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SERAPHIC FIRE RETURNS TO THE STAGE FOR THEIR 2021-22 SEASON
Published by Rhett Del Campo On March 16, 2021
Laura Shand
Laura@SeraphicFire.org | 305.692.0201
Music of Bach, Handel, Purcell, Pergolesi, and a collaboration with stage director Francesca Zambello on Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo virtutum will headline an exciting season of live performances
MIAMI – Following the success of this year's Season S delivered in multimedia, Seraphic Fire, Miami's professional vocal ensemble, announces a return to in-person concerts with the release of its 2021-22 Season. Musical highlights include Pergolesi's immortal Stabat Mater with Baroque stars soprano Lauren Snouffer and countertenor Reginald Mobley, a second installment of the Enlightenment Festival with two weeks of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Henry Purcell, and the official CD Release concert of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo virtutum performed in a new staging by internationally lauded stage director Francesca Zambello, a first-ever for the ensemble. Performances of the complete Messiah by George Frideric Handel, a program of music for men's voices, and Seraphic Fire's annual Christmas concerts round out a triumphant return to the stage.
"We, the artists and staff of Seraphic Fire, are incredibly excited to return to musical normalcy," says Seraphic Fire artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley. "After a year of producing many hours of programming for our audiences who were confined to their homes, it is a great relief to know that we will be able to return to that very special audience-ensemble relationship that we have with our enthusiastic supporters in South Florida."
After an entire season that was modified 'on a dime' by the enterprising ensemble, Seraphic Fire will celebrate togetherness with a menu of masterpieces from across the centuries. November sees the return of South Florida audience favorite countertenor Reginald Mobley and international opera star Lauren Snouffer in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's hauntingly beautiful Stabat Mater.
In January, for the first time ever, Seraphic Fire will collaborate with the Opera and Broadway stage director Francesca Zambello in a new staging of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo virtutum. This theatrical treatment of Hildegard's magnum musical opus coincides with the ensemble's CD release concerts of its new disc Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum, the first complete recording of the work.
The Enlightenment Festival returns this year featuring two giants of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach and Henry Purcell. Bach's Cantata 147, featuring the immensely popular chorus Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, headlines a show featuring the incisive Cantata 62 and Bach's seldomly-performed Mass in g minor. Henry Purcell's skill as a writer of love songs is in the spotlight for the first week of the Enlightenment Festival.
By popular demand, Seraphic Fire brings back two highly anticipated programs that were canceled due to the pandemic: a complete performance of George Frideric Handel's eternal oratorio Messiah, and Biebl: Ave Maria, a program featuring the breadth and depth of music written for men's chorus. Rounding out the season will be Seraphic Fire's candlelight Christmas concerts, and the singing of Silent Night, Adeste Fideles, and Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.
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Lauren Snouffer, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Seraphic Fire returns for Season 19 with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's celebrated sacred work Stabat Mater. Completed in Pergolesi's final weeks of life as the young composer battled tuberculosis, the Baroque work is tender and expressive. The solo talents of Seraphic Fire artists Lauren Snouffer, soprano, and Reginald Mobley, countertenor, illuminate in this chamber work featuring arias and duets with strings and organ.
Thu, Nov 4, 7:30pm | Miami
Sat, Nov 6, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale
Sun, Nov 7, 4:00pm | Boca Raton
South Florida's favorite holiday tradition, A Seraphic Fire Christmas, returns with Associate Conductor James K. Bass. In what promises to be a joyful celebration of the holiday season, Seraphic Fire singers will serenade audiences with classics like Silent Night and Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, surrounded by the warm glow of candles.
Tue, Dec 7, 7:00pm | Naples
Wed, Dec 8, 7:00pm | Sarasota
Sat, Dec 11, 7:30pm | Miami Beach
Sun, Dec 12, 7:00pm | Ft. Lauderdale
Tue, Dec 14, 7:00pm | Boca Raton
Sun, Dec 19, 4:00pm | South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center
Hildegard: Ordo virtutum (CD Release Concert)
Francesca Zambello, stage director
Seraphic Fire celebrates the release of its newest recording, Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum, with a performance of the work in a new production by lauded Opera and Broadway stage director Francesca Zambello. The women of Seraphic Fire portray the struggle of the sweet-voiced Virtues against the songless, shouting Devil. Written in 1141, the Ordo virtutum has survived nearly 900 years through plagues, wars, schisms, reformations, and the dissolution of Hildegard's convent. Celebrate as the women of Seraphic Fire bring this nearly millennia-old masterpiece back to life.
Thu, Jan 20, 7:00pm | Naples
Sun, Jan 23, 4:00pm | Miami Beach
The Enlightenment Festival: Music of Bach, Moore, and Purcell
If Music Be the Food of Love: A Valentine's Day Concert
Margot Rood, soprano
Henry Purcell's charming and intimate love songs take center stage for this concert featuring soprano Margot Rood and the Seraphic Fire chorus. "If music be the food of love," the Seraphic Fire ensemble will "sing on" with playful English madrigals in a delightful concert for the love minded in the audience. Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies round out this program. Bring your special Valentine for this serenade!
Thu, Feb 17, 7:30pm | Miami
Sun, Feb 20, 4:00pm | Miami Beach
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
The Enlightenment Festival continues with two of Johann Sebastian Bach's great cantatas. Cantata 147, Hertz und Mund und Tat und Leben, contains one of the most memorable melodies in all of music, known in English as Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Cantata 62, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, features arresting choruses and luxurious arias sung by members of Seraphic Fire. Additionally, Bach's seldomly performed Mass in g minor features the entire ensemble in ravishing counterpoint.
Sun, Feb 27, 4:00pm | Boca Raton
Biebl: Ave Maria
Associate Conductor James K. Bass leads the men of Seraphic Fire in a rousing concert of sea shanties, German partsongs, and the centerpiece of Franz Biebl's iconic Ave Maria. Biebl wrote Ave Maria for an all-male Bavarian Firemen's Chorus in the summer of 1959. Seraphic Fire now performs the Biebl and explores the tradition of music for men's choirs that inspired this singular work. This stirring concert showcases the men of Seraphic Fire in a presentation of favorites as well as new compositions from Ileana Perez Velazquez and Seraphic Fire University of Miami Student Composer-in-Residence, Melissa D'Albora.
Thu, Mar 24, 7:00pm | Naples
Handel's Messiah has been in continuous performance since virtually the day of its premiere. Given its first performance in Dublin, Ireland, Messiah was instantly recognized by audiences and critics alike as a singular piece of music. For the first time since 2004, Seraphic Fire will perform Handel's complete work. From the excitement of For Unto Us a Child is Born to the magnificence of the Hallelujah Chorus, Messiah is one of the consummate masterpieces of the Baroque canon. Though now most commonly performed at Christmas time, Seraphic Fire will perform the masterwork in April as a tribute to its original composition for the Easter season.
Thu, Apr 28, 7:00pm | Naples
Sun, May 1, 4:00pm | Boca Raton
ABOUT SERAPHIC FIRE
Seraphic Fire brings together professional vocal and instrumental artists from around the country to perform repertoire ranging from medieval chant and Baroque masterpieces to commissions by leading living composers. The Seraphic Fire media catalog contains 16 releases. In 2012, two of the ensemble's recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas, were nominated for GRAMMY® Awards.
Seraphic Fire's artistic accomplishments also have translated to partnerships with The Cleveland Orchestra and New World Symphony, among others. At the forefront of Seraphic Fire's mission is a commitment to community well-being and musician advancement through educational programs for South Florida's underserved elementary students, as well as rising music professionals at University of Miami, Florida International University, UCLA, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
ABOUT REGINALD MOBLEY
Particularly noted for his "shimmering voice, a voice which also allows lucid and pure levels" (BachTrack), countertenor Reginald Mobley is highly sought after for baroque, classical and modern repertoire.
