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EO INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT .* A Global Perspective The change in the firm name to Deloitte Haskins & Sells on May 1 served not only to underline the global nature of the organization, but also to focus atten-tion on the importance of our international operations in the overall practice of DH&S. In the United States, the Executive Office International Department has respon-sibility for a broad range of services related to our prac-tice in other parts of the world. Historically, the record shows that Haskins & Sells was quick to recognize the advantages and importance of expanding abroad. In 1901, only six years after it was founded in New York City, H&S acquired the London firm of Conant and Grant, establishing its presence in that key financial center. London, in fact, was the third office of the firm, following by about a year the opening of an office in Chicago. London served as the firm's base of operations for service to American clients with inter-ests in Great Britain and on the Continent. The armistice that concluded World War I signaled a new period of overseas expansion for H&S, with offices opened in Paris, Havana and Shanghai in 1920, followed by an office in Berlin in 1924. Colonel Arthur H. Carter, who had joined H&S shortly after the end of the war and traveled frequently to London, became acquainted with Sir William Plender and other senior partners of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Company, a major English firm of chartered account-ants. Sir William and Elijah Watt Sells had met some years before. As a result of the talks that followed, an agreement was signed in the fall of 1924 under which the two firms would conduct their existing practices in Canada, Cuba and Mexico under the newly adopted name of Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells. In the late 1920s and early 1930s DPH&S firms were established in South America, the Union of South Africa, Europe, the Pacific area and Far East. Talks exploring the feasibility of closer relations be-tween H&S and Deloittes were held in 1951 and con-cluded successfully the following year in an agreement reached between H&S managing partner Arthur B. Foye and Sir Russell Kettle and Sir Alan Rae Smith, his coun-terparts with Deloittes. The agreement essentially called for the merger of Deloittes' U.S. practice into Haskins & Sells, and the merger of H&S in London into Deloittes. In 1970 it was decided to formalize the relationship even further, and a four-man Administrative Committee was formed consisting of the two senior partners of the English and U.S. firms. This committee assumed overall responsibility for the international operations of H&S and Deloittes conducted by DH&S offices. The international practice has grown steadily in size and importance since the opening of our first overseas office in London. By September 30, 1977, clients of Deloitte Haskins & Sells around the world were being serviced by almost 12,600 professional personnel based in 260 offices in fifty-six countries. While all of the DH&S firms were united by a series of agreements providing for common standards of pro-fessional conduct and performance, no formal interna-tional structure existed under which the international firms could meet and exchange views. To meet this need, Deloitte Haskins & Sells International was formed in 1976, with a membership consisting of all the DH&S affiliated firms, and with a governing body consisting of the senior partners of each of the firms. The general administration of DH&S International is directed by an Executive Committee. As of June 1, 1978 the members of the Executive Committee were Charles G. Steele, managing partner of the U.S. firm, chairman; David D. Rae Smith, managing partner of the U. K. firm, deputy chairman; and George H. Mackisack, Jan J. Goedhart and G. John D. Massey, senior partners of the DH&S firms in Australia, the Netherlands and South Africa, respectively. For Tom Hogan, vice chairman of the Policy Com-mittee of the U.S. firm and senior partner responsible for the firm's international operations, the creation of DH&S International and the adoption of the Deloitte Haskins & Sells name was the natural consequence of a series of events which had occurred over the past fifty years, and was, in reality, merely the formalization of an international arrangement that had operated success-fully in serving multinational clients. "I think it fair to say that while we've come of age, we have not shifted our perspective." Tom said. "We 12


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Page Six reported that Zoe Kravitz and Penn Badgley may be hooking up. The two were at the Friends With Benefits premiere and party the other night in New York, arriving separately but hanging out inside, and then leaving together and getting in a cab at 1:30am. Just sharing?
His publicist, who was Blake Lively's publicist, and I'm not sure if they still share too, insisted that "they just shared a cab".
I think I might believe this. Otherwise, that girl doesn't know what she's doing. Then again...given the fringe she's walking around with right now...
Zoe, for the last year or so, has been dating Michael Fassbender. They've not been seen together publicly since X-Men: First Class premiered. And he's been in London, hitting up a few parties, looking like he's having a great time.
I get it that relationships end. But, you know, if you're her age, and you spend some time loving a man like Michael Fassbender who, trust me, KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING, exactly in the area that you think I'm referring to, this is a gift, and this gift becomes an expectation for yourself. And sometimes that expectation becomes a curse. Because, frankly, not every man can live up to it. Do you think Penn Badgley could live up to it? Is all I'm saying.
Here is Zoe at the Crazy, Stupid, Love premiere the other night and Penn shooting Gossip Girl in New York a couple of days ago. And Michael at a party in London last week.
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The control or containment of known risks to public health is one of the most powerful ways to improve international public health security since these threats constitute the vast majority of events with a potential to cause public health emergencies which fall within the scope of the International Health Regulations (2005). Existing disease control programmes which address infectious diseases as well as food and environmental safety contribute significantly to WHO's global alert and response system, in addition to being a driving force behind core public health capacity strengthening in countries.
WHO programmes addressing diseases with serious public health impact for which a single case, irrespective of context, requires immediate notification to WHO (see IHR Annex 2):
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- Influenza
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While we haven't tested the QX70/FX since the second-generation model arrived in 2009, we drove V-6 and V-8 versions. In 2009, the base engine was a 303-hp, 262 lb-ft 3.5-liter V-6 mated to a seven-speed auto. "The FX35 [AWD] takes 6.1 sec to get to 60 mph; not a bad time for a 4293-lb SUV, but there are quicker rivals in the class. From that speed, full stops come in at 127 ft — an acceptably short distance, but not the shortest we've seen. The FX35 records 0.82 g on the skidpad and 27.1 sec at 0.67 g on the figure eight. Again, good numbers, but not standouts by any measure, which is a shame since the feedback from the FX35's test session is compelling."
The 2009 FX50 was even more impressive in straight-line acceleration: "Performance is one of the vehicle's strong suits, and it excelled in our track testing. Along with the aforementioned 5.2-second time to 60, it finished the quarter mile in 13.7 seconds at 102.1 mph and stopped from 60 in 115 feet. However, while on the figure-eight loop, our tester found the communication between steering, transmission, and throttle to falter. When driven aggressively (9/10ths), he had to saw the wheel to keep it on course-the steering was slow to react to inputs and the transmission paused before shifting at redline. Less aggressive driving solved the problem, and the 50 ran the figure eight in 26.7 seconds at 0.66 average g."
At the end of a 12-month stint with the 2009 Infiniti FX50 S AWD, we concluded, "The FX is a great-yet expensive-solution for those who don't need to go off-road. It offers the acceleration, handling, and amenities of a luxury sport sedan with more space for stuff. It's not the best for the mega-carpooler and doesn't provide the cushy ride of a plush crossover, but for two people who can live with 25 cubic feet of cargo space (62 cubic feet with the back seat down), it's perfect."
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- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
- Province/Island: Soria
El Burgo de Osma, an ancient and monumental episcopal city, is located at the end of the river Ucero and offers one of the best preserved medieval precincts in the entire province of Soria. Not in vain has the city been declared a Historic-Artistic Site.
