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Business Day|Forgoing College to Pursue Dreams
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Forgoing College to Pursue Dreams
By CAITLIN KELLY SEPT. 15, 2012
Connor Zwick, 19, saws a profile for his "coco controller," a game app for smartphones. Thiel fellowships reward young people for forgoing college to dive into practical work on ideas. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times
EDEN FULL should be back at Princeton by now. She should be hustling to class, hitting the books, acing tests. In short, she should be climbing that old-school ladder toward a coveted spot among America's future elite.
She isn't doing any of that. Instead, Ms. Full, as bright and poised and ambitious as the next Ivy Leaguer, has done something extraordinary for a Princetonian: she has dropped out.
It wasn't the exorbitant cost of college. (Princeton, all told, runs nearly $55,000 a year.) She says she simply received a better offer — and, perhaps, a shot at a better education.
Ms. Full, 20, is part of one of the most unusual experiments in higher education today. It rewards smart young people for not going to college and, instead, diving into the real world of science, technology and business.
The idea isn't nuts. After all, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs dropped out, and they did O.K.
Of course, their kind of success is rare, degree or no degree. Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs changed the world. Ms. Full wants to, as well, and she's in a hurry. She has built a low-cost solar panel and is starting to test it in Africa.
"I was antsy to get out into the world and execute on my ideas," she says.
At a time when the value of a college degree is being called into question, and when job prospects for many new graduates are grimmer than they've been in years, perhaps it's no surprise to see a not-back-to-school movement spring up. What is surprising is where it's springing up, and who's behind it.
The push, which is luring a handful of select students away from the likes of Princeton, Harvard and M.I.T., is the brainchild of Peter A. Thiel, 44, a billionaire and freethinker with a remarkable record in Silicon Valley. Back in 1998, during the dot-com boom, Mr. Thiel gambled on a company that eventually became PayPal, the giant of online payments. More recently, he got in early on a little start-up called Facebook.
Since 2010, he has been bankrolling people under the age of 20 who want to find the next big thing — provided that they don't look for it in a college classroom. His offer is this: $50,000 a year for two years, few questions asked. Just no college, unless a class is helpful for their Thiel projects.
A cool hundred grand, no strings attached? You won't be shocked to learn that it is harder to get a Thiel Fellowship than it is to get into Princeton. Mr. Thiel (Stanford '89, Stanford Law '92) has grabbed headlines with his outlandish offer. Less has been said about the handful of plucky people who have actually managed to snag one of his fellowships in hopes of becoming the next Gates or Jobs. The first Thiel fellows are now in their second year of the program. Twenty new ones were selected this summer.
Applications for 2013 are not yet being accepted; the due date will be posted this fall at ThielFellowship.org. Candidates must be under 20 when they apply. The final step is straight out of Silicon Valley: applicants get two and a half minutes to pitch their ideas to would-be mentors, most of them successful entrepreneurs.
Eden Full, 20, tested her rotating solar panel in Kenya in 2010. Credit Courtesy of Eden Full
A CNBC documentary about the fellowship, "20 Under 20: Transforming Tomorrow," was broadcast this summer, and showed the range of those pitches. One young woman proposed a novel curriculum for students overseas and apologized for being flustered at the podium. Another ignored the instructions and spoke from the middle of the stage, TED-style. Then they and the others waited for would-be mentors in the audience to ask more questions.
Over the last two years, 44 Thiel fellows have been chosen after layers of reviews by 15 to 20 people. They don't exactly represent a cross-section of the nation. Most of these young people are white or Asian, and men. Only four are women. Applications have come in from 42 countries, from Bhutan to Ethiopia to Guatemala, but only six fellows have been selected from outside the United States — four from Canada, one from Britain and one from Russia. A quarter of applicants apply directly from high school or home schooling.
MS. FULL was studying mechanical engineering at Princeton when she applied, hoping to develop a hardy, low-cost solar panel that follows the sun's path. She calls it the SunSaluter. She is starting to test the latest iteration in Kirindi, Uganda, and Karagwe, Tanzania.
She left Princeton after her sophomore year, and she says the learning curve has been steep.
"I spent the first year of the fellowship learning a lot about the solar industry, what it takes to get a product to market, what I'm good at," she says. "The timing was perfect."
But testing the SunSaluter in Kenya, as she did earlier, offered unexpected lessons. Local children played with it, trying to unscrew the bolts. And Ms. Full, who is Asian-Canadian, was an object of fascination in villages.
"In the real world," she says, "you don't know what's going to happen."
She has had to learn to depend on the cooperation of strangers — no small feat for a woman who is used to talking fast and moving faster.
"One of the most important lessons I've learned is you have to be pretty flexible," she says. "Some days, I just want to go back to college."
Ms. Full is friends with another Thiel fellow, Laura Deming, 18. Ms. Deming is clearly brilliant. When she was 12, her family moved to San Francisco from New Zealand so she could work with Cynthia Kenyon, a molecular biologist who studies aging. When Ms. Deming was 14, the family moved again, this time to the Boston area, so she could study at M.I.T.
"Families of Olympic-caliber athletes make these kinds of sacrifices all the time," says Tabitha Deming, Laura's mother. "When we lived nearby in Boston, we were lucky to see her once a month. She never came home for weekends."
John Deming, Laura's father, graduated from Brandeis University at the age of 35 but says he disdains formal education at every level. His daughter was home-schooled.
Laura Deming, left, at age 6 with her grandmother, whose neuromuscular problems have now inspired Laura to work on anti-aging technology. Credit Family Photo
"I can't think of a worse environment than school if you want your kids to learn how to make decisions, manage risk and take responsibility for their choices," Mr. Deming, an investor, wrote in an e-mail. "Rather than sending them to school, turn your kids loose on the world. Introduce them to the rigors of reality, the most important of which is earning your own way." He added, "I detest American so-called 'education.' "
His daughter's quest to slow aging was spurred by her maternal grandmother, Bertie Deming, 85, who began having neuromuscular problems a decade ago. Laura, a first-year fellow, now spends her days combing medical journals, seeking a handful of researchers worth venture capital funding, which is a continuation of her earlier work.
"I'm looking for therapies that target aging damage and slow or reverse it," she says. "I've already spent six years on this stuff. So far I've found only a few companies, two or three I'm really bullish on."
She, too, has tasted failure. "The venture capitalists I met out here were skeptical at first," she says. "People say no all the time. I had a lot of bad rejection at the start. It took a couple of months to get them to understand that while early-stage research isn't profitable, it can be later if you structure the company very well."
But thanks to the Thiel Fellowship, access to some of the nation's most successful businesspeople is quick and easy. "I made a list of the 50 people I wanted to meet, and I've met almost all of them," she says. "It's really the connections you have and the people you know. I've had really positive feedback and gotten some really large amounts of money."
Her father calls her Little Miss Relentless. Not all parents are initially so enthusiastic, however.
Another Thiel fellow, Noor Siddiqui, 18, is the daughter of parents who were born in Pakistan. "This is shocking for my parents," she says. "It's not the safest road. I had to apply in secret." But she has postponed college — she was accepted to Brown University, the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, among others — to try to help poverty-level workers in developing countries connect with North American businesses. Her parents now know about the fellowship, and are supportive.
Frances Zomer, who runs her own accounting firm in Toronto, wasn't thrilled when her son, Christopher Olah, 19, decided to leave the University of Toronto, a top-ranked Canadian school. He had already spent a year there studying math.
"The hardest part was him not going back to school," Ms. Zomer says. "The door had closed."
Now Mr. Olah divides his time between his mother's home in Toronto and a so-called hacker hostel, for aspiring tech entrepreneurs, in the Bay Area — and Ms. Zomer has changed her mind completely. "This is stuff you don't learn in a classroom. He's blogging, he's teaching, he's writing software," she says. "I think it's brilliant. I know so many people who've gotten a B.A. and have nothing to show for it."
But what if Silicon Valley doesn't work out?
"Failure has crossed my mind," Ms. Zomer acknowledges. "There are three possibilities. He's extremely successful and he stays. He's not successful and he stays. He can always come home. It's his life."
Dylan Field, 20, had already interned for Flipboard, the app for browsing news and social media, when he won a Thiel Fellowship. He left Brown to work on a browser-based photo application — a sort of no-cost, easy-to-use, amateur-friendly competitor to Photoshop, which is designed for, and largely sold to, professional users.
Christopher Olah, 19, with a 3-D printer and printed objects he designed. Credit J. Adam Huggins for The New York Times
When it comes to regular folks, "most of our creative tools are broken right now," Mr. Field says. "If I have an idea without the tools to bring it to reality, that's a moral wrong. Our tools need to be improved and made accessible. I think that market is huge."
He has become close friends with Mr. Olah, who is writing software to enable three-dimensional printing.
Mr. Olah, who volunteers much of his time when in Toronto, is unusual in this group of innovators, many of whom are intensely driven to market their creations. "I'm not starting a company right now," he says. "I want to make awesome tools available to other people."
Connor Zwick, 19, left Harvard to work a game application for smartphones — he calls it the "coco controller" — that he hopes will "revolutionize mobile gaming." For him, as for several other fellows, the Thiel Fellowship's gifts of time, money and access seem almost an afterthought.
If fellows focus all their energy on the fellowship and not their own work, "you're doing something wrong," he says. "You've lost focus. The benefit is the validation for our ideas. The money is nice, but I already have enough income from my projects that I don't need it."
SOME people question Mr. Thiel's blunt dismissal of the college experience, both inside and outside of the classroom.
Anthony Carnevale, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, says that the fellowships themselves are nice, but that the message is destructive.
"These very unusual and talented kids are in a very high-powered learning environment," Mr. Carnevale says. "They're enormously privileged people who've been allowed to develop all their horsepower with no constraints. I think it makes you an odd duck."
A college education remains essential for people from less privileged backgrounds, says Carmen Wong Ulrich, co-founder of Alta Wealth Management, a three-woman investment firm in New York City. "Many African-Americans and Asians can't even afford to ask the question, 'Is college worth it?' "
Ms. Ulrich, born in Harlem, grew up in a family of six. She and her mother worked as waitresses. Today, she mentors young Latinos.
"We're not all starting from the same starting line," she says. "While I certainly support some of Mr. Thiel's ideas, his kids are miles ahead of too many others. Go to Silicon Valley? Start your own business? Many of us are the first in our family to even attend college."
Mr. Carnevale says of the program: "It's a lab experiment. We'll see."
Because of an editing error, an article last Sunday about the Thiel Fellowships, which pay recipients to forgo college to work on real-world projects, misstated the middle initial of the fellowships' creator. He is Peter A. Thiel, not Peter H.
A version of this article appears in print on September 16, 2012, on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


