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Jenny Craig, Inc., one of the nation's leading authorities on weight management, launched today its biggest program innovation in its 27-year history of weight management: the new Metabolic Max Program. In this new program innovation, Jenny Craig is taking an intensive approach to monitor and increase activity by accurately measuring calories burned to help clients achieve meaningful weight loss.
The Metabolic Max Program is the next generation of the signature Jenny Craig program because it incorporates the technology from the BodyMedia FIT Armband and BodyMedia FIT Activity Manager data, giving consultants and clients valuable, accurate information about the amount of calories burned, as well as gives clients online tools to self-monitor their caloric intake and activity levels. In a client's weekly one-on-one consultation, the consultant reviews the client's caloric intake and activity levels for the week, and adjusts the program accordingly to help clients maximize their weight loss efforts.
Research shows that those who self-monitor are more successful with losing and maintaining their weight. In fact, self-monitoring can even influence food and activity choices.(1) The Metabolic Max Program gives clients an additional tool to strengthen the accuracy of food logging and activity tracking. By logging their menus in the BodyMedia Activity Manager online and wearing the BodyMedia FIT Armband, clients can more precisely measure their caloric intake and metabolic rate throughout the day. This tool combined with the Jenny Craig Consultant gives clients greater control over their program and their weight loss results.
"What is great about the Metabolic Max program is that you can see how small amounts of activity can add up to something substantial," said Dr. Timothy Church, Director of the Laboratory of Preventative Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University. "You don't have to spend an hour at the gym to achieve your activity goals, but you can identify lifestyle opportunities to increase your activity, like parking in the farthest parking spot or taking the stairs instead of the elevator. This type of activity accumulates and increases your fitness level. This new program takes the guess work out of the equation."
A Weight Loss Program Personalized to Your Metabolism
The Metabolic Max Program offers an even more personalized approach to weight loss by tailoring the Jenny Craig program to clients' unique metabolism to maximize their weight loss efforts.
"We have always been able to monitor the amount of 'calories in' with our pre-portioned meals and nutritional plans, but we are the only weight loss company to offer a personalized approach to monitor calories in and measure the amount of calories out with the Metabolic Max Program," said Patti Larchet, CEO of Jenny Craig, Inc. "Achieving weight loss goals requires more than a diet; it requires a comprehensive food-body-mind approach that leads to lifestyle changes. With the Metabolic Max Program, our Jenny Craig Consultants support clients how to monitor and adopt healthier eating habits and activity plans that fit within their lifestyles, while providing strategies and tools for all types of situations."
Clients can review their activity and calorie burn throughout the day with the data collected by the BodyMedia FIT Armband. This device measures how many calories clients burn at any given time they are wearing the device. This data is then uploaded to the BodyMedia FIT Activity Manager, an online database that allows clients to review their activity in real time, as well as enter their Jenny Craig planned menus.
Based in Science
Jenny Craig is a clinically proven weight loss program that helps clients lose weight and maintain their weight loss, as well as adopt healthier lifestyle habits, such as eating more fruits and vegetables, increasing cardiopulmonary fitness, and improving quality of life. In a clinical trial published in the October 27, 2010, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Jenny Craig participants lost an average of 10% of their body weight after one year compared to 2% of those who dieted on their own.(2)
"The clinical trial proves what we have always known, that Jenny Craig works," said Lisa Talamini, Vice President of Research and Program Innovation at Jenny Craig Inc. "We want to take our clinically proven program to the next level with the Metabolic Max Program. This new program provides powerful information that holds clients accountable to incorporate more activity into their lives, as well as help them make smarter food choices when they dine on their own."
Jenny Craig is the only weight loss company to offer a personalized, one-on-one approach to weight loss with nutritionally balanced, pre-portioned meals that serve as a model for portion control, teaching the Volumetrics® approach that encourages clients to eat more fruits and vegetables to feel satiated with less calories, and providing personalized activity plans and lifestyle strategies tailored for each client.
"We are committed to combating the obesity epidemic and are always researching new, leading edge ways to help clients achieve their weight loss goals," said Larchet. "There are more than 70 million obese individuals in the United States, and more than 31 percent of American children who are overweight. We are determined to fight obesity by starting at the head of the family unit by teaching them healthy habits that will influence the entire family."
For more information about the Metabolic Max Program from Jenny Craig, please visit www.jennycraig.com.
About Jenny Craig -Jenny Craig offers a comprehensive Food-Body-Mind program designed to help clients manage their weight by creating a healthy relationship with food, building an active lifestyle and developing a balanced approach to living.
With its tailored YourStyle® program, Jenny Craig is committed to a personalized approach to weight loss by offering each client a one-on-one weekly consultation and a customized weight management plan designed to optimize individual success. With more than 80 delicious Jenny's Cuisine menu items, Jenny Craig's program is available in-center and our at-home program, Jenny Craig at Home®.
Jenny Craig, Inc., based in Carlsbad, CA, and owned by Nestle, is one of the world's largest weight management companies, with more than 725 company-owned and franchised Centers in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.
1. Melby C. American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM Fit Society*Page. Summer 2004, p. 4-5.
2. JAMA. 2010;304(16):1803-1810. Published online October 9, 2010. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1503


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State Engineering Graduate Student Council (EGSC) and the American Red Cross are hosting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 20 in Kunkle Lounge in Hammond Building.
Donors may schedule an appointment at www.redcrossblood.org or show up the day of the drive.
EGSC blood drive coordinator and bioengineering graduate student Brittany Banik said, "The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community."
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It's an offseason of change in Pittsburgh. The Steelers are counting on more young players than usual to step into starting roles. The offense has been revamped. And the team is feeling a little ornery.
