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Violin Video Feedback lessons
Violin Video Feedback
Most people feel more comfortable playing at home than during a violin lesson. Why not record yourself playing at home and send it to us for assessment?
We are now offering a violin video feedback service, so you can play in your own time, in the comfort of your own home. This service is suitable for beginners to advanced violin players. You may play any repertoire that you are working on.
Record your playing, upload your video and I will send you a feedback video as soon as I can, usually within two working days. You don't need expensive equipment or a special set-up! Just use your phone, tablet or computer. I will watch your video and will make my own personalised video for you, including suggestions as to how you might improve your playing. I will show you exercises to practise at home that make your technique more flexible and which will encourage your playing to develop further. If you like, I will also include suggested repertoire you might explore in future.
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Do Hard Things
It IS hard for a family to commit to a program that lasts 6+ months. I get it. I know. Bought the t-shirt. Several t-shirts, actually. But, have you read the book Do Hard Things? Basically, it's a Christian … Continue reading
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We got ten runned again today. It was a train wreck from the first inning onwards, once again. We had 13 people, so I skipped batting. I just played the field, alternating between third and right, which was interesting. At third, I missed a hard grounder in one inning, and let a bad throw get past me on a steal of third. That was about it. In right I came up and dove, barely missing a short ball dropping into shallow right. Other than that, not much. A few errors from our team, but no real hitting. I think it was 13-1 today in 7.
Hopefully we'll turn it around a little in the next few weeks as we close out the season. I certainly need a little practice.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
The Wheels are off the bus
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Organize Your PDF Files and Collaboratively Research With Mendeley
Collecting, organizing and keeping track of those references is not always easy, especially when there is a long list and multiple research projects. I usually have two or three research projects going on, and always lose track of some really interesting document or article I read. A while back, I wrote about three useful research tools 3 Tools To Conduct Better Research On The Internet Read More . Unfortunately, while those solutions cited sources, they don't deal very well with organizing or sharing files, especially during collaborative research. Jeffry covered some cool techniques to share research files How To Share & Synchronize Research Data To Other Computers Read More , but that approach is a little difficult to track and manage citations for those files.
Luckily, after quite a bit of digging and trying out a few applications, I've discovered a free application and research social network called Mendeley which does it all. With Mendeley, you have a desktop application linked with an online account. Together, they archive and organize your PDF documents, web pages, videos – anything at all that you want to use in your research, complete with full citations. As if that weren't enough, Mendeley lets you create research groups which you can share your research with. It's like a researcher's dream come true.
Archiving Your Own PDF Library With Mendeley
In a lot of my own research, I dig through hundreds of old declassified government documents. When you come across a real gem, it isn't always easy to store it and find it again later. However, once you download and install the Mendeley desktop app, you can install the optional web tool which gets added as a bookmark into your browser, called "Import to Mendeley."
The process of saving PDF documents is surprisingly automated. Once you come across a PDF document that you want to make a copy of, just click Import to Mendeley. The first thing that will come up is the import tool. Keep in mind that initially the application only saves the citation, including the URL where you can download the file later if you want to.
Within the Mendeley Desktop app, your new cited source shows up in the center pane. I've created a special collection of resources for the Glomar Submarine research project by clicking on the "Create Collection" button. If you click on the "download" button next to the citation you just created, the software will download the PDF and archive it away on your hard drive so you can easily access it later. Some files are very large, so make sure you have the space if you plan to download a lot of PDF documents.
If you do plan to use Mendeley for organizing your PDF library of research, you can have the software automatically organize those downloads into a file structure based on year, title, journal name or author of the document. Additionally, the software can also automatically rename files to something you'll remember. In my case I have all downloaded PDF files renamed to the year and title of the document.
You can share out any of the research projects you create to the entire Mendeley community. All you have to do is click on the research folder and then click on the "Settings" button. Then, change the setting for "Other people's access" to "Public."
Also note that if you Synchronize attached files, all of the PDFs will get uploaded to your online Mendeley account – and with 500 MB of storage, you could end up maxing out your profile pretty fast.
Additionally, you can share out specific research collections to only select contacts when you edit the settings of a shared collection. All you have to do is invite your colleagues via email. Once they join Mendeley (for free), they can collaborate with you on your research project.
It is also worth mentioning that Mendeley has a massive library of resources to begin with. Just browsing the existing collections will provide you with volumes of valuable information.
It's also worth noting that Mendeley is also a thriving social network filled with researchers – many of whom are interested in the same research topics you are. Collaborating with other researchers – especially good researchers – can really go a long way toward achieving your own successful research project.
Mendeley can really boost your research into high gear by collecting references at the moment you discover them on the web, and providing you with a quick and easy way to go back and read those documents later. The software lets you "copy the citation" of any reference so you can use it in a Word document, email or anywhere else. You'll never again forget the amazing information that you uncover. With Mendeley, your research, no matter how massive, really is right at your fingertips.
