate with anything like the (sometimes unanimous) support of previous sanction bills.
Come on. Is Barack Obama really going to surrender to the pro-war lobby either in the run-up to November or in a second term, especially when most of the war lobby is comprised of his political opponents who are doing everything they can to deny him re-election?
This is not to flat-out predict that war cannot happen. It can and it might. But common sense, political calculations and, above all, the president's commitment to the national security of the United States — and to the brave men and women who keep us safe — dictate against a war with Iran.
In short, the Times gets the story all wrong. Except for this one thing (which we need to worry about):
In the standoff with Iran, it is the hawkish groups supporting military action that wield more money, political clout and high-profile names than do the advocates of a diplomatic solution.
In all, pro-Israel political action committees and donors affiliated with them have given more than $47 million directly to federal candidates since 2000, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group. They rank among the top contributors to a number of prominent Democrats and Republicans, and pro-Israel groups have hosted many lawmakers on expense-paid trips to Israel. When Aipac featured Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu at its conference this month, more than half the members of Congress attended.
That is alarming. But it does not outweigh other considerations, prime among them that Americans want to extricate themselves from Middle East wars. Neither Sheldon Adelson, John McCain, Gary Bauer, nor William Kristol (and their neocon network) can change that, especially if the rest of us make clear that the very thought of a another war in the Middle East is intolerable.
And that this time, we won't take it lying down.


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Dexter the Game is the killer 3D iPod Touch / iPhone game based on the Showtime Original Series. Dexter Morgan is a serial killer. Driven by his need to kill, maintaining his average-guy façade has never been easy. He spends his days as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami police department, but it's after hours when Dexter is able to fulfill the needs of his dark passenger, exacting his own brand of justice on those criminals who truly deserve to die.
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WESTBOROUGH, Mass. & ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anoto Group, the worldwide leader in Digital Pen technology, today announced that solutions using its technology will be highlighted at the 2011 HIMSS Conference February 21st-24th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Anoto technology will be featured in various locations across the show floor including the Interoperability Showcase which is the nation's premier forum for health IT solutions.
"The system works exactly like traditional pen and paper, so there is minimal user training required, and the results are immediate for both the patients and for business operations."
With the transition from paper to digital records continuing to gain national attention and increased acceptance in healthcare, Anoto partners will share the benefits of digital pen and paper technology for easy information transfer, compliance and streamlined processes. Partners that will be demonstrating solutions using Anoto technology at HIMSS11 include:
- NextGen Healthcare
Booth #2163
NextGen Healthcare provides innovative clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory, inpatient and dental provider organizations. At HIMSS, they will demonstrate their new digital pen solution called NextPen™ which captures structured patient data directly from handwritten paper intake forms. NextPen automatically populates NextGen® Ambulatory EHR with patient information, signatures, drawings, and other handwritten notes, saving time and money by eliminating scanning and transcription.
- Rover Technology Fusions
Interoperability Showcase, Hall E, Booth #7343 (ONC/FHA Area)
Rover Technology Fusions (RTF) is a form driven work flow solutions provider offering a robust portfolio of products and services. RTF will demonstrate a complete usability framework for clinicians' that works the way they do. The meaningful use of EHR's are supported without impeding current processes. This demonstration will also populate the MedLEE NLP and Rover's Enterprise Content Management System. Results include the generation of the C32 clinical document for integration and potential transport over the National Health Information Network. The integrated NLP delivers data analytics and semantic search and retrieval on the captured data.
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Medicomp Booth #2231
Scantron offers a broad suite of healthcare solutions to capture and manage data, including clinical data directly from patients and providers, patient and employee survey, and hospital safety observation solutions. Scantron will be highlighting Paros™ software with seamless integration between digital pen and paper technology and EHR systems. Presentations of the solution will take place at the show during the following dates/times:
- Monday, February 21 – 2:30 p.m.
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"Digital pen and paper technology is enabling healthcare organizations across the globe to immediately digitize data, resulting in new possibilities for managing healthcare information," said Pietro Parravicini, President and CEO of Anoto, Inc. "The system works exactly like traditional pen and paper, so there is minimal user training required, and the results are immediate for both the patients and for business operations."