When you are going to London, some of the things you should realize are that this is a great venture and the important thing is to understand what you are getting into. This is a beautiful place that might turn out to be overwhelming. The other thing you should put in mind is that you have to understand what you will be getting into. Here are some of the pointers you should put in mind when you are thinking of relocating to London.
You have to understand that doing your research on accommodation is something which will pat off. If it is options, you will find many, and this is the reason you should strive to get the one which is ideal for you. When you are looking for the right accommodation, some of the things you should understand is that there are many websites you can use.
The other thing you should understand is that setting up an account might take a while The thing is that when you are doing this, then you should note that you will need to have an account and this is something that should be done as fast as possible. However, some of the things you should note is that the application process might be longer when you are in London. You have to understand that most of the banks will not allow you to do the application before you get to London. You should note that when you are doing this, you will need to deal with specific paperwork, and that is inclusive of the EU ID card. The thing is that the entire process might take up to up two weeks and if this is the case, you ought to be prepared.
Some of the things you should put in minds about London is that the language and the etiquette matters. Some of the things you should note is that most of the people in London speak English as their first language. Thus, you need to take something to learn the language. The other thing you should note is that when you are doing this you should be mindful of your way. The thing is that you should be as well behaved as you can.
When you put these facts in mind, you will not have anything to be worried about, The important thing is that you have to be prepared for the change.


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Der Paso de la Cumbre (deutsch: "Passage des Gipfels") ist eine stark genutzte Möglichkeit zur Querung des Hauptkammes der Anden zwischen Mendoza in Argentinien und Santiago de Chile in Chile.

Namensgebung
Der Pass ist auch unter den folgenden Namen bekannt:
 Paso Libertadores – wegen der 1817 hier erfolgten Überquerung des Gebirges durch chilenisch-argentinische Truppen unter Befehl von Juan Gregorio de Las Heras
 Paso Uspallata – nach der letzten größeren Siedlung auf argentinischer Seite
 Paso del Cristo Redentor – nach einer 1904 errichteten Christusstatue auf der Passhöhe
 Paso Iglesia – nach einer auf chilenischer Seite errichteten Kapelle
 Paso Bermejo – nach der rostbraunen Farbe der umliegenden Berge

Lage
Der 3.834 Meter hohe Pass liegt bei 32°50′ südlicher Breite und 70°4′ westlicher Länge südlich der heute durch den Túnel del Cristo Redentor verlaufenden Ruta Nacional 7 nahe der Siedlung Las Cuevas.

