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And just today, I passed a man at work whose t-shirt read, "Talk nerdy to me."(I was tempted to whisper, "Circuit board" as I passed him, but I can't do sultry for the life of me.)

The Kennedy Center Honors for 2006 have been announced: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Zubin Mehta Dolly Parton Smokey Robinson Steven Spielberg From the Washington Post, a quote from Dolly Parton:

Here's the press release from the Met: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/new...ail.aspx?id=224 What excites me most is this:

Yes, it does. Unfortunately, if you want to buy something other than what's in the mini-store, you have to use the search box next to the logo for sales to be attributed to BT.Just be careful not to place two separate orders if you want the free shipping option and two separate items don't add to the minimum purchase needed to qualify.

Over the holiday weekend, I left my half-packed den in a state of disarray and finished (finally!) Anna Karenina. Now back to Jared Diamond's Catastrophe.

Rest in peace, Astrid Varnay. We are lucky that you still live through your recordings.

The long-standing theater protocol for physicians is that they leave their pagers with the house staff, along with their seat number. If their pagers go off, they are summoned by the house staff.

Welcome to Ballet Talk, volcanohunter. We hope you enjoy the board and will introduce yourself on our Welcome Forum by clicking "New Topic" at the top right of the forum page. If we find any official news on the changes, we'll be sure to post them here. Seven new dancers is a lot for a Company of 20 or so. Perhaps the local press will publish an article introducing the new dancers.

This was Clairemarie Osta. (I was mesmerized by her feet.)

To beat an unfortunately not dead horse, from yesterday's Links there's an article from the Orlando Sentinel: Rudeness steals the show My favorite quotes are:

It's done on BT4D. By making the change, a darker blue bar appears under the logo to fill in the vertical space. That's a lot easier than trying to match the logo to somewhere in the graded background, and I didn't even have to do anything more to make it happen Many thanks for your help.

I got word Saturday that the D'Amboise portrait was delayed by a week, but received a notice today from amazon that Gaite Parisienne shipped.

That is fantastic news, canbelto!

2. In the above code section, change the height to "90px", to match the height of the amazon logo. This was easy to do, once I poked around and found where it was located. Not so easy; it requires FTP'ing into the site, which I'll have to learn.Do you know what "tile_back.gif" is? This I can do from work, where I've got the logo.gifs stored. The strange thing is that sometimes the amazon box only extends into the darker bar below the logo, and other times obscures the links bar. Not being particularly technical -- I know enough to be dangerous -- I'm not sure why this happens. But many thanks for your help, and I'll pursue a permanent fix. In the meantime, per carbro's suggestion, I've saved a few spaces by changing the "and" in "Rules and Polices" to an ampersand.

Since the software is optimized for Internet Explorer (IE), which no longer has a Mac version, I'm afraid we Mac users have to deal with the sub-optimal for Firefox and Safari I'm glad you can see the link now. Many thanks for your suggestion to move it to the left.

Did they give you details about what they liked or didn't about the various performances?

What browser do you use, Mrs. Stahlbaum? On IE, I've never seen this, because the logo banner expands in height automatically to adjust to the amazon.com box, but on Firefox, at least on my Mac, the amazon.com box "dips" into the toolbar. The board software is optimized for IE. carbro: I apologize -- I accidentally deleted the line which told people where the link was located from my original post. I moved it over to appear to the right of "Rules and Policies", directly under the logo. This should make it partly visible because the width of the logo should be fixed, regardless of screen size, and the amazon.com box appears to the right of the logo. However, the end of the link may be obscured by the amazon.com box. Thank you to Mrs. Stahlbaum for the suggestion.

"Ecstatic Orange" originally was a stand-alone piece (Winter 1987), to which "Purple" and "Green" were added in the Spring 1987 season.

According to a footnote by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky from their translation of Anna Karenina, "Tolstoy believed that the need for adjusting music to literature and literature to music destroyed creative freedom" (7-7, p.835)But, luckily, Prokofiev ignored this.

The last adaptation of Russian Literature for opera that I saw was Prokofiev's The Gambler, based on the story by Dostoevsky. It was very powerful onstage.

Amazon.com now has a "build your own store" feature, and we're testing it out. We can highlight up to nine DVD's, CD's, books, etc. from the amazon.com catalog. We can change these as more DVD's and books come up in discussion. The purpose is convenience, so that you don't have to search the amazon.com site for DVD's that we talk about here and are available for order/pre-order. (Which sometimes is tricky, especially when they spell the subject of the DVD incorrectly.) The advantage is that we've done the searching for you. The disadvantage, or maybe the advantage to our budgets, is that only those items, and the "recommended" items that appear to the right of the store, can be added to the shopping basket. "Continue shopping" is on the mini-store only. Clicking "Checkout" will prompt you to sign into your amazon.com account, and the order page will be displayed, with default shipping address, default credit card, and the cheapest paid shipping option pre-selected. If you want to change the shipping address, payment method, or select "Free Shipping," you must change your selections on the page. Since the selections will change over time, it's important to refer to the link at the top of the page in posts about different DVD's. A hard link will disappoint if it's obsolete. Please tell me what you think and if you have any problems/encounter any errors with the new mini-store.