"There's a little more of an edge," safety Troy Polamalu said Tuesday, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Sometimes, when you've had consecutive years of some success, you get a little complacent, which is maybe natural, I don't know. It's definitely something that we've probably dealt with around here a little bit, last season being an example."
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Polamalu says it's nice to see all the "young faces" and calls his new understudy safety, Shamarko Thomas, a "great, great kid." Polamalu is at the point in his career where he calls other players "kids" and knows that durability is an issue. Polamalu says he's addressed that with a new training regimen designed to break down scar tissue.
"I have done quite a bit of different things this offseason. ... Not to get too deep into muscular biomechanics, but you can break down scar tissue. The problem is your body has to continue to learn how to re-adapt with broken scar tissue. These are all things I have learned," Polamalu said. "Hopefully, all of this will make these problems obsolete."
Just saying muscular biomechanics is deep enough for me. Polamalu seems to realize he's at the point of his career where he needs to stay healthy, or more big changes on the Steelers will follow.
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And so to Mesa County in Colorado where this week the first labour pains of what seems to be the birth of a new movement in the US were felt. Dozens of protesters attended a meeting of School District 51's Board of Education to hand over two petitions aimed at keeping political views out of the county's classrooms.
According to reports in the local press, Rose Pugliese, a local lawyer and failed Republican candidate for the board of education, authored both of the petitions. The first, which gained 600 signatures of support, simply wished for teachers not to express their "personal, political views" to pupils, whereas the second, which gained 700 signatures, sought to stop the teaching of global warming to children.
"[Global warming] is not a proven scientific theory. There is not evidence to support it," Pugliese told the board, according to a report in the Denver Post. It's unclear from the reports whether the petition explicitly called for any teachings about global warming to be stripped from schools, or whether it called for the "other side of the story" to be taught, as Pugliese and her supporters seemed to be arguing before the board.
Pugliese, who is also a prominent member of a local Tea Party group called the Western Slope Conservative Alliance, was supported at the meeting by a local PR consultant called Laura Kindregan, who is the Colorado representative of a national group calling itself Balanced Education for Everyone. It was launched in April to assist "concerned citizens around the country in challenging public schools to provide balanced education on the issue of global warming". It is itself an umbrella organisation of the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative group whose notion of feminism is a tad different to most Guardian readers' understanding of the term.
The board of education will now mull over the issues raised by the petitions, but the episode serves to expose the rising tide within rightwing circles in the US to suppress the teaching of "liberal" issues such as climate change in schools. Or if it can't be suppressed, then at least some "balance" should be applied.
For example, Balanced Education for Everyone heavily promotes the showing of Phelim McAleer's Not Evil Just Wrong as a counterpoint to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. McAleer is an agitating Irish filmmaker who views climate change as "junk science" and who – as was the case with Martin Durkin's The Great Global Warming Swindle – has been accused by climate scientists of misrepresenting their views through the manipulative editing of interviews. (For example, look at McAleer's edit of his exchange last December with Professor Stephen Schneider, and then look at the unedited exchange.)
The strength of the connection between Laura Kindregan and Phelim McAleer is also revealed on the website of Amali, her PR consultancy, which states that "Amali is working with Not Evil Just Wrong on a campaign for balanced education in the schools through this incredible documentary".
Balanced Education for Everyone is a group that warrants closer inspection, it seems. First, why does it place so much stock in the worth of Not Evil Just Wrong? Go to the "Parent's Resources" section and all it seems to be saying is get your child's school, by any means possible, to screen this documentary, which "proves that the real threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the flawed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his allies in environmental extremism". The website of the film itself even supplies downloadable "educational resources" (pdf) to be used in schools. Surprise, surprise, the panel of "expert reviewers" includes well-known climate sceptics such as Pat Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a rightwing thinktank with a long history of promoting ideologically tainted misinformation about climate change. The biog makes no mention of this, of course.
That it's hard to put a cigarette paper when it comes to ideology between any of these players arguing for "balance" in the teaching of climate change in schools is not a great shock. As has been observed for years, most climate scepticism is fostered and dispersed from a well-defined frequency of the political spectrum. In other words, it is typically ideological objections to the proposed solutions rather than genuine scientific objections to the science that now drive so much of the climate scepticism we see and hear, particularly in the US.
Genuine educational balance is, of course, a worthy goal, but the great irony here – and, to a certain extent, dishonesty - is that these overtly political groups and individuals are explicitly arguing for politics to be eliminated from classrooms. And the best thing they can arm themselves with, it seems, is the polemical documentary Not Evil Just Wrong.
So, here's a suggestion: in the name of balance, let's just rid our schools of all these documentaries, An Inconvenient Truth included. Surely, it's possible to teach children about climate change in a balanced manner without relying on such controversial teaching aids? How about sticking to good old science text books? Oh, but it looks like the same forces have their sights set on those, too.


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Emotional pleas
One of the major underlying and often overlooked reasons for belief is that it makes people feel good. Regardless of any number of apologetics arguments a theist may use, when pressed in an argument their real reasons for belief will usually come down to a matter of personal experience and or revelation. One of the main personal experiences given by theists is that a belief in a god makes them feel good. Often this last-stand argument is delivered in an indignant manner, the implication being that as long as it makes them happy, what right do you have to question it? A typical example of an emotional appeal is:
- "If the resurrection of Jesus never happened, Christianity is wrong and we won't have eternal life so our life is meaningless."
Emotional pleas may also be used to argue against God's existence.
Format Argument[edit]
Due to the blatant logical flaws of this argument, it almost doesn't seem worth writing as a syllogism, but for uniformity's sake.
- p1. Feeling good is better than feeling bad.
- p2. Belief in god makes me feel good.
- c1. Ipso facto god is real.
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Non sequitur[edit]
The main logical problem with this argument is a non-sequitur fallacy. There is no way to get from it makes me feel good to it must be true.