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Anoto Group is the company behind and world leader in the unique technology for digital pen and paper, which enables fast and reliable conversion of handwritten text into digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner network that focuses on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storage of data within different business segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, transport and logistics and education. The Anoto Group has around 80 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. The Anoto share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic small cap list under the ticker ANOT. For more information visit www.anoto.com.
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The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced by the eponymous philosopher, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works. Originally grouped with the tragedies, it is generally considered such, but some scholars group it with the problem comedies. (From Wikipedia)
Language: English
Published in: 1623
Word count: 19,374 words (≈ about 1 hour)
Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Copyright: Public Domain
This list is based on The Great Books of the Western World, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler.From Wikipedia:It came about as the result...
Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a...


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Beth Anders Q&A With Lee Tolliver
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By Lee Tolliver
The Virginian-Pilot
© November 15, 2012
Beth Anders is a coach with few peers, a mentor who played a role in the advancement of field hockey from her days as a high school player in Norristown, Pa., to her final day of coaching last weekend.
As an athlete, Anders was named to national teams for basketball and field hockey. She even won an intercollegiate squash championship in 1970.
She was an Olympian, both as a player and coach.
As ODU's head coach, Anders guided the Lady Monarchs to the NCAA tournament in each of her 30 years. She was the first Division I field hockey coach to reach 500 victories (she's 561-136-7). Her teams won a record nine national field hockey titles - advancing to the Final Four 17 seasons and earning three runner-up finishes.


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Palace of the Toledo-Moctezuma family in Cáceres
In the heart of Extremadura you will find an unforgettable place: Cáceres. This city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Within its defensive walls you will find priceless treasures, with squares, palaces, churches and stately houses that are real works of art and reflect Spain's most glorious past. Explore its streets and walls, packed with history, and you will be amazed by the beauty of one of Europe's most stunning monumental sites.
Take a trip back to medieval times - to times of knights, minstrels, princesses, castles and battlements. Cáceres awaits you. Be sure to visit this wonderful Extremadura city, that is proud to show off its unsurpassed historic and artistic heritage. Its walled old town is home to many interesting buildings, constructed mainly between the 14th and 18th centuries. There are unique, stunning gems to be discovered around every corner.
Explore its narrow, cobbled streets, crossed by arches. Admire ancient walls that have been silent witnesses to glorious periods of history. Feel how time stands still in its Renaissance courtyards, convents, monasteries and churches, towers, palaces and mansions of the old nobility. Forget the time and lose yourself in the streets of this city, crowned by ochre rooftops that call to mind mysteries and the past.
Cáceres falls on the Vía de la Plata route (Seville-Santiago de Compostela), as well as the Caminos de Sefarad (route taking in Spain's ancient Jewish quarters), and is full of surprises. At each curve in its streets, at every hill and square, you will find typical spots where you could easily imagine the appearance of figures from times gone by bearing cape and sword. There are a host of things to see in the historic centre, but a stroll through the Barrio Judío (Jewish quarter) is a must. Not to be missed either are the world's best-conserved Moorish wells and cisterns.
This magic continues behind the city walls, where you will find a series of religious buildings and palaces, gardens and bustling streets packed with shops and taverns. Despite the fact that it is a small city, Cáceres is lively and full of movement. This is, among other things, due to the university atmosphere that extends throughout the city. This vitality is also to be found in the excellent nightlife, well worth experiencing. Why not enjoy an unforgettable trip to Cáceres, a pearl of a city that will surprise you from the moment you arrive?
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It'll be Opening Day, but without 'Mr. Baseball'
Opening Day for the Savin Hill Little League is Saturday. The kids will convene at the Little House on Cottage Street, and they'll line up for the parade procession over to McConnell Park. The sound of bag pipes will fill the air in that small section of Dorchester, Mass., just as they do every year. With any luck, the rain will hold off, the sun will shine bright and every kid on the field that day will enjoy his or her part in the tight-knit community's annual tradition.