Have you every used Mendeley? How do you keep track of PDF documents and references to your other research? Do you know of any other tools that help with organizing? Share your insight in the comments section below.
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This attack in Paris–it breaks my heart. As the stories kept scrolling in my news feed last night, I would click and read. I watched a video of people singing the French anthem as they evacuated a sports stadium. The images, the pictures, they kept rolling in, as more and more reports surfaced. People began to respond to the tragedy in their news feeds. I saw posts that were fearful, posts that were hopeful. There were responses as people shared information about how to find housing, how to find safety, in the chaos of an attack.
Today, Facebook rolled out their new "change your profile to stand in solidarity" app, and my heart was saddened. I love that people want to reach out and connect with the tragedy that's unfolded. And, people die in terrorist attacks every.single.day. More importantly though, I think that changing our profile pictures—whether to stand with Paris or to celebrate DOMA passing, or other similar things, creates a fake sense of activism. Changing a profile picture allows us to feel connected, to feel like we're taking a stand. But there's very low risk and very low actual investment involved. (I do get that there is some risk—if I change my profile to a rainbow color and out myself, people might know that I believe that it's okay for gay people to marry—and more than okay, I celebrate it)
There's a special ring in hell reserved for people who use tragedies to put forward their political ideologies, so I won't do that here; nor will I point to the left or the right and speak to their failings.
What I am curious about though, is how can we as a people, how can I as an individual, carry forward and create lasting meaningful change? For me, the power of that lies in story. I believe that stories connect us. Stories help us see that there is someone out there, that isn't us, who has something in common with us. Stories remind me that the world is bigger than my little corner of it.
When I hear someone talk about their hopes, their dreams, their desires, that person becomes known to me. I know a little bit about them. I'm able to see where and how we are the same, not different. The ways that we carry the same hopes, the same desires, the same loves. In one moment, it's both unitive—we're one—and particular—there's me and there's the other person who is also me, with the individual story.
Those people who died in the attacks in Paris. They each had a story. Or several. Relationships, failures, joys. Around the world there are wars going on all the time. People live in war zones. This is so far removed from my experienced reality. There's no way I can grasp that. But I can seek out the people that seem "other" to me, here, today, and ask them a bit about their story. I can try to close the gap and listen.
I can't relieve the suffering others experience. But by listening to their stories, by walking with them, that is the deepest honoring of their lived stories that I can do. I can acknowledge it and not wipe it away with a platitude. I can look at ways to change how I show up in the world. Those little actions, all throughout the world, they'll create transformation. And maybe, transformation by transformation, the world will come around. And we won't watch news reel after news reel of tragedy.
Go read their stories, here.


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Mathematics is needed in many scientific disciplines, even though it's used in somewhat different ways in them. A theoretical physicist usually has to study not only applied math, but also some pure mathematics which involves logical proofs of statements. A mechanical engineering student can usually do without anything containing formal logic and such, but has to learn basic differential equations, volume integrals and similar methods of applied mathematics. Chemistry and biology students also benefit from mathematical knowledge (at least one has to be able to solve a quadratic equation before one can calculate reactant and product concentrations from an equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction).
Rigorous logical thinking is not something that a human being has a natural instinct for (just as the concept of inertia and the Newton's 1st and 2nd laws are not obvious from everyday earth-bound experience). Let me list some of the most usual logical errors that a beginner does when trying to learn to prove mathematical statements.
1. Inappropriate reversal of an implication
It is easy to see that if , then also . But the reversal is not true – if , we don't necessarily need to have , as it could also be . Even the statement does not mean that , if we allow for the possibility that is a complex number (can you find the points on complex plane that solve this equation?).
A more obvious way to demonstrate this is to say that the statement implies but not every natural number is .
To avoid doing this kind of logical errors, make sure that you never start proving a statement by assuming that it is true. In fact, any logical statement can be "proved" if you assume things that contradict each other – it is logically correct to say that "If the Moon is made of cheese and it's not made of cheese, then also cows are able to fly."
2. Playing with something that does not exist
Sometimes it seems possible to prove that an object X has properties A, B and C, but after some more thinking you find out that X doesn't even exist at all. You may have seen some Youtube videos where a math teacher proves something like , which is an absurd statement as the sum on the left side of the equality does not converge, but it is possible to make it look like true if you take a liberty to divide the integer terms into many pieces (with different signs) and rearrange them as you want.
Actually, the terms of a sum with an infinite number of terms can't be arbitrarily rearranged even in all cases where the sum converges.
