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Uncorked: First Taste
In this first episode, we discover what wine is by meeting the people who make it, write about it, cook with it and of course - drink it. We learn how wine happens by talking with winemakers and grape growers. We'll meet Lettie Teague, executive wine editor for Food & Wine Magazine and her good friend Peter Travers, film critic for Rolling Stone Magazine. Lettie is the author of "Educating Peter" (releases April 2007), a humorous account of how Lettie educated the "most wine ignorant man she knew" (aka Peter Travers) about wine. We'll learn how the four senses we use to taste wine and compare tasting notes on the ten top grape varieties used in wine making. We'll also define some important wine terminology and explore the world's most well-known wine producing regions.
Uncorked: Napa Valley
Napa is the premier wine-producing region of the United States and while great wine is produced in other parts of California, Napa Valley boasts an extraordinary list of famous wineries and wine makers. In this episode, we learn what makes Cabernet Sauvignon the undisputed king of Napa Valley. We visit a winery built with Hapsburg era stones imported from Austria, and the American Center for Food & Wine; and adult Disney World of wine and food. We also recreate the famous Paris Tasting of 1976. This sleepy little event pits France's best wines against American wines in a blind tasting at the storied Intercontinental Hotel in Paris, France. What started out as a decidedly unserious Bicentennial promotional ended up launching California billion dollar wine industry.
Uncorked: Sonoma
Heading north over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge we head up the coast to Sonoma. We learn how an eccentric Hungarian immigrant helped launch fine wine production in California. We meet Merry Edwards, one of California's first women wine makers who has a passion for the finicky pinot noir grape - in fact - she's the self-appointed queen of pinot. We find out why Pinot Noir grapes are making headlines and why this delicate grape is difficult to grow. We also learn about new vineyard growing practices like biodynamics and the process used to make sparkling wine.
Uncorked: Central Coast
In this episode we explore the quintessential Zinfandel country of Paso Robles and the clean fruit-driven Chardonnays of Edna Valley. We'll meet the Haas family of California who partnered with the Chateauneuf du Pape producing Perrin family to bring Rhone Valley styles wine to California's central coast. We'll also meet attend a classic car rally run by a mechanic turned winemaker to find out what happens when your passion for wine competes for your day job. We'll attend the 14th annual Hospice du Rhone event, the largest celebration of Rhone wines in the world, and visit the Central Coast's Edna Valley where the cool climate and marine sediment in the soil has earned the region's winemakers a reputation for producing outstanding chardonnays in the classic Burgundy style.
Uncorked: France, Part One
For most Americans, the wines of France are shrouded in mystery. But ask consumers where the best wine comes from and the answer is as clear as the glass in their hand. In this episode we head into the heart of the vineyard and the mind of the winemaker to learn about France's most famous export. We'll uncover centuries of winemaking traditions and find out how the wines of France are made and sold. We'll learn how soil, climate and location influence the way wine tastes. The French call this concept of place "terroir" - and it's key to understanding the wines of France. We also find out how French wines are made and categorized, which grape varieties are used, and France's most important winemaking regions.
Uncorked: France, Part Two
In this episode we travel to four of Frances most important wine producing regions. Our first stop is the Loire Valley where we visit centuries' old chateaux to find out why Sancerre wines made from the Sauvignon Blanc grape are so exceptional. We head east to Burgundy where the region's dramatic past is as well known as its red wine. But we'll also taste Burgundy's whites from the vineyards of Puligny-Montrachet. We'll explore the landscape of Van Gogh in Southern France; meet winemakers in France's legendary Chateanuef du Pape region and talk with a new breed of French winemakers who look to the New World for inspiration.


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Former 'American Idol' contestant Adam Lambert might come across like a strutting, seasoned performer onstage, but in a new interview he admits that even with all of his bravado, he was nervous when he was approached to perform in Freddie Mercury's place with the legendary British rock group Queen.
Lambert tells Classic Rock magazine that he understood why some fans were skeptical before he even took the stage. "I mean, it's Freddie Mercury!" he exclaims. "You don't want to f— with that. When I got the offer I immediately said yes, and then I hung up the phone and thought, 'Oh my gosh, how the f— am I going to do this? This is a big deal.'"
The singer says he was intimidated not only by the sheer scope of Queen's catalog — part of which was unfamiliar to him — but by the generation gap separating him from Brian May and Roger Taylor. But as they rehearsed and got to know each other better, he started to find his way both musically and socially. "They both said, 'You and Freddie would have giggled together,' Lambert recalls. "'He would have gotten a kick out of you.' Then I felt accepted."
Even so, Lambert says that his first live gig with the band was still intimidating. "The first show we did was to 250,000 in the Ukraine. I'm not going to lie, I was deeply nervous for the first half of that show," he admits. "After the gig I felt a weight lift."
In fact, Lambert enjoyed the experience so much that he would like to do more work with Queen, though he emphasizes that it would have to be balanced with his solo career: "I would definitely be open to it."

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The influence of sustainable agricultural systems is evident at Agritechnica 2011, with two buildings filled with companies devoted to alternative energy solutions for the farm — from biogas to solar to wind, and everything in between.
Germany is a leader in the development of on-farm biogas systems, and the many companies here are touting their systems in high-tech displays. These are not just systems for livestock producers. European farmers are banding together to develop these systems for energy generation for their farms and to sell back to the grid. For instance, on a bus ride this morning, a corn farmer explained how he was developing a biogas system with six neighboring farms.
Sustainable agriculture is also reaching the companies. Steyr, an Austrian tractor manufacturer, is displaying a prototype tractor that can run on biogas produced on the farm. And New Holland is using its hydrogen tractor prototype on a test farm where all the energy is produced right on the farm.
The driving factor in Europe for these systems is the cost of energy. But producers in the U.S. may want to keep an eye on these exciting developments.


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"Managed BS2000 is exactly the solution we need. The system delivers the flexibility and reliability required for standardized tax processing, and it ensures that our data center operations are very efficient."
Günter Kettermann Director of Data Center Production, Koblenz Regional Finance Office
OFD Koblenz was established in 1950 and comprises three departments: the income tax and transfer tax department, the central state payroll department, and the federal buildings department. OFD also supervises the 26 local tax administration offices located throughout Rhineland-Palatinate. A total of 7,900 people are employed in this regional organization to provide citizens and government with efficient services and support in matters related to taxation and revenue.
"Evolutionary-Oriented Taxation Software" (EOSS) is the approach taken by all states in Germany to standardize their processes and procedures as part of the KONSENS (Coordinated New Software Development for Tax Administration) project. EOSS is being introduced as part of the KONSENS Stage I in each state, which means that the old mainframe applications running on the BS2000/OSD platform will gradually need to be replaced.
To make sure that this large-scale transformation runs smoothly, the system platform must have sufficient performance reserves. The target set by OFD Koblenz was that the platform responds to the enormous increase in processing demands for a minimum of four years. Before embarking on this project, the experts at OFD Koblenz thoroughly analyzed their system. It was evident that performance limits would be reached within 24 months at the latest.