The specific form of non sequitur is called an appeal to emotion. It is interesting to note, though, that the this appeal is slightly reversed from the typical usage, as the theist is using their own emotions to justify their own beliefs, rather than trying to twist the emotions of the non-believer to change their beliefs.
Moral implications[edit]
Perhaps even greater than the logical fallacy is the moral implications of this argument.
"It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it."
- — Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, c.1953
An example of this would be that heroin makes people feel good. That doesn't mean it is good, though. There are many direct side effects and third-party implications with the use of heroin. Similarly just because belief in a god makes you feel good, doesn't mean that it is good. The real question is, do the benefits of the good feeling out way the side effects?
Direct side effects of this belief could include:
- Unjustified time and monetary commitments.
- A cognitive dissonant lean towards credulously accepting other things that also aren't real.
- Accepting some tenants and dogma of the religion which makes you feel good, such as demonisation of homosexuals, could have the direct inverse action of making other people feel bad.
Some indirect third-party or group implications of the this belief could include
- Degradation of science education. Particularly in the field of biology.
- Unjustified resistance to certain medical advances such as stem cell research.
See also[edit]
- Non sequitur
- Appeal to emotion
- Morality
- Emotional pleas against God's existence
- Jesus died for your sins
External links[edit]
- Appeal to emotion – Logical fallacies listed on nizkor.org
- Wikipedia:Appeal to emotion - Article emotion on wikipedia


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Designed for broadcast and filmmaking applications, Canon's Console software program can be helpful in virtually any production environment, reducing set-up time and maximizing the productivity of crew members, according to Canon. Canon's Console software, named for the large video control boards commonly found in television studios, provides control over four key XL H1 camera functions: image control, camera operation, video recording in HDV or SD and playback. This allows users to remain in command of the XL H1 camcorder remotely, such as when mounted on a camera crane or jib arm, between a studio and control room or even an inaccessible or risky location.
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Users may receive a trial version of Canon's Console software, which allows them to examine and access the program for a period of 14 days or 20 trials. Once satisfied, trial users may purchase a license key to the program for $599. Trial versions and the license key to Canon's Console software will be available in November. To obtain a trail version of Canon's Console software people should visit the company's Web site at www.canondv.com.


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As the White House prepares to unveil a sweeping plan aimed at curbing gun violence, the National Rifle Association has launched a preemptive, personal attack on President Obama, calling him an "elitist hypocrite" who, the group claims, is putting American children at risk.
In 35-second video posted online Tuesday night, the NRA criticizes Obama for accepting armed Secret Service protection for his daughters, Sasha and Malia, at their private Washington, D.C., school while questioning the placement of similar security at other schools.
"Are the president's kids more important than yours? Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school?" the narrator says.
"Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, but he's just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security," it continues. "Protection for their kids and gun-free zones for ours."
The immediate family members of U.S. presidents – generally considered potential targets – have long received Secret Service protection.
The ad appeared on a new website for a NRA advocacy campaign – "NRA Stand and Fight" — that the gun-rights group appears poised to launch in response to Obama's package of gun control proposals that will be announced today.
It's unclear whether the video will air on TV or only on the web. The NRA did not respond to ABC News' request for comment. The domain for the website is registered to Ackerman McQueen, the NRA's long-standing public relations firm.
The White House had no comment on the NRA ad.
In the wake of last month's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Obama administration has met with a cross-section of advocacy groups on all sides of the gun debate to formulate new policy proposals.
The NRA, which met with Vice President Joe Biden last week, has opposed any new legislative gun restrictions, including expanded background checks and limits on the sale of assault-style weapons, instead calling for armed guards at all American schools.
Obama publicly questioned that approach in an interview with "Meet the Press" earlier this month, saying, "I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools. And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem."
Still, the White House has been considering a call for increased funding for police officers at public schools and the proposal could be part of a broader Obama gun policy package.
Fifty-five percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say they support adding armed guards at schools across the country.
"The issue is, are there some sensible steps that we can take to make sure that somebody like the individual in Newtown can't walk into a school and gun down a bunch of children in a shockingly rapid fashion. And surely, we can do something about that," Obama said at a news conference on Monday.
"Responsible gun owners, people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship, they don't have anything to worry about," he said.
ABC News' Mary Bruce and Jay Shaylor contributed reporting.
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A teenage girl is dead in a horrific and bizarre parking lot mishap. According to NBC29, a mother pulling into a Hardee's parking lot in Waynesboro fumbled with the vehicle's pedals and accidentally slammed into her daughter's friend, Lindsay Hyson.
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I liked your article and your funny sense of humor. I notice you aren't convinced there is "treatment" for pancreatic cancer. I agree...I am watching my 44 yr old baby brother die from this. Why isn't there a good treatment for Pancreatic Cancer? That's my question. Perhaps you could mention to readers that the funding for research for this cancer is close to NOTHING. If more people knew this maybe they would donate their dollars to PanCan. I believe most people already know that Pacreatic Cancer kills just about anyone who gets it, but do they know how little funding there is for research for it? More attention should be given to raise awareness for this nasty nasty cancer. More money needs to be donated to research for this nasty nasty cancer. I'm glad you have educated the readers about this killer, but it would have been even better had you informed them how they can help...by donating to PanCan for starters. I am in no way associated with PanCan, but I AM watching my baby brother slowly lose his battle to this. He's fought long and hard, knowing all along the odds were not good for survival. Like you said, can they really call it "treatment"? It's sad that in this day and age there is a cancer so evil, and there is no research, no treatment, and very little hope for someone diagnosed with it.
Clare Bozell
would you suggest to a person who had pancreatic cancer to even bother with chemo, then? given the fact that chemo has its own side effects also?
