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(CNN) -- Let's get ready for some... bad calls?
Is this what the football rallying cry will turn into Wednesday night when the NFL kicks off its season-opener with replacement referees?
Stalled contract negotiations will put replacement officials in the spotlight Wednesday as the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants take on the Dallas Cowboys. Most of these refs have never blown their whistle in a regular-season NFL game.
If the preseason is any indication, there's reason for worry.
"They were bad," said Kevin Lincoln, a deputy sports editor of social media website BuzzFeed. "Most of these referees hail from leagues where the quality of play is slower, lower-stakes, and just generally different than the NFL. Not only did refs make incorrect calls in the preseason --- they also seemed to be sketchy on NFL rules."
After a bevy of botched calls, ESPN recently put together a long video montage of the new refs stuttering, awarding the ball to the wrong team and missing seemingly obvious calls.
Some of the decisions have elicited chuckles.
There was the referee who mixed up the coin toss in preseason game between the New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals.
There was the official who gave the Giants an extra play against the Chicago Bears even though the quarter should have ended.
And there was the referee who apparently forgot what city he was in and continually referred to the Atlanta Falcons as Arizona during penalty announcements. That game was played in Atlanta and the Falcons were playing the Baltimore Ravens.
Negotiations between the league and the referees have gone on and off for months.
Last week, after little headway was made in the negotiations over money and other issues, the NFL sent memos to its 32 teams about the replacement referees.
"In light of the current state of negotiations, we will have replacement crews on the field when the regular season begins," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.
The league has said that it searched for officials with college experience, but did not make the replacements available for comment. So, little is known about their backgrounds.
But at least one of them has worked in the past for the Lingerie Football League, according to reports. It's exactly what you think it is: women playing football in their underwear.
For the players, especially, this is a serious matter. Bad calls could lead to injuries.
"We want to see that they can keep up. And first and foremost protect the players and keep them safe," said Adam Podlesh, a punter with the Chicago Bears. "You can talk to a lot of players. They are concerned with it."
Baltimore Ravens safety Bernard Pollard told the NFL Network he is concerned with the inexperience of the new refs.
"It is new to them. It is new to the replacement refs," Pollard said. "This game is so much faster than what they've seen. The players are much slicker than what they have seen. So we just have to hope and pray."
So on Wednesday, the stage is set and many will be watching for more than just touchdowns.
Aiello, however, has given the new refs a vote of confidence.
"The replacements have undergone extensive training and evaluation, and have shown steady improvement during the preseason," the NFL spokesman said last week.
Former Giants running back Tiki Barber said something good may yet come out of this. The replacement referee's performance could end the stalled contract battle, Barber says.
"They went through a lot of growing pains and if they go a significant way through the season they are going to go through a lot more," Barber said. "And the value of the real referees will get stronger."


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Roger Garbow (above right) and Dave Goldenberg (above left) are middle-aged writers, car guys and music fans from Connecticut. Starting tomorrow, they're headed to the Bonnaroo Festival for Road & Track with a Land Rover, an Airstream, and the reluctant assent of their wives. And yes, that Focus ST looks like it just ate a GTI.
Dave: Roger and I are going to Bonnaroo, the sun-baked (and sometimes mud-caked) four-day camping music festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Sure, 90,000 other music fans can say the same thing. But we're different. We're—
Roger: I cut him off because he was going to say "geezers." But that's not fair. Just because we acquired wives and kids and houses in the suburbs doesn't mean we've given up on cool music. McCartney, Mumford, Wu-Tang, Petty, Lumineers, Wilco—you should see who's playing.
Dave: Fair enough. Thumbs-up to the music. . . but thumbs-down to sweaty, stinky tents and lumpy sleeping bags and lines for showers.
Roger: Which is why we talked Airstream and Land Rover into setting us up with a sweet rig to review for the festival. A 19-foot Airstream Flying Cloud, towed by a Land Rover LR4.
Dave: Air conditioning, hot showers, flush toilets and thick mattresses. You did good, Roger.
Roger: Which means I should get the full-sized bed and you sleep on the fold-out dinette sofa.
Dave: That's definitely TBD. But whatever: here's the plan: We fly out of New York to Nashville on Wednesday, pick up the rig and head to the Piggly Wiggly or whatever they have down there to stock up on cheese curls and single-barrel bourbon. Then it's off to 'Roo.
Roger: We'll check in here on RoadandTrack.com daily. Not just about the Airstream and LR4, but about the festival itself. We'll also talk to fans about their rides (some show up in very cool cars), and we'll try to corner some of the artists to ask about their favorite wheels. Known gearheads like ZZ Top and John Oates will be on hand. Billy Idol, too, though he prefers two wheels.
Dave: Meanwhile, check out the ridiculous music schedule. Four days, 150 acts, from Japandroids to R. Kelly to Dwight Yoakam. Who would be your must-sees? Let us know. And if you're heading to Bonnaroo yourself, look for the Silver Twinkie and say hey. And no, you can't use the shower.

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The Evolution of Smart Home Performance and Its Benefits to the Grid
As the number of residential demand-response programs and the use of smart home technologies has grown over the last several years, an important opportunity has emerged in home performance to increase residential energy savings. Namely, the opportunity to use smart home technologies to target leaky, inefficient homes that cannot hold a constant temperature during a period of several hours once an air conditioner, for example, is turned up or off during a demand response event called as part of a utility program.
Home performance typically includes improvements to the building's envelope and to its heating, air-conditioning, and ventilation (HVAC) systems, but to date have not often included smart-home technologies with two-way communication systems. This is not because there are no innovative minds in home performance, but because the traditional home performance tool kit does not yet include smart-home technologies that could more precisely (and cost-effectively) identify energy savings opportunities in the home.
Over the last several years, there has been an explosion in smart-technology programs for the residential sector. Examples of this technology include learning thermostats and demand response. But their integration into existing residential energy efficiency programs has just started to be considered. For example, while some low-income pilot programs are combining insulation and learning thermostats to take advantage of the complementary technologies, these programs have not yet incorporated demand response.
This lack of synergy between home performance and demand response programs that utilize smart home technologies stymies the evolution of residential energy efficiency and in many cases is a missed opportunity to make "intelligent" homes more energy-efficient.
Residential Demand Response
Residential demand response programs are important for curbing peak demand and may be able to reduce consumer energy costs if utilities can reduce or avoid building inefficient and expensive peaking plants to meet short-term peak demand.
Utilities have historically offered demand response programs to large commercial and industrial facilities, but many utilities including San Diego Gas & Electric, National Grid, and Oklahoma Gas and Electric have successfully achieved reductions in residential peak demand using automated demand response technologies.
Many residential demand response programs work by offering customers Wi-Fi- connected devices or smart thermostats, like NEST or Ecobee, that allow the utility to adjust the air conditioner settings during the summer to reduce demand and high energy use (if the utility is summer peaking). Customers can override the demand response event at any time by turning down the temperature. But if they do, they forfeit the incentive for successfully completing the event.
Con Edison's Bring Your Own Thermostat program, for example, offers customers a rebate to purchase a Con Edison-approved thermostat that allows the utility to make up to ten adjustments to the homeowner's central air conditioner each summer over two years. Each event lasts for no more than four hours. The customer always has the option of overriding the temperature adjustment by changing the settings on the thermostat.
In other demand response programs, for example, San Diego Gas & Electric Company's Reduce You Use program, the utility sends a signal and an announcement of an event to the technology company, in this case, Alarm.com, instead of directly to the customer. Alarm.com then sends out the alerts through its cellular wireless network to the customer's connected devices.
When a utility or company determines that a home's temperature is rising too quickly to keep the occupants comfortable during an event, it may pull the customer out of the event instead of having the customer opt out. While this may keep program participants comfortable, it misses a crucial opportunity to improve the home's energy efficiency.
The average home can maintain a comfortable temperature over the course of a demand response event if it is air sealed and well insulated because a sealed home slows heat transfer and loss of conditioned air. This is analogous to putting a cold drink in a cooler rather than in a paper bag. When a utility pulls a customer out of an event, or when a customer opts out because the temperature is rising too quickly, a virtual audit has essentially been done on that home, and the homeowner should be contacted and made aware that the home may benefit from efficiency improvements.