Managed BS2000 from Fujitsu was the ideal choice for OFD Koblenz because the system efficiently responds to steadily growing performance requirements: The core of the solution involved installing a newer generation BS2000/OSD Business Server S175. This was accomplished without any need for up-front investments from OFD Koblenz. Instead, the costs for hardware and software will be charged on a "pay as you go" usage-based model during the contract period. The arrangement also includes proactive and reactive services from Fujitsu that will guarantee high system availability. The advantages of this approach are obvious: By generating taxation processes, increasing demands for more performance can be met without straining the IT budget, and all tasks will still be completed with the usual high level of quality.
The taxation authorities in Germany are heading toward the use of standardized administration software. The ultimate goal of their cooperative project is to launch automated processes based on KONSENS throughout the country, which will help reduce development and maintenance costs. The important milestone, KONSENS I, involves the harmonization of the mainframe-based taxation processes. The platform that runs these processes is BS2000/OSD from Fujitsu, a system known for its long-term compatibility, high flexibility and availability, plus outstanding scalability and robustness – not to mention automation and easy administration – which all lead to higher efficiency in administrative environments.
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A specially designed field chamber has proved to be a good tool when used together with a computer model to evaluate how effectively riparian buffers filter out pollutants before they can reach streams or other bodies of water.
That is the finding from a series of systematic studies of a riparian grass buffer zone by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Henry A. Wallace Beltsville (Md.) Agricultural Research Center (BARC).
After success with a prototype chamber in the laboratory, BARC soil scientists Jim Starr, Ali Sadeghi and Yakov Pachepsky installed a field version of the chamber in a tall fescue grass buffer near a forested stream and wetland area. The chamber has no top or bottom and encases the four sides of a 3-by-3-foot block of soil down to 4 feet.
The scientists injected water with dissolved nitrate into one side of the soil chamber. Then, as water flowed horizontally and out the other side, they monitored rates of lateral water flow and loss of nitrate due to its breakdown by soil microbes.
Riparian buffers are wooded or grassy streambanks or wetlands that filter out pollutants such as nitrate from fertilizer and other chemicals, as well as sediment. The slow movement of nitrate through highly organic riparian areas provides ideal conditions for soil microbes to break down or transform the nitrate into safer compounds.
The scientists used the two-dimensional computer model "HYDRUS-2D" to simulate water flow and transport of chemicals within the riparian zone soil. Overall, the model-chamber combination provided good results.
The experimental chamber is essential for the accurate use of the growing number of computer models being developed to assess the effectiveness of riparian buffers. Once a model gets this information for a particular location, it can predict nitrate loss rates.
A paper on this study will appear in the November-December issue of the Soil Science Society of America Journal.
ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief in-house scientific research agency.


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Lately been seriously contemplating about (finally) starting DI. Oh boy, I'm expecting several sleepless nights considering the supposed length (which is something I'll soon be able to afford, thus the contemplation). Can anyone give me a brief explanation on the different incarnations of the games and a recommendation on where I should start?
Also, what's the connection between DI and the rest of the title in the thread's title?
|2013-05-20, 18:30
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If you want eroge, play Acta est Fabula. Only difference is, some of Marie's after story and the Three Colors route is present only in AA.
KKK continues after Marie's route end. Para Lost is set before the world of Dies
|2013-05-20, 18:49
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|2013-05-20, 21:26
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Speaking of voice acting, though Junichi is on another level, but
He will not lose.
Notice the barrage of comments, when Suigin enters the fray.
Edit: Suigin Killed It!
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|2013-05-21, 00:43
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Route order should be :
Kasumi --> Kei --> Marie ---> Rea
-Marie's is unlocked after finishing both Kasumi and Kei
-Rea's unlocked after finishing Marie's route
-Essentially, it boils down whether you play Kasumi or Kei first, I know Kasumi's route is quite...boring(for a lack of better word). But it's pretty useful if you start out from beginning to know some of characters motivation and background (especially Valeria). I got confused a bit long time ago when I played DI for the 1st time because I touched Kei's route first.
As of other games,
Paradise Lost is set before the world of Dies, however it's almost not mentioned at all anyway so you can play that any time if you want (I'd recommend skipping it for now).
Kajiri Kamui Kagura / KKK, is set as continuation of Marie's After Story. It's a what-if story, so you can treat it as a path split. However I recommend you to finish Dies first (including Rea's route) because it will give you more info and background for later in KKK.
Another optional thing is probably the Three Colors Route, this is a new route added into Amantes Amentes and a split from Rea's route just before the final battle. There is only a slight differences, however, there are some references from KKK thrown in here because the route is written after KKK (Amantes Amentes was released after KKK). I don't think it's a big deal whether you play it before or after KKK, but I suggest you finish Rea's route first before touching this one.
Oh and if you ever gonna play KKK, there is a CS version out there released for Vita and PC port coming out in late June. I recommend you waiting a little bit before playing KKK since that one has more content and more complete ending.
|2013-05-21, 06:31
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|2013-05-21, 07:06
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A bit sad Toriumi Kousuke doesn't have many memorable roles in other medium like Anime.
Though, Bey is still the best.
And I can't believe nobody mentioned this guy
|2013-05-21, 07:38
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|2013-05-21, 12:28
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Not yet, I don't have a Vita >_>
There are supposed to be :
1. 2 new chapters before going into Edo Expedition (choosing either one)
2. A new chapter in the middle part of the story (this is where Kemono-dono appear for a bit).
3. An extra depicting Dies cast from 300 years ago (shown in their real form)
4. The epilogue where they attend someone's wedding in modern world (yes, they appear in modern clothes)
5. Of course new CGs
|2013-05-21, 12:35
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|2013-05-21, 13:17
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If I remember correctly. Whoever voiced Father Valeria is the same person who did Orange and Seshoumaru.....
|2013-05-21, 13:28
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I have not, but really...that is the only notable role out there >_>
The rest mostly are standard typecasted role from what I know. I haven't watched Togainu no Chi and Towa no Kuon, so I will reserve a judgement for those two. Oh and I do think he's doing decently as Girge in Break Blade.
And yes, Narita Ken is the VA for Valeria.
|2013-05-21, 16:19
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Right, so as a total newb to this stuff, I'd like to ask a question regarding Dies Irae.
From what I can tell based on this topic and other places, it seems like Amantes amantes is the most complete version, but without H scenes. I suppose that's not too big of a problem. But I want to make sure - so basically, is the previous version (Acta est Fabula?) basically not worth reading at this point, and should I just go for AA?
Cheers, and apologies if I asked something that's already been answered elsewhere.
|2013-05-21, 17:02
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For details:
To sum it up:
-Removal of H-scene or modified into another scene
-Some BGM being replaced with the others
-New route, Three Colors Route (include New CG and New BGM), this is a route split from Rea's route.
