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Gravity & Grace: Monumental works by El Anatsui
Last night I attended an opening for Gravity & Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum. The show opens today and runs through August 4. I brought my handy lo-fi Blackberry camera so be ready for some awesome shots! They let anyone snap away as long as there was no flash.
The exhibition originated at the Akron Art Museum and will travel to the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa followed by the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida. It would be worthwhile to see the exhibition in all 4 locations since El Anatsui gives the curators, exhibition/installation managers and art handlers free rein in how to install the pieces. If you look at the photos of the pieces in Akron you will see they are not quite the same in Brooklyn. They are the same artworks but just draped and reconstructed in different ways.
The Brooklyn Museum website page for the exhibition shows the work above, Gli (Wall), hung in a different way at the Akron Art Museum. The Assistant Curator Arts of Africa and Pacific Islands, Kevin Dumouchelle mentioned that the work was made for an 18 foot space but since the Brooklyn Museum had a 72 foot tall space they could install it as they did. It's quite impressive as you turn the corner to enter the exhibition and you see this work which embodies the monumental quality.
El Anatsui is a true working artist. He's from Ghana but has lived in Nsukka, Nigeria teaching there at the University of Nigeria since 1969. It wasn't until the 1990 Venice Biennale, when he was 46, that the world really started to notice him. I am not so much a fan of his earlier works. They are important so that you see how he worked from sculptures like the one below to what he is creating now.
There are earlier works in the show but the majority of them date from 2010 on. Using liquor bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka as his medium, El Anatsui creates fluid, organic sculptures. I know there are personal and political messages in the works but I just enjoy the colors and patterns he puts together, plus the element of the installation site dictating the final product with some input from curators and art handlers reinforces a creative, community effort. He has a workshop helping him piece together the recycled aluminum into sections with copper wire, but in a video from the exhibition you see El Anatsui choosing how to connect these sections for his ultimate canvas.
And if you can't get enough of El Anatsui check out his installation, Broken Bridges II, adjacent to the High Line between West 22nd and 21st Streets. It's up until this Summer.


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The findings, based on interviews with 1,000 people in the region, show a massive 65% of respondents would be more likely to use a local West Midlands airport if it had better long-haul connections.
The survey also confirmed that West Midlanders are romantics at heart, with 49% of respondents saying they prefer going on holiday with just their partner, compared to only 9% who would rather travel solo. Qatar Airways' new 'Going Places Together' campaign, launched in December 2015, highlights the magic of jetting off with that special someone, with an award-winning service guaranteed to make every journey memorable.
While the classic beach break is still popular – with 30% of respondents naming it as their favourite type of holiday – the top choice for travellers in the West Midlands is a cultural trip (35%). Travellers looking to combine the two need look no further than one of Qatar Airways' newest destinations, Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. A beautifully tranquil new holiday-spot which is sure to delight both thrill seekers and those who simply want to relax and indulge in five-star luxury, flights to Ras al-Khaimah from Birmingham via Doha start at just £330 return.
Elsewhere, the Qatar Airways figures also show that West Midlanders love to travel far and wide, with one in ten in the region likely to plan a trip Down Under within the next two years. This year Qatar Airways will help bring the West Midlands and Australia closer than ever with new services to Sydney on March 1, and Adelaide on May 2, complementing the airline's well-established routes to Perth and Melbourne.
The results prove that travellers in the West Midlands are keen to fly from a local airport if it offers a choice of long-haul destinations to rival those available elsewhere. With eight flights a week, including two flights on Saturdays, Qatar Airways passengers travelling from Birmingham will have access to the world's most exciting destinations, all within one convenient and seamless transfer at the airline's state-of-the-art hub, Hamad International Airport.
Qatar Airways Country Manager, UK & Ireland, Richard Oliver said: "The results from our survey clearly illustrate a demand for long-haul travel from the West Midlands that Qatar Airways is delighted to meet. To be launching our new service from Birmingham with eight flights a week shows confidence in the city and the wider West Midlands as a place to visit and do business."
Birmingham Airport Aviation Development Director, William Pearson said: "In 2015, we experienced over 20% growth in long-haul passengers alone, so this survey supports the trend that we are seeing at Birmingham Airport. Qatar Airways will give Midlanders world class customer service offering daily connectivity across the globe through its state-of-the-art hub in Doha and we look forward to welcoming this in March."
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Liberty University Opens New All-Steinway Music Complex
As seen in the Winter 2016 edition of the Steinway Chronicle.
LYNCHBURG, VA – Throughout the course of its 44-year history, Liberty University's journey has been described as one of taking on giants and making the impossible possible. That faith-based pilgrimage now continues with Liberty carrying the lyre of an All-Steinway School. Pianos by Steinway & Sons grace the new Center for Music and the Worship Arts, bringing an added dimension of exuberance to the sprawling 7,000-acre campus as students began their fall semester.