Verlauf
Der Anstieg auf argentinischer Seite erfolgt durch das Tal des Rio Mendoza, wobei an der Embalse Potrerillos die Vorgebirge der Anden erreicht werden. Noch vor Erreichen des Flusstals ergibt sich in Richtung Südwesten ein großartiger Ausblick auf den Tupungato. Bis Uspallata steigt die Straße kontinuierlich an und verläuft in Richtung Norden, wendet sich in dieser auf etwa 2.000 Meter gelegenen Gemeinde dem Verlauf des Flusses folgend nach Südwesten. Nahe der argentinischen Grenzkontrolle in Punta de Vacas gibt das Tal des Rio Tupungato letztmals einen Blick auf den gleichnamigen Vulkan frei. Die Passstraße verläuft nun parallel zur stillgelegten Eisenbahnstrecke nach Westen und passiert hierbei Puente del Inca und einen Aussichtspunkt mit Blick auf den Aconcagua, bevor er die Grenzsiedlung Las Cuevas erreicht. Während der kommerzielle Fernverkehr heute ausschließlich den Tunnel benutzt, werden Touristen nach wie vor über die zahlreichen Spitzkehren bis zur Passhöhe befördert.

Die chilenische Seite des Passes – schon aufgrund der geographischen Gegebenheiten wesentlich steiler als die argentinische – wird durch das Tal des Rio Juncal gebildet; nahe Los Andes wird das Valle Longitudinal erreicht.

Grenzkonflikt
Seit 1817 besteht ein internationaler Gebietsanspruch.

Siehe auch
Liste der Territorialstreitigkeiten

Weblinks

 Seite der Gendarmerie (spanisch)

Einzelnachweise

Gebirgspass
Provinz Mendoza
Pass in den Anden
Región de Valparaíso
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At the end of a secluded track, away from the village and surrounded by trees, our campsite offers a peaceful and beautiful place to pitch your tent.
Walkers and cyclists are welcome (absolutely no vehicles are allowed) throughout the summer months. The campsite has space for 25 pitches.
The campsite has basic facilities – a WC, cold water tap, seating, a barbecue and a bike rack. And that's it – it's deliberately low-key. Our visitors love its simplicity – but if that's too spartan for you then you're very welcome at our B&B across the road.