"Baseball," says Mike Christopher, the league's secretary, "is something that has always been a fabric of our neighborhood."View Full Game Coverage
Opening Day for the Savin Hill Little League is Saturday. The kids will convene at the Little House on Cottage Street, and they'll line up for the parade procession over to McConnell Park. The sound of bag pipes will fill the air in that small section of Dorchester, Mass., just as they do every year. With any luck, the rain will hold off, the sun will shine bright and every kid on the field that day will enjoy his or her part in the tight-knit community's annual tradition.
"Baseball," says Mike Christopher, the league's secretary, "is something that has always been a fabric of our neighborhood."View Full Game Coverage
There is a loss, though, that cannot be replaced -- a loss the people of Dorchester will feel deeply when those innocent children take the field.
Martin Richard, the 8-year-old victim in last week's Boston Marathon bombings, won't be on the field with his Rangers teammates. He will, instead, be memorialized prior to the first pitch, and the shock and senselessness of Martin's absence will still sting.
"He was a special kid," says Christopher, who coaches the Rangers. "And I'm not just saying that because of what happened. There really was something special about him."
I'll be honest: I didn't want to know anything about Martin, and not because I was indifferent to his death or his family's pain. Quite the opposite, in fact.
When news of the three casualties of the terrorist attack began to spread last week and we learned that the youngest victim was an 8-year-old boy there to see his daddy cross the finish line, I deliberately avoided delving into the details. On Twitter, when an image began to circulate of Martin holding a handmade sign -- one that I now know read, "No more hurting people. Peace." -- I didn't click on it. At a family dinner on Sunday, when my sister-in-law mentioned that there are photos circulating of Martin watching the race with one of the bombers in the background, I changed the subject.
Some things are just too terrible to take, and sometimes I, admittedly, try to compartmentalize reality to save myself from the sadness and anger it inspires.
That's what I was doing, deliberately, with Martin's story.
But then somebody sent me the link Tuesday to Pete Thamel's well-reported, heartbreaking piece on SI.com about Martin and the Savin Hill Little League, and I clicked on it. And now I can't stop thinking about the little boy who won't take the field with his teammates Saturday.
He was a little boy, I've come to learn, who loved this sport.
"You know, in baseball, for young kids, it's not an easy sport at that age to really understand the game and really pay attention and just get it," Christopher says. "But the way he played the game, the way he paid attention like I said [in the SI piece], he was a little 'Mr. Baseball.' "
Martin was a pitcher and a first baseman. He was one of the youngest members of the Savin Hill travel team last summer, and his summer coach, Pat Ryan, told Thamel the touching story of the time Martin escaped a relief jam on the mound after Ryan told him, "Throw some strikes, and let's get an ice cream and get out of here."
The kids will have their ice cream Saturday. Opening Day will go on as scheduled, thanks to a spirit of generosity that pervades in Savin Hill.
Just a couple weeks back, vandals raided the Little League's equipment storage trailer, stealing about $5,000 worth of bats, balls, helmets and catchers' equipment. Suddenly, Opening Day was very much in doubt. The league had to set up a PayPal page online to request donations to save the season.
"All the non-profits and a couple companies stepped up," says Christopher, "to the point where we had to cut it off within a few days."
That speaks to how much Little League is valued in Savin Hill. Young guys like the 28-year-old Christopher, who does not have a child of his own in the league, volunteer out of a sense of civic duty.
"It's a very changing neighborhood, but some fabrics have stayed the same," Christopher says. "This is one thing that has stayed the same. I've worked in some government campaigns, and I've looked at change in neighborhoods. This is one of the last things left in the neighborhood that brings people back to the park."
The Richard family lives a couple miles south of Savin Hill, in the Ashmont-Adams section of Dorchester. They were relatively new to the league. But Martin's mom and dad, Denise and Bill, are described as gracious, selfless parents who always offered their time.
"It was always, 'What do you need?' " Christopher says. "If they ever had a question about how we were doing things, it was always, 'How can we help you?' Just super people."
Super people going through unimaginable adversity. They lost their son; their 7-year-old daughter, Jane, reportedly lost a leg; and Denise suffered a brain injury that required emergency surgery.
This is the sadness that will permeate the air on what is normally a joyous day for the people of Savin Hill. Little League is one of those quintessentially American experiences that bonds so many of us. If you've played it, you know the thrill of that day when you pick up your uniform and find out your number for the season or the satisfaction of that ice cream cone or orange slice after six innings of labor in the sun.