In this scenario, a savvy utility seeking baseload efficiency savings could send home performance contractors to these homes armed with program rebates. The utility would get the biggest bang for its buck by providing larger rebates to the leakiest homes, and homeowners would benefit the most, both financially and from a comfort standpoint, from energy efficiency improvements.
Providing demand response programs only to insulated and well-sealed homes is impossible. Therefore, it is important to understand why a customer opts out of a demand response event. Currently, demand response programs report opt-out numbers without differentiating between customers that opt out manually and customers that are taken out of the program by the utility because the air conditioner, for example, started running before the end of the event in spite of the higher set point.
New Initiatives
Several new approaches are being piloted that use connected thermostats and data analytics to remotely and automatically identify household-specific retrofit opportunities. These include opportunities to reduce heating energy consumption, to quantify expected retrofit energy savings, and to validate post retrofit energy performance.
Fraunhofer USA, Incorporated is working with Eversource, National Grid, and Holyoke Gas & Electric over the next two years as part of a Building America-funded project to develop models that use communicating thermostat data and interval electricity and gas data to remotely identify homes with significant energy savings opportunities. The proposed remote performance assessment tool will identify the top 20 percent of homes with the greatest potential for energy savings from insulation, air sealing, and/or heating-system upgrades. The goal would be to reduce the need for an in-home energy audit, lowering program costs and increasing by 50 percent or more the rate at which recommended energy efficiency upgrades are implemented.
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For more information on smart homes, download the white paper "Making Sense of the Smart Home".
ICF is also working with utilities on pilots that will use data from thermostat-based demand response programs to increase a home's energy savings. Initial results from these pilots are expected to be released later in 2017.
Let's Evolve
The time has come for home performance to evolve past dumb efficiency to intelligent efficiency as new technologies squeeze more energy savings from homes and make both home performance programs and demand response programs more effective. This can only be done when the silos between home performance and smart grid disappear. Then programs that promote intelligent, whole-house efficiency will evolve.
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Dec. 29, 2010— -- Many people describe the medical field as a tug of war between breakthroughs and setbacks. And medical stories in 2010 were no different.
The following are nine of the most important health stories in 2010, as reported by ABC News' Medical Unit.
The immediate damage to infrastructure and the death toll seemed apparent across the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Although more than a billion aid dollars funnelled in to repair Haiti, many experts braced for a public-health aftershock.
And they were right.
Nearly 10 months after the January earthquake, cholera spread to many rural areas and quickly creeped into the capital city, Port-au-Prince. In just a few months, nearly a thousand Haitians died from the waterborne disease.
"What we are seeing now may be the tip of the iceberg," Dr. Georges Dubuche, adviser to Haiti's Ministry of Health, said in a news conference early October.
Many experts did not know then the extent of the epidemic.
Indeed, Cholera spread faster than many public health experts anticipated. Relief workers continue to ramp up efforts to manage the outbreak amid the more than 2,000 people who have now died from the disease.
Affordable health care for all became the buzz phrase for the Obama Administration. Indeed, with the Affordable Care Act signed into law in March, the Obama Administration may have its way.
The $938 billion health care bill will expand coverage to 32 million Americans, but many of the provisions -- with the exception of prescription drug coverage for older Americans and children who have been denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions -- are not expected to go into effect until 2014.
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims concluded in March that thimerosal -- a preservative found in some vaccines -- does not cause autism. The courts reviewed previous scientific studies and found no correlation between vaccination rates, mercury levels and the incidence of autism in children.
This so-called landmark decision followed many rulings in previous years that cited no association between vaccines and autism. Previous rulings by the court also dismissed the autism-vaccine connection. Still, it's likely there may be more cases because many parents of children with autism are unconvinced.
Indeed, the 2008 settlement for Hannah Polling became the staple case for many families of children with autism. The Polling family received compensation for Hannah's "vaccine injury" when the court settled, because, according to settlement documents, the vaccinations she received, "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder [...] and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder."
Many people say that regardless of the 2010 omnibus rulings, there will be more cases such as Polling's to come.
An estimated 87 million Americans are sickened by contaminated food, and 5,700 die from food-related disease each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But supporters of the Food Safety Modernization Act, which has already passed in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, hope greater food industry oversight by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will change that.
Among the provisions of the bill, the FDA would have authority to order mandatory recall of tainted foods and set safety standards for raw produce, such as fresh fruit and vegetables. The agency would also increase inspections of domestic and foreign food facilities.
But many food industry companies are particularly concerned with the Tester Amendment, a part of the bill that would exempt smaller food producers and those that distribute locally.
Food Industry Questions Exemptions
"The consequences of inadequate food safety precautions have no boundaries as to size of operation, geography nor commodity," 19 food industry organizations said in a letter to House leaders in November 2010.
Still, both the House and Senate committees passed the bill. The bill is expected to be signed into law in early 2011 by President Obama, who has already expressed his approval of the bill.
Providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- a combination of mouth-to-mouth breathing and chest compressions -- immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim's chance of survival, according to the American Heart Association.
But less than one-third of those who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital receive CPR from a bystander.
"I think there's some fear of getting it wrong," said Dr. Richard Page, former president of the Heart Rhythm Society and current chairman of the Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin.
But two new studies published July 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that if you're not sure how to properly administer CPR, chest compressions alone may be as effective, if not more effective, than the traditional CPR, which calls for both chest pumping and rescue breathing.
Many studies suggest that bystanders are more willing to attempt resuscitation if mouth-to-mouth ventilations are not required.
Rescue breathing is not appropriate in all first aid situations and may waste time especially if done by someone inexperienced in traditional CPR, said Dr. Michael Sayre, associate professor of emergency medicine at Ohio State University.
"We really could save thousands of lives across the country if we could just get more people to do something simple like push hard and fast on the center of the victim's chest," Sayre said.
For a schedule of CPR classes in your area, visit the American Red Cross or the American Heart Association.
For a cheat sheet on chest compressions and CPR, visit here.
In 2008, more than 42,000 people in the United States were diagnosed with HIV. Nearly half of those infected were men who engaged in sex with other men, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Condom use "has already decreased due to HIV treatment being so effective," said Dr. Tom Coates, director of the UCLA program in global health.
"HIV prevention is already not working all that well among gay men," Coates said.
But daily use of the antiretroviral drug commonly known as Truvada may greatly cut the chance of getting infected with AIDS, researchers have found in a groundbreaking new study.
The study published November 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine offered the first indication of an oral method to prevent the spread of HIV among those at high risk.
Support for Antiretroviral Therapy
"This is an important trial that further extends the growing appreciation that antiretroviral therapy can play a vital role in controlling the HIV epidemic," said Dr. Paul Volberding, co-director of the University of California San Francisco Center for AIDS Research, who was not involved with the study.
Although the study was limited to one kind of high-risk group, further pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) studies are looking at other groups at risk for transmission, including heterosexual couples and intravenous drug users. Researchers also plan to conduct a longer term follow up to the original published study beginning 2011.
For years, scientists have been able to genetically modify plants and animals. But this year, for the first time, a group of researchers successfully created the first man-made cell.
Researchers at the private firm J. Craig Venter Institute replaced the genome of a bacterium with one they wrote themselves. The cell turned into a different species than its original form and was able to live and replicate.
"[The new cell is] the first self-replicating species we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer," Dr. Craig Venter said at a news conference in May announcing the technique's success.
The so-called synthetic cell further pushed open the door to synthetic biology, combining chemicals, biology and genetics research to replicate fuels, vaccines and living organisms.
Bisphosphonates are commonly prescribed to prevent osteoporosis and make bones stronger. But an ABC News investigation found mounting evidence that for some women, taking the popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax or its generic alendronate for more than five years could cause spontaneous thigh-bone fractures.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in March that it will look into whether a link exists between the long-term use of the osteoporosis drugs and femur fractures after ABC News investigated the possible connection.