I'm dealing with a bit of hypochondria myself right now (I have an enlarged "Virchow's Node", but it might be related to a recent root canal, even though I don't think that makes sense from what I've read online so far)and if it is cancer, my guess would be pancreatic or esophageal (after ten years of vague gastric complaints on and off, that I attributed to bad eating habits.)
I get a CT scan on Sunday, so we shall see, but I'm a) grasping at straws that it could be anything BUT cancer and b) pondering whether and how much I would fight if it *did* turn out to be pancreatic cancer.
Dear Lorraine - I can't give advice since you aren't my patient, but I do support your seeing your physician. It is the best thing. I wish you well
Dear Clare,
Thanks for your kind letter. I don't know why there isn't a cure. Modern medicine can't treat everything and it so sad about your brother. I was contacted by a president of a pancreatic cancer awareness group in California, and she is working to find the cure. You hang in there.
My 87 yr old mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this past June. She decided against chemotherapy, radiation and the Whipple operation. So, far she is not in any pain. My family and I have contacted Hospice and have a plan in place. My concern is that she is becoming weaker. Her meals are quite small. I wonder if there is a particular site anyone has used that would give me good dietary advice for her condition. She occasionally throws up her dinner and I know this distresses her no end. She is also suffering from short term memory loss and doesn't even realize that she has cancer! I know you can't diagnose or suggest any treatments, but I would love to know the links to any sites that may help with her food issues. Oh, by the way, she still enjoys her shot of whiskey with gingerale each evening at 5 pm! Thank you for your time and expertise.
My 25-year old son suffered a severe TBI in 1/06. He was in the vehicle for 5 hours before anyone found him. He went head-first into the windshield leaving the impression of his head in the windshield, then was thrown to the floorboard. He was lost 7 pints of blood, his airway was not protected and he developed pneumonia. He wasn't expected to make it to UVA on Pegasus (4 min. ride); his BAC was .38 and his temprature was 105 whn he arrived in the NNICU at UVA. He made nothing short of a miraculous recovery. He went back to work and driving in 3 1/2 mos. from his injury!!
As a result of this injury, I was "tricked" into forming a brain injury support group in April, 2007. My son and I both go to talk to parents and their adult children with brain injuries, fairly often. A second support group, for young adults with brain injuries, will have its first meeting this coming Friday, Oct. 8 at Kluge Children's Rehab Center. I would very much appreciate your getting the word out about these two support groups. The info on both is below:
Charlottesville Brain Injury Support Team
HealthSouth Rehab Hospital
515 Ray C. Hunt Drive
First Floor Conference Room
Charlottesville, VA 22903
3rd Tuesday of Each Month - 6:30-8:00 p.m.
All ages are welcome and anyone who is interested in brain injury as well.
Contact: Carol Ragland Cell: 434-962-3189
Home: 434-969-4597
E-mail: email@example.com
C'ville Young Adults Brain Injury Support/Social Team
2270 Ivy Road
Meet in the Gym
Charlottesvile, VA 22903
2nd Friday of Each Month - 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Ages 16-37
Contact: Carol Ragland Cell: 434-962-3189
Home: 434-969-4597
E-mail: email@example.com
The purpose of the Young Adults group is to provide support as well as social time. In many cases of brain injury, friends go by the wayside, either due to the fact that those who have brain injuries and not supposed to have alcohol; because of physical limitations, or even because of cognitive issues. There is a need for a place to where they can meet with their peers and be comfortable because they are understood. That is what we will attempt to do at this meeting. The first 1/2 hour will be for support (questions, concerns, etc.). The next 1 1/2 hours will be for social activity. There will be basketball, foosball table, large cabinet of board games,a pool table, and music for dancing if desired.
We definitely owe my son's recovery to God, through many prayers and prayer lists, and the wonderful angels (NNICU doctors and nurses, and chaplain) he put in place for my son's recovery.
I appreciate any help you can offer to get the word out about these two groups!
Carol Ragland, Leader
Charlottesville Brain Injury
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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. Benjamin Franklin "Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." Watch your thoughts, they become words.Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Unknown No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Hands down, our favorite season is fall. What's not to love? Cozy sweaters and boots, leaves changing color, pumpkin spice lattes and of course, fall makeup collections! While we are savoring summer (especially Carla, since Seattle totally spaced out on the heat wave the rest of America got!), we're looking forward to incorporating the best of fall beauty into our makeup routine.
Lancome's Fall 2011 Collection has us excited! Isn't the campaign image chic? The collection is named after the original Lancome boutique in Paris, 29 St. Honore. Love the red lips and red nails, courtesy of Bang Bang Red Polish. Don't you see it as a perfect holiday shade? I'm going to Paris in October with my husband, so I'm feeling the need to snap up some of these items — especially the Eiffel Tower imprinted blush!
Estee Lauder's Modern Mercury Pure Color collection created by Tom Pecheux has its fair share of chic going on as well. But it's not the red lips and semi-smokey eyes that I'm drawn to; rather it's the stunning Pure Color Illuminating Powder Gelée. A must-have! Other highlights include a new Velvet Lipstick formula and that oh-so-complex green/gold Pure Color Nail Polish.
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Phild523 posted a question in Veterans Compensation & Pension Exams,My claim went back to gathering of evidence after I had my second c&p exam for tbi initial. My vso the Dav said it was a dbq to differentiate the symptoms of tbi and PTSD as far as social and occupational impairment. I recieved at least as likely as not on all exams, PTSD, both tbi exams. Has anyone experienced this or know what it means? Is this a good sign my claim will be granted ? Thank you.
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A little about me currently. I have a job that is very low stress (work nights no people no stress) very secure because I work in a mountain so im surrounded by granite. I work on computers so it engages my mind and keeps me as active as possible and is my passion. So my question is do I have to quit my job? Thanks!