-Adding Drama CD into Extra Stories section (remade into a Visual Novel instead of sound only)
-Epilogue/After Story for Marie's route and Rea's route
-Modification to some radical words (nothing big)
-Changing Rusalka's chant in Rea's route into the discarded version from Acta est Fabula.
-A little modification to the battle with Rusalka in Kasumi's route.
-New OP & ED
The bolded ones are those that should be essential
If you are somewhere in the middle of reading Acta est Fabula, you can just finish it completely first and go touch the AA for those bolded ones (use clear save data if you don't want to bother unlocking Rea's route again).
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Ann Charles is a technical software writer-editor by day and award-winning mystery novelist by night. Her books are filled with mayhem, fun, romance and humor. When not writing fiction she's busy working on articles about the craft of writing at her blog site.
Ann, tell us about Dance of the Winnebagos that you wrote with C.S. Kunkle.
I'm actually the sole author of all of my fiction books. C.S. Kunkle is my illustrator (and my older brother). Dance of the Winnebagos is the story of Claire Morgan … When Claire's grandfather and his Army buddies converge in the Arizona desert to find new wives, it's her thankless job to keep them out of trouble with the opposite sex. But when she finds a human leg bone and partners with a reluctant geotechnician to dig up secrets from the past, trouble finds her. If she doesn't stop digging, she could end up dead.
How did your Jackrabbit Mystery series come about?
Once upon a time, I was playing hangman at work with one of my coworkers. It was her turn to come up with a word, and she added a lot of spaces on the white board. After I landed two consonants and a vowel, the board looked like this:
I was feeling pretty ambitious that day. I took one look at this puzzle and yelled, "The Dance of the Winnebagos!" (I know, the letters don't match up—I've never done well in spelling bees.)My coworker laughed and hung my poor stick man—the actual answer was The Hound of the Baskervilles. She then wondered what in the heck The Dance of the Winnebagos was.
I said, "I don't know, but it would make a great book title, don't you think?"
This game of hangman kick-started my brain. A weekend of plot storming with my critique group fleshed out the story even more. Before I knew it, I had a fun cast, an intriguing mystery, and a book that practically wrote itself. This book landed me my agent, who asked me when I'd have book 2 in the series finished. I hadn't planned on a second book, but saw where I could tweak the story just a little and make it into a fun series, so I did. And that was all she wrote—well, not really, since I am still writing this series.How has the ebook revolution affected your book sales?
I've sold over 17,000 ebooks this year, my first year of publication. In comparison, I've sold around 1,000 printed books. The ebook revolution has served me well, and I personally love reading ebooks on my e-reader. As the co-owner of Corvallis Press, I can also say that ebooks are much easier to publish, sell, and track.Do you have a day job and what's your writing schedule like? Also, do you outline?
I am a technical writer by day and a fiction writer by night. Both are full-time jobs and keep me hopping—but not as much as my two young kids. My schedule is crazy, and I carve out moments to write and promote whenever I can, which is mostly at night after my family goes to bed because I am soooo not a morning person.I am more of a right-brained, write-by-the-seat-of-my-pants author (aka a "pantser"), so my outline is very high level. I rarely stick to it. I like to write a scene and learn what comes next as it fills the pages. It makes the story more fun to build and share.
What are the best and worst parts of writing for you?
Let's start with the bad stuff. The worst part is just the constant struggle to find time to write, not to mention do all of the promotion and marketing needed to find new readers. It's not a marathon—it's more like a triathlon. Some days, I just want to hide under the covers.
As for the best part, it's the peers, the friends, and the fans. I love meeting new people (even if it's just online) and building new relationships.
Advice to fledgling mystery writers?
Treat everything as an experiment, which allows you to use failure as a learning device. Be patient and persevere. Remember, this is not a get-rich-quick business. The writing is just a piece of the whole endeavor—an important piece, mind you, but you will need to learn about all aspects of the business like any other entrepreneur.
Who most influenced your own work?
The list is long, but to name a few of the authors: Stephen King, Rachel Gibson, Dean Koontz, Janet Evanovich, and Jane Austen. I also am greatly influenced by movies, which I use to learn more about elements like dialogue and pacing.In the event of a fire, which three inanimate objects would you save?
My husband has trained me to grab the hard drive that has all of our family pictures on it, so that's the first thing. Next, I'd probably save the printed photos of old. Third, I'd take my laptop to save me a big headache later.Thanks, Ann.
You can learn more about Ann at her website: http://www.anncharles.com/
Her blog sites: www.1stturningpoint.com
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Fisherhaven, Onrus, Vermont, Northcliff - Hermanus, Sandbaai, Westcliff - Hermanus, Hermanus Heights, Eastcliff, Fernkloof Estate, Voelklip, Hemel En Aarde Estate
Fernkloof Nature Reserve was fabulous for both flora and fauna.
The seafront is lovely with nice shops, market stalls and great restaurants.
Walking around in Hermanus.
Walks along the coastal paths.
Beautiful town and great people.
The sightseeing.
The City, the beach, the whales.
All around the world Hermanus is known as the best land based whale watching destination in the world.Hundreds flock here for whale watching and, of course, the whale festival that takes place every year to celebrate the returning of the Southern Right Whale to the area. Situated between the ocean and the magnificent overberg mountains, Hermanus is the perfect place for rest and relaxation.
The town of Hermanus was founded in 1820 by Hermanus Pieters and was originally called Hermanuspietersfontein. The name was then later changed to Hermanus in 1902 by the Postmaster as it was too long. Over the years the small fishing village has become one of the most popular places around. Hermanus has a rail way station, but no trains or tracks. Plans were being made to build a railway extending from Botriver, when Sir William Hoy decided that there would be no trains as the steam would pollute the fresh air.
Lying on the coastline with it's beautiful scenery, it is one of those places you just need to see for yourself.
The coastal town offers a wide range of activities for couples, friends and families to enjoy. Just a few of the activities you can enjoy include Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking, Scuba diving, Treetop zipline slides, Paintball, Horse riding, Shopping and so much more.
Whale watching is one of the most popular activities to do whilst visiting Hermanus. There are a few ways to do this which includes, boat tours, aerial tours and land based viewing.Shark Cage Diving is also a popular activity and is available all year round for the whole family.
You can also enjoy the Hermanus Wine Route which runs from Benguela Cove all the way down to the village, where you can enjoy your tasting while taking in the beautiful scenery.
If you would like to see all the history Hermanus has to offer, there are a number of Museums you can visit.
There a a wide range of beaches in the hermanus area to visit which include Grotto Beach, Breakfast Bay, Sandbaai Beach, Onrus beach, Langbaai, Kammabaai and Voelklip Beach.
Hermanus is know for it's delicious seafood, which is indulged in while taking in the glorious views the coastal town offers. For those you are not so keen on the oceans fresh offerings there is a selection of restaurants to choose from to apease your palate.
