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Aerie's Lodging & Terrace Conference Center
At Aerie's, the individual cottages include jaccuzzi tubs, kitchenettes and private decks. The Lodge, perfect for family gatherings, includes a common room, full kitchen and a deck shared by four en-suite rooms. The Vacation Villas offer multiple arrangements and include private deck space with access to the swimming pool and clubhouse. Free Wi-fi.
Enjoy a beautiful, unobstructed view of the Mississippi River at this cozy 600-square-foot guest house. Accommodations include two queen beds, a kitchenette, a living area, patio with pergola and outside fireplace. It is also within walking distance to Grafton's shops, restaurants, wineries and marina.
This guest house sleeps six and includes a full kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, washer/dryer, central AC, TV, and the deck overlooks the bay of Mississippi River. Two night minimum charge.
Bluffdale is an Illinois farm vacation dude ranch and bed & breakfast. Parent Magazine's "Top 10 Family Resorts in North America." Our family has been welcoming guests to our historic Illinois farm near Eldred, Illinois since 1963. Recreation activities include horseback riding, boating, fishing, swimming, hayrides, bonfires, sing-alongs and more. Bluffdale is famous for its generous home cooked meals with home baked bread, rolls and pies. Our luxury cabins, featuring a fireplace and hot tub, are ideal for romantic getaway weekend or honeymoon bed & breakfast lodging. Spring brings a wide variety of wildflowers and morel mushrooms. In fall the bluffs make a colorful drive and eagle watch from Alton to Bluffdale along the Great River Road, a National Scenic Byway. Check our website for rates and availability.
Cassen's Bait Shop has added two new guest rooms perfect for fishermen or hunters. Amenities offered are free wi-fi, refrigerator & microwave. You'll enjoy a great view of the Illinois River with shopping and restaurants within walking distance.
Over Night Stays in an Historical House located on Main St. in the heart of the rivertown of Grafton. Within walking distance of riverfront, marina, specialty and antique shops, restaurants, wineries and bars. Sleeps up to 10. Short drive to nearby waterpark and hiking, biking trails.
Enjoy the comfort of this guest house. Amenities include a cozy sitting room, kitchen, and a deck with a view of the Mississippi River. Perfect for a couple looking for a relaxing getaway. The End of the Trail Inn is close to restaurants, shops and area attractions.
This country home, located in Grafton, Illinois, is nestled on over 70 acres of trees, pasture and farmland. Enjoy hours with your family exploring the outdoors, fishing, roasting marshmallows or taking a ride on the paddle boat. The property features pond fishing, camping, bonfire and BBQ facilities, hiking areas and picnicking. No hunting is allowed on the property but hunters are more than welcome to stay in this region known for its duck and deer hunting. Reservations are required.
Centrally located in Grafton with two suites available. Each suite has a wet bar with a refrigerator, microwave and coffee pot. A large sitting area with a TV, DVD player and a full size sofa. The bedroom has a queen size bed and fireplace. The bathroom has a shower, a large make-up vanity and features the Bain Ultra air jetted tub for two. Making it perfect for the special couples getaway!
Green Tree Inn Bed & Breakfast
Come home to Green Tree Inn where you can enjoy all the comforts of home and more. Let us pamper you while you enjoy the peacefulness of the quaint village often referred to as the "town that time forgot". Green Tree Inn is located right off the Great River Road between Alton and Grafton. Take advantage of all the local activities and then come back to the Inn to relax, refresh and rejuvenate. All rooms have private bathrooms with shower/tub combo. Take advantage of our screened in porch, fire pit in the garden or fireplace in our great room to relax and unwind. The Inn is great in all seasons. Free Wi-Fi is available. Bicycles are available for our guests to take a leisurely ride around the village or on one of the local bike trails. This is a non-smoking facility
Greene Gables Inn is perfect for couples wanting a weekend of total privacy. Guests may enjoy swimming, games, reading (great travel and historical books are available), or just conversation in the airy drawing room. Breakfast may be at a table for two, in the sunroom or join a group in the dining room. Greene County grazes contently near Scott, Morgan, Jersey, and Calhoun counties with views of Illinois.
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Built in 1929, this old-fashioned country hotel has every room decorated differently. Enjoy the rich colors of Calhoun County and the Illinois River at this quaint country inn. Reservations are required.
Located in the beautiful rolling hills overlooking the Mississippi River. Hay rack ride and bonfire activites are included in lodge rates as well as 2 meals a day per person.
The only Orvis endorsed lodge in the state provides excellent hunting or relaxing getaways in the hils of Pike County. Enjoy ATV rentals, hiking trails, horseback riding, and outstanding home cooked meals daily.
Heavenly View is a luxury cabin with views that will take your breath away! Nestled near the top of the Mississippi River bluff, this cabin provides amazing views of the Mississippi River valley and the surrounding property. The cabin sits on 50 private acres which you can enjoy from the covered patios and screened-in porch that adjoin three sides of the cabin. Wake up in the morning with a cup of coffee and step outside to listen to the wild turkeys gobble around you or watch the whitetail deer feed in the meadow at the bottom of the valley. Savor the sunset and its beautiful colors across the hills.
Stroll the streets of Grafton with the great rivers at your doorstep. From a stone terrace overlooking the junction of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, Jeni J's offers the choice of 3 cottages with 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms. Built in the early 1800's, the cottages are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Situated between the two cottages, take the time to stop into Jeni J's gift shop for a memento of your trip.
Whether you are in Jerseyville for business or pleasure, be sure to check out the Jerseyville Harvest Inn. This motel is conveniently located in the middle of the business district and is located on U.S. 67 and near Illinois Route 16. Amenities include in-room microwave, refrigerator, free Wi-fi, and free Continental breakfast.
Hunting on 2,000 acres of farm, timberland, cropland, and creek bottoms provides a large terrain selection for prime hunting. New club house sleeps 10, full kitchen, 2 baths, dish TV and VCR.
Guest house and vineyard situated on rolling hills near Grafton that offers guests " a little something extra".
The Lil Red Guest House was built in 1860 and features two bedrooms with sleeping for up to four people. This charming red house is located within walking distance of local wineries, shopping and restaurants. The guest house has a comfortable porch swing from which to enjoy the view of the Mississippi River. Reservations are required.
Built at the dawn of the 20th century this two-story home retains its turn of the century charm while offering the convenience of modern pleasures and comfort. The home offers 2 units, upstairs & downstairs with an adjoining stairway that can be opened for large groups.
Located in the historic village of Elsah, the Maple Leaf Cottage Inn offers bed and breakfast cottage style. All rooms have private bath, sitting area and a full hot breakfast delivered to you each morning.
This one-of-a-kind guest house offers one room, a great view of the Illinois River and is easy walking distance to shops, restaurants & wineries.


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little as 5 days
- Significantly reduce your pain after 30 days
- Support healthy joints and healthy joint structure
- Help support bone structure and strength
- Help support physical mobility and function
If you're active you know how important it is to relieve your discomfort quickly so you can stay active. What's more, you know support of your joints and bones is equally important for the long term. That's why this supplement duo is my top recommendation for alleviating joint discomfort quickly—starting in as little as 5 days—and supporting overall joint and bone health.