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Judy At Carnegie Hall: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
The late 1950s were tough on Judy Garland, but this live recording, cut on April 23, 1961, at Carnegie Hall, would (rightfully) bring the legendary icon back into the spotlight. Live would go on to win five Grammys, be Garland's bestselling record, and confirm that, yes, on certain levels, she still had it. Her vocals are as strong as ever on these tunes, and Garland has fun with an audience obviously enraptured by her charms. She's self-deprecating where necessary--on "You Go to My Head" she "forgets" the lyrics but pretends to improvise. Mostly she just shines, especially on tunes she made famous, such as "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Stormy Weather," and "Over the Rainbow." This is easily one of pop music's greatest live recordings and a fine testament to Garland's recorded legacy. This two-CD set has been remastered for EMI's 40th-anniversary reissue to coincide with the ABC film based on daughter Lorna Luft's memoir Me and My Shadows (and is also available in a 24-karat-gold audiophile format released in 2000). --Jason Verlinde
Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Rise
Without a time machine, this 2001 remastering of Judy Garland's April 1961 concert in Carnegie Hall is your best chance to attend that legendary performance and roar from the stalls. You may want to retain your pre-1989 set for quickest access to the songs, but for Judy in all her thrilling range--diva, clown, raconteuse--this is the clearest bell. Bravo!...more info
One of the great show business nights of all time
'Wikipedia' says that this is considered by many to be the Greatest Show Business Night of all time. Anne Edwards in her biography of Garland gives an almost song- by- song account of the night. The overwhelming love of the audience to Judy Garland was returned in her giving everything she had. Her greatest numbers were performed on this night, and her voice was at her best.
Garland is not simply a great singer because of the distinctive quality of her voice but also because of the unique power of emotion, of true feeling he conveys.
This is a classic performance at the highest level....more info
Jazz lovers will appreciate this album too -- it's not just show tunes!
I had long ignored Judy Garland because I unjustly assumed she only did campy show tunes. Big mistake. Yes, she does do some obligatory Broadway hits (e.g. "That's Entertainment"); but her performance here is much more versatile than I expected. Most of my musical collection favors singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sara Vaughan, and Nina Simone, etc. but Garland is a comfortable fit.
Best example: on disk 2 she sings "Stormy Weather" - a song made big by the likes of Ethel Waters and Lena Horne - both phenomenal singers themselves - but their versions are easily dwarfed by Garland's performance of Mort Lindsey's* arrangement of this classic blues standard. Garland's voice is a torrent of emotion that transforms the song from one of common heartache to one of profound and inescapable despair. (*Lindsey and his orchestra are impeccable and deserve a lot of credit for letting Garland shine at her brightest and making this show so unforgettable.)
Going back to Disk 1, there is another song - one I had never heard before, which is surprising because it is a masterpiece that can not be ignored: "Do it Again". It is one of the sexiest songs ever written and Garland sings it with irresistible seduction - it's a sort of refined and romantic alternative to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."
I played "Stormy Weather" and "Do It Again" over and over for weeks - those two songs alone are worth the price of this CD set. So, if you like jazz and big bands - folks like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett - don't hesitate to add this to your collection. It really is a brilliant performance you will enjoy again and again....more info
Best Judy Garland album ever
If you like Judy Garland this album will send you over the top. It is the ultimate "must have" for Judy Garland fans. Her voice is strong and clear. She takes the audience to emotional heights and leaves you wanting more. After listening to this album you will agree that Judy Garland was one of the best singers of all time....more info
As thrilling now as it ever was!!!
If you're a JUDY fan (and who isn't?) this is the CD you MUST have. Her voice is at it's best on every song. Fabulous back up band. You will listen to this for years to come....more info
"We'll sing 'em all and we'll stay all night!"
If there has ever been a better live album than Judy at Carnegie Hall, I'd like to know what it is. Simply exhilarating in audio, one can only imagine what it was like to be in that audience in 1961. How did they manage to not spontaneously combust? There are so many spin-tingling moments that one is hard-pressed to choose a favorite. From the subdued and sublime ballad If Love Were All to the raucous tributes Chicago and San Franciso, Judy covers all the bases and hits a home run every time. Even when she forgets the lyrics, as she does in You Go To My Head, she does it brilliantly and with charm. I've owned this album in one form or other since I was a kid in the 1970s and I never get tired of it. Even if you think you don't like this kind of music it is an amazing experence. Buy this. Buy it now....more info
Incredible concert!
I actually have not listened to the CD myself, yet, but it was a gift to my sister, and she really loves it. This was at the very top of her Christmas list, and she's not the least bit disappointed. Very easy way to make a Judy Garland fan extremely happy! ...more info
Classic Garland!
This is a must for all fans of Judy Garland, it really captures what she was all about....more info
The reissue does justice to - and improves on -the original
I've had the original 1960s reel-to-reel tape release of this album for years. The original sound engineers did such a spectacular job that I was nervous about how this completely remastered and reengineered CD might sound. Would Mort Lindsay's Orchestra sound as full and lush? Would the live, concert-hall feel survive all the digitizing and remixing?
The CD engineers got it very right. The concert sounds great, *and* they reinstated all of Garland's banter between songs (much of which was missing from all of the previous tape, LP and CD releases). It gives this two-CD set a unique, you-are-there feel.
Admittedly, half a century after the fact, one or two of the lyrics might seem culturally insensitive. But put yourself in the era, sit back and enjoy. Garland's passionate rendition of so many classic tunes and the dynamite orchestrations make this one of my favorite concert albums in any genre....more info
Great Memories
Its really nice to hear Judy sound so good. Those of us who went through life with her are aware of the changes in later years. Though no longer with us in body the sound of her voice brings Judy back to life....more info
"JUDY" AS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE... A MASTERPIECE!
Listening to Judy Garland's "Judy At Carnegie Hall" album, listners have the chance to experience the sensation of a genius at the apex of her career. This 1961 five-time Grammy winner (including the prestigious Album of the Year) boasts the dramatic Garland in powerful voice, unflinching emotion, soaring to sensational highs during the twenty-six song concert.
Beginning with an overture combining Garland's "The Trolley Song", "Over the Rainbow", and "The Man That Got Away", Garland arrives onstage to great applause as she launches into "When You're Smiling." The next two hours is a thrilling ride with Garland as she belts out trademark numbers like "Come Rain Or Come Shine", "The Man That Got Away", "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", and "Over the Rainbow", while combining in showstopping numbers like "That's Entertainment", "San Francisco", "Swanee", "The Trolley Song", and "Chicago".
Through these songs, Garland's artistry and emotional intensity sear through her performances, proving that she doesn't even need an orchestra to be great: several numbers are performed only with piano accompaniment, like the bittersweet ballads "A Foggy Day" and "If Love Were All". Yet the orchestra, led by Mort Lindsey, features predominantly in creating the magic of this concert. The exciting overture is one of the greatest you'll ever hear, while shrill trombones, oboes and clarinets set the mood for "The Man That Got Away". Violins and violas introduce the dramatic "Alone Together", and the whole orchestra seems to have fun with reckless numbers like "You Go To My Head", and "Just You, Just Me".
The whole concert is clear as crystal to the ear, and even offers listeners the chance to experience Garland as a witty and delightful raconteur as she remembers past escpades in Europe: "And he took one look at me and was, uh, quite discouraged and he said, 'Now, the first thing we must do is you must look NOTHING!, nothing like Judy Garland, nothing like yourself!' So the night of the performance, he came backstage with about nine assistants, and my hair... it just got taller, and taller..." And: "And the zipper in the back wouldn't stay zipped, so i stuck a great big safety pin over it... and the pin came undone and right in my derriere; I've never sung so high and so fast!..."
Garland commands the applause of the 3,165 attendee audience from start to finish; in fact the audience is begging for more at the end of what was intended to be a ninety minute show. Garland quips, "You really want more; aren't you tired?" "NO!" they scream clearly, begging for more.
Called "one of the greatest nights in show business history", by those in attendance that memorable night, this is the closest anyone can get now to a live Garland performance. And luckily, the album is so clear, and the sound quality so good, a front row center seat at Carnegie Hall wouldn't have had any more impact.
A masterpiece of showmanship and entertainment, and one of the last really great performances given by one of THE greatest entertainers of all time, "Judy At Carnegie Hall" is a genuine, still sparkling gem in the crown of popular entertainment.
As an avid Garland fan, I could not believe this CD. I was overwhelmed... for years, I'd listened to the original recording on the double-CD set, and I bought this for posterity. But the second I plugged it in, I was blown away... this is a recording REMASTERED, and you can actually tell it, and you KNOW from the first seconds that this is infinitely superior to the original recording. Mort Lindsey's incredible overture was more exciting than I'd ever heard it... and Judy... oh... she REALLY DOES SOUND LIKE SHE'S STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU. She sounds beautiful, crystal clear, and her dramatic abilities play through her numbers like never before. Every song becomes a whole new experience on this remastered edition. I am so grateful that this restoration has been done... this is "Carnegie Hall" as it was meant to be heard. The orchestra doesn't sound tinny anymore, but polished and ebbulient all the way through. This is the definitive Judy Garland performance. This is what we've been waiting for. And for those of us who were never lucky enough to see Judy perform live, well, this magical concert is truly the closest we'll ever get. Funny... Judy's never been gone... in fact, Judy's just been reborn all over again....more info
Judy in her prime!
This legendary album by Judy Garland was cut on April 23, 1961 at Carnegie Hall, New York City. In this 40th Anniversary set, she sings all her famous tunes, including some new numbers, and fills each song with emotion. For example, listen to "The Man That Got Away," "San Francisco," "Over the Rainbow," and "Swanee." These songs truly show Judy at her best, and, like all of the songs she performed that night, show little or no hints of her troubled, hard personal life. Remember, she was tragic, like many superstars of that era were, put she pulls out all the stops and sings at her very best....more info
No lover of popular music should be without this album. I wish I had purchased it years ago myself....more info
FRONT ROW CENTER...CARNEGIE HALL
I am always rather reluctant to admit that if I could go back in time for three hours and be at any place in history...it might be front row center at Carnegie Hall at 8:30pm on Sunday evening, April 23rd, 1961. Around this time of the evening is when Mort Lindsay's band struck up the legendary Garland Overture (including the Trolley Song, Over the Rainbow and The Man That Got Away.) Minutes later Garland herself stepped out from the darkness and into the spotlight where she greeted thousands of fans and thundering applause (a lengthy and continuous wave of applause I have since read about and which has certainly been edited due to length for this live concert recording.) Soon afterward, Garland launched into what has been hailed during her time and in subsequent years as the greatest evening in show-business history.
So if I can't be there, I certainly feel front row center with this recording, now remastered and on CD. It is impossible to list favorites here...how do you determine and assign an order to greatness when every performance is genius? Garland's voice is unbelievable, unstoppable, unrelentingly powerful. After an incredible opening medley of "Almost Like Being in Love" and "This Can't Be Love", she rises to power with song after song culminating in "The Man That Got Away" and "San Francisco"...then serenades the audience with the equally-powerful soft melody of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Again, why make a list here? Any omission of songs, performances and silly banter here would be a tragedy. This is pure joy and pure excellence. Don't miss it!...more info
OK for rabid fans, but everyone else beware!
This historic event in Garland's career is a must have for rabid fans, but these CDs do not feature Garland's voice at its best. I felt embarrassed for her just listening to her voice fail to hit the right notes on so many songs, not to mention she sounds very raspy throughout. The last four or five songs are the best (she had over an hour to warm up, I guess). After hearing all the hype, I really wanted to buy the gold edition when it came out some months ago. The $40 or so seemed too steep for me, until I recently received a gift certificate to Tower Records. : ) I wish I had spent the money on something else -- even a better recording (or two at this price!) of Garland taped in studio. Casual buyers beware!...more info
The best there is...
What else can be said about this album that hasn't already been said. If you have ever enjoyed this album in the past then this cd will certainly be a treat...it contains the entire concert from unedited start to unedited finish. It is wonderful to hear the banter and to listen to Ms. Garland work the room. Just amazing....more info
Stop what you're doing and buy this CD now!
I admit, I was never a great fan of Judy Garland prior to listening to this CD. Well, I'm a huge fan now, and with very good reason. Judy at Carnegie Hall is without question the most exciting live performance I have ever heard. Judy is flawless, the orchestra is amazing, the music selection is perfect, etc. etc. What I like most about this CD, though, is that its sound quality is so clear and balanced that you can't help but feel you are right there in the crowd with her. Favorite tunes? A second-place tie between the energy of "Who Cares," the swing of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," the excitement of "Rock-a-bye My Baby," and the transcendence of "Swanee." They're all fantastic, amazing. I challenge you to listen to the Carnegie Hall crowd go nuts after Swanee and then say this isn't the best live performance ever recorded. But the heart of this performance is "Over the Rainbow." The last "somewhere" Judy sings is incredible; in one word, one note, she captures the innocence of the life she once had as a young woman and the weariness she now feels in middle age. If you're even reading this review, it probably means you care about great music. Do yourself a favor and buy this CD. You will not stop listening....more info
A GREAT CD BUT THE LP IS BETTER
Don't get me wrong. I love the pure sound of the CD and it thrills me every time I listen to this album through headphones. The added Judy chatter is wonderful and funny. But being a live album, I always wonder why the sounds of the audience are pushed back so far in remastered CD'S?
On the 2 record set, the audience cheers and applause are right up there, and gives the performance an even more exciting feel, especially on That's Entertainment, San Francisco, Swanee, and when Judy says: "I'll sing 'em all and we'll stay all night!" The cheers and roars are incredible! Isn't this what a "live" recording is supposed to be about? The same thing was done to Shirley Bassey's Carnegie Hall album.Why tamper with a masterpiece? Let the audience get involved and stop pushing them back!
Bought this for a gift to my parents for their 62nd wedding anniversary. They love it!...more info
The Greatest got Better!
I always thought Judy at Carnigie Hall was the greatest album ever made. Finally it is produced in all the technical splendor it deserves. The voice, the orchestrations, and the rapport with the audience is as magical, as it is timeless. Twenty five of the greatest songs ever written are sung by the greatest performer ever born. Her voice was never better, and the recording of it, along with Mort Lindsey's gorgeously arranged orchestra produce a unique blend of sophistication and funk that I can only describe as magestic. I can't think of any album that makes your stereo sound this good. The overture alone is worth the price of admission. Hail to Dorothy! Long live Judy at Carnigie Hall!...more info
JUDY LIVES ON
Judy Live At Carnegie Hall is an amazing achievment in the career
of Judy Garland. This double C-D is filled with over twenty heart stopping songs such as 'The Man That Got Away','San Francisco',
and many more. A definite , definite must for any Judy Garland
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Fortieth Anniversary Edition IS Essential
This is an essential live recording and one of the best CDs issued for Judy Garland. Her voice is robust as ever and her performance here and delivery is exceptional and among her best ever. Her essential standards are here and are so endearing. Godspeed Judy, you voice remains forever. ...more info
There are several releases of "Judy at Carnegie Hall". First is the 1961 LP. It excluded all the between track chatter and the pitch was set fast so that it could be made into a 2Lp set. Great recording. Second, a single CD was released by Capitol in 1987 to voluminous complaints...it was incomplete. Third, a two CD set was released in 1989 by Capitol to compensate for the single CD that didn't include the whole concert. It was mixed, and complete, except for "Alone Together" for which a studio copy was inserted. A SMASH!!! but it still wasn't the exact concert... In 2000 DCC released the two CD GOLD Disc set that was the ACTUAL CONCERT. It was un-mixed, un-edited and pure..a dream for the Judy fan. But, dreams aren't always reality. Mixing sometimes helps a concert...so there is Judy at Carnegie Hall Remastered. It is mixed, with the original "Alone Together" and in proper track order and with less alteration than the 1989 or 1961 releases. The best bet for anyone interested in the best live concert ever recorded. The DCC release IS the purest, but it is expensive. As for this CD, "there's none better"....more info
Good Example of Judy
This is a great group of performances by Garland. However, the audience in the background is annoying at times. Some tunes are much different that later in her life. All in all I enjoyed this album....more info
Judy's greatest concert triumph to be re-lived over & over!
Judy Garland was undoubtedly the greatest entertainer of her time, probably of all time. This Carnegie Hall concert was a triumphant comeback for her, and thank goodness Capitol Records recorded it. It became a best selling LP and won many awards, and now it's back in a stunning remastered edition. A must-have for any fan of great American music.
My one quibble (and a major one): Why the moronic additional liner notes? So poorly written, they read like a bad elementary school book report. I guess any obsessed fan can pass him or herself off as a professional writer to clueless record label employees nowadays. A terrible insult to the presentation of one of the all-time classic albums in the history of recorded music. Surely they could have gotten someone else to cast a little well-written perspective on this great classic recording. Judy deserves better and so does the buying public. Shame on you, Capitol!...more info
How could anyone miss the splendor of this concert?
After reading Paul from DC's review, I felt compelled to write an addendum to my original review (Judy Becomes a Legend at Carnegie Hall)....
I don't think you need to be a "rabid" fan to enjoy what I feel (and about 39 other reviewers feel up to this point) is perhaps the best live performance ever by any entertainer in the history of live music. This concert is more than just a singing success, this concert epitomizes Judy Garland's lifelong victory over obstacles and struggles that faced her seemingly every day of her life. She's not just singing the songs, she's proclaiming to the world that there isn't anyone who can stop her from doing what she loved to do the most--and that was entertaining her fans.
This concert features Judy at her "best" voice and while Paul from DC laments Judy' failure to hit "the right notes", one wonders which concert he was really listening to. From the very first song ("When You're Smiling"), to the very last ("Chicago"), Judy's voice is strong, stable and incredibly forceful--not even close to Paul's "raspy" description. At the same time, she sings the softer songs ("If Love Were All", "Do It Again") with emotion and care, with the kind of sensitivity only Judy could give to a song.
I'm sorry, Paul from DC, but you completely missed this one. This is a wonderful, magnificent, victorious concert for Judy and one that I have listened to over and over again. It was an amazing night at Carnegie in 1961, and I urge all those who have not yet purchased these CDs to purchase them now. You won't come away feeling "embarrassed" for Judy at all. You'll come away feeling her happiness, her love for the audience, the audience's love for her, and you may just shed tears for this wonderful woman who ascended above so much adversity to claim yet another victory in her life....more info