3. Assuming without proof that something is unique
This is what we already did in case 1, by assuming that implies . There are also some more obviously crazy results that can be made by doing this mistake. One example is to use De Moivre's formula
to show that , and then take the natural logarithm of both sides of this equation to "show" that . The problem with this logic is that the complex logarithm function is not single valued – there is an infinite number of complex numbers that can be called logarithm of a given complex number.
4. Assuming that an infinite set contains everything
I remember seeing in some book a historical claim that the ancient Greeks tried to prove that there is only a finite number of types of an atom in the following way: "If there were an infinite number of different kinds of atoms, there would exist atoms of all possible sizes, and then some of them would have to be large enough to be visible which is not true as we have never seen an individual atom". This, of course, is poppycock, as we can also say that there is an infinite number of integers that are divisible by 2, but that set still does not contain the number 5.
There are many other ways to do logical errors by making false assumptions about infinity. For one thing, the above mentioned set of even integers is "just as infinite" as the set of all integers, even though it may seem to contain half as many numbers. The set of real numbers is "more infinite" than the set of natural numbers, which you will learn to prove if you study the concept of cardinality and injective/surjective/bijective mappings.


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InGaN-based vertical LEDs with acid-modified graphene transparent conductor and highly reflective membrane current blocking layer
The two-dimensionality and structural flatness make graphene films ideal candidates for thin film devices and combination with other semiconductor materials. In this work, vertical light emitting diodes (VLEDs) with highly reflective membrane as current blocking layer and graphene transparent conductive layer have been fabricated and characterized. VLEDs show improved optical output and efficiency droop due to the current spreading effect of the hybrid electrode by preventing current crowding under the top electrode and increasing the internal and external quantum efficiency.
Research creates 'recipe book' for building new materials
[Materials Views] By showing that tiny particles injected into a liquid crystal medium adhere to existing mathematical theorems, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have opened the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature. The findings show that researchers can create a "recipe book" to build new materials of sorts using topology, a major mathematical field that describes the properties that do not change when an object is stretched, bent or otherwise "continuously deformed." Published in the journal Nature, the study also is the first to experimentally show that some of the most important topological theorems hold up in the real material world, said CU-Boulder physics department's Ivan Smalyukh, a study senior author. Once injected into a liquid crystal, the particles behaved as predicted by topology. "Our study shows that interaction between particles and molecular alignment in liquid crystals follows the predictions of topological theorems, making it possible to use these theorems in designing new composite materials with unique properties that cannot be encountered in nature or synthesized by chemists. These findings lay the groundwork for new applications in experimental studies of low-dimensional topology, with important potential ramifications for many branches of science and technology." The research supports the goals laid out by the White House's Materials Genome Initiative, Smalyukh said, which seeks to deploy "new advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost."
Tetris-like molecular structure is key to making ultrastable glass
Like a fine wine or aged cheese, ultrastable glass takes a long time to make, needs special conditions and is considered quite valuable. Unfortunately, manufacturers who want to take advantage of the strengths of ultrastable glass don't have the luxury of waiting hundreds of years for it to develop. While exploring ways to create this valuable material on a shorter timetable, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have gained some key insights into the bizarre structure of glasses as well as how it affects their properties. "In attempts to work with aged glasses, for example, people have examined amber," says study coauthor Juan de Pablo, a University of Chicago professor of molecular theory. "Amber is a glass that has been aged millions of years, but you cannot engineer that material. You get what you get." In many laboratories, scientists use a technique called vapor deposition to create specialized materials. Previous research by another of the new study's coauthors, Mark Ediger, found that glasses grown in this manner—within a certain temperature range and on a specially prepared surface – are far more stable than ordinary glasses. Ediger determined that in order to achieve this degree of stability, molecules in the glass are arranged in a tightly packed manner like the multi-shaped objects in the popular videogame Tetris.
Changing our material future, layer by layer
Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene in a new collaborative project. The proposal, which will involve researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge, and Lancaster, has been awarded €13.4 million to form a "Synergy Group" by the European Research Council. It will aim to utilize two-dimensional substances, such as graphene, to engineer new types of materials that are just a few atoms thick, but nevertheless have the power to revolutionize the future development of devices such as solar cells, and flexible and transparent electronics. Starting with one atom-thick substances, which possess remarkable properties, the group will focus on ways in which they can be layered up to form "heterostructures." These heterostructures will still be just a few atoms thick, but will combine the properties of the different two-dimensional materials which comprise them, effectively enabling developers to embed the functions of a device into its very fabric. For example, the research team envisage combining an atomic layer which functions as a sensor, with layers that function variously as an amplifier, transistor, or solar cell, for power generation. The resulting material, still just a few atomic layers in thickness, would be capable of running a whole circuit.
