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How A Well-Executed Relocation Program Minimizes Employee Downtime and Improves Productivity

What makes for a well-executed relocation program?  That is a question that global mobility professionals ask themselves every day.  It’s how they create the best relocation solutions for their clients, and how they stay abreast of emerging industry trends.  And although relocation involves a set of very complex integrated processes, a well-executed program often comes […]

VERSA Relocation Welcomes Retail and Manufacturing Client

(COPPELL, TEXAS – OCTOBER 8, 2018) VERSA Relocation is excited to announce the addition of a global retail and manufacturing company to its growing portfolio of clients. This manufacturer sells products all over the world under several different familiar brands. The main factors driving the decision to partner with VERSA as their relocation management company (RMC) […]

2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Update

(COPPELL, TEXAS – OCTOBER 5th, 2018) On September 21st, 2018 the U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued a much-anticipated update about whether payments and reimbursements received in 2018 for 2017 relocations would be subject to the old tax law or the new tax law. The decision stated the payments and reimbursements received in 2018 for 2017 […]

VERSA Hires New Manager of Business Development

(COPPELL, TX – SEPTEMBER 24, 2018) VERSA Relocation, Inc. recently announced Andrew Cramer as Manager of Business Development. Starting in the temporary housing sector of the relocation industry in 2012, Andrew has experience managing all aspects of corporate relocation. As Manager of Business Development, he aims to use his gift for developing lasting partnerships through […]

VERSA Adds Rapidly Growing Retail Restaurant Organization to Portfolio

(COPPELL, TEXAS – AUGUST 17th, 2018) VERSA Relocation is happy to announce the addition of a new retail restaurant client to its diverse portfolio. This client, known for delivering a unique and innovative dining experience, is rapidly growing and expanding in the U.S. market. This organization’s culture parallels that of VERSA Relocation, which makes the […]

How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 Impacts Your Company Sponsored Relocation

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which went into effect January 1, 2018, includes a major change for the relocation industry, more specifically, household goods moving. This new act only affects individuals relocating on behalf of their employer, when the employer is funding the relocation. Prior to this newly enforced act, household goods […]

VERSA Welcomes New Relocation Consultants to the Team

(COPPELL – August 7, 2018) VERSA recently announced the addition of Relocation Consultant, Angie Medina and Associate Relocation Consultant, Leslie Escobar. Medina and Escobar are primarily responsible for ensuring VERSA clients’ transferees receive an exceptional relocation experience, from start to finish. Medina began in the relocation industry in 1987, working with Brokers and Appraisers as […]


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We will be contacting you very soon to discuss how we can help grow your business with the power of video.

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To your video success!

Marcus Seeger

Managing Director, Video Experts

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Kolorines Client Testimonial Video

Kolorines: Client Testimonial

Kolorines is a pool tile manufacturer based in Mexico. For 65 years, many award-winning pool builders have chosen Kolorines as their pool tile supplier. In the pool tile business, there are many suppliers to choose from. Kolorines needed a way to set them apart from their competitors, and that’s where we came in. We created a client testimonial video that features an interview with Ocean Quest Pools as they describe why they continue to use Kolorines in their business.

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Redhill March 2017 – Online Entry

We’re preparing to kick off the 2017 season of Vision TKD Championships. Tonbridge will be looking to defend their title as Overall School and our individual Overall Winners will be looking to retain their trophies as well.

Every competition counts throughout the year so your support is both appreciated and vital to the success of your club.

Referee Registration

We’re pleased to announce that Referee Registration is now open for the Redhill Competition.

Referees can register here

Online Entry

Online Entry is now open here and will close on March 23rd at 23:59. Online payment will sadly still not be accepted for this competition.

There will be no Adult Black Belt divisions.

We look forward to seeing you in March!

Vision Taekwon-Do Association


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120 Acre Park Near Vistancia to Begin Construction Soon (Update)

With a new agreement with the Flood Control District of Maricopa County, the long awaited dreams of the new Paloma Community Park are closer to becoming a reality. For residents of the Vistancia Master Planned Community this will be exciting news as the park will be located a short 10 minute drive away. The new park in Peoria AZ is a big undertaking and shows that the city is dedicated to making sure that residents of North Peoria, including those at Vistancia, have great parks and recreation options in close proximity.

New Park in Peoria AZ

Parks of this scale can bring new life to the area and can change the lifestyle of nearby residents. This is exciting news for the growing North Peoria residents, many whom love the outdoors and moved to Arizona to experience the outdoor lifestyle and year-round sunshine.  If you’ve ever been interested in the Vistancia community, the addition of Paloma Community Park in the surrounding area is exciting and welcoming news. After all, the park just adds to an already solid list of family friendly options for Vistancia residents.

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A major development

The new park in Peoria, in many ways, will be more than just a park. With the new agreement allowing for 80 acres (and any future expansions on the 450-parcel) for the park to be developed and maintained on, it’s a massive development that will absolutely change the face of the North Peoria area. City officials are hoping to boost the profile of the community with its park project, one that will provide residents with access to everything from baseball fields to equestrian trails. And as far as Vistancia is concerned, this development can be seen as more of an enhancement of its already considerable charm of all the community really has to offer the city’s residents.

While the park itself is impressive, it’s the care in developing the area that really draws attention. The process will be undertaken in four waves, which will give the community time to assess the impact of its plans and make adjustments over time. It also allows residents a chance to enjoy the space more quickly, as building in waves allows certain sections to open before the entire project is finished. Once the first phases of the park are open, residents are sure to flock to the area to see what all the fuss is about. With construction expected to begin in January of the coming year and an eye set on Spring of 2020 for completion for the first phase, Peoria residents won’t have to wait too long to enjoy the park.