Martin was No. 25. His favorite player was Dustin Pedroia. He had a gap-toothed smile, a sturdy swing and great mechanics. He was there for the Rangers' first practice, two days before the bombings.
I know all this now, and I'm glad I know it. Because as Martin's teammates take the field Saturday afternoon, participating in a tradition that bonds a community and a country, I'm going to say a prayer for the little "Mr. Baseball" looking down from above.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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I added a pocket for utensils to both sides and quilted right above the pockets only, to hold the batting in place. For the quilting motif, I chose to mimic the chevron laminate design, as you will see in a close-up picture below.
My family LOVES them! My 23-year-old, Michael, wants me to mass produce them...
The set I made has six lovely placemats (twelve, if you remember they are reversible). Putting them together is fast, so they make a great gift for when you are pressed for time (read Christmas time!).
Here is what you will need:
Coordinating laminates (I had 1/2 yard of two or three fabrics)
contrasting thread
pinking shears
walking foot
Golden Thread paper
cutting mat, rotary cutter, ruler
basic sewing supplies
Since I made 6 placemats, the pictures are not all from one single mat (can you tell I was having fun?).
|Cut 12 rectangles, each measuring 18-1/4" x 12-1/2".
|Cut 12 pockets, each measuring 5-1/2" x 7-1/2".
|Using pinking shears, trim about 1/8" all around each pocket. This way, there is no need to fold sides down before you sew the pocket onto the placemat. As a bonus, the trim reminds us of the chevron pattern used on this project.
|Place pocket onto the bottom right corner of a rectangle, making sure it is placed 1 inch from the bottom edge and 1 inch from the right edge of the placemat.
|Blogger is giving me a hard time, and it keeps flipping my pictures!!! But, this is what the pocket should look like.
|Now, cut a 18-1/4" x 12-1/3" piece of batting, put it under the rectangles, and sew the sandwich together with a 1/4" seam, leaving a 4" opening.
|Trim corners...
|... and turn it inside out.
|Fold fabrics 1/4" in at the opening, secure them with a paper clip, and top stitch all around so placemat will lay flat.
|Because I added pockets to both the front and the back, I could not quilt the entire surface of the mat. I decided to trace the chevron pattern using Golden Thread quilting paper. Then, I cut out the strips of paper ...
|... and secured one of them to the top of the placemat using paper clips. Now for some quilting fun!
|Notice that I sewed the entire placemat using the walking foot, which handles the laminate better. Here, I am quilting with it. Once the quilting is done, carefully remove paper.
|Cool, huh? And you are done!
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Rick Ross Joins Rihanna + Chris Brown on Another New 'Birthday Cake' Remix
Rick Ross adds yet another layer to Rihanna and Chris Brown's infamous 'Birthday Cake' remix. The original song, which was a mere 78 seconds long, is extended to over four minutes with this new version, which opens with Ricky Rozay's rhymes.
Having Ross on a remix makes sense for the Bajan beauty, who shares a slot on her Def Jam label with the grizzly MC and was recently spotted taking in one of his shows in New York City.
While the original and Breezified remix of 'Birthday Cake' are raunchy, Ross doesn't add to the bedroom romp raps. Instead, as he's prone to do, he talks money, which is just as sweet as dessert. Ross drops lines about smoking onstage, Lenny Kravitz's estate and his jet setting lifestyle. While his flow fits in with the sonics of the song, the themes don't quite blend with anything he's saying.
The rest of the track is identical to the original remix, complete with rapping and singing from both Breezy and RiRi. Do you like this version better? Listen below!
Listen to Rihanna feat. Rick Ross and Chris Brown, 'Birthday Cake (Remix)'


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Please note that if you have not received your order sent by Royal Mail in the expected time frame, we have to wait three working weeks before a lost in post claim form can be put through – however this is a very rare occurrence and something we do not see happen often. The reason we allow for three working weeks to elapse is items will be returned to the sender if not delivered within that time period.
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HALLEIN - All components affecting the performance, precision and product life expectancy of the machines are optimized while simultaneously focusing on the essential functions for the customer. That's what "Design to Cost" means. And the EMCOTURN E45 meets this EMCO requirement in full.
