Montreal, Quebec, Canada (PRWEB) February 21, 2012

SherWeb, a world-leading provider of hosted business solutions, today announced that its proven MIDAS Migration Service is now available to customers of all sizes. The announcement comes after lengthy analysis and testing to ensure a proven migration process with clear and expected outcomes for any migration need. This should translate into especially good news for small and medium businesses, which until now have had limited migration options.

SherWeb’s hosted Exchange migration service is based on a proven process that ensures a simple and smooth migration experience, whether it’s a basic solution or a complex custom transition. MIDAS customers enjoy flexible scheduling, continuous monitoring, easy-to-use migration tools, detailed guidelines and 24/7 support, which means they are never left in the dark. The service also requires minimal involvement on the client’s part, allowing them to remain fully focused on core business activities.

Now that SherWeb’s MIDAS Service is available to customers of all sizes and needs, even SMEs can benefit from a fully-tailored, problem-free migration.

“SherWeb’s primary focus has always been to ensure high customer satisfaction by meeting the evolving needs of our clients,” said Matthew Cassar, EVP and co-founder of SherWeb. “We have by far one of the most talented, certified and experienced migration teams in the industry. By making our MIDAS Service available to all types of customers, we can now put our golden Midas touch on each and every migration, regardless of the requirements,” he concluded.

Since 1998, SherWeb has successfully migrated the email data of over 20,000 organizations to its secure hosted Exchange environment. Its migration team is renowned for its extensive knowledge of corporate email environments, earning it one of the best reputations in the industry.

About SherWeb Inc. – A worldwide award-winning hosted services leader ranked in the top 100 of the prestigious North American Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM and Microsoft 2011 Hosting Partner of the Year, SherWeb specializes in providing competitive email, collaboration, and backup solutions to businesses and partners around the world. Founded in 1998, SherWeb is a privately-owned company headquartered in Quebec, Canada. Its service portfolio includes Exchange 2010, Office Communications Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010, Dynamics CRM, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, ActiveSync (iPhone), Web Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, SkyNox Online Backup, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.sherweb.com.

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World’s best come to London for Diving test event

(PRWEB) February 17, 2012

Over 250 of the world’s best divers will compete at the 18th FINA Visa Diving World Cup 2012 from 20-26 February, the last qualification opportunity for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Amongst the world-class line up are Chinese Olympic champions He Chong and Chen Ruolin. Chong is 2008 Olympic individual 3m Springboard gold medallist and three-time world champion while Ruolin is double Olympic champion, winning both the 10m Platform and Synchronised 10m Platform.

China is known as the dominant force in Diving but Matt Mitcham, who will represent Australia at the test event, could threaten their hopes for a gold rush at the World Cup. Mitcham became the only non-Chinese athlete to win a Diving gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games when he won the Individual 10m Platform.

The British team have named 13 athletes, including Synchronised 10m pair Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield and rising star Jack Laugher, who is current Junior World Champion in both the Individual 3m Springboard and Individual 1m Springboard. Tonia Couch, Britain’s most celebrated female diver who placed eighth in the Individual 10m Platform at the Beijing Games and has finished in the top 10 in the last two FINA World Championships, will also line up for GB.

The competition, which is part of the London Prepares series of test events and supported by Visa, UK Sport and British Swimming, will be the first sporting event to be held at the spectacular Aquatics Centre and the 31st test event to be staged by the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG).

The event will test key elements of the venue operation and logistics such as lighting, results, scoring, workforce and timing while providing an ideal opportunity for athletes and team officials to compete at the venue ahead of the 2012 Games and offer feedback on LOCOG’s plans.

London 2012 Director of Sport Debbie Jevans said: ‘With less than 200 days to go until the start of the Games our testing continues to be a priority. Welcoming spectators into the Aquatics Centre for the 18th FINA Visa Diving World Cup 2012 will give a fantastic opportunity to see the world’s best divers compete in an Olympic venue and will also provide us, the organisers, with a unique chance to test our operations.’

FINA President Dr. Julio C. Maglione said: ‘We are very happy to be here in London for this FINA Diving World Cup, which also constitutes a Test Event for the 2012 Olympic Games in this exciting city. FINA and LOCOG have worked very closely during the past years and months and it is now time to see if this hard work is fruitful. From everyone’s feedback on the Aquatic Centre, this facility is amazing and will certainly constitute an asset for the success of FINA’s disciplines at Games time. I am sure that this World Cup will also be a milestone and I look forward to witnessing the performances of our best athletes next summer during the Olympic celebration.’

UK Sport’s Director of Major Events and International Relations, Simon Morton, said: ‘The FINA Visa Diving World Cup in London will be the fifth diving event, and the 11th aquatics event, UK Sport has supported through our Lottery funded Major Events Programme since 2007.

‘Competing at the Olympic venue represents a fantastic opportunity for our athletes, while the experience will be invaluable to our coaches and support staff, to help ensure they are best prepared for the home Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in less than six months time.’

Colin Grannell, Head of Partnership Marketing at Visa Europe said: ‘As a sponsor of the Olympic Games for more than 25 years, we know that the 18th FINA Visa Diving World Cup 2012 will be a great opportunity for people to preview of one of the most popular competitions of the Olympic Games. This qualifying event will be crucial for Team 2012 and international athletes to reach their goal of competing this summer.’

David Sparkes, British Swimming Chief Executive, said: ‘We are really excited about the upcoming 18th FINA Visa Diving World Cup. This event, which will be the first major event in the London 2012 Aquatics Centre, will showcase most of the World’s Diving stars.

‘What a great opportunity this will be for our GBR Diving Team to take on some of their competitors in the Olympic venue and give us all an insight to what the Olympics will all be about.’

For more information, visit http://www.londonpreparesseries.com/diving.

Notes to editors:

For further information please contact the London 2012 Press Office.

FINA

The Fédération Internationale de Natation, FINA (founded in 1908) is the governing body for aquatics worldwide. Its five disciplines – Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Diving, Water Polo and Synchronised Swimming – are all included in the Olympic programme. FINA organises World Championships, World Swimming Championships in 25m-pool and World Masters Championships every two years. FINA counts 202 affiliated National Federations on the five continents and has its headquarters in Lausanne (SUI).

About Visa Europe

In Europe, there are 445 million Visa debit, credit and commercial cards. In the 12 months ending September 2011 those cards were used to make purchases and cash withdrawals to the value of €1.7 trillion. 14% of consumer spending at point of sale in Europe is with a Visa card, and almost 80% of that is on Visa debit cards.

Visa Europe is owned and operated by more than 3,700 European member banks and was incorporated in July 2004. Visa Europe is independent of global Visa Inc., with an exclusive, irrevocable and perpetual licence in Europe, while both companies operate to ensure global interoperability. As a dedicated European payment system Visa Europe is able to respond quickly to the specific market needs of European banks and their customers – cardholders and retailers – and to meet the European Commission’s objective to create a true internal market for payments.

Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world. In addition, Visa/PLUS is one of the world’s largest global ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in over 200 countries.