Fisherman's Cottage is the place to go for a little history and a wide selection of delicious fresh seafood. The building dates back to 1890 and forms part of the old harbour museum located in the fishermans village.
If you are looking for a great family restaurant that serves Italian food, then Rossi's Italian Restaurant is the place to be. Established in 1985, Rossi's has a great atmosphere and a view of the overberg mountains.
For some home made breakfast and good coffee, pop into Anya's Mum Cafe. Their menu is changed on a daily basis and they have great garden, where you can sit and relax to escape the crowds.
Just Pure Bistro offers you a memorable experience with views that overlook the bay. They use only the freshest ingredients for all their delicious meals.
Looking for some good sushi. Harbour Rock Restaurant is situated on the cliff overlooking hermanus. During the winter they partner up with Gecko and offer you a discount on Fridays known as "Sushi Fridays".
Want the best steak in Hermanus, then you have to visit B's Steakhouse to get their famous char grilled steak and signature ultimate onion!
The Blue Roof Pub & Restaurant is located in Fisherhaven, just outside of Hermanus. They have live music on a regular basis and have a R40 pub grub menu, which means all their dishes offered on the bar menu is R40. You can unwind with some music and a good view, overlooking the Bot River.
Situated at the original market square in Hermanus, Tapas Food & Wine Bar offers you a wide range of local and international cuisine. They also have a wide selection of award winning wine that you can taste by the glass.
Whether you're visiting Hermanus for a few days or weeks, with family and friend, or just with a partner, you'll be sure to find the accommodation to suit your needs!
Hotels: If you are just looking for a place to sleep, then Hermanus offers a wide range of high standard hotels.
Guest Houses & Bed & Breakfasts: There is big selection of luxury and affordable guest houses and bed & breakfasts to choose from in Hermanus.
Self Catering & Apartments: If you are coming in a group or as a family, it would be best to choose an one of many self catering and apartments in Hermanus.
Backpackers: If you are just traveling through hermanus, why not stay at one of the backpacker establishments.
Camping & Caravan Parks: Want to be outside in the fresh hermanus air then one of the caravan/camping sites is for you.
Farm Stays: Hermanus also offers you the opportunity to stay on one of it's beautiful farms.
When traveling to Hermanus by car from Cape Town, there are two routes you could take. The quickest is to take the N2 over Sir Lowry's Pass, but if you are looking for a more scenic route then take the drive along the mountain-side by travelling along Clarens Drive.
Air: There is no airport in Hermanus itself. The closest airport is Cape Town International Airport, which is 90 km from Hermanus.
Car Rental: A popular way for getting around Hermanus is by renting a car. There are a number of car rental agencies around the town, or you can organise one at Cape Town International Airport.
Taxis/Shuttle Services: One of the best ways to get around Hermanus is to take one of the many taxis and Shuttle services available. This option is best for tourists or large groups as it pick you up and drops you exactly where you want to be.Did you know?Hermanus was originally called Hermanuspietersfontein
It is famous for Southern Right Whale watching during the Southern Hemisphere's winter and spring.
Hermanus hosts an annual whale festival to celebrate the returning of the Southern Right Whales to the area for mating season.
Grotto Beach is the largest beach in Hermanus and been proclaimed a Blue Flag beach.
Hermanus has a warm summer Mediterranean climate and temperatures range from 25 °C in February to 16 °C in July but higher temperatures are not uncommon.
The town has one of the richest and highest plant diversity levels in the world.
Hermanus has one of the world's only Whale Criers. He alerts people of whale sighting by blowing his kelp horn.
There is a train station in Hermanus, but no trains or railway lines.
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Massachusetts recorded its lowest high school dropout rate in decades last school year amid substantial declines in such cities as Boston, Lawrence, and Springfield, state education officials announced Monday.
Just 6,248 students statewide (2.2 percent) quit high school in the 2012-13 school year, marking the fifth consecutive year that the rate has gone down.
Education officials chalked up much of the decline to a statewide initiative called MassGrad, which pairs at-risk students with "graduation coaches," internships, or other support services. A $15 million five-year federal grant, awarded in November 2010, is paying for the initiative.
Mitchell Chester, the state commissioner of elementary and secondary education, also credited the hard work of local districts for the decline.
"To see this kind of progress is tremendously encouraging and a tribute to the work of our school districts . . . to embrace every child and address the need of every child," Chester said.
Less than a decade ago, the state was grappling with a vastly different situation when students were quitting school at increasingly higher rates. That trend sounded alarms in the Legislature, which debated several bills to raise the legal dropout age from 16 to 17 or 18. Although the bills went nowhere, the issue continues to percolate on Beacon Hill.
Boston has seen its dropout rate decline almost steadily since the height of the crisis in the 2005-06 school year, when 9.9 percent of students quit school. Last year, 5.9 percent of students quit school, representing 969 students out of 16,293, according to state data.
About eight years ago, the school system and some nonprofits launched a concerted effort to keep youths in school. A signature initiative was the opening of a "re-engagement center," a specialized program for students who had previously quit school.
Boston's school system also expanded summer school programs, offered more opportunities for students to make up courses online, and enhanced some common-sense approaches, such as being more diligent about monitoring student attendance and class work.
"We never expected that Boston could get dropout count below 1,000 so quickly," said Neil Sullivan, executive director of the Boston Private Industry Council, a nonprofit that offers summer job and learning opportunities for at-risk students. "I'm breathless."
Boston school officials, who for years have disputed the state's methodology for determining dropout rates, said Monday that the district's analysis shows an even rosier view. That analysis indicates that only 4.5 percent, or 828 students, quit school last year, down from 6.4 percent the previous year. It is the lowest rate the school system has recorded under its methodology since it began tracking data in 1977.
"Given the major decline, we are very proud," said Kamal Chavda, Boston's assistant superintendent for data and accountability.
Danny Melo, 17, a senior at Burke High School in Dorchester, benefited from one of the summer programs, which enabled him to take classes and secure a job at a community center after his sophomore year. The experience, he said, taught him the importance of doing well in school and going to college. He went from getting bad grades to mostly A's and B's, he said.
"It motivated me," said Melo, who stressed that he never was going to drop out. "I knew the work was easy. All I had to do was put my mind to it."
Other cities also saw big declines, the state reported. Lawrence's dropout rate has consistently fallen from 14.8 percent in the 2006-07 school year to 5.8 percent last year.
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What is truly shameful is that Miura has his name attached to this travesty. He was a script supervisor (if i recall correctly) on the 97 anime, and that came out pretty good. He distanced himself from the movies, and those were unwatchable. So why is he involved this time? He's even promoting it. His role is most likely very small, but if he's attached, i bet he at least saw some form of a script(s). That makes his complicity very disappointing.
He should've just Alan Moore'd all over this garbage.