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Huge opportunities

The new development offers a number of huge opportunities for Vistancia residents who already have access to a number of amenities within the master-planned community. Not only will the new space provide a great way for families to enjoy outdoor activities, but the new complex will offer North Peoria residents yet another way to come together and really connect. Whether one chooses to walk on a trail, play baseball and soccer, introduce their dog to other dogs, or attend a community event, there’s simply going to be more to do.

120 acre peoria park

More than a park

It’s important to remember that this will be more than just a park – it’s a recreation complex that can serve the needs of many in the community. This new park in Peoria takes things to an entirely new level by providing a one-stop outdoor experience for families and residents of all ages. The new agreement put in place also allows for more trails throughout the parcel and connecting to already existing trails on West Wing Mountain, which is great news for hikers and explorers alike. Overall, it’s an amazingly in-depth plan that seems very focused on making sure that residents never have to go too far from home to get what they need.

The centerpiece of the park may well be the upcoming recreation center. This moves it from the realm of simply being just park to being something that’s a bit more central to the community. Being able to take classes or participate in indoor sports right in the middle of the park will allow residents the chance to really get more from living in their chosen community. Taken as a whole, it’s clear that this area is going to be something special for all of the residents of Peoria and something that they will be able to cherish for years to come.

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Vistancia at its best

The Vistancia Community already has access to similar amenities like trails, parks and community pools, but a project on this scale shows just how much is being built around Vistancia that makes it a hub of family-friendly activity. The new complex is not only an ambitious project but is one that will raise the profile of the community.

While the project is still in development, it’s exciting to know that this nearby park will soon be a reality. Whether you’re curious about how the community will grow or you’re just looking to enjoy the new amenities offered within and nearby the community, it’s a great time to start looking at life at Vistancia. If you are ready to transition to a tight-knit, healthy community that values the best things in life, contact with Vistancia today to learn more. Also be sure to take a look at our Visitor Center page for more information about the benefits of visiting the Vistancia community in person.

*120 acres is the projected total after all phases are completed. Initially, 85 acres will be built.


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Veterans in Media & Entertainment is a nonprofit networking organization that unites current and former members of the military working in the film and television industry.

Created and operated by veterans, VME makes it simple and easy for the film & television industry to connect with the veteran community working in it. It is a resource for the film/TV industry to find and hire veterans. It is also an organization for veterans who work, or aspire to work, in film/TV to interact with, support, and learn from each other. There are three primary ways to connect with VME members:

1. Our “Veteran Directory”

By using the VME veteran directory on this website, you can search for veterans who work, or are aspiring to work, in all areas of film & television and contact them directly through their personal VME profile. Before any member is allowed to create a profile their service in the U.S. military has been verified so you know you are searching actual veterans. Vets who are actors, writers, technical consultants, gaffers, grips, students, etc. are all in the VME directory. Click here to begin: Veterans Directory

2. Submit an Opportunity

If you have an opportunity (breakdowns, employment positions, events, etc.) that you’d like to offer all or some of our members then you can submit the opportunity to VME and it will be sent to VME members accordingly. PLEASE NOTE ONLY OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO FILM, TV, MEDIA, and ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE ACCEPTED AND SENT OUT.

VME members subscribe to newsletters and alerts that are customized to what their desired profession is so please be as specific and detailed as possible when submitting an opportunity. Once the opportunity is submitted it will be sent to all members accordingly and you will be contacted when that takes place so you know the information has been sent out. Once the information is disseminated VME members can then contact you at whatever method of contact you’d prefer so, when submitting, please be sure to mention how veterans can respond. Click here to offer an opportunity:  SUBMIT NOTICE

3. VME Connect

Connect with veterans in the industry, for jobs, mentorships, and opporutnities.

VMEConnect is a platform that connects veterans to job boards, groups, resources, mentorship opportunities, all focused on helping veterans reach that next career goal. With 80% of all job landed through networking, and with over 75% of of executives say mentoring played a key role in their career development, VMEConnect is critical to a veterans sucess in the civilian sector after active duty.

4.  Speak at a VME Event

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In addition to the website, VME holds regular events in the Los Angeles and New York City areas where members can network as well as learn from various guest speakers. VME events give industry professionals a chance to interact face to face with VME members. Past guest speakers have included Ron Meyer (NBCUni CEO/COO), Gale Anne Hurd (producer: Walking Dead, Terminator films, etc), Robert Ulrich (casting director: CSI, GLEE, etc.), Kurt Wimmer (screenwriter: Salt, Equilibrium, etc.), Dara Weintraub (UPM: Mad Men, X-Men, etc.), and more (click “events” to see past VME events). Each event will have a primary speaker that can have anywhere from 30 mins-1hr to speak and do a Q&A. VME also welcomes speakers who’d like to have 2-5 minutes to address VME members. Speakers do not have to be military veterans. If you’d like to be considered as a speaker at a VME event please click here: SPEAK AT VME

If you are seeking official support from the U.S. military please utilize the contacts on the "resources" page. Click here for official U.S. Military support: RESOURCES

VME is a non profit organization and all events and services are made possible by generous donations. If you'd like to donate to VME you can do so here: DONATE

  • Promote and advance veteran involvement within the media & entertainment industry which includes: film, television, music, gaming, theater, broadcast media, streaming media and the arts.

  • Provide a means for the entertainment industry to connect with, hire, and feature current and former members of the military.

  • Strengthen camaraderie amongst veterans within the film and television industry.

  • Link to professional organizations within the industry (SAG, AFTRA, DGA, etc.)

  • Become aware of our fellow veteran’s talents, skills, and resources.

  • Introduce veterans to successful working professionals by hosting guest speakers and workshops.

  • Create an awareness of veterans working within the industry.

  • Provide a means and venue for mentorship.

  • Pool resources for all phases of film & television production.