About Team 2012

Team 2012 presented by Visa is a fundraising programme designed to provide UK athletes with the tools and support to reach their full potential and win more medals at European Championships, World Championships – and of course at the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012. It is a joint venture between the British Olympic Association, ParalympicsGB, UK Sport and LOCOG. Alongside the vital role played by The National Lottery and Exchequer funding, Team 2012 will help fund our athletes over the next two years. The vast majority of funds raised through Team 2012 will be distributed by UK Sport through its World Class Performance Programme which ensures that the UK’s most talented athletes have every chance of reaching their potential. Having run their programme since 1997, UK Sport has developed a highly successful ‘No Compromise’ approach, which ultimately means taking no short cuts in resourcing the best athletes to realise their medal ambitions. Funding is provided to athletes via their sport’s governing body, in support of a performance programme that includes coaching, training and competition support, medical and scientific services and equipment and access to the best facilities.

UK Sport

UK Sport’s World Class Events Programme distributes approximately £3.5 million of Lottery funding each year to support the bidding and staging costs of major events on home soil, as well as providing specialist support to organisers. Ahead of London 2012, events are supported primarily based on their likely performance impact, but consideration is given to the broader impacts of events: to maximise the wider sporting, social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits, as well as sporting performance and legacy.

Over 100 events, hosted by at least 35 different towns and cities, will have been supported from 2007 until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. These competitions will have attracted around 30,000 athletes and provided opportunities for over 27,000 officials and volunteers to gain international sporting experience and develop key skills ahead of London 2012.

About British Swimming

British Swimming is the National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain. It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport. The members of British Swimming are the three Home Countries national governing bodies of England (ASA), Scotland (Scottish ASA) and Wales. (Welsh ASA) British Swimming seeks to enable its athletes to achieve gold medal success at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

London 2012 Games partners:

The Worldwide Olympic Partners who support the London 2012 Olympic Games and the National Olympic Committees around the world are Coca-Cola, Acer, Atos, Dow, GE, McDonald’s, Omega, Panasonic, Procter and Gamble, Samsung and Visa.

LOCOG has seven domestic Tier One Partners – adidas, BMW, BP, British Airways, BT, EDF and Lloyds TSB. There are seven domestic Tier Two Supporters – Adecco, ArcelorMittal, Cadbury, Cisco, Deloitte, Thomas Cook and UPS. There are now twenty-eight domestic Tier Three Suppliers and Providers – Aggreko, Airwave, Atkins, Boston Consulting Group, CBS Outdoor, Crystal CG, Eurostar, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, G4S, GSK, Gymnova, Heathrow Airport, Heineken UK, Holiday Inn, John Lewis, McCann Worldgroup, Mondo, NATURE VALLEY, Next, Nielsen, Populous, Rapiscan Systems, Rio Tinto, Technogym, Thames Water, Ticketmaster, Trebor and Westfield.

There is one domestic Tier One Paralympic Games-only Partner, Sainsbury’s and one domestic Tier Three Paralympic Games-only Supplier, Otto Bock. The London 2012 Paralympic Games also acknowledges the support of the National Lottery.

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Guildford, Surrey (PRWEB UK) 7 February 2012

Award-winning web hosts, Memset have today announced one of the cheapest and most versatile ways for businesses to deploy a professional website or have a web presence both quickly and easily. By combining Memset’s award winning, Miniserver VM® virtual server with a free copy of Microsoft’s Windows 2008 Server R2 Web Edition, customers are able to make websites to last throughout the businesses lifetime.

The free software bundled with the package includes Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 Web Edition pre-installed and ready to go straight out of the box. The Miniserver also comes with Microsoft’s Web Matrix, this web development tool makes it simple to download and install such software as WordPress, Joomla, Dotnetnuke and Orchard. Security is taken care of as well with Sophos Server Anti-Virus and customers will also have access to SQL Server 2008 Express.

Memset’s Windows hosting package supports all programming languages, such as ASP, ASP.NET, Silverlight and many more. These allow clients to mix and match the language on one server. Clients can run PHP, or ASP and ASP.NET in the same account.

Memset sales manager, Nathan Johnston said: “The software has been developed with ease of use in mind and gives you a secure platform for quickly building and deploying websites. It includes full ASP.net support, PHP support, SEO reporting and SQL Server. Together with a reduced price on our Miniserver Virtual Servers, customers really are getting a lot for their money.”

Memset is one of the world’s most reliable web hosts, regularly appearing in Netcraft’s tables for reliability and voted PC Pro’s Best Web Host for the last six years, this leading UK publication said: “A reliable web host is every bit as critical as a dependable ISP to an online business, and there’s no doubting Memset’s credentials. In excess of 99% of Memset’s customers said they would use the company again – the highest score for any company in any category of this year’s awards.”

Memset also offer Linux based servers as well, as well as cloud computing packages for any sized business.

Memset’s Windows hosting package is available for £34.95 per month until the end of February, for further information please see here: http://www.memset.com/windows/

About Memset

Memset is an award winning IT hosting company based in Guildford, Surrey. We provide managed hosting and cloud computing solutions for businesses (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). Our services range from individual Miniserver VM® virtual servers to enterprise-class dedicated server clusters with multi-site fail-over, all without long-term contracts or up-front costs. Our customers range from small start-ups to large corporates (eg. Debenhams, Hilton Hotels and Hanson), and are spread across all industry sectors. A large segment of our customers are IT companies using us as their infrastructure platform for providing web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Recently awarded an ISPA award for Best Managed Service, Memset has also been voted as the UK’s Best Web Host for six consecutive years at the PC Pro Awards.

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Author, Super Model Celebrity & Beauty Icon www.JenniferNicoleLee.com

Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) February 16, 2012

Jennifer Nicole Lee has just this last minute confirmed that she is indeed penning her fourth book, entitled “Beyond The Bikini”. Much speculation was stirring as to what book would follow her third book, entitled “The Fun Fit Foodie”, which is a healthy cook book with a fun twist to cooking fit. Being an ambassador to not only fitness, wellness and healthy cooking, Jennifer Nicole Lee stated “I’m thrilled to be sharing some much needed insight to beauty, glamour, fashion, and my top secret skin tightening and anti-cellulite fighting treatments in my future book.” Jennifer went on to say “I’m always photographed in a bikini, so I chose this name of my 4th book to tell the world that this is so much more to me than just the famous bikini photos everyone sees. I’m a wife, a mom, a fashion fanatic, fitness guru, author, but most importantly an ambassador for all things that matter to a modern day woman and mom. I love to help other women and of course moms look and feel their best.”

Jennifer Nicole Lee is an innovator, having created a business around her body. Her latest huge venture is her JNL Fusion exercise DVD series which will be sold and marketed globally. She was just also named the official spokes model to LPG CelluM6 which is a non-surgical solution to treating cellulite.