The Center for Music and the Worship Arts on the campus at Liberty University.
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The initial shipment of 67 instruments from the Steinway Piano Gallery of Washington D.C. arrived in July. After finishing touches on the two-building, 140,000 square foot complex in the spring, the School of Music will accommodate 124 Steinway and Steinway designed pianos. Fifty practice rooms, 40 teaching studios with piano, songwriting and music computer labs and a 1,600 seat concert hall are part of a major $500 million campus rebuilding program.
Student Jennifer Turner rehearses on a new Steinway. Photo: Ty Hester
Dr. Tad Hardin instructs student Grace Griffith in the new All-Steinway music facility. Photo: Kevin Manguiob
"Our commitment to the All-Steinway initiative is a defining moment in the life and history of the Liberty University School of Music and in the way we equip musicians for the future," said Dean Vernon M. Whaley. "The acquisition of pianos at this level gives Liberty the opportunity to join the ranks of select institutions, evangelical or otherwise, tasked with the responsibility of training world-class pianists. Liberty can now guarantee for all students studying in the School of Music the use of world famous Steinway engineered instruments in every piano studio, teaching classroom, performance space, and practice room," he said.
"Our commitment to the All-Steinway initiative is a defining moment in the life and history of the Liberty University School of Music and in the way we equip musicians for the future."
In June, faculty members scrupulously chose eight grand pianos from the Steinway selection room in New York, including a 9-foot Model D concert grand that will grace the stage of the school's performing arts center. "The decision to become an All-Steinway school demonstrates our commitment to excellence in everything we do," Dr. Whaley said. "Our students will be learning and performing on the best pianos in the world."
Founded in 1971 as Lynchburg Baptist College, the school became recognized as Liberty University in 1985. With approximately 14,500 students on campus joining more than 95,000 students from around the globe pursuing online studies, Liberty is the largest private, non-profit university in the nation, the largest university in Virginia and the largest Christian university in the world.


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The box office has made its ruling, and the verdict is clear. You can't keep a wonderful woman down.
"Wonder Woman," which opened this weekend, is a mammoth hit, meeting the most optimistic expectations and setting up its director, Patty Jenkins, for a place in the record books. It's on track to earn between $90 and $105 million domestically by Monday morning, according to industry projections. That's the best debut ever for a movie directed by a woman.
My colleague Maureen Dowd explored this stark gender disparity in a cover story for The Times's magazine in late 2015, noting that in the previous two years, "women were only 1.9 percent of the directors for the 100 top-grossing films."
"Excluding their art-house divisions, the six major studios released only three movies last year with a female director," Dowd added, referring to 2014.
And since then? According to The Hollywood Reporter, women represented 9 percent of the directors of the 250 top-grossing movies domestically in 2015 and just 7 percent last year.
"Wonder Woman" is an important challenge to that unconscionable imbalance. It's an equally important step toward more big-screen portrayals of female characters as strong, independent leaders. There's been some improvement on that front, perhaps best exemplified by "The Hunger Games" franchise, but in the realm of superheroes, women have continued to lag far behind, as I noted in a column in late 2013 about how often a "Wonder Woman" movie had been contemplated, how long the wait for it was turning out to be, and how determined Hollywood was to mint new male superheroes in the meantime.
The producer, director and writer Ryan Murphy is championing female directors through a resolve to give at least 50 percent of the directing jobs on his television series — which include "American Crime Story," "American Horror Story" and "Feud "— to women, people of color or L.G.B.T. people. The first season of "Feud," which explored the relationship between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, wasn't simply fantastic; it was one of the sharpest, most painful examinations ever of how brutally and reductively so many women are treated as they grow older, particularly in Hollywood. The lineup of Sunday-night television that "Feud" was a part of also included "Girls," "Big Little Lies" and more: a trove of meaty, juicy roles for actresses of all ages.
Sofia Coppola just won the best director prize at Cannes, for her movie "The Beguiled," becoming only the second woman to nab that award. It's ridiculous that there have only been two. But two is a whole lot better than one.
And now here's "Wonder Woman," proving that magical bracelets can have the same power — both on the battlefield and at the box office — as a flashy codpiece. She's fresher than any "Batman" of late and fiercer than any "Superman" of recent vintage, but she's lonely. May her sorority expand, and fast.