A new charging algorithm could extend battery life for the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the US
Batteries for Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999, just like automotive batteries, are rechargeable until they eventually die. A leading cause of damage and death in lead-acid batteries is sulfation, a degradation of the battery caused by frequent charging and discharging that creates an accumulation of lead sulfate. In a recent study, the researchers looked for ways to improve regular battery management practices. The methods had to be nondestructive, simple, and cheap—using as few sensors, electronics, and supporting hardware as possible while still remaining effective at identifying and decreasing sulfation. "We wanted to reverse the sulfation to rejuvenate the battery and bring it back to life," says Christopher Rahn, professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State. Rahn, along with mechanical engineering research assistants Ying Shi and Christopher Ferone, cycled a lead-acid battery for three months in the same way it would be used in a locomotive. They used a process called electroimpedance spectroscopy and full charge/discharge to identify the main aging mechanisms. Through this, the researchers identified sulfation in one of the six battery cells. They then designed a charging algorithm that could charge the battery and reduce sulfation, but was also able to stop charging before other forms of degradation occurred. The algorithm successfully revived the dead cell and increased the overall capacity.
Speeding up electronics to light frequencies
Modern information processing allows for breathtaking switching rates of about a 100 billion cycles per second. New results from Ferenc Krausz's Laboratory for Attosecond Physics of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, could pave the way towards signal processing several orders of magnitude faster. In two groundbreaking complementary experiments a collaboration led by LAP-physicists has demonstrated that, under certain conditions, ultrashort light pulses of extremely high intensity can induce electric currents in otherwise insulating dielectric materials. Furthermore, they provided evidence that the fast oscillations of the electric field instantly alter the electrical and optical properties of the material, and that these changes can be reversed on a femtosecond time scale. This opens the door for signal processing rates reaching the petahertz domain, about 10,000 times faster than it is possible with the best state-of-the-art solid state microchips. The experiments were carried out in close cooperation with the theoretical group of Mark Stockman, Georgia State University.
Delineating the pathways for the site-directed synthesis of individual nanoparticles on surfaces
Although nanoparticles with exquisite properties have been synthesized for a variety of applications, their incorporation into functional devices is challenging owing to the difficulty in positioning them at specified sites on surfaces. To develop a materials-general method for synthesizing nanoparticles on surfaces for broader applications, a mechanistic understanding of polymer-mediated nanoparticle formation is crucial. A Northwestern University group, led by Chad A. Mirkin, has designed a four-step synthetic process that enables independent study of the two most critical steps for synthesizing single nanoparticles on surfaces: phase separation of precursors and particle formation. Using this process, they have elucidate the importance of the polymer matrix in the diffusion of metal precursors to form a single nanoparticle and the three pathways that the precursors undergo to form nanoparticles. Based on this mechanistic understanding, the synthetic process is generalized to create metal (Au, Ag, Pt, and Pd), metal oxide (Fe2O3, Co2O3, NiO, and CuO), and alloy (AuAg) nanoparticles. This mechanistic understanding and resulting process represent a major advance in scanning probe lithography as a tool to generate patterns of tailored nanoparticles for integration with solid-state devices.


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Networking events at conventions and exhibitions can be extremely valuable to attendees who want to mix with their colleagues, establish new relationships and share valuable information with each other.
The Challenge: Keeping annual events fresh and engaging while establishing a strong brand connection
Background: Every year, Radiologists arrive at the RSNA in Chicago eager to learn from each other in both formal and informal settings. There are limited venues appropriate and available for a large group of Radiologists, so most companies return to the same location every year. The company wanted to establish a long-term relationship with its customers and build a strong connection with the brand.
Insight: An established tradition provides a framework for change and constancy.
Strategic Approach: Establish an atmosphere that encourages open communication between valued guests, while creating an engaging centerpiece activity that is constant from year to year, but allows creative variation to keep guests returning.Customers and Executives Celebrate Relationships
Tactical Implementation:
- Utilize the Japanese tradition of a Sake Ceremony, which celebrates partnership, as the centerpiece of the evening
- During the Sake Ceremony, recognize key customers from around the world for their contributions to medical science
- Create a sense of drama for the ceremony, with staging that varies from year to year
- Create invitations that are given by sales only to their top customers and prospects to assure that the appropriate guests attend
- Hold the event in Chicago's Navy Pier, a space big enough to accommodate a large crowd and allow free-flowing conversation and networking
- Utilize the stage of the venue for the musicians and keep the levels appropriate for conversation
- Vary the story of the ceremony each year using new creative treatments, but keeping core cultural elements intact
- After the Sake Ceremony, establish a tradition of Ceremony participants signing Sake cups for other attendees as another networking opportunity
- Brand affinity arising from the event, and other activities, was reflected in a rise in market share
- Management did not desire specific numerical measures of success at this event, beyond general attendance figures
- Robust annual attendance, along with feedback from customers and the sales force, contributed to the consensus of success for the event
- Creative staging of Sake Ceremonies won industry awards and helped customers look forward to the event year after year
Events like this are only possible with the work of an extended team of dedicated professionals working together for maximum impact.