Jennifer Nicole Lee is the CEO and visionary power house behind JNL Worldwide, Inc. Due to her wildly successful globally broadcasted and marketed fitness and wellness products, books, digital products, e-commerce, and merchandise, she is internationally recognized in over 110 different countries. In short, “JNL” is an extremely successful global mega-brand. Mrs. Lee is a fitness celebrity, a bestselling author, a highly sought-after spokes model, being the name/face/and body of all of her lifestyle brands, wellness products, exercise equipment, DVDs, home, bath, bedding, spa, and electronic downloads, and websites. However and most importantly she is a devoted wife and mother, representing the millions of other mom’s and wives in the world with a brand they can trust.

“It’s my goal and passion to increase the quality of your lifestyle.” -JNL

Jennifer is one of the world’s most accomplished Super Fitness Models, and is an international celebrity due to her high profile wellness merchandise and key media appearances. Jennifer’s career as a top fitness expert and icon began when she lost over 80 lbs after the birth of her children. Her motivational weight loss success story caught the world’s attention, after she gained columns of accolades as a professional fitness competitor, holding countless titles and crowns. She gained international notoriety, due to her incredible transformation, and was soon a frequent guest on major national talk shows, such as The Oprah Winfrey Oprah, E! Entertainment, Fox and Friends, Extra, The Secret Lives of Women, and most recent being highlighted as the top ultimate “pitchwoman” and presenter on Discovery’s “Pitchmen” show, showcasing her captivating and strong TV sales power. Jennifer’s energy, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit combined with a burning desire to help others drove her to create the JNL brand. To date she has appeared on a record breaking 50 magazine covers

Some call JNL the female Donald Trump, due to her uncanny ability to brand, promote, market and sell with the best. Mrs. Lee’s passion for business innovation has allowed her to blend lifestyle products and services into the digital realm. Coined as the “Steve Jobs of the fitness industry” she has harnessed the unlimited marketing and sales potential of the internet, creating a plethora of e-commerce sites, and .com’s that rake in a hefty residual income via the world wide web. She is a bestselling author of three hard cover books on diet, nutrition, and exercise, and a contributor to many magazines and eBooks such as Oxygen, Fitness Rx and Bodybuilding.com. She also runs an International consultation firm, having coached thousands of women from around the world, and has hosted weekend fitness retreats drawing women from all over the globe to simply meet her and hear her speak. Jennifer is also a powerful marketing expert, appearing in numerous globally broadcast infomercials for her signature products including the Ab Circle Pro, Mini Circle, and Chest Magic, and on top shopping networks, such as QVC and The Home Shopping Network. Do date, her company and her corporate alliances have three major future lifestyle products soon to be rolling out, with key television media spots secured for advertising. Jennifer is the driving force behind the unprecedented success and future potential of JNL Worldwide.

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Zoho Announces First U.S. User Conference. Day-Long Event in San Francisco to Help Customers Grow Their Businesses with Zoho; Product Managers, Experts to Offer Best Practices, Product Training, More

Pleasanton, California (PRWEB) February 14, 2012

Zoho today announced Zoholics 2012, its first user conference in the United States. The day-long event will help Zoho customers — SMBs and enterprise organizations — get more out of Zoho applications to improve their overall productivity, communication and collaboration. The conference also gives Zoho customers an opportunity to learn from other users as well as meeting and learning from Zoho product managers and experts in customer relations, sales and other disciplines.

    Agenda: Product discussions, training and announcements
    Keynotes: Paul Greenberg, CRM guru, and Sridhar Vembu, Zoho CEO
    Register for this event at http://zoholics.com/Register.html

Zoholics 2012 will be held March 26, 2012, in San Francisco at the Hilton San Francisco Airport Bayfront. Attendees can register for the conference at http://zoholics.com/Register.html. The fee is $ 79 per attendee for those who register before February 26, and $ 159 for those who register later.

“The Zoholics user conference gives us a rare chance to connect face-to-face with our customers,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “Customers will have a chance to engage in intense product and industry trend sessions, and learn best practices from Zoho experts and other Zoho users. This is another opportunity to help our customers get the most out of Zoho.”

A Zoholics Preview

Zoholics 2012 will offer attendees a variety of Zoho-related information. The company will offer first looks at new Zoho products and features as well as sneak peeks at plans for future versions. Several sessions will be presented within two conference tracks on:

    Industry trends – the Zoho position on contextual integration, mobile, social and other issues. Customer presentations and case studies will also be included.
    Product training – expert guidance on Zoho CRM and other Zoho applications.

Conference attendees will also hear keynote speeches by Paul Greenberg, best-selling author and managing principal of The 56 Group, LLC, and by Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and CEO of Zoho.

For more information on Zoho, please visit www(dot)zoho(dot)com and watch “What is Zoho?” To get breaking Zoho news, visit and subscribe to the RSS feed at blogs(dot)zoho(dot)com, and follow the company on Twitter at @zoho and on Facebook at www(dot)facebook(dot)com/zoho.

Related Resources

Zoho news releases: www(dot)zoho(dot)com/in-the-news.html

Zoho product videos: www(dot)zoho(dot)com/product_videos.html

Zoho general videos: www(dot)zoho(dot)com/videos.html

Zoho blogs: blogs(dot)zoho(dot)com

Zoho on Twitter: www(dot)twitter(dot)com/zoho

Zoho Facebook Fan Page: www(dot)facebook(dot)com/zoho

About Zoho

Zoho is a comprehensive suite of award-winning online productivity, collaboration and business applications for businesses of all sizes. Over five million users rely on Zoho for their Business,Productivity & Collaboration needs and actively connect via Forums, Blogs, Facebook and Twitter. To date, Zoho has launched 27 different applications which include several online office applications such as Writer, Sheet, Show and Mail along with a host of business applications ranging from CRM to Projects, Invoice and Meeting. These applications are offered directly via Zoho.com or through hundreds of partners in the Zoho Alliance Partner Program. For more information about Zoho, please visit www(dot)zoho(dot)com.

Zoho is a division of Zoho Corp., a privately-held and profitable company, which also provides IT Management Software (ManageEngine with 50,000 customers) and a Network Management Suite (WebNMS with 25,000 Tier 1 carrier deployments). With headquarters in Pleasanton, CA and offices in Austin, New Jersey, Chennai, London, Tokyo and Beijing, Zoho Corp. serves the technology needs of millions of customers worldwide. For more information about Zoho Corp., please visit www(dot)zohocorp(dot)com.

All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Tags: Zoho, Zoholics, online applications, search, unified search, actionable search, online productivity, online collaboration, business applications, email, spreadsheets, presentations, documents, email, user experience, user conference

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Pat Heelen

New York, New York (PRWEB) February 12, 2012

Pat Heelen Styling, New York’s top styling firm has announced their expansion and new location for its New York Headquarters. The new 5th avenue location has alluded to an increase in the firms’ clientele as well as celebrity representation.

Pat Heelen Styling has been around since 1992. It is one of the first Styling firms to accept New York locals, and even do Pro Bono styling. Celebrating it’s 20th anniversary, the Pat Heelen styling firm moved to a new 5th avenue location overlooking all of New York City. The new headquarters is aesthetically very beautiful, and has gowns and outfits by the most lucrative Fashion Designers.

