THOMAS MEGLIORANZA (baritone), an American of Thai, Italian and Polish heritage, was born in Manhattan, grew up in New Jersey, and graduated from Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music. He was a winner of the Walter W. Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity, and Joy In Singing competitions.
He has sung Messiahs, Bach Passions, and Carmina Buranas with many of America's leading orchestras as well as Copland's Old American Songs with the National Symphony, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Harbison's Fifth Symphony with the Boston Symphony, Milton Babbitt's Two Sonnets with the MET Orchestra, Roberto Sierra's Missa Latina with the Houston Symphony, and Bach cantatas with Les Violons du Roy and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
His operatic roles include Mozart's Don Giovanni and Count Almaviva, as well as Chou Enlai in Nixon in China, and Prior Walter in Eötvös Peter's Angels in America with Opera Boston. He also regularly performs with the Mark Morris Dance Group, including the role of Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas.
Meglioranza is a Visiting Artist in Voice at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He lives in New York City.
We have partnered with Ryan Roeth and Aspen Athletic Club offers the highest level of instruction possible for our Junior and Adult players. Look for programming and schedules soon.
Ryan is excited to be back in Central Iowa where he grew up and started his tennis career back in 2001. He was in Ames from 2005-2014 and built one of the strongest junior programs in the state with the Ames Tennis Academy. Before returning to Aspen in August 2016, he served as the Director of Tennis/GM of the Quad City Tennis Club in Moline, IL where he started the THRIVE Tennis Academy which has become one of the top junior programs in the area.
His programs have produced numerous highly ranked sectional and national players. His students have had incredible success in Iowa high school tennis as well. He has coached more than 150 players who have qualified for the state tournament with 12 of them winning state individual championships.
Throughout his career Ryan has been very active promoting tennis through the USTA. He served 9 years as the Executive Secretary for the Iowa Tennis Association. He is currently on the USTA/MV Coaches Commission, Iowa District Junior Competition Committee, has coached at several Regional Training Center Camps and is currently the lead coach for the Iowa Early Development Camps (EDC).
In 2015 Ryan received the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) “Iowa Pro of the Year” and awards for “Event of the Year” and “10 & Under Provider” from the USTA Iowa District.
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Fluke's pun-rich name; and, guess what else she wants universities to provide free of charge to their students?
Fluke’s pun-rich name; and, guess what else she wants universities to provide free of charge to their students?
I had read somewhere that Sandra Fluke’s name is pronounced “fluck,” which might explain her extraordinary preoccupation with free birth control pills. However, White House spokesman Jay Carney, in giving what he said is the correct pronunciation of Fluke, seems to pronounce it as in “book,” or “took.”
On a more substantive matter, it appears that Fluke not only demands that employers and universities pay the entire costs of their female employees’ or students’ birth control pills. She also believes that they should be required to pay for their employees’ or students’ sex change operations. Stephen Gutowski at Media Research Center has uncovered a law journal article co-written by Fluke (or “co-edited” by her, though he doesn’t make clear what that means) in which she and her co-editor
describe two forms of discrimination in benefits they believe LGBTQ individuals face in the work place:
“Discrimination typically takes two forms: first, direct discrimination limiting access to benefits specifically needed by LGBTQ persons, and secondly, the unavailability of family-related benefits to LGBTQ families.”
“A prime example of direct discrimination is denying insurance coverage for medical needs of transgender persons physically transitioning to the other gender.” [Emphasis added.]
“Transgender persons wishing to undergo the gender reassignment process frequently face heterosexist employer health insurance policies that label the surgery as cosmetic or medically unnecessary and therefore uncovered.”
To which I can only add: Of course. The logic of liberalism must be played out to the end. Sandra Fluke may be a fluke (a parasite), but she is not a fluke (unlikely or atypical). She is a representative woman of our age.
Data is important, it is not just important, it is the central piece of our lives in this new technological era. The more data that we have the more power that we have.
We are seeing various companies cropping up on the proverbial business map. Remember Google, it makes all of its make money by being able to sell its data to the advertisers. Google serves as a sort of publisher and advertisers flock to the platform in various ways to be able to reach an audience.
The product of Google is free. You as the user don’t have to pay for their product. You can perform endless searches and find whatever you want, whenever you want.
This is evidenced by the value of Google, just look at the current market cap, they are valued at over 150 Billion dolllars!
Crazy right? It gets even crazier. More companies have arrived with the same business model of the search giant. These companies have tackled other issues and provided a different service to their base of users.
These companies are Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and a variety of other applications which provide services to consumers. They also provide their service to consumers for free. They only charge advertisers to reach their audiences.
The value of data is evidenced by the valuations of these companies as well. Facebook is a public company and is worth a significant amount, it has grown to become a large corporation and has acquired Instagram as well.
Facebook has grown enough to be able to give offers to other popular social media platforms as well, ranging from Snapchat to Twitter and others.
It then becomes very important for the everyday individual to understand the value of our data and to protect them in every which way that we can.
It does not have to be that difficult to protect our data. All we have to do is follow a few simple steps.
We have to make sure that our data is safe wherever we go. This means that we have to make sure that we protect our data first by installing an antivirus and other software. The first step is always prevention. The second step is making sure that you don’t go around and input your sensitive information wherever you go.
The other aspects of importance in this regard is that of the need for file recovery software as well as data recovery software too.
We may make some silly mistakes when are at the workplace or at our home office, something may happen that might compromise our precious files. We will always need a way to make certain that we can retrieve the original data when that happens.
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TW-781 Cessna Micro Infrared Control Indoor Aeroplane (Blue) [LANYU-TW-781-BLUE] Review - USD19.99 : AMPModel.COM : We used to play with paper planes when we were young. They can fly like sliding in the sky. Now we are introducing you a newly presented plane, which flies as beautiful as a paper plane, but this time you can control it!! It is a palm size aeroplane with Infra-red control. Materials? Made with very light and durable material--EPO. It hardly break even you bend it or crashed to obstacles. As it is so light, it can fly longer then normal indoor RC toys, that's because it takes less energy to support the plane body. When you move the Throttle from 10% to 100%, the plane elevates with respective rate, you can make an excellent horizontal flight by just giving a lower throttle, or climb rapidly by switching the throttle to a higher level. No need to know too much about aerobatic theory and you can make a perfect aerobatic flight! It can bank left and right by spinning one of the 2 motors faster, simple but effective design! The aeroplane is very durable, making it great for any players, even kids. It is made of EPO foam, a commonly used material in RC Aeroplane models, it is very light weight and flexible, feels like rubber, but without the weight. We tested the aeroplane by dropping from 3 stories high, the plane body remains no damage, just some scratch on the nose. It has Li-polymer battery on-board. It can be charged very easily by just connecting to the transmitter, then you can start flying it again! Specification Total Weight: 9.0g Total Length: 185mm Wing Span: 200mm Indoor Control Range: 10m Time in flight: 10-12 min. Package includes: 1 x Gilder Body (Blue) 1 x Transmitter 1 x Manual