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The sun is out, the snow is finally gone and that can only mean one thing - time to Experience the Journey. Well, it could mean a lot of things, but for us, it means it is rally season!
To celebrate the arrival of the riding season, the MOA is giving away a Superstakes ticket every Friday to someone registered for the National Rally in Des Moines. Between May 11 and June 29, we'll draw one winner each Friday from the names of everyone registered. If you already registered for the National Rally, you're all set - your name is automatically included in the Friday drawings. If you haven't registered, don't wait. The sooner you register, the more chances you have to win.
What is the Superstakes? Quite simply, it is the world's largest BMW motorcycle giveaway and the BMW MOA Foundation's annual fundraiser. A ticket in the Superstakes automatically places you in 25 drawings for new BMW motorcycles. We'll draw the motorcycle winners live in Des Moines, Saturday July 14. You do not have to present to win and you could win more than once. We don't call it the Superstakes for nothin'.
You can always buy Superstakes tickets and you can buy more than one, but here is your chance to win one on the house. Just register for Des Moines and you are automatically entered to win. Visit the Superstakes page for all the details and prize lists and check out the Rally pages for more information on the National.
Come Experience the Journey and join us in Des Moines.
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Mojang released Minecraft 1.13.2 which should fix some of the performance issues everybody's been having. It doesn't address the more than 1000x performance loss since Minecraft 1.6 (no joke!) but at least it's something
Changes in 1.13.2
- Improved performance of upgrading worlds
- Improved startup time
- Improved performance of turtle pathfinding
- Improved mob spawning performance
- General other performance improvements
- MC-134115 - Containers next to chunk borders can lose items when upgrading
- MC-91621 - Mobs repetitively despawn and respawn rapidly at high Y coordinates (causing lag)
- MC-137331 - Hostile and neutral mobs rarely spawn in positive Z coordinates
- MC-137300 - ConcurrentModificationException thrown when upgrading world
- MC-137229 - Book corruption when 1.8 world is loaded in 1.13
- MC-136888 - Game crashes when shift-right-clicking a shulker box while holding bone meal
- MC-136759 - Spawn eggs do not make sure that the entity is valid for the egg, allowing for arbitrary command execution in certain cases
- MC-136526 - Crash when generating near top of world
- MC-135453 - Crash while rendering block entity
Spigot has released a new version for Minecraft 1.13.2 which I build this morning and put on the server. Right now we're somewhat forced to use Spigot for our server since performance is so bad things become unplayable with only a hand full of people on running the vanilla server.jar. With Spigot things seem to run well for the most part. Also there's a new version of Optifine that works with 1.13.2. If you're having trouble installing Optifine without Forge, check the spoiler.
Get MultiMC.
- Create a new instance. I've called mine "HappyDiggers Vanilla".
- Edit instance and go to the "Version" tab.
- Set Minecraft version to 1.13.2.
- Click "Add Empty". Call it "OptiFine" (With a capital F. The capitals are important!)
- This example is for Optifine 1.13.2_HD_U_E4. Change text and paths for different version accordingly.
- Select the new OptiFine entry and click "Edit".
Enter the following text:
{ "formatVersion": 1, "+libraries": [ { "name": "net.minecraft:launchwrapper:1.12" }, { "name": "optifine:OptiFine:1.13.2_HD_U_E4", "MMC-hint": "local", "MMC-filename": "OptiFine_1.13.2_HD_U_E4.jar" } ], "+tweakers": [ "optifine.OptiFineTweaker" ], "fileId": "optifine.OptiFine", "mainClass": "net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch", "requires": [ { "uid": "net.minecraft", "equals": "1.13.2" } ], "name": "OptiFine", "version": "1.13.2_HD_U_E4" }
- MultiMC\libraries\optifine\OptiFine\1.13.2_HD_U_E4 \OptiFine_1.13.2_HD_U_E4.jar
Again, pay attention to capital letters.
As you can see OptiFine.jar does not go into the instance folder. Instead it goes into a MultiMC libraries folder.


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I'm using a piechart that represents monetary amounts. I'm passing the values in as pure numeric, and the chart itself works great - but I'd like the value shown in the tooltip displayed when hovering over the chart to get converted to a proper dollar format.
How could I accomplish that?
I tried doing
dataField: {name: 'myfield', mapping: 'myfield', convert: myJSMoneyFormatFunction}
But for summing up to calculate percentages, I think it can't be done at this point. (it displays NaN and my chart is wrong when I try this)
Any help would be appreciated!