The firm hosted a 20 year ‘Birthday Party’ where celebrities, as well as many of New York’s upper class, attended. The Styling firm’s creator Pat Heelen made a speech thanking her guests, and expressed her excitement for the firms’ new agenda for 2012. The 20th anniversary yielded a lot of buzz from the press, and even alluded to an expansion in the Styling Firms’ client pool.

“Our new location is simply to die for. It overlooks New York City, and it is definitely the best home for the best fashion. I am so happy I got to celebrate this wonderful evening with my clients, who have become great friends through the years.” says Pat Heelen styling Creator Pat Heelen.

The new location is on the 39th floor and is 1,000 square feet. Within the facility there are several ‘Changing rooms’ all equipped with surround mirrors and top of the line leather furniture. There is a room for every Fashion item, such as a ‘Shoe Room’ and ‘Bag Room’. Some designers, such as Chanel and Gucci have a room of their own couture, which only the most lucrative of Pat Heelen members have access to.

The anniversary party was a New York City event which many yearned to attend. The press were not allowed in, giving the celebrity guests a night off. Inside, guests were served by models, wearing couture gowns and suits. The night was filled with dancing, dining, and awarded many of Pat Heelen’s partners.

The Styling firm announced its upcoming Pro-Bono project, stating that it would revolutionize fashion as we know it. They also announced their upcoming launching of the Pat Heelen blog, and their recent collaboration with various Fashion Designers. Pat Heelen spoke of her recent hiring of a new team of Fashion Stylists, whose jobs are to deal with ‘recession shopping’ or shopping for those on a budget.

“Pat Heelen Styling is the most Fashion Forward, and thoughtful, styling agency I have ever been associated with. When I say thoughtful, I mean they seek to help every type of person all the way from the poor, who need lower end fashion forward clothing to New York City’s upper class wearing only couture. Pat Heelen herself is a fashion icon whose input is incorporated into many of the biggest designers most recent designs.”

More About Pat Heelen

A lover of Fashion from a very young age, Pat Heelen started her very own Styling firm called Pat Heelen Styling. She is an alumnus of Parson’s New School of Design, and has worked in Gucci and for several of New York City’s most lucrative stylists. Now, she represents many famous stylists, and has styled celebrities and members of New York City’s upper elite. She believes that fashion is an art, and it demonstrates one’s identity. Pat Heelen currently resides in uptown New York City and is in the midst of writing her own Fashion Blog and Book.

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Quick Click Commisisons

(PRWEB) February 11, 2012

Many people are looking for effective ways to have a decent income online. The internet marketing world is changing because of google’s consistent updates. Jessica and Mike Auton have now launched the Quick Click Commissions(QCC) System.

Quick Click Commissions System contains guides and tools that shows the proper methods in using facebook to get lots of targeted traffic. A person can then promote Amazon offers or clickbank digital products.

Mike Auton, the main creator of Quick Click Commissions, is a famous internet marketer. He is well-regarded in the online marketing world. He created other high-quality marketing courses like “CB Cash Code” to help people sell products online. Video tutorials are also included in Quick Click Commissions package. Mike Auton is credible and very passionate when it comes to helping people with affiliate marketing.

Quick Click Commissions System provides a time-saving solution in creating high-quality contents and getting lots of website traffic. This makes it unique. People don’t need to spend hours making contents for their sites and Facebook pages. Web hosting accounts and domain names are also not needed.

Quick Click Commissions Package consists of 2 softwares. The first tool is the “Amazon Dominator”. A user will just enter a single keyword for a target product that the user plans to promote. The tool will then show a list of Amazon products. The user will then select a product, and Amazon Dominator will generate a facebook code template. The template will then be placed in a facebook note or page. Complete step-by-step videos are available in the member’s area. Simple backlinking methods are also shown to build links to the FB note or page. The second tool is the “Clickbank Dominator”. This tool targets clickbank products.

QCC is a genuine system that offers dedicated persons efficient ways to make money online. More bonuses for Quick Click Commissions are available through this link.

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The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Photo by Noah Sheldon

Annandale-On-Hudson, NY (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

Culture at the crossroads in Belle Époque France will be explored at the ninth annual Bard SummerScape festival, which once again features a sumptuous tapestry of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, keyed to the theme of the 23rd annual Bard Music Festival. Presented in the striking Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard College’s bucolic Hudson River campus, the seven-week festival opens on July 6 with the first of three performances by France’s Compagnie Fêtes Galantes, and closes on August 19 with a party in Bard’s beloved Spiegeltent, which returns for the full seven weeks. This year’s Bard Music Festival explores “Saint-Saëns and His World,” and some of the great French composer’s most innovative compatriots provide other SummerScape highlights, including Emmanuel Chabrier’s opéra-comique The King In Spite of Himself in a first staged revival of the original 1887 version; Molière’s final comedy of manners, The Imaginary Invalid (1673); and a film festival, “France and the Colonial Imagination.” Together, Bard’s offerings present a vivid portrait of a dazzlingly creative and colorful era in European history: a Golden Age of promise and possibility that came to end with the tragedy of World War I.

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Dubbed “part boot camp for the brain, part spa for the spirit” by the New York Times, the Bard Music Festival provides the creative inspiration for SummerScape, presenting “Saint-Saëns and His World”: a far-reaching and illuminating program of orchestral, choral, and chamber concerts, as well as preconcert talks and panel discussions, all devoted to examining the life and times of Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921). The French composer’s long career not only spanned the course of French music from Gounod to Ravel but, thanks to his co-founding the influential Société Nationale de Musique, helped shape it too. His own prodigious compositional output reflects his virtuosity on piano and organ, and, in its advanced chromaticism, his championship of Wagner and Liszt. Yet the clean, almost classical transparency, and the brilliant glitter of his orchestration, help define a sound that is unmistakably French. The Bard Music Festival offers an immersion in French late-Romanticism with its trademark opulence and emotional richness – from luminaries like César Franck and Claude Debussy to lesser-known figures like Cécile Chaminade – while also contextualizing Saint-Saëns within the wider musical world, alongside composers both conservative and modernist. A wide range of Saint-Saëns’s music will be performed, from popular works such as the “Organ” Symphony, to his rarely performed “biblical poem,” Le déluge (“The Flood”). With its recognized gift for thematic programming, Bard achieves a depth and breadth of musical and cultural discovery that is truly unique. The two weekends of the Bard Music Festival will take place on August 10-12 and August 17-19 (see further details below).

The American Symphony Orchestra, under its music director, Leon Botstein, is in residence at Bard throughout SummerScape. Bard’s annual opera will be the first staged revival of the original 1887 version of The King in Spite of Himself (“Le roi malgré lui”), an opera by Saint-Saëns’s compatriot and contemporary Emmanuel Chabrier. Conducted by Botstein, whose 2005 concert performance of the opéra-comique was “vibrant and assured” (New York Times), the production will receive a contemporary treatment from Thaddeus Strassberger, director of SummerScape’s previous, celebrated productions of Les Huguenots and The Distant Sound. In theater, Bard will present Molière’s final play, The Imaginary Invalid (Le malade imaginaire, 1673); blending satire with farce in an indictment of the medical profession, this classic comedy of manners will be directed by Princess Grace Award-winner Erica Schmidt, creator of three previous SummerScape offerings: The Tender Land, The Sorcerer, and Uncle Vanya. A significant dance performance has opened SummerScape each year since 2005. This year, the Compagnie Fêtes Galantes will launch the festival with Que ma joie demeure (“Let My Joy Remain,” 2002), which celebrates the sublime music of Baroque master J.S. Bach with Béatrice Massin’s contemporary choreography.