The origins of El Burgo de Osma can be traced back to the primitive 'arévaco' (pre-Roman civilization) settlement of Úxama, a place which centuries later would be submitted to Roman jurisdiction. However, it was in the time of the Visigoths that the town began to undergo a period of splendour, since in the VI century A. D. it became an Episcopal See until the arrival of the Arabs. After the Arab domination, the city recovered its former status as capital in the XII century. The formation of the current nucleus of El Burgo de Osma took place from the the year 1101, when bishop Pedro de Bourges (San Pedro de Osma) chose as the site of the cathedral a monastery located next to the river Ucero, a fact which favoured the flourishing of a prosperous hamlet of merchants and craftsmen. This privileged situation was to last for centuries, and in the Renaissance era the town even had a university.The Medieval City The old medieval structure is centred around the Cathedral, one of the most important religious buildings in the province. The building, in the Gothic style, was built in 1232 over another Romanesque building which had begun to be built in the time of San Pedro de Osma. On the outside, several Renaissance additions to its main façade can be seen, as well as a graceful baroque tower built in 1739. Meanwhile, the interior of the building conserves abundant samples of original Romanesque art, as well as a beautiful flamboyant Gothic cloister. Among its most precious items are the high reredos, a work by Juan de Juni, as well as the tomb in polychromatic stone of the founder, San Pedro de Osma. In the sacristy you can see a large collection of codexes, among which is the Commentary on the Apocalypse by the Lay Brother of Liébana.Next to the cathedral precinct is the Episcopal Palace, a building characterised by an interesting Gothic style main front. We are in the middle of the Calle Mayor, one of the main streets in the old urban road network. In this typical street you can admire one of the most typical prints of El Burgo de Osma: that of the old houses supported by porches with stone columns. Also arcaded is the Plaza Mayor, where eighteenth century buildings such as the Town Hall and the San Agustín hospital are located, the latter having two towers with spires flanking its main facade.The historic city walls were built by bishop Pedro de Montoya in the XV century. The San Miguel gate, which is still in place is one of several which allow access to the medieval hamlet.Outside the walls, is the University of Santa Catalina, from the XVI century. The building was constructed thanks to the patronage of the Portuguese bishop Pedro Álvarez D'Acosta. Its Renaissance main front bears the image of Santa Catalina, and there is also a beautiful interior courtyard.On the river Ucero there still remains the famous Roman bridge and on a nearby hill the old Castle of Osma dominates the outskirts of El Burgo. Its external precincts and the water tower date from the second half of the XV century, although there is evidence of a previous fortress in the city in the VIII century, when this town was on the border between Arab and Christian territory.In this town you can try succulent gastronomy, which has its best allies in the typical products of the meat market. To try them the most advisable option is to visit the gastronomic exhibitions of the meat market, which are organised annually by the Hotel Virrey Palafox and which have been to declared of tourist interest. They are held at weekends in February and March, and allow you to try a wide variety of sausages and other pork products.Also typical are game based dishes (partridge, hare, quail, etc.) and fish (trout and river crabs). And not forgetting vegetables from the banks of the River Ucero, especially cardoon and El Burgo beans. Meanwhile, autumn offers Lactarius Delicious (a type of wild mushroom) and cardoon shoots.El Burgo de Osma shares with the rest of the Castile region other culinary specialities such as grilled, roast or stewed lamb, or cocido castellano (a stew made with chickpeas, pork, spicy sausage, etc.).And as the culmination, the city's excellent desserts provide cakes such as harinados or sobadillos hojaldrados.The OutskirtsThe outskirts of El Burgo de Osma allow you to discover surroundings with a high ecological value. The Canyon of the River Lobos, declared a Natural Park, has numerous caves and rocky cliffs where eagles and crested vultures nest. In the interior of this park you can also find the Romanesque hermitage of San Bartolomé, of Templar origin.The city is located within the so called Duero Route, which crosses other Sorian towns. Almazán is distinguished for its historic quarter, where the most outstanding features are the Plaza Mayor, the three gates in the town walls and several churches. Berlanga de Duero conserves the Castle of los Tovar ( XV c.), a bastion which still retains two walls and a keep, and the collegiate church of Nuestra Señora del Mercado, in Gothic-Renaissance style.Following the flow of the Duero appears San Esteban de Gormaz, a former fortified town, and Ucero, at the top of which are the walls of its medieval castle. The route cannot end without visiting Calatañazor, where the Romanesque church of Nuestra Señora del Castillo and the walls built between the XII-XIII centuries can be seen.When it comes to finding accommodation, El Burgo de Osma has several hotels. Another option is to go to Soria capital, where the Parador is located. Situated in the Parque del Castillo, from here you can enjoy one of the best views over the capital and the River Duero.
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Winston-Salem 1920 - 1929 [pdf/2072kb/27p] - includes: new City Hall site purchased; segregated districts defined; Waughtown area annexed.
Winston-Salem 1930 - 1939 [pdf/1.2mb/21p] - includes: depression causes mayor to request budget cuts; money donated for the construction of Reynolds Memorial Hospital;church building moved to comply with segregation laws.
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Journalist Monica Hesse and writer Maris Kreizman discuss Hesse's new book "American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land," now in paperback.
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was desolate. There were hundreds of abandoned buildings, and by the dozen they were burning.
The culprit, and the path that led to these crimes, is a story of twenty-first century America. Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse first drove down to the reeling county to cover a hearing for Charlie Smith, a struggling mechanic who upon his capture had promptly pleaded guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But as Charlie's confession unspooled, it got deeper and weirder. He wasn't lighting fires alone; his crimes were galvanized by a surprising love story. Over a year of investigating, Hesse uncovered the motives of Charlie and his accomplice, girlfriend Tonya Bundick, a woman of steel-like strength and an inscrutable past. Theirs was a love built on impossibly tight budgets and simple pleasures. They were each other's inspiration and escape…until they weren't.
Though it's hard to believe today, one hundred years ago Accomack was the richest rural county in the nation. Slowly it's been drained of its industry and agriculture, as well as its wealth and population. In an already remote region, limited employment options offer little in the way of opportunity. A mesmerizing and crucial panorama with nationwide implications, American Fire asks what happens when a community gets left behind. Hesse brings to life the Eastern Shore and its inhabitants, battling a punishing economy and increasingly terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. The result evokes the soul of rural America, a land half gutted before the fires even began.
Maris Kreizman is a writer and critic and the author of the book "Slaughterhouse 90210."


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The topic of no-knead bread reappeared in the Dining and Wine section of the New York Times last week in an article by Harold McGee, the author of On Food and Cooking. McGee baked loaves of differing wetness (hydration) with and without kneading and provided an explanation for why kneading is unnecessary to produce rustic style breads with irregular hole patterns.
What he didn't mention was the success possible with sourdough starters. McGee used commercial yeast, but I've been consistently making no-knead bread with my own wild yeast starter since I posted a recipe on this blog at the end of 2008. Commercial yeast can yield a great loaf of bread, but wild yeast makes sublime bread with unmatched depth of flavor and nuance.