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Vietnamese English Dictionary

Tiếng Việt - English

cà vạt in English:

1. tie

Tie your shoelaces.
I'd describe him as a middle-aged man in a yellow jacket, orange tie and a pink shirt.
I used a ribbon to tie my hair into a ponytail.
A conservative tie is preferable to a loud one for a job interview.
I always tie my shoes tightly before I go jogging.
Before saying goodbye to their neighbors, the Smiths had to tie up some loose ends inside the house.
Since they didn't tie the knot following a grand love affair, it wasn't a matter of blind love.
Oooh, get a move on. We'll end up late! Come on, I'll tie your shoelaces for you.
It is unusual to see rock stars wearing a tie!
Decorated with blue and yellow strips, the tie was very unfashionable.
family ties, the ties between Great Britain and France
the robber tied the shopkeeper up before leaving the shop
bow tie
Jeff wore the tie which Kim had given him for a birthday present.

English word "cà vạt"(tie) occurs in sets:

1000 danh từ tiếng Anh 751 - 800


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8 Innovative Ways VR Is Being Used Today

8 Innovative Ways VR Is Being Used Today
April 23, 2018

Steven Spielberg’s movie adaptation of Ready Player One is introducing virtual reality (VR) to a whole new audience. But while Ready Player One is set in 2044, here in 2018 VR is capable of some pretty darn exciting things. Here are eight amazing ways that virtual reality is being used right now.

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Gaming is the most prominent application for VR right now — not that, to quote Seinfeld, there’s anything wrong with that. The VR gaming industry earned an estimated $286.7 million last year, according to SuperData Research, and that number may grow to $2.3 billion industry by 2020.

Factor in the growing number of headsets and some pretty darn impressive immersive haptic technology research and you have VR’s most exciting use-case here in 2018.

Don’t be surprised if the surgeons of the future are more about VR than ER. Virtual reality could be a handy tool for not just training the surgeons of tomorrow, but actually helping them carry out their jobs too.

The company Fundamental VR is busy developing VR scenarios which allow trainee surgeons to carry out virtual operations using haptic controls. These controls simulate what it’s actually like to perform procedures like sleeve gastrectomies without the whole, you know, risk of actually cutting into a human being.

Just as potentially transformative is work being carried out by an orthopaedic surgeon in Santa Catarina, Brazil, who is using augmented reality tech to help him perform spinal surgery in a safe and affordable manner. With the rise of medical robots capable of performing procedures without the risk of shaky hands, we can’t help but think that surgical VR may have an application here, too.

Live events

Imagine being able to get the best seat in the house at the hottest sold out Broadway play, visit all the top museums in the world without spending a dime on travel, or soak up the live experience at every sports game in a season.

All three of these scenarios have already been investigated by forward-looking organizations. Ten years from now, this will be standard fare.

Slack is about as thrilling as workplace collaboration tech tools get, but VR could offer a more exciting next step. Using VR, teams who are distributed around the world can log in to the same virtual space to work together on projects. That’s the basis for an existing VR collaboration solution called Vizible from the company WorldViz.

It’s already been used by the footwear designer Deckers, who have utilized it to work together on designing new shoes. Whether you’re a graphic designer or an architect, the ability to be in the same “room” as clients or colleagues could be a game changer.

The ability to allow a person to face their fears in a safe virtual environment is understandably appealing to therapists. With that goal in mind, Lithuanian software company TeleSoftas has developed VR scenarios which let people confront phobias — ranging from a fear of heights to getting up and speaking in public — while wearing a VR headset.

In addition to wearing the headset, the software also monitors your stress levels, based on eye movement, heartbeat, perspiration, and skin temperature. A demo was shown off at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.

VR has also been used for helping soldiers deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and allowing people to swim with dolphins for therapeutic effect.

Don’t get us wrong: we don’t think you’ll be putting on your VR headset and learning in a virtual classroom any time soon. Nonetheless, virtual reality could play a valuable role in education.

Being able to go on a virtual field trip back in time, learn about the risks of polluting the ocean by experiencing it for yourself, or participate in an ethics class using a VR experience designed to put you in someone else’s shoes are just a few of the exciting possibilities.

Driving vehicles

But surely autonomous cars are going to do all the work for us in the future, aren’t they? That’s certainly true, but there are still some innovative projects in this space which hint at intriguing future possibilities.

United Kingdom defense giant BAE Systems has pioneered a system that would allow a submarine captain to pilot a sub using VR. The tech works by collecting data from various sensors dotted around a submarine, and then relaying it back to the submarine captain in the form of a detailed VR simulation. The idea is that this would allow the captain to “teleport” themselves around their submarine to get multiple different views of it as they pilot it, a bit like switching perspectives in a racing game — but with the benefit of real-time information.

Not only could this mean that a captain wouldn’t have to physically be present in order to command a vessel, it also hints at a future in which bosses will be able to teleport around their workplace to virtually drop in on whoever they like. Depending on what you think of your boss (I love mine, just in case he reads this!), this could be the most fear-inducing suggestion on this list.

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We had to mention it! There have been entire treatises written about the way that pornography has been a driver of innovation and new technologies throughout history. Why would VR be any different?

According to Pornhub, a website we’ve never heard of, VR is one of the fastest- growing categories of video on the website, in terms of both videos uploaded and users watching them. On a typical day, VR porn videos are viewed 500,000 times — and that’s before VR headsets have really even hit the mainstream in a big way.

Heck, there are even creepy adult industry gas masks for sale which add a smell component to your adult VR experience. But we don’t really want to think about that for too long!

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Vanderbilt University
Institute of Imaging Science

Laurie Cutting, Ph.D.

Patrica and Rodes Hart Associate Professor

Contact Information
(615) 875-1054

I am interested in brain-behavior relationships as related to how children learn, or educational cognitive neuroscience. In our research, we use both behavioral and neuroimaging methodologies to better understand the course of normal and abnormal development in reading, oral language, and executive function.

We have a number current research projects, including a reading intervention study, a study examining reading comprehension, and a study examining Late-Emerging Reading Disabilities (LERD).  We also have studies examining biological correlates of reading with adults.