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5 Must-See Cars at the 2016 Dayton Auto Show
If you're trying to decide which new car to buy, or you're just a gearhead who enjoys seeing the newest vehicles, the Dayton Auto Show provides its guests the opportunity to view and even sit in many of the newest vehicles available in the automotive marketplace. The 2016 Show features approximately 200 vehicles from 28 different automakers. Here are five of the most eye-catching automobiles from the 2016 Dayton Auto Show…
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2016 Alfa Romeo 4C Spyder
When The News Wheel asked Dayton Auto Show Manager Marie Gilman which vehicles she expected to attract a lot of attention during this year's auto show, the 2016 Alfa Romeo 4C Spyder was one of the first cars she mentioned. The 4C Spyder is powered by a 237-horsepower turbo four-cylinder engine and features a carbon fiber body, which keeps the vehicle's weight at less than 2,500 pounds. The 4C's powerful engine, combined with its low weight, enables the vehicle to travel from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.1 seconds. In addition, the Spyder can hit a top speed of 160 mph.
"It's a beautiful car. We took this one straight off of our showroom floor to bring down to our show," said Bill Klapper, Fiat management specialist at Bob Ross Fiat. "The performance is unbelievable. I've personally driven it several times and it is a monster."
The starting MSRP of the 2016 4C Spider is $65,000, according to Alfa Romeo USA's official website.
2016 BMW i8
You know if UFC fighter Conor McGregor owns one, then it's got to be a seriously expensive and unique vehicle. Powered by a turbocharged three-cylinder gas engine and two additional electric motors, the 2016 BMW i8 is capable of a 155 mph top speed and can accelerate from 0-60 mph in a mere 3.6 seconds. The exterior of this BMW features a shark-nose grille, swan-wing doors, 20-inch wheels, LED exterior lighting, and a top-view camera system. Furthermore, it only takes one-and-a-half hours to charge this plug-in hybrid. The starting MSRP of the 2016 BMW i8 is $136,500, according to BMW's official website.
2016 Lexus RC 300 Coupe
The Lexus brand has come a long way since its first full year of sales in 1990. Once thought of as a luxury brand for an older generation, Lexus has made it a clear focus to create more aggressive and sportier cars to grab the attention of younger consumers.
"The color of this RC 300 is molten pearl," said Lexus Product Specialist Tom Shults. "It's unbelievably gorgeous inside or outside the building, but it's especially beautiful in the sunlight, where you get the change in the textures and the hues."
The 2016 Lexus RC 300 features a 3.5-liter V6 engine rated at 255 horsepower and 236 lb-ft of torque. The RC 300 is only available with all-wheel drive. In addition, the coupe yields an EPA-estimated 19 mpg in the city and 26 mpg on the highway.
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The RAM Minotaur was customized by Prefix Performance and designed to compete with the Ford F-150 Raptor. Prefix Performance is a low-volume production builder that's also known for painting the current Dodge Viper, which is the reason why the Minotaur features that distinctive green exterior.
Prefix Performance took a standard RAM 1500 and added a KORE tactical suspension, 3-inch Fox racing shocks, 35-inch all-terrain tires, tow hooks, aluminum skid plate, Minotaur badging, blackout headlamps, a Viper-inspired side exhaust, and a 6.4-liter HEMI 392 engine good for 475 horsepower.
"Currently we have thirty vehicles on order," said John Coe, sales and account manager, Prefix Performance. "I want to say we've got ten builds that are complete and we'll be ramping up to where we'll be building hopefully eight to ten of these a month."
2016 Corvette Stingray
Carrying a starting MSRP of $55,400, the 2016 Corvette Stingray is one of the most affordable performance cars on the market today. The '16 Corvette Stingray comes standard with a 6.2-liter V8 engine that's good for up to 460 horsepower and 465 lb-ft of torque. That engine propels the Stingray from 0 to 60 mph in only 3.7 seconds. The 2016 model also comes standard with high-performance Brembo brakes, dual-zone climate control, and leather upholstery. In addition, the Chevy MyLink infotainment system is compatible with Apple CarPlay for the 2016 model year.
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Check Out Awesome New Sci-Fi Show Almost Human
November 20, 2013 by brennon
If you were a fan of films like iRobot and love the idea of some Near-Future crime solving then you really need to check out Almost Human which began over in America this week.
Almost Human sees a future where human police officers are teamed up with androids while they protect and serve. Driven by logic and a hard-wired AI they don't go down to well with Karl Urban's character, John Kennex. That is until he reactivates an older model android by the name of Dorian and together set out to bring down the group that maimed him and left him with a synthetic leg.
The show is pretty awesome and I've watched the pilot and the first episode. If you love Cyber-Punk and subtle but awesome effects that build a very believable world then you should be loving this show. The little nod like the lights flickering under Dorian's skin as he processes information is awesome every time.
It looks like Karl Urban is becoming a bit of a geek house hold name with Dredd, Star Trek and of course Lord of the Rings under his belt and he certainly adds the grit to proceedings. That's not to say it isn't funny either, it actually got a few laugh out loud moments from me in the second episode.