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Pedro Almodovar has made a career out of operating on the thin line between reality and absurdity. From the musical numbers of Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1998) to the suspenseful voyeurism of Bad Education (2004), Almodovar twists, turns, and weaves stories unlike any other. I find myself watching his trailers before going to the film and thinking: "no way this one's gonna work. This one is gonna fall short." Well, unfortunately this time I was right. Following 2006's ghostly creative Volver, Almodovar fails to surprise or entertain in Broken Embraces. Penelope Cruz, sex, cripples and gays: sounds like an Almodovar film, right? Unfortunately, Pedro falls into a familiar stride and fails to move forward with his latest.
Almodovar often effectively uses time gaps to play out the drama of a story line (see Live Flesh). However, Broken Embraces takes the viewer on a roller coaster ride: the story is almost equally spread over two distinct moments in the characters' lives. Rather than building suspense and intensity, this technique disrupts the pacing and pulls the viewer out of film just as they're getting into it.
Many of the best scenes in this film take place on the set of a movie starring Penelope Cruz's character: a captivating – yet struggling – actress who's personal life is all too intermingled with her inconsistent takes and on-camera persona. Although the terrific off-camera drama is secretly captured on a handheld recorder (in perfect voyeuristic form, might I add) the scenes within the film are just plain bad. And come on, that title? Girls and Suitcases?!
I like my Almodovar films to be over the top. And I'm okay with his frequently exaggerated finales. But I don't want the story to be completely resolved. A great film lets the viewer connect the last few dots – if it finishes the entire arch, it falls into the dreaded category of having a predictable Hollywood Ending. Broken Embraces didn't just drag on an extra half hour to spell out the entire plot, it relied on last minute twist and turns to play up drama. The problem? If the audience doesn't care about the characters, the soap opera ending doesn't work.
So there you have it. The positives? Broken Embraces is beautifully filmed down to every last shot. Almodovar once again proves that he is a master of his craft, however he falls into an uninteresting, overly complicated plot line and fails to deliver with this one. We can only hope that Pedro and Penelope have something of their sleeves for the next flick.


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Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the New World) (1893) [44:05]
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (1894) [42:30]
Mario Brunello (cello)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma/Antonio Pappano
rec. in concert, Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, November 2011 (symphony), January 2012
The repertoire hardly needed duplicating, but this issue tenuously maintains the once-common "documentary" practice of recording, mostly in abeyance as the major labels have retrenched. Antonio Pappano is an established, high-profile conductor whose work merits careful documentation under controlled conditions and in good sound ... and, no, mp3 files and YouTube videos do not qualify as "good-sounding"! It's easier to get the measure of an artist in well-known, rather than unfamiliar, music. So another New World and Cello Concerto come down the chute, clumsily harnessed into a two-disc set.
First off, one notices the alert playing the conductor draws from the St. Cecilia players. They respond to his direction attentively, with an involvement that could shame a business-as-usual virtuoso orchestra. The strings are well-blended, winds and brass are colorful and firm, and the ensemble sonority is full-throated. Punctuating chords are incisive, even slashing, as at the end of the symphony's Scherzo.
Interpretively, Pappano takes nothing for granted in the New World, phrasing with purpose, eliciting vivid, expressive colours. The slow introduction is beautiful and affecting; in the body of the first movement, Pappano infuses the music with a rhythmic buoyancy along with the customary forward drive, carrying the music aloft, keeping it vital.
A similar buoyancy makes for striking passages in the two middle movements as well. The great Largo sounds freshly considered, solemn and expressive; a nice "lift" underlines the unsettled quality of the middle section, and the chirping woodwind solos at 8:38 are unusually evocative. Similarly, the unexceptionable Scherzo offers an unusually lilting, light-textured rendition of the Trio, bringing out its charm.
The Scherzo's reprise, a bit more nervous than the first go-round, suggests that, in this concert, fatigue may have been setting in. This impression is unfortunately confirmed in the finale, where much of the playing is edgy and slightly too loud, compromising Pappano's unusually cogent, seamless rendering of the movement, and illustrating why studio sessions are sometimes worth the extra expense.
The Cello Concerto's orchestral introduction begins firmly enough, but momentum begins to falter as early as the first tutti, and Pappano fusses uncharacteristically with the juicy lyrical theme at 2:20. It turns out that he's simply being a good colleague: soloist Mario Brunello fusses similarly with that same theme. Brunello's instincts are musical, but his way of straining for expression can lose the forest for the trees, with some passages nearly coming to a standstill. Similarly, the Finale simply seems to go on too long, although Pappano's taut coda rouses the audience to a nice hand, anyway. Brunello plays capably, though his tone can turn dry or thin in faster passages. It mightn't be fair to expect the whopping sound of a Rostropovich (EMI), but the vibrant lyricism of a Fournier (DG) or Gendron (Philips), at least, might have been within Brunello's reach.