Let's be real here, his name is attached no matter what he does. He's the author. And he's hardly promoting it beyond his "please enjoy the anime" comment in this week's Young Animal, which is about as standard and non-committal as you can get in Japan.Anyway, if we want to hope beyond reason, I was talking to Gobolatula earlier about what to expect for the next episodes and told him that maybe Miura saw what they had early on in the production and decided to get involved to salvage the mess. Obviously what was already done couldn't be changed, but maybe the later parts will be less terrible as a result.For better or worse, that's just not his personality.
I think we can actually blame Miura. In the end he decides if something like that exists or not and I dont believe he is not aware of it at all. Even if not, that's a bad thing too, what kind of an artist doesn't follow adaptations to his original work? I can understand the game, maybe he likes Musou genre and thinks it fits Berserk. But to allow this anime to exist - I dont understand what he was thinking.
PS: V for Vendetta and Watchmen are good films.
Aazealh, what do you think Miuras opinion of this anime is? Do you think he enjoys it for what it is or do you feel he probably rejects it, but keeps it to himself?
I feel like they're depicting Kenshiro (from Hokuto no Ken) instead of Guts. In Japanese, there's a word pronounced "fukashi". It's typically used for a man who does everything in an overly dramatic fashion, which is not how Guts is at all.
The animation looks different. I don't like it.Everything looks like it's been scribbled on.Ooh, those trees! I can't wait for Christmas!
From a die-hard fan perspective, having nothing would have been better than having this
It's even worse after a second viewing, I only made it halfway through this time. At least people who read the manga after watching this are in for a treat! And hopefully they do...
I try not to think about it, but occasionally that very thought consumes my mind and I feel like crying blood. (I've already had day dream scenarios where I arrange a bombing of their studios and shit like that, gets me through the day )
And chances are, if someone loved this first episode, when they decide to read the manga they're gonna be disappointed
I can't bring myself to blame Miura so much as feel bad for him. As Aaz pointed out, we don't know how big the machine is, or how much control he really has over it. It's easy to think he could have taken better offers, but there's business interests to consider and those better quality offers may not have existed at all,
The shame of it is that all Berserk really needs is an unremarkable, straightforward adaptation, like Dragon Ball fucking Z minus the stalling filler.
Which the '97 anime largely was save for a few shortcuts probably based mostly on time and budget constraints. It's sad that it appears such a small, unremarkable adaptation is the best we'll ever get because everything since has just been remarkably bad, and seemingly getting worse.
I hope the "Miura intervenes theory" comes to pass, but I'm sure not expecting it.
To bring it back around, if Miura did have some part in making this bed, now he's lying in it.
Many anime adaptations of manga are in varying degrees unfaithful to their original source. But there are some that are very close to the manga source. Mushishi immediately comes to mind as one extremely faithful anime adaptation that is panel-by-panel accurate. And it wasn't just because that particular manga series had the luck of finding a good animation studio, and knowledgeable producers and directors who "got" the story. But it was also because the author of Mushishi, Yuki Urushibara, refused to compromise her manga's integrity, even if it meant losing out on some quick short term profits by not allowing some mediocre anime company do a standard shoddy 13 episode anime series that would only cover some parts of first few tankobon. Going back to Berserk Project, if there was anything on part of Miura that is to blame, I believe it boils down to this - his personality. Miura's humble, affable personality might have been one of the crucial yet overlooked factors that allowed this abortion of a movie trilogy and 2016 anime series to even come to life in the first place. At a time when firm assertiveness and even harshness was needed, Miura's amiable nature is probably what kept him from putting his foot down and forcing the animation studios to do right by his manga. He could have gave them an ultimatum - either do his story accurately or don't do it at all. When this Berserk Project was still in its infancy, that would have been the right time to intervene and prevent the anime studios from fucking it up. Those anime executives saw that Miura was a genial mild-mannered man, sensed his weakness, and they took advantage of him. They just rolled over him, free to do with Berserk anime however they pleased. There are some mangaka out there that are willing to play hardball and have hands-on involvement in order to ensure that their manga get a decent anime adaptation. There are even a few, such as Osamu Tezuka and Katsuhiro Otomo, who've went the whole nine yards and wrote screenplays and directed the anime adaptations of their own manga. Unfortunately, this isn't the case here with Miura


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That means his team can put Saturday afternoon's 70-48 loss to the North Florida Ospreys at Allen Arena behind them quickly, sort of like tearing a bandage off of a cut.
"We let a lot of opportunities slip away from us," Bennett said. "We let them frustrate us and get us out of our game. We can let that frustration carry over.
"We have to recognize areas we can improve on. We have to put the bad stuff behind us. We have to regroup quickly and get ready to face Jacksonville Monday. That is a big game for us."
Trailing 34-22 at the half, the Lady Bisons made a couple of challenges in the second half, but could never get into contention in the final 20 minutes. They trailed by 24 on three different occasions.
"The start of the second half really killed us," Bennett said. "We were down 12 and gave up a transition layup to a post player and a wide-open three to a good 3-point shooter. In a couple of minutes we were down by 18."
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Trailing 59-35 with 7:09 left in the game, the Lady Bisons made a run, trimming the North Florida lead to 15, 62-47, with freshman forward Morgan Faulkner, sophomore forward Chelsea Burroughs, sophomore center Clair Waggener and junior forward Valerie Bronson sparking the comeback.
"That group did some good things," Bennett said. "They were a play or two from getting us back into the game. Chelsea Burroughs really gave us some energy late in the game."
The Lady Bisons fell to 4-20 overall, 2-12 in the Atlantic Sun. They are 1 1/2 games out of eighth place in the conference. This is the fifth straight season the Lady Bisons have lost 20 games.
"Nobody likes to lose," Bennett said. "Everybody is a competitor."
Freshman center Chelsea McMeans led the Lady Bisons with nine points. Sophomore center Brittany Duerk led the Lady Bisons in rebounding with six.
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I learned long ago not to predict the death of anything. Especially not advertising. Something like advertising will only actually die in about 10100 years with the final heat death of the universe when everything reaches a state of maximal entropy and can no longer sustain processes that consume energy, such as computation, life or differentiating parity products. That's when it will finally die. So, good news for WPP shareholders there. Minimal impact expected on Q3 income.
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The first is this quote from Tina Brown, interviewed after shutting down Newsweek – one of the massive US weeklies that used to dominate the newsstands: "There's something about the way a magazine looks and feels when it doesn't have advertising that is unbelievably disappointing, both as an editor and as a writer. Pages are not meant to be adjacent to one another. They need the advertising to give it body and fullness. There was always that sense of Newsweek being not the full-bodied thing that it ought to be."
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Interesting, isn't it? These are people who have spent their professional lives depending on advertising for their livelihoods. And, if we're lucky, they'll miss it because it really fills out the magazine with, just, well, something; they'll miss it as a sort of conceptual packing material. But, actually, most of the time, it actively makes the product worse. Now, there has never been love between advertising and editorial, and you can't blame them for bad-mouthing something that's running away from their publications, but those aren't the words of valued partners, are they? Ah well, never mind. Just remember advertising's not dying. There are another 10100 years to go. Order another flat white.