Swett, K., Miller, A.C., Burns, S., Hoeft, F., Davis, N., Petrill, S.A., Cutting, L.E. (2013). Comprehending expository texts: The dynamic neurobiological correlates of building a coherent text representation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 1-14. PMCID: PMC3860184

Barquero, L.A., Davis, N., & Cutting, L.E. (2014). Neuroimaging of Reading Intervention: A Systematic Review and Activation Likelihood Estimate Meta Analysis. PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0083668.

Cutting, L.E., Clements-Stephens, A., Pugh, K.R., Burns, S., Cao, A., Pekar, J., Davis, N., & Rimrodt, S.L. (2013). Not All Reading Disabilities are Dyslexia: Distinct Neurobiology of Specific Comprehension Deficits. Brain Connectivity, 3, 199-213. PMCID: PMC3634135.

Clements-Stephens, A.M., Materek, A.D., Eason, S.H., Scarborough, H.S., Pugh, K.R., Rimrodt, S., Pekar, J.J., & Cutting, L.E. (2012). Neural circuitry associated with two different approaches to novel word learning. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. PMCID: PMC3295245.

Cutting, L.E., Clements, A.M., Courtney, S., Rimrodt, S., Schafer, J., Bisesi, J., Pekar, J.J., & Pugh, K.R. (2006). Differential components of sentence comprehension: Beyond single word reading and memory. Neuroimage, 29, 429-38. PMID: 16253527.


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A Blog about the Wardour Castle Summer Schools 1964, 1965

Comments by Bayan Northcott on the 1964 WCSS

Speaking with Bayan Northcott uncovered a wealth of information about the WCSSs and the period in which they occurred. This post draws together some clips from the interview. The interview progressed with Northcott going through his diary.

He began with some contextual remarks about the scene, and the position of Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle and Goehr.

First a comment about the number of people in attendence:

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He continues, providing a context for understanding how they were able to draw so many participants:

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On the morning of the first day, the participants made their way to Tisbury:

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Upon arrival, Northcott first met Bill Hopkins and Robin Holloway:

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On Saturday, 15th August there was a dinner and people explored the house.

On Sunday, 16th at 9am:
Composition class with Alexander Goehr, talking about rhythm and articulation

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Then there was a rehearsal of the choir, conducted by John Alldis:

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Lunch; then a composition class with Alexander Goehr:

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Tea, then at 5.0 p.m. a lecture by Alexander Goehr:

Music in Our Time
ALEXANDER GOEHR will lecture on certain aspects of contemporary music with particular reference to works being performed in the evening concert.

(LS100049, 16’25”)

Following the lecture was more choir practice, dinner and a concert by the Melos Ensemble, introduced by Michael Tippett:

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8.30 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room

Introduced by Michael Tippett
A concert of contemporary English Music.
Three Piano Pieces – Hugh Wood
Monody for Corpus Christi – Harrison Birtwistle
Piano Sonata – Anthony Gilbert
Second Piano Sonata – Michael Tippett
Five Little Pieces (first performance) – Peter Maxwell Davies
Suite Op.11 – Alexander Goehr

(LS100049, 18’54”)

Monday, 17th, 9am:
Composition class with Hugh Wood, analyzing Schoenberg’s op. 19, no. 4:

(LS100049, 21’42”)

Then more choir with Maxwell Davies, lunch and composition class with Alexander Goehr and Michael Tippett:

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5.0 p.m:

Early Organ Music            Recital 5.0 p.m.
Peter Maxwell Davies will introduce and play early music on a newly restored Snitzler organ. Works by: Dunstable, Taverner, Byrd, Tomkins, Gabrielli, Scheidt, Zipoli etc.

(LS100049, 24’30”)

Then a choir rehearsal with John Alldis, and the evening concert:

Chamber Concert 8.30 p.m.
Melos Ensemble
Pianoforte Trio in F sharp minor Haydn
Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19 Schoenberg
Seven Sketches, op. 9 Bartok
Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano Debussy
Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, op.5 Berg
Fantasia in C minor, K475 Mozart
Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn, op.40 Brahms

(LS100049, 26’20”)

Tuesday, 18th

Composition class at 9am:

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then choir:

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and composition class with Maxwell Davies, talking canonic and rhythmic aspects of his work, with an aside about Britten’s War Requiem [late in the interview Northcott clarified that this aside was actually made on the Friday, after the rehearsal for the evening concert at the Old Wardour Castle], Stravinsky’s Threni:

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Quartet for the End of Time Lecture 5.0 p.m.
Olivier Messiaen, the Man and His Music
given by Hugh Wood

(LS100049, 29’48”)

Then more choir, in Northcott’s account including Verdi’s Ave Maria and Bruckner’s Gradual: Christus factus est. Neither of these pieces appears in the published programmes:

(LS100049, 32’41”)

The evening concert was as follows:

Clarinet Trio in E flat K498            Mozart
Four Impromptus, op. 142            Schubert
Quatuor pour la fin du temps Olivier Messiaen

The Melos Ensemble performed; Nortcott comments on their presence at the WCSSs:

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Wednesday, 19th:

Instead of composition class, in the morning was the first workshop by members of the Melos Ensemble of works especially composed for the WCSS. All of those who had nominated themselves as composers were invited to write a work for this occasion. The pieces rehearsed were by Edward Cowie, Philip Pilkington. (LS100049, 33’57”)

Northcott didn’t attend the 5.0 p.m. recital of Bach, Rameau and Couperin, but did return for the evening discussion about opera:

Opera Today 8.0 p.m.
Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Tippett
Chairman: Harrison Birtwistle

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Thursday, 20th:

The 9am composition class was devoted to listening to a recording Messiaen’s Turangalîla:

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Northcott confirmed the McGaw recital as following the printed programme, with Mendelssohn, C.P.E. Bach and Satie. Northcott missed the Pruslin (then aged 24) lecture, Characterization in Mozart Opera.