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Many joint supplements on the market today require multiple pills to provide relief. But with TriComfort Essentials you get joint relief fast with just one highly concentrated pill. What's more, TriComfort Essentials starts working its 'magic' in as little as 5 days, providing well deserved comfort and relief while promoting full range of motion.
3 Clinically Studied Joint Supporters Reduce Inflammatory Markers and Discomfort, Improve Mobility
- AprèsFlex®(100 mg): In clinical studies, AprèsFlex® was shown to be a true superstar bringing significant relief and improvement in daily functions starting in as little as 5 days. And after 30 days, a substantial improvement was seen in joint discomfort, stiffness, and functional ability1
- In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, participants with joint aches took 100 mg of AprèsFlex or a placebo daily for 30 days. Three well-regarded assessment scales to measure discomfort, stiffness, and physical function were used—and in all three, AprèsFlex was superior.
- In a measure of intensity of discomfort, AprèsFlex showed a better improvement than the placebo starting in just 5 days.
- In a measure of daily functions hindered by discomfort, AprèsFlex helped to alleviate the discomfort starting in just 5 days. And after 30 days, those taking AprèsFlex reported an even greater improvement in joint discomfort, stiffness, and functional ability.
- UC-II® (40 mg): UC-II is an all-natural, patented collagen standardized to undenatured type II collagen. Undenatured Type II Collagen triggers the deactivation of the inflammatory process in the joints to help curb the enzymes that contributes to collagen breakdown.
Single-sourced and manufactured in the USA, UC-II collagen is extracted using a low-heat, non-enzymatic process that preserves its natural form UC-II (40 mg), helps block collagen breakdown, alleviates joint pain particularly after exercise, improves flexibility and mobility—and is clinically shown to be even more effective than glucosamine and chondroitin for reducing joint pain and exercise-induced joint discomfort, as measured by three standard pain measurement indicators: WOMAC, VAS, and LFI.2
I still believe glucosamine is useful for promoting joint health, which is why it continues to be an important ingredient in my Joint & Bone Essentials™. However, when it comes to joint discomfort and stiffness, research shows that UCII can provide even more relief.
Meriva® (200 mg): This powerful turmeric extract is more bioavailable than ordinary curcumin, helps promote a normal inflammatory response, and provides antioxidants that reduce free radicals for healthy joints. A native to India and Southeast Asia, turmeric has been used traditionally for thousands of years. And turmeric, with curcumin as the active component, has been used as an inflammatory inhibitor to alleviate joint discomfort.
Joint & Bone Essentials: 5 Researched Nutrients Support Joint and Bone Health!
Joint & Bone Essentials not only helps support healthy joints but it also supports bone structure for more comprehensive joint and bone support. Joint & Bone Essentials includes these cutting edge nutrients that make it so effective for so many of my customers.
Glucosamine (1500 mg): Studies indicate that glucosamine supports the creation of healthy joint cartilage and structures by helping to support normal joint space. Glucosamine also helps relieve normal age-related joint aches and pains due to normal wear and tear.4
NEM® natural eggshell (500 mg): NEM supports healthy joint comfort and function. Research also suggests it may help alleviate joint aches and pains due to normal wear and tear. In a four-week study, adults took either 500 mg NEM or a placebo while following an exercise routine, rating their exercise induced pain immediately after and then one day after exercising. The NEM group had a significant decrease in post-exercise induced joint pain, compared to participants in the placebo group.5
FruiteX-B® (222 mg): FruiteX-B contains a unique form of boron. Boron intake may help support calcium absorption and help increase vitamin D levels in deficient populations. Calcium and vitamin D help support bone health.6
MBP® Milk Peptide (40 mg): Provides even greater health benefits as it has the ability to promote the body's natural mechanism for supporting optimal bone structure and normal bone breakdown and formation.
Our bodies continuously break down and build bone. The key is to keep this process in balance. That's why I made sure my research team added the powerful, clinically studied MBP to Joint & Bone Essentials—because healthy joints start with strong, healthy bones.
Vitamin D (2,000 IU): Vitamin D is needed for strong bones and balance. That's why I added 2,000 IU vitamin D to Joint & Bone Essentials, because it plays a crucial role in maintaining bone structure and strength by aiding in the absorption of calcium and reducing the loss of calcium in the urine. You may already be getting calcium from your multinutrient or a standalone supplement, which is great news, especially when combined with the vitamin D in Joint & Bone Essentials. In addition, vitamin D and calcium are critical nutrients for muscle strength and balance.
Taken together, TriComfort Essentials and Joint & Bone Essentials are the perfect combination for joint relief and for the bone benefits you need for truly strong, healthy joints.
1 Vishal A, et al. Int J Med Sci. 2011;8(7):615–22.
2 Crowley D et al. Int J Med Sci 2009 6(6):312-321
3 Pavelka K, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2002;162(18):2113–123.
4 Berardi J. PrecisionNutrition. October 9, 2012.
5 Aggarwal, BB, et al. Anticancer Res. 2003;23(1A):363-398.
Ingredients and Dosage
1. Joint & Bone Essentials
Doctor's Suggested Use: Take 4 capsules daily with a meal.
Serving Size: 4 Capsules
Servings Per Container: 30
|Amount Per Serving
|Vitamin D3 (as cholecalciferol)
|Glucosamine Sulfate (from chitin)
|1,500 mg
|NEM® brand eggshell membrane‡
|500 mg
|FruiteX-B®§ (as calcium fructo-borate)
|222 mg
|MBP®• (milk protein)
|40 mg
|* Daily Value (DV) not established
Other ingredients: Gelatin, microcrystalline cellulose, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate
CONTAINS: SHELLFISH (crab, shrimp), EGG, MILK
Note: Pregnant or lactating women should consult a health care professional before taking this product.
Keep out of reach of children.
‡ ® is a registered trademark of ESM Technologies, LLC.
§ ®, a registered trademark of VDF FutureCeuticals, is manufactured under issued U.S. Patent #5962049 and additional US and Foreign patents and pending patents.
• ® is a registered trademark of MEGMILK SNOW BRAND Co., Ltd. in the United States of America.
• MBP® is protected under multiple U.S. patents.
2. TriComfort Essentials
Doctor's Suggested Use: Take 1 capsule daily with a meal.
Serving Size: 1 Capsule
Servings Per Container: 30
|Amount Per Serving
Meriva® Curcumin Phytosome‡
Turmeric Extract (rhizome) Phosphatidylcholine Complex (from soy)
|200 mg
|AprèsFlex®§ Boswellia serrata Extract (gum resin)
|100 mg
|UC-II®♦ Standardized Chicken Cartilage (Providing 10 mg Undenatured Type II Collagen)
|40 mg
|* Daily Value (DV) not established
Other ingredients: Gelatin, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, silicon dioxide
Note: Pregnant or lactating women should consult a health care professional before taking this product.
Keep out of reach of children.
‡ Meriva® is a registered trademark of Indena S.p.A.
§ is a registered trademark of Laila Nutraceuticals exclusively licensed to PL Thomas-Laila Nutra LLC. International patents pending.