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Retroficiency to Enable Rapid, Comprehensive On-Site Energy Audits Across More Than 600 Army and Navy Buildings
Retroficiency to Enable Rapid, Comprehensive On-Site Energy Audits Across More Than 600 Army and Navy Buildings
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Dec 11, 2013) - Retroficiency and Sain Engineering Associates (SEA) today announced a strategic partnership to help identify and deliver massive energy efficiency saving opportunities to the U.S. Army and Navy. Through the agreement, SEA will use Retroficiency's Building Efficiency Intelligence platform to deliver approximately 640 on-site energy audits at U.S. Army and Navy buildings in multiple regions around the world over the next year.
"The Department of Defense and branches of the armed forces such as the Army and Navy have been tremendous advocates for energy efficiency. Because of the large building footprint these organizations have, there is a huge opportunity for energy savings," said Butch Wallace, vice president, Federal Sustainability Group, SEA. "In addition to improving the energy audit process, Retroficiency will enable SEA to execute energy master planning in an easier, faster and more flexible way. This will offer a significant advantage for SEA as we focus on expanding our work in both the federal and corporate sectors."
In 2012, the Department of the U.S. Navy announced ambitious energy goals to improve its energy security, increase energy dependence and help lead the nation towards a clean energy economy. One of the primary goals included making half of all Navy bases, stations and schools net-zero-energy by 2020.1
To continue to help the U.S. Navy achieve these goals, and to support the U.S. Army on similar energy efficiency initiatives, SEA will use Automated Energy Audit (AEA), a software solution available on Retroficiency's Building Efficiency Intelligence platform, to streamline data collection and management, energy efficiency measure evaluation and report generation. AEA enables users to perform comprehensive, accurate building audits in up to 80 percent less time and expense compared with equivalent traditional methods. SEA, an energy consulting firm and Inc. 5000 company, is currently conducting the audits and will complete the project by Q3 2014.
AEA will also support SEA in energy master planning by providing a more standardized, automated platform for long-term capital planning and project development at both the portfolio and building levels. It will allow SEA and its customers to easily explore opportunities for different projects across a portfolio, as well as to re-evaluate buildings for new opportunities over time.
"By embracing Retroficiency's leading analytics and rapid energy modeling platform, SEA will be able to streamline their energy audit process, while also driving deeper insights into energy efficiency projects for customers," said Bennett Fisher, CEO and co-founder, Retroficiency. "We are excited to grow our partnership with such a highly regarded firm and look forward to helping them fully leverage our capabilities to benefit their customers across multiple sectors."
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Retroficiency (www.retroficiency.com) enables utilities and large energy service providers to drive deeper building energy efficiency savings in less time and at a lower cost. Its Building Efficiency Intelligence platform rapidly develops energy models that deliver insights and recommendations to help target buildings, engage customers, convert projects, and track opportunities more effectively and at scale. Retroficiency is trusted by leading organizations and has evaluated more than 400 million square feet of building space to identify more than 2 billion kilowatt hours of annual savings since March 2011.
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Cashier's Dream has intestinal surgery
ELMONT, N.Y. - On the day Cashier's Dream was to have been flown to New York to prepare for next Saturday's Grade 1 Prioress Stakes, she was instead fighting for her life in the Hagyard-Davidson-McGee equine clinic in Lexington, Ky., following intestinal surgery.
Cashier's Dream, winner of last year's Grade 1 Spinaway, had eight to 10 feet of her small intestine removed Tuesday afternoon, after she colicked following a five-furlong workout at Churchill Downs. Cashier's Dream had a significant twist of her lower intestine, and Dr. Mike Spirito performed the surgical procedure, which took 30 minutes, three times longer than normal.
"She is recuperating at this time uneventfully,'' said Dr. Doug Byars, who did the initial evaluation of Cashier's Dream. "While I say uneventfully, she is not out of the woods. She took a pretty good hit. We need to see her continue to progress over the next few days.''
Byars said the 72-hour period beginning Wednesday morning would be crucial in determining Cashier's Dream's prognosis.
Tuesday, Cashier's Dream worked five furlongs in 1:01.80 at Churchill Downs. About 75 minutes later, trainer Steve Asmussen called Barry Irwin, president of Team Valor Racing, which owns the filly along with Bill Heiligbrodt, to notify him the filly had colicked.
"The [doctor] said a lot of her ability to survive this thing is going to be dependent on how much guts and class she's got,'' Irwin said. "He said, 'I think you're going to be in good shape.' ''
Cashier's Dream, a Michigan-bred daughter of Service Stripe, has won 5 of 7 starts, most recently taking a head victory in the Grade 3 La Troienne at Churchill Downs on May 2.
Irwin said Cashier's Dream was scheduled to run only three more times this year with two of those spots being the Prioress and the Test, which is now out. Irwin said that if Cashier's Dream recovers, she would race again next year.
"We put her in the same league as Xtra Heat,'' Irwin said, referring to the 3-year-old filly champion. "There are plenty of races for her as an older horse. We're not going to retire her and breed her if she makes it.''