Reginald leads a very prolific career in the United States, where he resides. In March 2020, he became the first ever programming consultant for the Handel and Haydn Society following several years of leading H+H in his community engaging Every Voice concerts. He is a regular guest with Cantata Collective, Musica Angelica, Agave Baroque, Charlotte Bach Akademie, Seraphic Fire, Quodlibet, Pacific Music Works, Bach Collegium San Diego, San Francisco Early Music Society, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra…. Recent engagements have included concerts and recordings with organisations such as Opera Lafayette, Miller Theatre (Columbia University), Blue Heron in Boston, Chatham baroque in Pittsburgh, Washington Bach Consort. Most of the recordings are available online.
In Europe, his career is expanding; in the UK, he has toured with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists for the last five years, and continues to do so, and has performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music and was due to make his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in June 2022. He was also invited to perform with the OH! (Orkiestra Historycsna) in Poland and the Vienna Academy in Austria (Musikverein), gave a recital (with a Spiritual programme) at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, toured with the Freiburger Barockorchester under Kristian Bezuidenhout, Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble and the Bach Society in Stuttgart.
In the autumn 2021, he will perform the role of Ottone in L'incoronazione di Poppea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra for a series of concerts in Europe, and has been invited to sing Messiah with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in December 2021. Reginald is expecting to be touring Australia in April 2022 together with Bach Akademie Australia.
His recordings have been received with critical acclaim, including several Grammy nominations, most recently for his work on A Lad's Love with Brian Giebler on BRIDGE 9542 label, which has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. He has also been featured on several albums with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, including a recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion and Magnificat. His own projects include Peace In Our Time on Vgo Recordings label with frequent collaborators, Agave Baroque. He also looks forward to the release of American Originals with Agave Baroque, which celebrates the music of composers of colour.
ABOUT LAUREN SNOUFFER
Recognized for her unique artistic curiosity in world-class performances spanning the music of Claudio Monteverdi and Johann Adolph Hasse through to Missy Mazzoli and George Benjamin, American Lauren Snouffer is celebrated as one of the most versatile and respected sopranos on the international stage.
During the current season, Lauren Snouffer makes her debut at the Opernhaus Zürich in a new production by David Marton of Pergolesi's L'Olimpiade conducted by Ottavio Dantone as well as role debuts as Ilia in Idomeneo at the Opernhaus Zürich conducted by Giovanni Antonini and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Her calendar also includes Handel's Amadigi di Gaula with Trinity Wall Street, Gluck's Orfeo with Tulsa Opera, and Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves at Houston Grand Opera directed by Tom Morris under the baton of Nicole Paiement. She was engaged for performances with Austin Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and with the San Francisco Symphony for Michael Tilson Thomas' final concerts as Music Director.
Operatic performances on leading international stages have fortified the soprano's place as one of the eminent interpreters of contemporary music; she sang the title role of Berg's Lulu in a new production at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago conducted by Pedro-Pablo Prudencio and directed by Mariame Clément, and returned to Houston Grand Opera for the world premieres of The Phoenix by composer Tarik O'Regan and librettist John Caird and The House Without a Christmas Tree by Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek. Other appearances included Handel's Serse for the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe directed by Max Emanuel Cencic and conducted by Georg Petrou and the role of Magnolia Hawks in Francesca Zambello's production of Show Boat for The Glimmerglass Festival.
Lauren Snouffer's concert schedule has yielded collaborations with many of the world's most distinguished conductors and orchestras including numerous performances with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Krzysztof Urbański and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Labadie and Orchestra of St. Luke's, Markus Stenz and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with Patrick Dupré Quigley and the San Francisco Symphony, Harry Christophers of the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, and with Marin Alsop and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.
Past seasons include Houston Grand Opera performances of Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Harry Bicket in a production by Michael Grandage as well as presentations of Carousel, Show Boat, The Rape of Lucretia, and L'italiana in Algeri; Lyric Opera of Chicago performances of Rusalka, La clemenza di Tito, and a new production of Orphée et Eurydice directed and choreographed by John Neumeier under the baton of Harry Bicket; a Seattle Opera debut as La Comtesse Adèle in Rossini's Le comte Ory conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti; Die Zauberflöte at Seattle Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City; a new Christopher Alden production of Handel's Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, and Max Emanuel Cencic's new production of Hasse's Siroe at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, with additional performances in Budapest and Vienna.
Closely associated with George Benjamin's Written on Skin, Lauren Snouffer has sung under the composer's baton at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music and with the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Opera Philadelphia. She has performed Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, presented the world premiere of Andrew Norman's A Trip to the Moon with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and joined Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic in the title role of HK Gruber's Gloria – A Pig Tale in a production staged by Doug Fitch.
An impactful discography includes Hasse's Siroe and Handel's Ottone with George Petrou for Decca, Gottschalk's Requiem for the Living with Vladimir Lande on Novona Records, Grantham's La cancíon desesperada conducted by Craig Hella Johnson on Harmonia Mundi, and Feldman's The Rothko Chapel with Steven Schick for ECM.
An alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Lauren Snouffer was graduated from Rice University and The Juilliard School.
ABOUT FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO
Francesca Zambello is an internationally recognized director of opera and theater, as well as the General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival since 2010 and the Artistic Director of The Washingtion National Opera at the Kennedy Center since 2012. She has also served as the Artistic Advisor to the San Francisco Opera from 2005-2011 and as the Artistic Director of the Skylight Theater from 1987-1992. In her current roles at the Kennedy Center and the Glimmerglass Festival she is responsible for producing 12 productions annually. She has begun major commissioning programs for new works in both companies that have resulted in productions of many large and small-scaled new works. Both companies have thrived financially and increased their national and international profiles as a result of her artistic vision and leadership.
Her American directing debut took place at the Houston Grand Opera with a production of Fidelio. She debuted in Europe at Teatro la Fenice in Venice with Beatrice di Tenda and has since staged new productions at major theaters and opera houses in Europe and the USA. She has worked at over 50 major opera houses including: The Met, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Paris Opera, the Bolshoi, Munich State Opera, Covent Garden and the Australian Opera. Her work has also been seen at many of the world's major festivals. Collaborating with outstanding artists and designers and promoting emerging talent, she takes a special interest in new music theater works, innovative productions, and in producing theater and opera for wider audiences.
Francesca Zambello has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for her contribution to French culture, and the Russian Federation's medal for Service to Culture. Other honors for her work include three Olivier Awards from the London Society of Theaters and two Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical and Best Opera. She has also received the award for Best Company Achievement. The French Grand Prix des Critiques was awarded to her twice for her work at the Paris Opera. Other awards include Best Production in Japan, the Palme d'Or in Germany, the Golden Mask in Russia and the Helpmann Award in Australia.
Francesca Zambello's most recent opera projects have included The Ring and Aida for the San Francisco Opera and The Washington National Opera, and Porgy and Bess and Show Boat for commercial DVD release. Musical and theater projects have included developing Voigt Lessons with Terrance McNally and Debbie Voight; Rebecca for Vienna's Raimund Theater, Stuttgart's Palladium Theater (presented by Stage Entertainment), and in St. Gallen, Switzerland; The Little Prince with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman; Napoleon in the West End; The Little Mermaid for Disney on Broadway; the musical of The Little House on the Prairie for national tour; The Master Butchers at The Guthrie Theater; and Aladdin in Disneyland. Film works have included Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors for BBC Television; a new film for the BBC, Sony and PBS of The Little Prince; and West Side Story for the floating stage in Bregenz.