♦ is a registered trademark of InterHealth N.I.
brand undenatured type II collagen (U.S. Patents 7,846,487, 7,083,820 and EPO Patent EP1435906B1; Canadian patent CA 2459981C; and Japanese Patent JP4800574B2).
Science and Quality
Clinically Researched Natural Pain Relievers Deliver Fast, Effective Relief Starting in as Little as 5 Days
Après Flex is an enriched boswellia serrata extract, originating from a deciduous tree native to India whose use dates back to the ancient Ayurvedic medicine texts written 3,000 years ago. The standard form of boswellia, however, is poorly absorbed by your bloodstream because it contains a glycoprotein that acts as a barrier. That means it takes longer to work. AprèsFlex is the next generation of Boswellia serrata extract—working faster and more effectively than the standard form.
The Science Behind Après Flex
What's more, the AprèsFlex extract is enriched with an additional blend of natural compounds from the boswellia tree that inhibit the glycoprotein and significantly improve absorption. In laboratory studies, AprèsFlex showed 51.8% greater absorption of AKBA, which is an active compound that inhibits the inflammatory pathways, compared to another popular boswellia product.
UC-II is a clinically-proven, patented form of undenatured type II collagen that helps support joint health. Unlike most of the commercially available collagen supplements which are denatured or hydrolysed, UC-II is manufactured through a patented, low-temperature, non-enzymatic manufacturing process that preserves the natural levels of undenatured type II collagen as well as its biological activity. UC-II works in the small intestine through a process called oral tolerization to aid in the health of type II collagen in the joints.
The Science Behind UC-II
UC-II can help alleviate joint discomfort during and after exercise as well as improve flexibility and mobility in physically active healthy individuals. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, pilot study, healthy subjects experiencing joint discomfort upon strenuous exercise took either 40 mg of UC-II (the amount in TriComfort Essentials) or placebo while continuing their normal diet and exercise regimens. Subjects were tested at 30-day intervals from baseline to 120 days and the results were impressive:1
- Significant improvement in knee extension at 90 (compared to baseline) and 120 days (compared to baseline and placebo).
- The minimum time to onset of joint discomfort (while exercising) was significantly better than baseline at day 90 and day 120. No significant changes in placebo.
- Maximum time to offset joint discomfort (after exercising) was significantly faster at day 60, 90, and 120 compared to baseline.
While osteoclasts are just as important as osteoblasts in the process of bone remodeling, when the activity of osteoclasts is in excess, this can lead to bone loss.
1 Crowley D et al. "Safety and efficacy of undenatured type II collagen in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a clinical trial" Int J Med Sci 2009 6(6):312-321
Product Quality
- Manufactured to exacting standards using highest quality raw materials
- Produced in accordance with our strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that meet or exceed those set by the FDA's Good Manufacturing Practices
- Every batch tested to verify purity and potency specifications are met
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phoenixK wrote:I have had really bad luck with sheng samples being really harsh and difficult to drink. So I was really surprised and happy when the owner of a tea shop in Taichung Taiwan, served me some of this. He said it is from 1999. The language barrier was pretty high as I don't know Mandarin, but from what I could understand, this was a special recipe commissioned by him? Could any of you shed some light on this?
I wonder if all the sheng samples I have received off the internet are bad or if they were just too young for my taste. All of the samples I have had are around 2-3 years old.
Anyway, after drinking this, I had to buy it. Now that I have been back for a while, I opened it up and brewed it up. Very smooth, earthy... and almost a minty taste... hard to describe, but very good.
Looks like it's been traditionally stored, a bit. At least I see mold? That might be why you like it.


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Posts have been sparse as of late, but I thought I'd dust off the old blog to brag to the internets inform my loyal readers (hi dad!) about a couple of recent items stemming from the paper I co-authored for the Cato Institute with Chris Preble and Ben Friedman.
First up, Tuesday at noon I had the pleasure of speaking at a Cato policy forum on our paper, "The End of Overkill?: Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy". The panel was moderated by Chris Preble and included myself, Ben, Dr. Hans Christensen of the Federation of American Scientists, and Elbridge . . .
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TORONTO (AP) — A worn-down Kobe Bryant called it a "sub-par" performance. For the Los Angeles Lakers, it was the latest in a string of similar efforts by a struggling team.
Landry Fields had a season-high 18 points and 10 rebounds as the Toronto Raptors sent the Lakers to their fifth consecutive road loss, 108-103 Sunday afternoon.
Bryant scored 26 points and Pau Gasol had 25 for the Lakers, whose road skid is their longest in six years. Dwight Howard was ejected after drawing his second technical foul with 1:18 left in the first half.
BOX SCORE: Raptors 108, Lakers 103
The Lakers fell behind by 15 points midway through the first quarter and lost for the eighth time in 10 games.
"We've got a lot of issues," coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Offensively the ball sticks and we don't take very good shots. Defensively, ups and downs, we forget guys."
Jose Calderon had 22 points and nine assists while Ed Davis added 18 points and eight rebounds for Toronto. Alan Anderson had 14 points and eight assists as the Raptors ended a four-game losing streak against the Lakers.
"That was one of the most complete games we've had all year, top to bottom," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.
Bryant made 10 of 32 shots and three of 12 on 3-pointers. He complained fatigue has dulled his shooting.
"I've just got to rest my legs," Bryant said. "My legs are a little tired. My shots are just short. That's on me. I'll take this loss on me, gladly. There were a lot of easy shots, a lot of them, that I should have put down.
"My offense was sub-par in terms of missing easy shots. I've got to do a better job of putting that ball in the hole when the opportunity presents itself."
Steve Nash had 16 points and nine assists and Earl Clark had 14 points and 14 rebounds for the Lakers.
"I didn't feel like we were ready to play," Nash said. "We cut too many corners at too many different times in the game and had too big a hole to climb out of.
"We're just not finding any consistent level out of our group," he said.
Howard got his first technical for arguing after a missed jump shot with 4:43 left in the first quarter. The star center was tossed after he and Anderson were called on a double technical when they got tangled up after a free throw. Howard finished with five points in 17 minutes.
Howard left without speaking to news reporters, but Bryant said he was upset by the costly ejection.
"I really don't agree with that one at all," Bryant said. "What's a player supposed to do? A guy cuts in front when he's trying to walk back up the court. An official told me he should just walk away. I said, 'Which direction? Should he just turn around a just walk to the bench?' "
Clark said Los Angeles struggled to defend the paint without Howard's presence inside.
"When he's gone, it's just a layup special," Clark said.
Consecutive three-pointers by Kyle Lowry and layups by Terrence Ross and Anderson gave Toronto a 95-76 lead with 7:29 left, forcing the Lakers to call timeout.
Los Angeles responded with a 3 by Nash and, after a layup by Fields, a pair of three-pointers by Bryant and a layup by Antawn Jamison made it 97-87 with 5:22 remaining.
Bryant hit a three with 1:35 left, cutting it to 103-97, but Amir Johnson rebounded Anderson's miss and scored a layup to make it an eight-point game with 1:02 left.
Gasol returned to the starting lineup after coming off the bench for the first time in his Lakers career in Thursday's loss to Miami. Gasol had sat out the previous five games with a concussion after being accidentally elbowed in the face by Denver Nuggets center JaVale McGee.