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With earnest fascination, we gathered around a laptop on a wall-mounted plinth in the back hallway of Guccivuitton, a Little Haiti gallery founded in April by three Miami-based artists. On the screen: multiple windows in a jagged parallelogram, inside which green code crawled downwards, multiplying in slow horror like the thing itself—a virus. We were watching a live hack, one happening of the entropic software that erodes the back end of luminous Internet experiences.
A feat of this magnitude, however insolent and elitist, is the product of a collaboration between Art404 and the infamous hacker group Anonymous, whose participants span the world in unification of anarchistic and anti-capitalist agency. In the spirit of friendly skill-sharing, the action produces an enigmatic truth of efficacy ("look what we did, what we can do") that is both critical of the monetizing fervor of neo-liberal economics and a brash celebration of them.
Other works are similarly ambivalent and mutable, producing dimensionality in both their position and status as art objects, performances, documentation and/or ephemera. A rack of custom T-shirts featuring brand mish-mash in digital aesthetics is a sculpture, yet the tees are also sold as part of the artists' exclusive fashion line. As Net or Post-Net art, the distinction opens up a stubborn and unexpectedly traditional conversation about medium specificity. Artworks created and designed to function and be experienced online are associated with the first term, where as Post-Net shares with the rapidly anachronizing New Aesthetic, describing a digital style which is extracted into tangible form.
Other works do not follow these rules at all: a large-scale projection, roughly 10 feet by 10 feet, loops a 5-ish minute "trailer." The video, replete with scintillating audio, employs every trick in high-end cinema to lull viewers into the sense of comfort and anticipation as before watching a big budget movie, while at the same time jumbling brands, branding platforms and inserting content to reveal the tactics and our own susceptibility to them. The video, which turns out to be a high-def advertisement for their own status as artists through this particular language, is the splash page of Art404's website. How and where does this material exist authentically? What does its permutation from one form to another do conceptually, aesthetically? As one of the Guccivuitton gallerists suggested, maybe it's just as dumb as everything else is.