Cashier's Dream would have been the favorite in the Prioress, the only Grade 1 for 3-year-old fillies run at six furlongs. Expected to run are A New Twist, Carson Hollow, Drippingindiamonds, Nice Boots Baby, Proper Gamble, September Secret, Short Note, Spring Meadow, Vesta, and Wilzada.
Private Emblem arrives for Mike Lee
While Cashier's Dream remained in Kentucky, her stablemate Private Emblem arrived in New York, where he will be favored to win Saturday's $100,000 Mike Lee Handicap for New York bred 3-year-olds.
The Mike Lee is the first leg of the Big Apple Triple, which includes the $125,000 New York Derby at Finger Lakes on July 27 and the $150,000 Albany Handicap on Aug. 21 at Saratoga. There is a $250,000 bonus for the horse that can sweep all three races.
Private Emblem had won three straight races, including the Arkansas Derby, before his disappointing 14th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.
"After the Derby we were very worried about him because he was pretty knocked out,'' Asmussen said. "But, he's breezed back pretty impressively.''
Private Emblem has had four breezes since the Derby, including a half-mile move in 48.20 seconds on Tuesday.
A large field is expected for the seven-furlong Mike Lee, including Beyond Chance, Eye of the Comet, Knight at Rao's, Lord Ofthe Thunder, Mr. Determined, No Parole, Rogue Agent, Say Cousin Lenny, Smokieisabandit, and Trial Prep.
Pletcher has two for Tremont
Trainer Todd Pletcher will send out the uncoupled entry of Hussar and Windsor Lodge in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Tremont Stakes for juvenile colts.
Hussar was most impressive winning his debut by 5 1/4 lengths on June 16 while covering five furlongs in 57.45 seconds over a muddy track.
"I don't think you ever expect one to win by five and run in 57-and-change but he did everything right in the morning,'' Pletcher said.
Windsor Lodge was also impressive winning his maiden by 4 1/2 lengths, defeating Whywhywhy, who came back to win the Flash Stakes on June 7. Windsor Lodge was also in the Flash, but fell over Renegade Warrior, who broke down nearing the stretch.
Pletcher said Windsor Lodge came out of the Flash with only a few scrapes and is running back in this spot because "he's the kind of horse whose best days are going to be this summer and at these distances. His pedigree is such that you wouldn't be thinking about the Breeders' Cup, so we're going to take advantage of the fact he's developed early.''
Zavata, a stablemate of Whywhywhy, is expected to be the favorite in the Tremont. Wednesday, he breezed four furlongs in 51.92 seconds over the Saratoga training track. Desert Warrior and White Mercedes are also considered definite.
Yankee Gentleman aimed at Dwyer
Yankee Gentleman, who finished fourth as the favorite in the Riva Ridge, worked seven furlongs in 1:27.65 Wednesday over Belmont's main track in preparation for the July 7 Dwyer Stakes. He got his last quarter in 23.25 seconds.
Mott said the Dwyer will play a major role in determining Yankee Gentlemen's future. Last week, Yankee Gentlemen worked four furlongs in 49.25 seconds on the turf.
"He worked awfully well on turf,'' trainer Bill Mott said. "He's got that foot."
Others pointing to the Dwyer include Buddha, Deputy Dash, Essayons, Gygistar, and Nothing Flat. Tony Reinstedler may run Peekskill or Stephentown.


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Don't Explain. Tell Your Story.
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Try to think of your ideal reader as a child. Have you ever met a child who preferred an explanation over a story?
Explaining makes for lousy marketing.
Writing for a Child
As a marketing manager, have you ever thought of your ideal reader as a child?
We learn not to talk down to prospects, and we scold our marketing communications writers when they use terms that are too simple. But there's an argument (which I'm about to make) for thinking of the ideal reader of our marketing pieces as a child. In short,
- They both like pictures.
- Neither one has much time to give you, so you have to take full advantage of a short attention span.
- Explanations bore both of them, but tell them a story and they'll follow you anywhere.
Can you build a marcom credo around these points, and get your writers to follow it?
Mind you, this is not the same thing as treating your customers like children. If you underestimate their intelligence or their collective ability to wreak havoc with your company's sales figures and reputation, you are treating them like children, and you'll regret it.
Explanation or Story?
So, to return to the Dan Heath quote, telling a good story about your product or service is better than explaining it, particularly if it's a short story that gets to the point quickly. Content like case studies, blog posts, podcasts and video can do this effectively when it's well written, and even better when you think of your ideal reader as a child.
There are times, usually late in the sales cycle, at which you need to explain rather than to tell a story, and content like white papers, technical articles and application notes is better suited to this.
John White of venTAJA Marketing posts about technology writing from the perspective of the marketing manager. It's dirty work, but somebody has to do it.