The photo above is from a recent loaf of bread I made a few days ago from my original recipe. I've experimented with kneading the dough in the past, but it never turns out as well. Instead, I mix my dough and let it sit overnight for about nine to twelve hours (nine for the recent loaf). I shape it and put it in my baking pan, letting it rise until it is ready (less than hour this time). I bake the loaf until the crust turns dark and crisp. The interior, well you can see the yeast's work. I eat it plain; no need for butter.
My loaves do not taste like San Francisco sourdough. They are not sour. My starter is mild, more like a French levain. The sour flavor, isolated by USDA researchers in the 70's, comes from a specific type of lactic bacteria. By controlling the temperature and feeding of a starter you can control the acidity. Maintaining starter temperatures in the upper 70's promotes less acetic starters. If you are interested in more details, post a comment and I will reply.
Starters are not mystical, delicate creatures, although I almost killed my favorite starter last Autumn. I had been keeping it in the refrigerator when I wasn't making bread regularly, but I neglected it for a few weeks, maybe a month or so. When I finally looked at it, the starter had a quarter inch of ill-colored vinegar smelling liquid on top. I'm not sentimental, but I felt a tinge of guilt and couldn't throw it out. I refreshed it and refreshed it, nursing it back to health. Even if you don't plan to make bread, try making a starter. Seeing it bubble and froth and shouting, "It's alive!" is worth the time. Show your kids; get them extra credit in science. You don't even need the squirt of honey I mentioned in my recipe. Just flour and water.
Recently, I've created a new starter from a recipe in an article by James MacGuire in The Art of Eating (Winter 2009). He writes a fascinating story about the history and current state of pain au levain in France and his bread recipe involves minimal kneading by folding the dough at hourly intervals. The folding benefits his dough, which is dryer than mine, and his rising times are shorter. The dough has great oven spring and the finished bread is another example of the beautiful harmony of wild yeast and lactic bacteria.


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A Chinese Home
A Chinese Home 中国之家
Conceived by Wu Man 吴蛮, David Harrington and Chen Shi-Zheng 陳士爭
Part I. Return 回归
Part II. Shanghai 上海
Part III. The East Is Red 东方红
Part IV. Made in China 中国制造
Played without pause
Chen Shi-Zheng, director and visual designer
Laurence Neff, lighting and scenic designer
Scott Fraser, sound designer
Camilla French, video photography
flora&faunavisions, video editing
Laurence Xu, costume designer
Lisa Iacucci, assistant director
Calvin Ll. Jones, associate sound designer
Repertoire List:
Part I. Return 回归
WU MAN and DAVID HARRINGTON
Lusheng Improvisation
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Song of Cicadas 蝉歌
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Left Foot Tune 左脚调
(arr. Jack Body)
Folk Tune
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
The Round Sun and Crescent Moon in the Sky 太阳圆,月亮弯都在天上
Sesame Oil 芝麻油
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Lehu Tune 勒胡调
(arr. Jack Body)
Qibu'e Tune 其布厄调
(arr. Wu Man & Kronos)
Namu Amida (Homage to the Buddha of Immeasurable Light) 南无阿弥陀佛
Part II. Shanghai 上海
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Shanghai Night 夜上海
Recorded performance by Zhou Xuan 周璇
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Plum Blossom 梅花
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Stop Singing 不要唱吧
I'll Be Seeing You
Recorded performance by Billie Holiday
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Listen Up 且听我说
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
Will You Ever Come Back 何日君再來
Part III. The East Is Red 东方红
The East Is Red 东方红
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
March of the Volunteers 义勇军进行曲
(arr. for Kronos and Wu Man by Jacob Garchik)
The Revolution Suite: Selections from The East Is Red
I. Inner Mongolia
Cup and Bowl Dance 盅碗舞
II. Tibet
Chairman Mao, We Wish You Many Years of Life 毛主席, 祝您万寿无疆
III. Inner Mongolia
Paean 赞歌
IV. Xinjiang (Uyghur)
Tambourine Dance 手鼓舞
WANG XIREN 王锡仁 (b. 1929)
(arr. Jacob Garchik)
The Sun Is Reddest, Chairman Mao Is Closest 太阳最红 毛主席最亲
Picture of Liu Zhidan 图刘志丹
Part IV. Made in China 中国制造
with electronic elements by Jonathan Wong
About the Work
I visited Yin Yu Tang at the Peabody Essex Museum for the first time in 2003. This house—an 18th-century home from southeastern China that was disassembled and re-erected piece-by-piece at PEM in Massachusetts—brought back many memories for me. I stayed in the home for quite a long while; I looked through each room, touching tables, chairs and beds, taking in every little detail. It reminded me of my grandma's home and my childhood life. I didn't want to leave until the staff came to get me!
A year later, when the Kronos Quartet and I were discussing the possibility of a new project, Yin Yu Tang of course came to mind. During the process of working on A Chinese Home, David Harrington and I listened to hundreds of Chinese musical works, and spent hours and hours discussing and selecting each piece of music. We also visited Yin Yu Tang together, and we even took trip to a Huang village in Anhui Province, Yin Yu Tang's original home in China, where we met with villagers and gained a true sense of the land, its people and the stories this work might tell.
As we began working on A Chinese Home, Yin Yu Tang became the key for us to unlock the past and explore the music of China, not only from the time of this particular house, but across the centuries. For me personally, this project has reconnected me with the history of my home country through music, and this has affected me deeply—especially the experience of working on Part III, "The East is Red," which explores the period I was born in and grew up in. To me, the essence of this project is the notion that a person's home is where personal histories unfold, and that those personal tales can also tell a universal story. The more people I met in China and the more homes I visited, the more this concept resonated with me, and the more the potential for A Chinese Home expanded. I am immensely grateful to the Kronos Quartet and Chen Shi-Zheng for so enthusiastically and wholeheartedly embarking on this journey with me, and for embracing the theme of the home being a lens through which history can be viewed.
As a musician, it has been extremely rewarding to have spent so much time discovering and rediscovering the vast array of Chinese music that could be used to tell these histories. Although I have collaborated with the Kronos Quartet for over 17 years, they continue to delight me with their musical insights, scholarly curiosity and ability to surprise! A Chinese Home is no exception. I would also like to thank Nancy Berliner at PEM and Wang Shu Kai, who brought me to Yin Yu Tang—the seed from which this project has flowered.
In 1992, I visited the home of composers Zhou Long and Chen Yi in New York. They shared a lot of music with me that evening, including the brilliant artistry of Wu Man, who had recently arrived in the United States. I heard all sorts of possibilities in Wu Man's vivid pipa sound, and I got in touch with her immediately.
Wu Man has been one of Kronos' favorite collaborators since that time. She combines the virtuosity of Heifetz with an expansive view of all things Chinese. Over the years we have had many conversations about Chinese music, instruments, composers, culture and traditions. In 2006 we visited Yin Yu Tang at the Peabody Essex Museum, and I remember our conversation about that experience very clearly. We decided to make a piece inspired by Yin Yu Tang, and we began our discovery of A Chinese Home.
I felt A Chinese Home should be dramatic and bold, and we would need to re-imagine our roles as performers. I wanted the piece to begin during the intermission, with a soundscape that would give an immense sense of tension, construction, activity, movement—layers of sound—to create an impression of the Grand Canyon-ness of Chinese culture.