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A Texas father and son are going viral on Twitter because of the moving shout out the young man shared about his father's role in his life.
On Sunday, Charles Brockman III shared a side-by-side photo of himself and his father walking to school on his first day of kindergarten and last week on move-in day for his freshman year of college at Mississippi State.
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Ok, now with that out of the way, I've got some good news: Maverick works great on my AO. Installation was fast and painless (it only took around 20 min., I think), and booting is super-quick (something like 15 seconds to a working desktop in my experience). Wireless works out-of-the-box, as does the wifi activity light :O. Unfortunately, the SD card slots are still b0rked. To get them working, we can use the same fix from my previous AO/Ubuntu post:
Open up a terminal and type:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/optionsThen paste in:
options sdhci debug_quirks=1Reboot and you should be all set.
I also ran into a problem trying to create shared directories using samba. The system automatically installs the samba packages just fine, but when I try to actually make a share, it fails with the error "Failed to execute child process "testparm" (No such file or directory)." If this problem affects you, too, hop back into your terminal and type:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/testparm.samba3 /usr/bin/testparm ; sudo ln -s /usr/bin/net.samba3 /usr/bin/netThis should get you all fixed up. You don't even need to reboot again.
Some other things to note about this new release:
1. Virtualbox no longer needs Guest Additions installed to utilize mouse pointer integration.
2. The new unity netbook interface sucks. I think the idea of putting the launcher bar on the left is great, and I like the look of it, but I could never track down where they had the gnome-terminal hidden, and it wouldn't show up when I searched for it in their application search applet. Also, hitting Alt+F2 wouldn't bring up the execution prompt, so after a few minutes of frustration, I uninstalled it and went back to the standard interface.
I'm happy to see the improvements they've made in this new release and I look forward to seeing what else comes in before the upcoming feature freeze. If you run into any other problems with this release, drop me a comment and I'll help however I can. Also, keep an eye on my PPA for packages of bsnes v1.0, which should be optimized enough for use on your AspireOne netbook.


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Apparently xenophobia is at least part of the reason for a recently-announced budget cut to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy. Science Insider reports:
Frustrated that White House officials have ignored congressional language curtailing scientific collaborations with China, legislators have decided to get their attention through a 32% cut in the tiny budget of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) . . . A 2012 spending bill expected to be approved later this week slashes OSTP's current $6.6 million budget to $4.5 million . . . The implicit reason for the budget cut is an ongoing battle between House of Representatives Republicans and the White House over the threat to U.S. interests posed by collaborations with China in high-tech sectors such as space, energy, computing, and advanced manufacturing . . .
Alan Leshner, CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Insider) outlined the negative impact of a shrunken OSTP. "We believe such a drastic reduction to OSTP's budget will dramatically inhibit the ability of the federal government to coordinate, prioritize and manage the federal research and development (R&D) effort," Leshner wrote. "This kind of reduction would also seriously limit the ability to take appropriate account of science and technology considerations in the formulation of diverse policies."
So let me get this straight. During a time when basic science is crucial not just to our future, but to the world's future, a group whose goal is to foster scientific partnerships is spanked for . . . creating scientific partnerships between two of the world's most impressive science powerhouses?
Honestly this doesn't make sense from any perspective. It's bad for science, of course. But it doesn't help with national defense, either. The fewer connections the US fosters with China, the fewer avenues for intelligence. I'm not a big fan of international espionage (unless James Bond is doing it), but seriously — this move will only make everybody more ignorant.


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November 18, 2010
Senior Mark Babcock received All-North Coast Athletic Conference men's soccer honors for the fourth time in his career. Babcock was joined by junior Femi Oluyedun and sophomore Ryan Fier on the all-conference team this season.
Babcock (right) earned Second Team All-NCAC honors after playing in 15 game for the Little Giants in 2010. He finished the season with two goals and two assists for a total of six points. Babcock was named to the Honorable Mention 2007 All-NCAC team, followed by Second Team All-NCAC selections in 2008 and 2009. He leaves the Wabash program as the all-time leader in penalty kick scoring with six goals in seven attempts. He ranks 16th in all-time goals with 11 and set the Wabash school record for penalty kick goals with four in 2009.
Oluyedun (left) was named to the All-NCAC Honorable Mention team after leading the Little Giants in scoring in 2010. He tallied five total goals along with two assists for a total of 12 points. Oluyedun tied for ninth in the NCAC in total goals and ranked ninth in goals per game (0.33) and 10th in points per game (0.80). He scored three of Wabash's eight game-winning goals on the season. Olueydun earned Second Team All-NCAC honors in 2009.
Fier (right) was an All-NCAC Honorable Mention selection for the second consecutive season. The midfielder was second on the team in scoring with four goals and two assists for 10 total points. He scored four goals in just 11 total shots on goal while playing in 17 total games for the Little Giants. Fier scored a game-winning goal in the Little Giants' 2-0 shutout victory at Wittenberg.


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Reports: Sen. Graham confronted President Trump after comments on 'sh**hole countries'
WASHINGTON (WPDE) - Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has told multiple media outlets that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., objected to President Donald Trump's phrasing while discussing immigration from African nations and Haiti.
Durbin's comments, according to CNN, were that Graham was making a presentation, Trump interrupted several times and his comments reportedly included curse words. The president is said to have referred to "sh**hole countries."
Durbin said Trump's comments were "hate-filled, vile and racist. He used those words."
Friday morning, Trump denied the comments, saying the language he used was tough, but not what had been reported.
"Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said 'take them out.' Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!" he tweeted.
According to CBS News, Durbin said Graham "made a direct comment on what the president said."
"For him to confront the president as he did, literally sitting next to him, took extraordinary political courage and I respect him for it," Durbin said, according to a CBS News tweet.
Graham released a statement Friday afternoon, saying, in part:
Following comments by the President, I said my piece directly to him yesterday. The President and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel. I've always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals.
His statement continued, saying "I appreciate Senator Durbin's statements and have enjoyed working with him and many other on this important issue."


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Writers' Theatre, the Glencoe-based theater company, will stage an intimate version of the classic Broadway musical "Sweet Charity" in 2013, the ambitious company announced Wednesday. Doug Peck, who also is working on the upcoming Mary Zimmerman production of "The Jungle Book,"will work on the orchestrations of the Cy Coleman score, fusing what the company descibes as a "lively jazz combo" ideal for a 108-seat theater.
The show will be directed by artistic director Michael Halberstam in January; casting is not yet set.
Halberstam will also helm "Hamlet," featuring Scott Parkinson in the title role, Shannon Cochran as Gertrude, Liesel Matthews as Ophelia and Kareem Bandealy as Horatio. The moody Dane will take to the 325 Tudor Court stage in Glencoe in September.
At the company's smaller Books on Vernon stage, director Kimberly Senior will stage the Midwest premiere of "The Letters" by John W. Lowell, opening in October and slated to run for about four months.