While the New World - or most of it - gave me much pleasure, this album does not rate as a "basic library" choice for either work. Still, I'm pleased that Pappano is getting to "show his stuff" in symphonic works as well as in opera.
Stephen Francis Vasta
Stephen Francis Vasta is a New York-based conductor, coach, and journalist.
Not a "basic library" choice for either work but Pappano's New World - or most of it - gave me much pleasure.
See also review by John Whitmore
Masterwork Index: Symphony 9 ~~ Cello concerto
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It is with horror that I have just noticed that it's time for the 1938 Club hosted by Kaggsy and Simon and I had forgotten all about it. Too late to read and write about anything lengthy, but I wanted to participate at least in spirit and decided to post a poem from Stevie Smith's second collection, Tender Only to One, which was first published in 1938. It's a collection riddled with death, mothers and children, thus I've chosen a poem which combines all those themes. So suitable for spring! I didn't know what Eulenspiegelei was – an owl's fried egg? – and when I looked it up I came across this definition:
Eulenspiegelei signifies odd practical jokes, and is derived from Eulenspiegel, the traditional perpetrator of such pleasantries.
(Note to p. 49 of E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman and The Elementary Spirit (Two Mysterious Tales), translated and edited by John Oxenford, New York: Mondial 2008.)
The poem has two main rhyme schemes, which alternate per stanza: ABAB CDDC EFEF etc. It feels unstable when you read it, especially as Smith then disrupts rhythm and rhyme scheme heartlessly. With its story of a stormy night and a changeling, it harks back to traditional ballads. But there's an edge spiking the melancholy: that word 'poke' fits oddly with the archaic and 'high poetic' language of the rest of the poem and the overt reference to 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. And there is less punctuation than we might like ('Dear mother dear I cannot say' – I expect a few commas there) which mocks the artlessness of the child's utterances, makes them seem fake. The poem seems to be setting itself up as a spooky ballad and then undermining itself. The 'mew' at the end is a cruel way to describe the cries of the bereaved mother. I find it a disturbing poem but I like it.
To be so cold and yet not old
Oh what can ail the changeling child?
She has an eye that is too bold
Upon the night. She is beguiled.
The night is dark and the windowpane
Holds the rattle of the falling rain.
Oh look not forth but look within
Where the room lies safe from the stormwinds' din.
The tears upon the infant eyes
Are held in icy thrall
And when she speaks contrariwise
The rivven echoes fall:
Oh mother come not near me now
Nor lay thy hand upon my brow
Few years if any heap upon my head
But I am old as the newly dead.
Now louder far than stormwinds' jar
And the voice of mother and child
Is heard the scritch of the gravid bitch
That will be so wild.
Oh what can ail the gravid bitch
That howls upon the midnight stroke?
Dear mother dear I cannot say
Perhaps the devil gave her a poke.
The changeling child from her bed is gone
The mother weeps alone
And the stormwinds beat on the window pane
To mock the maternal moan.
Oh whither is fled thy changeling child
And by what witching craft?
It was the Eulenspiegel spake
And as he spake he laughed.
For well he knew that wrought it so,
The bitch and changeling too
Are vanished away from the stormwinds' play
And the stricken mother's mew.
(From The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith, edited by James MacGibbon; London: Allan Lane, 1975; pp. 98–99 of the Penguin Modern Classics edition)
(Photograph of Stevie Smith from here; alas I could not find the drawing she did which accompanies this poem in the book and I encourage you to get hold of a copy of the Collected Works because her drawings really do add something)


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I have finally fulfilled my responsibility as a new member of the Collaborative Law Institute to take the two-part training, known as the New Collaborative Experience. The training, which takes place over two Fridays a week apart, is generally offered twice a year, in May and November, and I missed the May training last Spring because I was "suffering" through a cushy ABA CLE program in Bermuda on Assisted Reproductive Technology. Still, I regretted that I was unable to attend the CLI training, and glad that I was finally able to fit it in.
What I was most looking forward to about the training was the inculcation of Collaborative principles that would finally enable me to assume representation of clients in Collaborative cases. Although I was broadly familiar with Collaborative practice – my supervising attorney is very active in the Collaborative community, and it was her influence that impelled me toward Collaborative practice in general – I didn't know specifically what the training would hold in store. I knew that key parts of the Collaborative mission were to help divorcing couples through the dissolution process with dignity and, as far as possible, good will, to avoid litigation, and to safeguard the well-being of any children of the relationship. I believed strongly in the underpinnings of Collaborative thinking, and I had attended several Collaborative-themed seminars and conferences in the year between my passing the Bar and finally attending the New Collaborative Experience. Part of me was even skeptical that the training would have anything additional to offer me, since I had been steeped in Collaborative ideology over the past year.