From the wooden, postered walls of Yin Yu Tang itself, the silence of vanished time created musical questions that stirred my imagination. So many sounds of life, so many pivots of history, so many births, deaths…. I embarked on a listening project that has taken me through many worlds of China. I wanted the layers of time, events and environment to collide in a detailed musical fabric: the rural and the urban, the private and the public, the ancient and the wildly modern. Amid the seemingly endless presence of Mao and the brassy machinations of public music, the Westernized pop music of the 1930s and '40s, the earliest recorded Chinese music from the 1890s, the latest remixes and mash-ups, the clamor of industry, mass migration, tradition, banality, religion… where was home?
It has been an amazing pleasure to explore these questions together. We have been inspired and dazzled by Chinese culture, and appalled by the magnitude of suffering in much of its history. We have tried to celebrate the constant renewal the open door of music allows us.
When I came into this project at the beginning, David and Wu Man had already talked a lot about the music that would make up A Chinese Home. We spent a week going through all the music together, making selections, and trying to make sense of the story behind it all. I realized in this process that the music that David and Wu Man collected and liked is really about China in the 20th century. David was fascinated by the revolutionary music and 1930s Shanghai music, as well as traditional music, so I thought that we could create a suite, putting all the music together in chronological order in four parts. We start at the beginning of the 20th century— timeless, traditional China—then move to urban China of the 1920s and '30s. Then we enter the era of Mao and the emergence of Red China, and end with modern China.
I went to China to shoot the video and collect the images. While shooting the video I thought about this piece like a travelogue, where we bring you to the old China and then come back, leading you through 20th-century China through the images. What you see is a montage of artifacts produced in the 20th century: old movie footage from 1930s Shanghai, The East Is Red spectacle, Maoist opera.
Wu Man and I are from the same generation, and I feel that this piece is quite close to how we grew up in China, how much we remember. Especially the Cultural Revolution, that period is very vivid. The same songs were constant for us, the soundtrack of our lives. And Mao's image was predominant, the only thing we knew, and so in Part III of A Chinese Home, Mao's voice overrides all the music and his image dominates. I wanted to give a sense of what you would have faced if you lived through that period.
Wu Man is the person on stage that embodies the process of change in China. She starts as just a presence, in a robe like everybody else, and then she develops into a Shanghai lady, and then she changes into Red Guard. Her presence is very important, in order for our audience to realize what's changing in Chinese history—not just through the costumes, but also by the attitude, the persona, and the body language, all in relation to the music. We want to give you a sense of Wu Man and Kronos revisiting a certain period of China, to give an understanding of how they behave, how they play the music, how the music sounds in relation to the film behind you.
What I do mostly now is create new works, so I quite enjoy working with artists like Kronos and Wu Man. They're always trying to create something new, trying to break a certain kind of formality and convention. We are trying to find a new way to tell a story, to link all this fascinating music. In that process, A Chinese Home has becomes a kind of composition, something that we hope has momentum and emotion and impact.
About the Music
Part I. Return
The first part of A Chinese Home, "Return," looks back to the early years of Yin Yu Tang, the 19th-century Qing-dynasty Huang mansion of Anhui province. The songs and dances of this section were collected from the rugged mountains of China's southwest and north, in Yunnan, Guizhou and Shaanxi provinces. Remote from the lowlands of the Han Chinese, the music of the many minority groups of these regions preserves some of the oldest musical traditions in China.
Startling vocal ensembles can be heard in the south, most spectacularly among the Dong people. The da ge, or Big Songs, of the Dong contain up to eight parts. Rich in dissonances, the sound of these songs (which include this evening's "Song of Cicadas") is reminiscent of the thick harmonies produced by the Chinese mouth organ, the lusheng, the sound of which opens A Chinese Home. The Buyi minority also has a notable tradition of polyphonic songs sung fireside by the household's older women—elaborate ballads that can last up to a week.
The countryside's rich variety of instruments and dance music is also represented. The musicians try to evoke the timbre of the Sani people's lehu, a three-string fiddle, which bombards double- and triple-stops in octaves and fifths. It is the most popular instrument of the Sani, played by old folks in the evening and by young men courting even later at night. The hypnotic, curious melodies of the Lisu are often played on the qibu'e, a small lute of three or four strings. Lacking frets and often retuned in the course of performance, it easily adapts to the many scales found in Lisu music. The "Left Foot Tune" is the centerpiece of many Yi celebrations—a great circular dance drawing in several dozens of participants from several villages. The boisterous Shaanxi song "The Round Sun and Crescent Moon in the Sky" was taken from the repertoire of the shadow puppet theater of the northern Huashan region.
The first portion of A Chinese Home closes with evocations of Buddhist rituals old and new. The "Namu Amida" is a funeral chant. It is believed that even a single act of pronouncing the name of the Amida Buddha is enough to ensure salvation and rebirth in the Pure Land. The quartet also employs Buddha Boxes, small devices the size of a transistor radio, which play infinite loops of sacred chant.
Part II. Shanghai
"Shanghai," the second part of A Chinese Home, portrays the arrival of mass culture in the Chinese home. A city built up at the point of a gun to accommodate European and American commercial interests, Shanghai in the 1930s and '40s was the Chinese hub of capitalist glamour and capitalist misery—the birthplace of Chinese cinema and pop music, and the birthplace of Chinese communism. The words of Chen Gexin's "Shanghai Night" captures the ambivalence felt by many: "City with no night, colorful lights, cars honking, putting on a false show of prosperity. Look at her smiling, welcoming face—no one knows the sadness in her heart, living at night to keep on living."
Hollywood, Tin Pan Alley and Paris entered China through Shanghai. The clothes of stars were copied, hairstyles changed and movies such as The Thief of Baghdad were turned into Chinese operas. Young Shanghai composers, educated in the newly-founded music schools and apprenticed in the new jazz ensembles, poured forth a stream of music that flooded China's gramophones, radios and movie theaters. Sometimes the assimilation was complete: "Listen Up" by Yan Zhexi is a blues such as Billie Holiday might have sung. Sometimes the imitation was a little too apparent: for "Stop Singing," Li Houxiang "borrowed" the melody of Margarita Lecuona's Cuban hit "Tabu" and sinicized it by adapting it to the Chinese pentatonic scale.
While many of these songs spoke of love, a striking number were overtly or covertly political. The absent lover in Liu Xue'an's hit "Will You Ever Come Back" is clearly fighting off Japanese invaders in the War of Resistance. The ominous undertones of "Shanghai Night" might be attributed to the fact that Chen Gexin himself was imprisoned for three months in Japanese-occupied Shanghai.
Part III. The East Is Red
With the communist "liberation" of China in 1949, the country's musical landscape abruptly changed yet again. Every hour, Shanghai's clock tower intoned "The East Is Red," a Shaanxi folk tune originally called "Sesame Oil" that was given a Maoist text by Li Youyuan in 1941. Nie Er's "March of the Volunteers" became the new national song, and the pop music of the 1930s and '40s was banned as "decadent" and "pornographic."