"We are seeing people just walking, walking down the steps, patients who are doing low-energy exercise," said Dr. Kenneth Egol, professor of orthopedic surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center. "Very unusual, the femur is one of the strongest bones in the body."
Egol said X-rays of some of his patients look more like an injury endured by a car accident than an otherwise minimal fall.
Many studies suggest an overall benefit from taking the medication for women who are at risk for osteoperosis. Indeed, bisphosphonates can help prevent hip and spine fractures, which for many women may lead to death.
Although bisphosphonates are generally recommended for postmenopausal women, research does not indicate how long women should be on the drug. Many doctors now recommend a five-year limit.
Misleading Marketing by Cord-Blood Banks
Many consider it science on the cutting edge: Umbilical cord blood rich in stem cells obtained once a child is born can be used to treat rare conditions and holds promise for the future. And with 4 million births in the United States each year, private cord-blood banking is a growing industry.
But an exclusive ABC News investigation found the costs of private banking outweigh the potential benefits to many families.
In their marketing material, many private banking firms tout an impressive list of 70 to 80 diseases that purportedly are treated by stem cell transplants. But research has yet to prove that stem cells from cord blood work for all of the listed conditions.
"Presently, we treat over 80 life threatening diseases," said Dr. Albert Sassoon, an obstetrician-gynecologist in New York City who spoke earlier this year at a dinner sponsored by ViaCord, a private cord-blood banking firm. "With the amount of diseases that we treat today, by the time you reach the age of 70, you'll have approximately the chance of receiving a stem cell transplant -- one in 200, one in 217."
But many experts told ABC News that the chance that anyone will benefit by their own cord blood -- which is what is stored in private cord banking -- is much lower than that.
Private storage of a newborn's umbilical cord blood can range from $2,000 to $3,000 up front, plus yearly storage fees of $85 to $125. Doctors who refer parents to private cord-blood banking are often compensated by the private company.
Public cord-blood banking is free and is entered in a public system where the cells are available to anyone who needs it. And some diseases such as leukemia, which is listed in ViaCord's marketing material as treatable by stem cell transplants, cannot be treated using the children's own cord blood because the stem cells may carry the same disease. Instead, many doctors turn to public banks for treatment.
The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend public banking over private, favoring private banking only when there is already an affected family member or a disease in the family that would benefit from a transplant.
Still, firms such as ViaCord and Cord Blood Registry are banking on many parents who believe that their child's stem cells may one day treat chronic conditions, even though many experts say it's still too early to tell.


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The State Department was located in a smaller and unimpressive brick building just North of the Treasury Building along Pennsylvania Avenue. (It was torn down after the Civil War to accommodate a north wing for the Treasury Department.) The President was more likely to visit Secretary of State William H. Seward at his nearby home facing Lafayette Park. Even more frequently, Seward himself came to the White House to talk to the president.
William Howard Russell, a correspondent for the London Times, recorded his impressions of his first visit to Seward's headquarters: "It is a very humble – in fact, dingy – mansion, two stories, high, and situated at the end of the magnificent line of colonnade in white marble, called the Treasury, which is hereafter to do duty as the headquarters of nearly all the public departments. In a moderately sized, but very comfortable, apartment, surrounded with bookshelves, and ornamented with a few engravings, we found the Secretary of State seated at his table, and enjoying a cigar; he received me with great courtesy and kindness, and after a time said he would take occasion to present me to the President, who was to give audience that day to the minister of the new kingdom of Italy, who had hitherto represented the kingdom of Sardinia."1
"The State Department of 1861 was not the huge organization that it is today. Its home since 1820 had been an old, two-story brick building, drab in color but with a front portico of six white columns," wrote Seward biographer Glyndon Van Deusen. "This edifice stood on the corner of Fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, where the northern wing of the Treasury Department stands today. Its thirty-odd rooms housed the diplomatic bureau proper, a consular bureau, a home bureau, a keeper of the archives, a disbursing agent, and a commissioner of patents, all save the last being supervised by the chief clerk of the Department. The two rooms occupied by the Secretary of State were on the northeast corner of the second floor, just across the hall from those of the chief clerk and the Assistant Secretary."2
By 1864, the Treasury Department needed the space occupied by the aging State Department building. Presidential aide William O. Stoddard wrote in an anonymous newspaper dispatch: "Preparations are being made for the demolition of the old State Department building, and for the completion of the north wing of the Treasury building, whose magnificent proportions will thus include rather more ground, is addition to the present structure, than is now occupied by the old 'grey brick.' There are many associations connected with that (for America) ancient and modest-looking affair on the corner by the President's house. Webster, and Marcy, and a long list of our distinguished names, have by turns ruled in its shabby halls and offices, and from there have sent out documents to determine peace or war, and influence the destiny of nations and races. No doubt, future history will unearth strange things from the musty piles of documents stored away in those dusty archives."3
In addition to handling foreign crises, the State Department had to handle foreign diplomats in Washington. According to Secretary of the Interior John P. Usher, "Mr. Lincoln was not well versed in the amenities of life; but I assure you that whenever foreign ambassadors were to meet Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward was careful that he should make no mistakes and should appear to the very best advantage. When a foreign minister was to be Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward always suggested to him in advance, what he should say, where he should stand, and how he should act. He was a man who would do all that, when the nation was in a manner dissolved."4
Seward himself had to preside over a large block of patronage appointments, for which many Republicans hungered. According to historian Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, "The numerous consulships in Europe, the Americas, and Asia proved to be virtual life-savers to Lincoln in caring for those who had been loyal to the party. It was apparent that these positions abroad were ardently sought by those who desired travel in foreign lands and by those who were disappointed in their quest for other positions."5
As The Stranger's Guide-book to Washington City reported in 1864: "An unpretending brick building, in the same enclosure with the President's house, but northeast of it. And on the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street, is occupied by the Department of State. It is two stories high above the basement, the latter being built of freestone. The length of the building is 160 feet; width 55 feet. Broad passages run the entire length of the building on both floors, and on either side are the offices of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, and of the clerks and other employes of the Department. The library of books, maps and charts in this building is immense, and number over 15,000 distinct works. Copies of all works copyrighted in this country are also carefully preserved in this Department, and the volumes number at this time 12,000 or 14,000. In this unpretending building is transacted all the business of the Government with foreign countries. The original of the Declaration of Independence, and other papers of historic note and interest to American citizens, may all be seen here."6
- Fletcher Pratt, editor, William Howard Russell, My Diary, North & South, p. 2.
- Glyndon Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 273.
- Michael Burlingame, editor, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard, p. 228 (May 16, 1864).
- Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 374.
- Harry. J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 82-83.
- T. Loftin Snell, The Stranger's Guide-book to Washington City, pp. 30-31.


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In a recent article from the San Antonio Express News, ailing Tony Parker was reported to have participated in light practice after the Spurs recent loss to the Philadelphia 76ers before the team headed to Auburn Hills, Michigan to play the Detroit Pistons.
Hobbling Spurs point guard Tony Parker participated in the team's light practice before leaving Philadelphia for Detroit this afternoon, and remains a game-time decision for Sunday's game against the Pistons.
Parker has been dealing with a litany of injuries this season, the most recently being a lingering hip flexor strain that has been bothering him since a Feb. 8 loss at the Los Angeles Lakers.
A litany of injuries indeed. Not only is he suffering from the hip flexor injury, he also suffered from a bout of plantar fasciitis and suffered an ankle injury this past November. Spurs fans should also not forget he played this past summer for the French national team where he suffered an injury to his ankle. He sat out of the Pistons game to have an MRI to reveal the extent of the hip flexor injury. It was also reported this particular injury has not responded well to treatment.
Rest seems exactly what the doctor would order for Parker and it's time the Spurs coaching staff give it to him.
In the short-term it does not matter if Parker misses some games. The Spurs will be done with the Rodeo Road Trip and George Hill is more than capable of running the point guard position while Parker rests. Not to mention Roger Mason did run the point for the Spurs last season. Granted these two players are not at the caliber of Parker but Spurs fans must consider the long-term benefits of a well rested and healed Parker. And Parker's style of play must be considered. His ability to get into the paint lends to him getting banged up by the big men of the NBA. Not to mention he falls on the floor so many times which only heightens his risk of a major injury, which could lead to him being out for the season.