The E45 – for manufacturing medium-sized workpieces with top European technology
With a speed of up to 6300 rpm, a main spindle drive power of 13 kW and a tool turret with 12 VDI 30 stations, 6 of which are driven, this compact universal lathe with a bar capacity of 45 mm is ideal for dynamic machining of workpieces such as fittings, plungers, piston rods or connecting shafts.
Uncompromising quality right down to the last detail
The machines are developed and produced exclusively in Central Europe, true to the EMCO's "Made in the Heart of Europe" commitment, in co-operation with European brand-name manufacturers who meet the highest standards regarding quality, productivity and efficiency.
The technology in detail
Despite its comprehensive equipment, the EMCOTURN E45 takes up very little space: a very solid cast machine base, a thermosymmetric headstock with high-precision spindle bearings, preloaded roller guideways in all axes and a rapid-indexing SAUTER tool turret ensure maximum dynamics and precision. Customers can choose between a Sinumerik 810D and Fanuc 0iTC control system – including dialogue programming with ShopTurn or ManualGuide.
The EMCOTURN E45 is naturally also available with automated features, such as the EMCO COMPACT LOAD or EMCO TOP LOAD for fully automatic loading with bar stock.
Technical details/machine design
Machine base:
The machine base is a grey cast iron welded fabrication, which makes it extremely stiff and gives it good vibration-damping properties. The headstock, slide unit and tailstock are mounted on the machine base. The three-point mounting of the machine base on the machine stand prevents any distortion, ensuring optimal precision at the workpiece. The guideways are all covered and protected by telescopic guard plates, which increase operational safety and service life.
Main spindle:
The high drive power of the spindle, together with optimum torque curves, ensures efficiency during both normal steel machining and high-speed aluminum machining. The main spindle is driven by a V-belt from a three-phase motor. The maximum bar capacity is 45 mm. Cooling fins are fitted to the symmetrical headstock to ensure optimum thermal stability.
If fitted on the EMCOTURN E45, the tailstock is mounted on a roller slide and can be positioned manually. The workpiece is supported automatically by a hydraulically-operated quill with a stroke of 120 mm. The live center with MK4 shaft is fitted directly in the quill and can be removed with a pressure wedge.
Tool holder:
The tool holder consists of a 12-position VDI 30 axial turret with direction logic, so it always travels the shortest route to the next tool. 6 stations can take driven toolholders. The drive is free of backlash to allow both synchronized tapping, and polygonal turning of wrenches.
C axis / main spindle:
The C axis is part of the basic equipment of the machine and allows the spindle to be positioned with an accuracy of 0.001°. A directly-mounted proximity shaft encoder without a belt drive guarantees accuracy of the C-axis and ensures precise contour milling. In addition, a spindle brake is provided for locking the spindle position when drilling or milling.
Feed drives:
Highly dynamic three-phase drives in all linear axes with preloaded circulating ball spindles ensure high feed forces and accurate repeatable positioning.
Measuring system:
Incremental measuring systems are built into the feed motor in all linear axes. Positional variance in X/Z as per VDI 3441: 0.003/0.003 mm
Clamping device:
The clamping device is a hydraulic hollow clamping system with a bar capacity of up to 45 mm diameter, including programmable clamping stroke monitoring and a direct measuring system. This means that time-consuming tool resetting is replaced by a simple learning procedure in Teach-In mode.
The EMCOTURN E45 is lubricated by an automatic central lubrication system with consumption-optimized pulsed lubrication, thanks to the integrated pressure and quantity monitoring.
Coolant system:
A central coolant supply through the VDI turret interface and tool holder ensures optimal cooling and lubrication of the cutting process. An additional coolant line is fitted for cleaning the clamping device and work area.
Hydraulic system:
The hydraulic system is a high-pressure compact system with a pump and fine filter in the delivery line, with which fine adjustments can be made to the clamping pressure. This is essential for clamping delicate workpieces on the main and counter spindles. Thanks to its compact design, it only occupies a very small space.
The machine casing includes an enclosed housing with a protective door to guard against chips, fitted with end position monitoring on the operator side, and a generously-dimensioned laminated safety glass viewing window.