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The project that I entered last year is called 'Lay Off' and it explores the world of night shift workers.
This mode of shift work is spreading significantly in service sectors, communications and trade, creating a "global village" of people that no longer differentiate between day and night.
My intention was to offer a voyeuristic view, spying into moment in the lives of life of these workers. In the series all my subjects are unified by one defining characteristic; loneliness.I tried to catch this loneliness and make it visible through a timeless, spaceless and almost detached atmosphere.
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The Burger King fast food chain in Russia has taken down an ad depicting a 17-year-old victim of rape and beating. It comes after social media users clashed over Diana Shurygina's case – some supporting her, others saying the rape never happened.
On Tuesday evening, Burger King posted the image on its page in the Russian social network Vkontakte, showing a girl with the haircut and clothes Shurygina wore on a TV talk show where she told of her ordeal.
The underage Shurygina was allegedly raped at a party, with the 21-year-old perpetrator Sergey Semyonov sentenced to eight years behind bars (the sentence was later reduced to three years). Many Vkontakte users blamed the victim, saying she provoked Semyonov or outright lied about the rape. There are around 25,000 supporters in the group supporting him, and about 10,000 in the group set up to support the girl.
On the Burger King poster, the girl makes the same gesture she used on the show to indicate how much vodka she had drunk before the assault: "Just a little."
In the ad, it seems to mean that the special offer – buy one burger, get one free – "won't last long."
Following the posting, users began to express their indignation with the Burger King social network managers.
"This is the last straw, I'm not buying their food again," one of the more moderate Facebook comments goes. Other reactions ranged from an astonished "What the f*ck?" to calling the advert's authors "F*cking jerks."
Some users say the wrote emails to Burger King's US headquarters to have the ad taken down, though there's no indication they ultimately affected the decision.
The ad was eventually taken down, with no reason given. There has been no official statement from Burger King so far.
It is not the first time this story has been used over the last two months, though. The media outlet Life posted an ad saying their website has news and "a little bit of memes," referring to Diana's gesture about the vodka.