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A Curmudgeonly Return
Sandy is back on the Scenic Route
In spite of my warnings and admonitions, the Calm Center of Tranquility (CCOT) has decided to continue The River Journal (TRJ). Because I'm a sucker for the underdog and always have been—a sucker and an underdog—I will continue also. The deal stands that I made with Dennis Nicholls a billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away; before GW, 9-11, and the Tea Party; before Congress and corporate America began to exhibit blatant terminal cranial analitis; before I became a curmudgeon: I get to write anything I want.
Since suspension of operations, a number of people asked if TRJ was going to restart and I told them about my warnings and admonitions to the CCOT. Most have gone away nodding their heads and saying, "I understand," or something like it. But, they weren't happy. Nobody was saying, "Well, it's about damned time."
But it is about damned time, the CCOT tells me, to get something written if I want to be in the reborn TRJ. In accordance with the deal I made with Nicholls a billion years ago, this doesn't necessarily have to be good. But, I will try my best.
Since Nicholls and I made our deal, the planet has become even more of a place where the arrogance of the few threatens to destroy the planetary home of the many, and theirs as well. "Screw the future. Let's get rich now!" should be emblazoned on their corporate flags. It reminds me of stories of what happened in the bunkers of Nazi leaders of Germany as the Allies closed in. When it didn't matter any more and the end was apparent, morals fled and obliquity reigned (yes, you may pause to look that up).
"Anything goes," became the order of the day.
We seem to be in a similar place. Big Energy says, "We don't care what the global effect of our actions is. We don't care that continuing on our current trajectory dooms the planet. This generation, which will be rich and comfortable to the extreme, doesn't give a good Goddamn about the rest of you or the future. We have it. We will burn it. Screw you—and our children."
Those last little three words goes unsaid. But it doesn't go undone.
You stupid, arrogant, self-serving bast...—uh, I mean, "knotheads."
"Knotheads" is the kindest word I can use here. It's a word I use when I don't want to offend children with my speech. It's a word inherited from my father. It's a word that prevents me from using others that are more inflammatory and denigrating and abusive. It's a catchall word for "idiot."
The executives at Peabody Coal (Powder River coal mines; Gregory H. Boyce, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer); ExxonMobil (Canadian tar sands: Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO); BP Global (Global oil company famous for exploding oil platforms; Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman); Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroads (Bakken oil and Powder River coal transportation; Carl Ice, Chairman and CEO); and a host of others are not, by definition, "idiots."
They are plenty smart when it comes to doing what they do (find it, mine it, ship it, sell it, burn it), but when it come to thinking about a real future... they are idio... uh, knotheads. By their actions, if they don't change direction, we are all going to die. And our children and their children. Future generations—including their own descendants—don't stand a snowball's chance in you-know-where if these four guys get their way. And there are a whole bunch more of these guys. And gals.
Want to have some fun? Google "board of directors ExxonMobil" and see who's connected to what. Try not to get angry. If you don't get a little pissed, you may apply for sainthood. Or maybe it's just me.
A great newspaper editor once told me that if I point out a problem in a column, I had to suggest a solution. So, what's the solution? If we look at the big picture, we may not see one. But there are smaller pictures that might be helpful.
Check out 350.org. Learn why investors should divest from energy companies that aren't looking at renewables. Join a group that's making a difference on a local level. Join Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeepers. Join Idaho Conservation League. Join Montana Wilderness Association. Become a Friend of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. You can find all these organizations with Google, too. And, they probably won't piss you off, unless you're down with what big energy is trying to do to the planet.
Welcome back to The River Journal. I will attempt to be less curmudgeonly next time. In the meantime, buy an ad or a gift subscription. We'll send your paper anyplace you want; even to the chairman of ExxonMobil.
When Sandy Compton is not being curmudgeonly, he writes books. His latest are available at local bookstores and online at amazon.com


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Uniforms at BCA
Uniforms are an important part of the culture at BCA. Students are required to wear our authorized uniform separates during school hours, with the exception of free-dress Fridays. Our BCA uniform pieces can be purchased through Dennis Uniforms or Lands'End. We ask that our students wear BCA logo tops that include: white collared shirts, navy sweaters and sweater vests, red fleece jackets and vests, and approved red or navy outerwear.
Boys may choose between navy or khaki pants and shorts to accompany the tops. Girls may choose from plaid skirts and plaid jumpers with white or navy tights, or white or navy knee-high or ankle socks. Girls may also choose navy or khaki pants or shorts to accompany the tops. Black shoes are required for all students as a part of the school uniform as well. Please note that all uniform separates need to be authorized BCA pieces.
Dennis Uniforms and Lands' End
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There are apps installed that has been downloaded the first day I got an iPhone. Some of the apps are newer because I love the convenience of having them on my iPhone. There are apps that are fun but I had to remove because updating them can be tedious. Here are the apps that is currently installed on the iPhone for a long while now.