Finished parts pick-up device (optional):
A pneumatically-operated pick-up device is used to remove the finished parts from the main or counter spindle. The parts are carefully taken to a finished parts box outside the work area. Max. finished part length: 120 mm; max. diameter: 45 mm; max. weight: 2 kg
Core technical data
Max. bar capacity [mm[
Max. rotational speed [rpm]
Main spindle
Driven tools
Max. drive power [kW]
Main spindle
Driven tools
Max. X/Z travel [mm]
160 / 310
X/Z rapid motion speed [m/min]
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Number of driven positions
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Ruth and Lara are a team who have collaborated their ideas, personalities and time into creating a product that they wish to share with the world. The project is an aromatherapy eyemask, like no other available in the market place. The idea is to renew, revitalise and relax the consumer.
We aim to provide a product that can appeal to a broad range of consumers. This includes airlines, boutique hotels, spas, mothers with new borns, office workers to name a few. We would hope to market the product to women interested in health and beauty and to people who need aid in sleep and relaxation.
We are looking for a logo to represent our aromatherapy eyemask - Eyeveda
We would like the logo to incorporate a symbol, with three points (which represent the 3 doshic typings of Ayurveda, an ancient Indian form of medicine.)
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Slogan that captures idea of creating harmony, rejuvenation, relaxation, revitalisation through better sleep and/or medication.
We like natural colours (greens and blues).
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i need 5 questions for my term or research paper,my given titile was A HAPPENING,PLACE, OR ASPECT OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. if u can pls help me out.
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Choreographers using symphonies as ballet scores had long been controversial. The first was Leonide Massine who, in 1933, aroused considerable debate by his use of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony for Les Présages and Brahms's Fourth Symphony for Choreartium. In 1939, he had used Shostakovich's First Symphony for Rouge et noir, with a scenario about Man and his Destiny. Few followed in his footsteps and by 1963 the symphonic ballet was out of fashion. Whatever MacMillan may have felt about revisiting a defunct idiom, he was under pressure to produce a steady stream of work for the Covent Garden stage. He turned for advice to John Lanchbery, who suggested Shostakovich's first symphony, written in 1926 when the composer was 19.
Unlike Massine's version, MacMillan's was - ostensibly - plotless and, unlike Massine, Macmillan did not seek to lay the score out on stage with a close equivalence between dancers and individual instruments of the orchestra. In some ways Symphony resembled MacMillan's own 1961 ballet Diversions, the idiom similarly neo-classical. As in Diversions, there were two lead couples and a group of soloists (here, three subsidiary couples); however, Symphony had a full corps de ballet.
Despite the lack of stated plot, it was easy to imply relationships among the dancers. Sibley, lying sphinx-like on the floor was confronted first by MacLeary, then by Doyle. A pas de deux converted to a pas de trois, leaving the second woman outside the triangle. There were forceful traverses for the corps, in Clive Barnes' words, "when Shostakovich says jump, they all jump". Throughout, Barnes wrote for Dance and Dancers, "there is a feeling of lovers in innocence and lovers in experience. At times the ballet might well be about loss of virginity, at others loss of identification, at others still loss of human contact. This desolate undertow finds its final expression in the closing sculptural group. Here you find the two men locked in a sort of combat, with the 'Sibley' girl emerging from the group with her empty arms outstretched for contact, and the 'Parkinson' girl at the back, her arms raised aloft in despair or even horror".
This last figure may even have stood for MacMillan himself. In an interview beforehand with the Covent Garden Friends' magazine About the House, MacMillan had said "The more I look at my work, the more it seems that, unwittingly, I choose the lonely, outcast, rejected figure: The Invitation, Rite of Spring, Solitaire, Le Baiser de la Fée. I don't set out to do it, but it always seems to happen unconsciously – as a sort of leitmotif. It will be interesting to see if it emerges in the new work."