Liang Leyin and Li Houxiang fled to Hong Kong, which would become the new entertainment capital of the Chinese world. Liang Leyin's 1957 song "Plum Blossom" is a souvenir of this period. The composers who stayed behind were much less fortunate. Liu Xue'an spent 22 years in disgrace because "Will You Ever Come Back" was associated with a pop star who defected to the Japanese. Yan Zhexi stopped composing altogether, and turned to painting and children's books. This did not keep him from being declared an "Enemy of the Revolution" in 1966, nor did it keep his house from being ransacked by Red Guards. Chen Gexin was declared a "rightist" in 1957, sent to a labor camp, and died a few years later.
The massive production titled The East is Red was one effort by the Chinese Communist party to establish its own musical voice. Produced in 1964 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the liberation, this monumental historical pageant used some 3,000 participants to portray the history of the Chinese revolution. Assembled in just three months, the production was a collaboration of dozens of the day's leading artists, all overseen personally by Premier Zhou Enlai.
The music of tonight's "Revolution Suite" is taken from the final tableau of the 1965 film: representatives of China's largest ethnic groups assemble in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the revolution and thank Mao Zedong. While the scene seems a clumsy attempt to symbolize Chinese hegemony over the restive border areas of Tibet, Xinjiang and Mongolia, it did provide an unprecedented opportunity to disseminate the work of Chinese minority singers and dancers on the widest scale. Zhou Enlai took a personal interest in the promotion of Chinese minority artists, supervising the formation and staffing of the Eastern Song and Dance Ensemble, which provided the personnel for the closing of The East Is Red. At Zhou Enlai's request, the Manchurian Hu Songhua composed the "Paean" in a single night. The bouffanted Hu (later known as "The Horseback Singer"), the alluring and athletic Ayi Tula, and the indefatigable dancer and choreographer Mode Gema were launched on successful careers, seen throughout China and touring the world.
Part Three closes as the Cultural Revolution did, with the death of Mao Zedong. In the weeks following the Chairman's passing, the Sichuanese one-hit wonder Wang Xiren commemorated him with "The Sun is Reddest, Chairman Mao is Closest." In Bian Xiaoshen's recording, it was an unexpected success, giving voice to the grief and bewilderment of those mourning the absence of the formerly omnipresent Mao.
Part IV. Made in China
"Made in China" reflects a tumult in the country that resists all efforts at harmonization. The older music tenaciously survived the blasted decade of the Cultural Revolution, but its audiences are dwindling. Newer traditions have yet to establish themselves: mainland pop and rock is stifled by conformity, and pales beside the work of Hong Kong and Taiwanese artists. At the moment, China's most widely diffused cultural products are toys. The characteristic sounds of today's Chinese apartment are ones of economic prosperity. As millions flock from the countryside in one of the greatest mass migrations in human history, the noise of construction and urban life is inescapable. Though the new freedoms and new affluence are to be welcomed, "Made in China" sounds a cautionary note. The toll of development on the environment is unsustainable. How it will end, nobody knows…
—Greg Dubinsky
© 2009 The Carnegie Hall Corporation. Reprinted by permission.
Wu Man
Since moving to the United States from China in 1990, pipa virtuoso Wu Man has not only introduced the traditional Chinese instrument and its repertoire to Western audiences, she has successfully worked to give this ancient instrument a new role in today's music, making the pipa available to a larger audience and seeing it valued by musicians and composers for its unique tonal qualities and virtuosic character. These efforts were recognized when she was made a 2008 United States Artists Broad Fellow.
Cited by the Los Angeles Times as "the artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western World," Wu Man continually collaborates with some of the most distinguished musicians and conductors performing today. She has performed as soloist with many of the world's major orchestras and her touring has taken her to the major music halls of the world. Wu Man often performs and records with the groundbreaking Kronos Quartet, and is a principal member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.
Wu Man began her 2009–10 concert season with two concerts at Carnegie Hall as part of the "Ancient Paths, Modern Voices" festival celebrating Chinese culture. Her travels in China to find the musicians to perform on these concerts have been documented in a film, Discovering a Musical Heartland—Wu Man's Return to China.
In November 2009, Wu Man and the Kronos Quartet present the world premiere of a new staged work with video, A Chinese Home, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng. In May 2010 Wu Man performed in Moscow with Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists, with whom she was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Small Ensemble Performance for the world-premiere recording of Tan Dun's Pipa Concerto. In 2010 she also toured Europe and Asia with the Silk Road Ensemble and performed as soloist in Taipei in November with the Taipei Chinese Traditional Orchestra.
Recent recordings include: Terry Riley's The Cusp of Magic with the Kronos Quartet on Nonesuch; Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago that features Wu Man's performance of Lou Harrison's Pipa Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the CSO Resound label; and New Impossibilities with the Silk Road Ensemble on Sony/BMG. In 2009 Wu Man was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Born in Hangzhou, China, Wu Man studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she became the first recipient of a master's degree in pipa. Wu Man was selected as a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University, and was selected by Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize in music and communication. She is also the first artist from China to have performed at the White House. For more information on Wu Man, please visit www.wumanpipa.org.
Chen Shi-Zheng
Chen Shi-Zheng is a China-born, New York-based director, internationally renowned for his innovative and provocative staging of operas as diverse as Monteverdi's Orfeo, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, and Tang Xianxu's The Peony Pavilion. He recently conceived, wrote and directed a stage production of Monkey: Journey to the West, executed in collaboration with creators of the virtual rock band Gorillaz. Mr. Chen made his film directorial debut with Dark Matter, starring Meryl Streep and Liu Ye and winning Sundance Film Festival's Alfred P. Sloan Award.
As a child growing up without parents during the Cultural Revolution in Changsha, Hunan Province, he was taken under the wing of traditional funeral singers, who were among some of the great out-of-work masters of Chinese opera. He later became a leading young opera actor, performing until his mid-20s in many productions throughout China, simultaneously recording albums of folksongs and contemporary pop music. He emigrated to the United States in 1987, and has since developed his own artistic expression transcending the boundaries between East and West as well as between music, theatre, dance and film. In 2000, Mr. Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
In 1999, his landmark 19-hour production of The Peony Pavilion was hailed as one of the most important theatrical events our time. The Peony Pavilion premiered as the centerpiece of Lincoln Center Festival in New York and at Festival d'Automne in Paris, and toured to Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Perth International Arts Festival, Aarhus Festival in Denmark, Berlin Festival, Vienna Festival and at the Esplanade Centre in Singapore. It has been filmed for home video distribution by RM Associates.
A selection of Chen's other directing credits includes Mercury Light World (Berlin Festival); My Life as a Fairy Tale (Lincoln Center Festival, New York, and Aarhus Festival, Denmark); a trilogy of contemporary theater works based on Chinese classics – Orphan of Zhao in two versions (Lincoln Center Theater & Lincoln Center Festival), Snow in June (American Repertory Theatre), and Peach Blossom Fan (RedCat); Dido and Aeneas in two versions (Handel & Haydn Society, Spoleto Festival USA); The Flying Dutchman (Spoleto Festival USA); Night Banquet (co-commissioned by Festival d'Automne à Paris, Kunstenfestival des Arts Brussels, Hebbel-Theater Berlin, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, and Lincoln Center Festival); the documentary film Cultural Warriors of the Revolution (TV France 3); Cosi fan tutte (Aix-en Provence Festival and Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris); and Alley (New Zealand Festival of the Arts). He made his directorial debut in 1996 with The Bacchae (China National Beijing Opera Company, Hong Kong International Arts Festival and Athens Festival).