Ms. Zambello has also served as a guest professor at Yale University. An American who grew up in Europe, she speaks French, Italian, German, and Russian. She attended Moscow University in 1976 and graduated cum laude from Colgate University in 1978. She began her career as an Assistant Director to the late Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Francesca Zambello lives in New York with her wife, Faith Gay, a founding partner at Selendy and Gay, and step-son, Jackson.
Patrick Dupre Quigley (b. 1977), conductor, is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has led The Cleveland Orchestra in Mozart's Requiem, San Francisco Symphony in Handel, Bach, Ligeti and Berio, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Bach and Purcell. Recent and upcoming projects include a return to Chicago's Music of the Baroque in Bach and music from Rameau's Castor et Pollux; Handel's Messiah in debuts with National Arts Centre Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony; and Handel's chamber opera Acis and Galatea with his indie-classical ensemble, Seraphic Fire.
Quigley has long championed rising vocal and instrumental concert artists, collaborating with Matt Albert, Dashon Burton, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Christian Van Horn, Bryan Hymel, Reginald Mobley, Kathryn Mueller, Margot Rood, the Spektral Quartet, Lauren Snouffer, Zachary Wilder, and Tamara Wilson. He has commissioned and premiered works by composers Christopher Theofanidis, Nico Muhly, Alvaro Bermudez, Ileana Perez Velasquez, Susan Labarr, Sidney Guillaume, Shawn Crouch, and James Kallembach.
Quigley founded Seraphic Fire in 2002 in Miami, FL. The ensembles' repertoire spans from Hildegard of Bingen to Steve Reich, and their recording catalogue contains 16 albums; two titles have received GRAMMY® nominations. Seraphic Fire enjoys a residency at the Aspen Music Festival, where Quigley teaches and conducts.
James K. Bass, three-time GRAMMY®-nominated singer and conductor, is Professor and Director of Choral Studies at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. He is the Associate Conductor for the Miami based ensemble Seraphic Fire and is the Artistic Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers.
Bass is an active soloist and ensemble artist. In 2017 he made his Cleveland Orchestra solo debut singing with Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra in Miami and in Severance Hall, Cleveland. Other engagements as soloist include the New World Symphony with Michael Tilson-Thomas, The Florida Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra, Firebird Chamber Orchestra, and The Sebastians.
He has appeared with numerous professional vocal ensembles including Seraphic Fire, Conspirare, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Apollo Master Chorale, Vox Humanae, True Concord and Spire. He was the featured baritone soloist on the GRAMMY nominated recording Pablo Neruda: The Poet Sings with fellow singer Lauren Snouffer, conductor Craig Hella-Johnson and the GRAMMY winning ensemble Conpirare. He is one of 13 singers on the GRAMMY®-nominated disc A Seraphic Fire Christmas and appears on CD recordings on the Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Albany, and Seraphic Fire Media labels.
Bass was selected by the master conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Soloists, Ton Koopman, to be one of only 20 singers for a presentation of Cantatas by J. S. Bach in Carnegie Hall and was an auditioned member of Robert Shaw's workshop choir at Carnegie. He has appeared as conductor with the Florida Orchestra during their annual education concerts.
During his tenure as Artistic Director for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, the official chorus of the Florida Orchestra, he was responsible for five recordings and multiple world premieres. In 2012, he served as chorusmaster and co-editor for the Naxos recording entitled Delius: Sea Drift and Appalachia featuring the Florida Orchestra and conducted by Stefan Sanderling. In 2014, he was the principal preparer for the recording Holiday Pops Live! conducted by the principal pops conductor Jeff Tyzik. During his tenure as a chorusmaster he has prepared choirs for Sir Colin Davis, Sir David Willcocks, Jahja Ling, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Gerard Schwarz, Giancarlo Guerrero, Michael Francis, Marcelo Lehninger, Stefan Sanderling, Evan Rogister, Danail Rachlev, Joshua Weilerstein, Markus Huber, David Lockington, Xian Zhang, Patrick Quigley and Neal Stulberg.
His professional career has coincided with the development of Seraphic Fire as one of the premier vocal ensembles in the U.S. He has been actively involved as soloist, ensemble artist, editor, producer and preparer for 14 of the ensembles recordings and routinely conducts the ensemble in Miami and on tour. During the summer of 2011, he co-founded the Professional Choral Institute. In its inaugural year of recording, Seraphic Fire and PCI received the GRAMMY® nomination for Best Choral Performance for their recording of Johannes Brahms' Ein Deuthches Requiem. As the Director of Education for the ensemble he has been involved with annual events that service more than 2000 students in the Miami-Dade county area each year. In 2017, Seraphic Fire and UCLA launched a new educational initiative entitled the Ensemble Artist Program that aims to identify and train the next generation of high-level ensemble singers.
Bass received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami, where he was a doctoral fellow, and is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy.
(Last updated March 2021)
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Last night's episode of Project Runway included a group of senior ladies who were the clients and models for the designers. While fashion is what the show is about, I couldn't help but be captivated by the models' names and knew it was a blog post waiting to happen.
My guess would be that the ladies were born in the 1930s/1940s/1950s. They were all fascinating women, some with great humor, some with a quieter disposition, and some with simple elegance. When I first heard their names, none of them surprised me. I asked myself, "Could their names work today?" Myself has her own opinions, but I also want to know what you think! Let's take a look at the names and their history. For purposes of comparison, I used the names' ranks in 1942 as the basis for their popularity at the time they were given.
Beatrice - #146 in 1942 and #707 in 2011 - Beatrice was ranked the highest in the 1910s and is currently rising slowly, as it should, after being off the charts just six years ago.
Bonnie - #34 in 1942 and not ranked in 2011 (fell off after 2003) - Bonnie was at its height in the 1940s and doesn't seem to be as favorable now. That makes me sad because I think it's lovely.
Deborah - #264 in 1942 and #808 in 2011 - Deborah rose quickly after 1942 and reached #2 in 1955. Upswing Baby Names recently posted on the name Deborah, and I think it's a great read.
Holly - #489 in 1942 and #426 in 2011 - Holly reached its highest ranks in the 1970s and 1980s. Since it was more popular in recent decades, it would probably be considered too dated to rise any higher now.
Iris - #245 in 1942 and #303 in 2011. Iris has been somewhat steady throughout the years... never falling off the Top 1000, but never going higher than #196. For some reason I feel as though this name should be more popular than it is, but instead I'll call it a gem.
Joan - #18 in 1942 and not ranked in 2011 - Joan was very popular in the 1930s and then gradually fell until it dropped off the Top 1000 after 1993. While June and Jane seem to be slow risers currently, Joan is on an opposite path.
Patricia - #3 in 1942 and #667 in 2011 - Patricia was in the Top 10 for the 1930s through the 1950s and into the 1960s, but now seems to be steadily falling. I don't see it rising again soon, but Trixie is a cute and current nickname if you want to use it to honor someone special.
Rosily - has never been ranked - Rosily may have never been ranked, but Rosalie (which is how Rosily is pronouned) was #158 in 1942 and #548 in 2011. Rosily is a great twist on the name Rose, which currently on the rise.
Sheryl - #399 in 1942 and not ranked in 2011 - Sheryl rose quickly from the time it entered the Top 1000 in 1936 until it reached its heights in the 1950s and 1960s and then fell out of the ranks after 1987. The name's sound does not make it a hip comeback contender.