In April 2013, Stuart Carden will direct the first American production of David Greig's "Yellow Moon," with William Brown's May 2013 production of David Ives' comedy "The Liar" (based on the work by Pierre Corneille) rounding out the notably bold and diverse subscription slate.


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Gomez graduated from Dana Hills High School where she ran under head coach Rex Hall…Competed in both cross country and track and field…Earned All-League in cross country and track and field in 2009, 2010 and 2011…Named freshman of the year in 2008…Most valuable player in 2009, 2012 and 2011…Helped her team to league champions in 2009, 2010 and 2011…2008 State Champions in cross country…Named to the wall of fame for athletics.
Sheridan Gomez was born October 20, 1993 in Long Beach, Calif to parents Carol and Steve Gomez…Has one brother and three sisters…Enjoys going to the beach, rollerblading and reading…Favorite movie is "Shawshank"…Favorite band is Grouplove…Names her favorite book as "Truth About Forever"…Most memorable athletic achievement was breaking five minutes in the 1600…Names personal heros as Kara Goucher and her mother…Favorite aspect of college track and field is the competition and team…Hopes to become an athletic trainer.
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For information, call the Betty Ehart Senior Center (BESC) at 662-8920, the White Rock Senior Center (WRSC) at 662-8200 and "Day Out" (adult day care, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.) at 661-0081. Reservations must be made by 10 a.m. for daily lunches.
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8:45 A.M. Cardio
9:45 a.m. Matter of Balance class
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Beef tips
7 p.m. Ballroom dancing
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11:30 a.m. Lunch: Green chile chicken enchilada
12:30 p.m. Better breathers
7 p.m. Bridge
7:30 p.m. Table tennis
8:30 a.m. RSVP quilters
8:45 a.m. Cardio plus exercise
10:45 a.m. Music with Ruth
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Sausage, wild rice
1:15 p.m. Socrates Café
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Katie was drawn to St. Lawrence for its welcoming community and incredible study abroad program. During the fall of her sophomore year, Katie studied in the Adirondack Semester, which opened her up to a way of life that strives for balance between nature and human society. During the semester she studied under professor Mary Hussmann, who taught Nature Writing; Through Mary's classes Katie began to learn the art of rendering the natural world through writing, and this solidified her decision to become an Environmental Studies and English major. On her return to campus, Katie moved into the Greenhouse, SLU's low-impact living theme house, and conducted environmentally themed programs with her housemates for the campus community.
In the spring of her junior year, Katie traveled abroad to Northern Ireland where she took time off from her major and focused instead on Peace and Conflict Studies. While there she traveled extensively through Ireland, hiked on the weekends with the school's hillwalking club, and was funded by a Travel Grant through CIIS to research her family history in Counties Limerick and Cork. Her experiences abroad influenced her senior honors thesis, which was a collection of essays based on peace and the environment and looked at how one can find the balance between acceptance and advocacy. With guidance from her thesis advisor, professor Natalia Singer, and her Environmental Studies advisor, professor Glenn Harris, Katie learned to use creative writing as a way to explore and respond to critical questions.
Her time at St. Lawrence taught Katie the value of persistence, creativity, and community. She is thankful for having gone to a school where professors genuinely care about their students, and where fostering community means taking care of both the people and the environment.


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Saturday, August 14, 2010
The "Teacherage" Where Mom Stayed at Valley School
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- Ann said...
Think heart racing in the middle of the night and wondering if you were going to make it through to morning; think mice and other non-people creatures invading your space; think spring is coming and all of this will get better; think I hope I don't have to teach here again next year, but in the spring that was the only thing available, so a bird in the hand.... (and then the Byron miracle happened). Blessings were hard to come by when it came to solving financial stress. Nothing has really changed on that score - just different times, more money to have less of, and people are still wondering where they are going to get a job, how they are going to feed their family and with spring around the corner will things get better. Sorry, that just rolled off my fingers when I saw this photo. Oh, well, now you know how I really feel!
- August 15, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Plus the many lonely nighttime hours when Mother studied, completing a huge amount of correspondence courses so that she could go on to bigger and better things. Byron was the next stop for her teaching, and she was only about 6 miles from home. She earned that one, for sure.
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John Graves, considered by many to be Texas' best and best-loved writer, died early Wednesday at his home near Glen Rose. He was 92 and had been in declining health for several years.
The Texas that Graves portrayed in Goodbye to a River and other works was the real place — plain, harsh, unforgiving and magnificent. His work was devoid of chauvinistic baloney, boosterism or cheap romance. "In a way," he once said, "I was trying to explain Texas to myself." He also defined Texas for thousands of readers.
"John Graves' influence is vast, and rightly so," W.K. "Kip" Stratton, president of the Texas Institute of Letters, said Wednesday. "I remember being totally astonished the first time I read Goodbye to a River. I'd never encountered a book that balanced history, folklore, environmental observations and personal narrative in the way it did."
That first book in a long writing career was his most famous. In the 1950s, the U.S. government had a plan (later abandoned) to build five dams along the Brazos River from Possum Kingdom to Whitney, turning that stretch of the river into a string of lakes. To say farewell to the stream along which he had fished and explored in his youth, Graves took a canoe trip of about 175 miles along the winding river, accompanied only by a dachshund puppy.
He took down many notes along the way and wrote an article about the trip that was published in Holiday magazine. He then expanded the article into a book and called it Goodbye to a River. Alfred A. Knopf published it in 1960 and has kept its hardcover edition in print ever since. It is an American classic.
Graves described his journey and the country, weather, wildlife and people that he encountered along the way. He also told the history of the land through which he was floating, where the bloody collision of the Comanche people and the invading Anglo-Celtic Texan settlers took place, a struggle that lasted for generations. The book is an elegy for the old, wild Texas as it is being absorbed and homogenized into a pallid modern world.
The late historian A.C. Greene, who wrote one of the first reviews of Goodbye to a River, called it "as fine a book as has ever been written about Texas." Other critics liked it, too. It was nominated for the 1960 National Book Award but lost out to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
In 1974, Graves published Hard Scrabble, about his work to reclaim a worn-out farm near Glen Rose. He lived there with his wife, Jane, in a house he built with his own hands. And in 1980, he published From a Limestone Ledge, a collection of ruminations about rural life that had run originally in Texas Monthly.
These three books, which have become known as Graves' "Brazos Trilogy," are the foundation of his literary reputation. None is merely a book about nature. In describing the particulars of his surroundings, Graves often was describing the world in microcosm and the place and plight of humankind in it.
"John was the most civilized among us, because he knew pretty much where everything fits," said William Wittliff, screenwriter, director, producer and one of Graves' best friends. "He knew how Shakespeare and Somervell County fit together. He saw the world whole."
Graves was born Aug. 6, 1920, in Fort Worth, where his father owned a men's clothing store. His boyhood explorations in the bottoms of the West Fork of the Trinity River and South Texas hunting trips with his father and uncles were his introduction to nature.