Should the Spurs make the playoffs, this Spurs team will need its floor general ready to go. Currently the Spurs are seventh seed in the playoffs hunt. This would pit them against the second seed, the Denver Nuggets and Chauncey Billups. The Spurs would need a healthy Parker to go at Billups and the Nuggets. Not to take anything away from Hill, but Parker's ability score in the paint, familiarity with the team, and playoff experience would only help the team's chances at success in the playoffs. A banged up Parker would not.
I am not proposing the Spurs sit Parker for the rest of the season but a week off would do him wonders. And when he would come back, monitor his minutes and save him for the post-season.
The way this Spurs team is playing this season, it is not out of the realm of possibility this team might miss the playoffs for the first time in the Tim Duncan era. With 28 games remaining in the Spurs season, every game counts. Especially in the Western conference. And a healthy Parker is one of many factors for the Spurs in making the playoffs or not.


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LOL! Well, I wondered how long it would take someone to delete the YouTube video of Mitt Romney's "Victory" Rally on October 25th showing former singer Meat Loaf's horrific rendition of America the Beautiful!
If you are currently on this blog, you may wish to scroll down a post or three to see the actual spot where the musical horror was embedded and you may still read in the post what Rev. Al Sharpton said about it...tres amusing!
Today and maybe tomorrow, Wall Street trading is shut down due to the threat of "Frankenstorm" Sandy moving up our East Coast. It's the first such unplanned shut down of Wall Street since 2001 and I hope everyone remains safe and sound.
As you've heard, presidential campaign stops are cancelled for storm-affected regions and early voting may be interrupted in some districts. Don't suppose this can be part of the Mercury Retrograde Station effect of Election Day November 6...?
Perhaps not but a Rx Mercury can certainly suppress such things as trade, transport, and commerce along with the usual travel and communications glitches and delays in schedules--plus, Mercury rules votes, voters, ballots, and voting machines.
Hmmm? Did you say something? No? Must've been the wind because here in Georgia it's a Very Windy Monday as might be expected, compliments of Hurricane Sandy.
Update: does Sandy threaten nuclear power plants from Virginia to Vermont?


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The rally monkey appeared on the video board in the middle of the eighth inning at Angel Stadium on Monday night. The furry, traditional reminder to "MAKE NOISE" was a waste of electricity.
There was already enough electricity in the place after New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi was ejected, and Derek Jeter grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded to preserve a 1-1 tie. There was plenty of noise coming from the mound — none of it suitable for work — as Angels pitcher Jered Weaver walked back to his dugout, triumphant.
The announced crowd of 39,701 at Angel Stadium got loud again when six walks in the bottom of the eighth inning — the last three with the bases loaded — gave the Angels a 4-1 win over the Yankees. The stunning succession of free passes unwound what had been a tense battle for seven-and-a-half innings.
The fans got their money's worth. So did Girardi.
Outfield singles by Kelly Johnson and Brian Roberts, and a bunt single by Ichiro Suzuki, loaded the bases in the top of the eighth inning. Weaver's second pitch to Brett Gardner was called a strike at the knees by home plate umpire Laz Diaz. The Yankees' manager didn't like it.
Girardi stormed out of the first-base dugout, unleashing a face-to-face verbal tirade that evoked the halcyon days of Earl Weaver and Bobby Cox. Since instant replay in baseball doesn't apply to "judgment calls," the borderline strike call is one of the last bastions for emotional outbursts from the dugout. It was a long outburst.
Diaz ejected Girardi long before the manager returned to the Yankee clubhouse, breathless and out of expletives.
"That was pretty cool, huh? You don't see that much with the replay — hats being thrown, spitting and stuff," Weaver said.
Weaver eventually struck out Gardner for the first out of the inning. The sight of Jeter in the batter's box — he was cheered roundly by the vast majority of fans, many of whom wore Yankees colors — brought the crowd to its feet.
The fans stayed standing as Jeter hit a frozen rope to Howie Kendrick. The Angels second baseman fielded the ball on a short hop, then flipped to shortstop Erick Aybar to kick off a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.
"Bases loaded, nobody out, it's going to be a tough situation," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "(Weaver) made some really good pitches on Gardner. The last fastball he threw had a lot of life. Derek Jeter hit the ball hard but Howie's there, those guys made a good turn, made the plays, played good defense behind Weave and got the job done."
Weaver allowed six hits, one walk and struck out seven batters in eight innings, his longest outing of the season.
"My fastball location was probably the best it's been this year," Weaver said. "I like to throw 100, 115 pitches and I haven't been able to do so. It was nice of him to have that confidence to let me get out of that jam."
The Angels scored a run in the fifth inning when Kendrick tripled off Yankees right-hander David Phelps and scored on an RBI groundout by Ian Stewart.
The Yankees got the run back in the seventh inning when Jeter doubled, moved to third base on a groundout and scored on an RBI single by former Angel Mark Teixeira.
The Yankees needed three relievers to get through their long eighth inning: Shawn Kelley, Matt Thornton and Preston Claiborne. Kelley started the inning by walking Collin Cowgill, who went to second base on a groundout by Aybar. Albert Pujols was walked intentionally with first base open and C.J. Cron on deck.
Raul Ibanez pinch-hit for Cron and drew the third walk of the inning, loading the bases for Kendrick, who drove in the game-winning run with his free pass.
Thornton replaced Kelley, who walked the only batter he faced, pinch hitter John McDonald. Claiborne walked Iannetta before getting Grant Green to fly out to end the inning.
It was the first time the Angels have ever drawn six walks in one inning since 1984. The last time the Yankees issued six walks in an inning was Sept. 12, 1990.
With interim closer Joe Smith sick, former closer Ernesto Frieri converted his first save opportunity since April 21.
"That's a situation that I'm used to pitching," he said. "Who could believe that was going to happen?"


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This is gonna get personal, today, people. But it's my blog, and that's why blogs are blogs.
(If you're looking for a recipe for light and fluffy meatballs that the kid I work for gobbles up, just skip the tirade and scroll down to the next picture, please and thanks).
I am so over "New Years resolutions". I'm tired of reading them, joking about them, and them being taken so fricken seriously.
Because, one thing about living with a chronic illness is: you make resolutions every day. Every day is New Years Day as far as resolutions go.
- I will "say no first" and really have to convince myself to say "yes".
- I will not work after 8pm.
- I will drink more water, less tea, and reserve alcohol for worthy social events.
- I will eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks and take my meds before and after as prescribed.
- I will not wear shoes that look seriously awesome but affect my walking so that I later have to take a percoset to be able to walk at all.
- I will avoid people who require too much energy, though the healthier version of myself simply adores and cannot get enough of them.
- I will work less at my jobs and work more on the job of keeping a relative level of health.
Here's the thing: I have a good life. I love my jobs, my family, my friends, my dog, my roommate, my apartment, my car, my city… they're all fine and dandy and I count my blessings daily. But I've had Lyme Disease for over half my time on this planet, now. Some people I share this with – others I do not. Many people in my life know nothing about it, because I'm fortunate that, for the most part, I can avoid looking ill and only see certain people when a limp, hunched back or drugged-up gaze aren't present.
At my healthiest, I can convince myself that I don't even have an illness. There are awesome periods where I can eat, drink, dance and be merry, and wake up without a life hangover the next morning, moving into the next thing I want to do.
But that's not the norm, and it doesn't last long. And it's a flat-out lie that I tell myself, sadly. Because when I get by with a few weeks, months or even year of that, I inevitably make poor decisions and my health declines to the point that there's no lying or covering up that I got bitten by a bug when I was 12 and it's affected almost every day of my life since then.
I don't think resolutions are bad. As is obvious in the fact that I admit to making them constantly. I just don't think that we should give so much attention to making them once a year. July 6th can be the day I make a resolution that is going to change my life drastically for the better. Every day we get a chance to say, "I'm going to choose the healthier, happier option".