Imported from Europe for its seventh SummerScape season, Bard’s authentic and sensationally popular Spiegeltent is a handmade pavilion decorated with mirrors, centered on a theater-in-the-round that doubles as a dance floor. Offering food, beverages, and entertainment on Thursdays through Sundays throughout SummerScape, the mirrored tent is the festival’s center for fun and refreshments. During weekend days the glittering “tent of dreams” hosts family programs, and in the evening there’s a lineup of cutting-edge cabaret and musical performances, with post-show dancing and drinks.

Critical Acclaim:

London’s Times Literary Supplement lauded SummerScape as “the most intellectually ambitious of America’s summer music festivals.” The New Yorker called it “one of the major upstate festivals,” and American Record Guide agreed, “Bard’s SummerScape has to be one of the New York area’s great seasonal escapes.” Travel and Leisure reported, “Gehry’s acclaimed concert hall provides a spectacular venue for innovative fare.” Newsday called SummerScape “brave and brainy,” Musical America judged it “awesomely intensive,” the New York Times pronounced it “ever a hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure,” and the New York Sun observed, “Bard…offers one of the best lineups of the summer for fans of any arts discipline.”

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Bard SummerScape 2012 – highlights by genre

Music

The numerous offerings that make up the comprehensive 23rd annual Bard Music Festival, “Saint-Saëns and His World,” take place during SummerScape’s two final weekends: August 10–12 and August 17–19. Through the prism of Saint-Saëns’s life and career, this year’s festival will explore the music of the Belle Époque that set the stage for modernism’s subsequent upheavals; it was, after all, in Paris and well within Saint-Saëns’s long lifetime that Stravinsky’s notorious Rite of Spring premiere took place.

Saint-Saëns, from his childhood as a prodigy dubbed the “French Mozart,” was a consummate and exceptionally versatile musician. His oeuvre includes 10 concertos, five symphonies, 39 chamber works, 50 solo piano pieces, 12 operas, numerous choral works, more than 90 songs, nearly 40 transcriptions, and incidental music for six stage plays. A world-class virtuoso on piano and organ, he was also a conductor, critic, essayist, editor, and at the start of his career a musical pioneer, instrumental in introducing German innovations, not least the symphonic poem, to France.

The 12 musical programs, built thematically and spaced over the two weekends, range from “Saint-Saëns and the Cultivation of Taste” to “Out of the Shadow of Samson and Delilah: Saint-Saëns’s Other Grand Opera.” As well as music by his contemporaries, a broad sampling of Saint-Saëns’s own compositions will be presented, from canonical works like the Danse macabre to such comparative rarities as the late solo sonatas for oboe and bassoon. Two panel discussions will be supplemented by informative preconcert talks before each performance that illuminate the concert’s themes and are free to ticket holders.

Weekend One, August 10–12: Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism

The first weekend of the Bard Music Festival includes a reconsideration of Saint-Saëns’s most famous piece, The Carnival of the Animals, which he judged so poor a reflection of his work that it was kept under lock and key until after his death. Also featured are such favorites as the soaring Third Symphony, his “official magnum opus” and his Fifth Piano Concerto, alongside less familiar works like La Muse et le poète, and a generous selection of his sadly neglected chamber repertoire.

Weekend Two, August 17–19: Confronting Modernism

Weekend Two of the Bard Music Festival explores music by many of Saint-Saëns’s contemporaries – including fellow organist César Franck, Emmanuel Chabrier, Vincent d’Indy, and his close friend and most famous student, Gabriel Fauré. The weekend opens with readings from novelist Marcel Proust, including the famous “Vinteuil Sonata” passage, commonly identified with Saint-Saëns’s exquisite Violin Sonata, and ends with a concert performance of his grand opera Henry VIII. The weekend also features a performance of the composer’s finest choral work, the biblical oratorio The Flood. Programmed alongside it are other scriptural settings including Psalm 130 (Du fond de l’abîme) by Lili Boulanger, first female winner of the Prix de Rome. Also examined are the engagement by Saint-Saëns and his peers with Baroque composers, such as Rameau, and with the medium of film.

Since the founding of the Bard Music Festival, each season Princeton University Press has published a companion volume of new scholarship and interpretation, with essays, translations, and correspondence relating to the featured composer and his world. Jann Pasler, author of Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France, which won the 2010 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, is editor of the 2012 volume, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World.

Described as “uniquely stimulating” by the Los Angeles Times, and “consistently brainy and edifying” by the New York Times, the Bard Music Festival has impressed critics worldwide. As the Wall Street Journal’s Barrymore Laurence Scherer observes:

“The Bard Music Festival…no longer needs an introduction. Under the provocative guidance of the conductor-scholar Leon Botstein, it has long been one of the most intellectually stimulating of all American summer festivals and frequently is one of the most musically satisfying. Each year, through discussions by major scholars and illustrative concerts often programmed to overflowing, Bard audiences have investigated the oeuvre of a major composer in the context of the society, politics, literature, art, and music of his times.”

The 23rd annual Bard Music Festival is made possible in part through the generous support of the Board of the Bard Music Festival and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Opera

Where Saint-Saëns was a polished professional, his contemporary and compatriot Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94) was considered by his peers to be something of an amateur. His rarely performed comic opera The King in Spite of Himself (“Le roi malgré lui,” 1887) is the story of Henri de Valois, a 16th-century noble named King of Poland despite pining for his native France. Such revivals as have been undertaken are usually on the concert platform rather than in the opera house, and make use of later, revised versions of the work. Yet the opera balances farce and romance with elegant economy and boasts a score so rich and original that Ravel claimed its premiere “changed the course of French harmony.” Likewise, critics have subsequently recognized that, in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winner Harold C. Schonberg, “Chabrier’s masterpiece is Le roi malgré lui, a lighthearted work of extraordinary sophistication. It should be revived.”

It was Leon Botstein who, in concert with the American Symphony Orchestra, first returned to the text of the 1887 premiere, to the gratified delight of the New York press. The New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini said:

“Leon Botstein, that tireless champion of the unjustly overlooked, has come to the rescue of an even more neglected Chabrier comedy, Le roi malgré lui (‘The King in Spite of Himself’). …Mr. Botstein led…a vibrant and assured concert performance of this utterly enchanting work from 1887… . The cast was splendid… . But Mr. Botstein deserves the most credit for bringing us this inexplicably neglected opera.”

As the New York Sun confirmed, “Judging from [this] spirited performance and the audience’s roar of delight at the conclusion, Le roi’s time has come.”