After high school in Fort Worth, he earned a bachelor's degree in English from Rice. In 1942, soon after graduation, he joined the Marines and, in 1944, shipped out for the Pacific as an officer. He hadn't been there long when a Japanese hand grenade took him out of the war. After a long hospitalization, he was discharged in 1946 with a captaincy and a Purple Heart.
He went to Columbia University for a master's degree and in 1948 became an English instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. In charge of five sections of freshman English with 30 students each, he quickly became disillusioned with teaching. Embittered also by a brief marriage that failed, he quit his job and became a wanderer and apprentice writer.
He traveled to New York, New Mexico, Mexico, England and finally to Spain, where he settled for about three years. He wrote nonfiction pieces for Holiday, fiction for the American women's magazines of the day and more serious work for the literary quarterlies.
In 1957, after four years abroad, Graves returned to Fort Worth for what was intended to be a short visit with his family. But when his father became ill with cancer, his stay became indefinite. He took a job teaching creative writing at Texas Christian University and fell in love with Jane Cole, a young designer at Neiman Marcus, and married her.
And he began rediscovering the Texas history and wildlife that had fascinated him in his youth. Eventually he knew he had come home to stay. "The wandering years, it seemed, had served their purpose," he would write in an autobiographical essay called Self-Portrait, With Birds. "I could now exist where I belonged, chasing echoes, without wondering if there might be better things to chase elsewhere. There weren't. Not for me."
Among the pieces he wrote at TCU was a short story called "The Last Running," about an encounter between Tom Bird, an old frontier cattleman, and a band of Comanches led by an old man named Starlight. The Comanches had come to ask for a buffalo from a small herd that Tom Bird kept. They wanted to show their young men how they had hunted the beasts in the old days.
The Atlantic Monthly published the story in 1959. It was reprinted in one of the annual Best American Short Stories collections and has been issued several times in book form. Many critics consider it the best short story written about the end of the frontier and the meaning of its loss.
Soon after his marriage, Graves came down with what he called "the incipient disease of the land," the strong desire to own his own piece of ground. He put together the almost 400 acres of eroded, cedar-infested limestone hills in Somervell County that would become Hard Scrabble, the place where he would live the remainder of his life.
Within the first four years of their marriage, John and Jane Graves' daughters, Helen and Sally, were born. In 1965, he quit his job at TCU, worked briefly as a writer-consultant with the U.S. Department of the Interior, then took up the writer's life full-time. He received grants from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and was a president of the Texas Institute of Letters.
In 1996, the University of Texas Press published A John Graves Reader, a collection representative of his career. Many of the pieces had never appeared previously in book form. Some had never been published at all. In 2002, he published Texas Rivers with nature photographer Wyman Meinzer.
But it's for the "Brazos Trilogy" — Goodbye to a River, Hard Scrabble and From a Limestone Ledge — that Graves' name will endure.
He is survived by his wife, daughters Helen, who lives in New York, and Sally, who lives in North Carolina, and four grandsons.
No funeral service is planned. A memorial will be held later, probably in September, in Fort Worth.
Bryan Woolley is the author of several books, including The Wonderful Room: The Making of a Texas Newspaperman and November 22.


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I hope you don't mind if I open a discussion here about the complaints procedure that you announced today in this post:
It occurred to me after reading this announcement that I probably would seldom follow this procedure, because if I have a complaint about a post, I'd rather address the member who made the post than go behind his or her back and try got get a moderator to intervene for me.retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
If you have a complaint about a post that's been made...
Use the Report Post function (exclamation mark in a triangle) and we will attend to your report as quickly as practicable, given our available staff. Please do not publicly quote and object to the content of a post, because this then embeds it within the flow of conversation and it becomes difficult for moderators to extract the offending material without disrupting the thread. Public complaints, regardless of how legitimate, tend to take threads off-topic and have a tendency to become a sideshow unto themselves. If you're not satisfied with the way we deal with your complaint, proceed to the next step.
If you have a complaint about an act of moderation...
Attempt to resolve the issue with the moderator in question first (if known, and if online) via PM, and if that is unsuccessful, please raise the issue with an adminstrator via PM. If your complaint is against an administrator, tell the other administrator. Complaints will be investigated by an administrator using the Terms Of Service as a framework. The words and actions of all members (including moderators and administrators) will be assessed with respect to the Terms Of Service and you will be notified of the outcome of your complaint via PM or e-mail. As with public complaints about posts, please do not publicly complain about moderation, as that is disruptive to the forum and is not the appropriate method for resolving such disputes.
If you're still unhappy about the outcome, after all that...
If after all that, you're still dissatisfied, contact site owner, TheDhamma via PM. He owns this site and therefore he has the final word.
So probably, if I had a complaint about a post, I'd either say so in the thread itself, or I would send a PM to the member who made the post (perhaps copying a mod if I felt that was appropriate).
One issue is that the TOS on a board like this naturally are going to be somewhat fluid an open to interpretation. The TOS here for participation are modeled after part of the Saleyyaka Sutta (as cited in the TOS), which sets fourth four kinds of verbal conduct not in accordance with the Dhamma. They are:
1) Speaking a falsehood.
2) Speaking maliciously.
3) Speaking harshly.
4) Gossiping.
It's going to be impossible for everybody to live up to that standard, because different people will have different ideas about where to set the bar. For example, I've seen mods and respected members use what I would regard as harsh speech, but so what? I personally feel that DhammaWheel should be a safe place where our egos sometimes can be on display, warts and all, so that we can learn from that, and so that we can receive the compassion and lovingkindness that the more inspired members are able to offer when we are like that. When I go back into the threads where I've been less than kind or more than a little egocentric, it's like a mirror. It helps me to recognize what happened, what was going on in my mind, and consider what might have been a more skillful approach in that moment. Why take away my mirror?
Also, with regard to gossiping, the Saleyyaka Sutta describes it in part as speaking "that which is not the Dhamma." Well, there goes just about the entire lounge, plus a good portion of the rest of the board. We're ordinary people here, groping along as best we can. Our speech is not always going to meet this standard.
It also occurred to me that I have never asked (as far as I can recall) that a moderator delete a post. And now that I think about it, I'd personally feel like a little dictator if I tried to get posts deleted when someone said something bad about me. Why not just let it stand? Good that it's there, this criticism, even if it might seem unfair. Let it be. Let it stare me in the face. I might want to have it deleted, but if I actively pursue this impulse to just make the criticism disappear, then how is that Dhamma practice?
I would suggest that, except in the most egregious cases, posts should not be deleted. If a thread starts to get derailed as members go at it, then break that part off and consign it to the free-for-all forum.
Yes, I agree that we all should strive to keep our speech to the highest standard, and that we should self-edit. But c'mon people, don't we have thick enough skin to at least be able to allow sharp, personal criticism to exist? After all, we're adults, and we can respond if we wish. Plus, if the discussion plays itself out correctly, hopefully everyone will learn something.
Just my 2 cents.