Healthy people should be doing this as well as those who have to deal with their bodies a bit more. You said you were going to go running three times a week to lose that little extra weight and you "failed" in week four? Screw it; make the resolution again. Trying to quit smoking but light up when something goes bad? Throw the pack out and try again tomorrow. Made a resolution to "do more of this" and find out that it adds way too much onto your already full schedule? Make your next resolution "do less of that".
Here's what I'm going to work with now:
I'm going to make specific resolutions. I'm going to ponder them fully, discuss my options with those closest to me, and draft out a plan on how I'm going to carry them through. For example: I'm going to blog more is too general. What will really serve me best is I'm going to blog with more honesty, with more integrity, and when I truly feel I have something to express, not just because I should keep up with a certain schedule for social media purposes and targeted numbers of views. (This is actually something I started a few months ago, and I can tell you I enjoy blogging so much more right now).
I'm going to develop recipes that mean something to me and connect me with people on the interweb of food shakers and makers that I respect. Rather than throw a "it's the holidays so I need to make five holiday cookie recipes because that's what you do when you blog" I posted one: Triple Chocolate Gluten and Dairy-Free Biscotti, which was part of the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap benefiting Cookies for Kids Cancer and connected me with blogger Jody at The Hobbyroom Diaries. It was a joy, not a job, and felt more in the spirit of Christmas than those five other cookie recipes probably would have. This year that makes sticking with my Milk Bar Mondays ladies, adapting more Cooks Illustrated recipes, tackling my mom's favorites and starting a new seasonal swap with some lovely blogging ladies I miss.
I'm going to cut back on work so that when I plan to go out to a friend's party, a food event, or even just for drinks and ridiculous food at a restaurant I drool for, I can with energy and confidence. This is the hardest one: my natural inclination is to burn the candle at both ends, and I like to work hard and party. Right now if I do something social it takes about two days to recoup. But it's happening…
I was chewing on what resulted in this tirade today because (a) I'm way burnt out, even after a 10-day break from my cooking job, (b) my Muffin sent me this piece on chronic illness explained in spoons (it's a great read and my next piece will be on it, (c) I found a similarly frustrated writer with a great expression of it at Mouth from the South (d) with all my self-reflection and self-analysis sometimes I want my brain to shut up about resolutions and this time of year is not helping in that and (e) I was making meatballs at work today, and I find making meatballs calming.
This is my official Happy New Year post. I'll resolve to write another one tomorrow.
My dog is being too cute – I have to stop this now.
And enough of that anyway… onto meatballs.
– Jacqueline
Until I started my current cooking position I would tell you that I'm much more Portuguese than I am Italian. But for some reason my meatballs, lasagna, bolognese… those are what my bosses latched onto in the beginning. And since I can't do the gluten or dairy thing, it's fun to get to use these types of ingredients again through work.
I now make meatballs weekly. My boss family likes their meatballs extremely fluffy. So to accomplish that I came upon a combo of ideas stolen from various sources:
- From a friend (the chef before me), I learned finely chopped mushrooms almost dissolve in flavor but provide fluff.
- From Chef Daniel Holzman (of the Meatball Shops) I added ricotta cheese (he made a recipe for me for Easy Eats that was gluten-free and used ricotta).
- From my brain I decided to mix pork in with the beef (I hope they don't read this, because I don't think they've realized there's more pork than beef in the ones they like the most).
- From everyone good at rolling meatballs I've ever talked to I've learned over handling is a very bad thing!, so these require loose tosses and a light touch.
Everyone's got their opinions on meatballs. These ones have been specifically crafted for the people I work for. I can't eat them, and have to go by smell and touch to know if they need more of something. But they're a real deal, promise. If you're looking for a gluten-free one, check out Chef Holzman's in Easy Eats, and come back here for the gluten- and dairy-free ones I make for myself when I've made a resolution to blog them.
Werkin Woman's Meatballs
The way I roll em, this makes around 34- 2″ meatballs.
- 10oz Baby Bella brown mushrooms
- 1 small onion
- 6 cloves garlic
- 3lbs ground meat – I go with around 2lbs ground pork and a pound of either ground chuck or sirloin, whichever is looking better that day.
- 15oz ricotta cheese (around 1 1/2 cups, methinks)
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs (Progresso Italian works just dandy in this)
- Around 2 tsp salt (your call)
- 1 Tbsp dried basil
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- Around 5 cups tomato sauce (note below)
Preheat oven to 425°. Grease a very large baking dish with olive oil or cooking spray (this is the fullest batch I do, which requires a 9×13 and sometimes also 8×8).
If you don't have a food processor, chop de-stem the mushrooms and chop them into very tiny bits. Do the same with the onion and the garlic. If you do have a food processor, rock it: de-stem the mushrooms, break them with your hands and toss them in, then pulse in short bursts until they break into as tiny pieces as possible with becoming mush (this picture shows them at the perfect time – a few more pulses and they'd be a mass of mushroom):
Toss them into a large bowl, and repeat with the onion and garlic.
Add the ground meat, ricotta, breadcrumbs, eggs and seasonings. Lightly mix them together with your hands, until everything is fully incorporated. Roll them with a gentle touch, sort of tossing them between your hands, into about 2″ balls (or whatever size you like, really). Place side-by-side, touching, in greased tray.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, until they're nice and browned. Gently tilt dish over sink to pour off access grease (this amount will depend on your meat choice). Cover in sauce, return to oven (I put a rimmed cookie tray below to catch flying tomato), and bake around 20 minutes more.
Note on sauce: Use what you like. My current standard at work is also made for the family I work for specifically, which is basically this: in around 1/4 cup olive oil, soften 1 medium yellow onion that has been finely chopped and 4 smashed cloves of garlic. Add 3 large cans of peeled tomatoes (I've landed upon Nina's as the house favorite… for now). Bring up to a simmer and cook down for at least 3 hours. Smash tomatoes with a potato masher, and blend until really smooth with a hand blender. Add salt and pepper to taste, and a few pinches of sugar if desired. I wish I could say I do more fun things with this, but you have to cook for your clients, and this is the way she likes it.


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Historically informed performance
This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. (September 2015)
Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived. Whenever this knowledge conflicts with current aesthetic criteria, the option of re-training the listener/viewer, as opposed to adapting the work, is normally followed. Music is usually played on instruments corresponding to the period of the piece being played, such as period instruments for early music.
Historical treatises, as well as additional historical evidence, are used to gain insight into the performance practice (the stylistic and technical aspects of performance) of a historic era. Corresponding types of acting and scenery are deployed. Historically informed performance has originated in the performance of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, but has come to encompass music from the Classical and Romantic eras as well. Quite recently, the phenomenon has begun to affect the theatrical stage, for instance in the production of Baroque opera.
There are some critics who contest the methodology of the HIP movement, contending that its selection of practices and aesthetics are a product of the 20th century and that it is ultimately impossible to know what performances of an earlier time sounded like.
Early instruments
Historically informed performance needs to access musical instruments corresponding to the period of the music being played. This has led to the revival of musical instruments entirely gone out of practice, and to a reconsideration of the role and structure of instruments also used in current practice.
During the second half of the 18th century, the fortepiano gradually replaced the harpsichord. Many harpsichords were destroyed; indeed, the Paris Conservatory is notorious for having used harpsichords for firewood during the French Revolution and Napoleonic times.[1] Composers such as François Couperin, Domenico Scarlatti, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for the harpsichord, clavichord, and organ.
Among the foremost modern players of the harpsichord are Robert Hill, Igor Kipnis, Ton Koopman, Wanda Landowska, Gustav Leonhardt, Trevor Pinnock, Skip Sempé, Andreas Staier, and Colin Tilney.
A vast quantity of music for viols, for both ensemble and solo performance, was written by composers of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, including Diego Ortiz, Claudio Monteverdi, William Byrd, William Lawes, Henry Purcell, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, J.S. Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Marin Marais, Antoine Forqueray, and Carl Frederick Abel.