What I found out was that my thinking about the Collaborative process was missing a key component: the involvement of the Team. It was not that I was unaware of the existence of Collaborative mental health and financial professionals; it was just that I underestimated the centrality of the roles of neutral coaches, child specialists, and financial analysts to the Collaborative vision. Instead, my vision of the Collaborative process was one in which two attorneys worked together with their clients to forge the best divorce possible, with the occasional involvement, as necessary, of other neutrals. As a result, as a newer attorney, I felt a good deal of apprehension about my involvement in Collaborative cases, or any case for that matter, because I imagined I would be called upon to demonstrate expertise in areas with which I was just beginning to develop familiarity. What a huge relief and revelation, then, that the involvement of other neutrals as part of a Collaborative team is central to the Collaborative process. I realized that I could let go of my need (and perhaps inevitable failure) to know everything about everything, and instead could cede expertise to other team members who had the training and experience to take it on. Indeed, I came to understand that the "Collaborative" label referred not just to the aspirational relationship between the parties, but to the relationships among everyone involved in the process. How could I have missed a distinction as crucial as this for an entire year?
Traditional divorce litigation not only pits parties against each other in ways that are counterproductive, but it also calls upon the attorney to wear multiple hats. Certainly, traditional divorce can involve neutral financial and mental health professionals as well, but the attorney nonetheless retains a central position as the ringleader of the process. The Collaborative process, with its focus on the synergy of the team, relieves some of the focus and pressure on the attorney to do it all.Tagged with: child specialist • children's emotional adjustment to divorce • Collaborative Divorce • collaborative divorce process • Collaborative Family Law • Collaborative Law • Collaborative Practice • collaborative process • Collaborative Team Practice • collaborative team process • collaboratively-trained attorneys • divorce with dignity • healthy divorce • neutral child specialist


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According to a source involved in the health care negotiations in Congress, Henry Waxman is telling Democratic caucus members that Bart Stupak's deal with Nancy Pelosi is dead. Stupak had called a press conference to announce the deal at 11am this morning, but has now canceled it.
The deal fell apart after news of the deal, and a copy of the amendment, was published on FDL last night.
FDL Action PAC has been running ads and robocalls in the districts of pro-choice members of Congress all week, targeted at likely voters who are pro-choice, urging them to contact their representatives and tell them to oppose any restriction on women's reproductive rights in the health care bill.
The publication of the amendment triggered a flurry of activity within the pro-choice community, who began hammering their own leadership, who in turn put pressure on members of the pro-choice caucus as well as Pelosi herself. Although NARAL's Nancy Keenan had not planned to oppose the measure, outrage from within her own ranks caused her to speak out.
According to the source (and with no small amount of irony), "Nancy Pelosi finally grew balls."
Pelosi had wanted the pro-choice caucus to accept a deal whereby after the House voted to pass the health care bill with the Senate's Nelson language, Stupak would get a stand-alone vote that could pass with the help of anti-choice Republicans.
Members of the pro-choice caucus felt that Nancy had "sold us out," according to one member. "She is just going along with whatever the boys in the White House tell her to do."
As Dave Dayen notes in his whip count, even if Pelosi gets every other uncommitted vote, she still needs to crack the Stupak block to get to 216.
Of course, the White House is only being hung out to dry with their own propaganda. The Nelson language in the Senate bill is only marginally different from the Stupak language, and would probably achieve the same effect (removing abortion coverage from all health insurance policies) in about the same time. But in an effort to pretend that they'd achieved some amazing pro-choice victory with the Nelson language, they demonized Stupak. That appears to have emboldened him.
TNR's Jon Cohen, who has been very tied in to the White House throughout the debate, tweets that the White House is discussing an executive order to address the situation:
Senior Dem source: Exec order on abortion rights still on the table, under discussion #hcr #healthreform
Of course, as I've said before, abortion would not be an issue in the "Plan B" alternative that the White House was contemplating three weeks ago, which would evidently expand existing programs — Medicaid and SCHIP. It would cover half the people at a quarter of the price, but it would not include the politically toxic mandate that threatens to trigger nationwide opposition in the form of 2010 ballot amendments. The only reason the controversy exists is because the White House wanted to create a whole new level of bureaucracy to facilitate money going to private insurance companies, rather than work within existing government programs that were already covered under the Hyde amendment.
If Cohen's reporting is correct, the White House would rather circumvent Congress to appease Stupak than opt for their own "plan B" that protects women's reproductive rights.


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I'm always attracted to linocut prints.
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Mariann Johansen-Ellis is an extremely talented printmaker from Denmark.
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