It was a slow start for the Lakers, who missed 12 of their first 15 shots and were down 19-4 with 5:50 left in the first. Bryant missed his first six shots and made just one of eight in the opening quarter as Toronto led 29-20.
"We started off awful, without any energy," D'Antoni said.
Gasol scored 10 points and Bryant had nine in the third, but the Raptors got 10 points from Fields and six each from Calderon and Davis to take an 83-70 edge into the fourth.
Notes: Raptors center Andrea Bargnani (injured right elbow) has resumed working with a basketball, while rookie center Jonas Valanciunas (broken right ring finger) is lifting weights, Casey said. … Nash made his first visit to Toronto since passing on a contract offer from the Raptors to sign with Los Angeles last summer. … This was the first game of a three-game road trip for the Lakers, who will also visit the Chicago Bulls and Memphis Grizzlies. … Montreal Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban attended the game.
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Crumland Farm, Frederick
This 10-12 mile obstacle course, which takes place every September in Frederick, includes tons of obstacles such as climbing through trenches, swimming in underwater tunnels, and wading through a mile-long mud pit. The race benefits the Wounded Warrior Project, which aides injured service members. toughmudder.com
Warrior Dash
Budd's Creek, Mechanicsville
This nearly 5K racecourse includes 12 intense obstacles like wall climbing, repelling, fire jumping, and running through tires. But fun is certainly encouraged as participants get a fuzzy Viking helmet to start, and the May race has been called an "adult playground." warriordash.com
Run For Your Lives
Camp Ramblewood, Darlington
This 5K course, which takes place October 27 and 28, has the ultimate obstacle—zombies! Before the race, participants get a flag belt and zombies (hired actors) try to take your flags throughout the course, which includes man-made and natural obstacles. A post-apocalyptic party (with plenty of beer) ensues afterwards. runforyourlives.com


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A Big Step Forward towards a DDT-Free World
Countries move toward more sustainable ways to roll back malaria ahead of Millennium Development Goals
4th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UNEP-Linked Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Geneva/Nairobi/Washington DC, 6 May 2009 - The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization, in partnership with the Global Environment Facility, today announced a rejuvenated international effort to combat malaria with an incremental reduction of reliance on the synthetic pesticide DDT.
Ten projects, all part of the global programme "Demonstrating and Scaling-up of sustainable Alternatives to DDT in Vector Management", involving some 40 countries in Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia are set to test non-chemical methods ranging from eliminating potential mosquito breeding sites and securing homes with mesh screens to deploying mosquito-repellent trees and fish that eat mosquito larvae.
The new projects follow a successful demonstration of alternatives to DDT in Mexico and Central America. Here pesticide-free techniques and management regimes have helped cut cases of malaria by over 60 per cent.
The success of the five year-long pilot indicates that sustainable alternatives to Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT) are emerging as cost effective solutions that may be applicable regionally and globally.
The Integrated Vector Management (IVM) strategy promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) provides the framework to include these measures in combinations of interventions adapted to differing local circumstances.
Allied to measures such as improved health care, monitoring and education the findings could set the stage for meeting the twin aims of achieving the health-related and environmental Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 while also ridding the world of the persistent organic pollutant DDT.
The initiatives come amid long-standing and growing concern over the use of DDT and evidence that in many countries there is increasing mosquito resistance to the pesticide.
However concern over DDT is matched by concern over the global malaria burden in which close to 250 million cases a year result in over 880,000 deaths. Thus any reduction in the use of DDT or other residual pesticides must ensure the level of transmission interruption is, at least, maintained.
The international community has, under the Stockholm Convention, agreed to ban a 'dirty dozen' of persistent organic pollutants including, ultimately, DDT on environmental and health grounds.
However, a specific and limited exemption was made for the use of DDT to control malaria, because it was recognized that in some situations adequate alternative control methods were not currently available.
The aim of the new projects, a major initiative of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with close to $40 million funding, being spearheaded by WHO and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), is to achieve a 30% cut in the application of DDT world-wide by 2014 and its total phase-out by the early 2020s if not sooner, while staying on track to meet the malaria targets set by WHO.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director which hosts the secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, said: "The new projects underline the determination of the international community to combat malaria while realizing a low, indeed zero DDT world".
"Today we are calling time on a chemical rooted in the scientific knowledge and simplistic options of a previous age. In doing so, innovative solutions are being catalyzed and sustainable choices brought forward that meet the genuine health and environmental aspirations of a 21st century society".
"WHO faces a double challenge - a commitment to the goal of drastically and sustainably reducing the burden of vector-borne diseases, in particular malaria, and at the same time a commitment to the goal of reducing reliance on DDT in disease vector control", said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General.
WHO sees these projects in the context of IVM which it promotes as the approach of choice to control transmission of malaria and other vector-borne diseases. A key element of IVM is a solid evidence base for the effectiveness of combinations of locally-adapted, cost-effective and sustainable vector-control methods. This approach will facilitate sustainable transition away from DDT.
Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, the financial arm of the convention and which is funding over half of the initiative, said: "The GEF is investing in these projects to take decisive action toward ridding the world of dangerous chemicals now and forever. The dividends from these investments will mean a cleaner, safer and sustainable environment for future generations. "
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Mexico and Central America
The first of the demonstration projects, which began in 2003, has been coordinated by the Pan American Health Organization of the WHO in partnership with a wide range of bodies including UNEP, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and the eight country governments.
It has involved the Ministries of Health of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama where DDT has been extensively sprayed in homes and onto water bodies in the region order to combat malaria since the 1950s.
More than 89 million people in Mesoamerica live in areas suitable for malaria transmission of which over a third or 23.5 million live in highly endemic areas.
The work, involving just under $7.5 million from the GEF and co-financing of $6.4 million, has pioneered the demonstration of "integrated vector control" methods working with 202 communities of 50 municipalities in the eight countries.
The work covered close to 160,000 people directly and an estimated 6.8 million indirectly representing nearly 30 per cent of those in the highly effected areas.
Various malaria control strategies and techniques have been tried and evaluated including:
The project achieved a 63 per cent reduction in malaria cases and a more than 86 per cent cut in ones linked with Plasmodium falciparum, the malarial parasite that causes the most severe kind of infection and the highest death rate globally.
The researchers point to other benefits including the strengthening of national and local institutions involved in combating malaria; improved scientific data on DDT contamination of communities and action on stockpiles of persistent organic pollutants.
During the project more than 136 tons of DDT and over 64 tons of chemicals such as toxapehene and chlordane were pin pointed.
These stockpiles are scheduled for export and destruction under a separated but related UNEP treaty, the Basel Convention on transboundary hazardous waste.
Rolling Out Projects Globally
Projects are now going global with several new, five year regional demonstrations of sustainable alternatives to DDT launched, or set to be launched over the next 12 months.
These include one involving Eritrea, Ethiopia and Madagascar and a larger regional initiative with Djibouti; Egypt; Jordan, Morocco; the Islamic Republic of Iran, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
A third project is involving Georgia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia with a possibility of including relevant neighboring countries as well.