From largest to smallest, the viol family consists of:
- contrabass or violone
- bass viol (about the size of a cello)
- tenor viol (about the size of a guitar)
- alto viol (about the size of a viola)
- treble or descant viol (about the size of a violin).
Among the foremost modern players of the viols are Paolo Pandolfo, Wieland Kuijken, Jordi Savall, John Hsu, and Vittorio Ghielmi. There are many modern viol consorts.
Recorders in multiple sizes (contra-bass, bass, tenor, alto, soprano, the sopranino, and the even smaller kleine sopranino or garklein) are often played today in consorts of mixed size. Handel and Telemann, among others, wrote solo works for the recorder. Arnold Dolmetsch did much to revive the recorder as a serious concert instrument, reconstructing a "consort of recorders (descant, treble, tenor and bass) all at low pitch and based on historical originals."[2]
A few of the singers who have contributed to the historically informed performance movement are Emma Kirkby, Max van Egmond, Julianne Baird, Nigel Rogers, and David Thomas.
Modern countertenor singing was pioneered by Alfred Deller, and leading contemporary performers include David Daniels, Derek Lee Ragin, Andreas Scholl, Michael Chance, Drew Minter, Daniel Taylor, Brian Asawa, Yoshikazu Mera, and Philippe Jaroussky.
Historic pictures,[3] layout sketches and sources give information about the layout of singers and instruments. Three main layouts are documented:
- Circle (Renaissance)
- Choir in the front of the instruments (17th–19th century)
- Singers and instruments next to each other on the choir loft.
Johann Mattheson: "The singers must stand alltime in front".[4]
Recovering early performance practices
Interpreting musical notation
Some familiar difficult items are as follows:
- Early composers often wrote using the same symbols as today, yet in a different meaning, often context-dependent. For example, what is written as an appoggiatura is often meant to be longer or shorter than the notated length.[5]
- The notation may be partial. E.g., the note durations may be omitted altogether, such as in unmeasured preludes, pieces written without rhythm or metre indications.
- The music may be written using alternative, non-modern notations, such as tablature. Some tablature notations are only partially decoded, such as the notation[6] in the harp manuscript[7] by Robert ap Huw.
- The reference pitch of earlier music cannot generally be interpreted as designating the same pitch used today.
- Various tuning systems (temperaments), are used. Composers always assume the player will choose the temperament, and never indicate it in the score.[8]
- In most ensemble music up to the early Baroque, the actual musical instruments to be used are not indicated in the score, and must be partially or totally chosen by the performers. A well-discussed example can be found in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, where the indications on which instruments to use are partial and limited to critical sections only.[9]
- Issues of pronunciation, that impact on musical accents, carry over to church Latin, the language in which a large amount of early vocal music was written. The reason is that Latin was customarily pronounced using the speech sounds and patterns of the local vernacular language.
Mechanical music
Some information about how music sounded in the past can be obtained from contemporary mechanical instruments. For instance, the Dutch Museum Speelklok owns an 18th-century mechanical organ of which the music programme was composed and supervised by Joseph Haydn.[10]
Tuning and pitch
The baroque oboist Bruce Haynes has extensively investigated surviving wind instruments and even documented a case of violinists having to retune by a minor third to play at neighboring churches.[11][page needed]
As in literature, where early poetry or prose can be accessed both through the original text and through a paraphrase or a metaphrase in modern language[12] Prior to audio and video recording, no direct record of performing arts survives. Opinions on the implications of these motivations and on how they should translate into criteria for historically informed performance vary.[13]
Even within the early music revival, awareness of the pitfalls was clear. Though championing the need (for example in his editorship of Scarlatti sonatas) for a thoroughly informed approach, not least in understanding as fully as possible a composer's actual wishes and intentions in their historical context, Ralph Kirkpatrick, while pioneering the harpsichord rediscovery, highlights the risk of using historical exoterism to hide technical incompetence: "too often historical authenticity can be used as a means of escape from any potentially disquieting observance of esthetic values, and from the assumption of any genuine artistic responsibility. The abdication of esthetic values and artistic responsibilities can confer a certain illusion of simplicity on what the passage of history has presented to us, bleached as white as bones on the sands of time."[14][page needed]
Classical recording producer Michael Sartorius writes: "While the debate on authenticity in baroque performance will continue, certain essential characteristics should be present, if the performance is to reflect the true baroque spirit."[15]
A number of scholars see the HIP movement essentially as a 20th-century invention. Writing about the periodical Early Music (one of the leading periodicals about historically informed performance), Peter Hill noted "All the articles in Early Music noted in varying ways the (perhaps fatal) flaw in the 'authenticity' position. This is that the attempt to understand the past in terms of the past is—paradoxically—an absolutely contemporary phenomenon.[16] One of the more skeptical voices of the historically informed performance movement has been Richard Taruskin. His thesis is that the practice of unearthing supposedly historically informed practices is actually a 20th-century practice influenced by modernism and, ultimately, we can never know what music sounded like or how it was played in previous centuries. "What we had been accustomed to regard as historically authentic performances, I began to see, represented neither any determinable historical prototype nor any coherent revival of practices coeval with the repertories they addressed. Rather, they embodied a whole wish list of modern(ist) values, validated in the academy and the marketplace alike by an eclectic, opportunistic reading of historical evidence."[17] "'Historical' performers who aim "to get to the truth"...by using period instruments and reviving lost playing techniques actually pick and choose from history's wares. And they do so in a manner that says more about the values of the late twentieth century than about those of any earlier era."[18]
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson concedes that much of the HIP practice is based on invention: "Historical research may provide us with instruments, and sometimes even quite detailed information on how to use them; but the gap between such evidence and a sounding performance is still so great that it can be bridged only by a large amount of musicianship and invention. Exactly how much is required can easily be forgotten, precisely because the exercise of musical invention is so automatic to the performer."[19] Leech Wilkinson concludes that performance styles in early music "have as much to do with current taste as with accurate reproduction."[20]
In her book The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music, Lydia Goehr discusses the aims and fallacies of both proponents and critics of the HIP movement.[21] She notes that the HIP movement itself came about during the latter half of the 19th century as a reaction to the way modern techniques were being imposed upon music of earlier times. Thus performers were concerned with achieving an "authentic" manner of performing music—a 19th-century ideal that carries implications for all those involved with music. She distills the late 20th century arguments into two points of view, achieving either fidelity to the conditions of performance, or fidelity to the musical work (her book is concerned with the idealization of the musical work).[22]
She succinctly summarizes the critics' arguments (for example, anachronistic, selectively imputing current performance ideas on early music), but then concludes that what the HIP movement has to offer is a different manner of looking at and listening to music: "It keeps our eyes open to the possibility of producing music in new ways under the regulation of new ideals. It keeps our eyes open to the inherently critical and revisable nature of our regulative concepts. Most importantly, it helps us overcome that deep‐rooted desire to hold the most dangerous of beliefs, that we have at any time got our practices absolutely right."[23]
See also
- Early music revival
- List of early music ensembles
- List of period instruments
- Authenticity in art
- String section
- One voice per part
- Concert pitch
- ↑ Alex Boekelheide, "Making Way for Beautiful Music", USC News (2 October 2005, accessed 20 January 2014).
- ↑ Brian Blood, "The Dolmetsch Story", Dolmetsch Online (26 September 2013, accessed 20 January 2014).
- ↑ [full citation needed], Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
- ↑ Mattheson 1739,[page needed].
- ↑ C. P. E. Bach, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, Berlin 1753: Teil 1, Section 2 Par. 5.
- ↑ Peter Greenhill, The Robert ap Huw Manuscript: An Exploration of its Possible Solutions, 5 vols. (all), Bangor: University of Wales, CAWMS dissertation, 1995-2000.
- ↑ Thurston Dart, "Robert ap Huw's Manuscript of Welsh Harp Music", The Galpin Society Journal, Vol 21 (1963). JSTOR 841428.
- ↑ "Stimmung und Temperatur", in F. Zaminer, ed., Geschichte der Musiktheorie, Vol. 6: "Hören, Messen und Rechnen in der Frühen Neuzeit", Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (1987) ISBN 978-3534012060.