He invented a new genre called circus opera with Monkey: Journey to the West, which premiered at Manchester International Festival and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2007. It toured to Spoleto Festival USA, on to Covent Garden, London last summer, and has completed an extended run at the O2 Theatre in London this winter. He also premiered The Coronation of Poppea for English National Opera in fall 2007 as part of a complete Monteverdi cycle that he began with Vespers of 1610 and continued with Orfeo (nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production, 2006). During the season 2008/09, he directed the world premiere of The Bonesetter's Daughter at San Francisco Opera and La Traviata at Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius.
Future projects include a Chinese opera Legend of the White Snake for the Lincoln Center Festival, a new opera by composer Judith Weir, commissioned by Bregenzer Festspiele and Royal Opera House London, a collaboration with viol player Jordi Savall, and a musical film production in China.
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man: A Chinese Home (excerpts) - Return (1 of 3)
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man: A Chinese Home (excerpts) - Shanghai (2 of 3)
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man: A Chinese Home (excerpts) - The East Is Red & Made In China (3 of 3)
Rehearsal: Wu Man, an electric pipa, and some Black Sabbath.
" What exactly is a home, or a homeland? Is it a physical place? A spiritual condition? A cultural construct? Can a home, or a homeland, pick itself up and go flying across the globe? A Chinese Home—a multimedia happening led by the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man, the pipa virtuoso and singer—answers "yes," essentially, to all those questions...this [was an] engaging hourlong spectacle—a new kind of musical stage show, meditating on a world of crisscrossing cultural influences, of homes in flux. "
- Richard Scheinin, San Jose Mercury News
" a satisfying one-two punch of Chinese culture through music...a delightful romp. "
- Tom Huizenga, The Washington Post
Production Credits
Producer: Janet Cowperthwaite
Production Management: Kronos Performing Arts Association
Production Assistant: Julie Yip
Kronos Quartet and Wu Man play tuned benches and electric pipa, designed and constructed by Walter Kitundu
Intermission sound collage created by David Harrington and Calvin Ll. Jones. Constructed from field recordings by Wu Man, Chen Shi-Zheng, Gregory Dubinsky, and Jeremy Cowperthwaite, and additional sources
For Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association:
Janet Cowperthwaite, Managing Director
Laird Rodet, Associate Director
Sidney Chen, Artistic Administrator
Scott Fraser, Sound Designer
Christina Johnson, Communications Manager
Nikolás McConnie-Saad, Office Manager
Hannah Neff, Production Associate
Laurence Neff, Production Director
Lucinda Toy, Business Operations Manager
Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association
P. O. Box 225340
San Francisco, CA 94122-5340 USA
Twitter: @kronosquartet #kronos
The Kronos Quartet records for Nonesuch Records.
For Wu Man:
Earl Blackburn
Opus 3 Artists
470 Park Avenue South
9th Floor North
New York, NY 10016
Shuman Associates Inc.
120 West 58th Street
New York, NY 10019
Wu Man records for Nonesuch, Naxos, Nimbus Records, Sony/BMG, CSO Resound, Traditional Crossroads, and Orange Mountain.
For Chen Shi-Zheng:
Xenia Hu
Karsten Witt Musik Management GmbH
Leuschnerdamm 13, D-10999 berlin
Kronos Quartet thanks Jeremy Geffen, Kathy Schuman, Jenny Bilfield, Mike Ross, Susie Farr, Ruth Waalkes, Paul Brohan, Anna Thompson, Steve MacQueen, David Lieberman, Greg Dubinsky, Laura Hazlett, Michael Hearst, Anne Luft, Hannah Neff, Jill Neff, Kehren Barbour, Dr. Rembrandt Wolpert, Archeophone Records, Clarion Music, Albert Behar and Yuanlin Chen.
Wu Man thanks Earl Blackburn, Wang Shukai, Nancy Berliner, Ying-hsin Chen and Jennifer Scott.
Chen Shi-Zheng thanks Steven Holl Architects, Beijing; The Beijing Planning Museum; MAD Architects, Beijing; MAO Livehouse, Beijing; The Village Sanlitun, Beijing; Yi Liming, Beijing; Susu, Dali, Yunnan province; Lao San, Dali, Yunnan province; Cobbler's Hill Old Inn, Shangrila, Yunnan province; Guo Jian Hong, Shangrila, Yunnan province; Gabriella Chen, Shanghai; Caitlin Ward; and Zhang Liping.
Yin Yu Tang photos courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum.
A Chinese Home was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man by Carnegie Hall and the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The work was co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland at College Park, with funds from The Leading College and University Presenters Program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Florida State University's Seven Days of Opening Nights; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Stanford Lively Arts, Stanford University. Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Cameron University's 25th Annual Beef Cattle Improvement Conference, presented by the Department of Agriculture, will examine "Management Strategies to Recover from the Recent Droughts" on Thursday, November 15. The event starts at 6 p.m. in the McCasland Ballroom of the McMahon Centennial Complex on the CU campus. There is no charge to attend. For more information, call the Cameron University Department of Agriculture at 581-2275.
"The prolonged drought continues to have a tremendous impact on agriculture throughout the state of Oklahoma," says Dr. Leon Fischer, Mary Dixie Mullin Endowed Chair in the Sciences and Chair, Department of Agriculture. "The challenges faced by cattle producers – the cost to procure quality hay from other regions of the country, the need to haul water as ponds continue to dry out, and the effect that severe drought conditions have on the health of a herd - are ultimately felt at the consumer level. The expertise of our speakers will address these issues and more."
Guest speakers include Gary McManus, Associate State Climatologist, Oklahoma Climatological Survey; Dr. Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Sarkeys Distinguished Professor, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University; and Dr. Megan Rolf, Assistant Professor of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University.
McManus will address "Evolution and Persistence of the 2010-2012 Drought in Oklahoma." Fuhlendorf will speak about "Managing Rangelands and Forage Crops during and after Severe Drought." Rolf's topic is "Management of Genetic Potential in Replacement Heifers: Fitting Genetics to the Environment."
The conference will include exhibits by event sponsors Phil Perryman, ABS Global, Apache; Ag Preference ACA, Altus; Apache Farmers Co-op, Apache, Elgin, Ft. Cobb, Chickasha; Co-op Services Inc./Nutrena, Lawton, Chattanooga, Grandfield; Farm Credit of Central Oklahoma, Anadarko; Darren Baker, IVESCO LLC, Mt. Park; L & L Farm & Tire Supply, Chattanooga; Livestock Nutrition Center, Chickasha; Red River Veterinary Service, Frederick; Spencer Brothers Feed & Supply/Stillwater Milling, Lawton; Stockman-Oklahoma Livestock Marketing Inc., Apache; Stockman's Bank, Altus; and Walters Co-Op Elevator Association, Walters.