Another is focusing on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in order to develop a Decision Taking Tool for governments allowing them to evaluate health, social and environmental impacts and policy tradeoffs.
More regional projects are in the pipeline : htttp://dgef.unep.org/focal_areas/pops/DSSA_Programme_240409.pdf
Various technical reports of the Regional Program of Action and Demonstration of sustainable Alternative to DDT for Malaria Vector Control in Mexico and Central America can be found at http://www.paho.org/English/AD/SDE/ddt-home.htm
Details of the new Global Program "Demonstrating and Scaling up of sustainable Alternatives to DDT in Vector Management ", including the new regional demonstration projects, can be found at http://dgef.unep.org/focal_areas/pops/DSSA_Programme_240409.pdf
and at http://dgef.unep.org/focal_areas/pops/DSSA_PPT_210409.ppt
The 4th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention: http://chm.pops.int/Convention/COPs/Meetings/COP4/tabid/404/mctl/ViewDetails/EventModID/870/EventID/23/xmid/1673/language/en-US/Default.aspx
WHO-UNEP Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI): http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/heli/en/
The Global Environment Facility:
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Nick Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson/Head of Media, on Phone: +254-20 7623084, Mobile in Kenya 254 (0) 733 632755, Mobile when travelling 41 79 596 57 37 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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Ms Ravini Thenabadu, Communications Officer, Global Malaria Programme; Tel. direct: +41 22 791 2339, Mobile: +41 79 500 6549; email: email@example.com
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Speech by Achim Steiner at Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties
DSSA Programme in Africa at a glance
UNEP-GEF Malaria Leaflet
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Discover the Original Soul Man: TSC's Mid-South Schools Tour Hits the Road this Week with "Shake(s), Rattle & Roll"
(Memphis, TN, October 15, 2013) – It's hip. It's cool. Students can discover chart-topping, toe-tapping, feet-stomping, get-out-of-your-seat-and-move-with-it SHAKESPEARE – direct from Memphis!
Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, launches its new schools touring show this week with the Memphis-inspired Shake(s), Rattle & Roll.
Created by TSC Education Director Stephanie Shine and featuring actors Slade Kyle and Cara McHugh, Shake(s), Rattle & Roll is booking now in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Mid-South. Last year, the tour played to 6,000 students in the South. This year's tour will exceed that capacity while touring across the state and into North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky.
Shake(s), Rattle & Roll is a 45-minute, tour-de-force that imagines both a social and artistic through-line between the plays of William Shakespeare and the music that makes Memphis unique – Blues, Gospel, Soul, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock-n-Roll.
Scenes from Shakespeare's plays include Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew. Music from the on-stage jukebox includes chart-toppers from Sam and Dave, Carl Perkins, Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MGs, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Big Joe Turner, and Rev. Al Green.
"Shake(s), Rattle, and Roll allows Tennessee Shakespeare Company the opportunity to introduce students to two forces of change in our shared human experience: the plays of William Shakespeare and Memphis music from the 50's and 60's," says Shine.
"It's a joy to find the common links between these major artistic achievements while giving our young people an insight into what classical theatre can offer them. It's also wonderful to highlight many of the reasons we have to be proud of Memphis, the state of Tennessee, and the Mid-South."
Schools may book the show with actor-talkback now through May 9, 2014, for their student groups of up to 100 for just $450. Call TSC's Education Office at (901) 759-0620 to book your school or class. Teachers and chaperones are admitted free. Travel costs may vary.
Who's Who
Catie Broadwater (Stage Manager) returns for her second season with Tennessee Shakespeare Company. Her TSC credits include Unto the Breach, It's a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play, Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged), Macbeth, Southern Yuletide, the schools tour of Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and The Glass Menagerie. Catie comes from Nashville, where she works as a Stage Manager. Most recently, she was a stage management assistant for the pre-Broadway production of The Nutty Professor directed by Jerry Lewis. A few of her theatre credits include Studio Tenn's The Glass Menagerie; Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre's Sherlock Holmes and It's a Wonderful Wife; 3Ps Production's John & Jen and Long Way Down, Parallel Lives, Oklahoma, Ramona Quimby, Baby, Spirit: The Authentic Story of the Bell Witch of Tennessee; and Nashville Shakespeare Festival's The Tempest. She is a graduate from MTSU, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Theatre.
Bruce Bui (Costume Designer) designed TSC's Unto the Breach!, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), It's a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play, Rebel Shakespeare and His Women, and Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. Originally from Southern California, Bruce now lives in Memphis and is going into his twelfth season as the Wardrobe Director and Resident Costume Designer for Ballet Memphis. His works can be seen regularly on the Orpheum stage and numerous other venues around the Mid-South, and have been praised as "dazzling" by Critical Dance Magazine, and a "Master of Chiffon" by The Commercial Appeal. He has also worked with The Western Stage (Always, Patsy Cline), Cabrillo Musical Theatre (Funny Girl), Santa Susanna Repertory Theatre (Shiloh, War of the World), and Kingsmen Shakespeare Company (As You Like It), among others. Some of his specialty garments can be seen on Mrs. Tennessee for Mrs. America 2005, At Home Tennessee Magazine's featured wedding issue 2007, and The Memphis Mystic Krew 2005 court. Bruce also has worked on several commercials in the Mid-South.
Slade Kyle (Actor, Education Manager) as a founding member and former SEWA Professional Wrestler is well versed in many forms of Stage Combat, and serves as TSC's resident Fight Director. TSC credits: The Glass Menagerie (Tom), The Tempest (Fight Director, Prelude Scene Director), Romeo and Juliet Schools Tour (Friar Lawrence/Mercutio/Peter/Abram, Fight Director), Macbeth (Malcolm), Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio/Prince/Gregory/Friar John, Fight Director, Prelude Scene Director), Themes From a Midsummer Night with IRIS Orchestra (Puck), Othello (Fight Director, Prelude Scene Director), Julius Caesar (Prelude Scene Director), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck, Fight Director), As You Like It (Oliver, Fight Choreographer). Slade graduated Summa Cum Laude with his BFA from the University of Memphis, focusing on Physical Theatre and Pedagogy.
Cara McHugh (Actor, Journeyman Artist-Manager) is originally from Memphis and received her BA from Murray State University with a dual major in Theatre and Political Science. Cara received her MFA in the Performance program at the University of Louisville, where she graduated recently with a Dean's Citation in Academic Excellence. Cara performed in UofL's Sleep Rock thy Brain, The Artifacts, Richard III, Plays: A Play, A Perfect Wedding, and How I Learned to Drive. She also performed in Reasons to Be Pretty and Misses Strata at the Bard's Town Theatre in Louisville, where she served as a Board member. While in Louisville, Cara taught children's theatre for Encore Youth Theatre and Adelante Hispanic Achievers.