Following the lecture was a concert including music by Cage and Feldman, put on by Roger Smalley and David Bedford, which doesn’t appear in any programmes:

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Friday, 21st:

Owing to the ‘glorious weather’ Northcott took leave of the official routine and spent time talking to Patrick Carnegie.

After the break was a composition class, with Northcott’s piece being workshopped. The following is included for those interested in Northcott’s early composition:

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After lunch, Northcott, with Edward Cowie and Maxwell Davies walked to the Old Wardour Castle, discussing conducting along the way. The evening concert took place there and there was a rehearsal.

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By way of a portrait of Maxwell Davies, the following description is fascinating:

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8.30 pm Old Wardour Castle
A concert in the open air of English and Italian echo-music from the 16th and 17th centuries for brass and voices
Given by: Gabrieli Ensemble and Choir conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr.
Music by Maschera, Isaac, A and G. Gabrielli

Wood’s files included a document which gives the details of this concert:

Canzon Cornetto a 4 Scheidt
Quam Pulchra Es Dunstable
Courant Dolorosa a 4 Scheidt
Paduan a 4 Scheidt
Cor Mio, mentre vi miro Monteverdi
Air, Corante, Allemande, Corante, Saraband Cocke
Sonata, Hora decima No. 6 Johannes Pezel
Sonata, Hora decima No. 39 Pezel
Adieu, Adieu, my heart’s lust Cornish
Fair Phyllis I saw Farmer
Draw on, sweet night Wilbye
April is in my mistress’s face Morley
Canzon Primi Toni a 8 Morley
Canzon Septimi Toni a 8 G. Gabrielli

Northcott comments on the concert, some of the problems in performance and confirms the contents of the concert.

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Saturday, 22nd:

Most of the day was spent rehearsing for the evening participants’ concert.

The programme is as follows:

Concert 8.30 p.m.
Participants Concert
A concert given by the participants of the summer school
Conductors: John Carewe, Michael Tippett
Morgengesang C. P. E. Bach
Sequentia Sanctia Evangeli Secundam Lucan [sic, Sequentia Sancti Evangelii Secundum Lucam], in illo Tempore XXII 14-20 Peter Maxwell Davies
Ave Maria Verdi
Gradual: Christus factus est Bruckner
Music for a film scene Schoenberg
Canzona II David Ellis
Movement Neville Gambier
Castle Music Anthony Gilbert
Serenade Op.11 Brahms [three movements only]

Northcott’s comments here are especially enlightening, with asides about compositional priorities at the time (‘relevance’, ‘unity’) and the notion of basing works on early music. He neglects to mention Tippett’s Little Music for Strings, although he does mention Tippett as being there conducting the rehearsal for this.

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The day ended with a late-night party.

Sunday, 23rd:

Bill Hopkins drove Northcott, Robin Holloway and Anne Carr-Boyd back to London.

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  1. Ann Carr-Boyd says:

    Dear Michael

    How fascinating that you are researching the two Wardour Castle summer schools.
    I was present at both and have lots of memories.
    They were an important event in my life in England – and I was, of course, a student of Alexander Goehr at the time.
    If you would like me to contribute anything to your research I would be happy to do it.
    Best wishes
    Ann C-B

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Sunday, June 10, 2018

More What A Tanker items!

Hi again!

I hope everyone is enjoying the summer weather. It has been pretty warm here in Sweden and with not much Air conditioning around it has been pretty warm for me.  Oh well.

I had some time off this past week and I painted up  German Hetzer in 15mm for What A Tanker.

I also painted up one of the Darkops What A Tanker Dashboard.  I have two more and I am not sure I will paint them. I have an MDF dashboard from Warbases for the game Chain of Command and I like how it looks unpainted, so I might build the other two WAT dashboards and not paint them.  What do all of you think?

I also got some kick ass dice  from Dice of War with the number 6 position replaced with the Swedish 3 crowns. I will enjoy using these.

well have a good week! More to come soon.

  1. Nice work on the Hetzer. BTW, I was lucky enough to play the rules last month at a con. I got the basics after the second turn, and quite like the rules. When I first read about the rules, I thought it would be cool to use my 1:50/1:48 scale stuff, but after playing I think 20mm might be better. But I don't have anything in that scale. ..yet.


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MTG Draft Night: Battlebond

This quarter’s installment of MTG Draft Night has been brought to you by Battlebond.

Unlike many of the previous events, this one was far less planned out. Granted, we set the time long in advance and still had surveys to help decide what to do, but it just didn’t feel well planned (which I can say because I’m the guy whose responsible for planning them). Frankly, I feel like I dropped the ball on it, and I think it showed in the end result.

I think it was largely to do with a lack of follow-up emails. Back in May we did a draft of Ixalan, and promptly sent out surveys to review what worked and what didn’t, along with setting tentative dates for the next event. We all (sort of) agreed on July 27th. By that, I mean that it was the only proposed date where nobody seemed to have any conflicts–though it’s worth noting that many a person checked the “I can probably make it, but check with me closer to the date.”

I didn’t bother checking until about two weeks prior, and that meant that a couple of folks had made other plans. So, rather than have the fourteen people show up that we did previously, we were scheduled to have eight.

The good news is that I have a number of boxes of cards laying around that we can throw together for an impromptu event. So, with eight folks, it’s easy to work it out. Well, then just a couple of days before the event, I was told that someone had a last minute addition to throw in. To even things out, he scrounged up another player as well (because we learned from the last time that giving byes is for the birds).

So of all of my packs I have laying around for draft, my choices got noticbly smaller. Anything that I had that was a single box was going to be insufficient (because we draft four packs each), so I had to buy something where I could buy a couple of extra packs locally. I went to the local hobby store and they don’t seem to carry anything older, so I was down to Unstable, Battlebond, and Vintage Masters. We had already set a price on this draft at “not to exceed” $30 per person, and Vintage masters set me back about $280 for the two boxes I’d purchased. That would only leave $20 to feed ten guys.