- ↑ Jane Glover, "Solving the Musical Problem" in John Whenham (ed.) Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo, 138-155. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-24148-0
- ↑ Rob van der Hilst, "Fluitekruid van Joseph Haydn", review of Jan Jaap Haspels, Marije Hulleman, and Bob van Wely, Haydn herboren: 12 originele opnamen uit 1793 (Utrecht: Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement, 2004), ISBN 90-801699-3-5. De Recensent.nl (2004, accessed January 2014).
- ↑ Bruce Haynes, "Pitch Standards in the Baroque and Classical Periods" (diss., U. of Montreal, 1995).
- ↑ Fisher RW, "Medieval German Literature in Modern German Translation: A Survey of Some Recent Practices, with Some Comments on their Rationale", Babel Vol. 44, no. 2 (1998): 110–27.
- ↑ Colin Lawson and Robin Stowell (eds.), The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2012):[page needed].
- ↑ Ralph Kirkpatrick, Interpreting Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984)
- ↑ Michael Sartorius, "Baroque Music Performance: 'Authentic' or 'Traditional': A Discussion of the Essential Issues Involved", http://www.baroquemusic.org/barperf.html.
- ↑ Peter Hill, "'Authenticity in Contemporary Music," Tempo New Series no. 159 (December 1986), p. 2.
- ↑ Richard Taruskin, "Last Thoughts First," Text and Act (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 5.
- ↑ Richard Taruskin, "The Modern Sound of Early Music," Text and Act (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 164.
- ↑ Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, "'What we are doing with early music is genuinely authentic to such a small degree that the word loses most of its intended meaning'" ''Early Music,'' vol. 12, no. 1 (February 1984), p. 13.
- ↑ Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, "'What we are doing with early music is genuinely authentic to such a small degree that the word loses most of its intended meaning'" ''Early Music,'' vol. 12, no. 1 (February 1984), p. 14.
- ↑ Lydia Goehr, ''The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music'' (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 279–84.
- ↑ Lydia Goehr, ''The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music'' (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 279–84.
- ↑ Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (New York: Oxford University Press), p. 284. Goehr acknowledges the following writings informed her arguments: Theodor Adorno, "Bach Defended Against his Devotees," Prisms (London: N. Spearman, 1967), p. 135-146; Lawrence Dreyfus, "Early Music Defended Against Its Devotees: A Theory of Historical Performance in the Twentieth Century", Musical Quarterly 69 (1983), 297–322; Harry Haskell, The Early Music Revival (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988) ISBN 9780500014493; Nicholas Kenyon (ed.), Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780198161523); Joseph Kerman, Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985 ISBN 9780674166776), chapter 6; Michael Morrow, "Musical Performance", Early Music 6 (1978), 233–46; Charles Rosen, "Should Music Be Played "Wrong"?", High Fidelity 21 (1971), 54–58; and Richard Taruskin, et al., "The Limits of Authenticity: A Discussion", Early Music 12 (1984), 3–25, 523–25.
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- Rosen, Charles. 2000. Critical Entertainments. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00684-4.
External links
- The Unofficial Countertenor Home Page
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
- Period instrument performers and groups listed on The Open Music Project
- Dilemmas in Trying to Present Old Works of Art 'Authentically'
- Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers (book by Bernard Sherman; Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata (Slate Magazine covering differences between authentic and modern piano performances
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Apple's patent theft accusations against HTC got a lot of press this week, as they should! But it's just the most recent case in a gun-slinging mobile landscape riddled with patent lawsuits. This'll end about as well as Reservoir Dogs.
The NY Times breaks it down today with this handy chart of who's suing whom. Nokia has been particularly active, along with Kodak. The biggest target? Apple.
Companies sue each other over intellectual property all the time, of course. But this volume of mobile technology patents is unusually high. According to the Times:
Although patent litigation is not new in the technology world, these suits, specifically around mobile, point to the drastically changing mobile landscape. Lawyers I spoke with explained that mobile technology is still in its infancy and these large computing companies are trying to stake their claim to the future of computing.
Basically, it's a land grab. Companies that know they're being left in the dust (Nokia, Kodak) are scrambling to assert any claims that they can, while market leaders (Apple) become fat targets.
Where does that leave the us? For now, nowhere. Business as usual. But if things keep escalating, the consequences could range from companies passing legal fees onto the consumer to ITC-imposed product bans. In these kinds of gun fights, it's rare that anyone wins. [NY Times]


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Wow what a difference a year makes and in so many ways!
There is very little snow on the ground yes I know it can still just be a tad late but I personally am through the worst part of winter, with spring arriving in what, just 4 weeks! I am dancing even with sore knees. lol Not so sore I took a shot in each and it helped a lot and will give me time to get my pup cared for and guess what Mom's surgery on left knee was such a success she is being allowed back home early! Wow see what I mean about being thankful. So many prayers said and great thoughts and energy how could she suffer again. Thanks so much.
Our garden club will attend the Boston Flower Show next month so heads up there maybe flower photos soon lol We are now taking orders for Pansy Bowls at just $15 for a full 12/14″ bowl brimming with pretty little flower faces I can not wait for mine to greet me each day as I arrive home. Maybe I will try to paint them 🙂
Having Mom be in a better place my man doing OK with his pacemaker and my knees not hurting so bad now to get my pup feeling better all will be right in my small world.
Not sure about my reader so many I left a like on today I had not seen forever and ones I usually see were missing 😦 I will keep searching till I find you 🙂
I am going to try to add this video here not sure if the video will work 🙂
Just a moment in my world lol
I made an attempt at getting comfortable at a gallery I belong to and attended a Feb. 14 Art Party where I had a Black and White Pen and Ink / Watercolor hanging as well as Wolf Moon on a special wall our local Watercolor teacher invited her students to show thire piece of winter watercolor. I actually unwound and had fun 🙂
before it got crowded 🙂
I have even been crocheting again
This is for my son's old girlfriend who got married and is having her first baby. I had so much fun as I had never done any of this type of crocheting before 🙂 yes indeed learning so much than I ever thought I could.
Have a Great Day you can see I have every intent too 🙂


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The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of 'China's Got Talent' show in Shanghai with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium. Guewho was the performing guest? Susan Boyle. And I told her, 'I'm going to Scotland the next day.' She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese. [Chinese] So it's not like 'hello' or 'thank you,' that ordinary stuff. It means 'green onion for free.' Why did she say that? Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boyle -- a 50-some year-old woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn't understand any English or French or Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in Chinese. (Laughter) And the last sentence of Nessun Dorma that she was singing in the stadium was 'green onion for free.' So [as] Susan Boyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together. That was hilarious.
来苏格兰(做TED讲演)的前夜,我被邀请去上海做"中国达人秀"决赛的评委。在装有八万现场观众的演播厅里,在台上的表演嘉宾居然是(来自苏格兰的,因参加英国达人秀走红的)苏珊大妈(Susan Boyle)。我告诉她,"我明天就要启程去苏格兰。" 她唱得很动听,还对观众说了几句中文,她并没有说简单的"你好"或者"谢谢",她说的是——"送你葱"(Song Ni Cong)。为什么?这句话其实来源于中国版的"苏珊大妈"——一位五十岁的以卖菜为生,却对西方歌剧有出奇爱好的上海中年妇女(蔡洪平)。这位中国的苏珊大妈并不懂英文,法语或意大利文,所以她将歌剧中的词汇都换做中文中的蔬菜名,并且演唱出来。在她口中,歌剧《图兰朵》的最后一句便是"Song Ni Cong"。当真正的英国苏珊大妈唱出这一句"中文的"《图兰朵》时,全场的八万观众也一起高声歌唱,场面的确有些滑稽(hilarious)。
So I gueboth Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness. They were the least expected to be successful in the businecalled entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them through. And a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams. Well, being different is not that difficult. We are all different from different perspectives. But I think being different is good, because you present a different point of view. You may have the chance to make a difference.