Stephanie Shine+ (Director, Education Director, General Manager) TSC directorial work includes It's a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, Southern Yuletide, Romeo and Juliet, and The Rebel Shakespeare and His Women. During her 18 years with Seattle Shakespeare Company, 13 as Artistic Director, she directed 17 productions, including The Threepenny Opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, and the lauded all-male Taming of the Shrew. A well-known actress in the Northwest, Stephanie has performed for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, ACT, The Empty Space, Seattle Children's Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Tacoma Actors Guild. Regionally, she appeared with the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals, Houston's Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and NYC's Theatre for a New Audience. Her Shakespeare roles include Juliet, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice, Regan, Feste, Kate, Bianca, Dionyza, The Princess of France, Hero, Perdita, and The Chorus in Henry V. + Member of The Society of Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
- Join Us for Eudora Welty
- The Shakespeare Brunch is Back
- New Board Members and Officers for 2016-17
- TSC Announces Full Ninth Season
Join Us for the First Southern Literary Salon of the Season:
Eudora Welty: Mississippi Myth
January 27
We return to our popular Southern Literary Salon for a look at the ever-changing vision of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, life-long daughter of Jackson, Mississippi.
Please join us for Eudora Welty: Mississippi Myth at Nancy Copp's hidden though welcoming Germantown home on Friday, January 27 from 6:00-8:00pm.
The evening features fun Southern food, conversation, thirty minutes or so of readings from Welty's works, and a mixed spirit of the author's liking. Tickets for the Welty Salon only are $55 and include all of the above. Tickets for the Welty and Flannery O'Connor Salon (April 21), when purchased together, are only $100 (a savings of $10).
Curated and read by TSC artist Stephanie Shine, assisted by actors Dan McCleary, Jillian Barron, and Marquis Archuleta, Mississippi Myth will employ text from among Welty's works, likely including her short stories in A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, and The Golden Apples, and the novels The Ponder Heart and award-winning The Optimist's Daughter.
Welty (1909-2011) described writing fiction as "a personal act of vision." She was widely popular as a writer and photographer from her lifelong home in Jackson, though her literary home seemed to be nestled in experimentation. Her vast skill-set ranged from comedy to tragedy, realistic to surreal, fiction to biography, fairy tale to history. Welty was recognized for her work with 40 major literary awards, 38 honorary doctorate degrees, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"It had been startling and disappointing to me," wrote Welty, "to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ..."Read More
Back by popular demand:
The Shakespeare Brunch
Join us for an elegant Sunday brunch, drinks, and an abbreviated Shakespeare reading in a beautiful indoor setting. Acted by some of your favorite TSC players, the reading is preceded by a delicious and thematic buffet with cash bar. Your $40 ticket includes the buffet and reading.
by William Shakespeare
Sunday, November 20
12:30-3:30 pm
directed by Stephanie Shine
at The Memphis Hunt and Polo Club
Host Members: Margaret and Owen Tabor
Shakespeare's late romance features a Bohemian rhapsody of near-magical redemption and forgiveness, featuring over 20 professional actors, including Carey Urban, Tony Molina, Darius Wallace, Stephanie Shine, and Dan McCleary.
Attire: cocktail/business casual.
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Three New Board Members and Officers Announced for 2016-17
(November 7, 2016) - Tennessee Shakespeare Company today announced its 26-member Board of Directors unanimously approved the elections of three new members and a slate of new Officers to its Executive Committee for FY17.
Melanie Stovall Murry
Michael R. Marshall
Joining the Board for three-year terms are educator Pat Casserly Kelly, lawyer Michael R. Marshall of Evans Petree, and University of Memphis General Counsel Melanie Stovall Murry.
Dr. Owen B. Tabor returns as President. His officers are Ernest G. Kelly, Jr. (Vice President), C. Cato Ealy (Treasurer), and Melia M. Murphy (Secretary). Their terms are renewable after one year.
Rotating to TSC's Emeritus Founders Board is educator Ruth Dunning, who helped create the Company in 2007-08.
Pat Casserly Kelly, though she still finds herself teaching, is the retired chair of the English and Humanities departments at The Hutchison School and its recipient of the Margaret Wellford Tabor chair for Excellence in Teaching English. In her teaching career, she emphasized the great writers and thinkers of the Western tradition—Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Hardy—as she encouraged her students to become lovers of literature and independent and creative thinkers. Mrs. Kelly was a president of the Shelby-Memphis Council of Teachers of English and was recognized as a Teacher of Excellence by the National Council Teachers of English. She was a recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities study grants, and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for a teacher exchange program in Eurasia. She served two terms on the vestry of St. Elisabeth's Church in Raleigh and was the Director of Religious Education there for 15 years. Currently a communicant at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, she serves as a lector, a Lay Eucharistic Minister, a member of the hospitality committee, and is serving her first year of her term on the Chapter of the Cathedral.
Michael R. Marshall is legal counsel at Evans Petree in Memphis. He is the co-leader of the Labor and Employment section and uses his experience in other arenas to reach solutions and resolutions to his clients' disputes. He has extensive experience in litigating and resolving employment matters and other business-related disputes. He is a frequent speaker on employment-related topics. Mr. Marshall was the lead attorney in a case brought by the Memphis City Schools against the City of Memphis and obtained a $57 million verdict for education funding. Mr. Marshall graduated from the University of California and Southern Methodist University School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association Member, Tennessee Bar Association Member, and Memphis Bar Association member. He is admitted to practice law in Tennessee and Texas. Mr. Marshall has also served as the General Counsel for the Memphis City Schools, and is the general counsel for the Shelby County Emergency Communications District and for Lausanne Collegiate School.
Melanie Stovall Murry is General Counsel at the University of Memphis. Mrs. Murry joined the University in December 2002, serving as associate and assistant counsel. She was also an adjunct faculty member for the doctoral program in higher education administration for the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. She serves as an instructor at the Tennessee Institute for Pre-law. Mrs. Murry graduated from the Tennessee Bar Association's Leadership Law program and was a 2008 fellow of the New Memphis Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law, and has a Bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Saint Louis University.Read More
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
Announces Full Ninth Season of Plays and Educational Activities for 2016-17
(Memphis, TN; August 11, 2016) -- Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the Mid-South's professional, classical theatre, today announced its full 2016-17 season of plays, outreach programs, and Education initiatives in the Memphis area and beyond.
Launching TSC's ninth season is its first production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Directed by TSC Founder and Producing Artistic Director Dan McCleary, the adaptation will perform in the Wiener Theater on the campus of Hutchison School in East Memphis from September 20 through October 2. The play is produced in partnership with Hutchison. The cast of 20 actors features Broadway veteran Patrick Ryan Sullivan as Atticus Finch, Memphian Ainsley Geno as Scout, and the return of TSC favorite Tony Molina, Jr. as Rev. Sykes.
Early Bird tickets are on sale now for To Kill a Mockingbird: the first 24 seats sold to each performance will be located in the new Best Seats section of the theatre.
In the winter, TSC returns to Dixon Gallery & Gardens for the holiday season with an elegant, celebratory Much Ado About Nothing befitting the season of cheer. Shakespeare's romantic comedy, directed by McCleary, plays on the Winegardner Auditorium stage December 8-18.
The fun continues in early summer with Shakespeare's boisterous comedy of mistaken identities. The Comedy of Errors, produced in partnership with the University of Memphis' Department of Theatre & Dance, will play the U of M mainstage June 8-18, 2017.