I also recalled that someone shied away from Unstable, so we went with Battlebond. Between the base set and extra packs, that set the entry fee, and I used the remaining money (plus some extra) to cover food for the evening.

Do you see the problem yet?

I sure didn’t.

Well, when the day of the event rolled around, everyone chowed down on burgers, dogs, and doughnuts. I should stop here and say that we’ve a really good crew that pitches in to help prep & cook, helps to clean, brings extra food, etc. It’s just a great bunch of guys (and they’re ultimately the reason why these nights are so successful).

Anywho, while we’re all hanging out, we have a problem about how to break into teams. My initial thought was that the players who consistently do the best should not be on a team with each other. It’s already quasi-fair at best based upon skill levels of everyone involved, so pairing up two of our most solid players together would be no-contest. I had tinkered with the idea of letting those folks that habitually are in the bottom bracket pick their champions, but we eventually decided to just let my wife pick the teams. She doesn’t know anything about the game, and it’s a pure guess as to relative skill levels, so she paired people up pretty fairly I think. The teams were:

  • Team Pro Tour (Travis & Sam), because Travis used to play on the MTG Pro Tour, and Sam went to World’s for Star Wars: Destiny
  • Shawnico (Nico & Sean), an obvious amalgamation of their names. One that I could never remember, so they were either team Nicodemus, Shanequa, Shaqira, etc.
  • Space Force (Joe & Brandon), a name that narrowly beat out “team Bro”
  • Team Ron (A-A-Ron & A-B-Ron), Because both are named Aaron, and I’m easily confused
  • Ram Rod (Me & Ben), because reasons

I was really happy with how the teams broke down, and we moved into the draft. Ben and I talked briefly about strategy before the draft. He said he liked a specific color (Blue, I believe), and I said that I just liked good cards. Our strategy was going to be to draft the latter, and play whatever came to us.

He and I really had similar opinions of most cards. He really liked creature removal, so we first picked that in many of the packs. In fact, the best cards in the packs we were seeing really seemed to be exclusively black and red. It wasn’t until halfway through the second pack that we decided to pick a different color: green. Frankly, it wasn’t an easy pick to delve into a third color, but it seemed that we were going to eventually have to, so we snagged some that looked viable when the red or black thinned out (granted, it wasn’t really better than the red/black options, but it would just give us more options).

The way we handled the actual draft was to split each pack as it came in, roughly evenly. Each of us would review our half of the cards, and sort in the order that we preferred. Then we’d trade hands and view what the other had seen/sorted. Really, our picks were very similar throughout, and only different a bit when it came to mediocre choices.

We originally planned on opening eight packs for the team, but after three packs, it felt like we’d had enough. There was some debate about changing horses in mid-stream, as others were not drafting a curve, but just drafting the best stuff each pack, so we eventually decided on drafting six packs per team. I guess the basic plan for Battlebond is that each team only drafts four packs, which seemed absurd, but in hindsight, it’s really not bad. Our packs were fair, I’d say. We didn’t open a single mythic, but we did open three rare “partner” pairs. That included Gorm & Virtus; Krav & Regna; Okaun & Zndrsplt; and Pir, Imaginative Rascal & Toothy, Imaginary Friend.

Oh wait. Did we actually open four of those? Egads, that’s insane. We definitely had seven of them, so I guess there’s a chance we were passed one–but that seems highly unlikely. We wound up drafting them all, except Zndrsplt. At that time we had no desire to play blue, and his ability didn’t seem pivotal. When I went and made my deck, I eventually wound up splashing blue for Toothy, so I might have also thrown in Zndrsplt had I known.

When it came to assembling decks, we made a black red deck (which seemed the better of the two at the time of construction) and a green red deck. We had a large amount of autonomy in the process, as we did with the draft, but still consulted each other throughout. The black/red was more speed & control, while the green was intended to ramp up so that I could help out with Assist cards for Ben’s deck. It didn’t really play out that way though, as we both were fairly speed-oriented for the most part. In fact, I eventually pulled out almost all of my ramp cards because they just weren’t ever seeing play.

Our decks consisted of:

Ben’s Deck:

  • Creatures:
    • 1x Azra Oddsmaker
    • 1x Borderland Marauder
    • 2x Bull-Rush Bruiser
    • 2x Dragon Hatchling
    • 2x Ember Beast
    • 1x Krav, the Undredeemed
    • 2x Magma Hellion
    • 1x Prakhata Club Security
    • 1x Rushblade Commander
    • 1x Swarm of Bloodflies
    • 1x Virtus the Veiled
  • Spells:
    • 1x Assasinate
    • 1x Auger Spree
    • 2x Bathe in Dragonfire
    • 1x Inner Demon
    • 1x Lightning Talons
    • 1x Shock
  • Land:
    • 1x Luxury Suite
    • 9x Mountain
    • 7x Swamp

My Deck

  • Creatures:
    • 1x Boldwyr Intimidator
    • 1x Chakram Slinger
    • 1x Fertilid
    • 1x Generous Patron
    • 1x Gorm the Great
    • 3x Kraul Warrior
    • 1x Magmatic Force
    • 1x Okaun, Eye of Chaos
    • 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
    • 1x Plated Crusher
    • 1x Relentless Hunter
    • 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
  • Spells:
    • 1x Giant Growth
    • 1x Lead by Example
    • 1x Fertile Ground
    • 1x Combo Attack
    • 1x Pir’s Whim
  • Artifacts:
    • 1x Seer’s Lantern
    • 2x Tyrant’s Machine
  • Land:
    • 10x Forest
    • 1x Island
    • 6x Mountain

The plan was to originally have each team play the others, but that broke down for two reasons. First, that I alluded to before, is that I had not planned things out very well. I knew we were going to have more than eight people, and we thought ahead to bring two extra people to “make the teams even,” but when we went for a two-headed giant pairing, we had five teams and were forced into byes again. Doh!