Now SummerScape is in the happy position of returning Chabrier’s masterpiece in its original form to the opera house, in a new, fully-staged production featuring Botstein’s tried and tested musical direction and a modern treatment by Thaddeus Strassberger, whose previous SummerScape opera productions are among Bard’s undisputed success stories. Of his way with Meyerbeer in 2009, the Financial Times declared: “Les Huguenots in Bard’s staging is a thriller from beginning to end. …Five Stars.” Similarly, of 2010’s staging of Shreker’s The Distant Sound, the Wall Street Journal observed: “Strassberger’s engrossing production reflected the experimental nature of the opera by seamlessly integrating period films and giving the show a modernist, distancing aura,” while New York magazine named it one of the “Top Ten Classical Music Events of 2010.” As Musical America remarks, “Bard’s annual opera has become an indispensable part of the summer operatic landscape because the choice of works is invariably inspired and their productions distinctively creative.”

The new staging, a coproduction with Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera, which annually hosts one of the world’s finest opera showcases, will run for five performances (July 27 & 29; August 1, 3, & 5), with an Opera Talk from Leon Botstein, free and open to the public, before the performance on Sunday, July 29, at 1 p.m.

Special support for The King in Spite of Himself (Le roi malgré lui) is provided by Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander.

The Opera Talk is presented in memory of Sylvia Redlick Green.

Theater

Although they were less than fashionable among his contemporaries, Saint-Saëns professed himself an aficionado of the works of his countryman Molière (1622–73), enjoying them in performance and undertaking reconstruction of the lost incidental music to The Imaginary Invalid. Through comedies of manners like The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Miser, and The Imaginary Invalid itself, Molière – the pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin – satirized the hypocrisy and pretension of the ancien régime, raising comedy to the pitch of great art, and setting standards by which it has been judged ever since.

The Imaginary Invalid (“Le malade imaginaire”) was first staged in 1673, as a three-act comédie-ballet featuring incidental music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Targeting both hypochondriacs and the money-grubbing medics who exploit them, its protagonist is the wealthy Argan, who obsessively doses his imagined complaints with costly treatments and tonics. This fixation so blinds him to the realities of family life that it is only by faking his death that Argan learns the truth. The playwright himself undertook the title role in the original production; with macabre irony, he hemorrhaged during the fourth performance, and – despite managing to complete it – died later that evening.

Opening on July 13, the new production is directed by Erica Schmidt for a total of 10 performances (July 13–22). Schmidt, whose numerous honors include Princess Grace, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, and Obie Awards, is the creator of three previous SummerScape offerings: The Tender Land (2006), The Sorcerer (2007), and Uncle Vanya (2008), of which Variety observed:

“A Chekhov production demands a balancing act…or else part of the play’s richness will be lost. In her staging of Uncle Vanya at Bard College’s SummerScape Festival, director Erica Schmidt, aided by a sterling team of creatives, gets the balance right.”

Performances of The Imaginary Invalid have been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.

Dance

For the past seven seasons, dance has been a vital component of SummerScape, which has opened with celebrated dance performances each summer since 2005. This year, opening SummerScape on July 6, is France’s Compagnie Fêtes Galantes, founded in 1993 by revered choreographer and Baroque specialist Béatrice Massin. It was through her collaboration with pioneering dance historian Francine Lancelot at the Ris et Danceries company that Massin first developed her “great love affair with Baroque dance” (Le Soir). Yet despite her command of the genre, Massin’s works are not strict historical reconstructions. Rather, they take the vocabulary of 17th- and 18th-century dance and offer it with a modern and wholly original slant. Massin’s many commissions include the official opening of Paris’s Centre National de la Danse (2004), and musical partners include period performance specialists Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, and William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, with whom Fêtes Galantes collaborated on the Merchant-Ivory motion picture Jefferson in Paris (1995).

This summer Béatrice Massin brings to SummerScape one of her most successful dances, Que ma joie demeure (“Let My Joy Remain,” 2002), with which Fêtes Galantes has already toured France, Belgium, Italy, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. As Le Monde reports, Que ma joie demeure is “a hit wherever it goes,” thanks to what the Bangkok Post calls “Massin’s restrained but masterfully intricate choreography.” Small wonder that Réunion’s Clicanoo exclaims, “Let My Joy Remain? Pure happiness!”

Set to the music of J.S. Bach performed by two leading period-instrument ensembles (excerpts from the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 3, and 6 with Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and from Cantata BWV 78 with Philippe Herreweghe directing La Chapelle Royale) Que ma joie demeure will be presented in three performances (July 6–8).

Film

France and the Colonial Imagination

Saint-Saëns was the first important composer to write an original score for a motion picture: 1908’s L’assassinat du duc de Guise (“The Assassination of the Duke of Guise”). Now the SummerScape 2012 film festival “France and the Colonial Imagination” takes a similarly political theme, exploring the legacy of French colonialism in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and the countries that once comprised French West Africa. A wide range of styles, concerns, and viewpoints are represented by these films, which include romantic treatments of Europeans in the African Muslim world, as in Pépé le Moko (1937) and Casablanca (1942); works by European filmmakers that confront and challenge colonialism, like The Battle of Algiers (1966); and works from the African perspective, including two films by Senegal’s Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007), considered the “Father of African film.”

Once again, Bard SummerScape is pleased to present all titles on 35mm film (wherever possible). Films are screened at the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center.

Spiegeltent

Back for a seventh magnificent summer, the authentic, one-of-a-kind Belgian Spiegeltent has been sensationally popular since its introduction at Bard in 2006, the first time one of these fabulous structures appeared in America. The perfect place to enjoy a dazzling array of entertainment throughout the festival, Bard’s Spiegeltent provides a meeting place for drink, food, and celebration before and after weekend shows. Food is casual summer fare, à la carte burgers from the grill, fresh salads, gourmet ice cream, microbrewed beer, local wine, and more, sourced locally whenever possible. During weekend days there are family programs, and in the evening there’s a lineup of cutting-edge cabaret and musical performances – almost all of which sold out last summer – with post-show dancing and drinks. Reflecting SummerScape’s current Gallic theme, this season’s Spiegeltent programming takes on a distinctly French flavor!

See below for chronological list of SummerScape 2012 highlights; key performance dates by genre; full program details for the Bard Music Festival; and ticket information.

SummerScape 2012: chronological list of highlights

July 6–8 SummerScape opens with Compagnie Fêtes Galantes

July 13–22 Ten performances of Molière’s drama The Imaginary Invalid

July 12–Aug 12                 Film Festival “France and the Colonial Imagination” (11 films)

July 14 Gala benefit in the Spiegeltent

July 27–Aug 5 Five performances of Emmanuel Chabrier’s opera The King in Spite of Himself

August 10 Annual Bard Music Festival opening-night dinner in the Spiegeltent

August 10–12     Bard Music Festival, Weekend One:

“Saint-Saëns and His World: Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism”

August 17–19     Bard Music Festival, Weekend Two:

“Saint-Saëns and His World: Confronting Modernism”

SummerScape 2012: key performance dates by genre

MUSIC

Bard Music Festival, Weekend One: “Saint-Saëns and His World: Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism” (August 10–12)

Bard Music Festival, Weekend Two: “Saint-Saëns and His World: Confronting Modernism” (August 17–19)

Complete program details follow.