Sue - #73 in 1942 and not ranked in 2011 - Sue is known as a nickname for Susan, but it reached the Top 100 as a given name in the 1940s and gradually fell out of the Top 1000 after 1984. And as a given name, I think it's close to disappearing.
Susan - #21 in 1942 and #781 in 2011 - Susan was very popular from the 1940s through the 1970s, and reached #2 in the late 1950s. I think it was popular for too long to make a rise any time soon.
Which of these names do you think is most wearable today?
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Tiffany March 1, 2013 at 10:33 PM
First of all, those ladies were adorable and I just love this topic! I think Beatrice and Iris are going to be more popular in coming years. Beatrice has a sophiticated, classic sounds but is still one of those "undiscovered" names. (And who doesn't love Bezzus from the Ramona series?) Iris, I think, may be a flowery alternative for the incredibly popular Lily/Lilly.
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There's little question that a mobile-first strategy is essential for any retailer that sells online. However, many retailers today are challenged to develop an exceptional mobile shopping experience. Small screens, hundreds of popular devices, many vendors and competing standards mean that mobile shopping is often a lowest common denominator approach, but it doesn't need to be this way. Technology can greatly simplify building responsive, shoppable, mobile-optimized sites that use the capabilities of popular mobile platforms and provide a rich and engaging experience for users.
Mobile commerce currently accounts for one-third of e-commerce sales, with projections for mobile-generated revenue to increase 177 percent to $109.44 billion from 2015 to 2016. Add to that the proliferation of cheaper smartphones and 5G network bandwidth that's just around the corner, and it's clear the retail sector must adapt to accommodate the mobile transition.
However, there's a fault line in these figures. They're a last-click analysis that only paints a picture of the user who completes a purchase on their mobile device. While this is a measure of sales and reason enough for every retailer to develop a mobile presence, it tells us little about the consumer path to purchase.
Recent research by GfK indicates that up to 40 percent of consumers start their retail journey on one device and complete it on another — and up to as many as three others. Mobile has produced a situation where consumers are, in effect, much more spontaneous. They snack on content, browse and shop, and research and check inventory levels to meet a need that's felt in the moment.
As a consequence, grabbing consumers' attention and immersing them in your products right at the moment that they land on your site by being bold and engaging with rich content is absolutely vital. Your content also needs to be immediately shoppable so that with a single click or touch, the user is already into a retail journey.
The Millennial Factor
As digital natives, millennials are at the forefront of technology adoption. Today, 85 percent of young adults own a smartphone, compared with 64 percent of all American adults. Mobile-only internet usage is becoming the norm. In fact, 21 percent of millennials no longer use desktop computers to go online. Moreover, their expectation of a mobile shopping experience is one that's free from complex navigation and brings a simple user journey into play.
Understanding how millennials use mobile and attracting them as customers helps to cement long-term relationships and protect future revenues. For example, this market segment of 79 million people represents a staggering $170 billion in purchasing power.
When asked what makes their generation unique, millennials ranked "technology use" No. 1 (24 percent). More than a third of them shop on mobile devices at least once a month, and half use mobile for shopping outside the store. Surprisingly, 52 percent say that a brand's use of technology is more important than the brand name itself. With leadership from millennials, mobile is clearly the future.
The Challenge of Development
While Android and iOS have become the dominant platforms, multiple operating systems, browser options, hardware vendors and technology standards make channel-agnostic development difficult. Add to that the complexities of any given path to purchase, and the shift to mobile is challenging.
Smartphones and tablets present a different canvas to work with in designing shopping experiences from traditional desktop. The top complaint in Bizrate's survey of more than 100,000 mobile shoppers was too much pinching and zooming, a hangover of trying to replicate the detail of a regular website experience on mobile.
Consumers don't want to read product information at length; rather, they want a visual, touchable experience that inspires them and provides an easy route to checkout in that moment or at some time later on a different device. Retailers have addressed this with responsive web design, allowing publishers to tailor experiences for different devices. While they take more time to develop, responsive sites achieve 11 percent more conversions than nonresponsive sites, according to Aberdeen Group.
On one hand, there are more opportunities to engage, yet getting the retail experience right across different devices is an increasingly complex proposition. Add to that the need to update sites with any level of frequency and the complexities quickly multiply. In the fashion and apparel industry, for example, presenting the latest or seasonal trends in a timely manner is essential.
However, coding a responsive design with experiences optimized for various screen sizes often means it takes longer to get new looks online. Put that together with planning a collection, organizing expensive content assets like photography, design and iterating on that, and publishing becomes a matter of planning months and months in advance.
Shoppable Content
Embracing the mobile transition and appealing to the tech-savvy millennial market means creating a consistent brand experience regardless of device, location, operating system and screen size, and publishing content faster and more frequently.
Satisfying these needs means using technology that allows in-house teams (with no coding experience) to storyboard and build experiences visually — using drag-and-drop tools and a design canvas that's intuitive and simple to operate.
Bringing these tools into play empowers the user to easily publish content like lookbooks, video and seasonal trend guides, and makes the content elements shoppable by adding multiple links to different elements in an image, connecting the shopper directly to a product splash page or a "Buy Now" button that links to checkout.
Deploying shoppable content right at the start of the user journey boosts engagement and sales. Neiman Marcus, for example, has seen a significant increase in customer engagement after deploying shoppable experiences, including conversion rates skyrocketing to 10 percent (where the industry average is 2.5 percent to 3 percent). Importantly, the cycle from creative design to publishing can take just days or even hours rather than weeks and months.
By focusing on how consumers use their devices and providing a simple yet immersive shopping experience, it's possible to grab attention straightaway, compelling the user to dwell and making them more likely to purchase in that moment or later on another device.
Is mobile worth the fuss? Absolutely, says New York & Company, which sees 67 percent of its weekly site traffic coming from mobile devices. By empowering its team to design engaging, mobile-first experiences without any need for code, New York & Company has increased its creative output four times and reduced time to market from three months to mere hours. How long will it take for the rest of the retail industry to question how they can do the same?
Brian Rigney is the CEO of Zmags, a shoppable content company that empowers e-commerce professionals to create engaging digital experiences.
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Brian Rigney, CEO of Zmags, has over twenty years' experience leading high performing, entrepreneurial teams in launching new businesses and bringing innovative new products to market. For more information on Zmags, please visit their website and follow the company on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
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Deep in the heart of Texas one of the biggest water utilities in the U.S. is building a better organization.
Over the last 60 years the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) has quietly grown from a small operation on the outskirts of Dallas to a major U.S. water utility with over 1.6 million customers over an area the size of the State of Delaware. Rapid growth has stretched water resources, taxed assets, and created organizational challenges. NTMWD is tackling these challenges head on and becoming a world-class utility in the process. Working with Raftelis, NTMWD is engaging stakeholders in innovative ways, implementing new strategies, and using new performance assessment measures.
Following these activities in Phase I, Raftelis identified opportunities for the District to improve its organization. In addition to a range of specific recommendations, Raftelis developed five initiatives to transform the organization. The initiatives are in the areas of: Safety and Risk Management; Training; Asset Management; Maintenance; and Total Quality Operations. Raftelis is working with NTMWD to implement several of the elements of these initiatives and has completed a training master plan.
In conjunction with the organizational development and performance improvement services, Raftelis has provided facilitation services to aid in strategic partnering between the District and its member and customer cities. Raftelis has assisted with updating and reformulating job descriptions for several operations positions. Raftelis is also working with the District Board on Governance strengthening and member relationships.