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VA Benefit InformationSummary of benefit informationYou have one or more service-connected disabilities:Yes Your combined service-connected evaluation is:100% You are considered to be totally and permanently disabled due solely to your service-connected disabilities:Yes The effective date of when you became totally and permanently disabled due to your service-connected disabilities:July 01, 2019
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Entitled to special monthly compensation under 38 U.S.C. 1114, subsection (s) and 38 CFR 3.350(i) on account of major depression disorder, recurrent, severe, post traumatic stress disorder, insomnia disorder and eating disorder, NOS rated 100 percent and additional service-connected disabilities of migraine including migraine variants, tinnitus, independently ratable at 60 percent or more from 07/01/2019.
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I don't know if I'm in the right place but i was needing some clarification. After fighting with the military for six years, the C&P examiner stated that my condition precludes me from any physical occupation.
I developed asthma back in 2012, while in service. Is that typical wording for pretty much everyone? I guess my English isn't that great and i would like someone to please explain to me what that entails? The examiner
also stated that there is a 50% chance or greater that my injury was incurred in the line of duty, does that mean that they service connected me?
thank you for responding.
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Rock1982 posted a question in VA Disability Compensation Benefits Claims Research Forum,I have a 8 year appeal that was granted in May 2019. Entitlement to service connection for acquired psychiatric disorder, to include post traumatic stress disorders and depression, is granted.
I live in Missouri, but it looks like the San Diego RO has been tasked with assigning the rating. I am already SC for 10,10,and 10 for shin splints and tinnitus which adds up to 30%. I was trying to determine what would my rating be and timeframe backpay would be paid.
My symptoms include : nonetheless the examiner opined that is not to say that his issues with pain and tinnitus have not exacerbated mental health symptoms. In this regard the examiner opined that the veterans chronic pain and tinnitus contribute to several depressive symptoms, including depressed mood, sleep impairment, irritability, diminished concentration and interest in activities, relationship problems, and outburst of anger.
As such the examiner concluded both his tinnitus and issues with chronic pain (not simply limited to shin splints) Are judged to have aggravated and contributed to multiple mental health symptoms. Therefore the examiner concluded that "it is at least as likely as not" that the diagnosis of bilateral shinsplints and tinnitus has aggravated depressive and overlapping PTSD symptoms beyond their natural course. My diagnosis includes Anxiety disorders too.
My grant is secondary to existing disabilities.
There is a Remand for Inextricably intertwined with the grant of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, granted in the boards decision herein, because it may be affected by the assignment of the disability rating and effective date for the grant of service connection. Once the disability rating and affective date for the grant of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder has been assigned, and after completing any other development deem necessary, readjudicate the claim of entitlement to TDIU are you in light of all pertinent Evidence and legal authority.
I am not sure but I hope my rating and backpay would be issued before they decide in another possible year for TDIU?
I am also one of the ones who constantly check Benny's for a rate change or any updates, but it is the same since May 23rd 2019. Has anyone received a deposit before benny's Update. Since the new process has been implemented?
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Adrian isn't quite home for Morenci native Jeff Vereecke, but it's getting close. When he takes charge of the Bank of Lenawee's nine offices next year, he'll have the feeling that he's coming home.
With the October acquisition of the Bank of Lenawee's holdings by First Federal, Vereecke was promoted from executive vice president of First Federal's retail banking to president of the bank's Northern Market.
"I'll be putting a lot of miles on," Vereecke said about the territory soon to be within his oversight.
In addition to the Bank of Lenawee offices in Adrian, First Federal will assume ownership of offices in Tecumseh, Hudson, Morenci and Hillsdale. First Federal offices in Montpelier, Bryan and Wauseon, Ohio, are also part of the Northern Market. The Bank of Lenawee Waldron office will be closed when First Federal takes over in March.
Vereecke has made a career out of working with First Federal. Not long after earning a finance degree from Grand Valley State University, he took a job in the banking company's credit department in 1984.
After 10 years in the lending department, he was promoted to senior vice president and chief lending officer. In 1998 he was promoted to executive vice president of retail banking.
"I've spent 23 years with First Federal," Vereecke noted, "half of my life."
Vereecke is the only First Federal employee from the main office heading north through the acquisition. He said Bank of Lenawee clients should expect the same customer service as before, along with some new products such as wealth management, insurance and investment options.


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The bookstore in Bergen Village has taken over the space next door that had been Menchie's Frozen Yogurt. HearthFire now offers frozen yogurt and toppings, plus coffee, tea and pastries.
Owner Kappy Kling assures everyone that her main focus is still the books, but the frozen yogurt/coffee shop will enhance people's experiences.
Barb Scripps, president of Scripps, Taylor & Associates, was one of 12 Jeffco women honored by the West Chamber on Nov. 15 as part of the 2013 Celebrate Women of Jefferson County program.
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The owner of Bistro Colorado is confident the restaurant is here to stay, believing that the fourth time is the charm for the location in North Evergreen.
The French bistro-style café on Bergen Parkway next to the Wood Cellar Bar and Grill opened earlier this month. Three restaurants have come and gone in that spot: Blue Spruce Market, Overseas Café and Suzie's Café.
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Borrowing from the spontaneous event known as a "flash mob," when groups dance in public places, a cash mob descends on local businesses to boost their revenues. In this case, a mob from Conifer made up for losses sustained during September's flooding.
Evergreen is getting a new restaurant downtown called Prague, which will be a smaller version of the popular Café Prague in Morrison.
Set to open in mid-October, Prague will serve lunch and dinner, said Tomas Stibral, who owns both restaurants with his wife, Yvona. It will be at the corner of Main Street and Forest Hill Road in a building that once was a dry cleaner and a hardware store.
The restaurant will seat about 50 people with another 30 seats on the patio, a size he called perfect.