Round-trip coach transportation from Manhattan to Bard is available on August 10, 12, 17, and 19, for particular Sosnoff Theater performances. Round-trip shuttle transportation between the MetroNorth train station in Poughkeepsie and Bard is also available for some of the performances. A fare will be charged and reservations are required for coach and shuttle transportation. Check the website for schedules and details.

OPERA

Emmanuel Chabrier: The King in Spite of Himself †

Sosnoff Theater

July 27* and August 3 at 7 p.m.

July 29* and August 1 and 5* at 3 p.m.

Tickets: $ 30, 60, 70, 90

THEATER

Molière: The Imaginary Invalid

Theater Two

July 13*, 14+, 19, 20, and 21† at 8 p.m.

July 14, 15*, 18, 21, and 22* at 3 p.m.

Tickets: $ 45

DANCE

Compagnie Fêtes Galantes

July 6* and 7† at 8 pm

July 8* at 3 pm

Sosnoff Theater

Tickets: $ 25, $ 40, $ 45, $ 55

Round-trip transportation from Manhattan to Bard is available for this performance. The round-trip fare is $ 30 and reservations are required.

† Round-trip shuttle between the MetroNorth train station in Poughkeepsie and Bard is available for this performance. The round-trip fare is $ 20 and reservations are required. Shuttle service is available for all performances of the opera.

+SummerScape Gala Benefit dinner and post-performance party.

FILM FESTIVAL

“France and the Colonial Imagination”

Thursdays and Sundays, July 12 – August 12 at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m.

Ottaway Film Center

Tickets: $ 8

SPIEGELTENT

Cabaret, Family Fare, and SpiegelClub

Cabaret $ 25; Family Fare $ 15 ($ 5 for child under 18); SpiegelClub $ 5

Venues:

SummerScape opera, theater, and dance performances and most Bard Music Festival programs are held in the Sosnoff Theater or Theater Two in Bard’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry and celebrated since its opening as a major architectural landmark in the region. Some chamber programs and other BMF events are in Olin Hall. The Spiegeltent has its own schedule of events, in addition to serving as a restaurant, café, and bar before and after performances. The Film Festival screenings are at the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center.

New York City Round-Trip Coach Transportation:

To make a reservation on the round-trip coach provided exclusively to ticket holders for specific performances indicated by * in the calendar of events that follows, call the box office at 845-758-7900. The round-trip fare is $ 30 and reservations are required. The coach departs from Columbus Circle four hours before scheduled curtain time to allow for dining in the Spiegeltent.

Poughkeepsie MetroNorth Train Station Round-Trip Shuttle Transportation:

Round-trip shuttle between the MetroNorth station in Poughkeepsie and Bard is available exclusively to ticket holders for specific performances marked with a †. Shuttle service is available for all performances of the opera. The round-trip fare is $ 20 and reservations are required. To make a reservation call the box office at 845-758-7900.

Full Schedule:

A complete schedule of SummerScape and Bard Music Festival events (subject to change) follows. Updates are posted at the festival web site fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2012.

Tickets for all SummerScape events go on sale to the public on February 20, 2012, but those who register early as “e-Members” will have the early-bird’s choice of the best seats and also receive regular news and updates.

Program details of Bard Music Festival, “Saint-Saëns and His World”

WEEKEND ONE: Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism

Friday, August 10

PROGRAM ONE

Saint-Saëns and the Cultivation of Taste*†

Sosnoff Theater

7:30 p.m. Preconcert Talk

8:00 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)

Tickets: $ 25, 35, 45, 55

Saturday, August 11

PANEL ONE

Prodigy, Polymath, Globetrotter, and Reactionary

Olin Auditorium

10:00 a.m. –12:00 noon

Free and open to the public

PROGRAM TWO

Performing, Composing, and Arranging for Concert Life

Olin Auditorium

1:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

1:30 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–87);

Franz Liszt (1811–86); Charles Gounod (1818–93); Anton Rubinstein (1829–94);

Leo Delibes (1836–91); Jules Massenet (1842–1912); Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908);

Georges Bizet (1838–75); and others

Tickets: $ 35

PROGRAM THREE

Saint-Saëns, a French Beethoven? *†

Sosnoff Theater

7:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

8:00 p.m. Performance: American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)

Tickets: $ 30, 50, 60, 75

Sunday, August 12

PROGRAM FOUR

The Organ, King of Instruments

Sosnoff Theater

10 a.m. Performance with Commentary

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Adolphe Adam (1803–56); Louis Lefébure-Wély (1817–69); Charles Gounod (1818–93); César Franck (1822–90); Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937); Leon Boëllmann (1862–97); Louis Vierne (1870–1937)

Tickets: $ 35

PROGRAM FIVE

Ars Gallica and French National Sentiment

Olin Auditorium

1:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

1:30 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Édouard Lalo (1823–92); Marie Jaëll (1846–1925); Augusta Holmès (1847–1903); Henri Duparc (1848–1933); Ernest Chausson (1855–99); Albéric Magnard (1865–1914)

Tickets: $ 35

PROGRAM SIX

Zoological Fantasies: Carnival of the Animals Revisited*†                    

Sosnoff Theater

5:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

5:30 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94); Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Erik Satie (1866–1925); Maurice Ravel (1875–1937); Jacques Ibert (1890–1962); Francis Poulenc (1899–1963); and others

Tickets: $ 25, 35, 45, 55

WEEKEND TWO: Confronting Modernism

Friday, August 17

PROGRAM SEVEN

Proust and Music* †                                

Sosnoff Theater

7:00 p.m. Preconcert Panel

8:30 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); César Franck (1822–90); Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Claude Debussy (1862–1918); Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947)

Tickets: $ 25, 35, 45, 55

Saturday, August 18

PANEL TWO

Exporting Western Music Past and Present

Olin Auditorium

10:00 a.m. –12:00 noon

Free and open to the public

PROGRAM EIGHT

La musique ancienne et moderne

Olin Auditorium

1:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

1:30 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–87); Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764); Pauline Viardot (1821–1910); Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Vincent d’Indy (1851–1931); Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944); Paul Dukas (1865–1935)

Tickets: $ 35

PROGRAM NINE

The Spiritual Sensibility*†

Sosnoff Theater

7:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

8:00 p.m. Performance: American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Charles Gounod (1818–93); Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924); Florent Schmitt (1870–1958); Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)

Tickets: $ 30, 50, 60, 75

Sunday, August 19

PROGRAM TEN

From Melodrama to Film

Olin Auditorium

10:00 a.m.: Performance with Commentary

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) and Hector Berlioz (1803–69)

Tickets: $ 30

PROGRAM ELEVEN

Unexpected Correspondences: Saint-Saëns and the New Generation

Olin Auditorium

1:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk

1:30 p.m. Performance

Works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921); Claude Debussy (1862–1918); Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

Tickets: $ 30

PROGRAM TWELVE

Out of the Shadow of Samson and Delilah: Saint-Saëns’s Other Grand Opera*†

Sosnoff Theater

3:30 p.m. Preconcert Talk

4:30 p.m. Performance: American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Henry VIII (written 1881–82)

Tickets: $ 30, 50, 60, 75

Bard SummerScape ticket information

The Bard SummerScape Festival is made possible through the generous support of the Advisory Boards of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center.