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The Lion's Den
by Aniruddh C. | Sep 4, 2011 | Entertainment, Films | 0 comments
SINGHAM. Director: Rohit Shetty. Players: Ajay Devgn, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Sonali Kulkarni. Music: Ajay-Atul. Theatrical release (Reliance).
The reason Hindi movies are often referred to as Bollywood movies is because Hindi movies have a rep for borrowing plots from Hollywood movies. While that is true in a some cases, Hindi movies of late have borrowed generously from South Indian cinema, that other India-based movie powerhouse that churns out regional movies by the truckloads. Recent Salman Khan Hindi language hits Ready, Wanted, and Tere Naam were all remakes of movies originally made in southern India. Rohit Shetty's remake of the hit 2010 Tamil entrySingham would have to pass muster as a throwback, retro 1970s-style action flick from a genre presumed to have bit the dust along with bell bottoms and disco. In much the same way as Once Upon A Time In Mumbai managed to do with a well-made retro feel, and despite both cultural and linguistic regional barriers, Shetty's Singham manages to hold its own.
Taking dress, make-up, uniform, dark sunglasses, shirtless and bare-chested cues directly from Salman Khan's playbook, Ajay Devgn finds himself as Bajirao Singham, a newly minted cop who lands in a criminal cesspool where Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Goa meet. The geographical vortex is crucial since Singham's nemesis is the dreaded Jaykant Shikre (Raj), who hails from an upper-crust political family and delights in belittling the provincial cultural identity that Singham represents. In a polished package that resembles Salman Khan's Dabangg in a nice way, the stage is set for a brute force battle of wits and guts between the stoic, soft-spoken Singham and the always strong-arming Shikre.
Singham is the lion-hearted, one-man army up against Shikre, who is a one-man swarm of locusts nibbling away furiously at the fringes of a fragile, tattered balance between order and anarchy. Singham's first name Bajirao, in a nod to 18th century Marathi cultural and military hero Bajirao Bhatt who scored major victories over both the Mughals and the Portugese, also readily molds into an iconography that is exploited for a super-regional cultural appeal. The ethnic flair is extended to the use of colloquial Marathi, some Gujarati, and also Tulu, a smaller yet distinct language with proto-Dravidian roots.
As urban legends go, it is a foregone conclusion that Shikre's unrelenting legions of paid informants, corrupts police officers, ruthless henchmen, and gangsters must eventually blink first against the weight of the far gentler—and, hence, far more weighty—voices that Singham brings to his aid. The chief proponent of Singham's cause is the grieving widow (Kulkarni) of the last guy who held Singham's job. In a restrained role, Kulkarni infuses an air of genteel dignity to the widow as she assuredly and patiently bids for Singham to uncover the truth behind her late husband's mysterious death.
Even though Singham finds time to dilly-dally with gorgeous local lass Kavya (Agarwal, in a decent entry to a Hindi female lead role), the moral compass is always imperceptibly pointed elsewhere on the horizon. For his turn, Devgn's character, playing so much like a stand-in for Salman Khan's role fromDabangg, begs the possibility that the rascally, gray-shaded "cop role" may be the new norm for Hindi film protagonists in this decade. This may be the surest proof that the legacy gifted to Indian cinema by Bachchan's "Angry Young Man" from the 1970s was no mere fluke.
Rohit Shetty's lessons from his father, the legendary action choreographer Shetty, are brilliantly apparent in how well the mano-a-mano fight sequences blend into the story. Yes, there are a couple of stops when the wires are just barely visible. However, given the rapid pacing, there is hardly any time to notice as Singham neutralizes yet another band of Shikre's goons. Director Shetty and lead Devgn have had a string of remarkable box-office hits (theGolmaal franchise, Zameen). After Zameen, Singham may be the first effort that scores equally by both critical and mass appeal measures. These kinds of remakes we don't mind at all!n
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It's been two months since the country's longest serving congressman, Michigan's own John Dingell, passed away. 89.1 WEMU's Lisa Barry sat down with his wife and the person who currently holds that 12th District Congressional seat Debbie Dingell for an honest and emotional conversation about community, civility, and healing.
In Part One of this interview, they focus on the changing roll of women in the workforce and what impact social media is having on society.
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Innovations in enviromental science happen all the time. However, it has mostly been a male-dominated field. In this week's "Issues of the Environment," WEMU's David Fair speaks to Liesl Clark, who is president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, co-founder of 5-Lakes Energy, LLC, and a board member of Advancing Women in Energy, about the need for a diversity of voices in the clean energy sector, especially with a new president about to take office.
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To help spark interest among girls in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, Eastern Michigan University will host a conference on April 22nd called "Digital Divas."
Study: Ann Arbor Businesses Much More Female-Friendly
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Ann Arbor is a good place for women in the workplace, according to a new report.
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Happy Toothache Day! It doesn't sound like the best holiday, especially if you're actually suffering from a toothache. National Toothache Day was focused on dental care rather than celebrating this incredibly painful affliction. It's an important reminder to pay attention to the health of your teeth and gums. Mark it on your calendar as the perfect time to call up your Las Vegas Dentist and make an appointment for a checkup.
Despite the holiday to jog your memory, proper dental hygiene and regular checkups are essential for ongoing health and a bright, beautiful smile. To keep your teeth at the forefront of your mind, here are some unique facts about them.
Although it is possible that specific people dedicated to tooth care were around for even longer, the first known dentist on record was a man named Hesi-Re who lived in Egypt over 5000 years ago. At that time, he probably used a toothbrush from a splintered twig to keep his patient's mouth clean. This practice continued well into the Common Era. An intelligent man in China came up with a more modern design of a toothbrush that uses bristles.Toothpaste came well before the modern age as well. Ancient Egypt was again the source for this helpful solution. Around 400 A.D., the Egyptians used a mixture of abrasive salt, pepper, and mint to freshen their breath and maintain proper oral health. Ancient Romans used crushed egg shells and honey. Fast forward to 1873 and you will find Colgate developing the first modern toothpaste.
Most people stand in front of the sink scrubbing back and forth with their favorite toothbrush for two or more minutes. While this seems to be just a tiny blip in your busy day, all those minutes add up to over 38 days over your entire life. Just imagine how clean your teeth would be after brushing them for that long.Unfortunately, most people do not spend the recommended 2 to 3 minutes brushing their teeth at each session. Instead, the average length of time hovers around just 45 seconds. This may be the reason for so many cavities and instances of gum disease people suffer from.
Most people have seen a detective show where an unfortunate victim is identified by their dental work. This works in real life too because not only are most dental procedures a matter of medical record, but the prints of the teeth themselves are unique. As an added identifier, each person has a different tongue print as well.
While it may seem that our bones have the most strength, it is really the enamel on every tooth in your mouth that wins the title of hardest and strongest. This thin layer of smooth white material is formed from calcium phosphate. It protects the softer inner parts of each tooth and allows us to bite through crisp apples, grind down whole grains, and even crunch bones and check gold coins to make sure they are real.
Scientists use something called the Mohs Hardness Scale to assign numbers to materials based on how hard they are. Tooth enamel comes in at a five, which is the highest designation found for a body part. It is harder than steel and no weaker than the teeth of sharks or other major predators.
Over three-quarters of all Americans will get a cavity before their 18th birthday. Also, three-quarters have trouble taking care of their gums which can lead to infections and disease. Both can result in very painful toothaches and long-term problems. Many people may consider these to be the most serious problems that can occur in the mouth, but teeth reveal a darker truth as well. Over 300 types of bacteria operate inside the average human mouth. These form plaque and cavities without proper dental care. Without management, the bacteria and resultant inflammation can contribute to heart disease, endocarditis, certain cancers, and even premature births for pregnant women.However, it is not all doom and gloom inside the mouth. The dentin in teeth is an excellent source of mesenchymal stem cells. These easily-harvestable cells from deciduous baby teeth are well understood and utilized by researchers and doctors to regrow bone, muscles, blood vessels, and nerves.