The designer Yolanda Sonnabend had been introduced to MacMillan by her mentor Nicholas Georgiadis; her designs for Symphony, vast painterly backdrops, had afterimages of Georgiadis's previous designs for The Invitation (1961); "The soft floating backcloths are gorgeous splashes of colour", wrote Mary Clarke in the 1964 Ballet Review, "but her costumes, although serviceable for dancing, are unattractive and unbecoming, robbing their wearers of character". Peter Williams, writing for Dance and Dancers, thought the "lack of relation between costumes and settings curious from a talented painter." (Sonnabend modified the designs when Symphony returned to the repertory in 1975).
There were illnesses among the cast; Antoinette Sibley was a last-minute replacement for Lynn Seymour, who had flu, while Donald MacLeary had a knee operation during rehearsals. Nonetheless, Clive Barnes was fulsome about the first night. "With its incandescent excitement contrasted with its sudden shafts of inexplicably desolate poetry, Symphony is a work of obvious distinction", he wrote in The Times. Less warm was The Observer's Alexander Bland. "The choreographic design is never clear. The principals don't form, either as individuals or pairs, strongly characterised motifs." The Guardian's review (unsigned) was tepid; "neo-classical dance, laced admittedly with some MacMillanesque contortions but apparently unencumbered by any purpose save that of catching the mood and the rhythm of the music in apposite dance".
Several years later, there was an intriguing back-reference by James Kennedy of The Guardian. When, eventually, Song of the Earth came to be staged at Covent Garden, he characterised MacMillan's classic as 'the marvellous fruition' of such 'half-baked experiments' as Symphony.


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Proper scientists: Old folk should drink more, not less
UK call for booze crackdown on elderly slammed
Serious international researchers into the health effects of alcohol have uncompromisingly slammed a recent call by British psychiatrist for severe restrictions on drinking by elderly people.
A report issued earlier this month by the Royal College of Psychiatrists described elderly (over-65) drinkers as society's "invisible addicts" and said that the government should issue stringent new recommendations on alcohol limits for older people - equivalent to just one glass of wine a day for men and a mere dirty glass for ladies.
Now academic reviewers at the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research, based at Boston University's Medical Center, have responded. They say that a sudden cut in old-timers drinking would probably cause a lot of dangerous health problems:
It should be made clear that 65-year-olds are healthier than people of that age a generation ago - age-specific disability rates are decreasing, not increasing.
The [UK psychiatrists'] report was conspicuously lacking in a discussion of the important role that moderate drinking can play in reducing the risk of coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, diabetes, dementia, and osteoporosis. Advising healthy people aged 65 years or older who are moderate, responsible drinkers to stop drinking or to markedly reduce their intake would not be in their best health interests, especially in terms of their risk of cardiovascular diseases ... the absolute risk for cardiovascular diseases increases markedly with age, and therefore the beneficial or protective effect of light to moderate drinking on cardiovascular diseases is greater in the elderly than in younger people.
And there are in fact many other benefits of an occasional tipple when one finds oneself getting on a bit - in fact some of the worst scourges of the elderly are alleviated.
Evidence is also accumulating that shows that the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia is lower among moderate drinkers than among abstainers. Neurodegenerative disorders are key causes of disability and death among elderly people. Epidemiological studies have suggested that moderate alcohol consumption, may reduce the incidence of certain age-related neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease. Regular dietary intake of flavonoid-rich foods and/or beverages has been associated with 50% reduction in the risk of dementia, a preservation of cognitive performance with ageing,a delay in the onset of Alzheimer's disease and a reduction in the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
If this wasn't enough, the fact is that a drop of booze now and then just makes life more pleasant.
Scientific data are consistent in demonstrating that quality of life is better and total mortality is lower among moderate drinkers than among abstainers.
Indeed, taken overall, if the UK government as a whole - and doctors advising their patients in particular - actually wanted to help older folks to live pleasanter, healthier, more fulfilling lives they would in fact advise them to drink more, not less.
[A recent study] showed a direct dose-response relation between alcohol consumption and risk of death in women aged 16-54 and in men aged 16-34, whereas at older ages the relation is U shaped ... The authors state that their data suggest that women should INCREASE their intake to 3 units a day over age 75, and men rise from 3 units a day up to age 54 to 4 units a day up to age 84.
Full details of the damning critique responding to the psychiatrists' poorly-informed and silly recommendations can be found here at the website of the Boston University School of Medicine. ®
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