Here is what you'll see in my Lock and Home Screens. The wallpaper is a free download I've found around the web. I know I found them at two different creative bloggers. I forgot the names. Oops!
In here you'll see Books, Finance and Health apps grouped together. I had the MyFitnessPal and Nike + iPod app since the day I got my iPhone. The Finance apps are recent installs so is Audible.
For my Games and Editor apps, I feel they change quite often especially the games app. I had other photo editing apps that I had to delete because I don't use them quite often.
Now for the fun part, the Social Media and Photography apps. Wait, I'm not sure why Foursquare is still on there. I guess I decided to keep it so that I can stalk my younger sister all the time? LOL! Afterlight photography app is my current bestfriend. My #Bookstagram account photos are edited using that app. I had to keep Camera+ because that was a premium app.
What's your favorite app at the moment? Leave them in the comments below.
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Three Ways to Get a Steady Paycheck Long After You've Retired
Guaranteed income for life. That was the plan – now the fantasy – during the golden age of American business, when pension plans were the norm. You did your time as a loyal, hard-working employee, retired at 65 and then monthly checks from your former employer rolled in until you died. A modest livelihood was assured without worrying about depleting your savings.
It sounds so quaint. For most Americans, the responsibility to save and manage retirement money is now all theirs. The good news: There are ways for do-it-yourself investors-turned-retirees to create their own simple pension-like plans at age 65. They involve mixing investments ranging from Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) to annuities to equity funds. None of them can eliminate risk entirely, but they do help minimize the chance that you'll outlive your money.
Below are three approaches to generating lifetime income for retirees:
Stephen Sexauer: Climb the TIPS Ladder, Then Annuitize
The lowest-risk way retirees can create lifetime income is to put around 85 percent of their savings in TIPS, says Stephen Sexauer, chief investment officer of U.S. multi-asset management at Allianz Global Investors. TIPS are U.S. government-backed bonds that increase in value as inflation rises. After putting that money into TIPS of different maturities, Sexauer's strategy allocates the remaining 15 percent to a deferred Life annuity that kicks in when a retiree is 85.
TIPS help protect money's purchasing power, and there's no credit risk. A TIPS portfolio is actually better than a defined benefit pension plan, Sexauer argues: "The 'golden era' of pension plans wasn't such a golden era – a lot of companies went out of business and quit writing checks." Also, the payouts weren't adjusted for inflation.
Buying TIPS maturing in different years – "laddering" – lets retirees live on the expiring TIPS' liquidated value, as well as the portfolio's overall income. It also helps investors because part of a TIPS' "payout" is its twice-yearly inflation adjustment. Unlike a normal bond, TIPS not only pay income to shareholders but add value to the bond's principal based on changes in the Consumer Price Index. To realize the total return of a TIPS portfolio the bonds must mature or be sold.
You can buy TIPS at TreasuryDirect's web site only in increments of five or 10 years, however. For a fee, a broker can buy you bonds with in-between maturities that are already trading. A recent call to TD Ameritrade found it charging 0.125 percent to 0.25 percent of a TIPS order, depending on the bonds' yields. More yield equals more fee.
Rather than go farther than 20 years out in TIPS, Sexauer recommends a deferred life annuity. These insurance products pay a fixed level of income if you're still alive at a predetermined future date. If you don't live to that date, you get nothing. These don't adjust for inflation. Because about half of all people who reach 65 don't live past 85, insurers are willing to sell such annuities fairly cheaply to retirees.
Of course, there are wrinkles to this strategy. A big one: With inflation expected to rise, TIPS are expensive, so much so that a 10-year TIPS pays only half a percentage point above the inflation rate. An all-TIPS portfolio for 30 years with no annuity would cost 30 percent to 40 percent more than the TIPS-plus-annuity strategy, according to Laurence Siegel, Sexauer's co-author on an article about do-it-yourself pensions and research director of the CFA Institute, a group of Chartered Financial Analysts.
More on Do-It-Yourself Investing:
- An Investor's Guide to Fees and Expenses 2014
- Slay the Little Beasties of ETF Investing
- You're Not a Piñata. Find a Financial Adviser Who Knows It
- Mr. Risk's Rules of Enrichment: Oaktree's Marks Speaks Out
William Bernstein: TIPS? Definitely. Deferred Annuities? No.
A TIPS-heavy strategy makes sense to William Bernstein, founder of money manager Efficient Frontier. It's the annuity part of Sexauer's plan that bugs him. Annuities have too much credit risk, he says, because issuers could go bankrupt. There are state insurance guarantee funds meant to help financially troubled insurers. But Bernstein thinks there's too much systemic risk in the financial markets today to rule out a major implosion that would leave annuity holders hanging.