National Toothache Day gives everyone the opportunity to pause and consider the importance of proper oral hygiene and overall health. While it can be fun to learn that an elephant's tooth may weigh up to seven pounds or that snails can have 25,000 teeth in their tiny mouths, the true lesson is how well you should care for your teeth. Do not wait until another year or even a few months pass you by. Make and keep regular appointments with your dentist to prevent periodontal disease, avoid a future with dentures or implants, and keep your bright, happy smile for the rest of your life.


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Is the United States winning the global war on terrorism?
Does the prospect of both the Democratic and Republican candidates coming from the state of New York, interest you?
Which U.S. politician is currently your favourite?
Respondents in this ROBBINS poll of U.S. residents are of the majority opinion that the United States is winning the war on terrorism.
A significant minority of respondents find a New York Democrat vs New York Republican (Clinton vs Guiliani) interesting, yet currently the largest number find Clinton vs. Bush the contest they find most interesting.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton lead the field of candidates from both parties. Overall,the Republicans actually achieve a higher number of respondent selections (51.5%) owing to the re-emergence of George W. Bush and upstart Ron Paul (not listed).
A recent poll indicated that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were 'split' on the black vote in the United States. We don't agree. We believe that Barack Obama all but 'owns' the black vote in the United States. Republican John McCain appears to have a higher number of black's supporting him than we might have speculated.


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Poland in the late 1930s has become a very dangerous place for Jews. Isaac Tzvi, a student in the Mir Yeshiva, knows he must escape. But the yeshiva's students and teachers must first get passports and visas to far-off places. Will they be able to flee Europe before the Nazis march in? This is the true story of the Mir Yeshiva's survival against all odds. Join the yeshiva students on their harrowing journey across Siberia, into Japan and China. Readers will be fascinated to learn about the turbulent war years and the miraculous events that helped this famous yeshiva escape to Shanghai.


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Remember when the only way to find out why your printer wasn't working was to call up the support line and wait on hold for 45 minutes? Nowadays we have much more choice, with the introduction of email, live chat, social media, and self-service support.
In this post, I'll show you why interactive video should be a core part of your self-service support offering, and give you some suggestions for how Videopath can help you achieve your self-service goals.
Interchange is located in the heart of Camden Market, surrounded by the hustle and bustle of shop keepers and over 100,000 weekly visitors. The location offers resident start-ups a unique opportunity to go down and interact with a mass of people coming through the market.
In this edition, we sat down with Franz Riedl, Founder and COO of Styla, a content marketing solution for e-commerce. Styla aims to give online shops and brands a platform where they can present their products in shoppable magazines and build compelling stories around them.
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In the second round, we sat down with Lisa Kennelly, Director of Marketing at Clue. Clue is a beautiful and intelligent health app that helps women monitor their cycles and get data based on their personalized analytics.
Each month, we will be publishing an article as part of our Digital Marketing Master Class. In this series, we speak with experts in a range of disciplines: content marketing, sales, e-learning as well as media, and learn about how they use video and the future they see for the medium.
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DHEC announced 1,666 new COVID-19 cases, 48 additional deaths
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By WIS News 10 Staff | July 29, 2020 at 2:32 PM EDT - Updated July 30 at 2:43 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 1,666 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 48 additional deaths on Wednesday.
This brings the total number of people with confirmed cases since the outbreak began to 85,423 and confirmed deaths to 1,551.
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Of the 48 deaths reported, 37 occurred in elderly patients (ages 65 and up) and 11 occurred in middle-aged patients (ages 35-64).
Please click here for the county of residence of each of the people whose deaths were reported.
COVID-19 deaths in SC by date of death - 07/29/20 (Source: SCDHEC)
DHEC also announced five new probable cases and four new probable deaths. That brings the total of probable cases to 423 and the total number of probable deaths to 64 in the state since the outbreak began.
For more information about why DHEC reports probable cases and deaths, keep reading.
DHEC now uses a document to show county-by-county numbers of new confirmed and probable cases. Cases are counted by a patient's zip code of residence.
>> Click or tap here to see new case numbers by county.
Included in this article is context on testing, recoveries, hospitalization, death rates, and more. That information is provided in detail below.
COVID-19 TESTING IN SOUTH CAROLINA*
Negative diagnostic tests (all labs) - 572,645
Positive diagnostic tests (all labs) - 107,992
Total diagnostic tests - 680,567
Negative serology (antibody) tests - 48,452
Positive serology (antibody) tests - 3,319
Total serology (antibody) tests - 51,771
Negative tests of unknown type** - 1,805
Positive tests of unknown type** - 6
Total tests of unknown type** - 1,811
Total number of tests performed in South Carolina by DHEC and private labs - 734,149
*These numbers represent the volume of tests received and not distinct individuals tested. Individuals could have multiple tests.
**Unknown test types refer to tests with an unrecognized type. As (DHEC) continues to investigate unknown test types they will be reassigned as more information becomes available.
DHEC announced it surpassed its monthly testing goal for July by performing 143,336 tests from July 1 to July 16. The goal was 140,000 tests.
>> To find a COVID-19 testing site near you, click or tap here.
While testing during the outbreak has not always been provided in such detail, DHEC officials made clear they have not counted any positive antibody tests as positive COVID-19 cases.
Antibody tests determine if a person has COVID-19 antibodies in their system, meaning they had a previous infection. It does not test for an active infection.
TRACKING PERCENT POSITIVE
The recent spike in cases in South Carolina is not just due to more testing, DHEC officials have said repeatedly.
Percent positive refers to the number of people who test positive for COVID-19 in relation to the number of tests being performed. The percent positive has remained high since early June.
DHEC says the percent positive from 8,360 tests reported to them statewide Tuesday was 19.9% (not including antibody tests).
When daily case numbers are high and the percent positive is high, that indicates more virus spread in the community, DHEC said.
The following chart shows the percent positive over the past 28 days.
Percent positive - 07/29/2020 (Source: SCDHEC)
To see the percent positive since the outbreak began in South Carolina, use the chart below, and click on "Testing."
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COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATION
Since July 22, hospitals have actively been making a transition to a new federal reporting system for proving bed occupancy and other important information. DHEC is monitoring their efforts to transition to the new system.
At this time, DHEC is aware that the information currently provided by hospitals through the new system has inaccuracies.
Once DHEC is able to verify the information the hospitals are reporting as part of this new system is accurate and the system is fully implemented, we will resume our effort to provide daily data reports.
As background, the CDC notified all users of its National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) on Tuesday, July 14, that the COVID-19 Module for Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity would cease serving as an option for hospital reporting during this pandemic.
DHEC issued a Public Health Order supporting the transition from NHSN to TeleTracking on July 15.
Click here for more information on hospital bed occupancy by county.
For information on nursing homes and long-term care facilities impacted by the virus, click or tap here.
COVID-19 RECOVERIES
As of July 27, DHEC has estimated 90% of people who didn't die from the virus, and that they have "symptom onset data" for, have recovered. They only have that data for 36,511 people. Of those people, 1,074 have unfortunately died.
Based on that information, DHEC estimates that about 31,893 of those people have recovered so far. The rest of those people are still fighting the virus, DHEC says.
Note that this data is only available for fewer than half of the total COVID-19 cases reported in South Carolina.