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Felician is an independent co-educational Catholic/Franciscan University founded and sponsored by the Felician Sisters to educate a diverse population of students within the framework of a liberal arts tradition. Its mission is to provide a full complement of learning experiences, reinforced with strong academic and student development programs designed to bring students to their highest potential and prepare them to meet the challenges of the new century with informed minds and understanding hearts. The enduring purpose of Felician University is to promote a love for learning, a desire for God, self-knowledge, service to others, and respect for all creation.
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To be a pre-eminent Catholic Franciscan University where scholarship and the practice of teaching and learning place students first in the enduring quest for truth and the persistent pursuit of competence, character, and compassion.
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Israel's remote-video beaming camera launcher is a pretty hot military toy. But it's a strictly military toy. Unless you build your own. Two hardcore modders hacked together a camera-launching flare gun that's every bit as badass as the real thing.
Vlad Gostom and Joshua Marpet dropped their DIY dynamo at this year's Defcon, and it's one impressive (non-violent!) gun. Instead of a 40mm grenade tube, it uses a civilian flare launcher and a 5.8GHz transmitter strapped to a video camera "grenade". The result? A moving snapshot of your surroundings. Extremely useful if you're about to storm an embankment, but outside of Kabul, it's got plenty of civilian uses, PopSci explains: "Ensuring full coverage of a search area in a rescue operation, say, or drawing a bead on a target in a hostage situation."
Personally, I'd rather have a homemade version of the taser-launching Shadowhawk. [TechWorld via PopSci]


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It may be frowned upon by some outdoorsmen, but packages with "the comforts of home" on the country's Great Walks are gaining popularity.
Where once multi-day bush treks meant tenting or being crammed in with other trampers in an old hut with a long drop, there is now an option of being pampered in stylish new private rooms with your own ensuite.
Queenstown-based Ultimate Hikes, which offers fully catered guided walks on the Routeburn, Milford and Greenstone tracks, has recently started building 16 new private ensuite rooms on its Routeburn Track guided walk. The rooms are scheduled for completion in November.
Ultimate Hikes general manager Noel Saxon said: "What we really offer is some comforts of home in the bush".
Eighty per cent of his company's clients are tourists, and most are aged 50 to 60. The private ensuite rooms are "attractive to a lot of people who would never really get a chance to see the environment we have".
Christchurch Tramping Club president Warwick Dowling, 55, said club trampers like him were interested in the grassroots back country experience rather than the more luxurious, higher-cost one.
"There's nothing like getting out there under a nylon tent, or even a bivvie bag for hardier souls [like] myself, and sleeping under the stars," said Mr Dowling, who has tramped for about 25 years.
"We are not trying to run down the luxurious experience. It will have its place for people who are new to the country, or getting older or infirm."
North Shore tramping club member Ian Morris, who has tramped for about 50 years, said the more pampered experience was not something he would be part of.
"I would use the standard Department of Conservation facilities — that's just my personal opinion. I just don't think there's any need to pay that amount of money to enjoy [the outdoors]."
Mr Morris takes his tent with him when he's on a multi-day trek and there is no DOC hut available. He tries to steer away from the tourist-dominated tracks.
"You have got to have different ways of getting the money out of tourists' pockets, I guess," he said.
DOC spent $50 million last year maintaining more than 900 huts and 13,000km of track. It recoups some money through fees for huts ($4.7 million last year) and concessions from companies that offer guided treks and private accommodation ($3.1 million).
Home comforts or roughing it?
The luxury option:
A three-day guided, catered walk on the Routeburn Track with Ultimate Hikes starts from $1125 for an adult during low season.
Accommodation options include bunk rooms for four with a shared bathroom or private rooms with ensuite bathrooms.
Facilities include hot showers, flushing toilets, drying rooms, full kitchens and electricity until 10pm.
DOC huts on Great Walks (per night):
$54: Routeburn, Milford, and Kepler.
$32: Heaphy, Abel Tasman Coast Track, Tongariro Northern Circuit, Whanganui Journey, Lake Waikaremoana.
$22: Rakiura Track.
Huts are double-glazed and include gas cookers, heating, toilets and mattresses. Some have resident wardens.
Charges on other tracks on DOC land:
Free: Basic hut (bivvy, shelter, simple hut).
$5: Standard hut (sleeping platforms, toilets, water).
$15: Serviced hut (sleeping platforms, mattress, toilets, water and fuel).


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Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which Nozlee Samadzadeh breaks down our favorite seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more by the numbers.
Cherries, whether sweet or sour, are as cute as they are versatile. They play well with booze (Merrill likes to soak them in liqueur), they skew savory when paired with duck breast, and for hot summer days, nothing is better than a cherry snow cone. Today we're discussing cherries, stem to pit -- everyone's favorite tiny stone fruit.
There are many varieties of cherries, but they all fall under two basic groups: sweet cherries, which are the most readilly available, and sour cherries, which usually require cooking (or soaking in booze) to break down their juices. Both are perfect for eating on their own -- although be ready to pucker up a bit if you're snacking on sour cherries -- but sweet cherries are more generally used in dessert recipes while their sour cousins are used in savory ones. Sour cherries are also much more fragile when ripe, which is why they're more difficult to find -- if you can get your hands on them, fresh or frozen, snap them up.
The season for cherries is early summer, from early July to mid-July. Sweet cherries reach maturity first, with sour varieties appearing a few weeks later. Cherries take very well to preserving and freezing, so there's no reason to go all winter without them!
1. When you think of cherries you imagine them in pairs, don't you? It's also common to find cherries grouped in quadruplets on a single bunch of stems. This happens because of the way cherry flowers bloom -- several pink blossoms grow from a single focal point, and when those flowers wilt and become fruit, the resultant cherries are connected, too. It's smart to keep cherries attached to their stems whenever possible, as they will stay fresh for much longer. And when you're harvesting the fruits, harvest the cherries at the stem (no higher!) or you risk next year's buds snapping off along with them.
2. Unlike other fruits and vegetables, cherries stop ripening once they've been picked. If a cherry is hard, it's unripe and won't taste as good -- they should be soft to the touch, but not mushy.
3. When a cherry is ready to be picked, its pit loosens and is much more easily removed. You can pit with a cherry pitter, a sharp paring knife, or, as Amanda does, with a meat pounder.
Share the bounty -- here are some of our favorite cherry recipes. How do you cook and preserve cherries?
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Over the next few days, we'll take a look at each position on the Jets roster and take a look ahead at what the Jets might expect and might need to address this coming offseason. Up next, the running backs.
Coming Off The Books
Shonn Greene -- Throughout his career, Shonn Greene has done the same thing over the last three years. When the opportunity to carry the load for this team was placed on his shoulders at the outset of the season, Greene sloughed it off and is only able to pick it up once the team and offensive line is in a groove. Greene has some talent and is a nice battering ram type player, but had his production regress from last year in his pass catching (how much of that though was Sanchez?) and hasn't done much to set him apart from the line that does most of the work for him. Greene has moved up the rankings, but much of the season was stuck around 30th in the league in production. Pro Football Focus ranks Greene 46th in the league this year due to performance ... yowch. Greene might be a nice piece for the Jets moving forward, but it can't be as a "bell cow" that Ryan has talked up for years. The Jets were supposedly interested in moving up to get Trent Richardson during the draft -- and now I fully understand why. The Jets need a dynamic player who can should a serious workload if Ryan is going to stay as the head coach of this team. There was a time when I thought Greene could be that player, but the Jets need to save their money for a more capable at the spot and reallocate elsewhere. Low priority to re-sign.