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We've probably all been there. We buy some new smart gadget and when we plug it in for the first time it requires an update to work.
So we end up spending hours downloading and updating before we can even play with our new toy.
But what happens when we can't update our gadgets any further?
Every year vendors such as Apple and Google add to their list of vintage devices that no longer get operating system or security updates.
For example, owners of the Pixel 2 smartphone (released by Google in 2017) were told in late 2020 they would no longer receive regular scheduled system updates and security updates.
Upgrading to Google's newest smartphones won't insulate them from this problem for long. Owners of the latest Pixel 5 are told to expect this device (released in October 2020) to be made vintage in 2023.
While Apple has a reputation for supporting devices for longer than Google and Samsung with Android, even Apple owners are occasionally in for a shock, such as those users who bought the Apple Watch SE or Apple Watch 3 late last year only to discover it only works with an iPhone 6s or above.
When technology doesn't communicate. Screenshot/Apple.com – [CLICK to enlarge]
Even if an operating system vendor still supports a device, this presumes the apps and network connections will still work for older devices, which is not always the case.
The unrelenting march of technology
Technology is not what it used to be. Twenty years ago, we could buy a laptop and everything would work pretty much the same for over a decade.
For example, switch on an old Windows XP machine (no longer supported by Microsoft) and any installed Word and Excel software will be there just as we left them, still available for your document and spreadsheeting needs. (We need to be careful about updating any software as then it might not work on the XP machine.)
If we want to play some old computer games, there's an argument that an old machine or operating system will be a better choice to play on as a newer machine will run the game too fast, or be incompatible and not run it at all.
Gaming on a 25 year old laptop.
But the world of technology has changed in the last ten years or so. More and more apps need a network connection to operate, or take advantage of new features in the software or hardware that didn't previously exist such as augmented reality (AR), so they need a new device to work.
Cables, chips and wireless networks
Even on the hardware front, there are concerns. Try and attach our old fitness band to our new smartphone and we might find the Bluetooth protocol it uses to communicate is no longer supported, or the servers they used to run were attacked and taken down by hackers.
Backers of the original smartwatch, The Pebble, found themselves on the wrong end of this situation when the company was bought by Fitbit, who decided to shut down the Pebble servers. This effectively turned all Pebble watches into paperweights, although an unofficial fix was developed.
The original Pebble smartwatch. Wikimedia/Romazur, CC BY-SA – [CLICK to enlarge]
Assuming the hardware works, we might find the network connection deserts us.
The WiFi Alliance last year announced a new WiFi standard, increasing speeds for countries that support it.
But it's already the case that older WiFi devices running on older standards can have trouble connecting to new networks, and even if they can they are likely to slow down the whole network.
In the world of cellular networking, some parts of the old 3G network (famous for powering the iPhone 3G released a little more than ten years ago) has been shut down in some countries (including Australia), with the whole service destined for the dustbin in several years. Even if we could power up that old iPhone, it wouldn't get any phone service.
A call for sustainable technology
So what's the solution to this problem of disposable and expiring technology? One suggestion is that manufacturers move to making devices more modular, comprised of several detachable components.
Components could then be replaced as they expire, just like we are able to do with desktop computers by replacing the video card, sound card or other components.
Some manufacturers, such as Essential, Motorola and Google have all tried this approach with a modular phone but with limited success.
The modularisation process results in a larger, more cumbersome device in a world where thin and svelte is everything.
Perhaps the best we can hope for is for manufacturers to work harder to recycle and upgrade devices for consumers. Companies such as Apple already do this, with machines that can disassemble iPhones and remove the precious metals and components for recycling, but more work needs to be done.
Daisy, Apple's new iPhone disassembly robot.
In particular, the commercial aspect of these initiatives likely still needs to be worked out. Some service providers offer trade-in in deals for old phones but you still have to pay for a new phone. Many people aim to use older devices to avoid paying for a new device after all.
Until manufacturers are willing to perhaps just do a straight swap of that old gadget for a new model with no money down, it's likely we will still live in our expiring device culture for a while yet.
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Between various meetings and getting ready for the upcoming RPAC auction, the last month has kept the Government Affairs Department busy.
Our Government Affairs Director (GAD), Jamie McMillen, met with the City of Beachwood's Economic Development Director, James Doutt, and his assistant, Sally Deitrick. The trio discussed the city and its attributes, as well as the footprint of the Akron Cleveland Realtors since the merger.
The GAD also sat down with representatives from the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office regarding a prescription drug drop off program. The representatives noted that many prescriptions are now considered as valuable as jewelry and cash. The S.O. is encouraging Realtors® to educate their clients about the safe and proper disposal of unused medications, especially before an open house. Additionally, it is important to note that medications should not be flushed down toilets or emptied into sinks as they can contaminate the area water supply. Secure drug drop boxes are available throughout Cuyahoga and Summit Counties, with a list of locations available at RXDrugDropBox.org.
The Legislative Committee is continuing its work on the development of a comprehensive policy manual. They have also been monitoring legislation in Bedford Heights that would require property owners of rentals to identify an Agent in Charge. The group's concerns include, but are not limited to, the identified person being just as responsible for the property as the owner (court appearance, fees, compliance, etc.); no safeguard in place to ensure a Realtor's® signature is not forged on a document; and it was unclear what would happen if no AIC was identified. An analysis of the ordinance was completed and a letter was sent to the mayor about some of those concerns. The legislation was tabled giving the City a chance to review many of points raised by ACAR.
Mayors were invited to join ACAR in recognizing April as Fair Housing Month. To date, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, Mayor Merle Gorden of Beachwood, and Mayor Michael Byrne of Parma Heights have joined our efforts.
The Legislative Committee and RPAC Trustees would like to remind ACAR members to vote in the May 6th Primary. The Ohio Association of Realtors® is supporting Issue 1, a renewal of the public works bond issue that has served Ohio communities successfully for 27 years. More information is available here.
Last but certainly not least, we hope you will join us for the annual RPAC auction on Thursday, May 8th, from 5 – 9pm at the Shiners' Hall in Broadview Heights. The theme is, "There's No Place Like Home." The auction block promises to have something for nearly everyone. Some of big ticket items include a big screen Smart TV, excellent seats for different Indians games, Jimmy Buffet tickets, and much more to be announced on the ACAR Facebook page. Click here to register and learn more.
The Government Affairs Director can be reached at jmcmillen@AkronClevelandRealtors.com.


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For fans of B52's, Bush Tetras and Talking Heads! Dry, dead pan vocals chant over skittish guitar and danceable 70s grooves—songs snapping like rubber bands—seesawing between post-punk and its insomniac twin sister disco. With contradicting references as overt as Talking Heads (without the shoulders), but as specific as Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra (with some polka dots), the band is carrying a funky torch that does not get lit too often. A Brooklyn DIY super group of sorts, Public Practice combines members of freshly-dead punk project Wall and local pop band Beverly. Public Practice backs their ambitious song writing with serious chops, their live shows already pulling them into the sharp foreground of a scene growing all too warm-and-fuzzy.
Songs like the sarcastically-titled Foundation deep-fry Beach Boys guitars in ice-cold-but-somehow-funky Scritti Politti grooves. Add a dead pan David Byrney vocal, and Public Practice remind us again how integral it is to use honesty and self-reflection to bring some of life's double-standards to light.
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Five adult high school graduates honored
Monday / June 17, 2019
June 2019 graduates and instructors from right to left: Instructor Ricarda Drummer, Kerie Zierstorf, Nicholas Sam, Keaton Thorn, Jana Kapayou-Bear, Maria Ibarra, and instructor Kathy Siebring. Several others earned their diplomas but could not attend due to work or family scheduling conflicts.
Five graduates were recognized at the adult high school equivalency graduation ceremony at Marshalltown Community College last week. The graduates received letters of congratulations presented by Jon Nunez, Iowa Valley's Director of Adult Literacy Programs, and a short commentary was read by instructor Kathy Siebring regarding each graduate's future plans.
Nicholas Sam said his biggest challenge was motivating himself to get the work done, and he thanked his entire family for their encouragement; he plans to take additional classes in welding or engineering. Jana Kapayou-Bear said her biggest challenge was math and missing work while she attended classes, and she said she was inspired and encouraged by her family, especially Sean A. Bear and her five children: Cherilyn, Adam, Grant, Kelvin and Lyrise. Jana is employed at Red Earth Gardens and plans to continue working there as well as continuing her education at Marshalltown Community College.
Maria Ibarra said her biggest challenge was starting from scratch with math and science, and that she was inspired by her daughter not to leave the challenge unfinished. Maria encourages others to never give up, saying she failed four times before finally passing the tests, but she was successful in the end.
Keaton Thorn said the essays were his greatest challenge, and that he plans to continue seeking a better paying job. Kerie Zierstorf thanked her family and teachers for their encouragement, noting she plans to continue her education to become a substance abuse counselor. She advises others to never give up, no matter how difficult the coursework may seem.
Guest speaker Dr. Chris Duree, IVCCD Chancellor, told their graduates and their families and friends that the graduates have proven something special. "Life has thrown you curve balls, but you've stayed in the game and now you've won this game! I'm exceptionally proud of you, and I challenge each of you to keep going. Your potential is unlimited, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
Each graduate received a certificate symbolizing their dedication to lifelong learning. The graduates also each qualify for a New Opportunity Scholarship worth $400 per semester in college, provided they maintain a qualifying grade point average.
Each year, Iowa Valley Continuing Education (IVCE) presents a Director's Scholarship award to the student who achieves the highest score on the high school equivalency tests. The June graduating class Valedictorian was Jarrett Williams, who may use the Director's Scholarship to cover full tuition and fees for one year at either Marshalltown or Ellsworth Community College.
Thirty-three IVCE students have earned their high school equivalency diploma since July 1, 2018. For information about high school equivalency diploma classes offered through Iowa Valley Continuing Education, call 641-754-1348. Classes are offered in Grinnell, Iowa Falls, Marshalltown, and Tama.