COVID-19 DEATH RATE
When looking at the confirmed numbers of cases and deaths, one could figure the death toll from the virus is about 1.81% in South Carolina.
However, DHEC estimates that for every confirmed case of the virus, there are up to nine other people in the community who have also been infected.
If that is the case, as DHEC suggests, there may have been more than 586,224 coronavirus cases in the state so far. That would mean the death toll could be more like 0.25%.
WHAT ARE PROBABLE COVID-19 CASES AND DEATHS?
On June 18, DHEC announced it would begin reporting probable cases and deaths. A probable case, according to DHEC officials, is an individual who has not had a confirmatory viral test performed but meets the following qualifications:
Has epidemiologic evidence and clinical evidence of infection, or
A positive antibody blood test and either epidemiologic evidence or clinical evidence.
A probable death, according to DHEC, is a person whose death certificate lists COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death but did not undergo confirmatory viral testing.
Find more information on probable cases and deaths here.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO TO HELP
South Carolinians are encouraged to monitor for symptoms, practice social distancing, avoid touching frequently touched items (such as doorknobs and handrails), and regularly wash their hands, especially after being in a public place.
To help protect against COVID-19, DHEC encourages everyone to wear a mask covering whenever in public. When wearing a mask, South Carolinians should:
Make sure you can breathe through it
Wear it whenever going out in public
Make sure it covers your nose and mouth
Wash your hands before taking it on or off
Wash after using
You should not:
Use on children under age 2
Touch the front of the mask
Use surgical masks needed by healthcare workers
DHEC says homemade masks can reduce the chance of people spreading the virus and keep them from touching their face. They are recommended to be worn in places where social distancing is difficult -- grocery stores, pharmacies, etc...
People who have the virus but aren't showing symptoms can reduce their chance of spreading the virus by wearing a mask, so everyone is recommended to wear one.
For a video tutorial on how to make your own mask, click or tap here.
Individuals with signs of illness are asked to stay at home and not attend public gatherings.
FACTS ABOUT CORONAVIRUS
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, is spread mainly from person-to-person by those in close contact, or through coughing and sneezing by someone who's infected.
Symptoms of the coronavirus can show up between two and 14 days of exposure, health officials say. Symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath.
For most people, COVID-19 causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But some severe cases can lead to death.
Most people can recover from the virus at home using over-the-counter medications to treat their symptoms.
Some people who have the virus don't show any symptoms, but they can still spread it to others. The CDC estimates that up to 35% of all cases are asymptomatic.
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Those who are at the highest risk of developing a severe case of COVID-19 are the elderly and those who are already being treated for chronic medical diseases.
The CDC says about 3% of people who show symptoms of the virus need to be hospitalized, but that percentage is doubled for seniors.
Young people who contract the virus are not likely to have a serious case, research shows. However, the CDC said about 40% of people who needed to be hospitalized due to the coronavirus are between the ages of 18 and 64.
Those who are hospitalized with serious cases of COVID-19 have trouble breathing, and many need support from ventilators, which breathe for them. The U.S. is working to produce more of the machines to prepare, but experts fear a shortage of life-saving devices.
Children are the least likely to develop COVID-19. However, a serious but rare inflammatory condition in children has been linked with the coronavirus. Click or tap here to read more about that.
The mortality rate for people with the virus was first widely reported around 2 to 3%, but health experts noted at the time that the actual percentage was not that high, as not all cases are diagnosed or reported.
As of mid-May, the CDC estimates about 0.4% of people who get COVID-19 will die from it.
The rate is higher than the flu, which kills on average about 0.1% of people who get it, based on a 10-year average of data from the CDC.
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Anyone with concerns about their health, or who believes they are showing symptoms such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath, should call their health care provider. Avoid going to the doctor or an emergency room unless the situation is life-threatening.
People without a doctor can take advantage of free online screening from Prisma Health and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).
MUSC has an online platform to aid with coronavirus diagnosis and care. Go to musc.care and access the COVID-19 platform. The service is free with code: COVID19.
Prisma Health also has a free virtual visit, which allows patients to video conference with a doctor instead of coming into a facility. The goal is to keep patients who don't need to be treated at a hospital at home. Go to prismahealth.org/virtual-visit and use promo code COVID19 for a free virtual visit.
For more information on COVID-19, click or tap here to visit the CDC's website.
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PCMag UK | Reviews | Mobile Phones | Review
By Ajay Kumar Aug 28, 2017
Inexpensive. Sturdy design. Solid performance. Dual rear camera sensors. Big battery. Latest Android software.
Unwieldy size. Some bloatware.
The ZTE Blade Z Max is a big screen phablet with dual camera sensors and solid performance, available for MetroPCS users at a very reasonable price.
With the current trend of packing as much display into as little space as possible, people who love truly large phones don't have many options. That makes the ZTE Blade Z Max somewhat unique. Available on MetroPCS for $129, it's a genuine 6-inch phablet that's unapologetically big. That provides plenty of space for a sizable battery and dual rear camera sensors. Combined with current Android software and solid overall performance, the Z Max unseats ZTE's Zmax Pro as our Editors' Choice for MetroPCS subscribers.
Design, Features, and Display
The Z Max is a phone for phablet lovers. At 6.5 by 3.3 by 0.3 inches (HWD) and 6.2 ounces, it's similar to the Zmax Pro (6.5 by 3.3 by 0.4 inches, 6.1 ounces), and significantly larger than the LG Stylo 3 (6.1 by 3.1 by 0.3 inches, 5.3 ounces). You'll probably need to use two hands to navigate your way around the display, and if you wear tight pants the phone may put some strain on the seams of your pocket.
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To make the bulky build a bit easier to handle, the back of the phone has a grippy texture to keep it from slipping. You'll also find a rear fingerprint sensor that's easy to reach with your index finger.
A set of clicky volume buttons and a ridged power button sit on the right, while the left is home to a SIM/microSD card slot we tested with a 256GB card. The bottom has a USB-C charging port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. When paired with wired headphones audio is enhanced by Dolby Atmos software, which uses customized sound profiles, but the phone doesn't deliver genuine high-resolution audio.
The face of the Z Max is dominated by a big, bright, 6-inch 1,920-by-1,080 IPS display. We usually like to see a higher resolution at this size, but for the price it's hard to complain. The panel boasts a respectable 367 pixels per inch resolution (ppi), the same as the Zmax Pro. It's much sharper than the 720p Stylo 3 (258ppi), and while you'll notice some pixels on close inspection, for the most part text and graphics are clear. Viewing angles are solid and colors are accurate. In direct sunlight things can wash out a bit, but remain visible if you crank up the brightness.
Network Performance and Connectivity
The Z Max is available on MetroPCS, which uses T-Mobile's network. It supports LTE bands 2/4/5/12/66, which is similar to the Zmax Pro, aside from band 66 which boosts downlink bandwidth for better download speeds in congested areas. During testing in midtown Manhattan it registered great network connectivity, with a top speed of 20.6Mbps down and 22Mbps up.
Other connectivity protocols are the standard fare. Wi-Fi is supported on the 2.4GHz band only, so you won't be able to connect to a home router on the 5GHz frequency, and the phone uses Bluetooth 4.2. There's no NFC, which is a fairly common omission at this price point.
Call quality isn't the best. Transmissions are harsh and robotic, and noise cancellation struggles to consistently blot out all background sound. This is despite both VoLTE and HD Voice being supported. Earpiece volume is fairly loud, but the back-facing speaker is easy to muffle with your hand.