On The Books
Joe McKnight -- McKnight has been nagged most of the season by injuries, but his role as a special teamer is important for the Jets. It was telling when the Jets tried out McKnight for a week after Darrelle's injury as a cornerback. With Greene struggling, the Jets regained their senses, but it gives you a sense of what the Jets think of McKnight. He's a good depth player for the team and might have a versatile set of skills but they don't see him as a featured player in the offense. McKnight has done a good job in his career with returning kicks and can be a change of pace for the current unit out of the backfield. Still, this was a year McKnight could have taken on a larger role and he was demoted to work behind Bilal Powell. McKnight at his current salary makes total sense to keep on the roster since they will have to prioritize elsewhere. Focus into special teams role and offensive package (Kerley-McKnight Pistol/Read-Option/Wildcat) work.
Bilal Powell -- Powell was a player that we were told by Andrew Garda last year had a lot of promise for the Jets and this year that promise was realized. PFF ranked Powell well ahead of Greene (29th to 46th, respectively) and could be a larger force at a bargain price for the next few years. Powell has not yet gotten the chance to prove whether or not he can be an every-down back in the NFL, but he has proven that he can share the workload and excel in such a role. At the least, the Jets have 1/2 of their carries nailed down, now it will be for the Jets to look for another player in a thinly talented RB draft or through free agency to figure out who the other big piece will be. Increase role.
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Association has supported last two bond measures, but not Prop. Z
The San Diego County Taxpayers Association will oppose the San Diego Unified School District's proposed $2.8 billion Proposition Z bond measure this fall, a departure given that the group endorsed the past two campaigns.
The association says the last bond program — the $2.1 billion Proposition S in 2008 — was mismanaged, a charge the district denies. Among other things, the group criticizes spending on short-lived technology such as iPads using bonds that have repayments up to 40 years.
Lani Lutar, executive director for the taxpayer group, said the district is trying to pass a new bond before delivering on the promises of Proposition S.
"In essence the school district wants voters to pile higher taxes on top of crushing debt," Lutar said. "The school district will fall off the
Larry Remer, a political consultant on the past bond measure and the new one, said that the taxpayer group is a front for Republican business interests and that Proposition S is well-managed.
"It's keeping the promise. It's the promise we made that we would spend money on technology in school," Remer said, adding that the effort has increased student achievement and test scores. "We are buying rugs that last 10 to 20 years, furniture that lasts 12 years. They don't object to that."
He also said the bonds have "done an excellent job at fixing urgent, critical needs."
District officials said more than $53 million has been spent to improve the condition of district facilities, including the replacement of old portables with new classrooms and projects that address gender equity concerns in sports facilities and disabled person access.
The taxpayers association notes that those projects are not "major repair and replacement projects" promised to voters, pointing to a report by the district's Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee in June, which said none of the more than $356 million of Proposition S funds have been spent on such projects.
Lutar also criticized the district's use for some of its bonds of long-term capital appreciation financing, which carries higher repayment costs further down the line than traditional financing.
The district has issued $530 million of the Proposition S bonds, which will cost $2.5 billion to repay.
At that rate, the entire $2.1 billion Proposition S program could cost $10 billion to $14 billion to repay, the taxpayer group said. According to a board workshop presentation on Dec. 7, the district initially planned for Proposition S repayment to cost $5.9 billion.
Proposition Z, headed for the November ballot, calls for a $60 per $100,000 assessed home valuation tax increase, above the existing $66.70 rate for previous bonds. The district says the largest slice, nearly $650 million, of new bond funding would be spent on urgent repairs to schools if approved.
The taxpayers association is questioning why voters should believe that promise for Proposition Z when it has not been fulfilled for Proposition S.
Adam Bauer, a financial adviser contracted by the district, said the burgeoning debt load should not give cause for concern.
"The amount required from taxpayers is not doubling," Bauer said in a statement, adding that the district's recent refunding of older bonds cut this year's debt load nearly in half.
He said the taxpayer group's repayment projection, while accurate, "does not take into consideration federally subsidized bonds or any benefits that Prop. Z may provide by delaying some Prop S CAB (capital appreciation bond) issuances."
According to the latest quarterly report by the citizens committee, most of the Proposition S money so far has been spent on student learning and instruction, including the district's i21 technology campaign. The district spent more than $35 million in bond funds on 75,600 netbooks and plans to spend $15 million for 25,700 iPads for students.
"We don't want to see equipment that will only last three, four, five years being paid for with 40-year, high-interest financing," Lutar said.
Following recent public outcry over a long-term capital appreciation bond deal made by Poway Unified last year, San Diego Unified's school board passed a resolution Tuesday night promising voters they would not use the financing for any Proposition Z bonds if it passes.
The resolution was proposed by board President John Lee Evans and opposed solely by board member Scott Barnett, who said he did not want the district to lose flexibility.
Proposition Z is the first school bond on the November ballot the San Diego County Taxpayers Association has opposed this year. The group has decided to support bond measures proposed by Ramona Unified, San Dieguito Union High School District, Mountain Empire School District and MiraCosta Community College after they adopted the taxpayer group's new resolution promising to use capital appreciation bond financing only if it is cheaper than alternative financing options.
Remer questioned the motivation of the taxpayer group, saying, "This is not a true taxpayers association. This is a Republican, big business organization that is ideologically opposed to the Democratic-oriented policies of the San Diego Unified current board."
Group leaders dispute that, saying the association is not always opposed to tax increases, only poor fiscal management.


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TV Girl helps TV Girl
The Ungrateful Princess of AssTalk can afford to be generous. Because in just two short years Katherine Heigl has managed to claw her way to a top 5 ranking among actresses, just behind the Jolie, Julia, Reese, and Cam. She did what few have done – not even Rachel Green. Katie Heigl the TV Girl made the jump.
For a long time Jennifer Aniston has been hoping and trying and begging for the same. To no avail.
Marley & Me could change that. And Heigl showed up last night at the premiere in support of the film. It was in fact a TV-heavy carpet. Her bestie TR Knight was there, and someone was stupid enough to invite Kristin Cavallari. And a host of other TV B to C listers I can't name.
But curiously enough, nothing from the Owen Wilson crowd. Or the established film community. No Ben Stiller, no Jason Schwartzman, no Isla Fisher… none of the usual suspects. Strictly TV. Whatever. Enough analysis. Let's concern ourselves instead with Heigl's hair and makeup. That old Hollywood vibe.
You likey?
It's not my thing. I suppose it works for her, with her features, and she doesn't look horrid…but it's how mom wants you to go out, you know? It's the style that mom prefers. And while I kowtow to mom on most things, I will never agree with mom on clothes.
Wouldn't you know, her mom tagged along last night too. Katherine, husband, and mom. She's, like, always with her mom. Weird.
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