The Southern Literary Salons return, featuring the works of Eudora Welty (Mississippi Myth) on January 27 and Flannery O'Connor (Georgia Gothic) on April 21. These literary parties in beautiful, private homes from 6:00-8:00 pm curate readings, light fare, and writer-specific libations.
Back by popular demand is The Shakespeare Brunch, featuring abbreviated, staged readings of a redemptive The Winter's Tale (November 20) and a provocative The Merchant of Venice (May 21) preceded by an expansive brunch buffet and bar. Acted by some of TSC's best-known actors, the Brunches run from 12:30-3:30 pm inside the elegant Memphis Hunt & Polo Club.
The season also includes the Eighth Annual Shakespeare Gala, bringing to Memphis a new Broadway headliner on Friday, March 10, 2017, at Germantown Performing Arts Center. The Gala, complete with lavish dinner and open bars located throughout the theatre, supports TSC's nationally-acclaimed Education Program.
This season, the Education Program significantly expands its anti-violence schools residency and performance schedule of The Romeo and Juliet Project. Nine actor/teaching-artists will work in over 20 schools, largely underserved, in Shelby County from September through February, reaching more than 6,000 students. Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, a fun 2-actor introduction to the playwright's essential scenes and soliloquies, will tour schools and theatres throughout the southeastern United States. Both productions are created and directed by TSC Education Director Stephanie Shine.
TSC's generous Mainstage title sponsors include FedEx; Dorothy O. Kirsch; Ernest, Pat, Martha, & Marian Kelly; Independent Bank; Tennessee Arts Commission; Ann and Wellford Tabor; and The University of Memphis.
TSC's season partners are Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Hutchison School, Shelby County Schools, St. George's Church, and the University of Memphis' Department of Theatre & Dance. The season is funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee.
"Our ninth season is a response both to the world's recent events and to our patrons' desires," says McCleary. "To Kill a Mockingbird is an American masterpiece of the 20th Century. It is time for each of us to pick up Harper Lee's novel and read or re-read it. In Much Ado About Nothing, we are a nation of peace at home and abroad, and in this dream we go pleasure-seeking. Still, uninhibited love is surprisingly difficult to give away in this environment, to both comedic and tragic effect. And in Comedy of Errors, famous for its physical and archetypal humor, we find ourselves in a world in which the mortal threat to immigrants cannot prevent this non-traditional family, even after years of separation, from making a heart-felt discovery.
"I am deeply grateful to our season sponsors, production partners, and over 300 donors who make professional, classical theatre and our education programming possible. The work we do with children in our schools is immediate, impactful, proven, and a powerful model for successful replication throughout the United States. We live in a time when the arts, and experiencing Shakespeare's plays, need to be at the center of our national educational curriculum, not subsisting on the fringes. They are not a luxury, they are for everyone. The works of William Shakespeare are our birthright, and if they are supported educationally and financially then we see first-hand how our children enthusiastically embrace his compassion, his poetry, and his open-hearted query of humanity."Read More
Tennessee Shakespeare Company is generously supported by:
Individual Season Sponsors:
Barbara B. Apperson Angel Fund; Nancy Copp; Ernest, Pat, Martha, and Marian Kelly; Milton T. Schaeffer; The Family of Owen and Margaret Tabor;
Ann and Wellford Tabor.
Season Partners:
Boyle Investment Company, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Hutchison School, Shelby County Schools, St. George's Church, The University of Memphis' Department of Theatre & Dance


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By Sally Milano, USTA.com
For the third straight year, the USTA Pro Circuit will be utilized to determine wild cards into the French Open.
In the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, the American man and American woman who earn the most ATP World Tour and WTA ranking points at two of three select USTA Pro Circuit clay-court events will earn wild cards to compete in the French Open main draw.
The men's events included in the challenge are the $100,000 Challenger in Sarasota, Fla., which will take place the week of April 14; the $50,000 Challenger in Savannah, Ga., which will be held the week of April 21; and the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., which is scheduled for the week of April 28.
The women's tournaments consist of the $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala., held the week of April 14; the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va., the week of April 21; and the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., the week of April 28.
All tournaments will be streamed live here.
Only Americans who did not earn direct entry into Roland Garros are eligible to compete in the challenge. The USTA and the French Tennis Federation have a reciprocal agreement in which wild cards into the 2014 French and US Opens are exchanged.
"The USTA Pro Circuit's clay-court season allows American players to develop their games and prepare for the French Open in their own backyards at some of our best clay-court facilities nationwide," said Brian Earley, director of the USTA Pro Circuit. "By partnering with Har-Tru through the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, we are also proud to utilize this time of the year to provide Americans who may not otherwise have the opportunity, the chance to get into the French Open. The challenge is a great asset to our season."
The USTA first used the wild-card challenge format for its 2012 French Open wild cards, won by Melanie Oudin and Brian Baker. Oudin and Baker each advanced to the second round at that year's French Open and subsequently broke into the Top 100 of the world rankings. Last year, Alex Kuznetsov and Shelby Rogers earned the wild cards, with Rogers winning her first-ever Grand Slam singles match in Paris.
Har-Tru Sports, one of the leading providers of clay tennis courts, is in its second year as title sponsor of the challenge after signing a three-year agreement in 2013. To complement this year's challenge, Har-Tru is launching a "Be One with the Clay" video contest, in which tennis fans of all ages can create a video about how their love of tennis has been enhanced by the power of playing and training on clay. After a public voting process, the contest winner will win a trip for two to the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, Calif. For more information, click here.
"Think of how many junior players have dreamed about playing even just one match in a Grand Slam tournament. We're very excited that Har-Tru gets to foster that dream through our involvement with the USTA Pro Circuit series held on our surface," said Pat Hanssen, general manager of Har-Tru Sports. "We are also energized about providing interesting ways for fans of the game to connect to us. The 'Be One with the Clay' contest we are adding this year does just that, by providing avid tennis players a creative and fun opportunity to share their passion for the game and to share stories about what playing on clay has done for them."
Information on the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge will be available at www.USTAHarTruWC.com and www.procircuit.usta.com, and on Twitter through @USTAProCircuit and #USTAHarTruWC.
The 2014 French Open main draw will be held Sunday, May 25, through Sunday, June 8.
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By Brendan Conway
There's the cha-cha and the boogie-woogie. Then there's the contango. This is one of the things First Trust's next commodity ETF will attempt to dance.
First Trust Global Tactical Commodity Strategy Fund, launching Wednesday under the ticker FTGC, is interesting because it won't track a major commodity benchmark like the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index or the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index. This will be an actively managed fund for the commodity markets, and it's also an ETF.
Commodities are tricky to own passively in most cases besides gold and silver. Fund builders can't store a barrel of oil or a bushel of wheat in a vault the way they can store metals, whose sock-it-awayability is the reason SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and iShares Silver Trust (SLV) are good at tracking spot commodity prices.
For oil, wheat, etc., fund managers have to resort to commodity futures. Futures expire, portfolios need to be rebalanced, and buy-and-hold investment returns often land in the wood chipper because of the pricing phenomenon known as "contango." All this is in addition to commodity markets' volatility and fundamentals.