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The Smiling Moose Deli has moved to a larger location in the log building off Evergreen Parkway in the El Rancho area.
The sandwich shop has been near Interstate 70 since March 2008, and it had simply outgrown its space, said owner Derek Dodds.
"It's in bigger space and gave us a better opportunity," Dodds said.
The new restaurant at 908 Nob Hill Road has doubled the number of seats in its dining area, which was a big impetus to move, he said, plus the larger space has allowed the restaurant to add a create-your-own-salad offering.
The new owners of a bakery in Marshdale want it to have a local European pastry shop feel.
The Village Patisserie at 6947 County Highway 73, owned by David and Sara Knight, offers a selection of delectable treats, jellies and jams — and homemade ice cream on Sundays — plus a smattering of local artwork. Decorated cakes from the elegant to the unusual also can be ordered.
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During the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington, DC, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that the Obama Administration will change how transportation projects are selected to receive federal funding. Under the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) New Starts and Small Starts program, funding guidelines will be based on livability issues such as environmental benefits, economic development and congestion relief, in addition to cost and time saved, which are currently the primary criteria.
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The NFL has shuffled the Week 16 schedule to move a better game into the Sunday Night Football prime time slot.
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The Chargers-Jets game that had initially been scheduled for NBC prime time has now been moved to a 1 p.m. kickoff on CBS. The league also moved the Week 16 Giants-Ravens game from a 1 p.m. kickoff to a 4:25 p.m. kickoff.
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The Intel Core i7 980X is Intel's latest six-core, 3.33GHz processor. It's also the fastest processor available to consumers.
The six-core Intel Core i7 980X processor is manufactured on a 32nm fabrication process, runs at a frequency of 3.33GHz with a TurboBoost speed of 3.6 GHz, and has 12MB of L2 cache. It is rated at a TDP of 130W (power consumption on average).
As with all their current processors, the Intel Core i7 980X supports TurboBoost, to run at a higher speed by disabling half the number of cores. HyperThreading whereby each core simultaneously runs two threads, is also present, thus presenting itself to the operating system as being capable of running 12 threads.
Intel deserves credit for making the top-end Intel Core i7 980X processor compatible with the X58 motherboards that are already widely available. You might have to wait for your motherboard manufacturer to release a new BIOS, to support six-core processors. Notably, unlike Intel's recent spree of releasing mainstream 32nm processors with graphics integrated onto the processor itself, this top-end unit steers clear of graphics.
Seeing the Windows task manager was a joy indeed, when we ran a number of processor-intensive applications all at once, yet all of them were running just fine and could not bring the system to its knees. Such stress tests did raise its maximum temperature at load to higher levels than the non-six-core processors (from 65C to 70C), atleast with normal cooling.
Precisely for this reason, a much better CPU cooler than usual is bundled with the Intel Core i7 980X branded the Intel DBX-B Thermal Solution. We did not have to resort to using a high-end cooler from CoolerMaster or ThermalTake, and managed to over-clock to a stable 3.96 GHz (22x180MHz). Going beyond that may need liquid-cooling to hold back the heat, but that speed was enough to turbo-charge benchmarks considering its number of cores. However, all performance numbers we mention here onwards are what we saw at stock speeds only.
The Intel Core i7 980x was tested in the PCWorld.in labs
To prevent bottlenecks, we tested the Intel Core i7 980X processor on a test rig with the most high-end components we could put together. It consisted of an Intel DX58SO motherboard, Intel's DBX-B cooler, 3GB of Kingston DDR3-2000MHz RAM in triple-channel mode, Radeon 4870X2 graphics card, Intel X25-M 80GB SSD, Tagan BZ-1300W PSU and Windows 7 Ultimate Edition. We shall use the quad-core Core i7 965 (which used to be the top Core i7 processor at 3.2GHz) as a reference point while interpreting the performance of the 980X, in order to understand where the two processors stand relatively.
In tests, storage input/output and USB speeds were on par with expectations (when compared with a Core i7 965 + X58 motherboard combo). However, memory tests showed the L3 cache and RAM read/write speeds to be a bit lower than seen on the older quad-core i7-965 processor. On CineBench, we saw a CPU benchmark of 21296 CB which is about 25 percent higher than the i7-965. On PC Mark Vantage, we saw a score of 13369 marks which is again 25 per cent higher than the i7-965.
Most encouraging was what we saw on 3D Mark Vantage - in Performance mode, the 980X garnered a CPU score of 29848, as against the i7-965's 15246. One of the most hardware-intensive games, Crysis did not benefit much - the 980X managed 65 fps (frames per second) as against 61 fps managed by the i7-965. The above benchmark of Crysis was seen with a screen resolution of 1024x768 at Ultra High graphics and anti-aliasing disabled. You can view the results of more synthetic benchmarks and real-world tests on the "Performance" tab of this review.
After seeing the numbers above, the take-away is that the increased number of cores does have a positive impact on performance. However, the performance improvement is not in line with what you might have expected. After all, this processor offers 50 percent more cores/threads, and is priced a fair bit more than the i7-965. Simply put, applications just are not (yet) capable of taking advantage of what this processor brings to the table. For now, it is useful if you'd like to run multiple stressful applications at once, or if you run multiple virtual machines for testing. Those whose line-of-business professional applications support massive parallel processing will benefit as well.
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- HyperThreading: 3.33GHz (or 3.6GHz with TurboBoost)
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It is with great interest that I was reading some passages from New-SAP-Blue-Book by Michael Doane, when I came across the following passages regarding SAP recommended practices, and principles around implementation:
When clients hire an SAP systems integrator, they are hiring the firm and their people. The core capabilities of the firm will remain over time – things like the methodologies, tools, partner networks, etc. The people, however, will change, as promotions, job changes, and retirements inevitably happen. Therefore, clients should place a strong emphasis on the systems integrators' methodologies and tools during the selection process.