我想Susan Boyle和这位上海的买菜农妇的确属于人群中的少数。她们是最不可能在演艺界成功的,而她们的勇气和才华让她们成功了,这个节目和舞台给予了她们一个实现个人梦想的机会。这样看来,与众不同好像没有那么难。从不同的方面审视,我们每个人都是不同的。但是我想,与众不同是一件好事,因为你代表了不一样的观点,你拥有了做改变的机会。
My generation has been very fortunate to witneand participate in the historic transformation of China that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years. I remember that in the year of 1990, when I was graduating from college, I was applying for a job in the sales department of the first five-star hotel in Beijing, Great Wall Sheraton -- it's still there. So after being interrogated by this Japanese manager for a half an hour, he finally said, 'So, MiYang, do you have any questions to ask me?' I summoned my courage and poise and said, 'Yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?' I didn't have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star hotel. That was the first day I set my foot in a five-star hotel.
我这一代中国人很幸运的目睹并且参与了中国在过去二三十年中经历的巨变。我记得1990年,当我刚大学毕业时,我申请了当时北京的第一家五星级酒店——长城喜来登酒店的销售部门的工作。这家酒店现在仍在北京。当我被一位日本籍经理面试了一个半小时之后,他问到,"杨小姐,你有什么想问我的吗?",我屏住呼吸,问道"是的,你能告诉我,具体我需要销售些什么吗?" 当时的我,对五星级酒店的销售部门没有任何概念,事实上,那是我第一次进到一家五星级酒店。
Around the same time, I was going through an audition -- the first ever open audition by national television in China -- with another thousand college girls. The producer told us they were looking for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh face. So when it was my turn, I stood up and said, 'Why [do] women's personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can't they have their own ideas and their own voice?' I thought I kind of offended them. But actually, they were impressed by my words. And so I was in the second round of competition, and then the third and the fourth. After seven rounds of competition, I was the last one to survive it. So I was on a national television prime-time show. And believe it or not, that was the first show on Chinese television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own minds without reading an approved . (Applause) And my weekly audience at that time was between 200 to 300 million people.
Well after a few years, I decided to go to the U.S. and Columbia University to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company, which was unthought of during the years that I started my career. So we do a lot of things. I've interviewed more than a thousand people in the past. And sometimes I have young people approaching me say, 'Lan, you changed my life,' and I feel proud of that. But then we are also so fortunate to witnethe transformation of the whole country. I was in Beijing's bidding for the Olympic Games. I was representing the Shanghai Expo. I saw China embracing the world and vice versa. But then sometimes I'm thinking, what are today's young generation up to? How are they different, and what are the differences they are going to make to shape the future of China, or at large, the world?
So today I want to talk about young people through the platform of social media. First of all, who are they? [What] do they look like? Well this is a girl called Guo Meimei -- 20 years old, beautiful. She showed off her expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the Chinese version of Twitter. And she claimed to be the general manager of Red Croat the Chamber of Commerce. She didn't realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red Cross. The controversy was so heated that the Red Crohad to open a preconference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.
So far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title -- probably because she feels proud to be associated with charity. All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subpision of Red Croat Chamber of Commerce. It's very complicated to explain. But anyway, the public still doesn't buy it. It is still boiling. It shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in the past. And also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as microblog.
Microblog boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled. Swww.kuaidu.com.cn, a major news portal, alone has more than 140 million microbloggers. On Tencent, 200 million. The most popular blogger -- it's not me -- it's a movie star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans. About 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people, under 30 years old. And because, as you know, the traditional media is still heavily controlled by the government, social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.
So through microblogging, we are able to understand Chinese youth even better. So how are they different? First of all, most of them were born in the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy. And because of selected abortion by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million more young men than women. That could pose a potential danger to the society, but who knows; we're in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries. Most of them have fairly good education. The illiteracy rate in China among this generation is under one percent. In cities, 80 percent of kids go to college. But they are facing an aging China with a population above 65 years old coming up with seven-point-some percent this year, and about to be 15 percent by the year of 2030. And you know we have the tradition that younger generations support the elders financially, and taking care of them when they're sick. So it means young couples will have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years old.
So ma-ki-ng a living is not that easy for young people. College graduates are not in short supply. In urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 U.S. dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500. So what do they do? They have to share space -- squeezed in very limited space to save money -- and they call themselves 'tribe of ants.' And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their first apartment. That ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it's 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.
所以对于年轻人而言,生活并不是容易。本科毕业生也不在是紧缺资源。在城市中,本科生的月起薪通常是400美元(2500人民币),而公寓的平均月租金却是500美元。所以他们的解决方式是合租——挤在有限的空间中以节省开支,他们叫自己"蚁族。" 对于那些准备好结婚并希望购买一套公寓的中国年轻夫妇而言,他们发现他们必须要不间断的工作30到40年才可以负担得起一套公寓。对于同样的美国年轻夫妇而言,他们只需要五年时间。
Among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them are young people. They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas. Most of them don't want to go back to the countryside, but they don't have the sense of belonging. They work for longer hours with leincome, lesocial welfare. And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce. Last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern OEM manufacturing compound in China: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease. But they died because of all different personal reasons. But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, of these migrant workers.
For those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create new businein the ledeveloped market. So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.
These diagrams show a more general social background. The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some percent. But then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39 percent, indicating a rising living cost. The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4. Now it's 0.5 -- even worse than that in America -- showing us the income inequality. And so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility. And also, the bitterneand even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread. So any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or businewould arouse a social outcry or even unrest.
So through some of the hottest topics on microblogging, we can see what young people care most about. Social justice and government accountability runs the first in what they demand. For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witnea lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property. And it has aroused huge anger and frustration among our young generation. Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest. So when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the Internet, people cry for the government to take actions to stop this.
So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court. Similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet. We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food. And guewhat, we have faked beef. They have sorts of ingredients that you brush on a piece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like beef. And then lately, people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found [refining] cooking oil from restaurant slop. So all these things have aroused a huge outcry from the Internet. And fortunately, we have seen the government responding more timely and also more frequently to the public concerns.
While young people seem to be very sure about their participation in public policy-ma-ki-ng, but sometimes they're a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life. China is soon to pathe U.S. as the number one market for luxury brands -- that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere. But you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 U.S. dollars. They're not rich at all. They're taking those bags and clothes as a sense of identity and social status. And this is a girl explicitly saying on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle. But of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a BMW or [on] a bicycle.
So in the next picture, you see a very popular phenomenon called 'naked' wedding, or 'naked' marriage. It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love. And also, people are doing good through social media. And the first picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeleand kidnapped dogs for food processing was spotted and stopped on the highway with the whole country watching through microblogging. People were donating money, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck. And after hours of negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued. And here also people are helping to find missing children. A father posted his son's picture onto the Internet. After thousands of [unclear], the child was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family through microblogging.
So happineis the most popular word we have heard through the past two years. Happineis not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it's about the environment. People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP? How are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with economic growth, to keep sustainability and stability? And also, how capable is the system of self-correctneto keep more people content with all sorts of friction going on at the same time? I guethese are the questions people are going to answer. And our younger generation are going to transform this country while at the same time being transformed themselves.
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Join UND Athletics at the North Dakota State Fair this Sunday, July 21, for the second annual UND Day presented by Midco Sports Network.
Fans are invited to stop by the festival tent on the fairgrounds from 1 to 4 p.m. to meet UND coaches and student-athletes, get autographs, win terrific prizes and more.
Coaches in attendance will include men's hockey coach Dave Hakstol, volleyball coach Ashley Hardee, women's hockey coach Brian Idalski and women's basketball coach Travis Brewster.
Meet, take pictures and get autographs from several student-athletes, including football players Baylee Carr (Hazen, N.D.) and
Dustin Adams (Minot, N.D.), volleyball players Emily Asche (Grand Forks, N.D.) and McKenzie Hart (Langdon, N.D.), women's basketball players Siri Burck (Fargo, N.D.) and Katie Houdek (Grafton, N.D.), women's hockey players Samantha Hanson (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Shelby Amsley-Benzie (Warroad, Minn.), men's hockey players Clarke Saunders (Brockville, Ontario) and Connor Gaarder (Edina, Minn.) and men's basketball player Brandon Brekke (East Grand Forks, Minn.).
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