Here's how we explained it in April with reference to United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG):
Contango happens when futures contracts several months out are trading at higher prices than near-term futures — a condition that eventually resolves itself as what was once the future becomes the present. That condition can seriously hurt the performance of an ETF. As prices for futures fall as they come due, funds must sell their cheaper near-term contracts to buy pricier longer-dated ones in order to avoid taking physical delivery of the gas.
Contango has pushed United States Natural Gas to a staggering 44% five-year annualized loss — little wonder that long-term investors don't tread here. Last year, the ETF fell 27%, even as the spot gas price advanced 15%.
Other fund companies have attempted to limit the impact by developing passive indexes that take relative futures prices into account. The 0.2% five-year annualized return of the $6.2 billion PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC), the most popular example, beats the 2.1% annualized loss of the $1.8 billion iPath DJ-UBS Commodity Index Total Return ETF (DJP).


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NFC chip supplier Inside Secure has introduced its first embedded secure element, a key product that it hopes will help it stay competitive with much larger rivals.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – A spokesman for four major Australian banks battling Apple for access to NFC technology on its iPhones shot back at Apple's latest filing with Australian competition officials, denying that the banks are trying to avoid paying fees to Apple to participate in the payments service, the spokesman told NFC Times.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – Switzerland-based payments software company Netcetera acquired longtime NFC technology supplier Nexperts of Austria to deliver a multich
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Two years after launch, Apple says Apple Pay users carried out hundreds of millions of transactions worth billions of dollars during the fourth quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook told financial analysts Thursday, although Apple still doesn't release actual transaction figures.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – The rollout of payments wearables is hitting a snag, with commercial and technical challenges holding back plans by industry players to enable consumers to buy wristbands, analog watches, rings and other wearables and then load them with their favorite debit and credit cards. (See table, challenge sections, below.)
NFC TIMES Exclusive – ČSOB, the Czech Republic's No. 2 bank, faced challenges in launching the country's first HCE-based wallet last year.
NFC Times Exclusive – The coming year will see the major networks continuing to dominate tokenization, even though at least a few more domestic payments schemes will begin tokenizing cards.
NFC Times Exclusive – At least six of Taiwan's largest card issuers are lined up to participate in Apple Pay when it launches on the island nation, expected before the end of the first quarter, NFC Times has learned.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Chip maker STMicroelectronics has been gearing up to make a play for the payments wearables market, an initiative punctuated by its announcement last week that it is working with Germany-based Giesecke & Devrient and payments wearables technology start-up FitPay to streamline provisioning of card credentials on its embedded chips.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Deutsche Telekom, one of the most important backers of SIM-based NFC through the years, now questions whether the technology could ever become a standard, as it quietly withdrew its little-used SIM-based NFC mobile wallet from the German market last week after more than two years.
NFC Times Exclusive – The rollout of digital payments, including services using NFC technology, are undoubtedly making progress, especially compared with just a few years ago.
NFC Times Exclusive – More Chinese OEMs have launched support for NFC transit ticketing, following earlier launches by Xiaomi and Huawei, NFC Times has learned, with at least five more device makers enabling service in one to two Chinese cities, or planning to do so.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight - All stations on Moscow's new commuter rail line, the Moscow Central Circle, or MCC, and some Moscow Metro stations linked with the new line, accept open-loop payments, including with Apple Pay, the Russian transit authority confirmed to NFC Times, adding that the authority is looking forward to accepting a range of other NFC-enabled wallets, including Samsung Pay.


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A specific shipping document required by the USDOT and the EPA for hazardous waste shipments. Also referred to as the Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest (UHWM). If all USDOT requirements [i.e., the basic description (proper shipping name, hazard class/division, ID No., and packing group) are entered on the UHWM, the manifest may be used as a shipping paper. (49 CFR § 172.205)


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I've admitted to all who read my blog that I'm no spring chicken. Still, memories of my pregnancies are still fresh. One of my favorites is confirming my first pregnancy.
At the time, home pregnancy tests were still a new phenomenon. I bought a double pack in case I needed to repeat the test, but I got the answer I was hoping for right away. When my husband came home, I showed him the test and you would have thought he'd invented the Internet, he was so proud. I was ecstatic — and proud, too, because my ovaries worked! I was busting to tell someone. I called my mother and then my best friend. I was on top of the world!
After those first few calls, we decided to hold the pregnancy announcement for the rest of our friends and family until after the first trimester. It didn't work that way, though. I looked so terrible that my secretary thought I was sick with some awful disease. I didn't want her to worry, so I confessed the truth. After that, the news in our small rural community spread faster than any Internet post. I didn't have to tell another person.
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Two new shows have been added to May's North American leg of the Dystopia World Tour. The band will headline a show at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA on May 2 and at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD on May 5. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 25 @ 10:00 a.m. megadeth.com/tour. Megadeth Cyber Army tickets pre-sale is on now at cyberarmy.megadeth.com.
We'd like to send a warm thanks to Canadian fans, Michelle and Michael Ritchie for their kind letter sent in after attending our show in Niagara Falls on March 15. We'd also like to wish Michael a very happy birthday. We always look forward to meeting fans out on the tour. For concert tickets and VIP meet & greet packages, check megadeth.com/tour.
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Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent was arrested on charges of intoxication manslaughter Saturday morning. Brent was involved in an accident that killed Cowboys practice-squad player Jerry Brown, according to Irving police.
MORE: Josh Brent arrested after crash kills teammate Jerry Brown
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Brent and Brown were teammates at Illinois from 2007-09.
Upon hearing the news of Brown's death, the football community expressed their sympathy and condolences on Twitter.
Texans linebacker Whitney Mercilus, a teammate of Brown's in college at Illinois, tweeted:
"R.I.P to the big homie Jerry Brown sad that he's gone before his time."
Arrelious Benn, wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and teammate of Brown's at Illinois, tweeted:
"Prayers go out to the family of my former classmate, teammate Former Illini Jerry Brown RIP #illini"
Chiefs offensive lineman Jeff Allen, a college teammate of Brown, tweeted:
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Current Illinois football coach Tim Beckman tweeted:
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Tony Khan, Jaguars Senior VP, son of owner Shahid Khan and Illinois grad, tweeted:
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Colts cornerback Teddy Williams, who played with Brown in Dallas, tweeted:
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Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Zach Potter tweeted:
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Takeo Spikes of the Chargers tweeted:
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Saturday, July 13: 9:30am - 11am
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Learn how to properly care for your precious family documents, photographs, and other items. This workshop will teach proper methods for storage and display as well as suggestions for appropriate supplies to use in home archives to ensure that your family records last for generations to come. Also, you will hear a little about the archival profession in general.
This workshop is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP to save a seat by sending an email to Kris Jarosik or call 773-948-9010.
If you can't make it to the NARA workshop, here're some other suggestions:
Sagraves, Barbara. A Preservation Guide: Saving the Past and the Present for the Future. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1995. Call Number: Local History Ref Z701 .S24 1995
Taylor, Maureen Alice. Preserving Your Family Photographs: How to Organize, Present, and Restore Your Precious Family Images. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2001. Call Number: Local History Ref TR465 .T35 2001
The Newberry often gets queries regarding conservation and preservation matters. The Conservation Department answers some of the most frequently asked questions.