Instead of an annuity, Bernstein would use a Total Stock Market Index Fund. While not touching it for 20 years might be hard, over the long run stocks are very good inflation hedges. That's because stocks are a claim on real assets, says Bernstein. If you buy $1,000 worth of Proctor & Gamble stock, you're buying a company that has pricing power. If inflation comes along, you'll almost certainly have a positive rate of return as the company adjusts its pricing, he figures.
There is one kind of deferred annuity Bernstein likes, and it's even inflation-adjusted: Waiting to take social security. You get a 30 percent bump in income if you wait from age 62 to 66, and another 30 percent if you wait from 66 to 70, he says.
While Bernstein thinks an all TIPS portfolio would be ideal, few people could afford it. Typically, a traditional pension would replace about 70 percent of your working income, and with today's skimpy yields, you'd have to invest a lot up front to reach retirement income goals.
To show how much money you'd need to invest in order to get the income you want from TIPS, Sexauer and Siegel created a website, DCDBBenchmark.com. It provides a table of current payouts for $100,000 invested in the 85 percent TIPS/15 percent deferred annuity strategy. This September, a 65-year-old putting $100,000 in the strategy would get just $4,486 in the first year of retirement. If inflation stays at 2.1 percent, that payout would rise to $6,728 when year 20 ends and the annuity begins. (The website projects inflation out 20 years based on long-term averages.) So to have a payout of about $45,000 this year you'd need to invest $1 million. Sexauer says it's not as bleak as it sounds because Social Security would augment the income from TIPS.
Phil Blancato: Forget TIPS. Take some credit risk.
A better strategy than buying overpriced TIPS is to create buckets of income-producing assets during retirement, says Phil Blancato, chief executive officer of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management. He suggests a laddered portfolio with high-quality corporate bonds for one bucket, a junk bond mutual fund for another and perhaps income-producing equities or preferred stock for the third. "We're in the lowest default cycle in probably 50 years," he says, so investors should take some credit risk. For someone with a 20-year horizon, Blancato thinks the risk of default is worth taking as opposed to the other risk — not having enough income to live on.
Blancato uses an example of a 65-year-old retiree who wants her 500,000 portfolio to generate about 5 percent in average annual income. To get that, he'd take $300,000 and buy individual corporate bonds, and maybe some Treasuries and municipal bonds. The other $200,000 would go into a widely diversified portfolio that might include a high-yield bond fund, some master-limited partnerships and alternative income-producing products, maybe even preferred stock. Just know, he says, that these are your speculative investments and you'll need to weather some periods of temporary loss.
That won't have the same certainty as a pension, he says. But over time, he thinks it will provide a retiree the income they need. It's undoubtedly a much more expensive strategy that that of Bernstein or Sexauer, and not exactly a do-it-yourself solution, though.
A cheaper way to take some risk in the bond portion of a do-it-yourself pension: Build a portfolio of exchange-traded funds that hold corporate or high-yield bonds of varying maturities. Guggenheim Investments offers a slew of "BulletShares", ETFs that each invest in corporate bonds maturing in a specific year. Just remember that it's the guaranteed part of an income-for-life strategy you give up when you take on credit risk.
To Your Successful Retirement!
Michael Ginsberg, JD, CFP®


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We serve a seasonal tasting menu that focuses on local ingredients. A meal with us consists of courses that include communal dishes as well as some individual choices. We offer the same tasting menu for both lunch and dinner service and a meal lasts roughly three hours.
Menu pairings with wine, spirits and beer are available in addition to booking the room table with Wine Pro Brian Mitchell.
Seasonal custom menus in addition to an inspired vegan course list are available and are at the discretion of the chef.
Fall 2017 Chef's Table Tasting Menu
Amuse: From the kitchen
Course 1: Exotic Mushroom & Langostino Chawanmushi
savory duck egg custard\roasted root vegetable consommé
Recommended Pairing: Riesling, Fulkerson, 2016, Finger Lakes - NY
Course 2: Seared Atlantic Scallops
wild mushrooms\crisped serrano ham\cauliflower veloute\truffle foam
Recommended Pairing: White Burgundy, Roux Pere et Fils, 2014, France
Palate Cleanser: Lemon Thyme Sorbet
chocolate mint\honey
Course 3: Striped Bass
burdock root\heirloom carrot\
purple potato puree\crispy eggplant
Recommended Pairing: Bourgogne Rouge,
Maison Chanzy, 2015, France
Course 4: Farm Yard Trio
beef cheeks\pan seared duck breast\
serrano wrapped pork loin\tri color beets
Recommended Pairing:Cabernet Sauvignon, Arme Lot #3
Course 5: Gilded Glass Apple
spice cake\local apple gelee\
caramel butter cream\burgundy mirror glaze\gold leaf
Recommended Pairing: Porto, Delaforce, 2010, LBV or Vanilla Bourbon Sour
Menu Price Without Pairing: 100$ +tax per person
Menu Price With Pairings: 150$ +tax per person
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