As someone who swims in the agile space, I found this quite fascinating that someone was has recommending processes over people. I then went on to read another interesting passage regarding the pitfalls of iterative development on SAP projects.
You do not want your team engaged in an iterative trial and error process in which you find yourselves moving between design and configuration across all modules until you are satisfied. Such a process will drain your budget and strain your nervous system. You should seek, where possible, to adopt best practices, especially those that are pre-configured.
What this means is that your organization will change to fit the system. This is, of course, not intuitive. Most firms believe that the software should be bent to fit their chosen processes. In some cases, this is a necessity but in many other cases it is simply organizational vanity.
Now, I have never had the pleasure of working on an SAP project, so all of my opinion is stereo-typical, third party, and not informed by experience or practical knowledge. But it did get me wondering what it would be like to work on this kind of project where the process was all important, and the business bent to the software (not the other way around).
Would there be a culture clash if you stuck a bunch of agilista's onto an SAP project?
What would SAP experts think of agile's free wheeling iterative nature?
Could the two co-exist on the same project and swim in the same swim lanes without bumping into each other?
I suspect the spirit of agile would indeed work on SAP projects. But the more I read the book, the more I became interested in understanding what, if any differences in attitudes there would be, between an agile and SAP team.
If you have any experience or comments on agile and SAP projects, please leave a comment.
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Rep. Lubnau Questions Document Dump by Cindy Hill
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming House Speaker Tom Lubnau says state schools Superintendent Cindy Hill isn't cooperating with a special committee's investigation into her management of the Wyoming Education Department.
The Gillette Republican sent a letter to Hill on Friday saying her office intentionally submitted thousands of irrelevant and unorganized documents in response to two subpoena requests by the committee.
Hill told The Associated Press in response that she submitted everything from her office because the subpoena requests were so broad. She says the committee has more resources than her office and can sift through the documents to find what it needs.
Depending on its findings, the panel could recommend that the full House of Representatives initiate impeachment proceedings against Hill, who denies any wrongdoing.


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Heck, dislike of those types are exactly the reason why many of us on this thread is rooting for the failure of GOP!
Which is odd considering that fair amount of his own supporters fall in that 47% he called "entitled".
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Religious leaders with political powers are definitely in position to cause problems and even disasters, I agree.
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Pointing which one is orange and which one is apple isn't pulling a strawman.
I don't think you're racist. I just think you lack the patience necessary to indulge in political discussions like this.
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I'm going to have to outright say you're not really helping yourself by ignoring reality on the ground and talking in concepts which are limited to a small portion of the world. That is not a stance one should have when talking in general terms.
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In fact, I think Romney actually agrees!
At least this isn't a "secret private videotaping"
I'm saying, monarch is backwards system, and majority of them suck.
You're saying "there are good ones too!"
Which I agree, I'm not saying they're all bad. But few good apples amongst crapton of bads does not make the whole concept good.
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I prefer electorial democracy, you like monarchy and I don't.
Hell, you probably drink the blood of a virgin from a golden goblet while using a peasant as your footrest!
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The Hashemites of Jordan and the Alaouites of Morocco both claim their legitimacy from their descent from the Prophet Muhammad. As close to divine right as it gets.
Ironically it is that prestige which allows them the leeway to contain their extremists and create moderate monarchies. Combined with historical circumstances that made them early and constant allies of the West, and they don't need to be as nasty as the rest. Good for King Abdullah, he can now slowly back out into the comfort and security of a true constitutional monarch.
Of course, on the other hand, hardcore theocracies like Iran or the Wahhabi Al-Sauds can go burn in the fires of their precious hell.
Saying Islamic leaders are shite is hardly racist. They are largely shite, through no fault of the Qur'an or Semitic racial characteristics, mind (that's just bullshit and nobody's saying that here), but because they're a bunch of asshole oppressors. Secular post-Nasserist dictators, Iranian theocratic clerics, Saudi/Gulf sheikhs with their fabulous oil wealth...the new generation of democrats, Islam-based or not, won't have to do much not to be worse, though there will be much work before they can really call themselves better.
No racism here, just honest republicanism. And why the hell not? Why are kings kings, and why should I be loyal to oppressors and children of oppressors? Tradition is only worth the good it can bring, nothing more.
And as a secularist, religion can indeed go make love to itself. I study religions, even read the annotated Qur'an (quite an interesting book of poetry, that one), because they're quite interesting. Because I'm a historian not a philosopher I'm not particularly concerned with bashing religion to establish my worldview. But, in my secular politics, God can shove off. Not saying you can't believe, or that I'll look down on anyone for just believing, but I quite object to having other people's beliefs being used as the foundation of a society I live in.
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@aohige : Heck, I don't even type my posts. My christian slaves do that for me
@Irenicus : Ideological narratives should never dictate academic understanding. Kings and Queens can have no temporal power and still function in some way or another like in UK, Japan, Scandinavia, and many other living examples accross the world. And when they do pose political power, it needs not to be infinite either. Monarchy doesn't automatically translate into autocratic tyranny, just as much as Republic doesn't automatically mean a proper democratic universal suffrage which upholds human rights.
I'm definitely all for liberal secularism. But I'm against Turkish and French laicitism because non-interference between state and religion should be mutual, instead one sided.
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Monarchs with power, however, better behave. Just the same as I would call for the deposition of Gaddafi or Assad or diss the PRC, having a crown doesn't matter one bit to me if you're an asshole and an oppressor.
When it's just lip service alone I don't mind too much, but this 2012 election, despite the paramount importance of the economy issue and the urgency of the international situation, sometimes feel like God vs. Laicité with the battles over many social issues, and I know where I stand.