Processor and Battery
The Z Max is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor clocked at 1.4GHz. It's a common chipset for midrange phones, and benchmarks similarly to other devices we've tested, scoring 46,814 on AnTuTu (a measure of overall system performance). That's about on par with the Snapdragon 617 in the Zmax Pro (47,007), and it outperforms the Stylo 3 (42,131), which has the same chipset, likely due to ZTE's lighter UI layer.
The phone has 2GB of RAM, so it's capable of a good amount of multitasking and can handle running most apps short of high-end games. That said, sometimes you'll encounter the occasional lag, though things never froze up on me completely.
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Battery life is great. The Z Max packs a large 4,080mAh battery that was good for 7 hours and 6 minutes in our rundown test, in which we stream video over LTE at maximum brightness. That surpasses the Zmax Pro (6 hours), and should easily get you through a full day of normal usage and then some. Fast charging is supported with the included adapter.
A dual-camera setup is becoming common among flagship phones, but aside from the Huawei Honor 6X, it's rare to find on more affordable options. In the case of the Z Max, you have a 16-megapixel primary sensor paired with a supplementary 2-megapixel sensor. This combination allows for some cool effects, like Bokeh mode, which lets you focus in on a foreground object while blurring the background. Another mode called Color Catcher makes everything black and white, but highlights a single color. As you can see in the image below, it results in some interesting, Instagram-worthy shots.
That said, neither are perfect. Certain bokeh shots look jagged and unnatural, where it seems like the foreground object was carved out of the blurry background. Color Catcher also has some oddities where certain colors aren't rendered in black and white as they should be, or are only partially colored.
Aside from these features, the Z Max is your standard midrange shooter. Outdoors and in good lighting, it's capable of capturing clear shots. Areas of shadow result in a certain amount of graininess when it comes to fine details, like the brickwork facades of buildings or the individual branches of plants. Indoors and in lower light, image quality degrades. You'll get more blurry shots and more noise.
There are manual controls that let you adjust ISO, exposure, and other elements to improve shots, and those help to some degree, but don't expect to crank out flagship-quality photos. Video recording is the standard 1080p at 30fps, but overall quality is good and generally stable provided your hand doesn't shake too much. An 8-megapixel front-facing camera has a habit of looking washed out, but it serves well enough for selfies and video chats.
Like most new phones now, the Z Max runs Android 7.1 Nougat with some minor visual changes. Mostly, it sticks to a familiar-looking rendition of Android without much in the way of extra features. There are seven preinstalled MetroPCS apps, along with Facebook. None can be uninstalled, but it's still not much bloatware relative to other phones we've seen. Out of 32GB of internal storage, 21GB is available out of the box, and you can always add a microSD card if you need to.
Although it certainly isn't competition for higher-end handsets, the ZTE Blade Z Max is a midrange powerhouse in the MetroPCS lineup. For $129 you get a big screen and battery, along with capable performance and a dual-camera setup that provides capabilities usually only found in more expensive devices. It's a great deal for the price, and a worthy successor to the ZMax Pro. If you're looking for something smaller, the Moto E4 is available for the same price and offers a similar level of performance. But for everyone who loves a big screen, the Blade Z Max is our Editors' Choice.
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Silver City Museum accreditation recognized at Town Council 111219
Category: Front Page News
By Roger Lanse
At the Silver City Town Council's Nov, 12, 2019 meeting, Silver City Museum Director Brett Roselli told council that the SCM has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Roselli said the museum's staff has been working hard, calling it a 'forced march,' to get everything re-organized to meet accreditation requirements, reaching that goal in six months as opposed to most museums needing 18 months. The AAM is composed of 5,000 museums across the country. Roselli said, "This is the highest honor a museum could get in the United States. This is recognized as the field's gold standard for museum excellence and signifies a museum's quality and credibility."
District 1 Councilor Cynthia Bettison reminded residents that the District 1 Territorial Charter Volunteer Work Day is scheduled for 9 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at 23rd and Yucca streets, to test a traffic calming measure. The event will be rescheduled in case of rain or snow. Mayor Ken Ladner then declared Saturday, Nov. 16 to be rain free – no need for umbrellas.
District 4 Councilor Guadalupe Cano assured residents with respect to Gough Park that no construction or changes are going to happen for quite a while yet. "There is a plan and that plan is going to take several years to come up with," she said. "There will be a whole recreational plan that happens before any construction is done."
Ladner read a letter received from two visitors who experienced vehicle trouble while in Silver City and who expressed praise for city employees who came to their rescue.
Gary Stailey, who heads a team of about 14 young people completing various projects around town, reported that on three Saturdays in October and November, the team moved nearly 30 tons of rock to W. Highway 180 medians making it "look so much better." Ladner interjected that the manager of Pizza Hut, completely unexpectedly, donated and brought over several pizzas for the team.
Stailey also referred to an upcoming event on Saturday, Nov. 23, when the team will connect trails around the perimeter of Boston Hill for hiking and bicycle riding.
Council approved a special dispenser permit, and waiver to allow alcohol service near a church, at 601 N. Bullard Street for the Power & Light Holiday Market on Dec. 5, 2019, with alcohol service from 5-9 p.m.
Council also approved a resolution authorizing the town to enter into a loan/grant agreement with the Colonias Infrastructure Board of the New Mexico Finance Authority for improvements to Ridge Road. The grant of $722,000, and loan of $80,000, will allow repaving, and construction of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and a bike lane, from Highway 90 to Pheasant Drive. Town Manager Alex Brown told the Beat this project should be completed in the late summer of 2020.
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While it is unclear as to what was happening during the video, the actions of this officer are not disputed.
Oakland, CA — A short video was uploaded to Facebook Saturday that epitomizes the rift between police and the citizens.
He spat on a man who was filming him.
The act of spitting on a person is considered assault under California law. A California assault can occur even if the touching involved did not or could not cause any sort of injury. It doesn't need to be direct either—it can be done indirectly by causing an object to touch the "victim," according to SHouse California Law Group.
This officer clearly meant to spit in the face of another person. It can in no way be considered a part of his official duty, and he was in obvious violation of the law.
In TIME's cover story this week, a profile of soon-to-be "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert, we learn a great deal. For example: As a child, Colbert said he was "occasionally reckless," destroying cars and chandeliers and anything placed in front of him. He chose the pronunciation of his last name with the emphasis on the second syllable because he thought it had more of a "worldly ring" to it. He has a deep-seated fear that the public perceives him as a politician (and a comedian, secondarily).
Earlier last week, Turkey announced that it is poised to launch "comprehensive" air operations, in cooperation with the United States, against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Syria. That announcement is surely welcome news to the Obama administration, whose campaign to degrade and defeat ISIS is now in its second year. Yet this burden sharing entails costs as well as benefits.
Since taking office, Obama has insisted that in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States' allies will have to shoulder more of the burden in addressing new and ongoing international security challenges. In the campaign against IS, the administration has ruled out the deployment of U.S. ground troops. Instead, the U.S. military has been restricted to launching airstrikes against IS targets in support of local ground forces in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, the administration has pressured regional allies, Turkey in particular, to play a more active role in the conflict.
Yet Turkey's intervention in Syria is likely to prove that the ultimate goals and objectives of America's allies will often deviate quite significantly from those of the United States. Already, the Obama administration has encountered substantial difficulty convincing Turkey to engage in a campaign focused solely on eradicating IS. Ankara has long contended that the campaign must also remove President Assad so that a new government, with greater legitimacy, can reestablish authority throughout Syria. That objective is clearly inspired by a fear that permitting the Syrian Kurds to carve out an autonomous zone in northern Syria would establish a precedent that might prompt the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that Ankara and Washington have both categorized as a terrorist organization, to renew its fight for autonomy from Turkey.