Secondly, one of the teams drafted heavy control decks, and then played them slowly. Like painfully slowly. Granted, it didn’t help that it was a multi-player game, so sometimes games would devolve into huge walls of things out stalemating for long periods of time, but in the spam of six hours, this team only managed to play four games–never completing a single match, despite never having a bye. Conversely, my team had two byes because of the way the rounds laid out, managed to play every team at least once and still got in seven games in. There were multiple factors involved there, but it was quite painful to watch/wait for.

I should mention that they did quite well in the games that they did play. In total, they went 3-1 for the evening, giving them probably the best overall score for the evening. My team went 7-2 (2-0, 2-0, 1-1, & 0-1). I don’t know how you declare a winner at that point, but then again it’s multiplayer, so I’m not sure how much that matters.

In total, I think Battlebond was a great success, but I definitely learned some things:

What I Learned:

  1. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, but I don’t think we’ll be doing it again soon. Despite having extra packs from this draft and another entire box, I don’t think we’ll be doing it again soon. We need to use the casual stuff sparingly, so I expect we’ll play something more competitive next time.
  2. It was slow. Drafting was slower for sure (though we don’t need as many packs, so that’s good), but making your deck, and playing games is also slower.
  3. Speed was good. Games where we could go first and drop the Rushblade Commander with a Kraul Warrior really helped establish a beat-down mentality.
  4. Sweepers were everywhere.  I consider “Inner Demon” to be a sweeper of sorts, and with that in mind, every team had at least one of them–with two teams having two!  I guess in multi-player games, it’s good to have ways to wipe a stalled board though.
  5. I have to keep in mind partners when evening out teams to avoid byes.

3 comments on “MTG Draft Night: Battlebond

  1. I definitely miss MTG sometimes, this post made me think of the times I did sealed play with my friend, which made for some of the best times I have had with the game.

    • You should get back on the wagon. We have so much fun in these draft nights, and there’s glimpses of the magic that used to be. Being able to control who I invite over to the house is great, not as a power trip, but it keeps the random riff-raff out. Honestly these things are just pure joy with no downside.

      • Yeah a lot of the fun really is who you play and that applies to most things. Just hard to get people into it sometimes, but if I found the right people I would be into more sealed play 😄

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6 Capabilities You Need to Become a More Strategic Leader

Indian banker Chanda Kochhar joined the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India—later ICICI Bank—fresh out of college as a management trainee. After working in virtually every major division and function in the bank over the next 25 years, she became its chief executive in 2009. When Mike interviewed her last year, he asked her to explain how she had learned to run India’s largest non-state-owned bank, with $5 billion in revenue and a market capitalization of $23 billion in 2015. Kochhar shared how she used directed learning, one-on-one coaching, and experience to learn to lead strategically.

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For directed learning, she earned a Master’s degree in business management and later participated in a range of management development programs. For personal coaching, Kochhar cited former ICICI chiefs who had taken her under their wing as they transformed ICICI from a small state agency into the country’s largest private bank. “I had two very great mentors,” she told us. The first was Narayanan Vaghul, who had run the bank from 1985 to 1996, and the second was his successor, K. V. Kamath, who had led it from 1996 to 2009. Kamath as CEO, for instance, had invited Kochhar to accompany him to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Mixing with a gathering of 2,500 business and political leaders proved formative for Kochhar to move her bank ahead of others, “You could see what was happening around the world,” she recalled, “and come back with thoughts and ideas of how you want to implement them.”

For the power of instructive experience, Kochhar cited her own pathway across the diverse functions and divisions of the bank. “A banker is either an investment banker or a retail banker or a commercial banker,” she reported, “but I have, in my journey, moved from project finance to retail to control functions.” In project financing, she learned how entrepreneurs invested, behaved, and repaid. In retail banking, she learned how consumers decided and how new technologies could be harnessed to reach them. In control functions, including compliance, risk, and finance, she learned where the company created value and how it could be lost if controls were inadequate. “I think this whole, all-rounded experience [became the most] valuable learning for me as I moved up the organization,” Kochhar concluded. And by the time she became CEO she knew almost every side of the business of the organization. In other words, she had learned to lead strategically, and her broad experience across the bank’s diverse functions and divisions provided for a strong fit between her own skill set and the management required at the top.

“By the time [Chanda Kochhar] became CEO she knew almost every side of the business of the organization.”

As a result, upon becoming CEO, Kochhar felt that her direction and priorities were clear. What was new was the act of leading from the top as general manager. “[Once] you become a CEO, you realize that almost every buck stops with you, and it’s not just about your particular business or your particular line, but all stakeholders,” she said. As a result, “whether it’s the regulator, whether it’s the employees, whether it’s the customer,” you suddenly find that every stakeholder’s interest is in your hands. “You realize that the whole thing about running the organization is not only strategy, not only direction, not only execution, but how you balance everybody’s interests.” The integrated application of both strategy and leadership had become paramount for her.

For developing those who report to her, Kochhar shared these learning avenues with them. In personal coaching, for instance, she asked each of her senior managers to think differently about “what’s going to happen next and not just about what is happening currently.” She pressed each to have a good mix of both strategic thinking and execution. Although, from her own experience, she found that, “[Some managers are] very good thinkers and they can really come up with great ideas and innovative thoughts, but are not very good at actually completing the tasks. There are others who get so involved in the nitty-gritty of managing [that] they do not think broadly.” Appreciating those gaps, she worked to develop managers who could do both, and in doing so, she layered leadership, making it clear that she expected her managers to take deliberate but independent actions to achieve the strategy she had conveyed for the long-term growth of the bank.

“Though we sometimes say that an individual is a gifted strategist or a natural-born leader, we know from research and experience that both are learned.”