Tickets for all Bard SummerScape events go on sale to the public on February 20, 2012.

For tickets and further information on all SummerScape events, call the Fisher Center box office at 845-758-7900 or visit http://www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

Bard SummerScape: fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2012

Bard Music Festival: fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf/2012

Tickets: fishercenter@bard.edu; or by phone at 845-758-7900

Updates: Bard’s “e-members” get all the news in regular updates send an e-mail to fishercenter@bard.edu.

Transportation: SummerScape offers round-trip transportation from Manhattan to Bard as well as shuttles to and from the Poughkeepsie train station for selected performances. For more information go to: fishercenter.bard.edu/transportation/.

All program information is subject to change.

The 2012 SummerScape season is made possible in part through the generous support of the Board of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the Board of the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Courtier “Remodeled” by Paul Fisher

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) February 07, 2012

Courtier Model and Talent Management today announces collaboration with world-renowned modeling agent Paul Fisher leading to a re-brand, a reality show, and the signing of new male models right off Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona.

Courtier has joined The Network, a global collaborative of modeling agencies who discover and share talent in cities large and small. The Network enables smaller, local agencies to compete in their respective markets for the first time in industry history.

The Network is the brainchild of legendary agent Paul Fisher, who has worked in the fashion industry for over 20 years and who has represented such clients as Naomi Campbell, Kimora Lee Simmons, Brooke Burke, Janice Dickenson, Carla Bruni, and many more. Mr. Fisher is CEO of The Network and his latest project is a reality TV show on the CW channel called “Remodeled.”

With “Remodeled” Mr. Fisher sets out to change the modeling industry from the inside out, by remodeling model agencies themselves. Courtier was selected to appear on “Remodeled” and their episode airs on February 8th at 9/8c on The CW.

During the filming of the Courtier episode, Mr. Fisher coached Courtier on a re-brand and advised the agency to shift its focus from representing mostly female models, to representing exclusive male models. To make this shift, Courtier needed new male talent. And with the help of Olga Tavarez and The Network, they scouted and signed several completely new models right off the street’s of Tempe near Arizona State University.

“Paul and his team brought a new perspective to Courtier,” said Recio Jackson, president. “The complete changeover from representing women to becoming a male modeling agency shifted our focus and opened up new opportunities for both Courtier and the models we represent.”

Included among the talent are 23 year old Hunter Morford, a Marketing major at ASU. “ I never thought about being a model, but now that I’m working with the best, I’m excited to see where it goes.”

Courtier will be hosting a special screening with celebrity gurus and star of the show Paul Fisher on the night of their “ReModeled” premiere Feb. 8th, 7pm at The Mint 7373 E. Camelback Rd. Scottsdale, AZ.

About Courtier

Courtier Model and Talent Management was founded in 2009, as a female modeling and talent agency. Representing female talent in runway locally, for charity events including American Cancer Society, Point Foundation, Women’s Metropolitan Art Council (WoMac), Beautiful Confidence, and Face In The Mirror. As well as participating in Scottsdale and Phoenix Fashion Weeks by providing models, photographers and videographers for emerging designers and aspiring fashionistas.

Three years later, with the help of a fashion industry veteran, Paul Fisher and The Network Talent; Courtier Model and Talent Management was Remodeled to become the most powerful male modeling agency in the Southwest. Courtier discovers talent, polishes the “raw diamond”, and promotes them to the top industry professionals around the world.

Courtier Model and Talent Management

7650 E. Evans Road Scottsdale AZ 85206

http://www.mycourtier.com

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Hoboken, NJ and New York City, NY (PRWEB) February 06, 2012

Erin Griffin is the CIO for the Screen Actors Guild, the nation’s largest labor union representing professional actors. Her revealing article, available through eMazzanti Technologies, rehearses the top five criteria about moving her organization to the cloud. The article spells out five different expectations that include:

    Service comparable to existing levels
    Ability to customize
    High security
    Easy integration
    Clarification of legal issues

“Griffin’s article lays out clear service license agreement (SLAs) criteria that small businesses ought to be including in their cloud provider contracts,” notes Jennifer Mazzanti, president, eMazzanti Technologies, an http:// IT Support and Computer Consultant serving the Hoboken, NJ and New York City market areas. “Obviously, some cloud providers are more vapor than substance.”

The complete article can be viewed or downloaded at: http://bit.ly/AoYoBE

Service Comparable to Existing Levels

“As CIO, I have to provide the level of service that our senior management and board expect from the IT team,” says Griffin. “So, how do I create Service License Agreements (SLAs) that really ensure a cloud provider will meet these demanding standards?”

When a cloud provider doesn’t meet the SLA, the reimbursement is generally a partial rebate of the provider’s fee. When the internal IT staff doesn’t meet the SLA, the “price” can be much higher. So, for example, if Griffin wanted to have “bursting” support for high levels of availability at peak times she asks the question: How does she know she can rely on the cloud to provide it? If her cloud provider doesn’t provide the support for the load at the time needed, will her company be compensated via a portion of the hosting fee? From Griffin’s point of view, if the internal IT team were to fail in this example, her team would be accountable for the lost revenue. That high internal price results in a great motivation to deliver service.

However, there are the service issues that are out of the control of most cloud providers. The last mile connectivity from premises to data center can be fraught with latency. When users are accustomed to running heavy applications over a private network, accessing them over commodity Internet lines can really impact their perception of system performance.

The Ability to Customize

Customized software applications and systems are a major part of the value businesses bring to its customers. Being able to establish and support a custom implementation in the cloud is still a challenge. For example, Griffin is implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM, but she needs a special search capability that has to be either developed or added as a bolted-on application from a third-party provider. Griffin needs such ability to customize standard applications in order to make them effective for her company, and that means in the cloud as well as on premises. “I’d like to have applications delivered for us to customize and then be maintained in the cloud,” says Griffin.

Three additional cloud provider selection criteria a part of the Griffin article and can be viewed or downloaded at:

[http://bit.ly/AoYoBE.

About eMazzanti Technologies

With a company name that sounds more like a purebred, high-performance sports car than a IT support and consulting firm, eMazzanti Technologies is all about delivering powerful solutions such as Windows 8, managed printing services, PCS DSS compliance, computer network management, network troubleshooting, business continuity and disaster recovery, green computing, mobile workforce technology, information security, cloud computing, cloud computing services, and business information optimization in the most efficient manner possible. The Hoboken, N.J., firm is located in one of the most densely populated – and competitive – regions in the U.S. It provides business technology consulting services for companies ranging from home offices to multinational corporations throughout the New York metropolitan area, the United States and throughout the world. For more information contact: Carl Mazzanti 201-360-4400 or emazzanti.net. Twitter followers can get additional information @emazzanti and Facebook followers can quickly get information at: Facebook.com/emazzantitechnologies.

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