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Interview: VISIONS OF ATLANTIS
Title: Grown by resilience
The ancient sea god Poseidon, he should get even more wet eyes with the new album of the Austrian Symphonic Metal visionaries Visions Of Atlantis.
Finally, the exceptionally stable formation with the hit-strong "The Deep & The Dark" delivers their most convincing and most timeless work to date. Lovers of the genre will discover a seductive collection of songs of exquisite, compositional purity and remarkable, vocal exclusivity.
Even Clémentine Delauney and her male counterpart Siegfried Samer shine on this direct hit release with brilliant performances.
Clémentine, with joy in her voice at the start, is pleased with the compliments.
How do you feel now, after having finished the vocals for these new, truly outstanding collection of superior listenable Visions Of Atlantis songs?
"Thank you for such a compliment! I am extremely happy that we finally managed to put a record out. For some years we had lost all hope this would ever happen. I am so happy to go on tour and present the songs to the audience!"
How complicated was it for you to bring in your vocals in the new songs?
"It has not been very complicated to be honest. I worked on the vocal lines closely with our producer, Frank Pitters from Silverline Music, who was very open minded and willing to give me a lot of freedom. I wanted to sing in a way that would go with the music and the emotion I felt. We decided not to go with classic singing on the whole record and I am so happy we made that choice! I could use my voice in many ways and this is something I love to do. We also changed keys when necessary, so that I could feel more comfortable. Recording these songs was just pure pleasure!"
Sounds like the 'real' ones for an Visions Of Atlantis album have finally come together, right?
"Well, yes and no! This album was supposed to be written and recorded by the very founding members of the band but it didn't happen the way we wanted it to. So, in the middle of the year, last year, we had to change plans and take serious decisions. Mike Koren, the original bass player, recorded the bass on the album, but the rest has been done by the new line up. As Werner, Mike and Chris couldn't join us for the shows either, we had to play live with other people, Christian and Herbert, and it has been very natural for us to ask them to join the band when we realized we couldn't go on with the line-up we had. Now we finally have the right team to work with and play live!"
To my mind, "The Deep & The Dark" is the masterpiece of Visions Of Atlantis. Your opinion?
"Oh, thank you! Well, it's very hard for us to qualify our own work as masterpiece but we all agree in the band that this is the best album Visions Of Atlantis has ever released. We are very happy with the songs we managed to come up with and people at shows seem to really enjoy them! We do get a lot of compliments every night!"
How did it feel in the studio to sing the songs and which one(s) were the most exciting for you to vocalize?
"As I said I felt very comfortable even though this record was also a great opportunity for me to explore my vocal range and my limits! I truly enjoyed recording the ballads as I could go in details, singing softly with my chest voice, which I never really did in the past. But I also loved being able to go full force like I do on 'Book Of Nature' which was a challenge singing wise!"
What fascinates you most about the sea, shores, all the sailor-myths and classic seafaring?
"The unknown, the power of nature…oceans are so impressive, intimidating, full of stories, treasures, wonderful animals. I love the idea that back in the days, before we had discovered most of the lands, one could decide to sail in one direction and maybe discover a new land … a new civilization, new cultures. I would have loved to be an explorer!"
Have you ever been on an old sailing ship?
"Nope, but I think I will do this one day! I love old ships, they carry history and it must feel like a genuine way of sailing!"
What is your personal "The Deep & The Dark" in your mind?
"This title refers to what is dark and hidden deep inside ourselves, our demons, our secrets, our fears, but it also refers to the darkness our world is experiencing out there, when hate and terror rise, when people lose their humanity, when the thirst for power lead men to manipulate and exploit others… Many of our songs can have a double meaning whether the darkness lies inside or outside …"
Do you have faves among the new songs and why?
"This is very hard for me to tell which song I like most because I honestly love them all! I have special feelings for 'Ritual Night', 'The Last Home' and 'Prayer To The Lost' as they deal with very personal topics …"
What are you most looking forward to when it comes to upcoming Visions Of Atlantis gigs?
"We are currently on tour and the reactions from the audience on our new songs have been fantastic so far! We had high hopes people would enjoy this new album but without having any certainty this would really be the case, so to get such feedback on our show every night is absolutely wonderful!"
In which country would you like to perform?
"I would love to play my own country, France, and then do a US tour someday! I would love to play in Japan, Russian, and tour Latin America, I know people are waiting for us over there!"
Any additional words?
"I would like to thank all the people who knew and liked Visions Of Atlantis from before and haven't gave up on us! It took us a long time to put that record out but we are finally back and we hope this new record will be the first chapter of a long new era!"


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CHAPTER 3. ELECTIONS.
ARTICLE 3. VOTING BY ABSENTEES.
§3-3-8. Disposition and counting of absent voters' ballots.
(a) In counties using paper ballots, all absentee ballots shall be processed as follows:
(1) The ballot boxes containing the absentee ballots shall be opened in the presence of the clerk of the county commission and two representatives of opposite political parties;
(2) The ballots shall be separated by precincts as stated on the sealed envelopes containing the ballots; and
(3) Absentee ballots shall be delivered to the polls to be opened and counted in accordance with section thirty-three, article one of this chapter, section fifteen, article five of this chapter; and section six, article six of this chapter. Disclosure of any results before the voting has been closed and the precinct returns posted on the door of the polling place shall be a per se violation of the oath taken by the counting board. In all other counties, counting is to begin immediately after closing of the polls.
(b) In counties using optical scan systems, the absentee ballots shall be processed as follows:
(1) On election day, the ballot boxes containing the absentee ballots shall be delivered to the central counting center and opened in the presence of the clerk of the county commission and two representatives of opposite political parties; and
(2) The absentee ballots shall be counted in accordance with section twenty-seven, article four-a of this chapter.
(c) In counties using direct recording elections systems, the absentee ballots shall be counted as follows:
(1) On election day, the ballot boxes containing the paper absentee ballots shall be delivered to the central counting center and opened in the presence of the clerk of the county commission and two representatives of opposite political parties; and
(2) Each absentee ballot shall be recorded on a direct recording voting terminal designated by the clerk of the county commission as the terminal for absentee tabulations, after being read aloud by a separate team of two representatives of opposite political parties; and
(3) The ballot shall be verified by both teams as being accurately printed on the paper receipt before the ballot is tabulated; and
(4) The appropriate election officials shall follow the procedures set out in subsections (a), (b), (d) and (e), section twenty-seven, article four-a of this chapter and subdivisions (3), (4), (5) and (6), subsection (c) of said section.
(d) The provisional ballots shall be deposited in a provisional ballot envelope and delivered to the board of canvassers.
(e) Any election official who determines a person has voted an absent voter's ballot and has also voted at the polls on election day must report the fact to the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the votes were cast.
Previous§3-3-7. Delivery of absentee ballots to polling places.
Next§3-3-9. Voting in person after having received and after having voted an absent voter's ballot.


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