We have researched and observed many companies and managers and have identified 6 critical capabilities of strategic leaders, each of which Kochhar epitomizes.

1. Integrate Strategy and Leadership. Master the elements of strategy and leadership both separately and as an integrated whole.
2. Learn to Lead Strategically. Pursue directed learning, one-on-one coaching, and instructive experience to develop an integrated understanding of strategy and leadership.
3. Ensure Strategic Fit. Arrange a strong match between the strategic challenges of a managerial position and the individual with the leadership skills to fill it.
4. Convey Strategic Intent. Communicate strategic intent throughout the organization and empower others to implement the strategy.
5. Layer Leadership. Ensure that leaders at every level are capable of appreciating strategic intent and implementing it, and hold them responsible for its execution.
6. Decide Deliberatively. Focus on both short- and long-term objectives; press for disciplined analysis and avoid status-quo bias; and bring the future into the present.

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“We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path.”

This is especially true in an era marked by uncertainty, complexity, and change when company strategy and leadership are especially consequential for a firm’s performance. And though we sometimes say that an individual is a gifted strategist or a natural-born leader, we know from research and experience that both are learned—and that we can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path.

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Ask anyone what their favorite part of Star Wars Weekends is at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the answer is always the same: Hyperspace Hoopla.

Well, that will be no more…

Apparently, the reason for adding the new nighttime fireworks show to the event is so Disney can axe the long-running Hyperspace Hoopla show where Star Wars characters perform in comedy bits and dancing to popular music. According to rumors, the show does not fit the vision that the company has for the Star Wars franchise. In other words, Bob Iger lacks the sense of humor of George Lucas now that Disney actually owns Star Wars.

The cutting of the show may also be for budgetary reasons, but based on the crowds the show has drawn every year, that would be doubtful. Disney has not made a public statement about the show’s cancellation yet, but the news has been broken to cast members.

Please enjoy our video of last year’s show, which in my opinion was the best of the many versions of the Hoopla that have been presented:

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Tom has been regularly visiting the Walt Disney World® Resort from the time he was 4 months old. While he has made countless visits in the last 28 years, he did not become a truly active member in the Disney fan community until the summer of 2007, when he decided to launch the WDW News Today website and podcast. Tom has since become an Orlando-local and is a published author on Walt Disney World.
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  • Hoopla was always the high point of the weekend, My family and I will miss it greatly. Now we won't be as motivated to make another trip down there every year just for SWWE. My husband and I have plans to go down soon, to be sure we will let guest relations know how we feel about the cutting of hoopla out of the schedule. One less trip each year to Disney World, one new destination some place else not spending money on Disney property.

  • I am a huge star wars fan, and this was the best part of Star Wars weekends besides the celebs. Needless to say I wont be going again.

  • i can understand why they have done it.. but at the same time i dont like it.

    i would have moved it to the beauty and the best stage, some wall props put up after like 7, plenty of space for people then and seats..

  • P.S.: A stupid, idiotic, untrue statement like "In other words, Bob Iger lacks the sense of humor of George Lucas now that Disney actually owns Star Wars" is something that I'd expect to read on MiceChat or WDWMagic, not at WDWNewsToday! >:(

    • I think it was proven over the years that George Lucas rather enjoyed the parodies and realized they were good for the brand and kept the franchise relevant. I don’t think it is all unfair to say that the company feels differently about Star Wars since now all the money is theirs to make. It is clearly a company edict at this point and they have a clear direction they want to go in with Star Wars (including ignoring the existence of Episodes 1-3). I’m sorry you feel that way about it. I also think that statement was meant to be more comedic and not so negative as you took it, which I can understand considering how other sites usually write about stories like this.

    • So right. I won't be attending this yr with the family. We went for Hoopla. No Hoopla, no us. Really, really disappointed.

  • This is upsetting, but I guess nothing to not make me go. I am glad to see that they replaced it with something else, and to be honest it couldn't have been cancelled for budget reasons since the fireworks cost WAY more then that show ever would. Maybe they think people like fireworks over shows?

  • I am so sad. We are big Star Wars fans. My kids really wanted to go to this. we have been saving money to go to this event . The dance off looked like a lot of fun. It is a shame.

  • Ive watched every single years hoopla on youtube after I was left in awe from watching the great darth vader dancing to thriller and have always wanted to go just to experience it.. now it seems that dream will never be a reality, something about it just really makes you feel good, its a shame that they don’t realize how awesome the hyperspace hoopla is and how many people who are going to be greatly disappointed by the cancellation of it.

  • Very dissapointed, will still go this year but it is already feeling like a lesser trip with no hoopla to look forward to. Will rethink attending next year.

  • I agree with everyone missing the hoopla. That was often the sole reason I would make the extra trip or stay the night for. I certainly hope it returns considering how much of crowds it always borought (obviously my family was not alone in loving it). The new show is, in one word, BORING. I certainly don’t plan on waiting to get a “good view” of it, not that I’ll have much competition for the view once everyone realizes that it isn’t the glorious Hoopla. I don’t care about “serious,” fans who didn’t like it could have just not watched. They probably won’t bother watching this new one anyway. And, the songs picked in the Hoopla always seemed to fit the characters’ personalities. I saw planty of hard-core Star Wars fans in the crowd watching and loving the Hoopla.

  • My son and I made the annual trip over (after cancelling our hotel stay since there was no longer a reason to go over for the Friday night Hoopla), we had a good time on Saturday but it wasn’t the same.

    We used to go over Friday after work/school, hit the Hoopla, stay at a hotel and then come back Saturday early for Star Tours, Jedi Training, etc. and then leave after the parade.

    With the new “minimal” parade route driving a massive crowd it hardly seemed worth the tri without the Hoopla to anchor it.

    Will be on property again for a training conference in June so we plan to catch the fireworks then just to be fair and say we tried it but based on the online videos/reviews, this may have been our last year at SWW.

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