As an aside, I never ever did truly swear the Oath of Allegiance in its entirety, because of an annoying little phrase some McCarthyists put in there. Not that I don't like the USA, it's quite a charming place and closest I've got to a home, but it's quite convenient sometimes to be as conditionally patriotic as I want.
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@aohige : Yes they are. There's a fine line indeed between the supposed pair of anti-thesises.
@Irenicus : Absolute monarchies are dangerous no doubt. It's just absolute monarchy isn't the only variant of monarchy there is.
I can see the problem with US. While being a secular country, religion gets politicized waaaay too much, and that's bad. But something like Kemalist laicitism will only politicize religion further, and I really hope such won't take place in US.
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Romney's "47%" remark, and remarks like it, is the dark side of meritocratic ideology. If you believe that society rewards those who are the smartest and most driven (IE are "the best") then ultimately you believe the reverse as well, IE that the people at the bottom are there due to their own faults and general stupidity.
One thing you can say for the more aristocratic rich of the past is that they had a lot more empathy for the poor, because they understood that they were rich and the other poor due to random events (what vagina they popped out of).
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But I won't play the silly race card and call you out for something you're obviously not.
Even though there are plenty of minorities in that base, it's still majority blue-collar white the last I checked.
It seem like they can continuously insult their own support base, and somehow have them elude the fact.
But isn't the higher income not already the said reward? The tax favortism seems to be simply compiling the problem.
Of course, the above question isn't directed to you, or even the GOP. It's to the supporters who are blinded by their own treatment.
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I seem to recall it was a standard in the post-Recostruction South. The dirt poor white family was basically on the bottom, but could feel superior to any black family...even if the black family was actually better off, because of the rules and pecking order. Some of those rules, while gone in name and law, still exist in spirit in some of those places. Mostly because it hasn't been all that long since the Federal Government stomped those laws out (a generation or two, as that was the 1960s).
Oh and some still consider a Constitutional Monarchy as a monarchy...because it does have a king or queen. The head of state for all Commonwealth nations is still Queen Elizabeth II if I remember correctly. At least her head is on the currency still.
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Designs by Oliver Messel for The Sleeping Beauty in 1946 remained emblazoned in my mind as the most magical vision I ever saw in the theatre during the postwar years. This was one of The Royal Ballet's defining productions, not only in terms of concept and choreography but also in those of inspiring a masterpiece of design.
Half a century on most people will ask who was Oliver Messel and why these designs became such a landmark in the Company's history. In his day Messel, along with his rival Cecil Beaton, were the twin stars of British theatre design. In Messel's case he was to have a run of some thirty years from 1932 to the early 1960s when a new wave of designers, headed by Sean Kenny, rendered Messel's world of painted cloths and gauzes obsolete. He left the country and retreated to Barbados where he designed fairytale holiday homes for the super-rich. He died in 1978.
Messel was born in 1904 into a wealthy banking family. His father, Colonel Leonard Messel, was to build Nymans in Sussex around which he laid out the famous garden, now the property of the National Trust. He was also a collector. Oliver and his sister Anne, later Countess of Rosse, were both delicate as children. Educated at home, both showed a passion for theatricals and for making things.
In the end his father decided to let Oliver go to the Slade School of Fine Art and train as a portrait painter. This was a period during which people seemed to drift into theatre design. Looking back, what Messel did, along with Beaton, was to raise the status of the profession. Both knew or set out to know everyone who was anyone in the grandest of social circles, and both lived in the grand manner. Both also belonged to the between-the-wars group we know as the Bright Young Things, partying as ferociously as they worked.
From childhood Messel had been adept with his hands and he first attracted attention when, in 1925, at the age of 21, he made masks for Diaghilev. He then caught the eye of impresario C.B. Cochran, who used him for his revues, in the main for costumes. But it was in 1932 that he suddenly shot to stardom with the designs for the Offenbach operetta La belle Hélène. That included a famous all-white bedroom scene that set off a craze in interior decoration. In the postwar years he was to dominate stage design at Glyndebourne with a series of productions whose fragile beauty ideally reflected the Arcady of their rural setting.
Messel's work needs to be placed in context. Theatre design between the wars fell into two broad streams. One stemmed from the stylized productions of Harley Granville-Barker and was epitomized by the work of Claud Lovat Fraser. The other reflected English neo-Romanticism with its nostalgia for an aristocratic dreamworld.
Everything conspired to make Messel the ideal designer for The Sleeping Beauty. He had already worked for the company designing Robert Helpmann's Comus during the war. The war indeed is a key to understanding the overwhelming impact of The Sleeping Beauty. After years of gloom and devastation the curtain rose on a spectacle of courtly magnificence of a kind no one had seen for years. It was a revelation.
What Messel succeeded in achieving was making what was a Russian Imperial ballet into one that could only ever belong to a visual tradition that was essentially British. It was therefore perfect for a company which, in 1946, was establishing its credentials as a great national institution. Like most productions of opera and ballet, the last word was not said on the first night. The designs, particularly of the costumes, were revised and remade over the long period during which this production remained the jewel in the Company's crown. In this process, fabrics changed as did the actual line of some of the costumes. As always with Messel's work, much hung on the person interpreting his wispy designs. None of his other theatrical works was to have such a compulsive hold on the public's imagination.
This is an extract from Roy Strong's article 'Oliver Messel', which can be read in full in the red programme book, available in the theatre at performance times and from the ROH Shop.
The Sleeping Beauty runs from 22 February–9 April 2014. Tickets are still available.
Production sponsored by Coutts; generously supported by Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman, Peter Lloyd and in memory of Ellen Burkhardt; with additional philanthropic support from The Royal Opera House Endowment Fund. Original production (2006) made possible by The Linbury Trust, Sir Simon and Lady Robertson and Marina Hobson OBE.


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